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14 MAtt TRIBUNE, Mtdford, On.. Sunday, April 13, 1958 I u Dim Fir Pireg ditq . FCC Report Shows Need For Radio : In Forestry Work l By JIM FISHER With the start of Oregon's official fire season April 1, activities of the state forestry department's Southwest Ore gon district begin to pick up. In a few weeks, lookouts will be manning their stations 1 to report fires and wardens will be located at their guard -L stations throughout Jackson and Josephine counties ready - to leave for a fire. At the Medford and Grants Pass headquarters, the efforts of all of these people will be co- ordinated. T Radio communication is an ' important factor that con- tributes to smooth operation 'i of this fire protection agency f and makes possible effective detection, reporting, and con i trol of fires. Radio communications in fire control has become im- - portant only since the end of - World War II. Before that time, telephone lines were constructed and maintained j by Southwest Oregon district. . Operation of telephone sys tems has always been an ex 1 pensive one for the service Z obtained. With the continual improvement of radio com i munications, telephone lines are being removed. Z. The. importance of radio in J the Southwest Oregon district I was the subject of a report " made recently to the state forester's office. This report Z will be compiled with other state district reports and pre t sented to the Federal Com- t: munications commission along 1 with reports of other states' forestry agencies. Placing an actual cash val ue or any other value of ra- dio communcation to fire pro- - tection work is difficult. There 1 is no way of estimating the possible personal injuries, fa talities, and additional prop erty damage that might have occurred during any fire had radio not been used to speed 1; up communications. Radio t communications have made - fire protection forces flexible. Manpower can be dispatched from other work to fires or from one fire to another with - a minimum of lost time. Over- i head personnel can be quickly notified of fires while going ' about normal administrative ' work. , Importance of Radio Shown ; Specific instances were pointed out in the report showing importance of radio ; communications. In August, 1950, for example, state . crews on a fire in Southern ' Josephine county were noti ; fied by radio the fire had crept close to buildings where ', 20 people were sleeping. It had been considered safe in that area before the people I had gone to bed. A pumper " end crew were dispatched ' from elsewhere on the fire to . save the buildings. The peo , pie were awakened and moved to a safe place. In the last five years, state - forestry radios have been used also to request aid for t injured persons- involved in " automobile accidents both on main highways and back roads. During August 1953, and August 1956, radio communi cations between ground crews and an airplane scouting for fires enabled the quick de tection and suppression of lightning fires. For instance, during the three-day period of August 20 to 22, 1956, 95 lightning fires were sup pressed in the Southwest Ore gon district. The flexible fire crews directed by radio kept 90 of these fires confined to less than a quarter of an acre. During this same three-day period, a total of 606 radip calls were logged at the Grants Pass and Medford Men and women hear again with nothing in either ear through thrilling Sonotone research discovery. Only YOU will know your E-Zone secret of transistor hearing aid completely concealed in stylish glasses. Yet you use both ears" (just as normal per- E-Zon: Everything worn ot EYE-EAR nothing worn anywhere else. C. R. ADAMSON, Manager f ' V7t1 if Hi M y I " KEEPS CONTACT The 50-watt headquarters set in the state department's office on Table Rock road keeps Dis patcher Walter "Buzz" Moran in contact with the 11 lookouts and 17 forest wardens in the Jackson unit. The Grants Pass headquarters coordinates the work of the rest of the district protection force. " III 1.11 U.MI RADIOS EXAMINED Portable and lookout radios are examined by warehouseman Jack Fortin. Jack holds the "peanut" set as it looks when not in use. In the center of the picture, you can see the same radio ready for use with the box open and the antenna extended. The radio at the right is the type used on lookouts. The small box attached to the side of the lookout radio contains the '"buzzer" for use at night. headquarters. These were messages either received or transmitted from the two sta tions and did not include mes sages exchanged between two lookouts, ground crews, or other radios. Many general contributions of radio were mentioned in the report to the FCC. If ra dio communications were dis continued, eight of the dis trict's 16 lookouts would be