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PACE TTTO 5f"EDFOT?D MATL TRTBTjyE, rFDFORD, OTfTttOX. SUNDAY. JULY 4. 1937 FLIER'S o Motor Cruising for Fun o Describing Salmon Fishing in the Willamette River, Plus a Sketch of Conditions There EYED IN CLINICS REFLE MONTH OF JUNE BY AIRCRAFT CARRIER ORDERED TO SEEK IVIISSINGAVIATORS (Continued tram page One.) On hundred and eighty-five chll dren and Infants were examined at p re-school clinics held during the past month throughout the county, Dr. C. X. Drummond, county health of fleer, stated yesterday. This la the largest number ever to take advau tags of' the clinics, the physician pointed out. ' Ten clinics were arranged by the county health unit and the Parent Teacher association. Examinations were conducted by Dr. Drummond and county nurses. The clinics will be continued this month, ten being scheduled. In a series of clinics to be held this week, free diphtheria immunisa tion will be furnished by the 40 et a American Legion organization. This week's clinics are: Eagle Point school, July 0; Lone Pine school. July 7; Phoenix Presbyterian church, July 8. All clinics will be held from 1:30 until 3:30 p. m. and will be In charge of Dr. Drummond and Blanche Friable. Although statistics of last month's examinations are not completed as yet. Dr. Drummond estimated thai 00 percent of the children needed corrective treatment. Approximately 40 percent, he said, had defective teeth and numerous other ailments and defects uncovered by the exam ination!. The clinics are held to enable par ents or guardians to discover any 111 health on the part of children in time to start treatment before youngsters enter school. The change from a home to school environment la believed to but an added strain on the child's physical equipment and any defect handicaps adjust' ment. TAKEN BY DEATH Bessie May Northern ft, wife of Har vey Northcraft, resident of Medford since October, 1931. passed away at a local hospital early Saturday morn ing, after a short Illness. Mrs. Northcraft was born at Port land, Ore., June 33, 1H01. She spent her early life In Portland, and was united In marriage to Mr. Northcraft at Olalla. Ore.. October 5, 1013. They lived In northern Oregon until 1823, when they moved to Los Angeles, Cal., coming here six years ago. There are many friends who will be grieved to learn of her sudden passing. She leaves to mourn her departure, besides her husband, four sons. Her bert L., Millard C Martin K . and John Harvey; also three sisters. Mrs. Zllpha Fisher of Wend ling, Ore., Mrs. Hester Lawrence of Olalla, Ore., and Mrs. I pa belle Busby of Fairbanks, Alaska; three brothers, Oeorge C roue her of Olalla, Ore., and Prank and Henry Croucher of Medford. Christian Science services will be held at the Perl Funeral Home Tues day afternoon at 3 o'clock, with In terment In Ten Mile cemetery near Roseburg. Ore. a ;! $"t: lJ,.y'. i jxrt .I'm! 1 , Cunwhale to gunwhale, the boats were anchored over every favorable eddy TTili newapapar la co-operating; with tha Oregon fllato Motor aaaoclatloo and The Oregonlan In preaentinx a eeriea of motor crulaea under the title, "Motor Crulalnr for Fun." It la hoped thereby to etlmulate travel in tha Pa. ciric northwest. The following article haa been condenecd from a full pege article appearlnc Id The Orefonlu on May SS. BY HERBERT 8. LAMPMAN Staff Wriur, Tha oraioolaa Tha atrangaat aalmoB flihing in tha world Ilea right at Portland', civic back door. Here the fisher man doesn't row a boat frantically over miles of water nor gallop spiritedly across acres of slippery, devilish boulders. He simply maneu vers bis craft to a suitable location and anchors; be assembles his trolling tackle, cocks his feet In dolently on the thwart and awaits subsequent developments. Gulls wheel Insolently above and the thunder of the Willamette river falls at Oregon City becomes drowsy obbligato to the piscatorial sympnony. At least that's the way The Ore- gonian-Oregon BtAte Motor associa tion travel party found It. Aforementioned party arrived at the state police dock promptly at t a. At. Here was round Martin Christiansen, pilot and proud pos sessor of a new launch built sev eral weeks ago by the Oregon state fish commlesion for the express purpose or patrolling the river be tween the mouth of the Clackamas and the falls. Patrol Stop Nettln It seems that certain of the citizenry Insist upon netting the saimon-uirested waters immediate ly below the barrier and that such a patrol is necessary to dampen their ardor. Also upon moonless nignu tney inhabit the twin flah ways across the falls and snag vast boatloads of struggling chlnooks in the dark. The morning was brassy and windless when we set forth. Tackle, ; bountifully sunolled bv Guv D, ; Jones of the Pacific Fishing Tackle company, rattled musically in the stern as the propeller shot a white