Re-Seeding of Fire
Areas Urged; Federal
Assistance Provided
Farmers and others who own
land in the burned over areas of
Jackson county are urged to re
seed to forage grasses or trees
immediately.
County Agricultural Agent W.
B. Tucker said Saturday the ex
tension agency is trying to con
tact persons owning land in the
Timber mountain, Blackwell hill
sd Sykes creek burns.
Through the Agriculture Con
servation Program of the gov
ernment, farmers replanting
lands subject to erosion will be
reimbursed for 50 per cent of
Reid Optimistic
About Citizenship
For Klamath Tribe
Portland (U.P.) Thomas M.
Reid, assistant commissioner of
the U.S. Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, is optimistic about progress
in granting full citizenship
rights to Indians.
Reid, describing plans for
termination in a few years of
federal supervision over Kla
math Indians in southern Ore
gon, said the Indians will have
two choices:
1. They may withdraw from
the tribal organization and be
paid for their share of tribal
land. -Second
Choice
2. They may remain in the
tribal organization and continue
group management of their prop
erties.
The commissioner said there
were still problems to be worked
out including what could be done
for Indians who received their
money and then fell prey to
speculators or squandered it.
He said some progress was
being made with adult education
classes designed to give Indians
practical guidance in earning a
living and managing personal
and business affairs.
"All this must be done by
Aug. 13, 1958, when termination
of federal control for the Kla
math will be final and com
plete," he said.
the cost of seed, fertilizer and
application. Tucker said those
wishing to plant under the ACP
program must sign up at the
local office operated by T. D.
Sehorn, in the court house.
Speed Important
The county extension agent
emphasized the importance of
planting immediately. A fire, he
said, is second only to cultiva
tion in preparing a good seed
bed. If perennial grasses or trees
are not planted now, brush will
soon cover the land, stifling all
natural seeding processes.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment, Tucker reported, plans
seeding by airplane on its
burned over land. The BLM has
invitations out to private owners
for bids on seed supplies, with
prices at a low level.
Tucker recommended alta
fescue, subterranean clover,
orchard grass, perennial rye
grass, common rye grass, and
similar dry land grasses for burn
seeding. About 10 to 12 pounds
of seed per acre furnish best re
sults, Tucker said.
Those whose lands were in
volved in the recent fires are
asked to contact either the coun
ty agricultural agent or the ACP
officer both in the court house.
Eisenhowers Fail
To Register to Vote
Gettysburg. Pa. (U.R)
President and -Mrs. Eisenhow
er failed to make Saturday's
deadline to register to vote in
the November elections.
And Republican County
Chairman John H. Basehore of
Adams county conceded rue
fully that he won't be getting
any help from the White House .
in the Nov. 8 election this
year.
Pennsylvania's election this
" fall has no statewide offices
at stake which probably is
the reason President and Mrs.
' Eisenhower did not register
by Saturday's final deadline
for the November voting.
Law, Literature
Courses Planned
In Medford Area
"Law . for . the layman" and
world literature correspond
ence courses will be offered
Medford residents soon by the
general extension division of the
state system of higher educa
tion, and Southern Oregon col
lege. The law course will be taught
by members of the Jackson
county bar association. Classes
will meet in the Medford High
school on Wednesdays, begin
ning Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. A $10
fee will be charged.
. The world literature class will
be a combination television-
correspondence course. Dr.
Arthur Kriesman, associate pro
fessor of English and languages
at OCE, will give a 30 minute
lecture over KBES-TV once
each week beginning the week
of Sept. 26.
Students will complete corre
spondence lessons following Dr.
Kriesman's TV lectures.
Registrations for the litera
ture course will be accepted by
mail at the Office of Corre
spondence Study, General ( Ex
tension Division, 1250 Emerald
st., Eugene.
Further information may be
secured from Elliott Becken. as
sistant superintendent of Med
ford schools, or the extension
division office.
Troutdale Family
Gets $38,000 From
Reynolds Aluminum
Portland U.R) A Trout-
dale, Ore., family who claimed
they had been poisoned by fluor
ines from the Reynolds Alumi
num Company plant near their
home, were awarded more than
$38,000 damages Friday.
