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Buried Treasure Many Good Buys Listed In The Classified Ads It was a Jcnks, breech-loading. Navy percussion rifle, to give it its full name. And it was a beauty. Nonetheless, Sam looked in dignant as he handed the weap on to me and started pulling the packing apart and examining the inside of the box. "What's the matter?" I asked, putting the gun to my shoulder. "It doesn't look to me as if any thing's missing." "There's no bayonet," he said. "No bayonet and I paid him $30 for the gun complete." "Thirty bucks for this? That's all you paid and you're squawk ing because of a bayonet?" I watched him work the ac tion of the old piece, the "mule ear" lock as it is called. He squeezed the trigser gently and the side hammer clicked with a tatisfactory sound. He scruti JANITOR JOB LEADS TO "Some of my colleagues speak of themselves as custodians." said Charles, setting down his glass, 'mut I prefer to speak of mysclf as I am. a janitor, and a good one. It was over a year since I had seen Charles, the janitor of one of San Francisco's larger office buildings. "Ever since my youth I have continued to look upon the world with a philatelic eye," he said. "Do you mean you still scan the contents of the waste bas- kets six nights a week?" I asked, He handed me an envelope from which he shook out a torn half of another envelope. "Of course, it's not very often I come across anything like this, the situation. Usually it's only bread and but- "Yes," he continued. "As it is. ter stuff. Matter of fact, it's two hand cancelled and with a torn years since I found anything of cover, it's worth only $250. And this quality. Take a look at it." with absolutely no clue as to the The torn diagonal of paper owner. I'll just have to hold this was of faded buff color. Along Pony Express item for a reason the tear were the tag ends of let- able time, after which, if no one ters in a spidery script. In the claims it, I shall consider it as upper right hand corner were a gift from the god Janus in two stamps. One was a common recognition of my outstanding 3-cent stamp with the head of work as a janitor." 1930 GOLD PIECE MAKES EXPENSIVE CHARM BRACELET Jack a jeweler friend of mine, leaned forward over a tiny an vil on which he was beating out a link for a gold chain. On the table nearby lay a gold coin. "Take a look at the coin, Pink. Don't you think it'll make a nice pendant?" It was a $10 gold piece, and as I picked it up I realized, to my horror, that a hole had been bored through it. Otherwise, the coin was mint. Automatically I glanced at the riateIt was 1930. On the reverse side was the mark of the San Francisco mint, a tiny S. "Great Caesar, man," I cried. "Don't you realize the value of this? What you've done to it?" Jack grinned. "Don't leap to conclusions, my friend. It's bad for your blood pressure." "Do you mean this is a coun terfeit?" I asked. He shook his head. "It s per fectly genuine. It belongs to the son of a friend of mine, a young fellow in trade school. His father set it aside for him when the bov was born in 1934 everyone was allowed to keep SI 00 in New Income Tax Book Portland The new 1956 edi tion of "Your Federal Income Tax" has been made available by the internal revenue service for taxpayers who do not find necessary information in the in struction booklet which accom panies Form 1040. recently mail ed by the revenue department. District Director of Internal Revenue Service. Ralph C. Gran quist. said the 112 page book is more comprehensive than last year's edition, containing more subject matter, more explana tions and more actual examples of how to prepare the various schedules of the income tax re turn. Federal taxpayers in Oregon may obtain copies of the publica WANTED for CASH Highest Prices for . . . " I in " Iron Steel Scrap Steel Cable Radiators Copper Brass Aluminum Lead Batteries Truck Scale on Property WHITE CITY IRON & STEEL CO. T?