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Medford and Jackson County
History 'from the file of Tha
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 3' 1951 (Thunder)
A 16-year-old Jacksonville
High school student was kill
ed instantly this morning
when a car she was driving
left the Applegate .valley road
and overturned; she was a
princess in last summer's
Jacksonville Gold Rush jubl
lee. .
The county courthouse will
be closed Friday during the
funeral of C. R. Bowman,
county superintendent of
schools, who died Tuesday.
20 YEARS AGO
Mar 3. 1941 (Saturday)
A dietician has been added
to the staff at Community
hospital:
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Quite
few have the 3-day measles
The 3-day measles are like the
4-mInute speech of the pa
triots. Both forget to quit on
time."
90 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1931 (Sunday)
A crew of 20 has been busy
since the April 22 windstorm
repairing forest telephone
lines.
Following approval of a
new site for the courthouse
by the votefs of Medford, the
county court has resumed
studied of design and space
requirements.
40 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1921 (Tuesday)
An airplane will be used
here during the summer to
help spot forest fires.
A contract tor $1,600 has
been let for a small addition
to the rear of the county
courthouse in Jacksonville.
SO YEARS AGO
May 3, 1911 (Wednesday)
The county court plans to
abolish an existing toll road
over the Sisklyous by con
demnation and make it into a
county road.
The Medford post office is
currently handling an aver
age of 12,000 pieces of mall
dally. . .
Whst's Your I.Q.?
Nino ten correct b lueeilon
eve ef eight It mcellent; five er
ix h toed.
1. Which vitamin is Impor
tant in the prevention of
scurvy?
2. A half-wild horse of the
South west plains Is called
m g?
3. Who has been culled the
Immortal Bard?
4. According to the Bible,
whose father was Jesse?
5. What la the antonym of
occidental?
6. What is the short name
applied to B.P.O.E.?
7. Which flowering plant
has been called "The Queen
of Flowers"?
8. Name the capital of El
Salvador.
0. Georgetown U n 1 versity
Is in which city?
10. The rank of Captain
In We Army Is equivalent to
that of a Captain In the Navy;
true or false?
Answertt 1, Vitamin C. 2.
Mustang). . William Shake
speare. 4, David's father. 5.
Oriental, t. Elks. 7. Rose. I.
San Salvador. I. Washington,
D.C. 10. False.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 3. UBl
Highway Progress and Politics
Oregon is way out ahead of all other states in
its interstate highway construction program.
Of the total mileage projected for the system,
Oregon has completed and opened to traffic 58.19
per cent. The only other state that even comes
close is Mew York, with
line is Kansas, with 48.77 per cent and the rest
go down irom there, to the 50th in line, Tennes
see, which has only 1.47 per cent completed.
Why is it Oregon is out ahead? There are two
major factors, and both of them are to the credit
of the Oregon highway commission, not only
right now, but well into the years past.
. e e e t
fXNE of them is the long lead Oregon took in
building its own highways to high standards,
even before the federally-supported interstate
system was conceived.
The other is the utter lack of any corruption,
or graft, or any hint of any, on the part of the
commission or the department, such as has re
sulted in ugly reports in other states.
And, despite some of the dissatisfactions
voiced by certain sections of the state, this has all
been done without any undue neglect to the rest
of Oregon's highway construction program.
e e e
THIS is one of the basic reasons we so deeply
1 deplore the action of the state legislature in
substituting its own politically-motivated judg
ment for the soundly-based, well-planned pro
gram of the highway commission.
It began several years ago when interests
along the Oregon coast agitated through the leg
islature a bond issue to eo for construction of
highways in that area.
That did it. Ever since then, various sections
have been trooping to the legislature to get ap
proval of their own special highway projects.
This is fine for them,' and undoubtedly many
Jt i.1 i.. . 1 i i mi y l i
oi meir joos are neeaea. ine uoiumDia river
bridge at Astoria will be
improvement of Highway
range irom (Joquule. So perhaps would be some
of the other projects that local interests have
been seeking.
- '
DUT this raises hob with the highway commis
last as a lot of people would like, but they were
laid out with existing revenue sources in mind,
and on a pay-as-you-go basis, without excessive
borrowing. i . .
The debt service on these new bonds (uo to
$10 million per year) will cut into gas tax funds
if. . .1 -11
hw avauauie ior uiner construction, ana will
tend to slow down highway building elsewhere
in the state. V, : ;.
