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December Floods Set River Runoff Records, Destroy Much Geologic Survey Equipment
The Christmas Hoods on the
In r t years of record. The Ump
Pacific Coast not only set many
new stream runoff records,
they also destroyed an esti
mated 9600,000 worth of Geologi
cal Survey gaging stations and
cables, the Department of the
Interior reported last week.
Hollis M. Orem, engineer in
charge of the Survey’s Curr nt
Records Center at Pnrtla.xi,
said 88 gaging stations and 43
gaging cables in Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho, and northern
California were demolished.
Built To Withstand Hood»
"These stations had been de
signed to stand the largest
flood for which there was any
knowledge, with a margin of
safety, but the unprecedented
flows in the streams and rivers
of the Northwest wiped them
out,” Orem said.
Gaging stations are struc
tures — made of concrete, wood
or metal — placed alongside
streams to house water-measur
ing devices. Gaging cables ex
tend across the streams.to .car
ry the measuring equipment:
Orem said the floods knocks
ed out 39 stations and 14 cables
in Oregon, five stations in Wash
ington, two in Idaho, and 33
stations and 39 cables in north
ern California. Total cost of re
placing these streamflow meas
uring structures amounts to
1308,000 in Oregon, 9318,000 in
California, 919,500 in Idaho, and
938,700 in Washington. Partial
damage also occurred at many
stations and many others were
put out of action.
High runoff, that portion of
precipitation which appears in
surface stream«, for December
was recorded in all of Oregon,
most of Idaho, southern Wash
ington and in part of the Flat
head-Clark Fork basin of Mon;
tana. The unusually high run
off resulted in monthly mean
streamflow« many times the
seasonal average in the south
ern part of the Pacific North
west.
For example, monthly mean
adjusted flow of the Willamette
River at Albany. Ore. was the
highest for December in 73
years of record.
Near Boise. Idaho, the mean
adjusted flow of the Boise River
was the highest for December
qua and Rogue Rivers in south
ern Oregon recorded their high
est mean flows in 80 years at
Elkton and Raygold, respective
ly, and the Umatilla River near
Umatilla had its highest De
cember flow in 63 years,
The Survey’s report showed
that although the crest stage
of the Willamette River at Port
land was substantially reduced
by operation of flood-control
reservoirs upstream, the Sur
vey’s Water Quality Branch
measured a flow of 391,000 cubic
feet per second on Dec 34
Concert At
SOC Slated
For Sunday
• Wendell Nelson, pianist and
musicologist, will present a con
cert in Churchill auditorium.
Southern Oregon College next
Sunday at 3 p m
Nelson's appeurance on the
campus is sponsored by Student
Music Educators, Chapter 345,
of which Dr Glenn Matthews
is the adviser.
Nelson, a member of the fac
ulty at the University of Cali
fornia at Santa Barbara, has
presented lectures and concerts
in Greece, France, London, and
various other European coun
tries. appearing under the spon
sorship of the Cultural Division
of the United States Embassy
He is widely known as a teach
er, music • critir and as a con
tributor to music magazines
He has been awarded several
music prizes, and is an honor
ary member of two national
American music societies He
has made numerous appearan
ces as guest artist with the
Paganini Quartet.
There will be no admission
fee for Nelson's concert at SOC,
Dr. Matthews said, although an
offering will be taken for the
benefit of the Music Scholar
ship Fund.
C liff Dwellers
The C liff Dwellers w e r e
prehistoric A m e r i c a n In
dians who lived in the south
w e s t e r n part of the U .S.
about 1050 to 1300 and built
their homes and granaries on
cliff ledges, many of which
are atill in evidence in the
western part of the nation
Oregon’s Education Expenses
Up 9.2 Percent Since 1953
The State Board of Education
finds that expenditures for ele
mentary and secondary educa
tion have increased an average
of 9.2 percent each year dur
ing the 10 years from 1953-54
»to 1963-63. The total spent in
1962-63, the most recent year
for which audits have been com
pleted. was 9191.187.574.
During this same period, cur
rent expenditures per pupil in
average d a i l y
membership
have increased from 8299.23 to
9472.58, an increase of 8173.35
per pupil or 57.9 percent. The
average annual increase has
been 5.2 oerceni.
As Staie Board Chairman
Eugene Fisher has stated, a
major reason for the rising
overall cost of Oregon educa
tion is the increasing number
of students to be educated.
"This,” says Chairman Fish
er, "has affected the number
Style Show
Plans Started
Plans for their spring style
show were eyed by Ashland
Soroptimists last
Friday at
their noon luncheon meeting in
the Mark Antony Hotel.
'ITie annual fashion event,
which will be held this year
sometime before Easter, will
be under the chairmanship of
Mrs Louise Walters and Mrs.
Ray Clary
Discussion alt” concerned the
club's spring attendance con
test which is expected to get
under way in February.
Branchfield
Introduces
‘Party’ Bill
Oregon political parties will
no longer have to hold their
state conventions during the
4th of July week if a bill intro
duced today by Rep Edward
Branchfield (R ), Medford, be
comes law.
