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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, May 13, 1957 Bill Authorizing $12,600,000 in Bonds for Highway Passes Senate Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate late Friday passed House bill 802 authorizing the State Highway department to sell 512,600,000 In bonds. While the measure does not say so in so many words, there is an understanding between the department and the sponsoring legislators that the money will be used to modernize and straighten the Gold Beach Brookings section of the Oregon Coast highway to eliminate the numerous curves and narrow stretches on the present "mule trail" route. The new highway, which will be closer to the ocean than the old route, will shorten the road distance between the two south ern Oregon coastal cities by some eight miles. Sen. Andrew J. Naterlin, Newport Democrat, said that the measure was practically the same as Senate bill 308 which previously passed the Senate. The House bill was substituted because Deputy State Treasurer Morse Claims $10 Billion Can Be Cut Philadelphia (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said. 10 billion dollars could be eliminat ed from President Eisenhower's 71-billion, 800-million dollar bud get without endangering the na tional economy or world peace. Morse told a news conference Friday before addressing the 20th quadrennial convention pf the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers the cuts could be made primarily in military and foreign aid spending. The senator said he was ''fed up' with the presidential scare crow that any cuts In this budget threaten peace or the economy of the country. He is saying that to defend the inefficiency of his administration." Morse said there is a "shock ing waste of manpower in the armed forces, but that this was to be expected from a man steeped in military waste." Morse said he will withold his vote for foreign aid, "for any country able to take a loan rather than a grant." Plane Blast Hurtles Pilot Through House Portland, Ore. U.R) The body of an Oregon State college student, whose rented plane ex ploded over Portland, plunged through the roof of a house here Sunday, narrowly missing two persons inside. The victim was Willis Allen Wood, 19, of Salem, Ore. His body plunged through the roof of a house owned by Fred G. Thomson, landing within a few feet of Thomson and his 10-year-old daughter. The plane was rented - by Wood from Krietzberg Air Serv ice in Salem, Witnesses report ed that the plane made some sputtering sounds and then ex p 1 o d e d. scattering wreckage over a 12-block area. Cause of the crash was not determined. Fred Paulus expressed belief there would be no question of the legality of the bond issue if it originated in the House where most fiscal matters originate. GoTernor Gets Bill The measure now goes to the governor for signature. The Senate debated at length House bill 678 to allot county fairs and other exposition! more money from state racing reve nues. Sen. Philip Lowry, Med ford Republican, expressed be lief that the tax on pari-mutusl betting should be raised, and Sen. Phil Brady, Portland Dem ocrat, said there should be no allotment to the Pacific Interna tional Livestock exposition be cause it is operated by a private corporation. The measure was re-referred to the State and Federal Affairs committee after Sen. G. D. Glea son, Portland Democrat, said an error had been detected that might render the measure un constitutional as it stood. House bill 594 appropriating $90,000 to set up a community college program In Oregon passed the House 48 to 9 late Friday. Now to Sanat The bill, sponsored by 27 rep resentatives and 17 senators of both parties, now goes to the Senate where it was expected to have an easy time. Rep. William Grenfell Jr., Portland Democrat, and Keith Ekelton, Eugene Democrat, car ried the bill on the House floor. Only opposition came from Rep. Joe Rogers, Independence Democrat, who questioned whether the money should come from the basic school support fund as provided in the bill or from the general fund. Rogers said the community college program would surely expand in the next few years, putting a drain on the basic school fund which is designed to support elementary and high school education. - "Sooner or later we will have to transfer to the general fund," Rogers warned. He voted for the bill. Grenfell said the community college bill allows school dis tricts of more than $20 million assessed valuation and at least 300 students in high school to establish community colleges. After hearings, the people would vote on the college which would also have to be approved by the Board of Education. Community colleges in Ore gon were badly needed, Gren fell said "to battle the tide of rising school population." He said California now has 63 jun ior colleges with 100,000 full time students while Washington has 10 such schools. GiT Two Yaara Study The colleges would be de signed to provide two yeari of education beyond high school with a