HomeMy Public PortalAboutHeinrich, AdolfiC/a/coy
OCTOBER 8, 1961
FIVE GENERATIONS, visiting in McCall early this month,
are represented by (from left) Mrs. Emelia Heinrich, Lewis-
ton; Sophia Rowland and Lorraine Jones, McCall and Roger
D. Clyne and son, Roger Allen of Lewiston.
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Adolf Heinrich
with Joe Bennett
March 6, 1972
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JOE "This is Joe Bennett and we are interviewing Adolf Heinrich, of Lake Fork.
On March the sixth, 1972. Adolf, you want to tell where your parents
were born?"
ADOLF "My father was born on the ddge of BeTlin:,, Germany. Apperently in not to
prosperous an Brea. There were family troubles and as soon as he could
get away from his step-father he got into the Kaiser Army. He got unrest
from that and disatisfaction with the governmental system made him apply
for a VISA to come to the United States."
JOE "How long was he in the army?"
ADOLF "I don't know."
JOE "I know he told me once he had to learn to swim a mile while he was in the
army."
ADOLF
"He was in the infantry."
JOE "Training was very rigorous."
ADOLF "It was. And one of the things that led to his disatisfation when he
had a boil on his hip. And he told me his commanding officer was very
strict in there. And he placed his saber just on that in the right proper
place across that boil. And it hurt bad enough that he shifted it a little
bit and the reviewing officers noticed it wasn't in proper place and gave
him a bad time. And he knew that if he reported for sick bay the only
medication he would gat would be a big dose of caster oil. So he shifted
it back the other way and they caught him at that again. Apparently he had
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ADOLF "been resisting their governmental processes enough that he wanted to get
out of there."
JOE "Where did he go?" •
ADOLF "And he came to the United States. He didn't tell us too much about his
first while in there but apparently he ended up in Minnesota for awhile
and then South Dakota."
JOE "Didn't he come to Canada first?"
ADOLF "No. After they were married they farmed to South Dakota a short while then
went to Canada for a couple years."
JOE "When were they married?"
ADOLF "Boy, I'd have to do some figuring first!"
JOE "Maybe you can tell us. a little about your mother. Where she was born and
raised."
ADOLF "Well, she was born there in Minnesota and then her family migrated to South
Dakota."
JOE "Can you tell us something about your dad's schooling that he had in Germany?"
ADOLF "Not very much, he wasn't very generous with his conversations of his
earlier childhood."
JOE "How about your mother? What school?"
ADOLF "Just average schooling at that time. Her father apparently was a 'Jack of
all trades . He was a part time minister, part time teacher and part time
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politician plus being a farmer."
JOE "Your dad told me he was a school teacher and thought they were just a little
better than he was at one time, he told me. Was some of the family born there
in the Dakotas?"
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ADOLF "Yes, Bill was born in Dakota. Then after we moved to Canada that's where
Roy and Sophie were born, in Canada. Which in later years proved quite
a little challenge to get their birth certificates straightened out."
JOE "What did he do in Canada? Did you farm there?"
ADOLF "He was farming, raising cattle mostly. But those long winters end other
thing seemed to be. , mothers' health wasn't good in Canada so they came
back south. They stayed in South Dakota a short while end then moved over
to Oregon. Seemed like they had a temporary home for awhile. They lived
close to Crabtree. And from there is where they finally migrated to Idaho."
JOE "Can youttell something about how come your dad moved through and into
Idaho?"
ADOLF "Seems like it was George Scott wasn't it that owned that we moved on to.
Had it for sale or trade. In 1910 dad and couple other fellas, it's not
clear to me justhow they traveled here, but they traveled here to look at
this land. And dads' ambition was to get back in wheat production. And it's
a little puzzling to me that with already seven youngsters to provide for
that he came into this country. He stopped down at Gold Fork an the
Loomis' and about all they had for breakfast the next morning was boiled
wheat. And he came on up and looked at the ranch and apparently spent some
time at your folks' ."
JOE "Yeah they stayed a rhght or two with us, the three of them. At that time
this part of the valley was practically all in wheat. They had a flour
mill at Roseberry and one at McCall. But the year of 1910 that's when the
flour mill burnt down in McCall. But they still had the one at Roseberry."
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ADOLF "Well from here then dad went on through and they spent a couple weeks
apparently around Cottonwood which to me is a lot better wheat producing
area than we have here. And still he decided to move in here which they
did. Theytloaded all the goods in a wagon and started moving here some-
time in the spring of 1911. And waived around here in early September."
JOE "I remember when you came in. George Scott was my mothers' brother. He
homesteaded that place that now belongs to your sow -in-law. Where were
you born?"
ADOLF "There in or near Lebanon, Oregon."
JOE "Where did you first go to school?"
ADOLF "In the old school there that's close to the Whitney place. It's on part
of the ranch that Star's used to own. We had grades one through eight in
the same school. Most years we had every grade."
JOE "You didn't go to the Star school."
ADOLF "No"
JOE "Your older brothers and sitters did."
ADOLF "Yes, some of the older youngsters went up to Star school. I don't know
when that school, district fifty-eight, was built. We thought it was a
real good school and we'd never thought of tearing the door off of the
hinges or some of those pranks that are sometimes entered into by school
youngsters now. We were proud of that place."
