Soap Creek Valley · Timeline
1941–1950
1941–1950. 198 dated statements, each one printed exactly as it was said or written, with the narrator and the page.
- 1941/1945
Did Camp Adair, did they own that property during World War II?
- 1941
It really was in the formative period, getting started in 1941, and as you know, research in any area takes many years to come up with anything productive or worthwhile; so it was in the embryo stage and has developed considerably since then.
- 1941
That situation did not occur prior to 1941.
- 1941
If you recall in 1941 after Pearl Harbor, the government became active in the establishment of armed services training areas and camps, throughout the United States.
- 1941
In 1941 the State had embarked on a research program in forest products, which added to the program of the forestry school and the program of the State.
- 1941
We developed the Forest Products Research Program that was initiated in 1941 by State legislation.
- 1941
PHOTOGRAPHS OF CAMP ADAIR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES WERE TAKEN BY WILLIE ROHNER IN 1941.
- 1941
Just Bud and I pretty much at home alone, milking and stuff. And I was about 16, so Bud was about 12 I think. Had to be, yeah.
- 1941
[JAKE] They lived almost in Wells, had a farm there. Yeah, they did own it didn't they? So when Camp Adair came along and bought them out they moved to La Grande.
- 1941
Ask Babe Studack, he got his mouth full of barley beards and it darned near killed him.
- 1941
So when you came back, say, right before World War II, then the whole. . . everybody had changed over to herefords?
- 1941
My uncle, Will Meador in El Cajon, California said his friend and partner was in the Naval Reserve, and was called in to assist the British to operate U.S. destroyers. His ship was the Reuben James. I helped my uncle to run his vegetable and fruit ranch: irrigate, train berry vines, drive a tractor. I made a soil conservation dam
- 1941
I registered with the Selective Service Board in El Cajon. My uncle decided to sell the ranch. I went to San Diego to find work with an aircraft plant and was employed by Solar Aircraft, running power machines for parts for aircraft.
- 1941
stand in front of the Glender home for the first time since leaving nearly 50 years earlier, in 1941. A few months later the house was sold and moved.
- 1941
Well, when everybody had to leave, it would have been '41, I think.
Sources disagree
- 1941
the entire listing of individuals from the 1941 Corvallis telephone book.
- 1941
Can you remember the flood in 1941?
- 1941
He died in 1941.
- 1941
Top Photograph. Panorama made of two “unauthorized” photographs of US Army quarry operations taken during WW II by Wilma Rohner. Photos were made with Kodak Brownie camera she received on her 16th birthday (Rohner 1993).
- 1941
The establishment of Camp Adair at the outset of WW II ... resulted in the large scale evacuation of most Soap Creek Valley residents, an almost complete stoppage of farming and logging practices in The Valley, and the removal of most fencing, houses, and barns.
Sources disagree
- 1941
This change in land use resulted in a noticeable increase in deer, bear, and raptor populations, likely due to the general lack of competition from domestic animals and a sharp reduction in predator control, hunting, and fishing by local residents.
- 1941
US Army establishes Camp Adair, begins training in Soap Creek Valley
Sources disagree
- 1941-08
In August, 1941, the U.S. Army announced plans for a military training camp to be located in north Benton County.
Sources disagree
- August 6, 1941
that was in August, Bud's birthday was August 6, so we were still out there in on August 6, I know we was.
- 1941-12
The war had already started, though in December of 1941.
- 1941-12
After Pearl Harbor I enlisted in the Air Force. Basic training, schooling, then overseas: Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany.
- 1941-12-07
Well now wait, Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941.
- 1941-12-07
With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 there was much confusion in the area about condemnation of land for a military base---soon and the old timers were removed from their land and homes.
- 1941-12-12
On December 12, just a few days after Pearl Harbor, Camp Adair was established to handle 33,000 men.
Sources disagree
- 1942
We enjoyed living here from 1942 to 1955.
- 1942
During the period of 1942 to 1955, when I was Dean of the School of Forestry at Oregon State University, one area of activity was the continuation of the forest land acquisitions for the benefit of the School of Forestry in its teaching and research programs.
- 1942
My period as Dean was from 1942 to 1955.
