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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Wlen, Mochoimes Tear Pcrfch Allomig IBeoir Creek SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 19B1 $3 Million Project To Extend Freeway Jo City Under Way vj . By GREG NOKES - Mail Tribune Slaff Writer " Huge machines tear great chunks of earth from the "ground others pull it from one place to another still mothers smash it flat. 4, Some machines rip tangled masses of dirty black under brush from the soil and toss it effortlessly on large piles. A Jmnn in a steel helmet puts a match to them and columns of ;grey smoke rise over the city. ? The scene is looking north from the Jackson st. bridge at iny time during the past month. For it is here that 50 "men and as many giant ma 'chines are tearing a long bar ren scar through the heart of She city. -r! "Nothing stands . in their way. -Creek Looks Better ".'.'But, even with the scar an 'old-timer looking north will Tiave to admit that Bear creek looks better now than it has for a long time past. It won't be long before the fear js covered over with a jfour-lane band of pavement Stretching Irom norizon 10 'horizon. - Interstate No. 5 will change 'Die face of the entire city ost people hope for the bet ter. ; ... . rr'' Although completion of the 'freeway is still nearly two -years in the future, the change ;is-'-already taking place. ;?,.'Now motels and restaurants ,'are springing up almost over sight along the city's thor oughfares in anticipation of a considerable increase in Med qrd's tourist trade. More will ffcome. . .. . Boon to Valley . '; ,2)1 Construction of the freeway itself is a boon to the valley 'economy through the pur chase of local materials and the hiring of local labor, J. .The chamber of commerce .expects that the freeway will tiring new Industry to Medford. '-Built In Three Section Btds lor the other: two aec- '. The city planning commls-1 are scheduled to be open sion is swampea wnn Te- quests for zone changos near Since their contract was the freeway Interchange sites, awarded in November, Peter i If all goes well the freeway (Kiewit and Sons have cleared :-inay resujt jji mure juus, mure musi ui- wie iiccway iwuw money and a growing city. (from Seven Oaks rd rctM eia FREEWAY WORK For the past month the Peter Kiewit and Sons Con-. bridge at the route the freeway will follow. The workers in the foreground struction company has been clearing the route fo.-the new freeway through are relocating a Rogue Riycr Valley Irrigation district dam. Medford. The above picture was taken looking north from the Jackson st. ' . built in three sections in this area-from Seven Oaks rd., north of Central Point, to Jackson st.; from Jackson st. j to Barnett rd.: and from Bar- nett rd. to Valley View rd., north of Ashland. A $3,032,472.80 contract to build the first section was awarded to Peter Kiewit and Work is under way or com pleted on several structures, including overpasses at Upton rd".", Vilas rd., Crater Lake highway and Table Rock rd. Work crews are preparing the approaches for the Medford corporation private truck road overpass north of Crater Lake highway. old There may be adverse ef- (Jackson st. 'Meets too. -jv Interstate No. Jackson st. bridge. The drm was in the way. A remark by a state high way, department official last week that "progress is cer tainly evident," is almost an understatement. Greatest Benefit Perhaps the freeway's great est benefit to the valley at the present time is its help in re lieving the local unemploy ment problem. Already, the contractor has hired 45 men to work on the freeway-of which 75 per cent are local and he plans to have hired 150 by the time the peak em- I Dlovment oeriod is reached to the Cement was being poured next fall. bridge, and are last week for a new Rogue I This is for the first section Sons Construction company of I Temporary Detours Omaha, Neb., In November.! rw0 temporary detours have been erected - at Crater Lake highway and Table Rock rd. Traffic will be required to use these detours until the overpasses have been com pleted. now preparing the roadbed in j Fiver Valley Irrigation dis- 5 is being many places. I trict dam, just north of the j ilone. : Work on this section of the c-Ti... . i .,..7.. "' 4 7 irwastss: 1 wane M.iwinm-i w 1 1 rrfrwitmtTiiiikSi freeway is scheduled for com pletion in May, 1962. The con tractor hopes to start the ac tual paving process by September. Overhead Structure The middle section of the frceway-from Jackson st. to Barnett rd.