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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1960)
Forest Service to Strengthen Four Northwest Borate Bases The Pacific Northwest re gion of the U.S. forest service is adding organized fire sup pression crews and facilities for increased air attack from planned bases as part of a special program to strength en fire-fighting capability throughout the West in this critical forest fire year. Additional fire suppression crews will be on duty Mon day, Aug. 22, at several points in the region, according to J. Herbert Stone, regional forester. The aerial phase of the program, which will be in ac tion very shortly, will ex lend the present system of planned - in - advance air attack on fires, Stone said. Four borate bases (from which fire - retardants are flown to fires) will be strengthened in the Northwest legion. They are at Medford, Redmond and La Grande, Ore., and Wenatchee, Wash ington. Additional Officer An additional air officer, a mixmaster in charge of pre paring the retardant solutions, and other personnel will be hired at each base. Addition al equipment and portable housing and other facilities will be provided. Part of the "beefing up" will be to install a new interregional air ground communications fre quency for fire-fighting air craft and to install new ra dios and other equipment. Fourteen T-34 aircraft are being obtained from the Navy to bolster the fleet of "bird dog" planes which lead bo rate tankers over fire drop spots. Two of these aircraft will be assigned to the North west region, and others will be available from a pool at Santa Rosa, Calif. A new 27-man fire suppres sion crew will be stationed at Redmond, Ore. Rogue River Forest Four 10-man crews also will be placed in the Pacific Northwest region to bolster five 15-man intcrforesl crews now on duty. These smaller crews will be stationed on the Rogue River national for est, at the Star Ranger sta tion on the Applegate district; on the Fremont forest, Lake view; on the Wenatchee for est, at Ential; and on the Mt. Baker forest, at Darrington. Twenty, such crews are being placed throughout the West. This year, a prolonged pe riod of high temperatures, low humidities, and practically no precipitation brought ex tremely critical burning con ditions to western states in July. In this month more than 2,500 fires occurred. Most of these were started from heavy concentration of dry lightning storms which struck in California, Oregon, Wash ington, Montana and Idaho. Approximately 220,000 acres of land protected by the forest service in the West burned during this month, most of it in the last two weeks of the month. Cost $16,000,000 Peak employment of fire fighters exceeded 25,000, with hundreds of tractors and pumpers and approximately 319 aircraft used. The total fire fighting bill for the na tion during the month was more than $16,000,000, Stone said. An estimated $3,700, 000 was expended, on fire fighting activities in the Northwest region in July. Damage to timber, water- sheds and other resources -will run many times that amount, Stone said, and could have been much more had it not been for quick action in keep ing most of the fires from be coming large ones. This special $922,001), step ped - up program will cost only about half the sum spent in fighting fires on just one of the worst days experienc ed so far this year. It should pay for itself several times over in larga .fires prevented. Three potentially large fires kept to small size would pay for the program, Stone concluded. Medford Tribune SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 19B0 PAGES 1 to 8 National Forest Is Aim of Group Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, Democratic candidate for Uni ted States Senator, and a del egation of Klamath Falls bus iness leaders held a strategy meeting in Medford Friday on "ways and means for cre ating a new national forest in Oregon" from Indian timber lands involved in termination of the Klamath tribe. After the meeting, Mrs. Neuberger announced that a committee, including Nelson Reed, chairman of the Save- the-Klamath Forest commit-! tee; Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News; Larry Shaw, lumber man, and Al Hattan, Klam ath business man, will go to w dMiiiiKiuu luesuay 10 pre sent their case for the new national forest to department of agriculture officials. Meeting with Mrs. Neuberg er here were Tom Watlers, former management special ist for Klamath reservation termination, and Reed. They discussed the threat that the Klamath reservation timber tract would be divided among three adjacent national for ests, the Deschutes, Rogue and Fremont units. "I agree with Walters that breaking up this unit of tim ber poses administrative prob lems and creates hardships for the Klamath areas," Mrs. Neu berger said. Mrs. Neuberger offered to intercede with Sen. James E. Murray, chairman of the Sen ate Interior and Insular Af fairs committee, to assure the Klamath delegation of "a full and impartial hearing on their appeal for the new national forest." Mrs. Neuberger recalled that her husband, the late Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, had ex pressed hope that the Klam ath Indian timber would be- OHANGE CRYSTALS Frozen orange juice is ap pearing in a new form. Sev eral companies have experi mented with orange juice packed in dehydrated crys tal form. TO HONOH STATESMEN Washington -IUPII- The Post Office is going to issue special stamps honoring three U.S. statesmen who have died in office within recent years. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield announced Thursday that 4-ccnt memor ial stamps would be issued to honor Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles and Sens. Rob ert A. Taft, (R-Ohio), and Walter F. George, (D-Ga.). TASTE ISN'T TEST New York -WPli- No matter what it looks like, no matter how it tastes, it isn't roque fort cheese unless it comes from Roquefort, France, a U.S. District Court ruled. Judge Thomas F. Murphy up held the contention of the community of Roquefort that the New York company Wil liam Faihndrich Inc., was in fringing on its registered trade mark name by calling an im ported Italian and Hungarian cheese "Roquefort." Salcm-iUPU-Oregon slate po lice made 8,614 arrests for traffic violations during July j and issued 9.287 traffic warnings. come the 151st national For est when he was chairman of the Senate sub-committee which worked out legislation to save the ponderosa pine forest, valued at about $90,-000,000. ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL! Bed DAVENO Upholstered The material, used retails regularly at 3.95 yard! TERMS AVAILABIEI as low as U jtf complete PHONE SP 3-6461 ale's pijoteterp Dale Mauck, Owner 1920 Table Rock Road Across From Big Y Super Market "Southern Oregon's VOLUME Upholstery Fabric Dealer" "OUTFIELDER" PLANE The pilot of a C-119 Pelican plane became the star out fielder of the Pacific "ballpark", Friday. A specially-modified C-119 is shown "in flight with recovery gear extended from the tail of fuselage. The loop blowing aft from the lower ends of the two "outriggers" is sup posed to snag the parachute, lowering re covery capsule after its ejection from Dis coverer satellite. The loop then snaps free of the outriggers and line and capsule are reeled into the aircraft. (UPI Telephoto) WW t ft"0" .. -.- r.&PStlt.E SNAGGED A narachutinff ransule from the Dis coverer XIV satellite snagged on an airplane-towed skyhook Friday for the second straight program triumpn, clearing tne way for the return of animals from space. A captured prac tice capsule is visible through the rear opening of a specially adapted C-119 plane as the craft's winch slowly reels in the recovered capsule. (UPI Telephoto) Man Arrested For Dyer Act Violation Charles Melvin Fox, 42, of Bremerton, Wash., was arrest ed by federal agents Friday' morning near Medford on charges of being a fugitive from justice. A federal war rant for interestate transpor tation, of a stolen vehicle (Dyer Act) had been issued against him in Seattle, Wash. Fox was arraigned here on Friday before U. S. Commis sioner Frank J. Van Dyke. 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