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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ,hi-$$ . ... ir I PARADE OF PROGRESS The General Mo tors Parade of Progress will be at Hawthorne park in Medford March 24 through 27. The Parade of Progress Show Due in Medford March 24 General Motors Parade of Progress, an admission-free sci entific circus now on nation wide tour, will -be shown at Hawthorne park from 7-10 p.m. March 24, and from 2-10 p.m. March 25 through 27. The parade consists of scien tific, educational exhibits and a 40-minute "stage show, all por traying industry's achievements in the fields of chemistry, phys ics, electronics, engineering and aviafion. It tells how the Amer ican way of life has changed during the past half-century and how it will possibly be altered even more in the future. Medford will be the 134th city visited by the parade in its current tour across the nation. The show has 46 vehicles, in cluding 12 especially designed Futurlihers (streamlined vans with panelled sides that open to form stages), 11 tractor-trailers, 5 trucks, and 18 passenger cars which transport all the equip ment and personnel of the pa rade. Sixty men are required to operate the show. Jet Engine Major displays range from jet engines to basic principles of science, from synthetic rubber which is made in a pop bottle, to a demonstration of a motor that runs on sunshine and a Bate Lumber Firm Is High Bidder On BLM Timber Sales Bate Lumber company of Merlin was high bidder for three of the foirr tracts of tim ber offered for sale by the Bu reau of Land Management at their Medford office March 15. The four tracts, containing i an estimated 7,672,000 board feet, were sold for $343,730.20, or an average price of $44.80 per thousand board feet. In the first oral auction sale, Bate topped five other bidders with bids of $50 per thousand board feet for Douglas fir, $29.55 fof ponderosa pine, $40.10 for sugar pine, S9.40 for incense ce dar, $11.90 for white fir and $10.20 for western hemlock. The sale consisted of an estimat ed 2,687,000 board feet compos ed almost entirely of Douglas fir timber located in the Quines Creek, area of southern Douglas county. S47.25 for Fir An estimated 1,296,000 board feet of timber near Azalea, com posed almost entirely of Doug las fir, was sold to Bate Lum ber company for $47.25 per thousand board feet for the Douglas fir, $8.70 for incense cedar and western hemlock and S11.20 for white fir. Four other bidders competed. Dollar and Patterson com pany, Inc., Glendale, was the highest of three bidders for an estimated 3,539,000 board feet of timber on Dads Creek in Douglas county. About three fourths of this tract is Douglas fir. High bid was $45.50 for Douglas fir, $37.70 . for ponder osa pine, $33.55 for sugar pine, and $7.40 for incense cedar. t Windfall Timber Approximately 150,000 board feet of Douglas fir snags and windfalls located on Murphy creek, near Murphy was sold on a scale basis because of the dif ficulty of determining the sound volume in the snags, which were killed by fire in 1945. Bate Lum ber company bid $12 per thous and for this tract. Only one oth er bid was submitted. The next regular sale will be j held by the Medford district of j the bureau April 19, at which ' time two tracts containing . an estimated 4.857,000 board feet will be offered for sale. One tract is located on Coyote Creek in northern Josephine county and the other consists of salvage timber in the Sykes Creek burn area near Wimer. Additional information regard ing these sales may be secured from the District Forester's of fice in th Medford city hall. M4'V- if 1 stove that cooks food but never gets hot. Exhibits are of three general types, lecture demon strations, synchronized sound action animated exhibits and au dience manipulated exhibits. Lecturers will discuss jet en gines, principles of heat and cold, scientific fundamentals and how precision instruments aid in industrial progress. One Futurliner exhibit demon strates three-dimensional or bi naural sound. Another, "The World of Science," will illus trate forces constantly exerted on the human body. Heat and Cold "Miracles of Heat and Cold" exhibit show results of simul taneous 5,000 degrees above zero and 300 degrees below zero tem peratures. Voice and sound exhibits in clude those covering such sub jects as transportation progress in the past half-century, diesel power and metallurgy. Exhibits that can be operated by visitors to the parade include a demon stration of the relationship of engine compression and fuel economy. The main show, a science stage presentation in an aerodome tent, is given six to eight times daily, each performance lasting 40 minutes. This includes dem onstrations of electronics, chem istry, physics, aviation and engi neering. The aerodome tent, in which the stage show is given, is a structure having no ropes, poles or obstructions on the inside to block the view of the 1,250 peo ple it seats. It is built like an inside-out umbrella, having an aluminum frame on the outside which supports a fireproof "skin" of canvas on the inside. Grange LIVE OAK GRANGE The regular meeting of Live