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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1955)
Is That So? The strong call of the ild upon an animal is wonderfully weil told in this piece by Es tella Boteler of Richmond, Cal ifornia (which, incidentally, won for her the weekly 30-volume Encyclopedia Americana award). She wrote: "My two teen-age brothers always more than prompt for their meals, returned from a wood-cutting expedition much too law for dinner. Their late 0 ness, w toon foiid, was due to a tiny fo squirrel shivering in thg) foldt of their coat, more dead than live, which they had foAd in tre they had chopped down. Both mother and another squirrel hd .been killed in the tree's- fall. "While our dinner stood for- - eotten. we tried everything DOS- sible to feed the tiny waif with warm milk , without success ' Finally my older sister said: 'I know just the thing!' and hur ried to our smokehouse where our old house-cat rested in a box feeding her family of newborn kittens. w "Kneeling down and placing one hand cver the cat s head, she lowered the tiny orphan into the , box, helping it find a nipple, and it took hold at once and be V, gan feeding hungrily. However JJie cat must have caugnt xne fTtjueer odor for suddenly she raised up and looked intently at the squirred and might have de stroyed it but my sister placed her hand quickly over the cat s eyes and gently pushed her head down asain. She kept the hand er the cat's head until the nursing was completed. Then ve brought the tiny squirrel back into the house carefully closing the door so the cat could not get in and sister bedded the orphan down in a cotton-padded box. Only then did we all have dinner, too happy and excited about the squirrel to care that our food had gotten stone cold. Of course we named him im mediately, hitting on the name Bonnie. Door Opnd "After several days supervi- inn trio rat nprmittprl tho fnnnd- ! ling to take part of her babies' food without question and then we opened the house door so the cat could come in whenever she liked. " "When the kittens' eyes op ened they also came into the house and then squirrel and kit tens would romp and play to gether all over the place while the mother cat sat by and ' watched with seeming pleasure. In between times, the squirrel or one of the kittens would take a few swallows of nourishment with the mother cat lying down obligingly, r " " . ' "One day a neighbor, Mrs. tfavitmiroe a4 artf? caiir tVto kittens and squirrel romping all over the floor together. When she saw the mother cat come in, she cried out in alarm: "Hurry! Quick.'The cat will eat him!" And you can . imagine her sur prise when little Bonnie scam pered toward the mother cat and immediately nuzzled her for a bit of nourishment whereupon the cat turned on her side and permitted the squirrel to eat in comfort. "When Bonnie grew up he would race to meet the boys, run up their legs, on to their shoulders and then if the boys didn't offer him a nut he would dive down and search their pockets for the nuts that he knew were always hidden there for him. "Eventually, Bonnie took to disappearing. At first, he would . be gone only a few hours; then overnight, and finally, several days at a stretch and each time he returned he was just a little bit less tame than before. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Suddenly Reappeared "Once when he had been gone for over a week and we had about decided that he would not return, he suddenly reappeared, racing like a streak down the in the Day's News path to our door. Without hesita tion, he scrambled up to my sis ter's shoulder and sat there nuzzling her ear when she tried to take hold of him, he jumped on to one of our other children and sat on our shoulders until we would try to touch him and then he'd jump to another again. Petting for him was over. "Our brother, hearing our glad cries and seeing Bonnie ran to the corn crib and snatched up a few grains of corn and has tened back, calling, 'Bonnie' every jump. "As soon as Bonnie heard him he jumped down and ran toward brother, leaping upon his shoul der and like old times searching his pockets until he found the corn. Taking a grain, he returned to my brother's , shoulder and holding the corn in his little forepaws began to peel the husk from the corn and. to eat it with relish. But when we tried, to take him into the house, he balked and instead ran up a tall tree in the yard and refused to come down despite our coax ing. ' "That was the last time we saw Bonnie for when he went away this time, he never re turned. The call of the wild wood proved too strong and he couldn't resist." (Copyright, 19S5, by Eugene 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 adventures, the best, nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft, binding. -Each week. new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. P'ease