4-H Club Arena Completed At Fairgrounds, Barn Begun
Construction of the new 4-H
club arena at the Jackson coun
ty fairgrounds' is complete and
work has started on the hog
barn, according to Bill Bigham,
county fair board member and
4-H leader.
Completion of the barn and
arena finishing work is expect
ed before the week of August
19 when the four-day county 4-H
show will be held.
The main show arena will re
place the old building which
burned down on the same loca
tion about a year ago, Bigham
noted. The new structure is built
of wood and will seat from 1,200
to 1,500 people. It features a
trussed ceiling with no posts to
obstruct the view from any part
of the grandstand.
Features Described
The building is 120 feet long
by 80 feet wide, featuring roof
skylight ventilation and many
windows above seats on both
sides. Four entries are available
into the building by large slid
ing doors. The arena has yet to
Lave a fence erected around it
and the floor will be granite
based with a sawdust and shav
ings cover.
A new hog and sheep barn is
being constructed 30 feet away
from the arena at the southeast
end of the building. The build
ing will have some 130 pens
with hinged gates in a well-ventilated
structure. During the
show, two chutes will be put up
between the barn and arena to
facilitate quick entry and exit of
the animals. The barn is 120 feet
long by 60 feet wide.
Both Cost $23,000 v
Construction on the arena be
gan June 1, according to Big
ham, by the Farmer's Lumber
and Construction "company
which was the low bidder. R. G.
(Bob) Fowler, board member,
said that the cost of both the
arena and new hog and sheep
barn would be $23,000. The
money for construction is avail
able from the county's share of
the state fair funds.
Besides these two new build
ings, the 4-H clubs will have
three other barns in use for beef
nd dairy animals, and a cafe
teria and sleeping shed for club
members.
The construction and mainten
ance of the buildings is under
the supervision of the county
fair board which includes Wal
ter Leverette, chairman; Fowl
er, secretary-treasurer; and Big
ham, director.
Texas Man Sentenced
For Two Burglaries
James Junior Crowell, Sudan
Tex., was sentenced to four
years, six months jn the Oregon
State prison by Circuit Judge
H. K. Hanna Friday.
Crowell pleaded guilty to two
burglaries in nonresidences, ac
cording to Deputy District Attor
ney Bob Dickey. . Crowell had
entered a guilty plea July 8 but
later withdrew it.
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ARENA'S INTERIOR Shown Is one side of
the new 4-H club show arena, located at the
Jackson county fairgrounds. Seating is on both
sides of the building with a capacity of from
1,200 to 1,500 people. One of the most welcomed
features of the building's construction is the
trussed roof which does away with any posts
obstructing the view. Ventilation Is provided
through the roof and by numerous windows
and four entrances, one on each side. A fence
will be constructed in front of the seats around
the arena floor and a granite base will be cov
ered with sawdust for the showing floor.
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ARENA'S EXTERIOR Pictured is the impressive white ex
terior of the new Jackson county 4-H show building which was
just completed. Construction on the arena was begun June 1 and
is under the supervision of the county fair board. Thirty feet to the
building's right there is under construction a large hog and sheep
barn which will be joined to the arena by two chutes during show
time. Other buildings comprising the 4-H group are beef and dairy
barns, a cafeteria and sleeping quarters.
Baker Police Chief
Quits Second Time
Baker (U.R) Police Chief
Fred R. Hunt of Baker said
Saturday he had become a "pol
itical issue" and was quitting
the job for the second time in
recent weeks.
Hunt said his resignation
would be effective Aug. 15 and
was "merely the culmination"
of a series of disputes between
the city administration and the
police department.
"I am no longer chief of po
lice, but a political issue," he
said. The city council last June
told Hunt to resign or be fired.
He resigned but later was rein
stated after charging that the
administration wanted to run
Baker as a "wide open town."
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In most things I consider my
self fortunate. However, there
is one situation in which I near
ly always get a bad break. That
is in seat mates on buses, trains
and planes. If some fellows
have a vacant seat beside them
they draw a beautiful brown
eyed honey blonde for a seat
mate or a blue-eyed shapely
Swedish brunette. Not me
though. I always get a talkative
male bore, a big fat guy or a
drunk sitting next to me. It's
just fate I guess.
Ovtr There
The standard type of playing
cards with kings and queens
cards has been a source of irri
tation and embarrassment to the
Soviet Russian Communist re
gime. Some cards were made in
which pictures of Stalin, Lenin
and Russian women were substi
tuted for the kings and queens.
But the Russian public wouldn't
buy these cards. A black market
in kings and queens cards de
veloped. So now the regular
playing cards, kings and queens
and all are in use in Russia and
approved by the regime.
