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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February 12, 1958 Than 6,000 Youths Participate In Activities During Week rare Programs Range From Youth Government to PAL Boxing Matches "The tremendous activity pro gram for young people carried on through the schools, church es and other organizations, ha3 greatly contributed to the elim ination of juvenile delinquency in Southern Oregon," Medford Chief of Police Charles Champ lin said yesterday. Youth activity during the past week in Jackson county, rang ing from a youth government program at the YMCA to Police Athletic league boxing matches last night, more than substan tiated Champlin's statement. . 6,000 Participate It is almost Impossible to estimate the number of young people actively engaged in con structive youth programs last week but there were more than 6,000. "People don't realize," Champ lin'said, "the scope of activities provided for the youngsters in this area. The schools alone, through sports, drama, journal ism, and club work, give almost every youngster in the area an opportunity to participate in at least one activity." To name just a few of the activities engaged in "by the younger generation last week, 1,838 scouts participated in boy scout week in the county; 105 students from four cities took part in a youth government pro gram at the YMCA; about 170 business and commerical stud ents from county high schools took part in a Career day in an attempt to determine employer requirement; groups of high school students met to select delegates for a statewide Inter-1 national Relations league meet ing in Eugene; youth of nine churches held an interdenomin tional Christian youth rally at the First Methodist church; another youth rally was held at Church of the Nazarene; plans were made for a young people's convention to be held at Friends Church today; and seniors at Medford High school went through the last week of practice preparatory to present ing the senior play this week. Routine Activities The above list does not include the more routine school activi ties. Varsity, junior varsity and intra-mural sports, in addition to the regular physical educa; tion classes, give nearly every student a chance to compete in sports; drama clubs, activity on the school newspaper and year books; school sponsored bowl ing classes; driver training pro gram and the affairs of complex student governments all give students a chance to show in itiative and creative good citizen ship. ; A youth goverment program at the YMCA Feb. 4, brought about 105 . students from Ash land, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Medford together to select student government officers to represent southern Oregon at ' the youth legislature in Salem April 27-28. - .. -Government Discussion During the morning, students heard local government experts discuss areas where possible legislation is needed, and gov ernment procedure. In the after noon, the students held panels, with adult advisors, in an at tempt to work- out desired leg islation. ' . The students approved a bill that would require all babies to be issued identification tags, and would require all people to wear the tags in the future. It was felt that the tags would be val uable in case of disaster, either of a routine nature, such as auto acidents or drownings, or in the case of floods or atomic warfare. An attempt to introduce a Bill repealing income tax and substituting a sales tax, lost after heavy debate. A bill that would have reduced income tax in the lower brackets was re f erred back to committee. Flood Relief Measure The students, some of whom will actually take over the reins of state goverment April 27, suggested a flood relief measure on the state level. It was sug gested that a commission be set up to study flood relief and prepare a type of state flood in surance. Another bill, which was killed in committee because of adjourn ment, would have required that all motor vehicles be inspected bi-annually to ascertain that they were mechanically safe to op erate. It would have been un lawful to operate a vehicle un less it bore a special tag, show ing it had been inspected. Many of the committees did not get an opportunity to pre sent their bills to the floor be cause of the shortage of, time. "The meeting was adjourned for swimming and recreation while they still had a heavy docket of legislation to consider," Frank Van Dyke, former speak er of the state house of repre sentatives and one of the adult advisors said. "It was just like the real 'thing." Scouting Sunday Today is Scout Sunday and marks the end of Boy Scout Week. Boy Scouts of the .Crater Lake . Area council, in many cases will attend church as a group today. Most churches will have special scout services. Scouts wore uniforms during the past week in honor of the "Onward for God and Country" program. Blue and Gold dinners and potluck suppers were held for many cubs; scouts and ex plorers. An annual scout recognition dinner was held at Jerome Prairie, Monday. Scouts and ex plorers held a district court of honor Wednesday at McLough- lin Junior High school to make awards -to outstanding, troops. Window Displays Window displays prepared by scouts to tell a scouting story were placed in many business establishments. The displays were judged and special awards were presented. Jackson county 4-H groups have been recognized by 4-H officials' as some . of the . most active in the state. During the past week, they heard reports from an Interna tional Farm Youth Exchange delegate who returned recently from Greece. She showed slides to local 4-H groups and discus sed farming procedures and problems in