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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1960)
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfortf, Or. A Sunday, March 20, ItIO . Cost, Installation of Tower Approved by Cost and installation of a gteel tower for local orchard heater research will be under written by the Jackson Coun ty Fruit Growers League, it was decided at a meeting Friday. W. J. Rogers, of the fruit frost forecast warning service, ore ?red the tower Saturday, h : said, and will be installed t: i first of April. The 88-foot telescopic tower with temperature measuring instruments at different levels will be erected in the Scott Hamilton orchard, northwest of the Medford airport, to make a profile study of air in version. An orchard such as Hamilton's, which is not heat ed during the frost period, is needed for the study, he said. Conditions Slable Inversion occurs during stable conditions when cold air lies beneath a warm air layer. Since heat rises, warm air will not replace the colder air. Besides providing an inver sion measurement throughout the Rogue valley, the study results can be compared to inversion in northern, central and southern California. There this weather condition occurs to a much milder de gree, Rogers noted. What has been learned in southern and northern California can be ap plied here, he added. Research on inversion was started in the valley about the mid 1920's, Rogers noted. Re searchers then mounted in struments on a wireless tower which they climbed . every week. The new tower will have climbing, since it can be save climbing, since it can be above the ground. A pipe on top will mount an instrument 95 feet above the ground. Explain Conditions At Friday night's meeting in the Jackson county court house, Rogers and Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent, explained weather con ditions, when to fire orchard heaters and how to handle heaters efficiently. Fruit growers were told when to fire heaters at var ious stages of fruit bud de velopment. During the early stages of bud development the mercury may drop generally, as low as 22 to 23 degrees be fore heaters need be fired. As the fruit buds open up, late stages may require heat ing at 31 degrees. These stages depend on conditions in each orchard and specific weather conditions, Rogers pointed out. With warm weather push ing fruit buds, a rough figure for heating may be 25 degrees now. However, some orchards are further along than others, the meteorologist noted. The lower the heaters burn the more heat can be put out per gallon of oil, Rogers told the growers. For maximum ef ficiency heaters should not be fired any sooner than they have to be or used any long er than necessary consistent with the safety of the fruit buds. Approved Heaters Three generally approved heaters are the lazy flame, jumbo cone, and return stacks. Steel Growers Each requires a different type of handling. All of them are capable of emitting only one gram of smoke per minute, Rogers explained, If carefully controlled. Following discussion on how to handle each of the different types of heaters, Rogers ex plained that the return stack heaters should be burned with all louvres closed or as close to that as possible. This de pends on the amount of leak age around the top cap, he said. Under certain condi tions, these heaters may have to be opened up, but rarely more than one hole, he added. The burning rate of the lazy flame heater varies from 3A gallons an hour to a little over a gallon an hour. This type of heater should be burned with one hole open. Jumbo cones are more like the lazy flames, about one hole, sometimes 3A of a hole open. With this type of heater, the burning rate varies from heater to individual heater. "Orchard heating is like cooking on a stove or heating a room," Rogers described. "There is no sense in leaving heaters wide open or holding the temperature 2 to 3 degrees higher than you need to. You're merely wasting oil!" Considering weather condi tions, Rogers said the damper the night the more gentle the temperature drop. More dam age is done to fruit buds on dry cold nights, but research ers have not come up with the reasons yet, he said. Dur- ing dry nights the tempera ture behaves more erratically and drops faster. IIP ill: J FIRM'S PERSONNEL Keith Bates, right, has announced the purchase of the Town and Country Realty, 609 East Jackson st. Bates said the personnel would be the same. News About Books From the Library Following is a list of new books received at the Public Library at Medford and Jack son County during the past week. Gardening: Burrage on veg etables, Burrage; The Kitchen Garden Book, Barr; The com plete Modern; Tree Experts Manual, Fenska; The Book of Tree, Hottes; Garden in Your Window, Hersey. 