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.
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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
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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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