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IX MEDFOHD (OREOON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wcdnndar. April 26, I9S0 & ! - - V 'V Jt 1 ! U.J V v j 'rme Taienhotoj N0 COMMENT In new attack upon the State Department, Ben. Joseph R. McCarthy (right) called former Secretary of State George C. Marshall 'left) "completely unfit" for the CaDlnet post. The senator who made the charge at a meeting of the American Society ot Newspaper Editors in Washington, said "It was a crime ... a pathetic thing" to put General Marshall In charge of John 8. (Service, Owen Lattlmore "and so forth.' When Informed of the at tack, Gen. Marshall said: "1 have no comment," Northwest Gardens By John H. Hanley, Ph.D. Holly trees are great assets In many of our northwestern plant ings. We refer here to the Eng lish type of holly, the one wnicn yields so many sniny-ieavea berry-laden branches for Christ mas decoration, and for shipping to friends in other sections at holiday time. Right now is the season to do something about holly. The holly leaf miner, scale insects, aphids and possibly tip moth, too, can be checked by the use of proper sprays applied at regular intervals between now and the middle of June. DDT and Lindane give most promise for simplified control of all but the scale insects (and they should eet a lot of the scale, too, especially if the weather warms up enough to bring out the young "crawler" scales pests during this period). One of the worst types of in Jury done by the aphids and scale pests is rather indirect. though very definite. Both these insects produce a "honeydew" which, when it collects on the twigs and leaves, provides the ideal breeding ground for sooty molds. Thus, there will develop over the surface of leaves, twigs and berries a black, soot-like discoloration which, if not stopped seems actually to pene trate into the leaves, making them permanently ruined for best holiday-season use. Most Are Slow Most of the forms or varieties of english holly are slow, but robust and hardy, growers. They are versatile as to their abilities to withstand heavy pruning, sprouting out readily even after the heaviest cutting back. Men tion is made of this characteris tic because they have been planted so long in many gardens that they have grown up to ob scure a view, or to cut out too much liftht during the winter months. If it becomes necessary to prune them heavily, keep in mind that the new growth which comes out almost immediately will not be mature enough to give another crop of berries short of two or three years. Oregon State college studies indicate that over-fertilizing hol ly with nitrogen may be detri mental to berry production, too. Mulching, plus moderate -use of nitrogen (phosporus and potash hould be present in the fertiliz er, too) should keep the tree in good productive condition. And, of course, someone around your neighborhood must sacrifice and put in a male tree, especially if the ordinary seedling types are being grown. Rhododendron Country This is rhododendron country and even in interior areas there are some among the older, hard ier varieties which are perfectly at home when consideration is given to providing them with an acid soil and some protection from winter wind. Let us all hope that we are here 30 years from now to see the massive and beautiful groups of rhododen drons, now being put in every where on the west side, come into their full beauty. Every gar den where climate and soil will permit, should include some of these magnificent shrubs. Soil should be well-drained, and one should get in the habit of using a regular, yearly appli cation of one of the acid-type fertilizers, plus a loose, two-inch mulch. See your nurseryman for best varieties. There are sorts which begin flowering as early as February in an ordinary year, and other forms will continue to bloom throughout March, April, May and into June or July. Since some of the best of the rhodo dendron varieties are on the bor derline of hardiness, it is not a bad idea to increase their hardi hood by fortifying them with regular acid fertilizer plus some of the minor or trace elements which can be supplied by sev eral products all of them read ily available. ' Leaf Miners Holly, and several others such as lilac, privet and boxwood, should be worked on during the late-April or mid-June period. Same materials as suggested above for holly will do the trick but it is safer to use a rotenone pyrethrum type of spray or dust on lilacs. Tests at Cornell indi cate injury to lilacs from DDT. Lindane compounds should work, too. Apply them after the lilacs have flowered out, or three times at ten-day to two- week intervals. Pea weevil ,and raspberry-loganberry fruitworm and gooseberry-currant maggot) can be kept down with the rote- none-pythrerum mixtures. Work into the soil in early spring, one of the soil dusts. "On the bank where the wild thyme grows," can be in your own garden, too. row of the low ground covers are more satis factory than the several types of thymes which arc available at many nurseries. Use them to grow down over rocks, to blan kct a slope, or to fill crevices among stepping stones, on the terrace, etc. t lower, an ever green foliuge, and a lovely frag rance are among the things which the thymes can give you, Grow Peanuts For the kiddies, why not put in a few peanuts or some rooted cuttings of yams or sweet pota toes? Use a spot In the warmest part of the garden, where soils are light, sandy. Trailing arbu tus from the east and mid-west can be grown