14 MAtt TRIBUNE, Mtdford, On.. Sunday, April 13, 1958
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. 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
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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.
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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
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level,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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I jp J? - ' 1 1! : FREEDOM OF CHOICE jj
1$&r -f rl of Funeral Director j
: 7 f$A FOR ALL FAMILIES! ' -
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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.
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