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fnrMHDFORD fOBEGOm MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, February 18, 1958 Garden Notes By , C B. CORDY County Extension Agent for Hortieulhir Some of our lighter soils are getting dry enough to work and a few sunshiny days will bring about the urge to start garden ing. Soils should not be worked when they are too wet as this will cause the formation of clods and the soil will work with dif ficulty for the remainder of the season. A well prepared seedbed is essential to the production of a good garden. If the soil is nor mally a little heavy and doesn't work up good this condition can be helped by the addition of coarse organic material. Manure and straw are helpful but these rot out rather quickly so the help is only temporary. A slow rotting material such as sawdust, if added in sufficent amounts, will loosen up even our heavy soils. Two inches . of sawdust is about as much as can be applied to a garden and thoroughly mix it with the soil. If more than that is applied the sawdust will be left in pockets and the garden crops will not grow in those areas. . By putting the sawdust on about two inches deep and then thoroughly mixing it, the soil will be lightened up some and if this is repeated each year for a period of years it will be found that the soil can be worked much earlier in the spring and you will have a nice patch of light soil. Sawdust should not be used in anticipation of it ever turn ing into fertilizer. In fact, it has just the opposite effect in that it soaks up the fertility in the soil. This natural fertility is used as food by the soil organisms while they are decomposing the sawaust. wnere sawdust, is used it will be necessary to add 3 pounds of ammonium sulfate or 10 pounds of a complete com mercial fertilizer to each 10x10 foot area. If the garden plants lack a good green color- in the summer it would indicate that an nrirlitinnnl anlirnHnYi rf - nurugen leruuzer was required. A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer I V " ' V tLAJL Communists Expected To Evade War Rules London U.R) Defense Min ister Sir Walter Monckton be lieved cue wuuuuuiusus win evaue the Geneva conventions in fu ture wars by pretending that all prisoners of war are "war crim , inals." - ' " ment Wednesday that Russia rat ified the 1949 convention on war prisoners only with the stipu lation that "war criminals" and "persons accused of . crimes against humanity" are not en- " titled to its protection, i The Communists in China were more specific, Monckton said. They ruled that any cap tured enemy is automatically a war. criminal "by the very fact of having waged war" against the Reds. ENVY Hartford Conn. (U.R) . .The president of the National Educational Association,' J. Leg? ter Buf ord, told a teachers' meet ing: 'Change that hair-do ;-once in a while; I want our teachers to look pretty. I wish I could." Buford is bald f; j;S h , bo-x m & ; M TTrRANSISTOR I HEARING AID - f n "ir $50 ft COMWfTI Jf Just imagine! A finest quality 4-tran-sislor Zenith backed by an iron-ciad 10-day money-back guarantee or full satisfaction, yet selling for one fourth the price of many comparable aids. So small, so light it can bs hidden behind a man's necktie... worn in a woman's hair! Operates for only about 10 a week. 10-DAT MONET-laCK 6UIMNTEE Also the for extremely severe hearing impairment Sptriri "raw leertrtof- tar Oflly Pragrtsvv Beorinj Losses S 1 C A It-Day MoMr-lsct 6tiswtH 3V Batteries - Cords Repairs for All Makes George E. White Hearing Aids 131 W. Main - Medford Washington CU.R) If Frankie Carle hadn't had a mind of his own at age 5, he might be bang- l n g cymbals and pounding drums today instead' of tickling ivo ries. - The person al) 1 e piano player told me the story of his musical Harman Nichols Deginnings during a chat at the Statler. Way back there his uncle, a professor of music, caught the kid behind a stump in the woods trying out a pack of cigarettes he had found. "Why don't you give up cigar ettes,", said the old professor, "and take up drupis. They make a lot more noise than a cigar ette." - Frankie told his uncle that if he didn't mind he would rather do his racket-making on the pi ano, which isn't as noisy as drums and brass bangers. Piano playing is what he has been do ing with considerable grace for a great many years. Musical Background In fact he wore out a lot of pianos growing up to sell over 7,000,000 of his records and help write such lovely tunes as "Sun rise Serenade," and many an other in the unique Carle man ner. "Incidentally," Frankie said; "while we are at it, I would like to explode a myth that has fol lowed me most of my profes sional life. I seldom have any arrangements on my rack, and that has led to the rumor that I play by ear. That's not true. I ; have . a fine . musical back ground. The rumors started, I suppose, because I memorize very fast. I not only can read the notes, but I can write them down." Why. isn't the great player .of modern- tunes in television? , "Politics," Carle replied. "Let's let it go at that without amplification. But