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1965
April 22 1965 Superintendent Richard Nelson dies of a stroke in a Medford hospital after collapsing in the lobby of the Headquarters Building.
June 28 1965 Leonard Volz, (Mr. Clean), enters on duty as Park Superintendent.
June 1965 Bill Elhart of Ashland begins six years of driving bus for Crater Lake Lodge. (65 – 71) During his six summers at Crater Lake, Bill drove 1,080 Rim tours in the Company’s 15 passenger stretch Pontiac limo. Driving daily round trips to Ashland, Bill racked up 136,080 miles.
June 1965 By Larry Smith – While working at the Annie Spring Entrance Station, a grey colored “red” fox showed up with its muzzle covered in porcupine quills. He was hungry and began to beg. I was told by other rangers that the fox had first appeared in the housing area looking for food several months earlier To keep him alive, the rangers began to feed him. When I saw him in June at the Entrance station, he muzzle was still loaded with quills. His mouth had a hoary frosty look. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me that day. When he next showed I was ready with my camera, but the fox that showed did not have any quills in his muzzle. Either it was a different fox, or the quills had festered and had fallen out. He did not seem to be afraid of people, so I suspect he was the same fox that had been fed for several months by park employees. I did not use a telephoto lens. I just walked up to him and shot his photo. The station at this time was near the Annie Spring Bridge. Annie Spring is just off to the right. I remember as a kid we saw red foxes in the Cascades. By the time I began working at Crater Lake in 1961 the “red” foxes had turned gray. We were told that after WW2 pelt farmers began raising silver foxes in the Klamath Basin. The escaped silver foxes then mated with the native red fox turning the red phase to gray. At least that is what we were told.
July 1965 A seven-year-old boy wanders away from the family campsite at Lost Creek Campground. 60 men spend the rainy night looking for the boy. He is rescued the follow morning from a thicket of pines where the boy had crawled, after first chasing out a bedded down deer. (Story from the author.)
July 15 1965 Sewer construction begun on a $40,000 trunk line connecting Rim Village with the ponds in Munson Valley.
Summer 1965 Sewer lagoons constructed behind Steel Circle.
Twelve-year-old son of Naturalist Ranger Ed Paine nearly hangs himself after he slips on a Sleepy Hollow boulder with a rope tied around his neck. Quick thinking by other children instituted a rescue by the boy’s mother who administered mouth-to-mouth. Mrs. Paine had seen a demonstration earlier on a children’s TV program. Theodore was unconscious for 12 hours. Young Paine graduated from college as a Merit Scholar and is now a practicing lawyer
As of 2002: He was a judge in the same circuit as Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Theodore E. Paine was a judge of the Sixth Circuit of Illinois.[1] When he retired, he was presiding judge of Macon County, Illinois.[2] Paine retired from the court on November 3, 2010
September 6 1965 Miss Dee Ford, 19, Cafeteria Line Server, and from Eugene, is selected as the Park’s first: Miss Crater Lake. (It seems the contest was short lived- lasting only a few summers.)
Visitation 1965 480,478 visitors
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