Shasta Lake Heritage & Historical Society

Headtower News A “Boomtown Memories” newsletter 3400 Shasta Gateway Dr. Ste #H, City of Shasta Lake Museum Hours: M & W 9-12:30 or by appointment. Call 275-3995 or Email: slhandhs@gmail.com www.shastalakehistorical.org

August 2011 Volume 8 Issue 1

We try to be accurate but please, we are not liable for any additions, omissions, errors and/or corrections that may

occur in this publication. Any photographs or material used may not be scanned and/or reprinted or reproduced

without contacting us for permission of use. Thank You - Deb West, Editor/Darlene Brown, Assistant

Poker Run

Here come the cars in The Damboree Poker Run.

Darlene Brown was greet-ing participants, or was she directing traffic? Drivers ar-riving drew a card from a deck of poker cards held by Don Rendahl. While partici-pants were there, several viewed the museum and a fun day was had by all.

Darlene and Barbara Cross dressed as Dam Workers

Inside the museum, Barbara and Darlene look on while Dean &

Maureen Goekler sign the guest book.

The museum is completed and open for view-ing. Butch has made & placed new signs at our entrance so it is easier to find our building site. Volunteers have spent many hours gath-ering, organizing, and displaying donated items. A goal is to have school classes visit our museum. If you have items that you would like to donate, contact the museum on Monday or Wednesday. Let us know if your family has something to share.

Introducing our new Board Members:

Mike Daniels - Mike volunteers on Monday with his wife, Donna. Graduates of Central Valley High School, they bring a lifetime of family history & local knowledge to our soci-ety. Mike is a Director on the board and does

data entry into our files.

Lorna Rendahl - Lorna volunteers on Wednes-day. Her husband, Don, is a ―dam‖ kid, and is ―on call‖ when we need help. Lorna is our ―techy‖, and brings her extensive knowledge of computers & finance to our society. She is an

Officer on the Board, our new Treasurer.

Page 2 Volume 8 issue 1

Shasta Lake Heritage &

Historical Society

10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner

In June, Shasta Lake Heritage & Historical Soci-ety celebrated Ten Years with the annual dinner. People gathered at the John Beaudet Commu-nity Center and were treated to wine donated by Bursini Vineyards of Cottonwood. Laughter pre-vailed as people shared stories and renewed

friendships.

The room was decorated in Red White & Blue. The ―Cerepa Sisters‖ (who grew up in Pine Grove), sang a medley of patriotic songs, and World War II favorites, including I’ll Be Seeing You, The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Com-pany C, and honored each branch of the service with their Official Armed Forces Song. Mayor Rod Lindsay led the Pledge of Allegiance, and retired Sheriff,

Jim Pope led the invocation.

The Video Honoring our Veterans, 1917 –1958

was enjoyed after a delicious dinner catered by Nok Hamburg. Floyd ‗Red‘ Fris-bie was honored as Volunteer Of The Year. Raffle Baskets filled a table and were donated by Del & Gerda Hiebert, Bonnie & Butch Hurlhey, Darlene Brown & Barbara Cross, Matt & Darlene Rumboltz, and the Monday crew: Sadie, Red, Ruth Ann, Evelyn, Nancy, Mike & Donna. Special thanks to Jack & Marian

Trapp for three raffle baskets, Mary Hale for four home baked pies/cakes, Joy & Tom Burnham for eight bottles of their Burnsini wine, and Linda Hardy/Far East Café for a gift certificate. President Barbara Cross intro-duced the new Board Members & Special Guests. Videos

old and new sold like hotcakes. Dar-lene Brown produced an hour long video with pictures and stories cele-brating veterans and their stories from World War I through the Korean War. The tables were decorated by Darlene Rumboltz which provided a festive at-mosphere. The evening was a big suc-cess and a tribute to all who have served in the armed forces, with spe-

cial focus on our local military families.

