EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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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.
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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.
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! Educators Plan For , Central Point School
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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
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1948.
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was developed as an outgrowth
of federally supported experi
mental work.
The New Crematorium at
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and Is Open for Public Inspection
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