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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1951)
' - f ' 13 The Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Friday, March lit ltSl . j jt,ti,U, Farmers Told Rodent Control 1 I i lime at Hand By Lillie. L. , Madsen 1" . . - Statesman rnn Editor - Willamette- valler- rodents came through the winter In very fine condition, , fanners are reporting. ISaay add that they have scarcely seen so many moles, gophers and Sjiwy diggers as. are at work this spring. .. " " ' Bodent control Is most effective when done in the spring while food supplies are not too plentiful and before the young are born- especially- in the case ot - those rodents that bear young but once a year. This information comes from the various Willamette valley ex tension agents. Poisoning, the specialists report. Is usually the most economical anethod of control and provides a Quick method of reducing the ro dent population. Trappinc is an effective means of control but is more slow and costly where large areas are involved. Gray diggers are making them selves evident with the coming of warmer; weather. They are the largest ground squirrels found in Oregon and the most destructive as individuals, reports show. The fact that they have a wide range of acceptable food and that they ha bitually store sufficient food to last through the winter causes thm to do great damage to crops. Poisoning is, particularly, effec- . tive in the case of the. diggers. A ready-mixed ; strychnine - treated . bait prepared under the super vision of the i Oregon - extension services 'Is available from the eocnty agents'" offices and from some of .the feed and seed stores. ' Gophers and moles are "making heavy inroads in clover fields, par ticularly in fields of sub-clover. These, too; may' be poisoned but the types of food eaten by either of these are fewer. Trapping . imme diately will cut down the popula tion greatly, county agents are re porting. - Demonstrations in trap-' ping may-be scheduled in some of the . Willamette valley counties later this spring, ivs ; ," wf. - Poison for control of. rats and mice-are also available.' Persons handling poison baits are warned that they are dangerous to- live stock in some cases, as well as human beings,' and are advised to handle them with great caution. Funeral Set Saturday for E. E; Getchell Services for Elmer E. Getchell, 965 S. Liberty st, will be held at 13$ poni Saturday at the W. T. Btdon chapel. Getchell died Wednesday night t a Salem hospital . following a stroke he suffered a week ago. He was 89. .Deceased had lived in Salem for 15 years and lived in Aums ville for 12 years before moving here. He was born at Springfield, Maine, May. 8, 1861 and lived in Canada before moving to Oregon. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Otto Roller, ' Salem; son, Frank Getchen," Toledo, a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Mahar, Springfield, Maine, and two grandchildren. Interment will be at Stayton etery. Whistling Swans Gain in Numbers LA GRANDE, Ore., March 22 Whistling -. swans, - once feared doomed to extinction, were mak ing the annual rendezvous in the Grande Ronde valley today. - For the past two years the big birds showed up on St. Patrick's iay. A few made it this year, too. tout the bulk of the flock did not arrive on the annual spring mi gration until several days, later. Observers said about 50 were paddling about in ponds today. O 0 All Ilcrhrmdiso; Goes Disccnnls Galvanized Yfare Bcdiels ' "-:.:'; "Tuts'- r - Gartagcr Cans : T CSrcuIafoi Haoieraw f ! . ' - ; soxco BTU I Cactric Haoters V LVryton Kcrcla - : i: - livery iica aziiizi Shop , i r ! ! ... - - ; AN OLD HABIT Willie Mosconl (left) and Willi Xloppe pose with trophies after winning world pocket billiards and Uxree-cmsMoo billiards titles, respeeUrely at Navy Pier, Chicaro. . f ; . ft : 1- 1 - t 'I- Prowl of RFC Probe Secret WASHINGTON,? March A story of midnight prowlers who apparently tried to geti access to secret -files of th$ reconstruction finance corporation during the cur rent senate RFC Inquiry was re lated today.- i -"I :-: Officials said an Investigation is being made. V j I : RFC Chairman W. Elmer Har ber told newsmen he did not know whether any i of he; confidential documents- some of them linked with the senate probe -Were 'stol en. - - ; ' !--' r . I i Other informants said the only item definitely krwwn to be miss-; ing is a bank or building and loan association passbook owned by Mrs. Donald J Dawson, j who has cnarge or tne iues. , ' Mrs. Dawson is the yite of a White House j aide': who - has been named by a senate banking sub committee as having exerted pres sure on RFC in connection with loans. j i ' Informants said 'a severed chain on a door leading to the file rooms gave the first tip-off on the prowl ers' visit. Officials said the dis closure led the agency ; to install an electric lock add burglar-alarm system. ; I J Couple Held In Dallas on Check Charge DALLAS, March 22 i- Mr. and Mrs. Harry James Erickson were held in Polk county jail here to day, following their arrest in .Sa lem on bad check charges and their appearance before -West Sa lem Justice Elmer Cooke today. Both were bound over to the Polk county grand jury! Erickson, 24, is charged with . forgery and his wife, Dorothy Marie Erickson, 28, is charged with I obtaining money by false pretenses. Bail was not set immediately. . The couple was arrested Wed nesday night by Salem city police who reported they later signed statements admitting passing two fraudulent checks at grocery stores there, f - I 1 Neuberger Article In Reader's Digest Recent Oregon elections are ex amples of the failure of labor lead ers to swing, votes of their follow ers in a bundle. State Sen. 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