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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1956)
o0cb o o oo o O O O o Oo o O O o o a o o o o o o O O o o - o aj o o o O o o O O O o o o O o CO o o o O o oo O o o o o o o o o o o o o o O o luried Treasure Items Can Be Worth More Than the Catalog Price An important thing to re- member for anyone with an an- tiifiie to sell is this: jut because something is sai! to be worth 10 much oesn t mean that jt may not be worth a lot more. The sale of a pair ol flintlock derringers is a case in point. They were beautiful little gifr3, with their two-and-a-half ich, 46 caliber, octagon bar rets Dand full length rotewood tocksx) A they lay in their Silver -D"bound mahogany case against Cackground of blue velvet, thev didut look deadly at all.oNo more so than a coral make curled upon a rock. . CxhS inr-v' marlceri "Kenf Co.? London' Along the barrel o0 ta.ithe street address,' "63 Bond o The bla-lf. front sight -was of 0 gold. The o tiny gun balanced easily in my hand. 1 Ti e , wrier called my tten- tion to the pistol's auxiliary 9 LABEL ADDS GREAT VALUE It wSs a telescope, a!l right, but of the kind which we called a spyglass when I was a boy. Tfce outer .part was sheathed in Ieatrir'and measured nearly 18 inches from brass-rimmed eye- piece to brass-botind end-glass, The inner tube, when pulled out, Hded another 15 inches to the ver-all length. I pulled the inner tube out to its maxrmum and ran my hand lovingly alon the metal I hat had been machined nearly cehtury and three quarters tie- fo;e. It was smooth, cool, and odclly oiough,at one end, it had Qthe feyl of paper. I turned the spyglass. There Has a labeon the tube, a little fattered tJ still legible. It read: "Cermenati & Monfrno; carv- ei4 gilders, picture frame and looking glass manufacturers. No. O 2 State st.. Boston vhere they kiyp cotantly for sale in large n'4) elegant assortment of Ioek- ing glasies. prints, etc., from the o c pst rniW,ers in Europe, also O C Ycletfnopes, Sorometers and Ur- O (Hnometers made and repaired in le besf manner." O HfSE IN DEMAND FOR COLORADO GOLD COINS SEEN Some people don't seem to realize it. but the law of supply and demand has just as much of an effect on old coins as it has on new automobiles. When Se supply becomes mall in relation so the demand, the JVice goes up? We mention this rather ob- vious fact for Ae reason that ijery 9oon we shall sr in this co'Sntry an example of the law of supply and demand workirj? &ct a certain category ol goia coins. 0 .in very good condition. The demonstration is due to Not a great deal of foresight take plai durffig the next three -is required, in view of current years which markj the centennial prices and the interest that is period of the great Colorado soon to be stimulated, to see Sold rush. that present low market value lneviil!y the celebration of is to alter upward, and soon, the centennial will fnflrate a What the extent of the rise treffiendous amount of public will "be, it is naturally impos- inrest ino yjp area's pas end sible to say accurately. But in in i(ije more important things the light of past experience it connected with it. seems highly reasonable that it A?id in the font rank of such will represent a good 100 per mementoes will be the coins cent increase in values. thatwcre privately minted out (Released by McCIure of Pike's Peak gold. . Newspaper Syndicate) Leukemia Victim Dies Willitv, Calif. An 8-year-old Napa, C!if.. boy. Dermis Lira, grandson0 of "Mrs. Myrtle Col lins of Willits. Calif., died last wrtk in San Francisco while his "jjjrcnts werec rushing him to a cispital. wherr he has been a leukemia patient for the pas. fx t' years. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. &chard A. Lira of Npa. had returned to Napa from the hos pital for the holidays. His condi G tion became critical soon after O wards and iis parents decided O , CORN REMOVER qO ! ifuanf roliof from pom wd petL frty tmot kevd cams, aoe cor MS bmtn cajlovsos. worts, pocWflfWoft. cub ttcrils. If co-loins -p, orol eitVnt cmU tetot softan. loaisw ckatl Sasos ooT cons hriHaHoo os O oo strong ocicJ miitufos. " whoa ol q ors ho foiloct try ooo.oTry o, 'poxt) sojonoss. fiti or second easol'cofion. fto rossooWs sod oo Oaoey bock gvoreMtoo. . 