Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1963)
conomic Forecast for Ashland Said Good Br FAITH McCULLOUGH Mail Tribune Correspondent Ashland - It takes no crys tal ball or Farmers Almanac to forecast Ashland's econom ic weather for 1963. Without exception the ama teur Roger Babsons on the local front predict "fair and warmer" in the months ahead, with only one cautious proph et adding "barring unfore seen circumstances." Even completion of Inter state 5 and its bypassing of the ' city fails to dampen the en thusiasm of Ashland prog nosticators. Officially optimistic over the immediate future, though carefully cautious in com ments calculated to generate public confidence without going out on a limb, is City Hall. Anticipates Progress Mayor Richard Neill says he "anticipates contin u e d progress and steady economic improvement in Ashland dur ing 1963," and points to the city's program which includes leasing of a city-owned 14 acre tract for industrial use. The lease was recently granted to Thomas Parker and Associates who have giv en assurance of obtaining a new sawmill and several al lied manufacturing plants for the northeast area adjoining the Southern Pacific tracks. The mayor says he expects to see an increase in tourist business during the Shake spearean Festival season and more or less during all sea sons due to the new recrea tional areas open the entire year. Joining Mayor Neill in pre dicting a prosperous period is Elmer Biegel, city superin tendent, who is entering his final year before retirement. Biegcl pointed to the prin cipal project on this year's municipal agenda, a new water filtration plant to be constructed in Ashland can yon at an estimated cost of between $30,000 and $40,000. It will increase the daily out put from 6 to 10 million gal lons. Work is to get under way within a few weeks. The city superintendent said that utilities will be ex tended and that a new trans mission line will be installed south of town. He also an nounced a $60,000 paving pro gram. Biegcl anticipates an in crease in building permits, and expects an upturn in total value, as well as number of new residences. He cited the new motel now under con struction at North Main and Helman sts. The deluxe $200,- flCr BIRDING jW By JOSEPH HICKS Truck Drives Off Freeway Pavement A truck operated by Gilbert Christ Lauritzen, 33, Rose burg, drove off the roadway on Interstate 5 near Highway 62 about 5:20 a.m. Friday, ac cording to city police. Lauritzen was not injured, officers said. No citations were issued and no damage was reported. Thomas Gene Bentley, 23, Talent, was cited for disobey ing a traffic signal after the car he was driving collided about 11:39 p.m. Thursday at Court and Edwards sts. with a vehicle operated by Virgil Miles Strong, 57, Talent. Police said Bentley suffer ed slight head injuries in the . accident, but did not require hospitalization. Gold Hill Youths Are Arrested for Burglary Jackson county sheriff's deputies and Gold Hill police arrested two 15-year-old Gold Hill boys Thursday on charges of burglary. The two were referred to the juvenile authorities on charges of burglarizing a school and service station at Gold Hill. 000 motel, to be known as the Bard's Inn. will feature a swimming pool and restau rant. Completion date is July 1. Other Building Projects Other building projects scheduled for early spring are a Safeway store on the site of the old junior high school on Siskiyou blvd.; a new den tal clinic, now under con struction at Iowa and Moun tain sts.; a church building for the Assembly of God, and i several other structures still in the preliminary stages. In the . chamber of com merce office around the cor ner from City Hall the In quiring Reporter asked the $64 question of Bill Patton, president of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce. Here there was no hesitan cy or weighing of words. En thusiastic and postive were his predictions, made doubly impressive by the fact that Patton wears two new hats this year, one as president of the chamber, the other as president of the recently or ganized Mt. Ashland Ski De velopment Corporation. His With little snow in the mountains during January, moun tain roads were accessible that ordinarily are impassable in the winter. On Jan. 5 H. Pringle and I checked the birds on Willow Creek reservoir. There were two pairs of hooded mergansers, a few canvasback and ring neck ducks, and many ruddy and buffle head ducks. There was also one goldeneye duck, earlier re ported by R. Maben on Dec. 28. Maben also saw an imma ture bald eagle, but Pringle and I couldn't locate it. On Jan. 7 there were six whistling swans and large flocks of Canadian