&S!' nized the 36-inch browned bar rel briefly and called my atten tion to the marking. "Win. Jenks, U.S.N., R.P. 1884," it read, and then he put a paper in the breech and we took turns peering down the barrel. The rifling was clean. "That's mighty little money to pay for a piece like this. How did you do it?" I asked. Sam smiled. "You're right about its being a buy," he said. "If this were in just fair con dition, I'd have no difficulty in getting S60 for it. As it is, I'll get a hundred anyway, even without the bayonet." "But how did you get it," I persisted. "I'll tell you this much. Pink, he said, looking toward a pile of newspapers on his desk. "I got this, and plenty of other good buys, by scanning the classifieds of about a dozen papers. FINE STAMP DISCOVERY Washington in an oval. I recog- nzed it instantly as of the gen- eral ty,p that was issued back in the 1850s. The other I recoenized in- stantly, too. It was a. Pony Ex- press stamp, one of the 25-cent red variety that had its brief use in the days when bandits and Red men were the principal hazards to the U.S. mails "It's a shame that you don't have the entire enveUme.' said, trying to compute what if would be worth. "Yes." said Charles drily. If I did, I might have some hope of finding the owner. But as it is, it's just about hopeless. T looked at him. Somehow or other I got the impression he would bear up quite well under gold, as you recall and so now he's having it made into a pend ant for his girl friend." "But why didn't you tell him," I demanded. "I did, but he had bored the hole himself. At trade school. And he just brought it in with a chain from an old locket to put together." "I hope you charged him plen ty for the job. A guy that dumb . . ." "I told him the price would be $275." Jack answered, "that he couldn't possibly get it done cheaper anywhere else. "At first he didn't believe me. Then, when I explained that he had already paid $250 since he had destroyed the value of the coin, he got sore and wasn't go ing to give me the job." "How did you manage to get the job?" I asked. "By just pointing out that he could truthfully tell his girl friend he had given her a gift so expensive and unique that no other woman would ever have one." (Released by McClur Newspaper Syndicate) Is Available Now tion at the district office of the internal revenue service. 827 NE Oregon St., Portland, for 30 cents a copy. Work Starts on SOC 'Campus News Shows' Ashland The Southern Ore gon college radio workshop has started work on the winter quar ter's schedule of "campus news shows," a 15-minute news show released every other week over stations KWIN and KMED. During the fall quarter four regular news shows and one special feature show were re leased. The latter program fea tured the SOC choir in a pro gram of Christmas music. 27-BUSINESS DIRECTORY EUclric Motori GAGE ELECTRIC MOTOR SEBVTCl Delco and GE Motori Motor Rewinding and Repairing 1 12 N front Phone 2-?628 Loans Use Mai) Tribune Want Ada The Community's Biggest Marketplace Building & Construction DAN PATCH CO.. INC. Headauarters for all vour remodel ing needs. Financing arranged. Free estimates on any joo. 2080 W Main Ph. 2-4324 REMODELING Room Additions Cabinets Ceramic Tile Patios Car Ports Fire Places No Down Payment. Terms to suit rn. Ashland 2-6367 collect. Oregon Home Improvement Co. Remodeling Painting Taping"" Texturing Call NORDWICK Ph .Incksnnville 9-R547 TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY LOST Manila envelope containing important papers. Valuable only to owner. Return to H. De Vos, Mail Tribune. Reward. FORCED to sell My home on Cen tral Point Market Road. 11 acres. 2 bdrm. modern house. Partly fin ished, large garage. 4th house on left. East of Midway Auction. A bargain if sold this week.' John Paudois. Ph NO-4-1474. Also 4 Diesel Log Trucks & trailers. 1 or all. I BUY old cars Sc trucks for junk. Ph. NO-4-2971. FOR SALE. GE Washer & drver. S25 equity. Take over balance. Ph. Z-S34h. 340 DeBarr. FOR SALE. Dining table. 4 matching chairs Sc 2 extra. Metal step up stool. 2-5760. BARGAINS. Westinghousc range, 17" TV. Oak cabinet. 30-30 rifle, box of shells, must be sold by the 15th. 646 Manzanita. Central Point. 