Pages of History: Privacy? Ask ‘em!

From the pages of the Del Norte Triplicate, May 1950.

Vaughn (Variety store) Pyke was asked Tuesday for a report of the weekend trout fishing trip he and Paul (Bank of America) Enos were on last Saturday and Sunday. Here’s what we got:

Vaughn knew of a lake called Fish Lake in Humboldt County — practically private — he said, where few fishermen ever went. It’s about 10 miles from Weitchpec on the north side of the Klamath.

So on Saturday afternoon, he and Paul piled into Vaughn’s army surplus rig and headed for the lake. They noticed someone had cleared the road, felled trees and made a makeshift bridge and they were grateful that a party that had started in the day before had done all that.

This they learned after they had hiked their two miles in and, coming upon the lake, found to their dismay the hike had been for naught. For there before them was a sight that drew from Paul the exclamation, “Private lake — humph!”

Across the lake were cars – driven in upon a newly-constructed road. The place was practically crowded!

But still they were able to boast – because each got limits of rainbow, some measuring 15 inches or so, within two and a quarter hours. Some of the fishermen who drove in, Vaughn said, were not quite so fortunate.

Jetty development

The main jetty development program for Crescent harbor will be stalled unless adequate rock in the vicinity of the harbor and rights-of-way to the rock can be guaranteed without cost to the government, Col. F.S. Tandy, district engineer of the U.S. Army engineers, San Francisco, announced this week.

Col. Tandy, in a telephone conversation to local chamber of commerce officials, said, “In order to build a superior breakwater and complete it to Round Rock, it is necessary to obtain additional quarry sites in the vicinity of the harbor. At present, the site in the vicinity of Enderts Beach seems the most promising source of rock of the proper quality.”

The engineers, he said, need written assurance from the county government that the rock and the right-of-way will be available. He said the engineers are also considering changes in the design of the jetty which entails the use of large amounts of concrete.

Tandy indicated there is approximately enough rock from present quarries north of Crescent City to repair damage causing the breakwater during storms of the past winter.

Destroyer to visit

The U.S.S. Thomas F. Nickel will participate in Armed Forces Day observances in Crescent City and will accommodate visitors, weather permitting, local American Legion officials reminded Del Norte residents yesterday. Transportation will be provided to and from the Nickel by fishing boats, Chamber of Commerce officials said.

Armed Forces Day Com­mittee chairman William Boone is expecting the celebration to be a complete success and is urging everyone in the Crescent City area to join in the activities either as a participant or a spectator.