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Vol. 12 No. 19
Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon 97465
Noon Rocks
To Be Shown
Price: Ten Cents
4 H Camp Held At Lobster Creek
Ralph McGinnis, State Board
of Aeronautics, Robert Knox and
Ed Bennett conferred with cam -
A public showing of the moon
missicners Ira Tucker and Glen rocks is planned by Oregon
Hale regarding the road to the State University’s Radiation
r fop of Knox hill, with the intent Center soon after the rocks
of installing a homing device to arrive on the OSU campus for
assist planes in landing.
scientific testing.
Jack E.Pattersan, of State Ac­
Dr. Chlh Wang, director of
cident Insurance Fund, discussed the Radiation Center, indicated
safety and accident rating with that the lunar samples are ex­
the board. A meeting with the pected to arrive at OSU around
road department has been set mid-September. Public exhib­
for Friday,Aug.8, 3 p .m .in the ition Is planned for two Satur­
conference room of the Office days after sample arrival, he
building.
said.
In an order the board approved
The rocks will be picked up
the cancellation of erroneous at the Lunar Receiving Lab­
assessment of personal property oratory In Houston, Texas and
tax in the amount of $150.63 delivered to OSU by Dr. Roman
to Claude D. Baer.
Schmitt, the OSU professor of
The commissioners approved chemistry who Is directing re­
an updated salary schedule to search on the rocks.
be in general use by Curry coun­
Dr. Schmitt said that the
ty as of July 1, 1969.
amount ctf the lunar samples he
James Leland Buck was hired will bring back will be small.
as Circuit Court Reporter re­
“ I really don’t know how much
placing Lester C. Perkins, re­ they’ll give us,” he said. He
signed; Frank Pamme was hired believes that the OSU samples
as temporary employee in the will be chips of moon rocks,
road department.
fine grained or powdered rock,
THE 'QL SWIMMING HOLE at Lobster Creek camp was a popular spot during the re­
A total of $87.74 was granted and crystals.
cently completed 4-H camp held there last week.
from the indigent fund to give
The OSU cosmo chemist noted
assistance in three cases.
that the research will be dir­
The regular Wednesday after­ ected toward looking for 33 dif­
noon road meeting was held with ferent elements, of which 14 are
commissioners Tucker and Hale, the main chemical elements
and Ed S y p h e r, construction scientists would normally look
foremanattending. The follow­ for In any rock analysis.
ing report was made covering
Of
these
33 different
the activities of die road depart­ elements, the OSU research
m ent for the week:
team will determine which and
All rock pits have been check­ how much of the 14 major and
ed for p o s s i b l e quantity of minor elements and the 19 trace
crushed rock.
elements are present.
Core samples of new A. C. to
The OSU scientists will use
be taken for laboratory tests.
the non-destructive technique
Ken Bigelow will be inspec­ of neutron activation analysis
tor of crushed rock on all pro­ using the University’s big
jects.
TRIGA nuclear reactor and the
Traffic counters will be plac­ 14 million volt neutron gen­
ed cn roads that are to be con­ erator to bombard the moon
sidered for future projects.
rocks with neutrons. Then the
The crusher on Rogue has induced radioactivity of the
finished project, w ith7000 yards rocks will be measured to de­
rock being stockpiled.
termine the elements. Addit­
A. C. Mat at Carpenter's and ionally, Dr. Schmitt will acti­
an Third Street in Gold Beach vate the lunar rocks with 30
completed.
million volt x-rays at the Gult
Culverts an Winchuck com­ General Atomic electron lin­
pleted.
ear accelerator in San Diego,
Calif.
Dr. Schmitt expects the con­
centration of any trace elements
to be about one millionth of an
ounce.
In later chemical tests, OSU
researchers will disintegrate
some of the moon rock sam­
Curry county fair manager ples. A portion of the moon
Bill Crook has asked faftgoers rocks in these experiments will
planning to attend the f r e e be saved in case further test­
lamb andbear barbecue in Gold ing is needed, Dr. Schmitt no­
Beach Sunday, August 10, to ted.
bring a cake to help round out
He said, “ The chemical com­
the meal.
position of the lunar rocks that
Crook says the fair would will
will be com­
prefer that donors bring cup­ pared be to obtained
the chemical compo­
cakes as it is much easier to sition of a wide variety of earth
distribute them, however, sheet rocks, meteorites, and the
cakes will also be accepted.
sun.”
