Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 13, 1961, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Texto o o Oo o o, o o o o o o o o Power Association Lists Purposes; High Dam at Copper Canyon on Roane Is Aim (Editor's note: The follow Irrg is a verbatim copy ot a statement of purposes is sued by the newly-tormed Josephine County Public Power Association, .which recently proposed construc tion of a high dam at Cop per Canyon on the Rogue river above Agness. It is re printed from the Grants Pass Courier. Comment on the statement appears in the editorial column on Page 4.) Our first purpose is to form a people's utility district to facilitate an intelligent de velopment of the Central Rogue Basin. We realize, how ever, that this district, so formed, will have commis sioners elected by the people, who will be in charge of the administrative affairs of the district. We are sure they will reflect mature wisdom in mak ing policies, and establishing their own goals. However, it is the hope of the sponsoring association that we may influ ence these goals by preparing an objective report. The fol lowing goals are the desires of the present sponsoring asso ciation and shall be desig nated and known as "The Dean Water Conservation Plan for the Rogue Basin." According to the history of the Rogue Basin, there never has been a time that water hasn't been a major problem, and it is our aim that we should eliminate this prob lem, and for the first time in history water shall be avail able to all people in the Rogue Basin, filling their needs with surplus. We know that no customer will be too large or too small for us to serve. We know we have available at the Copper Canyon Dam Bite in excess of six million acre-feet annually. We realize that Copper Canyon is a con siderable distance from the heavily populated part of the basin; consequently, it would be necessary to slack water in the Rogue by a high dam in order to get economical ac cess to pumping zones. This, we are reasonably sure, can be accomplished. These pumping zones will be located in Graves Creek, Jump Off Joe Creek, Apple gate River, and below the falls on the Illinois to serve the Selma-Cave Junction area. From these pumping zones we "Hi! I'm Delorcs Parker and I'm inviting you to at tend our Open House Party, Friday, January 20th, cele brating the merger of The Rogue Valley State Bank Medford and The Oregon Bank Portland Watch for your Treasure Chest key in the mail." Rogue Valley Branch I 1 09 Court Street East Medford Branch 701 East Jackson To please accepted ! V If f 'm "lip liahc( J(a)faaAf MANK MOHO.N .MMOlO 1NODOIWS, rUNIl DWCIOM OA" OH NH hope to supply all the needs of Josephine County, not only for agriculture, but for in dustry, for mining, or for any other use. After our own immediate needs, we hope to have excess water, to supply all the needs of Jackson County. We are reasonably sure that this can be accomplished at a price not prohibitive; so it will be a profitable adventure for the consumer. We also hope that every consideration will be given "to draw down" on the reservoir, so as not to inter fere with the recreational po tential. We believe that there can be installed one million six - hundred thousand horse power capacity at Copper Canyon Dam. We believe we can operate this equipment at full capacity for six months annually. We also believe that a pow er exchange agreement can be negotiated with the Bonne ville Power Administration, whereby we may furnish max imum power during the time of high water, so we may re ceive power back again at low water in the summer months to facilitate our water program, and to limit our own generating system to the mini mum amount of water neces sary to supply all of the needs of the Rogue River below the dam, so as to assure no water shortage in Curry County; thus holding the reservoir draw-down to a minimum. Now comes flood control. We realize that the proposed dams on the Upper Rogue do not protect us here in Jose phine County from high wa ter, caused by creative condi tions occurring below the dam sites. Such high water can be very destructive! We propose that a pumping zone be installed above the town of Rogue River, and a reservoir be built in the Evans Creek area, so flood waters may be pumped off when they occur, thus ending forever the threat of floods in the Grants Pass area. We propose that similar sta tions be installed where need ed, to protect life and prop erly. The power for such pur pose will be available here, produced from the Copper Canyon power supply. ow we face the fish prob lem. For many years great sacrifice has been made to protect our anadromous fish. With this problem in mind, a preliminary survey o the Lower Rogue was conducted, and it appeared