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c O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordSSs,Tribuni "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. yr-29 North Fir St. Phone 26141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgT Aa Independent Newspaper "Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ol -March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In. Advance: Per copy 10c Daily and Sunday One vear Sl2.no Daily and Sunday Six momns 6.aii Dailv and Sunday Three mos 3 -0 Sunday Only One vear J-8"-, . By Carrier In Advance - MeJI" Ashland Central Ptnt fairle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .... Daily and Sunday One vear S15 00 Daily and Sunday One month us Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Offir-faMPaper of the City of M'ord Official Paper of J acKSon County UnTied Press-Hejyi.e--- "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York Chicago De troit San Francuco Los Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION v-V NfWSPAMt PUtlilHEIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. f; 10 YEARS AGO c "J August 3. 1945 o (It was Friday) -cc. Rnphnck company an nounced plans to build store here, buys option on South Cen tral ave. and Riverside ave. property. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A wild life magazine reports "caribous get 'Trid of mosquitoes by running "against the wind." But what va cationist at a lake or hill resort, wants to get out of bed,: in the middle of the night, and run against the wind. 20 YEARS AGO August 3, 1935 (It was Saturday) K. A. liOimes insurance agen cy in new offices. Religious services scheduled for local CCC camps. 30 YEARS AGO 3 August 3, 1925 (It was Monday) Jacksonville boy, runaway for the second time, caught near Woodland, Calif. "Temptations of 1925" vaude ville revue in tomorrow's Cra terian theater bill. 0 40 YEARS AGO August 3, 1S15 (It was Tuesday) One chassis available in five body types of 1916 Maxwell. r A total of 1,500.000 trout batched and liberated at the Elk creek station this season, ac cording to Herrry O'Malley, U.S. Bureau of Hatcheries. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The federal law on mini mum wages and maximum hours covers about 20, 35, 50 or 65 per cent of the total civilian labor force? 2. Suburban .land prices around most U.S. cities are going up or down or staying about the same? 3. Taiwan is the native name for which strategic area in the Far East? 4. U.S. carryover wheat sup plies are now" higher or lower than annual production, or about equal to it? Jp 5. Sir Norman Brookes was a famous tennis player for Great Britain: right or wrong? 6. Which one of these is not a famous private school for boys: Andover, Hun, Groton, Exeter, Dannemora, Hotchkiss? 7. The Bessemer Process is used in making magnesium, soda, steel, aluminum, or oil from coal? The Answers: 1. About 35 per cent. 2. Going up. 3. Formosa. 4.Higher. 5. Wrong (for Aus tralia). 6. Dannemora (penal in stitution). 7. Steel. Ex-Stayton Policeman Joins Forte at Klamath Klamath Falls ;u.R) A new patrolman jointed the Kla math county state police force this week. He is Roland Clark, who re signed his post with the Stayton city police to join the state troop ers. Unit commander Sgt. E. W. Tichenor, said there now were 18 state policemen in the Klamath area, MAIL TRIBUNE i A Letter to Mr. We recently received a letter from a Rogue val ley man in which he expressed his appreciation for certain items which had appeared in the Mail Trib une. But in addition, he voiced a criticism of the paper, apparently one of long standing. Since he expressed what may be a fairly com mon misapprehension, it may be helpful to others to know how we feel. We are printing below portions of our reply. n EAR Mr. Thank you for your recent letter. Since you were frank in expressing your opinion, I'd like to be equal ly frank in my reply. . - You say: . . for one of the first times . . . the Tribune has really done something for someone else other than for the paper itself without the use of a paid ad." That hurts, Mr. . And I think it is unjusti fied. May I call to your attention hundreds of columns of written material and pictures over the past- few years about the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Community Chest, March of Dimes, Red Cross, YMCA, Mercy Flights, Inc., and uncounted other organizations. TITE have devoted time and space to the Shakespear- " ean Festival, the Jacksonville Jubilee, the Rogue River Roundup ; to the schools of Medford and Jack son county; to civic affairs, to fraternal organiza tions; to the veterans' doings at Camp White; to the Chamber of Commerce. n Other examples which come to mind are stories and editorials about our major-industries lumber, horticulture and other types of agriculture, and tour ists and their problems. We devote much space to trying to keep tabs on the new industries and busines ses as they come to town. All this is in addition to the "spot news" of the day. . - . And in all of these, advertising has been either non-existent or purely incidental. 