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About Port Orford news. (Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon) 1958-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1967)
TPntt ©rford Aeuis Youth Employment Office Hour*—Monday through Friday, 8:30 a. m . to 4 p. m . Application* and Job listing* m aybe made at the grade school office or phone 332-2712. Co-op Gets REA Loan ministration June 30 approved the loan application by Coos- Curry Electric Cooperative, Inc., for $678,000 for rural e le c trifi- Curry counties, according t o telephone and telegraph reports from Sen. Wayne Morse, Con gressman John De Lien back and Work Underway On Langlois Building PA N O R A M IC view of har bor on west side of the dock area is haven for sm all fishing boats when ocean winds come up. Tills group of about 75 boa a was an chored in harbor one even ing last week. Hatfield Sponsors Flood Bill Curry Milk Price Raises The three-class jelce system for Grade A m ilk producers of O e g o n '* M ilk M arke t Area 2, which is C irr y County, was Im plem ented July l,b y the Oregon Departm ent of A griculture, as required u n d e ; Chapter 440, O eg on Laws, T '67. Tne class 1 price remains at $ 5 .9 0 per hundredweight for 3.5 percent m ilk and class 2 and 3 in Ilk were both set at $3, 90 per hundredweight for 3. 5 per cent m ilk . Assistant director of A g ric u l t u r e K. W . Sawyer, who was hearings o fficer for the hearing held at the Curry County Court house June 19, to consider the m ilk pricing, said no witnesses appeared to present testimony and evidence and accordingly an order was file d to approx im ate C a lifo rn ia p r i c e s as closely as possible, considering the requirem ent* of the new O eg o n law, Tlie Chicago butter-powder price is required as a base in setting class 2 rnd 3 (vices. A 49 per cent "m ake charge" de ducted from the current basic price of $4. 39 results in the $3. 90 class 3 (vice. W ith class 2 andclass 3 in Del Norte Coun ty, C alifo rn ia, the same no d if ferential was provided between the two classes In M a rk e t Area 2. Another order issued June 30 by the departm ent set the three class prices for 3. 5 pier cent Grade A m ilk in M ilk M arket Area 1 and became effe ctive July 1. Class 1 price rem ained a t $6. 10 per hundredweight; Class 2 was set at $4. 14 per hundredweight and Class 3 at $ 3 .6 9 . Area 1 Includes a ll of O e g o n except Curry, Harney and M alheur counties. New RAD Head George H . Schroeder, Portland, Is the new chairm an of the O e gon R ival Areas Envelopm ent co m m ittee. Schroeder, who has been a m em ber o f the statewide co m m itte e since 1964, is c h ie f for ester for Crown Zellerbach. He is also a m em ber of the West ern I'orest Land Use C o m m ittee of the Western Forestry and Con servation Society of Am erica and the International Associa tion of Game, Fish and Conser vation Commissioners. Schroe der is a graduate of Oregon State University. The O eg o n RA D C om m ittee was organized at the request of the Secretary of Agriculture to spearhead the statewide econ om ic and social developm ent o f rural areas. It is a citizens co m m itte e whichworks closely w ith state and federal agencies involved in developm ent ac tiv itie s , Including the sponsoring agency, the Cooperative Exten sion Service, O eg o n State U ni versity. Members of the O eg o n R A D C o m m ittee in addition to the new chairm an, include v i c e chairm an M rs.M arion W eather f o r d , Arlington; Fred Brenne, Eugene,Rex Gibson, Salem; Don Jackson,Newport; Lou Growney, Portland; Mrs. W illa rd H a m lin , Corvallis; J a Im ar Johnson, Port la n d ; George Kirkeby, Elgin; Grant Perry, Portland; Elm er E. Peterson, Portland; R. E, Schc- d e e n , Gresham; le e Wooden, Jew eII; FmestJerostedt,Carlton; Judge F ell C a m p b e l l , Gold Reach; Oscar Peterson, lone; and J c a n Sc he o I, Cor va 11 is, secre t.ify . ( Measles Halt Gains N e a rly 70, 000 Oregon ch ild ren Irom one through nine years old have been immunized a - ;ain*t the danger* of rad meas es in die past year under the Washington, D. C . —Senator M a r k O, H a tfie ld has Joined O eg o n State Board of H ealth's program to co m p letely e lim w ith several other members of inate the disease in this state. the Senate in sponsoring a b ill However, the