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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1955)
TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, June II, 1ISS National Guardsmen Complete First Week Of Summer Training Fort Lewis A division-wide athletic and recreation program was put into earlyaction for the benefit of National Guardsmen undergoing two weeks' active training at Ft. Lewis. The intensified program be gan the opening week end of the 41st Infantry division's annual encampment and will run almost until the troops roll for home Saturday, June 25. The major portion of the di vision recreation program is de voted to athletics, comprehen sively designed to accomodate guardsmen from every walk of life. In the organized competition, the division Snecial Service Of' fice is conducting tournaments in boxing, golf, bowling, volleyball and softball. Qualifying competi tion was started this week in all Delegates Return To Homes as 1955 Boys State Ends Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) More than 400 delegates to Oregon Boys State returned to their homes at noon Saturday at the conclusion of the five-day 1955 ession at Oregon State college. Bob Smith of Turner, Ore., was named the outstanding citi zen of Boys' State in the Satur day morning session. He will accompany Boys State Gov. Gary Sanders of Portland's Central Catholic High school to Boys Nation in Washington, D. C, July 22-29. Young Smith is student body president at Cas cades High school. Alternates Chosen Gary Casper of Junction City and Bob Berreman of Portland were named first and second alternates to Boys Nation. Before ladjournment, Jim Howe of. Tigard was awarded first place in Stunt Night com petition. Judged the best city of the meet was Reno, mayor of which was James , Hayden of Lebanon. Boys State, in a mock legisla tive session Friday, approved a general sales tax and defeated a move to grant 18-year-olds the right to vote. I phases of the sport program and division individual and team champions will be crowned in tournament finals next week. Handsome gold and silver tro phy cups and medals will be awarded to champions. Guardsmen have been taking advantage of athletic equipment distributed to units for off-duty recreation. Included are soft- ball, volleyball, horseshoe and football -equipment Augmenting the sports pro gram for leisure time are first- run motion pictures, guided tours and other recreational ac tivities On Sunday, June 19, when nearly all 41st Division Guards men are off duty, tours are scheduled to Mt. Rainier and Victoria, B. C. The latter trip features a ferryboat ride on pic turesque Puget Sound. Guardsmen may swim and fish at the National Guard beach on American Lake. Gymnasium fa cilities at the Ft. Lewis main post are open to guard troops. Morse Declares Hobby Incompetent Washington ' U.R) Sen, Wayne L. Morse (R-Ore.) Friday described Health Secretary Ove ta Culp Hobby as "incompetent" and suggested that President Eisenhower replace her with a woman doctor. Morse and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), two persis tent critics of the administra tion's polio vaccine program, joined in attacking it again from the Senate floor. Humphrey referred to Mrs. H o b b y's testimony Monday when she said a Democratic- sponsored plan to provide free vaccine to all children might lead to socialized medicine by the back door. He said her. re mark indicated that "the admin istration is willing to play pol itics with the health of the children of the nation." Morse said "smear critics" charged that he had criticized Mrs. Hobby because he opposed women in politics. He said he favored more women in politics but that Mrs. Hobby is "incom petent and he believes she should be replaced by a woman doctor. IS Mf - GUARDSMEN PARADE The two Medford National Guard companies, Headquarters company and Company A, are shown above parading with the rest of the 1st battalion, 186th Infantry regiment, 41st Division, now undergoing two weeks of summer" training at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Headquarters company is at the left, led by First Lt. S. J. Fagone, and Company As is just to the right, behind the Company A guidon, led by First Lt. Roy Huson. Companies B. C and D are shown behind their guidons to the right, and in the right foreground are battalions officers. The parade was a regimental review honoring Maj. GenJ William A. Dean, deputy com mander of the 6th Army, and bearer of the congressional medal of honor for his conduct as an officer and later a prisoner in Korea. The review also honored Maj. Gen. H. G. Maison, Salem, retiring as commanding gen eral of the division. Other divisional units, including the band, can be seen in the back ground on the parade area. Guardsmen will return to their homes next Saturday. Paralyzed Portland Youth Rescued From Ledge High on Side of Saddle Mountain Jewell, Ore. (U.R) Keith Thompson, 20-year-old .Portland youth suffering from partial par alysis, was rescued early Sat urday morning from a ledge high on the side of Saddle moun tain near here after spending the night in a wet coastal fog. The Forest service ranger sta tion here said a three-man res cue party was bringing the youth off the mountain and he seemed to have survived the ordeal with no serious injuries. Precipice Scaled The young spastic and a 14- year-old companion, Larry Weis, also Portland, climbed to the top of the mountain early Fri day morning. They had been camping at Saddle Mountain State park with Thompson's mother, Mrs. Keith Thompson, and her ward, Beverly Glesan. The boys attempted to descend the mountain by way of Ma- zama Chute, a precipice used by Portland mountain climbing club for rock scaling practice. 