The fair barbecue is a com­
JVUJUr.Km KUBtN
HOODS
—
--------- get some expert advice from Galin Jordan, 4-H leader, at I
In addition, the OSU research
plete meal including meat, sal­
recently completed Lobster Creek 4-H camp. This is the first year that Cuiry com
team
will
collaborate
with
Prof.
ad, cheese, bread and a choice
4-Hershave held their own camp. Previously they joined with Douglas and Coos co mt
V. R. Murthy of the Univer­
of coffee or milk. The cheese sity
at Camp Myrtlewood near Bridge.
of Minnesota Department
is donated by Bandon's Cheddar of Geology
to measure Isotope
Cheese and the milk by Brook-
ratios of the significant trace
m e a d, Parkside and Country elements
and the three rare
Maid Dairies.
earth elements of Samarium,
A new barbecue pit has just Europium, and Gadolinium.
been completed to handle the
The growing number of camp­ calculated according to length
The significance of this, Dr.
FT. SILL, OKLA.—Carl L.
increased attendance a t th e Schmitt
explains, is that it will er, travel trailer, mobile home of the unit with a basic fee of Jorgensen, 19, son of Mrs. Mary
barbecue.This year members of give information of exposure and motor home owners In Ore­ $10 plus $1.50 per foot for each
Curry County Livestock Associ­ of lunar rocks to neutron bom­ gon will face new licensing re­ foot over the first 10 fe e t The Jorgensen, Langlois, Ore., was
commissioned a second lieu­
ation will prepare approximate­ bardment
under
a law agency believes about 43,000
of the present lunar quirements
ly 20 lamb and four bear to surface and may help to under­ approved by the 1969 Oregon of the more than 80,000 units tenant upon graduation from
the Officer candidate School
provide enough meat iac the
licensed as house trailers will at the U. S. Army Field Ar­
stand the evolutionary history of Legislature.
event which draws several thou­ the early solar system.
Although the effective date Is come under the definition of a tillery Center, F t Sill, Okla.,
sand people.
All moon rock samples re­ still several months away, the travel trailer when the new law July 15.
People bringing cakes to the maining after the OSU tests Motor Vehicles Division al­
takes effect.
barbecue should have them at will be returned to the Houston ready has started planning for
the fairgrounds by 11 a. m. Sun­ Lunar Receiving Laboratory. the revised program, accord­
Motor homes, which are de­
numbers.
day.
Dr. Schmitt expects the Uni­ ing to Chester W. Ott, admin­ fined as motor vehicles origi­
The registration fee will b
nally
designed,
reconstructed
istrator.
versity to receive additional
$6, plus a license fee of tw
The new law separates ve­ or permanently altered to pro­
rocks from the next Apollo
per cent of the taxable marke
mission for further investiga­ hicles formerly known as house vide facilities for human hab­ value of the mobile home. Tht
trailers In to two classes—re­ itation, or with a permanent
tion.
value is related to the sug'
Dr. Schmitt is one of ap­ creational vehicles and mobile camper attached, will pay a gested retail price asdelivere<
homes.
license fee of $20 plus $1.50
proximately
140
principal
in­
Be it resolved that the Fish
Recreational vehicles include per foot for each foot over the from the manufacturer. Thi
throughout the
Comm ission of Oregon adopt the vestigators
travel
trailers, motor homes first 10 feet under the new law. market value the first yeai
world who are scheduled to re­
following order:
Length will Include the vehicle Is 30 per cent of the suggests
and
campers.
ceive samples of the moon.
Administrative Order FC-198
The law will require camp­ and chassis. Plates will begold retail price, and there Is :
All
information
received
from
This order enacts OAR 625-
yearly depreciation of five pel
ers to be licensed for the first with blue numbers.
