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Address: McCall, Idaho
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Photo of McCall Hotel-1904
Photo of Deinhard in 1913
Clipping from May 1974
Booklet about Deinhard-1973
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Deinhard's Sail On Spanish Main
Bill and Mamie Deinhard ..ere enjo• ing their `ri
ibbeen and telling everybody about Idaho.
THIS PICTURE taken in 1913, shows William Deinhard of
McCall in his team and surrey at Arrowrock dam. The
building behind the team is a dance hall which he owned.
The picture was sent to The Statesman by Deinhard.
THIS PICTURE taken in 1913, shows William Deinhard of
McCall in his team and surrey at Arrowrock dam. The
building behind the team is a dance hall which he owned.
The picture was sent to The Statesman by Deinhard.
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TOREADOR BILL DEMI ONSTRATES SKILL
IN SPANISH ARENA — BILL SURRENDERS
(By Britt Nedry)
Mr. and 'Mrs. V� Im. Deinhard
(Bill and Mamie) returned to Mc-
Call Thursday, April 2, after an
extended trip to Europe. During
a series of tours to the Orient,
then to South America, and now
to Europe, Bill and Mamie have
been delegates of good will and
good humor to many lands from
Valley County, Idaho.
The European trip included It-
aly, Germany, France, Switzerland
Monaco, England and North Af-
rica, to mention the main stops.
Bill and Mamie both appeared in
excellent health and reported an
enjoyable journey in an out. and
around scenic and historic places.
"If you travel in Europe," Bill
advises with emphasis, "keep your
passport with you at all times —
and I mean AT ALL TIMES." He
has a knack of getting off the
beaten path to see the real side-
lights of an area, so he knows
what he's talking about.
Bill and Mamie will be telling
about their trip to many groups
during the coming weeks. How-
ever, Bill does most of the talking
about the trips; his reports about
the "side shows" along with the
main event are filled with real
laughter.
Deinhards Return
From Tour Of
Western ' Europe
A three months tour which
took them through most of West-
ern Europe, French West Africa
and London has ended for Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Deinhard, who re-
turned Thursday to McCall.
Highlights of the trip included
five nights in Spain, a tour of the
tunnels of Gibr•alter, and, for Bill
five days in a maternity hospital
in Sidi Salamine, French West Af-
rica.
When Bill became ill shortly
after crossing the Mediterranean,
he was unable to gain admission
to the army hospital in Sidi Sal
amine, but became the first male
patient at a maternity hospital
there, where he reported excel-
lent care.
The Deinhard's trip started with
a flight to Boston, where they
visited friends for a week, a trip
by boat to the Azores and Portu-
gal, and from there the start of
the European tour. Among the _
j cities the Deinhards visited were
++ Lisbon, Barcelona, Naples, Pompey
Rome, Venice, Stutgardt, Paris,
Nice, Monaco and the ,Isle of Ca-
pri.
At Gibralter, their car was
shipped to Tangiers, French West
Africa, and they drove from there
to Sidi S«famine and on to Casa
Blanca. From Casa Blanca the
couple flew to London where they
spent several days before enplan-
ing for New York and Washing-
ton, D. C., where they spent a
week. Returning to New York,
they enjoyed another week of
sightseeing, and saw several shows
including the Radio City Rock-
ettes.
Most interesting part of the trip
according to Bill, was the time
spent in ,Portugal and the Azores
where the climate is particularly
pleasant, where horses and cows,
mules and goats still provide
transportation and a basis for e-
conomy, and where beautiful veg-
etables are raised.
(' The weather was good for the
entire trip, Bill said, and a num-
ber of momentos and curiosites
purchased by Bll and Mamie are
on their way to McCall and may
be viewed soon by anyone inter-
ested.
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NOT TO 5E. TAKEN
FROM LIBRARY
On August 28, 1973, due to the country -wide shortage of
gasoline, the Associated Press sent over its wires throughout the
world, a picture and short article about an intrepid individual
solving this problem in a unique way. This featured news
release was about Bill Deinhard, 83 years old, who hitched his
27-year-old Ginger to his 75-year-old buggy and drove four miles
to attend a Rotary meeting in McCall, Idaho, a small resort town
nestled by a lake at the edge of the fascinating primitive area
of the northwest.
