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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, ORE. ite IF Three-Tribal iwm)dlcairy u rod, 'Hnpteiredl tmmamwmm, - - u.u.n i an , . , iMwMwwwii w' S 'v-;; ,4-rC "A "' Mill V I f X PLOT HOUSES Scientific precision was used in plot ting the house sizes and design and in exactly locating the items found. James Lehman (left) of Springfield, architectural major in the University of Oregon, draws 0 ' 1 I ' 4. W-'-' v ji S(f " ' jL4'4if iJ .. . 'fc - - DUSTS STONE Frank C. Leonhardy, as sistant director of the archaeological proj ect In the Irongate dam reservoir basin, New Station Goes Ashland-Ashland has a new radio station. Station KRVC went on the air Sunday, Oct. 23. The new station Is broad carting on a power output of 1,000 watts at 1350 kilocycles. It is being operated by the Ashland Faith Tabernacle Corporation, and emphasizes spiritual programming. Na tional and local religious pro grams, ' spiritual music . and news broadcasts make up KRVC programming. ; The station is operating un der a commercial non-profit license granted by the Fed eral Communications Commis sion May 16. Religious broad casts are interdenominational. EXPERIENCED LEGISLATOR EXPERIENCED BUSINESSMAN-PUBLISHER EXPERIENCED CIVIC LEADER Swlld hi Sk. ol - . . , " j: carefully dusts stones found In On Air in Ashland The station will broadcast news of any area churches. Currently KRVC is operat ing from 6:30 a.m. to sunset. The Rev. Leo Wine, corpora tion president, said the sta tion hopes to go on the air both day and night in the near future. Mr. Wine said that the sta tion is selling radio adver tising in order to meet op erating costs. However, the station isn't being operated for profit, he said. "KRVC Is operating to meet the relig ious needs of Rogue Valley residents," Mr. Wine commented. experience counts! SENATOR O)M022)G i for Secretary of State DEMOCRAT ONir MONROE SWEEHAND OFFERS A RECORD OF SOLID ACHIEVEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE Slilt Cmm., Nn. Dm (Hiiilj) SoUy. Em. Sk't.. Ill Qmiw Sldf.. hxilni ' - '' 't J the design, as Frank C. Leonhardy (center), assistant director, plots size and location of objects. This is a rel atively shallow part of the dig. Later the excavating reached depths of as much as IS feet. off one of the grinding the old house pits., Hardwood Sold in Klamath Forest Yreka - Another "first" In wood utilization in the Selad district of the Klamath Na tional forest has been an nounced by forest rangers here. An initial sale of oak to the Fine Mountain Lumber com pany, Yreka, has reversed a previous policy of using Klam ath forest hardwoods only for firewood. The sale will provide mate rial for experimental sawing of hardwood lumber and fur nish information on the mer its of slow winter air drying of oak lumber. J" -Oil 7 State Granger Opposes Proposed Merger of Firms Portland - Elmer McClure, master of the Oregon State Grange, told the Portland Re porter here last week that he was opposed to the proposed merger of Pacific Power, and Light company and California Oregon Power company. He claimed the merger would ". . . make It possible lor PP and L to get around the proposed federal intertie for exchanging surplus power between the Northwest and California." The master further charged thut the motive behind the proposal to merge is to profit from the sale of cheap surplus Bonneville power in Califor nia, where power costs more than in the Northwest. Expresses Concern Mcuiure said that his or ganization is concerned over the likelihood -of "so much power" being pumped into the highpriced California mar ket that PUDs and REAs in the Northwest would have no adequate surplus power avail able for their local needs. Copco does not have ade quate transmission lines for an immediate intertie, accord ing to McClure. He maintained that its lines could be "heav ied up" through high-voltage transmission and without a completely new hookup. He further contended that PP and L will have surplus federal power to sell under Its 20-year contract with Bonneville and that California is hungry for this "cheap" power. 'Normal Business' McClure claimed that a pri vate intertie would not come under special regulation and could be managed as a "nor mal business practice." The State Grange has urg ed federal legislation to pro vide for an Intertie which would protect for the region the power supply developed from the region's own water resources. The matter was held up for additional study In the last session of Congress at the re quest of Northwest public power and other Interests con cerned about having a stop valve put on the intertie, The Reporter said. Two Cars Go in Ditch In Accident Friday One car towing another went into a ditch at the Wil low Springs junction on High way 99 Friday night, state po lice said. No injuries were re ported. A car driven by James Lamar McBryde, 21, of East Side, Ore., was towing anoth er car northbound when the towed car started to whip back and forth, went across the hlghwoy and into a ditch on the west side of the high way taking the other car with It, state police said. CUBA HEAVILY AgMED Havana - ttJPD - Mounting shipments of arms from be hind the Iron Curtain have made Cuba one of the most heavily armed nations of its size in the world, it was re ported today. Archaeological Site in Copco Y Irongate Project (Editor's note: This fol lowing story about an arch aeological expedition from the University of Oregon excavating an Indian tribal site in