SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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RAINING TROOPERS Operation Long Horn at Ft Hood, Tex.,
got under way as 3000 paratroopers bit the silk is 10 minutes.
One trooper was killed when bis 'chute failed to open. Thirty-nine
others were injured and a jeep and a 105-mm. howitzer were shat
tered. The heavy equipment either parted from their lines or
the parachutes failed to open.
A Nichols? Worth of
Comment On This and That
IT HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prnt Fcjtur Writar
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Washington XU.R) Ever see a
frog that quacks like a duck?
Well, there is such a critter
and the Smith
sonian Institute
can prove it. It
has a couple on
display in alco
hol. That won
derful place
has about ev
erything, run
ning a delight
ful gamut from
dinosaurs to
whales to rare
Harmon Micbola 0id ,pjanos and
zithers to a pair of 14th century
wooden Dutch shoes. Not to men
tion Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's
plane, "The Spirit of St Louis."
The quacking frogs are the latest
curiosity.
According to Smithsonian of
ficials the species is hitherto un
described and the folks there are
in a tizzy trying to name the dis
covery. As of now they are nick-named
"Quacky" or just plain "duck
frogs" but Dr. Doris M. Cochran,
associate curator of reptiles and
amphibians in the U.S. national
museum, is. busy suggesting some
thing more dignified and, more
important, more scientific.
Names Proposed
She proposes Hyla Similis, and
since she doesn't expect too much
competition in the contest over
a name, Hyla Similis it likely
will become..
Dr. Cochran describes the spe
cies as a "gregarious little frog
found particularly in the out
skirts of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
It may have a larger range."
The curator has been studying
frogs and amphibians for many
years. About this new one, 6he
says in the journal of the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences:
"This new frog has the habit
of swarming on one occasion
hundreds were found on a single
tree.
"The voice of the adult male
is a high-pitched 'crack-crack-crack,
sounding something like
that of a duck. Breeding takes
place in March and April. The
tadpoles transform very rapidly.
taking only 20 or 30 days to
change into frogs, but they are
rather delicate as they die from
the effects of too much sun if
the water in which they live is
not deep enough.
Tendency Toward Dark
Dr. Cochran goes on to de
scribe the frog. She says it has
a tendency . toward dark, elon
gated spots. It differs in its sig
nificantly lower average length
of head, femur, tibia, and foot,
nnd in the absence of "clear-cut
dorsolateral stripes, and in the
usually more finally spotted fe
mur tibia and its smaller size.
I'll take the doctor's word for
all, but Hyla Similis looked like
the lily pad variety of frog to
me.
The tongue is about three
fifths as wide as the mouth
which is supposed to be some
kind of advantage in the business
of licking in unwary flies and
other tidbits of frog food.
Quack Attracts Attention
However, the duck-frog Is not
interested in food when it quacks
the quack being used mostly
to attract the attention of lady
duck-frogs. N
In the living species, Dr. Coch
ran says, the coloring is like this:
the posterior femur is a chrome
yellow with brown trimming.
The throat is citron-yellow; the
belly is sulphur-yellow, in the
center and chrome-yellow toward
the sides; the dorsum' is clay col
ored in the center with drab
stripe.
There you have the quacking
frog.
British Ship Captain
Kills Self at Sea
Antwerp, Belgium U.R) Ant
werp police said Friday that
Capt Patrick Snugg, skipper of
a British cargo ship, committed
suicide at sea after his crew said
they would not sail again to
Communist ports.
The entire crew of the 7,133
ton Champlain, just back from
Gydnia, Poland with a cargo of
cement, quit their jobs when the
vessel docked here. The captain
shot himself at sea two days ago.
In tho Day's News
By FRANK JEN EMS
Faintly ominous note in the
news:
Federal taxes bit the Ameri
can buyer so hard last week (the
modern IDES OF MARCH), the
United States chamber of com
merce reported today, that re
tailers in almost every line of
business are reporting sharply
dropping sales.
FT live days last week (March
17 to 21. inclusive) the United
States treasury took in $5,300,
000,000 (FIVE BILLION, three
hundred million dollars).
