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THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1982 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON World's Largest Polar Bear To Be Displayed at Sportsfair Featured attraction of the 1962 Crater Lions club Sports fair here will be the No. 1 world's record bear-the gar gantuan trophy of a Medford huntsman. The huge arctic polar bear, brought down on an ice floe in the Bering strait in March, 1961, by Arthur R. Dubs, 32, a Medford home builder and designer - and now mounted for display - was to arrive from Seattle by van today for exhibit at the fair Fri day evening and Saturday and Sunday, April 13, 14 and liS, at the Medford armory. This will be the first pub lic exhibit of the bear, which has been recognized by nu merous individuals, organiza tions and publications, official and unofficial as "the largest ever," polar or brown. Return to Seattle After the showing here, the animal will be returned to Seattle where it will be dis played at the forthcoming Century 21 Exposition, and where it is expected to receive considerable attention. Build ' ing for the exhibit of the State of Alaska has been so designed as to display Dubs' trophy the best way possible. The bear, which mounted stands 11 feet 1V4 inches and towers over Dubs' own 6-2 has created interest far and wide since the hunter return ed from his aerial jaunt to the Ice floe off Big and Little Dl. amede islands in the waters which separate Alaska and Soviet Siberia. It has been featured in Life magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Alaska Hunting and Fish ing Guide. Alaska Sportsman will have an article on the bear in its May issue. Fealurelte Film Columbia Pictures of New York plans to distribute a featurette wide screen movie of Dubs' record kill, using film footage Dubs took be fore and after the kill. It will be called "White Fury." Offers also have been made to fea ture the animal, termed by one man a "Russian rogue," in True, Outdoor Life and Field and Stream magazines. Hide alone of the Medford builder's prize was immense. The Alaska state game com mission weighed the hide at 2S6 pounds, and it also meas ured 11 fect 9 Inches from " paw to paw and 11-4 from nose to tail. The mammoth mammal, skinned at the site of the kill, was believed to have weighed between 1800 and 2,000 pounds. Kenneth D. Oldham, chair man elect of the new Alaska Book of Records, has written to Dubs, "your polar bear is In our opinion the world's record and will be so entered in our record book." In Book of Records North American Book of Records, published for Boone and Crockett club of New York in its next issue, will carry the skull measurement for Dubs' bear at 28 1316 or 28 1216 inches which will assure placement not less than co-world record and probably new world record. The Medford man's trophy towers over the bear slain by Tom Bolack and previous ly recognized as the world mark, using skull measure ment alone. Bert Klincbcrger, president of Jonas Bros., Seattle taxider mist firm which mounted the bear, hod this to report to Dubs: "We also mounted the world record polar bear for Mr. Bolack and find your bear by far larger than his or any other bear that we have ever mounted ... All In all It is a magnificent animal of un believable proportion." A letter to Dubs from Rob erts A. Hcnnlng. editor and publisher of the Alaska Sportsman, said: "I can guar antee you now that from measurements I have seen, and from advice of guides and Alaskan residents I respect, you rate 'World's Bear Num ber One' and certainly 'Larg est Alaskan Polar Bear." Re cent comparison weight stud ies with Kodlak brown bears conclusively proves that you have also killed the world's largest bear of any species." Curator ol Mammals Dr. Murray L. Johnson, curator of mammals of the University of Pugot Sound has termed Dubs' prize as "a tremendously large bear which I believe is undoubted ly the largest bear ever col lected in the world." A Boone and Crockett club representative has also term ed the male polar bears from the Alaskan-Siberian sector as the world's largest. Available statistics con cerning polar bears and the Kodlak brown species, empha size the contention of vet-1 corded for other large polar eran Alaska guides that the bears. Hide measurements of polar bear is the larger. And, the figures substantiate Dubs claim of the biggest of all. Top Weight Listed Top weight listed for a Ko diak