ahnrt out into the river. The salmon were In the river vast silver salmon of the coveted spring run, that enter the Colum bia river with the spring rains and move steadily upstream toward the spawning beds where they were born. The Willamette river below the falls had held Uie run of sev eral weeks, because for some in explicable reason these fish had not started to use the rambling concrete flshways across the bel lowing falls. Gunwale to gunwale, the boats were anchored over every favor-you may look for a 8. or 7-year-.course of a stream without a single able eddy. The stern of each boat old flan. strike, even though fish are to be was decorated by one and some- Thtse gtow u,,,,. prodigious1 en rolling and leaping on every times two eager individuals who , ire simply because they have re- ide of the boat, time ti"t?Z th''.nwoUl50i.u.fhrl'i?aln,d in ocean- Because they! Then, for some reason that an. tin .cp.vuui.ive urgim. ui saimon oecomes definitely In- uji again, haven t develoned thev stjiv with:l,r,.t,H in taii. t, .u-i- One Man Hooks Fleh mother ocean until they do. After ardor in the matter of such Inves- We watched for several mlnuteeth"r Pa"nl" thev . die eaten tlgation reaches a proper height, before is Theard th T brltiT. cil' !L.blrl.';:,Water ianeu' that fishermen y -they would hit a "Fish on!" IT I h h "ur" urc t-iomeapin. i ney are Deuigerent, Far down the line of boats a rod in the ascent of thi. nMii- nirm mir that n.n..i - .:.u... bent to the surface and a paunchy How do these fish find their pi.h sr,,n u i, man stood up In a swaying boat. way back to the same beds from ' ," " omen His line cut thin white traceries whence they sprang? No man J1""' ,i!n have been taken In In the turgid water. His face was j knows. Yet back they come bright Columbia with their stomachs tense. For a full 15 minutes we of flank and burning with strength fu" of """ yt they do not feed watched until the salmon broke i It is then that the angler takes " enterinS fresh water. They water beside the boat. The river them from the yellow stream. are Intent only upon reaching their literally exploded. Someone lunged I We rigged up heavy rods linen spawning: grounds in the McKeniie, downward with a gaff and the : llnea. nlnno wire i.riP. the upper Willamette or another of lithe silver body glinted dully as I propeller spoons. From the lender !it numerous tributaries. it was drawn into the skiff. I swivels we attached a good 10 1 Icthyologista say that they some- "About 20 pounds," said the pilot jounces of lead. .times take smelt simply because of the patrol boat as he let In thai they are angered at the small, silver clutch and headed the craft to- Must ot to Bottom (glittering of those cousins of theirs ward midstream. "You got to get down to the bot- "',0 upstream-bound to the spawn- A 20-pounder isn't by any means! torn if you want to connect with'ing a big Chinook. The average forj'em," advised Christiansen. He' They're tackle-smashing, paunch the Columbia basin Is something kicked the craft into trolling speed 1 bellied holy terrors. One never like 33 pounds. The world's record and we paid out line into the cur- knows when a strike Is at hand. Chinook, taken in Alaskan waters.1 rent. and the casual angler had better scaled over 100, and only two or I Funny thing about the salmon hang onto his rod as tightly as ever Uiree years ago a 90-pounder was he won't hit a spoon because he's: he clutched a pay check. One good taken at Astoria. hungry. He hits it because he's sore (strike, delivered when the angler as a boiled owl. He seems to resent (is half aaleep, and a rod will jump the glitterinz contrivance that from his hands into the river. These big fellows, however, are! dances along a few inches above! The Chinook of the Willamette comparatively rare. They are, in. the dark bottom of the river. lis world famous as a fighter. He the main, T-year-old fish. Thei Unfortunately for the fisherman. 'hasn't the brilliance of tht iiv... average Chinook enters fresh water .the big fish doesn't resent th.i spoon side, because he doesn't leap and to spawn in his fourth year. He all the time. For hours on end, as: gyrate across the surface. He is may run anywhere from IS to 5iwe can testify, one can di-ag a bullishly powerful and given to pounds. Whenever a giant is taken I pound of such hardware along thei seeking the bottom, where he as- "doggo" attitude. Big Fish Rare i T- - a 1im lai i: The Oregon state fish commission's new launch sumea Pumping a 20 or 30 pound fish from the black, ancient river bot tom is a "job of work." Attracts Many Sportsmen But it's exhilarating, exciting work labor that draws men and women from ail over the state and covers the likely spots on the swirl ing Willamette with literally hun-., dreo's of fishing boats. On a recent Sunday the state police force tallied a total of some 4000 