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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1957
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Higher Grazing Fees
On BLM Lands Slated
To Start January 1
EXAMINING WRECKAGE of Pan American Clipper are
Inspectors Leon Cuddeback (left) and Earl Mitchell of Civil
Aeronautics Board, who hope to find a clue in San Fran
Cisco inquiry to disaster which cost 44 lives. (International)
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A? fhe Grange
C'i Bill Grng
Gold Hill Grange met in rcgu
3P Bession, Thursday, Nov. 21.
Outstanding event of the meet
the draping of the char
ter for departed member, E.
(C. JPiene.
Mr. and Mrs. Fiene were char
ter members of the Grange, and
Cwtr very activ in the work of
CS9 order until they moved away
Tew years ago to Banning
iMUif. The sympathy of the
Grangers and friends foes out
to Sister Fiene, in her bereave
ment.
Preceding the business meeting
Glen Woolridge showed films of
Atlantic salmon fishing in New
Brunswick and motor boat rac
ing in Florida.
Visiting Grangers were Broth
er and Sister Golding of Live
Oak Grange.
Xvprftm Court to Look
Into Refusal Power
Washington (Ifl The Su
preme Court agreed today to
Took into the State Department's
powW to refuse passports to citi
ier, The court accepted for review
it ippeal by artist Rockwell
Knt, Eusable Forks, N. Y., and
on by psychiatrist Walter
Briehl, Los Angeles. Both were
denied passports by Secretary of
Stt John Foster Dulles be
euj they refused to sign a non
Communist affidavit.
DdJing a recent typhoon in
Jhe Philippines area, a total rain
till of about 88 inches was re
corded in four days.
Gold Hill Juvenile Grange
A great deal was accomplish
ed by the Gold Hill Juvenile
Grange at their last meeting,
held on Nov. 14.
Dave Force reported on the
fish pond and Linda Walker and
Mike Turner on the white ele
phant booth. These two conces
sions were operated by the ju
veniles at the bazaar held Nov. 2.
Following these reports two
candidates were received into
the Grange with Mike Turner
acting as Master. These two
were Ronnie Hanscom and Don-
nie Wright.
After the initiation, the fol
lowing officers were elected:
master, Bobby Turner; overseer,
Pamela Freeman; lecturer, Dave
Force; chaplain, Earl Meister;
secretary, Marie Jones; treasurer,
Tom Morrow; steward, Billy
Jones; assistant steward, Mike
Turner; gatekeeper, Randy Tur
ner; Ceres, Marlene Wright: Po
mona, Beverly Wright; Flora,
Linda Walker; lady assistant
steward, Sharon Wright.
Next meeting of the juveniles
is set for Dec. 12.
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail-Tribune Correspondent
Washington Higher graz
ing fees for public lands will be
charged starting Jan. 1 by the
Bureau of
Land Manage
ment. Interior
Secretary
Fred A. Sea
ton announc
ed Monday.
The new
fees will be
on a sliding
scale, much
Robt Smith xne same as
charged by the U.S. Forest Serv
ice, based upon the average live
stock prices at we:tern markets
for the preceding year.
The present fee charged by
BLM is 15 cents a month per
head of cattle, 15 cents for five
sheep or goats and 30 cents per
horse. Current livestock price
trends indicate fees will be high
er next year under the new for
mula, said Seaton, but no
charges were indicated specifi
cally for the new year.
New Directive
This decision will implement
a directive sent out just a week
ago by the Budget Bureau to all
federal agencies to have them
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Miss Roberts Wins
Speech Contest
Miss Sharon Roberts, St.
Mary's High school junior,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
O. Roberts, 633 South Holly st.
was winner of the local run off
in the Voice of Democracy con
test sponsored by the Medford
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Subject for the speeches given
Saturday, Nov. 23, at television
station KBES-TV was "I Speak
for Democracy."