useless. Two forest wardens would also be useless and the other 26 wardens seriously hampered in fire protection duties. Telephone lines could fill in some for radio, but not enough to make a good pro tecting organization. Whenever a lightning storm moves into the vicinity of a telephone line, the resulting static generally makes the line useless for communicat ing. Radio can be used until the storm is almost directly overhead when it is discon nected for safety reasons. ' During ea,ch day lookouts are manned, check calls are made to make sure all radios are operating. More impor tant, they make sure persons on the lookouts are safe. Fire weather information is also given lookouts to inform them of what to expect. Transmissions Totalled Research for the FCC re port showed the number of transmissions during the ac tual fire suppression work averaged as follows for the indicated sizes of fires: fires up to acre 6; fires from ,4 to 10 acres 15; over 10 acres 25 and up. Fire rec ords for the Southwest Ore sons listen) to enjoy latest hearing revolu tion recommended by doctors. Based on Sonotone bone-conduction invention, by passing outer ears. COME IN, PHONE OR WRITE level, iSONOTONE 839 East gon district for the last five years shows an average of 159 fires per year. Radios are used in many ways on fires. Messages are given to crews on their way to fires to give them new in formation, send them to an other fire, or recall them in the case of a f,alse alarm. On large fires, scouts and other overhead personnel use radio to keep abreast of the fire's progress. Lookouts relay mes sages for fire fighters when they cannot call their head quarters themselves. To effectively organize a communications system for an area of 1,600,000 acres such as Southwest Oregon district, it takes a lot of radios. Be sides being radios at all 16 lookouts, there are nearly 30 mobile radios located in pumpers and pickups; an equal number of portable ra dios called "peanut sets" be cause of their size; approxi mately a dozen radios located at guard stations; and two larger sets including' the 50- watt Medford headquarters set and the 25 - watt Grants Pass headquarters set. Within the district, the ra dios operate on the 31580 band. The two headquarter sets can also transmit on 2236 to the other district and state headquarters, however. . The recent cycle of sun spots has caused considerable trouble to the state forestry department's radio techni cians. Freak calls from pro tection agencies in Arkansas and Louisiana, and police de partments in California have kept the radio wave-lengths Hearing Secret Jackson - Phone SP 2-5904 0 TESTS RADIO Emil Zimmerlee, Equipment Operator for the Southwest Oregon district, tests his radio in his new truck. Nearly 30 mobile radios are placed in pumper trucks, pickups, and cars operating throughout the state protected lands in Jackson and Josephine counties. Mobile radios provide a flexible fire fighting force since they enable crews to work away from headquarters and still keep in touch with the fire dispatcher. cluttered for some time. This intereference reached a peak last summer when all state forestry department radios throughout the state were cluttered with a strange noise. A request to the FCC started an investigation that eventu ally found the cause of the intereference a teletype machine in Dakar on the coast of French West Africa. Starts Five Year Program This year the state forestry department began a five year program to change from AM io FM radios. This was done at the request of the FCC to improve distribution of fre quencies, but it will also pro vide better service to the for estry department. Three or four districts will be changed each year until the change is completed.- Another, new engineering improvement of radio com munication undertaken by the forestry department is the use of the "radio buzzer" system. Using this system, which re quires a small attachment to the regular radio, a lookout can shut off all voice com munication at night and use a radio - controlled buzzer to arouse him for emergency reasons. This provides a small er drain on radio batteries also. Headquarter sets are equipped with the same units and both stations "call buzz" one another when the voice communication is shut off. Training personnel in prop er radio procedure is neces sary each year. Radio commu nication classes are held dur ing the regular, fire school to acquaint lookouts and ward ens with the correct way to use a radio. Radio operators are instructed not to adjust their sets since only trained radio technicians can service them. Having the equivalent of a 90-party line with all radios on the same frequency re quires all messages to be short and confined to business mat ters only. Communications regarding fire take preference over all other calls except dis