geese on Howard Prairie lake as well as buffle heads and ruddy ducks. On Hiat reservoir the were an esti mated 2,000 coot and various species of ducks. For the Bald Eagle census there was a striking adult bald eagle perched on a snag near the east end of Howard Prairie lake. The Northeast slope of Roxy Ann always has warblers and small birds in the spring. On Jan. 8 there were large flocks of golden-crowned kinglets, chestnut-backed chicka dees, both red-breasted and whitebreasted nuthatchets, and a pileated woodpecker on the same slope. The pileated woodpecker is the large, black crow-sized woodpecker with a conspicuous red-crest. He has a loud, irregular, ringing call. At the Lower Klamath Game Refuge on Jan. 12, there were 12 bald eagles and seven golden eagles. This is the largest concentration of eagles I have ever seen. The coot, ducks, and swan on the refuge were flocked together on the few open spots not frozen over. Each separate flock had a nearby eagle sitting on the ice as if it were a sentinel on guard duty. I was surprised to find a common egret and a crippled pelican that had not migrated south with their respective specie. Most of the geese and ducks at Klamath Falls had left for the rice fields near Sacramento. There were still some pintails, ruddies, and shovelers, on the refuge, as well as one rought-legged and one ferruginous hawk. Carl Richardson accompanied me on a visit to Hiatt reservoir and Howard Prairie lake on Jan. 14, and Frank Sturgis and I covered the same territory on Jan. 19. The results of the two trips disclosed that goldeneye ducks, Canadian honkers, ruddies and bufflehead ducks were still on Howard Prairie. Also on Howard Prairie, there was an adult bald eagle, and a golden eagle that made an unsuccessful pass at the ducks on the lake. There were numerous flocks of evening grosbeak in the evergreens as well as some golden-crowned kinglets and mountain chickadees. A sur prising find were the six magpies on a meadow just west of Howard Prairie lake. There seems to be a general consensus of opinion by valley birders that the qauntities of valley birds are much lower than last year. At my feeder I note fewer golden-crown sparrows and only an occasional white-crown sparrow. I still do "not have a hermit thrush or Stellar's Jay in the yard. There are a few bands of robins in the valley. but seldom do I see them worKing tne lawns lor worms. Eight years ago, there were probably more robins in the valley than any other specie. At my feeder in Medford I have black-capped chickadees, titmice, bushtit, golden-crown sparrows, juncos, an acorn woodpecker, a flicker, house finch, scrub jays, rufos-sided towhees, Audubons warblers, starlings and house sparrows. The Conway's feeder on the Rogue river in the Shady Cove area attracts song sparrows, fox sparrows, juncos, brown and rufous-sided towhees, black-capped chickadees, down woodpeckers, and a pair of hairy woodpeckers. This is the time of year when birds need supplementary food. Suet, bread crumbs, chicken scratch, fruit, peanuts, sunflower seeds, any or all of these items will help the birds survive the winter. And now is the time to build and hang the nest boxes for the spring nesting season. I recommend small-size entrance nests for wrens or titmice in the city. Around the edges of the valley bluebird boxes are needed. These bluebird boxes should measure 5 x 5 by 8 inches inside with 1V4 inch diameter entrance hole 6 inches from the bottom of the nest box. Last year only one bald eagle seen in Jackson county was reported to the National Audubon Society bald eagle census. This January, with many reports from observers, a total of five bald eagles in Jackson county were seen and reported. There was one pair and one single adult male in the Howard Prairie lake-Hiatt reservoir area, there was an im mature one, near Willow Creek reservoir, and one adult on the Rogue river in the area between Prospect and Shady Cove. The overall United States bald eagle census of January, 1962, listed only 3.807 eagles. Approximately two thirds ot this total were adults. Nesting studies by the society con tinue to show an alarming failure of bald eagle reproduction. This situation coupled with the 91 that were illegally shot last year show the difficulty that this bird is having in its efforts to survive. It is now a federal offense to shoot either a bald or golden eagle. IVlll' V-i i t ne Viiicinoce mannitAii of the Shakespearean Festi val he has worn for many years. Ashland Determining methods of getting traffic off the freeway once the section bypassing Ashland is open will be the primary project of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce dur ing 1963. At a meeting last week, the chamber board of di rectors organised five dis tinct projects from a list of suggestions made at a re cent general membership meeting. The projects, in order of priority, are: 1. Studying effects of the freeway bypass and deter mining what can be done to get traffic off the freeway and into Ashland. 