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Construction Highlights Season for
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39-Foot Tower Is
Built Under Old
Cinnabar Lookout
Construction of a new tower
under a lookout house, a new
type lookout house and work
on improving recreation facili
ties highlighted the season in
the Rogue River National forest.
A new 30-foot tower was built
under the lookout house at Cin
nabar mountain which required
raising the house three feet
from the top of the old tower.
T. C. (Buck) Flory of Medford,
contractor, used treated timber
in the new tower, and jacked
the house up during the con
struction. The new ground lookout at
Halls point in the Union Creek
district, about six miles north
west of Prospect, is a flat-roof
type structure with a three-foot
overhang.
Forest service officials said j
the new type structure will
eliminate conventional shutters,
which are raised during the fire
season to reduce glare from the
sky. The three-foot overhang in
the new building will reduce
the glare. Shutters will be of
a light-weight type to ' protect
windows during the winter.
The roof is reinforced to pro
vide strength for supporting
heavy amounts of snow, officials
said. They indicated that the
snow depth may be lessened on
a flat-roof type structure by the
wind blowing across the top.
Construction of a new dwell
ing at Butte Falls Ranger sta
tion is expected to be completed
in December. Contractor for the
work is the Rogue Valley Con
struction company of Medford.
A. E. Fitzgerald of Klamath
Falls has been awarded a con
tract for construction of a tim
ber sale officer's residence and
lookout tower at F. Klamath.
Forest service officials said the
lookout tower will be elevated,
and will provide a lookout for
forest service land to the West
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TEMPORARY LOOKOUT A new lookout house on Halls
Point, about six miles northwest of Prospect in the Union Creek
Ranger district, has replaced this temporary structure. Gee
Brown is the lookout.
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NEW LOOKOUT This new flat-top lookout
structure recently was finished on Halls Point
in the Union Creek district of the Rogue
River National forest. The three-foot over
hang eliminates heavy shutters, which are
in the mountain region. N
Several new projects have
been initiated under "Operation
Outdoors," the forest service's
project for improving recrea
tional facilities in national for
ests. New roads have been com
pleted at Fish Lake Forest camp
anil resort, and at Aspen Point
and Rainbow Forest camps at
Lake of the Woods. Tract sur
vey and planning work is being
done for Farewell Bend Natural
Bridge and Woodruff Meadows
Forest camps in the Union Creek
district, at Fish" lake in the Ash
land district, and at Rainbow,
Aspen and East Side camps at
Lake of the Woods.
Rogue River National forest
officials reported a favorable
fire record this year. A total of
27 fires, 22 of them man-caused,
were reported covering a total
of one acre.
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I Contributing to the low num
ber of fires was the absence of
severe lightning storms. The
average number of fires per
year over the past five years has
been 72.
Timber resource reinventory
work is being completed in the
Union Creek district, forest
service officials noted. It also
is being done in the north por
tion of the Butte Falls district.
The reinventory will be the
basis for the recalculation of
sustained yield capacity. From
it will be derived the corrected
allowable cut of timber.
During the reinventory work,
NEW TOWER Shown above is the new tower constructed
under the lookout house on Cinnebar mountain. The house it
self was raised three feet above the top of the old tower. The
light-colored pole in the center is one of the poles on which the
house rested.
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IMPROVE FACILITY This is one of the signs installed by the
forest service indicating where work is being done to improve
and enlarge recreational facilities in the Rogue River National
forest. Improvement work during the past season included con
struction of a, new road to the Fish lake campground area.
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used on older lookouts to reduce glare from
the sun. Lightweight shutters will be used in
the winter to prevent windows from breaking.
130 permanent sample plots
were located and measured, and
future remeasurements of the
same trees used in the reinven
tory will provide information on
growth and mortality. Reinven
tory data will be placed on
punched cards and calculations
will be by International Business
Machines.
Planting on national forest
cutover lands got under way
with the fall rains, forest serv
ice officials noted. Before snow
becomes too deep, the service
expects to have 870 acres plant
ed with 440,000 two-year-old
seedlings.
Revival Resulted
From Changes in
Figures, Style
When the square dance caller
today asks couples to "square
'em up," he is inviting dancers
to a revived form of entertain
ment which has carried only a
portion of the past to the pres
ent day.
For there is a great difference
between square dancing today
and the form which was popular '
a generation or so ago. Some of
the basic calls have been retain
ed, and in some areas, even the
old-style dancing is done during
an evening. -
But the majority of today's
square dancing is a "moderniza
tion" which has resulted in a
revival of square dancing
throughout the country. Basic
steps and figures have been
added, and the style of dancing
changed to provide a smooth
flowing movement of entertain
ment. Major Change
Modernized square dancing
started about 10 years ago when
a caller in California decided
something should be done to
preserve what was becoming a
thing of the past. He initiated
one major change into square
dancing which has been one of
the major factors in reviving
and preserving it.
That was eliminating the old
"visiting couple" type dance,
and bringing all four couples
into the square dance figure.
In the "visiting couple"
dances, one couple would do
the figure with another couple,
and so on around the square,
while the other two couples
remained idle. Each couple
would do the same thing with
each other couple. Since two
couples were idle throughout the
dance," except perhaps at the
start and finish, square dancing
began to lose its popularity.
Four Couples Active
Now, however, instead of just
one couple doing a figure, and
progressing around the square
individually, two couples do the
figure. This brings all four cou
ples into the dance, and no one
couple is standing idle waiting
for its turn to dance.
There have been many other
changes in square dancing, all
of them to help the dancer enjoy
dancing more.
