Ashland Youth Leads
In Porcupine Contest
RuMell Reeck, 14, of box 130. ' porky" noses, showing both
supine reduction contest spon
ored by the Medford Kiwanis
club and Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce, took the lead
fnr the first quarter, turning in
200 porcupine noses during Au
gust. This put him ahead of Clara
Jean Fink. 12, Eagle Point, who
led July entrants with 47 and
added 135 last month for a total
of 182.
Lett Porcupines :
With two months of the con
test passed,, the county is less
527 porcupines from the work
of the young hunters. The year
long contest is open to all coun
ty residents between the ages of
12 and 18. Its purpose is to rid
forest lands of as many porcu
pines as possible to eliminate
the damage they do to trees.
The Kiwanis club and the
chamber of commerce recently
published a contest bulletin con
taining information on prizes
and rules. Supplies of bulletins
have been placed in Lamport1!.
Hubbard Brothers, Sam's Sport
ing Goods, Robinson Brothers,
and Rogue Sportsman stores in
Medford; in Eberhart's in Ash
land, and in Livingston's in Cen- i that 1.720 acres of public lands
e county clerk's of
fice or the Prospect office of Elk
Lumber company. The county
pays a SI bounty per nose to all
persons regardless of age.
Entrants and total numbers of
noses credited to them for July
and August are as follows:
Russell Reeck. 200: Clara Jean
Fink. 182: Stanton Marshall, 15,
of Winston, 35; Ronald Scholer.
34: Roland Peyton, 14. of 3091
Lone Pine rd . 21: Lucille Smith.
15. of Keno, 15: Jim Stever. 12,
of 248 Mace rd., 9: Loretta
Smith. 15. of Keno, 8: Ginger
Munoy. 14. of route 1. box 147,
Gold Hill. 9; Iwula Hanenkrat,
12. of route 1. box 24, Jackson
ville. B: Samuel Barker Jr.. 12,
of route 2, box 361-A. Gold Hill.
3; Garry L. Evans. Central Point,
3: Virgil L. Backes Jr., 12. of
Jacksonville, and Richard Mc
Cann, route 1, box 572, Central
Point, both 1.
Land Released For
Entry Near Vale
Washintjron U.R; The Inter
ior department has announced
tral Point.
Prizes on Display
First, second and third prizes
of hunting equipment lor the
first quarter are on display at
Eberhart's in Ashland. They will
northwest of Vale in eastern Ore-
con had been released to applica
lion for entry under the public
I land laws.
The bureau of land manage
ment, in restoring the released
b given to contestants for noses I lands to the unreserved public
I domain, established sept, zv.
1956. as the dale when applies-
collected between July 1 and
Sept. 30.. Quarterly and grand
prizes for the year will be given,
with money for the merchandise
donated by local lumber and
logging firms.
Contestants are to bring their , come
1956.
Damage Suit Papers
Slated to Be Served
. New York UR) U.S. mar
shals were prepared today to
serve papers in a half million
dollar damage suit against
American Youth Hostels, Inc
tions received from veterans and
others having preference rights
became effective. Applications
from non-veterans will not be
ef fective until Dec. 29,
The land had been in a power
site reserve. BLM said that un
less or until the restored lands
were classified by its technicians
as suitable for use intended by
the applicant, no application for
entry would be approved, nor
may the lands be entered or oc
cupied except for mineral pur
poses. 1
SZ M i Woodburn Area Man
Seriously Wounded
Hood. Ore., July 29.
The suit was filed in federal
court last week by Herbert
Blum, father of Suzanne Blum,
one of a party of 18 New York
area young people who tumbled
down the mountain in a climbing
accident. One girl was killed.
Blum asked $430,000 dam
ages for his daughter and $50,000
for his own expenses in connec
tion with her injury. Miss Blum
suffered a broken back.
A spokesman for the defend
ant organization said no reply to
. the charge would be made until
sometime after the papers are
served. The defendant has 20
days after service to make legal
reply.