to be a simple task to pass these fish into the Chelco River watershed, through a natural fish escape ment to the sea, by using a route around the Copper Can yon high dam. However, when we thing of the price we paid in the past, and the price we are paying at the present, we hereby recom mend that this route should not be used, but in its place we seal the river against fish escapement forever. This should be a deterrent to a bad memory of the past and pres ent anadromous fish policies. We regret in this instance all we can do is to recommend. We believe that the district should employ a competent fish biologist. This biologist would be given a free hand in insuring a maximum of fish in the lake area. We recom mend that we spend liberally to insure the utmost in fish capacity, but we must bear in mind that this type of fishing will bring millions of dollars to our economy. We should prepare to create facilities to accommodate the demands of a sudden influx of five hun dred thousand tourists annual ly. We recommend for recrea you is our responsibility. PHONl Sf 2 8030 tion in general the proposals set forth by the Josephine County Water Resources Board that part of the subcom mittee on recreation's report referring to the construction of Copper Canyon dam be adopted. There's no need at the present time to review those recommendations, for they are part of public record on file at the Josephine County Courthouse. Now we shall consider pow er. We know we shall have in excess of our own needs, three hundred thousand kilowatts of firm power. Although it should be the policy to en courage the use of this power within our district, we recom The so-called pickerel weed, like the proverbial small boy, likes to wade in shallow wa ter. In fact, this plant insists on spending its entire life standing in water, and will flourish there provided the water is reasonably warm and correctly shallow. In the warmer parts of the country the pickerel weed will blossom throughout the entire year. Its long spikes of violet-blue flowers, each with two bright yellow spots at the base of the petals, looks a great deal like the common hyacinth. Each blossom lasts but a single day, but it is followed by another and an other. The stalks grow taller and taller, and the succession of bloom is almost contin uous. It's a Pest The pickerel weed has be come-somewhat of a pest in some localities, completely clogging some streams, and in a few sections it has become a serious problem in noxious weed control. There are rec ords of some colonies of the weed in some southern states where a thousand acres are completely choked with it, ac cording to estimates based on aerial and ground reconnais sance. The name pickerel weed was reached by a rather roundabout method. Growing as the weed does in fresh water creeks and ponds, some fishermen noticed that pick -Ml 1; "ff Legislative Briefs Salem - IUPD - The Joint Ways and Means committee Wednesday approved for in troduction a bill appropriat ing $1,250,000 to run the leg islature until the session ends. The funds also would be used for legislative purposes during the interim until the 1983 legislatureconvenes. The Oregon Dairymen's as sociation, meeting here, indi cated desire today that two measures to benefit their in dustry be passed. One would tighten the audit milk law. Dairymen said it would further protect farm ers. The other, which was ex pected to get stiff opposition, is known as the "Fair Trades practices Act." It would elim inate discounts to retail milk outlets and lending of dairy display equipment. A 42-bilI package of elect ion law revisions and a special election bill for School Dis trict 1 in Multnomah County were described Wednesday at the first meeting of the House Committee on Elections and Reapportionment. Jack Thompson, elections director, said he considered the election law revision mea sures to be primarly "house keeping suggestions. His of fice prepared them. They are noncontrovcrsial, he said. Rep. Edward Whclan, D Portland, said a bill which would save Multnomah Coun ty an estimated $100,000 in a special election March 8 would be introduced today. It would allow the district to pool precincts to cut down on polling places. Rep. Joe Rogers, R. Inde pendence, told the House Edu cation committee Wednesday surplus driver training funds should be distributed on the basis of student participation in driver training programs. REMEMBER- Price Buy the Pir Tir Sat the Second at '1 rRiie 5$ Bud' Tire Mill 100 Mertlt Rivi?r!d - S fttOtOVO WW" TIVu9t. mend the first option to pur chase this power at cost should go to the Coos-Curry Electric at Port Orford, Ore. Should there be an excess beyond the needs of their dis trict, and beyond the needs of our district, we recommend the public power pool for the benefit of the State of Ore gon's public power distribu tors. This now is a general outline of our goal and pur poses of the Josephine County Public Power Association, and in closing may we pray, "God help us to influence the future, in order that we may be free from fear or want." Approved by the Board of Directors January 6, 1961. W. I. DAVIDSON, Chairman. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1961) erel were nearly always pres ent in the near vicinity of the plant, and the observers assumed that the fish were using the roots of the plant for depositing their eggs. Pickerel as well as many other species of fish will lay eggs in among the roots or stems of acquatic plants, if the plant is growing in water deep enough for them to swim. But there is actually no scientific reason why pick erel would select this partic ular plant near which to de posit their eggs. Peculiar Odor A more reasonable explana tion for the naming of the plant would seem to be the peculiar odor of the blossom, which attracts to itself a steady stream of flies and many other kinds of insects, The fish come because the table is always set with a plentiful supply of available and choice food. Pickerel as well as other fish frequent places where food is in good supply, and the service speedy Around these blue flowers with the deep green, pointed leaves there is always a meal of bugs. So the colorful and common pickerel weed wades in the water, and although the plant is considered a pest, it does add a certain wild beauty to the warm friendliness of a babbling brook where the del icate blue reflects itself on limpid waters. Rogers said extra funds now are returned to the Highway Department each year. James Turnbull, deputy su perintendent of public instruc tion, said $5,000 more would be needed by the Stale Board of Education for driver train ing instruction i civil service pay scales are raised. The board's driver training budg et now stands at $30,000. The committee also is con sidering a bill to upgrade teacher certification require ments. The bill would require all teachers to have five years of training, instead of only high school teachers. Hatfield Wants Fair For Agriculture Salem (UPD - Mark Hatfield said Wednesday he would like to see the Oregon State Fair return to a greater emphasis on agriculture. One way to do this, he sug gested, would be to place the slate fair commission under the agriculture department. Under Hatfield's reorganiza tion plan, the agriculture de partment in turn would be under the proposed new na tural resources department. Hatfield made his remarks to delegates attending a a meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's association. Identical Twins Appear In Divorce Suit Los Angeles -IUPD- Identical twins appeared in court Thursday In connection with a divorce suil, and both gave their first names as Anna. "Our. mother liked the name," explained Anna Lou isa Fause and Anna Theresa Peralta, 27. Anna Louisa was granted a divorce. STILL GOING STRONG Recap Sale! at Regular Price Exchange 24806 MtDtOtD. OREGON' STAR lly IXAY R. Your Daily Accordma K15J7-37.J. To develop message for Saturday, read words correspoixling to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. HUHUS APR 21 MAY 21 1 Deceptive 31 You're 1 Romania 32 Gam 3 Eratie 33 From 4 Could J4 Not FTV2-23-33 fU 62.67-49 35 5 Go 6 Conliti 7 Out 8 A JbBehmd nS .16 W.ll 37 Prevail 38 Wanls 39 Oo 40 Tfm 41 Early 4: Bct 43 A 44 Mornm iom 45 To 46 For GEMINI MAV 22 JUNE 22 lOMov 1 1 CeMol 13 Of 14 Don't 15 Hafm 16 Be 17 Could 18 Have 19 You'll A 1 9-25-39- 73-74-75 CANCER 47 Not HA 9-10-56-59 48 I: ts 60-64-71 49 To 20 Discouraging 50Sut.ify I 3U'e 22 Moke 23 Strings 24 Be 25 Naturally 26 Your 27 Condition! 28 Some 29 Wov 30 Person 51 Too JULY 24 AUG. 23 52 love 53 Thrilling 54 Making b5Ellecl 56 Encounter 57LiKrnl 58 Mistake 59 Some fcj 16-21 -31 -34 B-754-58-86-90 VIRGO tf, AUG 2 SEPT. 22 60 Excuses (S) Adverse C)?9-45 13-26 Good 80-87 OF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith (c) 1960 Tlmcs-Mlrror Syndicate There's news from the Pen tagon that the V. S. Navy has gone over from traditional cotton bunting to new syn thetic fabrics for signal flags. They say the synthetic is vis ible a mile farther. This is good news, along with the Army's announce ment of a $30 rocket grenade that can knock any known tank out of the ball game. One of the overlooked con sequences of the H bomb is the shadow it casts over many lesser achievements. The bomb is of such enor mous interest that few of us pay attention to any other ad vance in the march of mili tary science. All sorts o minor lights are hidden in the glare of Eniwe tok. The nuclear physicists win all