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.
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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.
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