Karen Alvord Debbie Goodman Yvonne Harrison Entertained with Patriotic Songs

Evelyn Hoppes & Marian Trapp

Sold raffle tickets

Jack Ures & Paul Stremple

hosted the Wine Table

Above. Jack Trapp & Matt Rumboltz

Below, Ruth Huey & Ella Barbera

Floyd ‗Red‘ Frisbie

Volunteer of the Year

Marlys Barbosa

sold raffle tickets

Nok Hamburg

catered the dinner

Page 3 Volume 8 issue 1

Shasta Lake Heritage & Historical Society More Pictures of the Dinner

Attending the dinner, and featured in the DVD video are some former Shasta Dam Workers

who attended the Damworkers Reunion Luncheon in May.

Clarence Barger: Army - was a cryptographer, and radioman during WWII in the Philippines. After the video, Clarence presented our society with a card table naming businesses in Central Valley

during the 1950‘s.

Tom Davis: who lives in Red Bluff, and was an aerial gunner (tail gunner) on B-17‘s during WWII.

George Heidel: a Merchant Marine who served on so many different ships during WWII, he can‘t

name them all.

Jack Humphrey: at age 91, Jack just finished writing his book Come Fly Your Kite

about his service as a Liaison Pilot with the 47th Squadron ‗A‘ in the European Theater during WWII.

Don Cross: Served during the Korean War as a lineman in communications.

VETERANS in the DVD: Allison, Frank E./ Baker, Everett / Barger, Clarence / Barnhart, Ray N./ Bell, John Wilson / Bridges, Frank S./ Brock, James ―Jim‖/ Brown, Charles W. Brown, Claude O./ Brown, Lawrence / Brown, Odell / Brown, Ralph / Brown, Robert W. ―Bob‖/ Buese, John J./ Buese, William McCray/ Burge, Dewey J./ Burns, Ab Burns, Paul / Burns, Nancy / Burns, Carl / Burns, Robert ―Bob‖/ Carpenter, Gordon/ Carr, Francis / Carr, Kenneth / Carr, Laurence / Carr, Paul / Carter, Kay Cerepa, Gerald / Cerepa, John A./ Cerepa, Richard / Chambers, Ernest Lee / Coulter, Chester / Craft, Patrick R./ Cross, Donald / Cross, Morton / Cross, Russell Cullis, John / Cupp, Nolan/ Dale, Russell C. / Daniels, George / Davis, Tom / Dorman, Dwight / Downing, Lloyd / Downs, Alton / Dupre, Joseph / Elverud, Don Endicott, David/ Endicott, Jack (Bench)/ Endicott, Wallace ―Mickey‖/ Endicott, Lawrence ―Bill‖/ Erickson, Clifton / Evans, James / Fine, Tommy / Flanagan, Mathew Fletcher, Loren/ Forte, Francis ―Pete‖/ Frisbie, Floyd ―Red‖/ Gardner, Robert E./ Garner, Ted / Getchell, Robert / Glacken, Woodrow Wilson / Gomes, Allen K. Graeff, Vincent / Granger, James / Gregory, Roy / Grove, Leonard / Grove, Wesley / Grove, William G. / Haner, Donald / Haner, John A. ―Jack‖ / Hardin, Harry R Hardt, Edward / Heasley, Ralph E./ Heidel, George / Hendrickson, Earl / Hiebert, Del / Hiebert, Royal / Hoppes, Alan / Hoppes, Lewis Ted / Hubbard, Donald Hubbard, Gardner / Hubbard, Milton / Humiston, Frank / Humphrey, John J. ―Jack‖/ Hursey, Richard / Johnson, Harry G./ Jones, Neil R. / Kank, Wesley Kelley, Robert E./ Kobe, Frank Jr./ Kohn, George / Kuehne, Rubin/ Lefler, Archie / Longnecker, Charles / Louis, Robert P./ Lower, Archie L. Jr. Lower, Archie L. Sr./ Majdic, John Fredrick / McCardle, Robert F. ―Bud‖/ McConnell, Edwin/ McConnell, Fred/ McConnell, Thomas / McDaniel, Edward S. Menzie, Mary Bernice/ Miller, Frank / Miller, Jesse / Miller, L.J. ―Buck‖/ Murphy, Charles / Nucholls, James / O‘Brien, Bud / Potter, Victor / Pope, Jim / Powell, Jack Preston, Jimmie / Price, Winfield S. Jr. ―Bud‖/ Radcliff, Marvin / Randall, James W./ Richard, Clebert ―Dick‖/ Ricks, Bill / Rodriegues, Tony / Rowland, Vernon Schell, Mel / Schuette, Wesley / Seely, Bill / Sholfield, George / Shoup, Clarence / Shoup, Erle / Shoup, Franklin / Shoup, Leslie / Shoup, Michael Siemers, George E./ Slaughter, Donald V. / Slaughter, Reginald S./ Smith, Elmer / Spear, John / Spear, Vernon / Stephan, Clarence / Stewart, Jim Dailey Stoppenbrink, Bill / Stotts, Caroll / Stremple, Paul / Stubblefield, Kurlin E. Jr./ Sullivan, Robert K. / Tavey, Bruce / Taylor, Earl / Tenney, Donald / Tenney, Hugh Thorne, Bennie / Tingey, Nolan / Tullis, William T. ―Fuzzy‖/ Underwood, Jesse / Varela, Max / Warmack, Roy / Walters, Darrel / White, Albert ―Al‖

