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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. May 8, 1S33 Plea for Preservation Of Nature's Beauties In Oregon Ends 'Week' (Editor's nolo: Natural Re sources Conservation week concluded yesterday. During theweek. the Mail Triune pub lished a series of articles pre pared by various experts in fields of natural resources and conservation, to produce a bet ter understanding of the prob lems involved. The following article, last in the series, was written by Dr. Elmo Steven son, president of Southern Oregon college, who was chair man of the Jackson county committee for Conservation week. In it he concludes the series by giving the reasons supporting conservation of the natural beauties of the state of Oregon.) By DR. ELMO STEVENSON Conservation Week Chairman Oregon, the emerald state, is a natural scenic wonderland ap pealing to tourist and native. No state offers more to satisfy the aesthetic senses. The setting aside of and the maintenace of parks, research, and recreational areas for the purpose of preserving their scenic, recreational, historical, and scientific values become necessity in Oregon. Surface fea tures ranging from rugged to serene ocean beaches, 90 per cent owned by the public, through fertile valleys, the young rolling Coast range, the volcanic Cascades, the high crop and desert lands, to the old spec tacular Blue and Siskiyou moun tains with deep canyons, present a unique variety. Abundant waters furnish habi tats for all sorts of finned and feathered wildlife, provide elec trical potential, both harnessed and yet to be controlled, and promise refreshment to life and land. Amazing Amount There is an amazing amount of recreational areas in a mild, Invigorating, salubrious climate. This climate combines with the varied topography and multi tudinous soils to provide a ver dant luxuriant plant life cover, Associated with the wide as sortment of plant life is a rich, varied animal life, as well as cultivational opportunities not yet fully realized. All of this composition, archi texture, and sculpturing makes Oregon a beautiful land of great potential. Can its beauty be pre served and enhanced so that suc ceeding generations may enjoy it? - - ... National and - state parks, monuments, and ot her desig nated areas have, been set aside to thrill the visitor with nature' primitive, spectacular scenery throughout the state. Within the borders of Oregon's 97,000 square miles are " 13 national forest. (Crater Lake and Oregon Caves included) and over 200 state-owned areas which are dedicated to public enjoyment forever. More than 54,000 acres of nature's select areas have been set aside in state parks alone. Numerous wayside parks, picnic and rest sides, Blue Star Memorial roadside areas and parkway strips may be enjoyed by the traveler. The third major business in the state is that of tourists. Wilderness, primitive and wild areas have been set aside. Sci entists consider it important that they remain, so far as is com patible with accessibility, in their natural state. National and state forests provide their visi tors with both vocational and avocational opportunities. More than 200 U.S. Forest Camps are maintained for public use, readily- accessible, by good forest roads and the more than 57,600 miles of primary and secondary road system that thread nature's wonders together. View points with adequate parking are conveniently located along these modern highways. More than 50 attractive His torical Markers tempt the trav eler to hesitate, reflect and drink in nature's splendor in one of the purest atmospheres on earth. Glimpses of abundant wild ani mals in the national and state wildlife refuges and the game sanctuaries thrill the visitor, as do the large herds of domesti cated animals in scenic pastures framed by woodland and mountain. Efforts Should Expand The efforts to preserve for posterity the things the present generation enjoys should not only be continued but expanded. The "litter-bug", "fire-bug", "game-hop", "vandal-bu g", "plant - lifters", roadside-signers and water polluters must be decimated so that Oregon's scenery may be enjoyed by all forever. Gov. Paul Patterson's Conser vation of Natural Resources Week is designed to attain this goal. Aesthetic appreciations and satisfactions make for human happiness. Let us have more of this in Oregon! Strike Threat Ends Against Producers Of Salk Vaccine Detroit (U.K A strike threat to one of the nation's maj or producers of the Salk polio vaccine was ended Friday night when the CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local 176 agreed to a new contract with Parke, Davis Co. Approximately 1500 of the un ion's 2000 workers voted to rati fy the new pact which provides a 13 cent hourly wage increase and two other benefits during the next two years. Urged Acceptance . Union leaders urged . accept ance of the contract despite the fact they originally demanded a guaranteed annual wage, 10 cent hourly pay boost for men work ers and a 15 cent hourly hike for women employees. The new contract awards the union a seven cent an hour in crease retroactive to last Sun day, when the old pact expired. They had 'been meeting with company and union negotiators since last month in an attempt to head off a strike that would have halted production of the precious anti-polio vaccine. Old Pact Extended The old contract had been extended on a day to day basis effective May 1 to postpone i strike until settlement could be reached. Meanwhile, the company met for four hours Friday night with the AFL International Associa tion of Machinists in hopes of reaching