address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. , BY FRANK JENKINS Leading officials in Washing ton say the Middle East has be come the most critical area in the worldwide cold war. There are growing fears that Middle East tensions might flare at any time into a full-scale shooting war between Israel and the Arab countries. TF- 1 The United States and Russia could be sincerely UNITED in the determination to build a bet ter world There are so MANY things we could do to keep the peace in the historic prowderkeg that we know as the Middle East. We could knock the Isarelis' and the Arabs' heads together and tell 'em to be good or else! Or we could throw a quarantine around the area,, shutting off all war material and letting 'em fight it out with their bare fists after their ammunition ran out. That would be bad, but ' it would be better than letting a little war in the Middle East spread into another world war B UT- Our informed Washington of ficials say the communist bloc undoubtedly plans to step up pressure in the months ahead by channeling weapons to the Arab countries. And Our state department says it has information that soviet bloc sources have been approaching Israel on SUPPLYING THE ISRAEL FORCES .WITH ARMS That is to say: The commies are planning to slip guns to both sides. GO ix You see ' , We can't work with Russia to keep the peace. You just can' work with people you can' trust. No-Turn Signs Set Up At Sixth and Central New ner.n no-turn signs have been installed at the corner of Sixth, st. and Central ave. New signs on Central a've. read "No Left Turn" and "No Right Turn" and were changed from "No Turn" signs because the public works and police de partments received complains that many residents did not know what "No Turn" meant. There also was installed a "No Right Turn" on Sixth st. for eastbound traffic. No turning at those corners are effective between 12 noon and 5:30 p.m. weekdays and be tween 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturdays. T'HIS is a bright spot: x IKE GOES ON IMPROVING Thai is important because in some manner perculiar to him self Ike has gained the affection the trust and the confidence of the people of all the world. What leaders like that can do is im measurable. And - If his health holds x We'll have at least 14 months more of Ike's leadership. -s CHUCKS! Let's turn to the -' lighter side of life. The BBC, the goverment-con trolled British radio which is normally as solemn and stuffed- shirty as government-controlled afairs have to be aired its first joke about the Princess Marg aret-Peter Townsend romance One of its comedians pretend ed to read a news bulletin say ing: "British facing another crisis they had tea together again itoday!" He got a laugh that echoed all over the United Kingdom. fit COURSE You know If Meg and Peter eloped and got married and LIVED HENCE FORTH ON WHAT THEY COULD EARN their crisis would be resolved and there wouldn't be anything that .anybody could do about it. In Norwalk, Calif., 39-year-old William Pivar (arrested on a charge of malicious mischief) up and threw a heavy ashtray through a plate glass window in the sheriff's, office. Asked what the heck, he ex plained: "I just had an urge to .break a window. I feel much better now." IF I had been the sheriff, I'd have had an irresistible urge to lay him over a barrel and wage earners rights in Oregon Sunday, October 30. 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FTVB INVEST NOW! ... With Safety - " . . . For Profits Your Investment is SAFE - Insured Safe - to $10,000.00 By the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. i InvestiriMts made by th 10th of the month earn dividends a o I the First. - DIVIDENDS ARE INVESTORS PROFITS An Insured Savings or Investment Account Will Give You a Nest Egg For Retirement or Vaca tions or things you want. Build Your Own Security Safely Profitably. Open a Savings Account NOW! FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 27 North Holly Telephone 2-9147 w DISCRIMINATORY SITUATIONS The broad intent of law i to guard the right of each in dividual without denying any one his personal liberty of ac tion as an American citizen. Oregon's Fair Employment . Pratices Act applies this prin ciple in specific regulation! prohibiting discrimination in employment because of race, religion, color or national ori gin. Here are FEP queries taken from State Bureau of Labor files. Q. I tried to get a mechanic's job but I feel I lost out because of my color. The employer said the man he hired knows the trade but I think I could learn What can be done about such- discrimination? A. You must show equal qual ifications for the job. An employ er always retains the right of ac tion in choosing the best quali fied employee. Q.When I applied for work in an office, the person who inter viewed me asked what church I attended. Did he have the right to do so? A. 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