-will be an over head structure. From Barnett rd. through Ashland t ie . ac- way will again take to the ground. The right of way will gen erally follow the course taken by Bear creek through the valley.. O. D. Rawlins, right of way agent for the state high way department, feels the freeway will help consider ably in the general beautifica- tion of the Bear creek area. Tons of brush and a "terri fic lot" of other, unsightly area will be removed or covered UP during construction, he said. Also much of the creek bed is being straightened to eliminate erosion and channel movement. As for that long grey mass of concrete itself Rawlins hsaid the state will attempt to make it look as nice as pos sible. Landscaping Planned The sides of the freeway embankment will be planted with grass and various other landscaping will be done along the freeway route. In Medford, the freeway will be fenced and lighted. All of the freeway right of way from Medford to Ashland has either been purchased or condemned. Another one-third of the right of way already has been obtained in Ashland proper. For the next year and a half, possibly longer, Medford '. CLEARING BEAR CREEK One indirect benefit to Med ford of the new freeway will be a general clean up of much (- of Bear creek. A Cat, belonging to Peter Kiewit and Sons Construction company, contractor for this section of the freeway, can be seen pushing old logs and other trash onto n pile for burning. jiff f vt Ad m - '?Sj.w' V i'' r f 'is, f -' Xjjz and the Rogue valley will have to put up with a lot of dust, noise and inconvenience. It can't be helped. It is the end product that counts. Eut, not everyone is in ac cordance on what the end product will be. Support Damage Theory Some people say the free way should have gone around the city instead of through it. They contend that it will do i irreparable damage by cutting Medford in two. They might be right, . Others argue that the eco nomic benefits to be gained from having the freeway close at hand far outweigh the drawbacks. They may also be right. But, one thine is sure-Inter state No. 5 is here, and it is here to stay. I Los Angeles Man Lectures at Meeting Dr. Albert Field, Los An geles, spoke on recent ad vances and highlights in diag nosis and treatment of peri pheral vascular diseases at a meeting of the Jackson Coun ty Medical Society at the Rogue Valley Country club Wednesday. Dr. Field was the first speaker in a professional lec ture program, according, to Henry C. Herzog, manager of the Veterans Administration Domiciliary, White City. His lecture was combined with the Society's regular meeting. Dr. Fields was graduated from the University of Toron to, and since 1948 has prac ticed surgery in Los Angeles. He is especially interested in peripheral vascular and ex tremity disabilities. His pa pers have been published in various medical journals ana his exhibits have been dis played before the California Medical convention and tne American Medical Association convention. - Federal Grain To Feed Birds Urged Washington -OiPD- Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D-N.C.) of the House Agriculture Com mittee has introduced legisla tion to authorize the use of government-owned grain for the emergency feeding of game birds and other wildlife. Cooley ' reported to the House Thursday that the Agri culture Department was re ceiving appeals from all over the country for federal assist ance in preventing the starva tion of wildlife because of heavy snowfalls. Cooley said his bill would permit the Commodity Credit Corporation to make grain available, to state agencies to meet the need. Area Dairies Win Honors at Contest Corvallis Top honors in Oregon's annual dairy prod ucts contest have been award ed to three southern bregon dairies, according to contest officials at Oregon State col lege; William Grow, of Jorgen- sen's Dairy products, Medford, was named sweepstakes win ner for ice cream, as well as second place winner in the Vanilla class. Douglas Clark, of Snider's dairy, Medford, re- The Medical Roundup by Alvarez Low Fat Diet, Artery Disease in Trappist Monks Recently, Drs. E. Perry Mc Cullagh and Lena A. Lewis, of 'Cleveland, reported very i n t e r e sting studies made on Trap p i s t monks in two m o n asteries. Most of the men had lived for 10 years or more on a spare vegetari an diet which supplies some 2,000 calories a day. The men get no meat, fish, or fowl; they get some 4.5 quarts of milk a week, but only rarely an egg. The diet contains each day about 2 ounces of fat, practically all ' of vegetable origin. On this diet most of the monks live until they are between 55 or 80 years of age. Many aging persons will be interested to hear that al though most of these monks had a low level of blood cholesterol, this did not keep them from getting hardening of the arteries and a high blood pressure. Actually, it looks as if high blood pres sure were somewhat more frequent among them than it is in other groups of men of the same age. In them, the factor of the strenuous life. which is supposed to increase blood pressure, is absent, be cause they live a quiet, shel tered existence. They get some exercise because they work at farming some two or three hours each day. Although there is consider able evidence to indicate that a high level of blood choleste rol in a person favors the pro duction of