As a result of this national acclaim, people from all over
the country wrote to him and the Rotary Club of McCall requesting
more information about this unusual man, about his pioneering
life and a recount of the important episodes of his life. A sign
on the back of the buggy read: "The horse, driver and buggy are
all has-beens, but we've got plenty of gas." And this driver has
always had 'plenty of gas':
Much could be said about William I. Deinhard - businessman,
rancher, farmer, sensitive, generous, kindly man - will not all be
said here. It will be enough to give a few high -lights that
profoundly affected his life and helped to shape his career.
The story begins in Johnstown, Pennsylvania which received
world-wide attention during its first major flood in 1889 - a
year before Bill was born. Over 2,200 people died when millions
of tons of water broke loose from the huge South Fork Dam, located
14 miles above Johnstown. The deluge of water followed the
Conemaugh River down the valley through Conemaugh and into
Johnstown. It was described as "a mountain in height with smoke,
dust, and vapor flying in all directions". Thirty-three
locomotives weighing fifty to eighty tons each were smashed, some
swept by the flood tide into Johnstown. Eighteen passenger trains
and 315 freight cars were destroyed. The Cambria Iron Works was a
1Pilliam Deinhard
Rt. 1 Box 29
McCall, Idaho 83638
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shambles. Two hundred and eighty business buildir.gs were
destroyed and fifteen hundred homes were wrecked. The death
toll included ninety-nine families completely wiped out.
One of the couples who survived was Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Deinhard, parents of William Deinhard, who, in his own right,
has put Johnstown on the map again, this time as a hometown boy
who made good in the wild, wild west and the State of Idaho.
His mother died when he was quite young, and a few years
later at the tender age of fourteen with only a fifth grade
education, Bill Deinhard left home to be his own man. The first
few years
for board
at a meat
were a matter of survival, and
he worked at odd jobs
and room and small pay. He finally got a job working
market, helping in the market and driving a
meat cart
to deliver the meat. Eventually, he earned enough to purchase a
ticket on a freighter leaving New York for Texas.
When he landed in Galveston, Texas, it was hot, he was
hungry, almost broke and alone. He nosed around town and found
there was a job opening in Houston which was 50 miles inland
picking figs, thrashing rice, milking cows, driving a milk cart
with two mules for $20.00 per month plus board and room. For a
city boy, he did quite well, and when the four -month season was
over, Bill spent $75.00 of his hard-earned $80.00 for a freighter
ticket to San Francisco via the new Panama Canal.
Jobs were scarce in the Bay City, and he had only a few
dollars left in his pocket. For five cents he could buy two
stale donuts and a cup of coffee, and this is what he survived on
for several days. Bill was never at a loss to find employment,
thanks to his willingness to work and his uncanny sense to size up
a good deal. One day he noticed several men hanging around a
building, so he went inside to see what was going on. Since he
was nicely dressed in his suit and straw hat, a man walked up to
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him and enquired whether he would like to be a flunky for $75.00
a month and board. Bill didn't know what a flunky was, but the
money sounded good, so he was interested. The man explained that
a "flunky" was a waiter for a construction crew, and although he
had never done this type of work before, Bill was willing tc
give it a try. The job was in Big Creek, California for Pacific
Gas and Electric Company and one of the requirements was that
the employee have a bedroll. Next door was a used -clothing
business, and Bill talked the proprietor into selling him a
blanket and a piece of rope for $1.50 and then applied for the job
with his "bedroll". With the remaining money in his pocket, he
purchased a train ticket and headed for the flunky job.
When he arrived at the construction camp, he was told that
the job was taken, but he could work in the bake shop. Bill said
okay, but he would rather work in the butcher shop because he had
had some experience in a meat market. The chef assured him that
if he would stay in the bake shop for a while, there would be an
opening in the meat shop. And sure enough, he was again in an
occupation which would be the start of his financial success and
which subsequently earned him the friendly monicker of "Billie the
Butcher".
