SOCTFA
Oppose Minimum Rates Bill
Jack Curtis, of Oregon
Timber Transport Operators,
. Friday night urged members
of the Southern Oregon Con
servation and Tree Farm as
sociation to combine with
, others in the state to fight
; House Bill 72, a referendum
measure, which proposes mini
mum log hauling rates.
Curtis, who represents an
organization promoting better
public relations and safety
practices for long truckers,
spoke before a comparatively
small crowd at the Rogue Val
ley Country club.
The Teamsters union is also
organizing a drive for a new
charter to cover independent
logging truck operators, he
said. Both moves, he said,
would upset the log trucking
business more than it ever
has been before. A trucker
cannot legislate himself into
prosperity, he indicated.
"I never have seen the time
when I couldn't sit down with
a logger or a mill operator,
point out that I was not mak
ing money and get adjust
ments," Curtis said.
Considerable Discussion
Following considerable dis
cussion, Curtis agreed that
most truckers do not know
when they are losing money
until they are forced out of
business. In the past both the
trucker, logger or mill oper
ator have been at fault for
not being willing to sit down
and learn how much of a rate
the trucker must receive to
make a profit.
One mill representative said
he was surprised at the low
rates logging truck operators
were hauling for in this area
when he first came here.
There are several complicated
factors which make a logging
truck operation profitable or
, unprofitable, he pointed out.
Curtis said a trucker should
get $100 plus a day to run a
profitable operation. A few
years ago complete truck over
haul was $800 to $900, but
now is about $1,500.
Those who spoke on the
issue generally asreed eood
hauling conditions included a
lair rate of pay, good roads
and highways, fast loading
and unloadinz. auick and fair
ly uniform scaling, and few
nauis inrougn town, good re
lations and understanding be
tween the trucker and logger.
The logging industry should
develop its own legislation
for this problem and others.
Ten Foresters Are
Promoted by BLM
Ten forester vacancies in
the Medf ord district of the bu
reau of land management
have been filled by promo
tions, aecording to Ross
Youngblood, district manager.
Those promoted came from
the western Oregon BLM dis
tricts, he explained.
Jim Anderson was promot
ed to engineer in the Glen
dale unit, coming from the
Roseburg district Doug Mor
rison is filling the timber
management vacancy in the
Glendale unit, coming from
the Eugene district.
Hal Westover was promot
ed to the engineering vacan
cy in the Greensprings unit
from Eugene. Dana Collins
and Fred Wolf were promoted
to the Galice unit from Salem.
William Mclaughlin, for
merly of Roseburg district,
has been promoted to the tim
ber management vacancy in
the Applegate unit.
Roland Smith, William
Cousineau, Tom Roessler and
John Austbo, now employed
at the Medford BLM, were
also promoted to fill vacan
cies, Youngblood said. Most of
the transferees are married
and have moved to Medford
with their families.
Second Meeting of
Adults Group Set
A second meeting of the
newly formed Young Married
Adults group will be held at
8:30 pjn.. Wednesday at the
Medford YMCA.
Group activities include
volleyball, badminton, swim
ming and trampoline.
Membership is open to all
couples whose combined ages
do not exceed 60 years, a club
spokesman said. Meetings are
held every first, third and
fifth Wednesday in the YMCA
gym.
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Members Asked to
Legislators report their big
gest problem is learning of
the needs of their' constitu
ents, Curtis emphasized.
"We need better highways,
truckers should be allowed to
carry more weight," the OTTO
representative said. "Break
even point is 80,000 pounds."
(Load limit on most Jackson
county highways and roads is
72,000, one SOCTFA member
pointed out.)
Cutthroat competition and
practice of some, logging oper
ators to call for more trucks
than can be used to earn the
truckers a profit have forced
the truck operators into tough
times, Curtis pointed out.
Many large operators feel the
gyppo can haul logs for less
than it would cost to operate
a fleet of trucks, Curtis em
phasized. They realize it's to
their benefit to keep good
gyppo truckers operating for
them.
Generally Satisfied
The OTTO representative
admitted that establishing
minimum rates with some
chanees has generally satis
fied logging truck operators
in the state of Washington.
