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PAGE SIX Western A GUARDIAN OF THE SKIES, this F-86D type all-weather radar equipped jet interceptor is expocted to be the type the U.S. Air Force will station at the Klamath Falls jet interceptor base whn the construction is completed and the base is fully manned some time late in 1956. The F-86D is manufactured by the North American Aircraft Co. and is powered by a General Electric afterburning J-47 type jet engine. The aircraft pictured above is firing its rockets which are carried in a carrier that it extended from the bottom of the fuselage for the firing. The F-86D carries 24 rockets. . . State Forestry Department Reports A Very Good Year By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. BALEM I Oregon's state foresters feel they've had a good year. Fire losses were low. They made good progress against bugs. They continued to make progress in creating a new (orest on the thrice ravaged Tillamook Burn. And they found out that Oregon, the leading state in lumber pro duction, has a lot more standing timber than had been believed. The State Forestry Department got a new boss during the year. Dwight L. Phlpps, deputy state forester, was promoted to head the department. He succeeds Oeorge Worry Over Salk Vaccine Supply Reported Needless By HART E. VAN RIPER, M.D (Editor's note: This la the Inst of a series of five articles on what parents should know about the Salk polio vaccine. Under Dr. Van Rlper's direction the National Foun dation sponsored the research de velopment of the vaccine and he Is in charge of the' Foundation's program for vaccinating children in the first and second grades of school.) PHIL E. SCHROEDER Local Soldier Home On Leave PFO Phil E. Schroeder. U. S Army, Is home on a 17 day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil D. Schroeder, 1321 Pacific Ter race. 8chroeder is stationed at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, with tho lllh Airborne Division. 503 Infantry Regiment. The regiment participat ed In one of the first arctic weath er drops of men nnd equipment at Talkeeta, Alaska. Inst Febru ary during operation "Snowbird." 8chrocder gradunled from the di vision's parnlrooper's Jump-school in July and now has nine Jumps to his credit. Ho goes to Germany with his division In January. ' A graduate of KUHS and a for mer Oregon State student, Schroe der hopes to resume his engineer ing studies at the conclusion of his present enlistment. Annual Landscape Meeting Planned SEOON 8TATE COLLEGE n filth annual landscape con "truoton ,: maintenance short coursi sponsored by Oregon Stale College- landscape architecture departing has been scheduled for January 17 Bd 18 Winter Jurv to plant materials Will be ou of the ma lor tonics on this year's program. Open to F -. f-v I ....... r-n . ine puonc, ie two-dny course Is planned for Interested home gard eners as well u landscape archi tects and contruttors and nursery men. In past yenrs; gardeners from throughout the Northwest have come to OSC for fh course. Don ald J. Muriel, landscape architec ture bead. Is general chairman. ) Air Defense Command Spaur. who went to Pakistan to threatened to destroy much urn teach modern forest management bcr, slowed down their attack. And to that country Alter a big assist from rain in 1953 and 1954. the foresters thought they would continue to have ex ceedingly small fire losses in 1955. But In September, the weather turned hot and dry, blackening 33.000 acres of Klamath. Lake, Jackson, Josephine and Malheur counties. There were 1.818 Ores during the season, and 821 of them were man caused, j, At that, the total fire loss during the year wa below average. The bark beetles, which had "I understand the doctors have been told to give Salk vaccinations only to children live to nine years old until all of that age have' had the shots. I am the mother of a child of three. Suppose there is not enough vaccine this year to go round. Does this mean my three- year-old may have to go through another polio season next year without protection?" It Is understandable that ques tions like this arise in the minds of anxious parents. But this moth er would do well, I think, to stop "supposing" .herself Into a state of worry over the present priori ties applying to the Salk vaccine. In the first place. It now ap pears likely that enough vaccine will be available by next spring, and possibly sooner, for all Ameri can children. The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Leonard A. Schecle. whose office has charge of the release of vaccine, believes there will be enough to vaccinate all under 20 years old. When that part of the polio vac cination program