: Much as we may admire a new Columbia
river bridge, or an improved Highway 42, make
no mistake we're all paying for them, with in
terest paying both in
progress on more urgently-needed construction.
. The state legislature makes a lousy highway
commission. E.A.
DST "Solution
At this writine it appears evident the Oreeon
legislature is going to "solve" the daylight saving
time issue as follows:
1. Permit Multnomah
to proclaim DST locally this summer and next,
leaving the rest of the state on standard time.
2. Referring the matter of uniform' daylight
saving time to the people for yet another vote
next year. ,
Kespectfuliy, we suggest that No. 1 is no so
lution at all, and will simply multiply many-fold
the time difficulties of all of the state except the
rortiana metropolitan area and its "bedroom"
communities.
.,
THE issue was voted last fall, and the people
1 of Oregon elected to remain on standard time.
The partial reversal of this for the benefit of
Portland- is, a slap in the face at the rest of the
state.
We believe that sentiment favoring daylight
time is growing, and has been compounded by
the state of Washington's vote to go DST this
year, leaving Oregon a standard time "island" in
a sea of daylight time in California, Idaho and
Washington. '
The current bill, admittedlv. is a little bit
better than its earlier version which would have
E emitted any unit of government to go to DST.
ut not much.
If the state is chopped
it will presumably add impetus to the DST cam
paign next year. Which, we suspiciously con
clude, may be one of the reasons for it E.A.
1 " .I in. I, ,
Remember the
Today's younger generation tends to baffle
us at times. A sure sign
presumes.
We must confess that
fied as a gay dog. Never swallowed a goldfish.
Never went on a panty raid. t
(Of course there was the time that the fire
hoses ... and the time that the chick sale ah,
well, nevermind.)
So, perhaps it is inevitable that we fail to see
the irresistible attraction of trundling a bed
across country, or even floating one down-river.
On the other hand, it's eood. healthv. outdoor
exercise, and does no one any harm a fine outlet
for high spirts and youthful vigor. And if one
avers the time could be better spent in more
studious pursuits, he is reminded of the time
that . . . well , . . never mind again. E.A.
54,44 per cent. Third in
a fine thing. So will the
42, east over the Coast
money, and in lack of
and adioiriinfr counties
un into two tima zones.
Time That..
of encroaching age, one
we never reallv classi
Dennis the Menace
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'THE KIDDieeARTER TEACHER
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the "writer, although under
certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not
contrary is often the case.
A Brief Debate
To the Editor: Allow me to
debate with you your views
expressed in "Voluntary Cen
sorship" of Sunday's issue.
1 do not agree with your
opening statement that "Presi
dent Kennedy was wrong -
dead wrong -in the Cuban
invasion." That was a fight
of freedom-loving Cubans
against Communist-controlled
Cubans, and as a freedom
lo' "ng nation with a strong
freedom-loving President our
sympathies were with the
freedom fighters - BUT it was
not our fight.
Our government did not
intervene as a government.
Instead we said to the Cu
ban refugees who had taken
asylum on our shoes in Flori
da, "Go on back and help
your countrymen in their
fight for freedom if you want
to; and our best wishes and
moral support go with you.
You ir.ay even have my gun
and my helmet and such if
you need it; but it is your
fight, go back and do the best
you can."
The only trouble with that
policy was that their best
wasn't good enough.
Next, if there is stiU room,
(I hate to count words, espec
ially my own, and like most
women they are numerous
and try to be "the last") there
is that matter of "voluntary
censorship" which President
Kennedy asked the newspaper
industry to maintain. To be
sure we are, not in a "shoot
ing war" and thank God we
are not (but only due to the
cool head and careful judg
ment of "that rash young
man" that so many people
were so afraid of electing to
the presidency), and since the
President has rejected "a new
agency along the lines of the
office of censorship which op
erated during the war," I say,
with him, that it should be
tho duty of the newspaper in
dustry, as well as of every
citizen of this country, to ex
ercise "voluntary censorship"
of everything they write or
say so that it will be in the
national interest.
I notice the Russians do just
that and I hear from returned
visitors to Russia that it is al
most impossible to get a Rus
sian to say anything against
his government.
I also recall a stuffed rain
bow trout we had on our wall
during the last war, with a
caption that said, "If I had
kept my mouth shut, I
wouldn't be here."
Mildred B. Engman
1848 Stewart ave.
Medford.
O .
Editor's note: We hope Mrs.
