.'HHiinrrn V'rcgon ™ <»>111 JUU, PORTOLA CHARMS BABY CONTEST MISS Mayor Thornton S. Wiley Seeking re-election on the basis of the many accomplishments of his adminis­ tration of the city’s affairs . . . pledges V * / ; the following 17 point program: It w ould seem that Don G aspar de Portola's charm has little appeal for p retty young Miss N ancy Jean Monize, 21 months old, and one of the entrants in the Portola Festival B aby C on­ test. The contest w ill seek the most perfect baby in the w eest from a health and personality standpoint, and w ill be one of the high spots of the festival w hich w ill com m em orate the discovery of San Francisco B ay in 1769. Celebration runs through the month of October and w ill feature dances and , historic pageants as w ell as two of the most ornate parades * in the nation's history. a current issue of the Am erican N urserym an in an illustrated a r­ ticle w ritten by the tw o scien- j tists. Som e years ago the experim ent station, state departm ent of a g ­ A nother step in the cam paign riculture and com m ercial nur­ to provide disease-free nursery serym en of Oregon joined in a stock to Oregon orchardists has cooperative project w hereby been achieved by an indexing de- trees free from visable virus e f­ fice to select clean parent cherry fects w ere selected and registered trees from event the latent virus for the use of nurserym en in g e t­ that do not show on the tree it­ ting buds from w hich to grow self. nursery stock. The method developed b y Dr. The additional step now in ­ J. A. M ilbrath and Dr. S. M. Z e l­ volves testing buds from all such ler, pathologists of the O SC e x ­ trees to see if any of the know n perim ent station, is described in laten t viruses are present w hich m ight show up in nursery stock grow n from them. This is accom plished by taking buds from the apparently clean ze A i » . trees and budding them on tw o species of flow ering cherries that are extrem ely susceptible to the know n latent viruses. If the buds used are from an infected tree they die when placed in these flow erin g ch erry branches or cause other easily detected sym p ­ toms. Parent trees that pass the test on the first species are then tried out on the second w hich reacts so violen tly that its use is reserved for final testing. W hile the visable virus disor­ ders of cherry trees are spread b y insects and other means, the * latent viruses rarely if e ver are A spread in this manner, the p ath ­ ologists say, hence nursery stock MAN that is free from such disease fac SUCCESSFUL FARMER— tors usually remain so. 11 r « * r i op«rating own f i r m i t Cherry Bud Wood Free of Disease I &U ct STATE TREASURER ELECT SUCCESSFUL MAYOR W ILE Y’S PROGRAM | Pledge, a courteous, but impartial, enforcement of the law , of Oregon and the Ordinances o f the city. «L.U 2 SUCCESSFUL SUSINSSS M A N — Bank Director. Director Parmere Plre Relief Aten. Director Canby Telephone Aeen. * Rd. Adv. P. K. Hammond, Chm. EXAMINER COMING A D rivegs License E xam iner w ill be on duty in Ashland, Mon. Oct. 18, 1948, at the C ity Hall b e­ tw een the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., according to an announce­ m ent received from the Secretary of S tate’s office. Persons w ishing licenses or perm its to drive are asked to get in touch w ith the exam iner w ell ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure com ple­ tion of their applications w ith a m inim um of delay. W E S T E R N S m* ” Ua‘" ou.r Prefcn' financial plan for bond retire- nient, and nnancing of public improvements. Favor, the maintenance o f the electric department a, a source of revenue 3 utilities PrüPCrty ‘ aXM’ W*th r i t ” c<” "P*r