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rOTJR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 29, 1955 County 4-H Council To Elect Officers A regular meeting of the Jack son county. 4-H council will be held at 7:30 p.m. today at Big ham hail, county fairgrounds. Election of council officers will be held. Plans for a hayride and Christ mas gifts will be discussed. The final outline for the 4-H leader's banquet, Dec. 6, will be prepar ed am" there will be a discussion and training session on parlia mentary procedure. Nominees from which officers of the council will be elected are Francis Krouse, Applegate, and Gathie ''arroll, Eagle Point, nom inees for president; David Wool- folk, Antelope, vice-president; 1 Sally Mongold, Eagle Point, Lin da Malloroy, Antelope, and Dona Lee Brown, Applegate, nominees for secretary; Bobby Hayes, An telope, and Dale Smith, Central Point, nominees for treasurer; and Lucy Gardener, Antelope, Don Smith, Medford, and Caro lyn Tiegs, Valleyview, nominees for council reporter. Special guest at the meeting will be Miss Rosalie Mueller, State 4-H agent. Movement Begun To Save Prairie Chicken Flocks Friendship Advice For Hot Summer Days Carbondale, 111. (U.R) Hot summer days are apt to fray tempers and a Southern Illinois University phycholoeist has some advice on how to keep friendships from drying up when the mercury climbs. "The main thing is not to bur den your friends with your troubles and woes," said Dr. W. Neal Phelps. "That only makes him hotter under the collar. "Instead, be interested in him, his Job, his family and hobbies. Don't be a glad-hander but re member a pleasant countenance helps cool the hottest day." Phelps also warned against arguments in the hot months. "Don't usher in a heat wave by taking a stand that you're absolutely right and the other fellow is wrong on a certain is sue," he explained. Be careful, too, about belit tling your friends, even un intentionally. Phelps said it's no compliment to tell your pal, "seems to me you're worth more than you're being paid." "Maybe he's smart enough not to tackle a job that would pres sure him into an early grave," observed Phelps. Seven times as many people live in New York City today as occupied all North America north of Mexico when Columbus arrived. Washington The throbbing call of the prairie chicken, once loud as a drum roll, echoes only faintly today across the West. Refuges to encourage propaga tion of the grassland "boomers" are being sought by the National Wildlife Federation. A century ago prairie chickens, or pinnated grouse, numbered tens of mil lions. Only an estimated 350, 000 now survive. In their heyday, the large yellow-brown birds swarmed over grasslands throughout the east ern United States and west to New Mexico, Colorado and Wyo ming. Plains Indians watched the birds' extravagant courtship antics and mimicked them in cer emonial dances. Scientists later on heard the love-struck boem ing and named the bird the "ket tledrum of love." Far-Carrying Call , Prior to uttering his whur-ru-rr courtship summons, the male prairie chicken "honors his part ner" with a courtly bow, neck parallel to the ground. He spreads his tail feathers, and his entire body grows rigid. . After a short run forward, the male stamps, jumps, and whirls to the drumlike booming of his distended air sacs. On quiet days the call carries for a mile or more. With ventriloquial effect, it may seem farther away or closer than is true. Prairie chickens are promis cuous, but strangely slow in courtship. However bold and noisy the mating males become, the females remain demure and shy. A week may elapse before a female is won. Prairie chickens' whirring wings seemed as endless as the wind to pioneers who struck west from Ohio to the Rockies. The two-pound birds became a staple food for settlers on the hungry march. By 1900 prairie chickens were being shot as clay pigeons are today. Large week-long shooting parties tallied the kills with low-scorers paying the outing expenses. Floods, severe winds, drought hail"" combined with cats, wolves and other predators to decimate the flocks. Plows gnawed away the grassland needed for nesting, feeding and'winter cover. Auto mobiles took their toll. Only ran dom flocks remain in areas of one-time greatest concentration. Lowering Numbers A count reveals but a few hun dred prairie chickens in Indiana and Iowa, a few thousand each in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne sota, Illinois and Missouri. In the cattle country of Kansas, Ne braska, Oklahoma and the Da kolas, grasslands still offer cov er. Texas has fairly sizeable flocks. The prairie chicken vanished from Ohio around 1903 and prob ably disappeared earlier from Kentucky, where Audubon re marked on its great abundance. Arkansas