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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. March 8, 1950 -f- V' NT N (Arm TeUohoto RAN FROM SELF Kenneth Blackmore. who walked out of his Job at a San Francisco hotel 30 months ago with $14,000 of the hotel'! money, gave himself up be cause his conscience bothered him. Re absconded to escape from everydav worries and gave himself up for the same reason. Black more decided he actually ran away from himself. Unique Whistle, Novelty Shop Found By Rogue River Man On Coastal Trip Rogue River, March 4 Van H. Avery returned recently from Eureka, Cal., with an in teresting story about a "whistle factory," he found there. While looking at houses in the vicinity of the city, Avery visited a suburb and he was startled to hear a sudden, short blast of a whistle souding like a willow whistle such as delight small boys in the spring. Blaiii Puisle The short blast was repeated with regularity following long intervals of silence which puz zled him until two little boys playing in a nearby yard offered an explanation. Our daddy is running a whistle factory today," Mike ex plained. "Last week he made salt and peppers, and before that he made pepper mills. He has to toot each whistle wnen lie makes it, and when he toots 8,000 times he'll be finished. Then he will make little log ging trucks that haul Just one March Planetary Review By J. Hugh Pruelt Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Hither Education Syitem Let us look around the sky and locate the "other worlds both seen and unseen. Excluding the earth and the hundreds of tiny asteroids, there are eight known planets. Of these, five are easily seen without optical aid when not too near the direction of the sun, Gorgeous Venus now rises in the east southeast about two hours before sunrise and swings somewhat southward as it climbs the heavens. It is at its greatest apparent brilliance and can be seen as a tiny pearly-white spot In a clear, blue daytime sky, if one knows just where to look Between 9 and 9:30 a. m. for the next two weeks, search little lower than the sun's noon position. If you are on the shady side of a house, your chances of spotting the planet are the best. Clou Together Jupiter and Mercury are very close together in me dawn sky but are too near the sun for observation. Saturn and Mars are in nice positions in the evening sky. About 8 p. m. much later II you are near hills or con iderably west of your standard time meridian Mars, very bright and glowing with a de cidedly red tinge, clears the horizon almost due east. On March 8, the big full moon will slide up the sky alongside this fiery planet. The following eve ning, Luna will be much farther east and will rise over an hour later. This will give an observer a good idea of the moon s cast ward motion around the cartli Considerably higher than Mars, not so luminous and some what farther south, yellow Sat urn shines steadily. Still higher ana almost exactly in line with the two planets and fainter even than Saturn we find the Gl Dividend Checks Passes Halfway Mark Washington. Mar. 4 U.R The government today passed the half-way mark In its Job of mailing special dividend checks to veterans with GI life Insur ance. When the treasury check writ ing section closed down for the day, a total of 7,871.561 checks for $1,351,011,308 rmd been placed In the mall. Nearly 15,000,000 policy-hold ors are getting a share of the $2,800,000,000 dividend fund on the national service life insur ance policies. The Joint operation of the Vet erans administration and the treasury is keeping well ahead of schedule. The two agencies expect to have the "mass pro duction" Job completed by the ena oi April. It mav take vears. however, to clean up all payments. There is no cut-on date when policy-holders may request their dividends Board To Study Plan For Building At SOC Ashland, Mat. 4 The Oregon state board of higher education will review filial plans and specifications for the new II brary-classroom building for Southern Oregon college during its March meeting. The building, costing about $350. 000. will near ly double present instructional space at SOC. Architect C. Howard Kable. Portland, has planned the build ing so that it can be used ultim ately as a library only. The build ing combines the Italian Renais sance of present campus build ings with modern architecture. If the stnte board approves submitted plans, ground-breaking for the building will prob ably take place about May I. it is estimated the building will be completed by spring of 1951. Richland, Wash., Mar. 4 U.R) The General Electric company today forecast a peak summer employment of 72.000 persons al the Hanford atomic plant. bright star Regulus. This star is at the end of the handle of The Sickle, a group of rather faint stars arranged in the shape of the common garden tool used for cutting grass. The curved blade extends northward from the handle and has the open side upward. Wtsl of Star The most distant planet, Pluto, which requires 248 years to en circle the sun once, is very near the blade of The Sickle. Although it can be seen only through large telescopes, there may be some satisfaction in pointing to a spot very slightly west of the star at the tip of the blade and remarking, "There is Pluto. At 8 p. m.. another distant planet, Uranus, is a little south of directly overhead. Neptune, between Uranus and Pluto in distance, now appears near Mars. Both Uranus and Neptune can be seen throueh telescopes of moderate power even through good field glasses. On March 27. Mars will be nearer the earlh than at any time since January 1646. This column will be given entirely to this planet on March 19. log each, Just like the big truck come ana see. Enters Shop They led him into the work shop, past boxes of little brown Jugs, the "salt and peppers ferred to by the boys. Each shaker was banded with its own redwood bark, its top gracefully snapea ana initialed S or P, and the whole highly polished. Seat ed amta poxes of whistles of a sizes were the parents. Georc and Flora Muray, who repeated their son's invitation. The electric pencil In Flora Murray s nana continued care fully writing "Yellowstone Park on each wooden whistle while George rose to show th visitor through the little home factory. "We patent our designs," said Muray, "and we claim our shop is unique because we make our toys and souvenirs out of red wood limbs. Even the whistles are made of small redwood limbs, but I made some of alder too. While Murray talked, his wife with a quiet smile handed the visitor two whistles on which she had inscribed the words "Rogue River, Ore." They are keen throated, attention-demand ing souvenirs of the little fac tory where the limbs of the giant reawooas are utilized in making souvenirs and toys for the many tourists that throng the highways oi the west. Hart's Hatchery Here Produce Hybrid Fowl Hart's Hatchery, Medford. i one of 33 hatcheries in the United States licensed to produced the Barrel - Breasted Northwester, first species crass between a pheasant and chicken to be pro duced commercially, according to Manager Alton Hart. James J. Knowles, Centralis Wash., is creator of the North wester, which required 15 years of development. He maintains that it has a broader breast, heavier thighs and more edible meat. It is a specific meat bird and is not adapted to egg laying. West coast consumers have been paying premiums of 10 to 15 cents per pound for the hybrid Hnrt reported. 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