The "Medford Mail Tribune"- July 6, 1945:
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"State police officers are today investigating vandalism of the Buck Rock Lookout Station near Trail, which was entered sometime between Sunday and Thursday. Police and State Forest Patrol headquarters reported the telephone had been wrecked, a fire-finder and map destroyed, radio torn out, windows broken and several articles missing.
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The lookout, Melvin Anhorn, 16, route 3, Medford, discovered the act when he returned to his station Thursday. Anhorn had been bitten by a rattlesnake Sunday and had come to Medford for aid and it was upon his return to duty that the vandalism was discovered. Because the telephone and radio had been damaged beyond use, Anhorn had to walk out a considerable distance to telephone forest headquarters."
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It seems that the vandalism issues are not a recent phenomenon. There has always been a segment of the population that has been unable to form a coherent constructive thought or action. These actions makes one look powerful and full of bravado, to the dullards that "hang" with them, and of course to their biggest admirer, themselves.
