" MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON SUNDAY. JULY 22, 1962 3
eiland Urges Committee to Adopt Bill to Conserve Wildlife
"We fori our wildife and
particularly our migratory
waterfowl is precious to us
for its recreational and result
ing economic values," Col.
Paul H. Weiland, Medford,
told a hearing of the irrigation
and reclamation subcommit
tee of the House interior and
insular affairs committee Fri
day in Washington, D. C.
Weiland was asked to at
tend the hearing by the pres
ident of the lzaak Walton
League of America to urge
passage of Senate Bill 1988
which provides for the conser
vation of wildlife on the Pa
cific flyway including Tule
lake. Lower Klamath and Up
per Klamath national wild
life refuges in Oregon and Cal
ifornia. Colonel Weiland noted that
there was a large delegation
present opposing the bill. This
included C. L. Langslet, rep
resenting the Klamath Basin
Water Users Protective asso
ciation, a representative of the
Klamath Irrigation district,
and a large rancher of the
Klamath area.
Weiland was representing
the Oregon division of the
lzaak Walton League, its Jack
son county chapter, the Med
ford Gun club, the Oregon
Sportsman's club of Jackson
county, the Rogue River Val
ley Retriever club and many
individuals of Klamath and
Jackson counties.
"This bill is designed to
help perpetuate some of this
wildlife and to control trends
that will diminish or destroy
it," Weiland said.
"For 10 years or more we
have been trying to secure
constructive legislation such
as S. 1988. We are aware there
have been difficulties in man
agement of these refuges, par
ticularly the Tule lake area.
In the past 60 years the vast
water and marsh areas of the
Tule and Lower Klamath
lakes have been reduced al
most 87 per cent. Yet, when
I visited the U. S. fish and
wildlife service headquarters
at Tule lake when the duck
season opened in 1957, 1 found
that the census taken just two
days before showed over sev
en million waterfowl present
and over three million of these
were sprig (pintail) ducks
prize birds for our hunters.
"When one sees the vast
numbers of waterfowl in this
area, he begins to understand
the importance of preserving
the vital habitat which holds
most of these birds here until
late in the fall so as to prevent
damage to California crops,"
he said.
"Last Jan. 3, which was the
last day of the duck hunting
season, there were still many
ducks and geese in the grain
fields being flooded as part of
the management program. So,
hunting was good for several
weeks in spite of zero tem
peratures and snow as high as
18 inches in the fields.
"The 6.447 acres of the
Straights Line unit, from my
observation is used intensive
ly by ducks and geese feeding
and by thousands of hunters
for recreation," Weiland said.
He noted the opposition in J
their statements had men
tioned several times these
lands were not used to any
extent by the waterfowl, he
told the subcommittee.
"It is to maintain this vast
waterfowl heritage that I
have come almost 3,000 miles.
It is respectfully requested
that you do all in your power
to secure enactment of this
bill. I appreciate the privilege
of appearing before you," he
said.
Weiland said he was the
last person to testify during
the last person to testify dur
ing the two-day hearing in the
nation's rapitot. but fell his
presentation was quite effec
tive. Object to Statement
Colonel Weiland said he
and the groups which he rep
resents object strongly to a
previous statement made by
C. L. Langslet. Klamath Falls
postmaster and a representa
tive of area water-users.
Langslet said: "The public
lands in Klamath Straits unit
within the Klamath drainage
district, and on which the dis
trict has paid the government
for water rights under a 1921
contract, should go into pri-.
vale ownership. I
"This unit has been a stum-'
bling block to orderly devel
opment by the very farmers
who made it posisble for the
U. S. bureau of reclamation to
obtain S1.1S3.248 in net lease
revenue.
Not Practical
"It is not practical to de
velop a separate district with
in a district, the government
should pay these land owners
an acknowledged debt for
construction of facilities to
serve these lands out of pres
ent accumulated revenues " any amendment that would . primary function of the fish
Langslet had added: "Hunt-! provide for the loss of the ' and wildlife service. The two
ins r I E h t in nernetnitv i a,rH1K"'s ' private innctions are not always com-
i nwnprshin
should be retained on this
unit, whether it be sold or j Suprimpo Refuget
exchanged for private land in i "The present bill superim
Lower Klamath lake to block poses refuges on bureau of
out that refuge. We have rec-1 reclamation lands subject to
ommended exchange to avoid ! the decisions of each succeed
putting the private land own-1 ing secretary of interior as to
ers there out of business, what is optimum use for agri
However, we are agreeable ! culture or wildlife. It pro
to other means. ' longs the very issue we wish
Colonel Weiland said Satur- settled," Langslet stated,
day he told the committee "Certainly the primary
that those people he repre- function of reclamation is ag
sents and many others oppose riculture, and wildlife, the
patible," he added
Also attending the hearing
were John Stewart, secretary
of the Klamath Irrigation dis
trict and Dick Henscl, of Tu
lana farms in the Klamath
area. They represented the
agricultural interests.
