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Colt Pocket
Worth At Least $1,000
O rTom passed me the cylinder
O from the revolver lie was work
ing en.
It diin't take me Ion? to see
D why th part would be valuable.
The cylinder was bored for five
.28 cl)bre shots. Between two
bands h at ran around the cylin
ffff at either end was an en
O (jravrd design portraying some
centaurs firing revolvers. The
(iegiitr.ing and f nd of the design
was separated by a tiny oblong
,-. iri which appeared th magic
ePwnrVi OOLT.
0"Yes," said Tom. 'after I
found that cylinder I finally ran
(H'wn the frame."
I was about to exclaim that it
had r trigger when he pulled
Sptdmen Exposition Stamps Worth Mora Than Regular Ones
The curtain marie a faint
q clacking sound as Mrs. Smith re
l"';igtd it and motionci me to
wnrd chair.
q It w;s a big. leather-upholstered
armchair with rockers
and mounted oi a frame. As she
sank UiJo a vringchair opposite,
I sat dowrr, inadvertently resting
thepback of my head against a
spotless autimacassar. Yes. I
thought, bending forward and
looking closely at the curtain,
Oit's made of beads and jet.
q "Well, young man," said Mrs.
Smith with what seemed an
amused look, "I do have a com
q piete set of Columbian Exposi
tion stamps. But they're not the
regular ones."
"Jitjit th regular one, Mrs.
C-j Dorflinger Class Hat Makes Expensive Vase
Cousin Charlotte was chang- visor was an elaborate floral
Ing thee flowers. It was a pleas- pattern etched into the metal.
ore to watch hor as the morning
sun made shifting patterns of
U leafshadows on the floor.
Cousin Charlotte exclaimed.
'Tve told that girl a .dozen
times not to use this hat for a
vase. Will-(e never learn!"
"Hat!" I .snirf. getting to my
fret. "What hat no you mean?"
OoThisccne," said Cousin Char-
lottg. "
It i;is more on the-order of
helmet. Somewhat along cliis-
i?,c liars, like thnt- wnrn hy the
goddesses of Greece aurt Rome.
It consisted basically of crystal
which hnd horn overlaid with a
Slass. of brilliant ruby, cut
Ihrnugh. here and there, to the
rlear glass beneath. Across the
Earth Nearer
Than At Any
9r FAY BENTLEY
Believe it or not the earth is
tieaxer the sun on January 3 than
O at ny other timy during its or
O Intal journey! In fact, we are
about 3 million miles nearer Old
S"l on that date than on July 3
when our planet is at aphelion,
the point most distant from the
Cffun.
The orbit or path which the
r earth follows in its yearly trip
around ?V.e center of our solar
svstem is not a true circle, but
sUaMly egg-shaped or elongated.
C We say that theorbit of the earth
is not a circle but an' ellipse.
Figure Drawn
This fiqvre may be easily
drawn by fying a pin to each end
O of a thread, a few inches long.
Thrust the two pins about one
hfcif inch apart into a piece of
cartiboatd. Now place a pencil in
Oth loop formed by the thread
and irimt it as you would In
drawing a circle. 'The resulting
figuit is an ellipse.
The orbit or path traced by
ir earth as it ' constantly en
circles the sun is somewhat the
shape of the figure you have
dtWwn. TUe points where the pins
penetrate the cardboard are call
cathe focal points of the ellipse.
Te stin is at one of the focal
point's of an ellipse4 and not in
ie center of the. circle.
In January, the earth is travel
ing in the part of its orbit near
est th focal point where the sun
If located. In July Our planet
is moving on the opposite side
f its orbit. This causes us to be
about 3 million miles nearer the
O sun in Jacuary than in July,
tipeeo" Variation
Another tntet-esting item in
the bot.avior of this terrestrial
sphere is the variation in the
rate of speed as it encircles the
sun. When nearest Old Sol (peri
helion) it travels at a greater
number of miles per hour than
when it is farthercst away.
Q number of astronomers tried
to discover toe reason for such
"goings en" and finally Kepler,
an outstanding mathematician
Oand astronomer proved that an
ialneinary line drawn frr.;n the
certer of the sun to the center of
sn earin would sweep over
e J-"1 areas in equal amounts of
time, c
O In J.-iuary the line from- the
sun to the erth is shorter. There
fore, l-e part of the earth's or- i
Revolver
back the hammer, releasing a
mechanism that snapped the
trigger out from where it was
concealed in the grip.
He handed me the pocket re
volver, for that's what it was. I
looked for more identification
marks. On the four-inch barrel
was the legend "Patent Arms
M'g. Co. Paterson N. J. Colt's
Pat."
