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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1950)
i Forage Crops Here Draw Interest From Expert Agronomists A party of state and federal agronomists is leaving here to day after spending yesterday aft moon and this morning touring the Southern Oregon branch ex periment station and plantings of forage crops and grasses in this area. They are particularly interest ed in the Talent alfalfa devel oped over the past 20 years at the experiment station and plant ings of lotus or birdsfoot trefoil t the C. C. Hoover ranch. Here on Inspection Here for the inspection trip were Harry Schoth, senior agron omist in the division of forage crops and diseases of the United States department of agriculture at Corvallis; Olaf Aamodt, chief of the bureau of forage crops of the department of agriculture at the Beltsville, Md., central ex periment station; M. A. Hein, agronomist in charge of legume crops at Beltsville; O. F. Smith, senior agronomist and nematode specialist for the state of Nevada, and M. W. Peterson, chief of forage investigations at Reno. On their tour of the experi ment station they were accom panied by Harold H. White, agronomist at the station near Talent, Wallace White, of the Josephine County Growers' co operative, and W. B. Tucker, Jackson county agent. Meet with Ranchers Last night the group met with Hoover and Ben Day, Gold Hill rancher, for a discussion of the problems confronting growers of forage and grasses. This morn ing they were touring valley areas devoted to production of ladino clover, Talent alfalfa and lotus. Aamodt was said to have been very pleased with the Tal ent type alfalfa, saying he be lieves it will eventually become the most important type grown in this country. It was his de partment which first gathered the original seed in northern Fiance more than 20 years ago. The group was scheduled to leave here shortly after noon to day after a luncheon at the C.C. Hoover home. GRADUATION ADDRESS County School Superintendent C. R. Bowman tonight will de liver the commencement address for all graduating eighth graders in the Applegate valley at the Upper Applegate Grange hall. 1 O For . . . OUTDOOR LIVING Rogue Lawn Chairs Wire-bound Picket Fencing Red Wood Grape Stakes Red Wood Pickets Garden Trellace Big Pines Lumber Co. SIXTH and FIR STREETS PHONE 2-6251 l if nsn-T-fl 0 M f L Friday. May 28, 1950 CLYDE BEATTY CIRCUS COMING Shown above are two views of Clyde Beatty, famous wild animal trainer, who will bring his circus to Medford for two performances June 4. The shows will be given at the fairgrounds at 2:30 and 8 p.m. This circus was one of two which played here last summer. Poriland Agencies Map Plans To Handle Duties In Event Of Floods Portland, Ore.. May 26 (U.R) Law enforcement agencies, relief organizations, and the corps of ; engineers today were mapping out a 12-point master plan that j would outline their duties dur I ing next month's expected floods i in the lower Columbia river ' basin. i The plan generally compared 1 with others in northwest areas ! susceptible to flooding. Chief point in the plan called for pre paredness plus relief to flood refugees. - Police Leaders Multnomah county police, un der Capt. Merle Tillman, are to be the leaders during the critical flood period. The 12 points of the program are: 1. Flood disaster work will be headquartered in the sheriff's ra dio dispatching room. 2. Owners of small craft will be called in by Parkrose Fire Chief Paul Jarrett to inspect dikes and rescue residents of flooded areas. 3. If a dike breaks, Parkrose high school will be headquarters for the Red Cross where evacu tion problems, food and clothing will be handled. 4. Both the Red Cross and the Salvation Army will take care New York Television School Draws Cordon! Passengers Tell of Horror As Fire Sweeps Street Car MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE HVI AI Cordon, commercial man ager of radio station KYJC, said today he will leave soon Jor new York, where lie will take courses at the Television Workshop in production, directing and writing television programs. Today was his last day of work at the Medford station, and he leaves tomorrow for Roseburg, his former home, and from there will go east in a few days. He formerly was connected with ra dio station KRNR in Roseburg, and with the state police. He served as a captain in the air force during the war. His successor as commercial manager here will be announced shortly, according to James Dun levy, manager of the station. FOR PLEASURE ONLY Detroit U.R) Shuffle boards must measure at least 12 feet in length, the Detroit com mon council ruled. The council passed an ordinance controlling their length after police com plained that shorter boards are used as gambling devices in some taverns. of feeding and clothing refugees, while city, county and state med ical officers will handle auxili ary medical problems. Housing for Refugees 5. Refugees will be housed im mediately in the Whittaker and Woodland grade schools. 6. Reserve sheriff's units oper ating from Whittaker school will work with county and city police in traffic control and rescue work. 7. During possible mass evacu ation attempts, traffic lights will be coordinated to allow maxi mum evacuation speed. 8. Sightseers will be barred from flood areas and passes will be issued only to persons hav ing businesses in the flooded or threatened areas. To Splice Radio Systems 9. In the event of a dike break, city and county radio systems will be spliced together white Columbia river fishermen will sail through the breaks to pick up stranded residents. . 10. Aerial observation of dikes and stranded residents will be performed by the sheriff's re serve aerial squadron. 11. Coast guard boats will pa trol slough and river dikes in search for weak spots. 12. Flooded residents may ap ply for certification for rental of housing from the Portland hous ing authority. Chicago. May 26 (U.R) Sur vivors told today of the stark horror which swept passengers as balls of fir rolled tnrougn crowded street car which struck a gasoline truck. Arelene Franzen, 18, said: "There was a terrible crash. Then flames poured in on us from the front of the car and rolled like balls of fire to the back. Then the fire was everywhere." Miss Franzen was riding with a friend. Carolyn Rudenga, 18. Everybody Screamed "Everybody screamed and started pushing. Carol and I tried to get to the rear away from the fire. "Suddenly I was knocked down and people started to walk on me, but I managed to get up again. People even clawed at the doors but they would not open." Miss Franzen said a woman in front of her shoved so hard, Miss Franzen's arm was pushed through a window. A man out side grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the inferno through the window. "I looked back into the street car and I saw Carol standing in the aisle with her hair all on fire. That was the last I saw of her." Miss Rudenga's body Inter was identified by her brother, Ed ward, 26, at the county morgue. He recognized her from the fill ings in her teeth. Povilas Abelkas, 44, a Lithu anian immigrant who came to the United States last September, told relatives: Crawled Over Bars "There was a sudden jerk and then a crash. Everybody was screaming and howling. ' Abelkas said he broke a win dow and crawled over the bars that blocked the lower half. "I fell out and landed on too of a car. Then I fell off onto the ground." Abelkas broke his nose, his arm was shredded by glass, and he suffered third degree burns. Officials at St. Bernard's hos pital did not expect him to live. Calvin M. Dahl witnessed the crash from his car directly be hind the street car. Street Car Swerved 'I slowed down but the street car didn't. It hit that switch and it swerved. It smacked that truck right in the middle and the truck lumped about five feet. he said. Gasoline sDlllcd out all over. A whole mass of flames, nothing 35 Passengers Hurt As Buses Collide New York, May 26 (U.R) Two crowded buses, one carry ing mostly Belmont race track fans and the other women shop pers, collided head-on yesterday, injuring 35 passengers. The accident occurred when a front spring broke on one of the buses causing it to swerve into the path of the other. Twelve of the injured were treated at hos pitals but only two were hurt seriously. but flames. "People with clothes on fir were crawling out a little win dow. A few got out 10, 15, maybe. One fellow tried to crawl out but he couldn't make it. He just hung there, all on fire." 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