POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
A friend tells us he was sit
ting in a local coffee shop last
week, sipping at a cup. Only the
waitress, another customer and
cne other big guy were around.
The big guy made a remark
to the waitress which, because
mis is a tamiiy newspauer, we
can't print. The waitress calmly
asked him to repeat his state
ment. He did. She then hauled
off with a strong right arm and
slugged him on the side of the
face so hard he spun around and
his coffee cup flew the length
of the counter.
?. He looked at her in surprise
and sheepishly shambled off.
That we would like to have
seen. Our friend said it made
him feel good all day.
Spotted Friday evening:
3One of Medford's better
known television set deal
ers, standing in line to see' a
late movie, listening to the
basketball game from KYJC
on a small portable radio.
- Two staff members, talking
hop last week, were discussing
another daily in the state which
seems to have' a proclivity for
long and involved "leads," or
first paragraphs, in its local
for one of them to write a story
about the Bigham family (which
appears on Page 12 of today's
; paper), he decided to try his
hand at this type of writing.
This is what he came up with:
"The Bigham family of Jack
son county, which is believed to
have a record unsurpassed by
iv uuc xaiuujr xui 111 uuu rea
dership in the state of Oregon,
was given special recognition i at
the 21st annual 4-H leaders con
ference in Corvallis this past
week which two of the family,
Mrs. Mary Bigham Myers of
Central Point and J. W. Bigham"
of Eagle Point, were able to at
tend as heads of the Jackson
county delegation and at which
, tribute was paid to Mrs. Myers,
who has had 20 years of leading
4-H clubs, and J. W. (Bill) Big
ham, with 16 years, who today
is the most active member of
the family, whkh has establish
ed a record of 74 years of 4-H
club leadership in this county,
a record to be justly proud of."
That's a real sentence. And
he managed even to end it with
a preposition.
City Engineer Ed McKin
sxry, whose red tie and red
vest were mentioned in this
space recently, has a new addi
tion his new bowling ball is
red and black
If anyone has some real
red shoes for sale, we think
we know who might buy
them.
One of our printers is also
a part-time farmer. Last week
his cow had a calf, but the baby
was born dead. To take advan
tage of the milk situation, our
printer bought anpther calf, but
the mother cow would have no
thing to do with it.
So what did the printer do?
He hauled out a jug of mo
lasses and coated the new calf
liberally with it. The cow pro
ceeded to lick the molasses all
off.
She's now thoroughly convinc
ed that good-tasting calf must
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Not long ago Conger-Morris
i funeral home was assigned a
new telephone number. It so
, happened that this number re-
cently had been relinquished
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Last week the C-M's phone
rang, and City Public Works
Director Vern Thorpe dutiful
ly reported:
I'd like to cancel my reser
vation for tomorrow, please."
The long arm of coincidence:
We just learned that two Med
ford families at Christmas re
ceived identical fine German
made 400-day clocks from
abroad from their respective
sons. Second Lt. Bill Perl sent
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Perl, one of the glass-enclosed
timepieces from England, where
he is with the Air Force, and
Second Lt. Fitzhugh Brewer Jr.
Isent one to the senior Brewers
from Germany, where he is with
a heavy artillery unit.
Coincidence enters the picture
through the fact that although
the young officers are close
friends, and graduated from
Medford High school together,
they had not discussed their
choice of presents, and neither
knew the other had chosen the
same object until much later.
During city council meeting
last week, discussion was cen
tered on signs prohibiting
right - turns at certain hours.
Councilman Jack Fitzgerald
asked City Attorney Frank
Farrell how drivers who vio
late the rules will be punish
ed. "We'll draw and quarter
'em." said Farrell.
"Thai's all I wanted to
know," Fitzgerald replied.
A lady who moved here re
cently from the midwest not
long ago remarked how friendly
and generous and neighborly
people are in the Rogue valley.
She's right. This fact has been
borne out in recent weeks, with
rather startling impact. Two
families, burned out of their
homes, have been swamped with
gifts of needed articles as soon
as a hint of their need appeared
in the paper.
Another family in the Eagle
Point area, who lost their house
and almost all their possessions,
will be helped by a church bene
fit social.
The Assembly of God church
has been overwhelmed with gifts
of old Christmas cards and
stamps, which they use in over
seas mission work, after a small
item told of the need.
The Dorcas society of the
Medford Seventh-day Adventist
church gave out some 300 gar
ments, 3 quilts and 5 blankets
op a single day not long ago, and
later, also in one day, gave out
142 more garments, a quilt and
material for two more quilts,
and a blanket.
