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"ZlS ' -'J AX ' r 7 Til A BIT ON HEFTY SIDE is Hfflcrest Top Lady, Duroc Jersey owned by Jerry Brlggs, Carmichael, compared with Mary Elder, Cali fornia State Fair model. Top Lady will be on hand when Fair opens In Sacramento Aug. 28 for 10 days. It ends Sept. 7. (International) A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That fry f A). Washington U.R) What kid hasn't played a mouth organ, and what grown-up hasn't made twice as much noise com plaining about the racket from same? Well, t h e harmonica is being honored this summer as the south German town of Trossingen Harmon Nichols observes its 500th anniversary. This little news item sent me in search of information on the history of this old-time melody-maker. I found files at the Library of Congress and at the National Geographic Society. The harmonica is being honor ed in Germany mostly because Trossingen, in the French-zone of Wurtemberg - Hohenzollern, owes a lot to the instrument. One of the world's best-known and biggest makers of mouth or gans has a shop there, and the factory provides work for much of the town's population. Invented in Berlin Actually the mouth harmonica is much younger than Trossingen itself. It was invented in Berlin in 1921 by Friedrich Buschmann. It employes an old oriental sys tem of making music by passing air over "free" reeds vibrat ing reeds that exactly fit the wind aperture. Buschmann called his inven tion the Mundharmonika. But there were oriental mouth organs long before the German got to his inventing. Japanese and Chinese models were made with a gourd, or a gourd-shaped piece of carved wood. This serv ed as an airpocket. Thirteen or more slender canes were inserted into this windchest, and each cane pro duced a note from a different free reed. Some of the Chinese organs used bamboo pipes or canes that are 14 feet long. The oriental mouth organs, of course, can be toted by one man but certainlly they connot be stuffed into the pocket like the German and American models. Many a kid and a lot of old timers, like this one, can testi fy that a pocket is a handy thing to hide a mouth organ from a snoopy teacher. The German and American models vary from toys capable of playing on only one key to large chromatic harmonicas that can play anything frm the class ic to boogie, eight to the bar. Technical Name Technically, the instrument generally called the harmonica is a mouth harmonica or mouth organ, but musical dictionaries differentiate between the mouth harmonica and the harmonica. The harmonica is an instru ment invented by Benjamin Franklin and by no means re sembles a mouth organ. Franklin's invention possess- Court Records DISTRICT COURT Lyio Gene Tycken. no emergency brake. S3. Bert Roy Hughes, over-width. S6. Clarence M. Vanhouten. parking in prohibited area. $5. Walter E. Green, violation of basic rule, $10. BY HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer ed such musical merit that great composers wrote music specially for it. The mouth organ han't enjoyed that much distinction, although some of the rendi tions at Trossingen were com posed by Bach for other in struments. Series of Bells The Franklin harmonica con sisted of a series of graduated glass bells, or bowls. These were nested into one another and mounted on a central shaft. The shaft and the bowls were turn ed by means of a foot pedal with the bowls immersed in a reser voir of water. As the bowls turned on the shaft, out came music by placing the fingers on their wet, revolving edges. CIRCUIT COURT Pauline U Lewey vs. Clinton Lew ey. divorce decree. Shirley M. Darby vs. Marvin L. Darby, divorce decree. Melvin E. Minger vs. Doris J. Min fer, divorce decree. Charles Albert Rowley vs. Louise T. Rowley, divorce decree. Golda M. Wilson vs. Frederick L. Wilson, divorce decree. Reta M. Cox vs. William Earl Cox. divorce decree. Kathryn Julia South vs. Lewis Henry South, divorce decree. Vera E. Dalton vs. Joseph Dalton. divorce decree. Olive C. Parks vs. Charles A. Parks, divorce decree. Agnes Lorraine Colley vs. Robert Wyndham Colley, divorce decree. Carl T. Nelson vs. Emily J. Nelson, divorce decree. Ruby Janette Pizzuto vs. Joseph William Pizzuto, divorce deeree. km GEORGE E rNiTH NEW Regent VHEARING AID Son CoadWtio CvieM o Modtvtt Ixtra Cat WHITE West Side Pharmacy PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Main t Grape Medford, Oregon Grain Products Exports Increase Over Last Year Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States exported 664.000,000 bushels of grain and grain prod ucts in the year ended July 1, the Department of Agriculture has reported. This was 53,000,000 bushels more than the same period last year. The total includes 470,191, 000 busels of wheat, flour and macaroni and 194,222,000 bush els of other grains and prod uctscorn, oats, grain sorghums, barley, rye, corn grits, hominy and meal, corn starch and flour, oat meal, and malt. The 1951-52 export totals com pare with 363,823,000 bushels of wheat, flour and macaroni ex ported in the 1950-51 season and 247,391,000 bushels of other grain and products. The department said 50 per cent of the grain exports went to European countries, 32 per cent to the Far East, principally India and Japan, and ll per cent went to Central and South America. ATOMIC COMMITTEE HEAD Rep. Carl T. Durham (above) of North Carolina will succeed Sen ator Brien McMahon as cnairman of the joint congressional atomic energy committee. McMahon, father of American atomic energy legislation, recently died of cancer. Stockmen Association Favors Auditorium The Jackson County Stock men's association board of di rectors has