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.
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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. .
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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.
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