Greece. The IFYE program, in which Jackson coun ty has participated actively for several years, is designed to provide a medium of exchange of ideas among farm youth. Friendship Follies 4-H members also last week made plans for a Friendship Fol lies program Feb. 21. The follies will include square dance train ing and 'information for begiri ning club members. Nathan C. Douthit, and Miss Vicki J. Noel, both of Central Point, were chosen winners of the annual Elks Youth Leader ship contest last week. Winners for the contest were selected on a basis of leadership, citizen ship appreciation, perseverance and resourcefulness. Three other high school students won honor able mention. About 175 students from sev en-high schools in the county met Monday at the First Meth odist church for a career day. Local business men met with the young people, all of whom are taking business and commerical courses in high school, in an attempt to help them determine what employers expect from the people they hire in their offices. Questions Answered Businessmen , answered such questions as: What is your at titude' toward secretaries who smoke? What is your opinion of coffee breaks? How much emphasis do you place on ap pearance? What typing speed do you require an employee to have? Dou you prefer students to learn a definite bookkeeping method, or simply to have a A....... TO SPEAK HERE Ivan Con- gleton,- Oregon State . Junior Unamber or commerce presi dent, will speak Tuesday at a noon luncheon of the Medford Jaycees. at .ttie Rogue Valley Country club. He was recently named junior first citizen for 1955 by the Portland chapter. (Highlights, oirest During ddcqI veots of Wcoftio 1955 Are levi A review of activities in the favored to the exclusion of oth- and watershed Values, was the Rogue River National forest dur ing 1955 was released last week by Jack H. Wood, supervisor. . The report follows: The year 1955 marked the Golden Anniversary of the Unit ed States Forest service. One of the major Forest service respon sibilities during that 50-year pe riod has been the protection and management of the national for ests in a manner to afford maxi mum long term use and enjoy ment of their resources by the general public to whom they. belong. The Rogue River forest was created by presidential procla mation in 1893. It is managed for a variety of products including water, timber, forage, recreation and wildlife. Under this multiple use principle no single use is Among Heart Diseases Main Causes Of Death In County Last Year Diseases of heart and circula tion and of cancer and tumor were the main causes of death in Jackson county during 1955, according to a report released by the public health department. Other causes high on the list were respiratory, 43; accident and violence, 33; early infancy, 29; diseases of digestive sys tem, 16; and genito-urinary sys tem, 12. ... Brain tumors claimed five lives; ill defined causes, four; diabetes, three; diseases of the blood, two; and one each for in fluenzal meningitis, acute en cephalitis, Weills disease and senility, making a total for the year of 569. . Age Groups Listed - By age, 283 deaths were of persons over 70 years; 130 were 60-69; 68 were 50 to 59; 23, 40-49; 9, 30-39; 12, 20-29; 4, 15-19; 3, 10-14; 3, 6-9;- 5, 1-4; and 29 under. 1 year. -; Total live births in the coun ty totaled 749 males and 701 females. . Ten .were born at home and two each in doctor's offices or enroute to the hospit al. ... Illegitimate births are not reg istered in the county, but are sent directly to the state regist rar. . ' - Death rate for 1955 was 8.6 per 1,000, a decrease from ..the previous year. Present popula tion as estimated by the vital statistics division on July ' 1, 1955, 65,790. , , - Landscape Clinic Set By Couniy Agent Here ' A landscape clinic to assist county home-owners in . home beautification will be held Mar. 8 and 9 in the courthouse audi torium, it was announced yes terday by County Horticultural Aeent C. B. C.ordy. Landscape architects assisting with the work will be Prof. I. B. Solberg, Oregon State college; Mrs. Fred Lorish, Medford; Chester Corry. Ashland: and George Fradeen, Grants Pass. ' Half -hour appointments for the free professional advice will be available. The clinic is for planning basic landscape plant ing, either for those, with new homes and no plantings, or for those with established yards who need help in rearrange ment. - It is designed to help owners of modest homes,. Cordy said, not for those with acres of land to prepare. Those coming to the clinic should bring photos of their house and yard and a scale drawing indicating location of the . house in relation to its sur roundings. Particular plants de sired or undesired should be listed in advance to save time during the half-hour interviews. A display of shrubs and plans will be available in the auditor ium. Rodney Olson Named For Bank Education Rodney Water Olson, 1351 Kings hwy., a 1956 Medford High school graduate, has been selected for the Work College program sponsored by the .Unit ed States National bank, Allan F.