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Re-Seeding of Fire Areas Urged; Federal Assistance Provided Farmers and others who own land in the burned over areas of Jackson county are urged to re seed to forage grasses or trees immediately. County Agricultural Agent W. B. Tucker said Saturday the ex tension agency is trying to con tact persons owning land in the Timber mountain, Blackwell hill sd Sykes creek burns. Through the Agriculture Con servation Program of the gov ernment, farmers replanting lands subject to erosion will be reimbursed for 50 per cent of Reid Optimistic About Citizenship For Klamath Tribe Portland (U.P.) Thomas M. Reid, assistant commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Af fairs, is optimistic about progress in granting full citizenship rights to Indians. Reid, describing plans for termination in a few years of federal supervision over Kla math Indians in southern Ore gon, said the Indians will have two choices: 1. They may withdraw from the tribal organization and be paid for their share of tribal land. -Second Choice 2. They may remain in the tribal organization and continue group management of their prop erties. The commissioner said there were still problems to be worked out including what could be done for Indians who received their money and then fell prey to speculators or squandered it. He said some progress was being made with adult education classes designed to give Indians practical guidance in earning a living and managing personal and business affairs. "All this must be done by Aug. 13, 1958, when termination of federal control for the Kla math will be final and com plete," he said. the cost of seed, fertilizer and application. Tucker said those wishing to plant under the ACP program must sign up at the local office operated by T. D. Sehorn, in the court house. Speed Important The county extension agent emphasized the importance of planting immediately. A fire, he said, is second only to cultiva tion in preparing a good seed bed. If perennial grasses or trees are not planted now, brush will soon cover the land, stifling all natural seeding processes. The Bureau of Land Manage ment, Tucker reported, plans seeding by airplane on its burned over land. The BLM has invitations out to private owners for bids on seed supplies, with prices at a low level. Tucker recommended alta fescue, subterranean clover, orchard grass, perennial rye grass, common rye grass, and similar dry land grasses for burn seeding. About 10 to 12 pounds of seed per acre furnish best re sults, Tucker said. Those whose lands were in volved in the recent fires are asked to contact either the coun ty agricultural agent or the ACP officer both in the court house. Eisenhowers Fail To Register to Vote Gettysburg. Pa. (U.R) President and -Mrs. Eisenhow er failed to make Saturday's deadline to register to vote in the November elections. And Republican County Chairman John H. Basehore of Adams county conceded rue fully that he won't be getting any help from the White House . in the Nov. 8 election this year. Pennsylvania's election this " fall has no statewide offices at stake which probably is the reason President and Mrs. ' Eisenhower did not register by Saturday's final deadline for the November voting. Law, Literature Courses Planned In Medford Area "Law . for . the layman" and world literature correspond ence courses will be offered Medford residents soon by the general extension division of the state system of higher educa tion, and Southern Oregon col lege. The law course will be taught by members of the Jackson county bar association. Classes will meet in the Medford High school on Wednesdays, begin ning Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. A $10 fee will be charged. . The world literature class will be a combination television- correspondence course. Dr. Arthur Kriesman, associate pro fessor of English and languages at OCE, will give a 30 minute lecture over KBES-TV once each week beginning the week of Sept. 26. Students will complete corre spondence lessons following Dr. Kriesman's TV lectures. Registrations for the litera ture course will be accepted by mail at the Office of Corre spondence Study, General ( Ex tension Division, 1250 Emerald st., Eugene. Further information may be secured from Elliott Becken. as sistant superintendent of Med ford schools, or the extension division office. Troutdale Family Gets $38,000 From Reynolds Aluminum Portland U.R) A Trout- dale, Ore., family who claimed they had been poisoned by fluor ines from the Reynolds Alumi num Company plant near their home, were awarded more than $38,000 damages Friday. After