42. Memorandum for the Director, E.P. Leavitt, Superintendent, April 26, 1939, RG 79, Region IV, Central Classified Files, 1923-1965, Crater Lake, Box 21, Folder 868, Winter Use, Part I, FRC, San Bruno. On October 1, 1939, Robert P. Berry of Medford was granted a permit to provide meal, sandwich, snack, and lodging services in the park headquarters messhall and bunkhouse when the concession facilities were not open. Permits and related correspondence, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 900, Part 1, Crater Lake, Concessions, Public Utility Operators, Robert P. Berry.
43. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1939, and Memorandum for the Director, E.P. Leavitt, Superintendent, July 24, 1939, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 207-001.4, Part One, Crater Lake, Reports (General), Superintendent’s Annual Report. Also see Transportation Permit, Yellow Cab Company, December 17, 1938, and related correspondence, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 900, Part 1, Crater Lake, Yellow Cab Company, Terminal Cab Company, Concessions.
44. The Klamath Falls News Herald mounted a campaign in 1941 to have the park winter sports program expanded. The articles and Park Service response to resist such pressures may be found in RG 79, Central Files 1933-49, File No. 868, Part 1, Crater Lake, Winter Sports.
45. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1940, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 207-001.4, Part One, Crater Lake, Reports (General), Superintendent’s Annual Report, and Memorandum for the Director, by Supervisor of Concessions, September 1946, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 900-02, Part 1, National Park Service, White Star and Hurry Cab Taxi Co., 1946. For more information on the park in 1940 see U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, 1940, in Circulars of General Information, The National Parks, 1940, Library, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, National Park Service.
46. Crater Lake National Park Company, Crater Lake National Park, Contract No. 1-1P-80, January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1960, RG 79, Region IV, Central Classified Files, Box 22, Folder 900, Crater Lake National Park Company.
47. Memorandum for the Regional Director, Region Four Headquarters, E.P. Leavitt, December 22, 1941; Crater Lake National Park Company to the Director, October 28, 1941; and Crater Lake National Park Company, Schedule of Basic Rates for the Season of 1942, RG 79, Region IV, Central Classified Files, 1923-65, Crater Lake, Box 22, Folder 900, Crater Lake National Park Company, Part II, FRC, San Bruno. Also see Memorandum for the Director, E.P. Leavitt, Superintendent, October 23, 1941, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 660-05, Part 1, Crater Lake, Water Supply and Systems, General.
48. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, Reprinted from the Annual Reports of the Secretary of Interior, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946, pp. 220, 230, 228, and 347, respectively, and Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1943, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 207-001.4, Superintendent’s Annual Report. Large numbers of tourists were attracted to Crater Lake during the fall of 1945 when several clouds of smoke–or dust-filled gas–billowed from the lake, thus leading to speculation of renewed volcanic activity. “Scenic Volcano,” Time, XLVI (November 12, 1945), 52, and “Crater Lake Volcano Is Not Dangerous,” Science News Letter, XLIX (February 23, 1946), 120.
49. Leavitt to Franklin, June 15, 1946, RG 79, Central Classified Files, 1907-49, Crater Lake, Liaison Office.
50. “Report on Fire Safety, Crater Lake Lodge, Crater Lake National Park, Crater Lake, Oregon,” by Frank L. Ahern, Chief, Safety Office, National Park Service, June 22 to 25, 1948, RG 79, Region IV, Central Classified Files, Box 18, Folder 801-Fire, FRC, San Bruno.
51. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1947, Files, Superintendent’s Office, Crater Lake National Park, and Leavitt t McNeil, December 31, 1946, RG 79, Central Classified Files, 1907-49, File No. 868, Part 1, Crater Lake, Winter Sports.
