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Despite several trips .to the hospital during last two years for lung conges tion, the Civil War drummer boy of Company C still en joys his favorite pipe and cigar and follows news on the radio. Appeal Notice Filed In Sherry Fong Case Portland U.R) Irvin Good man,, attorney for -Mrs. r Sherry Fong, has filed notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court from her . Circuit Court conviction of the second degree slaying of Diane Hank. YOU FLIGHTS YOU! NEED MERCY FLIGHTS? Anyone in Southern' Oregon at. any time may find himself in immediate need of the services of Mercy Flights. Ask any of the more than 430 patients who learned this from experience. ' " Yet without the subscriber system Mercy Flights could not keep their planes available to meet the urgent requests. It's a fact. Mercy Flights planes are operated at a yearly loss of more than $10,000 and this loss is covered by the subscriber fees of $4 a year per family. However, those subscribers who do have need of a flight, more than get their money's worth. In a medical emergency, they can be taken anywhere within a 400-mile radius of Medford, and still not have to pay a cent. We urge every family in Southern Oregon and Northern California, within a 150-mile radius of Medford, to oin Mercy Flights now. We believe it is safe to say that there is not a resident in this area who does not know someone who has been flown as a patient by Mercy Flights. If you want to say "thanks" for that service, and at the same time protect yourself and loved ones, join today. Mercy Flights, Inc. is a non-profit corporation serving you. Simply send your name, address, and $4 to Mercy Flights, Inc. P. O. Box 522 "Medford, Oregon Your subscriber card, good for one year, will be sent to you. By Jimmy Hatlo BUT WHEH HE PUTS SOME DOUGH IN OH.BOY, DOES HE MAKE SURE ITU. BE CREDITED TO THE Rl6HT3CCaJNT.' Is That So? "Ranger Burns: Would 'it be practical and morally right to in troduce the deadly virus disease Myxomatosis into the jackrabbit population on the Snake, River plains of southern Idaho (or for that matter in any other region where rabbits are a pest) in an attempt to destroy the wild rab bits to aid farmers and stock men? I realize there may be dan ger to domestic rabbits and pos sibly other rodents but I submit that the situation here in Jerome county is serious enough to war rant discussion of this question. . '"My wife and J are farmer sheepmen, making our living on one of the small farms opened to drawing by World War II ser vicemen in 1949 by the U.S. Bu reau of Reclamation. "My wife and I are farmer sheepmen, making our living on one of the small farms opened to drawing by World War II ": ser vicemen in 1949 by the U. S. Bu reau of Reclamation. . For two of our six years here, the jackrabbits have been high ly destructive, rating as the worst drawback to ranching here. This past year, they again built up to enormous numbers two neighboring farms lost ; at least 10 per cent of their irrigat ed crops. And if past experience is any criterion, the rabbits "will continue to increase until natur al disease or starvation decimat es theic. number and then they will almost disappear for a year or two, only to come back again in another terrifying cycle. "The nine farms in this sec tion of the project are surround ed by sagebrush which is won- Lone Tree . . . Halfway down the mountain a shoulder of granite jutted so as to be visible for many miles. On the shoulder's point a tree grew out of loose rocks. It was probably more than two hundred years old, yet it was no more than twenty inches through the trunk, while its wind-beaten crown was but sixty feet aloft. The roots of the tree on the point were numerous and they were powerful and large and their spread was exposed far out from the trunk. There the roots swelled in bulges, as with mighty muscles, reaching on to grip the rocks before thrusting down to water sources. Here the tough and strong tree had stood and held its own for 200 years against the worst the winds and rocks could give it, and so it had served as a landmark for the pioneers of the 1840s. They had named the spot Tough' Tree Point. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist derful rabbit breeding - ground with lush grass in the spring. In July when the range becomes dry the rabbits are driven in up on our irrigated section by hung er. And with the price squeeze now pushing the farmer anyway, even a small loss of irrigated crop or range grass hurts ser iously. it is estimated that six large - jackrabbits will eat as much as one sheep. Millions of Rabbits "And there are literally - mil lions of rabbits breeding around us. Three years ago wnen win ter snows covered the dry grass JWI-S6 they came upon us "in unbeliev able numbers. During the daily invasion, just before, dusk, I would stand at our haystack and shoot the oncoming rabbits as fast as I could pump a 22 rifle borrowed from the county agent for that purpose. Their death struggles and screams went un noticed among the starving live rabbits as they came around and over the bodies of the dead to get at the hay in our stack. "These invasions would start at dusk and continue throughout the night, irhave gone into the Corral by moonlight, pointed my shotgun into a corner and killed as many as nine rabbits with one 'shot, they were that thick. Finally, my neighbors and I de cided that shooting was useless against such hordes and half a dozen of us resorted to poison, using strychnine furnished through government agencies. We had to overcome our distaste for using poison in order to save the last of our hay. When spring came, we estimated that we had killed at least 12,000 rabbits. The stench of rotting bodies pervad ed the whole valley. Fences of Little Good "You might ask about organiz ed rabbit drives! They are OK but they don't get enough to do any discernible good. Or fences. They don't do much good: in summer the rabbits dig under them; in winter, they walk over them when the snow drifts in. "In an effort to build a home v.nd follow test conservation practices, my wife and I planted a long shelter belt of trees. For three years in . succession, the rabbits ate the trees off nearly to the ground. When we planted rye and crested wheat on a burned-over area of our range land, to prevent its blowing, the rab bits not only ate off the grass but literally dug it out by the roots and completely killed the stand. ! "So the question: What are the pros and cons of infecting jackrabbits with the dread Myxomatosis virus, which helped clean out the rabbits in Austra lia and is now running through Europe?. I understand the doc tor who introduced it into Eur ope is a hero to some, particu larly the farmer, and a heartless wretch to others. "For the many who will hold up their hands in righteous hor ror at the very thought of in fecting our American rabbits with a virus disease, let