financed by the March of Dimes is completed two shots for children in the first and second grades of school physicians will have before them a voluntary plan suggested by the U.S. Public Health Service which will list recommended priorities by age-group for administration of the vaccine. In this 11st, five to nine-year- olds will come first, because ex perience shows that this group sutlers the highest rate of paraly tic polio. The American Medical Association already has asked its members to observe this priority. As long as the vaccine remains in short supply, additions to the list are possible. In point of polio in cidence, the age-group from one to live years is second highest. From nine years on, the percent age of Incidence shows a down ward trend. Parents whose children todav must wait their turn for the Salk vacclno should bear In mind that there Is a good reason for these priorities, that they are grounded In good sense and that If and W'hen good sense dictates changes in the schedule, these changes will be made. Some concern about priorities on the vnccine Is natural, but we par ents must concern ourselves wlih anolher side of the polio story, too. The National Foundation Is cur rently warning everyone that "pol io isn't licked yet." They are right. Even after the goal of universal vaccination Is realized, some years hence, polio will not have been licked until three other aims are accomplished: First, until funds are assured for the care which current polio patients must have If they are to win their way back to usefulness and enjoyment of the satisfactions 01 hie Second, until further research improves the effectiveness of the vaccine and of all other salrgtiards against the damage of polio. Third, until Uiere are enough trained prote.ssional personnel spe cializing in polio problems sci entists, doctors, physical and oc cupational therapists, medical soc ial workers to overcome an acute nationwide shortage. Your child Is probably one of the lucky ones who will never be hit by polio. But only wnen these aims are realized on behalf of less fortunate children can any of us cease our efforts In the light against polio. Only then will polio be licked. . 6J4.O0O acres of Eastern Oregon timber were sprayed, killing 98 per cent of the sp;uce budworms. The five-year assault on the bud- worm now is practically over. This bug once threatened to destroy the forests. On the Tillamook Burn, forest rehabilitation now is 37 per cent complete. On this 354,000-acre tract, 39.949 acres were seeded during the year. One million seed lings were planted, and 500,000 snags removed. For the 17th straight year. Ore gon led the country in lumber production, cutting more than eight billion board feet. Employment in the lumber In dustry reached the 105.000 mark. The stfle also took lie lei- 11 plywood production, and gained rapidly In pulp and paper produc tion. At the same time, a survey was completed by the U. S. Forest -1 Service, state forestry department, and the timber industry. -It showed tho state has 432 billion board feet of merchantable timber, whleh was much more than expected. The department Issued 15.200 logging permits during the year. More than 2,600 sawmills cut the Douglas fir. western pine, hem lock, red cedar and other species. The knotty (no pun) problem of timber taxation seemed headed for a solution. The Legislature's Inter im Tax Study Committee began Investigations into the question. The committee wants to recom mend changes which would pro mote retention of forest lands In private ownership, and encourage farm forestry and good timber cut ting practices. Farm forestry became big' busi ness. The department gave help to 830 small woodland owners who got (975.000 for their trees. Another major achievement was that ways were found to check deer, bears and rodents from eat ing newly planted trees in the Tillamook Burn. After the deer had eaten (100.000 worth of the trees in two years, destroying 80 per cent of the trees In some parts of the burn, the for esters got help t from the State Game Commission. The result was that deer of either sex could be killed by hunters In 1955. The forestry department thinks the heavy deer population has been cut to reasonable limits. The foresters declared war on bears, which had been ruining many trees. Twenty - four were trapped in Clatsop state forests. A new rodent killer was discov ered, and was used etlctively in the burn. Rodents had been eating a big percentage ol the seeds, which were largely scattered by helicopters. Other developments In the burn Include construction of a fourth lookout tower. There are 92 miles o firebreaks now. and 343.000 acres of the 354.000-acre burn have been