7 ACH Friday we devote a major portion of a full page to information about churches. This is print ed free (which is not always the case, for some news papers charge for church announcements, and in oth ers they are paid for through the sponsorship of ad vertisers). We also print stories of cspecial church events. This is done without regard to whether or not the churches advertise. In the news room, we never know in advance (or care) whether advertising is involved or not. c We like to .have advertising. Why not? It pays our salaries, and the other costs of putting out a paper. The subscription income is only a fraction of total publication costs. ' -.' DUT if news pQlicy were governed by our advertis- ing policy, we would be failing in our responsibil ities to our readers. (Sometimes we actually' get irri tated at the advertising department for failing to tell us about something that we consider good news mater ial. But they think of us as little as we think of thrn in day-to-day operations.) There are some few events (rummage sales, food sales, bazaars, and other money-raising projects)' which are properly advertising "copy," but, because they also have some news value, we usually "give them" free publicity in addition to their advertising. If an event is really news, it will be publicized, advertising or not. . If, however, some individual or group attempts to get "free publicity" through the news columns for something which is properly advertising, we are, justi fiably, I think, a little sour regarding these tactics. c O o IX7HEN you say ". . . through the lack of cooperation V from the newspapers, we have found it nearly impossible" to tell the story of your group, I am at loss to understand what you, mean. To the best of my recollection, no representative of your association has contacted the news ' room for a stoiy for several years, until about four months ago Mr. began coming to the office, a contact which led directly to a series of stories and, indirectly, to the "items of which you speak. o o News and publicity are not a one-way street. With a limited news staff, and with an: obligation to coyer the daily news as it occurs, our time for exploring other phases of life is limited, and we have to depend on cooperation of c others in presenting stories--co-operation which, usually, we have received in full and gratifying measure. o T EGITIMATE news will continue to receive a warm "" welcome in the news room of the Mail Tribune. This'most specifically includes the doings of your as sociation, although we reserve the right, as we must, to rephrase news items in our own style and manner, and to decide the amount of space which can be allocated. . But with the. number of organizations in the county which produce news (there are several hun dred), we must depend on the efforts of publicity and news chairmen to help us tell their continuing stories. o Sincerely yours, W E HOPE our readers this letter, we "blow If we don't, who will? CITIZEN AT 90 Haverhill, Mass. U.R) Mrs. Maria Simone was admitted to citizenship in superior court in nearby Lawrence. The Haverhill woman said she became a citizen because "I love this country." Not so unusual? Mrs. Simone is 90. Wednesday, August 3, 1955 will forgive us if, through our own horn" a little. E.A. Des Moiaes, la. (U.R) C. E. Lamoureux, chief of the Des Moines weather bureau, said to day Tie's getting hot under the collar at the number of people calling to ask the temperature. If they'd leave him alone, Lam oreux said, he might have some time to look for cooler weather. A! offer of Fcrcf By san aw ARGUMENTS ON A RIVER Prague For the visiting American, there is no sense of fear in this country at all. You will soon learn that the knock on the door is far more likely to be the wait er than the sec ret police and even if you do naughty things like taking pic tures of factor ies and bridg es, you are very politely. Stewart Alsop if firmly, disciplined. Yet once in a while, you may feel a small shiver of fear. I felt such shiver this morning. It was caused by a remark by a pleasant-faced, intense young man, during a talk in the lounge of this agreeable river boat on the Dnieper river. Anyone who wants a couple of days to rest and reflect can hardly do better than take this steamer which plies the Dnieper between Kiev and Dnepropet rovsk. The boat is comfortable, at least for first class passeng ers. (The peasant girls sprawled among their strawberry baskets on the lower deck are perhaps not quite as