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suned Treasure Natives Prefer Silver Dollars to Paper Bill I had always thought that grenadine was c imply a garishly colored, pomegranate syrup to be used with cautioiy in certain mixed drinks, but it is also a place. This odd bit of Information camp to me the other day in a tKr from a friend who spent a good part of August in the Grenadines, a string of islets running, northward from Gren ada, a sizable island hat Colum bus discovered at the south end of the Lesser Antilles and not far nori of Venezuela. ' The letter included an old, un used stamp put out by the Brit ish crown colony of Grenada. My friend had bought it for five silver dollars from a native on one of the Grenadines. CANNONBALL ANDIRONS Cousin Charlotte sighed when I offered Jto help her carry the ' andirons mto the house. I carried them both in. Their actual weight was 42 pounds each. They were of wrought iron. The upright piece was about two-and-a-half feet high. The top terminated in an iron ball which we subsequently found to be a cannoball for a 12-pounder, meaning that the ball weighed 12 pounds rather than tWfi can non from which it was4ired. The bottom of the upright was divided in the traditional man ner into two feet, or supports, neither of which was orna mented. The arm, for supporting the logs, was just short of thre feet in length. It consisted of what we would today probably call strap iron. It was about an 8 Si 1942 STRIKEOVER DIME One of the first things Bill did after getting out of the army, was to go through everything in his room at home. Among the things he kept was a dime bank he had used when in grammar school. ; It was a small bank, but there were still well over 100 dimes in it, and when Jim, Bill's young er brother, saw it, he became quite excited. "Maybe some of them are rare and worth a lot of money," said the youngster who had been col lecting coins for nearly a year. It didn't seem likely to Bill who had made his hoard from the proceeds of various odd jobs he had performed, but he told his brother he would go 50-50 on anything he found. The deal proved to be a fairly good one, for there was one coin British Officer Thrill of Sailplane Flying Washington . (U.R) Com mander H. C- N. Goodhart, a Royal Navy officer with the British Joint Services Mission . here, is an expert sailplane pilot. Goodhart called sailplane flying, or soaring, "an indescribable pleasure." "Two months ago I went up to 37,000 feet over the Siena Nevadas in California. It was absolutely delightful. The scen ery was superb, the silence com plete," he said. Staying aloft in soaring is a matter of finding a thermal, or updraft of air, and circling up ward in it until the current is no longerfstrong enough to sus tain the crafk The pilot then glides to anotHer thermal in' or- der to stay up.The best up drafts are foundf under newly formed cumulus clouds. Taking off isisually accomplished by getting a tow from a convention al airplane or(j truck. "The most exciting part of soaring is circling your way up in a thermal," Goodhart said. "When you enter you feel a slight turbulence, a bubbling sensation. The tfctng is alive. It effervesces. The plane gives an upward heave and you bank - sharply until you find the cen ter. "That's where the art and skill come in knowin ghow to keep in the center of the updraft and how fast to climb without stall ing." The typical sailplane is 18 feet long with a 45-foot wing span. It is generally made of wood or aluminum and weighs about 350 pounds. Cost is about $3,500. Goodhart's most recent tri umph in the sport was at the 22nd annual soaring champion ships, held at Elmira, N.Y., July 2-14. He outpointed 28 competi tors to win the event but was declared ineligible because he ' is not a U. S. citizen. Longest flight in the contest was from gElmira to Wilmington, Del., a gdistance of almost 200 miles. Goodhart did it in five hours and 47 minutes. s 0 0 "The native refused a $10 bill, but the sight of the five silver dollars was too much for him, my friend wrote, "so I am send ing it along to you' on the chance it may be an item you don't have." The stamp was a one penny issue put out in 1861. Engraved, unwatermarked, with 14 perfor ations it may have 14 to 16 perforations it fitted perfectly the description of one . of the more valuable of the British colonial issues. It was blue-green in color. Along the top in block letters was the word GRENADA. Along the bottom was the denomina tion. Between was an oval por trait of Queen Victoria. The catalogue price, unused, was $100. IDEAL FOR NAVY MAN inch and a half wide and a little better than a quarter of an inch thick. The rear of the arm was bent down at right angles to form a third foot. ' "There's a date on them. You'll find it just below the cannon balls," said my cousin, telling me that the had paid $20 for the pair. The date was 1784, but, even granting its authenticity, I felt the price too high. The andirons, I said, were not at all artistic strictly utilitarian. "Not at all," she maintained. The price is quite all right. If I want to, I'll be able to sell them for a good deal