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TEMPORARY DROUGHT Bureau of Reclamation of
ficials are convinced that drought at Lake Mead, the South
west s largest water and power storage reservoir, is
temporary condition and that lake will fill up again. Water
Is -7j-6 feet below normal, or the height of a 10-story
building below the spillway shown to the right of the
water outlet tower, the lowest level since it was bottled up
behind Hoover Dam.
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By UNITED PRESS
High winds and dry soil were
combined in Eastern Oregon and
eastern Washington the latter
part of this week, causing what
some called the most severe dust
storms in this wheat raising area
since the drouth of the early
1930s.
Winter Wheat Loit
Crop authorities estimate the
easterly winds have blown out!
iy severe
Crop loss IKIeavy
Sunday. March 27. 1953
more than 5000 acres of winter
wheat and barley in Morrow,
Gilliam and Umatilla counties in
Oregon. The area will have to
be reseeded.
No estimates of acreage were
available for Washington wheat
counties, but wind damage is
widespread, according to the
North Pacific Grain Growers as
sociation. Morrow County Agent Nels
Irrigation District
Managers Urging Use
Of Runoff Water Now
Managers of the Medford and per cent of capacity. Filling up
BY WILLIAM WARREN
United Press Correspondent
Salem U.R) Carl Robinson,
ice-president of Barrington As
sociates of New York, has in
formed Gov. Paul L. Patterson
and the legislators that failure of
his Oregon staff to make a cross-
analysis of data gathered in the
Barrington study was responsi
ble for inconsistencies and errors
in the Barrington report.
Robinson agreed to bring a
man from New York to com
plete the report on Oregon's sal
ary structure for its state em
ployees at no further expense to
the state. Robinson estimated it
would take about four weeks to
complete the report, with two
key civil service commission
staff members aiding in the final
work.
Senate President Elmo E.
Smith (R-John Day) made it
clear he does not think the Bar
rington report can be adopted
in the present session of the Leg
islature, although much data in
the report will prove valuable
to both the civil service commis
sion and the ways and means
subcommittee on salaries. He
said:
Overall Plan Indicated
. "I do believe that the emer
gency board should be given
some money to enable the Civil
Service Commission to correct
certain inequities that exist at
present in the state's salary
schedules."
It was indicated by the ways
ands means subcommittee on sal
aries that an overall salary plan
for state employees, taking into
consideration data on the Bar
rington report and suggestions
by unclassified agencies includ
ing higher education would be
recommended to the Legislature.
The subcommittee pointed out
in a statement that the report
made by Barrington Associates
of New York which made an ex
tended study of Oregon's salary
struction for its state employees,
has been received back from the
review boards and will serve to
provide information that may be
applicable to the overall state
caiarv nroeram.
Carl Robinson, vice-president
of Barrington Associations who
came here this week to explain
inconsistencies and apparent er
rors in the report released last
month, said a recheck of the
final evaluation steps is desir
able before the report could be
considered complete.
The report cost the state $50,-
000.
Statement Issued
The heads of several depart
ments have told review boards
and the legislators that under
the salary proposal in the Bar-r-incrtnn
report they couldn't
keep their key personnel. Wide
spread objections were voicea 10
the report presented by Donald
Spanier, who was field man for
Barrington Associates making
the study here.
The subcommittee headed by
Rep. Orval Eaton (R-Astoria)
in a statement:
"In view of the time remain-
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mg before the Legislature ad
journs, it has been decided to go
ahead with the development of a
salary schedule by regularly es
tablished legislative procedure
which will have as its objective
a fair and equitable salary
program for all state employees.
"It is not contemplated that
the reorganization of the civil
service department as recom
mended by the report will be
considered at this time, but the
recommended correlation be
tween jobs of classified and un
classified categories will be at
tempted. The Barrington people will
continue their work until com
pleted and turn it over to the
ways and means committee."
Army Sets Transfer
Of Two Divisions
Washington (U.R) The Army
announced Saturday that two
divisions, one airborne and one
armored, will go to Europe next
year to replace two divisions
now in Germany.
The movement will mark the
first overseas deployment from
the United States of an airborne
division since World War II.
The 11th Airborne Division,
Ft. Campbell, Ky., will replace
the Fifth Infantry Division at
Augsburg, Germany, in June
1956. The Third Armored Divi
sion, Ft. Knox, Ky., will replace
a division not yet named, start
ing in May, 1956.
The divisions are being ro
tated under the Army's Opera
tion Gyroscope, the new system
for exchanging home-based divi
sions with overseas divisions
instead of rotating individual
soldiers.
The Army has previously an
nounced that the 10th Infantry
Division at Ft. Riley, Kans., will
change stations with the First
Infantry Division at Wurzberg,
Germany, nc; July.
When the world's largest pas
senger liner, the Queen Eliza
beth, docks in New York Har
bor she land's as many as 2,000
travelers and their baggage,
gets stem-to-stern cleaning, loads
enough food for 100,000 meals
per round-trip voyage, and em
barks another 2,000 passengers
all within a normal two-day
turnaround.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday.
Talent irrigation districts joined
with the county agent's office
last week to urge orchardists to
take advantage of runoff water
now available in irrigation dit
ches of the area.
It was pointed out that be
cause of the extremely dry win
ter, stored water will not be
available in adequate quanti
ties later in the summer. Run
off or "waste" water is now be
ing picked up and put in dit
ches, and is available to irri
gators. This is not charged
against regular summer quotas
of water for users of the two
districts.
Deep Soils Dry
The county agent's office
pointed out that although many
soils are wet near the surface,
two or three feet down the wat
er content may be as low as 20
Oregon Said Ready
To Use Vaccine in
Balile on Polio
Portland (U.R) Dr. Harold
M. Erickson, state health officer,
said Saturday Oregon is ready
to use the new Salk polio vac
cine if it is licensed by the feda
ral government.