the acclaim, including a social status previously ac corded only to cabinet mem bers and four-star generals. Soviets Say U.S. Planes Buzz Ships Moscow tUPB A top Soviet official charged Wednesday that U. S. planes buzzed more than 200 Russian ships "at mast-ton height" during the last five months of 1960. The official, Merchant Mar ine Minister Viktor Bakayev, also accused U. S. Navy ves sels of "shamming combat at tacks in dangerous proximity" to Soviet ships. "These provocations were not of a fortuitous but rather of a systematic nature, and were undertaken obviously on instructions of the U. S. War Department and encourage ment of the Eisenhower ad ministration," he said. Bakayev's charges, carried by the official Tass news agency, came in a news con ference at the merchant mar ine exhibition here. A dramatic note was inject ed into the Bakayev confer ence when a messenger rush ed in with a telegram alleg ing that an American jet plane buzzed another Soviet ship, the Pyotr Shirshov, in the Mediterranean only Wed nesday. Bakayev blamed the buzz ings on the Eisenhower ad ministration, but he said it was hoped that "with the com ing into office of the new American government, the sit uation will change." Anfiropoogsf Jakes Beer on Expedition Cambridge, England - (DPI) -Cambridge university anthro pologist Stephen Day today explained how his expedition to the arid Sahara Desert managed to get along without European food or the ameni ties of civilization. "We took along 1,500 cans of English beer," he said. LOOK! O HERE IS HOW YOU CAN SAVE From now until January 14 we are offering every used car in our stock for lale at tho regular low prices, there are NO FINANCE CHARGSS far tko first year! Darrdl WM ftiTi' O O 31 POL1..W Activity Gvid to f iS Stan, OCT. 33 2- 4-22-40(V U3-53-77 61 Best 6: Thi 63 Pcnod 64 Or 65 Benefit 66 Nor tJ Scenps 68 For 69 Now 70 Affection 71 De'av 72 With 73 Tlimg 74 For 75 Younelf 76 Your 11 Day 76 Money ?9ou 80 Pico 8 I And 82 Financially 83 Will 84 Stability 85 Important 8e Better 87 Someone SCORPIO OCT. 2 NOV. 22 49-65-79-82 SAGITTARIUI NOV. DEC. 28-32-36-47, St M66 83- CAPRICORN DEC. 23 JAn' 20 iJl-44-48 61,-"- 3-68-85-89 V;,- AQUARIUS JAN. 21 .vf I EB. 19 Jjl 1 4-24-51 -57 & W-76-78 PISCil 88 Love 89 Moves 90 Wa.t 1- 3- 6-17, 18-20-55 But other men, dedicated to less fashionable scientific fields, go on working in their humble laboratories, develop ing such blessings as nerve gas, chocolate that won't melt on a long march and a supply rocket that will shoot soda crackers and hors de'oeuvrcs 18,000 yards. Fortunately, plenty of our bright people are pretending that H bomb doesn't exist. They are going right ahead preparing for what is called limited war. Limited war means there would be some body left. This is a smart idea. Any prizefighter knows that if you base your defense on the other fellow's right, he is like ly to kick you in the ankle. Nobody honors the inven tors, gunsmiths and dieticians who are looking out for the footsoldier in the next lim ited war. They keep on giving ot their genius, with no more no- lice than a circus Juggler gets competing with the center ring where the Hon is swal lowing the prelty lady lion tamer. But their work reassures us that the old values still have merit. Not everything loved can be incinerated In the nu clear flash. I'm delighted to hear that the Navy has no thought of scrapping the signal flag just because we have evolved Into an age In which electronic messages can be bounced off the moon. There are some things sail ors say lo eacn oilier mat shouldn't be overheard even in the emptiness of space. Suppose one of our ships, faced with the not uncommon crisis of the sea, meets another ship on the Pacific waste and recognizes her as a possible source of relief. With the new, high-visibil ity signal flags, it would be no problem to advise the other ship of the trouble and ask assistance, without the whole world eavesdropping. The vivid little triangles are affixed to a line and up she goes, singing out the cap tain's message: "We are out of strawberry ice cream. Can you help us? Such a communication would make perfect sense be tween two U. S. navel ves sels on the high sea. I wouldn't want It lo fall, however, on the ears of the U. S. Army or the Marines These organizations haven't vet cot over the fact thai throughout World War II the Navy got the most ice cream. As for hostile monitors, they would surely mistinter pret such a message. It prob ably would lend to limited war. In fact, the world Is so snoopy and touchy these days I wonder if the U. S. Navy is really wise in Increasing Die visibility of Its bunting. Anyway, Red China will probably have It In six years. 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