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X 6 MAIL TRIBUNE. MedforJ, Oregon, Sunday, November 23, 195S CHARTER PRESENTED Paul C. Chinn Jr., institutional representative of the Jack son School Parent Teacher association, left, and Mrs. Richard Phillips, acting president of the Jackson PTA, are shown receiving the Pack 8 Cub Scout charter at ceremonies at Jackson school last night. Harry Barne- Eleven Resolutions Passed by Eleven improvement district resolutions were passed by the Medford city council Thursday night. The council also amended the city's initiative and refer endum ordinance to permit ballot titles up to 70 words in length. This action was taken since the ballot title for the Dec. 10 special election on municipal off-street parking facilities exceeds the former limit of 50 words. In other "resolutions council- men approved a canvass of votes from the Nov. 4 elec tion and authorized removal and destruction of city ballot box contents remaining from the special election last May. Refer Petition A petition requesting a change of zone from single family to commercial for the Eagles property on Biddle rd. to permit certain improve ments was referred to the city planning commission.. ' :. . A petition for a sanitary sewer along sections of Delta Waters rd. and Springbrook rd. was referred to City Man ager Robert A. Duff for prep aration of a report. The council authorized a 10-year lease with Max-Sig Communications company for property at Medford airport, the city to receive $188.11 per year, in advance, plus 2 per cent of the annual gross revenue from operations at the airport. Easement Rerised The easement from Medford corporation for running the trunk line of the Grandview Kenwood sanitary sewer be neath its railroad tracks at Crater Lake ave. and Biddle rd. was revised .to allow for relocation of the line to peri mit a savings in cost. flftpftlAll, HEAROO0S MW nagMipVelem -yT A J Hamfy Spar Battery ) Comfortable SeH-Adlwtiet r W Sound Plat. I 1 . Smart, Ineenapleaeaa . , Q1a7 .... " H0-0 """"VBl . twW EH Your assurance of P quality..nd!Y " JS SPA .rform.ne.r FREE DEMONSTRATION GEORGE E. WHITE HEARING AIDS X 131 W. Main, Medford Ph. SP 3-1841 irr rrrr' burg, of the Crater Lake Area Council, Boy Scouts of. America, presented the charter. The charter was renewed in observance of the 15th year of Cub Scouting at Jackson school. (Knackstedt Photo) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Augard (Brainerd photo) Council The council approved cer tain assessment segregations for property served by the Southeast Medford sanitary sewer. " The improvement district resolutions include authoriz ing plans and specifications for two sanitary sewers, one on Temple dr. and the other on South Riverside ave. be tween Earhart st. and Stewart ave. Other Resolution ' Other resolutions passed by the council approve plans and specifications for the Temple dr. sanitary sewer, a sanitary sewen. in blocks 4 and 5 of the Mont Crest subdivision, a sanitary sewer for the Get chell subdivision lying along East Hillcrest rd. and East over terrace, paving of Mira Mar dr. from Juanipero way to Black Oak dr. and paving of Juanipero way from Mur phy rd. to Black Oak dr. ;; The Mont Crest sewer and the two paving projects are to be constructed by the subdi vides. : The council called for a public hearing next month on the Temple dr. sewer. It approved assessment or- inances for the Siskiyou blyd. sewer from Modoc ave. to White Oak dr., the paving of Siskiyou blvd. and the pav ing of Eastwood dr. Neuberger Asks Delay In Sate at Roseburg Washington -(DPD- Sen. Rich ard L, Neuberger (D-Ore.) asked the General Services ad ministration Friday to delay sale of the historic Lillie Moore, house in Roseburg, Ore.,' until Congress can con sider legislation to save it. in the fn)8 Paslors io Attend Oceanlake Conclave Four pastors of Nazarene churches in Jackson county plan to attend the annual con clave at Oceanlake this week. The conclave starts Monday and ends Wednesday. Planning to attend from Jackson county are the Rev. Raymond W. Hum, pastor of the Medford First Church of the Nazarene; the Rev. Henry I. Brown, pastor of the Mt. Pitt Avenue church; the Rev. E. E. Crawford, of the Ash land church, and the Rev. Marvin Lumley of the Phoe nix church. Dr. W. D. McGraw Jr., su perintendent of the Oregon Pacific district, will preside at the conclave, and general superintendent. Dr. G. B. Williamson, will be principal speaker. Gasoline Barges Explode on River ' Golconda, 111. -UPD- Three gasoline barges exploded in a series of earthquake-like roars Thursday night, turning the Ohio river into a roaring Inferno. One of the crewmen was missing and presumed dead. Three other crew members of the towboat Barbara Lee suf fered burns about the hands and were hospitalized at nearby Rosiclaire. A fifth crewman was rescued from the river. The missing man was iden tified only as George Lowry. . Capt. Neal Spence said the towboat was pushing ' the barges, laden with an esti mated 90,000 barrels of oil, when suddenly the lead barge "just went boom." Cause of the explosion was not deter miner. EAR! 4-TranItor Power Circuitry I Here's a brilliant new instru ment for those who can use a bone conduction hearing aid. SfC Lanses, frama front and related