Final Report April 12
Plans are underway to inocula
tion of 84,410 first and second
grade children if nation - wide
evaluation studies prove the se
rum is effective. Final report on
health records of 1,800,000 chil
dren who participated in the
Salk trials throughout the coun
try is expected April 12.
Although only first and sec
ond graders would be eligible
for inoculation at Oregon school
clinics, Dr. Erickson said manu
facturers were expected to sup
ply private physicians with vac
cine to immunize others.
Must Be in School
For inoculation at school clin
ics a child must be enrolled in
either the first or second grades
of a public, private or parochial
school this spring or must have
served as an unvaccinated "con
trol" in the field trials, Dr. Erick
son said. A written request from
parents or guardians will be nec
cessary. Vaccine at school clinics would
be supplied free by the national
polio foundation.
Church Leaders Protest
Crime Fighter's Jailing
New Orleans (U.R) Two
churchmen Saturday protested
the jailing of a crime fighter
for refusing to tell a grand jury
his sources of information used
in investigation of alleged po
lice corruption.
Plans for a "sympathy" dem
onstration gathered after Aaron
Kohn, former FBI agent, began
serving a 10 day sentence as
the only person jailed in the
investigation he himself con
ducted, although a number of
others were indicted.
Canon William S. Turner of
the Trinity Episcopal church
said the jailing of Kohn for re
fusing to jeopardize the lives
of his informants may "serious
ly hamper police investigative
work through out the nation."
BEGINS TODAY
PRE-EASTER MEETING
Speaker
V. E. Butterworth
Professor
San Jose Bible College
Music by
John Heberling
Larry Keen
Bill Heberling
SERVICES - 7:30 P.M.
Daily Except Saturday
Special Youth
Services
6:45 P.M.
CHURCH OF
CHRIST
Third and Oak
Central Point
the soil -now will give a better
water reserve in the soil to help
carry the trees over an antici
pated dry summer, the state
ment said.
Saturated soils also have a
tendency to reduce the extremes
in temperature fluctuations, and
may be expected, to reduce the
amount of orchard heating nec
essary. Sprays Due Soon
The agenfs office also said
that pre-pink sprays for pear
scab control can be expected to
be necessary in about a week,
depending on temperatures.
Only one orchard heating, and
that one limited, has been nec
essary so far this season.
MOONCUSSING .
Provincetown, Miss. (U.R)
"Mooncussing" was once an ac
tive means of livlihood in this
historic Cape Cod town. The
term was given to the practice
of hanging out -false lights on
moonless nights - and thus caus
ing ships to run around on the
beaches around; Provincetown.
The "mooncusser" would then
strip the vessel of whatever
valuables he could find.
Anderson said the county has
had dusty winds every day since
the near-hurricane gale of Feb.
28. Ranchers have been instruc
ted in blow control measures, he
said, and were plowing cross
wind furrows at regular inter
vals. Sid Seale, Gilliam county
rancher said he'd been through
the drouths of 1911 and the early
1930s, but he thought this win
ter was the driest he had seen.
Highway conditions in the
area were hazardous because of
the dust storms.
The easterly winds brought
cold air to western Oregon, pro
viding Portland with an unsea
sonal silver thaw Friday and
Saturday. Some power outages
were caused by ice-laden trees
falling into the lines, and traf
fic on the Columbia River high
way was slow and slippery.
An optimistic note came from
Union county, where heavy snow
storms in the North Powder wa
tershed greatly improved the
farm outlook.
Seattle Area Jolted
By Minor Earthquake
Seattle U.R) A minor earth
quake jolted the Seattle area at
10:56.01 Friday night but there
was no reports of serious dam
age or injuries.
The earthquake was felt in
an area about 60 miles long and
30 miles wide between Everett,
Tacoma, and Snoqualmie and
Seattle.
Prof. Frank Neumann, Uni
versity of Washington seismolo
gist, said he estimated the
epicenter of the quake was some
where near Everett. It registered
an intensity of 6 on a scale of 12
and Neumann said a quake of
that intensity causes only super
ficial damage.
The first pulse lasted for three
minutes but the strongest tremor
lasted about a minute. Callers
reported the quake rattled
dishes and moved furniture and
many sleepers were awakened.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB
Rogue River School
Board Vacancy Not
To Be Filled Soon
Rogue River A successor
to Mrs. Jessie Rae Frantz, chair
man of Rogue River school
board who resigned last week,
probably will not be named
for about four weeks.
In Medford, Alf Mekvold,
county superintendent of
schools, said he will appoint a
successor 30 days after Mrs.
Frantz' resignation became ef
fective, unless a successor is se
lected within the school district
before that time.
R. C. Gail, a member of the
board, indicated that no move
has been taken so far by the
district to select a successor to
Mrs. Frantz. Third member of
the board is Harold Salter.
Cites Disagreement
In her letter of resignation,
Mrs. Frantz declared, "I do not
agree in any way with the hand
ling of matters regarding disci
pline cases which have come be
fore the board this year." Her
letter also took issue with the
board's attitude toward school
administrators, and with hand
ling of the school budget.
It is understood that several
Rogue River teachers have ex
pressed dissatisfaction with the
school's setup and have indicat
ed they will not return next
year. The deadline for teacher
to return signed contract is
April 1.
NEW CLASSES
Starting March 28,
7:00 to 10:00 P.M.
Business Math.
Business English
Spelling and
Vocabulary Building
Robertson School
of Business
40-42 N. Riverside
Medford Phone 3-4264
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