This has about depleted their
supply of bedding materials, and
they need more. In view of the
record, we have a hunch that if
that need is made known, they
will get more. They also need
clothes for children particular
ly shoes. .
Arrangements to make such
donations can be made by tele
phoning Mrs. A. J. Miracle,
2-7206, or Mrs. E. F. Archer,
2-6546. If they don't get them
from this mention, they may
have to organize a house-to-
house canvass, because there is
a constant call on them for such
things by those in need.
HUNTERS DUCK COLD
St. Louis U.R) Four duck
hunters made good use of their
duck blind in a recent cold
snap. Marooned in nearby Alton
Lake when their boat was sunk
by high waves, they burned the
blind piece-by-piece while await
ing rescue.
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ANGERED over newspaper ar
ticle on tax reduction, Edgar,
Faure (above), who became
French Foreign Minister when
Premier Pierre Mendes-France
gave up post, challenges Jean
Jacques Servan-Schreiber, ed
itor of weekly "Express" to dueL
Editor accepted. (International)
Unusually Light
Snowfall Reported
From Crater Park
Crater Lake National Park
has experienced unusually light
snowfall so far this winter, Park
Superintendent Thomas J. Wil
liams reported from park head
quarters Friday. The snow pack
is far, behind that recorded last
year. '
Figures compiled by the ranger
department and based on month
ly snow surveys made by park
rangers in cooperation with the
Soil Conservation Service, show
the total depth of snow at park
headquarters to be 79 inches
compared to a depth of 142
inches at this time last year.
The water content of the snow
pack is only 27.1 inches, fully
16 inches below that which was
recorded for 1954. The Unusual
ly dry snow which fell early in
the season contributed to the low
moisture total.
Two Courses
Two snow courses are located
in the park and are carefully
measured each month. The re
sultant, figures are sent to the
Soil Conservation Service in
Portland, where, with other such
survey data, computations are
made which permit an accurate
estimate of water stored in the
major watersheds and from
which the summer runoff can
be predicted. These figures are
of tremendous value to the farm-
er, industry, and recrationalist
alike.
Although many months of win
ter are yet ahead of us, includ
ing the normally heavy snowfall
montns of .February and March,
the early snows are the ones that
assure the best water storage.
The reason for this is that the
early snows are compressed al
most into ice by the weight of
succeeding snowfalls, with the
result of slower melting in spring
and summer. Late snowfalls are
generally ""rotten" because of
lack of compaction, melt rapid
ly, and provide no long term
storage.
Woo Walla Paint Shop
Hit by $200,000 Blaze
Walla Walla flj.R) A fire
fed by gas and paint broke out
in the paint shop of the Tex
Brotherton Motor Co., here early
Saturday and caused damage
estimated at $200,000.
All the city's fire - 'fighting
equipment was called out to bat
tle the blaze which was dis
covered at 12:30 a.m. and raged
out of control for about two
hours.
With Safety
Safe to $10,000.00
Insurance Corp.
2-9147
Is That So?
For those of the wild, every
passing cloud exerts some in
fluence even more do pro
longed sunlight or darkness, un
usual warmth or cold, flood or
drought, wind or calm. To some,
the change of weather may in
sure life: to others, it may bring
death.
Snow, too, can be either bene
ficial or harmful.
Being at least nine-tenths air,
snow is a wonderful insulator
keeping out the cold and hold
ing in the heat. As a result, it
provides protection for many
small animals that are covered
by it. A snowshoe rabbit, for
example, will hump himself and
lets the snow cover him. In
humping himself, he fluffs out
his hair, already winter-thickened,
and it provides more air
spaces close to his body. Then
the snow covering adds the dou
ble insulation against the cold
airfilled fur and air-filled snow.
As well, a large assemblage
of small animals, notably ro
dents,, tunnel under the blanket
of snow among or near the
underlying mosses or grasses to
reach buried food, besides get
ting protection from winter's
Auto Test, Repair
Shop to be Opened
N. L. Thompson has opened
a new test and repair shop at the
corner of 13th st. and South
Riverside ave.
Thompson has installed equip
ment to make tests necessary to
inform the car owner the ex
act condition of his motor. He
will test and repair all makes of
cars.
For the past two years Thomp
son has travelled extensively to
train service men to operate test
ing equipment. Before that he
managed automotive dealers ser
vice departments for 15 years.
The new shop is located with the
Associated Service operated by
B. J. Staats Jr.
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By Eugene Burns
Ranger-Naturalist
sharp bite.
