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Comment On This and That
BY HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Preu Faarw Writer
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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
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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.
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