Engman will forgive us for
cutting her letter down to
within our limitation, and also
attempting to get the "last
word." We would like to make
two points, however:
1. Little if anything nas
been published in the press
that was of much help to var
ious enemies, since their in
telligence services appear to
be excellent, and the only
thing that "voluntary censor
ship" would do would be to
deprive the American people
of Information our enemies
already have; also, we do not
feel that editors are equipped
to decide what Information is,
or is not, in the "national in
terest." 2. We fear our role in the
fiasco in Cuba was more than
just moral encouragement
and the loan of arms. Credi
ble reports Indicate it was
American-financed, American
planned and, to an extent,
American-led. Under censor
ship that would never be
known to Americans - and it
should be.
More Cougar Screams 1
To the Editor: Away back
In September, 1950, I had a
mama cat we had spayed In
1948. She got mad about
GOT 60REfiM'?ffMBl'
necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
something, food rationing
maybe, or home government.
So she, took off.
I decided to climb the moun
tain to the south and call real
loud. Maybe she would hear
me and come home. Inciden
tally, the place was five miles
south of Canyonville, where
there is now a "Rest Camp."
. Following the power line,
climbing, pulling myself up
by clinging to the small trees
and brush, I found a "deer
trail" on top, and followed it,
calling my cat. After going
some distance, my dog, a
bobtailed Australian shep
herd, stopped and refused to
move. I thought, O.K. I'll
go on alone. But reconsider
ing decided, "Maybe I should
n't be here." So I dropped
over the side of the mountain
to a logging road below.
About six week,s later, I
was outside culling my cats,
around li or 11 p.m., when
suddenly there was an awful
scream up on the mountain,
then another, and another.
Fearing my cats would be
frightened T kvpt (railing them
until all were .here, counted
and fed. I then hurried in and
asked my husband, did you
hear that terrible noise? As
he had worke.i in the woods
most of his life, he laughed
and said, "That's a cougar. I
was expecting you to come a
tearing in here." He then pro
ceeded to tell me the old
timers around there said
there was an old "cougar
trail" up on the mountain,
and cougars make regular
trips over it. Around a month
or so later we heard him
again.
I am sure if anyone wants
to see if a cougar screams,
they could just sit up there
on the mountain six or eight
weeks, and one will surely
come by. If you get hungry,
just follow the power line
farther south and pick some
mushrooms, the pasture . va
riety, or go on further and
come to a part of the "old
stage road" that wound
around the mountain, and on
it growing quite profusely, In
the fall, is a lavender tinted
mushroom with cream colored
gills. Isn't bad eating. The
best flavored mushroom is
across from the "Rest Camp,"
a white one with white gills
and no cup (death cup).
Oh yes, on a point up there
some place, in the early days,
they killed 60 rattlesnakes in
one day, and a party in 1949
killed a rattler down by the
creek.
Thelma Glad
1427 Lawnridge
Medford.
Coming Over?
To the Editor: Not too
many years ago, I remember
hearing and seeing a popular
slogan of the day, "Let's
make the world safe for De
mocracy," Being a sort of a
trusting and simple sort of
fellow, I actually thought
that we did.
I also remember a popular
song which a lot of people
now seem to have forgotten:
I believe It went like this:
"Over there. Over there, send
the word, send the word over
there . . ." .SOOooo, President
Wilson sent the word over!
He said "We'll be over, we'rei
coming over, and of course,
I had to stick my long nose
into It, but then, I was a little'
dumber thnn I am now. I
went along, fool that I was.
However, 1 was lucky enough
to survive, but cannot forget.
Again in 1942, after our Ja
panese friends had blasted
hell out of Pearl Harbor. 3
held up my right hand, said
"I DO," and I was back in
O.Dj again. Ditto for the next
two years and 4 months.
Fonl again!
-To cut this short, although
neither way is a good way,
what arc we going to do this
time? Tell them wa are com
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON
Tshombe Affair Results in Guarded Hope
That Things Are Turning Better in Congo
By PHIL NEWSOM
VPI Foreign News Analyst
In the topsy-turvy Congo
there suddenly is guarded
hope -that things have taken
a turn for the
better.
Strangely,
this turn
sprang in part
from an act of
v 1 o 1 e nee in
which the
central gov
ern ment of
President Kas-
Newtom avuDu saia u
had no part and which cer
tainly came as p. surprise to
the United Nations command
there.
That was last week's deteir
tion of Katanga President
Moise Tshombe as he and his
Beligan advisors sought to de
part 'of the Coquilhatville Air
port after serving an ultima
tum on Katfavuba and other
Congolese leaders to end their
cooperation with the United
Nations,
ing over? Or maybe, wait
until they blast the hell out
of us again?