here, too. Best ad vice is to get hold of plants which have been started in in dividual containers. The collect ed material is very, very diffi cult to establish because the root systems are generally all messed up. The asiatic form of trailing arbutus is easier to get started than our own from the east. Lilacs like decayed manures and a bit of limestone every year or two. Dormant spraying with calcium polysulphides will keep down the lilac blight (tip growths wilt down and die, just as the flowers are well-formed). Spray with a rotcnone-pyre- thrum-spreancr mixtures in ear ly spring when the leaves are all out to control the lilac leal miner that produces brown blotches on the leaves later In the season. Pickin' Pears News, Gossip, Comment From Camp White By L. J. "Tick" Malarkey This is about Lei Tei Ming, the Chinese girl who sang to the boys In the south Pacific. USO sows during the war years. And this is also about Bob Flynn, who was shot down while in the south Pacific and was hos pitalized at the time he met Lei Tei Ming. Today Lei and Bob are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Flynn of Fall River Mill, Cal., and together they operate a farm in that com munity a little more than a 100 miles south of Medford. We met this fine couple Sun day when they were going through their routine for the Bamboos, Greybeards and Kids at Camp White. Bob beat a mean set of drums with the FR band, and Lei, the prima donna she is, sang her songs to the boys until the rafters rang with encores. "It was just love at first sight. We are very happy and we both like farming. And we both hope to come back to Camp White again soon. Maybe we will be here when the Lions club comes to put on a show." These their words. "Paper, papers Medford Mail Tribune." Every evening, just before five o'clock show line begins to form, this basso profundo voice is to be heard in the halls lead ing to the dining room. A chat with the lad brings the follow ing information: He is Glenn Andrews. He is a freshman, majoring in chem istry, at Southern Oregon col lege jeeping back and forth each school day. He delivers and sells on an average of 140 Tribunes daily. He lives with his folks on the station, where his dad is x-ray technician. It is called lupin, this wild flower that is so profuse with bloom out this way. And there are white blossoms growing among it. Acres and acres. The sun was dropping behind Table Rock and a benediction of colors blended the scene. Kind of fit ted in with Sunday evening Peaceful like. Bay Logger," and old time "tim ber beasts" tell that they were a real shoe. This past week-end it was good to visit again, after a lapse of 33 years, with Floyd Hart, top hand for the local Timber Prod ucts company. Hadn't seen him since Oregon days up Eugene way, year 1916. Peeler logs and plywood were the principal "yak-yak" in the too brief reunion. It was only after I'd left the Colonel's of fice both wars in the air corps if you please that "Private M." realized that he had missed the boat. Floyd told me that he had a grandchild eight years old. That made him a grandpaw when he was flying In this Sec ond Fuss out of Guam in the south Pacific. 3 M uenetian Blinds of FLEXALUM WAKEFIELD DRAPERY 2nd Floor Mtdford Furniture th and Bartlatt Phono 2-6010 . i . , - WW, .1 a Kr0 Mm With a pair of shoes worn out at the heels it was my good luck to be directed to 17 North Fir street. A trace of Scandinavian accent was detected in the speech of the man behind the counter. "Sure. I'm a Norwegian. Learned the shoemaker's trade in the old country and came to America when 17 years old. set tled in North Dakota. And when war was declared in 1917 joined the army and went overseas. Be long to Edgar Usher post uav and used to belong to the Ameri can Legion here. Guess I should join again. Sigurd M. Cleven was talking Since 1927 his shop has been In the same location. Two of his boys, Edgar and Glenn, were in Europe taking part in Argument Two. Edear was with General Pat- ton and Glenn was allover with the Davmaster's corps. Both lads, with another son, Elvin mnke their homes in Medford. Before coming to Medford Grevbeard Cleven lived in Marshficld and for several years he wns in the shoe manufactur ing business. He made the "Coos L. STANLEY GRASSHEAR TRIM . . . Driveways Tarraced Lawns Flower Bods . . . WITH EASE! Eliminates Bending Hero Ii the answar to hours of back bresklng labor and aching arms from handling ordinary Grauhaart. It urn 910 ot your trimming lima. The Stanley Granhaar allows you to cut van the most inaccessible patches of grass with ease. No more banding; ust plug In the )V9 Grasshear and save yoursclt time and effort. The Stanley Grasshtar Is designed to bo light In weight and easily balanced. Knowing that good balance reduces fatigue, Stanley has constructed this Grasshtar so that it can be adjusted for the tall or short man or woman without changing the balance. HUBBARD BROTHERS, INC. Main at Riverside Phone 2-6119 Sunday morning seemed like a morning at home. In fact I thought the overcast was fog. Fog just like that which some times rolls in from the ocean and the bay at Warrenton and As toria. A ward mate put the recruit right. "That's smudge pots burning in the pear orchards to chase away the frost." We are learning about pickin' now. LET THERE BE LIGHT Cleveland. O. U.R) Cleve land will have one of the best- lighted baseball fields m the country when Wcstinghouse fin ishes its installations this sum mer. The municipal stadium olaying field will be covered with about twice as