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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1956)
.j'.'? , ' ''ma iMijsl DODGE ON DISPLAY The 1957 Dodge will be on display at Parsons Motors, 315 East Fifth st., Medford, Tuesday, Oct. 30. Height of the two-door Lance hardtop models, like the Custom Royal Lancer shown above, has been reduced by five inches. The new Dodge stands four and a half feet high. The 1957 model's new suspension system and newly designed frame give the car a lower center of gravity, providing road-hugging qualities. Is That So? Want to fetch a beautiful bit of the outdoors, indoors? Bring a nondemanding colorful pet into your home? Get yourself an inexpensive hobby through which you'll learn something of the creatures of the wild? Then set up an aquarium. Fair warning: watching the strange habits of your fish-bowl inhabitants from near-by and far-off places, enjoying the liv ing motion-picture of aquatic life, watching them grow will open a new world to you and, quite likely, make a "fish-bug" out of you forever after. Let's get going. Why be fancy or make it too expensive? First off, get yourself a tank. A rectangular job, about 18 inches long and 12 high will give your fish swimming room with plenty of water and air. How ever, you can make out with a large gallon jar with a wide mouth. If you have a round bowl, fill it with water only up to the widest part. The larger the tank, the easier it is to keep it at an even temperature for both plants and fish. If possible, cover the top with a glass to keep out dust, help maintain an even temperature, and prevent fish from jumping out. To keep the cover from fit ting too tight, and shutting out air, place a bit of chewing gum under the corner. A good aquarium must have plants: when the bowl ' is in bright light, plants absorb pois onous carbon dioxide from the water a waste fish breathe out and give off oxygen which fish need. Fish, in turn, supply the right kind of air for plants Favorite Handcraft ajT-f V It's easy to decorate curtains, aprons, towels, place mats, baby bibs, with these gay designs Swedish weaving is a handcraft you'I' enjoy, be proud to own! Pattern 7367: Charts for 4 dif lerent designs use on anything made of huck. Color suggestions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for. each pattern ior 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune. Household Arts Dept.. P.O. Bbx 168, Old Chel sea Station. New York 11. N Y. Print plainlv NAME. ADDRESS AND PATTERN NUMBER Two FREE patterns printed in our ALICE BROOKS Needle iraft book stunning desings for yourself, for your home just for you, our readers! Dozens of other designs to order all easy, fascinating hand-work! Send 25 cents for your copy of this won derful book right away Br EUGENI BURNS Ranger-Naturalist and fertilize the plant roots. Sure as shooting, you can ex pect a pest green water moss, known as algae. This can be kept in check by using the right shade plants such as Salvinia, duck weed, and Azolla (which your pet shop carries). Then add a few taller plants, like grasses. Put ting in a few small snails also keeps the algae down, and be sides they keep the glass clean. Plants Help Breeding Plants also help fish in breed ing. Many of your beautiful trop ical fish deposit their eggs on the leaves of such plants as Myr iophyllum. Or some like to leave their eggs among loose masses of floating shade plants such as liv erwort or bladderwort. Sure you can get these from streams or brooks but don't. They may have tiny bugs which will be harmful to your aquarium. Water plants are beautiful and need far less care than houseplants. Nothing to it. Just pust the bottom ends of your plants, or the spread-out roots, into coarse sand. Avoid ordinary sand, with grains about the size of pinheads, is just right. Again, get it at your pet shop. Before using it, wash it as you would rice by letting water from a faucet run into a deep ditch con taining the sand, and stirring it with your fingers with just as many washings as it is necessary to get clear water. Once you have set the plants into the sand, pile a few rather large handsome stones or color ed marbles around the roots to help hold them firmly. These stones not shells because they dissolve and make the water hard should also be washed with plenty of water first, but never use soap. If you use too many, dirt will tend to collect under the rocks, souring your tank. (On succeeding Monday's, this column will discuss (A) How to select fish for your aquarium; (B) How to take care of your aquar ium: (C) How to feed your fish. Then, in due time; (D) First aid for sick fish; and come spring, (E) Water pets from nearby. That does it, doesn't it? (Copyright. 193E. by Eugene Burns. Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editor of the Encyclope dia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your questions to: Is That So! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. PI Exposition Becomes History Portland OJ.R) The Pacific International Livestock exposi tion building here was a near de serted place today with all but a very few of the animals on hand for the eight-day exhibit moved out. Doors on the 46th annual ex position closed Saturday night and yesterday a 29-car livestock train carried some of the show's top entries to the Grand Nation al Livestock show at the San Francisco Cow Palace. In final day judging. Future Farmers of America chapter teams from Gervais, Ore., and Rosalia, Wash., wen the regional dairy cattle and livestock judg ing contests respectively. Walter A. Holt, general mana ger of the show, said attendance through late Saturday was 47, OOi, persons, nearly 9000 more than attended the 1955 show. Shapely Sheath -'9121 PTl SIZES Fashion loves this winter's look the lovely young lines of this newest sheath frock It's a sure flatterer with novel 'peekaboo" nackline above its sleek silhouette. A joy to. sew, a joy to wear equally becom ing in all three sleeve versions! Pattern 