2. Creating a conservation committee to study flood control and recreation pos sibilities, specifically includ ing a dam at the junction of Bear and Gearke creeks. 3. Developing the Ash land airport. 4. Advertising Lithia park and improving the appear ance of its entrance. 5. Promoting better indi rect access to and from the freeway on such routes as Oak st. and Eagle Mill rd. Patton gave figures and statistics which he claims point to a banner tourist year and a successful festival sea son. He sees increased inter est and attendance for the summertime activities and cultural events and is even more certain of the year round attraction soon to be offered winter sports en thusiasts. Mrs. Velma Jones, chamber of commerce secretary, com mented that in her opinion "the combined recreational, cultural and educational ad vantages in Ashland assure its steady prosperous growth." To which Patton added: "Our winter recreation should be the key to full time employ ment and expansion of cul tural activities. It could be the cog in developing winter as well as summer theater." At the opposite end of the city in the office of Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, confidence abounded as the president of Ashland's largest industry, Southern Oregon college, dis played charts and architects' drawings, quoted enrollment statistics and financial sur veys. To a background of campus construction noises the beam ing president reported the significant action of the state board of education at its meet ing in Portland last week. Of prime academic im portance was approval for a four-year bachelor of busi ness degree, thereby assuring an increased number of third and fourth year students. Approval was given for pro ceeding with units of the Cas cade Complex (dormitories) with dining and kitchen fa cilities for 800, followed by a college health center and infirmary for which bids will be taken in March. On the approved list for construction will come the women's phy sical education building and swimming pool. All of which add up to a bright and pros perous future in the building field. Dr. Stevenson's enrollment predictions have been proved so accurate that he now has the public convinced that his 1963 fall estimate of 2,000 students may be too conserva tive. In First Place The winter term enrollment of 1,810 has placed the Ash land college in first place percentage-wise in the state with 21 per cent increase. Oregon College of Education is next with 12.2; then Portland col lege, 11.5; Oregon State uni versity, 10; University of Ore gon, 8.5, and Eastern Oregon college, 8. The added student load made necessary the hiring of nine more Instructors at the beginning of winter term, thus bringing the active facul ty to a new high of 117. There are also 80 civil service em ployees on the college cam pus. The Inquiring Reporter's head was in such a rosy whirl of statistics that she decided to try a few man-on-the-streets interviews in the downtown district. Sidewalk experts on any subject are always easy to find but most seem unwilling to be quoted. It was Mr. Anonymous who remarked bitterly "If they'd yank out these blasted gutter bandits," kicking a parking meter viciously," there would be more business where it ought to be." Stores Perking Up Two lady shoppers opined that "Ashland stores have been perking up a lot lately," and at a drug store soda foun tain several customers agreed that some of the recent store front face-lifting had improv ed the appearance of Main st. Rumors persist, but with out verification, that an nouncement is about to be made on the purchase of a large business that will have a hundred employees on its payroll. All in all it looks like fair weather ahead for Ashland in 1963. atC'i'lON D MEDFORD PAGES 1 to 8 Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1983 For that Sweetest Day . WHITMAN'S CHOCOLATES Delietouslv GnnA niitif.iHu r , f Packaged Choose today. mR See Our Tremendous Selection HALLMARK Valentine Cards Humorous or sentimen tal .. . For every mer.i ber of the family . . even "Special occasion" cards. Take your pick from hundreds! NEW! "Jewelry" greeting cards by Hallmark Real Jewelry with each greeting. See our complete line of Re ligous cards and Hallmark's new "Golden" cards. West Main Pharmacy 135 West Main Phone 772-2330 iBTAM Pftl 1 np up g? to J i ru tru u y kg usq FF BTo make room for new, 1963 iuto seat cover styles. HURRY! Supply limited on some patterns and colors. 