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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 5, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Medford being considered for
veteran's hospital, and Cham
ber of Commerce concentrating
on securing better use of Camp
"White hospital.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge' Pot column: The sugar
shortage is now laid on a hur
ricane in Cuba, and a long dry
spell. Cong. Stockman of east-i
ern Oregon opines no high wind
in the tropics had anything to
do with OPA ordering farmers
to raise peas instead of sugar
beets.
20 YEARS AGO
June 5. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Medford city council orders
foreclosure on old consolidated
iind assessments totaling about
$,6,000. - I
Jackson county melon and to
mato growers vote in favor of
enforcement of agricultural mar
ket agreement law.
30 YEARS AGO
June 5. 1925
(It was Friday)
Rifle range being constructed
on northeastern slope of Roxy
Anne for Oregon National Guard
encampment.
Medford residents launch cam
paign for staging annual musical
pageant.
40 YEARS AGO
June 5. 1915
(It was Saturday)
City takes steps toward con
serving water as annual shortage
approaches.
Medford residences and busi
nesses without gas during morn
ing hours when Rogue Valley
" Gas company employee goes on
vacation without turning on gas.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Gel 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Ktsjtrt
1. Memorial Day originated
right after the Mexican War,
Civil War, war with Spain, or
World War I?
2. Stock of the Ford Co. of
the U.S. can now be bought and
sold on the N.Y. Stock Ex
change; right or wrong?
3. Are there more junior col
leges or teachers colleges in the
U.S.?
4. About one-fifth, one-fourth,
one-third or one-half of all radio
sets in the U.S. are in autos?
5. Largest West Indies island
is Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique,
Puerto Rico, San Domingo or
Trinidad?
6. More U.S. housing is occu
pied by owners or by renters or
by about the same number of
each?
7. Gov. Averell Harriman of
New York was once or never
U.S. ambassador to the Soviet
Union?
The Answers: 1. After Civil
War. 2. Wrong (but may be true
soon). 3. Many more junior col
leges. 4. About one-fourth. 5.
Cuba. 6. More by owners. 7. Was.
Ex-Husband Shoots
Portland Woman
Portland (U.R) A 42-year-old
Portland woman was shot
down in front of her home Fri-
MAIL TRIBUNE
How About Strikes?
There seems to be an
country and a paralyzing
Being in an optimistic
we predict the time will
large scale at least, will,
pnee themselves out of the market.
In both cases the basic cause will be the realiza
tion on the part of the people that the cost of genera!
strikes to society is out of all proportion to the bene
fits to any one group.
SO IN the free democratic world at least, we think
if MrrM
vian countries will eventually be followed and a sys
tern of labor-courts will be
settling disputes between
lockouts or walkouts, but
of differences on a fair
TTHIS is not going to come about tomorrow or next
day, but in the long view we believe this, or
something very similar, will be done, and as in the
realm of wars, not on the basis of idealism, or on
moral grounds, but on
headed self-interest, the greatest good to the greatest
number.
The truth is in this modern age, strikes, like wars
are out-of-date. This does
has arrived in either case,
lieve that both methods of settling serious differ
ences are slowly but surely on their way out.
AS OF today organized
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in the free world, if a man or a group of them
refuse to work, there is no
to do so. .
But as time goes on, we
less extreme in its demands, just as capital will be
come more generous in its
manence of profitable business operation will become
as apparent to the employees as to the employers, and
while strikes on a minor
still come to pass from time
less and less frequent and
appear.
As indicated above this is a very optimistic out
look. But there have been so many pessimistic predic
tions flying about of late, that for the sake of a change
of pace, and a bit of novelty, looking on the brighter
side would seem to be justified. So that is what we
have done. R.W.R.
How About Cigaret Tax?
t
No one conversant with Oregon politics will be
surprised if the cigaret tax of 3 cents a packet is
referended.
And if it is with the money available and pressure
groups ditto, betting odds will no doubt favor the
cigaret manufacturers to win this time, as they have
before.
But they shouldn't
AS has so often been remarked in this column we
live under a REPRESENTATIVE government.
We send our representatives to Salem every two
years to do the state business for us.
The big problem this year was state finances.
