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SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1963 B Residents in December Flood Area Clear Debris fi NO MONEY DOWN ON CREDIT AT WARDS-JUST SAY "CHARGE IT!" DKISTMCEIs) (Sai3lfl'0,IIKl I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFCRD. OREGON i DEBRIS NEAR HOUSE An Eagle Point had been lived in about three weeks before area resident points to concrete steps which the Dec. flood, and a once landscaped yard were washed away from the door, now became littered with debris from Little boarded up at the front of the house. The Butte creek, steps were lodged against a tree. The house rmil , A. FIELD NEAR CREEK This is the middle of a field several hundred yards from Little Butte creek near Eagle Point. Trees wash ed down by. the Dec. 2 flood were stacked and burned. cut, By DOTTIE HARBISON Mail Tribune Correspondent Eagle Point - With the re cent better weather, up un til late last week,, residents In flood stricken 'areas dou bled their efforts to restore their places beak to their nor mal conditions and in many casing, improving them. Many home owners started work on cleaning up debris the following morning. Trees and brush washed and piled against fences and left In yards and pastures are being cleaned up. It is either used for firewood or burned near the site. Youngsters help pick up rocks and remove gravel from lawns and flower beds. Farmers have been remov ing rocks and gravel from fields and in some cases ma chinery has been used to scrape the fields. Walls . of rocks have been made along Eagle Point-Articles of organisation for a group in terested in studying the Lit tle Butte creek watershed were accepted at a recent meeting here. The group hope to de velop a plan for protecting the area from possible fu ture floods. The orgar.;:a tion will be financed through voluntary contri butions. The businEs: :f!si:s o? the association will be con ducted by a five-man board of directors. Elected to the hoard were Donald Bieber jtedt, John Ouslerhout, Wallace Ragsdale. LeRoy Regesler and George Mc Donald. Chairman Bill Jesse cau tioned the members not to expect immediate results. 11 may take as much at 10 years, he said, before the group can accomplish its purpose. Membership in the or ganisation is open to any resident or landowner in the area of Little Butte creek. home was one of the worst hit along Little Butte creek has estimated damage about $6 to $7 thousand. Besides regular flood waters, a 12 foot high dam was crerted a short distance from the house by trees and logs lodging be tween standing trees. The raging waters battered a large tree against one side of their home, taking out all of the large windows and a door, and removing about 12 inches of their lawn. A contractor was called the next morning, and work was started to replace a wall, re finish hardwood floors, and repair other damage. Water filled the house four feet deep. Concrete steps to the from porch were picked up and carried several feet, iodging against a tree. Farm equipment owned by the fam ily was removed from brush and debris. The land owner remarked that he could not have gotten his property into shape if it had not been for neighbors who offered help. On the brighter side, many fields and yards had some piled up brush and trash re moved, and in some cases top soil was left. Other residents lost a con siderable amount of soil fioni their yards. Bridges of steel and heavy logs are replacing wooden bridges which were washed out. For the first time in several years, it is possible to see the creek and serosa the creek in many areas where thick- grown blackberry and wild grape vines collected debris over a period of time, shutting off the view. Residents along the creek are considering ways of straightening the creek where small sections of land and trees form a curve. The creek, although its channel has been considerably widened, needs a considerable amount of gen eral cleaning. According to Eagle Point City Administrator O r i n Chastain, the city is planning a week end cleanup in the near future. The clean up will be under the direction of David Hannaford. Residents will be asked to help clean up the creek area within the city limits. Further action on flood control work along the creek is pending receipt of a report from an area committee ap pointed to survey and deter mine what can be done. Some area residents were given aid through the Ameri can Red Cross and others ob tained disaster loans. The biggest improvement prob ably will be noted in clean ing up individual residences to make the Eagle Point area a residential area of which the people will be proud. PROJECT JUSTIFIABLE Portland (UPD- A report by the Bureau of Reclamation to day oftcrca the opinion that the proposed Monmouth-Dai-las irrigation project is justi fiable from an economic standpoint. the edge of some fields. Fields have been reported where necessary, and while farmers feed their cattle in the field, they pile debris .nd burn it. The state highway depart ment has reopened drainage ditches along the highway. Trees, branches and brush lodged under brides was re moved with machinery, sawed into pieces and burned. Home owners are refinish ing warped floors, and apply ing a new coal of paint. One hone owner whose RED CARPET TREATMENT . . . Tint's whet you'll receive from your creditors when you consolidate your bills with a loin of up to $1500 from Crater Finance. 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