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o O o o O G e O co o O O O 0 o o o O . ' , Renewed Interest Seen in Brookings Port Following Federal Grant for Development Brookings 3enewed interest Attention should be focused iners. in a Chetco Cove port at Brook- the upper Rogue valley and the .Grayshel pointed cut that dur-ings-Harbor has eome more coastal areas of Curry and .Del ling the last year of operation of intensified here -in recent years! Norte county. Calif., it stated. the former dock at Brookings, 76 and more recently with. a federal Probable Freight' " j vessels cleared with lumber car- grant to start port. development I Presentation -of probable goes, for Sao Francisco. But.be- and a commission to handle the freight from the lower Ro('u cause the dock was a private en might be a determining factor for realignment of Highway .101 and for improving transporta tion facilities to eastern valleys, the paper wrote. The paper continued: "It is more than probable that recent sonic sounding; by the U.S. en- about" a demonstration of the . gineers will show thr-fe has been need for a port at Brookings- i little or no .'ilting of the Brook- (brief was presented to engineers Harbor. ' " - j ings roadsted where the old dock IHowever, fishing, shipping, lum About 10 vears ago; the Brook- nd anchorage area used to be. ings C h am b e'r of Commerce jThis lack M silting into the area started exploring possibilities of I should be born in mind- when business. t . In an article in the Brookinas Harbor Pilot, which is publish ing a series of stories- on the background of development of the harbor, the editor -notes that "it is up to the people of the Checo mouth area to 'bring terprise, Army engineers de clined to offer assistance for-de-velopment of the port. Hearing Held In 1050, interested citizens be gan attempting to jnterest Army engineers in the project. A hear ing was held then at which time oral testimony and -a revised reviving ocean commerce trom the area. Letters were forwarded to various prospects for an ex pression of attitude in reference to docks at Brookibgs and access to the upper Rogue vallxy. Upper Rogue Valley comparing the Port of Brookings with other ports along the coast which require expensive main tenance costs and frequent men aces to dependable navigation." Charles Grayshel a few years ago listed several points which Many of the Inters were ad- furred previous consideration UUl VVIML1I QIC IIUW (.HOICU UfJ dressed to the upper Rogue val ley, inviting residents and busi nessmen to discuss possibilities of a, .port at Brookings. An in terest was expressed .in the idea, according to the Brookings-ilar-bor Pilot. , , . But the rmttter was dropped because BrookinRs Chamber of Commerce members Incused at tention in Brookines. -which started growing rapidly. They believed at the time, that they should concentrate their atten tion on problems prising with the development of Brookings. Since the recpnf federal grant, and forraation of a commission for the port, possibilities firr de veloping a port here have changed for the better. Facts and figures concerning the potentialties of volume and variety of freight, both .Jnbound and outbound, should be accu mulated, the Pilot pointed out. considerably by establishment of a port district with commission- ber and mining people failed to provide 'sufficient data to war rant favorable recommendations from the Portland office. In July, 1952, Congressman Harris Ellsworth and representa tires from the "Portland .office of Army engineers met with the Brookings Chamber to acquaint Army engineers with proposals for improving the mouth of the Chetco and the development of a port. Engineers expressed an opinion that a Brookings port This is the Year of the OLDSMOBILE GOLDEN ROCKET Arriving Here NOVEMBER ? ' o " - n Darreil Miller Co. 415 S. Riverside O This year th Accent's, on OMs rrobile' You'll love the ' new '57 Olds, featuring great new Rocket Engine, Wide-Stance Chassis and the stunning new low-level look! See it in our showroom November 9. if-, 1K J V, Pn ' i ON THE FRONT Israeli radio operators keep in touch with headquarters as armed forces move forward during the. Israeli thrust into Egypt. With Egypt's refusal of an , Anglo-French ultimatum for a cease-fire, a huge fleet Was dispafehed eastward-in the Mediterranean toward possible occupation of the Suez Canal area. . School News "V Builders Supply CfcsN QUALITY WWWA BLOCKS Bricks. Flues. Drain Tile 727 . W. McAndrew Phone 2 4107 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport HEDRICK JUNIOR JilGH By .MAHY MILNE Bill Jacobs, instrumentalist, appeared at an assemfily Friday, Not. 2, at Hedrick Junior High .school. Jacobs, a .former band i teacher, was once a member of ' Paul Whitman's band. " i He played the marimba and snare drum. He also played sev eral unconventional, instruments including frying pans, bottles, bells, and horns. His puppets. Sharpy and Flash, i played the marimba and his j marionette, Tito, tap danced 'on a percussion instrument. Af.ter Jacob's performance, the student body .had a pep meeting in preparation for the" varsity game with McLoughlin, Friday afternoon. The freshman class won the competition yell. The Hedrick band. under the direction 'of Ron