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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, July 18, 1937 VoimdoSism bstocie Dim MCTirotaMna r" ii mi ii i .i.-n Poirk Officials Tour Roxy Ann Butte To Determine Needs Vandalism has been a major obstacle to maintaining the pic nic grounds at Prescott park, city and county officials said Tuesday. The park is located on Roxy Ann butte east of Medford, and both . the park and road to it give spectacular views of the valley. Seven county and city offi cials made a trip to the site Tuesday afternoon to examine the park's condition and deter mine the extent of work neces ry to restore it as..an attractive (public picnic area, (fcroup Making Tour The group making the inspec- on tour included County Judge Rodney Keating, Commissioners Chester Wendt and Ralph James, County Engineer Paul Rynning, Kayor John Snider, City Man ager Robert A. Duff and Parks jpervisor Darell Huson. The park, established in 1936 . and 1937 by the Civilian Con servation Corps and since taken over by the city, has restroom 1 lacinties, picnic tables, water fountain and barbecue pit facili ties, xjui wiiiuuws 'oi me resi rooms have been broken, much of the cooking facilities dam aged or stolen, and sections of fence, which was installed around the grounds by the city last year, have been destroyed. Even refuse cans placed there were stolen or damaged, the -) officials explained. The lock to the gate had ap parently been shot off and the gate was wide open. A large, healthy looking cow strolled round the picnic area, feeding on grass and appearing totally unaware it was trespassing on city property. The drain near the fountain was clogged and water stood in puddles near the foun tain and elsewhere on the grounds. There is a large amount of poison oak, but the area seems relatively free of mos quitoes. Rebuild Roads Other work done by the city in the last year included rebuild ing roads and replacing a cattle . guard which were washed out in the December, 1955, flood. Last week, the Medford Jun ' ; ior Chamber of Commerce pass ' ed a resolution urging the city and county to provide better , development and maintenance ' for the park. They designated last Sunday as a Jaycee work day. ; The group painted the inside of the rest rooms, sprayed poi : son oak bushes with control ; material, installed one new table ' top and consolidated others, pitched and cleared pathways to ; the rest rooms and did some ; clearing work around the foun- tain. .Qftor Cleaning Slatad Next Tuesday night, the Jay ; ?es will meet at the park to q o more brush etitting. cleaning land drain clearing. ; City and county officials plan ja joint meeting soon to deter i mine what program, if any, can 1 be developed to improve the . j grounds. Several suggestions have been j ftiade so far. One is a plan for J constructing a cottage and keep ling a full-time caretaker at the Jpark. This plan would involve ' considerable expense, it has been pointed out, both for construc i tion costs and caretaker's salary. J Another Suggestion i Another suggestion is giving the county responsibility for road maintenance and the city j responsibility for patroling and cleaning the picnic grounds. This. too, would involve consid erable expense, especially if a police patrol car were required 5 to make frequent trips there. As . a means of defraying expense, it has also been suggested that a small admission be charged tfor each car entering the park. The officials seem to feel that - a large part of the maintenance 'problem could be solved if the ! public could be taught to respect 'the installations there as con veniences for picnickers rather 'than targets for eager riflemen O jnd vandals. t Carload Inspections Total 472 During June Salem W Some 472 car- j loads of fruits and vegetables were inspected at Oregon ship-1 ping point centers during June. : the State Agriculture Depart ment said today. Almost half or 225 carloads were potatoes inspected in the Klamath Falls district. Portland district accounted for 73 carloads, mostly strawberries for freezing, and Hood River ; cherries checked in at almost 70 carloads. i About 48 cars of potatoes ; were shipped out of Redmond district and another 21 out of j Ontario. The remaining items moved out of Salem and Med- j ford areas. 1 S' K , - - - - .f iff'' yHf 4 rr-' MAKE TABLE TOP Wil Robertson, Jim Asher and Cal McKibben, left to right, con struct a new table top for a picnic table at Prescott park on top of Roxy Ann butte during a work-day by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce last Sunday. Several Jaycees worked at the park to help make facilities more attractive for visitors. (Kenn Knackstedt photo). V - SPRAY POISON OAK Fred McLean and Hal Gardner, members of a Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce work-day party at Prescott park, sprayed poison oak in picnic areas Sunday. The spraying is part of an effort by the Jaycees help improve the park. (Kenn Knackstedt photo). CLEAR PATHWAY Four members of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce are shown repairing a small footbridge on a path to restrooms at Prescott park on Roxy Ann butte Sunday. They are, left to right, Al Holmes, Leonard Howe, Chuck Henry and Al Franzke. Another work-day has been scheduled by the Jaycees next Tuesday. (Kenn Knackstedt photo). Present Market Will Have No Effect on Firm's Plans Cave Junction John Hop kins, a director of