JOE "Yes, it was called Standard school. It was part of the. . .taken off of the
old district thirty-eight, the Star school. Your older brothers and sisters
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.AE IS went there."
ADOLF "Should we reminisce about the other youngsters that were going there then?"
30E "Well, you could, yes."
ADOLF "There was the two Star girls and Whitneys, Gerald. Wayne had already gotten
out of grade school. I was there on year with Irene Whitney who's now
Mrs. Boydetun was there. And Marcella was the youngest Whitney. And
Bo d'Crawford and:Merton McBride were steady atendants there."
JOE "Who were some of your teachers?"
ADOLF "There was a Mrs. Peterson. Her husband was blacksmith in McCall. Then
there was a Mrs. Molten and Mrs. Marler. I'm not sure in what rotation."
JOE "Did Jim Bennett ever teach there?"
ADOLF "Not when I was going. I believe he taught before I went to school ."
JOE "How long did your father grow wheat while he was here in the valley? Was
it very long?"
ADOLF "Gradually they got away fromtthe grains. And seems like the '20's were
rather lean years in here. They got away from so many grains and some
of the fellas were growing Timothy Seed. There was a lot of money making
Timothy Seed those years. Then on the produce side they started growing
a little lettuce. Now lettuce was before the 1920's. Then a little later
in the '30's there was some potatoe crops growing in here. I believe you
were one of the first ones that grew potatoes in here."
JOE "Yeah, I grew posteoes on the Folton place. They had water. You dads'
place had water but he didn't know anything about irrigation and let his
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.AE "water right lapse."
ADOLF "Well, that's one of the first things I remember out there on the ranch
when this fellow had that placelleased, And he plowed that ditch and there
was some family conversation. Whether he should permit him to go ahead and
plow it in or not. Dad didn't want to irrigate, so he let him go ahead
and plow that ditch in."
3DE t'And it finally ended up that the Clyde Patton place was the only one that
had a water right. And prior to 1920 and during 1920, I had a lease on
it for five years. I grew potatoes over there which Whitney say and decided
when we did get water from the Lake Irrigation District we could grow
potatoes. Seed potatoes, and I grew just potatoes acid sold them to some
people at Monteaur and Emmett for seed."
ADOLF "Then in the later '20's I worked for Whitney for a couple years. Then in
1930 my brother Herman and I each took out a thousand pounds of seed potatoes
along with our wages. I've been in that seed potato business from then
until now."
JOE "What other crops did you grow?"
"We grew some green peas for shipment whets they were picked in the ood and
shipped under ice. Then one time this packing shed in Donnelly was the
second largest green pea packing shed in the world. Then it seems like the
soil conditions caused the root rot on the peas. • And one of the big shippers
it was shippers from Ney York that took over the management of the produce
company that Tolmy was manager of. From peas they went into extensive ship-
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ADOLF "went of carrots. They shipped some of these best quality cattetsu► many cargos
of them, and this carrot shipment thing lasted four or five yetxsthat I
reeall. But some areas in California could produce those kinds of cro^s
more months of the year and had moreiinfluence on the market. Even though
they didn't have the quality they could service the companies with various
produce items for more months. Then in the '30's we got away from those
produce items into white clover. And a lot of farmers made very good money
in production of clovers. Until about 1955 when that started to deteriorate.
JOB "Yeah, it was when they took the tarriff off and allowed the Canadian
producers to ship -the seed in here. That ruined our market. The reason
they quit carrots was because the active head of Richmond & Sameuls died
or retired. And the younger man, Richmond died. So they desolved the
company and they quit raising carrots, and news. Of course they stopped
raising the peas when they got that rot in them. They didn't find out how
to take care of it till several years later and then it was too Tate to
start in growing them again. Cause they'd lost the market."
ADOLF "About that time the average housewife got to where they didn't want to sit
down and pull peas out of a pod anymore. There was more of a tendacy for
the ladies to take up employment. There was other places they could grow
peas and run them through more modern hullers and handle them in volume and
freeze them for future use. It had an influence too I believe."
JOE "Yes it did. The alsack seed market went to pieces because of taking the
terriff off. I ruined the market, the growers here in Long Valley, and
Grangeville and galamith Falls. It never has been revived. I noticed that
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JOg 'Orville Roberts still raises a little, I don't know what he does with it"
ADOLF "I visited with Orville a shortttir.ie back. What he grows now is almost on
contract. There's seed companies that want a limited amount of it. It's
a contract that he will produce a limited amount for them."
,mg "When you were going to school did you go to high school at all?"
ADOLF "Some"
JOE "And that was where?"
ADOLF "At the old brick Roseberry high school. I attended about a year and a half
of high school."
31101 "What was some of the social activities that you went to/"
ADOLF "One was in grade school. It was real common and pleasant to have those.
About every two weeks we'd have some type of a literary program that the
adult people would put on. Then the youngsters would contribute some parts
of those. We had country dances in the schoolhouses. Those are some of
the pleasant memories I have of getting together with the neighbors. Then
it was common for the younger set. teenager to get together and prepare
and put on plays. The practiced two or three times a week until they would
get it down to a pretty nice point of perfection. Then they would get a
big gathering where they'd get together. It usually would be a three act
play or something like that. You took part in a lot of those I think."
JOE "Yes I did."