saw its last one over 40 years ago. The heath hen, an eastern sub-species, became ex tinct in 1932 on Martha's Vine yard, Mass. ' The trend, unless halted, will "doom ' a magnificent bird a prime example of native wild life," naturalists predict. Real Estate Values Raised $2 Billion Chicago (U.R) The value of real estate in 41 cities and 26 counties with more than 100,000 population increased by more than S2,000,000,000 last year, ac cording to a study made by the National Association of Assess ing Officers. The increase was not as large as in some other re cent years, however. The 1954 increase was 3.48 per cent above 1953, the study showed, indicating a leveling off compared with the three prev ious years. In 1953, real estate values rose 7.36 per cent over 1952, for example. Some cities and counties last year reported a big jump over 1953, but the average showed an "unusual stability," the asso ciation said. Largest gains were shown by Austin, Tex., with 89.47 per cent; Corpus Christi, Tex., with 41.47 per cent; Yonkers, N.Y., with 22.22 per cent; and Hillsboro County (Tampa) Fla., with 10.57 per cent. Plywood Workers Get Wage Increase Lebanon (U.R) A wage in crease affecting more than 800 employees of Cascade Plywood Corporation's plant here was an nounced yesterday by company and union officials. A. E. Anderson, Cascade vice- president, and Keizer Cox, busi ness agent for local AFL ply wood and veneer workers, said the wage boost ranged from 5 to 15 cents an hour, effective Dec. 1. The contract, approved by plywood workers in a week end ballot also provides that all wage and contract negotiations be tween the two groups will re main closed until April 1, 1957, with a provision that wage ne gotiations can be opened by either party Nov. 1. Fashionette IK ' Gift-browse now for dozens of fashion-wise ideas for her Christ mas surprises! 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Y T UU I OMU wool illicit? 0 SUITS VELVET COATS Use Our Convenient The Fashionette 22 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE - Across From the Craterian UNHURT BY JAIL ESCAPEES Policeman James Fregulia (left) and Constable Gildo Dondero point to doorway into which they were herded, handcuffed, when three youths escaped from the Amador County Jail in Jackson, CaL Sheriff Lester McFall and deputy Russell Leach were kid naped for a time by the youths. One of the men, Luis Cervantes, 24, was recaptured, but James Woolsey, 17, and Ronald Lloyd Garrett, 18, both of Sacramento, are still at large. Income Taxpayers' Mistakes Figured Chicago U.R) Income tax payers made mistakes in arith metic totaling S95.749.000 in fis cal 1954, according to Commerce Clearing House. The national reporting author itv on tax and business law said Basil Francis Zimmerlee, overload, S70. (bail forfeiture) Jack Russell Coffin, violation of basic rule. S15. f Ronald Lee Swisher, failure to stop at a stop sign, S10. CIRCUIT COURT Clifford A. Keeton vs. Bertha Viola Keeton, divroce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Kenneth Paul Coon, 22, Tacoma, Wash., and Robene Swan Starcher, 20, Medford. Charles Louis Standley, 26. Phoenix, and Rachel Faye Branon Williams, 18, Phoenix. Willard William Thompson, 23, Medford. and Ruby Marie Briggs, 17, Central Point. the errors resulted in payments of $18,542,000 more than due, and the Internal Revenue Serv ice refunded that amount. But the service also caught mis takes by taxpayers in their favor totaling $77,207,000, and bills for payment were sent. Many taxpayers made optimis tic guesses on their estimated in come, and sent in advance pay ments greater than their year end returns showed they owed. These miscalculations ran into the billions. CCH said. , . The total collected was $69,-919,991,000. The Escalante, Utah's river of arches, makes such sharp loops and turns in places that it can travel half a mile yet be only 50 yards from where it started. Trouble in Bunches For South Dakota Man Kennebec, S.D. (U.R) Roland Arnoldy is convinced he should have spent at least one day in bed. It was on the day when he first found a sparrow's nest on the engine of his airplane. The same day the airplane stalled at 3,500 feet. The engine caught fire as the plane neared 'the ground and Arnoldy made a perfect landing. Arnoldy then went of ishing. The motor boat capsized. Ar noldy had to swim to an island. Perhaps, he ' should have stayed in bed the next day, too. For in returning to the lake, his car ran into a ditch. Victoria Falls Discovered 100 Years Ago in November Washington A century ago on Nov. 17, 1855, missionary-explorer David Livingstone wit nessed "scenes so lovely as must have been gazed upon by an gels ..." He had discovered South Africa's Victoria Falls. The mile-wide Zambezi river