more." She sold them last summer, for $135, to a retired naval of ficer who wanted a pair of andirons that would be suitably nautical and strong. FOUND IN COIN BANK Jim uncovered that had enough value to make the hunt worth while. It was a 1942 dime. There were only 205,000 dimes struck off in 1942, which means that the average isn't worth more than 10 cents. But some of them how many I don't know are 1941 dimes that have had the "1" in the date struck over as a "2." That was the type that Jimmie found and his sample was in very good condition. "Too bad it isn't proof," he said when I' told him it had a catalogue value of $40, "it would be worth a lot more." I assured him that it would indeed, if only for the reason that it is highly unlikely that strikeovers were used for the proof coins issued in 1942. (Halaaiad by MeClure Nawipapar Syndicate) Describes The 35-year-old officer's glid ing ambition is still unfilled, however. He has yet to receive a Gold C with three diamonds, awarded to those making a sail plane flight of 312 miles. No Britisher has ever won the honor but Goodhart offered an explan ation for this "you can't go 312 miles in Great Britain with out going over the edge." He-hopes to achieve his goal sometime in "August in Texas where the updrafts, "like every thing else in that state, are big ger and better than anywhere in the world.". Goodhart said the summer heat in Texas pro vides thermals rising to about 15,000 feet, which would give excellent gliding conditions at 12,000 feet for the flight. Goodhart has 22 years military service behind him, four of them as a test pilot. "Wonderful work, test piloting," - he said. "Laziest w6rk in the world." Grange Griffin Crack Grange Griffin Creek Grange will take the visitation program to Bellview Grange Friday, Oct. 2. Upper Applegate brought Griffin Creek a varied and interesting program Thursday, Oct. 22. Min nie Bachman led the community sing Gordon and Fred DeVoss sang several songs, accompan ied by the guitar, played by Fred; a reading, "Kentucky Belle," was given by Christine Harr; Mildred and Nancy Lou Red head sang, accompanied by Mrs. Buck; Niel Ramsay sang, accom panied by her daughter, Mary beth; a reading, "It's Up to You," was given by George Redhead; "The Secretary," a skit, was given by Fred and Ethel West; and dialogue readings in char acter were presented by Minnie Bachman, who again led the group in singing. Visiting dignitaries were Mrs. Willie McClean, William Howes and Roscoe Roberts, state offi cers; Mabel Wertz, Herman Kan ying and Orrie Moore, masters of local granges. MOTORIZED BED FOR IKE President Esenhower's personal physician, Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder explains features of bed heis sitting on to White House Press Secy. James Hagerty at Fitzsimons Hospital in Denver. The motorized Hi-Lo bed was pre sented to the President by a Chicago furniture company. Flag-Wise American Wants Study by Dutch Historians New York (U.R) A flag wise American who believes both the stars and the stripes in the U. S. banner were copied from early Dutch flags intends to visit Amsterdam to pick a polite bone with Dutch histor ians. While he has been busily in specting early paintings and coughing his way through dusty archives in quest of the elusive origin of the American flag, Lawrence Phelps Tower, tall, thin, soft-spoken secretary of the United States Flag" Foundation, believes the Dutch haven't been doing much of anything. What he wants them to do, he said, is to start some of the same back-breaking labor he has been engaged in, but with their hunt aimed at unearthing the original significance of the stars and stripes used in early Dutch flags. The significance, he said he feels sure, will turn out to be connected with liberty and re ligious freedom. Then, per se, he will have established that the United States, wittingly or not, selected symbols for its flag based upon the same tenets that led to the nation's founding. Sjmple . . . but hard work. Tower, who has spent 18 years digging into the history of the Stars and Stripes, is a Wall Street broker, who once spent much of his time tracking down obscure paintings for art galler ies. He has. been secretary of the flag, foundation for ten years, and. also is secretary of the general society of Mayflower descendants. In his 18 years of research, Tower has amassed considerable evidence, some written and some based on 16th to 18th cen tury paintings, to show that the seven red bars on a field of white, came from the symbol of unity of Calvinists in seven north Dutch provinces during the 1568 revolt against Spain. He also believes that the idea of white stars on a field of blue came from the three-starred flag which flew, in East Friesland, the province from which Wil liam Penn and other refugees came to America. The red-barred flag of Hol land, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelder land, Friesland, Groningen and Overijsel, Tower believes, in spired the flag of four red stripes adopted by Plyifiouth, Massachu setts, New Haven and Connecti cut, when they formed them selves into the first colonial fed eration for