ADOLF "Then a little later, in 1933 John Demond came up in this country to organ-
ize grange activities. Grange Organization was founded back in, after the
Civil War. Fellows who were followers in the Masonic Organization working
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ADOLF "for the government traveled into the southern states to determine what
could be done to help agriculture get re-organised after the Civil War. And
out of that they propesed a Fraternal Farm Organization. And that was a
very influential organization. It added a lot of social entertainment
and it had a serious side, too. In legislative influence. They were one
of the first organizations in this county that advocated that if the high-
way department could put oil roads some place else they could oil some
roads in Valley County. It seemed far-fetched at first but we got other
organizations to join us and in time to pressure and influence. We got
some more oil roads in the county. We might have got these oil roads in
time anyway but I believe we stimulated the interest. Then later we got
the county to start plowing the roads. Having an organisation on influence ,
I think we had quite an influence on those things. Some of the earlier
Grange meetings some of the people now perhaps would not be interested.
In traveling the way we did. The roads were snowed in. If 'we'd take horses
over there, the horse would have to stand out while we were inside in the
evening entertainment. So we got the habit of putting the youngsters in
pack-sacks and then I would take the lead and break trail on skis and then
Hermena would follow up. Until we would get over to Carla' place and then
he would join in and we would have more of us in traveling. Those Grange
meetings happened twice a month regular and no one ever thought of missing
one of those. There was so many interesting and exciting things going on.
The lecture programs provided education, it was a form of adult education.
In the fall of '35 we had a harvest festival and the grange member brought
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ADOLF "various items of produce to decorate the hall. I remember the Shaws
brought many things from their gardens."
JOE "Where did the first Grange meet, Adolf?"
ADOLF "Lake Fork"
JOE "And what hall?"
ADOLF "It was in that Finn hall there. The one that burned later. It was re-
built again. Then finally it was to hard to keep that big hall and the
schoolhouse became available. We bought it and moved up onto the sight
where it is, right on the edge of Lake Fork."
JOE "What schoolhouse was that?"
ADOLF "It was the one from Pine Grove down by where Schiline's live and close to
where Tom Flemming lives now.'"
JOE "Could you .name some of the members of the Grange?"
ADOLF "Well, Kurt Matson was elected first grange master but it seems he didn't take
too much interest init. And Carl Byers was the over-seer whose duty is to
take the masters' place if he isn't there. Carl Byers took charge of that
thing and he done a lot of organizational work and lot of work beyond what
the average pereon would've done. Afterwards I think of it Carl being a
bachelor, no youngsteds involved and still he had the good of the area at
heart. So Carly Byers was master then after our second election. Than
there's been quite a sucsetion of influential people that have served in
that capacity. My brother Carl has, I have on several occasions."
JOE "Name some of the charter members."
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ADOLF "Roy Shaw was a charter member. I was a charter member. Henry Kangas was
a charter member but Henry didn't attend very long."
JOE "I was a charter member."
ADOLF "Was Joe Bennett a charter member?"
JOE "Yes, Joe Bennett was a charter member."
ADOLF "That was good. But back to this thing about harvest festival in 1935.
That was really the beginning of the county fairs in Idaho. I mean in Long
Valley. Because we had such a good time. We had a dance and after the
dance exchanged those items of produce that we had brought to the fair. It
grew then to where we would have a dinner at noon, and then an afternoon
social activities and then our dance at night. I- finally grew big enough
that we invited the other Granges to join us and we moved to Cascade. It
was Grange Fair in Cascade school. And the thing continued to grow and be-
cause there was so much interest in it again the influence of the group to
get the commisioners to hire us a county agent and in due time a home
extension agent. Then along in the '50's, about 1955 I believe we organ-
ized that into a legal county fair. It had been my pleasure or responsibility
or both to serve on the county fair board from then till now."
JOE "Who were some of the other member os the county fair board that's been on
there so long?"
ADOLF 1I*ell, Horace Patterson has been, he was the county commisioner that was
appointed on the fair board and Horace is a very charming fellow. He has
been real active in this fair work. Then Blair Armstrong was on the board
for years. He just retired off this year. John Hasbroo c' was on some
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ADOLF "Then another interesting thing to me was in about 1938 or along in that
time this Federal Aid to the Electric Co-ops began. There was quite a few
of us Grange officers got active in that. I look back at that as, two ' f
the things that caused the most progress in Valley County vas when rre'',_
organized that co-op, REA co-op, to get these power lines built so they
bod in the county. Then the next progressive
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step was when we kold that out to Idaho Power!" : \.
JOE "What was some of the first power outfits here in the valley?"
ADOLF "Didn't a fella by the name of Bennett develov a power plant up on Lake
Fork and strung some lines down to a town of McCall?"
,10E "Well yes, that's one of the first electricity delivered here in town was
by Eugene Bennett. I was developed up on Lake Fork and then he sold out to
Schaffer and Jordan."
ADOLF "Then they in turn sold to West Coast."
JOE "I think when the REA, that's what started the West Coast down in the valley
with their power line, too."
ADOLF "I was a kind of competitive spirit wasn't it?"
JOE "Yeah, it kind of pushed them along and they offee+ed to come in and hook us
all up. And they finally;Jsold out to Idaho Power. We had to sell out because
our. . .we producing- power with deisel engines and we bought a poser n1_ant
and dam in Garden Valley that washed out. We were real glad to sell out to
Idaho Power and let them be the owners."
