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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. A 11 l 'iirtVf ''h 1 1 1 iii wwiiaiil ' i m iph ihhii iimiimi iwviMnmiiktm falfcltrSi Forestry Men Step Up Research To Retard Fires in California FAIR CANDIDATES FOR FAIR QUEEN-These "11 attrac tive teen-agers are candidates for queen of the Los An- . geles county fair, which opens at Pomona Sept. 16. From left, they are Christine Gill, 18, Whittier; Joan Winkle piech, 18, Pomona; Carolyn Hough, 18, Pomona; Donna Phelps, 18, Rosemead; Barbara Bushnell, 18, Covina; Donna Head, 18, West Covina; Lynn Fuller, 19, Pomona; Fern Thompson, 18, West Covina; Ronnie Bentley, 18, Pomona; Carolyn Bushnell, 19, Covina, and Mia Flore, 18, Whittier. (UPI Telephoto) J & JACK H. WOOD Returns to West Coast Former Supervisor Here is Promoted Promotion of Jack H. Wood of the Washington, D. C, office of the U.S. forest serv ice and former supervisor of the Rogue River national for est, Medford, to the position of chief of the information and education division, Pa cific Northwest region, was announced today by J. Herbert Stone, regional forester, Port land. Since 1957, Wood has been assistant director of the di vision of cooperative forest fire control, which is part of the state and private forestry section in the Washington office. The position of regional I&E division chief became vacant with the death in Feb ruary of Laurence G. Jolley, who had held the post since 1951. Alex E. Smith, assistant division chief, has been acting division chief the past few months. Wood was graduated from the University of Washington in 1933 with a bachelor of science degree in forestry. He began his forest service career on the Wenatchee national forest. He also worked on the Col ville national forest, north eastern Washington; Wind River district of the Gifford Pinchot national forest and the Malheur national forest, John Day. He was with the regional office in Portland prior to being promoted to supervisor of the Rogue River national forest in 1951. He held that position for more than five years before his transfer East. Sales by Minors Upheld in Portland Portland flJPD The Portland City Council Thursday turned down a proposal seek ing to prohibit minors from selling or distributing prod ucts involved in a labor .dis pute a measure aimed at newsboys during the current Portland newspaper strike. The measure was proposed by the Portland Web Press men's Union Local No. 17. The local sought to have the measure placed on the gen eral election ballot for voter approval. The council said, however, there was insufficient time to fulfill legal requirements for placing it on the ballot this year. Railroad Presidents To Back Democrats Washington -0IPD- The presi dents of three railroad unions representing 450,000 railway workers have pledged to sup port the Democratic presiden tial ticket. G. E. Leighty of the Order of Railroad Teleg raphers, Michael Fox of the Railway Employes Department, AFL CIO, and Harold Crotty of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees made the promise Thursday after meet ing with Sen. John F. Ken nedy (D-Mass.). Many Objects Left On Airliner Flights Held in Storeroom By ROBERT J. SERLING Washington - (UPI) - Parked in a storeroom at Capital Air lines headquarters here are: 500 pairs of eyeglasses. 230 shaving kits. 47 cameras. 110 umbrellas. 38 pair's of false teeth. two radio-phonographs. One dog kennel (empty). This is Capital's current in ventory of items lost or mis placed by passengers. It is typical of an underrated air line problem that is so bother some, most carriers employ at least one full-time official who does nothing but process the items and look for their owners. Such an official is Capital's Gene Marceron, who says his biggest headache is the fact that most people forget where they may have lost something. Actually Forget "It seems hard to believe," Marceron adds, "but appar ently many passengers actual ly forget they had a baby stroller or a portable radio YA Contact Office Temporarily Closed The contact office, Veter ans Administration Domicili ary, White City, will be closed on Aug. 15, 16, 19, 22, 25, and 26. S. T. Brannock, contact rttrroSfmtflHvp nn dutV. Will be on annual leave Aug. 15 to 26 and will return to duty on Aug. 29. Clifford Fields,' contact rep resentative at the V.A. hos pital, Roseburg, will replace Brannock on Aug. 17, 18, 23, and 24. Veterans and their de pendents will be able to ob tain service at the Domiciliary contact office during the days Fields is here. Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. X15 Pilot To Seek Altitude Record Edwards AFB, Calif. -d'PO-An Air Force pilot seeks today to set a new world altitude record in an X19 plane. Maj. Robert White hoped to take the experimental rocket ship to about 130,000 feet, 26 miles. The world altitude rec ord is 126,000 feet set in 1956 by Capt. Iven Kincheloe in the X2. Kincheloe lost his life two years ago in the crash of a F104 jet fighter he was test ing here. White was all set to make the altitude try Thursday when the flight had to be cancelled just 35 seconds be fore the X15 was to be drop ped from its mothership, a B52. Cause of the cancellation was a small valve which stuck. when they boarded their flight. They may realize they have lost something, but they don't seem to connect it with a flight." Marceron once had a five- foot steel girder turned into his office. He still was trying to figure out who would be carrying a steel girder aboard an airliner when the repre sentative of a steel company showed up to claim it. The steel man was taking it to demonstrate to a customer. One of Capital's worst cases involved a man who dropped a contact lens in a plane's washroom. The airline had to take the washroom apart, piece by piece, without