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mm- MS V . . ,. if it.- "U VV-iiV s WINTER AT CRATER LAKE A building at Crater Lake have fallen at the Dark with 123 inches on the eround. The National park is nearly buried through the efforts of the wind, after nearly burying the building, leaves its mark snow ana wind, bo far this winter 332 inches of snow with fancy swirls on the building s roof. Winter Is Still In Force at Park Crater Lake - While tem peratures soar in the 70s and flowers bloom in the Rogue River valley, the icy blasts of winter are stark realities to a small group of men just 90 miles northeast of Medford. Like the proverbial "life of the party," old man winter comes early at Crater Lake National park - and he stays late. In 1960 he descended on the countryside in October. Rangers say that most of the snow should be gone by the middle of June. However, ac cording to Slim Mabery, dis trict ranger, the snow really never leaves the park. Drifts remain the year round. This winter has been more severe than the last two. As of March 6, there were 123 SOC Students Are Preparing for Tests Ashland-Students at South ern Oregon college are prepar ing for the winter term final examinations which will begin Monday, March 13, and con tinue through Friday. After a week's spring vaca tion, the students will return to classes Tuesday, March 28, after registration on the pre ceding day. For students cur rently enrolled, pre-registra-tion has largely been accom plished except for the pay ment of fees and the final validation of class schedules. Students new to the college are in the process of register ing. Although no predictions have been made, college offi cials are anticipating some in crease in the number of stu dents over the record spring term enrollment of 1,118 tal lied last year. inches of snow on the ground. Accumulated snowfall to date, totals 332 inches. Mabery says much of the accumulated total has been packed down or melted. On March 6 one year ago, accumulated snow fall was 278 inches. White stuff actually on the ground amounted to 105 inches. Park records show the heaviest snowfall for one year came in 1933. A whopping 879 accumulated inches were recorded. The mildest winter was 1934, when only 382 inches fell. The yearly aver age is 600.9 inches. Monthly records for this season , haven't as yet been compiled. However, monthly totals for the 1959-60 season show the first snow came in October. Twelve inches were recorded. November saw 92Vfe inches piled up, with 42 in December. January totals amounted to a relatively mild 40 V4 inches. February suffer ed through 91 inches. Make Summer Plant What do park rangers do when there is so much snow on the ground? According to Mabery, they patrol roads to be sure no one is stranded in a snow drift; put signs out designating closed off areas and areas of heavy snow; clean out fire hydrants period ically; hold fire drills, and make plans for the coming summer. About 21 families are living at the park. They are all re lated to park service em ployees. It takes about 23 peo ple to supervise the year round activities of the 250 square mile park. Snow shoes and skis are get ting plenty of use at the park these days - and chances are good that they won't be put into storage for some time. VETERANS IF YOU HAVE APPLIED FOR A G. I. LOAN BE SURE TO GET YOUR TITLE REPORTS FROM THE . . . JACKSON COUNTY TITL E GO YOUR LOCALLY OWNED TITLE COMPANY 121 East Sixth Street Phone SP 3-4551 TITLE INSURANCE ESCROWS Jackson County' Oldest and Most Reliable Title Company Established 1881 SECTION PAGES 1 to 8 MedfordJTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1961 Changes in Soviet Reviewed by Speaker 'We need to have knowl edge of what the Russians are doing and of all the new ways in which they will try to ex pand their power." So stated Dr. Frank Munk Thursday evening before the Rogue River Valley Knife and Fork club at the Rogue Valley Country club. Speaking on ''Behind and Beyond the Iron Curtain," Dr. Munk reviewed the changes that have taken place within the Soviet Union since the 1936 Hungarian revolution. This uprising, the speaker explained, shook Russia to its roots, but rule was restored in a short time. They have profited by their mistakes. Dr. Munk, professor of Po litical Science at Reed col lege, Portland, pioneered the Great Decision program. A native of Czechoslovakia, he served as advisor on Intellec tual Cooperation ' to Radio Free Europe in Munich, Ger many; was a member of the steering committee of the Atlantic institute, Brussels, and of the Institute of Stra tegic Studies, London. Great Changes The speaker 'listed four major areas where the Soviet Union has made great changes since 1956. These are: relaxa tion of control on satellite na- t i o n s; decentralization of bureaus; retreat from an or t h o d o x interpretation of Marxism books; and produc tion. Dr. Munk explained that under Stalin, each dominated country was told exactly what to do. Now the government is similar to a corporation with each country a subsidiary. each having some freedom of action - but all working to wards a common goal. Some of these "freedoms" were mentioned by the speak er in Poland. They included the land being given back to the farmer, the Catholic Unions Reminded To File Fiscal Reports Seattle - The U. S. depart ment of labor has reminded labor unions that only 20 days remain for filing financial re ports by those organizations whose fiscal year ended Dec. 31. Harold D. Huxley, regional director of the labor depart ment's bureau of labor-management reports here, said the law requires covered unions to file reports within 90 days after they close their books. Approximately 5,000 of the 6,200 plus reporting organiza tions in the 10 western states comprising the San Francisco region, close their financial period Dec. 31, Huxley said. "This means their deadline for filing is March 31." New York - There are more stockholders of the U.S. steel industries than there are total employees. The stockholders number more than 770,000 while there are 762,000 employees. Electric Auto May Be Back With New Cells Corvallis -The "electric auto" may come back in feas ible form in the future if re search on fuel cells that is under way at Oregon State