tress calls involving danger to human life. Profane or obJ scene language is not per mitted in radio calls under penalty of a $10,000 fine. Messages are further short ened by elimination of per sonal names and such phrases as "roger", "over", "out", etc. All stations 'are called by their radio . numbers instead of by name. Acknowledge ment of calls is made by Medford Man Hurt From Auto Crash John Edward Walker, 24, of 35 Geneva st., was reported unconscious and suffering from undetermined injuries in Sacred Heart hospital Sat urday night after his car left the road early Friday morn ing, according to city police. Medford police said Walk er was alone in the vehicle when it apparently went straight off the road more than 400 feet into an open field on Crater Lake ave., near the Grandview Market about 3:25 a.m. Walker was taken to Sacred Heart hospi tal by Medford Ambulance Service. . He is reported m serious condition. MECHANIC KILLED Portland itPt A 49-year-old Gresham mechanic, Lester Gene Poe, was killed Friday night when his car went out of control on a curve and over-turned. Memphis, Tenn (IP) J. L. Rutledge told the sheriff's burglary-theft squad Satur day that a chimney was stol en brick by brick from a va cant tenant house on bis farm. - i-m. i simply giving the radio call number. Sample Message Given A sample radio message would be as follows: 42: "42 to 621" 621: "621" 42: "I'll be off the air for a while. Please give me the time." 621: "The time is 10:40." 42: "42" 621: "621" Headquarter sets sign - off by giving a full FCC identifi cation number, such as KOA 699. This acknowledges the receiving of a message. Personnel are instructed to know what they will say be fore talking on the radio. Ex planations of messages are not given unless requested. All of these practices help reduce the amount of unneces sary conversation on the ra dios. . Fire protection personnel are predicting an even bright er future for radio communi cations in fire protection ac tivities. They forecast the use of helicopter-transported fire crews guided from , one fire to another by radio; smaller and more compact radio sets to be carried in the field; and many other improvements in radio engineering. All of these improvements will speed up the reporting, dispatching, and suppressing of forest fires. Foreign Service Man To Speak Here Peter Rutter, foreign serv ice officer with the American embassy in Accra, Republic of Ghana, will speak to the roiindtable meeting of the chamber of commerce on Monday noon in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel, a spokesman said. His topic will be on Afro American relations. The pub lic is invited to attend the meeting, according to Bob Balk, chairman. Rutter is currently vaca tioning in the area while visit ing his brother, Dr. Thomas Rutter of Medford. Medford Teachers Confer In Salem Two Medford teachers rec ently took part in week-long meetings with Rex Putman, superintendent of public in struction in Salem, during which the Oregon school cur riculum was examined. Gordon Morris, of Mc- Loughlin Junior high school, attended the mathematics ses sion and Monte Kounz, of Hedrick Junior high school, attended the sessions, of sci ence. The object of the meetings was to complete an examina tion of the curriculum begun in these subject areas during the summer workshops. Each subject was examined and checked for outlines for over lapping, ommissions and dup lications. Committees were held on science, mathematics, lang uage, social studies and phy sical education. ID)AKfE)IFniR Slabs and Rough Blox Green Dries Fast 12 or 16 Inch Big Double Loads Summer Prices MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone SP 2-2111 Unusual Items Set for Auction at Gym Benefit Sale Many unusual items from famous people will be for sale at the auction at St. Mary's gym Saturday, April 19, ac cording to committee mem bers in charge. Mrs. O. J. Halboth Is gen eral chairman of the event, which is to raise funds to pave the playground of St. Mary's school. Bill Romback will be auctioneer. Among gifts donated for the sale are sheet music and recordings from Jan Peerce, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Pat Boone, Arthur Ferrante and Claramae Turner. Original illustrations were contributed by Thorton Utz and Ted Key of Saturday Eve ning Post. Books were given by Werner Von Braun, Esther Williams and Cardinal Spell man. Donors of pictures and other'gifts include Mrs. Rich ard Nixon, Ida Lupino, Greer Garson, Roy Rogers and Phil Silvers. Collect Gifts The unusual articles were received through efforts of Mrs. R. Randolph and her committee. Other items are being contributed by local people. In addition to the auction, a rummage sale directed by Mrs. A. W. Adams, will be held in the school annex be ginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. A