Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 14, 1962, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY. OUTOBt-H 14. lSfc.2 A 9 Crews Cleaning traodedl - Hunters MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Roods for S v,;,t . m ,X - - v- v 1 - ,Lv v ' v : -via HANGAR DAMAGED High winds Friday knocked down the aluminum hangar building at Ashland airport, but one side stayed up enough to keep the plane inside from being seriously damaged. The airplane, a Cessna 182, is owned Wind, Rain Cause Severe Crop Damage Throughout Valley Local pear growers report ed the wind and rain storms A.n.n I ll.. U 4- IU. valley. Last Wednesday, local or- Roxy Ann Gnngt RUMMAGE SALE MONDAY, OCT. 15 Grab Bag t 4 FEMl BUILDING . 2 STAR-STUDDED COMEDIES! The romantic antics of a four-sided triangle! (OH III A UNIVH!l. TECHNICOLOR "CURTAIN AT EIGHT" "ONE OF JEiN SIMMONS " AtHLAND 182-3321 BOX OFFICE II II Sf OPENS 7:30 II If fVMi. THE YEAR'S 10 BEST." V. Y. limes. N. Y. -N. Y. POS r. NEWSD r. -AT.aOABO of REVIEW IS in 1 1. krhW COFFtl StRVIO COURTESY OF THI H0U5I JACK STONG AT THE CONSOIE OF OUR MIGHTY HAMMOND ORGAN-7;30 TO 8:00 chardists estimated a half million boxes of pears re mained to be picked. This included Mosc, Cornice, Nellis and P. Barry varieties. One grower estimated Friday it would take 9,000 man days of picking effort to get the rest of the crop off the trees. Some orchardists have equipped their pickers with rain outfits. One grower re ported a crew picked .200 boxes working part of the SUSAN SAYS: "This blonde wants a baby... and my husband too!" HamaGE- I GO-ROUND ' CNLMASCOPt . COLOR by De Lu-a TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WORLD -TELEGRAM 'Out of Russia cornel a remarkably fascinating picture. ..it is unforgettable!" 'A picture you will enjoy without reservation!" -WinH.n, N. V. fort Remember hMfltwi- A KmttlT twtwiiliMll WhU t COMING 'mmm OCTOBER 23-24 "Hiroihima . . Men Amour" by Bob Hardy, Ashland. Ashland had its share of damage from falling trees and limbs during the storm and one store window was reported lo have been blown out. day Friday "The wind whipping the pears around is bound to do some damage even if the fruit hangs on the trees," one or chardist said. "This is particu larly true of Cornice and Bosc. Winter Nellis is a short stubby fruit and might not suffer from bruises and punc tures as much," he explained. Local growers have wired Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) to have the federal school lunch program as proposed for bears broadened. The pres ent governmental offer to buy on a bid basis U.S. No. 1 min imum grade with 165 s set as the minimum size would not help the local Bartlett surplus, it was explained. Morse has been asked to contact Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles Murphy to request 180's and larger and fancy grades be included. A delegation of Pacific Coast fruit shippers and representa tives had met with Murphy earlier to request the federal assistance. Flu Fires - Medford fire men were called to a flue fire Friday afternoon and then to another one Saturday morn ing. The Friday fire was at 2:50 p.m. at the Clara J. Cor many residence, 720 South Peach st. Some paint was blistered by the fire. On Sat urday at 9:24 a.m., firemen were called lo the residence of Donald R. Edwards, 2130 Stewart ave. There was no damage. Jackion Toailmasteri - Bob Sage and Dale Prentice will speak at a meeting of the Jackson Toastmasters at HMO a.m. Monday. Toast master will be Glen Harrison, p Landlords To Meet-A meet ing will be held in the base ment of the Ashland public library at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, for Ashland property owners having rental units. Purpose is to discuss mutual problems of landlords and to help them serve the com munity. All interested per sons are invited. Sile Planned - Roxy Ann Grange will hold a rummage tale Monday, Oct. IS. in the Fehl building, 108 North Ivy st., Medford. Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Roundtable Speaker - Jim my Dunlevy, Medord rity councilman, will address the Medford Chamber of Com merce Roundtable Monday noon on behalf of his candi dacy for mayor. The Round table meets at North's Chuck Wagon. Patients Convalescing at Crater Osteopathic hospital following surgery is Mrs. Donald Greaves, 716 West 13th st. Medical patients there include Mrs. Donald Spence and Mrs. Adolph Larton. both Shady Cove, and Roy C. Spegall, 714 Dakota ave. Senate Passes Bill On Alien Status Wafhington - 'UT - The Senate Saturday gave final Congressional approval to compromise legislation that would provide some 7.000 tkilled aliens with immigrant status looking toward U.S. citizenship. The bill, approved by the Hou.'C Friday, was worked out by a House-Senate confer ence committee. It alto would permit the non-quota entry of up to 16.000 close relatives of U.S. citizens if they applied I for immigration before March 1 31, 1954 Water Released By Irrig. District Talent Irrigation district Saturday released water from Emigrant lake following the storm Friday, according to Walter Hoffbuhr, Talent Irri gation district manager. "We need a cushion for the usual stormy period after January," Hoffbuhr said. "We have to pro-rate the inflow starting in October and run ning through April when the irrigation season starts. Hoffbuhr noted that Emi grant has 6,000 more acre feet of water now than it should have under the month ly pro-rated schedule. It had 30,000 acre feet late Friday, and the reservoir capacity is 39,000 acre feet. Some open ditches have come close to running over, but lulls in the storms during the week helped prevent this, Hoffbuhr said. He noted a little problem at Howard Prairie lake where trees were blown over and trash collected on the grates of col lection canals. All streams are running about the same as at the peak of the runoff period last winter, he sam. Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Irrigation district manager, reported by radio to his of fice on Barnett rd. that trees were faliing or had fallen around Fish lake. He returned from the Fish lake area by cutting fallen trees with a power saw. Police Receive 61 Calls of Damage Medford police received 61 reports of storm damage Fri day afternoon. Power lines and trees were reported down in several locations. Traffic problems were caus ed by a tree blocking Sunrise ave , a half block north of Jackson si., a traffic signal out at Ashland and Main sts., a telephone wire down on Mace rd. near Howard school, traffic signal out at Eighth st. and Oakdale ave. Some cars were crushed by trees falling on them. The Public Library of Medford and Jackson County was in total darkness from 2:30 p.m., Friday, until library official decided to close about 5:20 p.m. Librarians were ufing flashlights to do their work. Retail merchants reported the storm did not affect their trade at all. except lo boost it. Sales were reported in creased on rain coats, hats, rubber boots and other rain gear during the past three days. Since telephone lines were out, the Jackson county sher iff's office Friday afternoon was running a regular shuttle service between the court house and the PP&L scrvic? department as incoming calls told of power lines down in outlying areas. RESUMES PUBLICATION New York - UTI' - The Brooklyn Eagle, defunct since 1955 except for five Sunday issues, will resume publica tion on Monday as a eix-times-a-week morning newspiper, it was announced Friday. STORM LOSSES Portland -ITli- Bonneville Power Administration Satur day estimated it? storm losses at between one and two mil lion dollars. A couple vacationing by car can lour the United States at an average cost of S29 day, the American Automo bile association estimates. Rogue River National for est crews continued efforts late Saturday and today to clear mountain roads of fal len trees to free stranded hunters. Forest