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.
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Jerusalem (U.R) United
Nations Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold spent the night
in an ancient castle midwav be
tween the heavily guarded fron
tiers of Jordan and Israel before
flying home to New York Sat
Hammarskjold drove to the
castle headquarters of the U.N.
truce supervisory commission
immediately after finishing talks
here Friday with Premier David
Ben Gurion.
Hammarskjold and Ben Gur
ion wound up their talks here
with a joint declaration reaf
firming in vaguely-worded terms
their determination to keep the
peace in the Middle East.'
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so- three teen-age youth took
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