"That," says Dr. George Cline
Smith, director of the U. S.
chamber's government economic
program, "was MORE THAN
ALL THE TAXES COLLECTED
DURING 1940."
He added:
"Never has there been such a
drain on the American
economy.
I1THY does that affect retail
" sales?
Shucks! You can answer that
question as accurately as the
smartest economist in the coun
try. After you've paid your fed
eral taxes In these modern days
you haven't got much left to buy
with.
A NOTHER statistic:
Last year (1951) net Income of
808 leading U. S. corporations
dropped 12.5 per cent. The ap
proximate net profit of these 808
corporations in 1950 was n o bil
lion dollars. In 1951 it was 7.7
billions.
How come?
ere's how come:
Their sales increased but their
LEGAL NOTICES
Probate No. 891
NOTICE OF BEARING I'PON
FINAL ACCOUNT
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OI" OREGON FOR JACK
SON COUNTY rROoATS VIVl
SION. In the Matter of the Estate of
MARY LOUISE McCASKEY, Deceased
Notice U hereby given that Louia
A. Salade and The United States Na
tional Bank of Portland (Oregon), co
executors of the estate of Mary Louise
McCaskey, deceased, have filed in the
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon
for Jackson County, their Final Ac
count and Report of Co-Executors in
the matter of said estate, and April
38. 1952. at the hour of IM o'clock
a.m. in the court room of said court
at the Courthouse in Meatora. Jac
son County. Oregon, has been fixed
as the time and place for hearing
of objections to said Final Account
and Report, and all persons having
objections thereto are hereby required
to make or file the same on or be
fore said time.
Dated March 3S. 1933.
LOUIS A. SALADE
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL
BANK (OREGON)
Co-Executors
F. P. Farrell and B. Kent
Blackhurst. Attorneys for
Co-Executors.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IV THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY Or JACKSON
In the Matter of the Estate of
THOMAS E. PERDUE. Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the circuit court for Jackson county.
Oreaon. has aooointed the undersign
ed executor of the estate of THOMAS
E. PERDUE, deceased. AU persons
having claims against said estate are
hereby required to present the same
with proper vouchers witrun six
months from this date at the office of
Neff. Frohnmayer & Lowry. Cooley
Theater Building. Medford. Oregon.
Dated this 14th day of March. 19S2.
MILTON WINN. Executor
NEFF. FROHNMAYER & LOWRY.
Attorneys for Executor.
taxes INCREASED MORE.
MTVUT. you will "say, if you
D are a ' shallow thinker,
"what do I care about these big
corporations? The harder Uncle
soaks them the better it will
suit me."
Wait a minute.
One of our largest corpora
tions (AT&T) now has more
than a million stockholders. (Its
stockholders outnumber its em
ployees.) If you are an average
American in modest circum
stances, following an intelligent
program of investment and sav
ing, you probably own some of
its shares. If not, you'll almost
certainly own shares of some of
the 808 U. S. corporations whose
net income dropped last year be
cause of sharply higher taxes.
In that event, YOUR income
will suffer.
rrTOS is the point:
Stock ownership of America s
largest business corporations is
SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMENT
For tke year ended December Jl. 19S1
Of the
NEW YORK UNDERWRITERS
INSURANCE COMPANY
ef NEW YORK, tai the Bute of NEW
YORK, saade to the Insurance Com
missioner of the State of Oregon, pur
suaat to law:
. ADMITTED ASSETS
Bonds t e.Ms.waoo
B.Q74.MS.UU
Stocks
Mortgage loans on real
estate
Real estate, less I en
eumbrances 0
Cash and bank deposits 3.374.81731
Agents' balances or un
collected Dremlums ...
interests, dividends and
real estate income due
and accrued
Other assets
S.0S4.00
1,389.663.19
33.791.19
723.83321
Total admitted assets $17.441 284 10
0 LIABILITIES SURPLUS AND
OTHER FUNDS
Losses 1.300.392 30
Loss adjustment expenses 133.000.00
Unearned premiums . S.844.812 90
All other liabilities - 1.088.862.29
Total liabilities ex
cept capital 9 8, MB, 067 39
Capital paid
up $2,000,000,00
Special sur
plus funds
Voluntary
Reserve 400.000.00
U n assigned
funds (sur
plus) 86.673 218 71
Surplus as regard!
policyholders .. 89.073J1S.7I
Total .. 817.441.284.10
STATEMENT OF INCOME
Premiums earned 1 $ S.304.107.41
Losses L-curred -5"-?ISi!
