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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1956)
TWO MEDTORD (OREGOK) MAIL TRIBUKE ROGUE HIKERS Leaders and raemben of Boy Scout Troop 13 stand with lheir loaded pack sacki just before they itarled out on an 80 mile walking-boating hike along Rogue rier. The men and boy traveled from one Senate Passes Boundary Line Settlement Bill Washington o p Senate ia rd and - The :o the Win'" llot;r rnday a r"" a'--IhnrmiiC a 'ri..fri etwren rahf'Tiua and Anmia w Ihr ir nme'imei waiirlrnna boundary. l;r The rwi:'"i-rv ,b" Colorado . river. It has 'meandered' over j a !sr;r aroa in past years, com miTtPC reports said, but now ap- . Dears to tje iicd as a result of construction of major dams. The bill, in effect, would let th statr-s declare the present ; center of the river as the boun-; dary. Four Acres Burns Over In Fire Near Corvallis Ccrvallis 0J.P A fire on private land at Starr creek broke out Friday at noon and spread to four acres before being brought under control. Starr rreek is about 12 miles south west of here. Cause of the blaze was thought to be logging equipment. Fire fighters from the Polk-Benton fire district and loggers in the area were still on the fire line last night. Another fire was reported In the Lobster valley, south of Al ea. Friday afternoon, but was irt thought to be serious. saves tnte. . . cuts fa&or costs Your Ufll. rlor modern r.oii i-c e.-,t;.e ' -id can be v; 'i'ed s;deav$ I u o o ' i e inches) NOTf ho- t-e ! -b'ade tan be i ' .;-ei t : ' : 2 " '-. f .; a ;s -?i-v AND IMPLEMENT COMPANY Your FORD TRACTOR Dealer Since 1941 634 North Central Dial 2-6425 Two Boys Arrested For i T-.'.o 14- ear-old b ! from Medford and the one other from Ashland, were tinned over to juvenile auihorities Friday in ("nnrrtion with a burslary :-'mietin'P he' wen July 1 .1 and Juiv- 22 a' a two-loom frame hnncalnw 15 miles northeast of ; Ashland on Dead Indian rd. The sheriffs office reported tlieouths admitted entering the bungalow, owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Samuel Jordan. 143 Gresham Ashland, and tak ing several knives, a hatchet, ! three packages of cigarettes and a telescope. The items were val ' uel at approximately S75. Officers said the building was entered after a wire had been removed from the door of an ' adjoining store room. They also ; reported an attempt had been i made to force open another door ! BULL CHASED IN PENN. McKeesport. Pa. 'U.R' An 800-pound bull, unlike his coun terpart Ferdinand with his deli cate ego, made it to the packing house Saturday the hard way. George Katrick of nearby Port Vue downed the bull with a blast from a shotgun after it broke out of a pen at the Rendulic Packing Co. Friday, galloped into a wooden area and for two hours led police a merry chase. SO attc wore tractor become a fielcl-cai rier vlien fejli-'p'l with a Fb( k- Fork Li''. Von csn empl "pallet" methnrU for lo.idi earn in; and distrilniting field boxes, cratrs. or miscellaneous materials. Ex pensive Iiichway trncking equipment can be kept on the pavement. Loads iclletlrd and moved In tractor-carrier aie bioirlit to lo.nl-ide oi ilirr t froir) field, nn Inrd. nr inv ard to drvin jrd rierli. Labor cot may b r" t o,t or rP"rr he'? platform? nr palle's ate ufd. And our investment in equipment shrinks when tractor p)u low-cost fork lift does the work of costly highway carriers. Now available for the following tractors Ford, all models International "300" John Deere "40" Utility Ferguson Oliver "55" Tractor Sunday, July J9. 1S58 mile below he Grave ereeic bridge in Jose phine county to Agness where they caught river boat to Gold Beach. The adventure took a week, from June 23 to 30. Cabin Burglary I and three calmer ouncis naa been fired into the door. Ashland police and sheriff's deputies hae been working on the ca.-e. wiiiwmniw J. 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The 18 left the First Presbyter ian church in Medford at 8 a.m. June 23. transported by car into I Josephine county to a point about 15 miles northwest of Grants Pass. They left the cars and hit th trail on Hie north side of Togue river three hours later. They walked the trail, some what damaged by the high river stages and windfalls, camping overnight at improved forest camps. Arrive at Agnest Covering nearly 50 miles, scouts and leaders arrived at the ! apo boys pelted its members town of Agness the morning of w,in debris during the per the sixth day. Thursday. June 28. formance." They, made camp at Russian I creek "camp site, Keltey creek.! The first day of winter and tiie Jack Anderson ranch on ! shortest day of 195(5 will be Dec. 1 Mule creek. Brushy Bar (where 21. 3 Scouts, Five Leaders Hike Service Trail on i tn forest service map showed : an improved camp which, ac cording to the hikers, "wasn't there'';, and Illahe. Only one rattlesnake wasi sighted, w hich the bovs. as re - corded in the trip log kept by Bob Stokes, "made short work of." At Agne.ss they boarded a river boat and rode about half the way to the coast. They then dropprd off on a sand bar to camp for the night. Friday after noon they were again picked up by the boat and taken into Gold Beach where they were met the A WARY BAND Concord, N.H. UP' Mem bers of the Nevers Band, sched uled to give a concert at Rollins park, had the city recreation de partment issue a request that parents keep their children away from the bandstand. "The band," said the recreation department, "is concerned about playing at I Rollins park, where, two years EST CHOUSE THflOti NO DOWN PAYMENT ON APPROVED CREDIT NO PAYMENT DUE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15 SEE THIS PICNIC SPECIAL AT WATCH WESTINGHOUSE Rogue next day by parents and taken to Medford in cars. During the trek boys and men j lived on a diet of dehydrated ! ! food prepared by Bernard Food Industries Inc. A day s menu as prescribed by the company, in- eluded cornmeal griddle cakes for breakfast, mulligan stew for; lunch, and "chili mac" for din- j ner. ! Those On Hike Those taking the hike included ; Vance Welly. Gordon Pathmann, j Erny Pathmann. Dave Elmgren, ! Danny Coffin, Warren Skoog, Lonny Daugherty, Dick Morgan. Gary Ingram, Tom Wells and Jim Hensen. members of troop 13; Pat Pathmann. Rufus Young er, Dr. Ralph Hibbs, Dr. Jack Ingram and Bob Stokes, leaders. A similar week long hike is planned for the troop next year. Preliminary planning for the Rogue River trip this June was done by a planning committee including Mark Lawrence, a for ester for the Bureau of Land Management, and Roy Elmgren, forester with Elk Lumber com pany. Through Elk lumber, the boys were able to obtain dehy-1 drated food from the Bernard corporation. 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WHERE Woodland Farmers Gross $1,830,511 Salem Farm woodland own ers in the state received a gross income of SI. 830, 511 during the fiscal year ending June 30 from i the sale of forest products through the farm forestry as sistance program, according to Charles H. Ladd, senior farm forester with the state forestry department. Most of the income came from the sale of 63.643,000 board feet of timber, which brought $1, 394.773. Products aside from sawlogs included 6,155 pieces of piling and 22,000 fence posts, hop poles and bean posts, Ladd added. Minor products of the farm woodlands are gaining in im portance, the forester said. Dur ing the year the total income from Christmas trees, floral products, crude drugs, bark and miscellaneous items totaled S52, 052. HURRICANE DISSIPATES Mexico City (U.Ri The sea son's first tropical hurricane blew itself out Friday against the Sierra Madre mountains after causing light damage in the port of Tampico. 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