comfortable). The boat is also a side-wheeler and there is something wonderfully peaceful and pre-atomic about traveling down a river in a side-wheeler, in Mark " Twain manner. Most of the men on board wear pajamas all day a peculiar Russian symbol of es cape from care and the river itself is calming iri its very sameness, as it flows gently past the endless, rolling, empty-seeming plains. Even so, there were a couple of times this morning when I felt my blood pressure rising. In the tiny lounge, my interpreter ! and I had got into casual con versation with a nice "Russian engineer, and soon there were three more Russians, and then ten, and then I found myself holding a sort of impromptu press conference. Talking politics with Russians is an experience to try the soul of the calmest man. (My partner, known for his low boiling point, would certainly have exploded this morning into pieces small enough to feed the Dneiper's pickerel). It is not that Russians are intentionally rude. On the contrary they are very polite, and genuinely interested. When my voice" betrayed . my , rising blood pressure this morning, the nice young engineer pleaded anx iously with me: "Do not become angry. This is a rare experience for us and if we seem rough and uncultured it is because we aj-e simple people." 1UT they are not rough nor "uncultured nor simple. They are just infuriatingly smug. Here is a brief sampling of our con versation. I asked who was the No. 1 man in their country these days. They all ducked this question and then a young man with very white teeth smiled and said: "And the No. 1 in your country is not Eisenhower, but Morgan or Ford, no?" 0 This sally was greeted with appreciative laughter. When I said that the United Auto Work ers, for example, carried a good deal more political weight "than the Ford company, they all chuckled in a knowing manner and winked at each other. They knew better. They always know better. Every time I said some thing about America which did not fit their preconceptions, they chuckled and winked at each other. o An older man, sensing my frus trated irritation, sought to induce a mollifying note. "For your simple workers and peasants," he said, "we have nothing but comradely love. We distrust only your ruling clique that profits from war." I replied that we also had plenty of comradely love for the Russian people but in view of the betrayal of the Yalta agree ments, the blockade of Berlin and the Korean aggression, we had reason to distrust the ruling clique of Russia. "Ama'zing," said the older man, "Amazing, I' have never heard anything like it before"-r-which was no doubt true entiugh. But when I chose Korea for my text, I was quickly defeated. Mischa, the intense young man, cited "documents" to prove that the Korean war had been started by the "international adventur er," John Foster Dulles. "Facts," said Mischa, "are, after all facts." And everybody nooded solemnly in agreement. At length I tried a different Maison Reappointed, State Police Head Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Patterson yesterday re-appoinf-ed H. G. Maisori as superintend ent of the Oregon State police. Other re-appointments were George C. Huggins of Coos Bay, to the Board of Education; Har old F. Wendel of Portland, to the Board of Accountancy. Huggins' appointment will have to be confirmed by the state Senate executive appoint ments committee. fpsl V if! tack. "In America," I said, "if there were a dozen Americans talking politics in one place, they would, soon be arguing loudly with each other. Don't you ever argue with each other about anything?" Mischa had the an swer to that one, too. "There is an old saying," he said, "that argument is the birthplace of truth. But we al ready know the truth. Therefore we have no need to argue with each ether." Again, all the others nooded solemnly in agreement. IT WAS then that I felt my shiv er of fear. For it seems to me that this impenetrable, self righteous blindness is far more thari the catterwaulings of poli ticians. Indeed it is the stuff of which wars are made. Meanwhile, it is a lovely day as the side-wheeler chugs calmly down the river and the cliff swallows fly gracefully all about . . . A small Russian boy peers at me stolidly as 1 write, as though I were a queer but inter esting animal. (Copyright, 1955. New York Hrtld Tribune Inc.) This ic the fouith in strict of rtports which Stewart Alsop brought out of Russia when he left Moscow before the Geneva conference. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Today's big news: As the latest Geneva confer ence opened Monday, Red China ordered the release of 11 Amer ican airmen who have been serv ing sentences on charges of spy ing. o As ' this is written, they are said to be on their way to Hong Kong where they will be OUT OF COMMUNIST TERRITORY. THE 11 airmen were captured during the Korean war when their B-29 bomber was shot down by the Reds who claimed they were on a SPYING mission. Our claim is that they were on ,a routine military mission, and were therefore military prison ers of war, entitled to be re leased when hostilities ceased, PRESIDENT EISEjNHOWER hails the announcement as a cause for nationwide relief and joy . . He says our government will do its best to insure speedy reunions between the men and their families ... He extends thanks to all those who contrib uted to the release of the fliers especially the UNITED NA TIONS and its secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjold, who made a trip to Red China early this year to try to arrange their re lease. . NOTE, please, that Ike doesn't offer DIRECT THANKS to the Red Chinese who, in re leasing the men said merely that they had beliaved "fairly well" while in prison and .were there fore being set free before the ex piration of their terms. They DON'T withdraw their spying charge. SECRETARY DULLES says their release is a victory for President Eisenhower's policy of patience and forbearance. Democratic Senator George of Georgia (speaking officially for his party because of the serious illness of Senator Lyndon John son of Texas, the senate major ity leader) says the Communist decision 'to release the fliers proves that Geneva is worth while even if it does nothing but bring home those U.S. citizens who have been imprisoned. House Republican Leader Mar tin warns against drawing any unwise conclusions. Red China, he says, realizing it is facing a bad future, is trying again to win victory through diplomacy. o ' II'HAT are we common, every ' day, average Americans, who hold no public office, who make policy for our nation only by our votes and bur comments, to think of it all? I'D SAY our attitude should be that of old Oliver Cromwell, back in England's great civil war in the 17th century. He was about to lead his famous cavalry troop, the Ironsides, over a river in a move to strike his enemy unexpectedly so as to better his own defensive position. He said to them, as quoted by Colonel Valentine Blacker in a famous poem: "Put your trust in God, my boys, and KEEP YOUR POW DER DRY." LET'S hope, as we never hoped before, that another world war may be avoided. But let's never forget that the "surest way to avoid a war of aggression is to keep our selves so strong that mo aggres sor will dare to tackle us. SAVED, ARRESTED New Haven, Conn. (U.R) It was out of the frying pan and into the fire for two panic-stricken boys who had to be rescued from a 300-foot ledge on East Rock. Alfred Secondino and John Duess were promptly arrested for violating a park rule prohibiting mountain climbing. There are an estimated 95,90(1, 000 telephones in the world of which 53,600,000 art in the Un ited States. California Driver Injured in Crash A California car went off the highway, through a roadside sign, back on the highway, then skidded on its right side for sev eral feet when the driver fell asleep at the wheel about 1:40 p.m. yesterday. Jan W. Brodowski, 46, South Pasadena, Calif., suffered a broken right arm in the one-car accident on Highway 99 be tween Gold Hill and Rogue River, state police reported. Brodowski was travelling north and went to sleep on the curve 100 yards south of the Rogue Riviera resort. ' Police said his car left the highway, crashed through the Rogue Riviera road sign, came back to the highway and slid over on its right side, pinning the driver's arm. A Dr. Ruskin of British Co lumbia stopped at the scene and had splinted the broken arm just as police arrived. Brodowski was taken to Com munity hospital by Medford Ambulance service, and was re ported in "good" condition this morning. DUCK DINNER Pierre, S.D. (U.R) Mrs. Harold S. Freeman, wife of the South Dakota superintendent of public instruction called a game warden when she heard a quack ing in her fireplace chimney. The warden opened the draft and down into the firepot fell a wood duck. Graduating Grandparents Embark on Fresh Pursuits Stanford, Calif. (U.R) Mary Louise Fitkin Hooper, Thomas A. Ryan and Mark Tuban prob ably could have told a few things to the orators who ex pounded on life's challenges at the Stanford University com mencement exercises. The ages of these three gradu ating seniors total 171 years. Mrs. Hooper is 48, Ryan is 65 and Tuban is 58. Each is a grand parent and each has led an exceptionally successful," productive life. But now that they have their A. B. degrees, all three will embark energetically on new pursuits. Mrs. Hooper plans a summer study tour of Africa,' Ryan will write a history of old Spanish missions in the Southwest and Tuban plans to travel and write. Attended Stanford The distaff member of the tiio attended Stanford