00 p. Exclusively oat WESTERN THRIFT POISON OAK? Try a forrle of ZEMACOl Too most bo satisfied or reus rooMi1 cheerfully refunded! Get fcottie O t WESTERN THRIFT. o equipment. It included a bullet mold, powder flask, loading rod a little compartment tor lints. Aware of the price at which SUch pair had been listed in three different works on gun collecting. I asked the owner what price he had placed on them. "I'll take S300 but I'm asking $375." he said. I expressed surprise, pointinq out that the top price 1 had seen for such a pair was S175 ' That doesn't mran a thing." the owner said. "These are in splendid condition. The supply is severely limited more so by far than that of potential buy- ers. There probably are not 10 pairs like this to be found in the whole world. Anyway S300 is 'my bottom price." He didn't get it. He got $375 instead, and from one of the first prospective buyers to show up. TO MIRROR The label, was all I needed l "Vine aecme 10 did. on u. And I did. but to no avail fantastic price o S325. a good five times more than I would have paid. And to make matters worse, it went to a fellow who is normally a most astute buyer. ' What will you do with it now that you've got it?" I asked him." "Sell it." he said, grinning, "Drop around to the store if you want a crack at it." I dropped around later, and there sat the spylass in the window with a price tag of S150 " on it. But it seemed to me there was something missing and there was. It was the label, of course. and it took me a good two hours to find it. adroitly placed on the back of a mirror that . was a thing of beauty but very pre- maturely aged. As for the mirror, which cost possiblv S200 to make, it was priced at SI. 750. rather low but calculated to make it move fast. And it did. It was gone by the following week. - As a result of this increased interest, the prices of these coins will start climbing, and rather steeply, too. They can stand it. For ex- ample, two of the coins a S2.50 piece and a S5 one which were made by the Denver firm of Clark, Gruber & Co., back in 1860, are priced today at only S50 each in the latest edition of the Standard Catalocue of United States Coins. Further- more, tnat low price is for coins En Route to Hospital to return him to the San Fran cisco hospital. A native of Denver. Colo., Dennis moved to Napa with his family a year and a half ago. .JAPAN'S PREMIER Out spoken, 72-year-old Tanzan IAisbashi , (above) was .elected overwhelmingly as Japan's new Premier suc ceeding partially-paralyzed Ichiro Hatoyama. lshibastu has been a "sharp critic of U. S. occupation "reform ers," but his election is ex pected to have little effect on Japan's basic policies ol siding with 0. S. views on most international matteis. vi V ; -IV j J I I ILLINOIS VALLEY Much Talk on 'New State' By FRANK STRICKLAND Cave Junction Much dis cussion has been going on here about carving a new state out of sparsely-settled southern Oregon and northern California. Plugged pioneers of this moun tainous region kick over the traces now and then and demand a state of their own. Southern Oregonians claim up-state "dic tators" are trying to crowd all of the state s political financial and industrial activity into the al ready over-populated and con fused city of Portland. Oldtimers here find a similari ty between this practice and the ! man who was fortunate enougn i to own a mansion but forced his I family to live in only one of ! it's rooms. The people of south I ern Oregon want to see all of the state developed not just the ; upper left hand corner. They've j watched fabulous cities spring from the barren sands of south : ern Nevada and would like to ! know why the same thing can ' not happen to this mountain j paradise. The average citizen I here believes if the 49th state of "Shasta" ever becomes a reality with laws patterned after those of the state of Nevada, that the harbor at Crescent City, on the Oregon-California boundry, would be developed and funds made available to cut or tunnel our principal highways 99 and 199 through the present Siski you barrier. They look upon the Siskiyou ! mountain range which parallels the border, as virtually a Chi nese wall blocking automobile and rail passage between north ern California and southern Ore gon. Only three highways and one rail line penetrate the pro posed new-state area and due to grade and curves the railroad has long since discontinued pas senger service. Two of the auto routes are so hjgh and crooked as to be almost impassible in winter and so narrow and crowd ed in summer many travelers avoid them. Reference has been made here, also, to the fact the U.S. west coast has only five active deep sea harbors all of which are crowded beyond capacity. That the bulk of population in the three coast states is concentrated at these five points and the peo ple of southern Oregon and northern California would like to know why other suitable deep sea harbors, such as Crescent City. Calif., cannot be utilized to relieve the crowded ports and distribute population more equi tably along the Pacific coast. They see no reason why the state legislatures which of course, are made up largely of representatives from these five cities persist in holding back state-wide development of po tential harbors and roads. So long, they say,, as trc present state of affairs