Loss expenses incurred- 342.144.93
Other underwriting ex-
penses incurred 3J48.198.03
Total underwriUng
deductions $ 5.101 J19.14
Net underwriting gain
or loss
303.188.37
434.894 42
-(3J43.46)
633.73923
338.933.65
424.81338
Investment income
Other Income
Total, before federal In
come taxes
Federal income taxes In
curred Net income
Dividends to stock-
holders 8
Dividends to policy.
....holders
Capital charges (net)
Other items affecting
surplus (net)
Total capital and
" surplus items (net)..
Increase in surplus . as
kmMi Mlievholders..
BUSINESS IN OREGON
FOR- THE YEAH
Wa nramlnm received ..A 341.693 01
Net losses paid .... 132.876.12
Dividends paid or credit
Mi to nolicvholders 0
Principal office in Oregon. 1209 Port
land Trust Bldg- romana , ure.
Pacific Coast DeBartment
1. L. Biglea and J. R. Cnrraa,
Managers
381 California Street
- San. Francisco 30, California
300.000.00
0
0
-10.236 73
189.763 37
333.033411
General County
General Road
Market Road
Medford Library
Ashland Library .
emergency
emi Defense
Enforcement
County Farm Home .
Dog License
Fair Operation
Fair Premium
Rural School Salary
CLERK'S SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF EXPENDITURES
JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON
December Jt. issi
Warrants
Fund 3131
-. 1361 .
- 387
" 143
11
13
" 84
3
Eight-Monlh Total
Receipts ; $879,073
For Rogue Forest
Rogue River National forest
receipts fbr the first eight
months of fiscal year 1952 1
amounted to $879,073, according
to officials of the US. Forest
Service Pacific northwest re
gional office In Portland. The
fiscal year began July 1, 1951.
Receipts for the Siskiyou Na
tional forest, with headquarters
in Grants Pass, for the same pe
riod, were $514,888, they stated.
Receipts for all national for
ests in Oregon and Washington
climbed to $21,250,000 during
the eight-month period, an in
crease of almost $4,750,000 over
the same period of the previous
year.
Willamette Tops
Topping the 19 national forests
in the region is the Willamette,
with headquarters in Eugene,
which collected $3,911,923. an
increase of nearly $2,000,000
over the same period last fiscal
year.
Twenty-five per cent of na
tional forest receipts is returned
to the counties in which the for
ests lie and is used for schools
and roads. An additional 10 per
cent of the total receipts is used
(or forest service roads and
trails.
28
88
4
1
S
Amount
8407870.31
331343.49
75109.63
3725.44
236.63
1808.08
262721
118.73
4493.49
3035.04
798.30
5433 03
600.00
Outstanding
$23390.38
27789.43
781.04
377.06
61.06
1498 06
39.49
7500
110 20
18181
100.00
4260 829200 26 $33603.73
now so widely spread among
Americans of ALL income
brackets that whatever reduces
the profits of these corporations
reduces the incomes of Ameri
cans of ALL KINDS not just
the filthy rich.
HERE'S another one for you to
chew on:
If the United States govern
ment were to CONFISCATE all
taxable income earned by indi
viduals in excess of $10,000 a
year, the additional tax revenue
would amount to only 3.1 billion
dollars. This would be enough to
run the federal government for
ONLY TWO WEEKS under the
proposed Truman 85.4 billion
dollar budget
So you see, it's absurd for any
body to think that in these days
of fantastic spending the govern
ment can be financed by soaking
the rich.
' If we're to pay our bills,
EVERYBODY has to be soaked.
In these fatal days of late March,
1952, 1 think we'll all agree that
everybody IS being soaked.
