4 Friday, September 19, 1958
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19. 1948 (Sunday)
A total of more than $22
000 worth of livestock was
auctioned Thursday night at
the conclusion of the county
4-H club fair.
The medical care director
of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis has
come to consult with execu
tives of the foundation's Jack
son county chapter.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19. 1938 (Monday)
Central Point has voted to
Install pipes to bring Med
ford water to it rather than
relav all its own water mains
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
deer hunting season opens
Tues. Several nimrods will
be unable to sally forth owing
to some work coming up sud
den, and their wives making
up their minds for them.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 19. 1928 (Wednesday)
The Medford Garden club
will send a committee to judge
asters today.
The Medford and Ashland
Chambers of Commerce are
launching membership drives.
40 YEARS AGO
Sect. 19. 1918 (Thursday)
S. S. Bullis has telephoned
Mayor Gates of Medford that
hp nlans to sell the Medford
Jacksonville railroad, and that
if the DeoDle of Medford want
to preserve it they should
offer to buy it.
The best school exhibits
ever assembled in Jackson
county are now on exhibit
downtown as part of the
school fair.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Do you associate the title
Rajah with Iran, India, Bur
ma, or Indo-china?
2. In Roman mythology,
Bacchus was the god of wine;
true or false?
3. Six states comprise New
England; name them.
4. Lightning never strikes
the same object twice; true or"
false?
5. Are Hibernians Scots
men, Spaniards or Irishmen?
6. In which profession is
an instrument known as a
theodolite most used?
7. On which large river is
the Chinese city of Chung
king? 8. What is the present
name of he former Danish
West Indies?
9. The painter most famous
for his paintings of ballet
dancers was Murillo, or
Degas?.
10. Does the island of Cor
sica belong to Spain, France,
or Italy?
Answers: I. India. 2. True.
3. Main, New Hampshire. Ver
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut. 4.
False. 5. Irishmen. 6. Survey
ing. 7. Th Yangtze. 8. Ameri
can Virgin Islands. 9. Degas.
10. Franc. .
Laughter RIP.?
Has laughter good old unrestrained laughter
at the ridiculous or absurd vanished from Am
erica? A man named Corey Ford, writing in the Sat
urday Evening Post, mourns the death of laugh
ter. And he attributes it to fear fear of the com
plications of living in a threatening, atomic age;
fear of the reprisals of the laughed-about; fear of
being considered non-conf ormists or of being con
sidered light-headed as well as light-hearted.
Ford may have overstated his case, but he has,
it appears, a case, of sorts.
AT ANOTHER time, and under other circum
" stances, the frothings and mouthings of the
late Senator Joseph McCarthy would have been
laughed out of the public eye.
But, since he capitalized on the fear of Ameri
ca of subversion, backed by the threat of inter
national communism, McCarthy was taken seri
ously, instead of being treated as the ridiculous
figure he was at his height.
Because of those circumstances, he was looked
upon as menacing by some, and as a savior by
others; and by none as the ridiculous, gravel
voiced, over-inflated symbol he appears to be in
retrospect.
VES, perhaps Ford has a point.
. One seldom, in polite society, anyway, or
upon the stage, hears the ancient jokes about Pat
and Mike (the Irish might protest) ; or the Negro
jokes (many of that race object, understandably,
to racial stereotypes of an unfavorable charac
ter) ; or the Scotch jokes (Scots might protest) ;
or Jewish jokes (the same), and so on and so on.
Catholics object to jokes about priests; mor
ticians object to jokes about undertakers; plaster
ers object to jokes about people being "plas
tered"; traveling salesmen object to jokes in
volving them with farmers daughters; police
officers object to jokes about "cops" and so on
down the line.
A whole vein of humor, some of it innocent
fun, some of it rather more vicious, is prohibited.
"llHERE, nowdays, is the Will Rogers who can
comment lightly on the shortcomings of a
president while spinning a loop with his lariat?
There is none, and probably will be none as long
as a serious public takes seriously the habits of
the man in the White House. ,
(We have heard animated even heated
arguments about whether golf is a necessary re
laxation and exercise for presidents, or only evi
dence of a lack of application and attention to the
job; seldom have comedians, had the termerity
to see anything funny in the golf, or even in the
dead-serious discussions of it.)
