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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1952)
tl t 3 ft st A T 4 N A il ci d. tv C 1 ri S d H o: st P N P tr ei o tv & le TEN MEDfOFD (OHEOON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. Mir i. 1932 Elephant Puts Sudden End To Happy Family Outing Milwaukee U.R) A bull ele phant lumbered out of a Mil waukee cemetery and turned a peaceful outing into a tempor ary nightmare for Mrs. Casimir Kott and her family. Mrs. Kott had taken her moth er, Mrs. Agnes Woldanski, and her four-year-old twins for a drive. She was passing by the cemetery when the elephant trundled toward the road. Elephant Comes Forward The tires screeched as Mrs. I li t a proud, glorioui I momtntl So ehoott a 1 Hallmark Card to toy utt I what you want lo say on such on important occaiior Oioou Hallmark Graduation Cordi from 3 wrtimn.iiij UIUIIillli.wJSSg Kott braked to a halt. But the elephant continued straight for the car. A blast of the horn and screams of the twins failed to stop the tank-like approcah. Mrs. Kott tried frantically to start the engine, which had stalled wheh she put on the brakes. Finally, with the huge bull less than 10 feet away and still coming, she got the car started and made a "jack rabbit" take off. The car slipped by the ele phant with a scant five feet to spare. Cemetery attendants were hard to convince they had an ele phant on the premises. "We haven't had an elephant around here since 1932," one said. Finally they went to the spot with the Kotts trailing at a re spectable distance. Owner Found They found the elephant munching peacefully on the rich cemetery grass. Nearby was Rob ert Moore, manager of the Kelly Morris circus which was in Mil waukee for a one-day stand. Moore explained he had taken Trilby, a 30-year-old elephant, for a stroll between shows to "stretch his legs." Alley Too Narrow; Tiny Auto Escapes Detroit (U.R) A tiny auto mobile gave a police cruiser the slip by scooting through an al ley too narrow for the bigger car to pass. It wasn't until some time later Sunday that policemen arrested Emil Olszewski, 22, wh,en they found his car parked in front of his home. He was charged with making an illegal turn off a downtown street. Dead linn Sunday Classifieds Is at nadn Saturdays. ffrl TO CRESCENT CITY, EUREKA-ARCATA 3 FLIGHTS EVERY DAY (From Medford Airport) Southwest Ainvtys PHONE MEDFORD 2-5851 . S Plans for Memorial Room in SOC Gym To Be Considered Ashland A suggestion that plans be made to furnish an alumni memorial room in the new gymnasium proposed at Southern Oregon college will be made at the Sunday meeting of the Alumni association, it was announced today by Daniel Bui kley, acting chairman of the physical education department. Discussion of the plan will take place at the noon luncheon to be held at Susanne Homes hall prior to the afternoon com mencement exercises, Bulkley said. Alumni will also conduct regular business and hear the Rev. George R. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, Medford, who will present the luncheon address. Committee Planned Bulkley said an effort will be made to appoint a committee which would organize a fund drive to finance the project. He proposed that the Alumni asso ciation might furnish one or two rooms in the multi-purpose phy sical education building which be requested by the State Board of Higher Education at the 1953 session of the Oregon state legis lature. Graduates who plan to attend the luncheon meeting were also reminded today that reservations must be made by Wednesday either in writing or by telephon ing Mrs Margaret Skerry at Su sanne Homes hall. North Bend Patient Flown to Home City Charles C. Davis, about 55, North Bend, Ore., who has been a patient at Sacred Heart hos pital here, was taken to his home by Mercy Flights air ambulance plane this morning. He had been treated for a heart ailment. Mrs. Davis accompanied her husband on the flight, which was to have been made at a low alti tude because of his condition. Bill Rosenbalm Jr. was pilot, and Harold Connor was copilot. The plane left at 9:20 a.m. and was due back before noon. The patient was the 61st car ried by the non-profit air ambu lance organization. OLD COIN A PUZZLE Tupelo, Miss. (U.R) Thom as Barnes, 15, was digging fish ing worms when he turned up a strange gold coin dated 1781 and carrying a Latin inscription, "Small Things Lead to Happi ness." The origin of the coin has experts stumped. 