Did you have to stay up there?
No, it was one-day trip.
Kind of like what I’m doing today.
Right. When George Woodley was working in the warehouse, he’d come to Medford one day and Klamath Falls the next. After they moved us up there all the purchasing was done through Klamath Falls.
I think that about covers my questions.
Foot notes:
- Luis A. Gastellum went on to a distinguished career in the NPS, serving in various capacities throughout the agency.
- Most positions under ECW were political appointments, often tied to being a registered Democrat.
- This was a temporary appointment under ECW, the funding source for CCC.
- The address is 1317 Queen Anne Street. It is now privately owned.
- It is the brick building on Fifth and Holly Street in Medford.
- Building 17, apartment D. Nelson did not live in the park until 1965, when the Medford office closed.
- This was because J. Leonard Volz served as a key man for planning the establishment of Redwood National Park.
- The chronological sequence for assistant superintendents during Nelson’s tenure as Administrative Officer: Gerry Miernam, Ray Rundell, Fred Novak, Neal Guse, Don Robinson and Paul Larson.
- These records eventually came to branches of the National Archives located in Seattle and San Bruno, California.
- The December 1964 flood washed out bridges along Highway 62 between Shady Cove and Prospect.
- Until 1958, Oregon Caves was a seasonal operation as far as the NPS was concerned. When Nelson arrived in 1953, Ranger Paul Turner was posted there in summer and Crater Lake in winter. The monument had year round staffing starting in 1958 when construction of quarters at Lake Creek allowed John Twonsley to be there through the winter.
- The questions pertains to the so-called “referral” system, where prospective job holders obtained appointments through their congressional representatives.
