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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1958)
Record Volume of Timber Sold In Bedford District This Year The Medford district of the bureau of land management sold a record-breaking 133, 726,000 board feed of O. and C. timber during fiscal year 1958, according to Ross A. Youngblood, district manager. Timber sale during April, May and June accounted for 80,596,000 board feet of the total, with the pak monthly volume of 62,858,000 board feet in June. Yearly sales vol umes have increased steadily in the Medford district dur ing the p9st four years. The volume for fiscal years 1958 represents a 10,000,000 board foot increase over the volume sold during the previous year. . Youngblood attributed the increased interest in district timber sales, evident sine January, to a stronger lumber market. He noted that the 113.513,000 board feet of timber sold since January was the highest vojume of timber ever sold by the dis trict during a comparable pe riod. Public Domain Land In addition ft the volume of timber sold from the dis trict O. and C. lands, a vol ume of 3,503,000 board feet was sold from public domain lands. District records are kept separately for the two classifications of land since the formulae by which the federal government shares receipts with the local gov ernment are different for O. and C. and public domain lands. The value of the O. and C. . timber sold during fiscal year 1958 was $3,223,318.16. This was approximately $250,000 less than the total selling price of $3,470,777.53 for the timber sold during fiscal year 1937. . BLM timber sale regula tions do not require the pur chaser of bureau timber to pay for the entire volume on a lump-sum basis.. Payments may be extended on an in stallment basis over a two year period. Total Collections Total collections made by the district office" during April, May and Jdhe were $1,302,641.02. This represent ed approximately one-third of the $3,187,830.46 collected during fiscal year 1958. . Collections for timber sales always the largest item of the district collections, in- j creased from $259,530.05 in April to $581,411.45 in June for a total of $1,280,261,05 for the period. This increase cor responded to increasingly fa vorable logging weather and the stronger market. Receipts from O. and C. timber sales amounted to $1,273,808.25 of the total timber sale collec tions for this period. Rente - of - land, principally special land use permit charg es, grazing fees and right-of- way permit fees, accounted for $6,955.75 of the quarterly collections. Charges for tim ber trespasses accounted for another $1,597.20. Awarded Contracts The Medford district award ed contracts for soil scarifica tion, or preparation for seed- Easiest, nftst economical seeding and feeding with the Scotts Spreader makes you the lawn expert . . . you will put down needed materials as evenly and accurately as any pro... just dial the number. 16 in 12.95 18 in $16.95 Built to last for years and year SnCIAUSTS IN MOMIWAlffl 245 S. Central at 10th FREE PARKING! Portland Woman Shot; Man Kills Himself Later Portland (UPI) One man is dead and a woman was re ported in "extremely critical" condition in a Portland hos pital Saturday as the result of an attempted murder-suicide in tne t ourth Avenue hotel here Friday night. ' Virginia A. Lee, 32, of Port land was shot in the left side Friday night as she combed her hair, city police said. The man, Lester M. Gibson, 52, shot the woman in his hotel room and then killed himself with a .32 caliber Colt automatic, police said, after they had been drinking and then had gone to his room to pack his bags for a trip to the Seattle Marine hospital. Smokes Cigarette The woman told officers that she had smoked a cigar ette in the room and then got up to comb her hair when Gib son walked to his suitcase, opened it and took out the gun. "I have a present for you," Gibson said, and shot her, she told police. She was knocked to the floor by the impact. He then came over and shoved the gun into her face and pulled the trigger again, but the gun jammed and failed to go off, she said. As he attempted to get it unjammed, she got up and ran down' to the desk where the clerk called police. Apparently Gibson shot himself through the heart while the woman ran for help, investigating officers said.. He was dead when po lice arrived. Gibson had checked into the hotel Wednesday. He . pre viously worked on a U. S. corps of engineers dredge in California and was on his way to the Seattle hospital, officers said. -. ;: Plants have ingenious means of getting enough sun light. Some mosses in dimly lit places grow a covering of clear cells that act as focusing lenses to gather the meager light and concentrate it in the chlorophyll. ing, on three tracts totaling 738 acres during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 1958. Two of these tracts were in the Chase mountain area of Klamath county. The third was in the Butte Falls area of Jackson county. All' were scenes of old forest fires which had denuded the land of commercial forest cover, thereby allowing brush and weed-species of trees to in vade. Julius E. Purvine of Cor vallis was the successful bid der on all three tracts. The contract prices for the tracts near Chase mountain, involv ing areas of 419 acres and 214 acres, were $2.40 per acre and $22.40 per acre re spectively. The Butte Falls tract, 105 acres, was contract ed at $30 per acre. The total contract price was $18,167.20. This scarification contract completed the district reha bilitation program for the fis cal year. The program was initiated on a large scale dur ing fiscal year 1958 through the use of $900,000 made avaiable by the 18 O. and C. counties of Oregon from their share of the receipts from timber sales on O. and C. lands. Scarification Contracts , The Medford district award ed contracts for the scarifica tion of 1,849 acres during fis cal year 1958 at a total cost of $50,455.80. Some scarifica tion projects have already been completed. Others have started, or soon will start. All 1,849 acres will be reforested during fiscal year 1959. In addition to sacrification projects, the district contract ed snag falling projects on 1,874 acres during the fiscal years. These projects required the fall of approximately 5,690 snags. Snag falling gen erally preceded scarification on brush areas where snags were