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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuedar, July 17, 1956 Advisory Board for BLM Tours Howard Prairie Reservoir Site Members of the 15 man O and C advisory board for the Med ford Forest district during an all day field trip and business meeting last week inspected the site of the 5-mile long. 2-500-acre lake which will be created with in 3 years through the construc tion of the Howard Prairie dam by the bureau of reclamation as part of the Talent project. Members of the board come from Gkndale, Grants Pass, Medford and Klamath Falls. They represent lumber, mining, recreation and livestock inter ests, union labor and the public at large and meet to advise the district forester for BLM con cerning the solution of land use and management problems in the Medford district. Five Counties The district includes Jackson, Josephine counties and portions of Klamath, Curry and Douglas counties. The Howard Prairie reservoir site is located south of the Dead Indian road between Ashland and Lake of the Woods. The dam will be a 90-foot hinh earth-fill structure which will store ap proximately 60,000 acre feet of water and create a lake to a depth of 80 feet at the deepest place. Present plans of the bureau of reclamation indicate that the fluctuation of the pool level will vary between 10 and 15 feet dur ing summer months. At the request of the BLM national park service personnel have made preliminary studies of three locations on the new lakeshore which should be de veloped for recreational use. It is planned that installation of minimum recreational facilities will be made as a part of the Talent project. These will be primarily on O and C lands. Bond Suggestions The board suggested that the state highway commission be ad vised of one particularly well located recreational site and asked if they would be inter ested in it as a unit in the state park system. The board is also studying the possibility of asking Jackson county to administer the public recreation area, or in contract ing it to a concessionaire who would be directly responsible to the BLM. A portion of the lakeshore will be made available for small tract leases similar to those cur rently being offered to veterans at Hyatt lake. Also, there will be lake frontage available for or ganizaiion sites. Members of the board also in spected the small tract lease lots at Hyatt lake and were told that approximately 100 applications had been received for the 15 sites which are currently avail able. Additional Funds E. K. Peterson, district for ester, reported that additional funds made available this fis cal year for the construction of access roads will result in a rapid speed-up of construction during the next few months. The construction will involve an extension of the Galice access road system and a section of new rod through the Rogue river drainage north of Marial. In ad dition a survey has been com- pleted on the West Fork Evans ! creek road in Jackson county and one is scheduled this fall for the proposed Keno road in Klamath county. Peterson also explained to the board details concerning the exchange of O and C and na tional forest lands in order to simplify administrative prob lems. The exchange was official ly completed on June 21. In the Medford district it involved ap proximately 156.000 acres of O and C lands and a similar acreage of national forest lands in five counties. Board members who attended included Eric Allen Jr., F. I. Bris tol, O. K. Puckett, A. C. Smith, L. L. Simpson, chairman, W. B. Tucker and Ted Wood. Guests were Hugh Moulton, Grants Pass, H. E. Geiger, Klam ath Falls. Judge Rodney Keat ing, Commissioners Chester Wendt and L. G. (Shy) Morth land and Engineer Paul Rynning of Jackson county, James Gal Ian, bureau of reclamation, Cole Rivers, Oregon State Game com mission, and Professor Dilworth, Oregon State college. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Orlando. Fla. The Rev. James Sibole. Baptist minister, on the eve of an operation which he believes will save his four-year-old son's life but cost him his eyesight: "Mike's a bright boy and I believe he will be able to accept this. He surprises you." Washington White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty when asked how he thought Mr. Eisenhower's first day back at the office turned out: "He iook il very well." .London Marilyn Monroe at a news conference: "I am the dumbest but not as stupid as they say." Moscow Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov on negotia tions to outlaw further testing of nuclear weapons: "Those who really want peace must turn from words to deeds." New York Shirley Ginsberg of Brooklyn, ordered to a hos pital for observation after telephoning the parents of kidnaped Peter Weinberger with phony tips: "I am emotionally upset. I was married for a short while, but I never had a baby. I studied psychology at college. There is noth ing mentally wrong with me." Amnesty Offered North Korea Reds Seoul, Korea (U.R) Presi dent Syngman Rhee today offer ed "amnesty" to North Korean Communist leaders and pledged to protect those who accepted against retaliations "by any foreign power." Rhee made the offer in a message to the peole of North Korea on the occasion of the Republic of Korea's eighth Con stitution Day. He coupled the offer of am nesty and protection with a warning that the Reds would "pay for their crimes" if they refused to surrender. His reference to "foreign pow er" apparently meant Commu nist China and Soviet Russia. Rhee warned that failure of the North Korean Communists to accept his amnesty offer meant that "the time will come when they will have to pay for their crimes." "With the entire Free World supporting our people," he said, ' the means of reuniting our country will be found. Melbourne was the first capit al city of Australia and served as such until 1900 when a new site, Canberra, was officially selected. Portland-Vancouver Bridge Work Slated Portland (U.R) Contrac tors building the new Columbia river bridge linking Portland and Vancouver said today that the river level is fast falling to a point where actual construc tion on the interstate span can begin. A timber walkway along the west side of the present Inter state bridge linking the two cit ies is currently underway. Plans call for construction of a sec ond bridge and reconstruction of the present span at a cost of $14, 500,000. The Guy F. Atkinson comp any holds a S6, 681, 840 contract for construction of the second bridge, to be located about 30 feet downstream from the pres ent crossing. Most piers for the new bridge will be built by digging holes in the river bed and lowering precast concrete shells into the pits. Concrete will then be pour ed into the shells. WATCH YOUR STEP Newfane, N.Y. 