Board (aid that designed to provide insurance many children ( t i ll rem ain sus re lie f for the victim s of flood ceptible to this disease a n d disasters. should be Immunized during the H a tlfle d said, "O eg o n , de summer month*. spite the many precautions ta k Dr. Clarence A. J enlke, State en, h a s suffered greatly from H ealth O fficer,said there should floods and flood damage. Our be a month interval between sta te and the ut her 49 states w ill shot* for polio and measles be continue to be subject of th e s e cause both are liv e-v iru s v a c - rampages of n ative . The pro posed legislation,providlng for c tnes,so i—ren a should plan ac cordingly. a cooperative endeavor of gov One measles shot w ill provide ernm ent a n d industry, would life tim e im m u n ity, w h i t polio make flood insurance available protection require* two feealac* to m itig a te losses to flood v ic of oral vaccine * month or six tims in Oregon and other states." Drafted by the Departm ent of week* apart,follow ed by a boos ter later. Housing and Urban Develop The Board said all children ment, the legislation has been introduced before the Senate a* entering the first grade and kin Bill 1985, the "N atio n al Flood dergarten next fa ll should be protected by vaccine against Insurance Act of 1967, " Public measles, polio, sm allpox, diph hearings on this b ill are c irr e n t- theria, whooping c o u g h , and ly being conducted in Washing tetanus. C hildren diouldreceive ton before the Senate Subcom measles vaccine as soon as they m itte e on Securities. become a year old. Because of the great risk in Of the nearly 70, 000 measles volved in flood-prone areas, in shoU given w ith free measles surance companies have gener provided through t h e O eg o n a lly not provided protection a - gainst losses caused by floods, Im m unization Program, 30, 145 were given at school or com hurricanes and w ind-blow n w a m unity clinics, 18 of them or ter. The legislation Senator H a t ganized by local helath depart fie ld is supporting encourages private insurance companies to m e n a ana M ed ica l Societies to adopt flood damage policies by stem threatened epidem ic*. The other 4 0 ,0 0 0 measles reinsuring t h e m w ith federal funds against excessive losses. im m unization* were given d ir Under the provisions of the b ill, ing regular w eekly clinics at local health departm ena or in flood insurance w ill be a v a il the o fficeso f private physicians able only in areas where ap who have been using Im m uniza propriate land use controls are tion Program vaccine. in effe ct and w ill provide broad Thousands of additional me sa er («otection than the federal les immunizations have been re lie f funds that were granted during the flood disaster of 1964. given by private physicians who Coverage w ill in itia lly be have purchased their own vac cine, j iu t no figure on this is lim ite d to $15, 000 for a single av ailab le , the Board of H ealth fa m ily dw elling, w ith a total of said. $30,000coverage for any struc Measles vaccine was first ture occupied by up to four licensed for general use in early fam ilies . In year* of nom inal 1963. The U. S. Public H ealth flood loss, insurance companies w i l l be required to return an Service in itia te d a program to furnish free measles vaccine in agreed percentage of the c o l 1966, and Ctegon's Im m uniza lected premiums, in excess of a reasonable profit allow ance, to tion Program began distributing the vaccine In A p ril of that the government as a reinsurance year. prem ium . Thus,the cost of pro The first com m unity c lin ic viding this flood protection w ill using the free vaccine was held be borne pro|>ortionatcly by the In Gold Beach in Curry county Oregon property owner,his local in August, 1966,when 518 ch ild insurance company and the Fed ren were immunized. eral government. Three clinics in T illa m o o k The b ill provides for an in county on Novem ber 4 ,1 9 6 6 ,saw itia l appropriation of $50 m i l 800 children imm unized. Since lion to establish a Federal flood that tim e not a single case of insurance fund. measles has been reported in that county, m aking it one of the few counties in the nation which h a s a spotless record in what otherwise probably would have ? been an epidem ic y e a r for measles if it had not been for