THE GOLD HILL NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERALJNTEREST
Principal Events of the Weeb
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
The depression Is over so far as
the hay crop of the Cottage Grovs
section Is concerned. Finlay Whlppa
has brought In samples of vetch from
hla Mosby-crssk ranch that stand sight
feet sight Inches.
Mrs. 8. J. Clifford and daughter
Olive, whose home Is lu Medford,
passed through Gateway laet week on
horseback. The women are making the
trip from Medford to Wasco, and cams
over the McKunxIe pass.
T H K M A R K IT *
The body of Oscar A. Smith, 44,
Portland
Klamath Falls business m a i l and lodge
Whaat — Big liiinil bluealem, bard
worker, was brought to Klamath Falla
Winter, 67Hc; soft white and western
from the Cascade mountains west of
white, 47Hc; hard winter, northern
there, where be dropped dead while
spring and weatern red, 48c.
biking to a mining claim.
Hap— Buying prlcea, f. o. b. Pori
Believe It or not, Farley Morgan,
land; Alfalfa, Yakima. 111.00.
elate police officer, while on bis patrol
llu tterfat—Pound 11018«.
last week thrust out bis arm to give
Eggs—Itanch, 18018c.
a traffic signal. A bird struck bis
Hogs—Good to choice, 1608.
hand, rebounded Into the automobile,
Cattle—Choice steers, 18.1607.00.
where
U was picked up dead.
I.ntnbe- Spring. 84® 4 60.
Women of Eugene w ill be asked to
Seattle
W heat—Soft white, weatern white, give tltbee of their canning this year
hard winter, wealern red and north for the benefit of the needy. In a plau
worked out by the relief committees
ern spring 47c; blunatem, 17c.
of the Women's City dub and the City
I l l » - Ranch, 16018c.
Federation of Women's clubs.
llu tterfat—Pound 16c.
Huge—Good to choice. »608.
W. F. M iller of Seaside has on dis
play a regal Illy having 60 bluoma on
Cattle—Choice ateere, 16.6006.76.
Sheep— Spring latnba, 14.00©4,76.
one stalk. Kegal lilies grow exceed'
Spokane
Ingly well along the Oregon coast, and
Cattle— Steers, good, 16.00 08.60.'
Mr. M iller has a large number with
from 26 to 30 blooms on oue stem,
Hogs—Good to choice. 16.4001 60.
Lambs Good to choice, 13.160310.
Trenches take time and are more
bother than spreading poison, but thoy
The first frost of the season visited are the most affective method ot com
gardens In the Lake Lablsh area last bating army worms, now ravaging al
falfa fUdds and gardens throughout
week.
Jackson county, according to Couuty
The T a ft Chamber of Commerce
Agent It. U. Fowler.
haa selected August 14 for the second
Cranking an automobile In gear pro
annual red head round up.
duced painful bruises for J. D. Miller,
Gilbert looney of Jerferaon was
pastor of the Dunkard church, at Now-
bruised and shaken up recently when
berg. The machine started suddenly
he was attacked by a Jersey bull.
and pinned him against the wall ot a
Mrs. Esther Moore of near Lafay store building after carrying him
el to has sold over 130 worth of blooms across the sidewalk.
from a very small patch of sweet peas.
Sheriff Low of Klamath county haa
A greater demand than ever before started a drive to rid the county of
for summer homealtea In the Cascade sheep killing dogs and has ordered hit
national forests Is reported by forest deputies to go the lim it to get rtJ ot
officials at Eugene.
any dog that has a criminal rocord.
A party of Medford men have or One ranch lost 46 sheep last month
ganlxed the Crater Plying club and from depredations ot dogs.
made arrangements for the purchase
There are now about 130.000 head
of a new training ship.
of sheep being grazed on the Umatilla
To fix routes for busses to take
high school studeula to and from
school, the district boundary board met
In the county court house at Hillsboro
last week.
national forest, according to records In
the central office of the forest offi
cials at Pendleton. Forage Is reported
good due to the heavy snow lost win
ter and a late spring run-off.
