Medford mail tribune., April 08, 1952, Image 20

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SIX MEDFORO (OREGON) HAIL TRIBURS
Tuesday. April t. lflSS
Barbados Paradise
For Weed Pullers
Washington (U.R) Any
American weed-puller with an
aching back would envy the
pullers on Barbados.
The place is a paradise for
weed-pullers. There are no weeds
to speak of.
Barbados is a tiny sugar-producing
British possession, east
ernmost of the Caribbean is
lands. It took about 300 years to do
it, but during that time the cul
tivation of nearly every arable
square foot of Barbados 'has
eliminated weeds and weedseed.
At least, that is the conclu
sion of Charles Allmon, who
writes about it in the National
Geographic magazine.
There has been intensive cul
tivation. Even so, the thin soil
of the island has not been de
pleted. The people have used
fertilizer, crop rotation, and have
taken advantage of the lack of
erosion.
Rain, in that area, falls mostly
on the heavy side from June to
November. It doesn't run off. It
sneaks into the bedrock and
"percolates" slowly. Then it
comes out in bubbling springs
near the coast.
The British isles get all of the
processed sugar that comes from
Barbados. Nearly four-fifths of
the 166-square-mile island is cov
ered with cane fields.
Snow-Melting Device
Would Save Money
Worcester, Mass. (U.R)
Two men have invented a snow
melting machine which they
claim could save the nation's
taxpayers many millions of dol
lars. James E. Devlin and Harry
V. O'Connor built the machine,
which uses hot water to melt
now.
The machine is a truck with
a revolving scooper. Moving
over the highway, the scooper
picks up the snow and raises it
to a hopper on top of the melt
ing chamber on the truck.
The melted snow runs off into
the gutter to the nearest sewer
drain.
By J)Vh GfereHS
BEAVERS HALT TRAINS
Nobleboro, Me. (U.R) Bea
vers put the main line of the
Portland-to-Rockland branch of
Maine Central railroad out of
commission for a few hours. The
beavers built a dam in a rail
road culvert. When it broke, a
section of rails was washed but
at Muscongus Bay.
Funny Thing . .
You might have seen the story
in this column around nine years
ago. It recited how Paul Bunyan
started logging in the big firs
of the West Coast on a morning
when the grand-daddy of all the
fogs was rolling in as thick as
Tillamook cheese.
Why, say, and tell it to the
judge if you don't believe me',
that fog was not only so thick
but so tough it held up every
single one of Paul Bunyan's big
douglas firs that was undercut
and sawed through by a falling
team. He had a pile of fallen.
By noon something like seven
hundred tall trees were all cut
through there but still standing
in that thick and tough fog.
In the afternoon the fog thin
ned out right fast, for it blew up
a gale. The seven hundred huge
and high douglas firs that had
been cut through fell as one tree,
and the thunder of their fall
could be heard for 17 miles and
more.
It was a Monday afternoon.
Over in Coquille, the closest
town, the women folks all rush
ed out to take their washings off
the clothes lines. They heard
that thunder and were dead
sure a tremendous rainstorm
was blowing in . . .
That was the story, a tall tale
made up in my own head, then
written and forgotten until I
read it again the other day in a
national magazine as "a tall
tale of the Ozarks." There it
helped a fellow writing man
rake in a bunch of money. It is
a good thing for me that I truly
do Jove to help fellow writers.
Old Stuff . . .
JUDGE HAS HEART
Knoxville. Tenn. (U.R)
Judge Charles G. Kelly suspend
ed a $5 fine and then gave a
60-year-old man $1 after a hear
ing in court. Melvin Jay Rey
nolds, charged with trespassing
on nrivate nronertv. said he had
only 40 cents and was trying
to get back to his home in Arkan
sas.
Kent, O. (U.R) Signs of our
times: Students in Kent State
university here are taking cours
es in income tax accounting,
military man making, marriage
and the family, problems of an
atomic age, Juvenile delinquen
cy, geography of Russia, atomic
nuclear physics and managing
personal finances.