The various committees and members worked on
this intricate and difficult problem for weeks
months in fact and by overwhelming majorities in
both houses finally passed a tax on cigarets deeming
same to be the best way to balance the budget, along
with a big boost in the state income tax.
In short the cigaret tax, expected to raise around
$5,000,000 annually is an" integral part of the tax
program the people's representatives decided upon.
If it should be defeated now by popular vote, the
entire situation would be so muddled that a special
session taking more time and taxpayers money
might be imperative and certainly -representative
government would be dealt a severe blow.
"THE important point, as we see it, is the obligation
to support their form of government on the part
of the people. We don't mean blindly, nor in any way
to impair the referendum privilege when justified,
but other things being equal, to at least always place
the burden of proof upon those who maintain action
taken by their duly elected
proper and not to the best
There has been no proof of his sort presented,
as to a tax on cigarets and we doubt very much if
there will be.
FOR political purposes and to bring about its'de
r feat this tax will probably be called a "sales tax"
and a discriminatory tax.
out of 48 now levy such a
has been a tax on liquor, so on the question of dis
crimination, this objection to a tax on cigarets hardly
stands up.
Certainly if the people as a whole, refuse to sup
port their representative form of government as a
political institution they won't have one not for long
at least. R.W.R.
day night by her former hus
band, who then attempted to
take his own life.
Dead was Ethel Beck. She was
shot three times with a .22 calib
er revolver' in front of her
home. Henry E. Beck . Jr., turn
ed the gun on himself but was
not mortally wounded.
Police said Beck was taken
to Providence hospital, where
his condition was said to be
Sunday, June S, 1955
epidemic of strikes in this
one in England.
mood (for no reason at all)
come when strikes, on a
like wars on a similar scale,
established, as a means of
labor and capital, without
by peaceful adjudication
judicial, desirable basis.
the basis of simple hard'
not mean the millenium
but it does mean we be
labor is strongly against
way of compelling them
believe, labor will become
concessions, that the per
scale (and wars ditto) may
to time, they will become
might even eventually dis
representatives, was im
interests of the state.
But 42 states in the country
tax, and for years there
"satisfactory." The bullet enter
ed one jaw and came out the
other. It missed the brain.
Neighbors said the couple had
had "some trouble" the last few
months. The Becks were divorc
ed last Septemmber. They had a
13-year-old son.
Washington was inaugurated
as the first president of the
United States April 30, 1789.
Matter of Fact
MESSAGE FROM ASIA
Washington Asia is the vul
nerable flank of the United
States and the free world. That
WW! sentence would
be this report
er's choice, if
he were asked
to compress in
to one sentence
ail the innu
merable obser
vations and im
pressions of a
six months'
journey in
Joseph Alsop
Asia.
If Asia is our
vulnerable flank, moreover, it
follows that almost all the de
velopments that are now thought
to be so hopeful are mere local
and temporary gains. The free
ing of Austria, for instance, is
being hailed as the beginning of
a new era of international re
lations; but there is no reason
to suppose, as yet, that it is any
thing of the sort.
To be sure, the Soviets would
never have freed Austria if im
mense progress had not been
made, on many fronts, in rein
forcing Western Europe against
Communist pressures. But pre
cisely because of this progress
that began with the Marshall
Plan and ended with German
rearmament, Europe is no long
er the place to look for signs
of a new era's dawn.
The leaders of world commu
nism are not a pack of fools.
They will not order a desparate
frontal attack on a strongly
fortified line, if there is a naked,
unprotected flank by which the
whole position can be taken.
Asia is that flank. If there is
any hope of peace between the
free and Communist worlds, the
place to look for signs of peace
is in Asia. As of today, unfortu
nately, no such signs are in
sight.
In the hope of getting what
they want without the bother
some risk of fighting for it, the
Chinese Communists have of
course declared their willing
ness to talk about the situation
in the Formosa Strait. But there
is no jot or tittle of evidence
that the Communists will not
attack the offshore islands in the
end, if the Eisenhower admin
istration does not succeed in giv
ing them Quemoy and the Mat-
sus as a present.
A ND if the Administration suc-
1.
ceeds in making this hand
some present to Peiping, there
is no jot or tittle of evidence.
either, that the Communists will
not then proceed to prepare an
early attack on Formosa proper.