suc- cess. The passenger then in sisted that Capital melt the room down to find his lens a request which the airline politely but firmly rejected. Then there were the two suitcases filled with men's clothing. Capital wrote a De troit resident and asked him if he were missing any lug gage. He called . the airline immediately. Stolen from Car "I sure am," he said, "but how the hell did Capital get them? The bags were stolen from my car when I was in a restaurant on the Pennsyl vania turnpike." A good question - and the answer shows how hard air lines will work to return lost items. A truck driver had found the suitcases on the In diana turnpike and saw that they bore Capital baggage tags - from a previous trip, He sent the luggage to the airline. Inside one bag was a piece of clothing bearing the label of a Detroit haber dashery. Capital asked the store for a list of customers who purchased that particu lar item of clothing. Using the list, Marceron wrote all those mentioned inquiring if they were missing any lug gage. The mystified Detroit er's name was on the list. What people leave on air liners would fill a book. Mar- ceron's files include such items as boxins gloves, hoop- skirts, a catalogue of crooked gambling devices - and the one that raise a lot of eye brows: A book, earmarked at a chapter entitled "Training Your Memory. Airplane Bomb Hoaxer on Bail Carson City, Nev. - (UPD - Reno cab driver Leonard D. Sage, accused of a false bomb report regarding the plane of Vice President Richard Nixon, was free today on $1,000 bail. . Sage was picked up by FBI agents when the vice presi dent campaigned in Reno. The 34 - year - old suspect was charged with telling the pilot of Nixon s plane there was a bomb aboard. Sage later said he was only kidding when he made the comment. Federal Judge John Ross Thursday ordered bail re duced from $2,500 and the in formation amended to state the time and place of the al leged hoax. 'MACHINEGUN' DIES Togus, Maine -(UPD- John D, Murphy, 68, who won fame in World War I under the nick name of "Machinegun Murphy," died Wednesday. He was acting chief of staff of the 26th Yankee divsion when it returned to this country in 1919. Men Attend School District Course Six Jackson county men at tended the recent Jackson and Josephine County Custodian school. The three-day program held Aug. 8 through 10 at Grants Pass High school, was jointly sponsored by the two county school districts and the Oregon board of education, division of vocational educa tion. The courses available were: building maintenance, super vision of custodial personnel, and maintenance of heating and ventilation systems. Those attending from Jack son county were: Ray Chamb ers and Keith Scott of the Butte Falls schools; K. L. Schenck, Medford; W. J, Peters and O. P. Hart, Rogue River, and Dealous Cox, Jack son county school superin tendent s office. BLM Regulations Eases Installment Pay (or Timber Portland - New regulations covering timber sales on the Bureau of Land Management's western Oregon forest lands will ease installment payments for timber on contract areas involving road construction, the Department of the Interior announced today. The new rules will defer payment of the second install ment when the operator must build a road before actual logging begins. The old rules required payment, of two in stallments before any timber was cut. The new rules pro vide that before paying the second installment the pur chaser may cut, remove, and pay for timber on the location over which a road must be constructed. Requirements Eased The new regulations also ease installment payment re quirements on regular O&C timber sales by permitting BLM to accept installment payment oi 3iu,uuu on con tracts having a value of more than $100,000. The minimum acceptable installments used to be 10 per cent of the con tract value regardless of total amount. Installment payments on many past contracts have therefore been much larger tnan $10,000. Timber purchas ers will, however, still be re quired to pay the entire con tract price prior to 60 days be fore the expiration of the contract. Another section of the rule changes substitutes a $2000 value limit annually, regard less of the number of individu al sales involved. The old lim it on the number of sales did not work out well, BLM Di rector Edward Woozley ex plained, because of inequities obvious in situations where one man obtained two $1000 sales during a year but an other man with two $50-sales could not obtain even a third $50-sale in the same year. The new rules permit under cer tain conditions any number of non-competitive sales (less than 100,000 board feet of $2000 in appraised value) up to a total purchase value of $2000 in any 12 months. Permittees Relieved A fourth change in the O&C regulations relieves O&C log ging road right-of-way permit tees of fire protection respon sibility except when the per mittee is responsible for the start of a fire or is actually constructing or using the road. Director Woozley said for mer rules held a right-of-way permittee responsible for fire protection on road rights-of-way even during long periods of nonuse, which may stretch over several years. The regulations were pro posed and published in the Federal Register on June 22, 1960, following which the pub lic had 30 days to submit any comments. None was received, the Department said, and the regulations have been adopted without change. The new rules relating to Part 115, Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations will be published in the Federal Register. Los Angeles (UPD Forestry officials in Southern Califor nia have stepped up research designed to retard fires which each year destroy much of the brush and timber covering the area's watersheds. Cost of fighting the - fires runs into millions of dollars