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2—Port o rfo rd News, Thursday, July 13, 1972 craphone. There was sound. There was also the sm ell and By ! fry in g sound of a short c ir cuit. There was even some smoke . . . as If more proof was needed to convince me that the c : D( phase was shot. 0O X 5 PORT ORFORD OREGON The 1971 tim ber harvest for crease reflected the shsrp rise 9^465 fÖRßSTSTHAN At 4 :30 a.m. Monday I sta rt Washington and Oregon combin In housing demand and the ex telephone (503) 332 2361 ed to work on the newspaper, ed amounted to 15 79 b illion pending National tim b e r econo Busy O ffic ia l Newspaper for the C ity of Port Orford and Port of Port Orford board feet This was an Increase my f.-iolldays always mean some Second class m a il privileges authorized at Port Orford, Oregon 97465 of 9 4 percent above the 1970 Oregon's Timber Harvest kind of a fouled-up schedule.) Louis L. Feisheim ................. _ . , . figure Brian Wall, Research Rises Sharply At 7 45 a.m. I started calling. Paul L. Peterson...................................................................................... 2 '::;......... -Publisher Economist fo r the Pacific N or The 1971 Oregon tim ber her Repair shops, rental dealers, Nancy I. ftrte rso n ... .............................................•..-...•..b d ito r and Manager thwest Forest and Range E xper vest of 9 34 b illio n board feet ¿ A K t ANOTHER LOOK' KURY radio, anyplace I thought p ) iment Station, said that the In- (Cont. I’agH-c) Subscription in Cum, County (per year in advance)........................ <4 c,, might solve the problem. I fin * I F l C N O R TH W EST S ingle'conv ° UtSUe COUnt>' (!* r “ advanc#)............$5. SO a lly located a shop in Em pire FORESTS A R E V E R Y n ..................................................................................................................15 Cents that thought they could re p a ir S u s y — g r o w in g Announcements, Notices, News and Advertising must be in the office the set . . . and In tim e fo r the AM P REGRDLA3IMG Tt> by 5:00 p. m. Tuesdays h illc ltm b . I packed up the set PROVIDE perpetually MEMBER and sent It to the shop by P p R OUR N E E D S . - MEMBER Serving Northern O re g o n brother-in-law. The shop cal environmentalists , N ew spaper Curry County led about 10:30 with the sad naturalists , h iker s , P u b lish ers news that the vib ra to r trans, HAM PERS, FORESTERS, A sso ciatio n fo rm e r was burned out . . . the ûrOCTON MINCED hunters , t im b e r Association Founoag 1885 Item was not stocked, and in HARVESTERS all share th e ir opinion the set was too this r e m a r k a b le , I rc=AHS old to spend any more money R ENEW ABLE resource . on. (It had already been fixed OTHER BENEFITS C O M E CAMS about five tim es.) Yes, the AC A k CLEARCUTTING s till worked, w hich was not • M A P A C T U A L L Y practiced FLU F PO much good for a mobile unit, , F or OVER 14 c years unless there was a mighty in our forests , this by Rep.John Dellenback long extension cord around. , S A U O W S SUNLIGHT FOR A fter many more calls In m / ildlife an d gives the Bay area, I told brother. FAST, HEALTHY STARTS mp lo g Experts Are Under Study { In-law to bring the set home. TO Y O U N G T R E E S . T 5 T R E E S IN NORTHW EST fORESTC Then I called Coos-Curry and ceqspvt lcnvx TODAY A R E SECOND-GROWTH— A D D iN f t t ip t S threw the problem In the lap 4 ft-0 2 of Jim Wilson. He took tt from OF VIGOROUSLY G R O W IN G There's one thing about it, C oiyress is once again taking a serious look at the whole ques there and by 2:30 I was all TECHNIQUES WILL tion of log exports The attention comes as a result of the fact that it was a real Jubilee. AU the rigged up with a portable gen- s k i ppm u v e e B eaeF lT S AND en JO Y- the present lim ita tio n in the law expires December 31.1973 That way around. Hie do-ra-me fig . MENTS O r TODAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS' erator (mounted snuggly under legislation lim its the board footage of tim ber harvested from fed ures a re n 't all tn yet so no eral lands that can be exported outside o fth is country No current one knows for sure how the the re a r of the truck bed) . . . and sound . . . and slowly mendi law lim its the amount of private tim ber that can be exported how celebration stands financially. ever ing nerves. I was too late fo r KKUSTFV On June 6 the Eugene Register-Guard said e d ito ria lly over It can, however, be said with the h lllc lim b but the local Lions ? 