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
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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.
Kiss Brings Ticket
For California Girl
Victorville, Calif. - IUP1I -Romaine
Minnefield, 22, has
been cited for kissing by the
California Highway Patrol.
Officers said sne Kissed
Frank Trujillo, 28, whilS he
was driving on a highway
Saturday. This caused him to
take his eyes from the road
and the car. hit a rock bank,
injuring both of them.
Specifically, Romaine was
cited for wilfully interfering
with a driver so as to affect
his control of a vehicle.
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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
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