Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 16, 1952, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MZDTOKD (OREGON) MAIL TMBUKE Sunday. Mart 19, 1932 Md4oiiuflir IPoini4s IFielld TitdciII one Heire Top Western Dogs Will Show Mettle In Week-End Test Medford Club Sponsors Event "Man's best friend," the no ble canine, will leap into the Rogue river valley limelight next week-end and his perform ance in the biggest event of its sort ever staged here will show the public just how valuable an animal he is. Dogs of retriever breeds have established reputations as pals and willing workers of bird hunters. They have found favor with all who are interested in conservation of game birds. Rea sons for the high regard they have earned will be demonstrat- , ed as these "working" dogs match their abilities over a three-day period. Field Trial Set . A national points field trial, ' tinder American Kennel club :' rules, is slated Friday, Satur day and Sunday, March 21, 22 and 23, making Medford and Hoover lakes the center of at traction for retriever owners and handlers in the West that , week-end. There will be 110 entries. Champions and sons of cham pions, well schooled in the art of retrieving, will be brought here. Objective will be to earn points toward possible qualifi cation for the field trial that will determine the national champ. Dogs and handlers are now on the annual circuit. Medford is the third stoo. A trial was held at Los Angeles last week-end and the San Francisco event is now being -held. Next week-end's affair at the Charles Hoover lakes and ranch, eight miles northeast of Med ford, is being sponsored by Rogue Valley Retriever club, a small but enthusiastically hard working group that is extending every effort to make its first points competition a success. Three Breeds Entered Three breeds of retrievers, Labrador, Golden and Chesa peake Bay, are entered in the trial. Dogs of three other breeds could have entered Flat Coat and Curly Coat retrievers and Ameriman Water Spaniels. The limitation is an AKC rule, al though club members here will grant that dogs of other breeds may be just as good at retriev ing. Entries will compete in four separate stakes. The derby stake set for Friday morning is for dogs under two years of age. Qualifying stakes will follow for animals that have never placed in an open event. A win ner in this event is considered an "excellent" gun dog. The cDen-all-ace rivalry Is set for Saturday An all-age stake for FARMERS!... ORCHARDISTS! Your Are Invited TO HEAR AN ADDRESS BY C. G. WARREN Recognized authority on Pumps and Sprinkling Systems - Head of Cornell Pump Company In an interesting discussion of Irrigation Problems At The WASHINGTON SCHOOL 610 SOUTH PEACH STREET Changed from Senior High to Washington School Due to Spring Vacation Meetings MONDAY, MARCH 17 STARTING 7:30 P.M. Movies - - Refreshments DOOR PRIZES NOTHING TO BUY Com and tnjoy a pleasant and profitable evening as guests of . Valley Equipment Co viiMBrev.nR &T WOBKOUT Three members of the Rogue Valley Retriever club and .. . . - i i tneir uOgS are piciurea iiuuve and Jigaboo Coastal Command; and xiariey f. iNeison ana niuuuvic xjuj . neo atiu iui mi. jvi field trial scheduled Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Hoover amateur handlers will get under way late Saturday or on Sun day. Retrievers will be put through paces both on land and water. For the trial the club has ob tained 150 ducks for water work and 300 pigeons and 150 pheasants for the tests on land. The pheasants are being ob tained from the game commis sion. By Elimination . Stake winners will be deter mined by a process of elimina tion. Boats will be empltiyed to put out birds for water re trieving tests. Dogs will have single and double duck blind retrieving problems. A simlar pattern will be followed lor pigeon and pheasant retrieving nn land. In blind events han dlers will direct dogs by whistle and hand signals. - As the field narrows tougher tests may be devised to decide champions. Judges will apply a regular scoring system. Various acts can disqualify a dog in an event. Among them are break ing short (moving from the line before being ordered), dropping a bird, fighting and using more than a reasonable time in a re trieve. Judges for the trial here, Al fred Schmidt, Portland, and George Mann, Beaverton, are rated among the top men in their work in the country. Most of the dogs 'being brought here are .from cities on the Pacific Coast but ken nels as far away as Montana and Wisconsin will be