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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1958)
WiJ fi LEAVES HOSPITAL Jack Burpee of Medford gets ready to leave the Portland Osteopathic hospital, well on the way to recovery from a circulatory disorder with which he had suffered for about four years. Nurse Dora JEmler helps him into his coat. In surgery, osteopathic surgeons removed an occulsion from Burpee's left common iliac artery which limited blood circulation to his legs. Medford Man Gets New Look on Life After Operation Portland A prominent Medford insurance man, who a few months ago gave him self only a short time to live, today is happy. He is taking a new lease on life. and plans this spring to resume activi ties he was forced to drop, in cluding gardening. "The other day I bought some lumber," Jack F. Bur pee, 3238 Jacksonville high way said, "I'm going to build a greenhouse." Gardening has long been the 52-year-old Medfordite's favorite hobby. He has many fruit trees, berry bushes and flowers on his half acre tract two miles west of Medford He lives there with his wife and daughter. He also has two sons. Burpee is district man ager for the Northern Life In surance company. Suffers Disorder For about four years he suf fered with a circulatory dis order which affected his legs, especially the left. He first became aware of the trouble in December, 1953, when he noticed one of his toes had turned blue. The condition grew worse, and to a point where he could feel no pulse in his left foot. He was cold most of the time. His business and other activi ties fell off, including his gardening. He suffered great pain walking merely a block. In late November, Burpee underwent surgery at Port land Osteopathic hospital. A team of osteopathic surgeons performed a lumbar sympa thectomy and an endarterec tomy. They interrupted the sympathetic nerve supply to dilate the blood vessels in Burpee's troubled legs. Then they removed an occlusion from the left common iliac artery, allowing the blood to flow freely once again. Burpee has made rapid re covery strdes, it was found recently when given a final checkup. The pulse and warmth have returned to his legs from the improved circu lation. He no longer walks with pain. He knows it's great to be alive. He has new vital ity and renewed interest in living. "There's nothing like good health," Burpee observes ra diantly. "A man does a Jot of thinking when he gets in a spot like I was. But my wife says if I get any riskier, she'll run me off the place." Large Block of Timber Set For Sale in Rogue Forest ! Sunday, February 2, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB A total of 191 million board feet of timber is scheduled for sale in the Rogue River Na tional forest for the coming year, Supervisor Carroll Brown told members of the Southern Oregon Conserva tion and Tree Farm associa tion Friday night at the Rogue Valley Country club. "Timber is a crop and must be harvested the same as any other crop," the supervisor said. Brown said It is important to get the record .straight. He said there has been some mis understanding on the record of the Rogue River forest for the last 10 years. Allowable Cut One of these misunderstand ings involves a statement that the Rogue River forest has not sold the allowable cut for the last 10 years. It is unfair to take only the record for the past 10 years in judging this situation, he said. Instead, the past 15 years' record should be considered. During World War II tim ber was a critical item in the war effort. In 1943 the allow able cut was 81.7 million board feet were cut for de fense purposes. "In other words due to the emergency during the war years we had orders to disre gard the allowable cut and turn out the timber needed for national defense," the su pervisor said. Overcut Balanced "In the subsequent years this overcut had to be bal anced so less than the allow able cut could be taken from the forest each year," he ex plained. "The average for the 15-year period from 1943 to 1957 inclusive was 98.7 mil lion board feet. The allowable cut average is 99.6 million board feet." Since the sales greatly vary it is necessary to figure on selling three to 10 times allowable cut. Brown said. The allowable cut is based on the cut and not what is sold, he added. Another rumor which has been circulated, he said, is that the government is with holding stumpage from sale to maintain high stumpage prices. The government is not interested in high stumpage prices, he said. It is interested only in getting timber moving and in getting the land back into production. National forest timber is the principal source of raw material, Brown said and sometimes, it is the only source. We are interested in the effect sale of national for est timber has on the eco nomic life of the adjacent communities. Our policies are set to benefit or improve the economic conditions of the adjacent communities. Comments On Meeting He commented on the re cent public meeting held by the Bureau of Land Manage ment here which both the BLM and logging interests considered successful. He said he would be glad to hold such a meeting for the Rogue Riv er national forest. Following the supervisor's speech, H. G. Hopkins, staff officer for the national forest here, explained the forest service timber sale appraisal methods. "There is nothing secret or mysterious about the apprai sal methods used by the For est Service," Hopkins said. "Every timber sale is the same." Using a series of charts at tached to an easel, Hopkins gave an appraisal summary to show what factors are figured in. These include amortiza tion volume, selling price (L. T.), less 2 per cent cash discount, overrun per cent factor, average selling price (L. S.). Factors under devel opment costs were construc tion of main and secondary roads, spur roads. Log making to truck included felling and bucking, skidding and load ing, logging equipment re pairs. Transportation included hauling and unloading, road maintenance. General over head costs included woods de preciation, general