mapped by aerial photog raphy. The biggest problem In the burn now Is a human one. Many of the trees are of Christmas-tree sire, presenting a big temptation to persons who like to cut their own. From now on. the Wilson River and Sunset highwavs will be patrolled lo prevent such larceny. Tourists Swamp College Campus OREGON STATE COLLEGE A record number of more than 18.000 persons visited the Oregon Slale College campus in 1955 to attend nearly WO dlllerent confer ences, conventions, held days or meetings scheduled lor off-campus oigauirntions. A report by the department of Information. hich maintains an all-campus calendar, shows a toial of 96 different scheduled events by off-campus groups with a total at tendance of 18.635. This is an In crease in number of visitors of nearly 4 WO over the previous year, though the number of meet ings was six fewer. The figures do not include the additional thousands of persons who come to Uie OSC campus tor athletic contests-., commencement exercises, concerts, lectures. Moth ers and Dads weekends, convoca tions and similar public events. IIEHALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON ' HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE. Calif. Western Air Defense Force on.Januaiy 1. 1956, will, cele brate lis fifth birthday as a unit ' of Uie Air Defense Command of the United States Air Force. Hie organization, charged with the aerir.l defense of the western . portion of the United States, is commanded by Major General Roy H. Lynn, with headquarters here. The Klamath Falls Jet Intercep tor babe will be an important link In the defense set up of $ADF pronounced phonetically by air men us "Wadtiaff"! when It Is completed and fully manned some time late In 1956. WADP has announced tenta tively that the Klamath Falls Jet base wilt be stocked with a squad ron of F-8CD type all-weather, ra dar equipped, Jet interceptors. Originally activated In the fall of 1949. the embryonic organiza tion grew slowly through 19o0. It was then a sub-command ol the Continental Air Command with op erational control over aerial de fensive forces for the West Coast. On January 1. 1951. when West ern Air Dclcnse Force became a part of Air Dclcnse Command, it had three wir.gs of aircraft, two of them flying Jel planes capable of day-time operation, and one equipped with the obsolete F-32 propeller driven "all - weather" fighter the twin version of the World War II famed F-51, the Mustnng. For early warning, West ern Air Defense Force had only aj ' ' 3 DEPARTING TRAINMASTER Harvey A. Teal examines the "carpet bag" presented by fellow employes of the Southern Pacific Shasta Division at a party at the Winema Hotel Thursday, as Trainmaster P. V. Stone (left), Road Foreman of Engines Art Shoop and Mrs. Teal look on. Teal, who takes over a position in the personnel office in San Francisco this week, was also presented with a home movie camera at the affair, attended by more than 60 persons, including Division Superintendent A. W. Kilborn and Assistant Superintendent J. C. Slade. All departments were represented at the affair. Trainmaster Teal Promoted To SF A new trainmaster. C. E. Alward of El Paso, Texas, will take over the duties of Harvey A. Teal In Klamath Falls effective today. Teal, who has been trainmaster here since February. 1948. has been promoted to the personnel depart ment in the Southern pacuic gen eral offices hi San Francisco. Except for two years, when he was in Mexico with the Sun Pa- cilico de Mexico, Teal has been in charge ol the railroad between Klamath Falls and Crescent Lake. He has also been in charge ol operations on the Oregon, Califor nia and Eastern Railroad between here and Bly. This was the second stint In Klamath Falls for Teal, who had worked hereas a call boy and crew dispatcher In the early 1930's. "That's how I krew everybody here." he said, "I used to get them all up In the mornings." He began hlr, railroad career in Tucson m 193. and has worked on the Tucson. Los Angeles, Sac taiuento and Shasta Divisions. He came here In 1948 from the Los Angeles Division. While m Klamath Falls, he lived at 513 Eldorado. His successor, a trainmaster in El Pnso, will live at 1208 California Avenue. Teal said he has worked closely here with the lumbering and log ging industries and has made many special friends In those fields. Some of the highlights of his railioadlng career, however, were the two years he spent in Mexico working with the SPdcM. an SP subsidiary which has since been sold to the Mexican government railway svMeni. "Munana" w-us the word of the d.iy in mo Mexican operation, he said, and the '"Kl Costcno." the line's ma.ior "flier." was usually about a day late In its four-day run from the border at Nocales. Sonora, lo Guadalajara, where It connected with the National Rail ways for Mexico City. The dlv tance. 