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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950 Pages 1-6 ir 1 WARM WELCOME Reminiscent of wartime retuuaUm heroee, this group of fighter pilots is greeted at Alameda Naval Air Station, Calif., by their wives and children. The Navy men flew in from their carrier, the USS Boxer, when it was 300 miles off the Golden Gate. They had been on a 33,000-mile tour of duty with (be Seventh Fleet In the Far East for the last six months. Samuel Boardman Credited for Oregon's Fine System of Parks By Lorry I. Lokey United Press Correspondent Salem. Ore.. June 16 (U.R) Samuel H. Boardman, state parks superintendent, will retire July 1 at the age of 75, but he leaves behind a string of state parks and leased park lands that cover 66.000 acres in 181 sites. When Boardman stepped into his present job in 1929, Oregon had 46 parks totaling only 5,070 acres, but many of them were small plots of land adjacent to highways. Today Oregon is years ahead of California and Washington in state parks development. May Be Consultant There is always the possibil ity that the state highway com mission will retain Boardman as a consultant after the July 1 date, but commission officials say that in all probability C. H. Armstrong, park engineer, will be the man to step into Board man's position. Armstrong be came a park engineer more than two years ago in order to learn the ropes about the superintend ent's job. When the highway commission meets July 10, it is expected to consider the matter of Board man's successor as well as whether the retiring superin tendent will remain as a 600-hours-a-fiscal-year consultant. Boardman's work in Oregon dates back to 1904 when he homesteaded in eastern Oregon at the now-existing town of Eoardman. named in his honor, ack of Trees Inspired Lack of trees in that section of the state inspired him to win highway authorities' approval to plant suitable trees along por tions of the Columbia river high way and the Old Oregon Trail along the non-forested right of way from The Dalles to the Idaho line. His work for the highway de partment as superintendent of state parks started in 1929, al though he had been a depart ment employee since 1919. It was in 1929 that Gov. I. L. Pat terson created a state parks com mission and that Boardman be came superintendent. Today the park business, as far as Boardman is concerned, means preserving what nature gave us and preventing commer cialism from ruining the parks' natural beauty. An average of 100 employees work under Boardman in parks and offices. The smallest park covers only 25 square feet in Clarkamas county Barlow mon ument. In Marion county the lareest park in the state, Silver Falls, covers 7.957 acres, and Boardman said he hoped to sec still more land added to it. Crown Point F .iular Most popular park last year was Crown Point on the old Columbia River highway where an estimated 411.600 persons vis ited. For the entire slate park s.v. m, an estimated 2,840,750 persons were counted. And here are a few more fig ures. The parks department es- NEW"T.S0N tdiae-uenvery Rake 0V r. r,rtw o afvm yw art Ami True sideward raiting action gentle six-har offnet reel Tractor-mountedtranaported Finuer Tip Controlled Power take-off driven Y TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT SERVICE Oppo.it. Bi( V Tahli Reck Re. a. r, HF W-117 D.m.nilraHan a tan W Ow. farm I jLTjS timated that total state highway expenditures for all purposes on parks trom 1917 to June 30. 1949. was $2,274,344.86. Park acquisition expenditures topped the expense account with S903, 660. The state's parks system is di vided into four geographical areas: Oregon shore and coast range, Columbia River highway. Central and Eastern Oregon, and the Willamette valley. The parks fall into a number of descriptive classifications, such as Seacoast, River and Waterfall, Mountain and Headland, Overlook and Crest, Timbered Waysides, and Sand Dunes. Coast Area Includes All but 30 miles of Oregon's coast belongs to the state park system, which is a sub-division of the state highway department. More than 40 state parks fall into the shore-coast range area. An example is Golden and Silver Falls park on the Glen and Sil ver creeks in the coast range hills, about 25 miles from Coos Bay. Both falls are more than 200 feet high. On the Columbia River high way route, Bradley park on Clatsop crest. 25 miles east of Astoria and 700 feet above the wide Columbia river drew more than 105.000 visitors last year. In central and eastern Oregon, where much of the land is a plateau higher than 2.500 feet, the state has set aside more than 25 parks. On the east margin of Bend, Pilot Butte park rises 500 feet above the central Oregon plateau to an altitude of 4.139 feet. Motorists can drive right to the top of the butte. And in the Willamette valley, 187,472 persons visited Silver Creek falls last year 26 miles from Salem. The 14 waterfalls drop from 27 to 177 feet, and five of them are more than 100 feet. The cream of the parks super intendent's work is to investi gate and acquire for the state land ideally suited for park de velopment. In addition, Board man is responsible for overall park planning, operation and maintenance. He approves in dividual project plans and esti mates, park budgets and annual reports, and recommends new policies, rules, and regulations governing park areas. It's a big job, and Boardman's success at it once was described editorially by the Portland Ore gon Journal when he won the Pugsley bronze medal in 1946 for "A worthy contribution to parks." "Other states have park su perintendents. Oregon has Sam Boardman." Week-End Cruises From Crescent City Reservist Plan A program of week-end cruises from Crescent City is the newest activity planned by the rapidly expanding naval reserve pro gram in the Medford area, re servists were reported today. Lt. Comdr. Rodney Keating, commanding officer of the vol unteer composite unit, reports that he has been informed by 13th naval district headquarters at Seattle that if enough interest is shown, summer cruises from the nearby California port may be organized. Type of ship and duration of each voyage has not yet been clarified. To Tell Details Further details of the program are expected to be explained on Monday at 7:30 p. m. when the electronics company meets at the Federal building. Lt. Ted Pierce, naval reserve procurement offi cer for the district, has an nounced that he will attend the meeting and help complete plans for activation of the organized unit. He will also tell more about the Crescent City cruise proposal. Participation