FOUR MZDTOKD (OREGON) MAIL TMBUKE
Sunday. Mart 19, 1932
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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
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viiMBrev.nR &T WOBKOUT Three members of the Rogue Valley Retriever club and
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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
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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
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Denman and Kip of Geneva,
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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
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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."
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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.
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Detroit U.R) Charles A.
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an ideal highway," he said. "It is
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