Robert Duncan, Medford,
Democratic state representa
tive, declared he had voted
for the measure which would
School News
Oak Grove School
Reporters: Martha Lamb,
Debbie Bittle, Terri Eppin
ger. Rhonda Hamilton, Bev
erly Biehn, Teresa Gardner.
Sally Duhaime. Sandra
Humphries, and Tom Free
man. Mrs. Nancy Gustafson's first
grade has been studying the
telephone and the numbers of
the fire, police, and family
doctor.
They have been studying
and planting seeds.
Earlier in the year, they put
up a bird feeder, and have
been watching the birds come
to make homes.
Mrs. Marjorie Gandee's first
grade has ; been studying
spring flowers and pussywil
lows. They have also been study
ing the telephone. They
brought a toy telephone to
practice calling others.
Mrs. Peabody's fifth grade
has been studying the Mid
Western states. Robert Phil
lips showed slides of a trip
in the Mid-west.
Mrs. Peyton gave a talk on
Kansas wheat belt.
Mrs. Dena DeKorte's sixth
grade has been making a mu
ral on the important things of
each of the South American
countries.
In English they have been
writing their own poems and
stories. - '
James Hennebeck's sixth
grade has been making a
mural of the Inca Indians of
South America.
They have been playing
mixed baseball in physical ed
ucation. The children in Mrs. Ruth
Dunn's second grade made
pictures of flowers, cutting
colored paper from magazines.
The girls from. Mrs. Bar
bee's Brownie Troop have a
display of things they have
made in Weeks and Orr's win
dow. The girls are wearing
Brownie uniforms for Girl
Scout Week.
They also have a new girl,
Margaret Harris, in their
room.
Earl Hills is going to move
to the Lincoln school district.
The third grade is studying
about Indians. We are making
Indian drums. Some of us are
making a bulletin board about
Indians. We are making maps
of Oregon.
Mrs. Mary Carton's second
grade is studying about
plants. They are looking for
signs of spring.
They have two "coal plants"
in their room, and are study
ing about plants and animals.
A new boy, Mark Harris,
has enrolled in the class. He
stayed in Alaska for a year.
We will miss Mike Hills.
He moved to Lincoln school
district. '
We made stencil patterns
during art.
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establish minimum log haul
rates and require a certificate
of necessity through the pub
lic utilities commission before
truckers from outside the
state could be brought in.
This was before Gov. Mark
Hatfield vetoed the measure
during the last session of the
legislature. He also complain
ed that the people do not
make their wishes known to
their legislators.
"The fiscal health of the log
hauler is not of recent origin,"
Duncan pointed out. "The in
dustry must get the solution.
This should have been done
several years ago. I accepted
the bill, supported and voted
on it. There was no alterna
tive suggested by the indus
try. It was content to let
things remain on a status
quo."
Political Problem
Financing of state highway
construction has become a
political problem, unfortu
nately Duncan noted. He said
he is against bond issues as
proposed for Highways 101
and 42 in southwest Oregon
since it promotes "log-rolling"
in legislature.
"I assure you if this bond
ing of highway construction
in the state continues, I'll in
troduce legislation for bond
issues to cover every cow
path in Jackson county if I'm
elected back to the state legis
lature," Duncan declared.
He said that the basic form
ula of the state highway com
mission on considering alloca
tions for highway construc
tion is fair. However, the
squeaky wheel gets the grease,
he admitted, so Jackson coun
ty should also have constant
delegations before the state
highway commission.
Future Construction
Future construction of the
Rogue river basin project will
possibly flood part of the
Crater Lake highway which
has caused the highway com
mission to delay overall im
provements for Highway 62,
he explained.
"One way would be to re
route it up Elk creek, but then
the filling station operators
and tourist cabin operators
would scream like angry
Apaches!"
Slash disposal is a problem
which the SOCFTA members
did not bring up, Duncan
pointed out. Some modifica
tion is needed, he said. He
asked the group to give it
some study and come up with
some suggested legislature
which would follow good
factory management and sus
tained yield practices.
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4 H Club News
Ruch 28 Stitches A Mile
The Ruch 28 Stitches A
Mile 4-H club had a worshop
session at the home of Mrs.
Glen Travis recently.
