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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
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We are all proud of you, Sam1.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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Lumber Market Seen
Signs of market improve
ment in some segments of the
lumber industry were report
ed today by two Oregon in
dustry news letters.
Random Lengths, Eugene,
said: "Some step-up in act
ivity in Oregon's lumber in
dustry was reported by one
class of mills, but the general
level among all types of pro
ducer remained ,verv low."
Crow's lumber market news
service, Portland, reported
that utility grade Douglas fir
dimension, green and . kiln
dried, is exhibiting a firm
trend. . . Standard and better
random green dimension
shows an upward price trend,
while specified lengths remain
steady.
In oher areas of the in
dustry, the low-level market,
with limited demand and
weak prices, continued, the
news letters said.
Sanded plywood generally
dropped S2 last week at many
mills, th reported.
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