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10 A FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Bond Issue Reported Imminent In School District 6 I Regional News w fmbti wfffa If; JWr 7 JW BRUSH HAS TAKEN OVER This aerial area is for the most part barren of timber photo shows some of the Carbury area on the and covered with brush. Forest service tech southern slopes of the Applegate Ranger Dis- nicians plan to eradicate 18,000 acres of brush trict in the Rogue River National Forest, The in the area. Applegate Ranger District Plans Treatment for Brush APPLEGATE VALLEY The traveler enjoys the muted col orings of ocean spray and wild lilac in the spring. The waxen white blooms of dog wood and mock orange are faorites. But Forest Service techni cians weren't thinking of mere beauty when they listed these shrubs with two dozen types of brush and hard woods to be eradicated from forest lands. A vast program to eradicate 18,000 acres of bush fields on south slopes of the Applegate RanRcr District is under way. The job involves not only labor, hut much skill and scientific knowledge, and its purpose is to free the land for seeding of conifers. Joe Jewell, youna forestry technician who came to Star R gcr station four years ago from Modoc National Forest, Where he worked as a scaler, is supervising the project. Bob Martin is foreman of the sur vey crew with Jim Cased and Jerry Mulk. comprising ine rest of the crew. Started In 1957 Brush eradication started here in 1957, accordingto Jew ell, when 16 acres of manzanlta were cleared with a crawler type tractor. Since then 195 ad ditional acres have been clear ed, including some this year. The work was done in O'Brien creek area on Carbury. Survey work comprises the first attack on a brush field, Jewell explained. Fields are surveyed by laying out one fifth acre circular plots. Information recorded inclucbs number ot brush species, including height, density, and per cent of cover age. There are about 20,000 addi tional acres of brush la4 with a 20 per cent growth of conifers known as the understocked areas. Survey plots in these areas include conifer species and their height, diameter, age, and rate of growth. Also record ed is the per cent of slope, as pect, soil type and depth, and r'evation. Notes also are taken on animal and rodent signs. o Aerial Photos Plots arc laid out at random Using aerial photos and contour niHps to select the general area for each plot, which is designed to cover various brush types and soil sites. Jewell said aerial phc' 's ar of special importance in survey work. Brush field survey work was started in 1962. Region 6 has set a deadline for completion of sur veys for all forests by next June. Where tractor clearing of brush is impossible, Jewell ex plains that several types of spraying are used. In the case of areas where a good growth of conifers exists, but are sup pressed by brush and hard woods, spraying is done by heli i ptcr, using a herbicide 2,4-D In a water carrier. Some of the sprays are growth hormones that affect broad leaf species only, causing a quick growth that uses up plant food and water available, re sulting in death of the shrubs On steep slopes aerial spray Ing and seeding also are used, and are followed by aerial ap plication of poison grain for ro dent control. Other Method Where a large stand of coni fers surround brush field, making aerial treatment Im possible, treatment Is given by hack pack mist blowers and pressurized cans applying herb icides either as a foliage spray or as a basal treatment. ANOTHER PROBLEM Other problem areas tn the district arc like this one, where there is a. dense ovcrstory of madrone and just a scattering of Pondcrosa pine understory. The young pine seedlings are crowded out. cd in study plots to determine whether a fast growing mer chantable tree can be obtained. Knobcone also is consld-red a good nurse cover for desir able conifers since it shades out brush thon dies when it becomes shaded hy the young trees It has protected. The knobcone produces cones every year starting at an early age. These cones are sealed with pitch and remain unopened on the tree indefinitely until in the path of a tire. The heat melts the resin and allows the cone to open. Its seed and the germinated seedlings thrive in the ashes of the burn, the seed usually germinating in the spring following a fire. Ha. J wood trees interfering with conifer growth get the bas al treatment consisting of chop ping frills around the tree trunk and spraying herbicide into the frills. This method results in about an 80 per cent kill. . . Some areas not capable of producing merchantable timber will be left in brush to provide a watershed Among the types of brush list ed for extinction are hazel nut, chinkapin, service berry, wil lows, Oregon grape, mountain mahogony, gooseberry, currant, bitter cherry, and Fremont silk tassel. Hardwoods to be elimi nated are madrone, maple, red alder, black oak, and California liveoak. Old Burns Brush fields of the Applegate District, located principally on southern slopes, are the result of old burns, some dating back as far as the 1910 era, and some having been bu.ned several times. In the days before forest protection was offered