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.
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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.
Young Thompson allowed
himself to be lowered over the
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side by Weis, using a tattered
length of rope. 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. Vice-presidents
of Southern Pacific railroad have
also met with WCLA officials to
explore the shortage.
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