Optometrist Slated
Speaker at Meeting
Dr. James H. Wahl, O. D.,
dean of Pacific university col
lege of optometry, will be fea
tured speaker at the first fall
meeting of the Medford Safety
council at noon Friday. Sept. 14,
in the Jackson hotel Pioneer
room.
The announcement was made
by Bud Palmer of California
Pacific Utilities company, chair
man of the program committee.
He said Dr. Wahl will speak on
"Vision and Industrial Safety."
Dr. Wahl is a former president
of the American Optometric as
sociation. The safety council has issued
an invitation to safety officials
of companies and plants in south
ern Oregon to attend this lunch
eon meeting.
Woodburn (U.R) A 50
year old Woodburn-area man
was shot and seriously wounded
at his home Monday and state
police said today his son-in-law
was in custody.
Wounded was Ivan Lazroff. He
was taken to Salem Memorial
hospital where he was reported
in "pretty good." condition with
shotgun wounds of the face and
upper body.
Officers said the son-in-law,
Vassili Mike Jabin. 28. admitted
the shooting and was taken to
Marion county jail charged with
armed assault.
The shooting took place when
Jabin stopped to visit Lazroff
after going pigeon hunting with
a friend.
Youth to Appear on
Manslaughter Charge
Boseburg U.R) Bex Alfred
Blankenship. 18-year-old Myrtle
Creek youth charged with man
slaughter in the.death of Mrs.
Lon Moore, of Myrtle Creek, is
scheduled to appear in District
court here Sept. 17 for a pre
liminary hearing.
Blankenship is charged with
being "culpably negligent" in
firing a rifle bullet that struck
the 34 -year -old woman and
killed her while she did the fam
ily washing on her back porch
Aug. 29.
The youth apparently did not
know that a bullet had struck
the woman, officers reported.
May Dismiss Charges
Of Shoplifting
London (U.R Nina Pono
mareva. Russia's 27-year-old
champion discus thrower, may
emerge from hiding today in
time to hear that charges accus
ing her of petty shoplifting have
been dismissed.
Magistrate Clyde Wilson of
Marlborough Street Magistrates
Court was expected to dismiss
the charges against the hefty
woman athlete of stealing five
90-cent hats from a London
store.
Nina, a teacher and mother of
one child, went into hiding soon
after the charge was filed last
week, touching off an interna
tional incident which rocked
British and Soviet diplomatic
circles.
85 Blazes Spotted
In Rogue River
National Forest
A total of 85 fires were spot-
ted in the Rogue River National
Forest from the beginning of the
1958 fire season through Aug.
24. forest officials reported to
day. Fourteen acres of land were
burned in the 85 blazes. Nine of
the fires were man-caused, of
ficials said, and 76 were started
by lightning.
Regional Total
Kermit W. Linstedt, forest
service regional fire control
chief, said a total of 1,457 fires
requiring suppression action
were reported on national forest
protective areas in the entire
Pacific Northwest region.
He said about 90 per cent of
these fires were lightning-caused
and occurred in the most remote
sections of the region, the North
Cascades, Southern Cascades,
Blue and Siskiyou mountains.
Linstedt added. "This prom
ises to be one of the heaviest
years of record in the occurrence
of lightning fires. With approxi
mately 1.300 lightning fires
through Aug. 24. we are rapidly
approaching the total for the
extreme season of 1941. In that
year lighting bolts set 1.932
fires."
From the total number of fires
in the region through Aug. 24.
an estimated total of 975 acres
have been burned. Linstedt said
this is an average of only ap
proximately .7 of an acre per
fire, an all-time low for the
region.
Cave Junction Youth
Wins in Judging Event
Cave Junction Ronald
Thompson Gregg, 17, of Cave
Junction, has won the top prize
among Oregon participants in a
nationwide livestock judging
contest. He will compete against
46 other state winners at Kan
sas City on Oct. 19.