- 1942
It had been abandoned before I came in 1942, but I think the program ended in 1938.
- 1942
Quite often the gates were broken open, but all the time from 1942, and I think before, there were locked gates on the roads.
- 1942
It was under construction when I came in 1942.
Sources disagree
- 1942
When Dunn took over as dean of Forestry in 1942 he faced unrest in the school.
- 1942
I continued on in that category until 1942 when I was offered a position here at Oregon State.
- 1942
The Board appointed me as Dean in 1942.
- 1942
I think the enrollment in 1942 was about sixty, because the Class of '42 saw about the last of the major group of men who eventually went into military service.
- 1942
There was when we moved there untill '42 when we moved away, there were still pheasants there.
- 1942
Yeah, in 1942.
- 1942
well, my father died in 1942.
- 1942
He married my mother in 1942.
- 1942
He had many contacts with Oregon State University during the years - helping out with rodent control problems, attending reunions and get-togethers with a number of life-long friends that had graduated with him in 1942.
- 1942
This stove was most appreciated during the storm of 1942-43 when we had no electricity for a number of days.
- 1942
We lived there until the [U.S.] Army took over in '42.
Sources disagree
- 1942
Yes, I went in 1942 and came back in 1946.
- 1942
What was the camp like after 1942, when it wasn't a 3-C camp anymore? Do you recall?
- 1942
We were married in 1942, shortly before he entered the Army Air Corps.
- 1942
Stellmacher House Photograph. No one knows why the house was moved to this location. It burned in 1942, shortly after the establishment of Camp Adair.
Sources disagree
- 1942
Somewhere I think just prior to when Camp Adair came in in 1942.
Sources disagree
- 1942
We put in a line fence and while we were here, until 1942, there was nothing growing there, we kept it clean, excepting where that grove of ash trees is, that was always there.
- 1942
He moved there in 1942.
- 1942
it had to be not too much before the '40's, because Bud went to the 8th grade over here in Oakville in '42.
- 1942
We moved out before Camp Adair came in.
- 1942
No, I think that main part took out in there [toward Joe Smith's], because it hasn't been after the war and everything went back to normal and people started moving in here, I used to hear of. . . cases where shells were found. They had an artillery they had a rifle range and every kind of a range you
- 1942
The bus that I went to pick up was a 1942 bus.
- 1942
That was a 1942 bus.
- 1942
But anyway, my dad got 35 cents an hour when he was working at the Ford mill in 1942.
- 1942
That was pretty darn good pay by 1942, the war was already going by then.
- 1942
The united Glender families moved to Albany in 1942 and were never allowed to return to their Tampico home.
- 1942
Early in 1942 the first flag was raised over Camp Adair.
- 1942
These 1942 photographs show him topping and rigging a 235 foot tall spar tree in the Tillamook Burn.
- 1942
When I graduated from high school in 1942, the very first job I had was working on the Multnomah County Poor Farm, milking cows.
- 1942-02
February 1942.
- February 1942
fairly wet ground, and they started building in February, at the worst possible time.
- 1942-03
Don and I were married in March, 1942, the second year I was at Airlie.
- 1943
Early in 1943, I think it was February, Don was sent to Jackson County by the Fish and Wildlife Service to do Rodent Control on Camp White, which was being constructed near Medford.
- 1943
I worked in the woods in 1943 before I went into the Marines.
- 1943
That was in 1943?
- '43
Yes, that’d be February of ‘43.
- 1943-06
They carried on until June 1943 and then left for the service.
- 1944
Neil Vanderburg and sister, Shirley Morris, on Appleton Street in Gleneden (now Glendale), California, 1944.
- 1944
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1944. Camp Adair. Corvallis. OreQon: Training Aids General Layout.
- 1945
when did people start moving back in the valley after World War II?
- 1945
In 1945, following the War, it was evident that many of the camps would be abandoned.
- 1945
Anyway, about '45 they wanted me to come down to Deadwood Creek.
- 1945
Well, you started what, in '45 on it?
- 1945
'45 and got it to where I was willing to register it in '52.
- 1945
Yeah, she was born in '45, so she's gonna be 45 in '90.
