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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, December 5, 1954 Copco Oispatching Office Moves lack to B3W 27 Years toy Unit at Substation On Foothills Road; In System's Center Office at Fall Creek, Calif., Since 1927 By HARRY NORDWICK Man Tribune Staff Writer After an absence of 27 years, the central dispatching office for California-Oregon Power Corn panel's entire system has return ' eid to Medford. In 1922, the load dispatcher's ' office was located on South Riv erside ave., adjacent to the pres ent Medford Tire Service Inc. It moved from there to Fall Creek, Calif., in 1927. At that time, the major portion of the company's generation was locat ed there, which was near the newly-constructed hydroelectric plant on the Klamath river at Copco, Calif. Building Completed Construction of a new building for dispatchers and other produc tion department personnel has recently been completed at Lone Pine and Foothills rds., north east of Medford. according to F. A. Benesh, Medford district manager. The building is located on the substation site which is the principal source of power for the city and greater Medford area. Moving the dispatching center back to Medford has again made the largest city in southern Ore gon the "nerve center" of the utility's operation. The , dispat cher on duty controls about 1,735 miles of transmission lines and 4.288 miles of distribution lines in southern Oregon and northern California. Duties Complex . His duties are complex "and multiple. He designates the load which each generator on the system will carry at all times, and in varying amounts as de manded by blocks of customers. He determines whether the total fJow of river water should be used on a particular day or night or whether some should be stored in a reservoir to be used the next day to meet a peak de mand for electricity. A dispatcher uses the weather for his guide, watching forecasts, for he must be prepared to de liver the greatest amount of pow er in the forenoon of a cold day. Another duty is to monitor the network of high voltage transmission lines, for each like a machine, has its limits, and can carry only the specified current load. When a line breaks down due to a storm or other trouble he arranges for continuation of service by alternate lines, and then follows up by ordering out repair crews and dispatching them to the trouble scene. Such a key position calls for the most direct communication equipment. Included in the large dispatching room are wire lines, radio, and carrier telephones, which operate similarly to a radio system, but instead of feed ing into the air, feeds over the wires of the high voltage trans mission lines, and is taken off as audio at the the point of destina tion. A huge map of the company's entire system is now being erec ted on a curving wall in front of the dispatcher's control panel for ready reference. The operation is system-wide and it must be in constant con tact with all the generating plants and key switching stations vu iiie udiiaiiiissiuii system. 11 is also in contact with dispatchers 1 . : : Tt ; of other companies, such as Pa cific Gas and Electric company at Delta, Calif., and Bonneville Power administration at Alvey and McKinley, Ore. the outer points of the Copco system. Activity Shifted The development of the elec tric plants on the Umpqua river near Toketee Falls, along with the large increase in other "sys tem facilitites in the past few years, has shifted the dispatch ers center of activity here. In addition, the company's high- frequency radio network, sup plementing the telephone sys tems, makes Medford centrally- located and provides for greater stability in communication, with other parts of the system. The move from Fall Creek to a.lcuxiiu imo ui uugiit oia uicii) comprising the dispatching sec tion. They are under the direc tion of G. R. Morningstar. chief dispatcher. Others are Leo L. Taylor, Lester Lingschied, Geo rge R. Kennedy, Don Kenney and Ronald Harper. All of them moved here with their' families from Fall Creek, and Morning star, Taylor, Kennedy and Ling schied a r e constructing new homes. Work Alternates They work on an alternate basis, on duty 24' hours a day in eight-hour shifts. ' Although the primary purpose of the building is to housa the load dispatchers, it provides of fice space for other personnel of the production department. y , ', , " 'Sir Mmzr r NEW CONSTRUCTION Pictured is the new Power company has transferred the company's building, right, and electrical equipment at the ' central dispatching office back to Medford after Lone Pine substation, Lone Pine and Foothills an absence of 27 years, rds. The installation by the California-Oregon n fcll IIH IIJI ffkftf