Possession of Quemoy and the
Matsus will make this possible,
and Peiping s claim to Formosa
has never been abandoned or
abated.
Furthermore, this local, pre
dominantly military situation in
the Formosa Strait is far less
important, except as a symptom,
than the political-military situa
tion in Southeast Asia. It may
be heresy to say so, but this
country and the free world
could well afford to lose For
mosa if we could be sure of los
ing nothing iurtner. umortu-
nately, however, much more
serious losses probably lie ahead
in Southeast Asia, and in South
east Asia, the danger is more
complex than in the Formosa
Strait.
At the bottom of the South
east Asian problem, of course,
there is the vast and increasing
military power of communism
in Asia. The weak Korean truce
that the Eisenhower administra
tion granted a China strained to
the breaking point, in effect in
sured that all Asia would be
indefinitely overshadowed by
the huge army and large air
force of the Peipmg govern
ment. The Geneva-Munich add
ed to the calculation another 20
divisions, which the Communist
dominated Viet Minh are now
whipping into shape in North
ern Indochina.
But in Southeast Asia, it is
the mere threat of Communist
military power, rather than the
direct application of Communist
military power, that creates the
primary problem. If affairs in
Southern Indochina develop as
badly as seems likely, even
American policy must be expect
ed to be semi-paralyzed by the
menacing existence of 20 Viet
Minh divisions in the North. The
weak states of Southeast Asia
are infinitely more likely to suc
cumb to this kind of paralysis
by unspoken military threat.
If these Asian nations had al
ready found themselves, threats
would shake them far less. But
only Burma is even beginning
to find herself. All are disor
ganized. All are open to infil
tration. In all, large groups of
the population are waiting to
see which way the bandwagon
is going. This internal weakness
is in turn exaggerated by the
threat of Communist military
power, and so the Communists
have the opportunity of repeat
ing Joshua's stunt under the
Walls of Jericho.
SEATO is no answer to this
danger. Yet the danger must
be met somehow, for the kind
of chain reaction of triumphs
that the Communists can now
hope for in Southeast Asia, will
surely beget an even more dis
astrous chain reaction in less
remote parts of the world.
In Japan, which President Eis
enhower has officially proclaim-
ed "an American bastion," the
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By Joseph Alsop
writing is already on the wall.
The betting is far better than
even that a Communist triumph
in Southeast Asia will be quick
ly followed by the rupture of
the Japanese-American alliance.
And similar effects will surely
be observed in India and the
Middle East, in troubled Africa,
and even in Europe.
That is the perspective that
opens out in Asia today. If the
famous meeting at the summit
does not produce some means
of closing that perspective, it
will have produced little of last
ing value.
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Ine.
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Helsinki, With SAS Delay
ed Ever consider the compli
cated toilet of birds? They bathe
in water, dust and even snow,
anoint themselves with oil, preen
and groom by the hour just like
movie queens and, yes, some
even dust themselves with their
own brand of powder.
Let me tell you how this sub
ject came about. This morning I
arrived in a luxurious four-motored
Scandinavian Airlines Sys
tem plane; this afternoon, a
horse-drawn sleigh called to take
me across the frozen harbor to
visit at Finland's famous island
zoo with Director D. af Eneh-
jelm, a bird authority. En route
I saw a raven take a snow bath
that's right, dusting himself
vigorously in powdery snow. So,
over coffee and pastry, we dis
cussed the toilet of birds
Many birds such as the robin,
snarrow. chaffinch and black
bird bathe frequently. They
seemingly enjoy a thorough
washing, performing the task
vigorously and hastily, after
which they hurriedly hie them
selves to nearby bushes where
they shake their wet feathers
out and then smooth them care
fully. Fear speeds them: while
bathing, birds are vulnerable to
attack and they fly quickly to
nearby bushes because - their
drenched wings slow their flight
considerably.
Birds do not limit their bath
ing to warm summer weather.
Not at all. Some have been ob
served bathing when the water
temperature has been only a few
degrees from freezing and the
air temperature was down to 10
degrees above zero that's 22
degrees below freezing. Brrrr!