college and dozens of other in dustrial and college research centers is successful. The old battery-run electric auto of 40 years ago made a hit at first but faded away be cause it took almost all of the electric energy derived to haul around the hefty block of storage batteries. It simply wasn't efficient enough. Present-day research is keyed to development of a highly efficient fuel cell, ac cording to Dr. Robert E. Mer edith, professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State college. In such a cell, the "fuel"-and it may take vari ous forms-and oxygen or oth er elements are combined in such an electrochemical way that electrical energy is ob tained directly without going through the mechanical cycle of generators, etc. Dr. Meredith Is experiment ing with a carbon fuel cell (a purified version of coal) that gives off direct electrical en ergy when heated and ex posed to oxygen. The process is still relatively crude, but Meredith is hopeful that find ings may lead to better things. Victor E. Hauser Jr., who is working for his doctor's de gree is assisting Meredith on the project. Alcohol, metals, and dozens of other fuel cell substances are being tried elsewhere, Meredith noted. A 1,008 fuel cell demonstra tion tractor was built by Allis Chalmers Manufacturing com pany two years ago. The cells converted fuel gases directly into current for a 20-horse- power electric motor that powered the tractor. While ad mittedly only a demonstration device, the no-heat, no-noise, no-friction tractor showed that possibilities ara there once the Talent Lions Give Check to Hospital Talent-A check for $100 was presented to Sacred Heart hospital Friday by M. W. (Bill) Young, president of the Talent Lions club. The money was raised for the hospital at the club's an nual Lumberjack breakfast Feb. 26. The event was at tended by more than 300 per sons. Young explained in making the presentation to the hos pital administrator Sister Luke of the Saviour, that it was one of a number of com munity projects to which the club has contributed. fuel cells are perfected, Mere dith said. Years of experiments re main, of course, but he fore sees a time when the fuel cells will be used for dozens of pur-poses-in factories where elec tricity may become a by-product of some chemical reac tions, space vehicles, etc.-in addition to auto prospects. Second Hearing Set on Raising Driver's Age Salem - A second publia hearing on House Bill 1092, proposing to raise the driving age from 16 to 18 years, has been scheduled for Thursday, March 23, at 1 p.m. in tha State Capitol building. Discussion on the bill, spon sored by Ken Maher of Port land, is being directed by tha state highway committee. WRONG NAME There is no real lead In the so-called lead pencil. HELP US! We need clothing, shoes, dishes, furniture, and bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly SPrlnq 3-7333 Science Instructor Gets Special Grant' Ashland - Howard P. San born, assistant professor of sci ence at Southern Oregon col lege, has received a National Science Foundation all - ex pense grant for a special sum mer institute on radiation bi ology, to be conducted at the U n i v e r sily of Washington June 19 through Aug. 11. Sanborn is one of 20 sci entists throughout the United States who was selected for the award. Sanborn, who received his MA from Western Michigan university in 1956, joined the faculty at SOC in 1959 after serving as an assistant profes sor and supervisor of educa tion at WMU for two years. He is active in scouting. church work, and Lions club affairs, and is a member of a number of professional soci eties Including Phi Sigma, an honorary biology society. church being permitted to op erate, and allowing the Polish people to read western news papers and listen to western broadcasts. He explained that Poland does not operate jam ming stations to block western broadcasts, but added that the adjacent countries do it for them. Decentralization Dr. Munk mentioned that with Russia's decentralization program, 102 economic dis tricts were set up, each ad ministered individually. Pre viously all the bureaus had been concentrated in Moscow. He added that Russia realized that in the case of a nuclear war, overcentralization was a dangerous thing. The speaker stressed that the United States should do the same by dis persing managerial talent, plants and population. Dr. Munk commented that the Soviet has found decen tralization more efficient. Nikita Khrushchev is a good administrator and a practical man, the speaker commented, in explaining the country's retreat from an orthodox in terpretation of Marxism books. Underproduction remains as the crises for the Communists, Dr. Munk stressed. This is particularly so in agriculture - industry can be nationalized, agriculture cannot. The So viet still has a long way to go, according to the speaker, as the farmer has been taught to read and write, but the ma chinery stands idle while the women do the heavy work in the fields. Poor Agriculture Dr. Munk feels that several years of poor agriculture yield could "break" Khru shchev. "His star rises when the rainfall increases." j The speaker commented ! that in both the cast and west I there has been a decline of ideology. Both sides have been compromising. Dr. Munk added that all major decisions in the world today are made in Washington or Moscow, but commented that with the allies, of both Russia and the United States becoming harder to handle there is a definite trend away from the bipolar setup. He cited that many coun tries are no longer dependent on the United States, but add ed that tension was rising be tween Russia and China. "We are approaching an age where the only effective leadership is partnership," Dr. Munk continued. "We must adjust for the long pull with dynamic new men and new ideas, and refuse to be divided by peddlers of hate and smears. We must be a nation determined to win re gardless of the cost, time and effort," he concluded. During a question and answer period which followed Dr. Munk's talk, the speaker advocated the use of any form of propaganda that would weaken the Soviet Union. He explained that it should be used discrctly so as not to embarrass us. Mill I . 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