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Former R
osehmg Educator Finds
Ihuri., July 5, 1962 The Newi-Reriew, Roseburg, Ore. 3
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Lounty j
ffkes Will Change
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The county school superintend-1 to meet tliese needs,'
ent's office cannot remain as it is
presently organized and staffed
and hope to survive when Oregon
school district reorganization is
completed, according to the Bulle
tin of the Oregon School Study
Council.
The Bulletin is published by the
school of education at the Univers
ity of Oregon. The June issue is
devoted to the results of a survey
among educators and school board
chairmen made by Robert Sabin,
now a member of the administra
tive staff of the Salem Public
Schools and formerly of Roseburg.
He made the survey as part of his
doctoral dissertation while he was
a graduate student in education at
the university.
Reassessment Needed
The county office's "place in the
total educational program must be
reassessed in the light of the chang
ing needs of school districts,, and
possibly a new type of interme
diate district must be developed
states
The role of the county office has
been called ihlu question in recent
years as the result of the consoli
dation of many small school dis
tricts, formerly dependent on this
office for numerous educational
services, into larger, better organ
ized and equipped districts. At the
same time, the state Department
of Education has stepped up its
services to local districts, the ar
ticle points, out.
The survey showed that about
70 per cent of elected local and
rural school board members tend
to be satisfied with the present
functions of the county office, but
'half or more of the professional
educators at the local, county, and
state levels do not believe the
present purposes. . , .are satis
factory." Reconciliation Needed
The same lay-professional split
in opinion was revealed when re
spondents were asked whether the
county office was ' organized ade-
the article i quately" to meet present needs.
"It is apparent," the report
states, "that a consensus does not
exist and that contemplated chang
es will be difficult to achieve until
some of the conflicting points cf
view are reconciled."
A majority of the county school
superintendents and state Depart
ment of Education personnel poll
ed do not believe that the present
number of services provided by
the office is adequate.
These answers seem to indicate
that much of the impetus for
change in the office comes from
the superintendents themselves,
according to educational authorit
ies. They further reveal that state
department personnel appear to
agree that the county office serves
a real need and that its services
should be expanded, perhsps un
der a different form of organiza
tion, rather than abolished.
On the other hand, 20 per cent of
the local district administrators,
most of them from first-class dis
tricts with a thousand or more
students, said that the county of-
fice was presently performing func
tions that it should not perform.
Some Duties Unnteded
"One may conclude from these
data that most of the services
presently provided by the county
school offices should be continued
with the exception of some servic
es which are provided for the larg
er first-class districts," the report
said.
Another opinion split was noted
when respondents were asked to
assess the overall value of the
county office to education. Large
majorities of the county superin
tendents and rural school district
board chairmen answered "of con
siderable value" or "of extreme
value."
On the other hand, a strong mi
nority consisting of more than a
third of the local school adminis
trators and more than a quarter of
the local board chairmen answered
"of very little value" or "of minor
value," indicating "the possible
need for revision of the functions
of the county office," the report
said.
Northwest Railroad Logging Era Ends
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LAST CAR of logs to be loaded my machine at a cutting
site ends eight decades of railroad logging in the Pacific
Northwest. The McGiffert jammer traveled the tracks, pull
ing empty cars from underneath to load in front with one
log at a time. Log trucks now replaced the jammer.
The era of railroad logging in
the Pacific Northwest died quiet
ly last winter in the pine country
near Klamath Falls, taking with it
one of the last reminders of the
timber industry's highball days.
More than eight decades of rail
ing logs direct from the stump to
the mill ended with an announce
ment by Weyerhaeuser Co. that it
was retiring its last log-loading
machine. The McGiffert loader, or
jammer, the area's only survivor
of the classic practice of logging
beside the railroad spur tracks.
Mainliners Still Survive
About two dozen log-hauling rail
roads are still operated by various
companies in the four states, but
they survive only as mainline car
riers. No longer are tracks laid
into the timber for direct loading
of cars at the cutting site.
At one time, every major lum
ber and logging company in the
West used a combination of load
ing rig and railroad to speed the
conversion of trees to lumber.
Trucks, tractors and improved
woods equipment helped doom the
rail-mounted loading machine, ac
cording to Manager Jack Bishop
of the Klamath h alls Tree r arm
So did a new philosophy of timber
conservation and sustained-yield
harvesting methods, he said.
Rayonicr, Inc., and Simpson Log,
ging Co. ended direct loading on
farms in 1957. Medford Corp, at
Medford retired its last rail-mounted
loader in 1959.
Loading Speeded
The loading of logs at the cut
ting site was speeded by the in
troduction of giant steam-powered
loading machines before World
War I. Their last stand was made
in the western pine region, where
Pre Commercial Tree Thinning
Is Project Of Roseburg BLM
A pre-commercial thinning of
forest trees on BLM land north
of Drain is a pilot project under
taken by Roseburg District as a
step to intensify its forest man
agement program.
A BLM labor crew has been con
ducting the thinning work on 40
acres of dense Douglas fir second
growth adjacent to the Smith Riv
er county road. A week's work re
mains before the project is com
pleted. BLM officials said the thinning
Lucius B.Clay
Back In Germany
BERLIN (UPI) Gen, Lucius
D. Clay returned to Berlin with
a message from President Ken
riedy Tuesday in fulfillment of a
promise to the people of the di
vided city.
Clay, the President's personal
Berlin representative, left here
early in May but promised to re
turn for visits. He will stay three
days on this trip and will review
a U.S. Army Fourth of July Pa
rade Wednesday.