12th & So. Central 5m I nniPCO Whil. They X&--&3r lf o. PHONE 773-6450 Health Office Hires Two New Staff Members Two new staff members have been hired for the Jack son County Family and Guid ance Clinic, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson coun ty public health officer. Miss Donna Gilkcy started duties as chief psychiatric so cial worker Jan. 21 and Rich ard Runyon will start Feb. 4. Miss Gilkey is replacine Thomas Goff who resigned as senior psychiatric social work er to devote more time to pri vate counseling in Medford. Goff will continue on the clin ic staff part time until- at least July 1, Dr. Merkel said. Miss Gilkey moved to Med ford from Eastern Washington state hospital at Medical lake. She served there for about five years as staff psychiatric social worker and as a super visor. Degree in Sociology Miss Gilkey received her bachelor of arts degree in so ciology from Whitman college, Walla Walla, Wash., in 1954, and completed her master of science of social administra tion degree at the school of applied social sciences, West ern Reserve university, Cleve land, Ohio, in 1958. Runyon served with the family service of Orange coun ty at Santa Ana, Calif., for the past three years. Before that he worked with the California department of correction and was a social case worker in the San Diego probation de partment for years. Runyon is a graduate of San Diego State college where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1956. He completed his master's degree in social work at the University of Southern California in Sep tember, I960. Foundation Film on Television Today An hour-Ion? film, "Once Upon Dime," v.'!!! be se?n on KMED-TV (Channel 10) starting at 11:05 o'clock to nisht. Filmed for The National Foundation, it marks the 25th anniversary of the March of Dimes. The fiim features some of Koiiywood'a tup entertain ers, including Morcy Amster dam, Pearl Bailey, Bing Cros by, Lionel Hampton, Don Knotts, Dean Martin, Andre Previn, the laic Dick Powell, Juliet Prowsc, Soupy Sales, Connie Stevens, Dick Van Dyke. Jane Wyatt and Ed Wynn. Basil O'Connor, president o Tne National Foundation, appears on the program in be hel of the March of Dimes. Caiiiy mid Carol Gie, twins ! from Vancouver, WhsIi,, rep i resent young beneficiaries of I March of Dimes aid to birth defect victims, and Jimmy Boggess represents aid to pol io victims. Rheumatoid arthri tis is the third field in which the March of Dimes works. "OIL TO BURN" Msbilhaat S t H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. 772-JUI PENNEY'S SPECTACULAR SPRING ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY p ft I - V v A ' 'V V . A.. ' -k...a fiv 4 V1VJ SEWING 1200 Yards! BETTER COTTON FABRICS SAVINGS! Outstanding' group of belter quality fabrics. Everglaza- cotloni, crease re sistant cottons, embossed cottons, yarn dyed woven cottons you'll find them all now at Penneys for onlylc inch. i Penney's Stamped PILLOW TUBING lmmmmmmmm i.nimu ni'inn mi .-li'ni'i ... h V,? Luxurious 128 count muslin,' stamped for embroidery In fresh new patterns; hem stitched for crocheting. Make your selection from cross ititch, floral or novelty patterns. $ PAIR PENNEY'S STREET FLOOR mom "y-'f v -A t SPECIAL BUYS J. P. COATS '' URGE 1 325-YARD MERCERIED SEWING THREAD SPRING WOOLENS Pretty Pastel solids In 100 woolens wool and orlons, and wool and Ny lon blends; terrific buy; 54 to 56 Inches wide. SANFORIZED PRINTED COTTON FLANNEL 4 YARDS 1000 yards of Penney's fine Mnfortzi-d f ianne 1, prints, tripes and juvenile Hurry for this. J . : 4: MA'S 399 m G3SQ3 15,000 ITEMS! rtVnf look f n yf what 4c if 4 Pennoy'i OTX .-- :. -.7 ..T - Crayons Kai.r maw. neeaiei. riiu 9i Ki """" . CIMics : . Ceramic IMshs : And lots mere hurry in la Panmy'i, (aval SPRING SKIRT SPECIAL DUYI Fabric, zipper, pattern! niatA' m Everything you need to make Spring skirt is ready-packed and savings-priced at Penney'! You get a skirt length of Spring weight yn thetics, cottons, some blends with wool In fresh new solids, mixed tones, plaids, stripes! You get a V matching zipper! You set a pattern (or sizes 8 to 16 Pick up several I PENNEY'S STREET FLOOR complete S3 JUST UNPACKED! 4-YARD SPECIAL! Fre-cut cotton parcaiasS Save big on Penney's big assort ment of cottons, already cut nd packaged for you in bandy 4-yard thrift-packs! These are more ex pensive cottons from fine mills, priced way below what you'd pay from the bolt Spectacular print colors! Sew Spring dresse sports outfits, children's seti PENNEY'S STREET FLOOR 4tf $11 arris. iJ H rr