VIEW IN 1944 Shown is the one transformer that existed on the site of the new Lone Pine substation in 1944, Additions since that time have increased the station's capacity from 15,000 to 60,000 kilowatts with seven transformers now in existence. A normal complement includes 11 persons in the office room, engineer's office and dispatcher's room. Ralph McKay, assistant superintendent of production, .is in charge of the station's opera tion. The new building is construc ted of concrete and masonry. It is 64 by 40 feet and the cost, in cluding heating and other utility equipment, will be about $27, 000. The heating and air condi tioning installation operates1 on the "air to air" heat pump prin ciple. It . is a reverse-cycle unit, automatically providing condi tioned air in the building at all times. First of Type The heating unit is the first of its type installed in southern Oregon. Other heat pump instal lations have used water as a medium, but this one uses air from outside the building. Use of the units have proved successful in southern states, and if suc cessful here could reflect a sub stantial saving in operating costs, compared to other arrangements available for heating. The Medford substation has been increased four times during the past 10 years. In 1944, one transformer existed on the spot, with a capacity of 15,000 kilo; watts. It was the single, piece of apparatus at the station. Today there are seven trans formers with a total capacity of 60,000 KW. This amount of elec tricity would supply 600,000 one hundred watt light bulbs with current. Circuit Breakers In addition, four high-voltage oil circuit breakers have been added. These large switches op erate automatically to section alize faulty lines, thereby assur ing a continuous supply of pow er. A new switch wU be added next year to serve the terminal of a new 120,000 volt transmis sion line to be installed from Medford to Grants Pass. Power at the station is now re ceived off 120,000 volt lines which are part of the southern Oregon and northern California power grid. The lines tie directly on either end, into the company's generation plants at Copco on the south and the Prospect and Umpqua plants on the north. Large transformers in the station transform the power from 120, 000 volts to 66,000 volts. This is further stepped-down at sub stations on Biddle rd., South Highway 99 at the fairgrounds, Talent, Ashland, Central Point and other load centers. tAt these points, the power is tiansformed again from 66,000 volts to 4,000 and 12,000 volts. From here, it is transmitted, via pole and wire, and further trans formed in ' voltages ' for users who need much' lower voltages in industrial plants, stores and residences. Tito Says Malenkov Policy less Rigid' 'London (U.R) Jugoslavia President Tito said Saturday that Soviet Premier Georgi Ma lenkov's regime has dropped some of the "rigid policy" of the late Premier Josef Stalin in a change of Russian foreign pol icy that has eased world ten sion. ; "The establishment of a bal ance ,of power in the world" was another factor in easing in ternational tension, Tito said. Tito made his statement in an interview with the "press trust of India" before sailing on the presidential yatchclub for an official visit to India. The interview was distributed through the official Yugoslav news agency Tan jug. jjj ill Church Council Names President; Plans New Building Eoston (U.R) The National Council of Churches wound up a week long general assembly here by inaugurating a Philadel phia minister as its third presi dent and voting to spend $600, 000 to start building a Protestant church'center in New York City. Rev. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia was installed as council president at New Old South Church Friday in a solemn service of worship and dedica tion. Afterward, Rev. Blake ad dressed the 1000 delegates repre senting some 35,000,000 persons of Protestant and other non Catholic, Christian denomina tions. Rev. Blake spoke of the im portance of prayer as "the es sential source" of christian grace and power.