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BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. April 24. 1956 Oregon Coast Group Holds Final Meeting C003 Bay (U.R; About 15C representatives of. coast cities ere scheduled to hold the final meetings today of their three day Oregon Coast association convention. Speakers yesterday included Gov. Elmo Smith and State Sen ator Robert Holmes, Democratic candidate for governor. The association is seeking ways to promote tourist travel along the Orsgon coast. There are 19 municipalities in the U.S. that are named Independence. JIN 5 jpi Looking For New Decorating Ideas? See us for pre harmonized deco rating colors in a choice of the most durable paint finishes. FAINT WITH MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STOBE Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across frcm the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 Whistle Punk Lament . . . This week brings the 14th birthday of this column "Out of the Woods." For the occasion I'm revising one of the earliest of the 731 columns, one in which Stewart Holrook was co-author. Our joint essay was on the de cline and fall of the whistle punk. My own lament was the news that a whistle punk a real one on a real logging pay roll was laying off to go to Washington, D. C, as a dele gate to the World Youth Con gress. I remarked that the end of the world had been prophe sied on less ominous events. Then came a letter from a whistle punk who had studied short-story writing and public speaking in high school and who, after returning to the woods, subscribed to a corres pondence course in these stud ies. More, as he remarked in his letter, he was teaching a Sunday school class. I suggest ed that this could be true piety, but that the lad might be using the kiddies as guinea pigs for his practice in story - telling and oratory. "I have read in the paper," he wrote, "that you have just had published a new book of stories for boys, entitled 'Paul Bunyan's Bears.' Where may I obtain the book? I think it is just what I need. I can study the stories as help in writing my own, and I can tell your Paul Buryan bear stories to the children to amuse them before I teach them their Sunday school lessons. I am also inter ested from my experience as a whistle punk . . ." The case was put before Stew art Holbrook. He left the prob lem to me, but he did contribue this little study of " "Whistle Punk. Old Style . . ." In my young days in the woods and when stove logging was on in the bunkhouse, the whislte punk who was allowed to talk commonly had but one text, wrote Mr. Holbrook. He himself was the subject. His tale was never a tall one of Paul Bunyan, : but always on how he, the punk, told the hook tender to go chase himself, or , the timekeeper where to head in, or how he inhaled a quart of redeye at one sitting, or how he slugged a policeman last time in town. As for Sunday school teach ing! There was nothing remote ly like that with the whistle punk of my time. One could al ways tell a whistle punk by hearing, without seeing him. For in a common conversation he would out-curse an Irishman speaking of the English king. When he'd spit it was always with the front of one who was about to set in motion a cosmic disturbance. Once I heard a whistle punk of but 17 years call a rugged camp push "boy" and get away with it. Yet I only saw one come to grief. He was idiot enough to ask' a proud cook named Swanson why it was that Danes were so much smarter than Swedes. The cook upended the whistle punk in a tub of bread dough and would have baked him offhand but for a tender hearted timekeeper putting in an oar. The Tough Twig ... Paul Bunyan stories from a book in Sunday school? In the heyday of the whistle punk that I knew (Hols continued), some of the breed were so tough they would even scorn to read the pink pages of the Police Gaz ette. The true whistle punk would never chew just simple snoose but would wad it in the lip with a mat of Peerless. His boots would boast the longest and sharpest calks in camp. He stagged his pants a full four inches higher than the avera'ge. He painted his slicker red. To hear him talk, you'd think that the favorite dish, of the whistle punk was track- bolts, soaked in coal oil and wood al cohol. But chocolate bars were his weakness. He might be tell ing how he once made a solid meal of canned heat, but poke a sweet bar at him and he'd stop talking in the instant. It was always worth a nickel . . . Three rousing cheers, Mr. Hol brook, for an inspirational es say that puts Norman Vincent Peale to shame. ttm . y -v. (ww:. ACCUSING late Red Dictator Stalin of secretly aiding Czar while plotting his overthrow, Alexandra Tolstoy, New York anti-Communist, holds document she says proves charge. (International) Dulles' NATO Plan Gels Warm Reception Paris (U.R) Western Eur opean ; leaders gave him warm applause today to American ac ceptance of their view that NATO should branch out into non-military fields. . They said the policy state ment