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MEDFORD (OREOOW) MAIL TRIBuHB SEVSIf Irrigation Districts 8 Sunday, January 12, 1958 Vote Tuesday Two Area WatefJIser Three Precincts Open in Medford Between 8 and 5 Three princincts have been established for water users in the Medford Irrigation district in a special election Tuesday, Jan. 14, on a contract with the bureau of reclamation. Under the proposed con tract, the MID will receive 8,000 acre feet of storage space in the new and enlarged reservoirs in the Talent pro ject, and will obtain two- thirds of the increase in re turn flow to Bear creek. The contract would provide repayment of $603,000, the cost for the additional water, and the amount, not to exceed $361,000, which would be used in rehabilitation. Three Locations . Polls will be open between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday at three locations. Voters in pre cinct one will vote at Hillcrest Orchard house. The precinct includes the portion of the district lying north of Barnett rd. Water users in precinct two, which includes the portion of the district south of Barnett rd. and east of Kings highway, will vote at the district office, 1310 Barnett rd. Users in pre cinct three, which is that por tion of the district north and west of Xings highway, will vote in the arts and crafts room of the Oak Grove school. District directors pointed out that each voter must cast his ballot in the precinct his land is assessed. Any persons more than 21 years old with two or more assessed acres is eligible to vote. Following are questions and answers concerning the Med ford Irrigation district elec tion prepared by district of ficials: Purpose of Contract 1 What is the purpose of the proposed new contract be tween the Medford irrigation district and the United States? The United States, through the bureau of reclamation, is now constructing water stor age facilities which includes new dams and reservoirs at Howard Prairie and Keene creek, and enlargement of the Emigrant dam and reservoir. These, together with Hyatt dam and reservoir and re lated canals and delivery works, will make additional stored water available for power production at the new Green Springs plant and for irrigation. These facilities are being built as part of the Talent project. Most of the new ir rigation storage space has been sold to the Talent Ir rigation district. However, 12 000 acre feet of storage space and at least 5,000 acre feet of increased return flow will be come available to the Medford and Rogue River Valley Ir rigation districts under pro posed new contracts. Additional Water 2. How much additional water will Talent division works make available to the Medford Irrigation district? Under the proposed con tract, the Medford Irrigation district will obtain 8,000 acre feet of storage space in the new and enlarged storage res ervoirs and will obtain two thirds of the increase in re turn flow to Bear creek re sulting from expanded irriga tion and water-use in the Tal ent and Medford Irrigation districts. Even in poorer water years, the Medford Irrigation district will obtain at least 6,000 acre feet of additional water under the proposed contract. In good years, the new water will be more. Reservoirs Filled When the reservoirs fill, the Medford Irrigation district will have 8,000 acre feet of storage water in the reservoir system plus at least 3,330 Jotest Sonetont smofttst hoofing ad k waH, mm ALL AT THE EAR NOTHING WORN ON BODY I NO CORD DOWN HECK R9 "BUTTON" W EAR! vorictf S0N0T0NE Come In, Phone or Write Free Demonstration No Obligation SONOTONE of MEDFORD C. R. ADAMSON, Manager 839 E. Jackson Ph. SP 2-5904 acre feet of return-flow, or 11,330" acre feet of water from the Talent division. 3. How much will the new water cost the Medford Ir rigation district? Additional water (storage and return flow) will cost the district a total of $603,000. In addition, the new contract provides that there will be available $311,000, at the op tion of the board of directors, to be used for the extension and rehabilitation and better ment of the district, and for construction of a new diver sion dam for the district in Bear creek, estimated to cost $50,000. Thus, under the new contract, the Medford Irriga tion district would be obli gated to repay $603,000 plus whatever amount, not to ex ceed $361,000 would be used at the option of the district for rehabilitation. B0 Years lo Pay 4. How long will' the dis trict have to repay the United States? Sixty years from the time water first becomes available from the new Talent division works. 