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THURSDAY. APRIL if. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Increase Noted in BLM Collections During First 3 Months in District Some $935,169.36 were col lected during the first three months of 1962 by the local office of the bureau of land management. It is approxi mately $400,000 more than collected during the same pe riod last year, BLM officials noted. The bulk of the collections for the quarter were from the sale of timber. This amounted to $882,771.98. Col lections from the rent of land totaled $11,954.38 with the most of this amount coming from grazing leases and road use fees. These collections are split by the O and C formula and returned to the O and C coun ties in lieu of tax payments. N o n - reimbursable collec tions amounted to $39,443. The bulk of these collections came from road maintenance fees and is used to maintain bureau access roads. Timber Sold The Mcdford district sold 37,631,000 board feet of tim ber at a sale price of $721,- 274.60 during the quarter. Of the total amount sold, 293,000 board feet was neg' iatcd. The majority, or 3",338,000 board feet was sold at' com petitive oral aixtion bids. The appraised price for the total volume sold was $684,- 260.85. The amount bid for Oregon Conservation and, PROFESSOR ELECTED - Prof. Frederick Seitz, 50, of the University of Illinois, is shown after his election as prcsi Sent of the National Academy of Sciences at Washington, D C. He succeeds Dr. Detley W. Bronk who has headed the academy since 1950. Seitz, a native of San Francisco, is an authority on crystals. (UPI) GRANTED LICENSE West Super Mare, England -IUPII- Mrs. Joan Hockin was granted a belting license Wed nesday to become Somerset county's first woman bookie, Bookmaking is legal in England. Let's move outdoors! FULLER'S barbecue bargain festival PICNIC TABLE AND BENCHES Chow's on . . . handsome Redwood set with aluminum legs. Strong, yet light weight. Folds lor storage. J1 1 95 S34.P5 Value CT PATIO DINNER BELL. 12 Bells! 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PAINTS I W P Fuller & (In HIIWI V WALLS' PaWS) MIRRORS 4TH tni FRONT SP 2-7107 FREE CONVENIENT PARKING! the timber showed a light downward trend in compari son with this same period one year ago, officials noted. The high bid for Douglas- fir so far in 1962 was $31.35 and $28.70 for ponderosa pine. The average bid price was $19.17. The volume sold was in ten tracts, five of them were in Jackson county, four in Josephine county and one in Douglas county. The aver age volume per tract tallied out at 3.734.000 board feet. The Medford district did not make its timber sale plan commitment for the first quarter of 1962. The district had planned to sell 52,500,000 board feet, but actually only sold 37,631,000 board feet, of ficials said. Heavy Snowfall District Manager Ross A. Youngblood points out that there were several reasons for this, all mostly due to the ex tremely heavy snowfall. It I hampered BLM field crews from doing actual timber cruising and appraisal work and made it impossible for interested buyers to look at the timber. All timber committed in the 1962 fiscal year sale plan, according to Youngblood, will be offered in April, May and June. Nine Timber Appraisers The Medford district cur rently has nine timber apprai sers who do tr. cruising and appraising of tracts offered on the market. Two of them, Hugh S h e r a and Alvin Schmilt, were recently pro moted. A two-day appraising school was held during the quarter which was attended by dis trict appraisers and their helpers. The school was con ducted by District Appraiser Floyd Fogelquist, assisted by Cecil Smith, Portland, chief appraiser from the BLM state office. Shera and Schmitc were given special land appraisal training at a school for this purpose held in the Portland office. Reforestation Activity in reforestation was fairly heavy during the quarter with 1,272 acres aer ial seeded in January. Some 942 pounds of endrin-treated Douglas fir seed was used on this project. The endrin treatment of the seeds should keep the seed from being eat en by field mice. The Medford district also planted 1,210 acres with 591, 000 seedlings by procurement contractors. The bureau's own crew planted 140 acres using 80,000 seedlings, placed paper mulch around 6,000 seedlings and thinned an acre in a seed production area near Butte Falls. Some 2,600 snags were fell-1 ed on 231 acres to reduce the! fire hazard. I Aetna, Calif., Helicopters. I Inc., were awarded an aerial I spraying contract' totaling 683 ; acres in Josephine county. This area will be sprayed with i herbicide to effect the release ! of existing reproduction. Road Construction ; In the activity of road con-, struction, bureau timber sale operators built 1.9 miles of! road, costing $19,000. Some rock work, mostly drilling, readying the Almeda rd. area near Galice for blasting was accomplished. Presently, the Medford dis trict has six roads under con struction by the bureau of public roads. These roads are the Deer creek access in southwestern Josephine county, and the Keno access In Jackson and Klamath counties, the Rock creek in Jackson county, the Almeda in Josephine county, and the Powell creek access which is also located in Jose phine county. This road will open up a large area of BLM timber in the Powell creek drainage. Powell creek runs into Applegate river near Ap plrgatc. The bureau of public roads is presently working on the Mt. Reuben access road in northwest Josephine county. Snow pack has delayed the advertising for the construc tion of the suh grade on the East fork of Evans creek in north-central Jackson county. 