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:s::::s:fe, a 01 J THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOKE-P"-" Ttwnlfro-i a 'S!n5.,2S, boMs op a cold key to the front door as he takes up residence in the newly renovated watt boom. , LooJdn? on are Mrs. Truman and Howell G. Grim, etas White House uaher. A Nichols Worth of - Comment On This and That BY HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Preu Faarw Writer m Harraoa Michel leaf lettuce, or Washington (U.R) When Har vey D. Sanderson was working on the Syracuse, N.Y., Journal, his boss sent him to cover a garden meet ing. Harvey, now with the State D e p a rtment, opened his ears and heard a gentleman i n the audience ask a lot of sil ly q u est ions Shall I plant head . lettuce? What kind of trees will grow on my place? Our man was not hep to gar- dening in those days, but later he went to see the man who had asked the questions. It turn ed out that the man had five gardeners working for him. Har vey figured it out. If gardeners were -that dumb, he'd better ' have a look at how to plant a garden. He did, and he learned. To day he Is handling- publicity for the Men's Garden Clubs of ' America. There are 150 clubs and gosh knows how many members. Theory Not Subscribed . Harvey, by the way, doesn't subscribe to the theory of Clint Anderson, now a senator from New Mexico, that "you shouldn't ever plant a garden too big for your wife to handle." Anderson, incidentally, swiped that idea. Harvey is a man who wants to handle the rake and hoe him self and leave mama in the kitch en.""Mostly. "We have a lot of fun and get a lot done at our club meetings," he said. "Some fellow will come in and say that his strawberries don't seem to cotton to the soil in his section. A neighbor will say he has solved the problem with some stuff the Department of Agriculture has recommended. The meeting breaks up and all of a sudden you will find every body growing big red strawber ries in the area." According to Harvey, the same goes for onions, rutabagas, and asparagus. Not to mention sweet corn. Woman Formed First Club Our man has to admit that the women folks formed the first garden club in America. That happened at Athens, Ga. 50 years ago. The idea grew and each year the women were get ting all of the publicity and growing the best pumpkins and cabbages. Then in 1947, the men woke up tn the fact that there ought to be more pants meaning men's in the garden. y They did what sensible men do they organized. Today, they are a power. Asparagus Patch Gives Hobby Idea Wooster, O. (U.R) What started as a caretakership of an asparagus patch has grown into a large hobby for Mrs.' Beatrice Ebert. Mrs. Ebert has a collection of 1,459 golf balls of nearly all makes and no duplications. The hobby started eight years ago when a neighbor moved. leasing Mrs. Ebert her three acre asparagus patch. It was ad jacent to a golf course and while tending the asparagus shoots, Mrs. Ebert .began to find golf balls alongside the weeds. She started off by simply put ting them in a bag until a local golfer suggested .turning- the finds into a hobby. In addition t to finding balls near her home, Mrs. Ebert trades some of her items for others to fill in the collection. Every let ter of the alphabet is included except "Y." Even "X" and "Z" are represented with such traded marks as "XX-Special" and "Zip." ( Those she prizes .most highly have unusual names -such as "Squaw Creek" and "Jack Pot." One ball bears the name "Rob ert Taft." The balls, looking like eggs in a hatchery in their case, are ar ranged -in alphabetical order. One out of every six of the earth's elements belongs to the rare earths family, a group of metals with such tongue-twisting names as praseodymium, dysprosium, and ytterbium. Veteran of Two Marine Campaigns Missing in Korea Washington U.F0 A 52-year- old veteran of two Marine Corps military campaigns is missing. "Old Trumpet," a battered bugle that served with honor in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and heralded more than a year of Korean combat, has been lost. The instrument was retired to a showcase in the Marine Band museum after the Boxer insurrec tion in China. The old-type serv ice bugle gained historical sig nificance there when It sounded the Marines' relief of Tientsin. Back in Service The bugle was brought out of retirement in July, 1950, after the outbreak of hostilities in Ko rea. Marine Corps officials an nounced that it would be given to any trumpeter going to that theater of operations. Of the 62 replies received in the first week from individuals and. organizations, "Old Trum pet" was awarded to Cpl. Charles Price of Chattanooga, Tenn., of the First Marine Division Band In Korea, Price sounded colors on it when the flag was raised at the division command post in northern Korea and played taps at cemeetry dedication ceremo nies in that sector. Survived Bad Fire "Old Trumpet" was there when the First Marine Division fought its way out to the sea from the Chosen Reservoir and later sur vived a bad fire after the Hung nam evacuation. - Price, now a sergeant, care fully packed the instrument in his seabag when he was rotated to the United States in the fall of 1951. The bugle disappeared during transportation to this country. The Marine Corps attributes its loss to at least six other Ma rines named Charles Price. The band member named Charles Price received the wrong seabag when landing in this country and has not yet located his own. Eugene Pilot Inflicts Damage on Two