cattle men burned the brush to pro mote grass growth. Brush occupying these areas in quick growth were manznnita and ccanothus (buck brush, snow brush, and wild lilac) be cause the heat of a forest tire is needed to germinate their seed. Dormant seeds lay in the ground for years in their tmcK woody shells until germinated by fires. Jewell explained that a brush field will build up a deep dutf of three to six inches in which cornier seeds win noi germinate because they cannot reach mineral soil. Applegate Ranger District has 621,027 acres under forest ad ministration. Trees that have been seeded or transplanted since the brush program stnrted Include Pondcrosa pine, Jeffrey pine, and Douglas fir. Dead brush Is not removed from the slopes, Jiwell said, because it provides shade, acts as a soil stabilizer, and pro duces organic matter as it dis integrates. It also protects small conifers from snow damage. Knobcone Pine Jewell offered an interesting sidelight ..i uic subject of knob cone pine, which is a hardy, fast growing weed tree that In vades a burned area. It is of no commercial use, but its spe cie is being propagated in a hy brid tree which is a cross be tween knobcone and Monterey pine. The hybrid Is being plant- Siskiyou Milk Costs To Be Investigated YREKA Senator Randolph Collier said today the Bureau of Milk Stabilization of the California Department of Agri culture has agreed to conduct a three-month survey ot cost ot production ot market milk (or t h c producers in Siskiyou County. Collier said he sought the study at the request of Siski you milk producers who felt that abnormally high produc tion costs exist in the county. Collier explained that the price the farmer receives tor his market milk is established on an area basis by the bureau on the basis of production costs. "It is my belief that condi tions in this area vary greatly from other regions of the Slate and justify a determination ot these costs and a reasonable producer price," Collier said. BOOK WIH'.K HEI.l) TALENT - The Talent Pub lic Library is participating In Children's Book Week, Nov. 10 through IB. Mrs. Archie (Alta) Eslcs, librarian invites every one to visit the library during the week. The School District 6 Board of Directors heard a building recommendation report present ed by Superintendent of Schools C; A. Meyer when they met Tuesday evening. Their consen sus of opinion is that a bond issue to finance new construc tion is imminent and will prob ably be placed before the voters of District 6 in January. "We have definitely reached the position where we must build or double shift. In a dis trict as heavily transported as ours the cost would be prohibi tive to double shift. Transporta tion represents 12 per cent of our overall budget, with 68 per cent of the school children in the district transported," Meyer said. During the past year three building sites have been pur chased, one each in Gold Hill, Sams Valley, and Central Point. The proposed new school would be located in Central -r Tablets By R. E. NEALON Mail Tribune Table Rock Correspondent Monday morning, Nov. 4, we went out as usual to milk the cow and feed the stock. Before we had finished we began to be bothered with pains, caused by a condition which our late doctor had told us might bring us to the end of the trail if we didn't have it attended to. By the time we got to the house we had n condition we could not handle and which was getting more painful every second. Our better half was franti cally trying without success to contact a doctor. She finally got in touch with Dr. Bishop at the Manor, who said he would be right there, and for us to start at this end and we would meet at Sacred Heart Hospital. The little woman is a good driver, and seldom drives at high speeds, but we could see she was driving with a heavy foot and fighting against time that was bringing us closer to the end of the trail. We got to the hospital in time to meet our good doctor, who arranged for an anesthesiologist, who gave us a $30 shot, after which we were out until we awoke in a bed with metal side boards and a bright eyed nurse peering at us. She informed us that she had been assigned to us as our nurse, and that hence forth she was responsible for us, and that we should do as she said. That included not getting out of bed without her help. We found later that although she was not a large person, she knew how to handle patients and could pick us up and carry us off. Since arriving home we thank the telephone service men for an extension telephone and Bob Dunn for installing a T.V. so that we could watch the showing of the film, "The Yanks Are Coming," which proved highly entertaining and brought back memories of an early fifty years ago, some of them unpleasant. We saw the young soldiers hurrying along at a cadance of almost double time with their smiling faces and eagerness to oo on their way and help turn back the "Kaiser" armies who were riding roughshod over France and other countries seemingly without any worthwhile opposition. Some of the unpleasant things were: bidding farewell to mothers, and casualties in our- ranks. These were not caused by gun fire, for influenza had settled over the camp, and there was much sickness and