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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. April 5. 1950 Gardening in Northwest By John H. Hanley, PhD The Gorgeous Gladiolus is one of those with plenty ot size ana color, which, along with the fact that it is not too difficult to handle, makes it an ideal flower for men growers, as well as for the lady of the house. Men usual' ly choose things, like roses, dahlias, rhododendrons, tuberous begonias, and glads, all of which possess the attributes for wnicn the majority of men gardeners are looking. With gladiolus, pecially in a year like this one when there are all Kinds ot Dcau tiful, large bulbs (corms) at hand in seed and garden supply stores, it would be almost un thinkable to do without them. The first planting should have gone into the ground earlier, or at least as soon as tne sou De came dry enough to work- If you missed that early planting, by all means get one in now. The idea behind the early planting is definitely not Just to be rushing the season. The thought is to have gladiolus blooms ready for the home use, or for the market, as soon as Dossible. then, by put ting in more bulbs at intervals until june, the flowering period can be much extended, even to frost. Hndi Good Soils Soils for glads should be as good as you can make them. To dig ample amounts of organic matter In at the time the bed is hptnff nreoared. and to incorpor ate alone with it a substantial application of a complete ferti lizer, is to set tne lame wen. iiie spot where the glad corms go should be out in the full sun shine, too, else the naturally lone stalks mav become weak, spindly and drawn. Set the glads down about six incnes Deiow ine surface of the soil so as to give them a firm anchorage that will help hold the long stems against the wind. Shallower planting is sometimes desirable, especially for those who want to encourage the formation of small bulblets Irnmi-Ul which Brow out on short, underground stems and which, when planted in rows much as one would sow bean seeds, will yield new plants that are exactly like the parent variety. The big difficulties with glads comes from a complex of dis eases, plus the two very bad in sect pests, tnrips ana rea spicier. Since thrips and the diseases oft en winter-over on the corms themselves, it is always wise to treat them with a good all-purpose dust before planting. If thrios invade the glad patch aft er the plants are up, the same dust will control, but, if brown, seared appearance begins to develop during July or Aug ust, be sure to look out for red spider- Control is by means of a TEPP spray. The Beautiful Firathorn which adorns so many gardens here in the northwest where the climate is almost perfect for it, snould be examined right now for scale insects and aphids. If the berries and leaves tor your fire- thorn were scummy-looking (with a black, sooty mold) last year, the chances are excellent that the scale insects and aphids which were responsible will be back again in force. Spray or dust for the aphids now, even though few, if any, can be seen. The whole idea is to get them early, before they build up in numbers, thus preventing a heavy infestation. A good rolen one pyrethrum plus spreader spray should serve most effic iently to kill them. The same spray, applied about the middle of May, and again at mid-June, should control the scale, by kill- TIMBER! Lt ut taka car of your largo thado trooi and family orchard. Wl TREAT YOU RIGHT Trtti Pruntd Topped and Ro moved. Miitlatoa removed. Ra tonabla. Chamberlin Tree Service and Cement Work Licamad and Inturad Phona 3-1145 Ing the unprotected youngsters (crawlers) before they nave a chance to sit down and cover themselves with the protective coat which characterizes them. This And Thatt More and healthier seedlings can often be obtained by treat ing seeds of vegetables and flowers before sowing them. Your seedsman has the stuff. For one of the better hardy annuals among the bulbs, try godetias- Flowers are colorful, cup-shaped and will persist for weeks even in hot situations. Some of the true cedars (thuja) are affected by a disease which causes severe defoliation, Berchmanns disease. For con trol, use a good copper spray, drenching the plant outside and Inside Among outstanding improve ments in vegetables, tne new types of hybrid cucumbers are right up near the top. May is the time to outolant them, but you can sow them indoors now. To avoid legginess, give the seed lings plenty of space (by plant ing in individual plant bands) and keep them