Left: Earl West won the raffle basket donated by the Mon-

day Office Crew.

Right: Darlene Rumboltz

decorated the tables

Below: Lorna Rendahl & Nancy Casterline enjoy the

dinner

Below right: Lorraine Bennetts & Butch Hurlhey greeted

dinner guests

Jack Humphrey Tom Davis George Heidel Don Cross Clarence Barger

Sadie, Red, Evelyn, Donna, RuthAnn, Earl, Nancy and Mike

Page 4 Volume 8 Issue 1

Shasta Lake Heritage &

Historical Society

Memories of Skunk Hollow by Loene (Terry) Trubkin

with memories from Dick Terry, Fran Warmack, & Ruth Ann (Husman) Kobe

Editors Note: This article was written by Loene Terry ,who attended Toyon School and graduated from Central Valley High School in 1960. After

retiring from a busy career that included being a stockbroker, newspaper publisher, and president of a company, a few years ago, she added a law

degree to her list of achievements. When able, Loene works as a child advocate attorney in Southern California. On a personal note, she is a multi-

time cancer survivor and continues the fight . After her last bout, she kayaked in the Arctic Circle. This Lady comes from Strong Northern California

Stock and lives her life each day to the fullest . ( with limited space, we have excluded her intro about Shasta Dam )

Our family missed the first wave of development ( at Shasta Dam ) . It wasn ’ t until February 1944, the

month the diversion tunnel was sealed and water storage began at Shasta Lake, that we came to Shasta

County. Our Dad, Tom Terry, a journeyman machinist, had worked on Parker Dam with one of the Shasta

Dam foremen, Ray Pickard. Ray visited us at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo where Dick and I were

born and Dad was a civilian Navy employee. Ray proposed a job at Shasta Dam. Dad supposedly reminded

him that a war was on and he was a vital if small

cog in preparing ships for the Pacific theatre.

A week later, Dad received a pink slip. Did

Ray Pickard have clout with the authorities?

The record is silent, but family lore is that

timing of the pink slip was no coincidence.

Still, it was some months before the promised job

materialized. In the meantime, there was a ma-

chine shop job in Redding and a rental house on

South Market Street. Once Dad was employed at

the Dam, we moved to a temporary camp over-

looking the project. By then it was full summer, and our Mom, Genevieve, who had lived much of her life near the

ocean ’ s cooling breezes, couldn ’ t get used to the heat. She spent most afternoons, when we toddlers were

down for naps, sitting nude in a tub of tepid water, with a fan blowing in her direction. At the end of the dam ’ s

construction, Dad was one of the lucky few offered a permanent position with the Bureau of Reclamation. The

