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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1959)
o 58 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mriferd, Or. Sunday, Spt. 13, 1959 Skin Divers Take Big Gold Nuggets From North Yuba Downieville, Calif - (LTD -Three Southern California skin divers seeking gold deep in the North Yuba river have come up with nuggets worth nearly $900. The find was confirmed Saturday by L. L- Nuelsdonk, general manager of the Best Mines of Sierra county. . Huelsdonk, a member of the California mining board, said three young Riverside county miners, Kenneth and , Gary Vance and Don Brolin, have proved that nuggets still may be found in the streams of this northern Mother Lode area. 20 Fee Below The nuggets were taken one mile west of here from the North Yuba river bed, 'about 20 feet below the sur face. The state mining official said he examined and weigh ed a one-pound nugget, part quartz and part gold, as big as a baseball and containing more than seven ounces of the precious mineral. Huelsdonk said the three youthful underwater miners from Idlewild, Calif., had smaller nuggets totaling more than $50 an ounce as speci men or jewelry, gold. . Prospectors "These young skin divers are prospectors just as the whiskered characters with a burro and a gold pan were a century ago," he said. : "There are probably some hot spots in the river. If they keep diving, they'll no doubt find gold.", SEASONED WEDDING . . Portsmouth, England - (DPD Salt and Pepper got together Wednesday. Marie Pepper married Edward Salt. Friends Introduced them as a joke. Duncan Says People Meed to Take Part In Getting Laws Speaker of the House Rob ert Duncan stressed the need for Oregon's citizens to active ly and personally seek to im plement civil rights laws at a meeting of the Methodist Men's club of Medford last week- He suggested that rather than indulge in harsh criticism of such areas as Little Rock, Ark., Oregon residents take stock as to their own attitudes toward minority groups. "All of us are members of some minority group," Dun can stated, "and the resulting problems, though they can best be met on sn individual basis, ultimately concern the well-being of our state and our nation." Duncan noted that "As ten sions about the world increase, we must become increasingly aware that what we do here and now to further the broth erhood of man may well effect our fate as a nation." Duncan discussed Oregon's progress in the field of civil rights over the past 10 years, and reviewed legislation in the field. "Our laws," he said, "not only prohibit discrimina tion in employment, but in housing and public accommo dations. He mentioned the recent session which passed a , law prohibiting discrimination in employment because of age, giving older residents' a more equal chance in seeking jobs. Duncan suggested that it is time Oregon residents subor dinated short-term personal advantage for long-run public welfare. He said that "taxes were considered by potential residents as only part of the picture, that the things we in Oregon buy with public monies is highly important to such people. Duncan said "we should be proud of our record, that we CLEARANCE SALES All Kinds Now in Progress! 44c.gc.$joo.$200 Hundreds of Items Wonderful Buy Shop Our Windows!. Good Selection of Gift Wrap and Paver Napkins on Sab Also! CASH DAVIS PHARMACY f The J22H Store 135 East Main, corner Grape Ph. SP 2-2230 SH GREEN STAMPS have maintained our standards while operating without a defi cit, and that our state prides itself on an outstanding pro gram of education, fine high ways, exceptional care given to our handicapped, aged, and mentally ill, a high quality state police organization and beautiful state parks." Youth Arrested For $20 Robbery Confesses Killing Baker- (DPD -Two police of ficers from Reno, Washoe county, Nev., were to return Thayne Archibald, 20, of Roy, Utah, to Reno Saturday after the youth waived extradition, according to Baker police Chief Fred Still. Archibald was charged in Reno with. first degree mur der in connection with the slaying of 17-year-old Albert Larry Waters, of Livermore, Calif. Washoe County District At torney Bill Raggio and Bill Driscoll, chief criminal dep puty, were to return him. Archibald, who was re leased from the Oregon state penitentiary in May, made an oral confession after being arrested for 'the $20 holdup of. a service station here. Waters was kidnaped from a Livermore, Calif., gas sta tion where he worked. His body was recovered Aug. 27 about 20 miles east of Reno on the banks of the Truckee river. Two bullet holes were found in the back of his head. Chief Still said that Archi bald told him he shot Waters twice in the head when Wa ters tried to run away. ' Support Unanimous For Seashore Area Portland-flJPD . -r Unanimous support of the proposed Ore gon Dunes-Sea Lion caves na tional seashore recreation area in the FlorenceReeds port area was announced Sat urday ,by the Oregon state parks advisory committee. - The committee sent its rec ommendation to the state highway commission. - A spokesman said its ac tion was based on "the great er public benefits that would accrue from- a recreational standpoint by the ' eventual complete utilization of the recreational resources" in the area. ' . .' '-- I Amazing Paint Discovery! j 1 " Ku4sll VZS-Z HULTI-COLOR DECORATOR EFFECTS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE! Leather - Granite - Mahogany end Other Textured Designs wHh One Spray Coat IPILEirCEDKIE1 MULTI-COLORED TEXTURED PAINT One Coat-No Primer Odorless-Type . For Interior-Exterior Use Quick-Drying I. V POST STICKERS Gary Fields. 