10-262; revises the period when the lunar sample tests from the time on or before March 31,
cent provided up to nine years,
scientists
will
be
stored
at
the
Moneys
collected
for
camp­
shrimp may be landed if taken
1970. It changes the method ers, motor homes and travel For the ninth and succeeding
Houston
laboratory
for
dissem­
from waters of the Pacific Ocean
years, the market value Is sei
ot calculating fees for other
south of the Oregon-California ination to the scientific com­ types of units, beginning Jan­ trailers will go toward parks at 50 per cent of the suggested
munity. Three months after
acquisition and development.
retail price.
boundary line.
the investigators receive the uary 1, 1970.
Under the new law, most
10-262 Shrimp Landing
The law since 1960 has provi­
Ott
says
the
agency
plans
to
lunar samples they will present
motdle home owners—an est­
Prohibited from Designated
Issue license plates for the imated 37,000 of them—can ex­ ded for a license fee ci 27(
their
findings
at
an
open
applied to 80 per cent of the
Area in 1969
more than 20,000 estimated
In addition to the d o ted per­ scientific meeting in Houston. camper units In the state. The pect to pay higher license fees market value when the trailer
over
a
longer
period
of
time
was new.
iod from October 1 of any year
plates will be black with white than at present, Ott said.
Under the new law, a mobile
to May 1 of the fallowing year
numbers.
Camper fees will
TTie law defines a mobile home may tie declared a dwel­
as provided in section 10-260,
be
$10
plus
$1.50
per
foot
for
home as a unit designed to be ling by a county assessor if it
WEATHER
it shall be unlawful to land or
each foot of length over the first
transported or used upon the has been placed on private pro­
Date
Max Min
Rain
have in pottettion shrimp taken
10 feet. There also will be highways,
capable of human
Aug. 1
69
46
.0 0
from the waters of the Pacific
a $2 title fee when the unit Is habitation or for business, com­ perty and has substantially lost
Aug. 2
69
48
.00
Ocean south of 42 degrees north
first registered or ownership mercial or office purposes. It Its identity as a vehicle. K
Aug.3
68
53
.0 0
then goes on the county proper­
latitude (Or e g on - California
is transferred.
must be over 32 feet In length,
Aug. 4
68
45
.00
boimdaryline)from August 5 to
Travel trailers, Including and there are several other ty tax rolls. A mobile home
Aug. 5
69
49
owner may also request that his
October 1, 1969.
.0 0
tent trailers, up to 32 feet
and weight consider­ unit be declared a dwelling and
Adopted and sizned this 31st
will receive red plates with height
specified In the law. taxed on that basis rather than
day of July, 1969,
white numbers. Fees will be ations
Plates will be blue with gold as a vehicle.
Cakes Needed
For Barbecue
T ra ile r Law To Raise Rates
Resolution Changes
Shrimp Regulation
Commissioned
Thursday, August 7, 1969
i raner n an y
Slated Here
uuuuay f e a t u r e s a i
" “
Airstream trailer owners will
begin converging at the Ryce
Wilson ranch on Sixes today for
another big Wally Byam rally
August 8-9-10.Local members
of the cl id> say that around 100
trailers are expected for the
event, and 200 to 300 people.
A feature of the rally will be
a salmon barbecue and special
programs.
Local residents are urged to
visit the encampment and get
a c q u a i n t e d with state club
members.
’ I , . , . Queen'sPagean:
Open house will be held at
Camp Humdinger on Sixes Riv­
er Sunday,August 10, from nocn
to 4 p. m. Anyone interested is
invited to tour the camp during
that time.
To Remove Shoal
In Rogue River
This year's queen's pageant
at the Curry county fair in Gold
Beach will feature several en­
tertainment acts in conjunction
with the queen's contest.
Verdini, the noted magician
from Seattle, Wash., will per­
form fetes of magic to delight
the young and old alike. Other
entertainment will include fid­
dler Larry Pinson and the gui­
tarist Robert J ohnson.
The six girls competing far
the Curry county fair queen title
have j u s t completed a busy
week of travel appearing before
television cameras a n d news
media in Medford,Coos Bay and
Eureka.
The girls include Dianne Dur-
fee a n d Connie McKenzie of
Brookings; Jackie Campbell and
Kathy Sharp of Port Orford; Bar­
bara Donaldson of Langlois and
Sherry Fendrick of Gold Beach.