Miss Roberts was one of four
high school students who par
ticipated in the Saturday speak
off. Winners of various high
schools in contests held previous
ly were Lynn Hales, Medford
High school senior, Miss Sharee
Skipworth, Phoenix High school
junior, and Miss Marjorie Edens,
Jacksonville High school sen
ior. Miss Roberts will enter the
district contest to be held in
Ashland Nov. 26. Winner of that
contest will enter the state com
petition. Miss Roberts, who plans a
career in music, hopes to attend
Marylhurst college following
graduation. At St. Mary's High
school she is president of the
national honor society, Durocher
chapter, treasurer of her class,
unit leader of the Sodality of
Our Lady, co-editor of the school
paper, "The Marion," member of
the Marion choir and choraletts,
and a charter member of Hori
zon club. She also won first prize
in a St. Mary's high school bak
ing contest and first prize in the
music division of the Disabled
American Veteran's amateur con
test in 1956.
increase a variety of federal fees
to bring them more into lin
with the service rendered to pr
vate citizens and commercial in
terests. The bureau pointed out
that BLM grazing fees were
well below those charged by the
Forest Service, the Bureau of
Indian Affairs and by private
landowners.
The bureau pointed out that
in southern Oregon, where BLM
charged 15 cents, Forest Service
was charging 44 cents and In
dian bureau $1.38. Presumably
the higher level of fees next
year will approximate those of
the Forest Service, since BLM
plans to adopt the livestock
price formula used by the For
est Service.
Seaton explained that the new
sliding-scale formula will be
based on price information fur
nished by the department of
agriculture. Fees will be changed
only when price fluctuation
force them at least two cents
up or down, he said.
Change Deferred
Seaton said originally the
higher fees were scheduled to
take effect the first of this year
but he deferred approving them
when the drouth hit many west
ern cattlemen. The new fees
will affect some 30,000 stock
men who graze some 12,000,000
head of livestock on approxi
mately 170,000,000 acres of
range in the western states.
Under the new system, fees
will be subject to change an
nually. It will be up to the head
of BLM to set the new fees
each year. The new formula has
been approved by the National
Advisory Board Council for
grazing.
Rock Threatens 10 Homes in Canada
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Local Man Donates
Model Railroad
Approximately S3, 000 worth
of model railroad equipment
was shipped yesterday to Boys'
Town in Nebraska as a Christ
mas gift from Joseph E. Taylor,
214 North Peach st., Medford, in
quiries revealed.
Taylor said the equipment is
constructed to scale and includes
28 model locomotives. 94 coach
es, a number of freight cars and
passenger cars. The large gift
package will also include 450
lengths of track in' 12-inch sec
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equipment up at Taylor's house.
Taylor said he belongs to
local model railroad club and
this is equipment he has at home.
He and five other club members
have a model railroad layout
in a large barn on the Walt
Lewis place on the Phoenix
Jacksonville highway, Taylor
said. The 4.000 feet of track
takes up about the entire second
story of the barn, he added. The
club has been constructing the
layout for three years and aren't
done yet, the model railroad fan
said.
Taylor said he wrote the Cath
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letter saying the present would
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Thousands of tons of rock that
destroyed three homes and took
seven lives here Friday were to
day threating another 10 homes
in the area.
Royal Canadian Mounted Po
lice ordered families to evacuate
the homes while bulldozers,
cranes and power saws attempt
ed to clear a mass of rubble.
The bodies of six of the seven
dead were still unrecovered. Two
children were dug out of the
rubble Saturday, one dead. The
survive or was an 18-months-old-
gin, reported in fair condition.
AH communications with this
city of 10,500 were cut off until
Sunday afternoon. Some tele
phone and telegraph facilities
have been restored and details of
the rockslide started filtering
out.
Oswego Man Killed in
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Portland OPj A 42-year-old j
Oswego man, Dennis J. Lund,
was killed Sunday night when
his car skidded 122 feet on wet
pavement and smashed into a j
girder on the Hawthorne bridge.
He was dead on arrival at a Port
land hospital.
Lund, a representative of the
American Distilling Co., was
Portland's 40th traffic death of
1957, as compared with 36 at
this time last year.
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