each year, and the watershed loss is even greater. This sum mer more than 100 square miles of Angeles National For est have been blackened by a series of major fires. The burned area represents more than one-tenth of the forest, which forms the northern boundary of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The research program, termed. Fuel Break, is a joint effort of the U.S. Forest Serv ice, California Division of Forestry and the Los Angeles vi said. "We maintain patrols County Fire Department Prime objective is to break up large areas of heavy brush into manageable units by planting cover such as grass between them. The grass holds soil in place but pro vides a poor fuel for a fire. Mant Role Obvious Bulldozers cut wide swaths in brush which rises 10 to 15 feet from the ground, and the strips are sprayed to prevent natural reseeding. Then the new cover is planted. Sut it will take more than the Fuel Break program to save the watersheds from periodic devastation by fire, according to Sim Jarvi, super visor of the Angeles Forest. "Most of our fires are start ed by careless smokers," Jar- Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins The small boy looked with shining eyes and, with mouth watering, moved the .big ice cream soda closer to his wait ing spoon. A lady, noticing the youngster, said to her companion, "L o o k, Sadie, that boy is in 'hog heaven . The remark wasn t original with this lady. It has been used on many occasions and is supposed to indicate ex treme joy, happiness or con tentment, such as a hog would register if he were basking in a nice cool, very wet mud- puddle. A hog would enjoy such a situation and would give evidence of bliss when the mud is soft and cool. As far as the hog is con cerned, there is a a very good reason for this, as this animal is classed as a "pachyderm" or thick-skinned; and so of course are its relatives, the hippo, the elephant and the rhino. Nature overdid it a little when she insulated these an imals with thick skin and a heavy, fat-layer. The fat is a protection, of sort, against the cold and the bite of vene- mous snakes, but its sure murder when the weather is hot; the poor guy can't keep cool. To add somewhat to the hog's troubles, some stock breeders have developed hogs with more fat so that the pro duction of lard will be better. So Tired The poor hog already had more than it would seem to need or comfortably carry around. Now, with careful se lection, some hogs grow to pork chops and roasts, and while the poor fellow is alive he is so tired all he does is eat and lay around, and there by hastens his ultimate end. He can't win for losing. The hog was probably de- cended from the wild boars of Europe, but it has been a rather long time. Because the flesh could absorb a great deal of salt and be kept for long periods of time, it was the first meat carried by slow moving sailing ships on long voyages. In the days before mechanical cooling, salt was the only way of preserving meat. Given any kind of chance the hog would not be dirty from his mud-bath, but the puddle is about the only way he can keep his body tempera ture from boiling over. He just about has to put himself in hog-heaven to keep from blowing his top. Tail is Indicator Someone some years ago may or may not have known what they were doing when tney "bled" hogs for certain ailments by cutting off the tip of the animal's tall. Many raisers of hogs maintain they can tell the physical as well as the emotional state of a hog by the way the tail is carried. If the tall droops or hangs in sort of a dejected way with out the perky curl, or twitch es constantly, the hog is sup posed to be sick, discouraged or dejected: To put it more aptly, the animal is NOT in hog heaven, even though he may be sick enough to be headed in that undesirable direction. (Released by The Register and Tribune Sundicale, I960) and post warnings, but the task is over-whelming since more than seven million per sons visit the forest each year. utner causes of fires in clude lightning, children play ing with matches and arson. he continued. "Man's role in fire prevention is obvious." Recent developments in fire-fighting equipment have helped cut the acreage of fires and saved many lives, the su pervisor said. Most spectacu lar of these is use of aircraft to support ground crews. Fire Season Never Ends In recent fires, approxi mately 30 war surplus air planes were used to drop a borate solution onto flames. These tankers were guided to "hot spots" by smaller planes and helicopters. "The operation is expensive and not without hazards," Jarvi said. "Two pilots were killed last week when their converted B25 crashed into a mountain." Jarvi estimated the cost per hour of flying the aerial tank ers at between $250 and $400. The planes and pilots are re tained on a contract basis and operate in various parts of the West. "The tankers bomb hard to reach parts of the fire with a chemical, that clings to brush and evaporates slowly," he said. "They also have created escape routes for trappel fire men." Greatest enemy of fire fight ers is the weather that each year attracts millions of tour ists to Southern California. Desert winds dry the brush and timber, then fan flames after a fire starts. "The fire season never really ends in Southern Cali fornia," Jarvi said. "In 1958 we had at least one fire each month." Triumoh HERALD Sedan Three full engineering years ahead! Delivered In Medford price includes: heater, defroster, whitewall tires, foam rubber seats, carpeting, vinyl Inte rior, windshield washers, di rection signals, twin sun vis ors, license and title and full tank of gas! What a value! Hurry to Keith Schuli! Delivered in Medford $ 1999 KEITH SCHULZ sLf 116 North Front Street - SP 2-4756 CLOSE OUT! 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