OPEN. TILL
:p.m.
EVERY WEDNESDAY
FAMILY NIGHT
For the Convenience of Our Customers
in
which
Ozark
or
no
the
Let me hasten to say that
am not a ecus in e the writer
Question of deliberate borrowing
without giving credit or casli
to the original author. The fog
story column was published
lumber trade journals
have circulation in the
timber industries. The story
could have been read by Ozark
lumberjacks and adapted to
their own so-called "folklore.
And then Dr. Richard Dorson c
Dr Marshall W. Fishwick or Dr.
Vance Randolph or some other
famous folklorist of the colleges
may have toured the Ozarks and
gleaned my yarn among others
as the real quill.
I wonder why no question was
raised on how it haDnened that
tall tales about powerful fogs
were to be found in the ozartcs.
They are not fog country in my
geography book. They have
rain forests.
Rtst of Story ...
The Ph. D. who wrote
magazine article somehow miss
ed another chapter of my story
of the big Bunyan fog. This con
cerned Paul's bull of the woods
the mighty Hels Helson, a woods
man so great that he muddied
the Missouri river forever with
one spring bath and who pulled
all the stumps in North Dakota
with his teeth. Once Hels crew a
beard. He cut it out when anoth
er spring brought forth a couple
of cub bears that had hibernated
in the beard.
Well, in the big fog Hels Hel
son got lost. At last he decided
to stand stock-still until the fog
should clear. A team of fallers
plowed up against his -boot leg
and mistook it for a Douglas fir.
They chopped an undercut
through leather, wool sock and
red flannel. Then their ax bits
drew blood. Hels Helson yumped
and he yumped and yeeminy! He
tore that thick fog to tatters ana
ran off hollering. "Snakes!"
What bothers me is why that
part of the fog story was unused
in the maeazine account. It was
a little bit too hard to believe
I guess.
The Grange
Eaals Point Grange
Eaele Point Grange met April
1, with Master Bob Bitterling
presiding. Mr. and Mrs. King
were obligated in tnira ana
fourth degrees.
Legislature chairman Grant
Hubbell reported tax problems
being studied by the State
Grange committee.
Marie Clark told of the im
portant part television will play
in the national election.
Lillian Force announced that
tickets for the April 15 dinner
are on sale and that Hally Swin
gle will be in charge of the lec
ture to follow the dinner, me
speaker is a retired postal in
spector.
Agnes Hubbell had charge oi
the display table with interest
ing articles from foreign countries.
Paul Olsen told of the Kip-
linger agricultural letters, which
forecast farm prices, etc., which
can be subscribed to now.
Mabel Wertz was commended
on her prompt lecture reports.
Lecture program put on by
the H. E. C. included a clarinet
duet by Jean and Kenneth Bitter-
ling; origin of April Fools day.
by Rosa Smith; the seats April
Fool, by Billie Vestal; Kay
Dunford, accordion number;
Dad" Cowden, violin selection,
accompanied by Mabel Wertz on
the piano.
BUTCHER. NEVER
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STEW MgAT-
OUR WC2DL0T HAS
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To set the moat cask from your
forest crop requires some study.
For instance, a 12-Inch tree, 10 feet
tall contains 100 board ft of saw
logs at an approximate value of
$42.50 per M feet or $4 iS. It con
tains .IS cords of pulpwood which
If sold at 1S would brin S4.S9. It
contains on 40-foot barkle (un-
peeled) pole which If sold at 12
cents a foot would brine 14-80.
A 14-inch tree 100 feet tail con
tains 240 board feet of taw logs at
$1. 50 worth 110.20. In the same
tree is .S2 cords of pulpwood worth
$8.06, but the highest return comes
from a 55-foot barkie pole at 19
cents which could bring the farmer
$10.45.
A little mistake In Judgment on
an acre of poles could cost hun
dreds of dollars. '
The same loss can be sustained
from a poor Job of logging. Here
are some positive rules for logging
to protect your own beat Interests.
