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.
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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.