Some Sit in Rain
During summer showers, some
birds such as marsh hawks sit in
the rain with wings outspread
apparently , enjoying the down
pour. And upon one occasion a
buzzard has been seen flying de
liberately into an open perch
during a rainstorm and sitting
there with wings outspread.
even shaking them, until the
heavy shower was over,
With a few, bathing is done
from the wing. Such a one is the
shrike. He will sit on a perch
near the edge of a pool and sud
denly fly out over the water and
drop directly into it with a little
splash and then rise and fly
back to his perch, doing it over
repeatedly.
While fly fishing on the Yel
lowstone, I have seen an osprey
(fish hawk) apparently washing
his feet on the wing perhaps
to get rid of the fish slime. He
flew just above the water and
allowed his rather long legs to
dangle into the water in flight
as he raised and lowered him
self.
Where dews are heavy, some
birds such as towhees, thrushes
and flickers have been seen rub
bing themselves over the wet
grass .and that done, going
through the motions of bathing,
followed by preening
Many birds, of course dust
bathe particularly in the plain
and desert countries. Actually,
the pheasant, lark and partridge
seem to prefer it to water bath
ing. The pheasant and partridge
in particular come back to the
same spot repeatedly, hollowing
out large dust basins in the soft
soil.
Birds don't necessarily limit
themselves to one kind of bath
ing flickers and sparrows,
for example, enjoy both water
and dust baths, even on the same
day.
In the northern climes such
as in Scandinavia,' Scotland,
Canada and New England, when
the land is in the cold grip of
winter' and the water is frozen
over and the earth covered with
snow, neither dust nor water
bathing is possible. Then what?
Quite logically some birds, like
the raven I observed in Finland,
find a substitute in snow.'
Others have reported seeing
hawk owls in Alaska perching
in snow atop telephone poles and
going through the motions - of
bathing; or rooks in Scotland
have been seen bathing in crisp
powdery snow; and in New Eng-
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Hisiory Repeats Itself
To the Editor: How truly his
tory repeats. Way back when
Grand Coulee dam was but a
gleam in the eye of Rufus Woods,
publisher-editor of the Wenat
chee Daily World at Wenatchee,
Wash., the Washington Water
Power Co. had acquired power
rights at Kettle Falls for a low
dam but plenty big to stop the
building of one at Grand Coulee
if its boosters could be silenced.
That was done, save for Rufus
Woods and a few loyal diehards
with him.
At one time, his was the only
daily paper in the whole U.S-A.
plugging for Grand Coulee dam.
Chambers of Commerce were
swung away from him, including
the one in his own home town.
Ridicule was heaped on him"
verging on the libelous, includ
ing a whispering that, "did you
hear about Rufus Woods? He's
loosing his buttons over that
white-elephant thing he wants
built at Wild Goose Bill's ferry
at Grand Coulee. Ho w'd we use
all that power if we got it? Peo
ple skip across the street when
they see him coming. S'f act. Etc.
etc." ' '
But Grand Coulee dam was
built and Rufus Woods was there
to see the Columbia rise to spiU
over its crest and send its mighty
power surging into the turbines,
with some of it earmarked to re
claim thousands of acres of fine
but arid land.
Came the war. Later Churchill,
with cigar at a very unjaunty
angle for he had to tell F.D.R.
that the enemy was sinking our
war supply ships faster than
they were being built, even
though our shipyards were work
ing round the clock.
What to do to reverse the
deadly balance? Henry J. Kaiser
provided one answer by putting
the building of ships in his big
yard on the Willamette on an
assembly line. Others followed
suit. Still others speeded up in
various ways, especially here in
the west where they had the ad
ditional tremendous power of
Gran Coulee high dam to back
'em up. Power for the aluminum
producing pot-lines at Troutdale
surging through pure silver bus
bars worth thousands of dollars,
copper too scarce.
Looks like history is pounding
out a warning at the Hells Can
yon power site on the Snake.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main St.
land, juncoes have been, seen
taking such snow baths just as
though they were in the water.
After bathing, many birds
anoint their plumage with oil.
Perhaps1 you haVe seen a bird
turn his long, flexible neck and
nibble at the oil gland which is
just above and in front of the
root on the tail on the bird
back.
Works Oil Through Feathers
While nibbling apparently, he
squeezes out some oil and then
works it through his feathers
with his bill. Because he cannot
get at his head, he rubs it against
the oil gland vigorously and
then scratches his bead feathers
with his foot.