exist the west coast will never be able to ab sorb any more people than San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco. Portland and Seattle can accommodate. Loyal citizens who are trying to keep the intervening stretches from going to seed would like to know what the so-called "dic tators" propose to do about building up this great vastness of unoccupied territory if they continue to center their atten tion on the five metropolitan cities alone. Informed persons here say there would be little or no desire to secede from the mother state if the people in this part of Oregon were not treated by the big-shots up north as if they were poor relations. A mountain of earth is rising above the treetops on formally flat terrain here in Cave Junc tion. Seven of the largest types of earth-moving equipment are taking thousands of yards of naturally-mixed sand, gravel and rock from a dry bed of the Illinois river and stock-piling it on a high and convenient loca tion. The material will be used to top the mile of high fill now being graded across the east and west fork river bottoms. The project is a part of the bridging and realigning en U. S. highway 199 in this vicinity. By HELEN BOTTEL Two Boy Scouts of Illinois Valley Troop 20 , passed their Eagle board of review here Mon day night. They are Loren Mer edith. 15. son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Meredith and Carl Ham mer Jr.. 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammer Sr. The Eagle court is planned for February. Five miles of the narrow wind ing Happy Camp road have been replaced by a new two-lane for road un Page mountain, local Forest Service officials an nounced this week. The newly completed stretch was built by Bernie Hughes. local logging contractor, and goes to the Bolan Lake junction. District Forest Ranger John Mattoon has been transferred and promoted to a position in : the supervisors office at the Olympia National Forest. He i wUl be replaced here by Ralph j W. Ellstrom, now project staff ' assistant in timber management on the Deschutes National For ; est. Mr. and Mrs. Mattoon have been honored at a number of Forest Service and private par ties in the Valley during the past two weeks. Tilev will leave . for their new home in Olvmpia. i Wash., on Jan. 3. Eugene Pulley of O'Brien, Scoutmaster of troop 20, and William Clary, Scoutmaster of troop 23, Grants Pass, are two of six adult leaders to be asked to attend the Boy Scout Jam boree at Valley Forge as leaders of troops from the Crater Lake Council area. I First services in the new Im ', manuel Methodist church in j Cave Junction will be held j Christmas Sunday, Dec. 23. The 1 church, although not fully com 1 pleted, will be used not only for ; morning worship but for the ! special family Christmas pro gram that evening. Church school is to be held at Evergreen school for the next two weeks, j until class rooms are completed. i Soil conservationist L o y d i Burnett is nursing a broken j ankle and sprained back this I week, as a result of a fall from ! his roof last Saturday. Hospital chairman Isobel Mel low gave a report on gifts to Camp White at the VFW auxil iary meeting, also held Thurs day evening at the local hall. She said presents valued at more than $30 were sent by members to the Camp's gift shop, where veterans could select items for their relatives at home. Thanks giving favors, made by the aux iliary, were sent to the disabled vets, and a party was given for them at halloween. A number of books and magazines have also been sent to Camp White, Mrs. Mellow added. After the business meetings, VFW members were guests of the auxiliary at a Christmas party and gift exchange. Re freshments of cookies, mince and pumpkin pie and Christmas pud ding were served by the ladies. On an extended trip to Florida and points between are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davis, who re cently retired from active man agement of the Central Cafe in Cave Junction. The couple plans to visit their daughter and fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wild in Orlando, Fla., will see another daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Ewald in Cleve land, Ohio, and will also stop with Mrs. Davis' son, Robert Howland and his family in Dav enport, Iowa. Nearly 50 children attended the Eagles Christmas party given Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Kerby halL Christmas stockings, gifts, refreshments and games made a happy afternoon for the small fry. The evening Christmas party for grown-ups drew an even larger crowd to the Eagles hall. A gift exchange, games, dancing and refreshments were included in the festivities. Both sons in the Ira Hall fam ily are expected home for the holiday season. Mrs. Halls younger son. Bob Kester, a Naval Air Cadet