Oak Grange was held March 8, with Master Ray Frantz, presid ing. Third and fourth degree work, which was to have been given, was postponed to the next meeting night, March 22, and members and guests who attend are asked to bring sandwiches or cookies. The charter was draped in memory of Mrs. Nellie Robinson, who died March 7. Visitors to Live Oak Grange were Mr. and Mrs. H. Densmore of Gold Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Dee Hendricks. All are members of Phoenix Grange. During the lecture hour, Rol lin Taylor presented some pic tures of Rogue River, some of them taken when the city was known as Woodville. There was group community singing, readings by Pearl Len derman and Othella Strahan, and a skit given by Frank Hall and Henry Corbin. Edith Osborne was in charge of the committee serving re freshments. Murl Storms Returns From Portland Meeting Murl Storms, Medford office of the Bureau of Land Manage ment, has returned from a four day conference of forest pro tection and reforestation per sonnel in Portland. Men from the O and C dis tricts of western Oregon studied all phases of fire prevention on O and C timber sale areas and devoted one day to evaluating methods of investigating man caused fires and collection of damages caused by carelessly started fires. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Sunday, March 18, 1956 admission free, educational show, contains many exhibits illustrating American progress brought about by industry. Spring Registration Scheduled at College Ashland Registration for the spring term at Southern Oregon college will begin Monday at 9 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. the same day, Mrs. Mabel Wins ton, registrar, has announced. Because of swelling enroll ments each term and the need for more help in processing the enrollees, Mrs. Winston said the student body council would vol unteer its services. The group will be under the direction of Jim Womack, Klamath. Falls, SOC student body president. Student council members are Anna May Walters, Bob Anglin, Chuck Weir and Jack Rawls, Grants Pass; Walt Hurst, Glen dale; Ron Lamb, Medford; How ard Cain, Ann Munson, Klam ath Falls; Don Lowrence, Junc tion City, and Bob Myrkk, Ash land. Warnke Resigns From Medford BLM Office John C. Warnke, forester since 1950 for the Bureau of Land Management, in charge of the southeast unit of the Medford forest district, has resigned to accept employment with the logging and lumber concern, Puckett and Scherer, Klamath Falls logging concern. Walter Gavin is serving as act ing unit forester in the vacancy created by Warnke's resigna tion. Gavin is a graduate of the school of forestry of the Univer sity of California, and commenc ed work with the Bureau of Land Management in Medford in June, 1952. in means Building in Now that spring is here, new homes are beginning to grow up all over the Valley and builders predict another record breaking year in new-home construction. If you are planning a new home or planning to remodel the home you own now is the time to finish those plans an begin. And when you plan your building your budget is the first thing you'll think of. To help you get the money you need for your building and repairs, Jackson County Federal has home-loan plans to fit your needs and your budget. Jackson County Federal has helped build hundreds of homes in the Rogue Valley through easy, pay-like-rent home-loans. Jackson County Federal can help YOU build YOUR home SAVINGS p LOAN 126 East Main Medford Since IS04 Traffic Deaths Keep Pace With Accidents Salem U.R) Oregonians traveled a half billion miles over state roads in January and traffic deaths more than kept pace with travel on a per mile basis. Figures released by the State Traffic Division showed 5.4 per sons were killed in each 100 mil lion miles of travel this January compared with an even five deaths per 100 million miles for the same month a year ago. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry pointed out the death rate figures gave a very true picture of the state's traffic scene since it represented the number of deaths in relation to miles driven. Culbertsons Purchase Williams Creek Dairy Several real estate transac tions were announced last week from the Medford Branch, Southern Oregon Land company by G. G. Barbee and Ken Cal lison. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Culbert son, until recently of Medford, purchased a Grade A dairy on Williams creek in the Apple gate from Henry Bennett. New country .homes have been purchase in the Oak Grove school district by Mr. and Mrs. D. C. McMichael, who lived in Medford on Almond St.; Mr. and Mrsi) Jack Schiro, formerly of Beatty st., and Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Hill, Winchester ave. The latter couple will move to their new home in about three weeks. Wood Industries Topics Due for Talk at Session Subjects of interest to sawmill and construction men, and other users of wood, will be discussed in the wood industries division of the American Society of Me chanical Engineers at Multno mah hotel, Portland, March 19 22. 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