PAGE SIX
MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREOON, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1931
E
Post, Taciturn Man of Sky
More At Home In Airplane
Than In Society of Girls
EARLY DAY TRIALS AWARDED POSITION
'' '
I W smsssssss ill 1 1 "
.ps MEDFORD'S MOST POPULAR
Klfc J J) ST0RE FOR OVER 28 YEARS
C.
RnlnfHll records for tho month
In- tho Ticlnlty of Med ford were
shuttered, (emppratureii were un
tirumlly moderate for the season
nnd prevailing cloudlnewi wan
coniriderahly In cxcokk ot the av
erage, ktiyn the monthly meterolojr
ical notes of tho Med ford weather
bureau for June.
'Clear Hklo prevailed for tho
first six days of the month follow
ed by unsettled and cloudy con
ditions during the next five days
with light showers occurring on
the 8th and 9th. Beginning on
the 1 3th stormy weather with
Intermittent rains, characterized
.by occasional heavy downpours, I
continued until tho 10th. Clear I
skies and broken cloudiness fol
. lowed the passage of tho storm
and held for several days.
, "On the afternoon of tho 25th
conditions again indicated tho up
proarh of a disturbance from the
Pacific and during tho morning n;
the 26th mist began falling
Later In the day the mist changed
to a light rain which continued
fulrly steady throughout tho nigh
and into the early hours of tho
27th. Seasonable went her with
mostly clear skies closed the
month.
I "The total of 8.49 Inches - of
precipitation is the greatest June
tjainfull of weather bureau rocord
which covers tho past 20 years,
Tho former record was 8. 0U Inches
which occurred In June. 1018. The
24-hour rainfall record "j for the
station was also eclipsed on the
l&th and 16th when a total of
.1.96 Inches fell. During ono of
the heaviest showers on the 16th
excessive rain fell amounting to
i ncn ps in approximately 12
Ai
minutes. The rnlnn came lit a
very opportune time In tho Riikiip
uKlvor,vnlIoy for most uiirlcultuiHl
nnpds nnd tho hsnoflts worn mirh
hot tlio entire picture of farming
conditions wan greatly Improved.
i URiiy aveniKO tempemturoe
wore Konernlly nuout norma!
howevor, the avorago maximum for
the month win the lowest of roc
ord vxcept for June of 1918. At
me time lowest temperatures
averaged well ahove normal, there
being but one year, 11)21, with a
nighr uvoruge of June minimum.
The low avorago maximum and a
high average minimum combined
to inako a near normal moan tem
perature for the month.
"The monthly nummary follows
In part:
Date
1
3
1
4
5
-6
7
8
JO
II
12
13
14
16
(.!
17
''in
-19
30
)i
T!2
IS
34
it
id
7
18
It
10
Max.
... 86
... 80
... 78
... 88
... 81
... 81
... 89
... 81
... 77
... 70
... 78
... 84
... 78
... 87
... 81
... 81
... 71
... 88
... 7S .
... 81
... 78
... 71
.. 71
.. 86
.. 88
.. 87
.. 88
.. 71
71
80
Mean 76.8
Mln. Moan Pen.
6 J 68 .00
48 68 .00
42 60 .00
44 68 .00
DO 72 .00
68 78 .00
66 611 .00
01 71 ,01
66 86 .08
61 84 .00
48 61 .00
47 66 .00
60 68 .26
68 62 .41
61 . 6 1.00
00 68 1.1 J
81 61 T
47 68 .18
46 60 ,00
62 66 ,00
60 60 .00
68 .62 .00
48 60 ' .00
64 , 64 .00
48 68 .00
66 62 .40
61 60 .08
47 60 .00
48 60 .00
48 63 .00
60.6 68.7 ' 1.40
While residents from all sec
tions of tho Ilogue rlvor valley
were motoring to lukos and other
resorts to spend the holiday yos
terdny, Tom Ross, pioneer resi
dent of Central .Point, entertained
group of children with stories
of his first trip to Criitcr Lnk
In 1881. '
There was no road, to the world
wonder ' when ' Mr. Ross -and
group of friends took the Ashland
routo to tho lake with wugons
und horses.
