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.
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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.
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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."
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Fishermen Await April 28
By HELGA MITCHELL
Applegate Jacksonville In
a few days a familiar figure
will be seen in this area, "The
perennial fisherman." 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."
Hearing Continued
For Maritime Captain
San Francisco (U.R) U.S.
Commissioner Joseph Karesh
has continued until Thursday
the preliminary hearing of mari
time Captain Wilheim Hope, ar
rested Saturday on federal fraud
charges.
Karesh said Hope may agree
to return to Seattle where the
warrant was issued for his ar
rest. The FBI said he was ar
rested as a result of fraudulent
statement. he allegedly made in
connection with a 1953 ship survey.
Hope's ship, the tanker S. S.
Seatiger, is in drydock at the
Todd shipyard in Alameda.
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