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10 A Forestry Personnel Gets Fire Training ' Seasonal personnel of the state department of forestry ih Jackson and Josephine counties are receiving train ing at a fire school this week Bfld next. ; A district-wide session for wardens was held at the Med ford headquarters yesterday. i Today and Thursday unit instruction for lookouts will be held in Medford and Grants Pass. , Next Monday and Tuesday there will be further training for wardens on a unit basis Monday in Medford and Tues day in Grants Pass. : Forestry department offi cials are enthusiastic aboul tliig year's fire school, because the training is more Intensive than before and more time is being spent with the individ ual. Most of last year's season al personnel have returned this year, they added. ; The fire school generally is covering organizational pro cedure, fire prevention and various problems. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18. 1982 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ON If 1 T1" - - . ..... KV-!. i'i-iTi.;.M.lTl EDWARD BRANCHFIELD For State Representative REPUBLICAN Dedicated to Jickion County Intaraitt Pd. Pol. Ad. Sam B. Harbison Chm., 201 U.S. Natl. Bank BUILDING WRECKED A tornado wrecked this building 2,000-square-foot building, said the tornado picked up the in Gardena, Calif., as rain, hail, snow, lightning and winds building and carried it 300 feet to fall on another building, hit southern California. Roy Bremmer, owner of this (UPI) Great Monuments Soon To Disappear By RALPH VILLERS United Preas Intarnational New York - Some of the greatest monuments of the past will, in a few years, dis appear beneath the waters which will back up behind the Aswan High Dam and if not seen soon, may never be seen. That was brought out vivid ly by Dr. Armed Fakhry as he sat talking one recent day about his favorite subject the treasures of ancient Nu bia. Fakhry, professor of the history of ancient Egypt and the Near East at Cairo univer sity, spoke as an Egyptologist, rather than at a travel expert. But his words should be something of a timely warn ing to the traveler who likes to wrap a bit of ancient his tory and age old sights into a tour. More than 20 great and minor temples and monu ments from the days of the Pharaohs stand In an area to be covered by the great lake which will back up behind the Aswan dam in southern Egypt. Some of the temples are being moved to high and dry locations but others are cut into the rock along the Nil River and cannot be moved, or no money is avail able to move them. Those which must be left VOTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY ARE BEING DELIBERATELY MISLED by false charges against the HOME RULE CHARTER (One leaflet has been distributed anony mously and one by Ray O. DeMarrs, who Is not even a registered voler of Jackson County.) In order that the voters may ludge the charter on the basis of truth, he erroneous 'u ere answered below. Check the charge . . .check the charter ... and KNOW THE TRU1 n WHEN YOU VOTE. Charge: "Tho power and authority you now have . . . will be lost lo you be cause you confer It to the County Commissioners." , Answer: FALSE. Power and authority over county affairs now rests entirely with the state legislature. The charter returns this power 10 the people and provides for Its exercise through elected commissioners. Our system of representative government rests on this principle-for power in people with no agreed-upon method of exercising it is anarchy. Charge: "You will lose your right to vote for all office holders except for one which is that of Commissioner." Answer: MISLEADING. You will vote for seven commissioners to represent you in solving local problems locally. You now vote for eight officials who can do for you only those things allowed by the state legislature. Charge: "All other offices will be appointed, and thereby you will lose your right to petition of recall to those appointed offices." Answer: MISLEADING. At present, to recall an unsatisfactory sheriff would re quire over 7,000 signatures on petitions, a special eleclion-at great expense to the county, and a majority vote at that election. Under the charter, citizens would need to convince just four of the seven com missioners that the public was dissatisfied with the sheriff, in order to have him removed. Charge: "You may be governed by appointive offices, who may also make policy Including rules and regulations . . ." Answer: FALSE. Under the charter the appointed officers would have only administrative duties assigned to them by the commissioners. The Board of Commissioners would set policy for the county and would be responsible for administration of its affairs. The administrative assistant Is forbidden by the charter any legislative, budgetary, or appointive power. Charge: "The cost of County government will In all probability double or triple within a very short time." Answer: COMPLETE FABRICATION. The cost of county government cannot, by state law (with or without a charter), Increase more than 6 without a vote of the people approving the necessary levy. The probability of voters approving a doubled or tripled budget is slim indeedl Charge: "A new Jax base will be established . . . and bonds may be issued without your consent so long as a part of the Bond Issue Is by special assessment." Answer: FALSE ON TWO COUNTS. 