adminis tration, supervision, scaling. Contractual costs included slash, erosion control, fire pro tection, protection of irriga tion ditch. Tells of Bills Lewis L. Simpson, secre tary - manager of the associa tion, told association members three bills now before con gress should be halted. One is listed as HR 5124 and is called the power brake .bill. This actually enables the union to "featherbed," he said. Under f We are all proud of you, Sam1. CONGRATULA TIONS a m m m u m a M - i &v - ,ILA 'Mi Mr. Sam Richardson of Home Appliance' Com pany won a national aoward. His new title, bestowed in a contest sponsored by the Ladies Home Journal, is "Major Appliance Creative Salesman of the Year." Both Sam Richardson and Home Appliance Company are deserving of sincere congratulations. ' GENERAL SALES AND ELECTRIC CO, DISTRIBUTION DEPT. this bill the Interstate Com merce commission is author ized to prescribe inspection of all power brakes and limit the number of cars to a train. This would provide for two 50 car trains thus increasing the number of men needed in train crews. The railroads have the finest safety record per passenger mile per ton mile of freight of any mass transportation, Simpson said. This and two other bills will increase the .operating costs of railroads and since logs and lumber is shipped by rail will cause these costs to be passed on to the lumber industry. Senate Bill 1313 and HR 4353, which applies to un employment compensation and retirement benefits. Simpson cited the recerft victory won by the lumber in dustry in the ICC rate case involving discrimnatory rates on shipment of lumber into California. "Editorials notwithstanding, the railroads, including the Southern Pacific, took our side and helped plead our case," Simpson said. The industry has regained 11 per cent on the freight rates increases, it was report ed and is now working to get back another 9 per cent. Rail roads have been in trouble with trucking from this and other areas, Simpson com mented. Plan Solicitations Russ Hogue, of the associa tion's traffic committee, re ported new solicitations would be made for the work of the traffic committee on battling discrimnatory freight rates which affect the shipment of lumber. Such areas as Glen dale, Grants Pass, Lakeview and Klamath Falls will be asked to join the work of the committee by paying an initi ation fee of $25 and an assess ment of a half cent per thou sand board feet on shipments of lumber or square foot for plywood. Wholesale shippers will be asked to pay one-fourth cent per thousand board feet, he explained, for all lumber shipped from this area. During the last five years active participation by the committee in freight rate cases has cost over $12,000, it was pointed out. The recent case cost the committee $6,000 in voluntary donations from industry men. B. L. Nutting, representing Western Pine, presented tree farm certificates to Oscar Hanson, Elk Creek, and Glenn Hunter and Glenn Best of Hunter and Best Tree Farm, near Ruch, for their work in the tree farm program. E. W. Pease, Industrial Forestry as sociation, presented a tree farm certificate to Hanson also. Curt Nesheim, state Board of Forestry, reported that the farm forestry program is tak ing ' considerable time with two full time men operating. One is working in the agricul ture conservation program and the other in the soil bank program. Actually, these men are doing the leg work for these federal agencies, he com mented. A meeting is ,planned with the Bureau of Land Manage ment officials here, represen tatives of the Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association and the State Board of Forestry about April 1 to set foreman and fire training courses. Such a course would be conducted May 7, he said. Ross Youngblood, Bureau of Land Management office here, said his staff is busy processing timber for market. The BLM plans to make 160 million board feet of timber xro i 1 n Vl a 4r i f f i ri cr 4-Viic rrrr- !i i ing year, ne saia. Work is also being done on right of ways and access roads such as the Snow creek i bridge, and the Keeno rd. Con tracts on the latter should be out about July 1, he added. Residents Asked To Display U.S. Flag Crater Lake chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, recommend that Oregon residents display the American flag on three oc casions this month. The dates are Feb. 12 in honor of Lincoln's birthday. 74 Disease Cases Reported Last Veek A total of 74 cases of com municable diseases were re ported in Jackson county last week, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health physician. Of the total, 18 were influ enza and 34 were measles. Shady Cove reported 18 mea sles cases and Elk Trail had 14. The other two cases were reported in Central Point. Ten influenza cases were re ported in Medford, five in Phoenix and three in Shady Cove. Other diseases reported in clude six chicken pox, two pneumonia, one whooping cough, two infectious mono nucleosis, 12 mumps, eight pink eye, and one scalp ringworm. Metor speed ranges from j 10 to 45 miles per second. George Washington's birth date, Feb. 22, and on Feb. 14, when Oregon was admitted to the Union. February has been desig nated as history month by Governor Robert D. Holmes at the request of the state so ciety of the Daughters of the American Revolution. MOTHER EN ROUTE Monte Carlo, Monaco HP) Mrs. John B. Kelly, Philadel phia, mother of Princess Grace of Monaco, was due here by plane from the United States today for the approach ing birth of Grace's second child. The birth is expected around the middle of March. Grace's first child. Princess Caroline, celebrated her first birthday Jan. 23. 1 CHRISTIAN 1 i SCIENCE A HEALSy Station Sundays KWIN 10:15 1400 K.C. A.M. can't help raving! Honestly, I just lov th way my house looks since we painted with SPRED Every room gleam with re freshing new brightness! SPRED goes on easy as pie, too, and it took no time at all to decorate every room. Believe me, from now on, it's SPRED SATIN for our home! 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