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ADOLF "I served on that REA board for quite a while. As I recall, when we were
generating power with diesel units we were losing about a thousand dollars
a month."
JOE "Yeah, and I think right at the last of it, it was better than two thousand
dollars a month we were going in the holy. We were very glad to get rid of
it. When we voted to sell out I think there were only three or five votes
against selling out, everybody else wanted to sell out. Mr. Strickler ',as
the head of the Idaho Power at the time and we were glad to sell to him.
They said they'd give us so much for our power and. ."
ADOLF "Should we touch a little on Hermena's folks and their approach into this
area? Or are you just about out of tape?"
BETTY "Just about out of tape but I'll stop you."
ADOLF "Hermena's grandfather and their family were Bill Demond and his wife.
Hermena's grandfather and grandmother were born and married in Germany.
Then they came to the coal mines in Wyoming. While they were working there
they were working with some of the Finn people that eventually migrated up
into here. Apparently about 1902 or along in that area Bill Demond was
inspired to get out of the coal fields. Since two of the boys had been
killed in work in the coal mines. Seemed like after they were ten years old
they were old enough to go to the mines and help load coal. And after two
of them were killed. grandmother influenced Bill to go with these Finns
to Long Valley and see if he could settle and make a living farming. When
• he got up as far as Ole and the Finn Fellows some of their names were
Koskella and Oscar Lake was one of them and then I think some of the Kantola's
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ADOLF "were in that group. But they started on their skits from Ole. Old Bill
had never been on a pair of skiis. After he fellttwo or three times and
got snow in his full beard he decided that any country that you had to get
that way that he wase a about to go. So he returned then and bought a
place north of Ustick. It was all sagebrush. They worked the sagebrush
out of there and they farmed there until two years ago. When they sold
that ranch. But long in the thirties when John started traveling that's
Hermena's dad, and working for State Grange he came up into here. I
knew Hermena's folks for almost a year before I met her. Then it was at
a grange meeting in Ada County. Well I briefly met her at her folks'
place and then we traveled to a grange meeting in Ada County. Then in
the fall of 1934, December. we were married at a grange meeting in Ada
County. The State Grange Master at that time was W.W. Deal , a methodist
minister. Seemed like Hermena's father hadn't had very much but he enjoyed
working with grange people and trying to elevate this is language used in
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the ritual; Elevate the character_ Increase h of all natrans of
husbandry. It was €fter I had known them quite some time that I met
Hermena and we were married."
JOE "Where was Hermena born and where did she go to school?"
ADOLF "In Boise. She was educated in the Valley View schodll until high school,
then the Boise high school."
"What year were you married?"
ADOLF "134. Then in '365we started building that home that we live in now. And
someday we plan to finish it!"
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JOE "Who did you buy that place from?"
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ADOLF "I was part of the Jackson place that Richard 134,44meek in Meadows had taken
the mortgage on. And it was kinds through Bolbeck that after the Jackson's
had died that got that quick-claim. Paid the back taxes and so forth. I
landed on that small place and enjoyed being a small operator ever since."
JOE "Where do you raise most of youtspuds?"
ADOLF "I've leased various pieces of ground around. The nature of the teed
potato business is such that we should rotate and not use the same ground
too often. So it's been my pleasure.to move from place to place with my
cropping work. One time I had some land leased on the Abbott ranch west
of the river. I geew three crops of potatoes over there . Then for several
years I was down on that penninsula west of Donnelly on Charlie Edwaeds'
place."
JOE "What veriety of spuds have you raised, Adolf?"
ADOLF "Mostly the rusett kind. When ve first started in the early thirties you
had some Irish cobblers. Then a little later some of these fellas got inter-
ested in these early gems. We produced a few of them for a while. I don't
think I had any early Ohio's."
JOE "I raised a few,"
ADOLF "Then from that we got into a few noble rusetts."
,10E "When you first started, how did you raise these potatoes. What equipment
did it take?"
ADOLF "We bought a planter, a one row iron planter."
JOE "How did that operate?"
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ADOLF "Well, place the cut seed in the hopper, and it had a wheel that had big
notches in it that elevate the seed and drop it in a chute into a planting
wheel. A second operator set on the back and would make corrections. If
it would elevate and drop two pieces into that feed wheel then take out
one and if there was a skip you would drop one in. Everything worked good
if you got all the shields in place. One spring I learned the painful way
that it is important to keep those shields in place. I still have the
finger that was damaged some. We got a one row Hoover Digger from Tom
Harris, he used to sell machinery out here. We over hauled that thing and
used four head of horsed on it and dug them and then hand picked them and
hauled them into the cellars. First couple years we used an iron -heel
wagon because it was low. Then I borrowed that old truck from Ralph Rone.
Remember that Model T Ford Truck? There was a certain way I could load it
and g et a standard lead to be about twenty-two hurjdred pounds as
I recall .
That old Ford done alright. I don't recall having any serious problems
with it for two or three years."
JOE "What was the next truck?"
ADOLF "An old International six speed special. That had a double gear in the axle.
It had low enough gears that we could set it in gear and set the throttle
and one man load from each side. It would almost guide itself up through the
fields."
JOE "I remember you and I hauled spuds for three diggers one fall for three diff-
erent farms. It was generally about 1:00 in the morning when we got through."
