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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1939. PAGE TWO SNOWCASTS STARTlt 22 Data On Winter Sports Re gions Will Be Published Each Friday For Season. Beginning with the December 22 Issue and continuing each Friday for 18 consecutive weeks thereafter, the Medford Mall Tribune has arranged again to bring its readers the popular reports of snow, road and wea ther conditions at favorite win ter sports areas in the Shasta Cascade Wonderland of south ern Oregon and northern- Cali fornia. The reports will include es sential information obtained each Friday morning at Crater Lake national park, Union Creek, Diamond lake. Lake of the Woods, Mt. Ashland, Siski you summit, Mt. Shasta Sierra Alpine lodge and Mt. Shasta Snowman's hill. Data on snow depth, description of snow for skiing, prevailing weather and road conditions, together with information of tournaments, spe cial events, etc., will be assem bled for each sports area. In formation on summer home con ditions at Diamond lake and Lake of the Woods resorts after major winter storms will be Included. The organizations cooperating with the Mail Tribune, under the coordination of the division of irrigation, soil conservation service, are the Crater Lake na tional park, Rogue River, Ump qua and Shasta national forests, California Oregon Power com pany and Oregon state highway commission. The U. S. weather bureau will furnish a forecast of week-end weather. The following descriptive terminology will be used: Packed snow Is settled snow which will support the weight of skiers. Normal packed snow is snow which will completely support skiers on the surface, present ing a hard unbreakable surface to skis. Soft snow Is unpacked snow Into which skiers will sink more than four inchest further classi fication as to consistency should Include: Powder, meaning light, fluffy snow; medium, meaning normal soft snow; and wei, meaning heavy, wet snow. Variable snow Is snow which, as Implied, may be both soft nd packed. Wind often packs now In spots, while other por tions of the surface are soft. Granular snow Is old, wet now, In appearance and con sistency much like the wet rock salt used to pack ice cream. Usually found only in the spring and at high altitudes. Breakable crust Is snow with a surface which breaks under the weight of the skier. It Is treacherous and skiers will be warned In advance of its exist ence In any area on a particular week-end. Mixup ',ppk utmmi .... m.:X . itt.it-ir.iMt RIGHT FOR TAX ON (MO-SI II- WW"'' I r ft ? - l4V Ml & In a St. Louis divorce case, Elmer de- Brunner testified that Maurice Hamilton (top), an electrical worker, had offered him $100, an automobilo and a refrigerator if DeBrunner would take Hamilton's wife (lower). Both Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton sought a decree. tinucd to await quiet weather at the Columbia river bar. The storm dumped an inch of rain in 24 hours on at least five cities, storm warnings remained up along the coast and a renew al of the blow was expected. Eleven ships rode at anchor, awaiting an opportunity to cross the bar. Falls City, in Polk county, sloshed with 4.28 Inches of rain in 24 hours. Newport got 2.79 inches, Brookings 1.43 and Hood River 1.32. Portland's share was 1.37 inches. Major highways were in good condition, the Oregon state high way association said. High wa ter slowed traffic on some coast al secondary roads. Washington, Dec. 18. VP) Senator Charles McNary (It- Ore.) hinted today that Oregon might attempt to win congres sional approval for taxes on gov ernment property or public lands at the next session. The senator said B. T. Mc- Baln of Portland raised the ques tion in connection with Bonne ville dam on the Columbia river. The senate minority leader had previously said he was studying legislation to give wes tern states the right to tax pub lie lands which return an annual income or crop to the govern ment. McBaln told the senator that Roy E. Cannon, county school superintendent of Multnomah county, in which the dam is lo cated, reported children of Bonneville workers attended county grade schools and the county transported some to nearby high schools and later paid tuition of high school pu pils from Bonneville. The latter payments were made from the county non-high school district taxes. Cannon said the government was contributing nothing toward school support despite the ad dition of children of workers on the huge hydroelectric project, An effort will be made at the next session of congress to have the Tennessee Volley Authority to pay tuxes to counties and states, McBain said he believed. He added he would not be sur prised if "tax minded" Oregon residents did not soon seek simi lar concessions from the federal government, despite an agree ment not to tax government property mode at the time Ore gon was admitted to the union. Portland, Dec. 18. (VP) The Douglas Fir belt Christmas tree harvest each year is a substan tial and "legitimate" forest in dustry, Lyle F. Watts, United States regional forester, said to day. "It helps payrolls and brings some revenue to the owners of cut-over forest lands," Watts commented. He urged the public to cooperate in eliminating waste, additional fire hazards and disregard of silvicultural conditions in cutting young trees. Several million Christmas trees are shipped south and east each year from Oregon and Washington. L 2 DIE IN ALBERTA Orion, Alta., Dec. 18. (JP) Two men and a girl were shot to death near this little south east Alberta farming commun ity last night in what police said was a double slaying and suicide case. The dead: Irene Bogin, 21-year-old daughter of an old-time Orion farmer. Ivin Ridley of Taber, Alta., the girl's companion on an auto mobile drive. Ernest Brodine, 35-year-old Orion district farmer who, ac cording to the girl's family, had called for her after she went out with Ridley. William Echmier, another Or ion district . farmer, told police Ridley, already wounded, bad driven up to his home last night and said: "Irene Bogin Is dead." Echmier said Ridley had told him Brodine had stopped his car about two miles away and shot Ridley and the girl with a high-powered rifle. The girl's body was in Rid ley's car when he arrived at Echmier's home and Ridley died while being taken to the Medi cine Hat hospital. Royal Cana dian Mounted Police later found Brodine's body in an automo bile on a lonely road three miles south of here. He had been shot through the heart and a high powered rifle lay beside him on the seat. Closing time for Too Lata to du ally Ads 1 1:30 p. m. TOTALS 5.46 IN. DAUGHTER SLAYER GIVEN LIFE. TERM Seattle, Dec. 18. tVP) Super ior Judge Donald A. McDonald sentenced John Frederick Wun ders, 22, to life imprisonment today after denouncing him for the "atrocious" slaying of his 16-month-old daughter, Belle Frances. Wunders made an Impassion ed declaration of his innocence, saying police threats against his wife prompted his confession, later repudated. A Jury con victed him last Sunday of first degree murder for asphyxiating his child by turning on gas Jets in his apartment last Octo ber 17. AND GALE ON COAST ABATE Portlond, Dec. 18. (IP) Roln and gales which had battered Oregon since Wednesday eased today although shipping con- Ushered In with a gusty . i-J squall, rain fell intermittently all day yesterday and .42 of an Inch was measured by the U. S weather bureau up to 3 p. m. More rain was predicted for to doy and probably tomorrow. 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