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lVfEDFORD MATL TRTBTTNE, MEDFORP, Q-RTCGOTT. VTTONEST)AY. 'AUGUST 19. "1938.
Climate and Soil Combine to Produce Pears Famous World Over
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Above 1 ihown the "Royal Orohard Tracts," one of the units of Orchard Park Farms, Inc. This unit, which is locat ed east of Phoenix, Ore., inoludes 170 aores, eighty of whioh produce Bartlett pears, one of the largest solid blocks of Bartlett
pear trees in the Rogue River valley. - . . ,
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SNAKES FOR COMING
1L DANCE
hotuvMjA, Ariz., Aug. lg. yp)
Fleet Hopl runnera received the bleu
in of the make prleete today u
tliry entered the Painted desert and
Indian country on a four day search
for reptile to be used In the ancient
nake dance ceremonials e prayer
for rain.
. Armed with whlpa made of feathers
which are used to keep the snakes
from colling and striking, snd with
bags In which to carry their strange
prey, the runners set forth at sunup
on their sacred mission.
They will gather hundreds of dead
ly rattlers, harmless red racers and
big bull snakes that will be used by
the. dancers Saturday, Sunday and
Monday In the weird snake dance
rituals described by many authorities
as the most aborlgln&l of American
Indian rituals.
The reptiles will be carried Into the
underground klvss of the Hopls where
the snake prlesta will prepare them
for the ceremonies later In the week.
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FOR REVIVAL THROUGH
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WASHING TON, Aug. 10. yp Any
day now the government will launch
a nw program, to revive an old and
romantic American Industry whal
ing. "It la hoprd." iiaid John R. Oarrt.
'ner, special assistant to the commis
sioner of fisheries, "that this ancient
and honorable business can soon be
restored to something of its old glory."
Commerce and treasury representa
tives are re -drafting a lew final reg
ulations and officials said they hope
within 60 days to Issue the first Unit
ed States whaling license.
Through laws passed by the last
congress the much hunted right
whale has been given the Immunity
of a sacred cow and Its killers con be
imprisoned for six months and fined
$10,000.
. The law says harpooners cannot kill
a sulphur bottom under 60 feet, a
finback under BO and a humpback
under 35. yet even experienced gun
ners have a tough time guessing the
whale's length when he blows,
"The business," said Gardner; "it
not exactly rushing. The United States
has four companies whaling two In
Alaska, one out of San Francisco and
one out of New York." -
la 1770 there weft 300 American
whaling vessels. In 1846 736 ships
sailed the world for whales and 40,
000 persons were employed In the In
dustry. ' '
Harry Balogh, New York fight an
nouncer, won the plaudits of a Lon
don newspaper, for his phrase "May
the better man emerge victorious,"
instead of the usual "May the best
man win."
' EASTEND, Sask., Aug. 19. (F) A
pair of amateur geologists studied to
day the remains of a trlcerotops. a
monster they described "as big as a
house" that roamed these south-western
Saskatchewan plains something
like 25,000,000 years ago.
Aarty of eminent geologists from
.the United States that came here
some weeks ago stirred anew the fer
vor of George Beane, editor of "The
Enterprise," a weekly newspaper, and
"Corkey" Jones, the town policeman.
The official party secured 625 spec
imens of the eocene mammals of the
rhinoceros family from beds uncov
ered near here. Beane and Jones, al
ways deeply Interested in scientific
studies, thought they could do as well.
They Just about did.
They uncovered the fossilized skele
ton of a trlcerotops, the predecessor
of the present rhinoceros. The legs of
the age-old monster were bowed by
the weight of his immense body. Sci
entists said the trlcerotops was a
quadrlpedal, herbivorous reptile, hav
ing an Immense head bearing three
horns and a frill over tho nock,
Remains of other similar specimens
have been found in Wyoming, but tha
discovery of Beane and Jones was the
first ever made "in Saskatchewan.
Started In 1015. the British Indus
tries Pair Is generally considered tha
world's largest national trade fair
and Is attended annunlly by buyers
from all parts of the world. t
Ten months may elapse before an,
82-lnch pyrex mirror has been poln
iBhed and made ready for use In s,
big telescope at the McPonnld ob
servatory In Texas. ,(
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