many deaths. Strange as it may seem, we did hospital duty, but never contacted the disease. We began to hold military funerals. The colonel did an exercise with his sword, the chaplain offered a prayer, the firing squad fired their rifles over the open grave, and the most touching part, the one that brought the lump in your throat, was -when they sounded taps. ... War is killing, and being killed. We were taught in this camp how to kill the enemy in many ways, but in the Ameri can and British armies it seemed just as important to teach the recruits how to keep from being killed. The most cruel way the Germans had for killing the opposing soldiers was mustard gas. If a man inhaled some of this, his lungs broke out in an itch with no way to scratch it, so that the victim died in agony. We have the British to thank for putting an end to the gas business, for five days after the Germans first used it, the British were ready with their brand ot gas, so the Germans, not wanting to take their own medicine, stopped using it. , , . We find we are about out of space and energy, so hope you will forgive us for using so much space on World War I, but Armistice Day brings back a period in our life we can never forget. To those who would have our patient president push some one around and do bomb rattling: if they had a little taste of war, they might thank the Lord that we have a president who in these tense times believes it is much better to negotiate than to aggravate. We have received lovely cards, letters, and get well wishes, so many in fact that it is touching to us to find so many who consider we are worth having around. In our next Tablets we will try to answer some of these cards and letters and give an account ot our stay in the hospital. As of now we are getting ready to visit our doctor for an adjust ment. Thought for the day Goodbye, and may the Lord bless you and keep you. Santa Claus To Arrive In Ashland on Nov. 30 ASHLAND - Santa Claus is scheduled to make his official entrance into Ashland two days after Thanksgiving. He will be escorted to the Plaza by a pa rade of youngsters costumed (or the occasion. Thn Ashland Chamber of Com merce and the Retail Trades Committee, co-sponsors ot the Christmas event, announced this week that prizes will be award- RegionalCalendar SHADY COVE- Saturday, 7:30 p.m., public auction at Parish Hall of Our Lady ot Fa tima Catholic Church. Items to be sold include household goods, furniture, linens, toys and live stock. Proccdes go to beautify the church grounds. Public in vited, i ... PROSPECT - Saturday, 10 a m. until dark, turkey shoot at Prospect Gun Club. Prizes will include hams, bacons and tur keys. Food and coffee will be served in clubhouse. Public in vited . ed in three categories and ac cording to age groups. Entrants in the contest will include pre school children through those in sixth grade. Cash prizes total ing $60 are to be given (or the parade entries judged best by three adult judges. No theme title has been cho sen (or the Nov. 30 parade but originality and appropriateness will be a major consideration according to the sponsors. Par ticipants are asked to register by Nov. 20 at the chamber of commerce office. The parade will (orm at the public library at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 30 and headed by a band will march north along Main Street followed by Santa riding on the city fire truck. Candy treats at the Plaza are included for all children taking part. Point on West Pine Street. It would have 18 classrooms, of fice, health and multipurpose rooms, and would house approx imately 500 students in grades 1-5. Jewett school which at the present time has 563 students, grades 1-3, would become a ffrarips 1-5 sphnnl. Tr. has 9.1 classrooms with the multipur pose room usea as a norary, music room and cafeteria. Four additional teachers would be required , . , one each in grades 1, 2, 3 and 4. No new principal would be required. Grade six would occupy the brick building at the present Central Point Elementary Srhnnl site. Grades seven and eight would occupy the present i : i:u 1 ........ junior mgn uuuuuig nuu uvei flow into five rooms of the re- mnHnlorf fnmn White hllilriinCR now occupied by the fourth grade and part of the littn opoHa At Ipast nne new lunior high teacher would be neces sary. Plans for Sams Valley at the present time call for remodel ing the auditorium into two classrooms making tnis a sue room school with six teachers I at the nresent time there are five rooms, including the audi torium, with Uie second ana thirH irrnrtes combined). One new teacher would be neces sary. Grades seven ana eignt would continue to go to junior high at Gold Hill. Room At Gold Hill in r.nA Hill room availability c evnellent. One teacher would be added to take care of the present split grade, mere win be 52 in the fifth grade next year, making the extra teacher necessary. Crater Hlgn win reacii i.vmu or more students next Septem- Un. Tha nnt imnm is nrnund 900. UCI AUG "C"""'" - . and 1,000 brings the building usage to maximum, ivieyer sam, nf which he recom mended a new junior high site. Early bird classes win in crease and all other measures In increase maximum USage Will be tried, he reported. The untinisnea gins utciub room at Crater should be com t nnirerc fnr !infl Girls are fJIClcu. - a available with 326 girls sched uled (or P. E. , , , At least (our teacners snouiu be added to the Crater staff because of the additional iuu students next year, bringing the total new teacners in me tuauwi to eleven. Enrollment Figures Present enrollment in the dis tal intala 2.94R. The grade break-down is as follows: first grade, Gold Hill, 4t; sams v al ley, 21; Jewett, 192; second grade - Gold Hill, 49; Sams Valley, 21; Jewett, 186; third grade - Gold Hill, 46; Sams Vallev 11: Jewett. 