One of Bill Deinhard's outstanding talents was the ability
to make friends. The chef was only one of many who not only liked
this young man of twenty-two but was interested in assisting him
in his drive for success. The chef was offered a new job in Idaho
running a cooking crew to take care of the construction outfit
building the largest dam in the world at Arrowrock. The chef
promised to try and get all his acquaintances jobs with him in
Arrowrock - there were seven hundred men waiting for word, and the
pay was $75.00 per month plus board. He wrote to two people, his
brother-in-law and Bill Deinhard. Bill arrived at Barber, Idaho,
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a small construction town, in 1913. He immediately looked up his
old boss who told him he couldn't get him on at the meat shop,
but would he work again in the bake shop until there was an
opening. A few short weeks wnt by, and Billie the Butcher was
back at his old trade.
Building of the Arrowrock Dam was to have been completed
within two years after his arrival. Towards the end of the big
boom, a customer came into the meat market and offered to sell
Bill his home for $150. Bill reasoned that by renting the house
for $15 a month, it would pay out within the year, and the work
would last longer than that, so he bought it. Soon he was buying
more houses and eventually he owned 22 units and had more than
$250 a month in rental income. Next, he bought a dance hall and
piano for $200 and rented the hall on Saturday nights to a pianist
and violinist for $50.00 a month. As this was the only large
meeting hall in town, Bill also rented it during week nights for
private and public meetings. He even bought the livery stable.
Later he traded the livery stable, four horses, a buggy with
harness, a set of dishes and $150 for an 80-acre farm near Nampa.
As lumber was a scarce commodity those days, he had the dance hall
dismantled and shipped the lumber to his farm in Beaumont in order
to build his barn. That barn is still standing today.
In 1919 Bill met Mamie Belle Smith. After a short court-
ship they made plans to be married. He sold his farm for $4000,
and in the winter of 1919 went up to McCall to cut Christmas
trees. He bought the meat market and hotel instead. He returned
to Nampa, and in 1920 he and Mamie were married. Running a hotel
didn't exactly appeal to Deinhard, but as he explained it, "the
Mrs. likes it", and he was so busy with other intereststhat he
wasn't tied down while she looked after the hotel. Three years
ago they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary.
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As the years rolled along, Bill began to buy farms and
ranches. By the time he had taken over six or seven places,
Mrs. Deinhard told him that he was becoming "ranch poor". But
with the upward swing of better farm and ranch returns, he clipped
cash coupons from his investments. He met Jim Harris of Riggins,
Idaho, another pioneer of Idaho, and they joined together in
buying, operating and renting out farms.
One of the larger ranches that Deinhard and Harris
developed was known as the Abbott Ranch. It was situated near
the Payette River and nestled at the edge of a range of mountains.
Deinhard dammed up a mountain stream and created a ten -acre dam
to irrigate the ranch. On this ranch he raised alsike and Dutch
white clover and timothy as seed crops. The first summer he had
100 acres of clover under sprinkler irrigation fed by the waters
from his dam. Later he brought an additional 100 acres under
production per year until he was producing 500 acres of the Dutch
white. He planted trout in his pond and had his own fishing hole.
Today this large spread is owned by James Hait of Los Angeles.
Mr. Hait has enlarged the pond to 110 acres and has recently built
a beautiful home on the mountain top overlooking the dam and its
waters.
It was on this beautiful ranch that Ginger, (the now world
famous buggy horse) was trained to draw a buggy. Ginger, too, has
a history. In the spring of 1949 Bill was visiting his grand-
children in Moscow, Idaho. He went over to the University of Idaho
to see the livestock and there espied Ginger, a two-year old Half
Arabian filly. She was chestnut in color v:'ith a small star in the
forehead, white stockings on both hind legs and a white stocking
on the left front foot. She weighed 880 pounds and stood 14-2.
She was sired by the Arabian stallion Akbar 233 from the famous
Kellogg Farms in California, and she was registered in the Half
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Arabian Stud Book. It was love at first sight, and Bill enquired
whether she was for sale. A deal was made with Mr. Hickman, Head
of the Department of Animal Husbandry to sell Ginger for $350.
