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1947
June 16 1947 Jewel E. Finley is appointed as the Park’s eighth postmaster.
May or June 1947 The Watchman Fire Lookout is badly vandalized. The windows are broken out and the equipment is smashed with clubs.
July 4 1947 A Park visitor, Mr. Cornelius suddenly hands his startled wife his billfold and watch as he sits down on a snow chute near the old Lake Trail, and slides to the Lake attempting suicide. Since the fall only broke his leg, Cornelius crawls to the water’s edge and drowns himself.
Eyewitness: Robert Gross, 1400 Parkdale Drive, Grants Pass, Oregon 541-474-7424
Robert, in a 2006 interview, says that the Park had just opened for the season. The even happened in front of the Cafeteria stonewall. It was a foggy day. Robert saw a couple standing beside him, to the right of him, trying to view the Lake. He saw the middle aged man hand his wife his billfold and jump. Basically he slid on the snow down to the Lake. (Story related to the author by several Klamath Falls residents over the years.)
Summer 1947 A stream survey of Sun Creek locates 3,000 bull trout. By 1989 the number had dropped to 130.
October 1947 Earthquake recorded eleven kilometers from the Lake. (Magnitude not recorded.)
Season 1947 Visitation: 289,681 (Online says: 378,000)
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