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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.
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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.
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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
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Since
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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. Representatives from various
phases of the profession will
speak and field trips will round
out the program, according to
George Atherton, reporting rep
resentative of the Wood Indus
tries Division, ASME.
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