'Crow' Attracts Observers By J. Hugh Pruett . CORVUS. THE CHOW Astronomer, Extension Division Oregon Higher EducaUon System Over a wide expanse of the heavens there are scattered here and there many charming little stellar groups made up of small stars which alone are not very noticeable but which -collective ly present striking ' configura tions. One such group, Corvus the Crow, often attracts the at tention of casual observers, who inquire regarding its identity. At present it should not be at all difficult to locate this little constelaltion. At around 9 p. m. standard time, the bright yellow planet Saturn is easily spotted well up in the southern sky. Al most below Saturn we instantly sight a four-sided figure, not quite a square but more nearly like the bowl of a dipper open toward the left. Its four princi pal stars are all of about the same brightness. They are dim mer than most of the stars in the familair Big Dipper, which is now almost overhead, but are about like the star where the handle of the Big Dipper joins the bowl. Columbia Basin Opening Turns Back Pages of History Quincy, Wash. (U.R) The West turned back the pages of history here to celebrate open ing of the greatest irrigation project in the United States. Citizens with beards and slouch hats, six guns and stage coaches set up a pioneer parade and farming contests in honor of the opening of the Columbia basin. Plowing Contests ' On the progam for the day were plowing contests using horses instead of tractors. And there were six-gun shoots, races and horsepulling contests all culled from the history books and all aimed at presenting a real Western atmosphere. In three more days, a Recla mation Bureau official will loose the waters of Grand Coulee dam reservoir into a semi-arid desert and turn more than 1,000,000 acres into fertile farmland. New Settlers Expected The wedding of desert and water is expected to bring about 95,000 new settlers pioneers in their own right into Eastern Washington this year. Farm plots varying in size from 10 to 160 acres will be sold on a homestead-preference basis to veterans and other eligible applicants as the water is turned into the desert. Nestling very close to Delta, the star in the upper left-hand corner of our four-sided figure, we find another and much small er star. We might assume this is the beak of the crow, but the an cient star-gazers decreed it oth erwise. As they outlined this dark-colored bird, the star e low the lower right-hand corner of our four-sided Kgure served as the beak. He is thus tipped up with his tail high and his head low. Our crow is usually pictured as standing on and pecking down at Hydra, the very long water snake, which now stretch es across a large expanse of the southern evening sky. As with many of the constellation figu ures, it may be rather difficult to see the creature supposedly depicted by these stars. The ancients are credited with vivid imaginations. The mythology of Corvus is varied. Dr. Henzel of Harvard observatory suggests that this sky Crow may have represented a storm bird, or even a large sunspot group sometimes visible to the unaided eye and resemb ling a dark-colored flying bird. Once of Light Color One story represents the crow as originally being of a light color, but as he was a tale-bearer "his prating tongue had changed him quite to a sooty blackness from the purest white." Another relates how the god Apollo, suspecting his love, Coronis, of being untrue to him, sent Corvus to spy on her. Cor vus, carefully carrying out his mission, reported that Apollo's suspicions were well founded. As a reward he was given an ev erlasting abode among the stars of the southern sky. . Whatever the origin of the naming of this constellation, it forms a most attractive little group on the southern heavens. Telescopically, Delta becomes a double, the two stars making a beautiful contrast in color of yelow and purple. 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It involved lands sold by the Portland office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for an Indian trust to an Indian woman, Mrs. Ernestine Siniscal. But she is accused of immediately selling the property to two white per sons, Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Tay lor, The Dalles, Ore. Bids Necessary Bureau regulations require that trust lands cannot be sold to white unless by bid. The Tay lors are charged with providing the money for the purchase and paying Mrs. Siniscal S25.000 for her part in the transaction. The government is attempt ing to have the sale set aside as illegal. HOW TTMZS CHANGE! Springfield (U.R) The Illi nois State Bar association , will show delegates to its 75th anni versary convention next week a menu from its second annual dinner meeting in 1879. The din ner started with three kinds of oysters, proceeded through quail, venison, chicken and lobster salad, and pastries and fruits The price of the dinner was $1. WEATHER By United Press North California: Fair day and Tuesday. 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