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SIX MEDrOR (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 1, 1154 rjia STEVENS Rmm) Old DtTt . . . Let me warn you don't look inside this new Holbrook picture book unless you are ready at the start to pay up and take it home with you as a buy. My trouble was that I opened the package at the RFD box instead of. loung it down to the boom-pond shack first. Rain was pouring and I had my old tallyman's bumbershoot along. Under its 'spread I opened the volume, hit or miss, and struck the pictures of ox teams and horse-and-buggy rigs in the middle of the book. I kept turn ing pages and browsing in the rain until the shoot sprung a leak and baptized the picture of "The medicine man, an American institution, selling an Indian 'sure cure'," on page 162. Then I mudded it f or the snack. There, with all lanterns lit in the murky daylight and the long stove . popping with pitchy fir, I listened to the rain pelt the shakes and looked my fill at this new treasury of Hoi's Hail Columbia. It is a book of true-blue pho tographs of the United States of America at work and play in the days of old. A five-dollar vol ume, it is called "Down on the Farm." There was a second book in the new aluminum mailbox al ready corroded, despite the ap proval of the Postmaster-Gen eral. It turned out to be anotner collection of historical stories by the lady who brought forth "Steamboats in the Timber," a book 'of tall tales and curious facts of the old times in the Coeur d'Alene country. Ruby El Hult's latest work, published by Binfords & Mort, is "Untamed Olympics," - the story of a. peninsula. It also makes prime rainy-day reading in a boom-pond shack, with lan terns lit and fir chunks blazing. Lady El Hult is a story woman first, last and all the time. She has brought together the best tales, both the true and the tall, of the Indians, the explorers and the early settlers and adventur ers. They surge and roar, whoop and holler, through the first half of the book. Then the narration reaches . the epic of the Squatters Aid So : ciety at Port Angeles and the 'brave battle of its members for 'rights to extend the village : through three thousand acres of the Federal Reserve. It all makes rousing reading.. ; Old Soldiers' Mill ... The tory cf 60 years ago is curiously like the story of today, in terms of stupid and stubborn withholding of commercial re sources by the federal govern ment from wise and honest use by local investment enterprise. There was no more sense in the locking up of the Port Angeles waterfront in 1890 than in the locking up of a completely com mercial type of forest in the same region .now. Back of the old deal was the whim of a crackpot with Eastern political pull. Back of the new deal is Rosie Edge of New York and Irv Brant of St Louis. Who and what are they? Nobody out here knows. - The economic life of Port. An geles, as Ruby El Hult relates, was developed from 1893 through 1913, by three brothers. Ishmael, Simon and Alfred Fil- ion, who kept 75 men at work in what was called "the Old Sol diers' Sawmill," for 20 years. At Ports Ludlow, Blakely, Gamble, Orchard, as at Shelton, McCleary and Grays Harbor, similar mills sustained human life and enterprise in the region. Bigger and better wood-using industries are the sources of pop ulation increase today in Olym pic Peninsula centers. And still, as in 1890, there is a monstrosity of a Federal Reserve where wise use and productive enterprise are prohibited in a decaying wil derness a blockade to human progress on the Olympic Penin sula. This all comes forth clearly in "The Untamed Olympics," a f me story book. Woman Accepts Life Term Rather Than Reveal Events Salem, Mass. (U.PJ The al leged paramour of Mrs. Lorraine Clark went on trial for adultery yesterday, less than 24 hours aft er she accepted a life sentence rather than make public events that led to the slaying of her husband. Arthur Jackson, a 23-year-old shoe clerk, is charged with com mitting adultery with Mrs. Clark three times before she killed her husband and once five weeks later. . He allegedly boasted to police of. his relations with Mrs Clark, the striking brunette mother of three children. His statement was made to police in vestigating the April 10 slaying of Melvin W. Clark Jr., 29. Clark's body was found in June. Jackson, however, pleaded in nocent to adultery indictments returned ... by the same Essex county grand jury that indicted Mrs. Clark. Jackson Monday waived his rights to a jury trial a few min utes after Mrs. Clark pleaded guilty to second degree murder. She told the court she "must protect my three small children from notoriety." Zig Zag Girl Wins Homemaking Honor Chicago (U.R) Ellen Mitch ell, 18, Zig Zag, Ore., has been named one of three national win ners' in homemaking at the 33rd annual 4-H congress. "... Betty Ann Cline, 19, Inde pendence, Ore., was named one of four winners in the garden ing division. Harold Berger, 17, Hillsboro, Ore., was named a winner in the health division. Harold Hotchkiss, 17, Burns, Ore., - was named one of the winners in tractor maintenance division.. Ruth Carlson, 17, Rickereall, Ore., was named Oregon winner in the annual dress revue program. Q - - - A i . , At, limifi. .i,,, , r ACCUSED IN MURDER Mrs. Lorraine Clark, 28, mother of three (right) goes on trial in Salem, Mass., accused of killing her husband of 10 years and dumping his body into a river. She is first woman to be tried for murder in 30 years in Salem, where famed "Witch Trials" occurred nearly 300 years ago.' Also up for court action is Mrs. Clark's "kiss-and-tell" self-styled lover Arthur H. Jackson (left), who "has been indicted on five counts of adultery. Country Doctor Gets 'Greatest Surprise' Miami (U.R) Dr. Karl B Pace, 66, a country doctor of Greenville, N.C., said today be ing named general practitioner of the year came as his "great est surprise" and struck like a "bolt of lightning." "All my life I have gotten a great deal of pleasure out of do ing things for other people and I never expected to receive any such honor," the doctor said. Plan Presented for Promotion of Movies Los Angeles (U.R) Elmer C. Rhoden, president of Nation al Theaters, Inc., has presented a business building program which includes a $500,000 ad vertising-research fund to pro mote motion picture sales. Rhoden presented his program Monday in addressing 89 dele gates representing 365 theaters in 21 states at their first divis ional convention since 1952. He said the program also call ed for visits to key cities to demonstrate the film industry's history; an incentive plan per mitting executives to share in earnings; and a request for gov ernment approval to add thea ters to the group. 28 DISEASE CASES Twenty-eight cases of com municable diseases were report ed to the county health office last week. They included nine cases of influenza, eight of chickenpox, three of infectious hepatitis (all in Medford), two each of scarlet fever, germ an measles and virus enteritis, and single cases of measles and rheu matic fever. . Chicago (U.R) Harold Hotch kiss,- 17, Burns, Oregon's 1954 4-H tractor maintenance program winner, has been awarded a $300 scholarship at the 33rd national 4-H Congress. , Map weir Insurance ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF JOHN AMASS MAYFLOWER.. cm sore you roatj. Br careful i (lection of risks' and iau rating methods. Mayflower gives you the benefit of rates which we believe are the lowest possible without sac rifice to the highest standards of protection and service. K you want to cut the cost el your auto Insurance ..see your Mayflower Agent today. AS FIRE INSURANCE DIVIDENDS DISTRICT AGENT FOR THE JACKSON COUNTY AREA TWO AGENCIES NOW SERVING MEDFORD John Maass 218 S. Central Phone 2-9281 Earl Heft - 118 N. Riverside Phone 2-8281 Call for Newly Announced Rate Reductions on Comprehensive and Collision Coverage Pace, who won the American Medical association's : award Monday, said "everything I am and I hope to be 1 owe to my mother who taught me to do things for other people.". He also credited his wife with being a mainstay . in "my life as a country doctor." She always exerted "every effort to locate me in cases of emergency calls," he said. A Niehol's Worth of . . V Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Faetars Writer Washington ' (U.R) What's new in Washington: -The clerk of the Small Busi ness Commit tee for the House of Rep res en tatives reports that he is recei v ing bids on 49,640 baby under shirts size two. They are to be sent to Army hospitals. The deal goes through the Quart erma s t e r Corps. The corps, in answer to a question, replied that such an order was quite routine. "Size two,", he said, "means number two, mediums." . : v Harm am Nichols The British Information Serv ice here has at hand a . copy of a letter from an 8-year-old Lan caster girl. The child addressed a note, in care of. the service, to "Santa, Greenland." ' She ' began by listing her own wants. A doll pram, some skates, and a teddy bear. Then she brought in her brother. "M brother," the-little girl said, "would like something-to hug. Marilyn Monroe, would do right well." . Her brother, the child added, is "21 and huggable." The , Smithsonian Institution has on display ; yarn spun from rock and.coth, which is "'laun dered by fire." The yarn is part of a new asbestos exhibit. The National . Association of Home Builders here reports that builders around the country are conscious of new business. ; A builder in Texas gives away a new Cadillac when you ; buy a house. -. : , a--- ,Ar-; :. i a "New Hungary," a publication circulated among the diplomatic corps'here in Washington, says that the "world famous wines of Tokay are mellowed by a special supersonic treatment. The bou quet of the wine, its particular aroma and flavor, have become more profound under the effect of super-sound. A wine that makes a noise, like maybe a gurgle! The Pentagon likes to tell about a guy who weighs 367 pounds, is 6-3 and measures 56 inches around the belly.. He is Sgt. Donald- W. Shaddeau ; of Saginaw, MicK. He now" is as signed to the 7812 Army Unit in Zweibrucken, Germany. He went from 305 on up on Army grub. He was put on a diet. The ; custom-made GL raiment for Don ran the , budget out, of balance. ' v.v - , The doctors right now ? can't ! even weigh the young man from Michigan on the regular scales. They have to balance him on the meat scales. . : -. v a.- v Department 1 of A g ri culture economists are v. wondering Ht there will be any farmhands left to plow and reap the harvest of" the good earth 40 years hence. The current line graph shows that the number of farm laborers in 1935 was 12,700,000. In 1954 it was down to 3,000,000, rf' -1 ' Secretary of Agriculture Efta T. Benson, however, has faith in the young of 1 the land. ..He looks at It like this: "The people who like to eat at least some of them will have to plant, and reap.A - V..'. - Russia did not adopt the'Gre-1 gorian calendar ;; until. . " after World War I was ended,, despite its use by most of the civilized world. ' .', t'-'' --a ' ' TO NATURE MEETING - Ashland President Elmo N. 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