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director of state-wide classes,
extension division; Dean Ava
Milam, OSC; Dr. Franklin Ze
ran and Dr. F. A. Gilfillan of
OSC's school of education; Dr.
Theodore Kratt and Dr. R. W.
Leighton of U. of O.; Miss Mar
tha Shull,- president, OEA; Mr
Cecil Posey, OEA secretary; Miss
Jan Robb, secretary, National
Education association; Dr. Paul
Rehmus and Dr. V. D. Bain ofi
the Portland school system, and
many more.
These Speakers on Program at P-T Conference When the '
college conference on Parent-Teacher cooperation meets at
Monmouth next Thursday leading educators and experts will
be on the program. Among them are those pictured above.
From left, Dr. E. T. McSwain, of Northwestern university;
Mrs. H. H. Hargreaves, president of Oregon Congress of
Parents and Teachers; and Dr. H. M. Gunn, president of
Oregon College of Education.
Educators and Experts to Be
On P-T Program, Monmouth
Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, Jan. 13 Leading edu
cators and national experts in Parent-Teacher-communlty rela
tions will confer with Oregon P-TA officers at the first Oregon
college conference on Parent-Teacher cooperation here January 19.
Purpose of the conference is to bring about adoption of a com
munity study course in every-teacher-training
college in the
atate.
Mrs. H. H. Hargreaves, Oregon
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers president, and Dr. H. M.
Gunn, the state director of ele
mentary teacher training and
president of OCE, will be hosts
to the conference.
Attending will be teacher
training directors and delegates
from every Oregon college now
training teachers. One of the
top national experts to speak at
the morning session is lit. rau
ridge T. McSwain, famous for
his work in community relations
at Northwestern university, Ev
anston, 111. Dr. McSwain was a
speaker at the Oregon Educa
tion association convention in
Portland last spring.
Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead. a
pioneer worker In the move
ment for this added factor in
v teacher education, will preside
, at the conference. Mrs. Moor
head. of Eugene, is first vice
president of the Oregon congress.
Dr. Rav Hawk of Western
Washington Teachers college,
Bellingham, Wash., and superin
tendent of schools George Cor
win of Monmouth-Independence,
will be speakers at workshop
sessions in the afternoon. Both
attended the Northwestern sum
mer school under Dr McSwain
as delegates from Washington
and Oregon P-TA congresses.
Leaders In education expected
to attend the conference in
clude Dr. Rex Putnam, state
superintendent of public instruc
tion, Dr. A. L. Strand, president
OSC; Dr. Harry K. Newburn,
president of U. of O.; Dr. Roben
Maaske, president, EOCE; Dr.
Elmo N. Stevenson, president
SOCE: Dr. Harry Dillin, presi
dent, Linfield college; Rev. Theo
dore J. Mehling, president, U.
of Portland; Sister M. Rose Au
gusta, president, Marylhurst coi-
lege; Dr. G. Herbert Smith, pres
ident, Willamette University;
Dr. Stephen Epler, Vanport ex
tension center; Mr. Viron Moore,
Douglas Fir
Market Firming
Portland, Ore., Jan. 13 W.R)
The Portland district of the U.S.
army engineers reported today
the Douglas fir lumber market
is "firming up again" and pine
is "continuing very tight."
The statement was based on a
tabulation of only 30 opening
bids this week on some 3,500,000
feet of lumber wanted for the
armed services. The number of
bids usually run 70 to 100 in
number, they said.
Officials said pine bids show
ed a $2 increase to continue the
reflection of the recent increase
in the pine market. Pine was
expected to remain tight until
air-dried lumber re-enters the
market in a few months.
Next Tuesday the engineers
will open bids on between 4,000,
000 and 5,000,000 feet of lumber,
including packaging and crating
material and some construction
lumber for the armed services.
Taking Cows Into Alaska
Gives Farmer a Headache
Palmer. Alaska. Jan. 13 U.R) Art Holbrook, farmer, vows
he is going to bring cows into Alaska from the States this
year by plane instead of by truck.
"It'll be expensive," he said, "but I believe it will be a more
comfortable arrangement for both the cows and me."
TJlt U A 1 .uaop.nl f rf a i r v
farm owner', and hit son, Leon,.'" f.100 bumpy miles stand-
on VtAKk Tort summer nn n '"B "ft
truck trip to the States. They
were going to show Matanuska
Valley skeptics that the cheap
est and best way to get new
stock was to drive outside and
haul them back.