- -Prayer Greatest Need "Without the spirit of God, a church or council of churches will be forever impotent," he said. "Do we not need more than anything else,'' he asked, "to enter into the posture of prayer as the only way in which the power of God can transform a council of churches from embar rassment in the face of the world's needs into a renewed discipleship?" . , Other new officers were instal led; including 16 vice-presidents, 125 members of the council's executive staff. The general board voted to in vest up to $600,000 to begin con struction of New York's first united Protestant church center to house the headquarters , of the National Council of the Churches of Christ and national offices of certain major Protestant de nominations. The council's fourth general assembly will be held in 1957 in St. Louis. THIRD TV STATION Portland (U.R) Portland's third television station, KLOR TV, expects to be on the air by early March, Henry A. White, president of Oregon Television, Inc., said Saturday. Court Records POLICE COURT Packer Motor company, parked in sllcy $5 D. B. Hood, "parked in alley, $5. -; DISTRICT COURT Orrin C. Osier, failure to stop at stop sign. $10. , Roger G. Mahan, violation of basic' rule. S7.50. Phillip W. Hawks, failure to signal, $7.50. William A. Henson. inadequate muf fler. S15. . Charles W. Daley, no : clearance lights. $15. Agnes H. Flanagan, failure to stop at stop sign. S10. Ethan . Robinson, overwidth load, $10., ' CIRCUIT COURT Irene Rogers Duke vs. Ellsworth T. Duke, divorce- complaint. Ieona Peters vs. Billy Peters, di vorce complaint and consent. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Ray Samuel Crawford. ; 64. Fort Jones. Calif., and Benita Elizabeth Currie. 63. Fort Jones. Calif. Folding WHEEL CHARS Open Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.' HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. MAIN PHONE 3-5345 1 Block East of Hawthornt Park Newspaper Editors Rap OSI as Serious Threat to Press Washington U.R) A group of newspaper editors has charged that the government's new Office of Strategic Informa tion represents "the most serious threat to freedom of information that has developed in the Eisen hower administration." Created Nov. 5 The office was created in the Commerce department Nov. 5. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said its purpose is to work out a voluntary program for keeping "unclassified strat egic data" from falling .into the hands of unfriendlly foreign na tions. A report filed with the Am erican Society of Newspaper Editors Friday by J. R. Wig gins, chairman of the society's Freedom of Information commit tee, said the government has no business intervening "in a field of non-classified information where its presence hitherto has not been tolerated even in time of war." Dangerous Plan "No matter what voluntary devices are employed," the com mittee said, "... a proposal un der which . the government is going to 'help' the American press decide what non-classified information it ought to print and what it ought not to print is a species, of censorship of the most offensive and dangerous kind." Gold Hill Gold Hill Mr. and Mrs. ohn Cogswell have returned' from a trip to Washington where they spent Thanksgiving with their daughter, Joanna, son-in-law Sgt. Richard Abbott, USMC, and grand-daughter Debra Joy, at Port Orchard., Sgt. Abbott is sta tioned at Bremerton Navy base until Jan. 23 when he will be discharged. The Cogswells also visited in Seattle with relatives before returning to Gold Hill. Col. and Mrs. Harold E. Ko gahl and their four children, Kristen, Patrick and Michael, twins, and Robert, who have been visiting the past 10 day's at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Kofahl, have Teft for his new assignment at the Pen tagon in Washington. They re cently returned from Saigon, French Indochina, where he headed the military aid advisory group for the USAP for the past 18 months. On their trip back they will stop off . at Menlo Park, Calif., to visit with CoL Kofahl's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs.' J. H. McMasters. They will also see Mrs. Kofahl's moth er, Mrs. J. B. Petersen, in Salt Lake. ' Wilmer Bailey has returned home from Community hospital where he was under medical csre for a virus infection. Mrs. Susie Coy is still confin ed to the hospital and it report ed not much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Burnett, daughter Donna and son Bruce, spent a week in southern Calif ornia where they visited with her niece and family, Mr.' and Mrs. Kenneth Dawson. Before returning home they visited Mexico and came back by way Reno, Nev. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Quinn spent a few days in Salem re cently visiting with his uncle and wife, Mr. and Mrs. George Quinn. Edward M. Tucker, who is with the United States Army, re turned home after serving 18 months in Korea and is at pres ent visiting at the home of his Christmas Christmas Christmas TREES! TREES! TREES! PHOENIX LIONS CLUB Will Again Havt A , , Christmas Tree Lot ORDER YOUR TREE NOW! : FIR OR SILVER TIP TELEPHONE 2-7915 or 3-1412 'i Federal Attorneys Studying Appeal On Anti-Trust Case Chicago - (U.R) Federal at torneys,, who spent 5 .12 years preparing their case against the Du Pont industrial empire only to have it dismissed, debated Saturday whether to take the fight to another court. The biggest civil anti-trust case in. history