- 1945
John and Ethel were divorced in 1945 and both remarried in later years.
- 1945
Yes, he was on the facully, but he was on leave for quite a few years; and he left a year before I came here too, in 1945.
- 1945
Log trucking and sawmilling operations at Luzon, Philippines during World War II, in 1945.
- '45
I came back in December of ‘45.
- 1945
This map, dated 1945, made from old aerial photos, shows the patches of old growth we are talking about, a small patch of five or ten acres.
- 1945
Map 24 shows the horizontal forest pattern in 1945, based on US Army aerial photographs from that year (UO Knight Library Map Room) and local forest surveys (see Fig. 28).
- 1945
Note the continued increase in conifer forest area, the sharp decrease in agricultural use, and the military and industrial development of the Coffin Butte area (see Figs. 31 and 32).
- 1945
The dedication of most Soap Creek Valley land to a single use (see Map 17) by a single owner (see Map 16) resulted in rapid and dramatic changes to forest cover patterns: livestock and fences were removed and grass species went wild; Coffin Butte quarry operations were greatly increased (see Fig. 32);
- 1945
Lower Right. 1945: field maneuvers, mining, rifle range, sport hunting.
- 1946
It was finally closed in the spring of 1946 and the remaining children transferred to Mountain View School the following school year.
- 1946
Funds were provided through a Severance Tax that was initiated in 1946 and 1947 whereby a tax was levied on logs harvested and a certain portion of that was assigned to forest research; also a portion to fire protection.
- 1946
Enrollment grew to four or five hundred during the peak years; in fact, the first peak was when the veterans returned in 1946, 1947, and 1948.
- 1946
I think it was 1946 when I first heard that Camp Adair was slated for disposal.
- 1946
Did you ever leave Corvallis once you came back in 1946?
- 1946
Oh, no, when I came back the first time I went there. When I came back in 1946 or 1947, or whatever the heck it was.
- 1946
We returned to Oregon in 1946 to make our home. Several of those Ohio boys either stayed in or returned to Oregon following the war.
- 1946
I hadn't heard of a chainsaw until 1946 or '47.
- 1946
When I came here in 1946, it had been set up.
- 1946
No, I came here, from working for Weyerhaeuser, as an Associate Professor of Forest Engineering in 1946.
- 1946
In 1946, after writing a thesis on "Graphic and Tabular Methods of Determining Tension in Logging Skylines,"
- 1946
He completed his thesis, Graphic and Tabular Methods of Determining Tension in Logging Skylines and received his degree in 1946.
- 1946
Bill finally settled down in 1946 when he came to O.S.U..
- 1946
ALPHA CHAPTER ESTABLISHED AT OREGON STATE SCHOOL of FORESTRY ~ FALL 1946
- 1946
with Oregon State College since 1946.
- 1946
You started in Oregon State in 1946?
- 1946
I came to Oregon State in 1946, fall of 1946.
- 1946
And he retired in 1946, I think, so he was retiring about that time.
- 1946
Like I said, back when I came onto the scene in 1946, the professors were inclined to call this, McDonald Forest, the land that nobody else wanted, and it’s just junk, you know?
- 1946
Getting back to 1946 when you entered the School of Forestry, who were some of the professors that were here when you came, or at least ones that stand out as exceptional?
- 1946
I think again, that period from 1946 to 1950, with the veterans that were here, we were mature enough to make our own decisions—even if they were wrong decisions.
- 1946
They had a school sawmill that was put in about 1946 or 1947, way up on Oak Creek, that the Forest Products people worked in some.
- 1946
When I showed up here on the scene in 1946....
- 1946
In 1946, there were some beaver.
- '46
In ‘46 I was in the freshman engineering class, down in Jackson Place, down below us here, he took us out in the field.
- 1946
That means that all these trees that are there now weren’t there in 1946.
- 1946
In one stand south of the Powerhouse Saddle, a stand was thinned before 1946 using this method and almost 100 percent of the leave trees were blown down in the first winter storm.
- 1946
After the War, much of the Camp Adair property was obtained by OSU (see Maps 3 and 16), and families began to move on to adjacent properties. Many of the new families were residential, rather than farmers, and new home construction reflected this change (Grabe 1990).
