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WELCOME TO MEDFORD Fred Morlan,
official Kiwanis club host (center), greets
Mrs. Dorothy Jean Chase of Eugene, "Mrs.
Oregon" for the Centennial year, at Medford
airport. Mrs. Chase's visit here this week
end for appearances at the Kiwanis county
fair was sponsored by Big Pines Lumber
company and Purucker's Music store. Next
to Morlan, smiling up at Mrs. Chase, is Mrs.
Howard Phillips of Epsilon Sigma Alpha
sorority. Jack Strong of Purucker's and
Robert E. Klumph of Big Pines are at the
left and right respectively.
Car Vapor Blast
Fatal to Woman;
Husband Injured
Newport -flJPD- Mrs. Alvis
"Westrand, about 40, of New
port, was killed Friday after
noon and her 48-year-old hus
band was seriously burned
when leaking vapor from
bottled gas in the trunk of
their car seeped forward and
exploded.
Mrs. Westrand was trapped
in the back seat of the car
and died almost Instantly.
"Westrand escaped from the
car.
The accident occurred at a
Newport tire firm operated by
Dave Lonergan on Highway
20. Lonergan said Mr. and
Mrs. Westrand had stopped to
pick up some tires they had
purchased earlier in the day.
Jim Puetz, a service station
operator two blocks from the
scene of the accident, said the
car had pulled off the high
way about five minutes before
the explosion with vapor com
ing out of the trunk. Puetz
said the driver got out of
the car and took out a five
gallon size bottled gas tank
and closed the valve, stopping
the vapor. The driver then
put the gas tank back into the
trunk got in the car and drove
off.
Mrs. Westrand is survived
by her husband and a five-year-old
son.
4-H Club News
Pheonix Saddleliles 4-H
Horse Club
A meeting of the Pheonix
Saddlelites was held Aug. 12,
at the home of Susan Griffin.
An over night ride for Aug.
28 and 29 was discussed.
Last minute plans were
made for the 4-H Fair.
Plans to entertain another
4-H club at a swimming party
and dinner were made.
The club received an invi
tation from Mrs. A. A. Grif
fin for a ride and banquet at
the next meeting on Sept. 12.
Diane Hittle,
Reporter.
Happy Stitchers Sewing Club
Members of the Happy
Stitchers Sewing 4-H club
met during the week of Aug.
10 and finished their aprons
and pot holders for the fair.
Members also worked on rec
ord books so they would be
finished for the fair.
Cherylee Becker,
Reporter
Sen. Yturri Calls
Highway Meeting
Salem -IUPD- State Sen. An
thony Yturri (R-Ontario) said
Saturday the legislative high
way interim committee of
which he is chairman will
meet Friday, Aug. 28, at 10
a.m. in the state office build
ing in Portland.
Yturri said representatives
from the highway department
will be on hand to discuss and
answer questions relating to
the landscaping ' and tourist
promotion and advertising
Haircut Price Cut
By Union Effective
Albany - (UPD - A one - day
haircut price war came to an
end here Friday.
. Union barbers, who had
trimmed the price of a hair
cut to $1 in a move to force
six other shops to raise prices
from $1.50 to $1.75, ended
the price war.
Garner Pool, secretary
treasurer of the union local,
said Friday night the other
shops agreed to boost prices
to $1.75 union standard rate.
Open House Set at
Illinois Valley High
Cave Junction-Open house
for the high school pupils and
parents from Jerome Prairie
district will be held- at the
Illinois Valley High school
Tuesday, Aug. 25.
A special bus will provide
transportation leaving Jerome
Prairie at 7:30 p.m. and arriv
ing at the high school about
8:15 p.m.
The purpose of the open
house is to give pupils and
parents an opportunity to
view the school and its facili
ties and to meet the teaching
staff. Principals Wes Peters
with members of the teaching
staff will greet the visitors.
