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8 IX- MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday October 27, 1937 Planners, Council to Oiscuss The Medford planning commis lion and the city council will hold a joint public meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 30, to discuss and probably modify the pro posed subdivision ordinance for the city. Action by the council was postponed earlier this month un til the Nov. 15 meeting to give councilmen more time to study the proposed ordinance, and for possible modification in a joint session with the planning com mission. Several persons, at a public hearing Oct. 3, expressed oppo sition to the proposed ordinance. Some of them believed it was too stringent, and would hinder development in some areas. Somi Modification City officials pointed out that some modification may be nec essary regarding sewers in sub divisions a distance from the city limits if a county subdivi sion ordinance is not adopted. The proposed ordinance was drawn up to apply within the city, officials said, since the city would not have jurisdiction with in the six-mile area if a county ordinance is adopted. State statute provides that "land within six miles outside the corporate limits of a city is under the jurisidiction of the city for the purpose of giving approv al of plans or plats of subdivi sions." When the governing body of a county has appoint ed a county planning commis sion and has adopted regulations for subdivision control, land within the six-mile limit will be under the jurisdiction of the county. The. proposed ordinance, city officials said, put into writing what the planning commission has been requiring on most sub division pfcts before the plat receives final approval. The ma jority of regulations in the pro posed ordinance define 'more specifically many requirements included in present state stat utes. Major Differences The major differences between present state regulations and those In the proposed ordinance re: the city ordinance would require a tentative plat, includes minor subdivisions and provides for improvements such as sewer lines and paved streets. State law provides that the term "plat" includes a "final map, diagram, drawing, replat or other writing containing all the descriptions, locations, spec ifications, dedications, provis ions and information concern ing a subdivision." "Subdivide land" ' in state statutes "means to partition a parcel of land into four or more parcels of less than five acres each for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building de velopment, whether immediate or future, when such parcel ex ists as a unit or contiguous units under a single ownership as shown on the tax roll for the year preceding the partition ing." In the proposed city ordin ance, a "minor subdivision" is defined as "a division of a par cel of land into two or three parcels of less than five acres each for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building de velopment, whether immediate or future. . . " Authorized By Stat City officials pointed out that minor subdivisions are author ized by state law. "The govern ing body of a county or a city may, wht;n reasonably necessary to accomplish the orderly de velopment of the land within the jurisdiction ... to promote the public health, safety and gener al welfare . . . adopt regulations or ordinances requiring approv al of the partitioning of land not otherwise subject to approval. . " according to state law. Statutes provide that require ments for minor subdivisions may include standards author ized for subdivisions, or differ ent standards, so long as they are no more stringent than those imposed" in connection with sub divisions. The section on tentative maps required by the city ordinance is new. Although there is no specific requirement in state law providing for tentative plats, the planning commission has re quired filing tentative plats be fore final approval. Specific Needs The section provides for ten tative maps for both minor sub divisions and subdivisions, and specifies what will be included. For minor subdivisions, if re quirements have been met, ap proval of the tentative map may be deemed as final approval and no final map need be submitted. However, in the case of regu lar subdivisions, a final plat has to be submitted within six months after approval of the tentative map. An extension of time is provided in the proposed ordinance. Location of streets, sewers, other utilities, widths of streets, and other factors in developing land are required on the maps, including size of lots, lot lines, block lines and boundary lines. 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State law provides that the error of closure be one foot in 4,000 feet. Form of the final map is speci fied in state law, and the pro posed city ordinance elaborates in more detail. Many of them concern city requirements re garding city streets and alleys adjacent to or in the proposed subdivision. The proposed or dinance also requires that ton tour lines be included. All dedication certificates, en gineer's certificates, and those for execution by the city engi neer, city planning commission by any Irrigation districts, and by the county assessor, sheriff, county surveyor, county clerk and recorder are required by state law. Improvement! The provision for an agree ment and bond for improvements is new in the proposed ordi nance. Such agreements and bonds are authorized in the state statutes. State law provides that "stand ards may include, taking into consideration the location and surrounding area of the pro posed subdivisions, requirements for placement of utilities, for the width and location of streets or for minimum lot sizes and such other requirements as the gov trning body considers necessary for lessening congestion in the streets, for securing safety from fire, flood, pollution -or other dangers, for providing adequate APPLEGATE VALLEY Ranchers Market Cattle By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley More than 400 head of young feeder cattle from the range were sold at Midway auction Tuesday to buy ers from California and coast points. The animals reached the usual premium standard of stock from this area and top price for steers was $24.20 per hundred. Those selling were Guy "Wat kins, Morris Byrne, Jim Corson, Clarence Buck, Fred West, Lance and Leon Offenbacher. A