1106 miles, would take about 30 hours on a Norteamericano streamlii.er. On one occasion, he said the train was only five hours late. Tins was considered to be a minor mir acle. Red tape in Mexico, he said, was vicious, especially lor the loreign er working there. On one occasion, he recalled, the sndicalo (labor union slapped a panWion on him because the company had failed to obtain the necessary permit lor him to work and he had to leave the Job. The next time he went to Mexico, he said, they had hi permit. He also recalled the tune a mixed :ram set out a car lor repairs and went otf without the passengers which had been riding in the car. 'the car. jammed to the guards, with passengers, their livestock and baggage, the way Mexican local trams are, as switched off the Celebrates Fifth few radar stations, limited as to scope of operation. Today Uie aircraft and the radar system are as modern as science and production lines can provide. Throughout WADF's ring of bases, scattered to protect the slates of Washington, Oregon, Cali fornia. Nevada and Idaho as well as parts of Arizona, Utah and Mon tana, are the world's best all-wcath-er interceptors the F84C, the F B9D and the F86D all of which can carry out the air defense mis sion regardless of weather. In bril liant sun-lit cloudless skies or the dark of moonless, cloud hidden night. They streak at 600 miles or more an hour toward targets me pilots may never see except on radar "blip" on the scope m the cockpit. In pods on their wings or tucked In the r fuselages are deadly rockets, capable of blasting the michtiest bonmer irom u skies, fired automatically by elec tronic computers at the proper time. Supporting the active Air Force are the Air Force Reserve ana u National Guard wings committed to west coast activities. Today, a! most 100 per cent of the fishier aircraft of the Reserve and Air National Guard are Jet propelled. Keeping pace with the improve ments in aircraft and armament has been the development of the warning system, geared to send Interceutors Into the air in a mat ter of minutes after the discovery of an "unknown" in the aerial system. ' train because of a defective wheel bearing, but the passengers, fear ful of losing their space, would not leave the car. When It was dis covered that the bearing could not be fixed, the train just left, as somebody forgot to tell the passen gers the car would not rejoin the train. On the happier side,- he recalled the time he found two young Amer ican women sitting disconsolately on the platform at one of the RPdeM stations. Identifying him self he. asked what was wrong. Tne women told him that- they had Just completed their vacation in Mexico "and they said they had had a wonderful time." he added. But the station agent would not honor their reservations, stating there had been a washout on the I line. I After straightening out their res ervations. Teal nouced a private car of a high SPdeM official was on the train. He introduced the travelers to the olficial and his wife, who Invited them In for din ner in the private car. "The girls didn't speak any Spanish and the official any Eng lish, but they must have had a wonderful time," he said. "Anyway, just before the following Christmas. I got a notice that there was a package with 18 pesos postage due on It. It was a box of chocolates from the girls. And every year since then. I have received Christmas card from them." Back to life in Klamath Falls. Teal admitted that he had a bit of a scare on Wednesday. He ssld that a signal Indicated that the electric protective fence designed tn detect slides onto the ratlioad uad been broken. This normally means that the right of way was blocked, so men were Immediately sent to check the line. There was nothing there. But, about two weeks ago. at the same spot, a rock about six feet bv six feet by five feet thick had liillcn onto the line and blocked the northbound Klamath passenger train. Because the detector fence Cold Damage Estimate Given Delay winter pruning of fruit trees and shrubs until possible damage from the November cold spell can be determined, advise Oregon State College horticultur ists. Ralph Clark and C. O. Rawllngs, OCS extension specialists, say weakened plant tissue could be further damaged bv extremely - cold weather. At the end ol winter, they explain, dead wood can be i cut away and surviving plant ma i terial given a chance to develop. 