cataract he named for Queen Vic toria was known to awed neigh boring tribesmen as Mosi-oa-Tunya, "the smoke that thun ders," as they regarded the distantly-visible plumes of spray above the roaring waterfall. The tantalizing name and the tribesmen's repeated question, "have you smoke that sounds in your country?" spurred Dr. Liv ingstone's search through a re gion that was mysterious to the outside world. Rushing Waters .He found the waterfall while exploring the Zambezi's course toward the Indian Ocean. When about six miles from the falls he saw the "smoke exactly as when large tracts of grass are burned off." Five columns rose "and bended in the direction of the wind against a low ridge covered with trees and seemed ... to mingle with the clouds." The thunder grew almost deafening as Living tstone landed on a midstream island which now bears his name. Fighting through underbrush, he found himself on the very lip of a tremendous chasm. "The falls are singularly formed," he wrote in his diary. "They are simply the whole mass of the Zambezi waters rushing into a fissure or rent made right across the bed of the river. The Zambezi at the boundary of Northern Rhodesia and South ern Rhodesia is 5,580 feet wide where it leaps into the cleft. It drops 350 to 400 feet, more than twice Niagara's fall. Animals Undismayed The startling sight did not dismay animals that roamed the canyon's rims. An early visitor noted signs of buffalo, hippo potami, rhinoceros and elephants "at the very brink of eternity." He wondered why they weren't afraid. "Didn't they grow up to gether? a native explained. Ancient man must also have "grown up" with the falls. Its vicinity has yielded many early, middle and late Stone Age relics, including handaxes, a developed form of cleaver, a pick and a bored stone for weighting a dig ging stick. No longer an off-trail attrac tion for beauty seekers, Victoria Falls today blends its roar with the sound of trains crossing the gorge below. The Cairo-to-Cape-town railroad traverses a 650-foot-lone bridge. Close by is a modern hotel featuring bowling greens and tennis courts, swim ming baths and boat excursion facilities. Trolley car service op erates to various scenic points along the falls. Good Views Afforded Unlike some famed waterfalls, the Zambezi's spectacle may be seen from many natural viewing places along its narrow gorge's opposite wall. Foaming and lashing, the wa ters burst from the foot of the falls through a single deep crack the Boiling Pot only 200 feet wide. The gorge, shaped roughly like the letter M, receives the water in the first upthrust line, sends it down a second, up a third and thence downward again in boil ing torrents. Court Records POLICE COURT Earl Franklin Stevens, violation of basic rule. $10. Royal Omega Greenman Jr., inade quate equipment (muffler), S10. Edward Lee Watson, failure to stop at stop sign, S5. David Harold Seitzinger, violation of basic rule. S10. Lauren Hardy, violation of basic rule, S10. John Arnold Bohnert, failure to stop at a stop light, So. Edward Thomas Sehoonover, viola tion of basic rule, S10. Ronald Lane Harper, failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. S10. Terry Gene Foster, failure to stop at a stop sign, $5. DISTRICT COURT Deno Raymond Canclini. exceeding possession limit in geese, S30. Jack Robert Gibson, diguising sex and species of game bird. $30. Dwain Allen Richardson, inadequate muffler. $15. Bayard O. Stone, failure to operate on right side of highway. $7.50. Henry Garland Johnson, failure to transfer title. $10. Jack Ray McKay, overlength load, S15. Merville E. Straley, violation of basic rule, S55. Douglas Wayne Clark, violation of basic rule. S12.50. Charles Clifford McCaslin, overload, $30. John William Whisenant, two charges of violation of basic rule, $33.50 ($57.50 less jail credit). Wendell B. Cooper, bus speeding, $15. ' Harry Walfred Engstrand. overload, $50. Curtis McVey Langston, overload, $93. Harry Walker Boynton, passing school bus receiving and discharging children. S15. Walter Earl Chaffee, failure to stop at a red light, $10. Bernard T. Sauer, excessive over hang on load, $15. Make This a CHRISTMAS" We Feature THE FINEST IN QUALITY! Q FOR MEN- L B EVANS Genuine Hand Turned $550 to $795 O FOR WOMEN- DANIEL GREEN Satin and Felt $550 to $50 NORFIELD'S SHOE STORE "Southern Oregon's Oldest Shoe Concern" 221 East Main St. Phone 2-2123 start a set of 5 5, CHOICE OF 10 COLORS Spruce Green Nude White Moonlit Grey Sunlit Tan Burma Brown Jet Grey Danube Blue Mint Green Frost White Cedar Tan As Seen in Vogue and Seventeen 20 Styles In Stock Choose Yours Frorji This Large Selection (Cases Shown) o Priced 17.75 to 30.00 plus tax First Floor From Sunny California ... 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