brown is 1,190 pounds. A weight of 1,728 pounds has been recorded for a world record class bear - under the estimates made of the weight of Dubs' trophy. Heights of 9-6 and 10-4 have been re- 10-8 have been noted for Ko- diak kills. Another record Kodiak stood 8-8 mounted an had a hide weight of 157 pounds. The bear will be on dis play at the armory from a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, ana irom noon to 10 p.m. Sun day. mmwr w vrwrn v vi . wgB jyfrom . - nw, a . mHnRHUUFiun , nigs , , . Aft, , . .' . I Tt' ' II U : l,,J ' .. I I , . of LARGEST IN WORLD The largest bear signer who downed the animal in Marrh ever collected by a hunter, shown at left, 1961, on an ice floe in Bering strait Dubs' will be an attraction of the Crater Lions trophy far exceeds the size of the polar club Sportsfair Friday, Saturday and Sun- boar previously listed as the world record day at the Medford National Guard Armory, because of skull measurements The bear The 11-foot l'j-inch (mounted) polar bear at the right here is even larger than that is shown with the successful hunter. Arthur ronnrrf h..r w.. R. Dubs, Medford home builder and de- established Dubs' prize as the world record! Last of Georgia Prison Fugitives Seized in Woods Jesup, Ga.-IUPD-The last of 25 fugitives from a south Georgia prison camp was re captured late Wednesday and two prison guards were sus pended for negligence con tributing to the mass escape. Police said Donald King, 28, of Brunswick, surrendered meekly when found in woods between here and Mt. Pleas ant on U.S. 341. King had been serving 3-10 years for burglary at the time of the jailbreak. His capture ended a four- day manhunt for the heavily armed fugitive. Seven con victs were back behind bars within 36 hours of the bold escape Saturday night. Seven others were caught Tuesday Chief prison inspector Wal ter Lambert said one guard, Prentice Rolls, had violated prison rules by going inside the prison compound while wearing his pistol. This en abled the convicts to arm themselves, Lambert said. He indicated that one of the pris oners dressed himself in Rolls' uniform and lured the other guard, Preston Mitchell, into the compound. Lambert said Rolls was neg ligent for failing to check adequately on the prisoners under his care. He said Mitch ell was negligent for failing to make thorough checks be fore entering the compound carrying his weapon and the prison keys. Open House Scheduled at New Cascade Village This Week End Photo Use Angers Armstrong-Jones London -Wft- Antony Arm- strong-Jones Is angry because a French firm is using a pic ture of his wife. Princess Mar garet, and their baby to sell diapers, the London Daily Mir ror reported today. Armstrong-Jones, a former commercial photographer, has asked how the Maternity and Baby Wear Company of Na talys got hold of the picture he took last fall. The picture appears on the firm's catalogue. Cascade Village, southern Oregon s first completely planned community develop ment, will be open for pub lic inspection in a two-day opening event April 14 from 1 to 7 p.m., and April 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The project, covering some 300 acres, Is located 18 min utes from Medford on Crater Lake highway in the White City area. The self-contained commun ity is a relatively new con cept in subdivision planning, the developers said. Cascade Village is the first such proj ect in southern Oregon, al though the idea has been used successfully in most major U. S. metropolitan areas, Design Community Cascade Village planners have designed a complete community with utility serv ices provided along with plans for a variety of business and social-recreation centers. Four hundred-fifty home sites are planned in the develop ment, according to the developers. Water lines and sewers will be serviced by the recently formed White City Sanitary Sewer district and the White City Water company. The water company operates un der PUC approved rates and is supplied by a 4.5 million gallon storage facility within two miles of Cascade Village. Site for School A minimum of two park and playground sites have been designated, with play ground equipment to be in stalled by the owners and given to the community. Fore seeing the possible need for a community center, the de velopers have agreed to pro vide a site for such a center and to cooperate with Cas cade Village residents in its construction. Owners of the adjacent land have