Purchase of a power mower to be
used In keeping city parkways and
the Boulevard park In condition has
been authorised by the city council
of Ashland.
The Eugene fire department will no
longer respond to calls from outside
the limits ot the city. This result
comes front the decision of the state
Industrial accident commission not to
pay compensation for Injuries received
by firemen outside the corporate
limits.
More fish are being planted In lakes
and streams of Imke county. They are
being tracked from the Klamath
hatchery In loads of between 3600 and
4000 a trip.
Cash and securities totaling 160,000
were found among the possessions of
P. M. Davis, aged and apparently pov
erty-strlcken rod use who died at Wal
Iowa recently.
Port Orford has received assurance
from Washington that the coast guard
appropriation will continue and the
station will be built during the year
ending June 30, 1933.
Rills Dixon, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs,
Robert Dixon of the Webfoot vicinity
near Dayton, was electrocuted when a
pump he and others were raising from
a well contacted a power wire.
A new wooden bridge, at a cost of
about 112,000, la to be built across the
south fork of the Coquille river two
miles north of rowers, replacing the
present narrow covered structure.
Pouring of pavement In widening of
the Pacific highway south of Wood
burn towards Salem was begun last
week. Contractors have a large crew
working along the entire eight miles.
A revival of the "horse and buggy”
days Is taking place In the John Day
valley. Because of the cost of auto
mobile licenses many farmers are us
ing teams to take their produce to the
towns.
All Lane county will be Invited to
the old-fashioned picnic planned by
the W estfir Community club for July
24 in celebration of the opening of Hol
gate bridge on the new W illamette
highway.
Barking of hla dog, which Jumped
on his bed and wakened him, saved
the life of Thomas Curran and family
of Hunnyvale, near North Bend, In an
early-morning fire. The home was
destroyed.
The presence of flying squirrels near
Mount Bcott, near the east boundary
of the Crater Lake national park, was
reported lost week. Capable of soar
ing through the air, the squirrels are
a rare novelty.
Pat O'Rourke, Adrian farmer, cut
and stacked his hay only to have It
burood In the stack, a few hours after
the harvest was completed. The fire
spread from burning weeds along ■
ditch hank. The stack contained about
16 tons.
The cash register In Roy Daven
port's hardware store at Canyon City
has been replaced with a pair of gold
weighing scales. Davenport said that
virtually all miners operating In the
district are paying for their gcoris with
gold dust.
Who wants
second-choice tires
Because of the obvious difficulties
of property owners and believing the
waiving of all the penalties and in
terest accrued from the delinquent
1926-1927 rolls would facilitate the col
lection of taxes, the Wasco county
court haa Issued an order In accord
ance.
Charles Gordon of the Josephine
County Produce company says tur
key production will be 35 per cent
higher than that of last year; that
there are more people raising turkeys
this year than ever before. He estl
mates about 35,000 turkeys in Jose
phine county.
During a recent run of smelt a gray
seal made headquarters at the ferry
slip on the north side of the bay at
North Bend and worked on the smelt
schools from day to day. Tourists pass
ing that way often saw the seal make
swoops Into the massed fish and take
his morning meal.
By way of beating the unemploy
ment situation, a number of men In
the Mulino section of Clackamas coun
ty have kept busy since early spring
peeling cascara bark.
Though the
present price for newly-peeled bark Is
3% cents a pound, veteran peelers
can recall the time when It sold tor 15
cents a pound.
Because of the cost of financing the
Klamath county fair, which usually
totals at least »10,000, It has been con
sidered best to do away with the fair
this fall. The county fair fund Is now
overdrawn about 84000, according to
Chairman Bradbury of the county fair
board, becauso of unpaid taxes and out
standing warrants.
Installation of a large drainage
canal has beon completed by the Malin
Irrigation district to relieve a water
logged condition In certain sections
of the area. Beneficial results are re
ported even this early In the season,
ss some land which was badly water
logged last year is now tillable and
will apparently produce some crop this
season.
A party of deep sea fishers out from
Newport landed an eel of a species
known as sea eel, wolf or leopard-eel,
the latter from Its spotted body. Its
double row of shark teeth make It a
creature that must be handled with
great care.