A nation which cannot take unimportant
things lightly, or even the amusing side of serious
things, is the loser.
MOT all humor has vanished from the American
scene even though George Gobel reports
that he repeatedly teases his TV wife because it
isn t safe to tease anything else any more.
Not all wit is dead
runs the danger of being
Not all comedians have died even though
comedy today is mostly that of the "situation,"
rather than of pungent
crous m the passing scene.
Not all laughter is gone although the often
acid and even more often hilarious cartoons of
such expert practitioners as Herblock are fre
ouentlv bemoaned as being in "bad taste."
Maybe what America
fat bellv-laugh at itseli.
pompous, energetic and idealistic. It also is tunny,
if we can regain sufficient perspective to see our
selves as we are. E.A.
River Land Withdrawal
We are in hearty accord with the decision of
the bureau of land management to withdraw
riverbank areas of the
recreational planning,
scenic values.
The Rogue river is a
and its value does not lie
or power or domestic and industrial water use po
tential. Much of its value lies in its recreational
value.
It is the right thing
as is possible, this resource.
A LARGE acreage is involved. It totals 23,096
acres, and the withdrawal extends, generally,
for a half-mile on each side of the river from
about McLeod to Agness,
forest service land protect
Rogue.
But if we read the
sufficient protection for other interests. The-land
is not going to be "locked up" so that no one can
use the Rogue in any way.
areas on the lower Kogue
mineral entry, and other
special circumstances, will
But the values which are most important to
he largest number of people will be preserved.
THE time may come when we will have to de
nlAr, -.t-1 A i 1 1.. ll
iue vmcuiei we want iu nave our cane in me
orm of a natural river open to all for recreation
and spiritual refreshment), or eat our cake (by
using the river for little but industrial, irrigation,
power ana domestic purposes).
a or a while longer, however, we do not have
o make that decision. For a while, anvwav. we
can have our cake and
even though the satirist
taken seriously.
commentary on the ludi
needs today is a Dig,
Our nation is serious.
Rogue river for future
and for preservation of
major asset to this valley,
entirely in its irrigation
to do to protect, insofar
Other withdrawals in
other stretches of the
order correctly, there is
Certain mineral-heavyj
will still be subject to
types of entry, under
be allowed.
eat it too. E.A.
Dennis the Menace
' I WAS PgETENDlM' THE 6UY W
MB HAVE IT -W I GUESS I
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First TV Station
To the Editor: For some
time now KBES-TV has an
nounced they are the oldest
operating station in Oregon,
According to Bill Moyes' B
Mike Column, quote: "KPTU
(12) was first TV station in
Oregon." It used to be UHF
and now is VHF.
Melvin Bedient,
Box 149,
Rogue River, Ore.
Coverage Liked ,
To the Editor: The Eagle
Point Lions club would like
to express its appreciation to
you and your staff for the
excellent coverage which was
accorded the Woman's State
Softball Tournament held Au
gust 7, 8, 9, 10, 1958.
We would like you to know
that except for the untiring
efforts of Mr. Dick Jewett of
your staff, we feel that our
crowds would not have been
nearly as large. Mr. Jewett
was in attendance at most of
the games and his wonderful
reporting of the games added
color to the tournament which
encpuraged fans to attend.
The advance publicity and
pictures which were published
were of the highest order and
aided materially in promoting
the tournament.
The Tournament was a fi
nancial success for the club
as weU as furnishing enter
tainment for the members of
the Camp White Domiciliary
and we hope to be able to
again invite the Softball as
sociation to hold the state
tournament at the Camp
White stadium.
Eagle Point Lions club,
For the Members,
Stewart Hopper,
Secretary .
Conference on
Chemicals Slated
Corvallis A special all-day
conference on safe handling
and use of toxic agricultural
chemicals will be held at Ore
gon State college Oct. 7.
The meeting is being spon
sored by the State Industrial
Accident commission in coop
eration with the Oregon state
board of health, Oregon State
college extension service, and
the Governor's Farm Safety
committee.
The importance of such a
meeting has been brought to
the attention of various
groups and state agencies by
the increased number of chem
icals to control insects on
farms and home owners'
gardens.