-What's it worth?" I asked.
"It was made between 1836
and 1842," he :;iid, "because
those are the years the firm last
ed. The rifling is good, and the
fact it has no serial number
doesn't matter. It's worth from
51.000 to $1,500, but I'm going
to ask more."
Smith?" I exclaimed. "But they
have to be. Only one set was
put out for the Columbian Ex
position in 1893.
The 16 stamps, ranging from
one cent to $5.00 in denomina--tion,
were the regular ones, all
right. But each of them had
been overprinted in dull purple
with the word "Specimen."
I excused myself while I went
out to the car to get a copy of
Scott s catalogue. "The "speci
men" items were listed, all right,
and they were even more valu
able than the regular ones. A
total of S470 as against S403.
Mrs. Smith was pleased but
not overly impressed. "Just, put
them back in the drawer," she
said.
Height of the piece was a little
over nine inches. It was ahnut
eight inches wide.
"Where did you ever get it,"
I asked."
At an antique shop in Rye,
four or five years ago. I Daid
S40 for it
saving it
It had a label then,
had been marie bv
Dorflinger. hut of course, that's
come off with the maids using it
as a va.se." .
I complimented her on her
gi.od taste in buying it.
"A couple of people have tried
to tell me I paid too much," she
said, "but I saw one the other
day and it was priced at SP0.
(Released by McClure News-
paper Syndicate.)
Sun Jan. 3
Time in Year
bit traversed! by the earth must
be greater than the part covered
in July when the line from the
sun to the earth is longer.
Like Cutting Pie
Just like cutting a pie. If one
pie is large and the other small,
it would take a wide piece of
the small piece to contain as
much material as a narrow piece
of the big pie. Think of the
outer rim of the pie crust as
representing the path traveled
by the earth.
The earth must travel each of
the two distances represented by
the crusts of the pies in the same
length of time. So in January its
orbital speed is greater than in
July.
"Why do we have cold weather
in January if we are nearer to
the sun?" people sometimes ask.
The variation in the earth's
distance from the sun is really
very small when compared with
other astronomical distances, and
actually has little effect on the
amount of energy received by
our planet.
Unequal Heating
The unequal heating of the
earth's surface is due to the angle
at which the rays of light from
the sun touch the earth's sur
face. Near the equator where the
rays from the sun strike directly
the weather is always hot.
The farther we travel, either
north or south of this torrid or
hot zone, the greater the angle
or slant at which the light rays
contact the earth. This is due
to the tilting of the earth on its
axis.
Near the poles of the earth the
ray of the sun touch the ground
surface at so great an inclination
or slant that little heat is pro
duced and. as we all know, per
manent ice caps exist.
NEW LOCATION!
DR. R. E. RUTHERFORD
Palmer School of Chiropractic Graduate
v Has moved to larger Quarters
with Free Parking at
11 5 North Oakdale
PHONE 2-9738
APPLEGATE-JACKSONVILLE
Clothing Drive
By HELGA MITCHELL !
Applegate-Jacksonvilie The '
Ruch PTA is sponsoring a cloth
ing drive for Hungarian refugee
relief overseas, with the Rev.
Earl Best as chairman. Knitters
or sewing groups in this area,
who wish to make articles for
this purpose, are asked to con
tact Mrs. Wilfred Pearson by
writing to Rt. 2, Box 50. Jack
sonville, Ore. Mrs. Pearson has
yarn from the American Friends
Service committee and quilt ma
terial for baby quilts from the
Save the Children Federation.
Christmas has come and gone
in the Applegate and during
these post-Christmas days there
are still a few Christmas cards
straggling into the mailboxes on
route 1. Turkey skeletons haunt
numerous pantries and several
dieters are resolving to undo
the damage done from the
"Christmas splurge" in the new
year. Children are delighting
themselves in their toys from
Santa, and a few women are
breathing a sigh of relief that
the mad pre-holiday rush is over.
Several Applegaters have had
out of town visitors, while oth
ers went away for the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Armin Richtcr
visited her mother, Mrs. Byron
Palmer in Los Angeles for
Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Taylor
and David went to Portland to
be with her family for the holi
days. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sorber
went to Farmington, Calif., to
visit her mother and other rela
tives. Mr. and Mrs. William Travis
went to San Jose to visit their
parents. Accompanying them,
Registration Set
For Adult Classes
Registration for upholstery
and drapery classes, which will
be sponsored by the adult ed
ucation department at Medford
High school next month, may be
made Jan. 2, 3, and 4, at the
school, Lindsay Vinsel, director,
has announced.
