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HomeMy Public PortalAboutDeinhard, WilliamSubject: William Deinhard Address: McCall, Idaho Date: Pn-e Photo of McCall Hotel-1904 Photo of Deinhard in 1913 Clipping from May 1974 Booklet about Deinhard-1973 'y r 7-1 p ��'1�Ps �/� /77,=ifl 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. ?a,G GCCe Z. s S �Q 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. oi6:co.‘ 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 Page one . . . 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 Page two . . . I 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, Page three . 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. Page four . . . 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 Page five . . 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 Page six . 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 Page seven . . 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 mh Page eight . . . 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. l 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. .1ttIy 2t1. I 0 5 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. Q a Q 30 o' F 0 ,\o Old-timers need no gas AP photo 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 • 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 li 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." 10'4A- liftWv froTtd r Qee-7114, Afadv),1,7 g69ij 65- 41e.uttr—o)ral ttc-eed�aR.i �ea2 6t(;) - 5;1 r;° a ie.t& i 2,91 70Ei3,1GlOnd A.tit4 ,tie �am�/� � a,14:cieJ � r� viz e;L. fi,ka„Lam. di.evt./a h; fmtE, 4;4 /?t-tFuLt7 eg4.1--(2-2 -g),&,n-A4A-el ktit:a , 3 04--0 4T,60-2( A.»; 3 &)-&tao/ 0/)2 - .mod &2.4.1. tiv.ot jo-rYd t Q ifunce- ceyt.cl +(er&"e- 0,„>„)L zri h6,, cvQ&I 4-rhiclex • r.�az uz+�d Qinefoa.�l aoto� Aug 29,1973 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 �tci 41.A 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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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. �O O\-O�POO 4Pvo Q do JCS O aaA/„ ti �r most 24th day—LOUISVILLE to ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 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 pros- OJ O� �Q�" OG. O� Pca b'b 01'1 .� Ovsy- am' E� ii�"( � . y pU NEW `40 . C11N the Empoeye � yvh day day very top of a .,(nOre P {v the J and h o� •P n rZ to ding r be\ nto� ov State g{ the c:\ty and d a e to youe sC ernes vlM`a h ta�v4fhfas\a esatrslop e tournhaita Roous P t, Cen ops'"( a {a ee h . Mee such Fff Streth et, do 'on N�\st e S fs so e Much to see'ano5do f isiavve o� and vch frnp the • st• i h ut f y •o to eta osI orb t a {e< ea {r a\\. eCiy vao\gib\ aay • rhos de\1gh b •,t. eh* 4440 .&°A. Q.9 aztE "48 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.