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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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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 ..
Memphis, Tenn. ill.R) The !
city-owned Memphis Light. Gas !
and Water Division Saturday '
notified pregnant married wom
en employees that they are to '!
resign immediately if they want
to wear maternity clothes. "It
seems to be the fad that as soon
as a young girl becomes preg
nant she must put on maternity
clothes." the notice said. But
they continue working "until it
is embarrassing to the employees
to say nothing of the customers."
Maternity clothes or not, women
employees must resign after the
fourth month of pregnancy, the
utility officials added.
WEATHER
By United Presf
Northern California: Fair Sun
day except a few scattered after
noon and evening thunderstorms
m southern Sierra Wevadt and
fog on coast. Little change in
temperature.
About one-third of Britain',
workers are women.
Bryce canyon national park
covers 56 square miles.
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Wheat in Umatilla
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Pendleton (U.R -The biggest
wheat crop in the history of
Umatilla county has been report
ed by Walter Holt Jr., manager
of the Pendleton Grain Growers
grain department.
"The average yield." Holt said
yesterday, "is 50 bushels to the
acre. South and west of Pendle
ton the grain harvest is about
two-thirds completed. Harvest
ing started this week in the
Helix district and should be fin
ished by September 1."
The main wheat grown is the
Elmar variety, a white club
wheat, and running close second
in the area is Forty-Fold, a soft
white variety.
Deadly Cobra Frightens
Actors, Technicians
Hollywood (U.R) A deadly
Indian cobra frightened a group
of 35 actors and technicians, in
cluding comedian Wally Cox.
when it escaped and slithered
around a television studio set
for several moments Friday.
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.
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