Ken Bitterling Named 4-H
Member of Month in County
Ken Bitterling 17, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Robert Bitterling, route
l, box 83, Eagle Point, is Jack
son county club member of the
month for May.
A 7 year club member, Ken
has completed six years in dairy,
five years in beef and swine,
three years in tractor mainten
ance, one year in poultry and
two years as junior leader in the
Antelope 4-H Dairy club. His
fellow 4-H'ers have elected him
as president of the county-wide
Teenage Council for 1955 and
also president of the Antelope 4-
H Community club for 1955. He
hai served in the capacity of
vice-president, president, report'
er and song leader in many dif
ferent 4-H project clubs.
Had Champion Jersey
His 1954 activities saw him
walk off with the grand cham
pion jersey in the county fair,
champion dairy showman and an
alternate for the Pacific Inter
national fair, champion dairy
howman and an alternate for
the Pacific International' Live
stock judging team. His dairy
cattle have consistently won
firsts and seconds and he also
had a reserve champion in 1953
In addition to topping the coun
ty fair in showmanship in dairy.
e was one of 15 top beef show
men at this year's Junior Grand
National Livestock Exposition at
the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
He was awarded the Jersey Cat
tle club trophy as champion
showman at the Junior Dairy
show at Gold Hill in May,
A consistently high judge, in
1952 representing the county at
the P.I., he was second high on
the second high dairy judging
team and was high individual in
jersey judging. In 1953 at State
fair, he was the third individual
judge. He has attended the an
nual 4-H Summer school in Cor-
vallis two different years and
took an active part in sports and
other summer school activities.
In 1953 he was awarded the
county medal for having an out
standing dairy project and in
1954 the county medal for the
tractor maintenance project.
School Activities
Ken graduated from the Eagle
Point High school this year and
was in the upper one-fourth of
his graduating class. He was a
charter member of the Eagle
Point chapter of the National
Honor society. He, took an ac
tive part in school activities
which included four years in the
class plays, student council rep
resentative as a junior decora
tion .chairman for the high
school carnival 1955, two years
in the band, and high school
chorus work. A good athlete, he
is a three year letterman in bas
ketball and track where he com
peted in the low and high hur
dles and the broad jump.
The family farm at Eagle
Point consists of 320 acres, most
of it in pasture to take care of
the 50 dairy cows which the
Bitterlings own. This is the
second club member of the
month award for the Bitterling
family as Jean, an older sister
now working at the Rogue River
Valley State bank, was an out
standing club member last year.
Raymond 15, an active club
member, rounds out the Bitter
ling family.
Poultry Beef
In addition to dairy cattle, the
Bitterlings have a family poultry
flock and some beef steers that
the club members are raising,
and a pet deer. The young buck,
orphaned early m the year, is a
special pet of Jean's and the
KEN BITTERLING
4-H Member of Month
able to keep away from hunters
this tall.
Ken's future plans call for en
rolling at Oregon State college
this fall to major in animal hus
bandry. His work in junior lead
ership and livestock projects
have made him one of the out
standing club members in Jack
son county today.
Ridgway Will Head
Mellon Institute
Pittsburgh (U.R) Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway will become
chairman of the board of Mellon
institute, an institution for in
dustrial research here, soon after
he retires as Army chief of staff.
Richard K. Mellon, a director
of the institute, in announcing
Ridgway's appointment yester
day, explained that trustees of
the institute desired to transfer
increasing administrative bur
dens" from members of the staff
so they could devote more time
to their scientific work.
ine ou-year-om tormer com
mander of United Nations troops
in Korea is scheduled to retire
as chief of staff June 30 and will
assume his new- duties about the
middle of September.
German Observers
May Meet Russians
Bonn, Germany U.R)
West German Foreign Minister
Heinrich Von Brentano said to
day a German delegation of ob
servers to the Geneva Four Pow
er conference may meet Rus
sian leaders there -next month.
Brentano told a news confer
ence he would be prepared to
talk to Soviet officials at Gene
va to prepare a meeting between
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin "if the situation would
warrant such a conversation."
"But," he added, "so far all
that is only a possibility and not
formal program.
Tuesday, June 14, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUMK TOREK
U. S. Participation in
Peace Talks Denied
Tokyo U.R) Foreign Minis
ter Namoru Shigemitsu today
denied " the United States was
playing a behind-the-scenes role
at Japanese-Russian peace talks
in London.
Shigemitsu told Diet members
Japan is entirely free in its dip
lomacy and that the United
States had not tried to interfere
in his nation's talks with the So-
family is hoping that he will be viet Union.
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