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ADOLF "I was hauling for Kenneth Stik that one time. And Whitney was still digging.
We got through hauling for Ken Stik and Whitney wanted to group both crews
together because it was storming and it was real late. So he got Stik to
go down and dig and I agreed to go down and haul for the same crew I had been
hauling for. But they brought that big old Dodge of theirs d'o 'n. Then they
broke that Dodge down. Then I had to haul for that crew. then Noel Shaw
came over with an old truck he had to haul for the small crew. I'd been hauling
for six weeks already and I had pretty well built up my muscles and knew
quite a bit about handling those sacks. I recall I hired a couple of Packla
boys that were carpenters, they had finished their carpenter job. I put both
of them on one side of the truck and I was on the other. We hauled fromnabout
10:00 in the morning till about 11:00 at night."
JOII "How much did these sacks weigh?"
ADOLF "We filed them supposed to be sixty pounds, part of the time we used sixty
pound half sack some times fifty. But I think most of the time they were all
sixty poind sacks. Then the top of the sack vas folded over. They were
hauled open, that is not tied. They were hauled in then we would lay a plank
from the truck to the pile. We'd walk on this plankl-sand empty the potatoes on
the pile, let them drift down so they wouldn't be bruised."
JOE "Had to handle them very carefully."
ADOLF "You bet. That's one of the things that is very bad now. But when the
wheather is cold and the harvest operaters are apprehensive that they might
not have much more time to harvest there's that natural tendency to hurry If
they run the machines too fast, even though the outside of the ootaooes doesn't
show bruises there's an internal black spot happens whereever a cold notate
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ADOLF "is bruised and then lays in storage a short time."
JOE "What constitutes a cettified seed potato?"
ADOLF "The seed has to be approved by Crop. Improvement Assoc. ."
JOE "Just what is a Crop Improvement Assoc. , Adolf?"
ADOLF "It's en association of the certified growers in the skate. At one time it
was seperated. They had a Potabo Improvement and a Crop Improvement for other
crops. But they merged the two together and we still have a notatoe advisory
group that supervises the potato ec%d of it. They have various standards that
these seeds have to meet. Then that is planted, then there are two field
inspections required and one harvest time inspection. Before that seed can
be replanted for certification again, a representative sample has to be sent
to Ocean Side, California for a winter testing and desease readings. There's
a group of our plant specialists in California this peek doing that work."
JOE "Can you tell something about the progress of the different machinery that
the neighbors had and what it is today and what it "as %Phan it first started. ?"
ADOLF "That could bring in a tremendous field there. Remember about '29 %hen Whitney
bought that Dolman pull-along sacker machine? I drove the horses then we
had sex horses on a digger that had this bagging machine attached to the
back. Then there was about four people picking the clods and trash out. They
were set off in half sadcs then hauled in in trucks. Then Wayne Whitney done
considerable experimenting and he had some good ideas of loading those in
trucks in bulk. Aut the machinery that Wayne built was built without quite beg
enough shaft, not quite big enough bearings. He improvised out of other machines
that he had wrecked. But he had a pretty well perfected digger that would
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ADOLF "deposit them in truck beds, quite a bit tike we have now. He didn't have
the unloading thing perfected. They bruised them pretty bad to unload them
out of the trucks."
JOE "Wayne wasn't a very good machinist, he just had good designs but not
a very good machinist. His ideas were way ahead of what was finally built."
ADOLF "His ideas were real good. I believe he would have been a real good machinist
had he had some tools and equipment. He had an art welder that was the first
one I'd ever seen. But to take and improvise some sprocket wheels off of a
grain binder or a combine and make them work for that. Some of the shafts off
of that thing I recall were three-quarter inch or one inch shafts. In that
same place (snow we're using one and a half inch shafts and adequate slip
clutches. Had Wayne had excess to these "v" belts if a rock would catch a
'v' belt would slip. He had the right ideas going."
JOE "I remember a rock catching and tearing it all to pieces. Same way on a Deere
he remodeled of mine. I went about a hundred yards and that was the end of it
till he rebuilt it."
ADOLF "We done some redesigning on diggers. too. The one we got from Tom Harris in
later years we got a tractor that had a power take-off on it. We took the axle
and driveshaft off of a Model T'.Ford. We welded those spider gears in there
solid and then cut one side of the axle off. out a sprocket on the other.
Mounted that on top of this digger and connected this sprocket with another
sprocket on the drive of the digger. Acid boy, that was the last word in a digger
at that time."
JOE "Now.what kind of machines do you use?"
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ADOLF "A few years ego we bought one of thence, Aqual Manufacturing Co. built
Machines. a two row harvester that's built in Boise. That donw a good job
for us for a couple years. Because the seed potato crop ie of lees yield and
the more volume you can get into these conveyors the less bruise dapiage
there is. Last summer we bought a cross conveying digger. We had built our
shop models of a digger that would elevate two rows over so that you could
handle four at a time. The latest addition to our tine of machinery is a
factory built elevating digger that we can either lay two rows over. so we can
harvest two and pick up the two we layed over or occasionally we can make a
complete round and elevate two over from either side and we can dig two end
pick up the other four. Making six where the rows are short."
"Wbat about your soil and your fertilizer? What's the difference between
what you first started and what you do now.?"