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A stable air mass created
by a temperature "inversion
similar to that found in Los
Angeles was pointed to Fri
day night as a prime factor on
Medford's air pollution prob
lem by Robert Church,
meteorologist in charge of the
local weather bureau.
Church addressed more
than 50 persons at an organi
zational meeting for a citi
zens' committee on air pollu
tion, held at the county court
house. Weather bureau meteorolo
gist Stanley J. Lacy explain
ed that a temperature invers
ion occurs when air in the
valley is colder than air high
er up two or three thousand
feet higher. ' '
The warmer air in effect
acts as a lid, clamping down
on the valley air, which can
not escape. At such times
Medford is blanketed with a
stable, unmoving - and often,
irritating mass of air.
It takes either a hot day or
a storm to stir up the slug
gish air, Lacy explained. He
added that such a stable air
mass is more likely to be
trapped in the valley during
the cooler times of the year.
Efforts Should Be Made
Those at the meeting all
seemed in agreement that
public efforts should be made
to thwart nature's apparent
smoggy plans, for the Rogue
valley.
Medford Lawyer Bruce
Manley, serving as temporary
chairman for the citizens'
group, suggested that the
group at this stage should
engage in fact-finding. "When
we. know the facts," he said,
"something can be worked
out."
John Hale Foster, Medford
stock broker, keynoted the
group's purpose, stressing that
it should try to "aid and as
sist, rather than condemn and
convict."
He said that pollutants en
ter the air not just from the
fruit and lumber industries
but also from junk yards,
from automobile exhaust and
from individual trash burn
ing. "There is responsible man
agement of industry in the
Rogue valley," Foster said,
"and it is cognizant of the
problem."
He added that the group
had no intentions of trying
to deter industry from enter
ing the valley.
JusfBeginning
Foster named Eugene as a
city that had faced an air
pollution problem with some
LEARNS ABOUT HIMSELF
St. Louis (UPD-Harry E. Hen
son, 27, heard that police
were looking for him, so he
dropped down to headquarters
to find out why. "I found out,"
Henson said on Friday after
they arrested him for passing
bar checks.
measure of success and said
that Medford is just begin
ning to do what Eugene began
to do eight or nine years ago.
He said that he has spoken
with the air pollution control
officer in Eugene and that
the officer hopes to meet with
the group in the future.
Dunbar Carpenter, local or
chardist representing the fruit
industry at the meeting, said
that fruit-growers in the area
are willing to do "just as
much" as they can.
He said that they are trying
to adopt a program to improve
the . situation regarding the
type of heater used for smudg
ing. He said that there is no"
such thing as a smokeless
heater; there are only heaters
that produce less smoke.
The purchase of these heat
ers, he said, entails "consider
able" additional cost.
Economic Factor
An economic factor was also
mentioned by S. V. McQueen
of Kogap Manufacturing com
pany. He said that the only
means the lumber companies
have to dispose of waste pro
ducts is by burning.
McQueen said that progress
is being made in the utiliza
tion of waste products, and
that "it is not necessary to
have ordinances and' police
men forcing progressive plants
to utilize their waste products,
because costs make them do
it."
He said that one problem
faced by local lumber con
cerns is that Medford is a
long ways from the consuming
markets and that it is difficult
to overcome the freight costs
of shipping chips to pulp mills
and paper plants.
He emphasized, however,
that each year shows an in
crease in the amount of waste
that is put to use rather than
burned.
Committee Chairmen
Some committee chairmen
were named by the group.
They are:
Health, Roy Lomberg; lum
ber, Mrs. L. E. Matheus; fruit,
Miss Anna Streed and Mrs.
Robert Beyer; municipal, Wil
liam Doernbach; county,
Bruce Manley; civic organiza
tions, Mrs. H. P. Bosworth Jr.
Also present at the meeting
were Medford City Manager
Roebrt Duff, County Horticul
tural Agent C. B. Cordy, T.
M. Gerow Jr. oof Grants Pass,
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