much light as it had last year. The installa tion will consist of 1,318 floodlights. pear Defense of Tuberculosis Germ Broken Up By Drug Speaker lo Tell Details of Hoover Commission Study As a part of the campaign by the Oregon committee for the Hoover report to inform citizens of this state about the facts con tained In the report, Mrs. Frank Taylor, Portland, will speak at an open meeting today at 8 p.m. in the senior high school audi torium. Mrs. Taylor, chairman of the speakers' pool for the Hoover report, is making a series of ad dresses in various cities of the state and is appearing here un der the sponsorship of the Med ford Business and Professional Women's club. Bipartisan Volunteers The Oregon committee for the report is made up entirely of volunteers, it is stated, who are Interested in "better government at a better price." The state committee is bipartisan, Mrs. Taylor points out, as well as the report itself. She calls attention to the fact that the commission was bipartisan, with Herbert Hoover as chairman and Dean Acheson as vice-chairman. Mrs. Taylor formerly worked under E. B. McNaughton, first chairman of the Oregon commit tee who was recently replaced by Milton Kahn, also of Port land. Mrs. Taylor, who by pro fession is public relations direc tor for Goodwill Industries of Oregon, is considered one of the i a four month period with strep- state's outstanding speakers There is no charge for the lecture and anyone interested is invited to attend. Portland, Ore.. Apr. 26 U.P.) Sen. Wayne Morse, (R., Ore.), will return to the state from Washington Tuesday to open his campaign for re-election. Herb Cox. state chairman for cam paign announced today. Bv Paul F. Ellis United Press Science Editor Washington, Apr. 26 U.R) A "break through in the defense of the tuberculosis germ against the wonder drug streptomycin was reported today at the annual meeting of the National Tuber culosis association. Doctors said the development was an important step in the battle to overcome the greatest handicap of streptomycin the fact that the TB germ eventual ly resists the drug Known As Killer The report on the cracking of the germ's defense came from Col. Carl W. Tempel, and a group of other U. S. army doc tors who have been conducting studies at the Fitzsimmons Gen eral hospital, Denver, Colo.' Streptomycin has been known as a "killer of the TB germ in human bodies. But treatment is slow and the germs gradually develop a resistance to the drug meaning that once a patient has developed that Immunity he no longer can be helped with streptomycin. Dr. Tempel said he and his as sociates were using a chemical known as para-aminosalicylic acid, or pas, for short, in con junction with streptomycin. The army doctors found mat the combined treatment was def initely effective in delaying the appearance of resistant strains. They experimented with a stag gered course of treatment over tomycin given every three days and pas every day. ordinarily, streptomycin would have lost its effectiveness before the end of such a period. Tempel said that 102 patients now are being given the com bined "staggered' treatment. Tests are being made at regular intervals to determine whether the resistant strains of TB are showing up. Up to now. he said. 18 patients have been treated for 120 days and 14 for ISO days without the appearance of the resistant germs. Significantly, the longer streptomycin treatment can be administered, the doctors say, the better chance for a complete arrest of the disease. Soma Overlapping The doctors conducted strepto mycin treatment alone on a group of patients for 120 days. It was found that resistant TB germs began lo show up in 23 per cent of the patients after 60 days of treatment, in 36 per cent after 90 days, and 73.5 per cent after 12.0 days. There was some overlapping 'in the tests. Tempel said that In another group of patients, both strepto mycin and pas were given dally for 120 days, with the result that no resistant type germs were found after 60 days treat ment, but 19.2 had resistant germs after 90 days and 33.1 aft er 120 days. "Your Office Boy" Since 1927 SALES SERVICE Royal Typewriters, Victor Adding Machines, G. F. Desks, Chairs, Files Across from the Rialto Theatre h !Q00 words! One sip is west f Guild Wine WINE GIOWERS OUIIO lODl CMO, . IVE IVElTf FROM DREAM ilH ri 1 (rj iwf' I 4'$$ ' I Fran rea11 tarte the whole tl,in8- You remember she and I I TJVrTr"-f h tftW r ' I t?r shared an apartment while the boys were overseas . . . we'd shared I Wj$ll 0t'ier' reams' too arjout- owning out own homes. Naru- C mmU'-K 'ly. he wrote right away when she and Tom started to build If buying, building or refinonclng i ., j llm(if- the First National Bank had showed them how a Home Loan it in your future plans, our expe- i t li,f' made it possible without waiting any longer. Well, I was so rieneed home loan officers can , l!m excited after reading her letter, I called Bob ac the office. Just advise you on FHA, Gl, or a reg- . I I ,... . a.u u t . s. , i . . ular bank loan to fit your needs. ft ,'jL, 1 to get me off the phone, I s pose, he actually promised to stop PL ;'t( in at the First National to ask about buying or building. This v P, lfii house proves we got the loan... our savings made the down ; " 'jiljl' payment and we're making regular payments on the rest. I 1 , I 1 1 1 . It certainly paid us to see the First National first! LraH.wM.uJ.': .. , ,JLdJ3i CtYrl,M IfM, Tint Nolisnol lenk at HfttM , MEDFORD BRANCH OF PORTLAND 11 ill Open 10 to 5 including Satuitidy