Think it over, then tell
your law-makers, don't tell
me.
Malemute Slim
White City, Ore.
Getting Even
To the Editor: I've seen
three different headlines in
the newspapers in the past
three weeks.
Headline number one: "Our
Administration will not per
mit Russia to take Cubn."
Headline No. 2: "Adminis
tration plans no action in
Cuba." L
Headline number 3: "Mr.
Eisenhower backs Adminis
tration in Cuba situation."
The Republicans wuz just
getting even with the Demo
crats for backing them when
they wuz in the White House
for eight years doing nothing.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Dream
To the Editor: I had a dream
the other night and I would
like someone to tell me why
I dreamed such a thing and
just what it meant.
I dreamed that Cuba was
being invaded and President
Kennedy was watching the
invasion through a periscope
from a submarine. I dreamed
the invasion was a flop and
President Kennedy became
disgusted and returned to the
White House. When Mr. Ken
nedy arrived at the White
House he walked into his of
fice and Mr. .Richard Nixon
was sitting in the President's
chair. The President said to
Mr. Nixon, "What are you do
ing here in my office?" Mr.
Nixon said, "I- am just taking
over the job I was elected to
do." Then Mr. Kennedy said
to Mr. Nixon, "I thought you
said Fidel Castro was a pip
squeak?" Mr. Nixon said to
Mr. Kennedy, "Well, you
know how politics go."
And I woke up.
Helen B. Townsend,
Route 1, Box 620,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Satisfied Citizen
To the Editor: I wonder if
you have room for letters that
contain NO gripes? You are
so generous to print so many
letters free, of charge.
I'm sure that all "people"
in the U.S. are glad to live
here, but to live in the Med
ford valley and under the
Stars and Stripes is a bless
ing straight from God.
Just think of getting cows
federally tested - free. To
know that the milk is baby
safe. In 36 years of having
federal tests we have never
had a sick cow. I'm glad that
our babies didn't eat or drink
pasteurized germs. If food
isn't safe raw, it Isn't safe
cooked. The "germs" might
be dead, but what of the con
dition they created before
they died?
Now let's make it compul
sory to have "every" female
tested, and "every" calf vac
cinated, then even our meat
won't have to be burned to
ashes to make it "supposedly"
safe.
As for the crop allotment.
Most people don't realize that
the government "rented" that
land, and wanted the farmers
to summer-fallow it. These
farmers received checks just
as though they had raised
grain. Then they tried to
snenk In a few acres more
than alloted. So Mr. federal
man steps and measures off
the land. There he'says, plow
It under. Up comes a great
howl.
U we rent a house, we can't
expect to live in it, so Uncle
rents the ground, wants it to
rest and enrich its soil, and
to hold surplus In check, and
it's right for them to enforce
the law. The same law en
abled homeowners on farms
ruton.ihlv th handful ofitanea and presumably would
Congolese troops who seized
Tshombe were acting on their
own and were demanding that
he end his differences with
the other leaders.
Be that as it may, both the
Congolese leaders and the
U.N. were quick to seize the
advantage offered them.
The UN announced the ar
rest of Tshombe's six Belgian
advisers and, bundled them
off to Leopoldville for "in
terrogation" and likely depor
tation. Kasavubu and the Congo
lese leaders remaining at the
Coqullhativille conference re
affirmed their policy of coop
eration with the UN, and
asked that aU military forces
not under the control of the
chief of state be disarmed.
It also was announced that
Tshombe would not be allow
ed to return to Katanga but
would be held in Leopoldville
indefinitely. "
With Tshombe curbed at
least momentarily, there re
mained at least one other pow
erful' factor with which Kas
avubu and his central govern
ment must deal. That was the
Stanleyville regime of Communist-backed
Antoine Gi
zenga. There has been growing
confidence of late that the
time has passed when Com
munist aid could be poured
into Gizenga to the extent
that he could endanger the
central government', and there
are signs that he now would
like to reach an agreement.
Any such agreement would
free the hands of the United
Nations, permitting it to turn
its full force on Katanga.
About 1,000 Indian troops
have been vegetating In Ka-
to keep their homes.
I wish we would all stand
solidly for our country. See
that we have honest workers
in every office In the U.S.,
and tell every stupid Commu
nist in the whole world that
we are hard working, honest
people and we love one God,
country and freedom. If any
Communist thinks they can
and ought to have any of our
livestock,' because they are
too lazy to work, they better
not try it here.
