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polar flight, Mrs. Everett V.
Moore, of Omaha, wrote me that
she had trained a six-months'
parakeet to say 53 words, plain
ly, including "happy birthday"
and a statement which had to be
dropped to protect an innocent
bystander her little grandchild.
Knowing that the successful
training of any pet whether
mammal, fish, snake or bird
would be of great interest to IS
That So! readers, I asked Mrs.
More to give me a detailed ac
count of her method. Now, she
writes that Tuffy, at eight
months, has mastered 106 words,
Including, "Hickory, dickory,
dock, the mouse ran up the
clock!"
Incidentally, Mrs. Moore's let
ter has won her my panel of
judges' award of the 30-volume
set of the Encyclopedia Ameri
cana. May I add that I would
like to hear from other readers
about their most unusual True
Life Nature Adventures, includ
ing the outdoors. Again, I must
ay, I'm sorry that I cannot an
swer all your many friendly and
interesting letters.
Mrs. Moore writes: "I think
it is most important to get a
young bird, preferably a male
like Tuffy. (Some bird experts
disagree. They say a female
makes an equally gifted speaker.
Birds of course differ. Some are
outlaws, others exceedingly
friendly, right off. Some talk
quickly, others are slow just
like humans. Author.)
"To begin, Tuffy was scared
and flew into window panes. So
I clipped his wing feathers
H. which did not hurt and slowed
' down his flight and tamed him.
Although it is admittedly more
difficult to work with a bird
with undipped wings, I have
done it. Author.)
"I think it is most important
to establish good, regular habits
the first four to six months.
"To gain Tuffy's confidence,
I reached into his cage and
- caught him and held him and
talked to him starting with m
simple statement. But I repeated
it over and over. It took pa
tience. (My method to gain the
. bird'a confidence differs. I re
move the food at night Then in
the morinng I dampen, my fin
ger and dip it into some bird
- aeed which adheres J offer this
to the hungry bird and gradual
ly he gains confidence in my
finger, my hand, and me.
Author.)
"To gain Tuffy entire atten
tion, a most important thing, I
smacked my lips several time
first, as if asking him for a kiss,
which drew his attention to me.
Then I repeated my statement.
When he learned that, I went to
the next but 'mouth smacking1
between times. Even now, when
I go down his learned list, re
peating old statements about
twice each, I find it best to
"mouth smack'! Also it is best to
repeat the statements pretty
welj ta h order in which I
taught them.
"Throughout the training, too,
I repeat the lip-smacking to hold
his attention. And Tuffy makes
this sound, too, before he makes
his statement
, "At times. I talk to Tuffy
when he is still covered, morn
ings, in his cage. A new state
ment by the way should tie re
peated about 15-20 times and
thien throughout the day's work.
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I find that it takes Tuffy about
four days to master a new state
ment. "I have found it best to be
alone with Tuffy during lessons.
With others present and talking
it is hard to hold his attention.
He also likes music.
"Like all parakeets, Tuffy
adores a mirror. He loves to see
his reflection and will talk by
the. hour into it. However, he
will also sit on a perch or lad
der and talk his head off. (A
single bird will learn faster than
a pair and become much friend
lier, too. Author.)
"Tuffy seems to talk better
when he has his freedom. A
closed bird, I've noticed, doesn't
ever do much talking. Besides,
even when he has a mirror in
his cage, Tuffy doesn't talk
nearly so plainly his words
seem to come faster, his state
ments to run together. Also, a
closed bird seems to get mean.
At least my bird tended to get
that way when I was gone, con
fined to a hospital. When I got
back, my lovable little fellow
had become pecky. But I got
him over this by- tapping his
bill with a soda straw and blow
ing on him.
"Some people think you
should talk softly to a parakeet
I don't But I do speak with ex
pressioneven to the singing of
his 'Happy Birthday' song. The
little rascal has even picked up
my laugh. And they'll pick up
other everyday words around
the house and sounds like the
ringing of a telephone.
