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7. Camp Adair Photograph

7. Camp Adair Photograph of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 65 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon). Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 30, 1990 · Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon)
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 65
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part III. Printed session note: "The following transcnpt [transcript] was made from an interview with fake [Jake] and Willie at fake's [Jake's] home, during the afternoon of September 30, 1990. After reviewing the initial transcripts, fake [Jake] and Willie provided written corrections and additions. These com,nents [comments] appear throughout the manuscript enclosed in [brackets] and include the initials of the person that has provided the information." Both narrators present; speakers are marked in the printed text as [JAKE] and [WILMA]. A note "Pause in Recording" appears at p.64.

p. 65

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: heck of a wad of money before it was over. Like dimes, and quarters, change and stuff. God that was neat we thought. Too bad they weren't there. . . mine was July 1, but they wasn't there yet.

Bob Zybach: So they came between July and August?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] They must have, or else, that's when they started coming to the barn, anyway, sometime after July 1.

Bob Zybach: Would they come eveiy day to watch you milk and stuff, or just every so often?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Every now and then. It seemed like every night there was some around. Be new ones, different ones, just curious about everything. Watch you feed the pigs and all that stuff.

Bob Zybach: That's such a beauqful farm there, they must have been really impressed by it.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Well, I suppose. They was impressed by poison oak and all that kind of stuff, too, I know that. They didn't know what that dumb stuff was. In fact they come up to dig some, didn't they. Was it you or dad told them that?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] I don't remember.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] They was supposed to get some greenery, shrubbery to put around the officers' quarters down there. And the poison oak was real pretty and red. He goes syoU don't want none of that stuff!" They wanted to get a bunch of that.

Bob Zybach: Well, Ijust found out Beals Hill today, the name that the Anny gave was Poison Oak Hill, that's what's on the maps now.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Some of them must have got poison oak.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] I heard a lot of them got poison oak. Because they went up through the rifle range and you just waded through poison oak in that. That's all of Camp Adairs buildings, well as they was building them. That was probably about the time we left, that summer. Because it looked like a city down there then, before it was just a house here and there. Stelimachers and Wihiamsons, and a few of them houses. And that's all gone, you can't see any of them now.

7. Camp Adair Photograph

Bob Zybach: So, with Bud in the foreground here, this would be somewhere around his birthday, or maybe a little after, in August or September?

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
This page: Rohner 1993. 7. Camp Adair Photograph, p. 65. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/07-camp-adair-photograph/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 65 — Monograph #05:65
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/07-camp-adair-photograph/#p65 Swap 65 for whichever printed page you are quoting: every page number in the margin is its own address.
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/07-camp-adair-photograph/
Original PDF: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf

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