2 LB assurance that tn a ll other re exporting of the P acific Northwest s No 1 raw material just doesn't Club offered the use of their make sense And that, of course brings us right to the heart of spects it was a whopping sue- sm all battery p.a. set fo r the W in MUM KeoenuN Q-G? Figures fo r the fisca l year he problem How much is too much’’ cess. Except fo r the mind-shat- event . . . and that problem was ending June 30, show circu Hearings on log exports have recently been held by the Subcom tering problems I experienced solved. lation of city lib ra ry books at mtttee on International Finance of the Senate Banking and Currency with the mobile public address But on top of it a ll It was 11,846, including 4,569 junior Committee As a member of the subcommittee Senator Bob Pack system, an AC-DC unit about books and 7,277 adult books a great day. A little overcast wood of Oregon chaired two days of hearings in Salem and another DEL MONTE" ,4^«. 10 o r more years old. day of hearings in Washington D C Isa ta s a sort of 'e x-o fficio ' loaned. . . . but No wind. And there I spent about eight hours Sun- member of the subcommittee during the Washington hearings TO THE EDITOR were plenty of a ctivitie s and Attendance at the lib ra ry Is Í 3Ö0 Jay (with some help) nailing van camp As I see it. there are at least four directions the federal govern We would like to take this set at 5,230, with 2,307 jun people to go with the good the sound truck together, so ment might take (1) Allow the present re s tric tio n to expire and iors and 2,923 seniors. weather. Boy was there ever. means of publicly thanking mpose no further re strictio n s (2) extend the present restriction I ’d be ready in plenty of time And a little bit of history J e rry Smith fo r letting us use The lib ra ry purchased 821 J iT ,1 118 e* ports ° f tim ber from federal lands to 350 m illio n board fo r the motorcycle h ill climb P etvna caw was even changed before the his garage to work on our new books and 25 were donated, Ir T i a lt6r the present re strictio n to allow less fed Monday afternoon, mounted the L A R 6 -E S L IC IN G big day was over. The mighty float fo r the Jubilee parade. fo r a total of 846. eral tim ber to be exported and (4) broaden the restrictions on speakers, placed the a m p lifie r, We would also like to thank exports ,o include tim ber cut from state and privately Indians won the B attle o f Bat Three new books have been picked up the batteries, and o me it s not re a lis tic to think we should under present circum tle Rock . . . with the help of Harvey B artlett and L a rry donated to the memory of Clyde stances go ahead without any re strictio n s As over sim plified as it hooked the whole thing together those ‘fear .nothin’ Scottish F isher fo r th e ir help. Wagner; Hummingbirds and sounds the statement that we would be exporting j X is true fo r the test. I had already trie d And last, but not least, Paul th e ir Flow ers, from the Arner- w a rrio rs from Eugene. Guess 06 conce.rned *Tth the future tim ber needs of this country the AC side and it worked per. and the impact of any action we take w ill have on the economy' feet. So I hooked up the DC it was too much fo r them High, Peterson fo r announcing the lean Legion auxiliary. General landers . . . seeing the Indians event, and a ll those people who H istory o f Oregon, by M r. and Nor is it re a lis tic to think we should prohibit all exports Such a side to a battery and turned = w °UId cause havoc with this nation s i n t e r n a l r e l a r t o S s go down fo r defeat year after helped by buying tickets on the Mrs. Herman Luther; and the FKKH LB It on. I breathed a sigh as the p a rticu la rly with Japan It would seriously interfere with our inter year. So they joined the red. hike. American Coast, by M r. and tubes lit . . . I turned up the national economic situation and would run into strong opposition men in a final siege and storm M