service officials said they knew of at least two par tics in the Prospect area stranded because of Friday afternoon's strong wind and rain storm. How many more hunters may be stranded in the mountains is not known, officials said. Friday's storm was the most serious storm exper ienced in Rogue River Na tional forest in many years, according to Robert Torheim, staff officer. Considerable damage re sulted from trees being blown down, and all telephone lines in the forest were knocked out. Union Creek had no power or telephone lines, Tor heim said. Some buildings were damaged and a trailer at Union Creek was destroyed by falling trees. Some summer homes in the Union Creek area were dam aged, he said. The forest service said crews working in the Ashland watershed in an effort to pre vent excessive water runoff on roads, and other places. All roads in the Fish lake area were closed by blown trees, and there is a consider able amount of blown down timber in the Applcgate dist rict, Torheim said. Forest service crews are working 24 hours a day in an effort to restore communica tions in the forest and clear roads, he added. Recognizance flights are planned over the forest early this week, Torheim said, to survey damage from the storm. Salvage operations will start immediately, he added, to remove downed and dam aged timber as quickly as pos sible to help prevent disease and insect infestations. its Brown For Rescue Brigade Costa Mesa, Calif. - IUPII - Richard M. Nixon Saturday said his opponent had called on the "greatest rescue bri gade in the history of Ameri can politics" by inviting Washington dignitaries to California. Nixon told a rally at the Orange County Fairgrounds that Gov. Edmund G. Brown "now sees that his campaign cannot get off the ground. His crowds are small and there is no enthusiasm in his camp." The former vice president, attempting to unseat the Democratic incumbent, said Ihe 7 out of 10 U.S. Cabinet members invited to California were "welcome to our fair climate . . . but they are not going to be able to stay around and run the State of California." Nixon also accused Brown of backing down on the is sues. 'It is time for him to fight his own battle like a man rather than to leave the fight ing to his mercenaries ... it is time for him to debate the issues of California," said Nixon, Weather FORECASTS Medford nd vlcinitv! Vmrtlv cloudy thu alttrnoon Increuinf cloudiness tonight with a chance oi rain ny mianif nt. High todav 33 U 60. Low tonlsnt 40 la 4S. Huh Monday 53 to 60. western Oregon: Showers and brief sunny periods today. Increas ing cloudiness with rain late to night and Monday. A little cooler most secttona today. High both days 97 to 6 J. Low tonignl 46 to Northern California: Scattered showers today, fair tonight and Monday morning Cooler today. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day jj; helow normal l. Record high this data 81 In !n2. Record low this date 27 In 1930. PRECIPITATION; St hours to midnight trace. Total this month 6.24 In., S.62 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1 7 00 In., S.73 In. ahove nnrmal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday if,. iligh 4:00 31- CITV Yester- a m. hr. day Low Prec. Grants Pa.s Howard Prairie , Klamath Falls ... . 64 41 I 23 32 ta 33 1 27 34 MEDFORD 3D Tr Portland 68 Seattle Spokane 33 Yakima . 62 4S 46 4: 43 "".13 .IB S3 .19 .14 41 3D t) 32 .16 .12 .10 .13 S 33 Eureka Sacramento San Kranctaco l,os Angeles . Phoenix Denver Clilcago Miami Beach . New York 64 2 73 . 02 .MS . 6S 86 66 .02 Sunet today 3 32pm fiunme tomorrow 6 24 a m. Moonrlse tonight 6.30 pm. Jupiter, the Isrgest planet. Is due south tonight at . . 