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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
P.O. Box 252
By NOM-AA CLARK
CHILDREN PREPARE FOR
COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The children of Sunnyside
Kindergarten in Wembley,
Western Australia, are doing
their part to make a success
of the VII Commonwealth
Games that will be opened at
Perth in November by the
Duke of Edinborough.
After saving pennies dur
ing the last term, they pre
sented them to Lord Mayor
Sir Harry Howard for the
Games Fund and were later
served cakes and soft drinks
in the Lord Mayor's chamber
while Sir Harry told them the
storv of his mayoral chain.
Mrs. Jess Evans, director
of the kindergarten writes:
"Every term the children
save pennies, and when
their Mickey Mouse Castle
is full, we go to town and
hand them over to some
worthy cause. So the chil
dren have the pleasure of
seeing what their pennies
cen do and are also reward
ed for the virtue of helping
others.
no good, even with a time
limit.
"Back in the old days we
used to feel that a bucket of
water hung over a branch and
slowly tipped was a good
shower for a camp holiday
We won't be suffering that
anyway, although we have
a yard full of trees with good
branches.
"November here Is h e
month of approaching sum
mer, and the weather is
warm with occasional cold
nights. But most of the rain
will be over, so I hope our
visitors will enjoy our sun
ny West."
Local Buildings
Included in Study
Of Fallout Shelters
Two Medford school build
ings are included among five
Oregon schools and hospitals
which will take part in a na
tionwide study of how to in
corporate fallout shelters into
proposed and existing designs.
The local buildings are Hed-
rick Junior High school and
the new grandstand under
construction at the Medford
"The Commonwealth Games
swimming pool caused quite
a riot here. Sir Harry, Chair
man of the Games Organiz
ing Council, wanted io build
it in our Kings .Park. Al
though there are 00 acres,
11 apparenlly couldn't be done
ps (lie park had been set aside ,
t,,r na(,,.,l nrt. lanH in the
heart of the city. So another Hteh school athletic field.
place had to be found, and
a spot was located for it
about two miles out of town.
"My kindergarten children
will use it as they grow old
er, so they gave their pen
nies to help pay for it. Of
course, they think that bag
of pennies bought it all.
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Complaint Seeks $30,000 Damages
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GETS FINAL CHECK
equipment to supply additional electric serv
ice into the White City industrial area east
of Medford got a final check-out by crews
of Pacific Power and Light company recent
ly. Twin-bucket crane lifts workers safely
New substation to reach terminal posts for 66,000-volt lines.
The equipment and a new transmission cir
cuit provides alternate route for power
supply to keep industry's wheels turning at
White City if the normal service feed line
is disrupted.
THE WEEK IN CALIFORNIA
"Now we have started
saving aqain for a new
project, but we are un
decided as io what it will
be. Perhans we will buy
a guide dog for someone
who is blind, or we may
send the pennies to Korea
for the children there.
"We are looking forward
to November and our Com
monwealth Games, and I be
lieve the overseas visitors
will be far more than we first
anticipated. Our kindergarten
Is going to house quite a few,
and although there will he
little inconveniences, we'll
have fun, I am sure. Some
people will have to bathe in
the Kindy Paddle Pool, be
cause one bathroom will be
Col. Sterling K. Eisiminger,
U. S. Army district engineer,
Portland, said contracts have
been awarded for the studies,
which are designed to provide
technical data and cost infor
mation to the office of civil
defense and school districts
and hospitals .
To Accomodate Crowds
The pilot study is designed
to determine what will be nec
essary to convert large build
ings into fallout shelters to
accomodate large 'groups of
50 or more persons.
Architects for the local stud
ies are Robert Kecney and
William Siebcrt, both of Med
ford. Architects, school offi
cials and representatives of
the Army Corps of Engineers
discussed the program here re
cently. 1
Hedrii'k Junior High school
lends itself to fallout shelter
facilities because it is a multi
story building, and the new
grandstand could become s
shelter because it Is rein
forced concrete
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Prisons and prisoners dom
inated a large share of Cali
fornia news last week.