We worked about four
hours. We now have a sewing
machine that we keep at the
Ruch Community church
basement. We got in a good
working day. Some of the
girls finished their projects
that they had started.
A meeting was held recent
ly at the Ruch Community
church basement. We have
been working on our garment
protectors. Some of the girls
have completed their garment
protectors and are ready for
the making of a shirt.
Edith Retaking,
Reporter.
Meadows Busy Beavers
The Meadows Busy Beavers
4-H club met recently at the
home of the McAllisters.
There were eight members
present and Mrs. George
Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Mose were visitors. Steven
and Stanton Hall, Charles
Mose and John McDonough
joined the club.
John Bush, Steven Hall and
Shirley McAllister were .ap
pointed to find out if we could
use a projector to show films
at some of the meetings.
Mrs. Ellis gave a report on
summer camp and summer
school. She also reminded
the members to save their
postage stamps.
The meeting was adjourned
and games were played. Re
freshments were served by
the McAllister family. Next
meeting will be April 16 at
the George Bush home.
Cynthia Pleasant,
Reporter.
Korny Kampers
The Korny Kampent 4-H
club met for an outdoor cook
ing session at the Wright
home recently.
The meeting was called to
order by hte junior leaders,
Craig Wright. The records
were passed out by the lead
er, Mrs. Wright.
We had election of officers.
They are Janice Main, presi
dent; Marta Heffner, vice
president; Susan Wright, sec
retary; Mike Harrin and
Hugh Charley, sergeant at
arms; and Susan Tinsley, re
porter. Refreshments were served
and the meeting was ad
journed Susan Tinsley,
Reporter.
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Merlin Firm Buys
Three Tracks of
Timber From BLM
- Three of the six tracts of
timber offered for sale by the
Medford district of the bu
reau of land management
Thursday were purchased by
Bate Lumber company of Mer
lin. The tracts, which contain
a total of 19,484,000 board
feet of timber located in Jack
son, Josephine and Douglas
counties,' were all offered at
an oral auction sale which
drew strong competition for
every tract, BLM officials
said.
The total bid price for the
sale was $773,773.30. Bid
prices for the Douglas-fir
ranged from $40 per thousand
board feet to $55.05. The low
est offer for Douglas-fir was
in the one sale in which it was
not the major species. In that
sale the White fir, which was
the major species for the sale
was bid in at $12.60 per thous
and board feet.
The three tracts for which
Bate Lumber company was
high bidder included one con
taining 3,303,000 board feet
located on West Fork Evans
creek in Jackson . county
which they bought for $146,
411.70. Their offer for the
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Douglas-fir in this sale was
$49 per thousand board feet.
Second Purchase
The second purchase was
1,161,000 board feet located
in the Galice ' area of Jose
phine county, which they pur
chased with a bid of $44 for
the Douglas-fir and a total
offer of $48,841.65. The one
tract in Douglas county, 2,
328,000 board feet located on
Russell creek was the third
purchased by Bate Lumber
company. The high offer for
this tract included $46 per
thousand board feet for the
Douglas-fir and $99,701.25 for
the tract.
Rogue Forest products of
Rogue River was the high bid
der for 9,924,000 board feet
of timber :n the two tracts
located in Jackson county.
The offer of $42.55 for the
DougHis-fir and $193,816.20
was the highest for a tract lo
cated on West Evans creek
while they were required to
bid $55.05 for the Douglas
fir for a total of $221,650 for
the second tract which was
located near Flounce Rock.
Kogap Manufacturing com
pany of Medford purchased
2,768,000 board feet located
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ALL THREE FLOORS FOR QUALITY AT LOW
near Hyatt lake in Jackson
county for $63,352.50. The
high bid included $40 per
thousand board feet for the
Douglas-fir and $12.60 for the
white fir, which was the ma
jor species.
A review of the sale sta
tistics by John A. CarnegieJ
district sales officer, s hows
there were 16" operators who
qualified to bid on the six
sales, several of them on three
or four.
The next' sale planned by
the Medford district will be
held April 14 at which time
16,633,000 board feet of tim
ber located in three tracts will
be offered for sale. One of
these tracts is located in
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Moore Hamilton, Medford
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gene. .
He was among the 31 re
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Post Office, postmasters and
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