1 l.AJbl Permanent radar installations line the coast, the borders of the defense zone, and In the mountain approaches from "the back door." Filling in the gaps caused by moun tains and other interference are smaller but equally effective ra dar sets, witn the ring of warn ing completed by Ground Observer Corps posis, matmea iivum riav in most areas by public-spirit. ed and unpaid volunteers. The Ground Observer Corps reports to strategically located inter centers which filter" out the known air craft and pass reports of the pres ence and aerial airecuons oi un known" to Air Force direction cen ters which direct the "scramble" of interceptors and, through ra dar, guide them to the potential aerial targets. The. early warning radar Is be ing extended seaward with air borne radar sets carried in Super Constellation type airplanes, and radar equipped Navy picket ves sels, supplementing the coastal net work. To the North, vast networks of land-based radar stations are be ing localed In Canada, extending even to the trackless wastes of the far North, near the Arctic Circle, to give the warning that is so es sential with the tremendous in crease In speed of modern bomb- ' As aerial defenses expanded and the speed of aircraft increased, there came the formation. In Sep tember 1954, of the Continental Air Defense Command, with head threw on the stop signals, the train was hot damaged, but It was de layed until a freight locomotive was used to pull the rock to one siae. The incidents occurred in the slide area near Algoma. . Teal said that he was glad to be getting "an office Job" where he would not be on call for 24 hours a day in the midst of the snow wind and cold. Adult Classes Set At KUHS Four winter term adult evening classes are scheduled at Klamath Falls Union High School to begin January 4 and 9. according to announcement made this week by General Extension Division s de partment of state-wide services In Eugene. Initial meeting of the winter term Is set tor Wednesday, Jan uary 4 to 7 to 9:45 p.m. First course will be Painting (AA 290), a two-credit-hour course under m structlon of Gordon L. Kensler, Supervisor of Art Education for School District No. 1 in Klamath Falls. Registration for either cred it or non-credit is acceptable for this course. Kensler Is well known through out the Northwest and has studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of his paintings have been displayed throughoui the Midwest as well as in uiis region. Listed to begin on Monday, Jan uary 9 at 7 to 9:45 p.m. are English composition (Wr 1111, Dr Alvin Fellers, assistant professor of English for Southern Oregon College: Fundamentals of speech iSd llli, Miss Mildred A. Peck instructor In speech and English. SOC. and Audio-Visual Aids lEd 435 Ol, Joseph V. LaClair, direc tor of instructional materials for Klamath public schools with Dr. Curtis Reid, head of the depart ment of visual instruction for Gen eral Extension Division. The three courses scheduled to begin January will provide three credit hours. Registration may be accomplished for all evening cours es at the Initial class meeting or - later by permission of the instruc I tor. Fees are established by the State System of Higner Education and correspond to those in effect on state system campuses. Fee rates are based on (8 per credit hour for credit or non-credit regi stration. Detailed Information may be ob tained from the office of Charles Carlson, principal of Klamath Un- j Ion High School or from General I Extension Division. 1250 Emerald (Street, Eugene. Oregon. So Birthday Today quarters at Colorado Springs. Colo- M l tn rlAfnrtrl the rnfln. lis missiuu o United stales against air attack and its present commander. Gen etal Earlo E. Partridge, has not nnlv Air Force but also Army Antt aircraft and Navy components un der his direction, nn ihe same date. Joint West em Air Defense Force was acti vated at Hamilton Air rorce Base. California, to defend the western area of the United States against air attack. General Lynn, comman der of the Joint organization as well as Western Air Defense Force, In this command has Air Force, Army Antiaircraft and Navy com ponents under nis airecuuu. As t result of this 'joint organ ization, in times of emergency all air defense capability of the three services can oe brought under a single command. Along with the expansion of the air defense system in the past five years have cropped up some prob lems. "For instance," said General Lynn, "we have, In converting to an all-Jet air force, run smack into the community relations problem the lets make a lot of noise. Oc casionally they also break througW the sound barrier, causing sonic booms.' " The Air Force has sought to im prove this situation by changing flight patterns and attacking noise abatement problems. "Our community relations goal." explained