number of other stock raisers here had sold previously to in dividual buyers. Those long in the business here have noticed changes in transportation methods over the years and recall the long day of driving the herd on horseback to the Medford stock yards for railroad shipment. Now they go by truck. The long horseback ride of 25 miles to the cattle camps in the Siskiyous with food staples and all supplies cinched on the pack horse is eliminated now, and the riding horses also reach their desina tion by truck. Newcomers to the valley have noted further modern trends when often a pick-up truck of baled hay leads the cows home ward from the range while the "cowboy" rides comfortably at the steering wheel. Mrs. Hugh Scbvel entertained with a luncheon recently honor ing Mrs. Clarence Meier of Los Angeles, who came here to at tend dedication of Upper Apple gate Grange. Those attending were Mrs. Ed Finley, Mrs. Har ry Davis, Mrs. Gerald Buck and Mrs. John Byrne. It is an unusual occasion when Greyhound buses pass through the Applegate community, and previously it has mean that that flood conditions have rout ed them here, but a few days ago it was another occasion that brought two chartered buses to this area. About 60 members of the Roaring Rogue Boy Scouts from Josephine county made a geology tour to the Jacksonville and Little Applegate areas. They studied granite and lime stone quarries and placer mines and dug fossils from sandstone. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ditsworth of Medford visited recently at the home of Mrs. Ditsworth's brother, Bert Harr, and other relatives. Miss Betty Ramsay of Carls bad, Calif., spent several days here with her brother, Ed Ram say, while en route to Canada. Miss Ramsay is a secretary at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. DeHeart, who resided on Upper Apple gate for the past month, have left for Pueblo, Colo., to spend the winter. They expect to re turn to southern Oregon in the spring. Mrs. George Redhead substi tuted in the upper grade room at Ruch school for a short time last week during the absence of Boyd Gibson, who attended a principals' conference in Salem. Marvin Throne, who also teaches in that room was ill with flu. Several farmers here have completed cutting their corn and alfalfa silage. W. H. R. Nos trand of Applegate farms has established a record, with his fifth cutting of alfalfa in the silo. Nostrand, who is introduc ing polled Herefords into his herd, will be among those at tending the Western Polled Hereford conference in Medford Sunday and Monday. Pfc. Ronald Bigelow, who is with the anti-aircraft force in Greenland, is visiting here at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bigelow of Copper. Bigelow, in the service for two years, will receive his discharge in another month. A brother, Pfc. Lloyd Bigelow Jr., also has returned from Germany after three years with the army engi nees. He also is with his parents now and expects to attend a trade school in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow Sr., came here in June from Coos county. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Twiss left recently for Los Angeles to spend the winter, expecting to do a little elk hunting in eastern Oregon en route. Twiss is fire warden at Star ranger station during the summer. Armin Richter, building con tractor and owner of Circle G Angus ranch, has returned from La Jolla and San Francisco, vhere he was looking after property holdings. Guests re cently at the Richter home from San Francisco were J. Langley Aldrich and John Dodd. E. E. Cox, foreman at the Miller and Gerwick ranch here, expected to return this week end with about 400 head of cat tle which had been-on summer range near Chiloquin. Cox has been in the Klamath country for two weeks looking after ranch interests there. Other por tions of the Miller and Gerwick herd were sent to Oakland and Ashland. A small new structure at the top of Jacksonville hill has been erected as a shelter for children waiting for the school bus driv en by A. E. "Red" Ranney which delivers children at Jackson ville school. The shelter has been built by Mr. and Mrs. Chet Snyder and will house about eight children, according to Mrs. Frank Mitchell, who 'lives in that area. Mrs. Frank Preston Is able to be at her home on White Oak drive in Medford, following spi nal surgery a few weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Preston spent a part of the summer at their ranch here. Willard Wilson of Upper Ap plegate store and a number of other people have been smoking cigars with the inscription, "It's a girl." Byron Peffley, clerk at Star range station, whose wife gave birth to a seven , pound daughter Thursday, is responsi ble for the cigars. One recipient of a cigar lost a bet on the new arrival when it turned out to be a girl. Mr. and Mrs. Peffley also have two small sons. Rural reflections: Kenneth Nivens and Ed Ramsay, in the middle of an important meeting, were discussing the fellows who are staking claims on the moon, and decided they won't know whether they are getting irri gated ground or in what condi tion it will be. Three Men Injured In As Many Mishaps R. L. Rushton, 66, of 2235 West Prune st., suffered a frac tured vertebra Wednesday after noon when he fell from a ladder at Triangle Lumber and Feed company, Crater Lake highway. Rushton was reported in fair condition at Rogue Valley hos pital. Virgil Conner, 53, route 1, box 350, Eagle Point, was hospi talized at Sacred Heart hospital Wednesday following an acci dent at Elk Lumber company. He was reported in good condi tion and suffering from bruises received when he was hit by a load on a carrier in the mill yard. James William Dorsey, 41, post office box 195, Jackson ville, was reported in "fairly good" condition at Sacred Heart hsopital Friday after ha re ceived injuries Wednesday after noon when the farm tractor he was operating rolled on him on Dark Hollow rd. The three men were taken to local hospitals by Medford am bulance service. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Mildred Ann Spaunk. Holland Ho tel. Medford, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $255 bail. William Clayton Calloway, defective warning device. $10, bail. Anthony Schleiss, violation of basic rule, $15. Anthony Schleiss, violation of basic rule, S15. Jack Wayne Dennis, no muffler, $15. Russell O'dell Brown, overload, $41. bail. Jack A. C. Thomas, shooting from the highway, $30. Proposed Subd vision Ordinance MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Manford Charles Knutzen. Port- land, and Karen Lorayna Townley, Albany. light and air, for preventing over-crowding of land or for fa cilitating adequate provision of transportation, water supply, sewerage, drainage, education, recreation or other needs." The proposed city ordinance provides that the subdivider or his contractor shall "complete all improvement work to the sat isfaction of that city," and if it is not done, the city may com plete the work, and "recover the full cost and expense thereof from the subdivider." The agreement would provide for construction of improvements in units, for termination of the agreement for construction of improvements in units, for ter mination of the agreement upon completion of proceedings un der an assessment district act for construction of improve ments deemed by the city to be at least the equivalent of im provements specified in the agreement and required by the subdivider, and for progress pay ments to the subdivider from any deposit money which the subdivider may have made in lieu of providing a surety bond. Regulations, Design General regulations and de signs for streets, sanitary sew ers, storm sewers, and other utilities required in a subdivi sion are those established by city council policy. The subdivider also is re quired to grant easements not less than five feet wide for pub lic utility, sanitary sewer and drainage purposes on each side of rear lot lines, along side lots and in planting strips, where necessary. The subdivider may also be required to dedicate and im prove 10-foot walkways across blocks more than 600 feet long or provide access to schools, park and other public areas. Storm sewer rights-of-way also must be dedicated by the sub divider. v Exceptions Included Not provided in state law but is included in the proposed or dinance are exceptions. "The planning commission may au thorize conditional exceptions to any of the requirements and regulations set forth" in the pro posed ordinance. Applications for such excep tions would be made by a cer tified petition of the subdivider stating the grounds of the ap plication and the facts relied upon by the petitioner. . Provision also is made in the proposed ordinance for appeal from any decision, determination or requirement of the planning commission. This is not pro vided in state regulations. Aft er a hearing, the council may over-rule or modify the decision appealed. Party Lines Set On Tax Cut Duel To Start Monday Salem OP) Party lines were drawn here Saturday for the tax cut duel that will open Monday when the state Legislature con venes in. special session to reduce an embarrassing stockpile of money in the state treasury. Pat Dolley, speaker of the House, described the Democratic party program when he refer red to a "reverse surtax" by which the Democrats would pro pose a flat 10 per cent cut from the 1957 tax schedules but leave the present high schedules untouched. Sen. Warren Gill, the Lebanon Republican who has become the GOP tax spokesman, said his party was unalterably opposed to the percentage plan. Republicans, he said, would stand firm for a reduction in the tax schedules themselves, "so that it will have a measure of permance. Gill declared, "the Democrats just want to pacify the taxpay er ahead of the 1958 election and then have the high rate schedule still there to clobber him with a few months later." The present schedules have re sulted in a flood of tax money expected to burgeon to nearly 70 million dollars by the end of June and to 73 million dollars a year later. .That is in excess of budgeted expenditures. Gov. Robert D. Holmes recent ly accused Republicans of "mak ing love" to taxpayers for the GOP insistence that all the sur plus collections should be turned back to the people who paid it with the exception of a 10 to 20-million-dollar cushion. Gov. Holmes hopes to retain some 50 million dollars as a start for budgetmakers of the 1959 Leg islature. Another kernel of controver sy lies in the proposal to in crease basic school support funds with a portion of the surplus. Republicans generally support a plan to increase the support, provided it is accompanied by a hard and fast assurance of property tax relief on the coun ty level. Democrats hope for a simple increase in the support figure, without reopening the fight over a distribution formula. The Medical Roundup by fcmeritus Consultant In Medicine, Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine. Mayo Foundation mm Diagnois of "Mongoloid" Children At the recent meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. John Caffey, of New York Uity, told 2,000 physicians that commonly to day an x-ray man can tell by studying the pelvic bones of an infant whether or not it Is mongo loid or per- Dr Alvarez haps has some other form of mental retarda tion. Some mentally retarded children are called mongoloid because of their slanted eyes and Oriental look. Usually all that can be done for these chil dren is to train them to perform such tasks as they are capable of performing. Often they tend to be good-natured youngsters. The books tell us that these children tend to be born to moth ers over 40, and this is true. But there must be other factors, and I have seen a number of mon goloid children born to young mothers in their early 20s. In all of the few cases I have seen there was some nervous abnor mality in the family. For in stance, in the case qf such a child I saw, the father tells me he has been somewhat upset men tally all his Jife, and another of his children is feeble-minded. A curious feature of the dis ease is that sometimes the father has what is called a simian crease in his hand. Instead of the usual lines on the hand, he will have one big groove run ning across the hand near th base of the fingers. Recently I read that Drg. Wil liam Krivit and R. A. Good, of the Variety Club Hospital, Uni versity of Minnesota, Minneapo lis, have many times now found an association between mongol ism and the blood cancer, leu kemia. This observation is so interesting that I would urge all parents of mongoloid chil dren who have had a case of leukemia in the family, immedi ately to write either to Dr. Krivit or to me, telling about it. 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