"It's important to teach a bird
his name and address and you
should hear Tuffy rattle off his
name, house number and street,
as plain as can be.
"Finally, I still think that the
secret of my teaching Tuffy to
talk so quickly was to 'mouth
smack' to get his attention and
then to repeat the same state
ment 15-20 times, several times
each day, until he mastered it"
Mrs. Moore also said that be
sides talking, Tuffy has endeared
himself to family and friends by
doing many tricks more of
these perhaps another time.
(Copyright. 1955.
by Eugene Burns)
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of Foreign Operations Administration, presents his final
report to President Eisenhower at the White House. He
said the program has made notable progress, but added
that "our task is far from complete." Activities of FOA are
beirg turned over to the State and Defense Departments.
Sen. Morse Describes
Talent Appropriation
Bill Fight in Senate
In a telegram Saturday, Sen.
Wayne Morse gave more details
about progress of the appropri
ations bill containing $500,000
for the start of construction on
the Talent project.
The bill will come up for con
sideration by the full Senate
Tuesday morning, and it was this
that caused him to cancel his
projected trip to Jackson'ounty
this week end. He was to have
arrived here this afternoon for
a round of talks and public ap
pearances Monday and Tuesday.
His Clear Duty
"It is my clear duty to remain
in Washington and continue a
series of consultations with indi
vidual senators whose support
may well be essential to passage
of appropriation bill through
Senate next week," Senator
Dermatologist To
Open Office Here
Dr. Elliott L. Harlow arrived
in Medford' Friday, and this
week will open an office- for
the practice of dermatology in
the Medical Center building.
Mrs. Harlow preceded her hus
band here several weeks ago
and the couple is living at 238
King street.
They are from San Francisco,
where Dr. Harlow recently com
pleted specialized training in
his field at the University of
Colorado medical school and he
has practiced in San Francisco
and in Marin county, Calif.
During World War II, Dr. Har
low served in this country with
the public health service with
the rank of senior assistant sur
geon. tenth.
til
Morse said in a wire to Mrs. Ed'
ward C. Kelly, who had been co
ordinating the plans for his visit.
"It is also very important that
I be on floor of Senate Tuesday
to participate in floor debate in
support of appropriations recom
mended for Oregon projects by
Senate appropriations commit
tee," he continued. "Dick Neil-
berger and I have worked very
hard over period of several
weeks presenting Oregon's case
in support of appropriation re
quests for these projects, and we
are delighted with the very fa
vorable recommendations which
we have received from the Sen
ate appropriations . committee.
Our task was made more diffi
cult by the fact that the Repub
lican administration recommend
ed either inadequate funds or no
funds at all for most of the pro
jects. Significant Accomplishment
"The recommendation of the
Senate committee that appropri
ations for the Talent project be
increased from $154,000 recom
mended by the House committee
to $500,000 is a significant ac
complishment ,but we must con
tinue to do everything we can
to secure approval of the Senate
of this recommendation, and then
do everything possible to per
suade the House conferees to sup
port the Senate amount. There is
still much work to be done be
fore this appropriation fight is
finally won.
"And therefore I am sure that
the people of Southern Oregon
will understand the complete
justification of my cancelling my
trip so that I can remain here in
Washington and continue to
work on this vitally important
matter.
"Please express to your group
my regrets and assure them that
if they will extend to me a rain
check invitation, I shall be glad
to speak to a similar meeting to
be arranged sometime this fall,"
he concluded.
Conservation Meeting
His last reference was to a
meeting with conservationists
and supporters of the Talent pro
ject to have been held at Hanley
lands, the Ross lane home of Mrs.
E. B. Hanley. :
Mrs. Hanley said Saturday she
will sponsor the same gathering
later in the year when the Sena
tor can attend-, and pointed out
that he would then have more to
report on the Oregon projects.
She said she is proud of the work
the senator is doing, and that she
agreed he should stay and fight
for the Talent and other Oregon
projects..