rs. Henry Bryant and M r. volume and spoke into the ml- from a number of economic forces ed the rock . . . a ll but wiping Port O rford and M rs. Chas. Arm strong. Some action between these two extremes is called for John out the nine brave, but under Kindergarten Association Among new books are The McGuire new C hiefof theForest Service has indicated he believes Oregon Coast, Oregon, Snake passage- - three of which are manned, settlers. it is too e a rly to recommend what action should be taken He argues There was a couple other TO THE EDITOR R iver Country, ABC of D rift that we should wait fo r the President s Advisory Council on Timber considered noteworthy HB 1216 We would like to thank all wood and Dried Flower Design, which lowered the blood a l amusing Incidents during the and Environment to file its report expected late this vear Following the the women at Blanco Fish- Upholstering and Practical I m convinced that the present re strictio n s on log exports should cohol level at which a d riv e r is battle, too. frrtcT/rt t^me , ' h,e ! nd ° f 1973 * nd the t,me la« the presumed to be under the In “ death” of the fir s t chief, who ertes fo r their help in picking Gemstone C raft. fluence down to 10 per cent THUH ,nn, SAT lay face down In the sand mid. the shrim p fo r our Jubilee tim e tim ber is sold and the tim e tim ber is cut.coupled with the im SB 54 --which makes It illegal shoÎndCnot0L flPn efdiCtft b ili2 . Withln thC industry convinced me we way between the Indian camp booth. PEEL VISITORS shouId not wait fo r the above mentioned report before we act As a per se to drive with a blood and the rock, a second leader M r. and M rs. Kenneth Peel Z i i no* movin* to attempt to bring about such an extension alcohol level at o r exceeding was “ shot” about two-thlrds Members oí the Volunteer 15 per cent with a penalty of immediately When the report of the President s Advisory Council had as th e ir house guests over F ire Department of the distance between the imprisonment for not less than e h X e s ‘ în rtheeîaw C° ngreSS can consider posstble ' “ " h e r the weekend and the 4th, thetr six days, and HB I486 -- r e camp and the “ dead” chief. daughter and fa m ily, the Hon- quiring judges to order con Apparently he wanted company aid Worthingtons of Portland. fiscation of license plates o r in “ death,” so after falling to HOURS: 9-8 Weekdays, 10.7 Sundays Other v is ito rs were thetr son vehicle impoundment when d r iv the sand expired, he quietly ers are apprehended d rivin g and fa m ily of Coquille, the Ken- while th e ir licenses are sus crawled up to the fir s t chief neth L L. . Peels. Peels. and “ died” again. Another pended However, tra ffic safety has tim e about a dozen Indians fe ll Half of Oregon s counties have fallen on bad tim es generally to the sand close to the surf, by Jack Zimmerman in this state from a budgetary- where they breathed their last higher tra ffic death to lls this standpoint The Legislature in . . . until a sneaker wave hit year than last year, shoving the 1969 trim m ed the T ra ffic Safety- them. That cold water brought state s death count fo r the firs t six months to 340- - an increase Commission staff from 11 per them back to life enough so of 18 per cent over the same sons to three The total is up to period last year tour currently and the state con they raised to thetr hands and The count also is running Two years ago this column gon s labor force who died tinues to make significant p ro knees and, In a body, moved in suggested driving a m otor ve tra ffic while on the job gress toward compliance with sideways away fro m the surf nearly eight per cent above 1969, the year Oregon recorded Its hicle on Oregon highways Ufa c . . . then lay down and died all Industrial safety experts are federal highway safety stan a ll-tim e high to ll of 713, accord dards the states most hazardous oc over again. quick to point out deaths in tra f ing to the Oregon M otor Vehicles cupation Oregon s ranking in compar fic- - along with homicides heart S till hearing good reports of Division That was when it was revealed attacks and a irc ra ft mishaps H rSt; we w.sn to congratulate F.rst Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grants