- Perry, Medford branch man-. ager, has announced. . Olson, who has started train ing at the bank, will receive a $1,000 college scholarship and a guaranteed position with the bank after college graduation. Under the Work College pro gram Olson will alternately work a year, with a mandatory savings plan, and go to school for two years. The bank will pay. tuition and text book expenses. The program i was started , in 1950 by U. S. National and is open each year to outstanding high school senior boys. Selec tion is made on the basis of teachers' and principal's recom mendations and final' tests and interviews given by the bank, Perry said. generalized knowledge of theor ies involved? How many words per minute dictation . must your seffretary be able to take? A full 'evaluation of the an swers to those and other ques tions will be realeasd later in an attempt to help students de termine what qualifications they will need to compete for jobs in the business world. '- s This man knows, for he is wise, Flowers win favor in her eyes. And you can please your Valentine ' With flowers -fresh and fair and fine. Pick 'em here for someone dear. Phone 3-1733 4 ' Flowers O Gifts 26 SOUTH CENTRAL We Send WIRE Anywhere Your Satisfaction . Guaranteed. We take pride in every flower order ' Rogue Floods Subjec Of February Magazine An article s by Cleo (Butch) Gilchrist, Gold Hill, on t h Rogue river floods appears in the February issue of the Ideal Cement Mixer magazine. Pic tures of the flood progress and rescue of Barney Govenor from his home on a river bar accom pany the article. r Gilchrist reports that the Ideal company hydro-electric plant at Gold Hill felt the "full impact of the flood's crest," and that employees are "bending every effort to get the "plant back in service.' Packhouse Foreman Earl Moore, an amateur archeologist, had a field day, Gilchrist writes. for "water washed out an Indian grave, and he found a skeleton and some arrowheads and he killed a rattlesnake on Christmas day..." WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Variable high cloudiness Sunday; little change in-temperature; north to northwest winds 12-25 MPH near" coast. -. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. ', ; . v ers. In all uses and forest activi ties the basic resources, soil and water, are given primary consid eration.- ' . 1955 HIGHLIGHTS AND EVENTS Timber Timber harvest for the year totaled slightly' more than 126,- 000,000 board feet. The estimat ed allowable cut under sustained yield is 103,000,000 board feet. The slight overcut this season balances an undercut which has accumulated for several . years. Approximately 14,000,000 board feet of the total cut came from salvage of windthrown disease and insect killed timber. ' . There were 84 individual tim ber sales during the year, 48 of which were in amounts of less than $2,000. Bidding for national forest timber was more competi tive this year than last and in a number of instances, purchase prices were well above appraised values. Watershed Studies Ashland canyon and its re sources are being given special attention and study. This portion of the national forest furnishes the city of Ashland its entire supply of domestic water, by far the most important single use to which the area can be put. Tim ber cutting has never been per mitted in the watershed and there are few roads in the area Much of the timber is now ma ture or older and is increasingly susceptible to disease and in sects. The resulting death and decay of timber is an economic loss to the community. The in creasing fire hazard created by. dead and down timber is of even more significance. The existence of this fuel coupled with inac cessibility makes control of for est fires more and more difficult, There is good reason to believe careful, conservative manage ment of the watershed can fur nish both timber and water with no ill effect on the water produc ing capacity of the forest Experiment Planned The Forest service is planning an experimental sale of timber. not in. the watershed itself, but in an adjacent drainage having similar forest and soil conditions, Harvest of the , timber will be handled with special attention to safeguards of watershed values, If results indicate that timber harvesting and water use are compatible, for this soil type and other conditions, the way will be cleared for careful; orderly har vest of mature timber in the Ashland . city watershed. With the harvest .will come improved access and reduction of fire haz ard, the greatest single threat to any watershed. Water production; will remain the primary purpose of the 11,000 acre area. ,,' Reforestation Planting of 700,000 ' seedling trees on 1,000 acres of cutover land was accomplished in 1955. During the last four years, 4,758 acres have been logged by clear cut method. Of that, total, 3,082 acres have been planted. The re mainder of the cutover area was satisfactorily situated for refor estation from natural seedf all. The Forest service has had en couraging ; results, from experi ments, in chemical control,: of brush competition to tree repro duction. -If such 'control proves economical, it will open the way to reclaiming thousands of acres of brush fields on old burns with in the forest. Many of these old burns were taken over by brush years before the national forest was created. . '. Fire Control Up to the first of September the forest experienced 29 fires with a burned-over area of less than 45 acres.' On Sept. 4 and 5 a series of dry lightning storms. passed over the forest, starting a total of 43 fires. Total area burn ed was 540 acres. The largest fire covered 273 acres. Smokejump ers were dropped from the' air on 13 of the blazes. One of the main reasons for rapid control of the fires, and the resulting low loss of timber prompt and wholehearted assist ance furnished by local citizens and the lumber industry. Their unstinting cooperation in our time of need was one of the high lights of the Rogue River year. Slash-burning An important activity associ ated with national forest timber sales is the periodic disposal by burning of inflammable debris resulting from logging. This usu ally is done after fall rains have made control of such fires prac ticable. 