the Irongate dam sit along the Klamath liv er is chiefly the result of the Mail Tribune's corre spondent at Hombrook, Mrs. Kathrine Chapman.) Copco, Calif. -An archaeo logical site that is of import ance because it is oh a three- tribal boundary in what has been an archaeological void In northern California was discovered and excavated this summer by a University of Oregon archaeologist, David L. Cole. The site is located on the Klamath river, 15 miles east of Hombrook, Calif., where the California-Oregon Power company Is building Irongate dam. Financed by a grant from Copco made to the University of Oregon s department of an thropology, Cole and an as sistant, Frank C. Leonhardy, made a preliminary survey in the reservoir basin, and locat ed a series of depressions which they decided might be house sites. Starting -June 11 of this past summer, they excavated two of the depressions of "house pits." Evidence was promising but they had to leave the work June 21. When they returned they found that in the interim vandals got in and had destroyed their pre vious work and had made a shambles of the site. They started work again Sept. 4 and excavated a third house pit that had not been too badly disturbed. What they found was a sue cession of houses in a single pit. A series of three or four floors were uncovered, show ing successive occupation over a reasonably long period of time. Houses Were Oval The shape of the houses was oval with dimensions 20 to 28 feet at the longest part. v The investigators were not able to get much of an Idea of the structure of the houses except that cedar beams were used in the construction. These evidently were used un til they rotted and fell, or burned down, they the occu pants covered the debris with dirt and a new structure was built on top. Remains indicate a relationship between these houses and those of Indians of central California. The artifacts found in the pits, including p r o j e c t ile points, scraping tools, drills, and grinding stones suggest ing that the Indians inhabit ing the houses were related to or had contact with Indians throughout the area encom passing the lands from the coast to east of the Cascades. Located as the - site is, on the boundary between the lands of the Shasta, Klamath and Modoc Indians, the influ ence of all three tribes is evi dent, but the Strongest -evidence suggests that the inhab itants of - the old house pits were of the Shastas. The bones of such animals as deer and beaver and of fish indicate that these foods were major items of diet with these ancient peoples. Acorns found Indicate these also were a staple. The excavation sites will be covered with water when the dam is completed. Weyerhaeuser to Keep Lumber Price Tacoma, Wash. - Weyer haeuser Company announced Thursday that it will maintain present prices on lumber and plywood and will curtail pro duction when necessary to control Inventories. Jon. R. Titcomb, manufac turing vice president of the company s lumber and ply wood division, revealed that production cut -backs would be under the direction of local mill managers. The policy ap plies to the company s pro duction from sawmills and plywood plants at Enumclaw, Everett, Longview, Raymond and Snoqualmle Falls, Wash.; Springfield, Cottage Grove and Klamath Falls, Ore.; and Areata, Calif. Titcomb blamed a sluggish market in home-building for the new price production policy. The move by Weyer haeuser follows recent cut backs and shut-downs an nounced by other Western, lumber manufacturers. Mill managers were in structed by the company to maintain ample inventories in order to service their lumber buying customers without de lay, Titcomb stated. I : :. V - x. i ml x 1 - 4r , " . i -Z A - , ... J- :x' .vkr; ', V' . i- ' 'I . ',, p ''t? - tr- "y '' : DIRT SIFTED Dirt and sand taken from house pit excavations had to be carefully sifted to find all the tiny bones and bits of artifacts contained in the dig. Ted Mur phy (left), Springfield, and Jim Gilles, Dallas, students who assisted in the ar chaeological project in the Irongate dam reservoir sit this past summer, shake the This Week in California First Agenda B Test Fails; Politics Also in Headlines By United Press International A new satellite designed to boost spy-in-the-sky into space flashed upward from Vanden- berg Air force base in south ern California last week. But minutes afterwards it fell back into the Pacific ocean. The first test of the "Agena B" had flunked. Scientists, engineers and Air Force technicians compiled the scant information receiv ed from the 25-foot satellite before it plunged flaming back to earth over the Pacific some where off the South American coast. -, The launching of the modi fied Thor first stage went off without a hitch in one of the most impressive firings to date. But about 30 minutes later Air Force officers said they doubted the new satellite had separated from the Thor. Crimp in Plans The failure put a crimp in high-priority plans to develop series of Midas and Samos satellites to protect the United States from surprise attack. The Midas, using infrared sensors, would tell intelli gence agencies that ballistic missiles had been fired, giving about 30 minutes notice an attack was imminent. The Samos is designed to take the place of the U2. Its cameras would scan the earth below and send back pictures in detail. The Agena B has the un usual ability to be restarted and maneuvered in space. But this restart capability was not to be tested on the first flight. Political Scene ' Meanwhile, on the state po litical scene, Gov. Edmund G. Brown's proposed $1.75 bil lion water bond Issue also suffered a setback but admin istration officials apparently were not too concerned. Hired consultants said that the bond issue, designed to pay for transporting northern California water to the south ern part of the state, was feas ible with some changes in the water program itself. Among the changes was a proposal that the state find other means of financing con struction of huge Oroville dam across the Feather river in northern California. The con sultants said the dam and the aquaducts to carry the water could not be constructed at the same time under the bond issue. Harlow: Film director Hen ry Hathaway was questioned in Hollywood in connection with the 28-year-old death of actress Jean Harlow's hus band. The investigation result ed from a magazine story that the husband, Paul Bern, had been murdered. Hunter: A Jury of 11 women and one man found actor Tab Hunter innocent of beating his pet dog. Hunter claimed he disciplined the dog for dig ging in his yard. The misde meanor trial lasted 11 days. Hepburn: A $50,000 traffic accident damage suit against actress Audrey Hepburn went to trial in Los Angeles Supe rior court. Mrs. John Paladini, a 24-year-old actress, claimed injuries suffered in the acci dent lost her several impor tant jobs. Leaky Tiki: The wreckage of a raft named "Leaky Tiki" in which three men hoped to sail the Pacific ocean was found at different locations off the coast of California. The three Washington men were missing and presumed dead. Suit: The California Real Estate association and its 18 member board was charged with unfair trade practices in a suit filed by Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk. The action con- CiVi7 Service Lists Openings for Positions Current civil service list ings include examinations for various Air Reserve techni cians, employee development officers, and mechanical and electrical inspectors. Information and applica tions for these and other posi tions may be obtained from the civil service, commission representative at the Medford post office. I1 l2100 Joe Hosick Funeral Director sisra SP 2-5488 605 sieve, a dirty but rewarding job. Care has to be taken to keep track of every sieve ful the exact part of the excavation from . which it came, and what it contains. Only In this way can the workers determine points concerning the house pits and the dwellers. tended that Los Angeles prop erty owners paid an extra $10 million . annually as result of a conspiracy by members of the association "to maintain arbitrary and noncompetitive commission rates." Johnson: Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic par ty's vice presidential nominee, visited California and charged that the Republicans have pur sued a policy of "political dis crimination against the West." Dewey: Former presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey said in Los Angeles that the United States under a Repub lican administration was the world's leading power. He de scribed Sen. John F. Kennedy as "rash and immature" in his approach to foreign affairs. Kefauver: Sen. Estes Ke- fauver of Tennessee told a news conference in San Fran cisco that Senator Kennedy would sweep the nation if re ligion were not a factor in the campaign. But he conceded that Vice President Richard M. Nixon has gained some ground in the South because of Kennedy's religion. Reprieve: Gov. Edmund G. Brown granted a 30-day re prieve to convicted murderer Leslie Cartier of San Diego over Cartier's objections. He had been scheduled to die Tuesday morning. Counseling In your home at your request, or in our Funeral Service Offices. Our forty years of experience here in Medford affords-you the best advice available. Reverent, INVESTIGATE AND SAVE MORTUARY CEMETERY MAUSOLEUM CREMATORY Highland Dr. U MedfordUNGroup Conducting Drive To Sign Pledges With Medford's Mayor John Snider at the top of the list, the Medford chapter of the Oregon United Nations asso ciation is gathering signa tures on a pledge to the Unit ed Nations in observance of the 15th anniversary of the organization. Pledge sheets are being cir culated throughout the Unit ed States, and after being signed, will be sent to New York where they will be bound together in book form and presented to the Secre tary General of the UN. The pledge reaffirms the Individual's faith in the UN, and pledges his support of the organization. Well Received Mrs. Harlan P. Bosworth Jr., president of the local United Nations chapter, -said reports from the American Association for the United Notions headquarters in New York indicate that the pledges are being well received throughout the United States, and there will be enough sig natures to show the over whelming support that Amer icans are giving the interna tional organization. The AAUN, sponsor of the pledge campaign, is the only national membership organ ization devoted exclusively to education about the United Nations to encourage Ameri can support for its programs, policies and-aims. The organization is active on U.S. college campuses through its affiliate, the Col legiate Council for the United Nations. Local residents interested in joining the Medford chap ter of the Oregon United Na tions association can do so by calling Mary Davenport at SPring 2-8541, during b: . ness hours. WESTWARD LINE , Part of Alaska is as far west as Hawaii. " No Finer Diamond Rings Anywhere! 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