stationed in Pensacola, Fla., writes that he has been unable to get air ac comodations but he'll be home "if he has to walk." Bill Kester. recently promoted to First Lieu tenant in the Army Air Force will bring his wife and baby here from Spokane, Wash., on Dec. 28. Bill flies sabre jets while Bob, who passed his Navy Air Force exams this fall, is still in training as a jet pilot. Bob spent the summer on the smoke jumper crew at the Siskiyou Na tional Forest Aerial project in the Illinois Valley. Tom Duncan, owner of the "Paint Pot" in Cave Junction, has been unable to work for the past week as the result of a knee injury. Oregon Caves Bowmen will be hosts to the Pelican Bay Bow men of Crescent city at a ham dinner to be given on December 22 in the drying room of Claude Reinoehl's newly completed Southern Oregon Archery fac tory at Kerby. Final plans for the affair will be made on Dec. 21 at the Reinoehl home in Kerby. Bill Shellabarger, now of Chil oquin, Ore., has donated the club land on which to build an indoor archery range. Wood for the structure was offered by owners of Salvage mill, who said members could have used j lumber for the taking from their abandoned mill buildings. The project was going full steam I ahead until some unknown per Ison lifted all the newly-cleaned boards which Bowmen had spent j long hours in tearing down. Dis j couraged club members now say ! they will wait until they can afford new lumber before mak I ing further plans for their indoor j range. Edward Elliott, director of the Oregon Education Association, addressed the Josephine county unit of the association at a meet ing held at Ft. Vannoy school on Monday, Dec. 17. Bill Love, pres ident of the local group, gave a PAIMT Witu TteouitelcHei The Family Council Editor's note: Th Family Council consists of s Judge.' a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article Is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not five advice; It merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Rita A. My mother-in-law , son 'and" likes to keep busy. I should go to work. j wonder how Rita would feel if. Kenneth A. My mother ; her son someday sends her out doesn't need to work. Rita A. I have been married four years and have one child. My husband's father died when he was very young and he is an only child. He and his mother are very much attached to one another and we have always lived with her. I have never objected to living ! with my mother-in-law. 1 realize my husband could not be happy .if he thought she was alone, just the same, it hasn't been easy for me. My mother-in-law is a well meaning person, but two women in one kitchen is not a good state of affairs. My mother-in-law is young and healthy and I think -it would do her no harm to go to work. If she were out of the house a good part of the day I could live with her, happily. This way I feel I am under her super vision. 1 want to be boss of my own home. e Kenneth A. I told my wife when I proposed to her that my mother would always have to be part of our household. She has nobody in the world but me. I see now that my wife is trying to ease my mother out of the way. My mother doesn't need to work. She has insurance money from my father's policies. Every one thinks it's all right to send Grandma out to work these days, but I don't. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I thing the old way was best. An older woman shouldn't have to work. My mother is a very fine woman and not at all the bossy type. I know for a fact that she is very fond of Rita and does not want to "supervise" her. It's just that Mom is an active per- report on the OEA Representa tive council held recently in Portland. The program included songs by three men's barbershop quartettes and a men's choral group. Garland Benge of Ft. Vannoy school was in charge of arrangements. Attending from the Illinois Valley were Enid Burch, Marie Wilson, Norma Burrows. Grace O'Neal, Yvonne Claypool, Rose Benge and Dean Logan. Mrs. John Mattoon. was hon ored at a dessert bridge party Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Herb Drews. Co-hostesses were Mrs. Frank Rauber and Mrs. Mike Smith. Guests included the mesdames Lew Krauss. John Milburn, George Webb, Floyd Wells. A. A. Whitesell, L. W. Monroe, H. O. Smith, Fred Nel son. Ivan Burr, John Smith. J. J. Villair. J. M. McFarland, Sam Bunch and Cecil Brink. Rev. and Mrs. George Gray will be feted at an open house on Christmas afternoon, on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. Their children are planning the informal affair at the Gray home on the Illinois river. Illinois Valley Farm Bureau members heard interesting and instructive talks on taxes and insurance at their meeting held last Thursday night in the high school vo-ag building. County tax assessor