Six death row inmates at
San Quentin prison took two
guards hostage In a bold es
cape attempt. But they sur
rendered three hours later
amid a barrage of tear gas
shells.
Later in the week, execu
tion dates were set for two
of the would - be escapees,
Luis Moya and Augustine
Baldonado. Ventura County
Superior Court Judge Edward
Henderson ordered the two in
mates to die with Mrs. Eliza
beth Duncan Aug. 8. It car
ried out, it would be the sec
ond triple execution In Cali
fornia history. Mrs. Duncan
was convicted of hiring Moya
and Baldonado to kill Olga
Duncan, her daughter-in-law
in 1958.
Meanwhile, a bloodstained
life jacket was reported to
have been found In San Fran
cisco Bay, touching off spec
ulation that it belonged to
one of three convicts who es
caped June 11 from Alca
traz Federal Penitentiary.
And in Washington, Federal
Prison Director James V.
Bonnet said some prisoners
on Alcatraz would be trans
ferred to a new maximum se
curity prison near Marion,
111., within the next two years.
The six San Quentin death
row inmates got out of their
cells by the classic method of
sawing their bars with hack
saw blades. Prison authori
ties theorized the convicted
murderers worked on the bars
for several months. But it
was not certain how the
blades were smuggled Into
the coll block.
"We gambled and lost,"
Moya said. "We were going
out (lie gates."
Others in the plot were
Clyde Bales. Manuel Chavez,
Willard Winhoven and David
Biekley.
The six surrendered two
guns they had taken from one
of the hostages, who was
struck on the head by the
inmates but not Injured seri
ously.
"We wanted to get out,"
Warden Fred Dickson quoted
the inmates as saying. "We
didn't have much to lose. We
are all going to executed any
way." Dickson said the plans of
the six went awry when they
discovered ttiat the hostage
guards did not have keys to
the two heavy doors which
seal off death row. He said
the convicts then planned to
use their hostages to persuade
officials to open the doors.
But San Quentin policy Is that
even the Warden could be
shot and guards would still
not be aulliorized to open the
gates and let Inmates walk
out
Klsewhere. there were these
developments:
Holiday: Once again Cali
fornia led the nalion in trif-
fic deaths during the Fourth
and third in the traffic toll,
with 14 and 10 fatalities re
spectively.
Fire: A brush fire charrea
1,850 acres, threatened 20
homes and forced temporary
evacuation of 12 families in
rugged terrain near Escondi-
do. The blaze was only one
of four widely separated fires
in San Diego county.
Everyman: Three pacifists
discovered that tackling the
federal government is one
thing but battling the Pa
cific Ocean is something else
again. The trio sailed from
San Francisco Bay for the
Pacific nuclear zone but turn
ed back because of seasick
A spokesman for the Com
mittee for Non-Violent Ac
tion said the three "implied
that while the government is
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Energized Friday
By Power Firm
Pacific Power and Light
company's newest transmis
sion circuit, a 55-mile-long
section of the 230,000-volt ca
pacity work network for the
Copco division power system,
went into service Friday fol
lowing energizing tests of the
Medford-to-Roseburg facility.
Built at a cost of $2,000,000,
the line reaches from the Lone
Pine substation near Medford
to the Dixonville substation
near Roseburg, and completes
the large capacity transmis
sion system needed to transfer
large amounts of electric pow
er from the company's hydro
electric plants on the Rogue,
Klamath and Umpqua rivers
to load centers of southern
Oregon and northern Cali
fornia. "A quarter of a million
homes could be supplied at
one time with the amount of
energy this network can now
deliver to all sections of the
Copco division of Pacific
Power," Frank Bash, vice
president and Copco division
manager reported.
Sections Completed
Other sections of the 2,10,-000-volt
network were com
pleted earlier. Bash said.
The PP&L executive report
ed the construction of the 100-mile-long.
2:)0.00n-vnlt line
which will provide a larger
capacity interconnection be
tween the Copco system and
the company's Willamette val
ley system is rapidly nearing
completion.
