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F Bra ii ?! Rogue River Basin General Policies of Corps Reviewed (Editor's note: This is the last in a scries of articles on the corps el engineers preliminary report of the Rogue Hirer basin s devel epment potential. Today's article discusses general policies which would be pursued in the fire major projects if they are author ised and recommended for construction by the corps.) If the five major projects are recommended and author ized for construction by the corps, general policies would be pursued, subject to any changes the Congress might direct in the future. Project cost estimates in clude provisions for relocation of existing roads, utilities and public facilities affected by the reservoirs. Relocated facil ities would be replacement in kind. Provision would be made for public access to the rese r v o 4 r s, particularly in areas suitable for recreation No lands would be acquired prior to Congressional author ization and actual appropria tion of funds for planning and construction. The price to be paid for lands would be at the fair market value to be est mated by government and in dependent appraisers. The federal court would be asked to decide through con demnation proceedings should Rules to Promote Recreation on O&C Lands Noted P o r 1 1 a n d-Regulations to promote public recreation de velopment on 2 million acres of O and C timberlands in western Oregon were proposed today by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Roger Ernst. The proposed regulations would permit the bureau of land management, which ad minister the lands, to lease suitable, areas for public re creation site development. They contemplate cooperation with state and local govern ment Agencies to provide needed facilities. apecmcaiiy mentioned as desirable recreation uses of the lands are - picnicking, camping, boating, swimming and skiing, Ernst said. Extension of Policy Ernst said the proposed reg ulations are an extension of a recent land use policyto pro mote recreational use of ap propriate areas in the 475 mil lion acres of public land under BLM management. He said the proposed regu lations would authorize de velopment of recreational fa cilities by the BLM, but that the program anticipates most facilities will be provided through the leasing of appro priate recreation areas for de velopment by local and state governments. . Recieation areas will be protected from damage by the bureau and access routes will be protected. Regulations also will authorize the establish ment of reasonable service charges for the use of public recreation facilities provided and operated by the bureau. The complete text of the proposed regulations will be published in the Federal Reg ister. The department of in terior is providing 30 days in which anyone may submit comments and suggestions concerning the regulations. Comments and suggestions should be sent to the director, bureau of land management, Washington 25, D. C. Visitors Discuss Pears, Orchards With Extension Agent; Rot Also Reviewed A number of persons have visited the valley recently in regards to the pear orchards and harvest, Clifford B. Cordy, county horticulture agent re ported today. Among the visitors was Dr. Pinhas Spiegel, Israel, who is with an experiment station there. He was particularly in terested in the Rogue Valley pear decline studies as a sim ilar problem in the Israel pe-rs had been reported. - Cordy explained that Dr. Spiegel, working independent ly of the Rogue Valley studies into the problem, had arrived at the same conclusions re garding it as locally. The de a land owner feel he was not being justly compensated. Re imbursement of certain costs for moving off of lands is au thorized by Congress. Landowners in potential project areas should continue to operate in a normal man ner until such time as the land is actually needed. Exist ing water rights would be pro tected because the reservoirs would be operated so as not to interfere with existing rights.. Irrigation data are based on studies by the bureau of recla mation. In accordance with federal law, distribution and sale of stored water for irriga tion uses would be adminis tered by the bureau. Delivery I of stored water under federal policy would be limited to a supply for 160 acres per indi vidual owner, or to 320 acres for a man and wife having joint ownership. Hydroelectric Power Hydroelectric power could be generated at two reservoir projects, Lost Creek and Cop per, with a projected total average annual generation of 197,976,000 kilowatt - hours. Any surplus power, over proj ect needs, would be disposed of by the Bonneville Power administration. Power bene fits, based on values furnished by the Federal Power commis sion, are adequate to justify the cost of the installations and Bonneville has stated that the power would be market able. It is anticipated that the power, surplus to project re quirements, would be inte grated into the existing Bon neville power supply system and sold at whatever rate ap plied to the total system. The U. S. public heal serv ice estimates that the future water supply demands in the Roguer" basin would" be - be tween 50,000 and 70,000 acre feet annually for municipal and ! industrial uses by the year 2010. But for the present, provisions have been made for an initial 20,000 acre foot reservation. Sites are avail able for additional storage for future