9 00 nm. Its distance from the Earth Is now Itttie under 400 million miles. I nwr s? iit ; CAR DAMAGED A new Oldsmobile be longing to Sharon Sakraida, Phoenix, was hit dead center by a large oak Iree that fell during Friday's wind storm. City crews were in the process of "extricating" the car from Estimated $100,000 Damage In Josephine County Area Grants Pass As much as $100,000 in property damage was inflicted by Friday's wind and rain storm in the Josephine county area. So many trees fell that no one had time to count them, although a Pacific Power and Light company spokesman said between 150 to 200 trees had fallen into power lines. ' Of the county's 13.000 elcc tricity customers, some 6,000 were without power at the worst stage of the storm. There were no reports of injuries, but one PP&L crew foreman had a narrow escape. He was hit in the head and knocked unconscious while OBITUARIES GUS JOHNSON Gus Johnson, 68, former resident of Upper Applcgate, died in Wrangell, Alaska, re cently. Burial was in Alaska. Mr. Johnron was born in Sweden, and spent 40 years in Alaska, where he owned a machine shop and repaired fishing boBts. He also had lived in Washington. He is survived by his wife, Esther; a brother in Washing ton and two brothers and a sister in Sweden. The couple lived at the Lee Myers resi dence while in this commu nity. MARIE ELIZABETH HARDY Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Hardy of Seel Beach, Calif., died in local hospital Saturday al- tcrnoon. Local funeral ar- raneements will be announc ed by Conger-Morris Funeral directors. ELDA M. HALL Rogue River Funeral services for Mrs. Elda Mag dalene Hall. 71, of Rogue River, who died Oct. 11 in Grants Pass, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, at the Hope Presbyterian church, Rogue River. The Rev. Robert Maxson will of ficiate. Interment will follow in Sifkiyou Memorial ceme tery, Medford. WILLIAM E. KOCH Funeral services for Wil liam E. Koch, 83, a resident : of the VA Damiciliary, who died Oct. 10, will be held at j the VA Chapel at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Chaplain John Fra-! zee will officiate. Interment j will be in the VA cemetery. Perl Funeral home is in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Koch was born in Iowa Oct. 1. 1879, and lived at Cot tage Grove before moving to the Domiciliary. He was a veteran of World War I, entering the service May 17. 1918. He was di charged June 18, 1919. He was a farmer. He is survived by a liste, Mrs. IV. T. Lutes, Dubuque, Iowa. WILLIAM F. CARSON Funeral services for Wil liam Fred Canon, 70. of 4762 ne CANDLE ROOM Always the Same . . a Always Good! HOTEL MEDFORD working In the Illinois Valley area. When he regained con sciousness, however, he went back to his job and worked through the night, apparently having been spared injury by his hard hal. Wind Velocity Officially the wind velocity was recorded up to 50 miles per hour. at the Grants Pass city filtration plant, but un official reports placed wind velocity at up to 70 miles per hour. The wind lore a plane loose from its mooring at the Jose phine County airport and smashed it into a second plane, wrecking both. Table Rock rd., who died Wed nesday, will be held at 4 p.m Monday at Conger - Morris downtown chapel. Maj. WII liam Ricken of the Salvation Army will officiate. Commit tal will be in Hillcrest Memo rial park. Mr. Carson was born May 21, 1802, in St. Charles, 111., and was a veteran of World War I. He was married April 30, 1921, in Kansas City, Mo , to Hazel M, Jones, who sur vives. Other survivors include two sons, Mclvin L. Carson and William S, Carson, at home; daughter, Mrs. Mary Cath erine Welch, Modesto, Calif., and six grandchildren. Highway Commission Adds New Project Salem - (UPD - The Oregon Highway Commission has ad ded another project to its Oct. 30 bid opening here, bringing the number of projects to 26. It involves .32 of mile grading and oiling on the pointer frontage road section of the Sunset highway about two miles west of Portland, in Washington County. Held Over But Hurry Winner rcr ' DECT lumt tttt L " ' ' ' i RICHARD BEYMER RUSS TAMBLYN RITA MORENO GEORGE CHAKIRIS t ROBERT WISE a JEROME ROBBINS wu. a. ERNEST LEHMAN