The Dixonville substation
will be the southern terminus
for the line and the Fry sub
station near Albany, largest
on the sy.steni, will be the
northern terminus.
"When the $5,200,000 Dix-onville-Fry
line Is placed In
service it will provide for
fully integrated operation of
not their master, the sea is.
They said is was just too
much to cope with."
The three skippered their
trimaran sailboat Everyman I
out of Sausalito despite a fed
eral court order forbidding the
voyage. Government officials
instituted contempt proceed
ings and warrants were issued
for the sailors arrest. They
were protesting against nu
clear testing.
Girl: A pretty 11-year-old
girl who disappeared a few
blocks from the scene of an
unsolved 1961 kidnaping was
iounn nead her nude body
afloat in the ocean near Co
rona Del Mar. A coroner's
autopsy said Dorothy Gale
Brown, of Torrance, apparent
ly died of drowning. Investi
gators questioned known sex
offenders and others with
criminal records.
Con struciion: Agreement
was reached by southern Cal
ifornia contractors and the
AFL-CIO operating engineers
union on a new three-year
contract. The settlement re
lieved strike threats in the
construction industry. Details
of the pact were not released.
Garibaldi: Bob Garibaldi,
one of the most sought-after
college pitchers in the histo
ry of professional baseball,
signed a contract with the
San Francisco Giants for a
bonus presumed to be about
$125,000. Garibaldi, 19, was
a star sophomore hurlcr for
Santa Clara university.
The height of the nesting season occurred in mid-June.
At that time many parent birds were busy carrying in
sects, worms, and other food to their young. The killdeers
and other species were performing their "broken wing" act
to lure one away from their nest. Swallows generally cir
cled you with distress cries if you approached their nests.
The outstanding event was on June 21, when we sighted
a family of six blue-grey gnatcatchers on Roxy Ann. For the
past three years, there have been a few gnafcacthers on
Roxy Ann in the spring. This sighting, however, is the first
evidence that they actually nest there.
The gnatcatchers, young and old, travel through the
brush and trees much like bushtits, busy, and inquisitive to
my simulated call. As "Birds of Oregon" have no record
of gnatcatchers, next year I hope to find a nest to further
substantiate this breeding record.
On the same trip to Roxy Ann, my daughter, Betty Jo,
and I saw young families of white-breasted nuthatches and
lark sparrows. There were also young birds of both Bewick's
wrens, and house wrens.
During this hot, dry weather, the spring at the picnic
site on Roxy Ann attracts many species of birds. I suggest
this site as a restful and excellent observation area for
"birders."
The bluebird nest boxes I erected so hopefully at our
cabin on the Rogue were a total loss In so far as attracting
bluebirds.
However, there were compensations. Four pair of tree
swallows nested in two bluebird nest boxes, one wren nest
box, and one titmouse nest box.
The fact that the swallows could nest in a box as small
as one built for a wren really surprised me. I enjoyed watch
ing the swallows feed their young and perform their spec
tacular flying feats while pursuing insects.
These nests attracted other nesting birds, for I discovered
two oriole-nests and one American goldfinch nest, all of
which were within 20 feet of the swallow nests. A variance
here, one oriole nest was in the top of a tall oak tree, while
the other was at the end of an oak limb about eight feet
from the ground.
Two pair of house wrens raised families near our cabin.
One pair occupied a wren box and the other a bluebird box.
The wrens added a lot of cheery singing to the overall
symphony of sound, which included the double notes of the
Bullock s orioles, and the liquid twitter of the swallows.
One particular Bullock's oriole had a beautiful song to offer,
similar to a meadowlark but more subdued.
About the middle of June, A. Reynolds, who lives on
Griffin Creek, called me for information concerning a bird
that whistled and sang most of the night.
I was delighted to get this information since I know the
night singing bird we have in this are is called the chat,
but I was not sure regarding the exact time of the year it
would perform.