5. Isn't the district already obligated to the United States for some rehabilitation and betterment works? Yes, an existing contract between the United States and the Medford Irrigation district requires the district to repay1 $1,475,466 in 40 years, begin ning the year following the completion of the joint system construction. New Contract Add 6. How much will the new contract add to the repay ment obligation of the dis trict and the water users each year? Very little during the first 40 years of repayment. In fact, water users will pay only 5 cents an acre a year for the first 10 years, and about 25 cents per acre each year for the next 30 years. 7. How can the Medford Irrigation district take on a new repayment obligation of $964,000 without increasing its payments more than 25 cents an acre for the first 40 years? Because the new contract extends the payout period from the present 40-year per iod to 60 years, the new obli gation can be paid off almost wholly in the last 20 years of the 60-year period. New Obligation If the contract be approved, the new obligation would be paid off at $450 per year for the first 10 years; $2,284.50 annually for the next 30 years; and $44,548.25 for the last 20 years. During the last 20 years, there would be no other obligations. Present ob ligations will be paid off in 40 years. 8. How much interest will the district have to pay? None. The interest free fea ture of this loan is the attrac tive inducement, inasmuch as this is the only means of ir rigation financing without the penalty of interest. 9. Will a favorable vote on the election mean the district costs will be increased? More Acres of Land Not necessarily, by reason that with the additional sup ply of water, it is contemplat ed that more acres of land may be served. The revenue from these lands, in addition to the ' savings in operation and maintenance expenses as a result of the rehabilitation, could reduce the assessments. 10. How will the Talent project water benefit the lands east of Bear creek? The Talent project water will be introduced into the main canal at Phoenix, leav ing more of the present sup ply available to the tracts on transistor hfttdefl in cf styles vie Try and -3y BENNETT CERF- ANDRE CAJUN was the pen name for A. J. Navard, a ro mantic son of old New Orleans, wba, according to Pie Dufour, "avoided with meticulous care anything that re sembled a fact." T am not a dealer hi his tory," explained Cajun. ! deal in legends. History k daft; legends aren't." Cajun could teQ, for in stance, how Andrew Jack son, though hopelessly oot raanbered, was able to Kcfc the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. K was done with alligators. There's eight redcoats to one of ns," snorted OU Hickory. "So we'H turn our 'gators loose on 'em!" He knew that holes made by alligators aB over Chat region could prove fatal to unwary attackers. So he tricked the enemy into marching where holes were by the hundreds. There was a nice, big 'gator pit waiting not only for every redcoat, but for horse and cannon, too. Jackson's sharpshooters didn't have to do a thing but pot-shot 'em after they fell in!" O 136$, by Bnatt Corf. Distributed by King Pasture Syndicate, . Gun Battle Ensues Between Agent, Thug New York (IP) An FBI agent and a "dangerous" mur der suspect wounded each other in a gun fight just off busy Times Square Friday night when the desperado made a futile attempt to shoot it out with his captors. , The FBI positively identi fied the criminal as Albert Joseph Kostal, 37, an escape artist wanted in Denver, Colo., for the slaying of a policeman during a grocery stickup and kidnaping. Kostal and agent Frank H. Gerrity, 37, of Colonia, N.J., Dynamite Blows Slump And Man Sweet Home (IP) Linn Paddock, 19, Sweet Home, was killed Friday when dyn amite under a stump he was removing to clear land blew up in his face. Paddock was clearing land to make room for a home for himself and his bride-to-be. Linn county Coroner Glenn Houston said that Paddock had set a charge of about 30 sticks of dynamite under the stump Thursday night but it didn't go off. Paddock and four others went back Friday. He set two sticks of dynamite under the stump to attempt to make the other charge explode. How ever, only the two sticks ex ploded. Paddock and John Livezev, 21, Sweet Home, went back to check the dynamite and it exploded as Paddock walked to the front of the stump. Livezsey suffered cuts and bruises. The others, Paddock's fath er, Vince Paddock and Rex Liveszey, a brother of John, were not hurt. The coroner said apparently the smaller blast set off the fuse on the larger charge. The victim had planned to be married to Sharon Poppe, Sweet Home. the east side. 11. How much total stor age space will there be in the Talent division? Total Acre Feet The old space is 24,000 acre feet .and new space will be 91,000 acre feet for a 115,000 acre feet total. 