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.
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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. ,
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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.
Stevenson and Assistant Profes
sor of Science Irene Hollenbeck
of Southern Oregon College are
to represent the college at the
American Nature Study Society
anrmai;meetimj t the University
of California, Berkeley, Dec. 27
to 30. ;. ...
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