The contestants will compete
in streetwear,swimsuits and for-
mals. In the creative talent div­
ision of the contest the girls'
performances w ill vary from
modeling clothes to playing the
piano.
Competition in the queen's
contest will start at 7 p .m . Fri­
day, A ug.8, in the multipurpose
building at the fair.
The Portland U. S. Army
Engineer District has awarded
a $28,000 contract to Hydra-
con Corporation, Post Office
Box 991, Astoria, for rental
of a floating pipeline dredge to
remove a shoal near the mouth
of the Rogue River at Gold
Beach on the southern Oregon
coast.
Colonel Robert L. Bangert,
Howard Beasley, president of
the Port Orford Lions club, and Portland District Engineer,
Burrell Babb, former president, said the dredge will be used to
went to Portland last week to remove the gravel shoal which
attend a Lions sponsored m eet­ prevents access to the docks
ing an "Sight Conservation. " at Wedderburn. The channel
They visited the Dever Clinic over the shoal will be dredged
which is supported by the clubs to about 15 feet below mean
of the state of Oegon where eye lower low water.
care is given to those who need
Completion date for the con­
it and are unahle to pay for it tract is August 30.
themselves.
The last of August or the first
of September the Port Orford
L io n s club will have t h e i r
"White Cane" sales locally and
the funds from the sale of these
canes will be sent for sight con­
Frank Tiedemann was bom
servation. Last year the local in Exira,Iowa, cn December 21,
club sent over $700 to be used 1901,anddiedin the hospital at
for eye examinations and glas­
Point an Sunday, July 3.
ses. All the clubs of the state Central
1969.
turned in more than $28,000 at
Senator Mark O.Hatfield said
Mr. Tiedemann came to Cte-
the state convention last year for gon in 1941, living in Portland, today that he is "working with
this project.
went to Alaska in 1949 and then a company, a pioneer in new
Eye clinics were formerly returned to Oregon all the time techniques in the irradiation
maintained by the state but were being in the construction bus­ treatment of w o o d products,
closed some time ago.The Lions iness.
which is now considering a ma-
h a v e been so successful with
The first cafe owned by Mr. , jor plant investment in Oregon.
them they they are not planning andMrs.Tiedemann was at Cave
"The company is considering
to return them to state control. Junction in 1959 and they later a location in the Willamette
were in Gold Hill, staying there Valley at present, although other
for five years. They opened the areas are under consideration, "
Log Cabin Cafe a t Langlois an Hatfield stated.
June 16, 1965, andM rs.Tiede­
He said the company has de­
mann is continuing with that veloped a way to treat wood
business.
through radiation which makes
Survivors include his wife, it extremely durable under the
Ray Bushnell and a group Ruth Elizabeth, Langlois; three most severe conditions.
Hatfield said that the treat­
were picking brush last week sans, Merlin of Beavertcu and
and took his camper to Chetco. Ronald a n d Joe of Portland; ment is useful in treating not
While they were busy a cubbear three daughters, Mrs. Lorraine only w o o d products but con­
climbed over the top of the Miller, Norma Lay and Zuelene crete and plastic among others.
"This is the kind of smokeless
camper and went in through the Cecelani, Portland; 21 grand­
air vent and carefully looked children,two great-grandchild­ industry which I have always
over the things Inside. He ap­ ren; brothers and sisters in Iowa. f e l t should be encouraged to
Graveside services will be come to Oregon," Hatfield said.
parently was startled by the re ­
He pointed out that "The
turn of the pickers and went held tamoiiow,Friday,July 8, at
out through the back window the Denmark cemetery with Al­ company has a strong interest in
without taking time to open the bert Kribs of the Port Ckfcrd our state and 1 am very optim­
istic that it will join the Oregon
Christian Church in charge.
glass.
Bandon Chapel of Coos Mor­ business community.
"When ihe company'srequire-
tuaries will be in charge.
ments are better defined, I will
join with appropriate Oregon
officials and agencies to aid the
company in its move, " Hatfield
said.