hardening of the ceived third place for straw berry ice cream. Jorgensen's also won a gold medal diploma for half and half entries. David Kurtz, Sni ders' and Robert ReJding of the Cloverleaf dairy, Ashland, won bronze medal diplomas in the same division. For whipping cream, a gold medal diploma went to Sni der's, and a silver medal diplo ma went to Jorgensen's A total of 246 entries were judged by the Oregon Dairy Industries. Emeritus Consultant In Mtoiclne Mayo Clinic Enierllus Professor ot Medicine Mayo Clinic mcKlster and Tribune Syndicate, 1961) arteries, the evidence now ob tained through a study of the monks suggests that a diet low in animal fats, which perhaps produced a low level of blood cholesterol, was not able to protect the men from develop ing arterial disease and hyper tension. Does Positive Wassermann Test Always Mean Syphilis? Every so often a physician will see someone who is flab bergasted when a routine test on his or her blood indicates the presence of syphilis. Such a person will be unable to remember ever having had a sore or a skin eruption or any thing that would suggest that there once was acute syphilis. In some cases, a young woman will deny ever having been exposed to a venereal infec tion. In many cases it would help if the partner in a single exposure could be found and examined. In the years before 1949, many of these very un happy men and women were tested again and again, and perhaps still left in doubt. Usually they took treatment and sometimes, then, the clearing up of the blood reac tion indicated that syphilis had been present. In 1949, a test highly spe cific for syphilis was worked out, and since then there have been only a few cases in which doubt remained as to the cause of a person's positive Wassermann test. This new test that has given much com fort to many persons is called the Treponema Pallidum Im mobilization tost. The Trepo nema pallidium is the tiny organism w h i c h produces syphilis. Recently, Drs. C. M. Carpenter, J. N. Miller, and Ruth A. Boak, of the Univer sity of California at Los An gles School of Medicine, sug gested the use of a triple test in which the three best blood tests now available are used. One is the Venereal Disease Research Laboratories slide flocculation; another is the Reiter - protein complement fixation; and the third is the Treponema pallidum immo bilization test. I imagine such tests are likely to be perform ed only by a research labora tory attached to a medical school, or to a Slate Health Department. Local Students Win Gold Keys in Art Portland - Several southern Oregon students with art work on display in the 1961 Oregon Scholastic Art e x h i b i t i 6 n which opened last week have received special recognition. Some 900 pictures were se lected from 3.500 entries to be shown through Saturday, Feb 25, at J. K. Gill's, a Portland art center. Of the 100 students receiv ing gold key recognition as well as a blue ribbon label were Jeff Hiatt, H i s a y u k i (Don) Kondo, Milton Poppa, and Gary Stoltenburg, Med ford; and Christine Bishop, Gnry Vincent, and Gary More, L'c-.urul Point. Those from southern Ore gon receiving only gold keys were Gregory Bccken, Jim Vroman, Thomas Scmplc. and Carl Washburn, Medford; Jack Peck, Central Point; Roy Bail ey, Ashland; and D i a n n e Christie, Jennie Kuitert, Rich ard Malisch and Sharon Mer chant, Grants Pass. Those receiving both the key and the ribbon award will be eligible to enter the art work in the National Scholas tic Art Exhibition at New York, May 1 to 12. TEMPORARY DETOUR Traffic on Crater Lake highway Si being routed around the freeway construction by a de'iour bridge, pictured above. This detour, and another one on Table Rock rd., will be used by traffic until freeway overpasses can be completed. - - ' ' - AUTO INVENTION Detroit - Since 1899 one in every six inventions listed by the U.S. patent office has been for use in automobiles. An Open Letter to the people of the Medford area on the subject of cemeteries Buying Memorial space (cemetery lot, mausoleum vault, or columbarium niche) warrants your PERSONAL attention. Your selection, once made, is a decision that holds forever. Prudent people make no important purchases "SIGHT UNSEEN." They get all the facts see for themselves make decisions based upon full knowledge. v. SISKIYOU MEMORIAL PARK invites you and your family to visit this well known modern cemetery and to SEE FOR YOURSELF. Learn about endowment care. Get prices of various locations and services. Compare them with the cost of others. Do this well before the need arises, and you will have the basis for SOUND decisions when need comes to your family, as it must to all. Your decision then will be the one that is always right for you. SISKIYOU MEMORIAL PARK Southern Oregon's Most Beautiful Cemetery Highland at Siskiyou Medford SP 2-2344 or SP 2-5488 And SISKIYOU 111110 Incomparably Better Ways at No Greater Cost MORTUARY MAUSOLEUM CREMATORY
