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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 .
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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.
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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
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New York
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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
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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.
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closing session of the 28th an
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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
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Goose Lake valley of southeast
ern Oregon.
Dunham, 1954 graduate of
Lakeview high school, was a stu
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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
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