Improper handling of the
pesticides has resulted in ill
ness and several fatalities in
the state, officials noted. The
conference is designed to stim
ulate interest in the safe han
dling of the toxic agricultural
chemicals.
Texas Pilots Plan
To Continue Flight
Dallas, Tex. (DPD Two Tex
as pilots who already have set
a record for continuous flight
in a small plane are trying to
stay up three more days.
Jim Heth, 25, and BiU Burk-
hart. 33, reached 1,124 hours
or 47 days in the air Thursday,
passing the record set by
Woody Jongeward and Bob
Woodhouse of Yuma, Ariz.
"We're jumping up and
down in spirit because that's
all we can do in this crowded
cabin," Heth said. He said the
plane's engine, operating be
yond normal limits, was work
ing well.
Gasoline and provisions
have been delivered" to the
plane from a speeding pickup
truck.
THE AllRpOR WAS GONNA LET
GZXAIlXgDUPt "
Old-Time Tales
To the Editor: The histori
cal photos and data recently
presented by your newspaper
were most interesting, and as
well, have been much help to
me in locating points and per
sons of interest in this area
. .
ior purpose of preparing
stories for magazines.
Our true 'old timers'
are
disappearing so rapidly, and
regretably, many pass on
without having their stories
authentically and completely
recorded. There is a reading
audience growing by leaps
and bounds for these true
stories from our past, parti
cularly the period from about
1830 to the early 1900's.
In case readers of this area
have not become acquainted
with some of the quality mag
azines covering such material,
they will find True West and
Frontier Times magazines,
(P.O. Box 5008, Austin,
Texas), good reading. These
publications are comparative
ly new, but they are quality
magazines, and our own sec
tion of Oregon is written of
in almost every issue. The
stories are factual and well
written by such authors as J.
Frank Dobie, (who has a
story in the current issue,
Schieffehn's Gold" whose
mam Characters are south
western Oregonians).
I have found so much en
joyment in my own subscrip
tion that I wanted to ac
quaint your readers with the
publication as it is not on the
stands as. yet. In forthcoming
issues I have several stories,
one of which is written about
a Medfordite, Mrs. Owen
Williams, (Central Point, ac
tually), and her experiences
in the oil boom days of Okla
homa. Another story of
Thomas Barney Kendall's ex
perience as a U.S. Marshal in
Indian Territory. Mr. Ken
dall lives now at Klamath
Falls and is partially para.
lized from a bullet wound re
ceived from Cherokee Bill
when he went out to bring
in the notorious killer.In fu
ture issues I hope to have
much of the Rogue Valley
history, provided I contine to
receive in the future such co-
operation from the remaining
old-timers as I have received
to date, and they have all
been most gracious.
We do enjoy the Mail
Tribune, and hope to see
more and more of such pic
tures and perhaps articles as
our 100th year approaches.
Mrs. Virginia Card
P.O. Box 145
Medford
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
AWOE-BEGONE fellow told an analyst, "My sense of humor
has destroyed my happy home. My wife is walking out on
me because she says she can't stand listening to me tell my
funny stones any longer.
"A sad case," mused the
analyst. "Tell me a few of
your funny stories." The
patient reeled off three or
four, leaving the analyst
prostrate on the floor with
laughter. Finally he stag
gered to the outer office, :
and said, "If I laugh any
more, Til split my sides."
"Why don't you stay in
side with your patient and
laugh with him?'1 asked the
nurse.
"Are you crazy, too?" de
manded the analyst. 'Tm trying to cure him!"
"We're down to our last $20 bill," wailed a famous burglar's wife.
"You'll have to produce some money fast" "All right, all right,"
grumbled the husband, "but you'll have to wait till the bank closes."
19M. by Swnttt Cert. SisUibuttd by Kiss fMturM SyadicaU.
Higher Farm Income Works Political
'Miracle'; Support Payments High
By LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
Washington - (BPD - Tucked
away among this week's cor
porate financial reports was
i 1 5T Ml could be more
& I n a r c ii a civa
a than any sta
tistics compil
ed in Wash
ington to show
that there is
no recess ion
on the Ameri
can farms. The
item reported
Lyle C. Wilson
that in nine
July 31, the
months ended
J. I. Case Co.
earned $2,988,861 compared
to a loss of $993,805 in the
comparable months a year
ago. Case manufactures farm
implements.