regional social-economic accent. Education could be vo cational or lead to more ad vanced study. Skelton said that two-year community colleges would not compete with higher education institutions, but would take the pressure off them and allow them to concentrate on upper Every forester knows that the two worst enemies of trees in times past have been fire and ma chines. Horse logging in the old pineries was commonly good for estry, except where fire hazards were left. It was the stump blast er and land clearer who wrecked the forests of the Lake States, killing seed trees with fire and sending the fertility of the forest soil up in smoke. Then, in the Douglas fir, the logged lands were generally re stocked before the 1920 s. Bull team logging went slowly through every timber tract, giv ing the stading timber time to reseed the cutovers. Ground lead logging was nearly as good, but it left more hazardous fuel among the stumps. But the big machines of the high lead and skyline shows tore up the coun try and smashed the logging left overs to flinders. Today little machines, tractors and trucks, represent a trend back to bullteam logging. Fire iighting machines are potent on the stump lands and an protect ing the new crops. Helicopters serve in death-dealing spraying of brush and in artificial reseed ing. Yet evil abides in machines, as it does in explosives. Th First Dyno The founder of the race of "powder monkeys," according to revered timber history, was one Hercule Le Bon, no Swede. He was first of all a stump shooter. North Dakota was due to him. There he followed up Paul Bun yan. the Blue Ox and the grand daddies of all loggers so effic iently that he shot every stick of a seed tree and root of a stump clean off the scenery. This was natural to Hercule Le Bon, as his first blast with the new invention had been to dynamite an aching , stump of tooth from the jaw of faut uunyan a stump which for size can be rarely matched in the Douglas fir. The story of Her.-ule Le Bon is for another time. The point to be made here is that ever since Hercule's great North Dakota job other men of the woods have tried to equal it. Many have starved trying to blast out stumps and turn the best forest land on earth into something like North Dakota farm land. Ther is no sense, of course, to the idea of making more country like North Dakota. But that is not the idea of our Douglas fir stump shoot ers. They are just trying vainly to beat the unbeatable record of the daddy of all stumping pow der men, Paul Bunyan's own great and good Hercule Le Bon. Th Troubla Twins Only in medicine has science truly added to the values of hu man life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But what can medi cine do with a Europe, and an Asia hopelessly starved and dis eased? Or with the modern fac tory as a plaque house of neuras thenia? Ar with the automobile which makes the highway an abattoir? The human heart was not built to withstand the strains that the machine age imposes on human beings, who die like flies from heart disease. Here again medical science seems helpless. Explosives and the machine are the Trouble Twins of hu manity. Such is the meaning of the fable of the first use of high ex plosives by the noble and brave Hercule Le Bon. He relieved Paul Bunyan of an .evil tooth stump. But then he left North Dakota without a tree. And fi nally some ape shot, a boulder out of a hollow log with powder and war was invented. division and graduate work Section 29 of the bill would allow the Central Oregon Com munity college at Bend to come under provisions of the bill as the state's first community col-! lege. Other possible locations for community colleges are Pendle ton, . Baker, Medford, Grants Passj Lebanon, Astoria, Coos Bay, Gresham, Oregon City and Beaverton. Another important education measure passing' the House was House joint resolution 31 call ing for an interim committee to study educational problems. HORNBROOK-COPCO Ohlunds Return From Trip By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Ohlund returned about 10 days ago from Portland where they spent a two week's Easter vacation visting their son and his family, 'Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Ohlund and four children. It was in Portland that the el der Mr. and Mrs. 'Ohlund were married and made their home for 25 years before moving to Hilts some 10 years ago, and to Hornbrook after his retirement several years ago. While on their recent trip to Portland, they also reunioned with several old-time friends. Shortly after their return, Mrs. Ohlund entertained two tables of bridge. Guests were Mrs. Fred Bayliss, Mrs. Florence Clark, Mrs. Jack Clark, all from Med ford, - Mrs. Harry De Jarnett, Mrs. Clarence Barrett, from Ash land, and Mrs. Barrett's sister, Mrs. N. Fraser, from Texas who is visiting her. Also, on Wednes day May 8, Mrs. Ohlund was hostess at a luncheon for the lo cal Auction Bridge club. Mem bers playing were Mrs. Lester Nye, Mrs. Grace Quigley, Mrs. Bertha Bradley, Mrs. Will Rog ers of Klamath river, Mrs. Em