water supply. Material Benefits The bureau of sport fisher ies and wildlife estimates ma terial benefits from increased low-water flows, at suitably low temperatures ' on the Ap- plegate. A substantial benefit also would accrue to the Cop per reservoir, based on in creased fishing it is expected to provide. Increased low-water flows at reduced temperatures would also be available on the Rogue river, and low-water flows on the Rogue and on Bear creek would be materi ally increased by return flows from irrigation. Minimum de pendable increase at Gold Ray dam would be about 160 cubic foot per second. Minimum de pendable increase down stream from the mouth of the Applegate would be about 335 cubic feet per second. Other tributary reservoirs, while not anticipated to pro vide over-all benefits to fish life, apparently would not have serious detrimental ef fects. Elk Creek reservoir would have an adverse effect on silver salmon and steel- head spawning areas due to inundation but provision for hatchery facilities might off set -some of this loss. Lake Creek reservoir would be detrimental to some silver salmon spawning, even though passage facilities were pro-l vided. Salem OIPD Oregon's mile age death rate hit a high for the year in May . when 6.6 people met death in each 100 million miles traveled. cline was reported to be no ticed after a material increase of water with an increased use of ammonium sulfate. Iain MacSwan, extension service plant pathologist from Corvallis, was in the valley to review storage rot in pears and to check into its control problems. He explained that a pre harvest spray of Ziram, ap plied now until shortly before harvest could be mixed with the hormone spray that is ap plied to D'Anjou and Bosc. Dr. Ron Cameron, patholo gist at the experiment sta tion, Corvallis, was in the val ley to gather pear . samples ' -' HELPING DADDY Four-year-old Ellen Smalley takes her dad's place on the picket line outside, gate to U. S. Steel Co.'s Homestead works, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Steel mills all across the nation closed down their furnaces as steelworkers struck for a new contract. Herter Calls on Russia To Tackle Berlin Ag Geneva (UPD Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to day called on Russia to stop trying to make propaganda and buckle down to working out an agreement on the Ber lin crisis. - ' He challenged Russia's An drei Gromyko to cut out "bo gus slogans" like a "free city" of West Berlin and get down to .seeking specific . improve ments in the crisis rather than mere -change i of names. 1 No Session Friday, . The; Big Four foreign min isters met for 3V hours today and decided not to hold a ple nary session Friday. It was announced that the next plenary session would be arranged by "mutual agree ment" an apparent . indica tion that both sides were not prepared to begin secret talks. Herter emphasized that the basic problem was to make ar rangements that would main tain the freedom- of the Fiesta Planned at Armory in August A three-day Centennial Fi esta sponsored and planned by Sacred Heart parish will be held at the Medf ord arm ory Aug. 7, 8 and 9, Cochair men Bill Dugan, Ernie Flakus and George Holtzinger have announced. The Fiesta will open at 6 pjn. Friday, Aug. 7. Opening night has- been selected as talent night with various en tertainment acts including can-can girls, The Shadows and others. Doors will open at noon Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 8 and 9, they said. Saturday aft ernoon activities will be de voted to children with But tons the Clown being featured along with other attractions. Sunday activities will include fiddlers' contest with an old- time dress contest for men and women. Prizes ..will be awarded. : . The Fiesta will feature games for young and old, an old-timer auto display, a coun try store, antiques, refresh ments and entertainment. The Fiesta's grand prize will be a 1959 automobile with other prizes being award ed during the three days. ; for the pear decline study and also for study of an obscure problem in peaches. Visitors from Washington, according to Cordy, included Dr. Earl Blodgett, of the Pros ser experiment station, and Dr. Cyril Woodbridge, Wash ington State college, Pullman, both who are checking the pear decline problem in that state. Here they looked into the local problem and what was being done, Cordy said. :-. Tuesday and Wednesday Professor Henry Hartman, Corvallis, who is working on the valley pear decline prob lem, was in the valley making observations and collecting pear samples, Cordy said. reement peoples of West Berlin and prevent new crises before Germany is reunited. Could Cause War The American secretary warned Gromyko that another Berlin crisis flareup could plunge the world into war. He suggested calling on the Unit ed Nations to help police a Berlin truce agreement. .