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By HAL FORRES1
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1940.
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Eight carloads of local onions
will be bought for relief pur
poses by the Federnl Surplus
Commodities corporation, it
was announced yesterday by C.
B. Cordy, assistant county
agent.
Details preliminary to the
actual purchase were ironed
out yesterday at a conference
of local onion growers with a
government purchasing agent
According to the government
plan, each grower will be al
lotted a quota in proportion to
the quantity of onions he now
has on hand. Any onion grow
er who was not at the meet
ing and is interested in selling
part of his crop was advised to
report his holdings to the coun
ty agent's office.
Francis Russel, Otto Bohn
ert, R. H. Field and V. C. Bish
op were chosen as a growers'
committee to calculate the
available tonnage and allot
each grower his proportionate
share. As the allocations are to
be made this week, growers
should report their tonnage be
fore Wednesday, Mr. Cordy
said. No public mention was
made of price.
ED
The following awards were
nade at Boy Scout cub pack
8's tenth achievement council
last Wednesday night at the
Washington school:
Membership cards and bob
cat badges to Neil Clark, James.
Newman, Gordon Price and
Richard Kyle; upon promotion
from bobcat to wolf Neil Clark,
Richard Kyle and Ward Bebb
received wolf pins and badges
and Ward Bebb was also
awarded a wolf gold arrow.
Directed by Jim Hoey, den
chief, den 3 presented a hu
morous skit. Mrs. J. R. Clark
was appointed den mother and
Chester Cole den chief of den
1. Hobart Price was named
contact man. Dens 1 and 3 will
resume meetings January 20.
L. Morris, cubmaster, pre
sided. Ray Marks, assistant cub
master, conducted the Induc
tion ceremony during which
the awards were made.
Chicago Oi.K Field Museum
naturalists have added a touch
of plausibility to claims by
municipal airport employes
that wild geese have been rid
ing the radio beam into the
landing field.
Assistant Curator E. R. Blake
said maybe it wasn't Just im
agination when the man saw
flights of geese sweep over the
city from the north In V-for-mation,
make straight for the
airport, and hesitate above the
radio transmitter at the north
end of the field. Always the
flights broke formation, flut
tered aimlessly for a short
time, then reformed and made
off to the west.
"Were they riding the sound
beam, just as airlines do when
flying blind toward the field?"
the workmen wondered.
The men remembered seeing
ducks land with a frustrated
look on the runways and car
rier pigeons sit for hours on
the roof of the radio shack.
Blake said maybe there was
something scientific about it.
"There's a standing theory
among bird men that radio
beams tend to confuse migra
tory birds. There might be
something to it. It has not yet
been related to any physiologi
cal function of the birds, but
there are people working on
it."
Such flights of geese at night
would be explained by the at
traction of the powerful airport
lights, make said.
But in broad daylight, well
maybe birds have discovered
their Tying rivals' secrets."
KNOT EXPERTS
TRAVEL WORLD
Bridgeport, Conn. (U.R) John
Hensel and Roaul Graumont
are experts when It comes to
knotty problems.
Between them they have tied
thousands of knots, some of
them so intricate they have re
quired days of study and pa
tience to complete.
Hensel claims to have dupli-
cated the baffling Gordlan knot
which was so cleverly made
that both ends of the rope were
concealed and defied undoing
Both Hensel and Graumont
traveled the world to pursue
their hobby of rope making
and knot tying. In all they
have a collection of 3,200, no
two of which are alike.
According to Hensel, there
are only 310 orthodox knots,
the simplest of which were
used almost from the beginning
of time.
The Dalles. Jan. 13. (IP)
John Whiz, Celilo Indian lead
er, proposed sacrificing "local
color" for sanitation today at
the famous Celilo .fishing vil
lage on the Columbia river.
Whiz said he had the support
of other Celilo all-year residents
for construction of 11 perma
nent dwellings and cabins for
Yakima, Umatilla and Warm
Springs tribesmen who flock
annually to the mighty river
for the age-old salmon runs,
The site is now dotted with
shacks.
Chief Tommy Thompson will
accompany Whiz to Washington
D. C, to discuss the proposed
project with the department of
Interior and congressional com
mittees.
OF STATE CHILLY
Portland, Jan. 13. (IP) The
weather failed to play any new
tricks In Oregon today.
Highway conditions were un
changed and sub-freezing tem
peratures continued east of the
Cascades. Baker was the cold
est city, with a minimum ol
eight debrees.
Other minimum temperatures
today included Bend 11 degrees
Brookings 35, Burns 111, Eugene
29, Hood River 33, Lakeview 12
Medford 26, Newport 9, North
Bend 33, Pendleton 36. Port
land 36, Roseburg 29, Siskiyou
Summit 19.
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San Francisco, Jan. 13. VP)
Wesley O. Ash, western direc
tor of the wage and hour act,
announced today the open cut
mining of placer gold in Idaho,
Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wash
ington and Alaska has been
classed as a seasonal Industry,
exempt from the hour provis
ions of the wage and hour law.
The decision was made in
Washington after hearings be
fore the administrator of the
act.
Garden City, Kas., Jan. 13.
(IP) A snow storm of near buz
zard proportions swept far west
em Kansas today.
Carried by a high north wind
the snow was beginning
block highways over the area
at noon, three hours after the
storm started.
Motorists were warned
stay off the roads except
cases of extreme emergency.
Noted Dead
Staunton, Va., Jan. 13. P
Mrs. J. Frank Clemmer, 75,
for three years vice president
ol the Gold Star Mothers na
tional organization, died today
et her home, "Silverbrook", In
Augusta county after an illness
of four months. One of her
sons. Captain J. Frank Clem
mer, was killed in action in
France.
Dm Uui Tribune ft&JU tOA.
Spain-Franc Pact
Madrid, Jan. 13. (IP) Con
elusion of a new French-Spanish
trade agreement, which au
thorities said was expected to
restore commerce almost to the
1933 level of two billion francs
(about $45,000,000) was
nounced tonight.
C.en Strika Ordered
Snrinifilri 111 . Jan. 13. lP
Ray Edmundson, president of
the Illinois district of the
United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, today instructed 6.000 U.
M. W. A. miners in southern
onH rent'-al Illinjis to "cease
work" Tuesday morning if "on-
shift shooting" 01 coai u noi
halted.
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