Flan your roads before falling and
bucking. Pick your best season,
winter or summer. Mark every tree
to be cut well In advance of cutting.
Insist on care when trees are being
felled so that a minuraum of break
age occurs and the least possible
damage is done to young trees.
Insist on your "cat" skinners being
careful with small trees left grow
ing for your next crop. Keep your
stumps low, because only you lose
when sound values are left In the
stump. Make sure each log Is cut
into proper lengths to get highest
possible value. Avoid damage from
skidding. Keep your equipment in
vestment modest A roll way or a
simple "A" frame will suffice most
loading needs. If you hire help re
member payroll taxes.
After logging be careful with
your slash fires. Have tools ready
to stop any fire. Build tire trail.
Avoid damage to young trees. Pick
time when rains have eliminated
any danger of fire spreading.
You can sell your timber to a
logger as stumpage a certain price
on the stomp, or you can do your
own logging. Selling stumpage for
a lump sum is not advisable and
usually results in loss to land
owner. It is best to sell by the
piece, at a fixed price per thousand
feet or cord and payment should
be based on a scale of logs cut
Your wood lot is a valuable part of
your farm. Run it like a business.
If you protect trees from tire and
grating damage and use reasonable
care in harvesting the forest yon
will have an annuity which goes on
working for you year after year. A
growing young forest is Just like
money in the bank
(For mora particulars writ your
State Foreirter at Olympia. Washington
or Salf-m. Orwa for your free copy of
"YOUR TREKS A CROP." how to
crow and harvest them in the Douglas
fir region.)
TEETH RETRIEVED
Watertown, N. Y. (U.R)
The Watrtown Daily Times pub
lished the following as a public
service: "Found, on the roof of
The Times building, one upper
plate, slightly weatherbeaten."
FANCY DOG TAGS OUT
Augusta, Me. (U.R) The
fancy dog tag is out in Maine.
In 1949, the tag was acorn-shaped;
in 1950, hydrant-shaped and
last year, a miniature dog house.
This year it's a simple oval tag.
Army Learn Technique
For Camouflaging of Spam
With 3rd Infantry Division,
Korea U.R The operators of
the Third Division's 126 food
factories ere going to cooking
school.
They are learning the latest
techniques for the camouflage of
spam and the dissolving of the
rock-like dehydrated potato.
Under operation "chop chop,"
small groups of mess cooks are
being brought to a classroom
where they are given a week of
schooling and have an opportu
nity to gripe about somebody
else's cooking.
Everybody seems to think the
whole idea is excellent, a step in
the right direction. For the most
part, food has been plentiful and
of good quality in Korea this
winter. But, as the cooks will
testify, they continually receive
strongly-worded suggesti ons
from their clientele.
Boosts Army Rations
The suggestions made during
the schooling should be more
constructive, according to War
rant Officer Donald Smith of
Greenwood, R.I., dean of "chop
chop."
Smith is an enthusiastic boost
er for army rations, holding that
employment of certain tactics for
reviving the defunct dried egg,
plaster of powdered milk and the
arid onion and potato will not
only make them palatable but
downright tasty.
He knows the cooks are buck
ing a strictly "show me" attitude
and he thinks they can win out.
if they follow the advice of his
professors: Master Sergeants Rus
sell Coffman of Washingtonville.
N. Y. and John Robinren of
Browns Mills, N. J. and Sgt. First
Class Carl S. Smith of Point Chi
cago, Calif.
Enjoy Schooling
The student cooks enjoy the
week of schooling, although at
chow time they are inclined to
pass on salty insults to the local
cooking staff. Smith said his own
cooks were going to the school
"as soon as it is their turn."
"You should have been here
for the class yesterday," Smith
said, switching the conversation i
back to more pleasant things.
"We had a class on roast duck."
"I graded the work in my tent
last night," he chuckled.
The first practical use of heli
copters in archaeological field
work was in Panama in 1949,
by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling of
the . National Geographic society.
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