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o y ' 4f estimated S250,000 will be required to get Jackson county's -oad system repaired from flood damage, County Engineer Paul Rynning estimated Saturday aft er completing a survey of the roads and bridges. No estimate was" immediately available as to the cost of re pairs to state highways in the area, but it was obvious the cost would be high. Rynning said it will take weeks, perhaps months, to fin ish up repairs to flood-damaged roads and bridges. Several bridges r washed out com pletely, cr.eri are still standing but ar it.j epprotches, and roe$ta wfttd out in a num- bi ot fla.es ttfoujhout the county? lit The Day's By FRANK JENKINS The week's big financial news: The Ford Foundation, through its attorneys, formally requested permission from the securities O exchSige commission to sell 010,200,000 shares of its Ford Mo tor Company stock to the gen eral public. These ten million 200 thous and shares represent only about ONE-FIFTH of the Foundation's Ford stock holdings.0 They are expected to sell on the open bid and take market for somewhere in the neighborhood of three quarters of a billion dollars. w HY is that big news? Well.Qamong other things, it will mean that more of the capi tal stock (which- represents ownership) in one of the nation's Nine Are Initiated o Into Legion Post 15 Nine members were initiated ino American Legion post 15 at ' a meetingOTuesday night at the Camp White theater building. They were Fred Winters, Daniel Fjanklin, Russ Johnson, Benja min C xates, ueorge benroeaer, Darrell Walls, Carl P. Bjordahl, James Royalty and Lester G. Holliday. Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin, principal speaker, told new members they were rart of the "greatest organiza tion in the world." He also dis cussed e Legion's care of sick and disabled veterans and its program against subversion. A citation s for meritorious service for the American Legion was presented to Linn Nesrhith, Oregon Legionnaire correspond ent from Camp White for several years. The award was presented by Gene Orr, district command er, and member of the national executive committee. Entertainment was provided by Earl West, Dave Ashton, Kee- gan Townsend, Lee Ross, and Russ Jamison. Boy Scouts Park 1ft) Badges and awards for boys in Cub Scout Pack 10 were pre sented Monday. Dec. 19, in the Howard school gymnasium be fore 64 parents and guests. The pack meeting was opened with a flag ceremony by Boy Scouts of Troop 10. "Bob" Church conducted a candlelight investiture at which 41 boys becane Bobcats. Denner "bars were presented to David Hall, Richard Smets, Doug Bartholomew. George Hartwein, Rickie Traylor, and Gary Momberg: Dick Breeden, William Kyker, Mike Black, Tommy Hooker and Greg Elli ott received assistant denner bars. Bob Elliott received a den chief's cord. Christmas presents were ex changed and refreshments were served following the meeting. THIS TV"AGE South Bend, Ind. (U.R) Asked by an out-of-town friend where he lived, two - year - old Park Carmon answered "South Bend, Channel 34." 0 ok, The little community of Cole stine, on the south side of the Siskiyou range, was isolated from vehicular traffic, Rynning said, with" one bridge and the road washed out. He said about five or six families live in the area, but indicated there appears to be no emergency in the com munity. The could hike out if necessary, he said. The county road between Butte Falls and Prospect is closed by two washouts near bridges in the Red Blanket area. A bridge is washed out on Sugar Pine creek in the Elk creek area, and the creek was "all over the country" Saturday, he said. There were several oth er washouts in that section. Crews are concentrating on News biggest business corporations will pass out of the hands of one big organization and into the hands of the general investing public. That will mean spreading ownership of the huge Ford Mo tor company into just that many more hands. ONE further thought: The FVirri lVTntnr fnmnanv was founded in 1903 with $28, 000 in cash. That original $28, 000 has grown in 52 years to an estimated value of some two and a half BILLION dollars. That is a measure of the ca pacity of America's industrial economy to grow and expand. If we can keep on an even keel and if we can avoid another world war the next 50 years can see an even GREATER growth and expansion. Opportunity in America isn't dead as cynics fell into the hab it of saying back in the grim, glum days of the Great Depres sion. TTERE'S an interesting little "tale culled from the teletype: A number of years ago the Pilot Rock Lumber Company gave to the Oregon highway commission (for possible state park purposes) the cite of an old abandoned lumber camp on the north fork of the John Day river. Now the same company wants to buy it back. Its spokesman, Lowell Stockman, of Pendleton, says his organization has a use for the tract it once gave away. At the same time, he asked the commission to lower the roadbed under a railway cross ing to give a clearance of 14 feet to accommodate wood chip trucks. yHY is that so interesting? ' This is the story: The Pilot Rock Lumber Com pany is now using JACKPINE, the new wonder wood, as a raw material for the manufacture of building board. In its expanded operation (based on the use of jackpine) it has found a need for the land it gave away years ago. The same reason is back of its request for increased clearance in an undergrade crossing in order to . handle wood chip trucks. The trucks are bringing jackpine chips to the company's new building board plant. 