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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Mty 5, 19SS unrvival Town Blast Would Have Killed All Residents -Uithih One Civilization Making Wildlife Conservation Difficult, Important (Editor's note: This U an other in a series of articles published during National Conservation Weak. May 1 to 7. covering various phases of conservation of Oregon's nat ural resources.) By KENNETH G. DENMAN State Game Commissioner Statistics show that about one out of every four residents of Oregon fish or hunt. This fact, when viewed in the light of our rapidly growing population and the gradual diminishing of wild life habitat, makes the problem of wildlife conservation an ever more difficult one. In other words, the march of civilization is reducing natures capacity to produce fish and game. We can see this all around us in the building of dams, drain ing of marshes, reduction of stream flows by irrigation and cutting of timber, intensive tanning leaving little escape cover, pollution by sewage and other wastes in many of our waters, destruction of spawning beds by removal and disturbing of gravel in the stream beds and many other things which follow increases in population and de velopment of our country. Greater Demands At the same time, due to tre mendous population increases, greater and greater demands are . being made on fish and game. In 1953 the total hunting and fish ing license sales in Oregon amounted to 721,874 licenses of all kind3, about evenly divided between hunting ' and fishing licenses. The responsibility for resolv ing this almost impossible con flict is vested in the Game Com mission. Unfortunately, many people expect miracles to be per formed and think we can turn out fish and game as we do articles of trade. Man cannot completely take the place of na ture in this field, although, by fixing seasons, setting bag lim its, propogating fish and game for release, mitigating civiliza tion's damage to habitat, acquir ing and setting aside game areas and many other methods and procedures, the Commission en deavors to conserve our wild life so that the present and fu ture generations will have some hunting and fishing. I . - - . , y-r 1 .-.-V - 2 Thru-Express Round Now! Ride the Scenicruiser . . . the most magnificent motor coach ever to appear on America's, highways! These luxurious Greyhounds offer a raised observation level with four-way sightseeing ... a complete washroom with mirror, wash, basin and lavatory ... improved air conditioning ... modern contour seats.. and the amazing' Air Suspension Rife! HO DOTDA PABC1 From Medford One Way Round trip San Francisco $6.40 $11.55 MmiTm DAILY SCENICRUISER SERVICE ALSO-TO SEATTLE 4 LOS ANGELES i - Medford Depot 212 fieri!. Dtrtletl - Phono 2-2202 ISLlVKKaODKIG) Restrictions Necessary If this is to be accomplished, the public must accept the vari ous restrictions and regulations designed to conserve our wild life resources and cooperate fully so that they may truly be conserved. Fish and game re sources belong to the state, but all sportsmen should feel that they have an individual interest, and anyone who violates the law or who take more fish and game than they are entitled to, are actually taking something away from the rest of the sport ing public. We cannot "have our cake and eat it too." The day of the meat hunter in Oregon is past. Fish ing and hunting in our state for fun and recreation should be the accepted end, if wildlife is to sur vive in substantial quantities. View as Recreation It behooves us all to think of hunting and fishing in the same light that the golfer looks at golf, the hiker thinks of hiking or the horseman views horse back riding, as sport and recrea tion without great material re turns. In this troubled world, it is becoming more and more ne cessary for people to get away and relax. There is io better way than to go out on a stream or a lake, or to hie after the deer, the pheasants or ducks. The Game Commission is do ing everything in its power and in the limits of its means to manage wisely our fish and game resources. To be successful the cooperation of the great ma jority of sportsmen is necessary. With a well planned and for ward looking program, we have every reason to believe that there will be fishing and hunt ing for all future generations. This program is based on the principle of doing what is best for the greatest number, rather than what is best for any parti cular individual or for any par ticular locality. POLICE IN DARK Brooklands, Manitoba (U.R) Police today were puzzled by a criminal who broke a traffic reg ulation and mailed $12 to pay his fine and avoid a summons. Since no record of the infraction is in police records they will have to write the "criminal" and ask what law he broke. Service Daily from MEDFORD Trips Daily! Report Spurs Hunt For Girl Missing In California Berkeley, Calif. (U.R)-Police today followed a trail of clues, which included three fingers seen protruding from the trunk of a car, in an intensified search for a pretty, teen-aged girl miss ing for a week. Stephanie Bryan, 14, disap apeared from her Berkeley home last Friday. Eight witness es said they saw a girl of her description struggling with a man driving a late model, light colored car. Sees 'Human Fingers' Robert Small, 25, operator of a service station in Keyes, south east of Berkeley, reported to po lice that a late model Pontiac sedan pulled into the station about 8 p.m. Wednesday. The driver, a, dark-haired man with heavy shoulders asked Small to fill up the tank. Small went to the rear of the car and froze when he saw "three human fingers" protrud ing from the trunk. He told the driver: "Youve got something in ihe back. Some one's hand is caught in the trunk." Small said the