June 21 was a beautiful moonlight night, so I listened
outside my cabin at 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. for the chat with
no success. However at 3 a.m. my wife called me as one
had started to sing and call near the cabin. Even in the day
time the call of the chat is loud, striking, and interesting.
At s a.m. the clear repeated whistles, alternated with
soft notes dominated the night. It would be interesting to
know if the chat sings on cloudy nights and if he sings during
July as well as June.
In looking back over the migration this spring, I am still
puzzled by two occurrences. About May 18 to May 25, the
valley was flooded with Western wood peewees. The next
week the peewees were gone and vast numbers of western
kingbirds were present. Never before have I noted such waves
of these two species.
Otherwise the spring migration seemed normal, although
the weather was much colder than usual. Most of the migrants
arrived on approximately the same dates they have arrived
in former years.
One other oddity, though, I haven't yet seen a western
flycatcher, although they should be resident by now.
One of our experienced birders, Ralph Browning of
Phoenix, after graduating from Phoenix High school recently
left on a year's birding trip around the United States. His
objective is to identify as many of the nation's birds as
possible.
His itinerary has been well arranged even to obtaining
permission to visit the whooping crane refuge in Texas. Anv
information received from him will be relayed through this
column.
Each month I receive many interesting telephone calls
and letters concerning birds in this country. My telephone
number is 773-5230 and I am generally available after
7 p.m. for such calls.
A complaint seeking $30,
000 general damage and $1,
387.05 for medical expenses
has been filed In Jackson
county circuit court by Mrs.
Minerva E. Martinec, 4260
Highway 99 South, Ashland,
against William G. Norris Jr.,
Lindsay, Calif.
According to the complaint,
Mrs. Martinec was driving
south on Siskiyou blvd., Ash-
clear to make a left turn
when her vehicle was hit from
behind by a car driven by
Norris.
Mrs. Martinec charges that
she suffered sprains, a frac
ture, cerebral concussion, con
tusions and abrasions in th
accident.
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Ashland Operation of
the Paul Workman Lumber
company, Ashland sawmill, is
scheduled to resume Monday
under control of Parker In
dustries, Ashland.
Parker Industries repre
sents a group of investors at
tempting to boost the econ
omy of the Ashland area by
creating employment.
Gene Tepper will be super
intendent of the mill.
Members of Parker Indus
tries have asked creditors of
the lumber company delay re
quests for payment of bills
until the mill has operated
long enough to gain sufficient
revenue for payment. Cred
itors will be reimbursed from
a trust fund created by the
lease money paid by the in
vestors to Paul Workman
Lumber company.
The Jackson county court
has been asked as one of the
mill's creditors not to attach
or garnishee the operation.
Spokesmen said the invest
ment group has a verbal un
derstanding with District At
torney Alan Holmes that such
an agreement can be worked
out.
Activity of the mill will
support about 50 area fam
ilies, spokesmen said.
Veterans Service
Office Plans To Move
Plans have been made to
move the Jackson county vet
erans service office from the
third floor of the Jackson
county courthouse to the first
floor of the same building.
The move is being made so
the office may be more easily
available to disabled veterans
using wheelchairs and pros
thetic appliances.
of July holiday. Fatalities I Pacific Power . hydroelectic
were recorded at the rate of Plants In the Copco division
one every 7.1 minutes w ith the company's large
Twenty - four persons died ! power sources on northern
on the stale's highways he- i streams, particularly its three
tween ft p m. Tuesdav ind 1 major plants on the Lewis
midnight Wednesday. The I river north of Portland." Bush
worst accident occurred in said.
Modesto where an autonio- "The broader base of the
bile crashed into a crowd combined hydroelectric gen
dispersing from a holiday pa- j crating resources of the com
rade jpany. totaliug more than 1.
ln addition, one person ' 000.000 kilowatts of generat
dnnvnrd and another burned ing capability, will provide
to drain in southern Cali-1 additional reserves for the de
f.irnia, where It of the traf ! prnriahtr power supply that
fie ricalhs took plare New jnnr customers require," he ad
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