12. Who will operate the new storage facilities? United States will operate the new storage facilities in itially. However, the contract provides that operations and maintenance may be transfer red to the Talent Irrigation district. All districts contract ing for space in the new system will have a voice in the operation of the joint system, and any district may appeal to the secretary of the interior in case of dissatisfac tion. 13. Why is an election nec essary? ' Cannot Increase Debt Directors of the irrigation district cannot increase the obligation of the district with out consent of at least a ma jority of the electors who vote in a properly called elec tion. 14. What happens if the election fails? If the election should fail,, the district will not share in either the water or the costs of the Talent project. Annual costs to water users for the next 40 years will be about the same either way, since most of the cost of Talent Jivision water will be repaid by extending the total repay ment period to 60 years. Use Tribune Want Ads -Just Dial SP 2-6141 Stop' Me fCC cartg both were taken to St. Clark's hospital with leg wounds. Kostal later was transferred to Bellevue hospital's prison ward. Neither was seriously wounded. Kostal, who came close-to making good his boast he "never would be taken alive," met his downfall like another desperado 'of the 1930s, John Dillinger. Kosial Fingered The FBI said a woman "put the finger" on Kostal who had registered at the Hotel Dixie Friday under the name of Joe Delmar. Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents in Chicago as he left a movie theater with "the woman in red" who had tipped off authorities that Dillinger would be with her. The gunfight between Ger rity and Kostal broke out when Gerrity, accompanied by agents William Glossa and Frank Mattes, tried to arrest the gunman at a subway en trance. Kostal whipped out his .45 caliber automatic and Ger rity grappled with him. Be fore the other two agents could intervene, the pistol went off, wounding Gerrity in the leg. Continues Struggle Gerrity continued to strug gle with Kostal and all four men crashed to the pavement when the other agents joined the melee. Another shot rang out as Gerrity twisted the pistol in Kostal's hand. The slug hit the gunman in the leg and he gave up the struggle. The area, just one block from Times Square and a short distance from Kostal's hotel was filled with movie goers and' strollers when the shooting started. Kostal escaped the Jeffer son county jail in Golden, Colo., last Nov. 21 where he was being held for the slay ing of policeman Raymond Isley in the grocery stickup. Corner 4th & Fir IS (I 4 4 j Proposed Contract To Provide Water, Rehabilitation Fund Water users in the Rogue River Valley. Irrigation dis trict will vote Tuesday, Jan. 14, on a contract with the bu reau of reclamation for addi tional water and funds for rehabilitation of the district's distribution system. Polling place will be at the district's office on Merriman rd. just north of the Howard school. Hours will be between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. All legal land owners with two or more regularly assessed acres may vote, but the right to vote is limited to one vote per own ership, district officials point ed out. The contract, if approved, will be for 3,000 acre feet of additional water annually, and $580,000 worth of reha bilitation work. Water In District The additional water will be used within the district. It will be used on 500 acres of additional land to be in cluded in the district within two years after the Talent project is completed, and 1,500 acre feet of additional water will be used for present irrigated land. Additional water will come from facilities' being con structed in the Talent proj ect. Most of the new irriga tion storage space has been sold to the Talent Irrigation district, but there will be about 12,000 acre feet of stor age space and at least 5,000 acre feet of increased return flow which w,ill become avail able to the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irriga Volume of Rises; Receipts Are Down, BLM Reports The volume of timber sold from the Medford district of the bureau of land manage ment in 1957 was 17,198 mil lion board feet more than the volume sold in 1956, District Forester Ross Youngblood has reported. Timber sold last year to taled 10,729 million board feet, compared to 93,531 mil lion board feet the