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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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