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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1955)
0 G srpapiffiTrs Is That So? Kind readers: The most satisfying pleasure I get from writing Is That So!, which began two years ago this week at Yellowstone Park, is in opening each day's mail. Al though I never know what the next letter may contain, I do know this: everyone who writes O . . o) urn me enjoys the outdoors as I do. Hundreds of letters arrive each week. A Tacoma banker wants one the Top-Ranked Clubs Have Tough Tilts By UNITED PRESS Marshfield.he number ranked football team In coaches' poll, takes a rest this week end but the next two top teams have their work cut out tor them. Gresham, ranked second, goes UP against a tough Milwaukie team, while Pendleton plays host to The Dalles. Gresham and pfeidletoif rank as favorites but the other two clubs are primed for upsets. 9 Title action starts in southern Oregon with Medford traveling to Klamath Falls and Grants Pass, the favorite, going to Ashland. Eugene, which upset South Sa lem 7-0 last week for the first defeat in the latter school's his tory, meets a strong Albany club while powerful Corvallis hosts Springfield. South Salem meets Lebanon and North Salem goes to Bend. St. Helens, undefeated in A-2 play, plays Hood River at home. Ontario, another A-2 power, is favored, over Nyssa.. Vale, the defending A-2 king meets Meri dan of Idaho. College of Idaho Willamette Foe By UNITED PRESS Only one counting gams is scheduled in the Northwest con ference football race this week end.QThat contest puts Willam ette against College of Idaho at Caldwell. Willamette won its only con ference start over Whitman, while College of Idaho lost to Lewis and Clark and won from Linfield. Lewis and Clark is idle this week end. Witman plays at home against Eastern Washington; Pacific meets Portland State at Forest Grove, and Linfield hosts the Seattle Ramblers. Gene Flippin of Lewis and Clark is the individual confer ence scoring leader with 36 points on four touchdowns and 12 conversions. About 21.5 of Michigan's wage and salary workers are employ ed by the. auto industry. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist to know about salmon migration; an ex-Montana governor about poisonous plants; a Richmond, Va., grandmother simply thanks me for writing a column which she can save for her grandchil dren; a science teacher in Ne braska wants to know if it is available in book form as yet; a Calgary rancher wants to know more about our North American lemming migration; a boy scout in Philadelphia asks for more nature puzzlers. But best are the childish handscrawls asking questions, with the addresses of their letters usually firmed-up by a parent's guiding hand to make sure they will arrive in my mailbox. Some writers want more in formation. Some want to share an experience in the woods. Some are indignant: "Why don't you write about forest fires and how dangerous it is to throw away lighted cigarettes?" Occasionally, I'm roasted: "Where do you get this stuff that our pronghorn antelope can trav el 60 miles an hour?" "Wliere do you get your information that a blue whale cannot swallow a seal?" "So you fell for that old one, eh ranger? The one that the swallows come back on the same day, year in and year out, at Mis sion Capistrano? What about leap years?" Gardening Hints Then I get gardening hints: "Every time you catch a rough fish, why not keep it and bury it under your rose bush makes for wonderful roses." Or this one:- "Why throw away your empty seed packets. Save them. They are often just the right size to store your crop in." Needless to say, kind readers, I read every one of your letters and again I must say I am truly sorry that my time is so filled in turning out the best column I can, in lecturing, in writing books, that I'm swamped. But may I take this occasion to say thanks to all of you on this sec ond birthday of our column. And whether it is to share a joke, ask a question, settle a campfire ar gument, or to pin back my ears keep those letters rolling. Nat urally yours, Gene Burns. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world - famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new . sub missions will be considered. Sor ry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. 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Drake, 25, and Baldoni, 23, are trying to crash into the top ten ratings among 160-pound contenders, and an impressive victory by either might turn the trick. Pre-war Japan was one of the world's leading industrial na tions and the only country in the Far East with highly develoDed textile, steel, machinery - buil ding, chemical and electrical in dustries. US Theater Group To Visit Moscow New York is sending a U.PJ America major theatrical New Representative Of Railroad in Area Robert C. Perkin arrived from San Francisco this week to suc ceed Tom White, who until re cently was the commercial agent for this area for the Cotton Belt Railway company. White has been transferred to Fresno. The new commercial agent for the present is living at the Med ford hotel and in the meantime is trying to locate a home for his wife and two young-children. His territory includes all of Ore gon, northern California as far south as Ukiah; and Washington state points. troupe into Russia for the first time since before the Commun ist revolution. Moscow audiences this winter will see an opera de picting lust and violence and tragedy among impoverished Negroes in a Southern slum. The globe-touring company of "Porgy and Bess" is scheduled to open in Moscow Dec. 22. Dates also are tentatively set later for Leningrad, Bucharest, Budapest, Warsaw and Prague. While the Fictitious world of Catfish Row depicted in George Gershwin's folk opera is not exactly the most wholesome aspect of American culture, the U.S. State Department has seen fit to sponsor the show's visits to more than 25 foreign cities in the past three years. Friday. October 14, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRBUNE THIRTEEN Lakeview Youth Heads Future Farmers Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) A 19-year-old Oregon farmer, Dan Dunham of Lakeview, was elect ed national president of the Fu ture Farmers of America at the closing session of the 28th an nual convention yesterday. Dunham succeeds William D. Gunter Jr., Live Oak, Fla. A former state FFA president, Dunham has held various state and district titles in the organi zation. In partnership with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall G. Dunham, the new president op erates an 875-acre ranch in the Goose Lake valley of southeast ern Oregon. Dunham, 1954 graduate of Lakeview high school, was a stu dent at Oregon State college, at Corvallis when he had. to quit school recently to take over management of the Dunham ranch because of an illness of his father. v The ranch has 150 head of beef cattle, 200 acres of wheat, 185 acres of barley, 50 acres of cats and other crops. 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