4 NOTHER jackpine story: Up in the Spokane country there is a medium sized paper mill whose owners , were plan ning several years ago to close it down because of exhaustion of available pulp wood supplies. Then jackpine came along and was found to be wholly satis factory as a raw material. So instead of abandoning the paper mill they are now planning to put several million dollars of new capital into expanding and modernizing it. IIHY call jackpine a "wonder ' wood? Only a few years ago it was regarded as worse than worth less because there as no market for it and it cluttered up land that was more valuable for other uses. Now its uses are increasing steadily. 11' till fSf completing rough repairs to get traffic moving again, Rynning stated, with more complete jobs to be done later. Many spots closed by flood waters have been reopened, he added. Kirtland road, between Tolo and Camp White, is open to light triffic, although caution is nec essary because of partial wash outs. Bybee bridge was reopen ed Friday; but a lot of work remains to be done on the ap proaches, which were badly washed. . It was hoped to reopen McKee bridge to traffic Saturday. Sev eral posts were washed out from under the approaches. Traffic is moving on an old, narrow road on the other side of the river, . Rynning said. Squaw MONEY GIVEN BAND Funds raised for the Medford High school band's trip to San Fran cisco last week was turned over to I. A. Mirick, band director, at a Shrine club luncheon. The money was raised by contributions and dona tions from a large number of groups and in dividuals, and by the newly formed Band Boost iqn dcnooi sand Activities Support Throughout Year Aim Plans for the support of extra curricular activities of the Med ford High school band have been shaping up in recent weeks, ac cording to those active in the enterprise. . The movement has come about because of the invitations which the band has received for sev eral years in a row to appear at the Shrine East-West game, which this year will be played in Kezar stadium, San Francisco, on Dec. 31. Each year the problem of rais ing funds to send the band has arisen, and the money-raising has been crowded into the brief pe riod between the time the invi tation was received and the game itself. It is hoped to put SAFETY TROPHY SHOWN The Howard Hughes Memorial Trophy, dedicated to aviation safety, is on display this week and next in the lobby of the U. S. National Bank here. The trophy, a replica of the monument to. Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, N. "C, near where they made their first flight, was pre sented in 1953 by Howard Hughes to rotate each year between flying clubs with the best safety record for the year. Posing above with the trophy are, left to right, Roy Rushton. president of the Medford Flying club; Russ William, sec-. i "" "Jii"--MmriTinlTiT :f 4 creek bridge is out, and only light traffic on detours is avail able to the Upper Applegate. The road between Copper and the California state line was washed out, but traffic is now moving over the narrow and dangerous route, which loggers in the area are helping to repair for use by light traffic. The Suncrest bridge across Bear creek at Talent was washed out. It is an old bridge, and was to have been replaced this year, but the job was upheld pending a decision on the route of the new state freeway. Rynning said temporary repairs will be made, but that it will be some time before these can be done. The Valleyview and Oak street bridges in Ashland have been E A - this on a regular self-sustaining basis, without the necessity of relying on a few relatively large donors. The Shrine club has been ac tive in coordinating the plans, but support . has been given by members of a number of civic groups- and individuals. This year for the first time a Band Boosters club has been organ ized, with memberships going for 1 each, so that many people can participate. This year the annual band con cert raised about one-third of the $3,000 or so needed for the trip, sale of the, club member ships raised almost another third, and the balance was sup retary-treasurer and - R. L. Kagy and H. G. Lane, both Medford, safety agents for the Civil Aeronautics administration. The 269-pound, $10,000 trophy, will be presented to the 1956 winner next summer at the first annual conven tion of flying clubs, to be held in Seattle, Wash., to the flying club, large or