as a girl bHit quit at the end of her freshman year in 1927 to get married. Mrs. Hooper's late parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Fitkin of New York City, championed the cause of underprivileged peoples during their lifetime, and Mrs. Hooper sard she hoped to con tinue their work. She said she would spend the summer touring Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa and visit a mis sion hospital her father built in Swaziland in 1927. Mrs. Hooper, long active in Bela Lugosi Ready" To Leave Hospital - Norwalk, Calif. (U.R) Actor Bela Lugosi, 72, most famed for his role as "Dracula," planned to get back to film work today after winning his fight in a state hospital against narcotics addic tion. o A Board of Directors at Metro politan State Hospital yesterday approved Lugosi's release from the institution-where he volun tarily committed himself April 22, saying he had been using narcotics for 20 years. He told authorities his addiction wrecked his career and left him broke and ill. The actor, famed for his por trayals in horror ..motion pic tures, said he would not leave the hospital until Friday, al though he could leave immedi ately if he desired. He plans to live with a nephew. Common Burial for Crash Victims Rapped Vatican City (U.R) The Vatican City newspaper, Osser vatore Romano, today charged that Israel's decision to bury all 58 victims of the El Al Airlines disaster in a common grave is "blasphemous, uncivil and in human." The authoritative Vatican newspaper ran its attack on the Israeii burial plans on its . iron t page. The Jsraeli Rabbinate an nounced earlier . today that it had made an exception to its regulations and would permit the burial of Jews and non- Jews in a common grave for the victims of ' the Israeli airliner shot down by Bulgaria. Bodies of the victims, most of them burned and mangled be yond identification, were sched uled cto arrive in Jerusalem to day. Q BANK CAR ROBBED Coventry, England U.R) Bandits hijacked a Lloyds Bank car on the outskirts of Coven try today and escaped witn about $65,000. Japan Not Looking Forward To Defense With Atomic Weapons By CHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Japan does not look forward with any eagerness that the United States might defend it with atomic weapons if it is attacked. In fact, Pre mier Ichiro H a t o y ama is is faced with a political crisis partly because the United States is send ing atomic weapons Cto Okinawa and Japan itself. Unless Hotoyama can effect a merger of his own Japan Demo cratic party with the Liberals, he may be overthorwn when Parliament meets in December. There was a sensation in Tok yo when it was made known last week that the United States had sent a battery of atomic cannon to Okinawa and planned to send atomic , rocket launchers to Japan. The announcement could have been better timed. Two Important Bills First, Hatoyama was trying to push through a dying session of Parliament two important de fense bills. One was to set up volunteer work to better inter racial relations, has two grand sons. She returned to Stanford in 1953, majored in German and was graduated with honors. Ryan, who has six grand children; started his collegeca- reer in 1951 after his retirement from 40 years with the U. S. Postal Transportation Service. He served as a major in the Army during World War II in the Alaskan-Aleutian area. CA history major, Ryan in tends to conduct extensive ex- plorations of the Southwest's Spanish missions and compile a history of them. 3 Tuban, who has auto agencies m Los Altos, Sunnyvale and Mountain View, Calif., also is a director of the First National Banks of Sunnyvale and Cuper tino, Calif., and vice president of the Industrial Development Corporation of Mountain View. Born in Russia A native of Russia, Tuban came to the United States when he was 15 and got a job sweep ing floors at an auto agency in Los Angeles. Eventually he be came a representative for the Ford company in Russia and later superintendent G of Ford dealers throughout Central and South America. Tuban served with the U.S. infantry in France during. World War I and was a Marine captain during' World War II, ,winning the Bronze Star . for service on Saipan, Tinian, Guam and Iwo Jima. Tuban, who has three grand children, entered Stanford as a freshman in 1952. He majored in journalism to learn to write about the trips he intends to make, beginning the day after graduation when he left for Boston. Is That So? Civilized man has always con sidered himself far and above the beasts which gives him the right, supposedly, to make and repeat observations concern ing the animals about him. Take the saying, "Wise as an owl" does it add up, even though many people have made the owl the symbol of wisdow? Apparently capitalizing on the i mistaken belief