snack bar with Paul New combe in charge will be in operation all day. Other committee workers include Mrs. W. Cowning, Mrs. Jay Elliott, Frank Dori gan, Mrs. Ray Wise, Adam Richter, Joe Zorazinski and Arnold Paradis. Car Safety Check Planned For City Bicycle safety requires not only education of children but education of parents about dangerous riding habits and the need of obeying traffic laws, according to Mrs. Owen A. Kunkel, president of the Jackson county Parent Teach ers' association, to the Med ford Safety council meeting Friday noon. She told the group safety is a matter of education in all forms. The Jackson coun ty PTA is currently engaged in promoting bicycle safety though the PTA, she said. She said the local policy falls in line with one of the four major aims of the Na tional congress of the PTA. Mrs. Kunkel also told the group of other safety activi ties of the state and national units of the PTA. - Ae report on the bicycle champaign of the Medford Police department was given by. Capt. Clyde Fichtner. He ! said the major offense noted by police officers was youths operating bicycles at night without a front light. Russ Jamison, C. p. Larson and Medford Mayor John Sni der told the group of their re cent trip to the regional safe ty conference in San Francis co. Fichtner announced a car safety check, sponsored by the Safety council and the Junior Chamber of Commerce would take place in Medford in late April or early June. Contracts Given On Voltage Line Portland (IB Bonne ville Power Administration said Saturday it had awarded contracts totaling $427,713 to Parker Schram company of Portland for construction of schedules I and III of the Santiam-Alvey section of the McNary-Alvey 2870,000 volt transmission line No. 1. The two schedules call for construction of 43.3 miles of high voltage transmission line with completion 160 days after notice to proceed. Sched uled for initial operation at 230,000 volts next October, the line will help meet the increasing , power require ments of southwest Oregon with power from McNary dam.'- Court & McAndrews 3 News About Books From the Library "More books were pub lished in , this country last year than in any other year in our history except 1910," reported the New Yorker Magazine recently. The exact figures are 13, 142 titles in 1957 and 13,470 titles in 1910." The magazine editor continued with a query as to why a country that has almost doubled in population, and made even greater gains in wealth and literacy, doesn't publish at least twice as many books these days as it did 47 years ago. We can report, at any rate, that at least twice as many books are available to readers of Jackson county today than were in its public library 47 years ago. It was in 1910 that a small collection of books gathered and circulated on a rental basis by a local wom en's club became the Medford Public library. No record as to the exact number of titles or volumes is available for this year, but it was not until 1925 that the number of li brary volumes grew to ap proximately one half the 42, 000 owned in 1957. The query uppermost in the minds of your library staff is how many of the 13,000-odd new titles published during the year will it be able to fur nish its readers, and which ones among them will please most. During the past two weeks 91 new titles were add ed to the adult section and 24 to the children's department. Of the 140 volumes Dlaced in the library during tnis pe riod, 108 were purchased, and 32 were the gifts of library friends, including Carl Bjor- dahl, Mrs. R. M. Mayer, O. J. Gorman, Miss Anna Livirig- ston, W. K. Marks, Clinton S James, Mrs. Horace , Thomp son, Charles A. Yong, Mrs Lucille Boenig and Noveta D Brandon. . space: The World in Space, Marshack; Man-Made Moons, Adler; Space Travel, Gatland. SCIENCE AND TECHNOL OGY: Electronics for Every one, Upton; The Age of Tele vision, Bogart; Marine Life, Pacific Tidal Regions, Ryan; Once Round the Sun, Fraser; Stick and Rudder, Lange-wiesche-Brandt. BUSINESS AND POLI TICS: Techniques for Market ing New Products, Banning; Making the Most of Your Es tate, MacNeill; Power and Di plomacy, Acheson; Masters of Deceit, Hooder; Ideas, People and Peace, Bowles. SPORTS AND ENTER TAINMENT: The Omnibus of Fun, Eisenberg; Modern Bowl ing Techniques, McMahon; Rocky Marciano's Book of Boxing and Bodybuilding, Marciano; The Clubwoman's Entertainment Book, Brings. TRAVEL AND ADVEN TURE: Kicking Canvas, Bes tic; Spain, Wolgensinger; In side Russia Today, Gunther; An Introduction to Japan, Webb; People of the Reeds, Maxwell; An Epitaph for Dixie, Ashmore. HISTORY: Method and The ory in American Archaeology, Willey; A History of the Unit ed States Air Force, 1907- T- t.tt " 1 - ajrr I jp J? - ' 1 1! : FREEDOM OF CHOICE jj 1$&r -f rl of Funeral Director j : 7 f$A FOR