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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1955)
Pickin' Pears t5 &. This column pays tribute to Tick Malarkey who died in the Portland VA Hospital Thursday. The column was really his "baby," although it is no longer an infant, having grown to be come, not only a feature of this newspaper, but a unique means, not duplicated elsewhere in any part of the country, for convey ing to the public the happenings of a VA domiciliary center. "Tick" was not a newspaper man, strictly speaking. But he had a personality that under stood human nature and he had the gift of telling bout the vet erans whom he knew so well in a way that captured widespread interest. He left a mark in the Rogue River valley, not only as a col umnist but as a staunch promot er of this part of the state of Oregon. This writer has a high regard for L. J. "Tick" Malar- key who gave his personal en dorsement to the transition, when he decided to retreat to the Ashland woods during the sum mer of 1952, where he kept a lookout for forest fires in the forestry department In all of the intervening per iod "Tick" accepted the change with a graciousness that was dis tinctive about the man. He ac cepted his fate in the same spir it, and he made a great but los ing fight to regain his health- Last summer he tried to stage a comeback and wrote several of his best columns before he was called to Portland. "I will only be gone for a short check up, he said in a note. But he had to stay until the end. . By SID HLLINGSWORTH Marie Rehling, the Red Cross worker, has found a new interest in a show. It is a collection of colored slides of places here and abroad which she has visited. The traveling idea seems to have been overlooked lately as an attraction, due possibly to the cold war. When Marie had shown half of the collection she brought elong at the Red Cross party last week, she asked the audience if they wanted to see more of the views and received spontaneous approval. Another showing will be held next month. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France and Italy were countries visited by this means. Miss Rehling has managed to take the unusual type of picture, giving the effect of freshness of viewppint. She also gives an informal ac count of the place, the people and; the occasion. ' She has her own rapid ' fire projector '.arid took the shots with her own col or camera. . The men look for ward to her Oregon "roundup" of places visited. The food department meals, and the new machine-made donuts are now as much of an attrac tion as the five cent cup of coffee. Mr. and Mrs. Ty Teorey were here renewing old ties last week. Ty was a special services techni cian who could MC a show or show members how to use tools in arts and crafts. The Teoreys have returned to Medford from high Colorado, where Jy, a watchmaker, by trade, wass em ployed. World war veterans are noted for being a little careless in han dling their money. A story that tops them all is one about a home member who drew a $500 certified check out of the bank, carried it around a few days, and then tore it up when he found he had no further use for it. Notices made out by section leaders and delivered to mem bers' beds for "appointments' are called "Butterflies." Henry Huls received one the other day which had him guessing. It called for a' meeting with Bill Cody, the fire chief and director of fund raising campaign. The place was specified as the con ference room. Now there are several confer ence rooms at Camp White one in the administration building, on in Building 218, the Veter ans Hall and the Green Room After much wheeling around, Henry learned he was to meet Bill Cody at the doctors con ference room, where he was "drafted" to assist in the United Fund drive this year. An evacuation drill was held recently and Bill Cody reports that all of the buildings were emptied in seven minutes, a rec ord accomplishment. The time for the last drill of the kind was 10 minutes. "We still have a few kinks to iron out on procedure," Assistant Manager Ruffin states. -Marie Rehling wag born in Denmark, and it so happens that Denmark was in the ascendant that night. For over in the VFW meeting.'Hans Sorenson, another Dane, was playing his "squeeze box" and singing, while a bevy of Miss Pat's girls in native cos tume danced around the hall. The Camp White correspond ent must be slipping in keeping up with the news. On Checking with Jim Adam in the coffee shop concerning the new contin uous hours from 6 to 8 during .week days, he learned that they had been in effect for a month. It is an added convenience of fered by Canteen Manager Bry an, enabling visitors as well as members to eat an early dinner. Logger Killed in , Crash of Airplane Goldendale, Wash. (U.R) Guy Adams, . 49-year-old Klickitat logger, was killed outright late Friday when his light Aeronca Chief plane caught its landing gear on a power line and crashed while attempting to land at a private airfield south of Klickitat. , Sheriff E. C. Kaiser said the plane nosed.; into the grounds driving, the , engine into the cockpit The craft did not burn. . . i. Insurance. Company r President Succumbs Portland (U.R) Raymond R. Brown, president of the Stan dard Insurance company here since 1947, died, yesterday of a heart attack.. He was 57.. .- . Brown came to Portland ' in 1919 and spent his entire busi ness career with Standard. 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MAIN Phone 2-4564 SeeeMoJ x- 1 "AN UNFORGIVABLE THING TO DO," is way Mrs. Ruth Berg (right), Mira Loma, Cal, characterized kidnaping of baby Robert Marcus from San Francisco hospital by daughter, Mrs. Betty Benedicto (left) who is in custody after returning child. , (International) Anti-Gambling Drive Slated in Lane County Eugene flJ.R) District ' Attor ney Eugene Venn Saturday an nounced his office will wage an all-out campaign to rid Lane county of gambling devices. Venn said he has sent, letters to local fraternal organizations and other private clubs giving them 10 days to get rid of any gambling devices. The district attorney warned that, after 10 days anyone pos sessing gambling equipment will be prosecuted. Portland (U.R) James Minor was doing some excavating at the Oregon Steel Mills here when he dug up a $20 gold piece minted in 1902. The coin was in good condition and is worth about $35 as a collector's item. Sunday, October 2, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREK Weed Tolerance in Seeds Announced Salem (U.R) The State De partment of Agriculture has es timated the maximum number of certain noxious week seeds which may be present in agri culture and vegetable seeds sold in Oregon. The tolerances be come effective Saturday.. The noxious weed seeds for which limits are set are those which the 1955 Oregon seed law classes as "restricted." The law also names another group as "prohibited" noxious weed seeds not one of which is permissible in planting seeds sold in this state. For the restricted group the allowable maximum of alkali mallow and - Deathweed . or Sumpweed is 45 per pound of vegetable of agricultural seed; Buckhorn, Plantain, Sheep Sor rel, Corn Cockle and the Docks, 360 per pound; St. Johnswort 6r goatweed, 180 per pound; blue lettuce, Puncture Vine and the Star Thistles, 18 per pound. The tolerance in this group is tightest on the dodders, only nine of which are allowable in a pound of seeds sold for plant ing purposes-; Gasoline Sales in State Set Record , Salem (U.R) Oregon motor vehicle fuel sales rose 13 per cent in August to break all pre vious records tfor a single month, the secretary of state's 'office said Saturday. The total was 63,899,023 gal lons, up 7,513,225 gallons over August a year ago. State gasoline taxes for the month amounted to $3,833,941, about .11 per cent of which "will be refunded for vehicles oper ated on private lands. " In terms of street and high way travel, the August gallon- OUT ON BOUNDS Wichita,, Kan (U.R) Sum mer heat brought acceptance of Bermuda shorts by University of Wichita students, both men and women, but they avoided the air conditioned Morrison Library while wearing them. 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