Klamath folks dug Into next winter's
wood supply last week, when a cold
wave swept over that area. A cold
wind blew in from the west and north,
and the temperature dropped to 44
degrees. Blight frosts occurred, but
did no damage.
WHEN
Uuslwnd and wife were seated In
the garden Io the dusk of a summer
evening. He was doing most of tbs
talking.
“ Very interesting.“ abe said, when
he finally concluded.
“I'm glad to find you're so Inter
ested end Impressed, dear, by these
explanations about banking and eco
nomics,” he told her presently.
“Yes, darling.” sbs replied.
“It
seems wonderful (bat anybody could
know ns much as yoc do about money
without having any of It.'*
FIRST-CHOICE
cost no more?
RIGHT COURSE
G
oodyears are first-choice
— rated first in quality b y a
nation-wide vo te of more than
2 to 1.
“Did M rs Swift take uer husband’s
failure in the right spirit?"
“Oh. yea Just as soon as she knew
he was going to rail she went out and
boughl her entire spring outfit.'
Dows la the Deep
The Diver Why do you girls look
so blue this morning?
Mermaid— Why. some one Invited
Mr. Octopus to our bridge (tarty and
he held er many hands he won all
the money.
C o m in g E v e n ts —
Silas Babbit—My dear Mr. Snake.
I Just can't look at you without feel
ing charmed.
6lr Snake— And If I look at you
much longei I know there will be a
lump In my throat.
Not So rh rifty
“Old Ben Franklin was thrifty.”
“ Not very," answered Silas Cayenne.
“lie did a little early kiting with elec
tricity. but ne did not seem to have
the faintest Idea ol Its financial poasl
bllltlea."— Washington Star.
A t the Beach
Joggs— What
happened to that
handsome guard they used to have
here?
Boggs—Oh, hie wife came out to
be rescued so often he bad to resign.
Safety First— Last
Cop—What do you mean driving
V) miles an hour!
Pretty Motorist — My brakes don't
work, and I was hurrying home be
fore I had an accident
Overheard at a Riding Club
“1 want to rent a horse.’
“How long?"
“The longest one you have. There
are four of tia”
TOOK HIM DOWN
Friend—“That passenger tried to
treat you In a high handed way. didn't
l i e f Elevator Man—“Yes. but I took
him down."
Friendliness in War
A Scot was accosted by a military
picket
"Whc are you?" challenged the sol
dier.
"I'm
fine," answered the Scot
Iloo’s yerself?”
Proof Posi'ive
Housewife—Are you certain those
egge aren't old?
Grocer— You can see for yourself,
inailam. They haven't a wrinkle.—
Brooklyn Engle.
Any rim e. Any Place
Padget—I always said that Slumgul-
llon would come out on top
Gndgef—Why, the man's too laxy to
get anywhere.
Padget—He didn't have to go any
where for hie hair to fell out
Timely Household topic
“But listen deer, spending more
money is the way, yon say to end
unemployment."
“Yes. but, my dear wife, dreaamak
ere aren't the only ones out ot work.”
Goodyears are best. T h e public
says so—the public buys so! More
people ride on Goodyear Tires
than on any other kind — and
have for 1 7 years.
A n d as to G o o d y e a r p r ice s—
th ey’re as lo w as yo u ’ll p ay even
for an unknow n or second-rate
tire.
In a year w hen everyone’s care
fu l w it h m o n e y , d o n ’t ta k e
chances on tires.
Y o u can get the best tires that
ever came from the world’s larg
est rubber fa cto ry— if yo u stick
to this simple question:
W h y b u y an y second-choice
tire w hen FIRST-CHOICE costs
no more?
THI
TRADE IN
y o u r th in u n
safe tires — le t
them help y o u
p a y fo r s t o u t
n ew Goodyears
i U
I II I
T U N E IN on the Goodyear Program every Wedoeeday night
©▼•r N .B .C . Red Network, W E A F and Associated Stations
Cannon a Cariosity
A breech-loading cannon chiseled
from a solid bar of Iron by Andrew
J. Nave of Columbus, Texas, Is In
the W itte Memorial museum of San
Antonio, Texas.