From a satisfied citizen.
Harriette Gibbs
i 1375 South Columbus ave.
Medford. i
An Answer
To the Editor: I would like
to say a few words in answer
to Mr. Wirth, in last weeks
communications in the Mail
Tribune.
In last week's letter, he
said, "I do not believe in
God." There are two ways to
believe, Mr. Wirth, either in
good or evil. God is good, all
good, and represents good,
and the devil represents evil.
You have to believe in one or
the other. You can't help
yourself. You have but one
choice, for good or evil.
"Choose you this day whom
you will serve." Evil is the
reverse of good, Both good
and evil are positive power
and man has the choice of be
lieving one or the other, but
"man cannot serve two mas
ters, either he will love the
one or hate the other." There
is no half way about it.
One sin and we are on the
devil's side. Which side are
you on, Mr. Wirth? It may -be
later than you think. "God is
no respecter of persons, His
rain falls on the just and the
unjust alike." But if you need
healing, you can be healed
and your sins forgiven too,
for Christ bought us redemp
tion with his blood. "As a
man thinketh in heart so is
he." Be ye transformed bv
the renewing of your mind in
Christ Jesus, "And verily
thou shalt be saved."
I am praying that all who
read this may find light
through believing in God the
Father and Christ his dearly
beloved Son, "who gave Him
self a sacrifice that all man
kind may have a second
chance.
Mrs. I. S. Hatfield
Route 2, Box 200C
Central Point, Ore.
Indian Formula
To the Editor: This Quota
tion seems appropriate:
"Daylight saving is found
ed on the old Indian Idea of
cutting off one end of the
blanket and sewing it on the
other end."
L. W. Kilbourn
Rouie 2
Central Point, Ore.
Monument
To the Editor: Most everv
time when passing by White
City, we take a long look at
the "million dollar monu
ment." as it appears to us two
at least, that houses the war
veterans. Those big brick
buildings would not be there
if it had not been for Lawyer
Bengtson's mighty fight that
he reportedly put up in sav
ing them from the wreckers
as the army officials had on
scheduled to do, along with
scores of other buildings.
Not being here at the time,
it is not for me to be too
dogmatic about all this. But
those who were here tell of
the time and money spent by
this seemingly dedicated
be delighted to take over the
job of disarming Tshombe'i
private army.
The UN then also would be
free to enforce Its mandate
demanding the departure of
all Belgian military and po
litical advisers from Katanga.
UN correspondent Ray Mo
loney has reported - from
Strictly Personal
By Sidney
(c) General
AIRLINE IMPROVES
GROUND SERVICE
I was pleased to read In an
advertising journal that the
airlines are at last coming to
grips with
reality. One
"of the nation's
b i g g e s t air
lines is now
"g r o unding"
its own adver-
tlsing pro
gram. By this I
mean that the
airline will
Harrla
cease emphasizing speed,
schedules, and eatables, and
will concentrate on its ground
service to the public.
"The real challenge of the
jet age," proclaims the first
of the new ads, "is to bring
you dependability, speed and
quality of service on the
ground as well as in the air."
These are heartening words
to a confirmed air traveler
lilce myself. Most airline ad
vertising has been silly, if
noi specious after all, the
equipment on all lines is
pretty much the same, the
speeds are the same, and the
prices are identical.
t
What distinguishes one air
line from another is the
quality of service the pas
senger receives before and
after his flight and. this
quality has been deplorably
neglected by most lines, in
favor of champagne cocktails
aloft, or a thicker slice of
meat in each sandwich. '
Counter service is still de
pressingly slow and frustrat
ingly chaotic at most airports.
Delays in departure are not
announced early enough-and
sometimes, indeed, the coun
ter personnel tell downright
lies about the time of de
parture when they know bet
ter, in a cheap and desperate
effort to keep passengers
from switching to another line
or another mode of travel.
The airline in question is
now-several years late-posting
customers' representatives
in front of the ticket coun
ters, to answer questions and
direct passengers to the prop
er boarding gates. The bag
gage service, flight-check
plan, timetables, reliability
and weather reports are being
beefed up, to give the custom
ers the kind of treatment they
should have had all along.
This is an overdue recog
nition of the fact that the
flying public of the 1960s is
radically different from the
public of even 20 years ago
when the chief aim was to get
there safely, and approximate
ly on time. Ninety per cent of
the airhne complaints today
center on cumbersome ground
procedures, not on the trip
aloft, which is usually smooth,
swift and dependable.
