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Jack Jensen Shows Improvement As Result of Playing Regularly Philadelphia (U.R) Out fielder Jackie Jensen, a big wheel in the Washington Sen ator's first division pace, is hit ting them where they ain't be cause he's swinging where they are. The quiet, one - time all-Am-erican halfback at the University of California, shipped by the New York Yankees to the Sen ators when his 1952 batting av erage was an apologetic .106, is blasting away at a .318 mark for manager Bucky Harris. He's hitting .453 on the present road trip and has hit safely in 17 straight games. Comes Naturally With Jackie, it's a case of doing what comes naturally. Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor Medford's Joe Chenz, who has just received ail-American honors as a baseball pitcher for Stanford university, is back in town after a trip to Detroit, Mich., for several days workout with the major league Tigers. He said he liked things in the motor city and had a good tryout. However, he plans to look over a couple of other of fers before signing ft profession al contract. Chez said he expects to make up his mind within the next week. MAY DON SPIKES Bob Walker, ex - Medford high trackman and gridder, who is now a naval reserve of ficers training corps student at Yale university, is here on a couple week's vacation. He says he likes the school but doesn't care much for the East. Bob went out for row ing during the past year at Old Eli but gave it up be. cause of the heavy demand of studies. He may turn out for track during the next year. "I get more kick out of run ning," Bob said. EXIT NEEDED Something that is badly need ed A good wide exit from the county fairgrounds directly on to Barnett road that will fac ilitate traffic to and from the scene of the many public activit ies at the grounds. When there are several events at once at the fairgrounds as there were last Saturday night, something needs to be done to ease the traffic situation. One answer to the congestion, of course, is sensible, careful driv ing. But, frequently, there's a few who get too'impatient in crawling traffic. Then trouble begins. A Barnett road exit would en able back way travel into Med ford and take the load off the highway. 1 La3t Saturday at the fair grounds there was a baseball game, a carnival, a dance and civic theater activity. 0. D DO 7. Harris says he hasn't anything to do with it. And Jackie says he "can't pick on anything spec ial" to explain the gain of more than 200 points - that came with his change of environ ment. ' Tm just swinging a little easier," Jackie explains. "That comes from being in there every day. It just seems to me that I'm hitting the ball a little bet ter, and I don't pop it so much." "I just got a lot more confi dence seeing the pitchers reg ularly," said Jack. "I'm getting better strikes to swing at. I get more of a chance to pick a food pitch." Confidence Grows The confidence began to grow when Harris told him "you're in there, no matter what happens." "But I've never touched his hitting," Harris added. The chance to give his talent a .workout regularly in actual play brought out the abilities ev eryone knew he had but which never developed when he was riding the Yankee's bench. Ev eryone's talking about his bat ting, but the daily improvement in his fielding and his picking up of the major league savvy which marks a star. Midget Car Races July 4 Midget auto racers on Friday, July 4, will appear at Medford for the first time in many years. The races will be at the Jack son County Sheriff's Mounted posse grounds on Sage road west of the city. Cars of the Southern Oregon Midget Racing associa tion wil perform. Eighteen cars are expected to be entered in the competition. Cars and drivers from both Med ford and Grants Pass will par ticipate. Time trials will start at 3 p. m. Ninety laps of racing will follow the trials. Salmon Fishing On Lower Rogue Continues Good A. N. McLennan of Mack's Fishing resort, Wedderburn, has reported "very good" salmon fishing on the lower Rogue river during the past week. He slated that the summer run has started and many spring run salmon are still going up to their spawning grounds. The June run was the best in several years, McLennan said. The river is in good shape. Water is cold and clear. Largest fish caught last week was a 46-pounder by Gust Schneidau, Wedderburni Two 30 pounders were caught from the same beat. Catch for the week was 406 Chinook salmon. More than 3,000 years ago, Chinese weathermen foretold the coming of the seasons by studying the stars. . . m 0 0. D. . Red Rolfe Faces Grim Realization Detroit (U.R) Red Rolfe was faced