Plans To Utilize
Small Watershed
Law Here Discussed
A description of preliminary
planning now under way to take
advantage of the federal small
watershed law for the Bear
Creek drainage was given here
Friday noon at a meeting of the
water resources committee of the
Jackson County Chember of
Commerce.
Cleir, Ault, soil conservation
service technician with the
Rogue Soil Conservation district
said the measure provides fed
eral assistance to local groups
in providing flood control on
smaller watersheds. The em
phasis, Ault said, is not strictly
on dams, although small dams
can be constructed, but on over
all land management, including
timber and range management
and good farming practices.
Measures Help
Taken together, these meas
ures can help to take the peaks
off of floods, Ault explained, and
can go a long way toward elim
inating the destructive force of
floods, particularly if the iin-
poundments are tip high where
the floods begin.
Under the law, Ault stated,
the local groups bear part of
the cost of flood control works,
and all the cost of associated
benefits, such as irrigation, rec
reation and power.
The program is limited to
areas of 250,000 acres or less,
and the size of dams to 5,000
acre feet capacity. Plans for
dams larger than 2,500 acre feet
must have federal approval, and
all planning must show a favor
able cost-benefit ratio.
Benefit Mid-West
Ault said the law is designed
chiefly to benefit areas of the
mid-west, where high-value lands
provide a favorable ratio. He
discussed proposed amendments
which would make it easier to
justify such activity in the west.
Proposals to work out a plan
for the Bear Creek drainage have
met with considerable favor,
Ault reported, and much inter
est has been aroused. There is
a good chance for a favorable
benefit-cost ratio here, he said.
Planning is still in preliminary
tages, but the board of directors
of the Rogue district are taking
leadership in the project, and
the Izaak Walton league here is
assisting. The procedure is to
make application first, and if it
is approved, then the federal
government will conduct a sur
vey to determine feasibility.
First for Group
Friday's meeting was the first
gathering of the newly-formed
water resources committee, of
which Elwood Hedberg is chair
man. Subcommittee chairmen
include Norton Smith, soil con
servation; Shelby M. Tuttle,
Rogue river; Jack Hoffbuhr, ir
rigation, and A. D. Harvey, in.
ausinai water use.
Bob Root, Medford orchardist
and a member of the Oregon
water resources board, briefly
discussed the work of that
agency, and showed a map of
the Rogue river basin showing.
Further meetings of the com
mittee, which was set up to learn
all it can about water use and
problems in the area, will be on
call of the chairman.
Aerial Tanker Being
Tested by Air Force
Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
(U.R) The Air Force disclosed
that an aerial tanker which can
refuel three jet fighters or light
bombers simultaneously is be
ing tested here.
The Boeing KB50 will under
fo evaluation tests at the opera
tional test center here for three
months, the Air Force said Fri
day. Dead line Sunday Classified is at
at noon Saturday.
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AERIAL and GROUND DISPLAY
TUG of WAR BETWEEN POLICE DEPARTMENT and
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE A DEMONSTRATION
With Ladder Truck
DISPLAY of ANTIQUE CARS by MR. TUCKER
Senior High School
YEVSCA
Admission $1.00
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REFUSING comment, Greet
Hofmans, described as the
"faith healer" responsible
for rift in Holland's royal
family, still is seen at the
palace. (International)
Grange
Eagle Point Grange
A -potluck dinner at 7 p.m.
will precede the regular meet
ing of Eagle Point Grange July
3. Members are reminded to
bring a main dish an salad or
dessert.
This meeting is the deadline
for sales slips and each is re
quested to bring his at that
time.
A representative of the coun
ty extension office will be pres
ent to identify and talk about
weeds. Anyone having one he
has a question about should
bring a sample to the meeting.,
Lecturer C. C. Hoover has
plans afoot for a program that
he savs no one should miss.
Phoenix Grange
Phoenix Grange met June 26
at 8 p.m.
The lecturers' program pre
ceded the meeting and was ar
ranged by Dramatic Committee
Chairman Vaughn Quacken-
bush. He led community singing
of two old time songs.
Little Bonnie Simmons played
two piano selections and her
sister, Penney, sang accompan
ied on the piano by their moth
er. Mrs. Merle Simmons.
District Attorney Walter Nun
ley, a visitor, presented a reci
tation. A comedy skit followed
in which both men and women
of the Grange participated in
modeling ladies hats that would
be hard to describe but as the
announcer, Mrs. Bert Stancliff
stated "out of this world and
easy on the pocketbook."
Master Melvin Lattie called
regular meeting to order at
8:45 p.m.
Athel Dudley was reported
ill. Mrs. Marian Riegel told a
story on finding the good in
everyone, when others speak ill.