Bartlett, play ed several marches and novelty numbers including the popular "Don't -Be - Cruel." Six Hedrick speech students participated in the Medford Community Day Service at the LET BANNERS WAVE Chicago (U.R) Richard Sten gel, Democratic candidate for U.S. senator from Illinois, vog- j orously protested against the al leged removal of "Stengel for Senator" banners along the high ways. "These.are acts of despera tion and should be seased imme dately," he said. First Christian church Friday, Nov. 2.' The students are John Frohnmay.er, Mikell Thurston, Paul' Moore, Ken Carpenter, Douglas Kliever, and. Darlene Hunt. They are 'from Jerry Mc Dougall's speech class. The students gave the same Community Day program on the radio and on television during the week preceding the World Community Day Service. Two Kil!edrThree Hurt in Accident ' Vancouver, Wash (U.R) Two Clark county residents were killed and three others were seriously injured just north of here Friday night when .the car in which they were rid ing careened "put" of control on Ludlum road, struck a power pole and .then crashed into a ditch. Thrown out of the car to their deaths were Miss Nathal Leone Holmes, 20, of Vancouver, and Gordon Miller, 19, of Yacolt, Wash. The shertff'i office identified the three injured as Fred Schmidt, 20, and John Wright, 21, both of Yacolt, and Miss Frances Frye, 19, of Vancouver. Miss Frye was the most seri ously injured of the three. Her condition was described as critical had economic value . Later in 1952. Senator Guy Cordon advised the local harbor committee to prepare complete arid- detailed information and make personal presentation at Washington, D.C. ' The plan included a road from Brookings to connect .with .the market area of Hie upper Rogue alley. - - . Results of Survey .In January,' 1953, Grayshel prepared the results of a survey he had made f the port. He noted then that a complete brief should include: 1. The nature and extent of improvements giving depths and widths of channel; and harbor area; . 2. The" number and type of vessels which are now and. would be accommodated in the future. including draft of ships;. ,3. The, annual commerce in tons,, anticipated, with origin and destination, and estimated sav ings in transportation costs; 4. Location and nature of term inal; facilities considered neces sary; 5. And the amount of local cooperation to be expected. Grayshel also suggested that there should be included in the brief- the estimated amounU of rough lumber, finished lumber, plywood, veneer and other prod ucts. The estimated amounts should include industries in Jack-. son and Josephine counties as well as coastal counties which would be served by the port. Lumber Shipped Grayshel found that at the end of 1954. an estimated 11,250.000 board feet of lumber was being shipped from the immediate area per month. Most of it was. going, to southern California. He esti mated that shipping lumber from Brookings for about $15.30 per thousand board feet would be a saving of about $9 per thousand by water transportation to Los Angeles. t He also observed that a port would attract other industries to southern Oregon, and possibly open up vast mineral deposits a few miles from the port. Grayshel also noted . that . a Brookings port to provide low cost transportation for lumber industry waste products,, would possibly attract commercial fish ermen, and provide better trans portation facilities for agricul tural products from inland val leys. Canned Peari He said it was within reason, to forsee "piggyback" transit of canned pears from Medford to dockside at Brookings, then by water to the east coast, and a "backhaul" from eastern cities of supplies for this area. To accomplish possibilities of the port, Grayshel listed several factors which should have con sideration, and noted that resi dents would have to pledge their full support to the program. He said people as far east as Klamath county should be con tacted. ' Grayshel advocated as a start for consideration increasing the Brookings chamber to 250 mem bers: increased membership dues to finance the promotion pro gram.; promote and assist in forming a tax league and proper reassessment in Curry county; sponsor a reforestation program; and hire a secretary-manager for the chamber to carry out the promotion- program. ) Editors of the Pilot noted that residents should accumulate ac curate data on existing and po tential ' needs for dependable ocean transport from Brookings. The next step, they noted, would be to get an appropriation for Army engineers to make a study of the feasibility of a Brookings port. Dutch' Physician Starts 3rd 'Life' . Pittsburgh (U.R) A Dutch physician is. beginning, a third "life" in America, interning at a Pittsburgh hospital. " Dr. Douwee Lukas Radsma, 35, who left Medical school in Amsterdam ' to fight the Nazi during World War II and then moved to his native Indonesia to supervise a hospital, is now completing a one-year internship to practice medicine in Pennsyl vania. Radsma was a 22-year-old med ical student in 1943 when the Nazi tried to ship him to Ger many for. forced labor. Het bolt ed from, his guards and joined an underground resistance move ment. But his free-Dutch activ ities were short-lived. "Tie Gestapo picked me up' m