previous year. Total receipts last year, however, were less than re ceipts during 1956. In 1957, receipts totaled $2,969,241.10, compared to $3,506,705.66 the previous year, he noted. ' Youngblood said about 160.3 million board feet are planned for sale during 1958 in keeping with the policy of the BLM to place on the mar ket the sustained yield allow able cut, providing there is personnel available to process the tracts. Other than timber sales work in 1957, permanent sample plots for timber inven tory purposes were estab We Now Have Fresh PRODUCE LETTUCE 150 lb. - TANGERINES 19 lb. YAMS 1 7 lb. - LEMONS 39 doz. ORANGES 14 lb. -NEW RED SPUDS 10 lb. NEWTOWN APPLES 2 lbs 15 .BEEF POTK on approved credit No Down Payment Up To Orders to fit any size family - tion districts. " Planned major items of re habilitation of the" RRVID with funds being made avail able under the proposed con tract include 38,515 feet of laterals to be tiled and re paired; 34,350 feet of bank repair and rehabilitation of the Hopkins canal; and re placement of 12 wooden sub1 structure flumes with new long life structures. Construction Scheduled Construction for the addi tional water supply is esti mated to be $301,500, and the rehabilitation loan to the district, interest free, will be $279,000, district directors noted. The annual payment by the district for its share of Tal ent water supply operation and maintenance cost, esti mated by the bureau of recla mation, will be $1,500. The first payment will start sometime after the mid-1960s, with the actual date depend ent upon the progress of con struction and rehabilitation work. The final payment of the loan and . construction charges will be made after the year 2020. May Increase Assessment Directors noted that if the proposed contract is not ap proved, the district may have to increase its assessment rate in the near future in order to accomplish the re quired rehabilitation. There has been no major moderniza tion to the bulk of the dis trict' distribution system in Timber lished on about 420,000 acres. They were established princi pally in Josephine and Jack son counties, and work is con tinuing in Klamath county. All phases of the inventory work is scheduled for com pletion in 1959, he noted. About six miles of federal access roads were built in northern Josephine county, and several mining claims were examined under the principals established by law in 1955. Considerable work toward establishing a recreational plan adjacent to the Howard Prairie project were made, and the blister rust control program on 61,302 acres, mostly in Josephine county, was continued. The BLM supervised seed ing and planting 1,073 acres last year. Most of the seeding was Douglas fir. Most of the timber sold last year was Douglas fir, but about 15 mil lion board feet was white fir, which was considered non merchantable a few years ago. Months to Pay Phone SP 2-7315 El Ew! EAT CP more than 40 years, they added. Money for rehabilitation, if the contract is approved, will be interest free. The board noted that more than two thirds of the previous inter est , free money obtained in 1955 went to the joint sys tem. That is, it went for work above Bradshaw drop, with about $70,000 being expend ed for new structures to carry the Hopkin's canal across Yankee, Antelope and Bear creeks. The maximum increase in rate" which could result from the election would be $1.90 per acre sometime after the mid-1960s, directors pointed out. Full Support Directors noted that if the contract is approved, the bu reau of reclamation will be able to give the district full support toward making the Dry Creek dam a reality. After a careful study be tween the board of directors and the bureau of reclama tion, the board found that in order to cope with present conditions and to keep the district on a sound future basis that: 1. The district's irrigated acreage must be appreciably expanded with easy to serve tracts in order to counteract the high costs resulting from the expansion of the residen tial and industrial areas around Central Point and Medford into the irrigated acreage of the district. Supply Required 2. Increased water supply is required for current storage. 9M7fj$P) MONDAY uyfKZyg ah Day 0 9 p, ( New Shipment SOLID COLOR f CORDUROY "1 regular i. wu vara f 3 A i ! Li i i-i i : I ... . I I . Many light and pastel colors for spring and summer wear. Wonderful for jackets, skirts and pants. 40-inch widths. Special . . Children's Boxer Longies Reg. $1.29 SPECIAL IT Flannel lined. Blue and red. Sizes 3 to 6. Save more at Newberry's ev ery day. Monday TUFFLEX . 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