"I promised you and President
Kennedy when I left in May that
I would be back at frequent in-1
tervals," Clay told West Berlin I
Mayor Willy Brandt at Tempel
hot Airfield, terminus
lin airlift of 1948 49
headed.
"This is my first
fillment of that promise
ed. "The President
iuiih-j ,v juu aim mc )n.-'im.- ui
Berlin his continued interest and f.t
high regard for you.
job is a forerunner for what will
develop into normal management
procedure in the years ahead.
Larry Woodard, plans forester
for the Drain unit, had charge of
laying the project out. His super
visor was Sam lleany, unit forest
er at Drain.
A BLM staff member said the
crew is removing the weak and
deformed trees "to help young
starts get going." The idea is to
provide more growing space for
the remaining trees and thereby
increase the size of Ihcse trees
when they are cut at some future
date.
1 he work also involves a cer
tain amount of pruning on the pre
ferred trees trimming off low
er branches to reduce knots and
develop a tree of clearer lumber
and better quality.
Forest Uiinning is a timber man
agement concept designed to in
crease yield and improve quality
of timber located in dense natural
stands. The goal is to obtain more
harvestable trees in a shorter pe
riod of time.
The district plans to thin addi
tional acreage of trees as funds
become available. Within a week
or 10 days, the special crew will
move into another site in the North
Lmpqua River area, officials said.
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to be held Sunday, V, .A, fiU; i W
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P of the Oklahoma f 5 I 1 J' T
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Oklahoma Picnic Set
All UKlanomans in tne area arc
invited to attend
homa Picnic
riuW 8, in the
n'ark, accordi
Stepp. secrela.
Picnic Associa
Entertainment will stai'0 at 10
a.m. with lunch to ne served at
noon. Qarbecucd chicken, coffee ;
ang) soft drinks will be furnished, j
Contests and games for all aw i
will begin aftCjIunch. Prizes wO.
if offered.
u"Come, bring your picnic ba.. !
ket and sen your old friends and ,
meet new ones," says Mrs. Stepp.
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JOHN RICE, BLM employee, sizes up tree spacing on pre
commercial timber thinning project north of Drain. Stump
shows Pere tree was thinned out to allow its neicOxw
to develop properly. Under the program, cerfiin trees are
sacrificed for the generol good of the stand. (News- Review
Photo).
the most popular type was the Mc
Giffert. This self-propelled monster trav
eled along the spur tracks between
cutting sites and eased itself down
astraddle the rails where needed.
One by one, it picked up logs
yarded beside the tracks and plac
ed them on cars which had been
pulled from behind and underneath
the jammer. The last two McGif-
ferts in operation in the Northwest
had been dieselized from original
steam models.
Weyerhaeuser's last steam jam
mer, idle for a number of years,
will be donated to the Klamath
County Museum, Bishop said.
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4-H Riding Group
Forms In Melrose
By NETTIE WOODRUFF
A new Melrose 4-H riding group,
"The Reston Ridee Riders." hnld
Its first meeting recently at the
nome of its leader, Mrs. Lyall
Hansell, and elected Gary Sand
as president.
Other officers chosen were Rick
ie Burge, vice president; Joan
Sand, secretary; and Leota Burge,
reporter.
Mrs. Hansell demonstrated the
saddling and bridling of a horse.
Four meetings have since been
held and members are now work
ing on the correct leads. Anyone
interested in the club Is invited to
call Mrs. Hansell or Mrs. Floyd
Burge.
Convention Trip Made ,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Coffell drove
to Eugene Sunday on business and
took to her home there Mrs. Min
nie Jacobson, who had spent the
week with them and other friends
in the neighborhood. While here
she and Mrs. Coffell went to Turn
er to attend the Christian Church
convention. They were accompan
ied by Mrs. James McDonald and
Mrs. Emily Tyler of Roseburg, and
Mrs. Wayne Smith of Klamath
Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Davenport
and grandson, Butch, drove to
Medford during the weekend to vis
it the couple's son, Ralph Swell
ing, and family. Mrs. Davenport is
recovering from broken ribs suf
fered in a recent fall in her home.
Thomas Hutton has returned
from a trip to Santa Clara, Calif.,
where he visited his son and daugh
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Hutton Jr. and children. He ac
companied his son-in-law, Larry
Ward, to California to attend to
business. Larry was recently grad
uated from Oregon State Univers
ity and will be located in San
Francisco with the internal reven
ue service. Mrs. Ward, who had
been on a trip to New York with
friends Joined him in Santa Clara.
Summer Band Classes
Scheduled In Sutherlin
Local SuUicrlin band students
will again have the opportunity to
enroll in summer band classes,
reports Mrs. Jerry DeMuth, corre
spondent. Beginning Monday, July 9, a four
week session will feature work in
dividually and small group organ
izations, A marching band to par
ticipate in the SuUicrlin Timber
Days will be formed.
Registration for the summer band
session will be from 9 a.m. to noon
and 1 to 3 p.m. this Thursday and
Friday. Registration will be con
ducted in the band room and there
will be no charge for the lessons.
Herb Anderson, recently hired to
direct tne sutherlin band students
will be in charge of the lessons.
Elementary students, grades 1
through 6 are asked to register
Thursday, Junior and Senior high
students will register Fridav. A
general session for all students who
register is set for Friday at 7 o.m.
when individual schedules will be
assigned.
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