wide use of the vaccine. Statistics show that measles strike* h eav ily in about two or three year cycle*. Oregon and the rest of the nation was due for a high incidence of measles in the 1966-67 ep idem ic year which extends from fa ll through spring, but vaccine hat cut the number of cases by about tw o - thirds. The Board this w eek pointed out the effectiveness of an or ganized program by citin g 1967 figure* comparing Oregon w ith the state of Washington, which ha*no program. Through June 3 of this year, Washington had 5,142 reported cases, compared to 1,4 12 for O egon, the Board said. Washington recently approp- r l a t e d $ 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 to com bat measles because of an increased incidence of the disease. Wash ington had 344 case* of measles In the w eek ending M ay 27 of this year,com pared to Oregon's 91. The H ealth O fficer said that O eg o n this summer w ill con tinue to cooperate in the U. S. Public H ealth Service's goal to "End Measles in 1967. " H e alth authorities have point ed out that measles, lik e polio, can be wiped out if most of the susceptible children are i m munized. They warn that it can b e dangerous, causing death, m ental retardation,deafness,¿nd blindness. This year two Oregon children have been victim s of measles encephalitis (brain in flam m atio n ). " I w ant to stress that there is no longer any reason far anyone to suffer from m easles," Dr. Jenlke s a id . "Measles can be ended if parents see that their children are protected w ith vac cine. See your physician or local health departm ent this summer and protect your children against the preventable diseases before the coming school year. " H EA LTH FACT The average American walks about 65,000 miles In his life . Counties Share Trailer Fees O egon counties are now shar ing more than $2, 000, 000 c o l lected inlicense fees from house tra ile r owner* by the Depart ment of M otor V eh icle* since M ay, 1966. Vem L.H U 1. director of the department,sa id the annual dis tribution to counties was made at the end of June. This year's total of $2, 021, 773 represents a 15 per cent gain over the a - mount distributed in 1966. The motor vehilcledirectoc said that the revenue distributed to counties from lees collected by that agency ha* increased 165 per cent since 1961, the first fu ll year far w hich the fee was co llected. Monies are distributed ac cording to the tra ile r's location shown on the registration ap p li cation. Although there has been one increase in fee since the orig inal measure was passed in 1959, H ill said the biggest factor in the revenue i n c r e a s e from $763, 001 in 1961 to last year's $2 m illio n is the growing pop u la rity of trailers. In 1961, there were 36,147 house trailers reg istered in the state. A t the end of 1966, that number had in creased to 65, 144. Counties receiving more than $100,000 of the distribution are: M ultnom ah, $2 53 ,7 84 ; L a n e , $228,865; C lackam as,$193,652; J a c k s o n , $1 35 ,8 20 ; M arion, $1 33,682; and Elouglas, $111, - 097. Curry county w ill receive $31, 907. 30 from 931 trailers. Date June 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 M ax 67 66 73 70 69 72 72 70 73 68 62 72 71 M in Ram 54 .0 0 52 . 00 N o Report 48 .0 0 52 . 00 SI .0 0 55 .0 0 53 . 00 50 .0 0 50 .0 0 46 .0 0 46 .0 0 48 .0 0 50 .0 0 A $35,876 contract fo r a new dial equipment building in Langlois has been awarded by General Telephone Company of the Northwest, Inc., to Assoc iated Building Contractors of Beaverton, according to Bob McKenzie, d istrict manager for the telephone company. Work began last week on the approximately 900 square foot structure, McKenzie said, with completion of the building sch eduled for Sept. 26. Immediately t h e r e a f t e r , equipment Installation w ill be gin for a complete new dial system which w ill bring a ll- new seven-digit telephone num- bers to the Langlois exchange Copper Mountain Sale Postponed PO RTLAND— The sale of al most $1 m illion in tim ber in the Copper Mountain area of north C u rry County has been postponed pending a July 6 meeting In Grants Pass between officials of the Small Business Adm inístranos and the U. S. Forest Service, Senator Wayne M orse, D -O re ., has reported. The Um ber was to have been sold at public bid Wednesday, June 