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and held. With the Wachusett and
two tugs that came to help we
dragged it into the Straits of Juan
de Fuca.”
Probably the most novel rescue
Chief Ray ever tried was on a young
whale, about thirty feet long, that
swam up river in the Columbia to
Astoria. He trapped himself in a
little pool behind a dock at low
tide. The Chief attached a line to
his tail and with high tide, towed
it part way down river, where a
motor lifeboat took over and towed
it out to sea. Though the whale
had never been completely out of
water it died.
It has been said that if there is
a lonely spot, a desolate and ut
terly forsaken spot that nobody
in the world wants, the Coast
Guard will find it and put a man on
it. There is truth in this, as many
a Coast Guard loransman and light
house man knows. One of these un
attractive sites is St. George Reef
off Crescent City, California,
chosen for location of a lighthouse.
Chief Ray claims it is the worst
station in the Coast Guard to sup
ply. He made some trips there in
a tender that replaced a smaller
supply boat from which several
men were lost. “It’s nothing but a
lighthouse on a rock about the size
of a small house,” he said. “It was
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1 tablespoon chow chow
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Dash whole marjoram
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the most expensive lighthouse ever
built and took three years to con
struct. They put granite block ©n
top of the reef; the blocks were
scored so that as the sea pounded
them they would lock tighter to
gether. When we serviced the sta
tion we were always in breaking
water, pitching up and down 30
or 40 feet and only about five feet
from the rock. We had to hook on
to a boom that lifted the whole
boat about 80-feet up in the air to
the lighthouse.”
“Despite such experiences,
shared by many in the service,
Chief Ray had never lost a ship
mate until a few days ago when the
motor lifeboat, Triumph, went
down in the Columbia River.
Chief Ray arrived in Kodiak in
June 1959 in time to make the
Dewline trip to Cambridge Bay. “I
liked it,” he said, “although some
of the trip was monotonous. We
escorted supply ships, found chan
nelsan d laid bouys to mark them.
We used the sea scanner and some
times sent the LCVR out ahead
with a fathometer, and of course
we had charts from the trip Storis
made, and from other ships. Those
charts show where every ship has
been in those waters; it’s fantastic
to think there is a place left in the
world where so few ships have
been.
“Storis made one rescue; two
Fish and Wildlife men crashed in
the Brooks Range and our heli
copter flew inland to pick them
up. They were injured just
slightly. We saw polar bear and
thousands of walrus, and a lot of
ice. We got stranded in the ice a
few times, once fairly seriously.
There was even some talk of win
tering in and the way duties are
set up I would have been on the
skeleton crew to stay aboard. No,
I wouldn’t say the idea appealed
to me.”
We tried repeatedly to persuade
Mrs. Ray to talk about herself but
she gave use a brief summary, say
ing there was not really much to
tell. She too came originally from
Oregon, moved with her family to
Portland from Birkenfeld about
the time she started high-school,
and was married in Portland in
1949. She and her three children
came to Kodiak in October ’59; the
Rays like Kodiak and have asked
for an eleven-month extension.
“We have fished a lot here and
last summer we went to Afognak
for a week at the end of July. It’s
beautiful there and we can’t un
derstand why more people don’t
take advantage of it.” Her husband
added that they smoked much of
the fish they caught and took pic
tures of a bear on a lake shore,
from a safe distance.
Mrs. Ray continued, “We like
to garden and since we have been
here (Civilian Hill) we’ve planted
a lawn and four trees. We were
commended on our yard last sum
mer. Ceramics and beachcombing
are about the only other things I
do regularly; I’m working in the
supply office now and haven’t
much time.”
Twenty-four hours after we
visited the Rays, the Storis went
out to search for three fishermen
and a 15-year-old boy who disap
peared in a small skiff near Afog
nak. The search was in line with
the mission of the Storis, as of all
Coast Guard ships and planes, 10
render assistance whenever,
wherever the call.
Mrs. Ray’s Date Nut Bread
Put in large bowl:
1 cup chopped dates
2 cups boiling water
2 tsp. soda
Let cool
Add:
2 eggs,
2 Tbs. butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
Mix well and bake in 300 degree
oven about one hour.
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On their way out, said the
sheriff, they also picked up a
bottle of seltzer tablets which re
lieve indigestion.
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