more than 24 hours of deliberation, the Federal Court jury awarded Paul Martin $15,- 000 general damages. His wife, Verla, was awarded $10,000 gen eral damages and his daughter, Mrs. Paula Ytirbi, was awarded $5000. In addition, each plaintiff re ceived $2746.30 special damages The family- had sought $300,000 from the aluminum company which was located next to their cattle ranch at Troutdale. Earlier, presiding Judge Wil liam East threw out a demand for punitive damages which the family claimed because they were not warned of the dangers of fluorine. During the lengthy trial, med ical testimony was produced by the Martins showing they had been poisoned. Other doctors testified for the aluminum com pany that they had not been poisoned. The victory was the second for the Martins involving the alumi num company. On Sept.10, 1954, they were awarded $47,135 for damage done their farm by Reynolds fumes. A Nkhol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That World Said Too Small For Tests of H-Bomb Bend (U.R) Rep. Walter Nor blad (R-Ore.) says that the hydrogen bomb has become so powerful ' "that the ' time has passed when we can find a place on the elobe to test the most modern instruments in this field." NnrhlaH. a member of the House Armed Services Commit tee, told the Oregon Juvenile Council that within a few years this country would have ability to fire a rocket from the north east, coast of the United States "and droD a hydrogen war-head on any of the major cities of Rus sia with a maximum error oi only 20 miles. . . ." Prominent Scientists To Speak at Portland Portland (U.R) Prominent scientific speakers will high light the 81st annual meeting of the Oregon State Medical So-' ciety, which opens hereSept. 27. Speakers include Dr. Cyrus C. Sturgis, professor of medicine at University of Michigan Med ical School; Dr. George T. Pack, clinical professor of surgery at New York Medical College; Dr. Alec M. Agnew, obstetrician and gynaecologist at Vancouver, B. C., General Hospital; and Dr. E. A. Pask, professor of anaesthe tics at. Durham School of Med icine, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. By HARMAN United f Washington (U.R) A- lot of our young ladies have bad teeth. That goes for some of the lovelies in the beauty W, I K contests. For instance, a c c o r ding to the American Dental Associa tion, 14 per cent of our females will wind up with permanent de cay in their first molars Harman Nichols after they shed their baby teeth. The statistics show that when a kid is 16, she can look at her dental chart and find she has seven decayed, miss ing or filled teeth. One out of every five of these children will need orthodontic, care. That means braces or wires. Some of the alarming facts and figures on the decay of teeth ml Stockmen Endorse 'Red Hat Day' Plan The Jackson County Stock men's association has endorsed the state wide Red Hat program. In the past, the association said stockmen have suffered heavy losses from . careless hunters either shooting cattle or leav ing gates open for m to stray .- Because of this, stock own ers have posted "No Hunting" and "No Trespassing" notices, and "will enforce them to the full extent of the law" until sportsmen carry out their Red Hat Day pledge, the association said. It added that it realizes the signs are a handicap to the true sportsman, and are neces sitated by the careless. Red Hat Day is scheduled for Sept. 23. Specter of the Brocken By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer. Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System Of all the spectacular effects of light and shade, likely none is as erie as the phenomenon presented by the shadows of mountain climbers cast on banks of fog at lower elevations than the observers themselves. ' A few years ago a group of ten Obsidians set out from their camp intent on scaling the Snowy-topped old Mt. St. Helens in Washington. The ascent was succesful, and late in the after noon when half way back from the rounded summit, the party unexpectantly came upon the rare and striking phenomenon long known as the Spectre of the Brocken. One member of the party later enthusiastically de scribed ' the beautiful spectacle to me. Fog Coven Ice . "We were on the sunlit Dog's Head, a very steep, rocky prom inence between the two moun tain glaciers. The ice below us to the east was covered with a dense sheet of fog, the glisten ing smooth top of which was probably 50 yards, lower than we were. The sun, still well above the western horizon, was casting distinct shadows of all members of our party on the top of the fog layer. But the amazing part of it, something