driver imme diately raced away. Small said he noticed only that the car had no rear license plate. He reported the incident to the sheriff's office in Modesto. The report touched off a wide spread search of the San Joaquin Valley but no trace of the auto was found. Description Tallies Small's description of the car tallied with that given by wit nesses who saw a girl struggling with a man outside of Berkeley a short time after Stephanie dis appeared. Another lead came Thursday from Alvin McCoy, a motel own er on Highway 99. He said a man drove into his place Tuesday night and said he wanted acco modations for his "wife and year-old daughter." McCoy said the man lo over the cabins and afte pressing concern over the tion in which the windows suddenly changed his mini left. Stephanie is the daugh Dr. and Mrs. Charles S Berkeley. Bryan is a radio! lis 0 7 rw 17 K ThelessCw Three of Five Houses Smashed By Detonation Survival City, Nev. (U.R) Harold Goodwin, atomic test chief of the Civil Defense Ad ministration, raid today that fall ing debris and radiation would have killed all residents of Sur vival Town within one mile of yesterday's powerful atomic ex plosion. Goodwin made the statement during a survival town tour by newsmen and Civil Defense of ficials today, after conferring with official damage survey teams which have been apprais ing since yesterday the havoc wrought by the detonation of a nuclear device half again as powerful is the A-bombs that shattered Hiroshima and Nagas aki. - He said all residents of Main Street would have received a lethal dose of radiation. Even without that lingering death, everyone within one mile of the 500-foot tower where the detona tion took place probably would have ben killed by flying or fall debris, he said. Ruptured Ear Drums ' Farther out from ground zero, the primary injuries would have been ruptured ear drums, he said, caused by the terrific, force of the explosion which creates a virtual vacuum in the air. Evidence was everywhere that survival was possible out side that one-mile ring for fam ilies living in the right kind of house with - the right kind of shelters to duck into at the first alert of an eriemy attack. Main Street looked like it had been struck by a super-tornado instead of an man-made atomic device. Three of the five houses in the downtown area of the replica American smashed, wave. w ican to a ftf The les"7 be put into pricl-? the protection of American cities that might be targets of an enemy nuclear weapon. Civil Defense xperts said it was difficult to judge what cas ualties might have been, had Survival Town been a larger community, and its residents real Americans instead of depart ment store dummies. Louis Watson of Honolulu, a veteran Civil Defense worker, said it appeared to him that any one in this model community who lived within one mile of the detonation would have died if heTiad not been in a specially prepared shelter. Concrete Heme Survives The heavy damage was con fined to the one mile area from the base of what had been a steel tower, but was now just a blackened spot in the desert. A two-story brick dwelling and a frame cottage slightly less than one mile from the blast were ruined completely, although con crete slab and reinforced block homes on the same street re mained standing but damaged. A block south, a two-story frame home was so badly dam aged that tenancy would have been Impossible. . Its asphalt roof was knocked off in one piece and deposited 25 feet away in the back yard. . On the two-mile line, five other houses were still useable, although their .windows, like those of trailers standing beside them, were smashed and glass scattered over the desert. Inside the main street homes, the mannequin residents were tossed about in a grotesque man ner. The family that lived ' in the brick house suffered badly. None would have lived through the bombing. . . k la a I e ruuwu Annuo Horned Toad Race Set in California Saturday Coalinga, Calif. (U.R) Some 150 horned toads, creatures that usually occupy a sagebrush home and are shunned by man, com pete here this week end in the 19th annual Horned Toad Der by. Most of the entries have spent their lives basking in the sun on the west side of the San Joa quin Valley, but one has been flown to California from Austra lia for the derby. Big Names Entered Besides the lone entry from the southern hemisphere, a num ber of big names in local horned toad circles, including Peachy, Irish Beauty, Radio-active, Gene ral Grant and Cantaloupe King, have been entered in the race Saturday. One of the biggest problems facing the trainers is teaching the toads simple geometry. The track consists of a 16 foot canvas spread out in the main street of town. The partici pants are placed in the center under a basket and when the cover is lifted the race is on. In the concrete slab structure, its white front blackened by the searing heat of the explosion, a woman dummy was still at the kitchen table. But she'd lost her wig. What happened inside the homes one mile away in the mo ments of the blast was revealed by official photographs taken by sequence cameras which were lo cated inside the dwellings. One series of picture shows, in striking silhouette, a two-year-old child mannequin standing be neath the protection of an indoor lean-to shelter. The child was completely protected from chunks of debris larger than the child itself. The air was filled with these chunks and splinters, ripped asunder and tossed with sonic speed to become paling missiles. nvors would have to .the few cellars, or, f the frnnt. linp ? a specially re- that was built an air raid m remained 2. a- Jam PONTIAC C0CTS USS THAN ANY CAR EQUALLING rK L0X& WKULIASI : I SS&e&mS! LOOK HIOH AND LOW AND YOU ! CAMCHSCK 6th DDeairn Instead of dashing straight