Benedict Arnold's Desk
The desk used by Benedict Arnold
and on which he wrote his treason
able letters during the Revolution
ary war is in the West Point mu
seum at the United States Military
academy.
Committee Personnel
A committee may be one person
or It may be more persons appoint
ed or chosen by a larger number or
an organized body to give some spe
cial service.
In the Nation’s Infancy
When the first census was taken
in 1790, Virginia was first In pop
ulation, Pennsylvania second, then
North Carolina, Massachusetts, New
York and Maryland In the order
named.
Uncle Ebea
“When anyone tells roe he
makes a mistake,” said
Ehen, “he's makln* one right
In thlnkln' I*s glneter believe
— Washington Star.
Americaa Postage Stamps
The first general Issue of Ameri
can postage stamps was In 1847.
Prior to that a number of provl
slonal Issues were made by Individ
ual postmasters In various cities.
never
Uncle
there
him.”
Over the Banisters
“Mom, oh, mom—pop says, where
did you put his socks, and If you
say, where they should be—they
ain't there!”—Collier's Magazine.
Mother Tongne
“A woman usually has the first ns
well as the last word," complains
a reader. And most of those In b e
tween 7—Londota Tlt lllta.
Sweet Words
•The song of flattery.” said H I
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “needs
no -music I f the words are sweet
enough.”—Washington Star.
Individuality
The Idea of social or political
equality Is closely connected with
the consciousness of Individuality.—
Exchange.
Chlnaso Use e f Soybeans
The Chinese turn soybeans not
only Into bread and milk and cheese
hut also Into oil for cooking and
for lamps.
Aluminum Violin
A violin has been made entirely
of aluminum, welded throughout
and finished In natural aluminum
lacquer.
Japanese Athletic Term
Jujutsu Is a Japanese method of
wrestling. In which anatomical
knowledge and skill are used rather
than physical strength. The word
means soft art.
Coinage of Gold
The government must coin all
gold brought to It without charge for
the service. This Is what Is meant
by the free and unlimited coinage
of gold.
Success in Dealing
No man ever achieved a marked
success In dealing with other men
unless he felt a genuine, not a pre
tended, affection for them.—Bruce
Barton.
Largest Flower?
About the largest flower known
Is a species of magnolia known as
the umbrella tree, which has flow
ers varying from 8 to 15 Inches In
diameter.
The Secret
To achieve success one must make
au attempt.— Louis Marin.
Think I t Over
The flint step toward happiness Is
to determine to be happy.
Shrewd
Tommy (to neighbor who Is al
ways borrowing)—Dad says he’s
baying some new records, and could
you go with him, as he wouldn't
like to get any tunes yon don't like?
—Pearson's.
“Raspntin” a Nickname
Rasputin's real name was Gregor
Novlkh. Rasputin was a nickname
given this notorious Russian monk
as a term of opprobrium, ns It
means dissolute, profligate, licen
tious.
Or a H a n k e r Term
“I f my partner persists In calling
three spades with a hand on which
he should pass, what should I call?”
asks a reader. Call him a silly
Idiot.— London Humorist
C om petes W it h R ad io
A man In Winnipeg, vexed by his
neighbor's loudspeaker late at night,
bought a saxophone.
Now all la
quiet at night along that fro n t—
London Tlt-BIts.
First Teacher’s Instituto
In 1839 Henry Barnard, then sec
retary of the state board of edu
cation of Connecticut, organized a
teacher's class or Institute at H art
ford, Conn.
A rt e f Printing
The Invention of printing can be
traced far back Into antiquity. Mov
able types were known to the Chi
nese as early as the Tenth century.
Beginning
Begin whatever you have to do;
the beginning of a work stands for
the whole.—Aosonlas.
Rod Cross Executive
The President of the United
States Is ex officio president of the
American Red Cross.
Crater Made la te Garden
The crater of a volcano near Ed
inburgh, Scotland, has been made
into a garden.