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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIEUNE Wednesday, March 21, 19SS fjit rz&'v "7vjp - 'j MEDITERRANEAN BOUND-Marine Pvt. George Shel- ' don of Patriot Ind., plays his guitar as a work party : arrives at the dock in Morehead City, N. C, to load his unit s gear aboard ship bound for the tense Mediterranean ' ' ?frw-' e 01611 and equipment of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, will join the 6th Fleet Is That So? Gifu, Japan, with Japan Air Lines Japan's countryside is a package chock-full of constant surprises. Want to go for a ride? Generally speaking, Japan is a poor place to drive a car any distance. Roads have never been overly good and the war with its bombing and heavy trucking was no help. Repair work, on thewfioIe, has been superficial. Hence, for the'long haul, better take a plane. For shorter ones, you can't beat the express trains which are fast, punctual, and take you almost anywhere: By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Japan has more than 15,000 miles of railways. For the short PAINT WITH MEDFORD PAIHT & WALLPAPER STORE . Formerly Burgess Paint and Wallpaper Store Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 trips into the lovely country side, buckle on your courage and take a taxi. Believe me, these horn tooting "kamikaze" drivers are a caution. What'U you see? Here at Gifu, about 150 miles south of .Tokyo, is perhaps the most unusual night-fishing in the world. In the first place, you'll ride a gaily festooned lantern-covered boat and be at tended by beautiful kimono-cla geishas who will dance and serve you hot sake and river fresh fish broiled on a charcoal-burning hibachi. "And cool your hot brow. Whether the fish are biting has nothing to do with the catch. Neither has a fishing rod or net. For that matter, you won't even see a fisherman, only fishing birds. It's this way: you'll be paddled slowly up the Nagaragawa river behind the fishing boats. In stead of being manned by fish ermen with rods and nets, each boat is equipped with a dozen or so black duck-like birds, swift-diving cormorants. Around each trained bird's neck is a string, one end of which is held by a man standing at the bow of each boat. Flaming Wood On Pole j Illuminating the weird scene, j casting red light on the flowing water will be baskets of flaming wood on a pole. These torches, reflecting in the water, attract the trout-like eight-inch ayu. As they arrive, the birds dive a"nd with remarkable speed and agil ity catch them and swallow them whole that is, swallow them as far as the string around the neck will allow. Then they sur face and the owner forces the birds to surrender their catch. Meanwhile, as cormorants are diving and working, the boats are being paddled upstream slowly followed by your spectator-filled pleasure boats whose passengers become gayer and gayer as the hour advances and become more pleasantly stuffed with the good-tasting freshly grilled ayu, straight from the cormorant's neck. The best time for this trip? June, July and August. Teelh Dyed Black Women only: Occasionally along th". more remote country side, you may find a woman with blackened teeth. Until quite rec ently, many women upon mar riage dyed their teeth black. To go with it, some used a bright green lipstick. Topped off with chalk-white rice powder. Like fresh strawberries? A novel way of growing straw berries almost the year around has been 'developed in Shizuoka prefecture, about 100 miles south of Tokyo. This province has much mountainside land ex posed to the warm sun. But as farmland, the steep-sloped sides were almost useless, until . . . Terraces were cut out, faced with 18-inch stones, brick or concrete tile with inverted V shaped spaces left at the joint. In these, strawberry plants were inserted. Mixed with the rich soil were various materials used to retain the sun's heat and at night the plants were covered with straw mats in order to con serve the heat. The plants were watered daily. Herring Fertilizer The result? Large, well-flavored strawberries, produced al most the year around. Once the plants fail to bear, they are removed forwith; the tiles are loosened, bean-cake and herring fertilizer introduced behind the tile, and the new shoots taken from the discarded plants placed into the V'ed notches. Beckoning cats: In shops throughout Japan: which depend upon the fickle public's favor, sucft as stores, teahouses and restaurants, you'll often see porcelain cats with their left paw raised outward. The mean ing? In Japan, this palm-out gesture beckons: come on in. When summoning a person in Japan, the hand is waved palm out in stead of Dalrri towards the waver. 1 And to complete the picture, Embargo on Oregon Turkeys Released Portland U.R) Oregon tur key growers will begin shipping eggs and poults to Washington early next week as a result of action taken yesterday by the Washington State Agriculture department. The embargo placed on the importation of Oregon turkey poults and eggs after ornithosis was discovered in two Oregon flocks two weeks ago, was eased yesterday, allowing the import ing of turkeys or turkey eggs certified free from the disease. J. F. Short, Oregon state di rector of agriculture, said that certification by his department means a veterinarian will in spect flocks from which poults or eggs are exported to check for mortality and the general health of the flocks. Oregon, Washington and Cali fornia state farm officials met in San Francisco yesterday with representatives of the U.S. de partment of agriculture to dis cuss mutual problems arising from psittacosis and ornithosis. Jay, said the fire should be ex tinguished now because in 10 to 15 years it might become a ser ious prairie fire hazard. The fire was discovered this spring. Rangers at the park tried to ex tinguish the fire, but the buring vein of coal was too large. Now, more elaborate measures will be taken. Largest denomination of U.S. currency is the 510,000 bill. Silver Lake Pumping Operation Due May 1 Lapine (U.P.) May 1 has been set as the date pumping operations through use of Bon neville power will start in the Fort Rock-Silver Lake area, of ficials have announced. A power line from Lapine to the Fort Rock Basin was ener gized last fall to provide power to the northern Lake county area which has been reclaimed through irrigation in the past few years. The basin once was flooded by huge lakes in pre historic days and in recent years has been of considerable interest as farmers and stockmen reclaim the land. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday OFFICIAL STARTER Portland (U.R) William P. Kyr.s; general manager of Portland Meadows, announced yesterday that Eugene (Beans) Kennedy, prominent official at horse race tracks on the Pacific Coast, will be official starter at the track this season. The Port land season opens May 5 and continues through July 7 this year. Grand Rapids Seeks All Fluorescent Lighting Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.P.) Grand Rapids may become one of the first of the larger cities in the United States to replace all of its old-style street lights with fluorescent street lights. Fluorescent lights have been installed in one small section of the downtown area and mem bers of city commissioners said they have been impressed by the amount of light they give. Com missioner Bernard Barto said a proposal may be placed on the ballot next spring to finance in stallation of fluorescent lights throughout this city of 200,000. Old Coal Mine Fire May Be Extinguished Medora, N. D. (U.R) Plans are being made to extinguish a fire in a coal mine in the Roos evelt Memorial Park which is believed to have started in 1952 as the result of lightning. The park superintendent, John cats are supposed to bring good luck. ( Copyright, 195B by Eugene. Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special 'arrangement with the editors of, the Ency clopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each 'week to the readers who send in the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a -handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. 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