agreement on a new contract for some 300 skilled maintenance men. The union ap proved a strike vote Wednesday. West Germany Rises From 1945 Defeat With Booming Industry (Editor's note: On VE-Day 10 years ago Germany lay prostrate in defeat its armies smashed, its cities de stroyed, its industries wreck ed, its people starving and des perate. In 10 years West Ger many has surged back to the front rank of the world's great economic powers. The U. P. chief correspondent and man ager for Germany tells the story in the following . dispatch.) By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Correspondent Bonn, Germany (U.R) West Germany, as it prepares to re arm, has become the new indus trial giant of Western Europe just 10 years after the most crushing defeat suffered by a major nation. Her industries are booming. Her bombed cities are rising anew and glistening from their ruins. Her factories are working at full capacity. And she is chal lenging the victors of 1945 in the world's export market. Ten years ago this correspon dent toured the length and breadth of a Germany that lay prostrate in defeat. . Every major city and most of the smaller ones were nightmar ish tangles of ruins which mil lions of people burrowed for a shelter of some sort because they had nowhere else to go. There were no banks, no tele phones, no postal services func tioning. Nine-tenths of the stores were closed and there was little for sale in those that remained open. Water, electricity and gas services were being only slowly Kiwanians Schedule District Conference - Kiwanians from 18 ' clubs in Division 15 of the Pacific North west district will convene here on Sunday, May 15, for. their annual spring conference. The service clubs' session will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. A luncheon will follow the meet ing.' ' . ; . : 7 W.-P. Riddlesbarger Eugene, division lieutenant governor will be here for the session and Fred G. Rounds, Pullman, Wash., dis trict governor, may attend. . From 50 to 60 Kiwanians are expected here for the conference. Two Persons Killed In Salem Accidents Salem (U.R) Two persons were killed in separate traffic accidents in th Salem area Fri day night. Allen J. Stroh of Salem was fatally injured when his motor cycle collided with a car at Park ave. and Market st. Benjamin Wedel Jr., of Sa lem was killed when his station wagon careened of f a curve on N. River Road some two miles north of Keizer. Illusions of Meteors By J. HUGH PRUETT American Meteor Society Pacific Nertweit Director To one who has had long ex perience in tracing the paths of those huge and often noisy meteors known as fireballs as the present writer has been do ing for the : American Meteor society for 23 years a certain pattern of reports becomes very common and anticipated. These meteors while luminous are usually visible in their des cent when - in the space from about 70 miles above the earth down to 20 miles. They come from regions far . beyond the earth and become heated by fric tion and. glow, when (hey dash into the; earth's atmosphere at speeds sometimes as great as 40 miles per second. When they reach the denser lower air, they are slowed and cooled so they cease to glow while still many miles above the ground. There is no authenticated record of their burning all the way to the surface and setting fires. But their appearance is very decep tive.. Three Types of Observers While tracing the Mad March meteor of March 9, 1955, I en countered, as usual, three types of observers. One said the meteor looked close but was doubtless 100 or 200 miles away. Another took my 'word for it when told a Single observer had no idea just where the fireball was and that tine lo csodctnixe DEEPRIME JET...Mxidooi slf-priming jet water system for deep wells even to 300 feet No moving pans below ground. No control valve, frost- proofing or lubrication needed. MUiTI-PRIMf...for shallow wells. Delivers up to 35 mote pressure and 20 more water than all similarly rated pumps. Com pletely self-priming. SERIES RP WATER SYSTEM... low cost automatic i pump for either shallow or deep wells. Delivers up to 5P0 gals, per hour -Self-pruning. Require; no control valve. Get th Facts! Before You Buy Any Water System . . Come in or Phone 2-2939 SISKIYOU HARDWARE 225 West Main Street WE GIVE SftH GREEN STAMPS Farmers' Market Planned at Talent; Will Open June 1 Talent A Farmer's Market, a new addition to Seiber's Shop ping Center at the corner of New st.' and Pacific highway, will open about June 1, Owner Al S e i b e r has announced. The market, which contains seven rental "booths, is an open- air rresh produce market which will remain open until 10 p.m. seven days a week. Seiber said. May Rent Booths Seiber said Farmers from the southern Oregon area may rent a booth in the market by the week to feature locally grown produets. One booth. Seiber said. will be maintained by the Shop ping Center as a refreshment stand. The building is located on the West side of Pacific highway, and is situated so prospective buyers may see produce dis played in each of the booths while driving to a parking lot at the rear. $3,000 Building Seiber said the building, which is finished in Redwood and knotty pine, eost about $3, 000 not including labor, which was done by Seiber and mem bers of the family. The grand opening of the mar ket will be held June 19, Seiber said, the first anniversary of the Shopping Center area. The build ing covers 1,400 square feet, and will be screened-in at night. INDIAN GIRLS CHOSEN Pendleton, Ore. U.R) A group of Pendleton businessmen Saturday selected Carolyn Mo tanic, Yvonne Scott, and Ethel James