28, but the sale was with drawn last week when Senator M orse asked the Forest Ser vice to review the m atter. M orse asked the Forest Ser vice to reconsider whether the Umber should be sold as a “ set aside” under term s of the Small Business Act. Under the act, sm all business Umber users are assured of being able to bid on and purchase a fa ir proportionate share of avail able federal Umber. Tim ber sales are designa ted as “ set asides" only with the concurrence of »he federal Umber agency Involved and the Small Business Adm inistra tion. The Copper Mountain sale involves eight tim ber settings covering a total of several hundred acres. There are 24.2 m illion board feet of tim ber in the settings, with an estim a ted value of $965,000. On Dean's List Carl bang, Langlois, was n am ed to the spring term Dean's List at O eg on T echnical Institute at Klam ath Falls w ith a grade point average of 3. 00. shortly after the firs t of the year. The exact date and addition al information about the up coming improvement in Lang lois telephone service w ill be announced In m id-July, McKen zie said. Humidity Law Is Effective By reason of the very ser ious fir e hazard now existing because of weather conditions and the existence of an ex cessive amount i f Inflammable debris making forest opera tions in the areas hereinafter described extremely suscep tible to fire , and by authority under ORS 477.625 and Regu lation (O .A .R .) No. 629-42-170 promulgated pursuant thereto, notice is served that all op erations of power driven ma chinery and equipment used in sawmilling, logging o r other operations on or within one- eighth m ile of forest lands In the Coos F o r e s t Protection D istric t, the Douglas Forest Protection D istrict and the Um pqua National Forest shall comply with the following; 1. Humidity: The operator w ill close down the operation during any day or part thereof fo r the period of tim e that the relative humidity is 30% o r low er In the operation area un less w ritten permission to con tinue such operation is given to the operator by the F o r ester. 2. High wind: The operator w ill close down the operation during any day or part thereoi fo r the period of ttm t that high winds p revail over the op eration area and the relative humidity is 35% or low er in the operation area unless w rit ten perm ission to continue such operation Is given to the op erator by the Forester; high wind shall be considered as any continuous wind o r a ir disturb ance causing an Increase in fir e danger in the operation area. 3. Weather instruments: The operator shall furnish and maintain an instrument fo r the accurate measurement of re l ative humidity in the operation area; the cost of such instru ment need not exceed the sum of $25. This notice became effective Wednesday, July 5, and shall remain in fu ll force and effect until cancelled according to the State F o re s te r. "T he sm all, hide pendent news paper has tra d itio n a lly been the hub around w hich the life of Sm all Town and Rural A m erica has re v o lv e d ," T h e C o m m ittee members said in a le tte r to Rep. ThaddeusJ.Dulski, C hairm an of t h e Subcom m ittee on Postal Rates w hich is considering the proposal. "T he free circ u la tio n of news is a basic e le m e n t in our dem ocracy," C hairm an Evins com m ented. "T h e sm all newspapers should not be overburdened with increased postal rates that could reduce the c irc u la tio n o f these newspa|iers throughout A m e ri ca. " All telephone number* io Gold Beech end Agaess w ill change at 11:01 p.re. neat Dec. Id , General Telephone D is tric t Manager Bah McKenale announced this week. The company's new $200,000 dial equipment office w ill go Into o p e r a t i o n at that tim e, bringing with It new seven-digit telephone numbers for custom ers in both communities. The present "C H 7” p r a f t s w ill be converted to lta num eri cal equivalent — “ 247" - - but It w ill be d i a l e d e ia c tly the same. The last four digits of all numbers w ill be changed to conform to the requirements of the new dial equipment. A d ire c tory supplement containing the new 2 4 7 - n i i number* w ill be Issued before the change be come* effective. Three Timber Tracts Are Sold D istrict Ranger F. W. Bur gess, Gold Beach ranger dis tric t, announces three tim ber sales