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.
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