Bill the Horsetrader agreed, except he insisted that she be bred
to an Arabian stallion before he took delivery. She was bred to
three-year old Cavalier from the Remount Service, and the next
year threw a beautiful filly colt. Over a period of twelve years,
Ginger was bred six more times to Cavalier, and each colt was as
beautiful as the first.
When Bill brought Ginger home in the Fall of 1949, he and
the Mrs. took her over to the Abbott ranch where it was quiet with
no distractions to train her. Bill already had another horse that
was used to pull a wagon. They harnassed Ginger and put her with
the veteran horse as a team, and in one afternoon, Ginger was
ready to go. And after twenty-five years, she still has the old
"get up and go" energy to match that of her master.
The Deinhard-Harris Ranch was selected in the late thirties
by Hollywood as one of the locations for the scenes in the epic
movie NORTHWEST PASSAGE. The leading characters included
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan who all stayed at
the Deinhard hotel.
At one time or other, Bill has owned a good part of McCall
and surrounding area. Some of the properties are now known as
the County Gravel Pit, Texaco Station, Ted Hardwood Building,
McCall Restaurant, Intermountain State Bank, McCall Nursing Home,
Medley Sports Center (formerly the McCall High School), 200 lake
lots and Shavers. Two hundred acres bordering the city limits was
sold to Bill Stokes who was recently offered a million dollars for
this land. Two years ago, Bill sold 375 acres of river frontage
ranch land to Jack Simplot for recreational development, and this
summer, Mrs. Morrison of Morrison-Knudsen purchased 29 acres below
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the McCall Nursing Home from Bill. Additional well-known
properties formerly owned by Bill were: The Dead Shot Reed
Ranch on the Secesh now known as Brown's Camp; Deinhard Ranch #1
near the County Gravel Pit; Deinhard Ranch #2 now owned by
Cindy and Jack McClure; the ranch now owned by Dr. and Mrs. Harold
Nokes; 720 acres of river land near Donnelly which was sold to
Frank Edwards for recreational development; 400 acres near the
Airport now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brown; 80 acres at
Rock Flat, and numerous other scattered lots with `_,.ouses in the
area.
Improving home range and meadow grazing was yet another
phase of Deinhard's interests. He even used an airplane for
seeding timothy, white clover and bluegrass in order to improve
the range in the black pine forests. He has bought yearlings
and two -year -olds, usually herefords, kept them on pasture until
fall before marketing them. And he always had at least 500 head
of cattle grazing for other owners. He tells the humorous story
that the reason he always had so many cattle was that the
auctioneer always favored him - (pause) - "I was the highest
bidder:"
Bill has always been a generous and kindly man. Although
not a banker, he has helped many when they could not get
assistance from the lending institutions, and he was never known
to turn anyone down trying to get a better education. One of the
top veterinarians in the State of Oregon was his protege. Always
among the first to help in community projects, he
piece of land for the local nursing home.
He was
to donate to the funds that built the McCall Golf
donated a prime
one of the first
Course. He
assisted the School District by buying their abandoned country
schools that were at that time considered a liability. School
children remember him from the bags of candy and popsicles he
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would hand out when he dropped by to visit.
Curious about new places and things and concepts,
interested in everything, Bill learned much, and he decided to
broaden his horizons a bit more by taking in the world. In 1953
he and Mamie spent four months in Japan and the Orient. In 1956
they toured French Africa and Europe. Bill has been to Australia,
New Zealand, Hawaii, Haiti, Porta Rica, Mexico, Canada, and
practically every state in the Union. On all of his tours he took
slide pictures and upon re_urning home he would give a good
humorous accounting to his friends and the Rotary Club.
Bill and Mamie now live in a modern log house on 27 acres
with a large barn where he has stored many antique horse-drawn
carriages. From his porch he can see the valley and mountains
and reminisce about the good old days. He has liquidated all of
his property but his home and 120 acres which is situated on the
highway and the farm to market road and on which he is presently
building a pond.