numerous; snag falling also preceded one reforestation-project. Snags are felled as a safety precaution to protect men working in the area on scari fication or reforestation proj ects and as a measure to re duce fire hazard in costly plantations. Snags attract lightning, a principal cause of Medford district fires. They also aid in the spread of "go ing fires by throwing sparks ahead of the fire fighters. Plant Seedlings The Medford district plant ed 242,670 Douglas-fir seed lings and 303,629 ponderosa pine seedlings by reforesta- Shah's Yacht Hits Schooner in Italy Naples, Italy (UPI) Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran escaped uninjured Friday night when his borrowed yacht rammed and sank a gravel-laden schooner outside Ischia Harbor. . The Shah borrowed the 120- ton yacht Sereno of Italian publisher and movie producer Engelo Rizzoli to visit Ischia Island shortly after his arrival here aboard the liner Indepen dence from the United States. The collision happened while the yacht was returning to Naples. The 54-ton motor- equipped sailing vessel Senti nella went down within min utes after the crash. Its cap tain and seven-man crew were picked up by nearby boats. PflllY LOIN END j SHORT FLANK LOIN u V 1 G I n i; r Livina COSTS! Locker Beef On Approved Credit - v Vi BEEF .....49c lb. 14 FRONT . .... .......43c lb. 14 HIND .... .. .... .. 57c lb. 25-LB. FAMILY ORDER $12.98 Cut and Wrapped , to Your Specifications Budget Special 30 lbs. Roasts 10 lbs. T-Bone Steak 15 lbs. Short Ribs 5 lbs. Pork Shoulder 5 lbs. Boneless Roast , .Stew Cubes 12 lbs. Pork Chops 20 lbs. Ground Beef 6 lbs. Ham . 10 lbs. Round Steak 6 lbs. Vi Turkey 10 lbs. Rib Steak 6' lbs. Fryer FORE SHANK i r w ... CHUCKS j 129 lbs. Meats . $71.10 COME IN AND COMPARE OUR RETAIL PRICES CHRYSTAL MEAT MARKET tion contracts - during fiscal year 1958 at a cost of $16, 602.40. Direct seeding or seed spotting of Douglas-fir, pon derosa pine, and sugar pine seed was used to reforest 1,159 acres by reforestation contract at a cost of $6,065.51. Timber sale contractors re forested another 319 acres of O and C land under terms of bureau timber sale contracts. During the past quarter, Medford district reforestation foresters completed an inven tory of the unproductive for est land in the district in an effort to determine the size of the 'back-log'1 of land to be reforested in the next few year. Program Instituted The program was instituted as part of a reforestation in ventory designed to study the reforestation need in the five O and C forest districts. Plans are being made for the re forestation of approximately 3,500 acres in the Medford district during fiscal year 1959 at a cost of approxi mately $65,000. The O and C counties have made $500,000, available to the bureau of re reforestation in the five O and C districts during fiscal year 1959. The Medford district com pleted basic field and office work on the forest inventory of the Josephine master unit which includes all the O and C and public domain land in Josephine county. This will result in an increased allow able cut for the bureau lands in the unit. Forest inventory of the district lands in Jack son and Klamath counties will be completed by July, 1959. Forest inventory on the Medford district involves the construction of maps of the area showing timber types by species and age, roads, drain ages, and section corners. These maps are constructed from aerial photographs in terpreted by skilled foresters. Permanent Sample Plots Volume and growth data for the forest land being in ventoried is measured through a system of permanent sample plots comparable to systems used by the U.S. forest serv ice and private companies with active forest inventory programs. Thus the district not only collects growth and volume data necessary for bet ter management on its own lands. It also can pool its data with those of other agencies for an analysis of the forest problems of the entire north west. Work has begun on the West Fork of Evans Creek Ac cess road during the fourth quarter of fiscal year " 1958. The 16-mile reconstruction contract was awarded to the Lewis River Logging company at Vancouver early in 'June. The project is part of the access road program of the bureau, supported both by federal appropriations and by funds made available to the bureau by the O and C coun ties from their share of the timber sale receipts. Raises Timber Value A well developed system of access roads raises the val ue of timber tributary to the roads, and makes timber avail able to small operators who cannot afford the expense of extensive road construction. A contract for the construc tion of a bridge on the White horse Creek Access road and one on the Snow Creek Ac cess road was awarded to Q. L. Rufener, Inc., of Portland for a contract price of $64, 470.50. The bridges are be ing constructed under the bureau access road program. District work plans have been completed for fiscal year 1959. They feature an in creased timber sale volume in anticipation of a new al lowable cut based on comple tion of the forest inventory program. The district reforest ation program will also be ac celerated during the coming year. This stepped-up program is necessary so that the back log of unproductive land sur veyed in the recent reforesta tion inventory program can be put into production. The district work plans for fiscal year 1959 place a heavy emphasis on development planning. Well - devloped plans, which include project ed access road systems and schedules for the harvest of tirrjber, are essential to a con tinuous, flow of timber from a forest unit. Development plans for the entire Medford district will be completed MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforeV Ortjon. SuneUy, July IS, 1938-3 within five years'. An inquiries concerning the program of the Medford dis trict of -the BLM should be direct to the district office at the city hall, Medford. . -s? ... i T a Compact . . . yet roomy American-type gearshift -that's Eng hsh I . -that's FDRD1 V'X , ; Up to 35 mils per gallon with this Prefect model Compare its low price with any other, leading import! In this trim new English beauty you slip easily through heavy traffic, park in places most cars must pass by. Yet the whole family rides in roomy comfort. Thrifty, too gives you. up 35 miles per gallon. Quick service every where. 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