small, with the safest flying record based on" a competitive point sys tem. The Medford Flying club, a consolidation . of the .Crater and Table Rock Flying clubs, will be eligible to compete. It has a membership of 12. and two aircraft. (Brainerd photo.) reopened. The bridge on Moun tain ave. in Ashland, a city bridge, is out and will not be reopened for some time. The road to Buckhorn Lodge was washed out, but reopened Friday. Roads in the Evans and Pleasant creek areas were dam aged but have been reopened, Rynning reported. The Dead Indian road was re opened. It was feared for a time it was washed out, in a draw where the road climbs the moun tain, but damage was confined to a huge pile of logging debris which washed onto the road on a sharp curve. The. debris pile was 20 feet deep and more than a hundred feet long, and enough of it has been removed to allow traffic to pass. ers club, with the Shrine club acting as coordin ating agency. Shown, left to right, are Leonard Mayfield, superintendent of schools; A. K. (Woody) Morse, '.presenting the money to Mirick; . Glenn Linn, principal of McLoughlin Junior High school; Dr. L.. S. Ellis, secretary treasurer of the Shrine club, and Al Leighton. . plied by gifts from groups and individuals. The Shrine club underwrote the trip, and will make up any deficit. It is hoped ' that the band booster plan, in years to come, will furnish most of the money needed for annual trips to- San Francisco, or elsewhere if the Shrine game invitations do not continue. School authorities feel that the trips offer, a consider able incentive for participation in musical activities, but have never felt that tax funds should be used. ' The Booster club, headed by Mayor Earl Miller as honorary president, will use the money only for support of band activi ties. ' " .-r.: . .. . ............ - . . - j" " ' "' Sunday, December 25, 1935 f FLOOD VIEWS Shown above and at right are views of a few of the scenes through out the Rogue valley during the flood conditions last week At top, left and center, are two pictures of the rescue of Barney Governor, who was taken from his flood-surrounded home near Gold Hill. In the first picture he is shown on the roof of his house with Paul Fullmer, 213 Lincoln St., Medford, who crossed the tor rent in the jury-r i g g e d breeches-buoy to the roof of Governor's house and chopped a hole in the roof to free Gov ernor. In the other picture Governor is shown swinging in toward the railroad bridge, where one end of the sky-line was attached to the super structure. The rescue was ac complished about mid-afternoon Thursday. Some idea of the height reached by the Rogue can be gained from the background of the pictures, taken by Frank Jones, of Med ford. Governor was rescued after a sky-line was devised by Ernie Cooper and Delos Walk er, who operate garages in Gold Hill. The cable was at tached to Cooper's wrecker, instead of a Walker wrecker, as reported previously. At top right is a home on. the Jacksonville highway, en tirely surrounded by : water, one of several which were flooded on that route Wednes day night and Thursday morn ing. Next below is shown Bear creek as it appeared Thursday morning just below the Mc Andrews rd. bridge where the flume carrying the Rogue Riv er Valley Irrigation district canal was washed out by high water and debris floating downstream. Loss of the flume may affect irrigation on the west side of the valley if not repaired in time. The flume is scheduled for reconstruc tion in the current rehabilita tion project. Third from the top is shown what is . left of the diverision dam across Bear creek which funnels waters into the irrigation district's canal. The concrete structure in the center of the channel was one end of the right ab utment of the dam, most of which were washed away. Sec ond from the bottom is shown a deer which had been caught by high water, but managed and was pulled out of the wat er near the west entrance of McLeod State -park.. The pho tographer, Don Hinson, Eagle Point, said it was so exhaust ed it did not move after be ing rescued, nor when, ap proached to gei the picture. Because of its condition, it was placed in a pickup truck and taken to higher ground where it could dry out, recuperate and return to the woods. Oth er wildlife, and domesticated animals were not so lucky as the Rogue rose rapidly Wed nesday night and Thursday morning. The bottom picture shows Barnett rd., going east, just south of the Medford city limits, -where Bear creek spill ed over its banks,' flooding the road, fields and several homes. Such sights were not uncommon in the Medford vi cinity at the height of the flood. MORE POWER - Frankfort, Ind. U.R) The Powers boys are going to be mighty powerful in Frankfort come Jan. 1. Kenneth Power was elected mayor. Brother Sam is county prosecutor. Brother Ray, a fire department- veteran, is expected to be named fire chief. - - t - - - i lit ir F t ' ' ' ' - '. ' - MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIV1 V