But even more unusual
most unusual to my way of
thinking some birds carry
their own special mix of powder,
In the cockatoos this powder puff
is scattered; in the herons it oc
curs in definite areas. Actually,
the puff consists of certain fea
thers and the powder is made up
of minute tips of feathery ends
which break off contmuously
and sift over the rest of the
plumage.
It is this "powder down" which
gives the pale grey of the marsh
hawk such a beautiful soft,
whitish "bloom," and the her
rons plumage such a filmy ap
pearance. The down apparently
keeps the feathers from matting,
In handling, the "bloom" rubs
off quickly.
Surely, this powder plumage
is the ultimate of feather per
fection.
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Hoax Alert Turned in
To Portland Police
Portland (U.R) Portland
police Friday reported an un
identified person turned in a red
.alert, which means an enemy
air attack.
Police checked with the Air
Defense Command here and dis
covered the warning was a hoax.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff ni Contributor.)
Spring really to here.
Want to know how we
know? The first state picnic
of the season has been an
nounced a sure sign. Min
nesota was first again this
year.
Dr. Elmo Stevenson, presi
dent of Southern Oregon Col
lege, has a nice way of putting
things.
So it's a pleasure to record
something he told graduating
seniors at Jacksonville High
school last week. It went some
thing like this:
"Philosophers are those who
know a little about many things.
More and more they, know more
and more about fewer and few
er things, until finally they
know everything about noth
ing." At about the busiest time
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's start this piece off today
with a direct quotation from Dr.
Salk, the discoverer,of the polio
vaccine. Asked by the reporters
at a news conference in New
York whether he was disap
pointed by the rate at which
vaccine is reaching the public,
he replied:
"We are so far ahead of where
we ought to be that talk of going
faster is like asking a rocket
ship to go faster than it does."
WE AMERICANS are an im
patient lot. We want things
done INSTANTLY, if not soon
er. But I'm sure it will be a
good thing if we keep clear in
our minds the fact that it took
a century for smallpox vaccine
to cover the ground we're try
ing to cover (in the case of polio
vaccine) in a few months.
TN TULSA, Okla., a 49-year-old
grandmother has just been
sentenced to life imprisonment
for poisoning her fifth husband.
She admitted giving deadly poi
son doses to four of the five, but
denied the fifth case. The jury
refused to believe her and
brought in a verdict of guilty.
I think it's just as well to put
her away for a while. This husband-poisoning
business might
grow into a habit with her
it isn't checked.
fUR PRESIDENT calls for
V general display of the Stars
and Stripes on June 14 which
is Flag Day. In a proclamation
he says: ;
"Under the protecting folds of
this banner, generations of
Americans have enjoyed the
blessings of liberty and justice
that are inherent in our form of
government."
T EPS HEED Ike's call and dis
play our flag at our homes
and at our places of business
on Flag Day, which is a week
from next Tuesday.
Deep respect for the flag of
our country can do no American
any harm.
T HAVE the feeling that for a
generation at least we Ameri
cans have been passing through
a phase in which we've been
ASHAMED to show deep respect
ior our nag just as we've been
a bit ashamed to show DEEP
feeling of any kind. During this
period, we've probably been
striving for sophistication and
have harbored the illusion that
displaying the flag at our homes
or removing our hats when it
passes isn't the way for "sophis
ticated" people to act.
If so, it's high time for s
change. Respect for the Amer
ican r lag is nothine to be
ashamed of.
CPEAKING OF "nh
. M
think most oldsters win agree
mai a generation or so ago there
was a tendency among students.
particularly in high school and
college, to be embarrassed by
iuu GOOD grades.
The fear was then Drevalent
that if one's grades were too
good one might be classed as a
stockings weren't supposed to be
Diue stocking", and blue stock
ings weren't supposed to be very
popular socially.
I'M REASONABLY sure that
x this generation of students is
passing out of that chase. At
least. I sincerely HOPE so.
In the future, KNOWLEDGE
will be POWER.
It will take BRAINS to run
the complicated machinery of
the atomic energy age, which we
are just entering. Those with
accurate and well-trained minds
wiU be the leaders of the future.
Those WITHOUT such minds
will be the hewers of wood and
the drawers of water.