fishermen who carried horn with thm over 200 salmon prob ably morfl than two tons of firm red fish to be served in crisp slices for dinner or placed in glass jars for later use. And like most forms of angling, it's a caste-leveler, this salmon trolling. In adjacent boats, engaged in friendly conversation or relating experiences of previous "runs," may be a WPA worker on temporary "vacation," . a prominent business man from Portland or aome other nearby city and a eineham-clad housewife. equatorial region and was forced to turn back. Itasca In Lone Search ' The coast guard cutter Itasca car ried on the search alone In the Howland region where Miss Earnart and her navigator, Fred J. Noonan. presumably came down yesterday a few miles short of their tiny goal. By mid -afternoon It reported It bad scanned 3,000 square miles ol ocean without having sighted or heard from the missing fliers. Recurring reports of SOS calls be lng heard from the helpless Ear- hart plane raised the hopes of rel a Uvea and friends but some of the leaders in the search expressed In creasing pessimism over the possl bill ties of success. Confusion and overlapping reports of distress calls made It difficult to sift them down to definite in formation but authorities were op enly skeptical about some of them Storm Handicaps Plane One of these turned out to be radio signals from the Itasca her self. ' Although the weather In the vi cinity of Howland Island was re ported In no wise unusual, word of the high altitude storm caused naval authorities here to dispatch four surface vessels along the route ol the returning rescue plane to guide it to a safe landing. The Itasca, which had temporar ily abandoned the hunt and return ed to Howland Island to serve as base for larger operations, im mediately began combing the area about Howland Island where Miss Earhart Is believed to have come down. HELP ADDED FOR T Two spotted mites have been ob served In some orchards and they are expected to make their appearance In other orchards soon, according to L. a. Centner, entomologist of the Southern Oregon Experiment station and C. B. Cordy, assistant county agent. This pest feeda on the under sur face of the leaves turning the portion of the leaf between the veins to a brown color, the veins themselves are not discolored. Orowers should be on the lookout for these ml tea and as soon as the leaves begin to ehow Injury the trees should be thoroughly sprayed with I'Ji gallons medlun) orllght medium summer oil emulsion In 100 gallons of water. Lead areeute la not advised In combination with this spray. LONDON (UP) Miss Janet Bond. 31, has invented for herself a new Job which msy be Important In the event of war. She Is head of the newly formed canned foods advisory bureau and the first "tinned foods consultant" In Oreitt Britain. Eugene Neon Sign Co. owners and operators of the TRI-STATE NEON SIGN COMPANY 409 East Main WILL BE Open For Business TUESDAY at Temporary Location 412 E. MAIN STREET Just Across the Street Rail Names Impresalre LONDON (UP) One of the five new locomotives being built for the London and Northeastern Railway company's trains la to be called the "Dominion or Canada." The others are to be nsmed for Australia, New Zealand. South Africa and India. Cow Held As Security MOUNT CARilEL, 111. (UP) Po lice held John Hockgetgcr's cow a prisoner in the city hsll here for several hours until Hockgelper psld a 15 fine to cover damans Inflicted on a neighbor's garden when the cow escaped from a prn. Infant Tskes Wild Dire OOOSE CHEEK, Tex. (UP) In an auto collision. Ray Herndon, two, was hurled through the windshield of his mother's car, catapulted along the hood, over the radiator and da&hed against the fender of the other ma chine and was uninjured. Because of the continntrCT a. lanche of new .and renewal applica tions for 1937-39 aUto driver licenses, sdded service for assisting the nuhiic Will be maintained rfAllo at. UaHfnrrf city hall to July 17, Ward McReyn- unia, auive examiner, announced yesterday. The staff here vtrAv fvitr of more than 300 applications in ad dition to rendering the usual service Of COndUCtlrif WTittn PMmln.Mnne and road tests for. prospective driv ers, Mr. McReynolds said. The examiner counseled the public to delay no longer the renewal of ariver licenses. After July 17. he warned, the usual schedule will be resumed, with the examiner and his staff being at city hall here only on Saturdays. SUCCEEDS WALLY- Mrs. Norma Reese Johnson, widow of a Detroit manufac turer, and Commander Ear) Wlnfield Spencer, V. S. N., were licensed to wed at Los Angeles. Spencer was the first husband of the Duchess of iVindsor. (Continued irom rfe one.) GATES RETURNS Fl E William A. Gates, co-proprietor of the Grocetria ma:keU, returned home Friday night from Boston where he attended the annual convention of the National Retail Grocers associ ation. He was met and accompanied home from Portland by Mrs. Gate and their daughter Mary Anne, who had been vacationing in the north. While In the east, Mr. Gates also attended a meeting of the Independ ent Fruit Distributors council In Bar Harbor. Me. In addition he partici pated in round-table discussions at a separate meeting of large market op erators In Boston. Mr. Gates also made a study of food merchandising methods in a number of mid -western cities. ON C1P0BELL0 ISLE CAMPOBELLO ISLAND. N. B., July 3. (Jp Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., ! and his bride, the former Ethel Du ! Pont, arrived here early tonight. Capt. Franklin Calder. caretaker of President Roosevelt's summer home on the Island, announced they had arrived, but refused to give any fur ther information. The honeymooners boarded a ferry which was held for them at Lubec. then went directly to the president's summer home. Thieves Hunted MARTINEZ, Cal. (UP) police sought several men who were selling horsehair hatbands and watch fobs on the street. Thev wr utwts. of cutting off 18 Inches of the tail vi ri waicners- horse while the animal was at a hitching stand. Approximately 3,300,000 quart 01 asilk and cream and 3.000.000 dozen egga are consumed annually in Amer ican dining cars. Phone M3. Well haul away your "e'use. City Unitary Service guard, the navy, the newspapers and wire associations, asking zor any thing new regarding the plight of Miss Earhart and htr navigator, Fred l. Noonan. Word that Los Angeles amateur ra dio operators had picked up SOfi sig nals from Miss Earhart brought from Putnam the exclamation: -Thank God, they are alive 1" Later he was Inclined to doubt that any mainland amateur operators had. Intercepted any messages from hit wife and Noonan but he still held stoutly to his belief the round-the- world fliers were alive and would pull through. Putnam seemed cheered after a long distance telephone talk with Paul Mantis, former technical advisor for Miss Earhart, now stationed at Burbank. Cal. Mantz told him that If th plan landed In reasonably calm water It could remain afloat Indefinitely. Ha expressed the belief that Miss Ear hart had landed with her gear re tracted. The sealed, empty tanks in the fuselage and wings would keep the ship buoyant for an Indefinite length of time, he believed. Putnam expureesed concern for Mrs. Mary Noonan. wife of Fred Noonan, navigator of Amelia's plane. "Poor woman," he said, "I must call her after a bit. It must be awfully hard on her I" Mrs. Noonan collapsed earlier tn the day but recovered when Putnam told her signals from the plane were being picked up by Los Angeles ama teur radio operators. Mrs. Noonan, a beauty shop oper ator In Oakland, married her flyer husband three months ago tn a sur prise elopement to Yuma. Arizona. Mrs. Noonan was under a doctor's care at her home tonight. Base Coins Melted LONDON (UP) Base coins which, If genuine, would be worth $4,000, have been taken In at the ticket offices of the Great Western railway over a period of several years. When melted down and sold the metal, weighing about 100 pounds, brought 45. The bag limit on certain rare spe cies of South African game Is one animal In th himter's lifetime. Ore and Bullion Purchased Licensed by Sut ol CillionU WILD B E R G BROS. SMELTING AC REFINING CO. OSVet: 742 Muiuc St., San Fnndac Plant: South Sn Fruvciteo Know Their Pond PASADENA. Cal. (UP Frogs, like cats, always come back. George Howell took eight frogs from his pond, tied Identifying strings around their legs, distributed them for miles around, but in a few days they were all back in his fish pond. Exports of American product to Japan, valued at $204,000,000 in 1936, exceed the total of our sales to all other far eastern countries combined. GLASSES Dr. R. M. Hood. Optometrist Sparta Bldg. Tel. 288-R Main and Riverside, Medford, Ore. Skillful Service Reasonable prices Open Evenings by Appointment Thunder, the loudest common noise, has never been heard unmls- i takably more than about 20 miles j from the flnsh. j Insist On Delicious Lost River BUTTER CONGRATULATIONS to ROY ELLIOTT AND HIS EFFICIENT Medford Fire Department They did a marvelous job in saving the Sparta Bldg., and in checking what started to be the worst fire Medford has ever had. We were fortunate as neither our show room or service department wns damaged. We Are Doing Business As Usual, with two carloads of new car delivered yesterday Rogue River Chevrolet Office and Snlesroom Service Dept. Used Car Lot Sparta Bldg. 32 North Riverside 234 N. Riverside, Foot of 4th St. THE DOMESTIC LAUNDRY AND ZORIC CLEANERS ANNOUNCE THAT CUSTOMERS ARE BEING SERVED AS USUAL Same Phone 166 ALL LOSSES WILL BE 1PAHH2) Customers with loss in Fire please bring your claims to Temporary Office in Rogue River Chevrolet Sales room located at the corner of Main and Riverside.