this week totaling an est imated 11,430,000 ooard feet of tim ber. M. C. Hedden, Gold Beach, was high bidder for the C h is- more Tanoak tim ber sale of 700,000 board feet of tanoak logs. Advertised price was $3.10 per thousand <oard feet and bid price was $8.25 per thousand board feet. Total ap praised value was $2,170.00; total bid value was $5,775.00. This sale is in the Euchre Creek drainage. South Coast Lumber Co., Brookings, was high bidder for theQuosatana Flats tim ber sale of 100,000 board feet of Doug la s -« r and 30,000 board feet of Port Orford Cedar logs. Advertised and bid prices were as follows: Douglas-flr ad vertised p rice was $22.90 per thousand board feet and bid price was $22.90 p er thousand board feet; Part O rford Cedar advertised price was $170.80 per thousand board feet and bid p rice was $180.80 perth o u- sand board feet. Total ap praised value was J7,414.00; total bid value was $7,714.00. This sale is in the Quosatana Creek drainage. South Coast Lumber Co. was also high bidder fo r die W ild - horse Ridge »2 tim ber sale of 10,150,000 board feet of D ouglas-flr logs, 200,000 board feet of Sugar pine and other coniferous species logs, and 250,000 board feet of Port O r ford Cedar logs. Dcuglas-flr advertised p rice was. $26.35 p er thousand board feet and bid price was $45.00 per thou sand board feet. Sugar pine and other coniferous species logs and Port O tford Cedar logs were sold at fixed rates. Appraised price were: Sugar pine and other coniferous spe cies logs $18.95 p er thousind board feet; Port Orford Cedar logs $177.55 per thousand board feet. Total appraised value for this sale was $315,630.00; total bid value was $504,927.50. This sale is in the Hunter Creek area. Jaycees Sponsor Queen Contest Ask Newspaper Rale Exemption Numbers Change December 16 C hairm an Joe L. Evins ( D - T enn.(announcedtoday that he and eight other M em ber of the House Sm all Business C o m m it tee have petitioned the Post O ffice and C iv il Service Com m itte e to exen'ipt sm all, inde pendent newspapers from a pro posed rate increase. REA Administrator N o r m a n Clapp, to Farrell Rankin, presi dent of Coos-Curry Electric Co operative, Inc. The loan, according to W .A . "B ill" Cook, cooperative m an ager, . w i l l be used to finance construction of new lines plus expansion and improvements to existing facilities. C o o k pointed out that this loan w ill provide for construc tion of 3 5 .9 m ile * of new dis tribution line* and improvement of 23.6 miles of existing distri bution line*. The loan also pro vides fund* to purchase trans formers, meters, e t c ., to serve an additional 329 consumers in the co-op's service area. The loan, said Cook, provides only a start in the co-op's plan* for fu tire growth expansion in the southcoast area. Coos-Curry, a l o n g w ith c o o p e r a t i v e s throughout the nation, are pre sently exploring every possibil ity to obtain additional grcx'th capital through the establish ment of a federal electric bank patterned after the successful federal l a n d bank or through other money m arket channels. T H IS T R U C K cam e to rest atop the H arvey M cD an ie l car June 24, when driver M arvin Colby, N etika Beach, lost con trol,sideswiped another car and hit the M c D a n ie l auto. The sideswiped auto, belonging to Jim M cP o il, can be seen in far background w ith bumper hanging. Colby received 90 days in the county ja il for driving w hile intoxicated. —S h eriffs O ffice Photo The Gold Beach Jaycees are sponsoring the C u rry c o u n t y fa ir queen contest this year. Entries are now being sought throughout the county with a 1300 p rize offered to the win ner. George Wasson is general chairman. Two g irls w ill be chosen from each of the three districts of the county, southern, central and northern. A “ M iss Congen ia lity " w ill be chosen this year. G irls wishing to enter the contest who are from the Ophir to Pistol River area may call Ron Crook, CH 7-5202 or Pal Dlppold at the Chamber of Com m erce, CH 7-7611. To be eligible to compete, g irls must be single and a re s i dent of the county. They must also be high school graduates. The sem i-final c o n t e s t for Gold Beach w ill be held July 3 at the high school multipurpose room. The final contest w ill be held during the fa ir, Aug. 11, in Gold Beach.
