Port Orford news. (Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon) 1958-current, July 06, 1967, Image 1

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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.
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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.