made by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in New York Monday was long overdue. ' Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Foreign Ministers Halvard Lange of Norway', Jo hannes Beyen of the Nether land, Heinrich von Brentano of West Germany and Lester Pear son of Canada have been push inj a widening scope for NATO for months. A NATO spokesman said ac tivities in peaceful fields"- will be one of the chief items on the agenda of the NATO foreign ministers meeting here May 4-6. BEACH PARTY FAVORED Pomona, Calif. (U.R) A tile manufacturing company recrea tion committee announced to day the results of an employees' activities preference poll. Largest vote was for a beach party. Next was fishing. Last was "a visit to other tile factories." SIZZLING PERFORMANCE? Don't let 'em kid you! Hot talk doesn't change the.cold facts: Dodge is America's performance champion! Get behind the wheel and ... 1 1 i Baas: v . riJSBH ilm,iin'if''-if It licked the pants oft American stock cars and made expen sive European Sports Cars blush! At the Bonneville Salt Flats, the '56 Dodge shattered every record in the book SOS official AAA records in all, including 27 uorld'i unlimited records held by European sports cars! Whipped all cars at Daylona Beach, too! 260 hp. 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The banks of the Applegate river rwill be dotted with fishermen; Squaw ; lake will be swarming rwith them, and the educated trout will remain aloof to all the en ticing lures and baits, which spasmodically dangle in the midst of this domain. Our perennial fisherman, in all probability, is rigged up with his paraphernalia, eagerly await ing the red letter day, April 28. Then comes "The" day, and in the wee hours of the morning, he is seen seeking out the best hole or riffle in the river. Often he encounters obstacles blocking his favorite spot, but that doesn't faze our hero's determination to reach it. Logs and debris clut ter his destination. With pole in hand, and creel on back, he gingerly climbs out on the pro verbial "limb." He skillfully bal ances himself as he thoughtfully baits his hook, being" careful not to snag into the maze of twigs and branches surrounding him. At last, his lin.e is cast; he waits with bated breath for the first thrilling tug. Suddenly, the shrill screech of his reel startles him, and a shimmering silvery streak darts out and splashes back into the water. He's hooked his first fish of the season. With a glint in his eye, and ta thump in his chest, he cautiously maneuvers his victim into the yawning net. He lifts the wiggling creature up above the water, and a proud smile breaks out over his face, as he thinks, "Man, what a beauty!" Wait till he tells this story to the boys. Mr. and 'Mrs. James Holley 'of Sweet Home, Ore., were weekend visitors at the Mansel Milam residence. The Holleys also brought Mrs. Milam's moth er, Mrs. H. L. Liles, with them. Other visitors at the Milam residence were Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Liles of Grants Pass. "I had 19 people for lunch," Mrs. Milam stated. A birthday party for Otis Buck was held sf the home of Mr. and Mrs. ioe Farrand of Upper Applegate last Friday Guests attending were Mr. and Mrs. Otis Buck, Mr. and Mrs. Estel Cox, Mr. and Mrs. George Redhead, Mr. and Mrs. Rolland; Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John Sut ton, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Buck. Games were played and refreshments followed. Mr., and Mrs. Gaylord Slug and their two children, Brian and Linda, came down from Coquille, Ore. to attend the Applegate "Spring Fling" Auc tion last Saturday. The Slugs and the Arion Christensens of Applegate used to know each other in Iowa. The Otis Bucks of Little Ap plegate, had their visitors in re lay last Sunday. The visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farrand, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Reavis and family of Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Estel Cox. Students of this area particip ating in the play held at the Jacksonville school last Friday night were Bob Walker, Shirley Walker, Louella Snyder, Claude Wilson and Walter Couch. The next meeting of the Little Knitting club will be held at the home of Mrs. George Red head on May 15. University Student Sets Record Grades Cleveland, O. (U.R) Au thorities at Western Reserve uni versity are checking back through musty records in an ef fort to prove that Robert Grif fis has set a new one. The Ph.D. degree winner com pleted his college career with a record of 78 A's out of 80 cours es, or 222 hours of A work out of a total of 226. His only B rnarks came out of a one-hour course in chemistry literature and a philosophy course. - - Griffis gave his wife the cred it for what is believed the best grades in the 129-year history of Western Reserve. "She gave me the encourage ment and help I needed," he said. "It was hard work, but a great dea'. of fun, also." 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