I had never seen before, was that each person saw his own shadow surrounded by a com plete circle oi a rainbow. He could see the rainbow only around his own shadow and not around those of the others. I swung my arm in a half circle as high as I could and the shad ow of the tips of my fingers on the fog just touched the rim of my personal rainbow." Each Sees Own Bow As has been stated in this col umn before, when rainbow form ing conditions exist, each per son sees only his own bow, since the center of the circle of which the colored arc is the circumfer ence, is axactly opposite the ob server from the sun as in his shadow. A straight line would run through the sun, the ob server and the bow"s center. That afternoon on Mt. St. Hel ens ten visible Specters of the Brocken were painted on the gleaming, white fog but nine were unseen by any one member of the party. This phenomenon is not a true rainbow but a coronal effect. Diffraction plays a more impor tant part than refraction. Name From Mountain The name, also called Brock engespenst) comes from The Brocken, a mountain in Ger man Saxony, from which the observer's r a i n b o w-encircled shadow is said first to have been described in 1780. Long ago it was thought that evil spirits and witches held "high carnival" on The Brocken on Walpurgis night. Some within sight of the mountain still retain a slight superstition regarding the old time stories. A somewhat related phenom enon can sometimes be seen on a dewey lawn in the opposite direction from the morning sun. The coronal circle then is us ually white. This is known as the Heiligenschein. Phoenix 500-Room Hotel in Portland Possible Portland U.R) Possible construction of a 500-room hotel by the Sheraton Hotel chain on the proposed Lloyd shopping cen ter was announced Saturday. A Portland newspaper (The Oregonian) reported that Ernest Henderson, Boston, president of the Sheraton Corporation of America, said negotiations were underway with officials of the Lloyd Corporation, and that their consumation depended on the Lloyd group. Henderson said the hotel vis ualized , was "somewhat differ ent." It would be "a first class, luxury hotel" he said. The Sheraton hotel chain oper erates 30 hotels in the United States and . Canada and is the second largest hotel chain in the country. W. NICHOLS Futm Writer are these: Fifty per cent of all two-year-old kids have one or more de cayed teeth. By the time they hit kindergarten, they have three or more teeth that need repair. Fourteen per cent of these youngsters will have an ache in their six-year molars. Less than four per cent of the young folks in high school are free from the need to visit a den tist. The dentists, acting like den tists, have a few suggestions. "Toothbrushing," the associa tion says, "is a big help if the correct method is used at the right time. It is one of the best ways for the average child or adult to help check dental de cay.". The right way to scrub the incisors and molars, is to do it right after eating. That goes for snacks as well as after break fast, lunch and dinner. Brushing Prevents Decay "The brushing'," according to the dentists, "removes the food particles from between the teeth and from the crevices of the chewing surfaces. All of this pre vents tooth decay." The dentists don't mind tell ing how to prevent decay. It may cost them a little take home, but most of them love people. Most dentists don't recommend any particular brand of tooth brush or mouth wash. But the association recommends a brush that has a' flat brushing surface, is a form of bristle and has a head small enough to get around all of the surfaces of the teeth. "Young children," the associa tion advises, "should be given smaller brushes, for reasons ob vious. And everybody ought to own a set of two brushes and use them as often as bnssihlp. And alternately replace , them wun new ones when the Bristles get loose or soft. And Dlace the brushes where they will dry quickly." New Highway. Section Opens Near Roseburg Roseburg U.R) Unre stricted traffic was moving Sat urday over the $3,171,512 Anlauf-Rice Hill section of High way 99 in northern Douglas county. . Tom Edwards, southwestern Oregon division engineer for the State Highway Commission, said some work remained to be done on the new highway, including guardrail installation and slide correction. He asked motorists to exercise care on the road in the next few weeks. The new highway bypasses Drain and Yoncalla, cuts the distance between Anlauf and Rice Hill from 18 to 15V2 miles and eliminates 128 curves. Sunday, September 18, 195S t MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Insured