Professional services are extra and avails trisomy through your ophthal mologist optometrist or optician. living Sound HI All NO AIDS COM! . IN OB, CALL FOB. . HOMI APPOINTMENT Write for Illustrated Pamphlet 15th Year of Cub Scounting Noted At Jackson School Jackson school in Medford last week observed its 15th year of Cub Scouting when the Pack Charter was re newed and presented to Mrs. Richard Phillips, acting presi dent of the Jackson school Parent Teacher association. - The presentation was made by Harry Barneburg, repre senting the Crater Lake Area Council, Boy Scouts of Amer ica. Awards were presented, and Den Mothers were recog nized. The latter included Mrs. Phillips, Den 4; Mrs. Gordon Brattain, Den 5; Mrs. Macknicki, Den 6; Mrs. Milo Hardin, Den 8; Mrs. A. L. Cook, and Mrs. Ed Dwight, Den 10; Mrs. John Lynch, Den 11; and Mrs. John Russell and Mrs. Russell Uhrine, Den 12. Executive Officers Executive officers of Pack 8 include Cliff Chinn, institu tional representatvie and sec retary; Joseph Greeny, John Russell, Joe Beach, Don Wil cox, Bernard Rice, Carl Ben nett, Mel Murray, Joe Pruitt, John Lynch, Clyde Lees, John Wimer and Schulear Meadors. Boys receiving awards were: Bobcat pins: Kenneth Mur ray, Larry Noss, Jay Beach, David Brattain, Michael Ford, Joe Gordon, Jeffer Jones, Gregory Meadors, Joe Har din, Ronald Ogier, Steven Buck, Scott Dungey, Stephen Rothboeck, Craig VanBrunt, David Rowe, Jack Young, Bil lie Bittle, Steven Lantz, Rob ert Cook, Bruce Dwight and Duane Sproul. Den 5: David Brattain, Jay Beach, Jeffrey Jones, Joe Gordon. Den 11: Steven Wilcox, Johnny Lynch and Bill Mc Whorten. Den 12: Nicky Briggs, Ricky Frazier, Paul Greeny, Bobby Kolkemo, Tim Nolte, Larry Russell, David Uhrine.- JOHN CHARLES REEDER Receives Appointment Youth Appointed To West Point John Charles Reeder, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reeder, route 1, box 291 (Old Stage rd.) Central Point, has received an appointment to the Army's military academy, Wpt Pnint N.Y. Young Reeder was saluta- torian at Medford High school in the graduating class of 1957 and received a Navy Re srv Officers Training corps scholarship at Oregon State college. He was school photographer and coeditor of the year dook while at Medford High. He also was Dresident of the Sci ence club and a member of the Order, of the M and the student council. In his' junior year, he re ceived a scholarship to attend the Junior Engineers and Scientists Institute at Oregon State college, and was a dele gate to the state International Relations league conference at the University of Oregon. Young Reeder also was a delegate to the Oregon Scho lastic Press conference at the University of Oregon and was a member of the Torch Honor. Last August he received a citation as the most outstand ing trainee in Company C of the National Guard. Timothy Michael Healy In 1922 became the first gov ernor-general of the lnsn Free State. SELECT GREEN 01 Big Loads Summer Prices Buy Now Prompt Delivery MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone SP 2-21 11 Electronics Gives Quick Method Of Estimating Value of Timber Electronics have come to the aid of the timber indus try to give it a quicker, sim pler method of estimating the value of its holdings and those of various forestry agen cies. The new method- of esti mating t timber holdings was explained to approximately 46 persons attending the meet ing here Friday night of the Siskiyou chapter of the So ciety of American Foresters. Floyd Johnson, of the Pa cific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment station, dis cussed the permanent sample plot procedure developed by the experiment station. Under this plan, and inter-agency ap proach, a grid system of mapping all of Oregon and Washington would be estab lished. This grid would in clude non-forested areas such as cities, lakes, and roads, Johnson said. Check Points A series of check points 1.7 miles apart would form the basis of the grid. Each point would consist of a proportion ate and representative plot composed of approximately 1,800 acres. The plots would be cruised at 10-year inter vals with the trees judged by height, diameter, variety and condition, Johnson said. Information from such a cruise is placed on IBM cards and fed through the electronic computing machines. The an swers .compiled by these ma chines would give the forester or timber industry manage ment a fairly accurate idea as to the allowable cut. It is hoped, Johnson said, that eventually a nationwide forest survey could be made by governmental and private agencies using the data pro vided under this system. All information would be filed with a single overall forest survey agency. Such an office would release the information upon request and would form a timber or for est data pool. Radical Chang Such a system, Johnson re marked, would be a radical departure from , the present system of confidential field checking by various timber owners and agencies. The old method Involves much dupli cation since a number of agen cies may field check the same timber, he said. Such a new system has sev eral advantages, Johnson claimed, such as (1) economy, surveying plots under - the new system would require only a comparatively short training period for inexperi enced cruisers; (2) efficiency, this