met defeat Fri day when Federal Judge Walter J. LaBuy ruled the government failed to prove charges of con spiracy, monopoly and restraint of trade against the $5,000,000,- 000, group of Du Pont, Gene ral Motors and U. S. Rubber. Bigness Not Monopoly He thus upheld defense argu ments that "bigness" alone does not mean monopoly. Earl Jinkerson, head of the U.S. Anti-Trust Division here, said the attorney general's office would decide later whether to appeal LaBuy's decision. He planned to forward "proposals or suggestions" on the case to Washington within a week. Meanwhile Crawford H. Green wait, president of the Du Pont Company, Harlow Curtice, president of General Motors, and II. E. Humphreys Jr., president of U. S. Rubber, all issued state ments of gratification over the decision. Stock Up 5 Points Du Pont stock rose five points on the New York Stock Ex change fololwing LaBuy's rul ing. The government had sought to prove charges that: Stock held by Du Pont family members in holding companies was for the purpose of perpetua ting control. Du Pont interests handpicked directors of General Motors. Du Pont participation in Gene ral Motors management amount ed to control and Du Pont tried to force GM to buy its products and those of U.S. Rubber. icials of Three States Give OK to Murder Case Plans Sacramento (U.R) A dele gation of Washington, Oregon and California officials Saturday sought federal court approval of plans to take a confessed mur derer to Oregon to look for the body of his victim. The necessary legal papers ar rived shortly before noon. Offi cials hoped to locate a judge and secure t approval in time to set out this afternoon. Held in Jail The admitted slayer, Robert C. Knowles, Bangor, Me., was held at the county jail here awaiting sentence on federal charges of auto theft. Knowles admitted killing Al bert C. Stuart, Wickenberg, Ariz., fruit worker who has been missing more than a year, but told conflicting stories regarding where he killed Stuart and what he did with the body. Stories Conflict Stuart disappeared from Mo desto, Calif. Knowles first said he killed Stuart in Yakima coun- father and family, Maj. Jim Tucker. He is on a 30-day leave and will spend some of it in California with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Johnson and family spent Thanksgiving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Serr at Eagle Point. A new teacher has been added to the Gold Hill school. She is Mrs. Wilda Franks and lives on Foley lane, Gold Hill. JVIrs. Franks has taken the first grade for the remainder of the year. There are now two first grades and two second grades in .Gold Hill school. Work has begun on the rViristmas nroeram and , it will be presented Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 8 p.rri. in the school gymna sium. , , Basketball .practice started this week and the first game will be Friday, Dec. 10, with Sams Valley and will be played at Gold Hill. OEA To Request $7,000,000 for Equalization of Schools Funds Portland U.R) More than $7,000,000 will be asked of the state Legislature , by the Oregon Education association to, equal ize state payments to school dis tricts. That was decided Friday at a meeting of the policy-making repfesentative council of the teacher's association here. Backs Equalization The council also recommend ed that OEA support a plan to distribute the state basic school support fund in order to "re store the equalization features" of the fund. Request for the $7,000,000 in equalization mon Beekeepers End 1954 Conclave; Newberg Man Named President The Oregon State Beekeepers association adjourned its two day 35th annual convention here yesterday after picking Corvallis as tentative 1955 meeting site and after tabling until next year a proposal to form a honey producers com modity commission in Oregon. Association members on Fri day reelected J. W. Wright, Newberg, as president. They also named Herman Larson, June tion City, vice-president, and re tained Oliver W. Petty, Albany, as secretary-treasurer. About 65 men and women registered at the convention. Sessions were at the Medford hotel. Finances Problem John F. Erickson, publicity man and out-going vice-presi dent of the association, said that the commission matter was tab led because it was felt that the industry could not afford to fi nance it. The commodity organ ization could be set up under an enabling act passed at .the last session of the state legis lature. v - The . Beekeepers Saturday heard talks by Dr. William P. Stephen, Oregon state college apiculturalist; Dr. Paul Richter, head of the college's entomology department, and Rex Warren, state field crops extension spec ialist. A. Burr Black, state apiary inspector! also reported on his work. Stephen told the