ory Parshall, Mrs. Kay Kettle well, Mrs. Henley Clawson, and guest players were Mrs. Laura Swinnerton, Mrs. Fred Mills who held high score, and Mrs. Archie Winders of Santa Rosa who placed second. Twenty-four members and friends of the Methodist church attended the chicken pie dinner given Saturday evening at the church. Occasion for the dinner was the visit of the Rev. W. H. (Ben) Gould, of Chico, district superintendent of the northern conference of the Methodist church. At the meeting which followed the dinner, election of officers and committees for the ensuing year was held. Trustees elected were S. D. Haworth, Frank Ward, Frank Graves of Hilt, W. A. Rutledge, and L. E. Jeter. Among other officers elec ted were Mrs. Wayne Cummins as Sunday school superintend ent, and Mrs. Minnie Blooming camp and Mrs. Clara Howard, communion stewardesses. ' , Mr. and Mrs. L. Everett Jet er spent last weekend in Sacra mento where they visited her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Renfro. On the way down and back, they visited their son, Bill, a student at Chi co State college, and their daugh ter and sin-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Campbell, also of Chico. Mrs. Archie Winders of Santa Rosa, Calif:, is making her an nual month's visit with her sis ter, Mrs. Bertha Bradley, and Mrs. Will Rogers of Klamath river. The Women's Society ' of the Methodist church held their reg ular meeting May 9 at the church with Mrs. Laura Swin nerton and Mrs. Mary Taggart as hostesses. Devotionals were led by Mrs. Swinnerton and Mrs. Henley Clawson, and the presi dent, Mrs. Clarence Gowing, con ducted the meeting. The next meeting will be held on Thurs day, May 23 at the home of Mrs. Minnie Bloomingcamp. Mrs. D. M. Horn returned Fri day after spending the past five weeks visiting friends and rela tives in San Francisco,. Burling ton, Richmond, Marysville, Sac ramento and Nevada City, COPCO NEWS Copco The Pinochle club met May 1 at the home of Mrs. Ruth Rohl where prizes were won by Mrs. Jean Chappel and Mrs. Florence Park. On 'May 8 the meeting was at Mrs. Chap pel's home. High prize was won by Mrs. Addie Turner and sec ond high by Mrs. Alta Crandall. Others playing were Mrs. Wal tina Friday, Mrs. Ruth Rohl, Mrs. Florence Park, and the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stewart and her sons from Tokettee Falls, Ore., were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Turner and family. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dillion and family were guests of Mr, and Mrs. Norris Chappel, en route from Monterey, Calif., to their home in Hood River, Ore. Mrs. Dillion is a sister of. Mr. Chappel. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Friday and son visited relatives in Etna, Calif., last week end. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Trullinger spent May 1 at Prospect, Ore., where they visited relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Winterhoulder, and friends. On May 8, the Trul lingers and their four sons drive to Grants Pass on business, and while there visited friends, Mr, and Mrs. Marvin Sargent and children. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Rohl and sons visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rohl here last Sunday. Neuberger to Oppose Bennett's Nomination Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)- said Saturday he would oppose the nomination of Elmer- F. Bennett as Interior Department solicitor because of Bennett's "outright discrimination against the Pacific Northwest, where exists about 35 per cent of all the potential water power iri the United States." Bennett was nominated to the post by President Eisenhower. The nomination is before the interior committee. Neuberger said the administra tion's power policies are against the best interests of Oregon and the nation. He wrote Murray that he could not "vote to con firm for a high post in the In terior Department anyone who will advance or perpetuate that policy." However, Neuberger said, his objections were based on " pub lic policy" and had "no reference at all to the character and per sonal honesty" of Bennett. Hammarskjold Spends Night in Jerusalem OLD RHUBARB Cheboygan, Mich. (U.R) Frank Smith, 76, plans to eat rhubarb pies this summer from plants he estimates are 125 years old and have been moved five times. "My folks had the rhu barb a long time before I was born," He said. When he moved from his boyhood home in Hol land, Ohio, he took four hiils of rhubarb with him. The plants have since been moved to 'Fre mont, Ohio, to Creek, Adrian and finally, to Cheboygan. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Ycr koiiw has ton growing in mora than population I (Hav you figured Hs vauo iofefy?) At your family has grown, the value of your house and your possessions probably has, too. A new Travelers Package policy will protect your home and all that's m it at its caih value today. And you pay substantially less than for separate policies. 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