The subcommittee will
make its report following the
hearing to the Senate commit
tee on interior and insular
affairs. Then the senate will
consider the bill.
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The Week in California
Out Effort Made to Avoid
Strike in Aerospace Industry
By United Press International
The federal government
joined management and labor
negotiators last week in an
all-out effort to avoid a strike
in California's aerospace in
dustry. The threatened strike, call
ed for the following Monday,
involved as many as 125,000
workers at 50 aircraft plants
and missile sites, including
Vandenberg AFB. Cape Ca
naveral also was affected.
The nation's lop federal me
diation official returned to
Washington, D. C, Friday to
report personally to Presi
dent Kennedy on the status of
negotiations. The mediator,
William Simkin, also talked
with Labor Secretary Arthur
Goldberg, who earlier said he
had no intention of permit
ting a strike to occur without
expanding every effort.
' Involved in the negotiations
were the International Associ
ation of Machinists and the
United Auto Workers, and
North American Aircraft,
Lockheed, Convair, Aerojet
General Corp., and Ryan.
Elsewhere, there were these
developments:
Reservists: Four warships
pushed through the early
morning haze on oan rran
cisco Bay, bringing 400 re
servists home from the cold
war front. Some 10 months
and 35,000 miles had elapsed
since they were called to
strengthen U.S. defense dur
ing the Berlin and Southeast
Asia crises. These reservists
served in the Pacific.
Wisecarver: Ellsworth (Son
ny) Wisecarver, who gained
fame as a teenager by eloping
with two older married wom
en, was back in the news
again. He pleaded guilty to
prowling and was handed a
suspended 40-day sentence by
a Sacramento judge. Wise
carver first came into the
public eye at age 14 when he
eloped to Denver. Colo., with
Mrs. Elaine Monfredi, 22, of
Los Angeles. Two years later
he eloped again, this time
with Mrs. Eleanor Reveny, 25,
of Long Beach. The pair had
left a Long Beach party to
"get a hamburger" and turned
up two days later in Oroville,
500 miles away. Wisecarver
told Sacramento officers he
had been happily married for
the past 15 years and was
working for a utility compa
ny. Lane: Carol Lane, central
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figure in reversal of Los An
geles' resorting law by the
State Supreme Court, tried to
kill herself by slashing her
wrists, Los Angeles police
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Alcatrai: Alcatraz Prison
Warden Olin D. Blackwell
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suspended for failing to pre
vent last month's escape of
three inmates. He declined to
identify the guards. They
were suspended for 20 dayr,
beginning In August. The con
victs who escaped were John
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Lee Morris, 35, New Orleans.
Authorities say the inmates
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Dancer: Stripteaser Gigi
Martino's conviction on an ob
scene dancing charge was re
versed by the State Supreme
Court. She was sentenced to
30 days in jail under a Los
Angeles ordinance which the
Supreme Court said pre-empted
state law.
Graham. Evangelist Billy
Graham conducted an eight-
day crusade in Fresno before
packed houses. He told listen
ers that man is as sinful to
day as he was 2.000 years ago
when Jesus Christ went to
the cross. He said the idea of
the world being saved by the
crucifixion of Christ was con
sidered foolishness in Christ's
day and still is foolish to
the average person. On anoth
er night he called for repen
tance, failh and obedience to
God as the solution for world
problems.
Railroad: Interstate Com
merce Commission Examiner
Thomas Patrick conducted a
three - day hearing in San
Francisco on the future of the
Feather River Railway. When
the Oroville dam and reser
voir are built as part of the
giant California water proj
ect, the reservoir will flood six
miles of the railroad's 18 miles
of track. The railroad con
tends the line in a public nec
cessity and asks that the slate
replace the six miles. The
state opposes the request.
Yacht: A young crewman
on a luxury yacht was swept
overboard and presumed
drowned in rough seas off
Fort Ross. The death of the
crewman, Richard Steele, IS,
of Newport Beach, rame to
light when the $275,000 pow
er ketch Holiday was towed
Into Fisherman's Wharf in
San Francisco by the Coast
Guard. The Coast Guard said
theie was no evidence of foul
piay. iwo other persons
aboard were saved, along with
the yacht.
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Books." closed last week with
a party for boys and girls
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More than 100 children at
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