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TO fSESrOF.D fOREGOK) MAIL TP.ISUfB Sunday, July 29. 1936 A Nkhofs Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prew Fur Writer Washington U P The na tion's capital for many years ha? b'n pfst'-r'd by bird? that rrit.-s lip ' tifui builr:ir.;i . h o m b u r z s, s t r a v.- skim mers and urn-brf-lias. Conzress has had hear incs to try to solve the prob lem, butthe proved they are people. Well. Oliver T. Carr Sr . for many years manager of a down town building, has solved the problem at least to his own sat faction. The solution may be temporary, but at the moment Carr is a happy man. Carr's discovery was an acci dent. Recently he was rigsinZ up jjime new air-conditionins units, the window kind. Riaht after he got through ri'Sin?. he discover ed that pigeons had found a cool ing protection from the humid Washington summer. The birds lost no time in building nests un der the units, and even less time in producing little pigeons in The quarrel the Congress has had across the uncounted years has had more to do with the con trol of stariings. the little devils which r.ot only deface buildings but spT.d daylight hours raiding grain fieio's in the Washington area. The Treasury building around dusk is a menace to pedestrians walking underneath. Money once was put up to hire small boys to walk along carrying strings at tached to baloons. The starlings were scared a little at first, but soon learned that it was a lot of smarter than j,jn t0 poe a beak into a bag of blown up rubber. Temporary Migration A storekeeper was having trouble and invented a rattler like those u.-ed as noisemakers on the Fourth of July. The star lings left all right, but the store across the street threatened trou ble because the birds merely had moved onto his building. A learned bird watcher from an eastern university thought he had the problem licked a few year? back. He appeared before a House committee and suggest ed birth-control for starlings. His plan was to buy some corn and place it in pans around the cor nices of government buildings. He would float the corn in dis- gross lots. The building manager at lum- carried automobile crankca-e oil. self down for a spell of hard; ie thought Ihe mother bird was thinking on how to get rid "Abound 1o pjtk up somc grease, them. j This in turn would clog the thin At length he called in a neip-: mating of freshly laid eggs, pre- er and gave him a hatful of loose change. -Lets try this." he said. "Hun down the street to one of those five and dollar stores and get some of those rubber mice that ; dogs and cats play with. I heard somewhere where birds hate ' mice. So for about 15 cents a mouse the job was done, and up until today the Carr thinking depart ment still is paying off. The pig eons have stopped raising their young around the building and are taking their business else where. "We watched them out of the window," Carr said. "Every time a pigeon would step on one of those phonies it would make a noise like a mouse. The birds gcrammed. venting them from hatching. That didn't work, cither. A cop in a government build ing then invented a mechanical owl which would flap its wings every few seconds. This worked for a couple of minutes and then the starlings got used to it and nested right under the owl. It could be that starlings are smarter than pigeons. Household Items Charged lo State By Auditor Hodge Springfield. 111. 'U.R House hold items ranging from lob sters to lawnmowers and valued at SIT. 500 were charged to the state by former State Auditor Orviile E. Hodge, it was disclos ed Friday night. J. Waldo Ackerman. assistant i state's attorney of Sangamon : county, said the money was ' spent by Hodge on his lavish ' Lake Springfield home between 1353 and shortly before the I giant scandal with which he is charged was uncovered. The money was obtained, Ack erman said, from Hodge's office with the help of John Casper, j caretaker of the home, who kept j itemized expense accounts for j the Lake Springfield establish ment. Presents Accounts Ackerman said Casper present ed these expense accounts per iodically to Hodge's office where vouchers were made and checks were cashed. Ackerman said, by De Silva. and the money found its way back to Casper. In another development, the state sued Hodge Friday in an attempt to recover tha S641.230 he is accused of embezzling. Cir cuit Judge Julius Miner issued a writ at Chicago designed to tie up Hodge's