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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-.
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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. ' "
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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. - -
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