The bill, which is sim ilar to
one he introduced in the 1963
session (HB 1847), would change
the date of the party conven
tion from the statutory six-day
period starting 45 days after
the primary to a 21-day period
beginning 55 days after the
election.
The present law has been a
thorn in the nesh of both po
litical parties and. according
to Branchfield. he expects bi
partisan support for his meas
ure.
Another Change
Another chunge in Branch-
field's bill would eliminate the
section of the law which per
mits county central commit
tees to levy an assessment on
candidates.
Branchfield con
tends the present law is seldom
used and that the party organ
ization should depend upon vol
untary contributions r a t h e r
than penalizing its candidates.
The proposed measure would
also require at least three votes
for write-in candidates for pre
cinct offices.
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of educators needed The short
age of teachers has, in turn,
resulted in increased average
salaries, as our schools have
tried to attract and hold teach
ing talent. In 1953-54 the aver
age salary of Oregon teachers
and administrators, grades 1-
12, was 94.134; in 1962-63 it was
96,250, an increase of 51.2 per
cent.”
Fisher notes that, despite
this increase, Oregon educa
tors* salaries continue to fall
behind those in the neighbor
ing states of Washington and
California. Washington’s com
parable average salary in 1962-
63 •’„as 96,435; and California’s
was approximately 87.560.
Another factor contributing
to the rising costs of elemen
tary and secondary education
is the depreciation of the dol
lar's purchasing power. Accord
ing to the consumer ’ price in
dex, it took 81.13 to buy in 1963
what one dollar could buy in
1953
The public is demanding ad
ditions to the basic curriculum
so that youngsters learn more
at earlier ages, Fisher said.
Specific programs are also be
ing developed for both the low
achievers, who might formerly
have been school dropouts, and
the academically able and gift
ed. "In addition." he said, “ ef
forts to reduce dropouts have
called attention to the need for
expanded vocational education
programs.”
"These many new education
al programs require special
facilities, which often raise
building costs. They are justi
fied by the resulting improve
ments in the learning situation.
Schools are doing a better job
of educating our youngsters."
M le n b o c k Tells
SokmsOf
Jacksonville Area
OF ALL KINDS
Over 40 Years Experience
X Road
Projecting the rating curve up
ward to the Christmas day peak
of 39.8 feet would indicate a
flow of about 440,000 cubic feet
per second at Portland at the
height of the flood.
Rain Increased 300 Percent
A report by the U S Weather
Bureau's River Forecast Cen
ter illustrated the unusual in
tensity of the precipitation
which fell over the Northwest
in December For the month,
precipitation was 300 percent or
more of average southeast of
a line extending from Brook
ings, Ore through Yakma and
Rep. John R. Deilenback,
speaking under the order of
business "announcements.” to
day
addressed the Oregon
House of Representatives tell
ing them of the events surround
ing the opening of the recon
structed United States Hotel
last weekend in Jacksonville.
Deilenback commented that
Jackson County, and Jackson
ville in particular, is one of the
most historic portions of the
state, and is an "important
link with the past.” He spoke
of the discovery of gold in Rich
Gulch in 1851, and the arrival
of C.C. Beekman in 1853. The
anecdote which is so well known
to many in Jackson County was
related by the speaker—that of
the entertainment of President
Hayes in the U.S. Hotel who,
when presented with a bill in
excess of 8100, commented, " I
only wanted to stay in your
hotel—not to buy it!”
Deilenback told the assembly
that there are plans underway
for the restoration of 44 build
ings in the core area of Jack
sonville, and great hopes are
held by those interested in the
eventual complete restoration
of this delightful frontier town.
The speaker concluded his
remarks by saying. "1 invite
all of you to visit this land of
the Shakespearean
Festival,
this and of the Britt Music Fes
tival, and see for yourselves
the things which are taking
place in Jacksonville."
Outer Mongolia, landlocked
in the heart of Asia, has gone
in for commercial fishing, .ex
porting Whitefish and other
catch taken from its rivers
and lakes.
Spokane,
Mont.
Wash,
to
Kalispell,
At several stations in the
Deschutes Basin of central Ore
gon and the Big Wood Basin
of Idaho there was more pre
cipitation in December than the
entire annual amounts in some
dry years.
Monthly mean flow of the
Columbia River at The Dalles
was 163 percent of the Decem
ber average in the 15-year base
period (1948-63) after adjusting
for aggregate storage release
during the month from nine
major power reservors and
for storage gain in Lake Chin
ook.
Computed mean How of the
Columbia at the mouth was 196
percent of the 15-year average
after adjusting for reservoir
storage changes
Water Storage Up
December - end storage in
nine major power reservoirs of
the Columbia system was 1,-
393,000 acre-feet more than last
year, and about 2,143,000 acre-
feet more than the seasonal
average in the 10-year period
(1954-63)
In 25 large irrigation reser-
““ CLASSIFIED ADS}3'" ’
voirs, storage at the end of De
cember was about 1,498,000
acre-feet more than last year
and about 2,078.000 acre-feet
above the seasonal average in
the 10-year period December-
end ground - water levels were
a little higher than average for
the Pacific Northwest as a
whole Soil moisture was high
at the end of the month.