gone on record as favoring a civic auditorium at Medford supported on a county wide basis, W. B. Tucker, secre tary of the group said yesterday. The group expressed its belief that the proposed auditorium "would be of mutual benefit to all organizations in the county who have at least one or more occasions to use such facilities each year," Tucker added. The group also made a donation to help pay for the expenses of the building campaign. Contest Planned The agricultural committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce also met with the stockmen directors and made final plans for the coming Grass man of the Year contest. The combined group decided to change the date for the end of the contest to August 15, with the judging on August 18. This move was made, Tucker related, to allow a sizeable number of entrants to be made from all areas of the county. The same judges as last year were approved for the contest. They are James Lennie, grazing supervisor, bureau of land man agement: M. L. Tedrow, assist ant supervisor, Rogue River Na tional forest; and E. C. Fergu son. managing editor, The Mail Tribune. Money Donated The group acknowledged the receipt of the $100 prize money donated by the Rogue Valley Farm Implement Dealers asso ciation, which will be broken up into a $75 first prize and $25 second. Another contest was planned at the meeting. This was the se lection of the "Cattleman of the Year." This will take place be tween now and May, 1953, when the state contest is held, Tucker pointed out. Two trophies will be awarded for the outstanding cattleman in the state. They are donated by Herman Oliver, w e 1 1-known stockman from John Day, Ore. One is the perpetual trophy which rotates each year, and the other is the individual one which the recipient can keep. Tucker noted that the contest will be arranged differently this year with the state divided into districts. Jackson county will be included in a district with Jose phine and Douglas counties. Judging of the stockmen will be on three points, public relations, stock operations and land im provement, such as grass and erosion development. Groups May Entsr Cattlemen need not enter the contest in person, the secretary pointed out, as any group or as sociation can submit a name Eskimo kayaks are usually about 19 feet long and 19 inches wide. They are tippy, sometimes roll over completely but come right up again. Two hundred pigs and 210,000 hatching eggs have been shipped through the United Nations to Korea for relief in farm areas. I STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY B 86 Proof R YOUR TITAN DOESNT COS1 IT FAYS Titan Series 60 . Orte-Man Saw Cash Talks Trade Ins Accepted! TERMS WHERE CREDIT IS DESERVED - USE TITAN (special alloy steel) CHAINS ON ALL MAKES OF SAWS Come See Me! JACK BROWN CRATER SALES & SERVICE 1305 NORTH RIVERSIDE MEDFORD, OREGON and the committee will investi gate the candidate and report cn his qualifications. . In other business, the range inspection tour which is an an nual event was tentatively scheduled for the week of August 25. The tour, which usually lasts two or more days, visits the high range lands and notes the progress in land man agement in Jackson county. Bruce Grieve, Trail, who is president of the county stock men's group presided at the meeting. Dayton Farmer Gels 20-Year Sentence McMinnville (U.R) Casper Smith, 39, Dayton turkey farm er, Wednesday began serving a 20 year sentence at Oregon state prison for assault with intent to kill. The turkey raiser was convict ed Tuesday by a Yamhill county circuit court jury of attempting to kill his wife when he wound ed her with a shotgun blast at their farm home June 8. ' Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walk er immediately imposed the sen tence, stiffest he could give un der the law. Mrs. Smith lost part of her left arm as result of the wound. Wednesday. July 30. 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Maggie Sees Democratic Ticket As Sure Winner Berne, Switzerland (U.R) Margaret Truman has arrived here full of praise for the Demo cratic Party nominees but de clined to say whether she would campaign for them as she did for her father in 1948. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." she said. But she said the "Stevenson-Sparkman ticket is a sure winner." The state of Maryland calls itself '"America in Miniature" because of the geographic var iety to be found within its borders. Whaling was a big Spitsber gen industry in the days of Henry Hudson, but hunting was so intense that by 1635 most of the great mammals had been killed off or driven far out into Arctic waters. Dead lice Sunday Classifieds U at 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a m Monday (or Monday: noon Saturday BUNDS & SHADES Custom mada Budget priced Free Estimates Home Owners Specialties Phone 7231 Ashland or Medford 3-3484 STARK'S RECONDITIONED Limited Supply Orders Taken for Future Delivery BRANCH OF STARK'S IN PORTLAND TELEPHONE 24998 FOR FREE HOME DEMONSTRATION Do It with a Jackson County Federal Remodeling Loan Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Growing with Jackson County Since 1909 f oiir-footed friend In a foreign land lends aid to the U. S. Marines This is a picture which could have been taken almost anywhere and almost any time in the past ten years . . . there may very well be others like it taken in the next ten years ... or more. For in a time of unrest such as this, our country must be alert on many fronts to keep the restless peace. This takes strength. Strength in manpower, strength'in our national economy, represented by YOU! 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