Cherryville Logger
Crushed to Death
Sandy, Ore. -U.PJ-tA fright
ened logger was crushed to
death near Cherryville Friday
when he ran into the path of a
falling tree as his brother-in-law
stood by helplessly.
Lawrence O. Mason, 32, was
trapped as his brother-in-law,
Marvin Blakely, sawed off the
end of a tree which had become
snagged 25 feet in the air.
Mason, who had been standing
at a safe distance, became
frightened and ran under the
falling tree.
, He died instantly.
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In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Fiscal stuff:
The senate is acting today on
a bill to extend the nation's 281
BILLION debt limit for one
year. Approval in the senate is
expected (the house has already
approved it) and the President
is understood to be planning to
sign it at once. .
TTNDER present circumstances,
the debt extension is so es
sential that even Senator Byrd
of Virginia feels that he is com
pelled to support it. But I cer
tainly hope that our congress
will be realistic enough in its
spending in the future to enable
our nation to QUIT INCREAS
ING ITS DEBT.
These are good times. There
are round reasons to believe
that if the Russians can be con
vinced that starting another war
wouldn't pay business conditions
in the United States will be good
for a considerable time.
When times are good is the
time to pay off debt. Every in
dividual with a grain of common
sense knows that '
CAN WE CUT FEDERAL
SPENDING?
We can if at every election
the voters defeat the heavy
spenders. Politicians are pretty
good merchants. They believe in
giving the people what the peo
ple indicate by their votes that
they want
T of atomic power?
Is it coming QUICK? .
gOME say yes.
Some say no.
The situation came to a head
the other day at a hearing on
the multi-billion dollar upper
Colorado river development.
Congressman Craig Hosmer of
Southern California, who is
against the upper Colorado proj
ect, thinks it's coming quick. He
said:
- "Not in 100 years, not in 50
years, but in a much shorter
time nuclear-electric energy will
be produced MUCH CHEAPER
than hydro-electric energy."
' Congressman Durham of
North Carolina (who is also
against the upper Colorado de
velopment) went even farther.
He said:
Atomic power WITHIN TWO
YEARS will be produced as
cheaply as energy from oil, coal
or WATER."
ON THE other side of the ques
. tinn Spnatnr Wallaro Ben
nett of Utah (who is for the Colo
rado project) said:
"It would be imprudent and
most unwise to halt the construc
tion of dams on the grounds that
their, power might become obso
lete at some indefinite time in
the future. Neither the public
power users, municipalities or
rural electric cooperatives, nor
the private power companies
seem to share this fear . . . They
are all anxius to contract for any
available power from the power
dams . . . Private power, com
panies in the West are continu
ing : their, hydro and steam
power expansion programs with
out any let-up.
rjTAKE your choice.
But
Here in Southern Oregon,
which is rich in resources that
need power for their develop
ment, we'd better get the power
of our great rivers developed
while somebody still wants to
develop it
We aren't going to get any
huge atomic developments here.
Blind War Veteran
Diet in Bend Fire
.Baker (U.R) Leslie S. Stoll,
about 31, a blind war veteran,
burned to death in his flaming
four-room home here about 4:30
a.m. Saturday.
Firemen said the fire appar
ently started in the bedroom of
the house from a dropped cig
arette. Stoll lived alone.
Authorities said the man, who
was blinded by shrapnel in
World War n, apparently be
came confused while attempting
to escape the flames. Two doors
lead from the bedroom one to
the kitchen and the other to a
closet Stall's body was found in
the closet caught behind a hot
water heater. He was a former
football player on the Baker
high school team.
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Workers in Oregon j
M&M Mills Join
In Labor Dispute
Portland XU.R) AFL Ply
wood Workers in the five M&M
Woodworking Company plants
on the west coast authorized a
strike Friday afternoon and Im
mediately posted pickets.
Some 1500 men in plants lo
cated . at Portland, Albany,
Idanha and Lyons, Ore., and Eu
reka, Calif., left their; jobs to
"attend union meetings" and
failed to return to work Friday.