After more than 24 hours of
deliberation, the Federal Court
jury awarded Paul Martin $15,-
000 general damages. His wife,
Verla, was awarded $10,000 gen
eral damages and his daughter,
Mrs. Paula Ytirbi, was awarded
$5000.
In addition, each plaintiff re
ceived $2746.30 special damages
The family- had sought $300,000
from the aluminum company
which was located next to their
cattle ranch at Troutdale.
Earlier, presiding Judge Wil
liam East threw out a demand
for punitive damages which the
family claimed because they
were not warned of the dangers
of fluorine.
During the lengthy trial, med
ical testimony was produced by
the Martins showing they had
been poisoned. Other doctors
testified for the aluminum com
pany that they had not been
poisoned.
The victory was the second for
the Martins involving the alumi
num company. On Sept.10, 1954,
they were awarded $47,135 for
damage done their farm by
Reynolds fumes.
A Nkhol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
World Said Too Small
For Tests of H-Bomb
Bend (U.R) Rep. Walter Nor
blad (R-Ore.) says that the
hydrogen bomb has become so
powerful ' "that the ' time has
passed when we can find a place
on the elobe to test the most
modern instruments in this
field."
NnrhlaH. a member of the
House Armed Services Commit
tee, told the Oregon Juvenile
Council that within a few years
this country would have ability
to fire a rocket from the north
east, coast of the United States
"and droD a hydrogen war-head
on any of the major cities of Rus
sia with a maximum error oi
only 20 miles. . . ."
Prominent Scientists
To Speak at Portland
Portland (U.R) Prominent
scientific speakers will high
light the 81st annual meeting of
the Oregon State Medical So-'
ciety, which opens hereSept. 27.
Speakers include Dr. Cyrus C.
Sturgis, professor of medicine
at University of Michigan Med
ical School; Dr. George T. Pack,
clinical professor of surgery at
New York Medical College; Dr.
Alec M. Agnew, obstetrician and
gynaecologist at Vancouver, B.
C., General Hospital; and Dr. E.
A. Pask, professor of anaesthe
tics at. Durham School of Med
icine, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
By HARMAN
United f
Washington (U.R) A- lot of
our young ladies have bad teeth.
That goes for some of the lovelies
in the beauty
W, I K contests.
For instance,
a c c o r ding to
the American
Dental Associa
tion, 14 per
cent of our
females will
wind up with
permanent de
cay in their
first molars
Harman Nichols after they shed
their baby teeth. The statistics
show that when a kid is 16, she
can look at her dental chart and
find she has seven decayed, miss
ing or filled teeth. One out of
every five of these children will
need orthodontic, care. That
means braces or wires.
Some of the alarming facts
and figures on the decay of teeth
ml
Stockmen Endorse
'Red Hat Day' Plan
The Jackson County Stock
men's association has endorsed
the state wide Red Hat program.
In the past, the association said
stockmen have suffered heavy
losses from . careless hunters
either shooting cattle or leav
ing gates open for m to stray .-
Because of this, stock own
ers have posted "No Hunting"
and "No Trespassing" notices,
and "will enforce them to the
full extent of the law" until
sportsmen carry out their Red
Hat Day pledge, the association
said. It added that it realizes
the signs are a handicap to the
true sportsman, and are neces
sitated by the careless.
Red Hat Day is scheduled for
Sept. 23.
Specter of the Brocken
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer. Extension Division
Oregon Higher Education System
Of all the spectacular effects
of light and shade, likely none
is as erie as the phenomenon
presented by the shadows of
mountain climbers cast on banks
of fog at lower elevations than
the observers themselves. '
A few years ago a group of
ten Obsidians set out from their
camp intent on scaling the
Snowy-topped old Mt. St. Helens
in Washington. The ascent was
succesful, and late in the after
noon when half way back from
the rounded summit, the party
unexpectantly came upon the
rare and striking phenomenon
long known as the Spectre of the
Brocken. One member of the
party later enthusiastically de
scribed ' the beautiful spectacle
to me.
Fog Coven Ice .
