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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Thanksgiving Day." And, this one day is set aside to give thanks for
our long-standing heritage of liberty that is also purely American.
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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
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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.
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ment agencies. The 1.7 mile
unit was determined as th
best basis of measurement
after several experiments,
Johnson said.
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