Depression, which had started long before 1929 for farm families like theirs, scarred both our parents. They

yearned for security, and a federal government job must have seemed perfect. If the summers were hot, and most streets were un-

paved and shopping and medical care were ten miles south on Highway 99, still there were good neighbors and new schools and

other families with young children. The war had drawn to a close, the Depression was becoming a memory, and a feeling of optimism

was growing. With a steady paycheck assured, our parents turned that optimism into buying a

house. They could have chosen one of the three little towns along Shasta Dam Blvd. Instead, for

reasons that are opaque after all these years, they chose to live in Skunk Hollow, previously known

as “ Electric City ” because many electricians who were wiring the Shasta Power House genera-

tors lived there. Skunk Hollow was and is a narrow canyon a few miles west of what was Central

Valley and cheek-by-jowl with Toyon, which lay across a creek and up a low hill to the west. The

canyon starts out flat at Shasta Dam Blvd. and runs north, increasingly narrow and corkscrewed,

about three miles to Shasta Lake. In the beginning, there was just a dirt lane that ran perhaps a half

mile along the lower canyon, spewing red clay dust whenever a car drove through. Eight houses

perched on each of the east and west sides of the lower canyon. The community ’ s children at-

tended Toyon Elementary School, and they didn ’ t have to walk far for the school bus. To be con-

Top: Tom Terry & Ray

Pickard in machine shop

Bottom: Tom & Genevieve

Terry on the front porch

Machinist Crew at Shasta Dam

Loene standing in front of her home

Tom

Page 5 Volume 8 issue 1

Shasta Lake

Heritage & Historical Society

Thank You for supporting our efforts to preserve history. We are grateful for your endorsement.

Benefactors:

Adams, John – Henderson, NV Boothroyd, Bert - Salinas Brown, Bill & Darlene - Shasta Lake City of Shasta Lake Craft, Betty - Redding Cross, Don & Barbara - Shasta Lake English, Bruce & Kittie Lou- Bandon, OR Farr, Larry & Nancy- Shasta Lake Hale, Lucretia - Monte Sereno Haner, Norma - Redding Herring, Al—Woodenville, WA Hiebert, Del & Gerda - Redding Hill, Ben & Agnes - McLean, VA Hoppes, Dale - Redding Hoppes, Evelyn - Shasta Lake Hukill, Robert & Gail—Tucson, AZ Johnson, Leigh - Medford, OR Kiwanis - Shasta Lake Knauf Inc. - Shasta Lake Malcolm, Guy—Sunnyvale Polf, William A. - New York, NY Pope, Jim - Redding Strohmayer, John & Connie – Redding Tavey, Bruce & Verlen - Redding

Taylor, Alice - Shasta Lake Trapp, Jack & Marian - Redding

Businesses in Shasta Lake:

530 Collective R. Chambers, M.D. Farmer‘s Market Place Lake Shasta Caverns Nok Hamburg Catering North Valley Bank J.D. Russell, D.D.S. Shasta Lake Chiropractic Shasta Lake Veterinary Clinic Sunshine Market Van Wyhe‘s Engraving And ….Camp Shasta Coffee (Lakehead) and Rosemary‘s Antiques - (Redding)

Our Thanks to the following Individuals & Families for renewals:

Nellie Bell, Russell & Lorraine Bennetts, Sadie Brown, James Dicks, Bill & Darlene Duncan, Floyd Frisbie, Margaret Gardner, Earl Hendrickson, Gerry Hubbard, Ruth Huey, Margaret Kardell, Ruth Ann Kobe, Jerry Miller, Virginia Oliver, Gene Rowland, Wayne Rowland, Paul & Stephanie Stremple, Greg Watkins, Earl & Deb West, and John Wilson

Welcome New Members:

Theresa Burge-Redding, Frank Divers-Redding, Pete Droesch-Redding, Richard & Diana Evans-Redding, Matt Kibler– Redding, Tessa Newman - Redding, Sabine Rosales-Redding, Nola Shoup - Ono, Neva Wacker-Shasta Lake and Fran Warmack - Shasta Lake.