MIGs Seoul, Korea (U.R)Two Pacific Northwest sabrejet pilots Tues day claimed their share of Com munist MIG-15s destroyed and damaged in the second largest bag of . Red jets in the Korean war. ' First Lt. Charles G. Carl, Ta coma, Wash., probably destroyed one MIG in the day's last dog fight. It was his second claim of the day. Damage to two MIGs was cred ited to Ma. Alex A. Asia Jr., Eugene, Ore. t We Mire ooo to be a part of the Allen Bldg. Shopping Center WE TREAT YOUR CLOTHES AND LINENS LIKE ALL your wasfiables HAVE YOUR WOOLENS BEFORE YOU STORE THEL1 k Don't risk finding your precious woolens rid dled with moth holes next Fall! Dirty, spotted clothes attract moths ... Invite damage. Let us clean your winter clothing, your blankets it's a vital precaution before storage! We Give SfirH GREEN STAMPS With Both Laundry and Cleaning- Lotomxdl irydiC DtsooDdirs "Bffc .JwPM'"".!.. jjjJJ Tneedar. April 1, ltSS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUXZ T1V1 Board of Control To Refusal to Employ Nisei Study Salem (U.R) The State Board of Control has voted to investi gate the reported refusal of the State Tax commission to give a job to Sagie Nishioka, 30-year- FEELING sorry for self, no doubt after swigging beer, this mouse hound gives patrons of pub at Buckinghamshire, near London, England, noisy comment on taxes or something. (International) Medford Navy Flier Taking Schooling Raymond L. Ettinger, a Na vy lieutenant commander and flier, is now undergoing an 11 month course of instruction at the , Navy post-graduate school at Monterey, Cal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Ettinger, 824 West. 12th street, and broth er of Bob Ettinger, 830 West 12th street, also a World War II Navy flier. The commander is a 1936 Medford high school graduate, later employed here by Califor nia Oregon Power company and Trowbridge and Flynn. After attending Oregon State college for two years he entered the service in 1941 and was com missioned that year. He served throughout World War II in the Pacific theater and was sta tioned on the east- coast after the war. Last fall, Commander Ettin ger was pictured in the Collier's magazine with a story regard ing the Neptunes (Blue Sharks) Navy planes, which he piloted in Korea. He served in the Ko rean zone for about IS months and visited his family in Med ford in January, , 1952, on his return. His wife and their two daugh ters, Kathy and Susan Rae, also live at Monterey. To the geologist, fossil ani mals and plants found embedded in sediments, give proof of the age of rock formations. Cleaner, Laundry Agency in Same Location 12 Years The Star Cleaners and Crystal White laundry agency has occu pied the Front and Main streets corner of the Allen hotel street floor for 12 years. Mrs. Edna Mole is operator of the business which offers fourjlay dry clean ing service and one-day shirt laundry. ' Included in the new modern equipment used by the establish ment in furnishing its cleaning services is a conditioner meth od which restores color and brightness to fabrics. New laun dry equipment also expedites shorter service to its customers. Much of the laundry and fin ishing work done to dainty fab rics, lace pieces and curtains is hand done, the owner said yes terday. Plants, Trees Grow In Wafer Culture Riverside, Cal. (U.R) Sci entists at the University of Cali fornia's citrus experiment sta tion here have established that plants and even large trees will grow indefinitely in water cul tures and produce high quality fruit. Dr. H. D.yChapman, chairman of the station's division of soils and plant nutrition, concedes to old-guard gardeners that organic matter has great value as a me dium for growing plants and trees. However, he said, experiments have proved that organic matter is not indispensable. "From our experience in wa ter and sand cultures," he ex plained, "we know that most green plants can be grown in a medium devoid of organic mat ter." The station has 14-year-old orange trees that have been growing continuously in water cultures during their entire lives, he said, and they continue to pro duce good crops of fruit. old Japanese-American veteran of World War H. Will Follow Law Gov. Douglas McKay referred to Oregon's fair employment practice act and said: "There's Just no argument about it. We'll follow the law The law was passed in 1947 and it's the state's policy not to dis criminate. There will be no dis crimination period. No other policy will be tolerated in any state department." . However, Tax Commission Chairman Ray Smith said Nish ioka was not refused employ ment just because he was a Nisei. He said the job for which Nishioka had been sent over, along with the customary two others, by the Civil Service com mission was field auditing. He said Nishioka was not hired bet cause the tax commission per sonnel department did not think he would fit in that classifica tion. Incident "Unfortunate" Secretary, of State Earl T. Newbry said he felt the incident was "unfortunate." He noted that in many cases a state department turns down personnel sent by the Civil Service commission for one reason or another, and this time it happened to be a Japan ese-American. The incident occurred more than a month ago. Let us send you Tha KIPLIUGER LETTER to help you plan ahead 13 weofcs' friar, oufy $9 YouH profit when you um the Kip linger Washington Letter, became: You'll find out what as expect m government policy, business trends, taxes, production, controls, shortages. 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