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
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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.
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wlsi tUASl woods gaininq The cartoon above, nre-
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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.
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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. The bag con
tained $1,000 in cash.
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Belgian Abandons
Coalition Government
Brussels, Belgium, Apr. S
(U.R) Albert Deveze, Belgian lib
eral leader, gave up his attempts
to form a. coalition government
today after failing to get King
Leopold to abdicate.
Deveze handed his resignation
as premier-designate to Prince
Charles, regent of Belgium, soon
after returning from Pregny,
Switzerland. 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.
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Windsor, Ont. (U.R) A local
theater manager agrees that peo
ple are funnier than anybody.
During a Saturday matinee
quiz program, a young girl con
testant was told to go to a gro
cery store and order several dol
lars worth of groceries. Then
she was to tell the cashier she
had no money.
The girl returned to the stage
and recounted her mission.
"What did the cashier say
when you told her you had no
money?" the master of ceremon
ies asked.
"Oh, nothing," the contestant
replied. "You see, I didn t go to
the cashier. I sneaked out of the
store." , ,
Then she pointed to a large
bag of groceries at the side of
the stage.
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