His vigorous life has taken its toll. Bill has seen his
share of hospitals. Once for a double hernia operation, another
for serious heart attack, and most recently he spent three weeks
in the hospital for a tired heart, diabetes and ulcers in the
stomach. Many people did not expect to see him around again.
Howover, relatives and staunch friends, one - the former Governor
of Idaho Charles Gossett - convinced him that he still had some
"get up and go" left, so as soon as he regained some of his
strength, he immediately signed up for a month's tour this Fall
to tour the Northeast and to renew family acquaintances in the
Eastern States. Look out Johnstown: Here comes William the
Conqueror:
19 September 1973
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Winter 1921 - Bill Deinhard proudly
displaying his trade and market.
In 1919 Bill heard that there
was a good market for Christmas
trees in the Boise Valley.
Production on the farm was slow
in the winter, so he took the
train from Nampa to McCall to
look into the possibility of
contracting trees to sell. The
McCall Hotel and Meat Market was
up for sale so he bought this
property instead. On his return
to Nampa, four other men boarded
the train at Roseberry. It was
evident that Bill was the only
stranger. But not for long. He
introduced himself as the new
owner of the hotel and meat
market. A. R. Cruzen introduced
himself stating that he was the
banker at Roseberry. Bill said
that was nice to know as he would
be needing a banker in his new
business. Cruzen replied, "Don't
come to my bank for any money. I
never knew a butcher who could
make a dime in the meat business."
Bill bought the property which is now known as McCall
Restaurant after the new hotel was built and started his
meat market again. This business continued until the latter
part of 1950. He had his own slaughter house and smoke house
first on Ranch #1 and then on Ranch #2 which is now owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Jack McClure.
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In the winter of 1937 the hotel and meat market
burned to the ground. Occupants fled leaving all
their belongings. Bill and wife were in Weiser
visiting friends when they received the news. "The
Mrs. began to cry - - I told her no use in crying,
we would just build a new one". And build he did:
Within 57 days from the time he excavated the base-
ment with two horses and a slip, the new hotel was
ready for occupancy. On a handshake promise to repay,
Bill borrowed the necessary cash to build from his
good friend and partner Jim Harris. Jim insisted that
there be no time limit on the loan. This close
friendship of these two men continued through the
years.
The hotel was constructed of railroad ties, stuccoed
on the outside and steam heated. For 15 years it was
the only modern hotel in town. Labor was procured at
50G to 75 an hour and all cement was mixed by hand.
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SPOKANE Established in 1895 BOISE
Busy Bill Dienhard Gives Penta a lob
By GENE McNULTY,
Associate Edifor, The Idaho Farmer
Above: This stockpile of peeled posts awaits
penta treatment on one of the Deinhard ranches.
Upper Left: Owner of the McCall Hotel,
Bill Deinhard feels more at home
building fences and some of the first
penta-treated posts were used in build-
ing this one. Posts are set 12 feet apart
with two stays in between. Sturdy
fencing is necessary because of heavy
winter snows. Right: Bill Deinhard is
mighty pleased with the workmanship
that went into building this modern
home of log construction. Cost was
$ 5000.
TI1E IDAII0 FARMER
July 20, 1950
Busy Bill Deinhard Gives Penta
A Job
"You're missing a bet right here". Extension Forester Vernon Ravenscroft
told Bill Deinhard of McCall. "Why take off to the hills after cedar when you can
treat black pine with penta and get post material every bit as good".
Never one to miss a bet, Deinhard was all ears as the University of Idaho
extension forester explained how black pine poles could be cut and peeled and
treated with Pentachlorophenol and thereby make fence posts that would last for
years. Deinhard had plenty of black pine (lodgepole pine) on his ranches around
McCall, but, like everyone else, always had figured that the timber was just a weed
tree to be cleared off in readying land for pastures.
It was in 1942 that Ravenscroft gave Bill Deinhard the penta tip. He suggested
that Deinhard cut and peel the black pine one spring, treat the next. At that time the
University of Idaho was just getting started with penta post treating demonstrations.