Many days wero rmiulrcd for
the Journey. "The womon and
horses got tired," he explained
yestorday afternoon In his Jocular
manner, and the Imys wore al
ways ready to camp."
Thero was no trail down to the
lako, but the pioneer lails were
undaunted. Tlioy made ono, and
upon reaching tho water con
structed a raft using boards and
nails recovered from a coll ol
box to fasten tho legs togcthor.
A boat trip was also mado to
Wizard Island In a deserted boat,
tho cracks of which wero filled
with muslin torn from old fash
loncd "B. V. Us."
Another Interesting story re
ardlng tho size nnd duontlty of
early-day mosquitoes was told by
Mr. Ross. The Insects became so
thick In cump one night that a
young lady member of tho party
wan persuuded to tako off hor
hoop skirt und build a smudgo
under It, tho funnel created suck
ed tho mosquitoes Into tho fire.
Tho lako wns far more beautiful
than It Is toduy, Mr. Ross said
Tho lack of civilization milled
much to Its mystery and tho ob-
ntacles conquered In making tho
trip mado "a follow approciuto
It."
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CALIFORNIA ELKS
YOUTH m n fdd
I UU I II LLU I lilt
; Kenneth Hnlilntnn. u, of Med
ford, was arrested In Ashland yes
terday doon driving a Kord sedan
belonging to H. A. Johnson of
this rlty. The youth told officers
he had "borrowed1' the car to
tnka his girl friend to Ashland.
Jailer Osrar Dunford and Oeorge
l'rn.ll nnlln. affl... I.... ....,.
the boy to Medford.
A Chevrolet coupe belonging to
Herb l.undy wss stolen Friday
night, and late? found abandoned
n Ross Inn. A Ford car also
taken Krlday night from the W.
V lllil.lln t
' 4
ER
IS LAKE VISITOR
Marie Dressier, famous film
actress, spent Krlday and Satur
day at Crater Lake, according to
word received from the park. Khe
accompanied a party of friends to
the lake by motor, it was learned.
MVHUCNT victim in
Herald Mornlngstnr, of Central
Point, truck driver In the Crater
1-aks National park, who was
rushed to the Community hos
pital Friday evening to receive
treatment for Injuries sustained
In a collision with another ma
chine, waa reported to be resting
easily last night.
i His right arm Is badly bruised
but tin boniw ti,bn mnji . -
jcolved several ruts on the fact,
a
If ,the sovrnmhi at-,n
ieci income taxes from all the
bootleggers. It may not need that
f80A.non.ooo loan. Indianapolis
fi-ewe. -
Mod ford was tn renditions Ipri-
lay nlKht for the bi Klks cara
van enrouto to tho national con
vention In Hoattlo from the south
the state of California which
always puts thlnnn over In a hK
way. Over oUiht hundred wero to
arrive early In the evonlnn,. and
ns accommodations wero not suf
ficient In Medford, reservations
had also heen mado in Ashland
and Oranta Pass.
Htuto traffic '-police from Port-
tind, Balem, nnd IS u no no respec
tively wero In tho vicinity to As
sist officers of the district in es
corting mom hers of the fraternity
to the rlty. i
Ijocnl Klks, who aro of a cour
teous nature, mado preparations
or tho entertainment of the many
visitors In tho form of a dance
at the Medford temple. Orchestra
members were in readiness to
start the festivities, and rohenh
ments had been prepared for
hundreds.
Hotels were gaily decorated for
the occasion, ns wero tho "offi
cial " wrvlco stations In the city
Med fold was In readiness.
Tho acrenmltiR sirens, tho honk
ing horns announced the arrival
of a prorcsHlon of fifty cars, ot
which only fifteen were momhers
of the caravan stopping hero.
The delcKates, who had started
Friday morning from Hm'ramouto.
wero probably too weary for :iny
festivities. Not one up pen red ut
the dance.
The official nervlco stations re
ported their elaborate decorations,
failed to attract any business.
