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Price 10 Cents Medford 54th Year Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1959 Pages 1 to 12 jNine Local Groups Win Superior Rates In Music Contest's First State Land Conversation Act Created Town of Clatsop Corvallis - Oregon's first official land conservation act created the town of Clatsop, now Gearhart, in 1870 to keep farm animal? from grazing along the sea ridge. Today, the state Soil Con icrvation District law covers 7 districts including more than 85 per cent of Oregon's farm land. Eighty-nine years ago when the Oregon legislature formed Clatsop, unrestricted grazing on the dunes near the oeach las destroying the cover grass and permitting sand to blow over nearby farms. Boundaries of the town ex tended 14 miles along the Pa cific shore from the Columbia river south to the Necanicum river. A town ordinance em powered the marshal to col lect $1 per head for horses, mules or cattle and 50 cents per head for sheep, swine, goats, or other domestic ani mals found grazing within this area. Additional charges were made for the animals' board while they were impounded by the town. Owner Convicted In addition, if the owner his stock to graze in the pro- was convicted of permitting hibited area he was subject to a fine of up to $50 backed by a jail sentence for. nonpay ment. This start toward control ling sand dunes is a good example of early group action for soil conservation, Arthur S. King, Oregon State college ex tension conservationist, said. However, the ordinance did not permanently solve the problem at Clatsop - possibly for lack of enforcement or be cause it was forgotten when this farming town was .reor ganized as the resort city of Gearhart in 1919. Destroy Cover Grass The next 10 years or so found both livestock and peo ple thronging over the for- dune, destroying the cover by overgrazing, fire and unre stricted travel. The foredune again began to move inland until the federal government was asked for help. In 1933, the soil Conservation Service started extensive dune control work. Six years later, the state legislature passed the Soil Conservation District acfc This law had the same basic intent as the act which created Clat sop 69 years before. However, the new law was much broad er in scope. It provided for formation of districts respon sible for all phases cf soil con servation - not just sand dune control. The Warrenton Soil Conser vation District was one of the Pacific Starts New Schedule from City Pacific Air Lines last Sun day started a new schedule to serve Medford, the company has announced. Two southbound flights leave at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. The morning flight provides an early flight through Eureka and the Sacramento valley, arriving in Oakland and San Francisco shortly after noon. The returning flight from San Francisco via the Sacra mento valley and Eureka ar rives here at 8:46 p.m. FOR TOWING ONLY Dallas, Tex. - IUPD -A friend admired Judge J. C. Muse's new foreign car and then asked: "But how are you go ing to pull your boat trailer with a car this small?" "Oh, I've got a Cadillac for that," the judge replied. "This car is for my personal use." first to be formed. It bounda ries were similar to the orig inal town of Clatsop. In 1948, this district voted land regu lations comparable to those enacted by Clatsop nearly 80 years earlier. Now livestock can graze in the area, but only with a permit. Nine groups from the mu sic department of Medford public schools received super ior ratings at the annual large group music contest at South ern Oregon college, Ashland, last week end under the aus pices of the Southern Oregon Music Educators association. Groups from Medford High school participating were the symphony band directed by Irv Mirick, the orchestra di rected by John Drysdale, and the choir and girls chorus di rected by Lynn Sjolund. From McLoughlin Junior High school were the "A" band directed by Al Hunte mann, the cadet banti and or chestra directed by Elmer Ayres. The Hedrick Junior High school band and orch estra, directed by Ron Bart lett and Drysdale, respective ly, also participated. Fifty Groups Participate Fifty groups coming from as far as Roseburg and Lake view participated in the ev ent. Dr. Herbert Cecil, the SOMEA president, and Oscar Bjorlie, secretary-treasurer of the association, were in charge of the program. Both are assistant professors of mu sic at Southern Oregon col lege. Adjudicators were Ira Lee, director of bands at the Uni versity of Oregon; Jim Ad air, orchestra director at Sac ramento State college; Al Robertson, supervisor of mu sic at Beaverton schools; Dr. Leon Wagner, director of choral activities, Humboldt State college; Donald Thu lean, dean of the music de partment, Pacific university; and James Kineer, director of choruses at Chico State col lege. Sjolund was elected chair man of the SOMEA for the coming year. Other officers are Raul Maddox, Ashland band director, assistant chair man; and Jerry Dyrud, vocal supervisor of Medford public school, secretary-treasurer. Brown Named to Production Group O. L. Brown of Medford Meat company, Medford, has been appointed to the Oregon Swine Production committee of the Western States Meat Packers association, Eugene Malo, Portland, chairman of the committee, has announc ed. Brown is a member of the association's board of direc tors. Purpose of the committee is to stimulate hog produc tion in Oregon as part of a packers' program to free the western states from depend ence on imports of pork from midwestern states and to in crease employment in west ern packing plants. SMOG THREATENS L.A. Los Angeles .- (UPD - Los An geles residents, sweltering in a spring heat wave, braced themselves today for a pre dicted first stage alert of eye stinging smog. Ninety-degree heat invaded the basin area Wednesday with a heavy pall of smog while temperatures in Southern California desert areas soared above the 100-mark. DEW LINE EXTENDED Washington -(UPD Anew extension-stretching across the Aleutian Islands-of this coun try's Distant Early Warning (DEW) line went into opera tion today. The DEW line runs for more than 3,000 miles across the top of the con tinent from midway' in the Aleutian chain to Baffin Island on the east coast of Canada. A tree continues to grow until death. 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