Lions Visit
Eye Clinic
Frank Tiedemann
Services Tomorrow
Company Mulls
Plant Location
Bear Cub Inspects
Bushnell Camper
Undersea Garden Open
Nov L Crescent City
Dement Slates
M ilitary
The Undersea G a
., a uni­
According to J o h n Hoegg,
que "Seaquarium"
ned in president of Undersea Gardens
Crescent City, Calit. on Aug. L td., all fish and plant life na­
Senator Sam Dement will
4. The Garden is ' >cated at t i v e to the Northern Pacific l e a v e the Portland Air Base,
Citizen's Dockclose it Highway waters w i l l be seen from the Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 10:30 a.m .
101. It is arectangulai steel and v ie w in g windows—including for a three-day inspection tour
concrete structure reset bling a giant octopuses,wolf eels,sharks, of O r e g o n 's 142nd National
barge with ship's sup, rsb o- sea .inenames,sturgeonand over Guard Fighter Group during its
ture submerged in natural sea 500 other marine specimens.
two-week training maneuver at
water and moored i.o Cit'-'i
In addition every half hour a Elmendorf Air Force Base in Al­
Dock v here the Pn Tic < in s;>ectacul'r show is performed. aska.
is unusually clear n rot ted Skin divers slip into the under­
Dement is one of three sena­
from winds and high seas.
water theater and take their tors who will accompany Senate
Visitors to the Undersea Gar­ chances with Armstrong, th e President E.D. "Debbs" Potts on
dens walk down an ron tarr­ octopus and the ferocious wolf the three-day trip. The four-
ease into a chamber 10' beb
eel.
member senatorial delegation
the surface of the water—from
Underwater lights illuminate will be the guests of the Guard
here they, an watch, tlirough 1
tiie scene for viewers, and skin Unit and will be housed at the
viewing windows e tending a- divers frequently mingle with officers quarters at Qmendorf.
round all four sides of the ves­ the fish to feed them and also The departure of the VIPs will
sel, hundreds of varieties of sea bring specimens of sea life to come just three days after the
animals and plants living in the viewing windows for close­ 600 man guard unit leaves Pcrt-
their natural surroundings. The up ins;>ection.
1 and Air Base tor the 2000 mile,
gardens aim is to provide visi­
Attractive hostesses commen­ six hour flight to the nation's
tors with a colourful, permanent tate during the show and help 49th state.
collection of aquatic life, not explain the marine life as it
The Alaskan maneuver will
subject to the ..hims of tides and actually exists in the sea.
be the first of its kind for the
nature.
Oregon fighter group in this de­
From the structure, a sloping
cade. Its purpose is to test the
eight foot wide tray was built all
unit's readiness in a mobiliza­
around the lower edge of the
tion situation.
underwater tank, and then an
At Elmendorf,all 142nd Fight­
area of about 2, 000 square feet
er Squadron air crews will have
was fenced off vertically by a
their flying schedules program­
wall camoflauged to blend with
med in coordination with the
nature and to form the backdrop
The youth group of the As­ 317th Fighter Squadron of the
of the well -lit underwater stage. sembly of God Church had a active Air Farce. In addition to
On the floor of the tray, skin- jirogressive d in n e r Saturday, training flights the guard pilots
divers sjread and to simulate Aug, 2. Different entrees of the will participate in a scheduled
th e ocean's floor and t h e n meal were held progressively at North American A ir Defense
created an undersea g a r d e n different homes. Those being Command training exercise.
through skillful grouping o f hosts to the youth group during
Senate President Potts, who
treelike seaweeds and v i v i d the evening were Mr, and Mrs. will be the top ranking civilian
flowerlike sea mimalt; md then Holt, Mr.and Mn.Howard Beas­ official on the trip, is expected
added hundreds of different fish, ley, Mr. and Mrs. J im Rogers, to [resent an award for out­
living normal ocean lives, re­ Rev, and Mrs. R.L. Sharp, and standing achievement over the
producing in the normal way and the Leroy Lamberts, all of Pert l a s t 12 months to the entire
preying an their normal ene­ Orford. About 25people were in Squadron on behalf of Governor
mies.
attendance.
McCall.
Assembly Youth
Hold Dinner