MAYBE I'd better explain that
crack about the Ides of
March. Let's quote Plutarch on
it:
"Furthermore, there was a
certain soothsayer that had giv-'
en Caesar warning long time
afore to take heed of the day of
the Ides of March (which is the
15th of the month), for on that
day he should be in great dan
ger. That day being come, Cae;
sar going into the senate-house
and speaking merrily unto the
soothsayer told him: 'The Ides
of March be come.? "So they
be," softly answered the sooth
sayer, "but yet are they not
passed.
THE soothsayea's warning con
cerned the stabbing to death
of Caesar by Brutus, which en
sued later.
Caesar was STABBED in the
heart Along about the Ides of
March, a lot of us moderns are
STABBED IN THE POCKET.
Dead line on ClssslfleO Ads 831
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ay noon Saturday ot Sunday am
4 Types of Seeds
Used in Program
Of Certification
Certified ' seed production In
Oregon requires advance plan
ning, according to W. B. Tucker,
Jackson county extension agent
Growers should be sure that
seed they Intend to plant is elig
ible for certification. In some
rrop varieties, only certain
classes of certified seed may be
planted to produce certified
seed. Tucker states.
Most crops certified are out
standing for certain qualities
such as leafiness, disease resist
ance, seed production or other
desirable characteristics, accord
ing to the county agent. Supe
rior features of many crops
gradually become lost as seed is
planted back time after time, be
says.
"Start Over" Plan Used
To make sure such varieties
remain true, a program of "start
ing over' with the parent strain
has been set up. This system is
known as generation sequence.
Most crops certified in Oregon
are now under this plan, Tucker
says. There are four classes of
certified seed. They are breed
ers, foundation, registered and
certified.
Breeders seed is the initial
source of true stock and is usu
ally maintained by experiment
stations. Growers who plant
breeders seed then harvest foun
dation seed. Foundation seed
produces registered seed and
registered seed then produces
certified seed which is tagged
but is not eligible to plant again
for certification.
Continuous Process
A continuous process of start
ing over from breeders seed is
maintained in this way, the
county agent says. Certified seed
must be used for forage produc
tion or uncertified seed produc
tion. This limit on the number of
times seed may be increased as
sures that the variety of crop re
mains true, Tucker states.
Bluegrass, bromegrass, rainier
red fescue, taulatin outgrass, or
chard grass, timothy wheatgrass.
nomad and ranger alfalfa, red
clover, crimson clover, lotus and
corn come under the restricted
generation seed plan. Tucker
points out Ladino clover, Wil
lamette vetch, bentgrass and
some other crops are not under
the generation system.
Growers interested in certified
seed production should make
sure the seed they intend to
plant is eligible for certifica
tion. Tucker states. They may
check with the Jackson county
extension office in the county
courthouse, where certification
rules and application blanks are
available.
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150th Anniversary
UTTflt THINGS FOR SITTK LIVING . . . THROUGH CHIMISTRY
Railroad Freight- Car
Supply in Northwest
Seen Same as in 1951
Portland (U.F0 The supply of
railroad freight cars in the Pa
cific Northwest should not be
materially worse this year than
in 1951, according to Defense
Transport Administrator James
K. Knudson.
Depends on Materials
Speaking before the 41st an
nual stockholders' meeting of
the West Coast Lumbermen's
association here Thursday, Knud
son said any improvement in the
car supply would depend on al
lotments of critical materials. He
said he hoped plywood boxcars
would prove feasible so that the
nation's shipperes would not con
tinue to suffer from short steel
supplies.
The administrator told the
lumbermen that, during 1951,
the principal railroads serving
the Pacific Northwest installed
9,661 new freight cars. The new
cars exceeded retirements by
4,468, he said, and brought the
ownership of the roads at the
end of the year to 240,322 cars.
Dalles Dam Favored
Knudson also urged mainten
ance of the intercoastal shipping
fleet as a competitor and as a
supplement to overland trans
port. And he predicted that a
dam on the Columbia at The
Dalles would eventually open the
bottlenecks which slow barge
hauling on the river and boost
barge operating costs. The river's
potentialities are still not being
fully exploited, he said. .. -
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