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MCDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. - !- SUNDAY. AUGUST 14, I960 Valley Hail Study Dependent On Volunteer Hail Stone Collectors By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor High atop a hill in the Mo doc orchards off Table Hock rd. radar machines whir as a black mass of anvil shaped clouds pile up over the valley A secret radar installation alerted against a possible sneak attack? No. This is the heart of the hail research project co-sponsored by the Medford Pear Shippers and Oregon State college. Operating1 with the radar are three moving picture cameras. One set some dis tance in front of the lauar takes a continuous picture of cloud formations as a 100-foot roll of film exposes a frame every ten seconds. Inside the two former U.S. Marine Corps radar machines are movie cameras attached to the view er scopes which records the pattern made as the electronic fingers of the radar probe through the heart of the thun der storm. One machine is set to probe into a horizontal slice of the storm cloud mass and the sec ond to probe it vertically. Both machines have their own scopes and cameras. . When Is Hail Produced? Purpose of the local study, now in its second year, is to discover at what step in the thunderstorm hail is pro duced, according to Dr. Fred W. Decker, Oregon State col lege meterologist: He is work ing with Jud Parsons, Med ford orchardist, and local co ordinator of the study. . "When people hear the roll of thunder and see the flash of lightning, they think of it as one storm," Dr. Decker ex plained. "Actually, it Is a se ries of storms which bubble up from the anvil top cloud system. As one rumbles across the sky, another is building up." As the movie camera out front records the cloud evo lutions, a clock with slate in dicating the date, records the exact minute of each cloud pattern. These pictures, the recorded radar probes, in dentations made by the hail striking the hail recording aluminum foil sheets and hail samples are all studied and observations cooreiatea Definite Patterns ' From these various clues the researchers hope to estab lish definite points. When they know when the . hail oc curs in the cloud pattern, then they can get a lead on how the hail is developed and at what point it is easiest and most effective to artlflcally stop the hall. Over a periqd of years hail has caused considerable loss due to pear marking. The pear growers tried "seeding" the clouds with generators sending crystals of silver iodide into the storm cloud formations. Sometimes it was successful and sometimes it wasn't. But it was always ex pensive. Now they are trying to find out just what is the best method of weather con trol on which to spend their money and when such artifi cial means should be used. The current research re cently received $30,400 from the National Science Founda tion for a two year study in hail research. Hail Stone Collectors Heart of the program are the vital volunteer hail stone collectors. These are local citizens who gather the hail stones in cottage cheese car tons, tin cans or other con tainers and immediately pop them in their deep freeze boxes or refrigerators. This can be anybody who sees the bail stones fall. They are asked to call SPring 3-4088 so the stones may be picked up. The stones are studied as to structure and cross section, so the researchers may Jearn how they were formed. This, too, is a vital clue in learning how hail develops in storms. Backing up the hail col lectors are 500 hail recorders distributed throughout the valley. These consist of alum inum foil sheets wrapped around a chunk of styrofoam pad for a cushion, and mount ed on pear lug boxes. By ex amining the dents made by the hard hail stones in the soft foil, researchers can de termine the density of the hail storms and, perhaps, even me general size of the hail They like to know, too, the minute when hail is nhanruarf and rely on the hail collectors ior inia information. Electric Observations "We have plans for develop, ing the site (in Modoc or chards) for- atmospheric elec. trie observations, too." Dr. Decker said. "We have been taking a plane up and looking at the clouds from aloft with a movie' camera. This fa an attempt to look at the clouds wmcn migm De producing precipitation down in the vallev. Information gathered through this local study could have wide-ranging effects on all weatner studies. The for esters may learn how to fore cast where lightning will strike and exactlv when. It may even be possible to pre vent lightning storms. In stead of orchard heaters a cloud laver of tinv Dlaslic bubbles may be spread over the valley orchards to prevent frost damage. Possible devel opments from a successful study are limitless, the re searchers point out. ' ' CHECKING CAMERA Dr. Fred W. Decker, OSC meter ologist, examines the cloud camera during one of his frequent Inspection trips to the Rogue valley to check on the research being done In the Rogue valley.. Dr. Decker plans to spend most of the winter going over research notes and compiling a report of the programs second year. g&w ... hi j via in w l-h ! I Vv'f' - t ,4 isr JwJi .-'d.s 5 i . i nMnnn-n . nurwr n nnnq A mmifn piitnorn nntsori nion l-nuiuunnrn,i,u wuwwu . , - a hill in the Modoc orchards off Table Rock rd. photographs - in nt l.,4n-,'le A Inn.fnnt rnll nf film pnsurps C1UU115 HI 1U BIXU1IU .....t - a daylight to dark recording of cloud patterns used as pnrt of the local hall research project. A clock and slate show the date and minute each picture is taken. Far below the camera may be seen the rows of penr trees. Durno Reiterates Medical Aid Stand Santa Clara - Sen. Edwin R. Durno, M.D., Modford, Thurs day reiterated his stand in favor of medical aid for the aged. Durno, candidate for Congress from Oregon's 4th district, spoke at a. meeting at me urange hall in this Lane county community. "As far back as April' 16," Durno said, "I proposed a posi tive, constructive plan for medical aid for our Senior cit izens. This plan would call for Federal .funds made avail able with matching State lunns to De administered on the basis of need by local agencies at the local level.' The Republican candidate went on to say, "Since I made this proposal, an almost Iden tical plan was incorporated in to the Mills Bill which passed the House of Representatives In this year's Congressional session by a vote of 381 to 23, nn overwhelming indication of support from Republicans and Democrats alike." Durno further stated that he was opposed to the Forand bill because it does not cover even a majority of our aging citizens, lie said, "It's a real shame that a social and eco nomic problem of this magni tude should become a political football In this olection year." ; fiscal Ti-rfvfSp U aS, T i & . 