sasneunsmwUiAeuaiiNiamaasuursv JEROME ROBBINS tau n LEONARD BERNSTEIN ltirts STEPHEN S0N0HEIM mtsisM sfMt hi mbsu ar aoai T t.oairriTH (whaimxo s fsiincc en tv ARTHUR LAURENTS m itttMrun awtrun M hwwmb st JEROME ROBBINS ir.iwi rttMis St If ll " " ' nrnw att warts a- msiM truit. m. - uiamai.nu. mm c tuMts rMuitriemis TWO MATINEE DOORS OPEN EVENING DOORS OPEN Adult) t Studtnti the tree when the picture above was taken. Miss Sakraida had parked the car on Ivy st. just south of Eighth st. when she went to her job at Pacific Power and Light company Fri day morning. The screen at the Redwood Drive-in theatre blew down, and a drying shed at a lumber company collapsed. The falling trees did some damage to buildings, but none fell squarely on any struc tures. Large trees fell over In rows along the Rogue river as if they had been uprooted. A woman was stranded in a car in the Lower River rd. area when wires fell across it. She remained in the car, however, until freed by PP&L crews. Travel Restricted On Some Highways State police reported Salur day that travel was somewhat restricted along valley and coastal highway. Many trees were down on Crater Lake highway north of Prospect and one-way traffic had been established with dif ficulty. It was reported snow ing on Diamond lake highway with chains required. There was one-way traffic on the Green Springs highway out of Ashland. Highway 99 south was open and travel was normal on Highway 99 north with the area south of Eugene open. All coastal areas were re ported without communica tions Saturday morning. High way 101 was closed south of Bandon and north of Florence. One-way traffic was establish ed on Highway 101 from Co quille to Yahats. Highway 38 was open to one-way traffic from Reedsport to Scottsburg with several slides along the highway. One-way travel was possi ble on Highway 190 to Cres cent City at the driver's risk, state police said. Several slides blocked sections of the high way, and trees were blown across the highway in some locations. BEST PICTURE! of 10 Academy Awards! win Af eriwNfifM RESTH BEST',1"" BEST' itrtrt nrrum rMNTt "WEST SIDE STORY" s ROBERT WISE . NATALIE WOOD PERFORMANCES TODAY 12:30 7:30 $1.25 logts $1.50 PP&L Expected lo 'Mop Up' Failures By Lale Saturday Pacific Power and Light company officials in Medford expected to have everything "mopped up" by 6 p.m. Sat urday. Only lines still expected to be out were the upper section of Elk Creek and a length of line about five miles beyond Butte Falls. "We feel quite ' .'cky we got off with the damage we did sustain. Because of the type of storm it was, we could have had double the damage," a PP&L official said. Power company officials possibly got the first effects of the storm about noon Fri day when service went out along lines between Crescent City. Calif., and Grants Pass. A redwood tree about six feel in diameter fell across lines) along that route, but did not break the lines. PP&L officials estimated about 100 customers through out the county were out of service about 8 a.m.. Satur day. Crews were out all night Friday, and some were still out Saturday afternoon. Following the storm be Iween 1 and 3 p.m. Friday, power went out for about 3 thousand customers through out the valley. "The tree problem was our big problem," a power com pany official said. "We didn't have a lot of broken wires on our main distribution circuits. A few poles were down. Out ages varied in different locations." PING'S Welcomes you to an avenino, of FINE FOOD FREE DELIVERY on orders of $3 or mora CHINESE & AMERICAN 2330 N. Highway 99 PHONE 773-6363 Cat !8 Held Over But Hurry 9f BEST'""" BEST Cm turn Baua 4rtt-Kiia SHOW STARTS STARTS 1:00 8:00 P.M. P.M. SHOW Children 75c tMESESt i prawn ot a .JlrWTH Mfimc WtUWAYjf' mm i i i in IT J Ftiffc TnniVMF Splendor Iv yinjgjgs kkO NATALIE WOOD JTrfataw WARREN KATTY "j 7S MtMINSU .S 1 N- . ' Mn in ' OOUOLAS J i NOVAK jsy B wuh jsS2'"'r1 : Strangers r 'a Z WHEN WE MEET Jq 3k mw