donated 26.5 acres on the southside of Antelope rd. as the site for an Eagle Point school district elemen tary school. The agreement calls for construction within five years. The Eagle Point district now operates a school bus in the area. A church is now located within the development area (Berean Baptist church) with sites to be made available for other church construction as needed. Fire protection will be pro vided under the jurisdiction of the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district. The district's White City station, manned 24 hours per day, is located within a mile of Cas cade Village. Assistance would be available from the Central Point station or from any party to the Jackson county mutual aid agreement. Fire hydrants have been placed within the develop ment according to code re quirements. Shopping centers were planned to service Cascade Village residents from either end of the area, developers said. Two firms are now in operation with several others, including a supermarket, in the planning stages. Located adjacent to Crater Lake high way for arterial route access to any of the Rogue valley's business and population cen ters, Cascade Village is near the White City industrial area now employing 1,300 to 1,500 people. Cascade Village homes are custom-designed by Western Homes, Inc., of Portland, grand sweepstakes award win ners in the 13th annual Port land home show. Six floor plans are available, all with a wide range of optional fea tures to insure individuality among the homes. Fifty-seven of the 450 home sites have been prepared for immediate construction and are on asphalt-paved streets which are under county su pervision. Additional roads within the Cascade Village area will be paved by the de velopers and deeded to the county. Four homes have been com pleted as the featured attrac tion for the April 14 and 15 opening. Six others are un der construction. General contractor is Myers Jones, Medford; landscaping for the show homes was de signed and done by Marcel Le Piniec. Cascade Village de velopment supervision and sales are under the direction of Northwest-Pacific Develop ment Corporation, Medford. Donald E. Herded, Medford, is broker for the corporation. Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford and Ashland, phone SP 2-6141. Montague it Yreka, phone Globe 9-3171, before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 am. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, plense notify office, thus eliminating ipecial messenger service. 'Madman' Sought In Idaho Slayings Mountain Home, Idaho -IUPD . - A squad of 20 investigators today searched for leads in the "madman" slaying of a Mountain Home mother and her son. Authorities said Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, had been stabbed 11 times - five times in the chest, four in the back and twice in the neck - then sexually assaulted after she died. She was discovered about 1 a.m. Tuesday by her hus band, A-1C Alec E. Johnson Jr. She was clutching the pajama-clad body of her 2-year-old son Daniel. Coroner Arthur Smith said the attacker, after killing Mrs. Johnson, then took the broken knife and cut the boy's throat with a "sawing motion." "This guy is a madman," Smith described the killer. 1 ..... .. " I FOR SALE 3 wheel Autoetle car. Battery Powered. Your operating cost ... $1 per month for battery charging. (Can be charged off 110V circuit). Cheapest transportation you've ever seen. See It Thursday, Friday or Saturday at 708!2 West 6th St. Your Money's Worth State Highway Bids 6.6 Per Cent Below Estimates Salem (UPI) The Oregon Highway Commission opened bids Wednesday on 33 proj ects and the total at $5.2 mil lion ran 6.6 per cent below state estimates. Biggest Job was the Fre mont bridge Interchange unit of the Pacific highway's East Bank Freeway section In Port land. Apparent low bidder was Lord Brothers Contrac tors, Inc., Portland, at $2, 143.339. Contracts will be awarded here Friday. Four projects were with drawn but will be up at the May bidding. They Include a paving job In Clnckamas county, a grading job In Hood River county, a Cape Lookout park building in Tillamook county and rock production near Oakrldge for the Wil lamette and Crescent Lake highways In Lane and Klam ath counties. Apparent low bidders and the projects, by county: Banton: Starr Creek road Flechter Creek section, route 830 south of Corvallis; 2.44 miles grading, surfacing; Ken neth E. Nielsen, Salem, $86, 404. Benton, Linn and Lincoln: Clean, paint Yaqulna Bay bridge, Coast highwny, plus clean and paint Willamette river bridge in Corvallis; C. H. Savage. Portland. $62,794. Clackiman Traffic signals on Cascade highway at Sunny- mUtPTUIHED A free demonstration will be given by a trained PNEU-MATIC-SPENSIONW Technologist direct from Ihc factory of the NEW NO BELT. NO STRAP. NO BULB. PNEU-MATIC-SPENS10Nv, FOR MEN. WOMEN and CHIL DREN, AT HOTEL MEDFORD. Medford. ONE DAY ONLY, MONDAY, APRIL 16th. Hours: 10 A.M. 