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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1963 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Up In Salem the other day, the problem of fradulent and misleading advertising for subdivisions and land schemes came before the planning and development committee of the house of representatives of the Oregon legislature. Attorney General Robert Thornton and Oregon Rial Estate Commissioner Robert Jensen both supported bills they have drafted to ' halt operations of what Commis sioner Jensen termed "mar ginal and unscrupulous sub dividers.'' The proposed laws would outlaw misleading statements and require bonds by develop ers to assure that promised improvements would be made. Violation would be punish able by a $5,000 fine and a year in jail. ATTORNEY General Thorn ton told the committee he had been studying the prob lem for more than a year. The principal trouble with desert land promotions in Central and Eastern Oregon, he said, is that the people concerned are not familiar with the area. People not familiar with' the lack of water and the isola tion of the region are apt to be defrauded in large num bers. He added: "A review of existing laws shows there is nothing we can do to restrain these operations at the pres ent time." . He was referring presum ably, to a subdivision project in Lake county. Lake Coun ty Judge C. W. Ogle was present at the hearing and told the members of the com mittee that Lake county hasn't yet recovered from a similar development clear back in 1909, more than half a century ago, and urged adoption of the proposed law. FILES of the newspapers of that long-age period reveal that this Christmas Lake coun ty development of 1909 was quite a project. People were pouring in from all over the country. They were full of enthusiasm. The future looked bright. The prevailing water table was within six to 12 feet of the surface. If looked like a great new country in the making. Its remoteness from markets seemed to the new settlers to be its only handicap. LAKEVIEW, to be sure, was within a reasonable dis tance - and Lakeview was the northern terminus of the Narrow Gauge railroad com ing up from the south. But the new settlers - whether rightly or wrongly - got the idea that the Narrow Gauge's rates were too high. These high rates, they said, meant prices for their products that were disappointingly low. They had another outlet, of course, for their products - a branch rail line coming down from the Columbia river to Shaniko. But Shaniko was a long way off. It took five days to get there with a team and wagon and five days more to get back. That meant too much loss of time. SO THEY turned to Klamath Falls, which by then had become the northern terminus of the Natron Cut-off - which was the original name for what is now the main line of the Southern Pacific. That seemed to them an ideal out let for their products to the markets of California. But there was no road to Klamath Falls. So they tackled the Klamath county court to build a road across the Klamath Indian reserva tion to their area. They figured that with such a road they could get to Klam ath Falls and back in three days each way - a saving of four days over the round trip to Shaniko. THEN Misfortune struck. The water table in their valley began to drop. With out sufficient water, there could be no big crops to haul to market. So the proposed road was never built. IITHAT of the present? " Well, Ken McLeod, one of whose hobbies is water tables, tells me the water table over there is RISING AGAIN. It's a strong world, isn't it? You never can tell what will happen next. FREE LOADER Washington -(UPII- The Brit ish Embassy said Monday that Ambassador Sir David Orms-by-Fore's lost gasoline credit card had been used by some one to charge at least $180 worth of gas, oil, tires and auto repairs. m ffilh r 11 II i I J'i fl ! - i MgftM ill Fly United to Portland or San Francisco for jet service to the East For connections with United jets to Denver, Chicago, New York, Washington Baltimore and other major eastern cities, leave Medford at 6:15 a.m. and connect in Portland ... or leave at 10:35 a.m. or 5:55 p.m. and connect in San Francisco. From Medford United offers daily service to cities throughout the West, too. Call us at 773-6233, or your Travel Agent, and ask about United's new Family Plan saves you 50 on First Class flights. UNITED THI tXTH CAg AIRUNI , I AWARD WINNER Dale W. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Peterson, 11396 Dennis rd., Central Point, a geophysics sophomore at the Colorado School of Mines, was named the winner of the Max I. Silber award. The award goes to a student with the highest academic average in the 1961- 1962 freshman class. Peterson (right) re ceived the award from H. Dean Burdick, director of admissions and chairman of the scholarship committee at the mineral en gineering college. He is attending the school on a Society of Exploration Geophysicists Foundation scholarship. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- TTOR HER hundredth birthday, an old lady in the Blue A Ridge country was offered a ride to New York in a jet airliner. "You won't get me in one of those fool contrap tions." she answered firmly. "I'm gonna sit right here and watch my TV, like the good Lord intended I should!" , A new patient, signing up for treatment, confided to a psychiatrist, "I'd bet ter tell you before we begin that I suffer from marked suicidal tendencies." "Very Interesting," nodded the psychiatrist. "Under the circumstances, I'm sure you won't mind paying me In advance." Young Jonathan came home from school in disgrace, with a note from the teacher explaining that he had put mud In a litUe girl's mouth. "What made you do a crazy thing like that?" de-' manded Jonathan's mother. "Well, for one thing," he explained, "her mouth waa open." 1983, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features SyndlcM Dennis the Menace ' Proposal Made to Join State to Pact Olympia, Wash. UPil Backers of the Columbia riv er interstate compact today initialed a second effort to add Washington's name to the list of states which have rati fied the agreement. Sens. John Cooney (D-Spo-kanc) and Marshall Neill (R P'ullman) introduced in the Senate a bill identical to the ratification measure which came close to passage during the regular session of tne leg-1 islalure, which ended Thurs day. The measure died in the Senate Rules committee when time ran out on the regular j session. The controversial measure j was approved by the House during the regular session after a bitter debate. I The bill would authorize ; Washington to join Idaho, ; Montana, Oregon. Utah, Nc-, vada and Wyoming in a pact! governing the Columbia river : watershed resources. The agreement must be ratified by the legislatures of the stales involved and by Con gress before it can go into effect. Opponents of the measure argue that the compact com mission would be dominated by private power interests from Idaho, Montana and oth er upstream states. Legislature Approves Funds for Property Salem -(UPU The legislature Monday approved the release of $75,000 for purchase of property in southwest Port land for expansion of Port land State college. The college has no immcdl ate plans for use of the land, but wants to buy it before other plans are made to build on it. YOUR NAME IS THERE! County District Bill Urged by Leaders balem (UPII Leaders of both parties urged passage of bill Monday that would di vide Multnomah county into 17 House and 8 Senate "sin gle-member" districts. At present all senators run at large. The 17 representa tives are elected in four dis tricts. Witnesses said voting for a single senator and a single representative in a smaller district would make it easier for the voter and the legis lator or candidate to know each other. LEAVES HOSPITAL TODAY Canoga Park, Calif. - (UPII - Famed daadpan comedian Buster Keaton, 66, today leaves West Hills Doctors' Hospital where he was treated for what physicians described a minor chest condition. He entered the hospital Sunday. Space 'Rendezvous' Attempt To Be Delayed Until 1965 Cape Canaveral - (UPII - The first U.S. attempts to link up two objects in orbit - a criti cal step toward development of manned space stations -probably will be delayed un til 1965, it was indicated to day. This is a key goal that the Soviet Union came within four miles of achieving last August. Jerome B. Hammack and Walter J. Kapryan of the fed eral . space agency said that attempts to "rendezvous" a manned space capsule and an unmanned target object in orbit "should begin wiin about the fifth flight" in Proj ect Gemini, America's new est man-in-space program. Present Paper Ham mack and Kapryan presented their paper Monday before the opening session of a three-day space flight test ing conference sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The Gemini capsules will carry two-man teams of U.S. astronauts into orbit. The first manned flights in the new program are not expected until the middle of 1964, and - . the fifth flight could not come before 1965. As planned now, the "ren dezvous" attempt will involve launching an unmanned Agena-D upper stage into or bit aboard an Atlas rocket, and then sending the two-man Gemini team into space about 24 hours later to try to link up with it. Eventually, the United Slates hopes to put huge space stations in orbit around earth to accommodate perhaps as many as 20 men. This cannot be accomplished until the technique of hooking pieces of gear together in building black fashion in space has been proven. Russia indicated it was working toward such a man ned space station when it sent cosmonauts Andrian N i k o iayev and Pavel Popovlch within four miles of each other aboard their spaceships in orbit last summer. Rules to Protect Needy in Court Told Washington fUPD The Supreme Court has spelled out rules to insure that needy persons get full legal protec tion when they face criminal charges in state courts. The high court acted Mon day in four cases involving the issue. In the most sweep ing decision it reversed by a 9-0 vote a 20-year-old ruling and held that state courts must provide free legal help for indigent defendants in criminal prosecutions. 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