- Herter appealed to Gromy ko across- the- Big Four con ference table to consider bringing an adequate U. N. staff into Berlin. The staff , with- free- access to both West and East Berlin, would report on propaganda activities that might disturb the public order or seriously affect the rights of others. International Scrutiny". Herter described this as a form of "international scru tiny" over one aspect of Ber lin's life. ' . . ' Herter delivered the appeal as the conference' headed to wards what may be a crucial East-West showdown on Rus sia's Berlin demands. The key item in the Soviet proposal is establishing of an All-G e r m a n Committee in which the Communist East Germans would have an equal voice With the West Germans. Hearing Slated on State's Basin Plan A public hearing on the state water resources board's Rogue River basin program will be held at the Josephine county library in Grants Pass at 10 a.m. July 23. Don Lane, secretary of the board, will serve as hearing officer. The board's program was adopted May 22 this year aft er 18 months of study. The study was ordered by the 49th legislative assembly. Preliminary drafts were presented at a meeting in Medf ord in January, and were submitted to the 50th legisla tive assembly at Salem at that time. " ' " At the July 23 hearing, an opportunity will be given to all public and private agen cies as well as the public to express their opinions regard ing the program. A transcript of the hearing will be submit ted to all board members for study and reconsideration of the program, Lane said. - - Portland (UPD The State Board of Health said that a Portland boy died Tuesday of polio, bringing the state's 1959 polio death toll to three. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE (First game) Chicago 4 9 1 Boston 3 4 1 'Donovan. Sialey (8) and Lollar; Brewer, Forneiles (9) and While, Daley (6); - (1st Game, 10 Innings) Cleveland 5 9 1 New York 7 14 1 McLish, Ferrarese (7), Bell (8) and Fitzgerald; Dit mar, Duren (8). Maas (9) and Berxa. Price 10 28 Pages Klamath Falls Railroad Trestle Damaged by Fire Forest Fires Said To Be Controlled Klamath Falls -(UPD Fire on one-half of an 800-foot Great Northern railroad tres tle across the Klamath river here was brought under con trol this morning after an hour and a half long battle. The blaze, of undetermined origin, sent black smoke bil lowing high into the air as the creosote-soaked timbers burn ed. The spectacular smoke cloud was visible from 10 miles away. May Affect Operations Ian Parks, Great Northern trainmaster here, said the burned trestle may seriously affect several large lumber operations in the Klamath Falls area, including Weyer haeuser Timber and the Kes- terson Mill. Logs for the mills are normally hauled across the trestle. Railroad officials said the trestle serves a spur south of the city limits and main line traffic will not be disrupted. Tank cars and city firemen attacked the fire from both ends of the bridge to bring it under control. No estimate of loss was given. . . , Klamath Falls -(UPD- Weary fire control officers in the Klamath Falls area today re ported all fires "temporarily under, control." There was some fear that rising winds might blow flames, which have blackened, more . than 2,300 acres of brush and tim ber land, out of control again.. Night Long Battle Approximately -100 fire fighters staged a night-long battle to contain a 2,000-acre blaze north of Hildebrand, some 35 miles east of here. The blaze was whipped out of control early Wednesday by a sudden shift in the wind. Flames jumped a road and burned a vacant house and barn on the Perry Langer ranch east of the O.C.&E. rail road track where sparks-from a passing' train originally touched off the fire Tuesday afternoon. Council to Consider Housing Authority The Medf ord city council at 7:30 o'clock tonight will consider acknowledging disso lution of the Jackson County Housing authority, accept its assets, and transfer monies from the general fund to the Jackson st. swimming pool and park reserve fund. ? Monies from the housing authority, which are just un der $75,000, have been ear marked for a swimming pool at the Jackson st. site. Also on the agenda tonight is consideration of purchase of a fire truck for the Med ford Rural Fire Protection district, and repealing certain ineffective, superseded or ob solete ordinances. A continued public hearing on , rezoning from class IA, single family, to class V, light industrial, for a portion of the Farr property in the Val ley Center subdivision also will be held. Other ordinances which will be considered are one to require -fencing around swimming pools and another to prohibit uninvited tele phone solicitation. Salem (UPD Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill has authorized the Pacific Power and Light Company to issue and sell $10,996,000 in convertible debentures. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued hot and dry through Friday. Low to night CO. High tomorrow 98. Temp. Highest Yesterday 98 Lowest this Morning 58 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today :47 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow :4S a.m. .28 a.m. July 19 :12 D.m. Moonset tomorrow 2 Full Moon . PROMINENT STARS Arcturus, in the west 11 Fomawaut, rises 12 .07 a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 9 Jupiter low in south west 19 Saturn, lew ia south west 1 :26 pjn. :S5 p.m. :S8 a.m. Cents -kX- XT MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1959 regon Cleared! King Hill, Idaho (UPD The On-to-Oregon wagon train was cleared today on charges that it trespassed on private land between Glenns Ferry and Mountain Home in Idaho. . Justice of the Peace Lynn Sherman of King Hill dis missed the charges for "lack of evidence of criminal in tent." Serpa, Wife Appear Appearing before Sherman were Gordon (Tex) Serpa and his wife, Louise, leaders of the strain, and Conn Sevaney and Eldon Thompson of Glenns Ferry, witnesses in behalf of the train. " ; ..