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THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1962 lgEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON ; Siegfried Line Is Troublesome, Cosily Project By JOHN A. CALCOTT United Pru Inttrnational Bonn -flJPIl- Adolf Hitler'i ' vaunted Siegfried line now it . nothing but a troublesome mesa of derelict ruins mostly .. overgrown with grass and trees. The 500-mile long line of : reinforced concrete bunkers . and man-high tank traps cost " millions to build and today is . costing millions to demolish -' It was a complete waste of money, anyway, because the i American troops advancing into Germany in 1945 Just went around the West wall - as the Germans called it. ; The Siegfried line begins ; near Aachen on Germany's border with Belgium and Hol- land and runs all the way " along the French border to r Switzerland. -: Its destruction began im mediately after the war but still is far from complete . Some 300 aboveground and , ' underground bunkers have been blown up, with 200 more to go. It costs between 10.000 and 30,000 marks ($2 500 to $7,500) to destroy one bunker, government officials said. Blowing up bunkers is on ly half the problem. Between ', each of them run 20-yard wide strips of "dragon i teeth tank traps, all firmly en ' trenched in the ground. Each concrete fang takes " time to demolish. The mas- sive chunks of broken con crele then must be removed or broken into smaller pieces It for road building. Adding to the present-day 5 cost of demolishing tl.e Sieg J fried line are demands for damages from hundreds of "i farmers through whose land the fortification runs. ' "If I could have used the C land taken up by those damned pillars I would have made thousands of marks," complained farmer Josef Rie j mcr, of Hierzogenrath on the x, Dutch frontier. The remains of a giant bunker stand smack in the middle of one of his t fields. Z Hitler, government officials said, rarely compensated the farmers for lost land. In fact, they said, it prob- ;; ably will be cheaper to pay this compensation now ihan to demolish what's left of the West wall. This Is probably - what will be done In the end, : Officials said estimates of r. the cost of ge t' rid of Hlt t. ler's. barricade run as high as 50 million marks, ($12.5 mil J lion). Many farmers store pota t' toes or beets in the ruins. ? Some intact bunkers are used ' by NATO forces as ammunl- tion dumps . i- One farmer in Wahlhelm, ; on the Belgian border, has a permanent wartime souvenir 1 in his back garden. A six-lane - row of tank traps runs right J behind his house, the nearest C Just a few feet from the back door. If the traps were blown - up, the farmhouse also would . bo dcinolls-hcd. -- LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO I'RKIIITORS . IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TUB STATE OF OREGON. FOR . JACKSON COUNTY IN PROBATE ' In the Mallrr nr the Estate of LYDIA MARIE SCARSETH. Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY CIVEN thai . I have been appointed by the , Circuit Court ot (he Slate of Ore : Hon. lor Jackson County, aa Ad minlatlnlor of the estate of Lvdla Marie Srarselh, deceased, and have .duly quallllcd. All persons having . clallni against aald estate are here. - hy notified to present them, with proper vouchera, and duly verllled to nil at the olfe of Kelly & Grant. Attorney. illios Eaat Main . Street Medlord. Oregon, within Ix monthl from tha date of lhla . nnttre DATED at Medford. Oregon, this - 16lh day ol April. inJ ARTHUR B SCARSETH Administrator. KELLY k GRANT Attorney! for Ettate inns Eaat Main - Medford. Oregon. NOTItK Or MK.ETINfl OF COl'NTV IIOAItl) OF EQUALIZATION Notice Is hereby given that on . Monday. May M, intta. the Board of Equalization of the County of Jackson, Oregon, will meet at the ' County Courthouse tn Medford. 2 Oregon. In publicly examine the i assessment rolla for said County - of Jackson, for the year lfK2. - and to correct all errors in valu r ation. description, or qualities of " land, lots or other property aaseas- d hy the assessor. The ratio between assessed and true cash value adopted hv the '. Board of Equalization pursuant In r OHS ann n.n is as per cent (The ratio determined hy the Assessor ' pursuant to ORS 309.028 ut 23 per " cent i : It shall be the duty of the per ;. sons Interested to appear at the time and place appointed. Petl tlona for adjustment of assessments r must be filed with the Board of ; Equalization not later than the , Monday of the week following the first week that .the Board la In . session. Thad W. Hatten. ' Assessor County of Jackson. Oregon. Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Si nil Trtbut.in Mrriforrt. phone SP 2-6141; Ash land call at 224 Iowa t. nr phone 4H2-3002; MontHRLif and Yreka, phone Globe 9-3171, he fore & p m. dally and 10:30 a m Sunday. If regular delivery arrives nortly niter you rail pleane nottly ofhre. thiti eliminating pec i at mettenger aervica. Announcing til mm Dim Jocksmi Cym)tv titititititiktitititi The Freedom Bond Drive is here! It brings you and all Americans one of the timely answers to an important question: "What can do to defend freedom today?" The answer: Invest in freedom by buying U.S. Savings Bonds now. Each Bond is a share of freedom, a way to save money for your family's future that helps your country now. When you save money with U.S. Savings Bonds, you also help Uncle Sam guard your very right to spend it as you choose. That's why this community's bankers, merchants, industrialists and other leading citizens are backing Keep freedom in your future with Ml GS IBM BUY AN EXTRA ONE during the Freedom Bond Drive m up our Freedom Bond Drive. They know how the financial strength of individual families contributes to the strength of the whole Nation's economy. So buy Savings Bonds where you bank, or auto matically on the Payroll Savings Plan at work. Start putting your dollars to. work for freedom during the Freedom Bond Drive. Will your grandchildren live under Communism? Will Ni kita Khrushchev's threat to "bury us" come true? It can, you know, if we do not all of us help maintain our freedom and way of life. One way in which all can help is to BUY SAVINGS BONDS RIGHT NOW! Let's make the FREEDOM BOND SALE the BIGGEST in Jackson County history! DEFEND FREEDOM BUY U.S. SAVINGS 11 nAamM The U.S. Government docs not pay for this adivrtisement. 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