ALL FAMILIES! ' - Y 2ii 1 LA1U CARLOS MORRIS Vole for CARLOS MORRIS for COUNTY CORONER Paid Adv. Carlos Morris for 1957, Goldberg; A history of the English-speaking Peoples: vol. 4: The Great Democra cies, Churchill. BIOGRAPHY: The Titans, Maurois; I Was a Savage, Mo- dupe, Naked to Mine Enemies, Ferguson; The Wizard of Ber keley, Block. HOUSE AND GARDEN: Complete Book or House Plants, Grabe; AB C of Drift wood for Flower Arrangers, Schaffer; The Old Shrub Roses, Thomas; The Gladiolus Today, Fogg. REFERENCE: Encyclope dia Britannica, 1958; Early American pressed glass, Lee; The Musician's Guide; Ameri can Book-prices Current; A Catalogue of the World's Most Popular Coins, Reinfeld. OTHER NON-FICTION: The Challenge of Children; Watch for the Morning, White; Christ Be With Me, Bowie; How to Stop Drinking, Brean; How to Be a Father, Gilbreth. SERIOUS FICTION: Tol stoy's tales of courage and conflict, Tolstoy; The Confes sion, Soldati; The Sergeant, Murphy; The Roots of Hea ven, Gary; The Hireling; Hart ley; Exile and the Kingdom, Camus; The Care of Devils, Press; The Mother, Kavinoky; The Ten Thousand Things, Dermouth. HISTORICAL ROMANCE: The Young Caesar, Warner;! Day of Battle, Van de Water; Victoria and Albert, Stephens; The Revolutionary, Schoo ver; The Castle of Fratta, Ni evo; Blake's Reach, Gaskin; Moses, Prince of Egypt, Fast. LIGHT ROMANCE: Lynn Dene, writer, O'Moore; Two by two, Gellhorn; The Home sick Heart, Gaddis. SCIENCE FICTION: From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It, Verne; The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham. ADVENTURE STORIES: Gold in the Sky; Catto; The Iron Heel, London; The Mark of the Warrior, Scott; The Gods Are Angry, Noyce. WESTERN STORIES: Hoof Trails and Wagon Tracks, Western Writers of America; His Brother's Guns, Lee; Edit With Lead, Grooms. MYSTERIES: The Finishing Stroke, Queen; The Doom- sters, Millar; Singing in the Shrouds, Marsh; Four, Five and Six by Tey, Mackintosh; The Juryman, MacKenzie; The Case of the Demure De fendant (and other novals), by Gardner; Beware the Curves (and other novels), by Fair; Horror on the Ruby X (and other novels), Crane; Dead Man's Folly (and other nov els), Christie; The Woman in the Woods, Blackstock. OTHER FICTION: The in- vincibles, Vaughan; A Dan gerous Woman and Other Stories, Farrell. TEEN-AGE: The Ameri cans, Coy; John Eliot, the Man Who Loved the Indians, Beals; Guide to Career Infor mation, New York Life Insur ance Company; How to Un- derstand Animal Talk, Brown; A Business of Their Own, Dobler; Wild Animals of the Far West, Stoutenburg; Susan, Be Smooth! Giles. A Business-Like Approach to an Important Office I AM AGAINST ROTATING COUNTY OFFICES A "set up" plan of rotation for families who have their own choice for funeral director. (Your TV Weatherman) Coroner Comm. E. H. Thomas, chairman, 708 W. 10th. Mumps Total 60 Cases In County Sixty cases of mumps were reported in Jackson county during the week ending April 11, according to the Jackson county health department. "Ashland reported 31, Med ford 16, Central Point 11 and Sams Valley two. Nine cases of chicken pox were reported; six in Ashland, two in Med ford and one in Talent, ac cording to the report. Infectious hepatitis cases numbered one which was re ported in Jacksonville. Meas les cases numbered eight with five in Central Point, two in Ashland and one in Rogue River. Others reported were Impe tigo, Gold Hill two and Cen tral Point , one; step throat, Ashland one and Medford one; pink eye, Central Point one; whooping cough, Med ford three; and German meas les, Central Point two and Ashland one. Dynamite Attempt Brings Prison Idaho Falls (1P1 Two Idaho Falls men who were charged with assault with in tent to commit murder in the attempt to blow up a young mother with dynamite today awaited transportation to the state prison to begin serving 14 year sentences. Charles M. Feely, 18, and Monte D. Moore, 21. Both waived the usual waiting per iod and were immediately sentenced Friday by District Judge Henry S. Martin. The youths were charged in connection with the dyna mite bombing of the car Mrs. Roene Gasser, 24, was driv ing so that Moore would col lect a $10,000 double indemn ity life insurance policy. To cover up the attempted murder, several other explo sions were set off around Ida ho Falls. Spokane Lumber Mill To Resume Operation Spokane Iff) The Long Lake Lumber company mill here will resume operations Monday, William J. Burns, general manager, said Sat urday. Burns said 150 men would be employed at the plant on a one-shift operation. The mill shut down six months ago for extensive modernization. SEE THE TO Only 7 Moving Parti In the Engine Up to 35 Miles Per Gallon Front Wheel Drive COMPARE ir Roominess -k Economy it Initial Cost Looks Keith Schulz Garage 116 N. Front - Ph. SP 2-4756
