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Irongate Development Progressing on Schedule Near Hornbrook i ... ;,.'.... .- i w iLtB- , v l t 4 Largest Project Underway in Area DAM SITE-Looking down the Klamath river from the site of Iron Gate dam, the concrete wall of the California Oregon Power company development may be seen. The wall is located at the spillway opening of the diversion tunnel of the project, which Morrison-Knudsen company is constructing. A rock crusher may be seen operating in the center of the picture. The earth-filled dam is to have a compacted clay core and will be about 173 feet above the stream bed. VOLKSWAGEN $1782 Delivered MORSE MOTORS 6th and Ivy . . . SP 2-5771 International Group Buys Finance Firm San Francisco, Calif. - Sale of controlling interest in Mercantile Acceptance Corpo ration of California to an in ternational financial group operating in Canada, the U.S., and the Bahamas was an nounced here last week by MACC officials. The California firm owns both American Finance com pany and Commercial Fi nance company with offices in Medford. Specializing in automobile and consumer financing, MACC had assets at the end of 1960 in excess of $43 mil lion, according to the com pany's directors. Peter Paul Saunders, president of the $120 million Imperial Invest ment Corporation Limited of Canada, director of the Com monwealth Industrial Bank, the Bahamas, and director of several other leading inter national finance firms, will become president of MACC. By KATHERINE CHAPMAN Mail Tribune Correspondent Hornbrook - Work is prog r e s s i n g, approximately on schedule at this time, on the Iron Gate development on the Klamath river. This is the largest engineering project currently under construction in the northern California southern Oregon area. Morri son-Knudsen company is con structing the dam for the California-Oregon Power com pany. The dam site is about eight miles above Hornbrook and about seven miles downstream from the existing Copco No. 2 power plant. The dam will be an earth-fill type with a com pacted clay core, and will be about 173 feet above stream bed. Its length at crest will be approximately 685 feet. It will be built between the cof fer dam and the spillway of the 035-foot long tunnel, through which the entire river is now being diverted to allow for construction. A concrete cutoff wall and a grout cur tain will be built at the base. The reservoir will be oper ated essentially as a re-regulatory reservoir, and will have a capacity of 58,000 acre feet. Some existing county roads will be inundated by the res ervoir and approximately 61: miles will be relocated by Copco. Upon completion of the project the new road will be owned and maintained by Sis kiyou county. In conjunction with the state of California Depart ment of Fish and Game, the company will provide a fish ladder, holding tanks, pipe lines and egg-taking facilities below the power house. These facilities will be constructed to state specifications, and upon completion will be own- dle i ed and operated by the state. Many Workers About 125 men are engaged at the project now. There will be an increase in workmen on the project when actual con struction of the dam begins shortly, according to Robert Beyer, resident engineer for Copco on the project. Comple tion date for the project has been set for December, 1961. INSTANT on no warm-up wait Even highest cooking temperatures are deliV' ered immediately. On ail four highspeed burners at once, if you wish. Small wonder smart women agree: Gas cooking is easier because it's so flexible. From simmer to boil and at 1000 temperatures in between, you're in charge. A modern gas range gives you the finest automatic features-yet costs ess to buy and install, costs ess to operate, too. And you don't have to learn to cook all over again! s i align yivvs yuu uie GAS A i 4 f Rangt Ulustratd: tiMuiiul netc O'Kttft 4 Mrrrin, built le CoU Sur Avoid aanimiu TRADE-IN 0 ALLOWANCE ON ALL RANGES . . . LIMITED TIME ONLY Sea the Latest Models on Our Display Floor ; f . . ' "J i ' ,- ; ..2f v-i J , . i v ; r "'. - " . f . -If v-. .-HtL'- ' i ft - if iV 1 v .2 Ms f M '"jf j BEDROCK-Absolute center of Iron Gate dam, pictured above, is where the workers are drilling into solid bedrock for the larg est engineering project currently under construction in the northern California- southern Oregon area, The while chalk line on the face of rocks at right, shows slope the dam will have when completed. Klamath river runs below. Parents Provide Control Over Teen-Agers' Driving Parents, of all people, pro vide the most effective con trols over teen-agers' driving habits, according to Medford Police Chief Charles P, Cham- plin. Chief Champlin suggested that parents come to an under standing with their youngsters regarding which evenings may be spent away from home with the car, and the hour they are expected home. Then, he said, it's essential to see that the agreement is honored. Start of Driving Habits As far as the traffic pic ture is concerned, 5Vj per cent of Oregon traffic acci dents during 1960 involved 16 and 17-year-old drivers. The 18 to 20-year-old present ed a slightly worse picture, the chief added. Teaching good driving hab its starts in the parents' auto as junior watches both mom and dad," Champlin declared. "Your youngster picks up much of his driving attitudes and some driving techniques from just watching you." The chief encouraged par ents to be certain their high school age children receive a good driver education course, including both classroom and behind the wheel instruction. He observed that students who have had high school drivers training, receive about half as many traffic violations and arc involved in half as many accidents as those youths who have not had the training. If a parent doesn't want his child to drive until he reaches 17 or 18 years of age, he ABOARD FLAGSHIP Marine Lance Cpl. Lanny C. Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Taylor, 515 West 11th sl.p Medford, is serving with the Marine communication detachment aboard the amphibious force flagship USS E s t e s in the western Pacific. Before en listing in January, I960, Tay lor attended Medford High school. should not sign the depart ment of motor vehicles appli cation card, he said. lie added that few car dealers will sell a car to a minor without par ental signature since such a contract would he unenforceable. CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC W UTILITIES COMPANY Phone 2-5284, Medford Ml) 5-5291, Ashland DR. EDWARD V. CHANCE Osleopolhic Physician and Surgeon Formerly of 4480 Soulh Pacific Hwy., Grants Pass, Oregon ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICES at 525 South Second St., Central Point Phone NO 4-1295 mm Distributed by SELBY Toss 303 N. Bartlett SP 3-3645 Medford Tribune SECTION D MEDFOltD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 21 Influenza Cases Twenty-one cases of influ enza headed the list of 47 communicable diseases report ed to the Jackson county health department last week, according to Dr. A. Erin Mer kel. public health physician. Influenza cases reported were in Shady Cove 4, Ash land 8. Medford 3, Rogue Riv er 4, and Jacksonville 2. Other diseases reported include mumps. Shady Cove 2. Jacksonville 3, Phoenix 4, Medford and Ashland, both 2; measles, Medford 1, Ashland 2; pink eye. Phoenix 1; strep throat. 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