TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, July 18, 1937
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Iran Earthquake Toll
Seen About 7.250 Persons
Tehran, Iran OP) About
1,250 persons now are believed
to have been killed by the earth
quakes that struck in northern
Iran during the paat three
weeks, officials said today.
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estimate of more than 2000
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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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