1 0 DTJQtADQ0 I TOP QUALITY AND VALUE SINCE 1879 BUY NOW! Gladiolus Bulbs 24 mixed gladiolia bulbs in a polye thylene bag. A well balanced mix ture of named varieties. A BIG VALUE BAG 08 Crystal Tumblers heavy bottom plain crystal tumblers. 12-oz. size. REGULAR 15c VALUE 8 . 87e SALE PRICE YOU SAVE 33c HURT" BOOKS MEN'S WHITE SHIRTS Made f sanforized broadcloth with con vertible eufft for linki or buttont. Sleava lenoths 32-33-34-35. Collar sizes 14J4, 15, 15Vi and 16. 2f"$370 Little Golden books with slight these books would sell for defects. If perfect 25c and 50c. SALE PRICE 6 for 88 MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS Assortment consist! of Dan River solid colors. Import woven checks and paids and novelty printed fancies. Siies: small, medium. Urge. 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Science: A Treasury of Sci ence, Shapley; The Meaning of Relativity, Einstein; On Nuclear Energy, Hughes; Ra diation, Genes, and Man, Wal lace; The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversisons, Gardner. Other non-fiction: Standards for School Library Programs, American Library Associa tion; A Basic Book Collection for Junior High schools, Spengler; Modern Man in Search of A Soul, Jung; Two Essays on Analytical Psychol ogy, Jung; The Dead Sea Scrolls and Primitive Chris tianity, JDanielou; The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Living Church, Howie; Issues of Freedom, Muller; Unions and Union Leadership, Barbash; Investing for A Successful Fu ture, Babson; The Child, the Parent and the State, Conant; The Mode in Hats and Head dress, Wilcox; The Beginning Antique Collector's Handbook and Guide to 1,000 Items to Collect, Cole; A History of Flower Arrangement, Berrall; Baseball Stories, Cummings; Practical Falconry, Freeman; This is the American Earth, Adams; You and the World to Come, Droke. Sorious fiction: The Tower, Steen; A European Education, Gary; Some Angry Angel, Condon; The Scene, Cooper. Historical romance: That Far Paradise, Markey; A Hundred Hills, Breslin; The Master of Badger's Hall, Treece; The Promise, Kellner. Mysteries: The Shivering Mountain, Somers; The King dom of Death, Pentecost; Be Silent, Love, Nichols; This Won't Hurt You, Fitzgeral; Miss Bones, Fleming. Other fiction: Jeremy Todd, Maule; Trustee from the Tool room, Shute; The Crowded Sky, Searls; The Edge of Day, Lee; Friday's footprints and Other Stories, Gordimer; When Doctors Marry, Seifert; Sing One Song, Miller. Left to right, company personnel include Robert A. Stokes, Patricia McKinsey, Har old Houston, Molly Malone, J. Verne Shan gle, and Bates. Bates Buys Local Real Estate Firm Keith Bates, Medford, has announced the purchase of the Town and Country Realty, 609 East Jackson St., near the Medford Shopping Cen ter. Bates said the business will continue to operate under the name Town and Country Realty at the same location. Robert A. Stokes, who has been associated in the real estate field in the valley for several years, has been named sales manager of the com pany, Bates said. J. Verne Shangle, Harold Houston and Patricia McKin sey will continue as sales men, and Molly Malone will continue as receptionist and Bates' secretary, he said. Bates is a member of the Medford Board of Realtors, and has been associated In the real estate field in Med ford for the five years, the past 2J of which he served as manager of the real estate department of the MacKenzie agency and a local insurance and real estate firm. Hearings Scheduled By Committee The legislative interim com mittee on public welfare will hold public hearings Monday, April 4, in Eugene, and Tues day, Arpil 5, in Medford, Rep resentative Grace Peck, Port land, committee chairman, an nounced Saturday. County-state financial and administrative relationsh i p s, standards of subsistence and medical care and eligibility standards are. among the topics under study by the committee. . Committee members include Representative Wickes Shaw of Lane county, Senator Mel vin Goode of Linn county and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend. . Persons and organizations desiring to appear before the committee are asked to notify the committee in advance by writing to the committee of fice at 1129 SW Fifth, Port land 4. The Eugene meeting will be held in the Lane county courthouse public meeting hall, and the Medford session in the Jackson county court house auditorium. nimni - - 1 mmiwimMimitii uiiaiiiiiniiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiaiuaiiauiiw I A Tribute to The First Day of Spring Ah, spring! The birds, the flowers, the, invigo rating air. Dad gets an urge to doll up the old ear. Mother feels a house-cleaning spree coming on. Junior figures school will not interfere with his activities much longer. 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