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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON SUNDAY, AUGUST 26. 1962 Applegate Fire Becomes Largest in Jackson County This Season , '' " i '' t . 1 ; -UK:-.. " 4 -iiaoMej)y.-A , , COLUMN OF SMOKE This is the column fire burned out of control. Flames were of smoke visible from the valley floor visible from parts of the valley. (Knack Thursday afternoon as the Applegate brush stedt photo) local Aspidistra Is Noted by Magazine One of the hardiest speci mens of aspidistra found re cently is located in the out door garden of Dr. and Mrs. L. G. Gentner, 22 South Groveland ave., according to a short article in the Septem ber issue of Sunset magazine. The plant, which has been planted in an outdoor setting since 1945, has weathered low winter temperatures of 12, 5, and 1 degrees, the article not ed. Aspidistra can be used suc cessfully in landscaping in many outdoor settings. The plants have a winter hardi ness, are decorative, and can withstand a wide variety of light and moisture conditions. The Applegate fire, which started shortly after noon Thursday and swept through thick underbrush, has become the largest and probably the most expensive fire in Jack son county so far this season. Up until Friday, when the Applegate fire spotted across fire lines and got out of con trol again, the largest fire was the Rogue River fire, which burned about 410 acres. The Applegate fire had burned an estimated 450 acres by late Friday night, but it was expected to be controlled before it spread any more. Believed Smoker-Caused Both the Rogue River fire, which cost an estimated $11, 000 to bring under control, and the Applegate fire, which will cost much more than that because of the greater number of men and equipment used, are believed to have started by someone tossing a ciga rette from a passing car. The Applegate fire started along the Jacksonville high way on the Jacksonville hill side near Poorman's creek Thursday. Before evening, the fire swept through about 200 acres of brush, most of it man zanita. At one point in the fire, a fire fighting crew had to drop its equipment and run when the wind shifted and sent flames through the brush in their direction. I The Thursday afternoon fire ! sent a column of smoke sev leral hundred feet into the air, and flames from the fire were visible from Medford's munic ipal airport. Two drops of fire retardent Thursday afternoon and one Friday afternoon, after the fire again got out of control, failed to retard the fire as planned, and the use of retard ent from the air was stopped. Friday afternoon's blaze spot ted over the fire retardent dropped, state department of forestry officials said. Three crawler-type tractors and about 100 men finally brought the fire under con trol about 3:10 a.m. Friday, and fighters started their mop ping up operation of extin quishing burning fuel in the burned area. Crosses Fire Lines But a shifty strong wind, low humidity and high tem peratures all combined late Friday morning and the fire embers started spotting across the bulldozed fire lines. By early Fridayi afternoon, the brush fire was again a major blaze. Three crawler-type tractors and about 40 men worked night Friday in eftorts to con trol the fire, and five tractors and about 70 men were sched uled to be on the scene all day Saturday. The fire, both Thursday and Ship It For Fail, Efficient Service I KT i mil- -. : -J LHOmC ' to or from Oakland. San Francisco, Los Angeles and Other Cahforni Points Call Jack Fitzgerald 773-7761 IN BRUSH This is the type of brush which found it difficult to check fires which cross burned in the Applegate fire Thursday and ed the bulldozed lines Friday. Friday. Because of its thickness, fire fighters $ ' 1 Y. BURNS DOWN HILL After jumping fire lines early Friday afternoon, the fire swept down this hill off the Jacksonville highway, threatening at times homes In the area. One home, along with other buildings,, is visbile in the lower right of this picture.. Friday afternoons, threatened several homes and other build ings along the Jacksonville 11,844 Men From County Served in War Report Shows Information that has never before been available, relat ing to war veterans in Jack son county, has just been made public. The government, through the Census Bureau, has re leased figures on the veteran population locally and in every other part of the coun try, together with a break down showing the wars in which they served. The release of the informa tion is especially timely be