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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1950)
EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January IS, ItSO - 1 1 a ' , jay fry- aw. 1 yii-fi ""J Weather Sidelights Despite rumors of "gouging" on prices of winter-time driving aids, state police said Saturday that no such cases in the south ern Oregon region have been brought to their attention. This is not true in northern California areas, however, and both police and the United Press have reported stories of charges of from $50 to S100 being made for short towing jobs in the Dunsmuir canyon area. Tire chains have been sold for as much as $40, some reports say, while coffee and other ma terials have been sold at prices increased sometimes by several hundred per cent. A northbound traveler the oth er day warned prospective mo torists south of the practices, and said "It's plain highway rob bery. If you have to travel, buy the things you need before you leave from established dealers." A C-47 air evacuation service plane, bound for Fairfield-Sul-un air field Friday, encountered heavy headwinds so strong were they, in fact, that the plane was averaging only 80 miles an hour ground speed. Arriving over the Klamath Falls airport, the pilot was ad vised the field was closed, and that Medford's field was the only one open north of Red Bluff. The plane had only enough gaso line for another hour and a half of flying. The craft was advised to try the Medford field, even though landing conditions were below the recommended minimum at the time. The plane arrived here. Just as clouds broke suf ficiently to allow it to land, its gasoline almost exhausted. Four patients were aboard, one a litter case, and three of them ambulatory. A Conger Morris ambulance was called lo stand by to care for the litter patient. But after checking conditions to the south, the pilot had the plane refueled, and took off for the Fairficld-Suisun airport. Two R5-foot radio antenna towers at the southern Oregon branch experiment station were blown down at the height of Friday's windstorm, when gusts of up to (18 miles an hour were recorded. One tower fell across a house, without causing serious damage, and the other was blown down until it stood at a crazy angle, station men reported. Two trees in front of St. Pet er's Lutheran church were blown down by wind Friday, and blocked Main street traffic until city crews cut them in sec tions and cleared me street. A huge tree near the old Stage house in Phoenix was another storm victim Friday. The tree broke a power line between Medford and Ashland as it fell, cutting off power service from many areas. Including KYJC which was off the air for about an hour. KMED was also off the air briefly Friday, and publication of The Mail Tribune was delayed for more than an hour when power went off, stopping all electric equipment, including linotype machines. The metal used to make type hardened In the electrically heated pots, and It had to be remelted before the rest of the paper could be put Into type. At least one downtown plate glass window was shattered by gusts of wind Friday, and sev eral others were weakened and pulled loose from their frames, allowing rain to enter show-windows. Radio amateurs of Medford and Ashland have been on the air during the past few evenings, standing by to relay emergency messages when telegraph or tele phone service was unavailable. They also relay storm warning messages, and report on damage in their own communities. Biting cold was noted by Med ford residents for a few hours Saturday morning. But It came with the early morning hours, and not during the night. Dur ing the hours of darkness the minimum was 29. three degrees below freezing, but with day light, the temperature dropped to 26 at 7:30 a.m., and remained there for about two hours. Trouble-shooters and service men of the California-Oregon Power company were kept on the jump Friday, repairing breaks in power lines, and re placing poles which had broken down. Mrs. Rex Vowell, 1223 East 11th street, was startled Friday when she was notified by a neighbor that a bedspread she had put out to dry was dangling on a power line 20 feet above the ground. It had been blown from her clothesline, and was rapidly being blown to shreds. Her husband, armed with a rake with a long wooden handle, succeeded in rescuing the re mains. The clothesline was a to tal loss. COUGAR HUNTING IN SNOW Mrs. John Day (left) and Mrs. Garland Jones survey the prospects for further progress In deep Applcgale snow encount ered in a recent cougar hunt up Star gulch. Hunter and quarry are shown below. Left to right, Lester Lewis, Mrs. Day, Mrs. Jones, Garland Jones. (Photos by John Day). Miniature floods accompanied the high winds, rain and melt ing snow Friday afternoon. The Safeway store on West Main street was on the edge of a small sea of water which could not be accommodated by the storm sewer. The water slowly rose and crept across the sidewalk to ward the door of the store. Har ried clerks frantically moved in quantities of bread boxes, which patrons used as stepping stones. Many sacks of potatoes were hastily moved out of the way of the wet, cold tide. The Medford high school de cided to close early Friday, when electric current went out. Students were dismissed from their classes, but just as they were leaving the door, the lights came back on. "Boy, you should have seen them run." one faculty member said Saturday. Other residents also suffered from high water. Among them were the Sam Colton family, 1819 East Main street. With an electric pump out of service, an emergency call to a downtown firm was made to pump out the cellar lake. At least three persons were Injured Saturday morning when they slipped and fell on packed snow downtown, after a one inch covering fell early in the day. Herman Coppedge, 38, 621 Park street, fell In the down town area, breaking his leg. Mrs. Delia Whitstone, 825 East Ninth street, (suffered a broken arm In a fall on a down town street, as did Mrs. Verla Guilliford, 27 Stewart