I'm just as happy where I am. Even on, the road, we rehearse a show and let it wear on the folks from town to town. None of those unpre dictable 13-week contracts." While on the road with his band and show, Frankie- says, there is little need for rehears ing more than a couple of times a week. "And that is only briefly," he added, "mostly for our own amusement." At his home in California, the artist has two pianos. Cop Named Tune "A beautiful Baldwin baby grand," he said. "That's in the living room. I bang that one only when guests come in. I have my own private fun on a beat-up old upright in my den." - And speaking of "Sunrise Ser enade," Frankie tells the story in his own words: Al Leash 10 Die In Algerian Clashes Algiers, Algeria (U.R) French North Africa, seethed, with unrest today in the wake of a day of clashes in which reports said at least 110 persons were killed! The 24-hour death toll was one of the highest since vio lence first erupted, in the terri tories. ' ' The reports said an additional 51 persons were wounded in the flashes between French security forces and rebel bands in Al geria and Morocco, and between rival native political factions in Tunisia. : The biggest action took place in Algeria where a band of more than 150 "army of allah" rebels engaged a heavy detachment of security forces in an eight-hour battle, in the Nemencha Moun tains, 96 miles south of Con stantine. The French said at least 42 rebels were, killed in what they describe as a "major" action. French losses were eight dead and 20 wounded. Court Records POLICE COURT Bertha Engeline Spencer, failure to stop at a red light, $5. William Richardson Bagley, viola tion of basic rule, S10. " Hollys Grac Richardson, violation of basic rule, S10. Robert Lee x isner, violation of bas ic rule, $10. Richard Harold Mathewson, failure to stop at a red light, S3. Eugene Earl Lawson, one headlight, $5. DISTRICT COURT Frederick R. Gottfried, failure to operate in right lane of traffic, $750. Robert Force, failure to operate on right side of highway, S15. William T. Britt, overload. S65. Everett W. Cushman, violation of basic rule, $7.50. Henry L. Stevens, failure to signal, $10. -. Robert L. Cook, following too close, $6. John J. McDaniel, failure to stop at stop sign, S10. Mervin W. Johnston, defective foot brakes S6. Roland A. Thompson, failure to op erate on right side of highway, $7.50. Eugene E. Lawson, defective head light, S6. ' We were in a rooming house, this old guy and I hitting the keys and writing like crazy. It finally got around to five in the morning and some of the neigh bors buzzed for a cop. "An officer 'came in and lis tened to us for a while and asked what we were going - to call it. I said 'Sun Coming UpThe cop, who by that time had forgotten he was supposed to take us to the cooler, looked out the win dow, saw a new sun, and said, 'Bub, you oughta make it 'Sun rise Serenade.' And that, of course is what we did. I've dear ly loved cops ever 'since." Strange Sickness -Kills Filipino Men Manila, P.I. U.R) A strange "nightmare" sickness that has killed seven persons in their sleep during the past 16 days is "becoming a grave public health problem," the chief medi cal officer of the Manila Police department said today. Dr. Mariano B. Lara said the afflicted persons invariably "rah out of breath" in their sleep. All of the victims have been Filipino men:- - Lara said autopsy on the vic tims, "showed no organic dis eases, poisonous or microbal ill ness had caused the deaths. . Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 turn. Monday for Monday: other dan 530 oreviouiday Union Blasts Plan By Westingfiouse Pittsburgh 0J.R) The striking International Union of Electrical Workers . blasted a back-to-work proposal by West inghouse Electric Corp. today as part of a campaign of "lies, duplicity and misrepresenta tion." . ' The proposal is a "sham by which the company hopes to de lude its employees and the pub lic," Robert Nellis, chairman of the IUE's Westinghouse Confer ence Board, said. "Westinghouse has provided a deplorable ex ample of the low level to which the business morality of a bil lion dollar corporation 1 has fallen." The company . plan was an alternate to one proposed by five governors in which a fact-find ing panel would seek a solution to deadlock issues in the 123-day strike of 44,000 IUE members. LONG TIME NO SHAVE? Glastonbury, . Conn. (U.R) The J. B. Williams Co. received a letter "from an Ashford, Eng land, man requesting a free tube of shaving cream as advertised in a magazine. The company sent it to him, even though the advertisement was clipped from a December, 1922 issue of the National Geographic Magazine. CANINE SCHOLARS -West Haven, Conn (U.R) The tewn dog warden has ap pealed to parents to keep dogs confined when their masters and mistresses leave for school. H said so many dogs are tagging along to school that they have begun ;to disrupt classroom work. 3USPICIOUS MAN iDanbury, Conn. (U.R) Walker Kilcourse, Jr. suspected something was wrong with his paycheck and returned it. 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