Unemployment in Oregon Reaches Lowest Figure Since October, 1951 Salem (U.R) Insured unem ployment declined in the second week of September to 6194, lowest figure since October, 1951, and less than half of the number without work a year ago, the State Unemployment Compensation Commission said today. With harvesting, food proces sing and other seasonal activi ties near the summer' peak, a warning note came from the widespread lumber industry which took a cut of $2 a thou sand board feet on some grades of Douglas fir, first break since the revival that started last fall after an extended labor dispute. However, the price remained $8 higher than it was a year ago. Local offices . reported 16, 400 persons actively seeking jobs as the month opened, and many of these were expected to find work because of the num ber of housewives, students and others leaving the labor market before the end of the summer season. Almost 60 per cent of the job seekers were in the Portland metropolitan area, which re ported 1500 fewer unempldyed than a month before and 6600 fewer than last year. All of the 26 offices except Ontario reported fewer without jobs than in 1954. Low humidity .'bringing fire danger, and the break in the lumber market were held re sponsible for the-. 381 increase in initial claims during the week after Labor. Dav.-'. But comnen- satory claims continued to falL" Despite seasonal declines throughout western Oregon, Coos Bay, Corvallis, Grants Pass. McMinnville.' Rnsehurp. Bend, Hood River and The Dal les noted little change in unem ployment during August. Thirty of Oregon s 36 coun ties had higher covered payrolls New Flag Brackets Set To Go on Sale Representatives, of American Legion post 15 will visit down town businessmen' this week to take orders for newly developed flag brackets. Ray. Huson, chair man of the post flag committee, announced recently that brackets were available. Merchants can buy brackets, flags, and staffs separately or as a unit. The new: type holder clamps on parking meters. The old method . of placing the flag staff in a curb holer often resulted in damage by car' bumpers and doors. Lewis Machinery company, 916 South Central' ave., manufac tures the bracket.' in the first quarter of 1955 than a year before, tabulations of 17, 850 employers report just com pleted showed. Payrolls in creased nearly. 21 million dol lars to $307,778,633 for a record first quarter. . Expanded lumber industries in Curry county, with 60 per cent, and Hood Rier county, with 53.1 per cent headed' the list. Multnomah went up nearly eight million dollars to $143,- 749,258. Douglas was second with an increase of $1,986,422 to $14,973,221. Lane, Jackson and Marion also' gained more than a million dollars each. Losses came from Gilliam, Lake, Morrow,- Klamath, Clat sop and Wasco. The drop in Wasco was attributed to com pletion of bridge construction in 1954 and crediting of most dam work to Washington on the other side of the Columbia. TYPEWRITERS & . ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD, OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Mme 2-4100 THERE ARE NO FINER DECORATING COLORS Ready to uso No mixing or matching Choice of finish in oil or rubber base paints Treasure Tones are exactly right decorat- , ing colors, ready to use in a choice of ' durable finishes for every painting need. - IK'. - I PAINT WITH BURGESS PAHIT & Y(ALLPAPEQ "Let U Recommend a Reliable . Painrer" STORE Erhardt Blind, wner Corner 4th A Holly, Diagonally , Across From the Pott Office . PHONE 2-9321 CT We Give S&H GREEN STAMPS Phoenix Members of the Community club will meet Mon day at 8 p.m. at the club house for the first fall business session. All representatives of the mem ber organizations are especially requested to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loomis are spending a two weeks va cation with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Loomis, and family in Topeka,, Kan. Mrs. Frances Stevenson, city treasurer, is substituting for Mrs. Loomis in the recorders office while she is away. Major and Mrs. Matt Wagner and their seven children have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gier, the past several days. Major Wagner has been stationed in Germany with the U. S. Air Force for the past four years. They came from Germany by plane to New York where they bought a new car and motored from there to Pho enix. They went to Portland to visit other relatives while here. They left Saturday for Texas where Major Wagner will be stationed at the Air Force base in Victoria. - - NO CASH DOWN! 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