The classes start Jan. 7 and
continue through Jan. 18 with
Mrs. May Frye, instructor at
Eugene Vocational school, in
structing the classes. Interested
persons may call 3-5341 to regis
ter. Vinsel said.
Class I of the upholstry class
will meet between 8:30 a. m. and
12 noon and from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
daily between Jan. 7 and Jan.
11. Class II will meet the same
hours between Jan. 14 and Jan.
18. Both classes will be in room
341 of Hedrick Junior High
school and will consist of cover
ing and fabricating small proj
ects, such as chairs and smaller
items.
The drapery class will meet
each evening between 7 and 10
p.m. starting Jan. 7 and continu
ing through Jan. 18. It will be
held in room 15 of Medford High
school.
Persons registering for classes
have been asked not to purchase
materials for "classes until after
contacting the instructor.
Christmas Contest
Winners Are Listed
Eagle Point A Santa Claus
with his bag of gifts display at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Ashpole won first place in the
first Christmas Home Decorating
contest sponsored by the Eagle
Point Lions club.
The Ashpole decorations in
cluded holly around the door
and gold foil covering the door
with a candy cane on the front.
Second place was won by a
display of spotlighted carollers
and lighted trees on each side of
the front steps at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart Hopper. Music
was piped to the carollers, and
included Christmas songs sung
each evening.
A lighted Santa Claus and
snowballs at the home of Dick
Spain took third prize. The
house was outlined with lights
as were the windows.
A Navivity scene and Christ
mas cards at the home of Mrs.
Beryl Hickson placed fourth.
The Judges for the contest
W'ere Jo Holmes, representing
the Lady Lions auxiliary. Mar
ion Nagel, of the district garden
club, and Carol Clymer, of the
Eagle Point Garden club. Judg
ing was done last Sunday. Prizes
totaling S25 were awarded win
ners. TURNABOUT .
Robinson. 111. (UR) Joy
Shafer, insurance man who was
unfamiliar with the automatic
gearshift on his wife's car. drove
it through the rear wall of their
garage.
Planned
was her sister. Miss Jacqueline
Jensen.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Brien
and grandson, Terry Langley,
went to Portland to visit his son,
Donald O'Brien.
Holiday visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Buford Wells are
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Powers of Antioch, Calif.
Staff Sgt. James E. Bishop Jr.
who is stationed at Travis Air
Base, Calif., recently spent three
days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen Bishop. Accom
panying Bishop was A2c David
Boyd and Alc Donald Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Flug of
Harlan, Iowa, spent two days at
the Arion Christensen residence.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Best and
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hunter
spent the holidays in Whittier,
Calif., visiting Mr. Best's mother,
Mrs. A. A. Abercrombie.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kubli
and two children are staying
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Kubli.
Lee Port Jr. recently visited
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Byrne. Mr.
and Mrs Lee Port and daughter
Suzanne, spent Christmas at
Jerome Prairie at Grants Pass
visiting Mrs. Port's family.
About 30 people attended a
Christmas dinner at the home of
the Rev. and Mrs. Earl Best at
Ruch. Most of the guests were
relatives, and Mrs. Best said the
dinner required two turkeys.
Christmas dinner guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Buck,
were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farrand,
Mr. and Mrs. Estel Cox, and Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Reavis and chil
dren, Jack and Cathy o Jack
sonville. Prior to the dinner, Mrs.
Buck was busily pulling apart
in a cow's
Tb
her (lining taMe to place more
leaves in the, center, when to her
dismay, the table fell apart in
three pieces. Frantic phone calls
ensued this minor catastrophe,
and the sympathizing guests
brought along card tables, which
rapidly alleviated Mrs. Buck's
sad plight.
Christmas dinner guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Mitchell, of Top o' the Hill, were
Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Buck)
Spencer of Medford, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Burmeister of Jack
sonville, and Mrs. Caroline Wy
man of Medford.
The last Applegate Home Ex
tension Unit met at the home of
Mrs. Leonard Miller of Thomp
son creek with Mrs. Charles El
more was co-hostess. Secret pals
were revealed, and there was a
gift exchange.
At the recent Applegate school
Christmas program, Francis
Krouse, chairman of the school
board, announced there would be
a work day at the school on the
following Thursday. After this
announcement the Rev. Thorn
ton Gapen asked everyone to
bring lots of pies and salads,
and that there would be six
geese barbecued at the school
cafeteria. After Gapen's exhorta
tions on the food, Francis Krouse
arose and gave this last thought
on the coming work day, "Every
body who wants to see Gapen's
goose cooked, be sure and show
up Thursday."