2x6 center match. $40 per m M. Good resaw sheeting. S40 per M. Free delivery NORTON LUMBER CO. Phoenix, Ore. Ph. 3-283" 2 REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS S6.700 Sc S6.400. Each pay S6j per month. Both are 6V Will sell for 25'i discount. Rt. 2. Box 630 Cen tral Point. W. end of Gibbon Rd. at trailer house. REAL ESTATE OFFICE with living quarters. ALSO 1 bdrm. furn. cottage Re decorated. 4UU3 Hwy 99 s Ph. 3-3420 CUSTOM GRINDING & MIXING- i-aciiic reeo Sc Seed Co. BORASCU Kills WEEDS in drive ways ditches etc. Pacific Feed Sc Seed Co. 4th & Front Sts. Ph. 2-2413 WANTED 12 ft. aluminum or fiber glass boat. State price and par ticulars. Write Tribune fBox 2817. WANT TO BUY Notes Mortgages Con tracts or Equities. Write Tribune MOX ZHltt. STOCK CUBES 53.35 per CWT Pacific Feed Sc Seed Co. FOR SALE: Tire chains to fit most all cars. S1095. See Carold J. Parker 610 So. Central. Medford. DOES YOUR FIREFLACE need weld ing or repaired? Does it smoke? Call Bernie, 3-4371. EXPERT OIL BURNER SERVICE MEDFORD FUEL Ph 2-2111 GREEN FIR SLABS Big Double Loads MEDFORD FUEL Tel 2-2111 2 Our price includes sDreadins service Gold Hill 5-9245 AgTjcuJ tural Ume Distributing Co SAWDUST For Sawdust Burners MEDFORD FUEL Tel 2-2111 BUNDLES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS 20c eacn Mail Tribune 11 North Kir for sale Ofllre TERRAMYCIN EGG FORMULA Pacific Feed Sc Seed Co. 4th Sc Front Sts. Ph. 2-2413 OIL TO BURN" MOBILHEAT We give SS.-H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL Ph 2-2111 TV POPCORN white or Yellow Pacific Feed & Seed Co. 4th ft Front Sfs. Ph. 2-241? LEGAL NOTICES NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE Oral auction bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, or his auth orized representative at the office of the Forest Supervisor. Post Office Building. Medford. Oregon, beginning at 2:00 p m.. February 11. 19."7. for all merchantable timber marked or designated for cutting on an area embracing about 13 acres located in a general sale area of 150 acres, more or less, within Sections 16 and 17. T 32 S . R. 3 E . W M . surveyed, in the Union Creek Ranger District, Rogue River National Forest. Jackson County. Oregon. The estimated vol umes are 90M board feet of Douglas fir. 250 M board feet of pine species, and 60 M board feet of incense cedar and other species of timber. The minimum acceptable bid per M board feet is as follows: Douglas-fir $25.90. pine species S30.80. incense cedar and other species S14.05. This includes the following stumpage rates, per M board feet: Douglas-fir S21.75. pine species S26.65, incense cedar and other species S9.90. plus $1.50 for sale area better ment and $2.65 for slash disposal for all species. As a qualification for oral bidding, all bidders must submit a sealed bid accompanied by the re quired payment to the Forest Super visor prior to 2:00 p.m., February 11, 1957. Sealed bids will be posted at the beginning of the auction for the information of all bidders. A money order, bank draft, cashier's or certi fied check in the sum of 53.500.00 must accompany each bid. . to be applied on the purchase price, re funded or retained in part as liqui dated damages, according to the con ditions of sale. If an oral bid is de clared to be high at the closing of the auction, the bidder must im mediately confirm the oral bid by submitting it in writing on a Forest Service bid form. The right to reject anv and all bids is reserved. Forest. Forest Service bid forms for use in submitting sealed bids and full in formation concerning the timber, the conditions of sale and the submission of bids should be obtained from the District Ranger. Union Creek Ranger Station. Prospect, Oregon, or the Forest Supervisor. Post Office Build ing. Mefnrd, Oregon, before bids are submitted. CAREFUL, NOWI Boston U.R) Contractors will earn their money in a $31,850 face-lifting project being carried out on Boston's historic Old State House. Masons will be required to number each brick they remove for repairs in order to assure authenticity of the completed job. Evenly RADIATED HEAT! 43 m !.e-. 