Commercial airlines operate
on certificates from the gov
ernment, for air space belongs
Bengtson, against tax -dollar
waste, also of a trip or two
to Washington to contact the
powers that be, resulting In
the saving of the splendidly
constructed buildings that are
home to the war veterans and
a saving of untold tax-dollars
for otner needs.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Try ami
By BENNETT CERF-
rLrVIA DE HAVILLAND tells o a famous and glamor
J ous fellow artiste from the Hollywood hills who had
married well and often and now found it expedient to
get another divorce in a
hurry. Her lawyer sug
gested Mexico. "But I
don't speak Spanish," she
protested. "So what?"
said the lawyer. "When
ever there's a pause, all
you have to do is say 'si.
si.'"
When the star appeared
in court, the population
of the tiny border town
attended. There was
much emoting and the
star said, "si, si," very
firmly on numerous occa
sions. Suddenly the
crowd gave a great cheer. "Well, I guess I'm divorced," sh
said complacently. "Divorced, my eye," cried her perspir
ing attorney. "You've just married the mayor!"
a
There sat a classroom full of bright-eyed Vassal- sophomores,
Uw new fashions revealing cute dimples In their knees. A puri
tanical visltlnj lecturer from- Boston eyed the girls arid mur- :
mured. What, oh what, will the styles be up to next?"
O 161. by Bennett Cart TJlitrtbutMl bj King Features Syndicate
Elizabethvllle, capital of Ka
tanga, that Tshmobe's posi.
tion there has been weaken
ing steadily, Despite its na
tural wealth . the Katanga
treasury is exhausted, living
costs are soaring and his mer
cenary army is restless.
If his Belgian advisers were
to depart, Tshombe would be
a king without a throne.
J. Harris
Featurea Corp.
to the nation as a whole. To
justify these certificates, and'
the profitable use of publia
air space, the lines have an
obligation to get us off the
ground as swiftly ami pleas
antly as they set us down.
State Highway
Commission Calls
For Project Bids
Salem-(UPD-The State High
way Commission has called
for bids on projects to ba
opened here May 23, Includ
ing by county:
Baker: County oiling on
three roads near Baker, Half
way and Richmond, 5.99 miles
total.
Clackamas: Three struc
tures on Clackamas overcross-ing-Park
Place section, Cas
cade highway north of Glad
stone.. Also Fifth st. grading
in Molalla.
' Clatsop: Replace pier fend
ers on Lewis & Clark Bridge,
Coos: Stringtown rd. bridge
section, Myrtle Point-Coquilla
rd. near Myrtle Point, bridge
and grading. .
Curry: Burnt Hill-Brook-ihgs
section, Coast highway
north of Brookings, 14.5 miles
paving.
- Douglas.-. Washington ave.
bridge in Roseburg over South
Umpqua river.
Harney, Klamath, Deschutes
and Crook: Oiling on Ochoco,
Redmond-B e n d, Lakeview
Burns and Fremont Highways
in areas of Prineville, Bend, ,
Wagontire and Crescent.
Jackson: Ruch-Litlle Apple
gate river section on county
route 559 about 13 miles
southwest of Medford, 2.81
miles paving. Also Pine st.
grading and paving in Cen
tral Point, one-sixth of a mile.
Also Evans Creek bridge 17
miles from- town of Rogue
River, 182 feet.
Lane: Goshen-Cottage Grove
section, Pacific Highway six
miles south -of Eugene, 12.98
miles paving. Also Cottage,
Grove-Divide section, Pacific
Highway 19 miles south of
Eugene, 5 miles grading,
structures. Also Row river
bridge, 217 feet on Row river
rd. 1.7 miles east of Cottage
Grove.
Linn: "L" st. paving ia
Sweet Home, .55 of a mile.
Erosion Damages
Great Plains Land
Washington -WB- The Soil
Conservation Service said to
day about 1,151,000 acres of
land in the Great Plains had
been damaged by Wind ero
sion as of April 1.
This was about 312,000
acres more than the amount
reported a month ago, but 24
per cent smaller than a year
ago. The damage this grow
ing season includes 865,000
acres of cropland, 257,000
acres of rangeland, and 29,
000 acres of other land. The
southern plains states of Col
orado, Kansas, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, and Texas, report
ed 451,000 acres damaged and
the northern plains reported
700,000 acres. The northern
states are Montana, Nebraska
North Dakota, South Dakota,
and Wyoming.
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