with the grim realization Wednesday that he is walking the last mile as the manager of the Detroit Tigers. "That's the way baseball is," the former New York Yankee great said. "They hire a manager to win games. If you don't win, they go out and find somebody who can." Unless Tiger owner Walter O. (Spike) Briggs backs down, Rolfe is scheduled to depart Saturday as boss of the Detroit team. Briggs said he would recom mend at a board of directors meeting .before the Detroit-St. Louis night game at Briggs Sta dium Saturday that Rolfe and Coach Dick Bartell be dismissed. Unnecessary Punishment The statement came as unnec essary punishment for Rolfe, who has suffered through weary weeks with the Tigers since the start of the season, his team floundering in last place since the opening day. Now, Rolfe is cast in the role of a condemned man, merely bid ing time until his dismissal is made official. There is one faint chance that Rolfe will receive a stay of exe cution, but that would require that the Tigers win every game from now until the directors meeting and to date, Detroit's longest winning streak has been two games. Poisoned Wheat Won't Be Milled, Housewives Told Minneapolis (U.R) Millers assured frightened housewives Wednesday that a million pounds of. poisoned wheat destined for human consumption will not be milled into flour. The poisoned wheat, coated with mercury and. intended for use as seed wheat, was mixed with good grain en route to Min nesota mills and the export mar ket. Still Checking Food and drug inspectors tracked down a million pounds of the poisoned wheat several weeks ago, but Maurice P. Kerr, chief of the Minneapolis office of the food and drug inspectors said they, are still checking on anothr er mililon pounds. Kerr said that five more cars of the dangerous wheat have been seized and the U.S. mar shal's office has orders to pick up seven more. Highly Poisonous . The seed grain, treated with mercury compounds to assist germination, is highly poisonous. Walter Mills, vice-president in charge of procurement for Gen eral Mills, said stringent mill in spections eliminate "the slightest chance of poisoned grain getting by without detection. Other grain experts voice similar opinions. The sugar in honey is largely levulose, also called fructose. It is the sweetest of the sugars. F Q G S tfft Wyigy v96fW kaam, oataow ! Eagle Point Council I Studies Sewage; Postpones Action Eagle Point Council action on the Eagle Point garbage problem last night was postpon ed until the August meeting pending a further study of alter natives. Five citizens appeared at last night's meeting and protested a proposal under consideration by the council that would assess each water meter a flat 50-cent monthly charge to raise about $100 a month to pay for a per manent garbage collection. The objection to the proposal was that the cost was top high for people with only a small amount of garbage. Describe Conditions Mayor Fred M. Bruegger de scribed garbage conditions in the town and cited violations of the state sanitary code in many cases by dumping garbage on private premises. He pointed out that the old method of a pub lic dump was not feasible for the city and that some method had to be put in use as soon as possible. The City Sanitary service of Medford has offered to come into the city and solicit its own business at a $1.25 monthly charge for pick-up once a week. A more complete study of this offer and any other plan appli cable to the city's needs will be made by a committee composed of Councilmen O. E. Henderson, Fred Arens and Alfred Over dick. Their report will be pre sented on August 5. Service To Continue For the month of July, Joseph (Buster) Whipple, temporary earbaee collector, will call on the same customers as formerly, on Saturday. The charge will be $1 for weekly pickup with the usual charge for various amounts under an occasional pickup. Citizens may either con tact Whipple or City Recorder Sam Coy if they desire this service. Only one person appeared at the hearing last night on the curbing and guttering of West Third street, and because the ordinance wasn't ready, a peti tion will be circulated among the property owners on the street informing them more fully of the conditions of assess ment. If sufficient signatures are obtained, a special council meet ing will be called and an ordin ance will be passed calling for bids on the work. Curbs Needed - The mayor and council point ed out that complete oiling of any street could not be done until curbs and gutters were in place. Mayor Bruegger noted that arrangements had been made with Mrs. Opal Chamberlain for the purchase of the property at the south end of