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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to years ago.
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"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
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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.
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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.
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