Brother and Sister Poling were
here for a visit. They are now
making their home in San Lean
dro, Calif. Each spoke briefly.
Lecturer Dee Hendrickson an
nounced the program for the
second meeting in July would
be put fin by the recreation com
mittee, Mrs. Al Floyd, chair
man. Refreshments of pineapple
fluff and homemade cookies and
coffee were served by the Gro-
chokis, Dudleys and Goods.
Butie Falls Grange
The Butte Falls Grange met
in June with a a good turnout of
members.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Stockton
were obligated in the first and
second degree.
A report was given on the
work days held, one at the cem
etery and two week ends on the
community hall. There was a
good turnout of members on all
these projects.
The HEC met at the home of
Mrs. L. Casey, with five mem
bers present. The next meeting
E WORKS.
Camp Benefit
Adv. Courtesy of
Uranium Prospector Guards
Main Street Claim in KF
, Klamath Falls (U.R) Ura
nium prospector Earl Sheridan
continued to guard his claim on
Main street here Saturday with a
shotgun, while a legal battle be
gan to protect his rights.
Sheridan, who has maintained
a constant vigil at 9th and Main
streets since Friday morning,
held a long conference in the tent
with his attorney, State Senator
Harry Boivin, yesterday morn
ing. During the course of the con
versation, held over the sour-
Racial Issue Among
Hems al NEA Meet
Portland tU.R) Racial
segregation in schools and the
fate of teachers who oppose seg
regation loomed large here Sat
urday as one of the chief issues
to go before the nation's school
teachers gathering for the an
nual convention of the National
Education Association.
A group composed of execu
tive secretaries of Negro teach
ers associations in southern
states called a public meeting
last night on the eve of the con
vention to outline their cam
paign for a definite NEA stand
on the school desegregation
issue.
A spokesman for the group,
called the National Association
of Secretaries of State Teachers,
Associations, said its aim would
be a resolution excluding from
national affiliation any teacher
organization espousing separate
but equal educational facilities.
He said they would also seek
convention approval of resolu
tions regarding dismissal of
Negro teachers and alleged dis
missal ,of white teachers who
publicly supported desegrega
tion in the South.
The NEA convention opens
here today with some 5,000 dele
gates and an equal number of
guests expected from every
state, Puerto Rico, Alaska and
Hawaii. Sessions will last
through July 6.
Texiron Plans New
Coquille Building
Coquille, Ore (U.R) George
A. Ulett, manager of the Coquille
Plywood Division of Textron
American, Inc., has announced
that the firm plans to construct
a second plywood plant at Co
quille. Ulett said that work on the
new plant, to be located adjacent
to the firm's present plywood
plant, will be started immediate
ly with hopes of having it fin
ished in five or six months.
Site of the new plant will be a
tract of about 14 acres purchased
from the Stonecypher estate.
The new plant will add about
8 million square feet of ply
wood a month to the present
plant's production pf 10 million
square feet. It will house a com
plete plywood operation, provid
ing jobs for about 200 men.
Green veneer from the former
Myrtle Point Veneer company
plant at Norway will be utilized
in the new plant. The Norway
plant was recently purchased by
Textron American, Inc. Ulett
said modernization of the Nor
way plant should be completed
in about 60 days.
will be a picnic in the park. All
ladies of the Grange are' wel
come. The next Grange meeting is
July 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dean and
Mrs. i Rose Arnt served refresh
ments. The serving committee
for the next Grange meeting is
Mr. and Mrs. Brit Ash and Mr.
and Mrs. L. Casey.
JULY
8:30 P.M.
Stadium
Children 50c
dough's breakfast of ham and
eggs, Sheridan signed several
legal documents. It was reported
that this was the first step tow
ard filing of a restraining order
in Klamath county district court
to keep the city from evicting
him.
Sheridan claims he is an heir
of the late George Nurse, found
er of Linkville, which later be
came Klamath Falls. He con
tends that although Nurse deed
ed property for establishment of
streets, he retained mineral
rights.
The real property in the so
called uranium area is now worth
about $3,000 per frontage foot.
"I haven't had time to explorer
all the legal angles," Boivin said,
"the whole thing happened so
suddenly. I am waiting for com
plete proof of Mr. Sheridan's
claim that lie is an heir to the
founder of Klamath Falls."
Eviction Attempts
Meanwhile, on the advice of
City Attorney Henry Perkins,
Police Chief Orville Hamilton
halted attempts to evict Sheridan
from the city's busy intersection
Sheridan, who has continued to
guard his claim with a shotgun,
temporarily suspended digging
operations pending outcome of
the legal snarl.