3 1 BEAUTY SAFETY COMFORTI NO SOOTI NO SMOKE! No clamper needed GUARANTEED SAVINGS ON FUEL BILLS Send height and width of your fireplace opening and re ceive complete information by return mail. SMITH-DYNGE LBR. CO. fSJt ILLINOIS VALLEY Ranger's Family Arrives By HELEN BOTTEL Ray W. Ellstrom, who will as sume his duties as district rang er at the Illinois Valley ranger station early in February, brought his wife and two chil dren, Robert and Karen, to Cave Junction last weekend. Ellstrom returned almost im mediately to Bend, where he will wind up his work this month as project assistant in timber management on the Des chutes National forest. In charge of the ranger sta tion untli Ellstrom takes over is District Assistant Winston Tut tle. The former district ranger. John Mattoon, and his wife left on Jan. 3 for Olympia. Wash., where Mattoon has been pro moted to a position in the super visor's office of the Olympia Na tional forest. Funeral services for Jessie Mabel Burnett, 70, mother of Loyd Burnett of Cave Junction, were held at Tacoma, Wash., on Friday, Jan. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett were called to Tacoma last Wednes day. Norma Lee Jones. 31, suffered internal injuries and lacerations Saturday night when a car in which she was a passenger skid ded on loose gravel and turned over on the Holland Loop road. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Raines of Cave Junction. The driver of the car, Harold Murdock, and another passen ger. Dusty Cook, were unhurt. Some six inches of snow snarled traffic on the Redwood highway and interrupted elec tric and telephone service here Monday night and Tuesday morning. A landslide near Patricks creek closed the highwav lead ing to Crescent City Wednesday and Thursday, Power was off in most parts of the valley for about an hour Monday evening, when a pick up truck driven by Ray Wood bury, Cave Junction, skidded on icy pavement and smashed into a California-Oregon Power Co. pole. Woodbury escaped injury, but the truck received consider able damage. Telephone lines leading into the nearby Muir Court were pulled down with the pole. When Andy Wilson came down out of the hills from his mine at the head of Althouse creek last weekend he reported bare ground almost to Bolan lake. He got out just in time, how ever, as Monday night s change in weather dumped more than a foot of snow in high places surrounding the Illinois Valley. Still at the mine is Wilson's part ner. Leo Schersinger. Both men are around 70, but prefer the small profits made from their mine to retirement as pension ers. Of the many miners who once headquartered in the Holland and Althouse area, only four are still actively engaged in thr hunt for gold or other minerals, says Mrs. Harry Floyd of the Holland store. At least a dozen others have given up the search anti have retired to their little cab ins near Holland. J. M. Stevenson, Hal Moore Sr. and Dan -Piper attended the Shrine banouet and installation ceremonies Friday night at Ash land. The Women's Society of Christian Service have voted to supply dishes to serve 100 for the new Immanuel Methodist church. Members are on the hunt for used furniture for the church, needed are -kindergarten and nursery furniture, two more pi anos, and kitchen utensils and equipment. The intermediate Methodist Youth Fellowship took part of their vacation time to paint nur sery and kindergarten benches for the new church. They met last Sunday at the home of Bob and Linda Prather on Rockydale road. A new class for young adults was started at the Immanuel Methodist church last Sunday. Richard Eddy is in charge of the class. William Raines of Cave Junc tion has taken over the local afpurv for Stark Brothers Nur sery of Louisiana, Mo., and sent With th Modern THERMO-RITE Glass Fireplace FRONT! Special heat-treated fun panels to beauuful solid brass frames with dralt control make jour fireplace an efficient heat producer. in his first order for trees and shrubs Monday. Raines plans to 'put in 50 dwarf fruit trees for display pur poses at his home on River street. He hopes to establish a full scale nursery on his prop erty in the future. Back from winter vacations spent at their various homes throughout the west are students at James Boys Home at Bridge view. All but four of the 29 boys at the resident school went home for the holidays. A chimney fire at the Jack Adams home in Kerby called out volunteer