"We left Wisconsin Aug. 12
with five tons of three-year-old
Holsteins aboard." he said. "We
figured on a week's trip home,
but it took 17 days, and those
eight cows gave me more trouble
than I've had in 20 years of
farming."
Holbrook said the cows made
a fearful racket as the truck
jogged up the dusty Alaska high
way. The entire round trip was
8,200 miles. He continued:
"It was anything but a joy
ride. They rode with their heads
sticking out through the stakes
on the side of the truck. They
bawled at every farm animal we
passed. When they were thir
sty, they would watch until they
caught sight of a stream, tnen
bellow for me to stop."
Holbrook said he nearly lost
the whole herd in Slave Lake,
Alberta. When he let them out
to graze, they streaked down the
highway at a fast trot, apparent
ly heading back to Wisconsin.
"The whole town turned out
to help us round them up," he
recalled.
About 150 miles north of Daw
son Creek, Holbrook burned out
his truck engine. He was forced
to wait in a Canadian road
camp for more than a week un
til motor parts could be shipped
in from Whitehorse, Y. T.
Holbrook conceded that he
made a big mistake in "drying
up" the cows for the trip.
"When people along the high
way saw those cows, they offer
ed me a dollar a quart for milk,'
he said. "I could have made ex
penses milking them on the
trip."
Three years ago Holbrook es
corted six cows from the state
of Washington to his farm via
steamer and the Alaskan rail
road. But each cow cost him t
total of $370, set down on the
farm.
"Furthermore, they all got
seasick, and I couldn't stand to
listen to that groaning again,"
he said.
Totalling up the expenses of
his truck trip. Holbrook discov
ered that the eight Holsteins cost
him a total of $450 per head, in
eluding purchase price.
Stooping Over to Tie Shoes
Restores Sight Lost 12 Years
Johnstown. Pa.. Jan. 13 VP) The simple act of stooping over
to tie his shoestrings was credited today by a 41-year-old sales
man with helping to restore his sight after 12 years of total blindness.
Foster M. Wilson said that when he stooped to tie his shoe
string recently he suddenly saw
a beam of light. Then there was
a fog and finally a light haze.
He rushed to the doctors he
said had told him he would
never see again. At first, the
doctors said his newly acquired
vision was "a temporary im
provement at best."
However, Wilson said, the im
provement continued and now
he has almost 20-20 vision with
the aid of thick-lens glasses
Wilson, married and the fa
ther of 18-year-old twins, said
the doctors told him he lost his
sight because portions of his eyes
had become detached. The sud
den movement of his head when
he stooped over, served to "weld
I the severed organs.
Capital Journal, Salem, Or., Friday, January 13, 1950 18
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Boss Can Dress Like Simon
Legree and Get Away With It
Washington, Jan. 13 W) An imitator of Simon Legree got his
skit approved today by the national labor relations board.
It's okay, the board ruled, for a boss to dress up like the mus
tache-twirling villain of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and go around
among employes playfully cracking a whip.
A CIO union, the Textile
Workers, hailed Walter L. Berry,
1 Discuss Foreign Policy Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.,
Mich.), Chairman Tom Connally (D., Tex.), of the senate for
eign regulations committee and Secretary of State Acheson
(left to right) converse before start of a closed door discussion,
In Washington, of U. S. foreign policy. Acheson was expected
to deal particularly with the Formosa and general China
Situation in his meeting with the committee. (AP Wirephoto)
i dance director. The group in top photo looks like any group
The cows became resigned to
life in a truck," he said. "When
we lowered the tail-gate ramp
in the morning, they would walk
out, graze until evening, then
climb back in the truck Just
like it was their barn."
Seventeen days after leaving
Wisconsin, the cows arrived at
the Holbrook farm here, in ex
cellent health But they were
very illtempered the last few
days of the trip Holbrook said
they were butting each other
and eyeing him with open hos
tility.
"But you'd be mean, too, after
Masons at Sheridan
Hold Public Service
Sheridan Sheridan Mason
ic lodge No. 64, AF & AM, will
be honored Sunday evening by
a special Masonic service. Rev.
Frank W. Look, pastor of the
Sheridan Christian church will
deliver the regular Sunday eve
nine message. Charles F. Shri-
ver, member of Phoenix lodse
No. 145. of Sumner, Wasn., will
deliver the special Masonic lec
ture, his topic being, "The Real
Secret of Masonry."
