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SIX MZDfORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Is That So? It lufcua lumi Rlnf tr-Natunliil These re the days that have music in them. With dawn's early light, the robin begins his rolling carol. Next a blue jay makes a flute like call, far from his jeering daytime rattle. As skies flush, the wings of a pair of teal whis tle sharply. In loud clear voice, a brown thrasher tests the first run of his long repertoire. A downy woodpecker raps out a furious beat on his favorite reverberating dead maple limb. Taking a strutting stance on a pine log, a ruffed grouse drums at five-minute intervals which he may keep up for an hour at once, wooing his demure hen and chal lenging all comers. A velvet -suited bumblebee hums as she zigzags close to the ground searching beneath fallen leaves, roots, sticks, clumps of grass a thousand and one places to find a suitable hole in the ground to build a thimble-shaped waxen nest which will eventual ly grow into a colony of a thou sand before the summer is over. A pregnant snake, about to give birth to thirty young or so, hisses at an inquisitive skunk. From rockpile, a woodchuck whistles. High overhead, cutting great circles, a soaring male red-tailed hawk, much smaller than his hen, sounds a husky squeal, "Keeee-You!" over the swamp. During its brief pause atop a lone tamarack, a meadowlark fills the air with a whistled mel ody. A great blue heron, his neck folded in a flat S, Caps slowly and heavily on his solitary way to the beaver-pond to stand and see what gives. An Impertinent chipmunk las ses a passing doe, bulging with fawn. Kingfisher 8erchr Pativfing his half-mile beat from a dry stub overlooking the course of the stream, a sharp eyed belted kingfisher screeches Insanely as an otter slips into the water not far from the ten foot long tunnel which the king fisher and his more colorful mate have dug out of the bank and where she is now incubating their eight white egs. Two red winged blackbirds battle in the air. They claw and peck each other as they rise, up and up; and still they claw and peck as they drop to splash into the pond, only then to fly apart and voice triumphant "Kon kereeee!" from different cattails. With lengthening afternoon shadows, the amphibians of the marshy pond raise their song in I-1-5 chorus. In the distance, the rising-falling inflections make an appropriate background to the eerie, aerial "winniwing" of the jacksnipe, the simple liquid songs of the descending wood cock, and when everything is dark, the unearthly scream of a dying hare carried aloft in the curved case-hardened Galons of a great horned owl to become the fodder of a pair of noisy owlets. Although the ruffed grouse and a few birds may occasionally break the night's silence, there is an underlying scheduled rou tine which links the day's sounds. From ' the first faint blush of dawn when the robin sings, through the noon-day buz zing of the bumblebee, to the late twilight winnowing of the jacksnipe, each sound seems to come at the appropriate half hour. Each in his way states the af firmation of spring: This is the season of triumph, of life over death. (Coypright, 1958, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McCIure Newspaper 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 question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famouse ref erence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer MINT liriTII W JteatMfc&s ft! 1 HITTING LIKE BOMB, big water tank falls from roof of six story building at right through New York Edu cation building. It was a near miracle, said the police, that no one was injured.' (International Soundphoto) High School By NELLIE RAWLINGS Special days were set aside this week for election of next years' club officers. Phy-Chem announced its 56-57 officers this week: P r e s i d e nt, John Reeder; vice president, Steve Wisely; Kay Nicodemus. The Order of M officers Nellie Rawlings were elected and Gordon Owls ley will be the new president, with Terry Miller, vice presi dent; Larry Perkins, secretary treasurer; and Larry Cranston, sergeant-at-arms. Charles Acker will head the Ski club next year; Pete Ker shaw will be vice president, and Jean Alley, secretary. "La Tertulia" will be led by Linda White as president; Jim Funston, vice president; Art Putney, secretary-treasurer, and EJlen McUne, point keeper. The Future Nurses of Amer ica elected president, Ann Gar ner; vice president, Linda Rob- Homer Lyon Gels Washington Job Salem Homer G. Lyon Jr., reforestation director for the state forestry department, has been appointed assistant to As sistant Secretary of Agriculture E. L". Peterson, former director of agriculture for Oregon. He leaves for Washington, D. C, May 12. He will be assigned to duties associated with various agencies of the department under Peter son's jurisdiction. They include the forest service, soil conserva tion service, extension service, farm cooperative service, agri cultural research service and the agricultural conservation pro prag. Lyon is a graduate of the school of forestry at Oregon State college. He was with the Civilian Conservation corps' in 1933 and later was employed by the Coos County Forest Protec tive association. In 1937 he was transferred to the Sale moffice of the state forestry department as reforesta tion director and took over the administration of the forest fee and yield tax law. Central Point Man Retires From Business Central Point C. L. Munn, owner and operator of Munn's Shoe Repair in Central Point, has announced his retirement from business. Munn has been in the shoe repair business in Central Point for 13 year. The building on East Pine st. has been sold to Carl Nelson, who took possession May 2. your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 5 7 5, Sausalito, Calif. Five states have towns bear ing the name California. MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Center 