'til 8 P.M STRANGULATION CAN OCCl'lt AT ANY TIME WITH AN IMPROPERLY HELD HERNIA PNEUMATIC-SPENSIONi? WITH TORSION ACTION IS THE SCIENTIFIC CONTROL FOR REDUCIBLE HERNIA Worn in the bath and swimming. You are nrotected under any normal condition. This ad worth a dollar on a Pneu matic spension. NO BELTS NO STRAPS NO BUCKLES. NO OBLIGATION TO BUY WORN AND APPROVED BY DOCTORS. HOTEL MEDFORD. Medford. MONDAY. APRIL urn, Hours: 10 A.M. 'til 8 P.M. ABBOTT SURGICAL APPLIANCE CO. 842 8. Broadway, Suit 115, Arcade Bid., Los Angelas side rd. south of Portland citv limits; Gateway Electric, Port land, $7,237 Clatsop: Astoria . Megler ferryboat insurance; Cole, Clark and Cunningham, Port land, $6,048. Columbia: SI. Helens-War ren section, Columbia river highway: 2.77 miles paving; Morse Bros., Lebanon, $67,- 869. Coon Michigan ave.-Grand ave. section, Coquillc-Bandon highway in Bandon; .37 of a mile grading, paving, struc ture; Woodward & Son & Bnrklow, Coquille, $120,545. Doschutos; Jefferson coun ty line-Sisters section. Santi am highway; 9.46 miles pav ing; Bend Aggregate Si Pav ing. Bend, $101,490. uaicnuiet: Deadlines river bridge on Century drive in Bend; George, Berry, Beaver ton. $50,147. Douglas and Josephine: Canyonvllle-Wolf Creek rock job on Pacific highway; Carle Bros., Myrtle Creek, $269,000. Harney: Malheur slough Crane section, Burns - Crane highway: 5.63 miles paving; Warren Northwest, Portland, $89,902. Jackson: Jacksonville grade Jacksonville taction of Modford Provolt high way; 1.61 miles grading, oil ing; M. C. Liningtr It Sons. Madford. $82,798. Jelfenon: Clean, paint Crooked river bridge; C. H. Savage. Portland, $15,799. Joiephina: Traffic signals In Grants Past on tha Pa cific highway; Madtan St Stokas, Rotaburg, $10,450. Klamath: Chiloquln-Wll-llamion rivar taction. The Dallei California highway: 5 milet paving: Rogua River Paving. Medford, $74,428. Klamath: Wathburn Way overcrottlng and railroad canal culvert louth of Kla math Falli: Tom Llllebo, Raadtport. $185,711 miles grading; Hamer Con struction, Portland, $288,344. Lane: Glenwood section, McKenzie highway east of Eu gene; .34 of a mile paving; Eugene Roads and Driveway, Eugene, $14,969. Lena: Dorris Park - Silver Creek section, McKenzie high way 25 miles cast of Spring field; 4.5 miles grading and 4.55 miles paving; Wildish Construction, Eugene, $122. 114. Lincoln: South unit, Siletz Toledo section, Siletz high way; 4.16 miles grading, pav ing, structures; Acme Con struction, Redmond, Wash., $514,644. Malheur: Brogan Hill rock project on John Day highway northwest of Vale; M. A. Toole, Ontario, $22,050. Marion. Linn and Lane: Sign installation on Hayes-ville-Judkins Point section of Pacific highway, Salem to Eu gene; Traffic Safety Supply, Portland, $73,529. Morrow and Gilliam: Hepp ncr rock project on four state, routes in vicinity of Heppnei",' Arthur Simonsen, Baker, $58, 850. Multnomah: 82nd ave.-92nd ave. section of Mt. Hood high way; .56 of a mile grading and paving; Porter W. Yett, Port land. $71,869. Multnomah: Vanport over crossing. Pacific highway west, Denver ave.; General Construction Co., Portland. $94,011. Multnomah: Clean, paint Union ave. bridge and Grand ave. bridge in Portland; A. H. Barbour & Son, Portland, $39,314. Umatilla: Railroad under and overerossings on Athena Rlue Mt. section, Oregon- wasnlngtnn highway near Weston; Johnston & Bryant, Newberg. $285,294. Wallowa: Hnyden Creek- Forest boundary section, Little Sheep creek highway; 6.35 miles grading, oiling, struc ture; Don Greene, Salem, $172,266. Waieo: Antelope-John Dav river rock Job on Shaniko Fossil highway; Gary Baker, Hillsooro, $24,640. Wathinglon - .13 of a mile grading, paving on 2nd st. in Gaston: M & M Paving, Cor- Lak and Harnay: Blizzard nelius. $13,172. Gap-Nevada State line section, Adel - Nevada line road 16 miles east of Adel; 21.9 miles stone base, oiling; Acme Con struction, Redmond, Wash., $366,639. Lana; 10th