- The action against the train followed an allegation by King Hill rancher Jack Hen- Safety Council Presents City Certificate for Education Plan Medford's scool traffic safe ty education during 1958 won for the city another National Safety Council certificate of achievement, it was announc ed Wednesday afternoon. The award will "be presented by uov. Mark Hatfield some time this year. Another award won in the field of traffic safety will be presented to Vernon Thorpe tonight at the city council meeting. It is for traffic engi neering proficiency within the city during the year. The award is given by the Insti tute of Traffic Engineers. The announcements were made yesterday durine an analysis of the city's 1958 ac cident prevention program re viewed by 'Edward J. War mouth, manager of traffic safety division, state depart ment of motor vehicles, Sa lem.. - . Exceed Recommendations The Institute award is be ing presented the city for meeting or exceeding 85 per cent of the recommended per formance standards in the field of traffic engineering. The analysis, prepared by the National Safety Council. indicated that Medf ord just held its own in 1958. Its total program scored at 73 points, the same as in 1957. It re ceived the highest score of any Oregon city in its popula tion group in its school traffic safety education program. The city's program showed improvement in two'' areas, traffic engineering and traf fic courts, but turned in a lower score in five other ac tivities evaluated by the Council. Warmouth said that the re duced score does not neces sarily reflect a let-up from previous levels of perform ance in Medford, but could in dicate that other cities in Med orcFs population group made greater advances last year. He also pointed out that Medford, as well as other Ore gon cities, was scored down in some areas because of certain state laws, particularly in the field of enforcement, which are not considered- adequate by evaluators. " He added that if the city is 100 Delegates At Convention Here About 100 delegates' repre senting 12,000 Oregon union carpenters were here today for the annual Oregon State Council of Carpenters con vention. . Ivor T. Jones of Salem, who has held the post of executive secretary for 11 years, was being challenged for the posi tion by George Hann, busi ness agent of the Portland District Council. Hann said he was, seeking the position because others had asked him to run. Jones said he would be a candidate if nominated. Jones said he favored a plan of holding conventions every two years instead of every year but with meetings of local business agents with the council executive board at least once every six months. He said the present annual conventions were too expensive for some locals. Headquarters for the con vention is the Medford Labor Temple, 24V4 South Grape st. Wag of Tresioassona ley that the cavalcade had camped on his land without his permission. Sevaney and Thompson tes tified that Serpa had obtained permission to camp on Hen ley's ranch from Jay Emery, foreman of the ranch. Served by Sheriff The warrant for the charge of trespassing was served by Elmore ; County Sheriff Earl Winters earlier today. Henley swore out the war rant when he charged the train had stopped on his land without his permission. Mountain Home, Idaho-rtJPD -Oregon's seven covered wag ons, on the final month of their long trek westward from to continue its previous high standing in the inventory analysis, new steps must be taken to cope with the grow ing problem s of traffic man agement and accident preven tion.' Traffic accidents involving Medford residents in and out of the city, the analysis showed, probably cost the community $700,000 annually, based on national urban ex perience. This includes cost of motor vehicle repair or replacement, estimates of loss of earning power, medical and hospital expenses, and cost of provid ing auto insurance. . Among recommendations made to city officials included 1. That the accident records supervisor attend a special course on traffic accident rec ords and their uses, and that additional accident data be prepared and made available for traffic engineering and public traffic safety education use. 2. That the need for prohi- hibiting turning movements New Mexico Man Pleads Guilty Raney Roy N e w c o m b, Hobbs, : N.M., pleaded guilty in circuit court to burglary not in a dwelling this week. Sentencing was continued pending receipt of federal bu reau of investigation reports. He was arraigned on a district attorney's information. Also under arraignment on a similar charge is Cecil Har vey Allen, also Hobbs, N.M., whose case was continued for him to enter a plea: Ronald Ricketts, Medford lawyer, was appointed his counsel. The two men were arrested by Medford city police July 7 in connection with the bur glarizing of, 14 local business establishments during a three week period. They were charged specifically with the theft of more than $L,100 from the Coca Cola company June 23. Mammoth's Tooth Said Found in Willamette Dayton, Ore.