cause of the drive that vet erans of World War I have been making for a special monthly pension. The overall figures show that 44.fi per cent of the male population of Jackson coun ty, age 14 or over, were in the armed forces during war time. The ratio applies to I960, when the data was gathered. No count was taken of the HURRY! Only 3 Days Left! The Early Bird Gets the BEST BUYS! FINAL CLEAN- Odds & Ends and Mis-Matched Full or Twin Sizes Available MATTC & BOX SPRINGS! This is the final 3 days of our huge warehouse clean up sale of famous name brand mattresses and box springs. Many are one-of-a-kind sets, others have no matching mattresses or box springs. All are excep tionally fine buys . . . come in and look them overl Get the bedding you need at lowest prices everl NOW PRICED AT to ii95 S3S50 Be sure to take advantage of these BARGAINS! EASY TERMS No carrying charge, or interest. At Weeks 4 Orr you pay only for the merchandise. There is no extra charge added to your payments. Shop t Southern Oregon's long est established furniture store where you find fine quality at lowest prices! 114 W. MAIN Phone 772-9351 number of women who had war-time service. Of the men, the number of war veterans locally comes to 11,844 and the number of non-veterans, age 14 or over, to 14,676. Most of these vets, 6.826 nf them, were in World War II. Another 304 saw service in that war and also in the Korean conflict. Those who were In the Korean conflict exclusively total 1,468. The number of World War I veterans is placed at 2,009. Some 1,237 additional men have veteran status for "other service." All told, the Census Bureau reports, there are nearly 23,100,000 veterans in the United States, 2,400,000 of them survivors of World War I. The latter group are seek ing additional lifetime pen sions of $102 a month. It would go to those who served 90 days or more and whose income, other than retire ment pay, is no more than $2,400, if they are single, and not more than $3,600, If they have dependents. In Jackson county, It Is shown, the World War I vet erans constitute 16.9 per cent of the total veteran population. This compares with 11.2 per cent throughout the Unit ed States and 13.9 per cent in the stale of Oregon. The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have remained aloof, thus far, from the campaign by the World War I group and have not given the move their endorsement. Stewart Promoted To Lt. Colonel The Department of the Army through the Presidio of San Francisco has announced the promotion of Ray E. Stewart, Mcdford, from major to lieutenant colonel. Since Ocobcr, 1958, Colonal Stew art has been unit advisor to reserve components In Jack son, Josephine and Klamath counties. Colonel Stewart, a native of Eugene, was a student at the University of Oregon prior to entering military service. He attended the In. fantry training center at Ft. Bennlng, Ga., and was com missioned a second lieutenant in 1942. During World War II, Col onel Stewart served In the Eurpean theater. Following the war he was assigned to general headquarters, Far Eastern Command. Japan, and later in Germany where he was operations and train ing officer 2flth Infantry regi ment, 1st Infnntry division. He also served In Korea Crowd Expected at j Round-Up Opening Pendleton-The largest par ade In the history of the Pen dleton round-up Is expected this year Sept. 8. Last year 4.500 people viewed the parade sponsored by the Main Street Cowboys. Starting at 6 p.m., the parade will follow Pendleton streets into the round-up arena. Bands and civic groups are expected to congregate in the arena infield and give a four minute drill while the floats parade around the arena. i highway, but state department of forestry officials said they had no reports of any build ings burning. Deer Reported Residents of Jacksonville reported deer coming out of the fire area into the outskirts of town Thursday evening. Forestry department offi cials said the fire would have remained controlled except for a' shifty strong wind. It blew sparks into brush across the firelines, and the brush was so thick that men and equipment could not get to the spot fires soon enough to keep them checked. The last time the area burned over was in 1934, of ficials said. 0 o STASIS? Tcparffl Write your annual income here $ And here the number of years until you're 65 Multiply - put the answer here $ Surprised? That's prob ably a conservativa esti mate of the amount of money you'll make be tween now and age 65. 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