ADOLF "We used clover land. We liked to grow it on clover. where there's clover
crop left over, yet. Then we hauled manure out there. Sometimes we'd pitch
it on the sled then pitch and spread it out on the field. Later we got a
spreader. And still later we got one of those hoisting machines on the front
of the tractor so we could load the spreader. I remember Jack Davis set
there and watched me load the spreader and then he started toll/lath. He said
'That's the first time I ever set down while my manure spreader ..gas being
loaded. ' A good practice now is to keen all the straw and other crop residue
that we can through the years. Then we take the last cutting of hay and a
totto tiller and till that hay into the top two, three inches of soil. Then
plow it and plant potatoes. We've kept using.a modest amount of balanced
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ADOLF "fertilizer. That is nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers. We haven't received
much response from pot ash or any of the other trace elements. Some places
they're using them and getting pleasant response. I believe part of the
good we have received in>our soil building is in application of lime. So the
combination of lime and moderate amount of commercial fertilizers."
JOE "What started the putting lime on the soil and why?"
ADOLF "We got to getting quite a bit of sheepsaw weed in a lot of the Places. We
started using gypsin, which is a blend of sulpher and lime. And we got not
only a partial control of out weeds but we got added yeeld to nost crops
where we applied gypsin."
JOE "What started so much use of lime usage? The spurry for grain, add wheat?"
�.jJOLF "This spurry weed is a peculiar one that has showed up in very few areas.
Long Valley being one that it's been a real serious problem. Seems like lime
is partial control."
JOE "Is net because the soil in sour."
ADOLF "I suppose"
JOE "I remember the first I used was this ground lime rock. I put it on and Dr.
Larson that was head of our soil department for so long at the university, he
came over to test it one time and I said there was some up in my machine shed.
So we went up there. and there was supposed to have been a tub full . Some-
body'd poured this out of the tub. And there was sheepsaw growing right out of
the middle of it. About ten inches deep. So Dr. Larson took some of it and
tested it and it was good lime rock but that weed was just a little too strong
for it. I let it lay there a year or two and finally the stuff from gro'=ing.
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JOE "Where are these spuds sold, and how do you grade them?"
ELF "Grading potatoes is more along the nature of determining how cruch loss there
will be in pealing or how much waste in cutting up for certified seed neices.
There are various places in Idaho you can buy sorters but most of this pork is
done by hand. I visited a sorting plant in Glenns Ferry. I'd stormed there
five or six times trying to find them when they were working. It was more of
an electronic devise. It ssort potatoes according to slew by the shadow they
cast. I'm not sure I understand all the procedure of it is the reason I've
stopped again and again. Up till now they haven't run that plant. Pacific
Fruit owns it. They haven't run it very steady. But our own sorters are some
that we built in our own ehap. They work?=quite well. We've developed venti-
lation tunnels under one cellar so that we have an elevator and it will
load these sorters as fast as two man can scoop by hand. The competition to
get more done with less effort and expense is so great that we've had to
devise these various machines that require less labor. I'm afraid we've just
about reached the saturation point. I told my boys that I don't know if I can
visualize the changes necessary to stay in business another years or not."
3DB "How are these spuds shipped and handled?"
"A lot of them are shipped in bulk anymore. We have elevators that we can •
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back right up to our sorter and load them into these big highway transports.
We geared up to There it's not uncommon for some of us to load one of those
transports a day, about twenty ton. And occasionally we can out on extra
crews so we could load two of them."
DOE "Row are they unloaded?"
"They have a false floor in the bottom of the truck bed. Most of the truck
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ADOLF "beds that have these false floors and then a btlt under this false floor
that they can remove boards and let this pile drift down onto an elevator that
carries the load back out of the back end then on to wore elevators and
conveyors. It's rather unusual now to load the load in hundred pound bags.
There are not many people whe are physically able to. The technique of
handling a hundred pound bag is such that unless someome practices that it's
real hard work."
JOE "I can remember that it's real hard work. I packed, Raymond Forton and I
loaded two cars out of Whitney's cellar out at one time. We had to lack them
out on our backs from the back of the middle of the cellar. I think �:�e
loaded 360 to each car. When we got through both of our shoulders had big
sores on them like a sore shouldered horse. The road was snowed in and we
couldn't get any teem over there to move that. The only way we had was by
hand. They wanted these spuds at once. You haven't told us a thing about your
family or your children."
ADOLF "I was just going to tell you that I should mention that. I have three
girls and boy and eleven grandchildren. Our oldest daughter married Dee
Florence. They're active in farming in the Lake Fork area. Also they are
working on a cattle and hay farming adventure in Gardena. And Harriet married
Gary Clark and he is a heavy equipment mechanic for Brown Tie and Lumber.
Harriet's a registered nurse. I should go back to Loretta a little bit. In
her 43H work she practiced decorating cakes. Then after she was married and
Dee was in the Army, she worked in a bakery for avhile. And used that tech-
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"pique only they taught her to do it faster. So she could decorate hundreds
of cookies or cakes per day."
JOE
"Where was that at, Adolf?"
ADOLF
"That vas in Georgia when Dee was in the Army. She has a hobby now of raking
beautiful wedding cakes. She has Fade, oh I don't know how many. She had
a scrapbook with pictures of many of those wedding cakes. To me it's real
fascinating to watch her work. She acts so unconcerned and does it so easy.