9121- Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 takes 3!4 yards 39-inch fabric. This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send Thitty-five cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for i-ach pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St.. New York ;1, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. TOO CLOSE Norwich, Conn. (U.R) After his parked automobile was de molished by another machine, Peter Sierpinski was given a traffic ticket. He had left his car too near a fire hydrant. Texas leads the nation in the total value of minerals produced, including about two-fifths of the nation's supply of petroleum and one-fourth of the world's supply of sulphur. FOR MAYOR JOHN SNIDER HAS THE ABILITY, THE EXPERIENCE, AND THE TIME TO DO A GOOD JOB! VOTE FOR JOHN SNIDER FOR MAYOR Snider for Mayor Commirtt woftheIYmds. JIM STEVENS Monday. October 29, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Naw Birth ef a Sawmill . . . Used to be, I made regular calls down Willapa Harbor way, never missing a chance to visit with Bill Turner, of evergreen memory. Back yonder, midway in tlie New Deal, Bill calculat ed eight to ten years more of life for the area's big industry the giant Willapa sawmill and logging operations. Bill Turner managed these giant shows with the mind of a gentleman and a scholar, and a scholar, and with the hand of an A-No. 1 timber producer. His dismal forecast was simply in tune with the times, which were permeated with popular pes simim. Bill Turner would be the first today to confess that he missed his guess a mile, and then some And he would lead the glory shouts over the birth of a new sawmill on the Willapa. For now, some 16 years since the moaning and groaning dis ciples of Wallace and Ickes were at their peak, the Weyerhaeuser Timber company is completing a new sawmill, which will be supplied with sawlogs from Clemons, Willapa and Wyno oehee Tree Farms, that have a total of 337,000 acres. "Capital Spending ..." This also means the building of jobs, wages, taxes, dividends, tnd the purchases of services and supplies, permanently, in the Willapa Harbor area. It is hope refreshed to many a man in the district who is respon sible for sheltering, clothing, feeding, schooling, doctoring, en tertaining, and otherwise pro viding for a family in our mod ern way of life. The Willapa story is one of a series that could well be head ed "Adventures in Capital Spending," in the timber towns of Washington, Oregon and Cal ifornia. Faith in the promise of forests growing and of rich har vests of wood in the future, is the prime mover of the many millions that are being spent to build new forest industry plants and to expand and re model old ones in many timber districts of both Washington and Ore'gon. The Willapa Harbor story, in deed, is one of thousands of news stories of industrial ex pansion throughout the U.S.A Shareholders and directors of industrial organizations are mov ing with a power of vital faith in the future: Continuance of peace, progress and prosperity in our time and in the capital to build more production, more business, more jobs. All over America owners and managers of industrial enter prises are spending more. Con cretely, the owners of automo lile factories in Michigan are expanding on the faith that wage earners everyhere, like forest in austry employees at Willapa Harbor and Coos Bay, will con tinue to have jobs and wages, cash and credit, to buy new cars. And the owners of forest industry mills are expanding plants in the faith that Michigan automobile factory employees will continue to build homes of Douglas fir, west coast hemlock and western red cedar lumber The national industrial con ference board has published a survey of "capital appropria tions," by 1,000 largest manu facturing companies, that is food for meditation in this season not the hunting but the political season. Faith at Work . . . According to the industrial conference board survey, the thousand large U.S. manufactur ing concerns made near $8,500, C00.000 in new capital approp- Cement Common Product in New York Albany. N.Y. (U.R) New York state's top mineral product is so commonplace that most New Yorkers never think about it. It is cement. . It was the construction of the riations for expansion of pro duction and employment during the first half of 1956 or 39 per cent more than in the same per iod of 1955. The thousand companies had a $10,400,000,000 backlog of un expended capital appropriations at the end of June, 1956. Esti mates were that this giant am ount would be spent in less than months. More jobs! More homes! All this means a long-range faith in the existing American economics system a vital faith at work, a faith in the way of America, now in 1956. This way is the greatest free way of good life for any nation in the world history. The young men know it well, all over our land,, and so do the young wo men. Surely the vast majority of them will think hard and fast before voting to change today's economic and political climate cf faith and hope into a climate oi fear and pessimism. As my Old Ranger used to say, "The business of life is to KO forward. Who wants to 'lay back in the britching'?" Erie Canal that gave the indus try its big boost in the state. Natural cement was used in every lock and aqueduct. When Portland cement began to be used in the United States Hudson River Valley had all the necessary materials including clay deposits and cheap water transportation. To this day the area produces a larger share of cement than any other In the state. In 1955 nearly 18.S million barrels of Portland cement were manufactured in New York. The year's output was valued at about $52,908,000. Start ihe day bright I MILK. I fa? SEND HALLOWEEN CARDS Books Gifts Records 217 East Main Medford (JS3Di5)33Eli Cirizans Traffic Committee P i BUY NOW Q Your Choice to lTtl " 1 jiff'l 1 ' - H DOLIS that walk, J $J$L oL JTW V i. 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