Hanctloncd by the Klks Indues
In the southern part of Califor
nia, commercial representatives
visited firms and resorts n
tho highways in Washlnaton and
Ort'ifon & few weeks bko nnd
solicited hundreds of dollars
worth of advertising, to appear
tn a booklet to be published by
them nnd given members of the
caravan when they started north
It 'was learned. Whether tho pub
ItRhers were enlUhtened as to the
number to print was not learned
here, but the few who did arrive
wero clutching the little pamph
lets which were to guide their
way north.
The Klks silently stole away
yojtterday morning town id the
convention iiy, to be welcomed
by cheering crowds, whero the
arrival of "hundred of Califor
nia delegate'' has been antici
pated. ,
KoK'T H. Jlennctt of this city,
campaign manager for Governor
Julius Iv. Meier In Jackson coun
ty, leaves today for Halem, to ac
cept a position in tho office or
Charles M. Thomas, public utility
commissioner. A telegram was re.
celvod yesterday from Cbmmis-
sionor Thomas Haturduy, request
ing him to report for duty In the
morning.
Honnett Is well known In thla
city, wharo bo has resided fur a
many years and .Is tho owner or
the I lor bin Apartments. i
Tho nature of Jiennett's work
Is not known, but it will probably
ho along Investigational lines, In
which Hennett Is experienced. In
1913, through tho efforts of For
mer Senator George A. Chamber
lain, ho was usHlgned to report
on conditions on St. Thoman
(Klands. later purchased from
Denmark by tho governmfnt. Th
Islands wero much In tho news
at that time, owing to their adap
lability as coal I iii: station for
fleets.
Hennett during the last cam
palgn was an earnest worker for
tho policies of the into Georgo
Joseph, a llroless worker for Gov.
ernor Meier on tho highways ana
bvwnvs of Jackson county, dur
lug tho last political buttle.
1
E
The stock of tho Munon Khrman
& company whotesalo grocery
ranch agency of Grants Puss Is
being moved to Medford. The
moving waa begun last Monday
and It Is thought the entire stock
will have been tranaforrod to the
main branch of tho company at
Medford by July 10, or ut the
latest, July 15,
fi exptitnation of the stock
moving (ho Grants 1'nss. Courier
says: "Ho cause of tho smallness
of torrllory being served from
here, .officials thought that tho
Mud ford office could take care
of tho business, and ordorcd the
consolidation of tho Grants Puns
nd Medford stocks, according to
reports.'
U. 10. McKlhoso, former well
known Medford man, who is man
ager of tho Grants Pass brunch
of tho concern, will remain in
that city as sulosman and man
ager of tho Grants Vnm territory.
4
T0 100 DEGREES
The weather hero became tor
rid yesterday, the official maxi
mum of the weather bureau
reaching 100 degrees In the after
noon, tint street thermometers
registered several degrees higher.
Today s weather Is expected to
be at last as warm If not warm-
although the forecast Is for
only ''continued warm."
love Wasn't lllliul
M KM I HI 14, July 4,
blind osteopath with offices here
charged In a divorce suit that hi.
wife, oho also Is Idled, wm. in
love wih another blind man. H.
granted 'the nl.n ,fir I..
witnesses, both blind, bad rnrmlm.
rated his statements.
T SERVICE
GETS BLUE TRUCK
Tho Crater Tjuke National for
est flro fighting equipment has
been further augmented by the
arrival bore from Portland yester
day of a new Chevrolet half-ton
truck, whoso blue color Is In con
trast With tho red, of that forest's
InrKO trucks used for flro fight
lug pUTpOHOg.
The new truck will bo used in
the Hulto Falls nnd Dead Indian
district, not only fur fire fighting
purposes, but ns n general utility
truck.
"Mother nf CIm" Killed
TOPLOl'NK. July !. (VP)
Madame Phllnmene T-af leurancc,
known throughout the community;
as "Tho Mother of Cats,'1 has
given home and shelter to her j
last st my rat. Mucin inn ljflrur- i
ance. a widow, lived alone in a
little cottage in tho coimmnv of
more than n hundred cats which
sho had tin veil from the streets.