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Some 700 feet down the face of the cliff he became stuck on a ledge and could go no farther.. At mid morning, Park Caretaker John Webb was notified and managed to reach the stranded boy by 8 p.m. Friday. He said he found Thompson numb with cold but otherwise in good condition. Webb returned to his camp Two Men Injured in Automobile Accident Prosser, Wash. U.R) A driver and his companion were injured early Saturday when their truck-trailer went off the Patterson Ferry Road 28 miles south of here, the State Patrol reported. Hospitalized in Umatilla, Ore., with skull fractures, cuts and other injuries were driver Bruce Brent and Harold Daniels, both of Moscow, Idaho. for blankets and hot food which he took to Thompson and then spent the night with him on the ledge. He said the darkness and the fog made rescue impossible at that hour. Rope Rescue Rescue was accomplished by three Forest ' service rangers using ropes which they used to lower Thompson the rest of the way to the park below the cliff. Mrs. Thompson and Miss Gle san returned last night to Port land where Mrs. Thompson has four younger children. TURKEY TALE . Jamestown, N. D. (U.R) Milton Genzel said he saw three turkeys from his flock in a tree on the. night of a blizzard, but they had disappeared the follow ing morning. Forty-one days lat er two of the birds crawled out of a snow bank, leaving behind bones and feathers of the third. BLM Operations Here Outlined by District Forester for SOCTFA Ashland The multiple opera tions of the Bureau of Land Management were outlined for members of the Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association at a meeting here Friday night. E. K. Peterson, district BLM forester, had charge of the pro pram, which also featured the presentation of a past president's plaque to Glenn Hunter, out going head of the group. Art Davies is the new president. Big Area Peterson pointed out that the Medford office of the BLM has jurisdiction over some 1,086,000 acres of land in southern Ore gon, of which 976,000 acres is O&C land,, and 110,000 acres is public domain. The district in cludes Jackson and Josephine counties, and parts of Klamath, Douglas and Curry counties. These publicly-owned forests are managed on a multiple-use, sustained yield basis, Peterson explained, and he pointed out that some of the functions of the BLM are grazing and range man agement, including grass re search and seeding; supervising homesteading, land exchanges, recreational uses, fire protec tion, both direct and through contract with other agencies; blister rust control which now covers some 78,000 acres, con struction and planning of access roads, prosecution of timber tresspass cases, timber sales and the many requirement involved in processing them, mining claims, and so on. Timber Sales Under the timber sales pro gram alone, Peterson added, it is necessary to cruise the timber and mark trees for cutting, see that road construction provisions are followed, enforce fire con trol regulations, equipment reg ulations, erosion control, repro duction and reforestation, and to negotiate rights of way. All this, he pointed out, is done with a limited staff, and under appropriations which only once have been as high as the statuory limit. Timber sales annually average less than the 123,000,000 board feet of timber which is the al lowable cut. If the office had a larger staff, more could be processed for sale, and the al lowable cut could be exceeded for several years without harm ing the long-range sustained yield program, since the area has been undercut in recent years. Could Increase Cut Peterson also pointed out that if there were a complete new appraisal of the timber holdings of the BLM, the allowable cut limitation itself could probably be increased, because it is based on old cruises which do not show all the timber that is available. The district forester also ex plained something about the re cent reorganization of the bu reau, which gives greater au thority to the district staff, and the reorganization of the local office. He introduced a number of members of the office, in trict foresters, John Carnegie, eluding his four assistant dis Carl Dubach, Floyd . Fogelqulst and Bud Burgess. Virgil Heath, formerly acting district forester here who re cently was named state super visor for the BLM, was present, and spoke briefly. The meeting was In the Ash land Elks club. Grange Shady Cove Grange Next regular, meeting of the Shady Cove Grange will be a social meeting . June 22 at the Sltady Cove school. - - The potluck dinner at 7 p.m. will be followed by a Father's day program and cards. Every one is asked to bring then father's picture. Visitors, are welcome. Lumber Shippers Short 25 Percent Of Box Car Needs Tacoma, Wash (U.R) ."Ore gon lumber shippers are short 25 percent of their normal box car needs," James G. Manning, as sistant traffic manager of west coast lumbermen's association, said Friday at a meeting of the Pacific Northwest Advisory Board here. ' . Manning also said quality box cars for forest products were get ting more difficult to obtain. In naming causes of the right car supply, Manning listed heavy forest products loadings at this timp nf vpar anri nhiinHanf sral,. movement to terminals and ports. He said the recent truckers strike aggravated the situation. Manning noted that measures were being taken to alleviate the situation. Gov Paul Patterson of Ore gon has appointed a committee to develop methods of improving the car supply. 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