General Lynn, "is to Engineer Gives Estimate Of Redding Road Damage J. W. Trask. district engineer of the California Division of High wavs at Redding, says It is now nossiblc to gel an idea of the damage sustained by the Redding District during the recent storms. He gives an estimate of (3.313,000. This damage is distributed as fol lows: An estimated damage of (433.000 Is in the Quincy Maintenance Dis trict. Tills Includes Plumas Coun ty, a short section of Butte Coun ty in the Feather River Canyon, and a short section in Lassen County near the Nevada state line. This covers a sllpoul at Jarbo which will probably require sev enty-five thousand yards for re storation. The balance 01 tne aam- age Is comprised 0: numerous washouts; one is along Indian Creek between Crescent Mills and the Feather River Highway. Num erous bridge repairs, slides, and miscellaneous cleanups will have to be made on the Feather River Highway for a grand total of 438,- 000. Trinity County was the hardest hit county in the district. It is estimated over a million dollars will be needed to restore the high, way along the Trinity River be yond Junction City. Repairing the Douglas City Bridge and the1 bank protection along the Trinity River about two miles east of the bridge will cost over half a million dollars. The balance of the damage Is general cleanup, repairing wash outs, shoulder restoration, and opening culverts, making a grand total of (1.513.000. The damage in Lassen County is LOOKTO LUMBER COMPANY ."" FOR From adding-a-room to building your new home . . . '56 is the year to fix. It'( an ideal time to moke that extra (pace into an apart ment for an Airman and his family. A service to the Klamath Basin and extra income for you. Let us (how you how , , . YOU CAN DO THESE THINGS AND MANY MORE ON THE ToriG-ReiL TBiidoet PiCin NO DOWN PAYMENT 3 FULL YEARS TO PAY '6 Utii>uiAL to FIX! Main t prinq SUNDAY. JANUARY 1, 1956 have our civilian neighbor worry and fret when he does not hear the Jets when he does not have the audible reassurance that 'some one is watching the store.' " The "birthday" of Western Air Defense Force as a full fledged unit of Uie air defense team will pass without special observance. Although It falls on a day when much of the world is celebrating the arrival of a new year, the day is just another tour of duty to the men who man the defenses of the West Coast Radar antennae continues their endless constant sweep of the skies, while alert eyes watch the scopes In dark rooms for the "blips' that could be ag gressors. Dedicated volunteers will man the lonely lonesome towers which are the home of the Ground Observer Corps. Airborne crews man the radar sets In the Super Constellations .over the vast Pa cific, while on the surface waves toss the crews of the picket ships. Jet pilots, wearing their life-jackets and parachute harnesses, are in the "alert shacks at Air Force bases with their ground crews standing by. and with the pilots ready to take to the air in a blast of screaming fury as their Jets seek the far reaches of the sky should "unknowns" be reported in the aerial defense system. The five year old will spend the birthday as always alert, ready expanding as It carries out its mission which Is to "defend the West Coast against aerial attack." mostly composed of restoration of shoulders, removing minor slides, and repairing small washouts. However, In two locations of the Long Valley Creek, bridges and approaches were washed out. This is between Susanville and the Ne vada state line. The estimated cost for restoration will amount to about $105,000; grand total in dam ages for the county Is (152.000. Siskiyou County was the second hardest hit county in the district. Scott River Bridge, near the mouth of the river on the Klam-. nth Highway, was washed out and the estimated cost of replacement is (200.000. Kidder Creek Bridge, Patterson Creek Bridge, and ap proaches, and the Scott River Bridge all on the section of high way between Etna and Fort Jones, together with considerable portions of the roadway, were washed out and will require approximately $430,000 for replacement. It will cost over (400.000 to re store the Klamath River Highway below Happy Camp. This county xvas the county that received the greatest damage next to Trinity County within the district. An estimated $1,146,000 will be needed for restoration of the state high way in the county. Modoc County received only nom inal damage. It is estimated It will take $50,000 to restore shouldera and clean out culverts. Shasta County received a dam age of approximately (40.000. This will be required to restore shoul ders, clean out culverts, and re store drainage. Ph. 3144