The Sheridan lodge urges all
Masons and Eastern Star mem
bers to be present. The church
also extends a hearty welcome
to the public to be present at
the special occasion.
February and March Babies
To Live Longer Than Average
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
(Aiuoclated preM science writer)
New York, Jan. 13 VP) Babies to be born in February and
March probably will live more than average long lives.
There will be more geniuses among them. Probably more
criminals too.
This is a finding of a study of cycles, issued today by the
Foundation for the Study of Cy-
cles, Riverside, Conn. The work
is season of birth, its relation to
human abilities, by Ellsworth
Huntington, of Yale.
Dr. Huntington says his con
clusions are based on millions of
births.
He finds there is a rhythm
Farmers Petition Court for
Control of Tansy Ragwort
By CLAUDE STEUSLOFF
County-wide control of tansy ragwort, poisonous weed rapidly
spreading through Marion county, was asked of the county court
Wednesday by a 12-man committee which presented petitions
signed by 355 farmers on 54,158 acres of land. Eradication of
gorse a more limited pest resembling Scotch broom, was also
requested,
From Isolated patches total
ling not more than 25 acres in
1945, tansy ragwort has scatter
ed to an estimated 2500 acres in
the county and livestock poison
ing losses have increased propor
tionately. According to Ben New
til, livestock county agent, the
weed was unknown in Marion
county prior to 1940.
Originally the pest was prob
ably introduced to Oregon in
hay. Spread by wind and water
borne light fluffy seeds it spread
from south to north along the
coast counties and thence inland
fnllnwlne water courses. To
date infestation is more exten
sive on the west than east side
of the Willamette river. San
tiam, Pudding and Willamette
river bottoms are the worst areas
in this county but it was brought
out at the hearing that tansy
ragwort seers could be found in
every square mile of western
Oregon.
Sheep Not Affected
Tansy ragwort toxicity is due
to alkaloid substances which are
cumulative, animals developing
an appetite for the plant during
the poisoning process. Lethal
dose for cattle and horses is five
pounds of the plant. Some of
the most potent poisonings in
this county have occurred on
improved irrigated pastures
grazed by dairy cattle. Sheep
are not affected and in controlled
trials have maintained health
and vigor while being pastured
on heavilv infested areas.
The 1937 Oregon weed law
provides that the county court
may declare a county-wide weed
control and appoint a weed in
spector to carry out provisions
of the act. A public hearing
will probably be held prior to
further action by - the court.
Clackamas, Coos, Curry, Lincoln
and Tillamook counties have ap
propriated money for weed con
trol work. Plans are also being
made in Linn county.
Forest lands weed control is
handled through cooperation
with the state board of forestry.
The state highway commission
cares for roadsides. Each men
nium the sum of $15,000 i;
granted to the state department
of agriculture for carrying out
weed quarrantine provisions and
for cooperation with counties in
control work, not more than 10
percent of which is to be usd
in any one county.
Farmers Given Aid
Production and marketing ad
ministration payments up to 75
percent of the cost of spray ma
terials for tansey ragwort and
gorse control will be available
to individual farmers during
1950. Two, 4-D applied in April
or May is recommended. After
the plants form buds and bloom
cost of spraying with atlacide,
amate or 2, 4-5 T is four times
as costly as the earlier applica
tions.
Committee members at the
hearing were: Eddie Ahrens,
Turner; Richard L. Barnes, Sil-
verton; W. R. Berndt, Salem; D.
H. Coomes, Jefferson; William
Fobert, Hubbard; Earl K John
son, Salem; Albert Mader, Sa
lem; Harry Martin, Jr., Salem;
Ben Newell, Salem; A. C.
Spranger, Salem; Verny Scott,
Sublimity and W. M. Tate, Sub
limity.
in human conception and birth
periods. It is not fixed like ani
mals, but he says it was prob
ably set by the weather condi
tlons under which primitive man
lived. The rhythm has not en
tirely worn off with civilization.
Births in February and March
come from conceptions the pre
vinus May or June. Those
months, Huntington said, have
the sort of temperatures which
human bodies are at their phy
sical peaks. The temperatures
probably accounted for fixing
those months as a conception
period.
Primitive babies born in Feb
ruary and March would have
had a better chance to live and
be healthy than at any other
time in the year in northern
hemisphere climates. This is be
cause green things start growing
about then, assuring their moth
ers of better and more adequate
food, and the babies of a better
chance to survive hot and cold
spells.