He has the support of many
local residents who have paused
to encourage him and offer as
sistance. "One woman told me to sit
tight," Sheridan said, "She offer
ed to bring me anyth"--? I need
ed, and we split the profits. I'm
going to stay right here. Aside
from the noise of traffic, I'm do
ing fine . . . and just think," the
prospector said as he put another
cup of coffee on the camp stove,
"I may be a millionaire."
Navy Rocket Sets
New Heigh! Record
White Sands Proving Grounds,
N.M. U.R) The Navy fired
an Aerobee-HI rocket 163 miles
into the air Friday to set a new
world's altitude record for a
single-stage rocket.
The Navy said the new record
was set because of design chang
es in the thrust chamber of the
Aerobee-HI an improved ver
sion of the so-called "work
horse" Aerobee.
The previous altitude record
for a single-stage rocket was
158 miles, established by a Vik
ing II in May, 1954.
Special radio instruments
housed in the nose of the rock
et shot back to earth scientific
measurements needed by the
Defense Department in its prep
aration for the international ge
ophysical year 1957-58:
A two-stage rocket, a combi
nation of a U.S. WAC Corporal
and a German V2, holds the all
rocket altitude of 250 miles set
here in February of 1945.
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Reds Make Public
Text of Lenin's
Political Will
Moscow (U.R) The Soviet
Union Saturday made public to
its people the full text of V.I.
Lenin's long-secret political will
recommending that Josef Stalin
be fired from the post of Com
munist Party secretary general.
It was the first time since
Lenin's death in 1924 that the
full text of his political test
ament had been published in
Russia. A Soviet Communist
youth organ had published ex
tracts of the testament earlier.
The text appeared Saturday in
Communist, top party publica
tion. Reference to the will was
made in the publication, Kom
somolskaya Pravda, several
weeks ago but the test was not
published.
In the will Lenin accused
Stalin of rudeness and thirst
for power. He asked that anoth
er Communist be appointed to
what was already becoming the
key job in the Communist
Party..
Lenin, the founder of the
Soviet Communist state, de
manded the appointment of
"someone more patient and
more loyal, more polite."
The detailed publication in
formed the Soviet people for the
first time of the full facts of
Lenin's assessment of Stalin
and that on his death bed Lenin
disowned the late dictator.
The full will's disclosure to
the Soviet people now empha
sized the determination of the
present Moscow regime to hold
nothing back in its effort to
discredit the one-man rule "per
sonality cult" of Stalinism.
The Lenin testament had been
common knowledge in western
countries.- It was published in
the 1920s by followers of
Trotsky and others.
But Stalin used his power to
prevent the publication of the
letters in Russia during his life
time. NINE ATTEMPTS TOILED
Columbia, S.C (U.R) Mar
riage licenses will cost $3 in
stead of $1 beginning Sunday, to
discourage wavering applicants
who might otherwise fail to pick
them up after the 24-hour wait
ing periods. Probate Judge A.
Ray Ninnant said one man "ap
plied for nine licenses with nine
different women and never pick
ed up a license to marry any of
them."
Would-Be Bigamist Foiled
Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Mrs.
Mabel Rumpel noted a familiar
name in a newspaper list of per
sons applying for marriage li
censes and promptly called the
district attorney. The name was
that of her husband, who had
been issued a license to marry a
Minnesota widow.
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Sunday, July I, IS5S
Gas Truck Sets Fire
To 10 Ohio Homes
Cincinnati, O., (U.R) A truck
laden with 7,500 gallons of gas
oline overturned and exploded
on a residential street here Sat
urday setting fire to 10 houses.
One woman, her homt threat
ened by the house-top-high
flames ,died of a heart attack.
Police said that the accident
occurred when the rear trailer
of a double-trailer Sunco truck
overturned and burst into
flames. '
Firemen said that Mrs. May
Barnett, 42, collapsed and died,
apparently of a heart attack and
shock, after she was taken from
her home.
Police said apparently no one
was injured in the accident.
Firemen, however, dug into the
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Gold, Silver Discovered
In New Mining Claim
Gold and silver were listed
as the minerals in a mining claim
filed with, the county clerk Fri
day by Thomas R. and Mildred
M. Murphy, route 2, Jackson
ville. The claim, named "Good Hope
Lode," is located in the Steam
Boat unorganized mining district.
wreckage to make sure that no
body had been killed in the fire.
. Ten buildings on both sides of
the' street were either set afire
or blackened.
Five automobiles were de
stroyed. Four of them were
parked along the curb and the
fifth was parked in a driveway.
The truck driver, Larry Whit
aker, 26, Cincinnati, jumped out
of the cab and ran for his life
as the flaming spray spread.
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