assets in Illinois, along with those of his wife and son. The civil suit, entered on be- j half of Lloyd Morey, Hodge's I successor in the auditor's office. SHADY COVE-TRAIL Finstroms Purchase Home Chicago (U.R) The long arm of the law soon will reach for obnoxious horn honkers on Chi cago streets as police were set to hand out tickets to honking mo torist. The tickets. Municipal Judge Raymond P. Drymalski announced, would go as high as $210 applying to noisy bridal parties as well as motorists caught in traffic jams. named Hodge and 10 other de- ' fondants including his wife, i Margaret, an his son, William. Other defendants were Ed ward A. Epping, Hodges form er office manager; Edward A. Hintz, the ex-bank president who admitted cashing 46 ffrad ulent state checks; three banks; the company which put up Hodge's bond as auditor; sus pended Chicago policeman Wil liam J. Lydon, and William Mehl, voucher clerk in the aud itor's office. 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Through the association of this newspaper with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, you are assured of circulation value received for your advertising dollar. A BC. gnes you full measurement of circulation facts and figures aocut the audience for your advertising messages in this newspaper. Ask us for a copy of our latest A.B.C. report. Thia newipopr it a member of the Audit Bureov of Circu lations, a cooperative, nonprofit association of publishers, odvertijers, and advertising agencies. Our circulation b audited by experienced A.B.C. circulation auditors. Our ABC. report shows how much circulation we have, where it goes, how obtained and other rods that tell advertisers what they get for their esoney when they wee this paper. The Bedford Mail Tribune y&&o REPORT By EVALYN P. WATSON Shady Cove-Trail Spending a month's vacation at Rogue Wood's at McLeod, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Wyles Berry, are Mr. and Mrs. Carl Finstrom of Buenos Aires. Argentine, where : Finstrom is port superintendent I for the Moore McCormick j j Steamship lines. The Finstroms ' I have purchased a home on the ; l Rogue river off Laurelhurst rd. j j from Colonel and Mrs. Harold: ! Barger of Trail and plan to move i into it as soon as possible. So j tney are spending a momn in our area getting acquainted with some of the people in the area and looking over the possibilites of new devolpments on their land. Mrs. Clara Thurman of Shady Cove has returned home from Sacramento. Calif., where she visited her daughter, Mrs. Jaca lyn Langston. and children, and her cousins. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walser. Her granddaughter. Jalinder Langston, returned home with her. At present Mrs. Thurman has her sister-in-law and husband. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Clark, of San Bernardino, Calif., visiting her. Diane Tuttle, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Leo Tuttle of Shady Cove, who plays third base on the Rogue Valley Girls Softball team went to Eugene this week end where she playing Saturday with the team. Last week she made a trip to Reno. New. where a game was played and next weekend she is planning to go to Klamath Falls where the state softball tournament will be held. Diane who is sponsor ed by Tharp Lumber company of Shady Cov? has been a mem ber of the Rogue Valley Girls Softball team for the past four years. Mrs. Charles Fry of Trail en tertained at her home recently with a birthday party celebrat ing the sixth birthday of her daughter. Penny. Games were played and refreshments served. Small guests attending were Connie. Diane. Sheryl, Linda and Terri Anderson, Dean and Therissa Cooper, Billy, Danny and Judy Draper, Linda and Karyl-Ann Bobbins Glenda and Linda Albert Dennis Proctor, Verna Lee Copeland, Linda Lop er. Donna Hawkins, Sharon, Joan Evelyn, Marie and Orva Lee Oliver, all of Trail. David Elder and Bruce Spain of Shady Cove and Barbara Wrilson of Eagle Point. Mothers attending were Mesdames Arleigh Ander son, Gene Anderson, Ray Ander son, LeRoy Cooper, LeRoy Draper, Glenn Albert, Karl Proc tor, Vernon Copeland, John Loper, Willis Hawkins. Joe Oliver. Orviile Oliver. Carl Rob bins, Ivan Sneed, all of Trail and Larry Wilson and Delvin Elder of Eagle Point. