MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1939.
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SNOWCASTS STARTlt
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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.
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RIGHT FOR TAX ON
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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.
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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
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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.
The rainfall yesterday
brought the precipitation for
the month to 5.46 Inches, an ex
cess above normal of 3.82
Inches. Rainfall for the season
stood at 7.92 inches at 5 p. m.
yesterday, an excess of 1.90
inches.
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