Her gentleness caused her to be
well known In tho community. A
few days ago sho was killed by
a train while In search of ono of
her pets that had strayed away.
liy Ix-on Jf, Durst
(Copyright 1931, by The Asso
ciated Press)
Part III
Wiley Post aviator, the farm
boy who used a cotton patch to
obtain funds for a mechanical
education had graduated from a
garage mechanic to wing-walker
and parachute Jumper by pre
vailing upon L. I. (Pete) Lewis,
barnstorming pilot, to give him a
job.
LtGwIs, now a transport pilot,
says that Wiley was an avaricious
student of aviation. He never was
satisfied, until be knew everything
a plane could do. Between exhi
bitions he tinkered with the con
trols and with tho motors.
"Mo was a little wild but ho
had plenty of nerve," Lewis re-i
members. "Me was so silent the
mon about tho fields knew little
of him."
In those days, Immediately af
ter the war, pilots who could ec
qulre enough cash to buy a Jenny
or a Canuk frequently banded In
groups of three or four and went
about the country billing them
selves as air circuses. They would
Hiunt the antiquated planes, patch
up tho motors with anything that
would hold, and startle tho un
familiar country folk with their
exhibitions of wing walking and
parachute Jumping. It was in
such a group that Wiley Post
had started in the work.
"You don't care If I make a
few parachute jumps?" he asked
nig mother one day. Mrs. Post in
dicated some displeasure, but ad
mitted she was proud that she
had n son who could do "such
things." When Wiley heard he
had shown some newspaper clip
pings about his stunts to thu
Mnysvillo News, the local, weekly
newspaper, he teased her and
said he took that as meaning that
she approved of the course he
had taken. v
Wiley's father left tho home
farm near Maysvllle several days
before his famou? son brought bis
round-the-woid flight to an end
to escape Inquisitive visitors. He
never was enthusiastic about
Wiley's flying. At the same time
' his mother, proud but not talk
ative, explained how she "never
did like to have my picture put
In tho paper.'
Thero was no resentment on
tho part of the members or
Wiley's family about the publicity
which came In the wake of the
flight. A brother in Oklahoma
City declined to pose for a pic
ture because, he explained, "the
show belongs to Wiley, not mo."
It was plain to see they Jill ere
practical folk who do their dally
work and expect na applause.
Wiley apparently comes by his
hanlcal taciturnity very naturally. He
learned to ftv. Miu
knowledge eavo him a head start niHle ft number of extraordinary
and soon he was zooming off tho
ground with tho most during,
Tho accident which cost Wiley
tho sight of ono eye, brought him
his first plane. Ho was Injured In
a . mnchine shop at Moldenvllle,
nnd received $2,000 in compensa
tion. Ho bought n Canuk plane
and took up passengers usually
for whatever they would pay. If
tho required "pot" was not .col
lected Wiley frequently made up
tho difference and flow anyway,
so eager was ho to go Into tho air
at every opportunity.
Karl Witten, Pauls Valley, Ok
lahoma, aviator, who used to do
stunt flying with Post said that
'whenever he heard of any new
stunt in the air, Wiley would al
ways try it in his old Curtlss
Canuk."
'Wiley never was much of ft
ladies' man," Witten says. Ho
bought a "now flivver with all
tho fixings he could get, with n
part of tho monoy ho got for hl
dnmngod eyo. Ho took tho girls
out In that car now nnd then but
ho always seemed more Interested
in flying than In glrlH."
Ho Is something of n Joker, too.
Around Wiley's homo town they
tell of the timo ho went up to do
pa rac h u t o Ju m p. but threw a
dummy out of the plane Instead.
Heveral womon In the crowd
fainted as the figuro tumbled
down out of tho sky. l
Hoom after Wiley bought his
flrat bl-plano he landed the old
crate In his father's alfalfa patch
and crashed into a hay rake, A
wing beam was broken and Wiley
patched It up with a piece of two-
y-four and took off with a coup
le of flat tires.
Whether that incident had any
bearing or not, Wiley's, father,
didn't tako much to his stunt;
Hying. Ho hid Wiley's pnrachuto
one day so he couldn't Jump.
Wiley's mother said he never
old his father of his first nlr
stunts, but he confided to her ho
flights after ho had become a test
pilot on tho Pac'ffc coast but he
never would comment on them to
any extent. He was the same way
In hts barnstorming days, Lewis
says. Sometimes he would ride In
an outomobilo alongside friends
for fifty miles or mora without
saying a word.