in the cruise pro gram will probably be limited to members of the electronics company, which meets every Monday, the Seabees. who meet every Tuesday, and the volun teer composite unit, which meets on Wednesdays, all at the Fed eral building. Utilities Head Named To Association Board D. O. Hood, Medford, presi dent of Columbia Utilities com pany, returned here "this week from Spokane, Wash., where he attended the annual joint con vention of the Oregon and Wash ington Independent Telephone associations. Hood was appointed to repre sent the Oregon association on the Pacific coast telephone com mittee on intercompany settle ments, and also was named a di rector of the Oregon association. Mrs. Hood accompanied him on the trip north. John H. Dillard, Cave Junc tion, was also named to the board of directors of the asso ciation. Lowell Brown, Silver ton, was elected president. The association passed a reso lution urging outright repeal of the excise taxes on telephone service. Dad line for Sunday ClaMifltd ll at Noon Saturdays. Local Doctors Hear About Progress in Cancer Fight Recent advances in the diag nosis and treatment of cancer were explained to southern Ore gon doctors this week by two of the nation's top authorities in the field. Dr. Randolph H. Hoge, pro- German Relatives Visited on Trip By Medford Man Erich Gedlich, route 3, box 367, returned this week from a 65-day trip to Germany. Ged lich traveled by West Coast air lines and Northwestern airlines to New York, and across the At lantic by Scandinavian airlines. Object of his trip was to visit relatives, and to see the land where he was born and where he lived until 1926, when he left Germany and settled in Med ford. He now resides with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Gedlich. To Berlin After arriving in Hamburg. Gedlich went to Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany near the Danish bor der. An aunt of his resides there. Gedlich then traveled to Ber lin, where he spent 14 days. His brother, sister and uncle live in Berlin, in the Russian zone, and came to west Berlin to see him, since he could not obtain per mission to enter the eastern sec tor of the city. His brother is a tailor, Gedlich said, and would not say much about life in the Russian sector, although Gedlich gained the impression that liv ing conditions were not of the best, and that food rations were not substantial. Gedlich left Berlin on May 16, some 12 days before the commu nist youth demonstration. He re turned briefly to Rendsburg. and then went to western Germany for a trip up the Rhine by river steamer. He visited Cologne, Bonn, Bopperd and Koblenz on the Rhine, and Kochem on the Mosel. The trip took approxi mately one week. He again visit ed Rendsburg and Hamburg be fore flying back to this country. Gedlich is a farmer and brick mason by trade. The Grange Central Point Grange Next regular meeting of Cen tral Point Grange will be held Friday, June 23, instead of Friday. June 16, the usual time. The date has been changed be cause of State Grange and other conflicting activities. A special Fathers' Day pro gram is being arranged and it Is hoped for large attendance. Topic of the display table will be Roses by Mrs. Franklin Gebhard. Serving committee will be Mr and Mrs. Arnold Bohncrt, Robert Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Geb hard and son. For Director Medford School Board Leroy C. Jensen, M. D, fo He stands for sound educational practices progressive in the sense of advancement, growth and orocjress in meeting the needs of the child and the community. He believes In solid business principles in our schools and will strive for full cooperation between the public and the teaching profession. Vote Next Monday, June 19, 3 p. m.- 9 p. m. Senior High School Paid Adv. Committee for Jenten lessor of gynecology, and Dr. Arthur B. Gathright, assistant proiessor of medicine, both of the Virginia Medical college. were brought here for a series of lectures by the Oregon State Medical society and the state board of health. Between 25 and 30 doctors from southern Ore gon medical groups attended the local lectures. Treatment Too Late Dr. A. Erin Merkel. president of the Jackson County Medical society, said that the most in teresting point brought out by the two doctors, from the lay man's point of view, was the lact tnat, in spite of the educa tional program of the -National Cancer society, most victims of cancer do not report for treat ment until after the disease has passed into advanced stages. There are four grades of can cer. The two doctors pointed out that when it is caught and treated in the first phase it is almost 100 per cent curable. But the percentage of cure drops to 50 per cent in the second stage. trom then on there are very few cures. Many Delay They said that many of those who do not report for treatment in the first stage have allowed from four to eight months to elapse after they first noted the first symptoms, according to rec ords kept at the Virginia school. Dr. c. C. Carlyle Thompson. director of the preventive med ical service of the state board of health, accompanied the two Virginians to Medford. John Moffat Receives Degree at Ccrf-Tech John Paul Moffat Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Moffat. 34 Berkeley way. Medford. re cently received the degree of bachelor of science in engineer ing from the California Insti tute of Technology, at Pasadena. Moffat is a graduate of Med ford high school, and during his course at CIT majored in me chanical engineering. Trickle of Milk Flows Into Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, June 16 U.R) A thin trickle of milk began to flow Into milk-starved Pittsburgh today after the first break in the city's week-old dairy strike. A spokesman for the striking milkmen reported that a con tract had been signed with a small dairy, the first of 68 Greater Pittsburgh Milk Dealers association members to agree to union terms. Harry A. Tevis, president of Local 205, Milk and Ice Cream Salesmen and Dairy Employees (AFL), said the D and M dairy had agreed to all of the union demands. These included a work week reduction from 48 to 40 hours with no increase in pay, a $13.50 daily guarantee for driver salesmen and improved vacations. Crackdown on Vice Promised by Police Indianapolis, Ind., June 16 (U.R) Police promised a lull fledged crackdown on vice and narcotics nests today after a raid netted two women and two men in an alleged den. Chief of Detective! Jack O'Neal said the raid yesterday broke up "a vicious nest of drug addicts. 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