There probably are Ameri
can farmers who are losing
money to the cost - price
squeeze, but J. I. Case cus
tomers evidently are not
among them. During this
week, also, the Agriculture
Department happily reported
that farm income for the first
nine months of 1958 will be
19 per cent greater than in
the first nine months of 1957.
Benson More Popular
Such indicators of the meas-
fit
I m
Matter of Fact
WHAT NEXT?
Taipei, Formosa If one
knew the answers to three
questions, it would Be easy
T" to rjredirt the
future de
velopment of
this baffling,
i m m e n s ely
dangerous off
shore islands
crisis.
Quest ion
number one is
whether t h
lostpb Alsop -nmese com
"ii-
munist representatives at
Warsaw will agree to an in
formal cease-fire in the For
mosa Strait. The American
policy-makers faintly, palely
hope for cease-fire at War
saw, if the hope is realized,
the artillery blockade of Que-
moy will be automatically
lifted: and the immediate
problem will be solved
The crisis will then subside
into another interminable
probably fruitless round of
ambassadorial talks, as hap
pened in 1955. But the Chin
ese Communists could have
got this much without creat
ing the crisis. Hence the odds
against Warsaw - arranged
cease-fire would seem to be
pretty heavy.
.
QUESTION number two is
how much longer the
American government can
persuade Chiang Kai-shek to
hold his hand. The President-
Generalissimo has indicated to
this reporter that the effort
to supply Quemoy by convoy
over open beaches under
heavy fire was a very poor
stopgap at best which is a
charitable judgment. Chiang
further revealed his determin
ation to strike rather soon at
the heart of the trouble, by
sending his crack air squad
rons against the Communist
gun positions and lines of
communications.
Chiang has not yet ordered
air attacks on mainland tar
gets, solely because of Ameri
can pleas to wait and see
whether the Warsaw talks
would produce a cease-fire
If a cease-fire is not soon pro
duced, Chiang will be very
hard to hold any longer. And
if his air squadrons begin to
operate over the mainland,
the fat will be in the fire
whether the American Gov
ernment likes it or not.
A S FOR question number
"three, it is whether the
American policy-makers will
come round to Chiang Kai-
shek's view of the problem if
their Warsaw hopes are dis
appointed. Another way of
phrasing : the question is to
ask whether President Eisen
hower and Secretary of State
Stop Me
havg yfcj
HEARD THIS
ONE?
r
ure of farm prosperity already
had accomplished one poltical
miracle. This miracle was the
changed status of Agriculture
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson
Benson not only licked the
farm bloc on the issue of farm
legislation in the House of
Representatives this year. He
was transmuted, politically
from a liability to an asset
on the books of the Republi
can Party.
Stranger things have hap
pened, but not often. Ameri
can farmers made up their
minds about Benson soon
after he joined the cabinet
in 1953. He opposed high and
rigid farm price subsidies
which seemed to the farmers
to provide easy and desirable
money and which were urged
by the bi-partisan farm bloc
and by the Democratic Party
as essential to the welfare of
U.S. agriculture.
Benson called that a lot
of nonsense. He was able to
break down the high and rigid
support system which had
been installed by preceding
Democratic administr a t o r s
Whether improved prices for
farm products actually can
achieve another miracle for
which Republicans are pray
ing remains to be seen. It is
By Joseph Alsop
Dulles really meant anything,
by all their big bold talk
about defending the Matsus
and Quemoy against Com
munist aggression.
The present orders of the
American command out here
are to try all imaginable de
vices, and to use all possible
resources, to supply blockad
ed Quemoy without getting
into a fight. By a costly com
bination of air and sea supply,
it is theoretically possible to
get enough tonnage into Que
moy to feed the garrison and
civilian population, even with
the beaches and landing strips
under heavy fire. Each land
ing of supplies will involve
some causualties for the Chin
ese who do the nasty part of
the job, but in theory, the job
can be done in this manner.
