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rOOTTEETT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, May 20, 1956 High School News Notes By NELLIE RAWLINGS Aiter the eventful week end, students found it hard to settle down to their studies once again. The Monday after the prom was Senior Skip Day. In order to give graduating seniors their chance for one last "fling" be fore school i s y , out, they were n-.ni- d ....,! legally anuweu to "cut." Mother Nature helped the seniors enjoy themselves by providing the long wished-for sunny days. . The big day for business stu dent was held all day Saturday at the school. Leading Medford businessmen spoke to the group about various points that should be brought out about the busi ness world. Fashions for work in? girls were displayed, demon strations of various types of of fice equipment were given, and a luncheon - was served in the cafeteria. Girls League installation was held Wednesday afternoon. The following officers were installed for next year: President, Joyce Gregory; vice-president, Bev De Borde; secretary, Mike Carter; treasurer, Dianna Getchell. Crater and Hi Times staff members attended the semi-formal Journalism awards banquet, which was held in the cafeteria Tuesday night. . The newly-elected Shutterbug officers are, president, David Carter; vice-president, John Chis holm; secretary-treasurer, Linda Robertson. Clean Up Week Slated At Stearns Cemetery Talent - The civic committee of the Talent Garden club and the Talent Cemetery association at a recent joint meeting desig nated May 20-27 as clean-up week for Stearns cemetery. The Garden club, which, has sponsored the event for several years, has hired a man for gen eral work on the project. His ser vices will also be hired by the cemetery group. Residents of the valley will be urged to clean in dividual graves of relatives and friends during the week, com mittee members said. Others may contribute funds for the service to Miss Eleanore Powers at Talent. Contributions will also be accepted for the gen eral upkeep of the cemetery, the committee pointed out. The Stearns cemetery was named after David Stearns, who came to the valley in October, 1853. The family settled on Wag ner creek and during the small pox epidemic a few years later two of the Stearns children died. They were buried on the site that was later given by the fam ily to the community as a cemetery. United Log Truckers Discuss Laws Here United Log Truckers associa tion members from Jackson and Josephine counties heard several attorneys outline points of Ore gon law relating to trucking at a recent meeting in the Medford Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. Speakers included J. Kelly Farris, Portland; Donald F. Bach, Eugene; Roger Tillbury, Portland; Lester J. Monroe, pres ident of the association; Clarence Greenup, general "manager of California; Robert W. Sovey, manager of the Truckers agen cy, insurance outlet for ULTA; and Harry Huber, sales manager for Oregon. The talks concerned current and proposed legislation on haul ing. Les Doane, representative of the, Foster and Kleiser sign com pany explained to the group that a project is underway to erect a large number of safety anH cour tesy signs on behalf of members of the ULTA. The meeting was one of the first of its kind to be held in the Medford area by the 2li-year-old group. The ULTA is composed of independent log haulers of Oregon and northern California. In charge of the meeting here was Clyde C. Wyant, local ULTA field representative for Jackson and Josephine counties. NON-WALKING JURORS. Norwich, Conn. U.R) Su perior Court Judge James J. Murphy refused to held jury trials here because the city de clined to install an elevator in the courthouse. The judge said it wasn't "fair" to require jurors to hike up three flights. MEDFORD PenneyS First in their class . . 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But in late August the final brood perhaps the great grandchildren of the female I saw today will hatch, imbued with an uncontrollable tug to head south. And then this very symbol of fragility, this tiny flier no heavier really than a dollar bill will prove ' its extraordinary endurance and toughness. De spite buffetings of storms, it will fly south perhaps .2,000 miles. Competent observers such as Merton E. Hinshaw, curator of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, have seen them fly a dozen feet off the ground into prevailing winds of 20 miles an hour with gusts up to 40, and not only hold to their course but make headway! Then for us in the west, an even greater - seeming miracle happens. By the , hundreds of thousands these light-as-paper in sects converge upon tiny clusters of evergreens pines, cypresses, live oaks, and eucalyptuses. These clusters occur along the coast, from Bolinas, just north of San Francisco, to Santa Cruz and on down to Santa Barbara but mostly here in the Mont erey peninsula at Pacific Grove. Cross Open Sea Those coming to Pacific Grove conclude their wonderful flight dramatically: like a wind-blown cloud they cross 20 miles of open sea, from Santa Cruz on the northern shore of this bay,, to Pacific Grove on the southern, arid then they descend upon these tiny clumps of trees. Kiddies' Cover-Up By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Doesn't it seem incredible? And butterfly vision is limited to only a few feet. 1 Just what lures the Monarchs to these clumps of trees along the Pacific Coast? Quite likely a satisfactory combination of many things some of which we still do not know. Perhaps be cause the trees are evergreens their foliage provides winter pro tections. . Perhaps because this region knows no real winter; perhaps because each tree here is drenched with cool sea-mist, pos sibly a life-saving factor, fol lowed by sunshine during which the half-chilled creatures fan their wings and extend them to the warm sun's rays. Perhaps be cause flowers with nectar are abundant in winter. And most important this I know be cause each early spring milk weeds are nearby in abundance. Upon these milkweeds the fe male can lay her first batch of eggs and be assured of her spe cies' survival. Appropriately, the coming of the. Monarchs in October, each fall, is hailed with joy in Pacific Grove: school lets out and a thousand grade - school students parade in colorful costumes; and so highly do the City Fathers regard these creatures that they maintain an ordnance surely the only one of its kind in the world imposing a $500 fine or 6 months' imprisonment for the molestation of these wintering visitors. 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