represented. Leading Entries Among leading entries are Rip of Holly Hill, international field trial champion and Cana dian national champion, and Willowa of.Trab, Canadian field trial champion, handled by Roy Gonia, Portland; Beavercreek Bandit, American and Canadian trial champ, handled by Herbert Fleishhacker Jr., San Francisco, and Black Panther, American 3 r"f rL. ii y- e& fumr ttr: w -r , Vs-1 .it..: ' . .,,.k.,.t T iMftK av a icwui wumuuv. ii, State Game Commissioner Kenneth WITH THE GREATEST OF retriever, owned by Harley P. bank to retrieve the duck shown at the left ol the picture. &imuar action will be seen at the national points field trial for retrievers here next week-end. Boy has been used to train numerous dogs and, for his work in watching over other dogs at trials," has almost tho status of member and committeemen of Rogue River Retriever club. (Brainerd photo). and Canadian champ, and Tre vielvr Swift. American and Eng lish trial champion, handled by M. Beliveau of the Los Angeles area. Another nonular entry will be Edward Minogie's Tar Baby of Holly Hill. Tar Baby, making a third srmoaranw here, was shown here as a puppy and there is considerable interest in tne dog's development. Minogie is president of the Portland club. James Stillwell. Klamath Falls, will bring the field trial victor, Oak Creek Sir Dorchester. A Medford entry will be Bear Creek Java, owned and handled by David Holmes. ; Public W.lcom. The nublic will be welcomed at the three-day event, the spon snrs sairf. No admission charge will be made. By showing how the dogs fit into the program tne club hopes to promote interest in game conservation. Hoover has gone all out to help the club and to accommodate spectators. An area at the field trial site has been cleared for adequate park ing space. i-.uncn win oe avail able at the grounds. . Snectatnrs can reach the trial grounds by traveling out Crater Lake highway and Avenue A ot the Camp White area. Avenue A is the first paved street to the right off Crater Lake highway in the military area. Signs will mark the way. The forthcoming trial is an amhitinuc linrlprtakine hv a com paratively young organization. It will be tne biggest and most im portant trial to be held by the Rogue Valley Retriever club and will mark a eoal for which the club has been striving since it was chartered. Since organization, the club has held a number of picnic trials. It has staged sanctioned rivalries, one in November, 1949, another in April, 1950. The two sanctioned events, considered successful by the AKC, qualified the club to hold the points test. Informal Meets Until the late summer of 1949 individuals of the area with re trievers had just an informal group of people who got to gether to work their dogs. Usu ally, they wound up at some place like Emigrant lake and had a picnic in conjunction witn tne canine outing. Then these doff fanciers from a variety of walks of life, some of them hunters and otners wno just plain loved dogs, decided that they were far enough away irom tne snasta-cascaoe cjud at Klamath Falls to have an organi zation of their own. Rogue Valley. Retriever club was chartered on Sept. 12, 1949 with 31 members. Today there are about 40. Charles A. Miller - a A iLi. a lumber supervisor and college siuaents. ixame commissioner SPECIAL! March Only! Ladies' or Men's All Wool Slacks $17.50 & up . Hami Tailor iii-Our Shop Ladies' or Man's All Wool Suits -S59.50 JL up IftWIN the TAILOR 109 NORTH FIR y '-v - - 9n PrMirJpnt Charles Miller . Vi Denman and Kip of Geneva, J - lakes. (Brainerd photo). EASE Whitmore Boy, Labrador Nelson, Medford, leaps from the TROPHY WINNER Boar Ranch Loyal Jet, shown with owner and handler, Wilfred K. Shere, Ashland, won the puppy stake and was second in the non- winner stake in one of the sane tioned trials held by the Rogue Valley Retriever club. Kenneth Denman is active in the club. The club meeting place has been at the fairgrounds, 'mere is possibility, however, that a huildine- moved to the trial site by Hoover will become the club house. While does are a hobby with club members their most serious aim is the preservation of the game bird resource. Imsorianc. Told ! Talk to almost any hunter who owns and values a retrieving dog and he will eive an eve-ODening illustration or explanation of the importance of these animals in preventing needless slaughter, particularly of water fowl. He mav reDort that his re triever found numerous dead or sun-crinDled ducks or geese off shores of lakes or streams. Or, he. mav waeer that he can SO rwith his