- (UPD -A Salem man Wednesday found what an amateur geologist says is a mammoth's tooth, estimated to be between 10,000 and one million years old. It was found at a U. S. Army En gineers dredge project in the Willamette river near here. Patrolman Seeks Man; Finds He's' Serving Jail Term A Medford police patrol man who "preferred to re main anonymous" began an investigation this morning to locate a man whose last known address was in Ash land. Police had an emergency message for him from Texas. The patrolman had de tails on the man's age. height, weight and coloring, and began the search a short time before he was reminded by another officer that the missing man was a few feet away in the city iail, serving a five-day sen tence imposed this morning on a charge of vagr.mcY 54th Year Tribune No. 101 on Train Independence, Mo., will arrive in their home state at Nyssa next Tuesday, three days ahead of schedule. Officials said the date for the big arrival celebration at Independence, Ore., had not been changed. That still will be August 15. ' To Spread Out Time ' Officials of the On-to-Oregon Cavalcade said the time gained on the trip so far would be spread out in Ore gon. Present plans call for overnight stops at Nyssa, Vale, Baker, La Grande, Pen dleton, The Dalles and Hills boro, plus possible stops at other communities. The train left Independ ence, Mo., on April 19. at certain intersections be in- rvestigatedJ 3; That selective enforce ments be expanded and that the administrative training program be expanded to cover all supervisory officers. 4. That the judge and prose cutor participate in one of the regional traffic court confer ences held at various law schools. 5. That practical driving in struction be expanded to in clude all eligible high school students. 1 In the safety organization and public traffic safety edu cation field, the analysis rec ommended that more time be spent in' planning and carry ing out the program and that more project activity be aimed at major local problems." More frequent meetings of officials also was recommended. $33,020 Reported At Pace Meeting Eighty-six per cent of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce $38,000 "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" goal has been reached thus far, according to Bob Taylor, gen eral 'chairman. At the second progress re port meeting of the business groups division this morning at the Jackson hotel, a total of $33,020 was reported. Twenty-six more subscription increases were reported, for a total of 63 to date, and 25 new members were reported, bringing the total new mem bers to 50. The group will conclude its work Monday at 10 a.m. at the final report prior to the victory luncheon scheduled for Thursday, July 23, at noon in the Jackson hotel. The real estate and insur ance group, under Don Her- ried and Hank Hart, was the first croup to top its goal when 106 per cent of its mini mum goal was reported this morning. Taylor said that about one- third of the chamber mem bers have been contacted to date, and he urges those who have not been reached to get in touch with campaign head quarters at the Jackson hotel. 'Boy, What Jf Southern Japan Flood Wafers Recede Slowly Most of Taipei Said Under Water By United Press International Typhoon Billie drove thou sands of persons from their homes on Formosa Wednesday night. In southern Japan flood waters from drenching rains receded slowly, leaving 45 dead. , Forty-three crewmen from the 3,692-ton Japanese ship Wansei Maru took to lifeboats when the vessel broke its an chor line and went aground off Ishigaki Island, northeast of Formosa. No Major Damage The crewmen were later picked up by a Japanese fish ing vessel and transferred to the American landing ship Thomaston. Navy reports from Yokosu- ka said there was no major damage to the Nansei Maru and that crewmen from the Thomaston were attempting repairs. Most of Taipei, Formosa's capital, was covered with wa ter ranging from a few inches to rooftop level. A housing unit for an American military mission was evacuated with residents wading to safety in waist-deep water. Hospital Evacuated The U. S. military hospital near Taipei was evacuated and 42 of the more seriously ill were flown to Okinawa, some 800 miles away. In the midst of the confu sion of evacuation, an Army doctor delivered a daughter to Mrs. Irving W. Lind, Seat tle, wife of a Navy chief boatswain's mate. She and the infant were reported in good condition. The typhoon swung its hardest punch at Taipei, bringing 10 inches of water in: 24 .hours, then veered northwest to the China main land. In Kyushu, Japan's south ernmost island, flood water from three days of drenching rains receded somewhat, but authorities kept disaster units on the alert in case Billie again veered east across the island. Rivers Burst Banks Police said 45 persons died as a result of the storm and that bridges, telephone poles and several hundred acres of , farmland were still under water. In Taipei, nearly 10,000 Chinese fled their homes as the Tamsui and Keelung riv ers burst their banks, sending thousands of tons of water cascading into the town. Despite the sudden on slaught, only two deaths were reported on Formosa. There were no reports of casualties among the 10,000 Americans living on Formosa. KF Judge Frowns On Student Driving Klamath Falls-TOPD-Charles Foster,' juvenile judge, has suggested that high school students here who drive with out permission may be ex pelled. The suggestion was contained in a letter the judge wrote to the school board. He said poor grades and truancy were known results of stu dent drivers and that the in crease in use of cars was "the great single cause of juvenile delinquency, I'm convinced." a Return"
