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PP&L Plans $1.5 Million Program In Medford Area Pacific Power and Light company plans an expenditure of more than $1.5 million on its Medford district construc tion program for 1963, ac cording to Frank Benesh, Medford district manager. A major project calls for an Increase in the power capacity of the White City substation in order to meet growing power needs of industry in the area. A 5,000 kva transformer with associated equipment will be added toi boost the sub station's capacity. The work will cost $72,000, Benesh said. A new Gold Hill substa tion, which will cost $65,000, will provide an alternate pow er supply for the Tolo and Rogue River substations. Absorb Some of Funds The district manager noted that PP&L's power generating and distribution construction projects in this area will ab sorb a significant portion of the funds budgeted for the company's Copco division con struction program. Of the $1,549,000 total, the distribution system work will require $1,339,000, much of it for work at substations throughout Jackson county. Among other important construction projects in the Medford area the district man ager listed modifications and " additions to its Lone Pine sub station and a feeder line to Eagle Point to supply new loads there. "The outlay of the large sum of money budgeted for the Medford district construc tion program will help ensure our customers a dependable and high standard electric service," Benesh noted. Past, Present Conditions Give Insight to Future State Hunting IAUM W ft M , ...lit. .! ti i rr i ... Street Finished Just In Time To Be Torn Up Los AngelesJUPII-Motorists detoured for days while city workers tore up a downtown street and resurfaced it. Paint on the new center line was hardly dry when the department of water and pow er tore it up again to lay a water pipe. "We wanted to do it while the city had the street torn up, but they didn't want to keep the roadway closed any longer," a spokesman said. "Honest, we do have a work ing agreement with the city." By JOHN MCKEAN Oregon SUM Gam Commission Will hunting continue to be one of Oregon's most popular sources of outdoor recreation, or will human pressures re duce the wildlife resources and hunting access until hunting is no longer attrac tive to the average citizen? This is a question that every hunter should ask himself - not the game commission, or the legislature, or Uncle Sam - for the answers rest largely with hunters. Laws are enacted and agen cies of government are crea ted to provide services that are considered necessary by a majority of 1 the people; therefore, it follows that the efficiency of governmental programs is directly affected by the knowledge and will, of a majority of the people. Examination of Conditions Perhaps an examination of our past and present condi tions and a recognition of the trends in more populous states will give some insigh,t into the future of hunting The deer is Oregon's most popular and productive same animal. Hunter participation and kill figures illustrate the increase in annual yield of mule deer during the past dec ade. A similar trend has oc curred with both the black tailed deer and elk, except that current inventories do not indicate a- 1962 decline in those populations. ' The fact that the number of persons hunting deer and elk has nearly doubled and the annual yield of those spe cies has tripled during the past 10 years is an enviable record, but there is no assur ance that similar increases in yield will be possible in the next decade. Principal Factor - The principal factor con tributing to the success of the last decade has been a public awakening to the fact that big game populations cannot be stockpiled. They can either be used as they are produced or be taken from the range by starvation, disease, predation, or other controls. ' The Commission has been continuously seeking a level of harvest that would stabil ize the big game herds in bal ance with winter forage sup plies and minimize conflicts with agriculture, forestry, and other primary land uses. Another factor contributing to the high yield of the past decade has been a series of mild winters permiting higher carry-over of animals than should normally be expected. With knowledge that much of the waste' inherent in anti quated management concepts has been eliminated, and with no assurance that mother na ture will be as kind to the game herds as she has been during the past 10 years, it is probable that comparable in creases in the public demand for big game hunting will have an effect upon the quan tity of game available to each of us as individuals. Whether this condition is good or bad depends upon the adaptability and philosophy of the people. Perhaps it is time to quit looking at deer and elk hunting as a cheap source of meat and develop a greater appreciation of the fine recre ation available in hunting. It appears there are few hunters, but lots of people with a ve hicle, a gun, and a lust to kill something. Like To Be Successful Everyone likes to be suc cessful and by present stand ards is embarrassed if he isn't. This philosophy must change to one of hunting for fun and greater emphasis on skill and ethics, if hunting is to main tain its present status in our variety of recreational oppor tunities. The principal opportunity to increase big game produc tion and hunting opportunities rests in constructive develop ment of winter food supplies and more intensive manage ment of every available acre of productive habitat. 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Plastic case it attractively styled, lightweight, yet durable. Wipes clean easily. Smart "tee-thru" clear plastic hood it featherweight and comfortable. No TV or radio Interference Lovely pastel thades. r treatment 1 from the hair dresser' home. Eaty-to-ute fin PHONE or MAIL YOUR RESERVATIONS HUBBARD BROS. Inc. Main and Riverside Our 78th Year Phone 773-7777 upland game birds and w a t e r f owl are relatively short lived and fluctuate in abundance annually in re sponse to climate and other environmental factors. As with deer and elk, game birds cannot be stockpiled. They can either be used in the years they are available or mother nature will take them her way. Fortunately, nature's way of handling birds is not as damaging to other resour ces as with big game. Chuckar It Added During the past decade the chukar has added much to Oregon s hunting opportuni ties, ana me Commission is currently searching for an ex otic that may fit the cutover forest lands of western Ore gon. Merriam's turkey is an other bird