- January 20 1946
January 20, 1946.
- July of 1946
We came down to Corvallis in July of 1946, and bought a 50 by 100 lot on 28th and Fillmore Street—way out on the edge of town.
- 1947
I think it was in early 1947 that I contacted Senator Guy Cordon who was the Oregon U.S. Senator at that time.
- 1947/1948
That must have been in about 1947 or 1948, or something like that.
- 1947
At the same time, my brother-in-law, the one I started work with on the Poor Farm, had bought a farm out at Bellfountain in 1947.
- 1947
Between 1947 and 1954, he’d got involved in logging some timber off the old property and working for neighbors.
- 1947-05
We received the wire from Senator Cordon in May 1947.
- 1948
After further negotiations, I think it was in 1948, we finally got the deed, because I had to get President Strand and the State Board of Higher Education to approve acceptance of the tract.
- 1948
That has been complied with for 25 years from 1948 through 1973.
- 1948
[Referring to 1948 aerial photographs.]
- 1948
Photograph taken by John Beuter in 1948.
- 1948
Left to Right: William Davies, Pat Robertson, John O'Leary, and Walter McCulloch, c.
- 1948
The 1948 Annual Cruise had pictures of 38 “second-growth foresters,” a part of the post-war baby boom.
- 1948
I think he was appointed forest manager about 1948 or something like that, and his background had been with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and some public agencies, mainly in a protective role.
- 1948
I think from 1948 to 1958.
- 1948
Who started in 1948?
- 1948
Yes, this was the late ‘40s, 1948 or so, when they started negotiating on this.
- 1948
This led to problems because of no continuity of purpose, and was replaced by a full-time manager in 1948 when Harry Nettleton was appointed to the position.
- 1948
The management objectives before 1948 were limited to regenerating cutover lands as they were acquired and harvested as mature stands.
- 1948
OSC obtains majority of Soap Creek Valley lands from US Army
- 1948
Oral histories, in comparison to thousands (perhaps millions) of years of oral traditions, have existed for only 50 years. They are generally recognized as originating in 1948 with Professor Allan Nevin’s initiation of the Oral History Project at Columbia University (Dunaway 1996).
- 1949
It burned in 1949, and was rebuilt within a year or two, mostly by students.
- 1949
It burned, I think, in 1949.
- 1949
I think my granddad was at least 30 when my dad was born, so that wouldn't go back to 1949, so.
- 1949
Sometime before 1949 a concrete floor was added.
- 1949
That was in the spring of 1949.
- 1949
When we came back that fall, fall of 1949, I was appointed the construction foreman, and we started building it.
- 1949
If you did some scouting around here … now they had the fire in 1949.
- February 1949
In February 1949, it burned to the ground after a fraternity had used it for a party.
- February of 1949
Oh, it burned down in February of 1949.
- February 13 1949
Then a fire burned it to the ground on February 13, 1949.
- September 1949
By September 1949, we began building.
- October 1949
One of these slash fires, in October 1949, burned into green timber in several areas on the head of Oak Creek.
- 1950
We were married in 1950.
- 1950
... 1950, then to Mississippi, when did you get transferred to Oregon State?
- 1950s
In about the late 1950's the Forest Management Program with a sizable staff over at Salem was transferred to the University and that has resulted in the present Forest Research Laboratory program.
- 1950
Bob graduated with the Class of 1950 when he was 23, and Jim graduated in 1951 when he was 22.
- 1950
The present club cabin, as it was called, was rebuilt in 1950 on the site of the one that was built in 1926.
- 1950s
After that mill closed in the early 1950's, he worked for Rex Clemens' Forest Products and Veneer plants in Philomath as head millwright until a work injury forced early retirement.
- 1950s
Okay, he was later on Soap Creek, in the 1950's and 60's.
- 1950s
We ran out of hay one year and my dad bought a big truckload of hay from Reese Mallow and later on he lived out there 8 miles south of Corvallis by where I moved in the late 1950's, but I didn't have too much to do with him.