1 " There are two reasons for burning slash; first, controlled burning of debris reduces risk of future wildfires starting and reaching disastrous size. The sec ond reason is to clear the ground for the planting of trees and to provide favorable seed bed for natural seedf all. During the year, 1,600 acres of slash were burned. Recreation and Wildlife More people visited the Rogue River forest in 1955 than ever before. Recreation has become a major industry in southwest Oregon: and is a rapidly expand ing use of this national forest. Forest recreation is available to all ' and , the fewest possible re strictions are placed on use and travel. The steadily increasing use makes it difficult to keep abreast of campground maintenance and repair needs because of limited budgets. .This year a small addi tional recreation fund was made available to the forest. It was used to furnish additional pub lic forest camp facilities at Four Mile" lake, . The Forest service continues to .cooperate closely with the Oregon State Game commission in matters pertaining to fish and game habitat on national forest land. Late in the fall, the game commission carried out a pro gram of trash fish poisoning at Lake of Woods. The project was reported a success and it . is planned to replant with trout "in 1956. Grazing The Rogue River forest fur nishes important summer range to 7,415 head of cattle and 4,100 head of sheep. Permits to graze these animals -were issued to 99 livestock operators.- The basic consideration in use of the range resource is the utilization of the forage without impairing water shed or other forest values. Engineering Maintenance was done on 480 miles of road, 653 miles of trail, 30 of telephone line. Three per manent bridges were built," and construction was started on a span across the main Rogue riv er on the National creek .access road. i Location and construction sur veys were completed on 30 miles of timber sale roads. Loggers built 40 miles of access road under timber sales contracts, The December floods damaged Plan Training Class For Phoenix Firemen Phoenix ' A basic training school for the men of the Phoe nix Fire Department will be held at the Fire hall. Starting Tuesday, Feb. 14, classes will be held' each second and fourth Tuesday for five months. Febru ary meetings . will be " held, be tween 7:30 and 9:30 pjn. with a possible change in time for the summer months. ' ' , The classes are financed by the city and federal government, so there will be no added ex pense to members for training. Vernon Ritchie of the Med ford Fire department will be in structor and will cover all phas es of fire fighting. He said Tues day night's meeting -, will be mainly devoted to organization and that subsequent meetings will be devoted to needs of equipment, men and the city. . County Disaster Car Gbup Plans Meeting Fund-raising activities and promotion methods will be dis cussed at a special meeting of the Jackson County - Disaster Car organization at 8 p.m.: Mon day in the main fire hall, ac cording to Vern Watrud, presi dent.. . '.-'' '."''" Watrud said members ' of the group and others interested are invited to the meeting. Salem (U.R) Gov. . Elmo Smith has designated Feb. 12-22 as National Defense week Oregon. in roads, bridges and other im provements on the forest in the amount of about $60,000. Many of the damaged areas are inac cessible because of snow and repair will have to wait until spring. , Mining Claims The last of more than 330 pre viously contested mining claims in the Union creek area involv ing nearly 60,000 acres were in validated after u public hearing procedure last spring. The ac tion restores full national forest status to all the lands involved. A revision to the general min ing laws was passed by the Con gress July 23, 1955. The bill was supported by American Mining Congress and many conserva ,tion groups. Its provisions in clude reservation of rights to timber, forage and other surface resources to the people until . patent is issued. Access across claims also is provided and materials such as common sand, gravel and pum ice are removed from the pur view of the mininff laws. The bill has been heralded as a sig nificant forward step. -O & C Exchange The Congressional O & C Ex change act passed in 1954 will - federal land status. On a number of national forests of western ' Oregon, O & C lands are inter mingled extensively with Forest service lands. The exchange act , directs the two . agencies to ex change such lands with the ob-' jective of eliminating the inter mingled pattern of ownership to simplify and improve adminis tration. The exchange is process ing rapidly and completion goal has been set in June, 1956. Receipts , , - Public forest business on the Rogue . River National forest through the sale and use of its ; resources in' 1955 brought in $1,834,210. Of this, 25 per cent is returned to ihe counties in which the forest lies. During 1955, Jackson county received $184,567 and Klamath county received $163,260. Lesser amounts were paid to Josephine, Douglas and Siskiyou counties, which contain a small part of Rogue River forest. All five counties received addition al proportionate amounts from the other national forests which lie within their boundaries. -' El9IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFfnm : SONOTONE All-Transistor HEARING AID WHAT IS IT? ,( In simple -terms the . Sonotone transistor Hearing Aid is a very small . perfectly engineered in-v- strument. It. is most economical to operate and easy to wear. The only thing that your friends could possibly notice about it is the. marvelous change in your II hearing and your entire per- sonality. v WMI Ml. " $$$$ Medford's Oldest Hearing Aid Institution C. R. 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