in full light, close to the glass. Brace New Trees One real key to success with newly-planted trees is to have them braced properly (from three s des). Without such help, the old root system is very apt to move back and forth in the wind, making it almost impos sible for a complete and full complctent of new roots to grow out. Just to be sure that the trunks of voune trees will not be scalded by the sunshine with the bark falling away, usually on one side, it's a sound plan to ap ply a coat of white tree pamt, f lowering cnerries are won derful landscape features. Mt Fumi, with its broad, flat crown haneine full of clusters of pure white, double blooms, is one of the best. Another which has ex ceptional possibilities in every home planting is the autumn- flowering cherry (autumn alis). Prospect ProsDect. Apr. 5 Diane Chris- tianson return home March 29 after being confined to the Community hospital with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Perry and family have moved to Murphy Ore. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lily and son. Mike, visited tne K- nooen- son family Marcn au. ine coupie traveled on to Portland, leaving their son with his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. R. Robertson. Mrs. Harold Knudsen s moth er, Mrs. F. L. Cadwal, is visiting the Knudsen family. Mrs- Cad wal traveled from Pilger. Neb., and arrived in Prospect March 29. Mr. Cadwal arrived earlier in the month. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Vines and family visited in California last weekend. Miss Ruth Pollock will visit in Portland during the school spring vacation- Mr. and Mrs. J. ropp ana daughter. Christie, went to Seattle. April 4. to visit Mr. Popp's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Popp. Mrs. Charles ranger ten Wednesday to go to Portland to sit her husband wno nas been undergoing treatment in the St- Vincents hospital. Mr. ranger will return to Prospect with her this week end. Friday niBht. April 7, the young people of the Nazarene church will attend a zone rally in Ashland. Rev. Marvin Spore leder will be speaker. He con ducted a scries ot meetings this fall in Prospect. Hav A. Millard was operated on in the Sacred Heart hospital April 4, at which time one of his legs was amputated. Harold Swanson returned home from the Sacred Heart hospital recently after receiving treatment for a crushed foot. Mr- and Mrs. Willinm T. Shulz left April 3, to visit friends and relatives In Portland. Mr. Shulz will attend the O.E.A. conference there Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Goode will visit Mrs. Good's mother In Dandon, during the spring vacation. OET RID OP THIM QUICKLY... EASILY lift Jit- -SJ5l3-' CAR DSN sm S0ILDUST0 JUST SHAKE IT ON LIGHTLY WITH A CLOTH BAG. ..THEN WORK IT INTO THE SOIL 1 lb. for 800 sq. ft. of toil area Miller's Garden SOILDUSTO is very effective in the control of certain hard-to-kill soil insectst Thrips, Wireworms, Garden Symphylids (Garden Centipedes), Strawberry Root Weevils, Cutworms, Maggots, Earwigs, Ants, and numerous others. Avoilobl. in 4 01., I lb. and 5 lb. pkgi. MONARCH SEED & FEED CO. 19191 l949 g , DOUGLAS Fig JTU LUMBffR. I Jf ComsumPHoh Jy J PROPPID I J 41 BlLUOW FT f I f wlsi tUASl woods gaininq The cartoon above, nre- parea by me west uoasl Lumbermen s association, demonstrates graphically how west coast woods have gained in public acceptance during 1949. Much of this gain has resulted from active promotion of the products of Pacific coast forest products, the association be lieves. In 1949, west coast mills in western Washington and Ore gon shipped 733 million more board feet of lumber than during imhu. tacn year since me war, sales and shipments ot douglas fir. west coast hemlock, sitka spruce and western red cedar have climbed higher. But during the same period, lumber consumotion of products from other producing areas dropped off more than four billion board leet. The west coast earn represented waees to loggers and mill employees of $23,822,500, the association said. Roseburg To Vote on Airport Improvement Roseburc. Ore.. Aoril 5 (U.FS A $200,000 airport improvement bond issue election will be neld here June 6. Two readings on the measure have passed Roseburg s city coun cil and final action will take place at the next meeting. A second election, to deter mine if the city budget shall ex ceed six per cent limitation by $71,997.17, is slated for May n. At Monday niEhts meeting, the council approved daylight saving time for the city begin ning April 30. Mr- and Mrs. Frank