We’ve had another successful year, thanks to our tireless volunteers. We have received many wonderful donations from:

Cindy & Ed Glacken, including a water pump from the Stella Woolman Gregory home at Old Pollock; a very old baby doll- from Bon-nie Hurlhey; an old camera from Don & I; many military photographs that were used in the DVD - a list of the donor names are in-cluded in the DVD credits; Shasta Dam photos - from Beverly Boychuk; a book on Iron Mtn.- from Janet George; School photos- from

Al Herring; and a large donation of memorabilia from the Ella Barbera Estate by her daughter, Judy Barbera.

We also received the following donations of money: $40.00 from Derald Kellis, $100.00 from Jack & Margaret Humphrey, and $150.00 from the Shasta Lake Garden Club in appreciation for our help and support of their annual Garden Club Tea. We have elected our new Board of Directors and Officers. Please look at the last page for the new slate of Officers.

We participate in as many community activities as possible: We will be participating in the 9-11 ceremony next month at the Fire

Hall, and we are preparing for the Citywide Yard Sale in late September - a fundraising event for us.

We will co-host the annual luncheon of Historical Societies in the Northern Cali-fornia Area, with the Anderson Historical Society. This will be in lieu of our regular membership meeting in September. Reservations are needed by September 2,

please contact me, if you want to attend. 275-5848 or e-mail bbcross@msn.com

One sad note this year was the loss of five of our members in July. Ella Barbera, Raymond Frisbie, John (Jack) Haner, Florence Hoppes, and Everett Hubbard who

will all be remembered in our hearts.

“People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Embrace all

equally!” … ……..author unknown.

A Note From The President... Barbara Cross

Historical Societies of Northern California

Hosted by Shasta Lake & Anderson Societies

Annual Meeting & Luncheon

September 17, 2011

11:00 to 3:00

Anderson Grange Hall

8085 Airport Road Anderson, California

Congratulations DEB WEST! Training is over - and our new editor is doing wonderful! Deb, a retired school teacher & long-time area resident, brings with her, many talents and a love of history. I will continue to work with her as an assistant, but I will be focusing mainly on our website & DVDs. Speaking of DVDs, our next DVD will be on MINING, in the greater Shasta Lake area. Photos & stories about the places with special emphasis on the families living during that era. We are collecting material now. Please contact me if you have info on any mining/families around this area. Thanks, Darlene Brown.

Shasta Lake Heritage & Historical Society 3400 Shasta Gateway Dr. Ste #H Shasta Lake, CA 96019 275-3995 A 501 C-3 non-profit organization Fed ID#68-0485141

IN MEMORIAM

Ella Barbera July 2011

Raymond Frisbie July 2011

Vincent Graeff February 2011

John “Jack” Haner July 2011

Florence Hoppes July 2011

Everett Hubbard July 2011

Donation made in memory of:

Ella: by Bill & Darlene Brown, Don & Barbara Cross,

Mike & Jonny Fish, Ruth Fish, and Jack & Marian Trapp

Raymond: by Bill & Darlene Brown, Don & Barbara

Cross, and Evelyn Hoppes

Vincent: by Bill & Darlene Brown

Jack: by Bill & Darlene Brown and Don & Barbara Cross

Florence: by Barbara & Don Cross and Evelyn Hoppes

Everett: by Bill & Darlene Brown, Don & Barbara Cross,

Evelyn Hoppes, Barbara Hunter, Darlene &

Jack Powell and Jack & Marian Trapp

Please check the date next to your name for membership dues renewal.

Thank you for helping us save on reminder postal costs. It is appreciated!

Board of Directors:

Barbara J. Cross, President 275–5848

Darlene Brown, Vice President 275-1000

Henry Hurlhey, Recording Secretary 275-2815

Lorna Rendahl, Treasurer 246-3048

Lorraine Bennetts, Director 275-8712

Mike Daniels, Director 275-2672

Del Hiebert, Director 275-4085

Ruth Huey, Director 275-1961

Jack Trapp, Director 243-6984

Evelyn Hoppes, Past President 275-2772

Please send in this coupon with your dues:

Name____________________________

Address ______________________________

________________________________

Phone ______________________

Email _______________________

Please check the applicable box:

Individual $10 Family$25

Business$30 Benefactor $100