Nickel Cor poration of America, said the present market situation for nickel will have no effect on corporation plans to build a refining plant here, if explora tory work now being conducted pioves the amount of ore war rants it. A recent article of A. Robert Smith, Washington correspond ent, pointed out the office of defense mobilization is not plan ning to buy more nickel for the nation's stockpile, and that ex port licenses are not currently available. Stating that the corporation viewed the present situation as temporary, Hopkins said "we have the utmost confidence in the government to deal fairly with domestic producers of nick el This situation will be cleared up and either export licenses will be available or there will be domestic markets." Smith's items said a 750-man plant was planned for 1959. Four drills are now working on Eight Dollar Mountain near Kerby and some 15 miles of roads . are being built for the drilng work going on there. Explorations have not ended on Woodcock mountain near Cave Junction, where cobalt, chrome and magnesium also have been found. Iron In considerable quantities has shown up in test work on material brought from Eight Dol lar Mountain. If the ore can be separated satisfactorily in solu tion, John H. White, vice presi dent of the corporation said, this may be an important devel opment in the local mining picture. Matl Trlnun Want Art? The Low Cost Way to Sell Eisenhower Waging Determined Campaign To Bring About Peace Washington OH President Eisenhower is waging a deter mined and heartfelt campaign to break down the barrier of U S -Soviet suspicions and bring about a truly peaceful world, administration officials said to day. His evident sincerity has deeply impressed America's friends abroad and has even gotten through to some foes. So viet Premier Nikolai Bulganin recently described Eisenhower as a man of peace. Two Women, Three Small Boys Drown Front Royal, Va. OB Two women and three 7-year-old boys, all related, drowned Wed nesday when their apparently overloaded aluminum boat cap sized in the Shenandoah river. An unidentified man and a woman swam to safety, accord ing to state police. The man made a futile effort to aid the victims, police said. The 1 2 - foot, flat - bottomed boat capsized only minutes aft er leaving a dock for a fishing trip on the north fork of the Shenandoah river. State police said the boat ap parently was overloaded. Eisenhower's latest effort to press toward easing world ten sions came "Wednesday when he told his news conference "There is nothing I wouldn't try experi mentally in order to bring about better relations." He made the statement when asked if he thought an exchange of visits between Defense Secre tary Charles E. Wilson and So viet Defense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov would be help ful. Eisenhower said it might. He said he "couldn't see any harm coming from a meeting between the two defense ministers if that could be arranged." He added a meeting "well might" lead to "something." Soviet Likes Idea The Soviet Embassy, which usually will not comment on anything, was surprisingly prompt in calling the idea a good one. "Of course it is," a spokesman told a reporter when asked. There was no indication the United States was about to for mally propose such an exchange. Wilson apparently had -not heard about the idea prior to I his press conference mention. Eisenhower himself seemed to I be commenting offhand on an idea newly brought up. HERE WE GO AGAIN! Yes, we are moving. We must have more space, thanks to you, and to all of our fine Assured. THE PLACE OFFICE PARK 1133 South Riverside, Cottage Number 6 In the same yard with the P.U.C. 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They said a higher casualty estimate of more than 2000 dead was based on unnecessary fears that typhoid and other in fectious diseases would spread through the area. Reservations Being Taken for Banquet At Festival Aug. 1 Ashland Reservations are now being accepted for "The Feasting of the Tribe of Will," the annual Aug. 1 banquet in Ashland's Lithia park which of ficially opens the 1957 Oregon Shakespearean Festival. Gov. Robert D. Holmes and several other state dignitaries have accepted invitations to at tend the P.M. dinner and enter tainment. Immediately after the banquet, the presentation of "As You Like It" will open the 17th season at the Festival theater at 8:30 p.m. 1 The public has been invited to the banquet at. a cost of $2.50 per person, covering both dinner and entertainment. William Pat ton, Festival general manager, said the deadline for making re servations is Monday, July 22. Arrangements can be made by calling the Festival box office at Ashland, telephone MUrdock 9-5111. Special invitations, lettered and phrased in the Elizabethan manner, have been sent to many persons, wishing them "good cheer," and bidding them to the banquet "before the acting of his (Shakespeare's) pastoral comical play called 'As You Like It.' " In describing the event, the invitation states that "The com pany is piped to , supper in the great park of Master Corry be side the water in Ashland town. . . . A fine dish of roasted meats, hot and hot, is served forth on the green, and new bread but tered, fresh from the oven; seal lets of garden greens, jellies and cheese, and all manner of creams and spiced stuffs for to warm the inward of mankind." 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