group that the practice of burning bees and hives and burying the material should be continued to destroy disease bacteria. He said that chemicals used to fight bee dis eases so far are preventative and not curative. ty, Wash., and then threw him in the river. Later he said he buried Stuart in Oregon and promised to show officers where. Meantime, Paul Sandman, Pa lermo, Calif., was held as a ma terial witness. He was believed to have been a hitchhiker in an auto stolen from Stuart. ACCIDENT REPORTS Salem (U.R) - Secretarv of State Earl T. Newbrv Saturdav urged motorists to report, imme diately any traffic accidents that may occur in Oregon on S-D dav Dec. 15. so that Oreeon's record in the allout safe-driving effort can te promtly compiled. IT'S f DM To I Ask Your Favorite Restaurant Yes, iVi ALWAYS FUN to dine out . . . . and when you' consider 'the time spent in preparing meals, the foods you buy and fuel used iii cooking, it doesn't cost much mora ' if any. Give Mom a rest OFTEN ... dine out TONIGHT and be sure to enjoy plenty of i OGCX : The Pick-Up That Lets You Down" -AT NO EXTRA COST Holiday Inn Coffee Shop Steak House Cafe Maury's Corner Eaton's Dinner House Trailways Cafe - Hotel Medford Lulu's Cafe El Rogue Cafe Red Streak Cafe Rogue Valley Country Club Busy Bee Cafe ; Other restaurants or cafes wishing to cooperate and be included on our future ads Call Med ford 2-8212. Ad paid by Milk Producers League and Jackson County Pomona Grange. ey was presented to the council by Clarence Hines of Eugene, who headed the OEA committee on school finance and state school lands. Hines said it would take at least that much to re store the equalization features of the basic school fund. More to Equalization If the Legislature complied with the request, it would de vote more fund money to equali zation, rather than grant-in-aid, delegates explained. The equalization plan pro vides that districts that don't have enough money to meet Warren discussed field seed crops in their role as bee pas turage. Richter talked on spray ing methods, procedures and practices to follow in order not to destroy bees and thereby hurt nollinization. On Friday Dr. Stephen took nledses of honey from bee keepers for use in research on the treatment of arthritis and muscle stiffening diseases, with comb honey. Re reported on research in pollinization of al falfa and pears in. the Rogue river valley. The apiculturalist said studies seem to show high er concentrations of bees means better sets of fruit. More re search is planned at blossom time next spring, he indicated, A full Teport on his work isj ex pected in about one year. J. Oren Kane, Banks, also on Friday discussed beekeeper-producer relations in the Willam ette valley. : Banquet Speaktr . The Rev. Ernest Jackson, Ashland Catholic pastor, talked at the Friday night banquet His subject was the history and significance of the use of bees wax candles in religious ser vices. Members left up to the exec utive committee the setting of the exact date for the 1955 con vention. - DAIRYMEN Have you tried . . KOW KANDY Crown's 14 Still F.O.B.' $2.45 Per YOU BE THE JUDGE $5850 WHY PAY MORE? Pacific Feed & Seed Go. 4TH and FIR Never Groceteria Hotel Jackson , Brown's Cafe Wimer Cafe Whistle Stop Cafe Big Y Super Market Kim's Restaurant ; Top Notch Cafe Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop Al White's Rogue Restaurant state standards in educating their students can get added funds, even though they already they already get grants-in-aid. The council went on record . opposing use of school money for driver-training courses. Watkins Predicts No Permanent Split In Ranks of GOP Washington U.R Sen- Arthur V. Watkins said Saturday -he expects no "permanent" party split in Republican ranks as a result of Senate action to condemn the conduct of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The Utah Republican, who headed the special Senate com mittee which recommended cen sure action - against McCarthy, said "all the men are good enough Republicans to go along with a decision by the whole Senate." Discount Division "I don't expect any perma nent split of any harmful na ture," Watkins said. Republi cans split 22-22 on the censure question with so-called Eisen hower Republicans generally favoring condemnation and the old Taf t wing opposing it. - Sen. Milton -Young (R-ND), a McCarthy supporter and .secre tary of the Republican confer ence which includes all GOP senators, said the party is split "to some extent" as a result of the McCarthy action. . ' "There's no denying the fact the fight created some rather bitter feeling on the Republi can side which J hope won't be too long healing," Young aid 'tec la MM Dairy Ration Per Ton MEDFORD 80 Lb. Sack PHONE 2-2413 mm tl3 'Ji
