All wood frames?
All wood frames.
Square?
Square. I do have a picture of that in case you don’t, with a couple of the seasonal rangers standing in front of it. That was our headquarters for our ranger force up at the Rim in the wintertime. That’s where we stayed. We were trained in First Aid, of course. We would bring ski injuries across the slopes and we’d taken them, if they happened somewhere where we could get them to the ski tow, we’d take them up the ski tow and then cross country and then bring them down over to that ski hut and take care of them. We had some fairly severe ski injuries that we did care of. We had several fractures. Of course, we had no way of setting them, but we would splint them. We had no ambulance or anything. They would have to furnish their own transportation. Now if someone had come up here and they couldn’t get back by themselves, why the Ranger Force would take care of them. We had some park station wagons that we could use for transportation. But there were no medical facilities up here. The closest medical facilities were Medford, or I think there was First Aid at Prospect. The Bureau of Indian Affairs did have a doctor at Fort Klamath. The fact is, and I remember one time, I might as well digress on it as it was during the wintertime, one of our equipment operators was going to town. A snow plow had been plowing the road and only one lane was plowed. You have a tendency, because there are very few people up here at the time when you were going one way or the other, you would take the plowed section. Now a lot of the times it was loose snow and you could get over fairly easy. Now the snow might fly up all around you and your couldn’t see anything. But you were safe doing this. Well this equipment operator and his wife were going south and the snow plow was going north and they collided. Now it was not a very serious accident but the steering wheel snapped and it was a Studebaker, I say an old Studebaker, it probably was not an old Studebaker then. The steering wheel snapped and a corner of the steering wheel caught him right in the carotid artery. Now it so happened that the other permanent ranger, Dewey Fitzgerald, was down there and I don’t know why, whether he was right behind with his pickup but he grabbed him by the neck and by pressure and I don’t recall all the circumstances but he either drove him down himself to the Doctor at Fort Klamath, the Indian Service doctor at Fort Klamath holding that artery or someone else helped him. I am not at all clear on this. It has escaped my memory. I just remember that it happened. The doctor at Fort Klamath said, if you had not done this you would have lost him.