"We were on the sunlit Dog's
Head, a very steep, rocky prom
inence between the two moun
tain glaciers. The ice below us
to the east was covered with a
dense sheet of fog, the glisten
ing smooth top of which was
probably 50 yards, lower than
we were. The sun, still well
above the western horizon, was
casting distinct shadows of all
members of our party on the
top of the fog layer. But the
amazing part of it, something
I had never seen before, was
that each person saw his own
shadow surrounded by a com
plete circle oi a rainbow. He
could see the rainbow only
around his own shadow and not
around those of the others. I
swung my arm in a half circle
as high as I could and the shad
ow of the tips of my fingers on
the fog just touched the rim of
my personal rainbow."
Each Sees Own Bow
As has been stated in this col
umn before, when rainbow form
ing conditions exist, each per
son sees only his own bow, since
the center of the circle of which
the colored arc is the circumfer
ence, is axactly opposite the ob
server from the sun as in his
shadow. A straight line would
run through the sun, the ob
server and the bow"s center.
That afternoon on Mt. St. Hel
ens ten visible Specters of the
Brocken were painted on the
gleaming, white fog but nine
were unseen by any one member
of the party.
This phenomenon is not a true
rainbow but a coronal effect.
Diffraction plays a more impor
tant part than refraction.
Name From Mountain
The name, also called Brock
engespenst) comes from The
Brocken, a mountain in Ger
man Saxony, from which the
observer's r a i n b o w-encircled
shadow is said first to have been
described in 1780. Long ago it
was thought that evil spirits
and witches held "high carnival"
on The Brocken on Walpurgis
night. Some within sight of the
mountain still retain a slight
superstition regarding the old
time stories.
A somewhat related phenom
enon can sometimes be seen on
a dewey lawn in the opposite
direction from the morning sun.
The coronal circle then is us
ually white. This is known as
the Heiligenschein.
Phoenix
500-Room Hotel in
Portland Possible
Portland U.R) Possible
construction of a 500-room hotel
by the Sheraton Hotel chain on
the proposed Lloyd shopping cen
ter was announced Saturday.
A Portland newspaper (The
Oregonian) reported that Ernest
Henderson, Boston, president of
the Sheraton Corporation of
America, said negotiations were
underway with officials of the
Lloyd Corporation, and that
their consumation depended on
the Lloyd group.
Henderson said the hotel vis
ualized , was "somewhat differ
ent." It would be "a first class,
luxury hotel" he said.
The Sheraton hotel chain oper
erates 30 hotels in the United
States and . Canada and is the
second largest hotel chain in the
country.
W. NICHOLS
Futm Writer
are these:
Fifty per cent of all two-year-old
kids have one or more de
cayed teeth. By the time they
hit kindergarten, they have three
or more teeth that need repair.
Fourteen per cent of these
youngsters will have an ache
in their six-year molars.
Less than four per cent of the
young folks in high school are
free from the need to visit a den
tist. The dentists, acting like den
tists, have a few suggestions.
"Toothbrushing," the associa
tion says, "is a big help if the
correct method is used at the
right time. It is one of the best
ways for the average child or
adult to help check dental de
cay.". The right way to scrub the
incisors and molars, is to do it
right after eating. That goes for
snacks as well as after break
fast, lunch and dinner.
Brushing Prevents Decay
"The brushing'," according to
the dentists, "removes the food
particles from between the teeth
and from the crevices of the
chewing surfaces. All of this pre
vents tooth decay."
The dentists don't mind tell
ing how to prevent decay. It may
cost them a little take home, but
most of them love people.
Most dentists don't recommend
any particular brand of tooth
brush or mouth wash. But the
association recommends a brush
that has a' flat brushing surface,
is a form of bristle and has a
head small enough to get around
all of the surfaces of the teeth.
"Young children," the associa
tion advises, "should be given
smaller brushes, for reasons ob
vious. And everybody ought to
own a set of two brushes and
use them as often as bnssihlp.
And alternately replace , them
wun new ones when the Bristles
get loose or soft. And Dlace the
brushes where they will dry
quickly."