Pass i son with other states moved good comments about the fire - The counties recording in fo r the firs t time since records o , beaut,ful addition to tne city of Brookings We're proud to share these offices are largely considered out of from the bottom nine in 1970 works display, too. Not just creases so fa r this year are had been kept that tra ffic a c c i their realm of preventability ” to the top 20 in 1971 At the Columbia, Crook, C u rry (five dents in 1969 claimed more lives Most industrial safety programs same time our mileage death fro m the natives, either, but • o iu rb j for the title inctusry redd. than any other single cause from v is ito rs that came fo r the against three fo r 1971), De and laws including the a ll-e n rate (deaths per hundred m il Go knew mat George Washington once pa.d $40.00 to save 377 acres of h,s among Oregon s total work lion m iles of highway travel) celebration, o r stopped fo r It. schutes G illiam Hood River, compassing federal Occupation Jackson, Klamath. Lake. Lane force Workmen s Compensa al Safety and Health Act. relate has declined from 5.5 in 1969 In fact a ll the comments I hear Lincoln Linn Malheur Mult tlon insurance c a rrie rs in the largely to preventing what are to 4.9 last year X ¿ .h , “ h " " “ 40 * ” •> •» >« • about the Jubilee are good. nomah, Polk U m atilla, Wasco state that year paid death claims considered the more normal There is little com fort in such Which Is sure evidence that and Yam hill on a total of 27 persons who causes of occupational fa ta lit statistics however among both chairmen L a rry Means, Frank Four eastern Oregon coun died on highways -- 18 in auto or ies Such death-dealing a cci those who are charged with Amatlsto and Warren Jewell ties Grant, Sherman, Wallowa wrecks and 9 in truck crashes reducing the total carnage and dents might involve a worker s D,d you know that Abraham L.ncoln lost his home through foreclosure of The suggestion was re in fo rc friends and fam ilies of v ic did a rig h t sm art job and de and W heeler-- were death-free a mortgage contact with e le c tric ity ma no knew notm ng about? «-»vie ed when the 1970 fa ta lity count chinerv. a fa ll from a high place tim s T ra ffic Satety C om m is serve some kind of a medal during the firs t half of the year was completed T ra ffic acci . . . o r at least a lot of thanks. or being struck by a falling sion Adm instrator Gil Bellamy W,- don't believe in scare tactics. We adm it that the insurance risk is m inim al If it June tra ffic produced 77 dents definitely were the single object currently is pushing fo r recog 'Course you have to include a deaths the highest to ll fo r that was,, r. the prem iums w o u ld be much higher. The title business is p rim a rily T s e rw c e greatest cause of deaths on the nition of a fourth “ E " in the In light of incidence of tra ffic lot of others who worked on month ever recorded in Oregon industry - created to replace the old abstract job - claiming the lives of 41 traditional form ula fo r tra ffic service w hich was cumbersome and deaths among the state s work the Jubilee, too, 'cause there and 30 more deaths than report generally incom prehensible to the layman. persons' At the same tim e a cci force, there s every reason to safety effectiveness The his was a lo t of effort expended ed fo r June last year Only two dental industrial deaths rose to believe tra ffic safety w ill ach to rica l three are engineering Gold Coast Title has C urry County's most modern and e fficie n t title nlwm fo r the big show, a lot of ef. days went death free during the th e ir highest total in recent ieve new standing among those enforcement and education Bel specifically to the requirem ents of Curry County. P Beared month The division says at least fo rt. histo ry -- 137 And safety offi lamy s fourth is evaluation " who try to prevent such deaths 28 per cent of the June victim s dials readily admitted the high Evaluation of causes of high Gold Coast is also staffed to provide the best in escrow service - and quickly. by education and by lawmakers had seat belts available at the tra ffic to ll was largely respon ben: on legislating safe prac way deaths w ill play a big role tim e of the crash but were not