Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 23, 1961, Image 9

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Newspaper Page Texti PAGES 1 to 8 SECTION B Medford, Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1961 BLM Access Road Construction Highlights Quarter's Activities " l ,r v 'i iwt iiiii'if J H kair" ALL-AMERICAN YOUTH-Allen Anderson, 18, second from left, from Chapin, 111., has been named "All-American" youth at a re cent meeting of the National Youth Power Congress. He is shown at Chicago as he. helped launch the national youth fitness program.. From left, Jesse Owens, former Olympic track champion; Anderson, Lynn Thieman, 14, Western Springs, 111., a region al winner, and Kenneth "Tug" Wilson, rep resentative of President Kennedy's Commit tee on Youth Fitness. (UPI Telephoto) Council Approves Part of Vacation Of Subdivision Following a public hearing, the Medford city council last week approved part of a re quested vacation of . several lots in the Rogue Valley Heights subdivision.- The council also elected to call for public hearings on two other matters. A request had been receiv ed by the city to' vacate ap proximately six acres of land in the subdivision, but,' at the urging of Councilman Donald Hanson, the council agreed to vacate only half that. '" Hanson said he favored this approach since a new subdivi sion plat has been filed for only three acres of the prop erty. He said the other three acres could be vacated when plans have been submitted to resubdivide the rest of ' the area. Public hearings were called on a request for a change of zone from single-family to commercial at the corner of Siskiyou blvd. and Highland dr. The request came from a store owner who wants all of his store property to be in the same zone. Another hearing was called on a request to change the zone of property located on the southeast cor ner of 10th st. and Siskiyou blvd. from single to multiple family. . The.: council approved - a number of plans and specifi cations, including those for relocation of the Mayette st. sanitary sewer; the extension of the.Earhart st. storm sew er; for paving Stevens st. from Biddle rd. to the east line of the. Eagles property; for the north Hawthorne place pacing and sewer; for Crest view paving plans; and for the widening of Fourth st. The Rogue Valley Country club was granted a variance to continue to operate as a country club, and a office equipment home occupation was approved for a residence at 2318 Capital ave. Credit Representative Speaks for Local Group A short talk on the values of sound credit granting and a brief history of the found ing of Dunn and Bradstreet were givejn .by J. Harry White, Portland, a represen tative of the national credit firm, at a meeting of the Jackson County Retail Credit association at North's Chuck Wagon restaurant recently. Regular monthly meetings will be held at North's Chuck Wagon in the future, it was decided. -HLt& ' i ih kin Him brINiint AWnJt Mounltd jn tfcU unique mn.iimaf V V '' . :-V MOHIT DOWN, IASY TIM f 1ITTII AS IOf WIIK DVIKTItID In TV OUIDI "Flair b Fortune" now cpsn i 7 i NOW lOTM KINGS ttairt ItHlHf. IMttM kMtf ! 14K nil. A MAR TO PAY "5 1 i NOW QIH HUM 7 Ulfln Ilium l ttit Mil ttnti tmi Nit mHinf NO MONET GOWN YIA TO FAT $150 NOW OTH RINGS Caul In trnuaUi. 8 bHI. Unit Hamuli, 14K ttt- A TEAR TO PAT 1 DIAMOND RINGS 1 I , Nationally Advertised at 750.00 NOW BOTH RINGS A thrill to behold! Eight extra-large titra-brilliant diamonds, in I4K Gold. A YEAR TO PAY 1960 Brand Names Foundation Award Winner MAN'S 17-JIWll DIAMOND-SIT CROTON IUTIC He. EQU I . 7T.I0 09 tfff-WMtot OPEN EVERY MONDAY , UNTIL 9 P.M. Access road construction highlighted the third-quarter of bureau of land manage ment activities In the Medford district, according to Ross A. Youngblood, district manager. Heading the list of access road activities were awarding of bids on two projects total ing $297,179.50. The R & M Construction company of Cen tral Point bid in the west branch of Elk Creek road with a construction length of 5.3 miles, which will open up ap proximately 375 million board feet of timber, of which about 75 per cent is BLM. The Southern Oregon Crush ing company of Medford re ceived the bid for crushing and surfacing of material for the first 10 miles of the Galice access road in central-western Josephine county. Important Access Road Another important access road project which received attention during this period was the Keno access road in northwest Klamath county and the eastern portion of Jackson