faithful and obedient re triever along shores in hunting season without a gun and get sev eral limits in waterfowl birds that his "dog has found. ' The hunter will go on to say that these birds were left be cause, after beine shot down. they could not be reached since the shooter did not have a dog. If he had a dog, this shameful waste of wildlife this excessive killing of waterfowl would not have occurred Retriever club members hope that those attending the trials I n11 rtn nmo.. with n nAr intoi- iretation ol tne expression, lamina a Ana'm life " Thev should find that a dog's life is not u uau. ; (J jjl feu PHONE 3-1583 One Million Dollars Spent On McNary Dam in Northeastern Oregon McNary Dam. Tent City, Ore. 0J.PJ One million dollars a week that's the cost for men and materials in the drive to com plete the mammoth McNary dam. That rate of expenditure is expected to continue until De cember of this year. But not until ' December of .1953 will river water of the Columbia river turn the first generator and power the line. More than 3,000 construction workers are busy round the clock six days a week as' the Army engineers rush the dam toward the deadline. McNary is about 50 per cent completed. Once the dam is completed the engineer schedule calls for a turbine to be added every three months until the total 14 with a capacity of 980,000 kilowatts is attained. Right now 25,000 cubic yards Paper Company Blaze Extinguished Quickly Oregon City (U.R) . Firemen early Saturday extinguished what might have become a seri ous blaze in the big Crown Willamette paper mill at West Linn, across the Willamette river from here. Officials said the fire broke out in dust around the hog fuel conveyors, apparently exploded by sparks from a hot bearing. The conveyor belt was de stroyed. Garfield Schwartz, mill fire chief, said firemen from the Sun set, Bolton and West Linn de partments aided the mill crew in bringing the flames under con trol in about 30 minutes. , University Sets Up Icelandic Department Winnipeg U.R) The Univer sity of Manitoba has set another precedent in the history of Cana dian-Icelandic culture. The only Canadian university with a department of Icelandic and the only privately-endowed chair of Icelandic language and literature in western ; Canada, the university now has appointed a chairman to head the depart ment. Youthful Finnbogi Gudmunds son, a distinguished graduate of the University of Iceland, has arrived in Winnipeg to assume the chair of Icelandic language and literature. The new professor is the son of the late Gudmund mur Finnbogason, noted scholar, national figure, and librarian of Iceland's national library. . . Hunter Uses Hard Way To Get Meat for Table Myrtle Beach., S. C (U.R) Carsten F. Hansen had venison for dinner but he came by the meat the hard way. Hansen was walking across a water-level bridge when a deer came out of the lake and attack ed him. . Hansen fired his shotgun at the animal but the pellets only infuriated the deer. ' Hansen fled to the ocean a few yards away with the deer in hot pursuit. Hansen's boots filled with water and weighed him down, so he turned and killed the deer with the butt of his gun. His comment: "There must be an easier way." 1950 (Late) G.M.C. Diesel Dual Drive LOGGER vith TRAILER TWO TO CHOOSE FROM! 4 o If You Want to Save Several ' - -- Thousand Dollars HAROLD PRESTEL at Insurance Service, Oreg., Ltd. 924 S.W. Hi Phone 4634 GRANTS PASS, OREGON .' OR CALL r '' Jackson Motors, Inc. Front Jackson Sts. . MEDFORD . Phone 2-6281 of concrete are poured into the dam every week. Much of it is going into final work on the 14 powerhouse units and the 22 spillways. Only lag m the present con struction pace may come when New Jersey Crash Hearing Closed Elizabeth, N. J. OJ.R) The Civil Aeronautics Board closed its three-day hearing into the Feb. 11 plane crash in Elizabeth Friday without reaffirming its preliminary finds in the tragedy that killed 33 persons. A spokesman for the board said no date had been set for disclosing the board's final con clusion as to the cause of the crash of a National Airlines DC-6, the third plane to go down in Elizabeth within two months. In a preliminary report three days after the crash, the board blamed the crash on a freakish combination of a dead right in board engine and an apparent short circuit that caused the pro peller of the right outboard engine to reverse its pitch. Thaw Waited To Work Vast Titanium Find Sts. Marguerite de Terrebonne, Que. U.R) The Terrebonne Titanium Co. is waiting for the spring thaw to start