6th t Holly, Diagonally Acreu from Hie Post Office Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 Sunday, May I, 195S News Notes ertson; secretary, Edwina Zawis lak; and treasurer, B e r n i c e Skoog. Torch Honor had its elections Wednesday and the following Honor Roll students will serve the club as officers next year: President, Biil Frake; vice presi dent, Marilyn Parsons; treas urer, Sue Donna Doolen; and secretary, Sally Greaser. Musical groups who have elect ed officers are, band, president, Jay Mullen; vice president, Gary Guss; and secretaries, Martha Campbell and Leroy Knight. There are still a few clubs who have not elected officers yet, but will have elections next week. All senior students who par ticipated in city government on student government day were invited to be guests of the Elks at their annual Youth Day award ceremony at the Elks Temple Thursday evening. The date of the Junior-Senior Prom is swiftly approaching. Junior class leaders are making plans to make this dance one of the nicest proms we've ever had. The following girls were elect ed to be prom princesses: seniors, Pauline Bliss, Molly Walker, Delora Dunn, and Nellie Rawl ings; and juniors, Sally Ross, Dianna Getchell, Jean Alley, and Jan Schliep. A queen will be elected from the group of senior princesses to reign at the big event. The queen will not be announced until the night of the prom, May 12. Invitations for students to at tend the prom who are not stu dents at Medford High may be secured from the deans. Auditions " for next year's choir are being held every night after school in the vocal music room. AH students who plan to be in choir next year must audi tion. PHIL HITCHCOCK PROGRAM..... TUESDAY: ' 4:00 P.M..4:45 P.M. Tour Elk lumber Co. View Expansion Program. 4:45 P.M.-6:00 P.M. - Reception, American Ugion Hall Central Point. Meet public and answer questions. 7:30 P.M.-8:45 P.M. - Attend Candidres Night at Y.M.C.A. Meeting of Young Republicans. PUBLIC INVITED. 9:30 P.M. Telecast KBES-TV WEDNESDAY: S:00 A.M.- 9:30 A.M. - Ashland Hathaway House. Candidate Hour Over Coffee and Rolls. 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. -Visit Tucker SnoCat and Bear Crook Orchards. 10:30 A.M. At Airport. Take Off for Eugene. Jackson County Phil Hitchcock for U.S. Senator Committee, Robert Rukovina, Chairman. Pd. Pol. Adv. Participation in Home Inspections Urged by Barker Medford Fire Chief Gordon Barker has urged home owners to take advantage of the 1956 home inspection program which starts tomorrow morning. Firemen will contact house holders located on streets ex tending east and west this year. They contact one-half the homes every other year, Barker point ed out. Inspection will be conducted from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Home inspec tions are made only on the in vitation and consent of the householder, Barker stressed. Inspection Purpose N One of the purposes of the annual inspections, Barker said, is to point out to homeowners simply and briefly how to recog nize and eliminate home fire hazards. "Lack of understanding and human carelessness," he said, "are responsible for approxi mately 90 per cent of all fires." Public support of the home fire prevention campaign, he noted, will help eliminate needless waste and instances of individ ual misfortune. Records show that during the past five .years, Oregon home fire claims have averaged more than 77 per cent of all fire loss claims, and more than 70 per cent of the lives lost by fire were in dwellings, Barker said. He noted that 77 persons died in Oregon fires last year, and 54 of them were in dwellings. Twenty eight fire casualties were chil dren under five years old. Causes of fires which resulted in fatalities during 1955 includ ed careless smoking, 25; children playing with matches, 4; heat appliances, 22; electrical appli ances, 1; gas appliances, 3; gaso line, kerosene, solvent, 6; open fires, 7; and unclassified, 9. Camping Standards Discussed at Meeting Camping standards were dis cussed at the American Camping association meeting, Southern Oregon section, in Klamath Falls last week. Attending the meeting from Jackson county were Marjorie Hattan and Glenn Klein, county 4-H agents; Mary Aldrich, girl scout executive; Mrs. Lynn Hayes and Mrs. Maurice Ritchey, Medford, and Mrs. Mae Hoffman, Rogue River, girl scout leaders; Dick Lamb and Cliff Hanson, scout executives, Crater Lake area council; and Mrs. Al Smith, Mrs. Frances Krouse, and Mrs. J. W. Bigham, 4-H leaders. Officers elected for the South ern Oregon section were Mrs. Naomi French, Klamath Falls, chairman; Robert Jones, Med ford, chairman; Glenn Klein, Medford, first vice president. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, Ashland, second vice president; and Mrs. Gladys B. Amundson, Roseburg, secretary. Committee chairman elected were Mary Aldrich, day camp ing: Jerry Thorne, Klamath Falls, public relations: the Rev. Al Merquam, Grants Pass church camping; and Mrs. W. W. Stevenson, Medford, camping legislation. Ontario province Is larger than France and Spain combin ed. Announcing PHIL iiitciicock FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR WILL VISIT JACKSON COUNTY TUES. and WED. May 8th and May 9th DONA BROWN Receiving Watch , Medford Police Close 94 Per Cent of Cases A total of 94 per cent of all cases reported to Medford police department have been closed, according to the monthly report of the police department. The total is the same per cent closed during April, 1955. Police received 1,286 reports and 1,214 of the cases were closed, the report showed. Of 62 major offenses report ed, 32 per cent were closed, com-, pared to 44 per cent closed last year. Of 449 miscellaneous cases 93 per cent were closed, compared to 92 per cent last April. About 90,000,000 motor ve hicles are registered in the world. 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