"You can use old oil drums for cold -soaking the fence posts. " Ravenscroft
suggested. "Mix one gallon
of hours swill with
god tgallons of diesel or stove oil. Leaving
the posts in the solution g
First step taken by the McCall rancher was sending to a firm in Louisiana
for a chain peeler. With this outfit, his men peeled the first 36 inches of the post.
When ready for the penta soaking, 34 inches of the peeled section was placed in the
solution, and the penta soaked into the remaining two inches of the peeled portion.
Bill Deinhard's aim was to use the treated posts on his own ranches, but it
didn't take him long to see that he could make money by selling treated posts to other
operators. He figured that a completely peeled post having a better appearance
would be in greater demand
o d a better, cocomercially. He heard of a mplete job of peeling, machine so he had one of the
of Maine that would
rigs shipped in by express.
The Maine peeler hasa buffer
d shift, tt can an peel a eel 600 post seven -foot
day t in flat
an eight -hour minute. Two men, working
Since 1942, and mainly since the end of the war, Deinhard has treated
around 15,000 posts. The posts are in lengths of seven, nine and 10i feet
from treats
poles also, mostly 20-footers. Treated posts, sold at the ranch,
50 cents each, depending helength ord r he has had er. Recently, a Nevada rancher
ordered 2000. This is thelargest
As McCall's leading citizen, Bill Deinhard has a hand in many enterprises
besides his sideline post -treating "factory". He's quite a character, and always
has had a rabbit's foot fand timberman,eal he isat will return a perhaps Valley profit. Rancher,
best-known
cattleman, hotel ow
operator.
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Bill Deinhard, 83, called on two other old-
timers Monday to solve a problem created
by the gasoline shortage. He hitched his
27-year-old horse, Ginger, to a 75-year-old
buggy and drove four miles into McCall,
Idaho, for a Rotary Club meeting.
STOPPING AT THE BANK — Bill Deinhard,
right, cashes a check and Frank Callender, presi-
dent of Inter -Mountain State Bank at McCall fol-
lows him outside to admire the "gas -less" buggy
that Deinhard bought 15 years ago. Deinhard, 83,
decided he had the solution to the gas shortage
right at home so he hitched 27-year-old Ginger to
his 75-year-old buggy and drove the four miles
into McCall to attend a Rotary meeting. A sign on
the back of the buggy reads: "The horse, driver and
buggy are all has-beens, but we've got plenty of
gas." During the 41/2 hours spent in McCall, Gin-
ger was seen to nudge Deinhard several times as
if to say, "Come on, let's go home. It's time; for
my nap." But she still had "plenty of gas" as she
trotted the four miles home down Highway 95.
No.
This is to certify that the mare named"» -1
Owned by
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Was bred to stallion
of the Remount Service on the following dates;
and properly returned.
(Agent's signature)
(Agent's address)
oro M—MAILS-1
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
MOSCOW. IDAHO
July 1, 1949
Wm. Deinhard
Hotel McCall
McCall, Idaho
Dear Mr. Dinhard:
Your letter of June 28, has been received. I am glad
that you will take the Half -Bred two -year -old Arabian
mare. We will keep her and breed her to the Arabian
stallion Cavalier. He is a three -year -old stallion from
the Remount Service and we think he is quite a horse.
The mare should be settled by the opening of school.
You can pay for her when you take delivery this fall.
CERTIFICATE FOR OWNER„OF MARE
, 19- - --1
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Very truly yours,
C. W. Hic .II an,, Head
Departmel t of Animal Husbandry
304 Sm; th Street
Silverton, OR 97381
Sept 10, 1973
Dear Bill and Mamie:
Was I ever astonished to find the inclosed article in our Salem
Oregon Sunday newspaper. It certainly shores that Bill Deinhard
has not slowed down one bit. We often think of you folks and
wonder how things are with you. From various sources, I get some
kind of report every few months about something or other that
happened in McCall. There is still a great big soft place in
my heart for that town and that part of the state of Id13ho.
