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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1956)
Area Agricultural I Groups Schedule Meets Next Week Tour meetings of agriculture groups are scheduled ki the county next week. A pear growers meeting will be held at 1:15 p.m. Monday in the Central Point Grange. Ques tional on pear production will be answpre(i by L. G. Gentner, en tomologist with the Southern Or egO" L Branch Experiment station, on ,est control; Henry Hartman, 7 ticulturist from Oregon State O 4' 'ileee. effect of poly bags, on jfi narket and production practices; L. C. Terriere, chemist from ' OSC, residue tolerances and mrav nmrtirps S. "R. ADDle. head of the OSC department of horticulture, horticultural teach ing and research; R. J. Higdon, horticulturist with the branch experiment station, size thinning of pears; and Don Berry, horti culturist extension agent, 1956 spray program. Tuesday Meeting Stone fruit growers will meet at the Phoenix Grange hall Tues day at 1:15 p.m. On the program will be Higdon, answering ques tions on peach nutrition; Hart man, training young fruit trees; ' Apple, horticultural teaching and research; Iain MacSwain, -plant pathology specialist, OSC, stone fruit disease control; Gentner, peach insect round-up; and Quen- tin Zielinski, OSC horticulturist, peach varieties. Persons interested are invited Jto the meetings and coffee will be served at the close. A meeting to discuss soils and fertilizers for use on various soils in the area will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the courthouse auditorium. Rates and time of application will be discussed by Tom L. Jackson, OSC soil spe- . cialist; Rex Warren , OSC farm crops specialist; and H. H. White, assisted by John Youngan, both of the branch experiment sta- ' tion. Farmers are welcome to par ticipate in the meeting, officials said. A similar meeting for local fertilizer dealers will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Bigham hall at the fairgrounds. Read and Use Classified Adl The Community's Biggest Marketplace News About Books From the Library By' MISS HELEN WEBSTER Medford Librarian The browsing corner of the Medford Public Library is brightening up these days with a colorful assortment of books written to the teen-ager's taste. Especially popular with young men is Don Stanford's fast-moving, well-plotted story of sports cars and road racing, "The Red Car." Young Hap Adams buys a wrecked but irresistible red MG, spends the summer working to pay for and rebuild it, and gets a chance to test both the car and himself in a local road race. High school boys interested in sports cars will appreciate the mechanical detail. The import ance of performance, good driv ing, and good sportsmanship are emphasized. Mountain Climbing Mountain climbing is the chal lenge of "Banner in the Sky," by James Ramsey Ullman. The Citadel, highest mountain in Switzerland, had long lured young Rudi with a special pow er, for his father had died at tempting to scale those still un- Temporary Repairs Starts On FS Road Temporary repair work on the Dead Indian Soda Springs road is underway and the road should be open to limited travel by Jan. 22, the Forest service an nounced Friday, i The road sustained an esti mated $16,000 damage from floods in December. Permanent repairs will not be completed uptil next fall. The Forest service recently completed rehabilitation work on the Middlefork of the Apple gate rd. and it is now open to traffic. , Flax fibre is made into linen, but flax is also grown for either fibre or for seed, and is known commercially as linseed or as flaxseed, according to how it is prepared and marketed. conquered heights. An English mountaineer unexpectedly brings him a chance to fulfill his father's dream. A strange laughing dog which young Skeeter finds running wild in a swamp and trains into a first-class hunting hound forces a decision on the boy's part which brings him close to manhood. The story is James Howell Street's "Goodbye, My Lady." . Lincoln's Sons In "Lincoln's Sons" Ruth Ran dall tells the story of four boys who were born into a typical American family in the middle of the 19th century. Everything about their early years in a primitive little town in Illinois might have followed the usual pattern, if the father of Robert, Ed, Willy and Tad, had not been President Abraham Lin coln. For the hard driving story of a fullback who seeks and finds on the football field the answer to the question of his own worth as a player and a man, read "Fullback Fury," by Joe Archi bald. For Girls A story that will have more appeal for high school girls is Jessica Lyon's "Not for One Alone," a novel of unusual in sight into the problems of a marriage wherein both boy and girl must strive, not so much to be loved and understood, as to love and understand. "Rising Star," by Dorothy Jackson is the story of Honey, whose singing career was inter rupted by TB. Out of the sani tarium and discouraged, she be came interested in a beautiful race horse whose career had also been interrupted by lameness. She resolved that both she and the horse would achieve their goals together. These books will be found in the browsing corner on the main floor of the library. Books for teen-agers are also available on the library's regular ishelves in both the adult and Junior de partments and in- branch li braries throughout the county. Sunday. January 22. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN ELECTED PRESIDENT Howard Bush, left, receives greetings from Paul Culbertson as he assumes duties as president of the Jackson County Fruitgrowers league. Bush was elected Friday night. Culbertson is retiring president. ruff growers Elect ush As President Two Local Attorneys To Process SBA Loans Areas in which the small busi ness adminstration of the north west states and the U. S. depart ment of agriculture farmers home administration function in providing financial assistance to nurserymen and operators of similar businesses have been ex plained by Robert F. Buck, re gional director of the SBA. SBA will make disaster loans in cases where a majority of the total revenue of a business is derived from raising for sale flowers, plants, trees, bulbs, shrubbery, holly and similar crops which usually involve wholesale marketing, when the damage is from freezes and other natural catastrophes. The farmers home administra tion, which makes emergency loans to farmers, will consider damage : to flowers and other plants in determining eligibil ity for loans in cases , where a majorty of the total revenue of the applicant s operation is de- Howard Bush, Medford, was elected president of the Fruit growers league of Jackson coun ty at the annual meeting Friday in the YMCA. Dunbar Carpen ter, Chris Wolff, Steve Nye, Floyd Baker and Robert Minear were elected to the board of di rectors. Paul Culbertson, outgoing president, gave a resume of the league's work during the past year. He explained the league's part in caring for the 400 Mexi can nationals, who worked for county fruit growers last sea son, and operation of the bosc pool, which encouraged new markets for bosc pears. Resolutions Passed The league also was instru mental in getting assistance from the bureau of reclamation for re habilitation of the Rogue River' and Medford irrigation works. A resolution was sent to the state legislature telling members that agriculture was carrying an undue burden of taxation. A sec ond resolution was passed favor ing a sales tax as an offset to the property tax. Dr. John Higdon, horticultur- He's Looking for a Mountain ! You see, he knows what he has down under that beautiful hood a great, powerful V-8 engine that's pulsing with life and he's simply itching to give it the wordl But he is a sane and sensible driver who stays within the regulations and observes the laws of common sense and he knows he can't unleash that engine on a normal stretch of highway. So he's looking for a big, long, steep hill. Maybe he can get the throttle down there for a short thrust just to see what it's like! Well, maybe so but even on a mountain, he won't use full throttle for long. For this car is powered far beyond all normal requirements. Why, you might ask, is this so? Well, in the judgment of Cadillac engineers, it's done for a number of vital and important reasons. First of these is safety. A great reserve of power for the quick escape from an emergency is of the essence of highway safety. Then there's economy. A big, powerful engine that loafs at normal speeds permits the use of an axle ratio that makes for gasoline economy. There is long life, too for the absence of strain adds years and years to the life of any mechanism. And finally, there is the great riding and driving luxury that comes with extra power ... the whisper-silent engine, the instant response to the throttle, the sense of safety and security. ... Why not come in soon and see for yourself? We will be most happy to supervise a personal demonstration on the highway. The car is waiting for you and any time you find the time would be a good time for a datel SKINNER'S GARAGE 143 South Riverside Medford Phone 2-6264 ist with the Southern . Oregon branch experiment station, re viewed station accomplishments for the year. He described work on control of blight and scab disease and stoney pit in pears, and albino disease in cherries. ' He said the station also got outstanding results from experi ments-with the use of chelates, a new form of iron, which was applied to trees directly through the leaves. New Pear Varieties Work continued last year on testing Of new varieties of pears, peaches and apples. Higdon said a reexamination of varieties in the older plots have shown some real possibilities." He also mentioned successful experiments made in thinning Bartletts according to size, rath er than space. State Sen. Philip Lowry, at torney for the league, gave the background of the tree taxation and explained possible courses of action to obtain relief . R. A. Patterson, Portland, manager of the Oregon-Wash ington-California pear bureau, spoke on advertising and mar keting of pears. He said the bu reau is working for larger sales oi ripe pears, persuading con sumers that pears are a health food, not a luxury. Increased Income, Jobs Seen From Utilizing Hardwood Cnrvallis Romp 2.500 more jobs would be created if Ore gon s narawooa ana minor soit- wood species ot timber were utilized on a sustained-yield basis, according to John B. Grantham, managing director of Oregon forest products labora tory, Oregon State college. Tapping the timber would add about S12.500.000 a vear to the total value of Oregon's timber products. Oregon has an estimated ), 000,000,000 board feet of hard wood timber and about 20.000.' 000,000 board feet of minor softwood species. Grantham said. Western hardwood yield lumT ber recoveries comparable to those of eastern hardwoods and yield high - quality veneers Grantham said. Increased Uses Use of western hardwoods and minor softwood has increased markedly in the nast twn and indications are that larire- scaie use is near, Grantham said. Oregon now has more than a dozen hardwood h aucers, with four firms able to supply kiln-dried stock. SnpHai. ty products such as strin flnnr. mg and hardwood dimension stock have received inrrpawi attention, Grantham reriorted. ax lease five West Coast com panies are exDerimentinff with o - western hardwood veneer. Four western pulp mills began to. use aider within the past four years About one pound of meat in every 12 pounds consumed in the U.S. is in the form of some kind of sausage. . y PJNT WITH U Iteaiutelittei MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Formerly Burgess Paint and Wallpaper Star Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 rived from farming. Medford attorneys, John Del lenback and Cliff Oullette, have been appointed to process loan applications in Jackson county. About 25 miles off the coast of Sweden are the Aland islands -which are located in a strategic position at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. Oh-h! 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