Medford
Tribune
Second Section
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950
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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-
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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.
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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. He said further raidi
were contemplated in this atate
capital.
O'Neal said he had expected
more prisoners to be seized in
the raid because "there are a lot
of dopers in town."
The two women were Ruby
Ware, 30, and Virginia Ruth
Beth, 22. The men were William
Pardue, 37, and James Murphy,
39. All were Indianapolis resi
dents except for Miss Beth wh
said she was from Fresno, Cal.
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