that "still waters run deep," the owl has taken in many people by his staid, im pressive and quiet appearance. Much of his time is spent sitr ting quietly and looking wise and saying nothing. Despite the wise front they put up, owls have little to back it. Scientists who have studied owls state that they do not rate high among birds, and point out that young owls are extremely slow to' learn to feed themselves. In comparison, crows and their close relatives, the jays and the ravens, are niuclC'more intelligent. To begin, they have an abiding curiosity which prompts them to spend much of their time investigating things about them and getting new ex periences. These birds seem to benefit from their new experiences. For o a national defense council to plan Japan's rearmament. The other was to set up a council to revise the 1947 constitution, which forbids Japan to arm. Secondly. Japanese p e op 1 e were painfully aware thatthe 10th anniversary of the atomic . bombing of Hiroshima falls on this Saturday, Aug. 6. As the result of the announce ment, the Socialists in the upper house of Parliament were able to talk the two" measures to death. Hatoyama can call a special session before December in an attempt to get the two measures approved. But he would be risk ing a disastrous defeat. Hatoyama, like his predeces sor, Shigeru Yoshida. is loyally keeping Japan allied with the United States. But while the Japanese peo ple approve the alignment, they are noticeably unenthusiasuc over the prospect of rearma ment. Can't Remain Defenseless They know they must rearm. A nation of about 87.000,000 peo ple can not remain defenceless " or, in the long run, neutral. But most Japanese people are facing the rearmament program" reluctantly. -Especially, they want nothing more to do with atomic weapons. They had their share at Hiro shima and Nagasaki. Quite naturally, they figure also that if the United States used atomic weapons based on Japanese territory, including atom bomb-carrying planes.an enemy based on the Commurnst ruled Asiatic mainland might use atomic weapons against Japan. The present plan is for Japan to complete its defense program by 1960. It calls for an army, navy and air force totaling 259, 000 men. Then, the last United States troops will pull out, and the Japanese people will breathe easier. Grange Shady Cove Grange The Shady Cove Grange met for a social gathering July 27 with a pot luck dinner at 7 p.m. . Master Reed McKay called a short business meeting. Visit ors present were Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hoist, Gold HiU, and Mr. and Mrs. Barney Lewen, Phoenix Grange. HEC Chairman Alice Cross announced, the Pomona HEC picnic atTouVelle park Aug. 12. The Shady Cove HEC will have a picnic dinner at the home of Master and Mrs. Mc Kay, neaf?Susnset on the Rogue. Dinner will be at noon. A bus ines meeting will follow. The Gold Hill and Eagle Point HEC ladies are invited. A hard time and canasta party were the main features of the evening. Mrs. Alice Cross and Barney Lewen won prizes for the best costunes. , Those who attended the visita tion Grange meeting at Quite Falls Aug. 1 from Shady Cove were Master and Mrs. Reed Mc Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Van derlip, Cecil Kee and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cross. There were 50 present from varioiOi Granges. Next visitation will be Phoenix to Roxy Ann Aug. 19. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist example, a careful bird observer, B. J. Bretherton, ias reported how three ravens worked in concerj to outsmart a dog with a bone. The first raven flew down and tried to scare the dog pby loud cawing. No sale. Soon a second raven joined hiri both birds sidling up to the oog' head until they were just out of reach. Still, no sale. At this point, a third raven appeared, flew down behind the dog, and advanced until within reach of ,the dog s tail which he seized so roughly that the dog turned for ah Instant to snap at him. a At thDsame moment, the bone1 was snatched away by one of the ravens aUhis head. Another "smart) raverr ' sale was regis tered. The very fact that ravens and crows haveecn hunted merci lessly for many decades without anyg apparent decrease in their large numbers attests to their sagacity and ability to learn. Another zealously-hunted an imal which has survived is the "smart" coyote. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, iy panel of judges will ard each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life a complete 30-yolume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsme Sealcraft binding. Each week new sub missions will be considered. Sorry, I simple can't answer your many4 friendly letters. Please address your letter to: iS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif.. 0