She just applies those rose pettles or flowers or makes these sugar bells
and puts them in place. She has a skill there that she gets a lot of pleasure
out of. Then Harriet gets a lot of pleasure out of her profession. She
ususally works part=time. But the works enough to keep skilled at her pro-
fession."
3DB
"Where does she work?"
ADOLF
"McCall Hospital. Right at the present time she is expecting a youngster
within a month so she's off work."
"Where do they live?"
"They live down there right close to us. West of Lake Fork. They bought a
ten acre piece of ground. They've developed that and built a house on it and
they enjoy it out there. Hermena and I have worked in a Grange. married in a
Grange meeting, and that finally hit Leland. Before he got out of the
university he had a job as field tan for the farm bureau. Because of his work
there I've come to the conclusion that there could be a lot of good come in a
state level if they could do the same as the national level. Organize a
federation of all farms ,,coupe and pick out some of the things that they could
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"work and agree on. Then elaborate on that and perhaps do some good. Leland
worked as a field man in Idaho for a couple years.
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Subject: Adolph Heinrich
Adress: Lake Fork
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Date: March 6, 1972
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Father's Army experiences in Germany
2 mother's early life
3 Father's arrival in this valley
4 Star school-Standard school
5 Early school teachers
Early farm crops
6 Early farm crops-potatoes-peas
7 Farming
8 High school at Roseberry
School activities
Grange activites
9 Grange activities
10 Finn Hall at Lake Fork
11 Harvest Festival in 1935
County Fair Board
12 Wife's family-Hermena
15 Potatoe raising •
Machinery used
23 Children
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Heinriches celebrate 60th
Carl and Leota Heinrich celebrated were married on June 13,1937,in
their 60th wedding anniversary on Boise.Carl worked as a custodian
Saturday with a reception held in for McCall-Donnelly school, and
their honor at the McCall Senior Leota was a longtime teacher in
Citizen Center. The Heinriches area schools.
"AN EXPERT," according to Adolf Heinrich, "is an or-
dinary fellow a long way from home."
Adolf is an expert. At least he was Thursday. He was a long
'1 way from his home at Lakefork where he produces seed po-
T �` Z�'I I'i I tatoes. He was down in the basement of the Elmore County
Courthouse, in Mountain Home talking to County Agent Herb
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Adolf and Herb are old friends. In fact, they more or less got
the county involved in the Cascade fair back in 1950 when Herb
was right in the middle of his first county agent job at Donnel-
ly. The Valley County Fair today, which "happens" about mid-
August, was the thing they were still talking about.
And I happen to know that Adolf was quizzing Herb about
In Memory of the feasibility of incorporating a sanctioned "Little Britches
On1B'" ERNEST HEINRICH Rodeo" into this summer's entertainment. But so far it isn't
din 14:2 fact.
Date of Birth WE TALKED about seed spuds and why it was desirable
Germany July 24, 1861 to grow them at the 5,000-foot altitude of Long Valley, It
es, seems that is exactly what makes them desirable. And, be-
:omb; Passed Away lieve it or not, they've had a crop every year since 1930.
Nampa, Idaho Oct. 30, 1954 "THEY DID GET SCARED a few times," Herb said.
I asked Adolf about the pea industry which once flourished
Services at at Meadows. He remembered. And he also told me something
McCall Congregational Church else. It seems Donnelly once boasted the second-largest pea-
Wednesday, 2 p. m. Nov. 3, 1954 packing plant in the world back in the 30s. And they shipped
tons of prize carrots from the Lakefork and Gold Fork areas
of Long Valley.
Officiating THE PRIME GRIPE of Adolf is the fact that newspaper
Rev. Edwin E. Elder ad-layout men, when stressing a bargain in Idaho potatoes,
:; Organist call them "cheaper" instead of "better."
Mrs. Charles Holt I ALSO FOUND out something else Thursday — why Val-
livue High School has a good football team. I learned the
Soloist secret from Mountain Home farmer-rancher Dave Spencer
Mrs. Bryan Lawrence who also has operated a farm at Nampa for a number of
years.
Bearers Dave is one of the large operators who grow sugar beets,
Bill Leaf Joe Bennett potatoes and grain on a sprinkler-irrigated plot of reclaimed
Leo Shaw Guy Fairbrother desert land. He is outspoken about the criticism some farm-
Matt Luoma Wayne Whitney ers have received for hiring so-called "wetbacks."
"You get pretty desperate when you have to shut your
Concluding Services at pumps off and the crops begin to dry up," he said.
McCall Cemetery Pipe moving is hard, wet, and sometimes cold and muddy.
The morning-evening split shift also has its disadvantages.
EEMAN
But Dave has had good help from Mountain Home high
school students and Navajo Indian workers from Monument
Valley. The only drawback to hiring students is that they can
work steady only three out of the six-month irrigation season
which begins in April.
But back to the Vallivue Falcons. It seems that someone
mentioned to Coach Bill Young that he must maintain a pret-
ty stringent physical education program.
"YES, WE DO," he replied. "We call it pipe setting."
The waiter brought the farmer his steak rare — very rare.
He stared at it a minute and then demanded that it be returned
to the kitchen and cooked.
"IT IS COOKED," snapped the waiter.