Some of these tunnelers, such
as the lemmings of our far
north, keep active all winter be
neath the snow, even mating,
savins unui, duu rearing young.
serves as stepladder
To a number of animals who
run across its top, like the cot
tontail, the rising snow serves
as a stepladder a reach higher
after each snowfall enabling
them to browse on otherwise
unfavorable twigs and woody
stems.
Although howling blizzard
and freezing rain may spell
doom to many, including grouse
which hurl themselves into the
soft snow for their nighfs sleep,
these disasters may be a boon to
others. The wind tears off tips
of boughs, and the sleet, form
ing loads of ice on branches,
bends them to the ground or
rips them off. The abundance of
twigs, buds, and bits of bark
which break with the storm,
combined with the bent-over
saplings and boughs may supply
starved deer enough food to
make them plump within a fort
night. Besides, the twisted tan
gles of bent or broken trees and
shrubs give the small wild-life
countless new hiding places.
For the hibernators, the snow
acts not only as a protective
covering, but it also makes a
mulch for plants which are thus
preserved for food when the
sleeping animals wake.
To turn the leaf now, snow
claims a fearful death-toll. The
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here Pride
This gasoline station isn't accustomed to
being ignored by the cars that pass its way.
For it resides at the edge of a great desert
and it is many, many miles to the next
fueling point.
But the big, handsome automobile you
see here swept by without so much as a
sign of recognition! For it is a new 1955
Cadillac and its owner knows that he can
travel from his morning's start until his
evening's stop without a single refueling.
Of course, when a motorist decides to
order his first Cadillac, he isn't usually
aware that the car is so economical to
operate or that it is so practical to own.
143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE - MEDFORD
Sunday, February 6, 19SS
rigors of the cold which accom
panies snow and particularly
the scarcity of fodd often create
unsurmountable hardships and
death.
Toll Becomes Larger
To begin with, migration and
hibernation really induced by
the rigors of winter," including
snow have taken many mam
mals out of circulation for the
meat-eaters. Hence, for the
meat-eaters, which are not given
to migration or hibernation, the
prey remaining is relatively
scarce in winter; so a much
greater concentration is exerted
upon the small group available.
As a result, day by day, the
toll of the small mammals be
comes larger. And as each in
dividual is withdrawn from the
living to become food for the
predators, so much greater the
pressure upon those remaining.
With the first heavy snowfall,
food for most birds becomes
relatively scarce. For the seed-
eaters, almost all seeds are cov
ered. Without food, their bodies
cannot be kept at their relative
ly high temperatures for long.
Hence, should you find a dead
bird on a cold morning with
heavy snow on the ground, you
may be almost certain that its
stomach is empty.
Heavy Crust Saves Lives
Thawing and freezing and a
fall of sleet may produce a hard
crust of snow. If it is hard
enough to carry heavy game, it
may save their lives in forested
areas where they can reach
higher for food. On the prairies
and tundras, however, it may
be difficult for them to paw
through to the food.
Where they break through,
often their large-footed preda
tors can run over it bringing
death. At such times, white
tailed deer and moose may band
together in a group of a dozen or.
more, to break trails and get to
a small feeding area, called a
"yard," in which the snow can
be kept packed down wholly or
in part.
Taking advantage of the yard
ing of caribou, the willow
ptarmigan often keeps near the
herd during winter months to
Leads to Economy !! .
He wants a Cadillac for what it is and
represents and for the great pride and
pleasure it will bring him.
But it isn't long before - he discovers
where his pride has -Jed him!
He discovers it first when he prices the
Cadillac of his choice. Invariably, he is
surprised at its relatively modest cost. Not
infrequently, he finds that it actually costs
less than the car he is currently driving.
And then, once his Cadillac is delivered,
he discovers how frugal it is with a gallon
of gasoline. He finds, as we said, that a full
tank is sufficient for a full day's drive.
- Next, he learns of Cadillac's extraordi
nary dependability. In fact, he often has
get food that is often deeply
buried under snow.
So too with other weather
changes flood or drought, wind
or calm, warmth or cold. Each
casts its shadow of destiny, fav
orably or unfavorably, upon
those of the wild.
(Copyright, 1955,
by Eugene Burns)
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to be reminded when the time has come for
routine service.
But not until he surrenders his Cadillac
to its second owner cloes he discover the
full wonder of Cadillac's economy. For
then he learns how amazingly it holds its
value and how little a year's service
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All this is to say, of course, that you
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