Yet this will most emphat
ically not "defend Quemoy,"
as the American , government
has promised to do. The off
shore islands position are dif
ficult enough already. If
every ounce of supplies has
to be landed under fire which
can never be returned, the
Quemoy position will become
absolutely untenable for the
long run. Already, the Na
tionalist guns on Quemoy can
not be used for serious count
er-battery fire, because the
garrison commander has no
prospect of replenishing his
ammunition.
TN SHORT, the offshore is-
lands are not Berlin. It may
put off the evil day of final
choice, but it will not solve
the problem to push a trickle
of supplies through the Com
munist artillery blockade of
Quemoy. No one in his senses
can suppose that such a posi
tion can be indefinitely held
in such a manner, without a
military or political or psy
chological crackup some
where. The attempt, if pro
longed, will be nothing more
or less than an invitation to
a crackup; and there are
plenty of signs here in Taiwan
thet a crackup will result.
In other words, if the Presi
dent and Secretary Dulles
really mean what they have
said, the only way to defend
Quemoy is in the classical
manner, by meeting force
with force. If the firm inten
tion to do this is revealed, for
instance there will then be
some chance that the Chinese
Communists will agree to a
cease-fire.
F
F PEKING will not agree
to a cease-fire after the
U.S. has manifested a firm in
tention to meet force with
force, then it will be abund
antly clear that Peking is
ready to run all risks in order
to gain a smashing victory
here. Futhermore, if the
American government is not
willing to meet force with
force, the Chinese Commun
ists will quite surely gain
their victory in the end. In
this event, the impact of the
victory, so well forecast by
both the President and Sec
retary Dulles, will become
vastly more shattering, just
because the President and
Secretary Dulles have sworn
to prevent such a victory.
It looks well, of course, to
be patient and meek and eager
to negotiate. But readiness
to meet force with Jbrce is
the only card the United
States can play to bring the
Chinese Communists to rea
son. ' Patience and meekness
no doubt make a good impres
sion in London but they, are
bound to confirm Peking's
conviction that the American
government is a paper tiger.
And if we are not ready to
use force as a last resort, the
President and Secretary of,
State ought never to have
talked so big and bold.
c) 1958. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
not likely. This other miracle
would be the establishment
of a Republican trend among
farm state voters who will
be choosing state and federal
officers in November.
Darker Side
American farmers may pre
fer to look on the darker side
of their prosperity. While it
is true that farm income will
be up 19 per cent in nine
months this year against the
1957 figure, it also is true that
farm income has slipped about
three per cent in the past
three months. The department
calculated farm income dur
ing the first six months of
1958 to have been 22 per cent
Washington Report
By William
Washington - The Demo
cratic party's ablest minds are
occupied only on the surface
now with the
Congress ional
campaign -
which the
Democrats be
lieve at this
point they
have as eood
sTZf 1 These minds
Lk I mainly turned
wuiiam s. wute instead to
ward a less obvious but an
incomparably more important
matter: the racial crisis.
which raises the greatest long-
term danger . to - the party
since the Civil War. Only par
tial, but nevertheless chilling,
parallels with the destruction
a century ago of both the old
Democratic and Whig parties
are now being seen.
The basic cause of dissolu
tion then was the inability of
the moderates in either party
to prevent the extremists from
violently exploiting the issue
of slavery.
rpHE Whigs broke apart in
1856. The Northern Whigs
went over largely to the Re
publican party, which for the
first time became a truly na
tional power thereby. . The
Southern Whigs went over
principally to the Democratic
party. But that party, in turn.
was cut right down the mid
dle on the same issue in 1860.
One of the results was the
election to the Presidency of
Abraham Lincoln.
Thus, the present Demo
cratic problem is very similar
to that of a hundred years
ago - this time to accommo
date the schoof integration
issue as between Northern
liberals and Southern resis
ters. A further complicating
factor, moreover, is clearly
present now. This is the prob
ability that November will
bring heavy Democratic vic
tories in both Senate and
House from the North .and
West. Such victories would
enlarge the influence - and
the demands of the all-out
integrationists.
The all -Texas Democratic
Congressional lea d e r s h i p
caused the last Congress to
break materially, if not quite
mortally, with the Old South
and to pass the first major
civil rights bill in eight dec
ades. It was even then touch-and-go
as to whether these
leaders-Speaker of the House
Sam. Rayburn and Senator
Lyndon B. Johnson. could
fend off a fatal party breach.