comparatively intensive study of a proportionate tim ber plot would provide a trend estimate and give the present timber situation; (3) simplicity, each point repre sents a fixed area Men used in making the plot surveys would have to have a background in forest ry. College juniors in forestry CLUB NEWS SW Medford Clubs A motion picture on the 4-H program was shown by Glenn Klein at a 4-H potluck dinner of the Southwest Med ford Livestock and Poultry club. Larry Sorum, unit presi dent, conducted a short busi ness meeting. Members dis cussed selling mistletoe for revenue, and collected items for the club's scrapbook. Carole Leon, Reporter 32 Cases of Disease Reported in County Thirty-two cases of commu nicable diseases were report ed to the Jackson county health department last week, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician, has an nounced. Of the total, 25, were in fluenza cases with 18 in Med ford, 5 in Phoenix and 2 in Ashland. Other communicable dis eases reported include pneu monia, Ashland 1; mumps, Central Point 2; pink eye, Ashland 1; chicken pox, Med ford 2; and infectious mononu cleosis, Central Point 1. In 1957 more than 55,000 Scriptures were issued to the blind by the American Bible Society. Court & McAndrews mm have been used, he said. After two or three weeks training they are sent out in two-man survey parties. Periodic checks are made on their work by experienced foresters to insure accuracy. Efficient System Such a system is efficient since much time is spent on comparatively few plots in stead of a lot of time on many plots, as under the present method. ' Under the new idea the trend estimate is most impor tant because a timber owner will know what is happening to his timber. Since the plots are considered representative of all of his holdings he can apply this information to all of the timber tract. By study ing the present situation on the plots he knows the types of timber he owns and its con dition, whether affected by disease or insects, and its age. Johnson said the 1.7 mile grid system would not be ac curate in less than 100 plots or an over-all area of less than 108,000 acres. Each plot un der this system would .in clude about 1,800 acres, he said. However, this system is flexible and check points can be set at .85 miles distance as used by the Pilot Rock Timber company at Pendle ton. A smaller grid is some times .necessary for smaller holdings, Johnson explained, Inaccessible Areas Where check point plots normally fall on inaccessible A Truly AMERICAN Tradition.,. O In the words of O. Henry "There is ONE day that is purely American Thanksgiving Day." And, this one day is set aside to give thanks for our long-standing heritage of liberty that is also purely American. O Let us then re-dedicate this day in the purest spirit of THANKS GIVING! . A free people, with dignity in their plenty and in their peace, must pause to give thanks to God, from whom these blessings flow ... In Freedom to Worship as we please ... ' May YOUR Thanksgiving Day, with family and friends. a- timbered areas the grid can be widened and narrowed to compensate for it, it was ex plained. Illustrating the speed with which data can be processed, Johnson said it took two hours for the computing machines to run data on 400 plots own ed by the Pendleton firm. Juniors in forestry school were used to make the plof cruises conducted by the ex periment station, Johnson said. Training required Vi weeks. Crews of two men worked on each plot for 10 day periods. Survey costs per plot were estimated at $100 to $120. It would take comparative ly much longer to process data from plots in the Rogue valley area because of the wide range of variable factors in the area forests, it was ex plained, rnis would mean feeding the machine supple mentary material. : Hardwoods Included Hardwoods would be in cluded in the system survey, Johnson said. It is difficult to judge the age of hard woods because of the close ness of the rings which indi cate growth layers, he ad mitted. Only age estimates can be made, but because the new system is -flexible hard woods can be isolated and re judged if necessary, "as sepa rate packages," it was ex plained. " Johnson admitted that when the idea was first examined in 1946, the experiment sta be a joyous one. That is the wish from all of us who pro- ; pare, for your holiday feast, those fine quality ... DAIRY PRODUCTS tion did not have much hope for it However, the system began to expand and become more widely used by various private companies and govern When the Pilgrim Fathers offered a prayer of gratitude to God on the first Thanksgiving, they set an example for future generations. Let us, too, count our blessings and offer a grateful prayer for all the good things that have been ours. IN OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING DAY, THIS BANK WILL NOT BE OPEN ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. Your funds are insured here up to $10,000.00 by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Your savings earn interest at 2Vi semi-annually. Interest on three year certificates of deposit 3. 1109 COURT STREET MEDFORD o o o ment agencies. The 1.7 mile unit was determined as th best basis of measurement after several experiments, Johnson said. o