-Ne are still going along about the same pace here in Oregon.
I am still working for the sta e in the Department of Agri—
culture with Disease Control of livestock. It is very inter—
esting work and keeps me busy. I get around the stake from
time to time working with various facets of livestock.
Our daughter was married last October. Her husband is in the
Army at Fort Lewis and plans to make a career of the service.
Our son is still here in Salem and selling insurance and driging
bus on charter trips all over the country. Reta and I are both
in quite good health and enjoying life about as well as could
be expected. Sure would like to get up your way again, but
the time never seems to come around. Any time ,you are again
down in this area, we would be overjoyed to visit with ,you
folks,
Stutesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Sr"pt. 9, '73 (Sec. B)-3
Ernie Henkel
STATE DEPARTMENT
F AGRICULTURE
E. L. HENKEL, DVM
304 Smith Street
Silverton, Oregon 97381
SALEM, OREGON 97310
`Hao �.LL urrer'
Saves Geis
McCALL, Idaho (AP) —
The latest solution to the
gasoline shortage belongs to
Bili Deinhard.
Deinhard, k.3, hitched his
75- ear -old buggy behind his
27-year-old horse, Hinger,
who trotted down U.S. 95 I
taking Deinhard four miles
to a Rotary Club meeting.
Behind his buggy Dein-
hard had a sign reading,
"The horse, driver and bug-
gy are all has beens — but
we've got plenty of gas."
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Mr Bill Reinhard
Mc Call, Idaho
Harvey of the Ruatsala
family.
Portland, Oregon
2250 N.W,Thurman St.,
972I0
Very interesting: I can almost hear
the sounds of the horse and buggy. All
you needed was a jack knife to cut that
willow whip; --economical, effective ,persuader
that moved horse and man forward. Nobody
ever complained about smog, and the horse
was the Lords creation accepted as was.
Perhaps I should complain to Associated
Press about poor quality of the picture of
the gentleman in the drivers seat. My recol-
lection of you is a. "nice -looking muscular
man".
I see you are 83 years young. I did not
see Mrs Deinhard in the picture. I hope
you and yours are all well.
My wife Helen is doing fine wilsh her 70 yr
old husband, and I never had it so good. I
think of Long Valley and perhaps I'll find
time to show Helen that country. There
are afew there I grew up with.
The best of luck to you and yours with
the blessings of God.
Yours Truly
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THE OIREGu'NilkM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1973
NO GAS WORRIES — Bill Deinhard,
83, McCall, Idaho, offered his own sol-
ution to the gas shortage problem, He
Associated Press Wirephoto
hitched a horse to his 75-year-oid bug-
gy and rode four miles into McCall for
a Rotary Club meeting.
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which
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REPRESENTATIVE
15th day—BOSTON to NEW YORK CITY
You are in 1620 ... when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
and established the first permanent settlement north of Virginia.
You will trod the deck of Mayflower II and see the famous
"Rock" — visit Plymouth Plantation and enjoy "living" in Pil-
grim days. Then it's on to New York City where you have 3
grand nights reserved for you.
29th day —LITTLE AMERILA to BOISE, IDAHO
Idaho welcomes you home as your 8000-mile tour draws
to a close. You begin to part with some very choice friends,
whom you will never forget. Just as you will never foreget your
New England Holiday and our vast and wonderful country. Do
join us again ... to see America at her best ... The Harmon
Way.
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Today offers a pleasant drive from Kentucky westward to the shores of the grandgold slkq�s ssippif
River where a band of hard French explorers landed 200 years
ago to found a city destined to become one of the
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RETURN REQUESTED
Bill Deinhard
During this year's season of
honorary degrees, an honorary
diploma and engraved plaque
from Meadows Valley High
School has been presented to
long-time McCall resident Bill
Deinhard. The recipient, who
actually only attended school
through the 5th grade in John-
stown, Pa. before he went to
work in a brickyard in 1903, has
been a Long Valley resident since
about 1918. This year he lent the
Meadows Valley school a real
"helping hand" by purchasing a
badly needed refrigerator for its
hot lunch program.