11 is planned that the nine mile road job can he complet ed during this summer season. The RPR bridge survey (or llaiirk bridge loo;lcd in the Upper Cow creek drainage area of southeast Douglas county was completed. The district has a BPU survey crew making an analysis o( the Grave Creek rd , which is to he completed this month. Basic Enginttring A training school in basic engineering was held during the quarter for all engineer ing employees oi the Medford district. The school and others planned grew nut nf inquiry from industry as to whether BLM construction standards were the same for all sections of the Medford district Also in this same activity, the Medford district was host to meeting of the timber Tree Farm associat.on. At the session operators and district personnel, and personnel from other federal services dis cussed road construction prob lems encountered in govern ment timber sales. Twelve easemcnta were ac quired. Five were quit-claim deeds across mining claims, five were perpetual ease ments, and possession on two areas were result of condem nation action. Four right-of-way permits were Issued to applicants and 37 separate road locations were filed in the land office. During the period seven new timber trespass cases were discovered and six cases were closed. The volume of timber involved in the closed cases amounted to 144,000 board feet valued at $2, 562.40. Currently the Medford dis trict has about 423,000 acres of BLM land under lease for grazing purposes. Of this land there are about 175 active grazing leases. Two leases were issued during this pe riod for 67 animal unit months of forage on an area of 655 acres. The annual rent al for this was $114.57. Carroll Brown, blister rust Medford O and C Advisory technician for the local office, and Jack Thomsen, staff as sistant, attended a training session conducted by the U.S. Forest service at Shelton, Wash., on seed orchards and tree breeding. Brown was one of the instructors on con trolled pollination of rust re sistant sugar pine. Some 256,500,000 board feet of timber are expected to be offered for sale during the 1963 fiscal year by the bu reau. The proposed timber sale plan was discussed with the board and presented during a public - meeting. No objec tions were raised on the pro posed plan submitted by Plans Forester Assistant Rob ert D. Hostetter of the Med ford office. MoTie Shown The BLM movie. "The Rogue River Country," is be ing shown in the Medford dis trict schools and Grants Pass schools. The 28-minute color sound movie was filmed in .' the Rogue valley last summer. It emphasizes outdoor recrea tion, a white-water boat trio down the Rogue river, and other land activities on the Medford district's 905,000 acres. During the quarter BLM officials discussed plans for administering the public rec reational use of federal lands around Hyatt lake with the Jackson county court and the bureau of reclamation. The county has undertaken the management of the recrea tional facilities at the lake. HURKY1 HURRY! Hubbard Bros. BIG SALE Ends Sat., April 28 II MEDFORD'S FINEST MEATS SINCE 1940 SKINLESS WIENERS U 0 United Meat Co. "Tasty" Brand FRESH PORK SPARE RIBS Small FROZEN L lb. "CHOICE" AGED, TENDER T-BONE STEAKS ' WELL TRIMMED 1 19 lb. FRESH GROUND BEEF c lb. -10 Ps 5375 "CHOICE" FANCY AGED STEER BONELESS BEEF ROASTS Sirloin Tip . For Oven Roasts . and Rumps and Rounds for Tht Bar-B-Q f0)(o) BONELESS PORK LOIN 22 ROAST Fine For The Bar-B-Q til piM frozen :en s) fc DINNERS : Jhiu S !). SWISS STEAK JLf MODOC FREESTONE PEACH HALVES 3791 BAGLEY BARTLETT PEARS() 3 89c Skippy Doq Food T 6f0rT PORK CHOPS All AQ Center Lean Chops lb. QvU PORK TENDER LOINS QQ No Wast. lb.90C PORK SAUSAGE JjA Our Own Make Ah. tlJV Del Rogue KOSHER DILL PICKLES Half Gallon 69 DEL ROGUE WHOLE SWEET PICKLES Half Gallon 98 M.J.B. COFFEE 1 )b 59c 2,b,$1.17 Insfant COFFEE V.? 79c RED-DART GREEN LIMAS With Sweet Red Peppers 4 E 49 Mix or Match Nabisco Vanilla Wafers or Lorna Doone Shortbread pkgs. $ 1 NEW LEAK-PROOF PLASTIC GARBAGE BAGS Pkg. of 30 5t FLUFFO SHORTENING 3-lb. lin MARY ELLEN'S JAM BLACKBERRY or CONCORD GRAPE Larg 20 r 49 GOLDEN vigoro . ,Ae DON'T FORGET FREE DELIVERY TOO S395 11PIAU AU1I CHdl-UN g . ul Spray Starch I 33 Extra Fancy From Watsonyille, Calif. Red-Ripe Field Grown TOMATO 3SM00 cups All I Ashland ijrown p SPINACH L 3 S Fresh California fSN GREEN PEAS 2:3 Fresh Bunch CARROTS C C Iff O Oi mmw - - s ru- r o j i"ij rSi H U kTi -173 i a m n n kii o o committee of the Southern i