...
THEY did so, indeed, only
by taking great personal
risks and by a virtuoso per
suasion. There is the gravest doubt
that such a compromise will
be possible in the new Con
gress convening in January
And this is so even apart
from the basic fact that this
new Congress will be more
impatient for quick integra
tion than was the old.
For the old-guard Southern
position against any kind of
integration and the advanced
Northern liberal position
against any kmd of delay
Local Deafer Wins
Trip io New York
Maynard Hadley, Medford,
has won a trip to New York
and Newark, N.J., for being
a winner of a sales contest
conducted in this area among
Chevron dealers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hadley plan
to attend a dinner in San
Francisco Monday for contest
winners from the seven west
ern states. He is a member
of the Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS
In Bloom
Select Now for Spring Plants!
Early Hardy, Early English,
Cushions and Buttons
Chenault's
ahead of 1957. This wrong
way trend could cost Repub
lican candidates some votes,
perhaps too many.
The Eisenhower Adminis
tration cannot be charged,
however, with being chinchy
with U.S. farmers. President
Eisenhower budgeted to spend
in the current fiscal year
$4,601,000,000 on agriculture,
and agricultural resources. Of
this sum, $3,253,000,000 was
to go for stabilization of farm
prices and of farm income. In
the last full fiscal year of the
Truman Administration, total
agricultural spending was
$1,045,000,000.
S. White
have both hardened In the
meantime.
So, the Democrats are in
one of the oddest positions in
history. Fortune smiles broad
ly and brightly upon them -for
1958. But there could well
be a frightening look on for
tune's face for the Presiden
tial year 1960 and perhaps far
beyond that.
The new Congress could so
rub up and inflame the civil
rights issue as to make the
Democratic national conven
tion of 1960 hardly less des
tructive than that of 1860. Of
this the Republicans are fully
aware. Already, they are
maneuvering to drive every
possible civil rights wedge
into their Democratic opposi
tion - and the more so be
cause the tide has been so
running against them as to
make it highly uncertain that
the prospective Republican
Presidential nominee, Vice
President Richard M. Nixon,
could win in 1960 unless there
was a Democratic breakup.
WHAT are the Democratic
leaders to do about all
this? This is the question that
engrosses them, at this very
moment, far more even than
the already consolidated
Democratic gain In Maine
and the prospect of many
other gains in November.
Here are some of the tenta
tive answers worked out by
powerful Democrats:
They will be compelled
next year to give more ground
on civil rights; they can only
hope not to have to give up
so much as to repeat the intra
Democratic civil war of 1860.
They will be compelled -and
indeed they will not at all
mind this - to take up a much
more critical attitude toward
President Eisenhower.
But it well may- be that,
apart from civil rights, the
great running issue will be
foreign policy and peace or
war. On this issue the Demo
cratic leaders cannot, in tem
perament or in conviction,
adopt a merely partisan line
against the President, 1960 or
no 1960. And this they will
not do.
A rare and bitter dilemma
may await them, and they
know it.
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
Trail Man Named
President of Group
D. H. Barber, Trail, was
elected president of the Pre
serve the Rogue association at
a meeting of the group at the
Elk-Trail school early this
week.
Other officers elected are
R. D. Chamberlain, Trail, vice
president; Richard G. Eastin,
Prospect, secretary-treasurer;
and Directors Ranald Axtell,
Trail; Merle Griffin, Grants
Pass;. Kenneth G. Denman,
Medford; and James Hoey,
Medford.
Attending the meeting were
Col. Walter L. Winegar, dis
trict engineer; Lt. Col. Kew
ton Cox, assistant district en
gineer; and Henry Stewart,
chief of the flood control sec
tion, all of the Portland office
of Army Engineers; and Mal
colm Karr, investigations en
gineer of the Oregon state wa
ter resources board.
Col. Winegar and Karr re
viewed work done by their
groups, and Stewart explained
the work of Army Engineers.
He said a preliminary report
on the engineer's study should
be available later this year,
and that public hearings
would be held after those in
terested have had a chance to
study the report.
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