MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26. 1962
Applegate Fire Becomes Largest in Jackson County This Season
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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