work on an almost unlimited reserve of war-vital titanium-iron ore de posits only 55 miles from the na tion's largest city. "We already own or have staked 4,000 acres of land con taining an ore which we believe is the second greatest deposit in Quebec," Rosario Frigon, com pany engineer, 6aid. Tests from samples collected from the surface to depths of 250 and 450 feet contained an ave rage of 71.1 per cent titanium oxide and 22.4 per cent iron, Fri gon said. . The Terrebonne company plans to concentrate the ore here, building plants costing about $3,000,000. Tulelake Homesteads Proving Productive Tulelake, Cal. (U.R) World War II veterans who homestead ed on the 90,000 acres of dried up Lake Tule have produced $27,000,000 worth of potatoes and barley in the past five years. The U. S. Bureau of Reclama tion, which drained off the last shallow remains of the lake and then parceled out the land to veterans chosen in a lottery,' said that the project has been a great success. Its full potential has not yet been reached and plans are under way to open .up anoth er area of the lake. The area lies on the California Oregon border. The farmer vet erans who broke the land had a difficult job but have been well rewarded in their harvests of Klamath potatoes, barley, al falfa and onions, the bureau said. FOR CHILDREN ONLY Forth Worth, Tex. !U.R) It may have been fun for the chil dren but not for the school bus driver, J. W. Pierce. Three times in one day his bus stuck in the mud. Each Week the spring floods arrive in May. Should the Columbia's waters top the cofferdam there may be a two-month curtailment of ac tivities, Army engineers said. However, McNary dam contrac tors are arranging work to keep as many men as possible working during such enforced, layoff. Sam Neff, resident engineer for the Army's engineers said the work will be so near comple tion after December this year that jobs will begin tapering off. Neff said bids for a "very large" contract will extend over a period of four or five years. Hot Coffee Vending Machines Doubled - Chicago U.R) The number of hot' coffee, vending machines more than doubled last year, ac cording to a trade publication. The magazine Vend said other increases were made in the auto matic vending of ice cream, milk, soft drinks, candy and cigarettes.- The magazine's annual census of the industry showed that nearly seven billion pennies were dropped into nut and con fection machines in 1951. Vending machines accounted for 19 per cent of the cigarettes sold in this country and for 16 per cent of the candy bars. The new vending machines were introduced to the public in 1951. One is a perfume vender which offers a squirt for a quar ter and an oxygen dispenser to help such unrelated ailments as air sickness and hangover. No Speed Escapes Research Scientists Ottawa (U.R) No speed is too high, and none too low, to es cape the interest of scientists at the National Research Council. NRC scientists are working on projects involving speeds from five to 3,500 miles per hour. The 3,500 mph work was in a supersonic wind tunnel where scientists are testing the stream lining of guided missiles. The five mph work was done by biologists interested in finding out how fast a mosquito flies. Scientists said they were study ing the air speed of the mosquito in an effort to determine how quickly they could spread over a certain area. The researchers make the mos quitos radio-active by tagging them with cobalt-60 and then trace their flight with geiger counters. MEMORIES STILL VIVID Blue Mountain, Miss (U.R) Blue Mountain college here is 79 years old but its history can be recited by eyewitness account by Mrs. Margaret Lowrey Anderson, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday. Mrs. Anderson was a member of Blue Moun tain's first faculty in 1873. HERE'S A m3Vto lightweight 6" saw which combine high speed with sturdy construction. Designed for service ond dependability u all types of jobs within its capacity. FEATURES Switch is momentary contort mnA of "Mulri-fjrip" fcondle. V round arbor. Bevels to 45. Automatic telescoping safety guard with manual control. Maximum depth of art, V. Furnished with carrying case, com. - rip and crass cut blade. Other blades and abrasive wheels available Ripping fence can be supplied. Net VYgt.: 11U lbs. Shipping wgt. 27 Ibi. Furnished in ell vohogos. Operates AC or DC HURRY! We Only Have 7 Saws At This Low Price! Hubbard MAIN AND RIVERSIDE SAFER DRIVING PREDICTED Detroit U.R) Charles A. 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