Recently, twelve members of
the Pilgrim Youth Fellowship
of the Medford Congregational
church, accompanied by their
pastor, Rev. Thomas McCamant,
went on safari to Beaver creek
to cut Christmas trees for their
own use and for use in the
church. En route back to town,
they stopped at the W. D. Pear
son home for hot cocoa and cake
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On Hogmanay, the last day of every year, Scotch
Highlanders used to form a procession behind
hide who would visit each house in
bless it with these words, "May God bless this
that belongs to it, cattle, stones, and timber.
meat, of bed and body clothes and health of
it abound."
It is a blessing that all of us would wish for our families, too.
And we can help to make it happen by employing what u
commonly regarded as another Scotch custom saving.
Most of us could use a simple systematic savings plan
one that will work automatically and pay off with guaranteed
results. Your government has provided just such a plan
the Payroll Savings Plan for Seriea E Savings Bonds.
Here's how it works. You just sign the authorization card
in your payroll office. Then, each payday, the amount you
designate is set aside and invested in Bonds for you.
You'U be surprised at how fast your savings mount.
For instance, if you save only $3.75 a week on the plan,
in 9 years and 8 months you'll have $2,137!
So, this year, help bring the blessing of financial security
to your family. Make it your New Year' Resolution
to sign up for the Payroll Savings Plan where you work.
V. fi. Government iom not pay lot tku wioalamcwt. Tht Trtatvry Department thanM. for
Sunday, December 30, 195B
to accompany their sack lunches.
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Offenbach
er and two children Sue and
Mark of Crescent City visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Offenbacher for the holidavs.
Christmas day was doubly
celebrated by several local resi
dents, who had birthdays on that
day. Billy Piete, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Piete celebrated
his 10th birthday and Mrs. Bert
Harr. William Ziegler, Mrs. Cur
tis Gerhardt, and Mrs. Edward
Goodwin, of Thompson creek,
all celebrated their birthdays.
Mrs. Gerhardt said she hadn't
given up having a birthday party
on Christmas day, since she
heard of a woman who had cele
brated her first Christmas birth
day party when she was 83 years
old.
The Little Applegate Knitting
club will meet at the home of
Mrs. Otis Buck Tuesday, Jan. 15.
The Upper Applegate Home
Extension Unit will meet at the
home of Mrs. Ray Widner on
Wednesday, January 2 at 10:30
a.m. Leaders of the project,
"Yeast rolls," will be Mrs. Lyle
Hard and Mrs. Wanda Hard.
At the last Applegate 4-H gen
eral meeting, Mrs. Curtis Ger
hardt was presented with a
frame which held a certificate
that stated she was Oregon's
second best bus driver, with a
record of nine years of accident
free driving. This frame was
given by the Applegate school
awdust
Telephone 2-2111
MEDFORD FUEL GO.
a man attired
the village am
house and all
In plenty of
men may
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
MEDFORD (ORtGON) MAjft TBIBPITg SEVEN
board, PTA and the community
in recognition of Mrs. Geihardt's
interest and work in the com
munity, and she was lauded as a$
outstanding community member.
Mr. and Mrs. C. WV Childers
of Palmer creek spent Christmas
with his mother, Mrs. W. A.
Childers of Jacksonville. Mrs. W.
A. Childers had four children, six
grandchildren, and 10 fcreat
grandchildren present at this
event.
C. L. Evans of Toketee Falls
paid a surprise visit on Christ
mas eve at the home of his
daughter, Mrs'. C. W. Childers,
and stayed overnight.
A recent house guest at the
C. W. Childers residence was
Mrs. Lena Cox and son Stephen,
of Stockton, Calif.
Several readers of the Apple-gate-Jacksonville
column were
puzzled, when they saw the col
umn in the paper the last two
times, and had positive knowl
edge of this correspondent be
ing away on a winter vacation.
We are happy to announce that
Applegate has a ghost writer
in its midst, in the form of Mrs.
William (Maude) Ziegler, - who
did the excellent job of writing
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Part of Every American's Savings
Belongs in U.S. Savings Bonds
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the last two appleate-Jackson-
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At the last Rucft -Hcf9nrejl
meeting. Mrs. Charles 'Villoma
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leader of "the Boge Icctfbmicso
club stated tht her cub is) at
tempting to stimufete an ir?.ie.ll
in books in this community and
hopes ertougS local peoplt will O
respond to the Bookmobile .tsro
vice offered by 0 the CMedford
librry. If "enough people of Jiie
community will write tcPeitfcer
the Medford library, of to iie
Mail Tribune requesting book
service, 'there would be pos
sibility of having a Bookmobile O
in this area. Mrs. Williams ur?,gs
everyone to write in tfrothn
service.
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Dick Hons, Manager
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