a raid, he said. "They thTew me in a prison for three-and-a-hajf months and then nine more months in a concentration camp. I escaped from a prisoner "train, bound for Germany." . Radsma said he looted Ger man, administration offices after his escape and soon had the ma terials for a forged set of identi fication papers' . Back To .Holland After the war, Radsma com pleted his education and then re turned to, his family in Jakarta, Indonesia. He became Supervis or in a hospital and did malaria control work for an oil company. "I also did a lot of, minor sur gery," he aaaea. -Alter an, i was the only doctor there.". But Indonesian s dislike for their former "rulerj, the Dutch, forced Radsma, his 'wife and four year old daughter to leave, he said. Radsma took his family to Holland where' they . are now waiting for his call. He then boarded a 'ship for a new life and a new land, the United States. Dr. Radsma ia very enthusias tic about internship in Pitts burgh's Shadyside hospital, and he has made adjustment to new ways easily. 'Oiir system in Holland is dif ferent from yours," he said Everything is on a much larger scale here. Your interns use much more lab equipment, and they work independently. Sunday, November 4, 1958 ' MEDFORD (OREOCN) MAS. TRIBNEnVEQ FORTY WINKS Henry Cabot Lodge (left) U. S. represent tative to the United Natkns is caught taking a nap while. . Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (right) appears sol: emn during the UN General Assembly in New York. The General Assembly approved overwhelmingly an American-sponsored resolution demanding that Britain, Franca and Isreal stop fighting against Egypt. ' ' O Interim Committee To Makenal Draft Salem- (U.R) The Legist tive interim Committee on EleC? tions will mee here Ncft 12 to consider the dfinaP draft of its recommendatiansoto the 1957 Legislature. The committeeoC)Plans to hold a public hearing later in November on its draft report. . Extensive revisions of Ore gon's ,election0co$e are being recommended ctoy ie committee. Why? 0 o O Why doet CrHarlei O. Por ter's Republican opponent take credit far aiding proj ects such at Chetco River appropriation when even former Curry County GOP chairman Ed Ac k ley states, "Ellsworth Vd nothioghto do with it"? D Answer: Vote for a Democratic Representative w tu trait rad b proud of: . CHARLES 0. PORTER our nominee for Congress Pd. Pol. Adv., PORTER FOR CON GRESS, Robert W. Stnub, 858 Pearl St, Eugcno, Oregon Medford Bidder Low . For Post Office Work Stanley G. Parrish of Med ford, with a bid of $1,190, was apparent low bidder for im provements to the. federal post office here, according to James O. Rasband, chief of the con struction and repair division, Public Buildings service, Seat tle. Lorentz Brunn, Portland; was the only- other bidder. He sub mitted a bid of $1,851. VOTE" FOR MAYOR - 2 YEARrERM o o 0 o o o 128 x PAUL J.SELBY Pd. Pol. Adv. Sefby for Mayor Committee Committee Slates High School Visits The High School-College He; lations committee of the Ore gon System of Higher Education will visit Rogue River High school at 9 a m" Nov. .5 and Jacksonville . High school at 9 a.m. Nov. 7, it was announced Saturday. . The visitation team will con sist of a representative from the state institutions ' of higher education and a representative from Oregon Technical Institute. Executive secretary of the com mittee is- Francis Nickerson, who is headquartered with the Board of Higher Education at Eugene. An assembly has been called at each school to explain gen eral college preparation and re quirements. Later sessions are held to discuss specific require ments of the different institu tion. Parents and interested public are invited to attend the meeting, school officials said. This visitation is offered an nually as a regular part of the guidance program carried on in the high schools to help stud ents in the area of college and other post high school training. U. S. freight train speed aver ages 18.6 miles per hour. Uie Mall Tribune Went Adi The Low Cost Way to Sell -Vt "-- h , ' SSlf "Sit' fc ejjjiea. J . ID U IM IS o Representative (X) ROBERT B. DUNCAN for State Representative "GOOD GOVERNMENT IS YOUR BUSINESS" . o Pd. Adv. Duncan for Legislative Comm. Ward Spatz, Chm. P.O. Bax 4T Medfore Facte on Nitrogen Fertilizing & . o L ; ' it The Strength Factor Nitrogen fertilizers vary in nitrogen content. Trie richest source of nitrogen available to plant roots is NH3 (anhy droits ammonia). For example, this fer- ' tilizer contains 82 nitrogen morg than four times as much nitrogen by weight as water.solutions of ammonia nitrogen. Shell NH3 is" guaranteed full strength 82?; nitrogen: That's one" reason, why Shell NH3 Service is your SURE way to fertilize- with nitrogen. ' " 0 c; " MEDFORD PHONE-2-6181 MEET MARY KELLY AND MRS. WAYNE MORSE AND HER FAMILY! Monday, 6:25 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. KBES-TV Pd. Adv. Jacksoq County Democratic oCentral Committee4 Larry Sheehan, Chrm. Every businessman : . W should expect a, full measure To expect and give aa accurate count, weight, or ineasuremenUn buying and selling merchandise or services is the foundation of business success. That's true in newspaper advertising, too.' 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