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Quail and son, Alan, have returned from a vacation trip to Portland and San Francisco. In Portland they visited with several of Mrs. Quails' aunts and their families, Mr. and Mrs. John Verminllion. Mrs. Lula Metts, and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cross and with Mrs. Quail's grandmother, Mrs. Edna Alexander, in Oakland, who ac companied them home for a visit in Shady Cove. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Larry Shea, former residents of Shadv Cove and one-time own ers of the Cove Variety store at Mountain View, Calif. Shady Cove Bethel No. 56. International Order of Job's Daughters, held a picnic at Casey State park Tuesday, July 24. ! Girls from the Bethel and pros pective new members attended. The girls swam at Butte Creek and in the Rogue preceeding the picnic. Mrs. Don Stockton of Shady Cove entertained at her home with a surprise birthday party in honor of Mrs. Ronald Curren of Shady Cove, Tnursday, July , 26. Several games were played ! and refreshments served. Guests 1 present were Mesdames Spain Gilbert Elder, William Croucher,. ! the guest of honor, Mrs. Curren and her mother, Mrs. Myrtle I Schertz, who has been visiting ! the Curren's from North Holly wood, Calif., and the hostesses. Mrs. Stockton and Mrs. Seratte. A new pastor and family came to the Trail Community church recently from Everett. Wash., the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Evers. The Evers have five children. Gracie. 5. Paul, who will start at Eagle Point High as a fresh man this fall. Floyd, who grad uated this past year from high school. Lois, who is attending college at Simson Bible insti tute in San Francisco, and Earl, who has graduated from Simson Bible institute. The Ever's are living in the old Braughton residence in Braughton Park in Shady Cove. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pfeifer of" Shady Cove were hosts at a swimming and picnic party for those who have been working for Ted Conway at Far Hills ranch Sunday, July 22. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Ted Conway and the Con way's daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Reedy and chil dren. Cynthia and Sheryl of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Caddell and daughter, Madeline, Mr. and Mrs. Art Levulett, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Watson and children, Sheri and Lane and the host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pfeifer and son. Bill. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ball of Medford came out for a short time. Mrs. John Wilson of Shady Cove is doing fine at Sacred Heart hospital where she is con fined for treatment following major surgery which is under went Monday, July 23. She may have visitors and is convalescing well. The sympathy of the com munity is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway of Eagle Point, formerly of Shady Cove on the death of their daughter Verna Hemingway, at the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles July 13. Late last fall she became ill and the doctors said that she hnd contracted leukemia. The Hemingways moved to Los Angeles where they could obtain treatment for their daughter at the City of Hope hospital and took her there at intervals for blood transfusions and treat ment. Mrs. Hemingway was on the way to the hospital to bring Verna home for another visit when the girl died of a ruptur ed appendix. Mrs. Wendell Stalker of the Cove Drug of Shady Cove at tended the Revelon school at the Medford hotel in Medford. MATERNITY CLOTHES BAN .. 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The reptile escaped during filming of an NBC TV series en titled "The Adventures of Hiram Holliday," in which Cox is sup posed to charm the snake. The cast and crew quickly scattered and remained at a safe distance until trainer Ralph Heifer cap tured the cobra. Heifer said that kind of cobra, called a Naja Naja, cannot be rendered harmless even though iti fangs are drawn. Cm Mail Tribun Want A(H The Community'! BlgKrt Marketplace In Our Hands Your Prescription Gets Expert Handling! Whatever the prescription Is no matter how com plicated or simple it is our Registered Pharmacists select the right drugs and other Ingredients and fill It with all the care and precision of a clinical laboratory. Ask your Doctor about our ability o fill any and all of his prescriptions. He will tell you that, for years, we have been serving the medical profession of this city. He knows that our integrity safeguards the health of his patients! 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