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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, December 4, 1955
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN
United Praft
Washington U-R I will
Wave you know I am a member
in good standing of a society
called- Li e s
Amis d'Escof
fier." I never met
August Escof
fier, the fa
mous French
chef who was
born in 1846
and went to
his reward in
1935. But we
were kin of a
sort. He loved
to cook and I always have loved
to stuff my middle with rich
foods.
"Les Amis d'Escoffier," in
case you aren't up on your high
school French, means "The
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Friends of Escoffier." Once a
year, in many cities of the world,
hotel managers and chefs fight
to see what fine meals they can
put out in honor of the grand
daddy of the meat, sauce and
ladle trade.
. Nobody ever wins, but every
hotel manager in active member
ship puts a burr under his head
chef to see that there is a lot of
good stuff under the glass and
fluid flowing without interrup
tion into glassware ol various
size. Wine, mostly.
First one of these things I
ever attended was in Minneap
olis, Minn. I believe that Cedric
Adams, a columnist for the Reg
ister and Tribune papers, and I
were the first newspapermen
ever to tuck a bib with the high
and mighty of the society.
Huge Bibs
There we sat, Ced and I, feel
ing a little silly in bibs four feet
square, and with nothing to do
j but eat through course after
; course of fattening stuff for four
i whole hours.
There were no speeches at
; these gatherings at the grub
j board, and there are no speeches
! now, either. Everybody is sup
! posed to dip the proper fork into
j each new dish that comes along
i and bow a head in memory of
the famous Frenchman.
That night back there in 1936,
i I think it was, wound up with
' the wealthy hotel managers
! gathered around a crap table and
beginning a simple little crap
game at $1000 a lick. Cedric and
I left.
Well, a recent one of these
annual affairs was held at the
Sheraton Carlton Hotel here.
The menu started out the same
all guests are equal. It said at
the beginning that "There will
be no guest of honor.. Members
and guests will sit where they
please . . napkin must be
tucked in the collar . . . smoking
forbidden up to the time dessert
is served. A person who smokes
while eating does not deserve
the title of 'gourmet'."
The Food
The menu as much of It as
time allows:.
"La tortue verte amontillado"
green turtle consomme per
fumed with the finest sherry.
"Les filets de sole de la manche
nantua" filet of English
sole, with rich cream sauce,
completed with crawfish and
sliced truffles. "La mignonette
d'agneau Escoffier" scalloped
saddle of spring lamb. "Les
pommes noisette riosolles"
small parisienne potatoes
browned in butter. "Les fonds
d'artichaud clamart" artichoke
heart filled with puree of green
peas. "Le sorbett d'ananas au
kirsch" pineapple sherbet.
After that, we got down to eat
ing. Quail, with a French name.
Wild rice, and plain old but
tered string beans. And there
then came a spice bear, with a
fancy name followed by im
ported goose liver in puree, per
fumed by port and served in
jelly, topped off with a souffle
flavored with grand mariner.
Finally cigars.
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TABLE ROCK
Fire Causes Excitement
By R. E. NEALON
Table Rock Fire caused by
a spark from a wood furnace
igniting a cloth in the furnace
room at the Dick Reum home
last Monday forenoon brought a
truck from the Central Point
Rural Fire department, and
caused quite a little excitement
for the occupants, Mrs. Reum
and her two small children.
The hopper of the furnace had
been filled with wood, and Mrs.
Reum . and the children were
getting ready to leave for Med
ford, when a noise in the back
part of the house caused her to
open the door to the furnace
room, which she found full of
smoke and fire. Quickly closing
the door, she called the fire de
partment and then got word to
the Copco . crew, Which were
working some distance down the
road, who came on the double,
putting out the fire in a matter
of seconds with fire extinguish
ers which they carry as part of
their equipment. The Reum's feel
deeply indebted to the Copco
crew as they believe that without
their help the house and contents
would have been destroyed.
Mrs. Robert Dunn returned
Monday from the Sacred Heart
hospital where she underwent
major surgery Nov. 25. She and
her husband and young son Ger
old are now at the home of
Dunn's parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Harry Dunn, Central Point. -
Elgin Robinson, youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Robinson,
has enlisted in the U.S. Marines
and is now undergoing training
in the Marine camp near San
Diego.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith of
Phoenix were here several days
last week, keeping the wheels
turning, the cows mooing, and
the hens cackling, at the Everett
Brown farm, while the Browns
were vacationing in California
Among Thanksgiving holiday
visitors here with relatives were
Earl Edmonds and son Lonnie
of Walnut Creek, Calif.; Mrs.
Margaret Williams, Mr. and Mrs,
John Dodge and three grand
children of Medford; Robert and
Refa Narramore of Klamath
Falls, Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis
and daughter Jan of Forest
Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Dunn and young son of Central
Point; and 28 members of the
Bigham clan, with six friends
from various points in the valley.
Orville Hamilton, manager of
the Modoc Orchard, is attending
the annual meeting of Oregon
Horticulturists at Corvallis and
later expects to attend the Hor
ticultural meeting for the state
of Washington to be held at
Wenatchee.
The Walter Miller pet sheep,
"Nobel," a Columbia and Suffolk
cross, sheared 32 pounds of wool
at last spring's shearing, accord
ing to Walter, who manipulated
the shears and claims he wasn't
trying to increase the wool sur
plus but there was nothing he
could do about it.