1) The charier cannot change the tax base law, and 2) all bonds must be approved by vote of the people con cernedincluding bonds to be retired by special assessment. At pres ent, by special acts of the state legislature, some bonding of the county may be done without a vote. This is forbidden by the charter. Charge: "You will lose control of a special district . . ." Answer: FALSE. Decision as to whether members of a special district wish lo operate under state or county provisions rests witn the members of the district. If they elect to coordinate their administration, purchasing, etc., with other similar districts in the interest of economy and effi ciency, the board of 7 county commissioners will serve as the govern ing body of the district- at the request of the district members. Charge: "You will be controlled mainly by but one person, the Board Chair man." Answer: FALSE AGAIN ON TWO COUNTS. 1) The voters will control the board, not the board the voters. 2) The chairman will have just one vote among seven. It Is highly unlikely that any six commissioners elected by the people of Jackson County will allow themselves to be "bossed"! Charge: "We have a government now which hos power and authority to do about everything necessary for the County and the People." Answer: FALSE OBVIOUSLY. If this were true, the legislature would not hove proposed the home rule amendment to the state constitution and the voters would not have approved It 2 lo 1. In the lost legislature, the counties asked for 27 bills-of which only three were passed. Many of these bills were for things the counties could handle locally under home rule, Charge: "The Charter will have the Government decide what you wont or don't want . . ." Answer: RIDICULOUS. The voters are the government. Under the charter the voters can exercise control over county affairs as they have never been able lo under the present system. VOTE TO CONTR9L YOUR OWN COUNTY AFFAIRS VOTE (X) YES FOR THE HOME RULE CHARTER0 Pd. Pol. Adv. Pd. by County Citiiens for Home Rule Charter Robertwn Collins. Chmn. Bo U0 Merlford behind will be covered by up to 200 feet of water. Even one of Egypt's most famous sights, the Abu Simbel Tem ple, with its four towering statues of Ramses II carved into the sandstone face of a bluff overlooking the Nile, could disappear beneath the water. Fakhry said "all of us are full of hope" that the money can be raised to salvage the magnificent Abu Simbel, which dates from more than 1,200 years before Christ. But $70 million is needed for a proposal to cut the temple from the rock and hydraulic ally hoist it to safety. And, as Fakhry said: From the aesthetic point of view, they (the temples) should be seen in their natural setting . . . to see them on a stage is not like the original." This ancient land of Nubia, storehouse of so many of Egypt's archaeological treas ures, is for the traveler who likes to go off the usual track to do his sightseeing. But it is not out of reach. The city of Aswan, some 800 miles south of Cairo, and the taking - off point to see the temples which should be submerged within four to sev en years, is reachable by both plant (2V4 hours) or train (16 hours) from the capital, ac cording to Aly Kamel, direc tor of the United Arab Re public tourist office here. From Shellal, 7 miles out of Aswan, Nile steamers regu larly make the three - day, two - night round - trip to Abu Simbel during the season from November through mid- April for about $60. One of Four Fakhry pointed out that Abu Simbel is just one of four major temple sites along the 180 - mile river route, not to mention lesser sites. The other major ones are: - The Island of Philae, a sacred isle of the goddess Isis, with its collection of temples, which at times already go un der water backed up behind the present Aswan dam. A series of coffer dams will be used to save this site from permanent loss. - Kalabsha and the Temple of Beit-el-Wali, also built by Ramses II and decorated with battle scenes and triumphal processions glorifying the pharaoh. - Dakka Temple,, which is one of the most perfectly pre served. None of the temples are younger than 2,000 years old, said Fakhry, adding with a grin: "That's from a very late period of Egyptian history." And with that remark Fak hry returned to his trustee ship over 34 priceless objects from the tomb of King Tut (really, Tuthukhamun), which he is shepherding on their first nationwide tour of the United States. The objects, all from the Cairo Museum, will be seen in the next two years in Houston; Omaha, Neb.; Chi cago; Seattle; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Cleveland; Bos ton; St. Louis; Baltimore; Day ton and Toledo, Ohio. Coast Schedule Given For Old Vic's Plays By JACK GAVER UPI Drama Editor New York -IUP1I- If you want to know why the living theater stays alive despite all the things that have plagued it for centuries, why nothing else ever equals it when it is at its best, one of the answers can be found in the Old Vic's Prolonged Flight In Radiation Belt Would Be Fatal Washlngton-IUPfi- An almost certain death awaits the astro naut who flies for more than 24 hours in parts of the earth circling Van Allen radiation belt. The warning about the le thal dangers of the wide ring of radiation came from its dis coverer, Dr. James A. Van Allen, during a closed meeting of a House appropriations sub committee. The University of Iowa professor told the congress men that radiation readings from high-flying satellites in dicated the part of the belt stretching from 2,000 to about 40,000 miles above the earth was "uninhabitable." Fatal Dose "Anyone flying in this in ner region for as much as a day would very likely have a fatal dose of radiation in any present type spacecraft," he said. Van Alien stressed, how ever, that the ring was not an absolute barrier to sending a team of space explorers to the moon. "I do not wish to leave the impression that the radiation belt constitutes a barrier in any absolute sense to extend ing our space flight capability and our space flight pro