me pre sent one last thought: "My wife and I are so moral ly and religiously against any unnecessary killing that we do not hunt or even butcher our own farm animals for table use. Feeling this way, you should then come to our Snake River plains as a : homesteader and have to kill, kill, and then kill some more to protect your very livelihood. You should hear the rabbits scream with pain when you have wounded them. You should smell the stench of dead bodies piled high when the snow melts. All because you are try ing to protect your ranch against other of God's creatures whose only crime is that they are too many and too hungry! lufoFTid'ooDi; The Douelas fir clune to the rocks, drank through its roots, Dreatnea and was fed through its leaves, and bv the maeic of its natural chemistry working wiin air, sunlight and water, it had lived through two centuries. The Snag ... Among the thousands of trees on the mountain sIodp ahovo Tough Tree Point was a dead uougias iir, a hollow, standing snag. Its trunk was ten feet through. Foresters reckoned that it had towered three hun dred feet and more in its prime. Early settlers had noted the biff fir at a turn in an Indian trail as far back as 1848. Then it was still alive, except for a snag top. Around 1898 the great Doug las fir had lost its last sprig of green. The giant trunk stood on, dead timber, the top crumb ling away year by year. Now in 1955 it was broken down to a mere 50 feet in height. At its bottom a fire scar had eaten into an opening that a man could cuier wunout Stooping. Six hundred years and more ago, the foresters said, the big tree had. been , but a tiny seed, a grain with a glider tail.' in flight from a ripe Douglas fir cone tnat a dry east wind of late fall had opened. Where a light ning fire- had made a clearing Hie seed found life in soil ex posed to sunlight. Bracken fern fireweed and salal had nursed this seedling with others on the burned land. In time a family of young Douglas firs crowded, out Without us here, they would al so die a slow death of starvation by the thousands. D.J.P., Jer ome, Ida." To the reader sending me the best reply to forward to D.JJP., I'll make the weekly award . of the 30-volume set of the Ency clopedia Americana. Address your "letters to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. (Copyright, 1356, by Engene Burns). (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate.) . Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my. panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best true-life nature adven ture, a complete 30-volume set of this world famous reference work in a handsome sealcraft binding. . Each, week, new sub missions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many' friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Sausalito, Calif. ; Your I . Your Perfect Servant, - V Monday, February 13, 1956 - Gum Diseases, Other Teeth Disorders Pose Problems Editor's note: This is another in a series of articles on dental health in connection with the observance of National Children's Dental Health Week. The series was prepared with the cooperation of the Southern Oregon Dental society. Gum disease and irregular teeth in children seldom receive the public attention given tooth decay, but the disorders pose a threat to children's dental health. Few people realize that dis orders of gums and other tooth supporting structures actually occur in children. According to one study, two out of three child ren between the ages of 5 and 14 have some degree of gum disorders. High Disease Rates . : The study revealed that the disease rate reached its peak in children between the ages of five and seven when the permanent molars and the front teeth were erupting. Although the causes of the ailments are complex, poor oral hygiene and other dental ne glect are usually involved. The best offense against such disorders is a good defense, which should include brushing the teeth and gums properly and promptly after eating, having all lesser plant life from the burn and fought each other in thrusting up yearly spears of growth to the sun. Six centuries of tree life come to ruin. Seeing it, one remem bers that six hundred years ago trees were felled in Norway and staves from them were used to build churches. Today the woods of these churches live on in beauty and service. Baby Tree ... Down in the youngest growth at the foot of the mountain and near the county road stands a five - year - old Douglas fir. Branches, dead and dry, from trees that had been cut and then discarded by Christmas tree thieves lay among the small, high stumps. Above the wreck ages the baby tree stood along. It stood untE there were days of heat and dry east winds. Then a car sped up the road in a cloud of dust, bound for a fishing stream. - A live cigarette was flipped from the window of the car. It dropped in the debris left bv the Christmas tree thieves into mats of needle-like leaves that had become brown, tinder dry in the- parching weather, Soon smoke boiled up in the drifting dust. . The fire crept on, there was a lift of the licking flames into a torch for a minute, and then the little lone tree was left standing, smoking, with every needle leaf burned into a black shred. There it stood, dead. Perfect Servant, ,0,2 LESS THAN can dry your family wash . . . amtim! Sounds ridiculous - but it's true! My wages for running your new ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER are less than the cost of ONE FOOT of old-fashioned clothes fine! i work any time... in any weather, THE CALIFORNIA ORKGON POWIK COIWWmV A Western Company owned and operated byWesltrb People MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN the dentist clean the teeth regu larly, and eating a well-balanced diet so that the gums will be sufficiently nourished. Still another dental disorder which is widespread among children is malocclusion, or failure of the teeth to meet properly. Bad Positions One study indicated that as high as 30 per cent of the child ren in any age group need some form of orthodontic treatment for badly positioned teeth. The results of this disorder can be varied and broad. In some cases, it may interfere with chewing and possibly cause peri dental diseases later in life. In others, it may contribute to speech defects and cause facial deformities. Again, prevention is far sim pler than correction. Regular dental examinations will un cover warning signals and the condition can be corrected while it is still in its early stages. Pro longed treatment can thus be avoided and the chances for complete correction of the con dition will be greatly increased. Nicosia, Cyprus U.R) Cy- priot rebels killed two Royal Air Force men and seriously wound ed a third with submachine guns Saturday on the main street of this capital city. with these big benefits to you: Frequent schedules your ship- ' ments leave promptly. 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