Boolhby visited in Medford, Sunday and Monday. They were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hugcbusch. The Church of the Nazarene in Prospect will hold a sunrise serv ice Easter Sunday. Persons plan- nine to attend should meet at the church at 6:00 a.m. They win then go to the place where the service is to be held. The service will be followed by an outdoor breakfast, providing weainer conditions are favorable- In the afternoon the Young' Peoples chorus will present an taster program for the veterans at Camb White. This will be fol lowed bv a coffee hour at the hospital. Sunday the chorus will repeat the program in the Chanel of the Pines at 7:30 p.m Jake Jones was tanen to ine Community hospital early Mon day but was able to leave Tues day afternoon. Mr. Bnd Mrs. ones and the children men trav eled to Salem in the afternoon. Instruction in old time dances is held every other Saturday ight at the Upper Rogue River Grange hall, for Grange mem bers and their invited guests. Sonna StaKfis will visit her father and step-mother and their family in Oroville, Cal., during the surine vacation- Her father will go into the hospital for an operation after Easter. Mr. and Mrs. Harvy Sellars of Bakorsfield. Cal., visited their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Loyde Sellars here re- enlly. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mil lard Wilde on Easter Sunday, in stead of the regular meeting at the Grange hull. A program will be held- Jimmie Lee will play trumpet solo, the Lord s Pray er. Several other musical num bers are scheduled and there will also be group singing. Louise Desman will visit her mother in Portland, during the spring vacation. wayne uraaicy, iwm urumei of Merle Bradley, was injured Monday night when two logs rolled over him. He was taken to the hospital and died at 3:00 m. 1 uesday. The Prospect Shopping Center has been remodeled. New gon dolas have replaced the old. Ap proximately 90 Icet more sneu space was added to the store. jNorman tiuuyourion is spvnu- Inn the soring vacation at his home in Kllckitnt. Wash- Mr. and Mrs. Uther A. Kogers nd family plan to spend several days this week end at the coast. Virginia Long, who has been Isiting her family In Prospect for the past three weeks, will j return to Portland this week end. She is taking nurses' train ing In the nurses division ot tne University of Oregon Medical 1 School. She was Just completed her first year of training. ! The Grange Roxy Ann Grange Next regular meeting of Roxy Ann Grange will be held Friday evening. April 7. A number of interesting topics will be dis cussed and Mr. and Mrs. Ory Moore will be given third and fourth degrees. All members are invited to attend as a spcial Easter program is being ar ranged by the lecturer, Caroline Wolfe. Gold Hill Grange Gold Hill Grange has put into operation its new Rau dual electric-blower ventilating system. completing the first step towards eventual modern Artie-circle air conditioning, by Modern Plumb ing and Sheet Metal Co. of Med ford. Approach of the warm season makes this announcement of spe cial interest, as several large Grange degree initiations are planned for theacoming months, and it is particularly pertinent for patrons of the weekly Satur day night dances sponsored by Gold Hill Grange to ammortize the building debt. The new blower system, ex hausting 14.000 cubic feet per minute, changes the air in the auditorium every three minutes. Hong Kong Faces Acute Water Shortage Hong Kong. April S (U.R) The government warned this British crown colony today that it faced an acute water shortage unless residents conserve the di minishing supply. A royal air force plane dropped leaflets over the city, listing various conservation measures and warning against criminal waste. Engineers estimated reservoirs would be dry before the end of May unless there was substan tial rainfall in the meantime. At present the water suddIv is cut off 10 hours daily. The last erent drouBht oc curred here in 1929, when resi dents were forced to line up for water rations and no ships were permitted into the harbor with out a quota of fresh water. Search Continues For Portland Flier Williams Air Force Base. Ariz.. April 5 U,R) Cant. Freri C. Ouderkirk said today he did not know how long the search would continue for Lt. Col. James G. Thorsen, 32, Portland, who has been missing since March 24 in an F-47 fighter plane. captain uuderkirk Is officer in charge of search operations here. Yesterday 30 planes par ticipated In the search, but turned up