As the highest scorer in the
state, Gregg received a 5100 cash
prize, and an expenses-paid trip
to Kansas City at the time of the
Future Farmers of America con
vention as a guest of Charles
Pfizer and company. Inc.
Phoenix Man Faces
Kidnap Charges
Phoenix (U.R) A former
Phoenix warehouseman has
waived extradition and will be
returned to Reno to face federal
kidnap charges.
Raymond Joe Farni, 27, ar
rested last Thursday here, was
charged with kidnaping his es
tranged wife, his mother-in-law,
and a family friend in Reith.
Ore. The mother-in-law and
friend were released at Winne
mucca. Nev., but his wife was
still with Farni when he was ar
rested here.
Farni waived a formal extra
dition hearing Tuesday before
U. S. Commissioner C. B. Wil
son, and his $25,000 bond re
mained unchanged.
Riding Hoss Intoxicated
Is Not Drunk Driving
Sacramento. Calif. (U.R)
The judges of the nearby Fair
Oaks judicial district has ruled
that riding a horse while intoxi
cated isn't drunk driving.
Judge Joseph J. Diestel said
after examination of the law he
was convinced it referred only to
driving a motor vehicle. He al
lowed Oliver Armitage, Sacra-
mento, to plead guilty to a lesser
charge. Armitage was arrested
by the Highway Patrol after he
and his horse were involved in a
collision with an auto.
Medford Man Injured
In Fall From Roof
Joe D. Thornton. 66. of 901
Lozier lane. Medford. was re
ported in "fair" condition today
after spending a "poor" night at
Rogue Valley hospital, where he
was taken by Medford Ambu
lance service at 12:55 p.m. Tues
day when he fell from the roof
of his home.
The attending physician said
Thornton is suffering from frac
tures of both wrists, left elbow
and nose. He was working on
the roof at the time of the acci
dent. It was estimated he fell 12
to 15 feet to the ground.
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McKay, Supporters
Of Morse Exchange
Words In Campaign
By UNITED PRESS
Douglas McKay and supporters
of Wayne Morse traded words
last night as Oregon's political
season opened the two-month
home stretch drive before the
Nov. 6 election."
McKay, speaking on television
in Portland, claimed that Morse
has not represented the state of
Oregon in the Senate. The Re
publican candidate to succeed
Morse said the Democratic sen
ator "feels no responsibility to
vote the conviction of the people
of Oregon."
Mrs. Jean L. Lewis, Morse's
campaign manager, charged that
it has become typical for McKay
"to quote Senator Morse out of
context." Mrs. Lewis mentioned
a statement McKay attributed to
Morse during debate in 1947 on
the Taft-Hartley bill. "McKay
quoted just 21 words of a 78
word sentence, and labeled them
as a complete sentence," she
said. "This abbreviated version
gives a completely distorted ex
pression of the senator's views
and McKay knows it." she
added.
Other Politics
Elsewhere on the political
front. State Sen. Robert Holmes.
Democratic candidate for gover
nor, challenged Gov. Elmo Smith
to explain his Senate record to
the people. Speaking at the State
Fair, Holmes said "the governor
is campaigning, not on his rec
ord, but on the publicity he gets
by virtue of having inherited
the governor's chair."
Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) an
nounced in his home city of
Baker today that he had drawn
to the attention of President
Eisenhower the seriousness of
the sagging lumber market in
Oregon.
Coon said lumbermen blamed
the condition on a lag in con
struction brought on by tight
ened government controls on
credit. The congressman warned
that unemployment may result
in the state's primary industry
if mills are forced to curtail
production.
Symptoms of Vision
Problems Noted
Parents and teachers were
urged by the Oregon Optometric
association today to watch for
symptoms of vision problems
among children returning to
school in September.
"Inadequate vision is a far
j more common cause of school
failure and emotional distur
bance than is generally recog
nized," said Dr. T. M. Pace, O.D.
of Lebanon, president.
Among symptoms of vision
problems, according to Doctor
Pace, are the following:
Avoiding work requiring good
vision at the reading distance.
Losing place while reading.
Holding work closer than nor
mal. Excessive head movements
while reading.
Poor sitting posture and posi
tion while reading.
Any child :r. the bottom third
of his school class and any child
not performing up to his capacity
should have a thorough vision
examination. Doctor Pace said.
He added that uncorrected vis
ion problems are contributing
causes irT50 per cent of all cases
of reading failure, according to
a University of Chicago study.
Vedneeday, September S. 195S
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Rogue Valley Pears
Said Popular Exports
Temporary Closure
Due at Hapkins Canal
The Hopkins canal of the
Rogue River Valley Irrigation
district, which serves district
water-users on the west side of
the valley, will be closed for
one day this week, according to
District Manager Harold Sexton.
He said the canal would be
closed Wednesday night, and re
opened Friday. The closure is
necessary to kill moss in the
canal with chemicals, he said.
The canal will be closed from
Bear creek west.
Half of Cars Fail
Safety Inspection
Washington. D. C. U.R)
About half the cars inspected
for safety stickers here fail the
annual test at the first try, the
American Municipal Association
reported.
The association said that in
the most recent test 210,314 ve
hicles were tested and only 104.
638 were approved without ad
justments. The main flaw is headlights,
the association said, with brakes;
steering mechanism, rear lights,
windshield wipers, and exhaust
following in that order.
City officials credit the test
ing program which was origi
nated in 1938 with reducing the
number of traffic fatalities.
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find high favor on the export
markets, according to Fred Moti
agricultural attache to London
for the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The export authority made the
comment as part of a report to
an invited group of growers and
shippers who met with him Tues
day evening in Medford. He
was introduced by Harold
Holmes, president of the Rogue
River Valley Traffic association.
Peak Not R.ich.d
Motz noted that the world ex
port market for pears has not
reached the pre-World War II
peak, but prospects for a return
of this important outlet improve
each year. He emphasized that
the world wide reputation for
quality of Rogue Valley pears
must be matched with a price
attractive to importers. He ex
plained that pressure groups in
some foreign markets resist the
import of fresh fruits and make
the job of re-opening trade very
difficult.
Many pear producing areas in
the world have patterned their
growing and marketing pro
grams after those used in this
area, he said, and added the re
sult is sharper competition both
in quality and price.
Labor Problem
In commenting on reported
cases of careless handling of
fruit in foreign ports, which re
sult in loss to U. S. exporters.
Moti stated that the problem is
a labor problem of the individ
ual country. He said the USDA
and the other government agen
cies abroad are powerless to cor
rect it. Motz pointed 01 1 that
there has been no discrimination
against U. S. produce.
The USDA expert said quality
of product is still the key to
opening up foreign markets. This
areas has led the way and must
maintain its advantage by main
taining this high quality, he stated.
Woods Resident Takes
Stroll in Vancouver
Vancouver, Wash. iU.R) With
hundreds of Vancouver, Wash.,
residents taking to the moun
tains for the holiday week end,
one of the woods inhabitants
evidently decided to take a stroll
downtown to get away from all
the people.
Three men starting on an early
morning pigeon hunt Monday
reported to police that they saw
a 200-pound bear in the city.
They gave chase but the ani
mal evidently decided it would
be quieter back in the woods
after all and took to the brush.
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September 7. It's the Interna
tional Harvester Fall Party te
be held at your McCormick
Farm Store, 2232 Biddle Road
in Medford. The time it from
12 noon until S F.M. They're
serving free coffee and dough
nuts plus refreshments for the
children. Several contests are
being held with prices to the
winners. Two door prites will
be awarded at 7:55 P.M. with
ether for women. No purchase
necessary to participate in
these contests.
The Rogue Valley's own
Bob Roberts and his orchestra
will provide music for your
rertiinment. You'll also see
a preview of the V8 Interna
tional trucks as wall as the
famous 4-wheel drivo truck
and the new International line
of tractors.
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