that has been rec ently introduced and shows great promise for the future. These additions to the re source base, combined with the knowledge that quali chukar, and pheasant popula tions are not being fully utili zed with present seasons and pressures, provide much cause for optimism by bird hunters, There are many opportuni ties to increase game bird hunting through more inten sive management, develop ment of habitat, and intro duction of desirable exotics. The matter of landowner tol erance and access to product ive bird hunting areas will be the principal limiting factor of bird hunting in the future, The real challenge to be faced in the future is mainten ance of a reasonable access to the lands that produce the publicly owned wildlife. In Public Ownership With half of the state in public ownership and most landowners possessing a keen interest in the wiildlife re sources, Oregon is in a much better position to meet this challange than most states. However, the forecast of a half-million more residents by 1975, combined with the probability that more leisure time and Improved transporta tion will make Oregon more attractive to nonresidents, is cause for advance planning and the initiation of construc tive programs that will make the landowner's position. more tenable. -" . Nearly all of 'Oregon's ac cess problems are the direct result of abuses the landown er has suffered from either wildlife or recreationlsts. " A landowner who awakens to the fact that his land If pro ducing more deer than cows has a real incentive to capi talize on the deer, and the landowner who finds . cut fences, dead livestock, and lit tered property during hunting season logically feels that the users snould help repair the damage. , If the people of Oregon want to continue to enjoy the landowner's hospitality during hunting seasons, they will have to show greater respect for his rights both In terms of their personal conduct while hunting and in terms of the abundance of game they expect to be produced on' his property. ;' ' '-: , SECTION B . Medford PAGES 1 to 10 Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1963 Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER . Copyright, Hall Syndicatt, Inc. WILL FLORIDA FREEZE CAUSE NEW LIVING COST SPIRAL? Will the skyrocketing prices of fresh fruits and vegetables in the wake of the December freeze in Florida send our cost of living into a new upsurge as the freeze of 1957-58 did and as so many headlines suggest will happen again? Will the hike in postal rates and other price boosts which we know will take place in, 1963 mark the end of the cycle of relative stability in U.S. living costs which began back in 1958? No, these forces by themselves won't do this. , Dramatic and obvious as the price hikes in fruits and vegetables and postal rates are, they won't push us into another living cost upspiral. ' The prospect still is that the rise in living costs in 1963 will be within the range of recent years Vt to 2 per cent annually. The prospect still is that the biggest upward pres sure will come in the area of services, not goods or food. If this outlook changes, it will be because of factors' that cannot now be foreseen and this is the considered view of Washington's top experts on consumer prices. - This appraisal may seem Pollyannish in the face of these two facts: , . . (1) The Dec. 11-13 cold wave, ruined a huge part of Florida's orange, grapefruit and tangerine crop, wiped out some of its vegetable plantings, damaged a third of its citrus trees, hurt young trees of all varieties. - As a result, official government statistics on wholetale prlcet thow that tince Dec. 10, grapefruit prices have been marked up 69 per cent; oranges, up 76 per cent (with Cali fornia oranges up 14.5 per cent in sympathy); cabbaget, more than doubled; celery, up 78 per cent; lettuce, up 40 per cent; tomatoes, up 19 per cent; tnapbeant, up 70 per -cent. As a result, retail prices of the foods have been sharply increased too throughout the country. In the neighborhood grocery store in which I shop, for instance, prices have been hiked a flat 30 per cent on oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, tomatoes, avocados. What's more, a just-issued Agriculture Dept. report says that Florida fruits were more seriously damaged this past December than in the 1957 freeze. (2) The one-cent rise in postal rates which- went into efect Jan. 7 will cost the average American family $1.80 for postage this year, will boost1 the average family mailing bill to about. $9. f Of course,, these price hikes are hitting us in the pocket- book.'How then, justify the prediction that the impact over the ye'ar will be less severe than it now appears? . ' A, first point is that purchases of fresh fruits and vege tables and of stamps play a comparatively small role in our overall living costs. The disastrous December 1957-Aprll 1958 freeze in Florida and Texas created major shortages, pushed up fuit-vegetable prices 12 per cent. Even if the recent, irecze causes a similar ana lasting iz per cent rise which officials doubt the increase would push up the con sumer "price index by only 0.4 per cent. In 1957-58, the fruit-vegetable price hikes triggered price boosts in many other' areas, had a cumulative impact on the living cost In dex. The background today is-far different. In 1957-58, the price index was much' more sensitive to such extraordinary movements as this. Since then, the index nas been more realistically adjusted so that; a fruit-vegetable freeze In one Southern state doesn't throw the whole living cost picture out of focus. . i ' . . A second point it that the influence of the fruit Vegetable price increatet will be felt most ttrongly in thete firtt few months, probably will be dittipated at the year rollt on. Large ttockt of thete perithable foodt al ready had been harvetted before the three-day freete; the problem before the freeit wet turplut, not tcercity of the foodt. As for the postal rate hike, it's now in the Index. There will-be no more increases this year..- . Our-cost of living is still heading up, will reacn anotner all-time high in 1963. But price-cutting, not price-raising, is the' trend in many areas which have the greatest effect on living costs. Despite the headlines, no new inflation spiral Is in sight. ! 3 DAY PRICES GOOD ONLY THURS., FRI. & SAT. Ill SAVE 30 -40 -50 TJXIT 3.00 Dish Sets... 1.47 Password Game 1.87 $3 Tinker Toy 1.99 5.00 Dish Sets. .2.47 1.00 Hobby Kits 47c 59c Puzzles 39c 5.00 Basketball and AA BARBIE DOLLS O AT Goal Sets with Net .... 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