only the wreckage of another old plane wreck. The wreckage was the sixth found since search operations hecran I and it was sighted In the moun tains near Tucson, Ariz. j Before he disappeared, Thor sen radioed he had run into bad I weather near Las Vegas, Nev.. while on a flight from Provi dence, R. I., to Los Annoles. Flying Bandit's Desire To Stunt Results in Capture Guthrie, Okla., Apr. 5 (U.R) A flying bandit s desire to "stunt" with his getaway plane over the home of relatives led to his crashing the plane and to his capture, authorities said to day. Jim Robinson, 28, Enid, Okla., was charged with robbing the First State Bank of Okarche, Okla., of more than $3,780. State officials wanted to question him in an unsolved slaying. Authorities said that Robison drove a stolen automobile from Okarche to a point near Cres cent, Okla., parked the car and took off in a two-seat Aeronca plane he had left nearby. Greeting Downfall But he decided to greet rel atives at the home of Ernest Rudd, uncle of Robison's wife Aline, 20, and that was his downfall. "I heard the plane come over the house low and I ran out side," said Mrs. Rudd. "I saw it was Jim and I waved at him. He waved back. He was zooming and dipping the wings and just stunting around. He came back over the house, and suddenly the ; plane just dropped. It looked al most HKe he did it purposely. The plane crashed in a clump of oak trees about two miles from where state police had put a road block at an intersection in their hunt for the bandit. Bandit Unconscious Robison was unconscious when Farmer Ernest Rudd dragged him from the wrecked plane. In the wreckage officers found the bank loot and four guns. Leo Morris, vice president of the bank, positively identified the injured flyer as the robber. police said. ttooison regaineu consciousness in a hospital nere but refused to discuss the hold up. . Jake Sims, cniei oi me siaie crime bureau, said Robison was susoect in the robbery and fatal beatine of Carl Goldsberry, Enid appliance dealer, last Feb ruary. Goldsberry was oeau.-n to death with a metal piece taken from a wishing machine in his shop. Astorian Saw Sub Off Oregon Coast Astoria. Ore., April 5M.W Charles F. Drury, 65 -year -old skipper of the Astoria tuna boat Kiska yesterday revealed he sighted an unidentified subma rine off the coast near Crescent City, Cal., March 7. Drury was torpedoed during World War II while serving as a liberty ship captain. The fisherman naa jusi re turned from San Pedro on the Kiska. He said he watched the surfaced sub from a distance of about four miles observing it through powerful binoculars. It was between the Kiska and shore, about five miles out. "It was what I'd call a con ventional silhouette," Drury said, "a modern submarine of aver age size, some 300 feet long and fully surfaced. 50 Swimmers Learn Despite Handicaps Chicago U.R) Fifty expert swimmers have learned to swim with their legs in splints or their bodies taped. They went through a five-day course here to find out what it is like to swim while physically handicapped. Thus, they are better equipped to teach swimming to handi capped persons. The unique project was part of the American Red Cross swimming project for physically handicapped persons. The 50 men and women In structors are Red Cross national field representatives and safety directors of 16 midwestern states. AS EASY AS THAT Charlotte. N. C.-J(U.R) Police nominated as the world's coolest thief the man who walked into the American Trust company. scooped a money bag from a tell er's window and walked out without being seen. 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There he talked with the exiled king. Leopold reiterated his readiness to re turn to the throne if parliament asked him. Deveze was understood to have urged the king to accept a com promise proposal. Under it the king would have returned to his throne temporarily, then abdi cated in favor of his son, Prince Baudouin. After Deveze called on the re gent, a brief palace statement said only that the Dremier-desiir- nate handed back to Charles his mandate to try to form a government. NURSES GET PENTHOUSE Madison. Wis. (U.R) Pent houses usually are found at the top of big hotels or apartment buildings. Here's one that will be at the top of a hospital. Plans for Madison's new S450.000 hos pital include a penthouse addi tion to provide living quarters for 12 nurses and the hospital superintendent. Special for One Week IC Off on Shrubs Easter plants $1.00 and up. 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