avenue. All were treated at the Com munity hospital. Perhaps motorists and pedes trians were more cautious with the bad driving conditions Fri day and Saturday. At any rate, very few accidents of any conse quence were reported to state and city police. A few bumped fenders were all that were re ported In Medford, and Ashland police said they had no accident reports at all up to early after noon Saturday. Monv cars, however, were un steady and slid from side to side on the snowpack Saturday morning. Medford had considerably less snow, about an inch, during the dav Saturday than many of its neighboring communities. In Ashland the total pack was about nine inches Saturday afternoon, with light and intermittent flur ries reported throughout the day. Snow was piled up to 7 to 10 Inches in Jacksonville, white roadside snow was as deep as 12 inches at Grants Pass. A super ocean terminal with three decks is being built at Southampton, England, provid ing complete boat, train and air plane connections and reducing the time of landing from hours to minutes. REDUCE YOUR FUEL BILL INCREASE COMFORT Insulate Yourself With JOHF.S MANVILLE ZONOLITE Rock Wool Batts Fill Type Easy Monthly Payments Big Pines Lumber Go. Since 1908 6th & Fir Phone 2-6251 MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. - 10:30 P.M. For Complete Prescription Service DAY and Night Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford's Own Modern Pharmacy Deep Snow Adds Sporting Fillip In Cougar Hunt A couple of feet of snow gives cougar hunting an added sport ing fillip, according to John Day, Medford sportsman and rancher, who, with Mrs. Day, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Jones and Lester Lewis, Central Point hunter, re cently chased one of the big cats over a large portion of the Ap plegate wilds. The party took off at daylight in a four-wheel drive station wagon for the Applegate, pro ceeded up Star gulch and then bucked deep snow to the Tallow box lookout station. Lewis' sev en hounds picked up a cougar trail about half way up Star gulch and were off in full cry. To Thompson Craek The wily cat managed to keep well ahead of the pack, making its way over the top of the mountain and down into the Thompson creek region where it took to a tree. Ordinarily. Day explained, a cougar, once it "trees up," will stay there until tne nunters caicn up with the dogs and then the business of shooting it is more or less routine. This cougar, however, had oth ideas. and leaping down among the dogs, it again set sail for other parts. On and on me wiry animal bounded through the snow, lead ing its pursuers over eight miles of tough terrain, the chase last ing until well after dark. Finally, after the cougar had again been driven into a tree by the hounds, the hunters reached the scene and shot the predator down. The hunting party reached home at 2 a. m. the next day, tired and sleepy but with a fine trophy, the two-year-old cat measuring six feet from tip to tip. Precipitation Short Here In December The onlv outstanding weather feature of the last month of 1949 was the shortage of precipitation, the Medford weather bureau re ported yesterday in its monthly meteorlogical summary. While the shortage of rain or snow fall was discourasing from the standpoint of water storage, It allowed farmers and orchardists to complete late fall work, the weather bureau said. Logging and construction were carried on normally for the sea son while winter sports were hampered bv subnormal snow pack even at the higher eleva tions. Total precipitation for the month was 1.19 inches, a minus 1.69 inches from normal Decem ber rainfall. The most rain fell on December 18 when .38 inch was recorded. The warmest day of the month was December 4 when the ther mometer recorded a balmy 62. The roldest dav was the 31st when the mercury droppe to 22. The minimum temperaTure readings fell below the freezing point on 20 days during the month. You can simplify wall wash ing by applying a cornstarch sol ution about the consistency of thin cream to the ceiling or wall surfaces of recently painted or washed walls. ! Educators Plan For , Central Point School ! 1 Teachers' Institute Grants Pass, Jan. 14 Top ed ucators of four southern Oregon counties met here Thursday to lay preliminary plans for the an nual teachers' Institute that will be held in Grants Pass October 9 and 10. The fall conference of teach ers and school administrators is held each year for round-table discussions of teaching problems and workshop sessions in numer ous teaching fields. Educators from Lake, Klamath, Jackson and Josephine counties will at tend. Those at the Thursday meet ing in Grants Pass included Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college: County Superintendents Carol Howe of Klamath county, C. R. Bowman, Jackson, and Lawrence Moffett, Josephine. City school superin tendents who attended were Marion Winslow. Grants Pass; E. H. Hcdrick, Medford, and Le land Linn, Ashland. The Kosl river dam to be erected in eastern Nepal will be between 750 and 800 feet high. That is higher than the Hoover dam on the Colorado river. Plans Varied Program Central, Point, Jan. 14 Upper : grade students at Central Point will give a varied program at i the high school gymnasium on i Tuesday, January 17, at 7:30 ; p. m. ' Principal C. A. Mever said the evening will commence with a three-act puppet show, "An Eve ning In Mother Goose Land," a comedy based on the troubles of the old woman who lived In a shoe. It will be presented by seventh graders. Eighth grade pupils will per form in a one-act comedy, "What a Day." Six girls will give a tumbling exhibition and the jun ior high mixed chorus will sing three numbers. 1 There will be a small admis sion charge and proceeds will be used for expanding the record library. I PROBLEM SOLVED Mlnnnnnnlic (IIP) Senator Hll- hpi Hnmiihrev ID.. Minn.), tells tuhnt hn Hiri In meet t)lf Droblem of New York City's water short age. He left wasmngion o ; dress a science meeting in the ; big town. 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