Merle Griffin in his speech entitled "Farmers' Tax Problem s," pointed out the varied services made possible through taxation, and gave a brief sketch of the history of taxes through the cen turies. "What's New in Insurance" was the topic discussed by A. L. Lomloy, who outlined various changes in 4-H and FFA insur ance. He also described the de velopment of the Farm Bureau as a grass roots rural organiza tion. At "Dunloggin," the J. J. Vil lair home on the Redwood high-; way, last weekend was their daughter, Mrs. R. G. Davis of Roseburg. Mr. and Mrs. Casey Piller of Kerby are expected home Sun day from a vacation trip to Reno. Piller is superintendent of Cabax Mill in Kerby. Sunday school members at the O'Brien Community church pre sented an entertaining play at the Christmas program given Sunday morning. The play, which showed the deeper mean ing of Christmas, was directed by Mrs. M. O. Mikkelsen, wife of the pastor. Music was provided by Mrs. Karl Preston. The pro gram also included a reading by Letha Cooke and a solo by Art Drews. MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE PHONE 2-9321 Center erii I Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps Sunday, December 23, 1358 I to work. The Council: Kenneth is in deed, rather old-fashioned in his viewpoint. The old ways may have been better in some re spects, but Kenneth should realize he is not living in the world of yesterday. In the old days when Grand- ma stayed in the home of her children, there were, many im portant tasks for her. There was a great deal of sewing, canning, polishing plus many grand children that she could help care for. In this day of small families, small apartments, frozen foods, inexpensive ready made clothing, there isn't .too much for two women to do in one household. They have to get in one another's way. Kenneth is also old-fashioned in his viewpoint about sending Grandma out to work. In this day of nine-to-five jobs with rest periods, or part-time jobs, in numerable grandmothers and older women are finding regular work outside the home far more pleasant than a life of complete leisure. Rita does not seem to be try ing to ease Kenneth's mother out of the household, but only aiming for a little more freedom and privacy. This is important to her welfare and happiness as a wife and mother and it should be Kenneth's first consideration. If Kenneth brings up the issue of jobs for older women tact fully, he might find that his mother will joyfully jump for the idea by herself. If she does- " n't, she may need a gentle initia tion by seeing the example of other older women who like to work. (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) ; Produce Inspection Peak Reached Here A total of 3.188 carloads of fruits, vegetables and nuts were inspected for grade' at the Med ford inspection district from July 1 to Dec. 1, according to the state department of agricul ture. This was a peak total for the Medford district in recent years, according to the report. The local district was second in the state in inspections. First in the state was the Ontario district with 5,832 cars. Certification at the eight Ore gon shipping point inspection districts totaled 16,121 cars dur ing the period. Joe Noble Accepts California Position ! Cave Junction Joe Noble who has been fire protection of ficer for the Illinois Valley Pro tective Association for five years has accepted a position with the' forest service as fire protection officer in the Shasta-Trinity na tional forest. He will be stationed at Redding, Calif. 1 Dissolution of the IVPA will be considered at a meeting of the association Dec. 28 at the American Legion hall. Although effective work has been done in fire prevention, members feel that fire protection can now be i And for the at n&pK yit'SVr fcT ' f r " 4fe t Onir MEDFORD (REGCflt) MAIL TRIBUTTE SLEVEfT ec vi a . , . rQ v. t'yom-f y . pi' TSK, TSK! Steven Gorman, IVi, stares at the accusing finger of his mother as he is caught red-handed lumping the gun on Christmas in their Mill Vaftey? Calif, home. Shucks, mom, those brightly colftred pftkages were just too much for $ little fellow. o handled by larger mill and lum ber operators and by other fire fighting units in the valley. o The assof iation, started in 1950, began functioning the fol lowing year. Read and L'se Clasfilfled Ads - Week Days S a.m. to S p.m. mH CREEK 0RCHAP.ES 2 Milei South on Highway 99 BARGAIN GRADE . 2x4-8' o o $15.00 PerM' CHENEY STUD MILL o CENTRAL For the Management o o and All the Employees LITTLE 0BIGGY0 WISHES EVERY ONE iisttimiiais May All Your. Dreams New New Year Come True o WHIJNEY Real Estate Agency 218 East g'h Ph. 3-4609 30-9-8264 "COMICE -O PEARS Worderful ting but do not quality, for ourQGift boxes. 95 per lug Bring your owr containers o o POINT C3 O o' o o
