52. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1947, Files, Superintendent’s Office, Crater Lake National Park. It is interesting to note that Roman Catholic services were begun in the park during the summer of 1948 and Protestant services the following year.
53. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1949, Files, Superintendent’s Office, Crater Lake National Park, and see Memorandum for the Regional Director, Region Four, E.P. Leavitt, Superintendent, February 18, 1949, RG 79, Central Classified Files, 1933-49, File No. 900-02, Part No. 3, National Park Service, Crater Lake Park Company, Contract.
54. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1949, Files, Superintendent’s Office, Crater Lake National Park.
55. Klamath Falls Herald and News, April 5, 1948, RG 79, Central Files, 1933-49, File No. 900-02, Part 3, National Park Service, Crater Lake Park Co., Contract, 1948.
56. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1949, Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1949, pp. 331-32. Although the only documented freezing of the lake occurred in 1949 there were unconfirmed reports of this phenomena in 1925, 1928, and 1930.
57. See, for instance, John Gribble, “Reader’s Choice,” Travel, C (July, 1953), 41, and “Crater Lake Holiday,” Sunset, CXVI (March, 1956), 43-44, and Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1953, Files, Superintendent’s Office, Crater Lake National Park. For a complete listing of visitor opportunities and services in the park during the early 1950s see George C. Ruhle, Along Crater Lake Highways: A Road Guide to Crater Lake National Park. (Published by Crater Lake Natural History Association, 1953).
58. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Vaction Survey, Rogue River Basin, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, [1950], pp. 4-17. As a result of this and other surveys, the Park Service closed the east entrance road in June 1956 because its limited use made road maintenance and operation of an entrance station uneconomical. A section of this road within the park from Rim Drive to Lost Creek Campground and the Pinnacles was to be maintained as a spur road off Rim Drive. National Park Service, Crater Lake National Park, Information for the Press, “East Entrance Road Closure,” June, 1956, RG 79, 67A863, Box 9, File D-30, Roads and Trails, FRC, Seattle.
59. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1950, Files, Superintendent’s Office, Crater Lake National Park. During 1950-51 three other projects relating to park concessions were completed at Park Service insistence: installation of an automatic electric-powered pump at the Museum Spring pump house to keep the Garfield Peak reservoir filled to capacity; installation of a new sewer line from the lodge laundry to a new sewage disposal filtration tank; and replacement of two existing transformers in the lodge basement with non-flammable oil so as to remove the existing fire hazard.
60. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1951, Files, Superintendents Office, Crater Lake National Park.
61. Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service, 1959, Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1959, p. 356; Area Management Survey Team to Regional Director, Region Four, June 16, 1958, RG 79, 67A863, Box 9, File A6423, Management Survey, FRC, Seattle; Portland Journal, March 29, 1954; andMedford Mail Tribune, August 25, 1957.
62. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1960, RG 79, Box 13, 46973, File A2621, Annual Reports (Misc.), FRC, Seattle. During 1959-60 local Congressman Charles O. Porter began a campaign to build a chairlift or cableway carrying gondola cars from the rim to the shore of Crater Lake. The effort, which was opposed by the National Park Service, aroused considerable debate in the local press with most newspapers supporting the Park Service.
63. Memorandum, Superintendent, Crater Lake to Director, July 13, 1960, RG 79, 68A45, Box 11, File W22, Final Opinions and Orders, FRC, Seattle, and Portland Oregonian, August 13, 1961.
64. Annual Report, Crater Lake National Park, 1963, RG 79, 46953, File A2621, Annual Reports (Misc.), FRC, Seattle. Examples of periodical articles were Andrew Flink, “California’s Crater Lake”, Desert Magazine, XXXI (September, 1968), 6-7, and “Side Trips Around Crater Lake,” Sunset, CXLIII (August, 1969), 36-37.
65. Master Plan of Crater Lake National Park, July 1964, Chapter 1, Basic Information, The Visitor, pp. 1-8, National Park Service Historical Collection, Harpers Ferry Center.