In January, according to the
U S. Weather Bureau, the mean
adjusted runoff of the Colum
bia River at The Dalles is ex
pected to be about 155 percent
of the 15-year January average
Able, Gifted
Lithia Park Camping Proposal
Program
Rejected By Park Commission
rilities in the park has indi
Begins At SOC There will be no tent or out cated
the urgent need for de
Fifty-nine students at Ashland
High School will participate in
this year's Jackson County
Able and Gifted program to be
gin at Southern Oregon College
Saturday.
Approximately 230 students
in the county will take part in
the eight - week program, now
in its third year of operation.
Students will attend one of sev
eral college • level classes,
taught
by
SOC professors.
Classes, to be held from 9 a.m.
to noon on Saturdays, will in
clude
biology,
mathematics,
creative writing, world liters
ture, art, and economics.
59 to Participate
Sixty Ashland High School stu
dents were originally selected
to participate in the program,
but one student had to drop
out because of Saturday morn
ing conflicts.
Gaylord Smith, principal of
Ashland High School, said he
thought the program is “ very
worthwhile." He said he was
pleased with the results from
previous years and that unfav
orable comments about the pro
gram have been at a minimum.
To be selected for the pro
gram students must have an
IQ of 120 or higher, be in the
95th percentile on the compo
site score of the Iowa Test of
Educational Development, and
have a teacher's recommenda
tion.
Foreign
Teachers
Visiting State
Seven elementary teachers
from five countries are visiting
in Oregon during the next four
weeks, until Feb. 12, as parti
cipants in the 1964 Internation
al Teacher Development Pro
gram This program, author
ized by the Fulbright-Hays Act
of 1961, is administered by the
U.S. Office of Education, in co
operation with the Department
of State, and implemented in
Oregon through the State De
partment of Education.
Each visitor will observe
classes and administration in
one school district during Jan
uary. Miss Aida Quiroga, Bo
livia; Panagiotis (Peter) Kos-
toulas and John Zarokostas.
Greece;
Bounchan
Siathone,
Laos; Miss Idalia Mucharraz
and Miss Silvia Quintana. Mex
ico;
and Mrs
Anne Ruth
Mhina, Tanganyika, will stay
in Pendleton, Ontario, Lake Os
wego. Bend, Portland, Corval
lis, and Astoria, respectively.
State Department of Educa
tion staff briefed the seven on
Oregon education after their a r
rival last week from Milwaukie,
Wis., where they spent three
months at the University of
Wisconsin attending classes in
educational areas of particular
interest to them
Gov. Hatfield will meet with
the teachers on Feb. 8. and
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Leon P Minear will
meet with them on Feb 10,
near the conclusion of their
stay.
Nebraska and New Mexico
were selected along with Ore
gon to host the 26 elementary
teachers currently participating
in this phase of the Interna
tional
Teacher
Development
Program
There are more than 100
species in the tree farms of
the Pacific northwest, 23 be
ing of m a j o r commercial
importance.
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» B u s in e s s B u ild in g s
door camping at the Lithia
Auto Court site this summer.
By unanimous vote, the Ash-
and Parks Commission last
night turned down a suggestion
to establish camping in Lithia
Park on a yearly basis until
such time that camping facil
ities could be established some
where else either in or near
Ashland.
Commission Secretary-Treas
urer Archie Fries, Jr., issued
the following policy statement
regarding last night’s decision;
"When Lithia Park was cre
ated, and for many years after-
«• ward, it was adequate to serve
the needs of Ashland and the
surrounding area for park pur
poses and still permit use of
the auto park section for over
night and semi - permanent
camping and residential pur
poses.
Growth Noted
"With the steady growth of
. Ashland and the Rogue Valley
and the rapidly increasing num
ber of tourists, especially in
the last ten years, overcrowd
ing of the picnic and other fa-
6 3 5 0 M c L a u g h lin - C e n t i a l D o in t
"To eliminate conjecture as
to use of the park, the park
commission wishes to make
clear that it does not intend
that any portion of lands dedi
cated for park purposes shall
be developed for any use other
than for public parks and that
overnight camping shall be pro
hibited therin.”
Other Action
In other action, the group
briefly discussed recommenda
tions for next year's budget and
received a storm damage re
port of Lithia Park.
It was also disclosed that
Charlie,
one of
the zoo’s
monkeys, lost a toe by ampu
tation recently after it became
infected.
The commission was told tha'
Charlie "was doing as well a
could be expected.”
$9 Million Slated
For State Schools
This Fiscal Year
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today that the administration's
education program which he is
sponsoring in the Senate would
bring about 99,036,748 to Ore
gon schools per fiscal year. The
nation • wide expenditure the
first year will be 91.225 billion.
Nearly 97 million of this will
go into schools faced with edu
cating the children of very low
income families in an effort to
upgrade their education and
lift them out of a recurring fam
ily pattern of poverty.
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funds will provide 81,069,776 for
supplementary education cen
ters and services, 9980,782 for
school library materials, and
9133,013 to strengthen the State
Department of Education.
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