the city park to which the Boy Scout building will be moved from its present location behind Brown's store. The council committee will meet with the special Lions commit tee this Thursday at 7 p.m. to discuss moving of the building. The cardinal is one of the comparatively few bird species whose females can sing. M 11 M ! Government Income Highest in History During Fiscal Year Washington (UP) The gov ernment collected more revenue than ever before in history and wound up $4,016,000,000 in the red for the 1952 fiscal year that ended Monday. That was the biggest deficit since World War II, but it was less than half as big as Presi dent Truman predicted in his fi nal budget estimate last Jan uary. He guessed then that the country would go $8,200,000,000 into the hole trying to rearm it self and help its foreign Allies. Foreign Aid Short Treasury Secretary John W. The Grange Eagle Point HEC The Eagle Point HEC met at Leona Wattenbergs recently with Eleanor Jossey as -co-hostess. There were two visitors pres ent, Mrs. Hemmelman of Los Angeles and Mrs. Ervin of Ber keley, Calif. There were plans made to have an ice cream social in place of our next regular HEC meet ing. Mrs. Agnes Hubbell showed rugs she had learned to make at Upper Rogue. Anyone desir ing to learn rug making may notify Kay Kettbuell and ar rangements for a meeting will be made. Lillian Force reminded mem bers of the sugar canning con test now open for any of those desiring to participate. We were glad to welcome back with us a member who we have missed since she moved to California, Nellie Mae Clark, who is here visiting friends and relatives. Call: Rogue Travel Service 2-6779 West Coast Airlines 2-7269 f D YOU HOLIDAY Fly west coast aibumm high over crowded highways to your Holiday destination in west- 4V'J 3BS era Washington or Oregon. Get T ' -"SJfc there quick, save precious hours 1 VsKlV - S" for extra fun , . . return refreshed I - i k wtuxt . rv Wednesday, July 2. 1932 Snyder's final figures for the fiscal year disclosed that the principal reason for the Presi dent's bad guess was a lag in for eign aid spending, which fell $2,500,000,000 short of the Jan uary estimate of $6,900,000,000. Snyder reported that govern ment revenues for the fiscal year hit a record $62,129,000,000, just $531,000,000 under the $62,700, 000,000 predicted by the Presi dent. Spending reached a peacetime high of $66,145,000,000, com pared with the presidential esti mate of $70,900,000,000. Overall Surplus Counting a $3,510,000,000 sur plus in fiscal 1951; Snyder said, the government has had an over all surplus of $3,733,000,000 in the six years since he became secretary of the - treasury on June 25, 1946. Snyder's fiscal year-end report disclosed that the gross public debt increased $3,883,000,000 during the last 12 months to a total of 5259,105,000,000. The statutory lebt limit is now $275,000,000,000 and admin istration fiscal experts expect the ceiling to be reached by next June 30. Both dogs and wolves wag their tails to express pleasure, says the National Geographic Society. Similarly, when fright ened, both animals tuck their tails between their bind legs. Good Bear Creek TOP SOIL PHONE MEDFORD CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION CO, 2-6469 SWvll I v 1 f - I Delousing Alligator San Francisco (U.R) The delousing of four alligator gars, fish with sharp teeth, a nasty disposition and 90-milean-hour speed is a tense scene at the city aquarium. The lice thrive in the fish's mouth, where it is too dangerous for a man to disturb them be cause of the teeth. When the lice go out on the gar's snout, howev er, they become prey for brave fish doctors. The scientists begin by drain ing the pool where the fish are kept because no net has been known to hold a gar. After the gar, which grows to eight feet in length, is caught up in a strong cloth, one man holds its mouth shut while the other yanks off the half-inch lice by hand. Then a little disinfectant is I HURRY-Sale Ends DURING BIG EM 6J0-15 too. Prltt sJgS V . -I- SAVE 5A Vfc ob tbic high quality tire wkti an tne extra raloe features that have made Firestone tires famous for over 50 years! SaM-Soted Gum-Dipped cord body for greater blowout protection Tlus-Miktge" tread roller widet, flatter non-skid tread. Backed by a lifetime Guarantee. SAVE 4 "SAVE TRADE TODAYl STORES 214 S. RIVERSIDE PHONE 2-7119 Ahzysscty: 8lrte Weinharr) MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Gars Ticklish Task wiped hastily on the fish's snout and he is tossed back into th pool. Because the lice inside the gar's mouth are not disturbed, they" continue to multiply. 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