si. Highbanks section, Eugene - Springfield highway in Springfield; 1.82 Yamhill: 28 of a mile grad ing, paving on Fulton. Cherry and Center sts. In Newberg; Rowell A: Wtrkersham, Mc Mlnnville, S1G.1 15. Yamhill: .22 of a mile grad ing, paving on S. W. 3rd .it. in Sheridan: Rowell & Wick ersham, McMinnville, $13,160. By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. WHY IS OUR LABOR FORCE SHRINKING? There are 70,697,000 Americans either at work or looking ior sods toaay, anoo less than were In the nation's civilian labor force a year ago. On the surface, these seem simple, dry enough statistics uui aciuauy, mey are astounding, for they say something which doesn't seem to make sense and which not even the country's top manpower experts feel they can explain en tirely to their own satisfaction. How could there be 314,000 less men and women In our labor force than a year ago? We know that our total popula tion is 3 million larger than at this time in 1961 and that there should be about one million more of us working or looking for work. We know that as a result of the baby uuuiu oi me mia-raius, minions are now In their teens and at this age level, hundreds of thousands of them unfortunate ly decide to leave school and seek paying jobs. We know that there has been a strong tendency among married women to try to return to the job market when their children grow up. We know that no catastrophe has oc curred at home or abroad to wipe out a part of our work force. In tha faca of all that thingt which wa know, though, her are tha figurat jutt relaatad by tha U.S. Labor De partment 70.697,000 in the work fore in March. 314,000 leu than in March last year. So how can it be? The answers, according to Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg, Labor Department manpower expert Seymour Wolfbein and the President's chief economic adviser Walter W. Heller, are both disheartening for now and in one way at least heartening for the future. Specifically: (1) The decreasing demand for unskilled, uneducated workers in our complex society is cither forcing or en couraging youngsters to remain in school to get the educa tions they must have if they are to be able to fill the Jobs which are and will be opening up. The young men and women whom the projections indicat ed would be looking for Jobs at this time haven't just disap peared; they're somewhere and both Goldberg and Wolfbein suspect they're in school. This is the cheerful aspect of the puzzung employment drop. It suggests the spreading cam- vuiKii 10 cui me nuniDer oi arop-outs irom elementary and high schools is having an impact. It forecasts a general rise in the level of education and skills of our work force. The more we can stimulate this movement, the better for the youngsters ana for lis all. (2) The latest change in our Social Security law permit ting men as well as women to retire on reduced benefits at the age of 62 is impelling older workers to leave the work force at a much faster pace than originally anticipated. In tomt caiet. tha dadtiont may b happy onat; in many oihart. though, the retirement it involuntary, tha worker it leaving the Job market not bacauta ha wantt to but bacauta automation it making him ebiolele and tha economy Itn'i expanding rapidly enough to giv him a chance to get other work. Thata ara our untkilled. our uneducated workan and their ratirament to tha economic trath-haap it a personal tragedy for lham and thalr lam iliat. (3) The sluggish rise in employment opportunities is com pelling many over-40 women who want to get paying Jobs to slay home. While you may not consider the employment of these women significant, the fact that our economv isn't growing sufficiently to give them a place in the marketplace is hardly a cause for rejoicing. (4) The relentless shrinkage in the total of farms in the U.S. is pushing hundreds of thousands of farmers men, women, part-time workers out of the agricultural work force. For many, I'll wager their retirement also is involun tary, unhappy. The only really cheerful explanation concerns the voiino. sters who are staying in school, postponing their entrance inio me worn torce until they re prepared to be a con structive part of it. The rest of the answers say that good as this business expansion has been to date, it Just hasn't been good enough to give all of us who art able and willing to work what we , want most Job. 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