416 Laurel st., Medford, a member of Squadron J4, Air Scouts, shows Lynn Bessonette, manager of the East Side Market, and Allan Bowman, 2402 Table Rock rd., Medford, how stickers for the United Medford Crusade are placed on windows of downtown businesses. The UMC kick-off dinner is scheduled at the Medford YMCA social hall starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday .-Knackstedt Photo) Now! Spray 2, 3, or more different colors at on timt with 0ne spray coat! Attain professional-looking, multi-color decorator effects on, furniture, walls or woodwork, indoors or out! All you need is a tank-type vacuum cleaner with spray attachment Plextone requires no mixing . . . no . primer (except on metal) . . . makes no spray dust. One coat means loot-lasting, easy-to-clean, "childproof" protection! PLEXTONE S&H GREEN STAMPS PAINT AND WALLPAPER 315 East Main Sr. . Phone SP 2-4564 Extra Volume of Timber Sold in Medford District Chiloquin Timber company of Klamath Falls was the sue cessful bidder for four of- six tracts of timber offered for sale by the 'Medford district of the bureau of land manage ment Sept. 10. The four tracts, which con tain 11,546,000 board feet, lo cated in western Klamath county and eastern Jackson county were purchased for a total price of $417,071.70. Bid prices varied from $27.45 to $44.50 per thousand board feet for Douglas fir and from $16.45 to $65.75 per thousand board feet for ponderosa pine. John Carnegie, district operations forester, 'Indicated that these four sales were portion of the extra volume being offered by the bureau to help relieve the log short age condition created in the Klamath Falls, area because of the timber tied up. by the Klamath Indian Reservation termination. " Oregon Veneer company of White City was the high bid der for . 4,501,000 board feet located at the head of West Fork" Evans creek. They bid $43 per thousand board feet for Douglas fir and a total of $183,028.85 for the tract, A. 13,000 board feet sale of salvage ponderosa pine locat ed near Merlin in Josephine county was purchased by Max Yoder of Grants, Pass for $22 per tnousand ooara xeet. On Sept. 24 a special sale will be held by the Medford district, at which time four tracts containing 10,440,000 board feet appraised at $329, 061.95 will be offered for sale. Two of these tracts are locat ed in Jackson county and two in Josephine county. . At the regular sale Oct, tober 8, the district will offer three tracts containing 13, 828,000 board feet valued at $361,554.70 for sale. One of these tracts is located in southern Douglas county and two in western Klamath coun ty. Additional inform a tion about these, proposed sales may be secured at the dis trict office at Barnett rd. and South Riverside ave. in Med ford, according to Carnegie. Portland Woman Hurt in Accident A Portland woman was taken to Josephine General hospital for a checkup Fri day following a two-car col lision on Highway 99 near Savage Rapids dam and just inside Jackson county. State police said that the woman was' Marie Elizabeth Turner, driver of one of the autos. --. Officers said that Donald Austin Hubbard, 21, operator of the other car southbound on a wide sweeping curve, ap plied his brakes and skidded into the northbound lane. The Turner machine was hit on the left side and knocked off the highway to the river's edge. Police said that the Hubbard car, which had skidded 250 feet before the impact, continued 174 feet and stopped on part of the south bound shoulder." Police were, called about 11:30 ajn. They said a com plaint would be filed against Hubbard charging failure to operate on right side of high way.- - Gil Turner, also of Port land, was listed as a passenger in the northbound car. POLLUTION EXPERT iJlES Riverside, - Conn.-(l!PD-Fred-erick S. Mallette, 53, an ex pert on air pollution control, died Thursday after being in poor health for two years. Jacksonville Police Warn of Action m Jacksonville Police Chief Frank. Carter Saturday said any unauthorized persons in the Jacksonville cemetery af ter dark will be prosecuted with fines of up to $100. Carter said there have been many cases of juveniles in the cemetery after dark recent ly. - Rosenheim, Germany - (DPD U. S. soldiers of the 10th Spe cial Forces? group will be dressed for the occasion when they go on .maneuvers in the Alpine region this fall, it was disclosed today. The troops will wear traditional Bavari an leather shorts and green jackets. . Arrest Follows Jewelry Robbery Portlandr-flJPD Robert E. 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