Seldom today are square
dances held in the "old coun
try barn" with dancers cos
tumed in calico and overalls;
seldom also are dancers engaged
in a frollicking elbow swing, or
Hearing Scheduled
At Friday Session
On Indian Problems
Salem (IP) A public hear
ing on Klamath Indian reserva
tion problems was called for 7:30
p.m. Nov. 14 at Salem at the
interim committee on Indian af
fairs Friday.
Sen. Lee Quiring, permanent
chairman of the group, said U.
S. Sen. Richard Neuberger, Gov.
Robert D. Holmes, Reps. Al Ul
man and Walter Norblad would
be asked to attend, along with
Indian representatives and other
interested parties.
At a meeting here Friday the
committee was told by Dr. Vin
cent Ostrom, University of Ore
gon professor, that any settle
ment of property rights for the
Indians if the reservation is liq
uidated would have to include
money for rights not normally
paid for in purchase of land.
They would be treaty rights
of the Indians to fishing and also
rights to one million acre feet
of water.
In the past, courts have also
held that Indians have hunting
rights with a definite economic
value, Ostrom said.
Ostrom, a political sceince
professor, suggested that the
state might file an injunction de
laying termination of the -reservation
in 1958 until the Secre
tary of the Interior could make
a full study of the value of In
dian rights.
Andrew Jackson, seventh pres
ident of the U. S. was once held
a prisoner by Great Britain dur
ing the latter periods of the Rev
olutionary war.
DR. LEE MELLISH, D.M.D.
Announces the Removal
of his office from
Medical Center Building
to
836 East Main St.
Suite 1
BEGINNERS A series of beginners square
dance classes is starting at Square Corral by
Doug Fosbury. Persons interested may still
enter the 15-week course, which will be held
POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT Square
dancing has become popular with thousands
of people throughout the country in the past
few years, and is increasing in popularity in
southern Oregon. Above, Ray Hagemann of
the intricate clog step, as di-
picted by some.
Good Floor Necessary
Regular dance halls with
"slow" floors are used by a ma
jority of square dance groups
in southern Oregon. A good
floor 4s necessary since the mod
ern dance is smooth, and danc
ers keep in time with the music
with a walk, or "shuffle" step
!by sliding their feet on the
floor.
There is no special dress sug
gested for square dancing today.
Dance instructors advise low
heeled shoes and some type full
skirt for women, and stress that
being comfortable is important.
Western style dress has been
retained by many dancers, both
in men's and women's costume.
Public address systems and re
cordings for callers have been
among the greatest factors in
providing a variety of square
dances, and in the revival of
square dancing itself.
Public Address System
A generation or so ago, the
caller mingled with the dancers,
shouted the call, waited for the
figure to be done, then shouted
another figure. Today, the call
er, usually on a platform at one
end of the dance hall, uses a
public address system. He
watches the .dancers, and can
adjust the patter calling to the
dancers.
The caller today depends
largely on recordings by profes
sional square dance bands. At
many large dances, like the re
cent state festival, a professional
square dance band is retained
to provide music.
Callers may know as many
as 100 to 150 dances, and oppor
tunities for learning more are
almost unlimited. Between 10
and 15 new square dance figures
are written each month, giving
both the caller and dancer some
thing new all the time.
Patter, Singing Calls
New dances include both pat
ter and singing calls. A patter
call is a figure called to any
hoedown-type music and the call
itself is done in a rhythmic
chant. The singing call is - a
square dance figure written to
the tune of a popular song, such
as "Poor Boy," "This Ole
House," or "Marianne."
The majority of new dances
are ' a ' combination of basic
square dance figures, some of
which have been retained
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through the revival. Quite often,
a new figure is developed, work
ed into several dances, and later
becomes a basic step. -
During the past 10 or 12
years,- there have been several
figures which have become
basic, such as the "allemande
thar," "waggin' wheel," and
"cross trail through." Figures
like "allemande left," "grand
right and left," "do-pa-so," and
"docey do," are carry-overs to
the more modern trend.
Combination of Figures
The combinations of figures
are so written that the dancer
is comfortable while dancing.
They are written with both en
tertainment and relaxation in
mind. Square dancers are en
couraged to, relax and not take
dancing as serious as they would
work or square dancing loses
its recreational purpose.
Members of the Rogue Valley
Square Dance Callers association
conduct classes to teach basic
figures to beginners. One such
class started recently at Take
It Easy lodge on Savage creek
near Rogue River by Ran Hage
mann. Another class for begin
ners is starting at the Square
Corral at Camp White by Doug
Fosbury, who plans to conduct
a 15-wcek course. Another be
ginners class is planned at the
Square Corral in the near future.
Qualified Personnel
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each Wednesday night at the Camp White
building just off Highway 62. The above pic
ture was taken during the first of three pre
liminary sessions.
Rogue River calls for a dance at Take It Easy
Lodge on Savage Creek near Rogue River.
Callers today use public address systems and
recordings by professional square dance
bands.
Upon completion of a begin
ners class, students have a
knowledge of basic figures suffi
cient to dance at any square
dance.
The Rogue Valley Squar
Dance Callers association, which
includes callers from Grant
Pass, Medford, and surrounding
area, was organized from the
previous Southern Oregon
Square Dance Club association.
The latter group included clubs
from Coos Bay to Klefmath Falls.
"There are at least 11 clubs in
this area which have regularly
scheduled dances, and another
club is in the formation stage
at the Square Corral. The clubs
are indirectly in contact with
activities of the state federation
through the callers association,
which is an active member of
the state group.
The state federation was or
ganized about a year and a half
ago, and held its first festival
at Roseburg recently. More than
1,400 dancers representing al
most all the 81 groups affiliated
with the state federation attend
ed the festival, along with 51
callers.
At the national convention in
St. Louis this year, an estimated
12,000 dancers from 40 states,
England, Canada, Hawaii and
Viet-Nam were present, along
with 555 callers.
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