- 1950
I hunted pheasants around here in the 1950's and the '60's even, until 1960's, so it's been pretty recent that they've kind of died out.
- 1950s
It has been owned by Starkers Forests since the 1950s.
- 1950s
Well, I talked to a man named Blake in the 1950's.
- 1950s
Early 1950's we bought some land from him up there.
- 1950s
Yes, well, he was in his eighties or maybe nineties at the time in 1950, early 1950's when I talked to him, so he was born probably in the 1860's or 1870's.
- 1950s
The one off to the west was a larger one with big, thick doors and special locks where you need two keys, all that sort of thing, and nobody ever got into it until that era of the fifties when the vandals decided they could get into anything.
- 1950
So it was probably around 1950.
- 1950
Cedar log salvaged from the Tillamook Burn in 1950.
- 1950
Douglas Gilliam, log truck driver, with his new 1950 Ford.
- 1950
By 1950, the population of blacktail deer had built up to the point where most of the Douglas-fir regeneration was being destroyed.
- 1950s
This ranch had water rights from the pioneer days, and used the ditch until they installed pipeline from above the Forestry Club Cabin to their ranch—sometime in the 1950s when Harry Nettleton was forest manager.
- 1950s
Sometime in the late 1950s, the need for the work crews changed with the arrival of a full-time logging contractor and a steady road and forest maintenance program, and the spring day of Arboretum Day changed to the Spring Thaw.
- 1950
When was this, about 1950?
- 1950
Yes, in 1950.
- 1950s
And, if you go back in the early 1950s, you know, in the Forest Service, there was no engineering on a road.
- 1950
I thought that in 1950 you took a job with a plywood firm, and now you’re talking about managing the forest.
- '50s
In the late ‘50s he was the, the head of the Umpqua National Forest, and then the Willamette National Forest when he got sick.
- 1950s
I met the fellow that was foreman of that project in the 1950s.
- 1950
So, after 1950, he wasn’t there to use it, but they sprinkled his ashes out on the slope outside the cabin.
- 1950s
I think they were put in [during] the late 1950s. . . .
- '50s
Yes, the school house building was there until the late ‘50s.
- 1950s
In the late 1950s, Russ Dix—who’s now Assistant to the Registrar, isn’t he?
- 1950
Well, sometime between 1950 and my return to the staff, or coming on the staff here, that Arboretum Day changed, became the Spring Thaw, and student involvement became not a total student involvement.
- 1950
Marvin, why don’t we start by using the year 1950 when you got out of Oregon State University’s School of Forestry, and pick up the story from there.
- 1950
I think we covered some of this, but in 1950 I graduated in Forest Engineering and went to work for Umpqua Plywood Corporation based in Myrtle Creek.
- 1950s
But, up to that point, there had been a couple of large sales, traditional type of sales, taken out by other people in the early 1950s.
- '50s
Now, during those years, I don’t have any real close observation on the browse that took place in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.
- '50s
We’ve had different vandalism problems, as the society values have changed, that we’ve seen coming about in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s—a change in family structures and values.
- '50s
And there were studying this for quite some time, into the late ‘50s.
- 1950s
Casey Randall started an arboretum up this creek, in early 1950s.
- '50s
They were professors in the ‘50s.
- '50s
Planted in the early ‘50s I think.
- 1950
The only road that’s there was the old logging road that Nicolades and Rooney built in 1950.
- 1950
And I helped locate that road, was the last problem we did as senior engineers in the spring of 1950.
- '50
This slope right here blew down in, I think the fall of ‘50 or ‘51, just almost 100 percent.
- 1950s
In the early 1950s, stumpage was around $5 to $10 per thousand board feet and it took a good-sized sale to generate enough income to run the forest.
- 1950
Four feet of snowfall on Soap Creek Valley ridgelines, one of deepest on record
- May 1950
By having some professors bring their field labs to the site to install the cedar shakes, we were ready for the first use of the building in May 1950.
- May 1950
We had the thing up in almost the present form—the inside wasn’t finished off, it was fairly rough, but the windows were in, the doors were in, and the fireplace and all the walls up, and the roof was on, by May 1950.
- June 1950
I wanted experience like that, so I took that job in June 1950.