It lesser degree, the Febru
ary and March babies still have
some of the same advantages
The cycles show, Dr. Hunting
ton says, that a higher propor
tion of weaklings is born In
other months.
He says the spring tempera
tures also seem to have some
Man-Eating Crocodile Gulps
Pop Bottle to Surprise of All
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 13 (U.R) Mark Anthony, the Cincinnati
Zoo's 13-foot man-eating Nile crocodile, is just a baby, having
lived only about 50 or 60 of his anticipated 200 years.
Like any baby, he likes to put things in his mouth. Things
like sheep, or 40 pounds of horsemeat.
But now he s gone too far.'p
He has swallowed a pop bottle.
Mark sheds his teeth as a
deer sheds his antlers and he
happened to be losing a few
when somebody dropped the pop
bottle into his tank. His gums
were sore, with new teeth coming
through, so he used the bottle
as a teether.
When his keepers tried to take
it away, he would lie on it or
hide it In his mouth. Keeper
Robert Clemens said it would
have been suicide for anypne to
go into the tank to take the
bottle away from Mark.
Then the thing everyone fear
ed happened.
Willard Owens, the head keep
er, was watching Mark suck the
bottle. Owens looked away e
moment. When he looked back,
no bottle.
Some think Mark can live for
years with the bottle lodged in
his reptilian interior. Others
think it may clog his Intestines
and cause death within a few
weeks or months.
At any rate, Mark is worth
$5,000. It would be a pity to
lose him because of a two-cent
soft drink bottle, Owens com
mented.
Jr., before the NLRB for doing
just that.
It was the day before an
NLRB election at the Charroin
Manufacturing company, which
makes plastic aprons and table
cloths at San Diego, Calif. The
union argued that the Legree
stuff was a reason why the union
lost the election. The vote was
78 for and 184 against the union
Berry, the company's man
ager, said he got the play-acting
idea after the union put out
pamphlet "picturing me as a
wolf with saliva flowing from
my mouth, and we interpreted
it to be Simon Legree."
"We thought perhaps it was
time to have a good laugh just
as personal retaliation to the
union for having pictured me
that way," Berry testified in the
case.
I thought I would show the
people in the plant the real
thing."
So Berry went out and hired
himself a costume, a big floppy
hat, long frock coat, drooping
mustache, boots. Yes, even a
whip.
Another witness said
"Well, I was sitting at a ma
chine and I heard a commotion,
and the girls began to scream
and laugh, and I looked and
saw Mr, Berry.
"He just simply went around
and said, 'you must vote,' and
he would crack the whip down
on the table. That was the day
before the election." '
Next day, election day, the
same thing. This time Berry
had an office boy run along
ahead of him and pretended to
'hit his back while he was
stooped over like a slave would.1
"You gotta vote," was Berry's
refrain during his Legree role.
The NLRB considered all this
'deadpan. Its ruling today said
'It was considered to be no1
more than a humorous incident
in the course of an election cam
paign. In our opinion, the event
has not such significance or ef
fect that it can be said that gov
ernmental procedures were so
unfavorably portrayed as to
make a free and untrammeled
election impossible."
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Like the Dodo, the rhinoceros iguana is dying out.
Three-Foot Long Lizards
Of Great Speed Getting Scarce
Chicago The rhinoceros iguana, native to the island of Haiti,
is becoming a rare creature because it is highly prized as food.
Director R. Marlin Perkins, of the Lincoln Park zoo, said the
lizards were found in great numbers until afte" the arrival of
Christopher Columbus in the West Indies. Comparatively rare
additional effects on genius and i iuday, they became a table deli--
great accomplishment. In his
studies, mental activity is best
when the temperature drops un
der 47 fahrenheit. This happens
in the spring and fall.
Under primitive conditions,
fall was not favorable for new
babies to survive. So the hu
man race was influenced by the
weather, in this hemisphere, to
produce more of everything In
the baby line and baby ability In
spring births.
cacy for the European invaders
and their descendants.
The rhinoceros iguana was
named after the rhinoceros of
India and Africa. The two coni
cal horns on their snouts and
their mean temper and aggres
siveness when disturbed resem
ble that of the larger beast.
The lizard reaches a length of
over three feet and is capable
of great speed and clever
brokenfield running when pur
sued.
The persistence of the Hait
ian gourmet has overcome this
advantage by using trained dogs
to catch them.
According to Perkins, the
rhinoceros iguanas are not par
ticularly fastidious about their
own diet.
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