185; fourth grade - Gold Hill, 53; Sams Valley, 29; Central Point Ele mentary, 184; fifth grade Gold urn jr. Sams Vallev. 22: Cen tral' Point, 178; sixth grade Gold Hill, 43; aams vauey, n, Central Point, 183; seventh orarie r.nlH Hill. 55: Central Point, 186; eighth grade Gold Hill, 58; central roini, 11. u lor ninth tirade. 258: 10th grade, 251; 11th grade, 249, 12th grade, 163. Special education Gold Hill, 15; Central Point, 15; Crater, 15. Prior to hearing Meyer s re-nn,-i hnni-H memhers interview ed representatives (rom two ar chitectural (irms. However, members plan to visit new school buildings in Josephine County betore a decision is is reached. Building For Sale The hoard received notifica tion from the Orecon Fish and Game Department that their ounaing locaiea ai o e v e u i u Street and Ash Street is for sale. Board members decided to investigate this property as a possible dus garage. Chiirman Wilton White ap pointed Director C. W. (Bill) Anhorn as scnooi noara repre sentative to the joint school playground - city park commit tee. Board members acknowledg ed the gift of a complete x-ray unit In Crater hv Dr. F.dward V. Chance, Central Point. Meyer announced that 45 per cent of Crater's 1963 graduating class is attending a college or university. Before the meeting convened Keith Johnson, head football coach at Crater showed films of the Cratcr-Medtord and the Cratcr-Ashland games. 1 CONFERENCE SCENES Teachers and educational personnel from all over Oregon visited Central Point and the Rogue Valley Oct. 25 and 26 when the annual fall conference of the Department of Classroom Teachers of the Oregon Education Association was held at Crater High School. Zelma Foote, Jewett School teacher and vice president and president-elect of the state DCT, chats with Benton Dailey of Woodburn, DCT treasurer, in the top photo. John Stewart of Phoenix, president of the Jackson County OEA, may be seen at right in the bottom photo during a breakfast meeting. Fire District Consolidation Advantages Told ROGUE RIVER "The con solidation of the city and rural (ire departments through simple annexation of the city to the rural fire district is a logical step in progress and econom ics," said Loyd Morrow, Rogue River City Councilman, in an open letter to residents today. Voters in the city will vote Wednesday, Nov. 20 on whether to annex the city to the Rogue River Rural Fire District. The rural department, which main tains a station inside the city,' has been protecting the city area since last August, when co cilmen decided they were not satisfied with the condition of the city fire department. Speaking in favor of the an nexation proposal, Morrow said,. "A relative example is our school system. Would it be good, economics for the city to operate its own school system independ ently? The answer obviously is no. Two smaller units cannot op erate as economically as one larger district. "The same theory applies to our fire protection. One depart ment with more equipment available to all would certainly enhance our chance of getting lower insurance rates for all the people in the city as well as the rural district. "There is no legal require ment that any area must main tain a (ire department, but the National Board of Fire Under writers, through its state branch (The Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau), has the power to grade all areas ot the state (or insurance rates according to the (ire protection facilities available. "A fire department is actu ally not an expensive item to' the taxpayer. If properly oper-, ated and maintained it can save, money (or the average property1 owner by reducing his insur ance costs. The saving in insur ance in any adequately pro tected area will more than pay the cost of operating the fire de partment. Rogue River's (ire rating in 1941 (Zone 8) is still in c((cct today." $303.35 Collected For UN1CEF In Yreka YREKA Local Trick - Or Treators (or UNICEF collecte $303.35 on Halloween, Madeline Elsca, chairman, reported to day. Fifty young people from five Yreka churches participated in the canvass. The money has been sent to the U.S. Committee for UNICEF in New York. Miss Elsea, a member of the Yreka Methodist Church young people's group which spear headed the drive, reported that this year's total collection near ly doubled that of last year. She extended thanks to all young people who took part and to those who contributed to UNICEF. INJURY REPORTED WILDERVILLE - Mrs. John ! Combs has been staying at the ! nome ot Mr. and Mrs. Orrie Bull of Marble Mountain Road recuperating from a fall. 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