The union said the strike vote
was 1187 to 41 in the five plants.
The dispute was over renew
ing the old contract . with no
changes in wages or conditions.
according to the Eureka local.
"The men simply will not work
without a contract," it said.
At ; Portland, union officials
said the dispute was based on a
company desire to remove cer
tain benefits already a part of
the old contract
Paul Karstedt, assistant to the
company's president, said M &
M wanted all side agreements
included in the contract; elimi
nation of a compulsory arbitra
tion clause in the contract, and
"clarification" of clauses oh com
puting vacation pay.
The company said the wage
issue was not to be raised until
June 30, 1956.
Vancouver Man Dies
Under Truck Wheels
Albany, Ore. (U.R) David
Edgar White, 56, Vancouver, B.
C, was killed instantly at 3 p.m.
Friday when he was crushed
under the wheels of a loaded
logging truck that had swerved
to avoid hitting his wife.
Delbert Carl Pitcher, Junction
City, driver of the truck, told
state police he was forced to
make the tragic choice when the
couple walked across Pacific
highway in front of his vehicle at
Halsey, Ore.
. They had apparently parked
their car and were crossing to a
restaurant White had crossed
the highway . and his wife was
following. She stepped into the
path of Pitcher's truck and he
said he was forced to swerve to
the right to avoid hitting her.
He hit her husband instead. She
was not injured.
The couple was enroute to Los
Angeles to visit relatives.
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Nilsen Sets Study
Of Signboard Lam
. Salem (U.R) State Labor
Commissioner Norman O. Nilseu
told a meeting of outdoor adver
tising industry representatives
here Friday that he would make
a first hand study of Oregon's
signboard law.
Nilsen said the California sys
tem; which regulates some ' of
the largest advertising projects
in the nation, should produce
helpful material in setting up
workable methods for adminis
tering , Oregon's signboard law
which becomes effective Aug. 3.
Warren Korstad of Eugene, as
spokesman for the. outdoor ad
vertising Industry, said the in
dustry wants to do its part to
ward making the Oregon regu
latory system effective to im
prove the appearance of the
state's highway network.
The signboard law resulted
from two bills introduced by the
Roadside Council of Oregon and
the outdoor advertising industry
at the 1955 Legislature.
Portland Man With
Touring Boy Scouts
McGuire Air Force Base, N J.
(U.R) Sixteen .Explorer Scouts
and three explorer leaders, three
from the West Coast, have left
on a Military Air Transport
Service plane for a five-week
tour of Europe.
Adult Explorer Advisor, Wil
liam Oberteurffer of Portland,
Ore., accompanied the touring
scouts who ' departed Friday on
an exchange visit arranged with
a group of European scouts who
arrived in the UJS. June 19.
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Airliner Damaged in
Mishap 3t Airport
Portland (U.R) One of the
last two DC-3 airliners on the
Pacific coast runs of United Air
Lines sustained minor damage
here Friday when its landing
gear collapsed as it stood on a
ramp at Portland International
Airport '
The incident was blamed on
failure of the hydraulic mechan
ism which operates the landing,
gear. The plane was idled for
routine repairs and was occupied
by a mechanic, stewardess and
janitor when it gently plopped
to its belly, inflicting minor
damage to engines ' and pro
pellers. . :
The ship had just returned
from its San Francisco run and
was. preparing for the return
trip. It was the first such inci
dent ever recorded at United's
Portland station.
Brand Inspection
Fees Down 5 Cents
Salem (U.R) Livestock brand
inspection fees in Oregon were
reduced from 30 cents - to 25
cents a head effective July 1,
M.. E. Knickerbocker, Chief of
the Division of Animal Indus
try of the State Department of
Agriculture, said. -
The department also put Into
use a new series of stock brand
inspection certificates. Thqy will
be . issued only by authorized in
spectors.. During 1954 the movement
of cattle through brand inspec
tion points in Oregon reached a
new high of more than 700,000
head. Through May, 1955, in
spections each month this year
were higher than in the same
month a year ago.
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