Prices of livestock are still on
the downward trend, weaner
pigs at a recent session of the
Mid-Way Auction yard brought
from $1.50 to $6 and 100 spring
lambs loaded on trucks for the
Red Bluff market Saturday at
the J. L. Nealon yards brought
16 cents or less than half the 36
cent price for top lambs a few
years ago at the San Francisco
market.
Wool prices have been stabil
ized somewhat by a sort of Gov
ernment subsidy, otherwise wool
prices would be down to 15
cents, according to many sheep
men. This reminds us of when
wool prices went close to the
zero mark back when Grover
Cleveland was president. At that
time, as now, men went from
farm to farm shearing the farm
ers' flocks, at that time for 10
cents a head. We remember one
of our neighbors, who was a Re
publican, saying that the shearers
who voted for Cleveland stood
the sheep on their heads while
clipping the wool as they were
ashamed to look them in the
face.
Stanley Doty, of Carson City,
Nev., arrived here Saturday
evening and left Sunday morn
ing, taking with him his mother,
Mrs. Arthur Doty, who has been
bothered for some time with foot
trouble. She will stay at the
home of her son and daughter-in-law
until she recovers- in health.
One word left out of our last
item made it appear that a Sams
Valley Sunday school had voted
to donate $4 a week to the Amer
ican S. S. Union when it should
have been the local Table Rock
S. S. Ernest Hamilton, who has
spent the past few months at the
George Joseph Orchards at Yak
ima, Wash., returned last week
and is now helping with the
pruning operations at Modoc Or
chard. '
According to a recent commun
ication in the M.T. the location of
the Lost Cabin Mine was known,
and much gold taken from it. We
remember several parties back
in the early 90's that went in
search of the mine, but returned
empty-handed. In checking with
old-timers we have not met up
with anyone who thinks the mine
was ever re-discovered.
Ezra Benson has figured out
that the nation's farmers are in
good shape because their assets
are good and their land values
higher. Much of the raise in farm
land values has been brought
about by people in other busi
nesses wanting to live in the
country, farmers selling off home
sites, and persons paying high in
come taxes, who buy and oper
ate farms to lose money and in
that way get a little better setup
with the revenue collector, and
the later land appraisals by the
assessors. The farmers' assets and
higher land values reminds us
of the man who came each week
in a six-cylinder car to the com'
missary to get groceries back in
the depression days. A six-cyl--
mder car was some car those
days, so in answer to a taxpay
er's complaint, we agreed to in
vestigate, we louna the man
had a wife and several small
children, living in the hills, with
no job or any prospect of one
and about the only asset, was the
six-cylinder car, which they
couldn't eat or at that time sell
at any price.
The Robert Sage family were
Thanksgiving Day dinner guests
at the Donald Richardson home
in Portland, remaining there un
til Saturday morning.
The annual Thanksgiving din
ner held at the schoolhouse was
fairly well attended, but several
local folks and some other out-of-the-district
residents that usu
ally attend the festivities were
missing.
.Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bosworth
left Tuesday for California points
where they will spend some time
vacationing and visiting rela
tives. They expect to be gone
about two weeks.
The Clarence Buck cattle
Three Teenagers Dead
In Train-Car Accident
Enfield, N.C. (U.R) Three
teen-agers on a double date were
killed and another "injured criti
cally Friday night when a
freight train plowed into a new
Buick at a crossing here and
knocked it into the path of an
oncoming passenger train.'
The only survivor, Rachel
Mullen, 17, was thrown from
the car upon the first impact.
She was found later lying un
conscious in a ditch.
The bodies of Benton Moss,
16, of Enfield and Miss Freddie
Stroudan, 17, were pinned in the
car and were burned beyond
recognition.
Bobby Davis, 15, was thrown
from the car under the wheels
of the train. '
Police Pick up Trail
Of Missing Woman
Bandon U.R) Police Fri
day picked up the trail of a 74-
year-old woman missing since
last Sunday.
The trail of Mrs. Lily Downey
of Nebraska, instead of leading
through, dense underbrush south
of here where she was at first
believed to have wandered off
the road, led instead through
Greyhound bus depots.
A bus driver told police that
the woman boarded his bus here
at 3:09 a.m. Monday and rode to
Coos Bay, en route to either
Portland or Eugene. :
The woman had been seen
walikng several miles south of
here Sunday night, apparently
trying to locate the home of rela
tives. Authorities at first feared
she had wandered off the road
and become lost. Air and ground
search parties had been argani
zed to hunt for her.
Mrs. Downey came here to
visit a brother," William Snyder.-
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which 'have been on pastures
here for the past few months
were moved last week to home
feeding grounds in the Apple-
gate valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Taylor
left Friday for a two-weeks va
cation m California, where they
will visit relatives along the way
going as far as Los Angeles.
The Highway Chapel, "The
Church that Comes To You," is
the name given to a specially
built truck and trailer, with liv
ing quarters in the truck and the
long trailer equipped for church
purposes, with comfortable seats
and room for nearly. 50 people,
that has been parked in the local
school yard for the past two
weeks, with well - attended
church services being held night
ly by Evangelist Harry Sprague
and wife. The Spragues, have
been in this work for nearly 20
years, most of the time in Cali
fornia, going into logging camps
and out-of-the-way places where
there are no churches or Sunday
schools. The average yearly num
ber of meetings run between 320
and 330, but last year they held
365 meetings attended by some
2,500 individuals. An electric
organ played by Mrs. Sprague
furnishes music for the singing.
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