county. The clearing for this road got under way early, and grading had just started at the close of this re porting period. Experimental forest tree planting co-starred with ac cess road construction during the reporting period. The experimental tree-planting plots are located in the Ward road area of Klamath county, and consist of enclo sures to restrict deer from eat ing the - seedlings and, like wise,, the individual tree en closures to keep rabbits from nipping terminal buds of the young planted seedlings. ' The experiment is directed to determine whether rabbits or deer, or some other animal, is the biggest destroyer of planted tree seedlings. Reforestation Projects The BLM is progressing sat isfactorily in most of its re forestation projects. Refores tation on cut-over lands is be ing accomplished by the use of a force-account crew under the supervision of bureau for esterst and by contract crews furnished by the successful bidders on advertised projects put out by the BLM. Spring planting on BLM land really got under way dur ing this period, and at the end of the reporting period, was at its peak Snow hampered the planting crews to some ex tent, particularly in the high er elevations; however, in these instances the crews were moved to lower elevations, and planting continued at a rapid pace. It is expected that the total reforestation program for the year will approximate close to 3,000 acres, with the biggest portion of this acreage being planted during the third-quarter spring season. Sale of Timber 1 Sale of timber played a sig nificant part in BLM activi ties during the period. A first for the Medford BLM district was a Small Business admin istration earmarked timber sale. No competition was re ceived from the tract; the only bid submitted was by C. R. Hassell of Ashland. During the last three months the Medford BLM district sold 47,194,000 board feet of tim ber for $1,177,090.95. This was appraised at $972,403.85; thus the average bid price for all the volume sold totaled $24.94 per thousand board feet. Twelve of these tracts were located in Jackson county and four in Josephine county. The highest bid received for Douglas fir in this three month period was $45.25, and the highest bid for ponderosa pin was $25.50. Sales Were Good Sales were good during this three-month period and bid ding fairly strong except for the March sale; cutting, how ever, of the timber lagged considerably over previous years. Sale of timber during the three-month period for all BLM lands in the Medford district totaled $504,053.15. Of this total, $7,400.10 was collected from public domain timber lands. Collections Up Collections from timber trespasses totaled $14,523.04. Trespass cases continued to demand a considerable amount of time. Ten cases were discovered, and nine cases were closed. Of the 10 new cases, it is estimated that 154,000 board feet were cut, valued at $3,586 on a single stumpage basis. Collections on timber trespass cutting Is at double or triple the fair mar ket appraisal. Circumstances of the cuttirig determine the penalty. Collections for grazing leases were up fairly well. Cattle are ready to go onto the spring range, and fees were collected from stockmen who plan to use the range this season. The collections totaled $6,642.63. The acquisition of ease ments also played an impor tant role. Twenty-three ease ments were acquired for sub sequent use of the BLM in building roads and develop ment of its timbered tracts. Eleven quite claim deeds were acquired over mining claims where subsequent BLM tim ber access roads will be constructed. One reciprocal detailed right-of-way. agreement was approved during the period which covered a sizeable area of land of private and govern ment timber which will be developed for logging pur poses where rights to con- IN JAPAN Bernard K. Schultz, radio man seaman in the Navy, is serving with headquarters support activity in Yokosuka, Japan. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Schultz, 717 Broad St., Medford. struct and use roads by either party are permitted on an equal basis. Four short-term non-reciprocal agreements were ap proved; these types of permits are used by individual loggers to remove private timber via BLM roads Normally a small fee is assessed to assist in the amortizement of the roads constructed by the BLM. In the period an essential training program was con ducted with the assistance of the Kogap Lumber company. This training was in the cruiser-appraiser field. 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