"Oh, no it isn't," said the farmer. "I've seen cows hurt
worse than that get well."
THE STAR - NEWS -- THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1979
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Horace Patterson hands
Adolf Heinrich award for service to Valley County Fair.
4-H banquet honors fair
booster Adolf Heinrich
Thirty -two Valley County
4 -H leaders and their
spouses met in Cascade last
week for the annual 4 -H
Kick -off Banquet, sponsored
by Boise Cascade and Idaho
First National Bank.
The banquet was held at
the Masonic Hall and was
catered by Eastern Star
members.
At the meal, Horace
Patterson, chairman of the
Valley County Fair Board,
presented Valley County
Commissioner Adolf
Heinrich a plaque for his 30
years service on the fair
board. Heinrich retired from
the board last fall on his
election to the county
commission.
Also on the program for
the evening was Roselle
Murphy, who gave a slide
show and talk on her year
spent as an exchange
teacher in Australia.
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Adolf G. Heinrich
Lakefork, Idaho
Adolf G. Heinrich, 82, of Lake- his excellence in furthering the
fork, died Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1993, perfection of certified seed potato
in McCall, Idaho, of natural production.
causes. Survivors include his wife, Her-
Funeral services will be held at mine; three daughters, Loretta
11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at the Florence and her husband Dee of
Masonic Hall in McCall. Services Lakefork, Harriet Clark of McCall,
will be officiated by Pastor Ron and Carolyn Bollar and her hus-
Clapp of McCall's Church of the band Dale of Boise; one son and
Nazarene and Pastor Wally Vos his wife, Leland and Brenda of
of Twin Falls. Masonic rites will Cascade; 16 grandchildren; 13
be by Payette Lakes Lodge ##91 great-grandchildren; three sis-
A.F. & A.M. Burial will follow in ters, Sophia Rowland of McCall,
McCall Cemetery. Freida Wiley of Middleton, and
Adolf was born in Crabtree, Elsie McCall of Hillsboro, Ore.;
Ore., on Jan. 22, 1911, a son of two brothers, Lewis of Dayton,
Ernest and Emilie Heinrich. In Wash., and Carl of McCall; and
that same spring his father start- numerous nieces and nephews.
ed their journey to Long Valley He was preceded in death by his
and arrived at the "Homestead" mother, father, three brothers,
in September. Adolf's love for one sister, a baby son, and a
tilling the soil developed at an grandson.
early age and continued until he The family suggests memorials
married Hermine DeMond of Boi- be made to McCall Memorial
se on Dec. 28, 1934, and then Hospital, P.O. Box 906, McCall,
their love cultivated not only the Idaho 83638.
growth of 60 successive crops of Friends may call at the Heikkila
certified seed potatoes, but also Funeral Home on Thursday from
the growth of five children, 16 12 until 8 p.m.
grandchildren and 13 great- Whomever that Adolf's heart,
grandchildren. hands, and soul have touched will
His love for farming, family, definitely miss his
and community was shown by his y presense, but
unselfish desire to "Give Back", will live forever enriched by his
which was expressed through his guidance.
willing participation in the follow- Appropriately enough, our Lord
ing organizations, boards, and grasped Adolf's hand as the sun
committees: rose over Jug Handle Mountain to
Local, state, and national imbed in our minds his ever re-
Grange, Valeria Chapter #76 petitive saying of "I'LL SEE YOU
Eastern Star, Order of Payette WHEN THE SUN SHINES."
Lakes-Lodge #91 A.F. & A.M.,
Donnelly-McCall School Board,
Lake Irrigation Dist., W.I.C.A.P.,
4-H leader, instigator of 30 years
of county fairs and service on the
fairboard, instrumental in the
foundation of Idaho Potato Com-
mission and Idaho Crop Improve-
ment Assn., and 12 years as Val-
ley County Commissioner. His
years of leadership were recog-
nized by many various awards
and certificates of merit which
included an Honorary Degree to
the University of Idaho Alumni for
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Sheriff's Corner
I intend to digress, in this edition of"The Sheriff's Corner," and
talk about people. After all,when you stop and think about it, that is
what policing is all about.
? ` My story begins on a sultry June day in 1992 at the county gas
pumps in Lake Fork. I was fueling my patrol car when an elderly gen-
': tleman walked up and we started talking.He told me that he had lived•
$ in this valley since he was 11 months old. Even though the sparkle
was still in his eyes, I could tell that meant he had been here a while.
He was telling me that he had raised 70 odd consecutive potato
, L } crops when he noticed that my right hand was swollen. He suddenly
took my hand in his arthritic hands and started rubbing it.He told me
that I should rub in the direction of the heart to reduce the swelling. I could tell that the aggressive
movements that he was making with his fingers hurt him,but that did not matter.He felt that he was
helping me. I never saw this elderly gentleman again, and it was only after his death in 1993 that I
came to know his name.
, The purpose of my story is not to merely do honor to the man. Even though I will never forget
him.I want to honor the generic kinship that was as much a part of him,as it is a part of most of the
residents of our valley,a kinship of giving,a kinship of caring,a kinship of love.
I will close with a passage that I remember from a book that is titled"For Whom the Bell Tolls."
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls,for if one of thy breathren has fallen, it tolls for thee."
I will never forget Adolf Heinrich.
Tommy H. Rhea,Sheriff-Elect