Slble tor the ballooning total in proposals presented to the Lust, but not le a s t a w ord o f advice especially fo r non-res.dents We talk to a number tices using them Both figures that of tra f Gov Tom McCall, alarmed Legislature next year • r n r ^ r e Y h ° in,d 'xafe ,hey pre,er not 10 deal t r o u g h a real estate broker We are The deaths of four bicycle ftc deaths and the industrial Mrs. Luann Soderlund was Evaluation also is expected to by the soaring tw o -a -d a ytra ffic <- ,1 ,.ar w ith out-of-state real estate people and can in many cases sympathize How rid e rs during June brought the total -- declined iast year ac death rate named a T ra ffic produce a significant change in winner of the barbecue g r ill number of b icyclists kille d so ever, our experience w ith the Oregon real estate industry has been „n ifn rm l u cording to s till unpublished current attitudes regarding p re sponsored by the E.S.A. Safety Coordinating Council in p-irncu orly w ith the Southwestern Oregon Board o f Realtors They are an e n h S y V e records of the Accident P re volving state agencies cities ventability of deaths occuringin o rlty during the Jubilee. Sor. far this year to seven compared Les with two at the same tim e iast sponsible and conscientious group Further we have s»™ ' i " e n flre ly re' vention Division of the Work and counties Senate Pres John what is firm ly established as Dahrens won the bicycle given year and 12 fo r the e n tire year «ten’s Compensation Board Burns and House Speaker Robert Oregon s most hazardous occu away by the Kindergarten As. pation But the 28 Oregon workmen who Smith appointed a special legis READ A L L THE ADS sociatlon. died in tra ffic again represented lative interim committee c h a ir the largest single cause of death ed by sen Dick Hoyt of C o r - T h is year -- as total tra ffic va llis to ready proposals to deaths throughout the state ap place before the State Legis SEE OUR A D O N PAGE 147 OF THE NEW SOUTH COAST DIRECTORY YELLOW PAGES pear headed fo r an a ll-tim e high lature when it convenes in Salem --in d u stria l deaths on our high next January CURRY COUNTY'S - HOME O W N ED - TITLE C O M P A N Y ways again appear like ly to earn The firs t . leeting of the in the dubious distinction of being terim committee on June 13 the greatest cause of fatalities attracted some 100 persons among the workforce Current estimates indicate the J ; ' Overall , tra ffic deaths at mid committee w ill have some three year stood at 342 and 18.3 per dozen b ills o r more ready to cent increase in fatalities at introduce when the session be »he same time tn 1971 Motor gins Another couple of dozen NOON TO 11:30 PM Vehicles Division record-keep are expected from other sourc ers report the fatality rate is es G © M T i t i l a C © m p 2 ) r iìy exceeding by eight per cent the Based on recent history, tr a f death pace recorded in 1969 fic safety scored pretty when more m otorists and pedes during the iast session PLANT . cSCHOW - BET-GAR BLDG. - GOLD BEACH, OREGON 97444 - P 0 BOX 505 trians than ever before were Legislature in 1971 About PORT ORFORD killed PHONE (503) 247-7021 ' ' per cent of the record number And in the midst of this sta of b ills introduced related In one ESCROW OZF1CE - FntST FEDERAL BLDG. - . ^ K I N G S . OREGON 97435 tistica l death march are the way or another to k ra ffic safety namas of 18 members of O re PHONr, (303) 469-3161 More than a score achieved OUR tMHOyS FQREsTs jP o r t (O rfo rd A r m s Pacific Northwest Timber Harvest Shows Increase THERE'S SCENERY/ > ^79^ i P lis T h u u b rs d h a e y d s NW A PER Dellenback Reports ! J I to the Editor Í CLAMÒ 2 HBWZINÉ t j INNO 0ÜCE J J 4IMMRÍNIN6- 2 T-TK^UE j \ LKU4IP SOAP J 5 POCr FOOD PANCAKE MIX Library Notes cm Ai COOKING (ML 7 *1 8 *1 1 4 ** 2 SPi 4*49 catsup HOMIMX CRT FOOD « 49i 45+ 10+ I 2 TOMATOES....1?. J CUKES..........2 tfARERIK 79 I H I 3e.n y, State Traffic Deaths Rise New Role Due Highway Deaths As Statewide Carnage Mounts Prize Winners BUFFET f r a y SUNDA Y CRAZY LOUIS' r ■ I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Brail Your Own Steaks, Too! 1__ * A t r n ie t Ì f MW WWWWW ' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ■ PUBLIC N Ô TÏC Ï"