Fishing
Note offered on the highly at
tractive terms of a dollar down
and a dollar a week is a fishing
set of 257 pieces. Everything a
fisherman needs. This handsome
offer almost tempts me to be
come a fisherman. However, I
never have been a fishing enthu
siast. The last fish I caught was
a sunfish in the lake at Asbury
Park, N. J. That was when I
was seven.
That Dog Again
Our dog has just had his sum
mer clip. Certainly makes him a
very handsome animal. He looks
eight years younger. It has not
only increased his popularity
with cute female cocker spaniels
but French poodles are now be
ing attracted to him. Also, last
night a huge feminine ureat
Dane approached him eagerly.
Our dog, very small in compari
son, looked up at the Great
Daneand it seemed as if he
were "saying to her: "Don't be
silly!"
Nurses
There is considerable room
for improvement in the uni
forms of hospital nurses. Some
of the garments worn by nurses
bear a strong resemblance to a
potato sack. All branches of our
armed services seeking to influ
ence the enlistment of women
make it a point to offer some
thing especially glamorous in
the way of a uniform. It might
be less difficult to lure young
women into the nursing profes
sion if they could look forward
to having a uniform packing
plenty of glamour and male ap
peal. Get It Right
George M. Cohan was not
born on the Fourth of July.
That's what I stated. Now a
Bostonian points out there is a
tablet on the house where Cohan
was born in Providence, R. I.,
naming his birth date as July
4th, 1878. The tablet is wrong.
George M. Cohan was born on
July 3rd, 1878, and there is a
record of his birth and baptism
at St. Joseph's Church in Provi
dence. George's claim that he
was born on the Fourth of July
was just a publicity stunt to
match his billing as "The Yan
kee Doodle Comedian."
Advice
George Simenon, brilliant de
tective story writer, who has
148 successful books to his
credit, suggests that young writ
ers read the novels of Dickens,
Stevenson, Dostoievsky, Balzac
and Daniel Defoe. Excellent ad
vice, however, would 'add the
Springfield Grants
Property for Smelter
Springfield (U.R) The
city council here Friday night
granted a 30-day option of 13.6
acres of city land to the Apex
Smelting company of Chicago-
Apex is one of the nation's
major aluminum producers and
has been looking for a site in
the Pacific Northwest to build
a light metals plant.
The plant would use a new
smelting process developed , at
the U.S. Bureau of Mines exper
imental station at Albany.
Apex also holds on option on
another 18-acre Springfield site
but is not expected to act upon
it because the new site has more
advantages.
The Illinois firm is also ne
gotiating with the Municipal
Power company of Springfield
on a power contract.
novels of Theodore Dreiser. Also
a book no aspiring writer should
fail to read is "A Writer's Note
book" by Somerset Maugham.
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BLM Profits Total
$3.20 For Each $1
Spent During Year
Portland (U.R) Robert E.
Bell, Pacific Northwest regional
administrator for the Bureau of
Land Management, said Satur
day the government realized a
net profit of $3.20 for every
dollar spent in the region during
the 1951-52 fiscal year.
The bureau, which adminis
ters about 30,000,000 acres of
range, forest and mineral lands
in Oregon, Idaho and Washing
ton, spent $2,976,364 during the
year and collected $9,801,800.65.
This, Bell said represents a net
profit of $3.20 to the Northwest
and the U. S. Treasury for every
dollar at bureau cost.
Revenues includes grazing
$339,294.17; minerals $139,673.
16; timber sales $9,293,213.99,
and miscellaneous $29,618.73.
Bell said if the full amount
had been collected for the 415,
833,000 board feet of stumpage
sold from O & C lands and the
39,000,000 board feet from pub
lic domain lands, timber sale
returns alone would have been
more than $10,500,000. How
ever, the uncollected timber sale
funds will be .collected during
the current fiscal year, Bell said.
The", average selling price for
all species of timber on O & C
lands was $21.65 a thousand
board feet.
Sunday, August 3, 1952
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
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ITALY GRANTS KING FAROUK ASYLUM King Farouk (left)
turns to help his wife from auto as they arrive at their hotel on
the Isle of Capri. Forced to abdicate by a military coup in Egypt,
King Farouk sought and received asylum from Italy.
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" East Lansing, Mich. (U.R)
Jack Heppinstall is the only ath
letic trainer Michigan State Col
lege has ever had. He assumed
the position 37 years ago.
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Flying 'Pendulums'
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Portland (U.R) Portlanders
have been seeing "stars" again.
Several residents reported Fri
day night they had seen myster
ious fireballs moving at high
speed over the city, and two
youths who admitted they were
''watching for flying saucers"
said they saw an object looking
1 i k.e a "small s u n" streaking
across the sky from north to
south.
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