for the finish line at the outer edge, the little reptiles usually stand around a while. Eventually one will casually wander across the finish line and be declared the winner. Some Break Tradition. However, a desert lizard occa sionally -breaks tradition and races for paydirt. This happened last year when a local toad set a new world record of 2.2 sec onds. The old mark of 2.5 was recorded in 1940 by Pete The Rambler, who was entered by the El Paso, Tex., Chamber of Commerce. Most horned toads look pret ty much alike. They are cover ed with a thick - thorny hide and resemble a minature cousin of the pre-historic dinosaur. Seven Interim Committees Created Salem U.R) The Oregon legislature created seven interim committees to conduct studies before the next session of the legislature and submit proposed bills. One would study the preven tion of sex crimes and another would investigate the present corrupt practices act in state election laws. The latter was, fi nally approved in the last day of the 1955 session with stiff Democratic opposition. Other interim committees would be set up to study off shore salmon fisheries in coop eration with British Columbia and Alaska, problems of schools at the county level, public assist ance, highways, and electric util ity tax problems. SEEKS BOUNDARY MARKERS Boston, Mass. (U.R) Albert T. Lund, 45, is waiting for per mission to see if Massachusetts is still where he left it five years ago. Lund, a surveyor in the Massachusetts Public Works De partment, .will set out to find 737 boundary markers, as soon as the legislature approves funds for the required "perambulation of the boundary" every five years. ' PONTIAC COSTS LESS THAN ANY CAR EQUALING ITS 200 K0XSEP0WEK If you delight in flashing performance, here's all the reason you need to join the record-breaking thousands who are swinging to Pontiac. The 200 horsepower delivered by the economical Strato Streak V-8 with ' the four-barrel carburetor, optional at extra cost, is the highest power ever delivered by a car at Pontiac's price higher than that of cars costing considerably more. For thrift and thrills it's Pontiac all the wayl Model for model, Pontiac has a longer wheelbase than any car at its price 122' or 124", depending on whether you select an 860, 870, or Star Chief model. That's size where it .really counts and it's important because a long wheelbase is the reason for Pontiac's smooth, road-leveling ride and the roomy comfort of Pontiac's large, luxu rious Body by Fisher advantages that put Pontiac on a level with far costlier cars for sheer riding pleasure. ACCIDENT J and Grape Streets In and Around Prospect The Well Baby Clinic for the Prospect area which was scheduled for the month of i May has been post poned indefinitely because of conflict with the Salk polio vac cine inoculation program. The Lettermens Club of Pros pect high school is sponsoring a smoker Mav 12 at 7 n.m. There will be approximately 25 bouts, both boxing and wrestling. The sporting event is being directed by Larrv Sanderson, one of Prospect high school's leading atnietes. Participants will be drawn from all grades of Pros pect Elementary school, as well as from the high school. The three bie events of the evening are expected to be the two tag team wrestling matches and the "free-for-all." Referees will be Bill Wilson. retired professional boxer and present commercial teacher at Prospect, boxing, and Wesley Stauffer, health and physical education instructor, wrestling. The SDorts-lovina- nublic is cordially invited to attend. Ad mission will be by donation to to the Lettermens Club. TIME TO CHANGE Hollywood (U.R) Screen writer Frank Stanley Gilman Borden Chase Fowler today changed his name to Borden Chase. He received permission for the change Thursday after testifying "I was named after a flock of rich relatives but never inherited a thing." Flowers for $ no AHJ Pot Plants - Corsages Pot Plants Hydrangeas, Baby Roses, Violets, Petunias, Mixed Pots, Camellias, Daphne. O Corsages Carnations, Camellias, Gardenias, Orchids. O Cut Flowers Snaps, Stocks, Daisies, Roses. MARSHALL NURSERY & FLORIST 12th and Newtown WE DELIVER - if 3 PONTIAC COSTS LESS LUUALLiatf ITS LUAb'ZT-UK STAEIUTY The big, husky Pontiac with rugged X-member frame gives you the safe, solid feel at cruising speeds that motorists have formerly paid high prices to enjoy. And it links this road-holding comfort with ease of control like that of costly sports cars. You travel in superlative comfort in a Pontiac for the lowest price ever placed on such big-car stability. . v ' PONTIAC'S DISTINCTIVE BEAUTY IS 4 ?. UNMATCHED AT ANY Pontiac's style and beauty are a perfect match for . its colorful performance. Future-fashioned . lines, Vogue Two-Toning and Twin-Streaked hood provide dash and glamour unsurpassed by any other car at any price. 5 You can buy big, powerful Pontile for less than many models of the lowost-pricod cors and much loss than stripped economy models of higher-priced makes 860 2-door, 6-paMenger Sedan state and local taxes, if any, extra. Prices may vary in surrounding communities due to freight differential. Phone 2 - Prospect The iunior class of Prosnect high school will honor the grad uating seniors on Friday night. May 6, when the annual Junior Senior prom will be held in the high school gymnasium. This will be the first prom held in the new gym. Music for the an nual affair will be furnished by "Vic's Orchestra" under leader ship of Robert H. Padgett. Danc ing will start at nine o'clock and continue until one. Refreshments will be served. There will be a nominal charge per couple or for stags. Buying MILK Today? Reach for GILLIAN'S Daily's U-Drivo Mtdford Airport Mother 1 1? - Cut Flowers Phono 3-1657 OPEN SUNDAY THAN ANY CAN PRICE U GO Pontiac 5241 r $22I270