gram," he said. Van Allen said men could travel to the moon because they would spend "only a few hours in the intense radiation area and during that time the cumulative dosage is not severe." Court Records CIRCUIT COURT Everett Hotchhiss vs. Helen Hotchklss, divorce complaint.. Harriet Gaylc Copley vs. Dale Gene Copley, divorce complaint, Beverly Joan Simmons vs. Phil Edwin Simmons, divorce complaint. Douglas Smith vs. Mildred Joan Smith, divorce decree. Ilia Mae castel vs. William David Castel. divorce complaint. juaun uayie i.ingren vs. unanes Elmer Lindgren, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Joaenh H. Adams. Los Aneeles. nnd Claire Alyce McLelland, Mont rose, Calif. Everett William Harmon. Shadv Cove, and Pamela Jean Abrott, lo to KODeris ra., jvieaiora. current production of "Ro meo and Juliet." This is the production de signed and staged by the rap Idly rising Italian director, Franco Zeffirelli, a.ti there have been advance reports for months from London that this was one to look forward to. 1 The reports were not exag productions of this Shakes pearean tragic romance you have seen, no matter how many great stars you have seen in the title roles, you haven't reall, seen this play until you view Zeffirelli's presentation. It is beautiful and earthy and altogethe. superb, from the Zeffirelli scenery and Pet er Hall costumes on up. And it is "real." You almost forget you are watching actors spell out a story. No one has ap plied such down-to-earth tac tics to this play before. Little Roles The production is fortunate in having for the title roles two young people who are in such tune with the director's aims and so competent within themselves that I must say I have never seen in all the many "star productions" of this work a Romeo and Juli t as convincing as John Stride and Joanna Dunham. They actually make you be lieve they are teen-agers swept' suddenly and devastat ingly into a love passion that can only result tragically. I got a look at SLide earlier in the brief role of Malco'm in "Macbeth," . d I thought right away that here was a lad who really "had it," and for once I was right. Miss Dunham is a delight to gaze upon, and she reads those beautiful lines as su perbly as anyone could wish. Supporting Cast There are a few roles I have seen played better by others in previous productions, but this is really nothing to com plain about. Edward Atlenza's Mercutio is quite good, and Gerald James Is a fine Friar Laurence. Rosalind Atkinson, Job Stewart and Michael Meacham have other import ant: assignments. The troupes "Macbeth production, directed by Mi chael Bentha'l and with John Clements and Barbara Jefford as Macbeth and his lady, is a drab affair. There is no life anywhere, and I am inclined to blame the director more than the players. Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," third item in the reper toire on this visit, had not been seen at this writing. But by all means see "Ro meo and Juliet" if it comes your way during the Old Vic's tour. The New York engage ment closed March 18, fol lowed by this itinerary: Los Angeles, April 17-May 5; San Francisco, May 7-19; Vancouver, B.C., May 22-26; Seattle, May 29-June 3. I U'' fif I I Elect HOMER A. CONGER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE For County Judge We the undersigned recommend your support of HOMER A. CONGER for County Judge: MEDFORD Rolland Holmes John Niedermeyer D. O. Fredrick Jack Canon Oliver O. Morton George Gilman R. A. Naumes Sam Jennings ' Merritt Hittle GOLD HILL William M. Foley Jim Estremado PROSPECT A. V. McKillop CENTRAL POINT Otto Balmert Sam B. Taylor E. M. Hanawalt Ray Vogle C. C. Thompson M. C. Gleason Frank Hammond Tom R. Williams EAGLE POINT Bill Bray . ASHLAND Rodney Keating O. C. Maust Pd. Pol. Adv., Homer A. Conger, Rt. 1, Central Point 5 J B",V1 tV Mi 1A1 1 rate .4 CAMP DIRECTOR The YMCA summer camp at Diamond lake litis year will be under the direction of Odd Bjerke, naturalist and wilderness survival expert of Spokane, Wash. Bjerke (above), who was In Medford earlier this vear civing survival demonstrations to groups in this area, has a unique program of activities planned, aimed at educating youngsters in all phases of wilderness "intelligence." Youths will be' able to select each day trom some 20 courses that will be available. He urged youths (eight to 16 years of age), wheth er YMCA members or not. to register early for the camp, which starts July 18. Bjerke added that adult supervisors,: or coordinators, arc needed, and that they would get free "board nnd room" at camp in exchange for merely heioing the boys get their assigned places at the proper time. (X) VOTE and ELECT DONALD E. "DON" FABER Republican Candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER for Sound.e Planned County Gov't Pd. Pol utv. bv D. E. Fiber Cc'fcal Point, Oregon Are YOU in the proposed Annexation Area? DO YOU KNOW THAT: Annexation to the city Means Higher Taxes -But no guarantee of Sewer Services? City will provide services only upon majority petition - street by street. Your county has an obligation to you! You can have a sewer without an nexation. Just Read O.R.S. 451 at your public library. 1200 acres are still without services in the city limits. Your Reasons for locating outside the City Limits will be replaced by: City Regulations Restrict! ns Building Codes Inspection License Fees , Higher Taxes and Other City Problems LET'S KEEP HAPPY COUNTRY LIVING! An organized committee will follow through to obtain your lawful rights to sewer, under O.R.S. 451. Be Informed Before You Vote May 18 VOTE les ANNEXATION Pd. Pol. Adv. through donations of home ownert forming th Anti-Annexation CommiHeiL Hobb, Chmn., 1822A W. Main 9