New Highway. Section
Opens Near Roseburg
Roseburg U.R) Unre
stricted traffic was moving Sat
urday over the $3,171,512
Anlauf-Rice Hill section of High
way 99 in northern Douglas
county. .
Tom Edwards, southwestern
Oregon division engineer for the
State Highway Commission, said
some work remained to be done
on the new highway, including
guardrail installation and slide
correction.
He asked motorists to exercise
care on the road in the next few
weeks.
The new highway bypasses
Drain and Yoncalla, cuts the
distance between Anlauf and
Rice Hill from 18 to 15V2 miles
and eliminates 128 curves.
Sunday, September 18, 195S
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Insured Unemployment in
Oregon Reaches Lowest
Figure Since October, 1951
Salem (U.R) Insured unem
ployment declined in the second
week of September to 6194,
lowest figure since October,
1951, and less than half of the
number without work a year
ago, the State Unemployment
Compensation Commission said
today.
With harvesting, food proces
sing and other seasonal activi
ties near the summer' peak, a
warning note came from the
widespread lumber industry
which took a cut of $2 a thou
sand board feet on some grades
of Douglas fir, first break since
the revival that started last fall
after an extended labor dispute.
However, the price remained $8
higher than it was a year ago.
Local offices . reported 16,
400 persons actively seeking
jobs as the month opened, and
many of these were expected to
find work because of the num
ber of housewives, students and
others leaving the labor market
before the end of the summer
season.
Almost 60 per cent of the job
seekers were in the Portland
metropolitan area, which re
ported 1500 fewer unempldyed
than a month before and 6600
fewer than last year. All
of the 26 offices except Ontario
reported fewer without jobs
than in 1954.
Low humidity .'bringing fire
danger, and the break in the
lumber market were held re
sponsible for the-. 381 increase
in initial claims during the week
after Labor. Dav.-'. But comnen-
satory claims continued to falL"
Despite seasonal declines
throughout western Oregon,
Coos Bay, Corvallis, Grants
Pass. McMinnville.' Rnsehurp.
Bend, Hood River and The Dal
les noted little change in unem
ployment during August.
Thirty of Oregon s 36 coun
ties had higher covered payrolls
New Flag Brackets
Set To Go on Sale
Representatives, of American
Legion post 15 will visit down
town businessmen' this week to
take orders for newly developed
flag brackets. Ray. Huson, chair
man of the post flag committee,
announced recently that brackets
were available.
Merchants can buy brackets,
flags, and staffs separately or as
a unit. The new: type holder
clamps on parking meters. The
old method . of placing the flag
staff in a curb holer often resulted
in damage by car' bumpers and
doors.
Lewis Machinery company,
916 South Central' ave., manufac
tures the bracket.'
in the first quarter of 1955 than
a year before, tabulations of 17,
850 employers report just com
pleted showed. Payrolls in
creased nearly. 21 million dol
lars to $307,778,633 for a record
first quarter. .
Expanded lumber industries
in Curry county, with 60 per
cent, and Hood Rier county,
with 53.1 per cent headed' the
list.
Multnomah went up nearly
eight million dollars to $143,-
749,258. Douglas was second
with an increase of $1,986,422
to $14,973,221. Lane, Jackson
and Marion also' gained more
than a million dollars each.
Losses came from Gilliam,
Lake, Morrow,- Klamath, Clat
sop and Wasco. The drop in
Wasco was attributed to com
pletion of bridge construction in
1954 and crediting of most dam
work to Washington on the other
side of the Columbia.
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Community club will meet Mon
day at 8 p.m. at the club house
for the first fall business session.
All representatives of the mem
ber organizations are especially
requested to be present.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loomis
are spending a two weeks va
cation with their son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Loomis, and family in Topeka,,
Kan. Mrs. Frances Stevenson,
city treasurer, is substituting for
Mrs. Loomis in the recorders
office while she is away.
Major and Mrs. Matt Wagner
and their seven children have
been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Gier, the past
several days. Major Wagner has
been stationed in Germany with
the U. S. Air Force for the past
four years. They came from
Germany by plane to New York
where they bought a new car
and motored from there to Pho
enix. They went to Portland to
visit other relatives while here.
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