2 T 4,4 I Uvftelr' kM0uy2 ffm Ju, .O aft yr : : ii p I tell CHECKS RADAR Bob Mathews, Oregon One has been modified as a horizontal scan Slate college undergraduate, is acting as ner and the other scans the sky vertically, radar technician to keep the two former U.S. Operation of these machines from atop a Marine Corps radar machines in operation, hill in Modoc orchards gives the researchers These two machines were formerly used by valuable data through electronic probing of the Marine Corps for beachhead operations, storm cloud formations. Low Rent Public Housing Projects Due in Portland .... rtct nf Ihfi Portland - Sites for two, new, low-rent, public housing projects have been selected, and plans for immediate con struction are in final prepara tion, according to Gene W, Rossman, executive director of the Housing Authority of Portland. A housing project primarily for elderly persons of low in come will be built in the area bounded by NW 19th ave., Everett and Flanders sts. This will feature a 13-story con crete building containing 150 apartments. It will include a special area to be used ex clusively for a community service center. In addition to the 13-story structure, there will be an adjacent three-story building for 39 low-income families with pre-school chil dren, and a court yard with play area separating the two buildings. A second public housing Woman Has Baby 'On the House' Richmond, Calif.-IUPB-Rich. mond Hospital Administrator George Wacker, who knows a good customer when he sees one, told Mrs. Eveline Good man, 35, she would not have to pay her hospital costs. "Have one on us," Wacker said after the birth of Mrs. Goodman's 12th child Friday. project will be located within the area bounded by SE Pow ell, Division, 14th and 26th sts., and will be devoted main ly to the housing of large families of low income. This second project, tentatively ti tled the "Brooklyn" Project, will be a "scattered sites" de velopment utilizing vacant Ints and lots on which sub standard or unoccupied struc tures are presently locaiea. ' The financing formula of the two projects will involve a relatively small federal sub sidy; long-term, low-cost fi nancing in the private bond market; and sponsorship and operation by the Housing Au thority of Portland under its cooperation agreement with the Citv of Portland and its program reservation with the public housing administration, Rossman said. ciimainH post of these proj ects, exclusive of land costs, e-mnn r unit for the north west apartment project and $8500 per unti ior uie dfour lvn project. Both public hous will be the first of their respective classifica tions to be consiruciea on uib Pacific Coast. 2 BARBERS -pjinws'' BARBER SHOP ' FREE PARKING 1238 No. Riverside Across from Pulver'i Motel o 0 and C Money Used for Roads, Reforestation Receipts from timber sold during the last fiscal year on the O and C railroad grant lands in the Medford district paid for work on several ac cess roads and bridges, ac cording to bureau of land management officials. Jackson county will receive $2,549,345.14 as the net pay ment after deduction of the county's contribution toward construction of forest access roads and reforestation of cleared forest lands. Under the agreement with the federal government, the county makes available about one-third of the 75 per cent share of receipts to which they are entitled for road building and. reforestation. In the Meford district these road funds were used last year for work on the Thomp son Creek bridge and seven miles of access road construc tion in the Galice area In Josephine county.- Also for construction of the Cantrall bridge and surfacing of 16 miles of the West Fork Evans creek access road in Jackson county, In addition, bids were let late in June for construc tion of nine miles of road in the Deer creek area of Jose phine county. Reforestation Reforestation moneys made available by the counties were used in the Medford district during the fiscal year for planting 1,840 acres with tree seedlings, 314 acres with tree seeds and for brush eradica tion work in preparation for reforestation work on 616 acres.- Total payments to the coun ties of $16,258,578.71 are up more than $1.4 million over a year ago. Both BLM and the forest service topped their previous high timber sales mark with an increase of more than $4 million over last year's sales. Total forest serv ice timber sales on the half million O and C acres under its administration grossed $4,- 306,625.55. BLM receipts to talled $28,210,531.86. U.S. vehicle operators paid a record $8.5 billion in state and federal highway taxes in 1959. More than 1,700,000 per sons own stock in motor vehi cles and automotive equip ment manufacturing companies. Demos Will Name Electors Aug. 20 Portland - (UPD - Democratic candidates for presidential electors will be named at a Democratic State Central committee meeting here Aug. 20, according lo Robert Straub, state chairman. Straub said the six electors would be chosen by the cen tral committee. He said they must be certified by the sec retary of state by Sept. 8. t- HE Cover your patio ,,,BEnGLAeS gf, or carport witn " g Sunset patio panels Shatterproof, beautiful colors. For fences, wind breaks, partitions. ' 26 wide x 8, 10 and 12 feet long J7 Ft. Norton Lumber Company Tgg Phoenix Comp White AihlonJ IRRIGATION PUMPS to 60 H.P. From $ 29 50 up Vs H.P. Shallow Well $gg00 V4 H.P. DEEP WELL With 42 Gallon Tank W7 ' MnJ affflSSr Charger Complete Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-239 22S W. Ma MIDFORD, OREGON . We Give 5H Grean aramei 4.00 -H-i a-WJj ' -AJr LOOK HUNTERS!! 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