to represent the Umatilla j Indian tribe at the All American Indian beauty contest in Sheri dan, Wyn., next fall. only when lines of sight from widely separated places . are drawn on a map can the path actually be determined. Those of the third type were so sure of their eye impressions that they could not be convinced otherwise. - The fireball under discussion came down at a steep slope and ceased to glow when about over Mt. Washington in the Oregon Cascades. A man along the south ern . Oregon coast reported he definitely saw it still glowing as it came down between him and a nearby hill. A man and wife 100 miles distant claimed the same experience with a hill near .them ". and .were sure the meteor fell "into the river.'We heard it sputter," they reported. A third observer, fully 40 miles from either of the places men tioned above, said by telephone the others were "crazy." He too saw it go down between him and a hill and wanted to take me with him to look for it. "I know exactly where it fell," he said. Illusion Old Story This illusion of seeing the mov ing, blazing fireball against a nearby hill is an old story with meteor chasers. My own ex planation is that the deceptive impression is due to persistance of vision, surprise and excite ment. The object is in view only a very few seconds. The eyes are following it down and seem to continue to see it briefly after it has "blinked out," Observers 200 or 300 miles apart will often report the same impression. A fireball of course seems to be near. The moon seems only a mile or so above us in the sky wnen actually it Is over 208, 000 miles distant. The Twilight meteor of Nov. 29, 1945, brought me 517 reports irom California, Nevada and southern Oregon. A splendid tracing showed it disanoeared in the northeastern corner of Ne vada. However, many observers all over California "knew" it landed only a mile or two from them and said they could walk me to the exact spot. If I had accepted all these invitations, I would still be walking. r. Mother's Day SPECIALS Remember Mother With Shrub for Her Garden Bird's flest $ CYPnESS... Irish S)E0 mi ...... Elwoad's S)75 CYPRUS. . . . A e Basket of PANSIES FREE With Every Purchase of $2.00 or Mere COURT STREET riURSERY .1132 Court Street and painfully restored. Millions Thronged Roads - Millions of refugees thronged the highways, heading for the homes that orob&bly no longer existed or fleeing from the Rus sians as the new occupation zoue borders were fixed. Millions more trekked hungri ly out of the starving cities each morning to grub and ransak in the neighboring countryside for potatoes or turnips. The only courts were Allied military courts, and the only law was Allied military law. That was the ruined Germany of May, 1945, at the end of Hit ler's war. ' But the ruins of its bombed out cities have long, since been cleared away and new buildings of steel and concrete have risen in their place. More than 500, 000 new homes were built last year, and the Bonn government hopes to push that to 600,000 in 1955. More than $3,000,000,000 of United States Marshall Plan aid has been pumped Into its incred ible recovery. So, also, did the hard work of 50,000,000 West Germans. Facts And Figures Here are some facts and fig ures that show how this nation that suffered ruin 10 years ago already is outstripping its com petitors and surging forward in an almost unparallelled econom ic boom. West Germany's industrial production, according to figures issued here, increased almost twice as fast as that of Great Britain, France, Belgium or the Netherlands. West Germany -in 1954 re mained Western Europe's No. 1 coal producer with an output of 128,000,000 tons compared with 124,500,000 in 1953. Raw steel output in 1954 went up to 16,000,000 tons and auto mobile production spurted 36 per cent over 1953 for a total of 670,000 units. Steel output may reach 20,000,000 tons this year. Campfire Girls O-Ne-Kisu Group A large crowd of guests and parents attended a colonial party held at the Teenage Club in Eagle Point April 2. The games and square dances were led by Mark Hoefft. Refreshments were served by the Camp Fire girls. All were in colonial costume and the party completed one of the birthday project requirements for 1955. Officers were elected April 6. They are Connie Hinks, presi dent; Dorrene Christian, vice president; Edna Gray, secretary; Lana McGraw, treasurer; Connie Berryman, scribe; Connie Hinks, song leader; Connie Berryman, program chairman; Martha An sted, cleanup chairman. A "traveling basket" has been started to raise money for the treasury. Each member will have the opportunity to put something' in the basket, send it on to another member who will buy the food and keep the basket going with an added pie, cake or candy. The girls worked on Mothers' day gifts at a meeting April 20, and on April 23 they started the annual Camp Fire candy sale which will last two weeks. Connie Berryman, Scribe. Glaser Enters Plea Of Guilty to Charges . Albany, Ore. (U.R) Frank T. Glaser; Tangent farmer and seed grower, pleaded guilty si multaneously to 200 misdemea nor charges in circuit court here Friday and was fined $2000 and costs of $1300 by Judge Victor Olliver. Each of the 200 complaints ac cused Glaser of selling Northrup, King & Co., seed buyers, a sack of rye grass seed falsely repre sented as certified perennial Eng lish grass seed. Glaser waived time for senten cing and was fined $10 on count and required te pay $6.50 court costs on each count. On Mail Trlbun Want Ada HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C. Sundays 10:1 S A.M. . 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