mutual safety in 1643. He has unearthed a paint ing of the famous U. S. ship Old Ironsides" painted in 1812 which shows the vessel flying three types of flags, the standard present Stars and Stripes, a flag of seven red bars on white, and a flag of 16 white stars on blue. Research in the Netherlands, Tower believes, may show that the original idea. of red stripes on a field of white came from the Bible, Isaiah 53:5 (King James version). . The prophet Isaiah, who pre dicted the coming of Christ, had this to say of the Savior: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he ' was bruised for our iniquities; the chastise ment of our peace was upon him; Economy Grade 2x4-8' $10.00 PepM' CHENEY OTUD HILL CENTRAL POINT and with his stripes we are heal ed." The last phrase, "... with his stripes we are healed " cTower believes, may have inspired the striped flag. Mora Evidence Whether the stars in the East Friesland banner symbolized the Star of Bethlehem which guid ed the wise men to the manger in which the Christ child was born is something about which Tower is uncertain. But he hopes the Dutch can find out Tower's evidence of the Dutch influence on the U.S. flag in cludes the remark that John Ad ams, second U.S. president, made when he and Benjamin Frank lin visited Holland about 1780: . "We have borrowed much from the Dutch including the ideas represented in our flag." This quotation, . Tower said, appeared in the 1917 "flag num ber" of the National Geograph ic. Unfortunately, he added, the magazine has lost its source for the information. Tower now in tends to dig through the pre served Adams papers, where he believes the remark can be found and authenticated.' Tower's visit to Amsterdam will be in connection with an air "pilgrimmage" to Holland and England sponsored by the Mayflower society for about 150 of its members. wage earners rights in Oregon MINORS' WOHK PERMITS Oregon's Wage and Hour Commission sets up a system of work permits discussed below. The purpose is to prevent minor workers from. taking jobs detri mental to their health, schooling and morals. Q. How, long must a permit be issued for my son to work? A. Until he reaches the age of 18 permits are required for the industrial employment of any minor. Q. What is the procedure for getting a work permit? - A. First, the minor's birth certificate or sufficient evidence of age must be on record at the Bureau of Labor. Secondly, the minor secures an application, of which part is completed by) the minor and the remainder by the employer who describes the job offered. The signature of one parent is necessarjr. , When the job is approved foJ' the minor as meeting" legal regulations, a per mit is issued to, the employer to employ the minor, never to the minor. A permit is required for each job. Q. Why does the bureau of labor need the minor's birth certificate? A. Record of a birth certifi cate or other sufficient evidence of age is required because child labor regulations are based on and vary with the age of a minor.' . If you have a question, you may write Commissioner Nor-, man O. Nilsen, State Bureau of Labor, Salem, Ore. ROGUE RIVER Hobby Club Holds Meeting Rogue River The Rogue Riv er Hobby club met at the home of Mrs. Richard Hargitt Sept. 27. 'Mrs. Walter Shock and Mrs. Harry Condray were not pres ent. Mrs. Condray asked to be dropped from membership be cause of poor health. Mrs. Frank Stamm is leaving soon for Oak land, Calif., to live so she also asked texbe dropped. A luncheon was served by the hostess to the members and two visitors, Mrs. Carl Christenson and; Mrs. Robert Hargitt, who later became members. Ex change of gifts was enjoyed and the club presented Mrs. Stamm with a remembrance gift. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Robert Hargitt Oct. 25. The Live Oak Grange held its Harvest dinner , Saturday night, at the Grange hall and report it a success. About 250 attended the dinner. - Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Carter and Mrs. Carter's sister of Sher man Oaks, Calif., visited sev eral days with Carter's sister-in-law, Mrs. Lora Carter and fam ily, returning to their home last week. Mrs. Tom McLendon visited over the week end with her hus band at Coquille, Ore. Mrs. L. A. Miller, Mrs. Jim Rhoten and Mrs. . Mae Shults were Medf ord shoppers last Thursday. Mrs. Enos Thorton, Medera Calif., spent a week end recent ly with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Laws. A boy was born Sept 5 to Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Bowlin. Dr. Bowlin recently opened a " den tist's office in the Medical Center building. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell L. Thayer of Foots Creek, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Marcia Ann, to Bob L. Hunt, ' son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kessler of Sams Val ley. Miss Thayer is a student of the Rogue River High school and Hunt is a logger. No date has been set for the wedding. Frank Stamm, who has run a feed store in Rogue River, for several ' years has. sold out to John and LaDene Chiamurlera, formerly of Everett, Wash. The Stamms will return to Oakland, JW' 1 V rZZaczJZE&f I Sunday. October 1. 