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BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Non-Profit Educational Foundation 37 West 57th St., New York 19, N.Y. Neuberger Speaks On Hells Canyon Washington (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), charged today that if the Sen ate defeats a bill to authorize a federal dam in Hells Canyon it "will mean a reversal of 50 years of conservation policy." Neuberger made the charge in a speech prepared for delivery in the Senate, which was tenta tively scheduled to take up ' a bill Wednesday to authorize the dam. An identical measure is pend ing before the House Rule com mittee. Neuberger charged that the Eisenhower administration is promoting public projects which produce high cost power, while leaving better sites for private development. He called the pol icy "organized plunder." House Rules Committee mem bers said no time has been set for completition of a hearing on the House version of the bill. The hearing opened Friday. A half dozen witnesses still are scheduled to testify. Thornton Sees End Of Multnomah Probe Portland '(U.R) Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today that he expected the grand jury investigation of al leged vice conditions in Multno mah county to end in a "rela tively short time," but added that it was not possible for him to say exactly when. Portland Police Chief Jim Pursell Jr., was back to testify before the grand jury yesterday. It was his seventh appearance. District Attorney William Langley apparently has escaped questioning by the panel. Thorn ton said the "grand jury, upon advice of the attorney general, has found it inadvisable to have Langley as a subpoenaed wit ness." During yesterday's session, about 10 Portland police officers were called before the jury, as the seventh week of the probe got under way. FAMILY BIRTHDAY De Smet, S.D. (U.R) -At least three members of a family here shouldn't have too much diffi culty remembering each other's birthday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Orville Bau on May 26. It is the birthday of both parents. ,,4 i-. tfilmmilfllillil' irWffliinwfHlM INJURED IN FALL, orphan squirrel is nursed back to health in Albany, N. Y., home where pet Boston Bull takes on job of baby sitting. (International Soundphoto) Circus Gone Forever; End of Colorful Era Comes To Ringling Pittsburgh (U.R) John Ring ling North brought down the Big Top of the "Greatest Show on Earth" early today for the last time. Down with it tumbled a world of excitement for small chil dren. And lowering of the mas sive canvas tent symbolized the end of a golden era in the his tory of entertainment. North doomed the big top of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Monday with the announcement that "the tented circus is a thing of the past." Remaining Dates Cancelled He cancelled all remaining dates for the season and said the show in the future will be "an almost completely mechani cally controlled exhibition." It will move indoors next year, into air-conditioned arenas. Only a small group of spec tators had turned out for Mon day's matinee performance. But after North's dramatic and heart breaking announcement was made known crowds surged un der the Big Top for the final night show. A feeling of nostalgiga had spread through the city. Grown ups evoked nostalgic visions of small boys sneaking into the show under the most convenient tent flaps and trudging on wet sawdust past the big cat cages into the main arena. But Ringling's words meant these days were gone forever. Many Sat on Ground Many of the 10,000 spectators sat on the ground in front of the stands. Others stood on the sidelines. The final show was delayed for an hour and a half to allow spectators to push their way under the big top. The circus ended its show with the usual glittering finale. Then the band played "Auld Lang Syne." Ringmaster Al Ta bor bid farewell to the audi ence at Pittsburgh and to those who would have seen one-night stands across the nation. As the crowd shuffled out, roustabouts prepared to lower the 70-foot-high tent. Guy ropes were loosened, stakes pulled and the 21 -ton canvas that houses the fantasy land of the "Greatest Show on Earth" was folded and stored away for ever Labor Will Discuss Labor Day Picnic Portland (U.R) Union busi ness agents of organizations af filiated with the Portland Cen tral Labor council were slated to meet Thursday morning to discuss a proposal for a big La bor day picnic to whip up en thusiasm for the November elec tion. Gust Anderson, council secre tary, announced the meeting last night at the weekly council ses sion. James N. Beyer, secretary treasurer of the local Office Workers union, announced that a contract covering nearly 70 of fice workers of the Orgeon Phy sicians' Service has been signed. Beyer said the signing was the result of nearly a year's organ izing work with employees. The new contract provides an aver age monthly pay hike of $30 for the workers affected. Jaycees Conducting Campaign for Safely Whllf heartily aporovlnii the rurrvit. flu-it your 5-lf Yr-ni, the On triil' Point J.iyto-s point out therf I .a a ahiirri country-wide in rrciiBf? in thr; number of ac cidenU Buffered by week end carpenters and handymen. The Jaycees are now conduct ing a "Be Prepared for Ac cidents" campaign in Central Point. In house-to-house calls, they are offering for sale a variety of first aid kits designed to meet household needs. The kits are supplied by Johnson and John son, through Ernie Kennedy of the Central Point Pharmacy. The profit made by sale of the kits will be used for organization activities. LONG RR SERVICE East St. Louis, -III. (U.R) An Illinois Central freight train crew that makes the run from here to Cairo, 111., has a com bined service total of 207 years. Engineer Walter House and con ductor D. E. Price have 45 years each; brakeman George N. Mon tague, 38 years; fireman C. J. Latta, 37 years; flagman R. S. Canty, 42 years. 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