Wiley doesn't say much but
when ho does thce 1h n certain
dry humor In his talk which wins
friends and gets things done.
When tho "Winnie Mae' was
poised at Itoosevelt Kfeld. wait
ing for favorable weather to bop
around tho world, a slow leak de
veloped In one of her tiers. The
incident was reported to Post, i
He hnd done very little talking!
and seemer to be completely fre
of worry.
"One of the tires on the 'Win
nie Mne has gflne soft, Mr. Post,"
a mechanic reported.
"Well, put a little Long Island
air in thero and we'll bring It
back," Wiley drawled.
(Monday: Wiley Post in eels the
man who is to give him bis
f haiKv, and lakes another step up
In the aviation world).
"10 et 8" Officials Visit
Medford "Voiture" of the "40
et 8' Soclete entertained two dis
tinguished state leaders of th?
organisation tho forepart of the
week, George 15. Itussell, Grande
Chef do Garo of the state of Cali
fornia and Grand Chef de On re
Mali Dano of Oregon. Poth of the
visitors wero much pleased with
the reception given them by the
local branch of tho American
Ieglon. In connection with the
meeting, election of local officers
wag held and Horace Hromley.l
was chosen as Chef de Garo to I
head Medford "Voiture for the
coming year.
Corvnllls. Work progressing
on paving of Orchard street in
West Corvnllls.
Imfur. Sodn fountain Installed
at luifur Trug rnmnnnv's tnvv
PAINFUL PILES
BANISHED EASY
WO COUt PILF PILLS INTERNALLY
WITH SWALLOW Of WATRR EACH MEAL
RELIEF IN ONK DAT IN MANY CASES.
40 TsbleU K Cent, Al Prut Store.
Hotel Medford
Dinner $1.00
Every Day in the Week
"Th rood Is Bottor"
at the Medford
Ore and Bullion
Purchased
lrtjMwil Iff Hum Ci'staftttt
WIIDBKRG BROS.
So you think it's HOT
We make ICE
from HEAT
Is is mysterious until you
Know the Secret
Local rates as low as 1-10 of lc per cu, ft.
Southern Oregon Gas Corp.
"Home of Instant Heat"
200 West Main Street Phone 526
H X I I .Ml f a WKsisjsimsii
im I eunuch
( That Will Bring to Southern
ikV Oregon Men and Young Men
jAA m
jdvmift tu $Ld
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B Suits "t
ll Qll 1 4& Values
IS L 11 1 1 lV to $50
H.1
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ii :
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$15.95
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Values
to $65
$29.95
Xtne&aossnsnusBnosi
Summer Trousers, Knickers, Golf Sox
and Swimming Suits Specially Reduced
Jhrough the
Portals
iwl94l...
Whtn onf fn thru the pnrul, of the El
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oration lowly blfnding of sncitnt
Mooriih tpltndor tnd modern motili
the Weit-, moit motVrnutk
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u tra-nnnisrn In comfort. Kl.cirifie3
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s.i i-orifi, na li v. th ut. ot mi now.
. A1rsellv Summer Rat,,
Apart 'iiinls llolrl Ronma
n.nr. weakly d mk.hly na
San Francltco'a Newest llutal
CQlrrd I
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Broken Loto In
Nun-Bush
Shoes
$11 values reduced
$3.50
$8.50 and $9.00 shoes
0inn lit
$6.7,5
Moccasin
Golf Shoes
An exceptional value at
$0.50. Reduced for this
calc to
$5.00
miiii,Bjim'J
Manhattan
Shirts
Regular $3.00 and $3.50
values reduced for this
event to
$2.25
20 off
! " k. i
On Tuxedos, Blue Suits
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Manhattan
Shirts
and other standard
makes. Values to $2.50
reduced to
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One Special Lot of
Shirts
In this lot you'll find
some exceptional val
ues. Up to $1.95.
$1.35
Leather
Coats
Gray suede and white
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Lounging Robes-Wool, Silk and Beacon l3 OFF
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