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
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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
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Walter F. George, (D-Ga.).
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New York -WPli- No matter
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community of Roquefort that
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liam Faihndrich Inc., was in
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ported Italian and Hungarian
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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.
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Charles Melvin Fox, 42, of
Bremerton, Wash., was arrest
ed by federal agents Friday'
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rant for interestate transpor
tation, of a stolen vehicle
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against him in Seattle, Wash.
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Friday before U. S. Commis
sioner Frank J. Van Dyke. He
waived the right to a pre
liminary hearing and was
lodged in the county jail in
lieu of $5,000 bail.
FBI agents said Fox is also
wanted for questioning in con
nection with the passing of
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