1953 Lack of Manpower One of Australia's Great Problems Sydney (U.R) Lack of . man power is still one of Australia's greatest problems. This boom continent has over 60,000 vacant jobs, mostly for skilled tradesmen. There are only 3,000 persons claiming gov ernment unemployment relief in a population of nearly 10,000, 000. Skill in almost any Job is enough qualification to walk into a position in this country. Con ditions are good Australia was one of the first countries to have a 40 hour working week the living standard is high, and costs moderate. Strong unions protect , the rights of the working man through arbitration courts, which also fix a basic wage based on the cost of living. Most trades men get margins above the basic wage for skill, and overtime Is normal-in many of the under manned industries. Professional A posts are usually held under con tract, ana rapuuy expanding in dustries have created a huge Calif., where Stamm hag a posi tion awaiting him. . The Chiamuleras havt an 8 y ear-old daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Brooks plan to leave Saturday-for a visit with friends at Reno, Nev. Mrs, Brooks recently returned from a two weeks' visit at Pasadena, Calif., with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. R..C. Hargitt and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hargitt and daughter Sandra, Grants Pass, spent the week end of Sept. 16 at Hillsboro visiting Mrs. R. C. Hargitt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Golden. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lee and family, who ware former Rogue River residents, have returned from Ontario, Ore., and will make their home here again. The Lees have two boys, Charles and David. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Breeding, Brookings, were recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Breeding. . Jim Rhoten came up from Ft. Bragg last week end and Mrs. Rhoten, who had been here for a week to do her canning, returned with him Sunday evening. - Mr. and Mrs. GrantVPowell, Murphy, were callers at the John Breeding home Thursday. FARMLAND LOSS . Chicago (U.R) An estimat ed j, 2,000,000 acres of farmland each year is lost to suburban and. industrial . development, highway construction and ' the like. Soil losses 'through these causes amounts to several times that of soil erosion, according to the Chicago & North Western Railway's agricultural depart ment. Dead line for Sunday danifiad U at noon Saturday. (D(0)MDG3ETE PhoiM 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS . -ml - .U. a. WU1 a. W . mA LAI 'a vM . sot-: . .WO a.w WO -W SB - . a. n- mar i aT i- Mm MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEX demand. Naturally there are draw backs. Accommodation in the large cities is rather difficult to obtain, especially for families, but government housing projects and private building are starting to lick the problem. Again lack of manpower has held up pro gress in housing, as in many other directions. This is a huge continent, and over half the population is con centrated in or near the coastal cities. Thus most of the major developmental works are taking place in remote outback areas, with' the consequent hardships for the workers. But generally the country, rid ing a steady wave of prosperity, offers tremendous opportunities for skilled tradesmen and pro fessional men, in both city and country. , . Television, scheduled to start here in 1956, is a complete new industry, and there are few ex perienced technicians here. The giant Snowy River Scheme, Australia's multi-million-dollar hydroelectric .and ir rigation project,' is in an early stage,, and will need thousands more workers before it is com pleted around 1960. Uranium discoveries of great importance have been made' in the Northern Territory and South Australia, and oil searches are in progress in every state. The "- continent's vast mineral wealth,, though a strong source of income for many years, has virtually only been scratched. Prospectors are covering vast tracts of arid land in the center of Australia,' often unexplored and mostly badly mapped, and more mineral finds are certain. Secondary industry also is ex panding. A $100,000,000 oil re finery has just been completed in Western Australia, presently for imported crude oil, but later, it is hoped, for oil from local fields. Small oil flows were tap ped in the northwest of this state during the past 12 months, and though ' uncommercial, gave promise of larger deposits. Another huge refinery is ris ing only 10 miles from Sydney, but the management complains lack of labor prevents them from working round the clock and is delaying their program. The same cry goes up from most Australian industry, with only a few of the largest steel HOUSE MOVING Moving Raising Foundations Installed For FREE Estimates Call Medford House Moving ' Formerly Guy Cox Phono 3t078 or 2-4244 1102 NORTH RIVERSIDE 1 A .C5 co CP aO xM v it ai oT fe5aK Yr 'J m m aai si plants and mines working on a three-shift-a-day basis. 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