Dr. VV. W. Youngson
Succumbs In Portland
Portland (U.R) Dr. W. W.
Youngson, 85-year-old Methodist
minister, died here Saturday of
stroke.
Dr. Youngson wag the dean
of Methodist ministry in Port-
land.. He founded and was first
pastor of the Rose City Park
Methodist church.
Funeral services are tentat IV.
ly set for 2:30 pjn. Monday at
tha church h helped build.
f the afternoon Friday, work
men were painting crosswalk
on the downtown streets. Traf
fic was being Held up for
blocks, pedestrians were in
convenienced and things gen
erally were messed up.
"Why," a staff member In
quired rhetorically, "can't they
do it early in the morning or
late In the evening?"
One of the hits of the Med
ford High school graduation
ceremonies Thursday evening
was a small dog, who undertook
to become an integral part of the
festivities.
Somebody decided it probably
was the reincarnation of a for
mer graduate (or possibly the
guardian angel of the class in
disguise). Anyway, it took ita
place at the head of the sober
line of graduates, and led them
to their place on the stands. As
the ceremony concluded, it again
took its place in the van, lead
ing them off stage.
Here's another dog storyt
One huge canine, presum
ably a Great Dane or some
thing of the sort, has no diffi
culty whatsoever getting a
drink of water at the Sixth
and Front st. intersection
drinking fountain. He simply
puts his forepaws up on the
concrete step fixed for young
sters, shoves his head over the
fountain, and slurps away.
Don't go away yet; here's an
other dog (and cat) story.
The National Humane society
reports that 165 cats and dogs
are born every minute in the
United States a rate of al
most a quarter-million each day.
As a result, the society says,
there are some 15,000,000 dogs
and 25,000,000 cats in the coun
try without homes.
The society feels that the so
lution -for the problem, for
which it says the animals are
blameless, is not slaughtering
them, but cutting down the
breeding rate.
We wish we'd been In the
backyard of e residence we
know about one day recently.
We'd loved to have watched as
one of those plastic swimming
pools, which stand up above
the ground, burst at its seam
and sent 5,000 gallons of water
roaring across flowerbeds and
lawns some 40 or 50 feet to
the street.
We think it would have been
a wonderful and majestic
sight.
And it's a darned good
thing nobody was too dose
when it happened, for those
5,000 gallons weigh a total of
about 50.000 pounds, and 50.
000 pounds of water swoosh
ing by are not to be trifled
with.
(P. S.. The manufacturer
has agreed to replace the
swimming pool with a newer,
sturdier model.)
Dear Potluck:
Did you ever hear of the
Bible Ranch?" Of course that
was only a nickname given to
a hillside clearing at the turn
of the century by the few rei
maining "hardrock" miners near
Gold Hill.
A pattern of an open book was
formed in a clearing of brush
with a small gully in the cen
ter hence the name. The hill
side was planted to vineyard
and was the talk of the town for
many years. Eventually it re
verted back to nature again, but
the remains and dim outlines
can still be distinguished about
a half-mile from the Sams Val
ley road north of Gold Hill,
looking across the river.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.
Color television may be a
long way off. but one Medford
area family already has gone
it one or two better. They
have the same thing, plus wide
screen and stereophonic sound
and they didn't have to put
out a fabulous price for a set.
Some time back they dis
posed of some surplus proper
ty to a drive-in theater, but
they were farsighted enough
to have some unusual provi
sions inserted in the agree
ment. , So now they can sit in their
patio on warm summer nights
and watch the drive-in theater
screen. Sound is provided by
their own personal sound box.
One thing they appear to have
missed. As far as we know,
they have to provide their own
popcorn.
The Paul Conrads, who raise
wbiteface cattle on a ranch off
the Butte Falls highway, were
puzzled last week. The Conrads
found a new-born calf in the
pasture and since all of their
cows already had small calves,
they decided the little newcom
er must belong in the herd of a
neighbor. But it didn't, and one
of the cows in the Conrad herd
drove off her first offspring, a!
March calf, and began mother
ing the day-old arrival.
This seemed to add up to one
cow having two calves, four
months apart. The Conrads don't
mind having one more animal
ii their herd, but still aren't
quite sure about the facta of
wbitefaca cowdom,
at
Sh.