firemen of the Illi nois Valley Fire Protection Dis trict Saturday morning. Estimat ed damage to the roof was about $50. The problem of allegedly ex cessive fines will be discussed at the Cave Junction city coun cil meeting to be held Monday, Jan. 14. City recorder and municipal judge, Paul Glines, reports only three minor violations were filed during the two week Christmas holiday period, as compared to more thana dozen last year at the same time. Dale Tucker of Selma was elected president of the Illinois Valley Mineral Hobbies club on Friday night, Jan. 4, at a meet ing held at the Bridgeview Grange hall. Other officers re-elected for 1957 are Mrs. Sam Bunch, secre tary, and Mrs. Earl Boyd, treas urer. A potluck turkey dinner was served earlier in the eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. Clint Trefenther were visitors in the valley over the holidays. They moved to '"j reka from their home at Kerby this summer. According to Marshall Bur rows, general chairman of the Valley United Fund Drive, the campaign will be wound up here this week. Leaders of the drive for the various sections of the valley are Larry Cushing, Cave Junc tion; Lew Krauss Jr., Selma; Mrs. Casey Piller. Kerby; John Grubb. O'Brien; Harry Floyd. Holland, and Charles Baird, Takilma. Outgoing honored queen of Bethel No. 36. Ronine Rausch. was hostess at a Job's Daughters slumber party given at her home Saturday night, Dec. 29. The girls spent the first part of the evening making favors for the Bethel grandmothers at Forest Grove. After a late Mo vie, they spent the remainder of the night talking and eating. u Arizona Flagstone When You Build That FIREPLACE, PLANTER, PATIO or BARBECUE The Low Cost Will Surprise You! See Our Complete Selection of Natural Stone Products at Very Reasonable Prices INTERSTATE STONE CO. 923 South Riverside r r 1 - i . ' ,.;..', . ' ' "K'lP f..-: -.--t, ,. ''''r"fi v '" " " " ' -Sitwhisw v- - ; " 7- ' U-SS;-- . . r ,- " . :V - f - ; ; " - - -,- . '-' ' l -1 j. .t:..-. ..i "nfr -n r-ti is STANDING MERCY FLIGHTS, INC. Sunday, January 13, 19S7 says Ronine'j mother, Mrs. Bob Rausch. The affair was also a farewell party for Honored Queen Ro nine whose chair will be filled this season by Linda Zimmer man. Guests included Linda and Sharon Prather, Karen Berkner, Ardith Hilger. Diane Stroh kirch. Bertha Champney. Linda Zimmerman, Lorraine Steimer. Carolyn DeMersseman, Sandy Piper and Betty Carter. The Glenn Morrison Post of the American Legion made two changes in its rank of officers at the regular meeting held Wednesday night, Jan. 2. Les Henry was named ser-geant-at-arms to replace Harold Haslock, who has been appoint ed finance officer of the post. At the Legion Auxiliary meet ing, also held on Wednesday, plans were discussed for the an nual poppy sale. Membership Chairman Ellen Hartwell gave a report on prog ress of her committees, while Irene McCasland, rehabilitation chairman, reported on the amount of cookies sent to Camp White. Ernest Ellis and his son Bobby returned Monday from Sacra mento, Calif., where they took his oldest son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Galen Ellis. Galen and Marge Ellis, on Navy furlough, were en route to his new assignment in San Di ego. They arrived from Oak Harbor, Wash., in December to spend the holidays with their family at O'Brien. Mrs. A. W. Bullard and her daughter Jean met the first grandchild in the Bullard fam ily last weekend when they vis itetLMrs. Bullard's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith and small son Reid Allen at Albany, Ore. The baby was born on Dec. 16. Bullard was called to Ingle wood last week by the death of his step-mother, Mrs. W. H. Bul lard, whom he had seen last dur ing the Christmas holidays when the family visited relatives in southern California. Three of the Bullard's daugh ters are enrolled at LaVerne college, Calif., while both of Mrs. Bullard's parents and Mr. Bullard's father live in the Los Angeles area. Tom Bailey left Sunday for Klamath Falls to resume his studies at Oregon Technical In stitute. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Bailey of O'Brien. The Bailey family gathered at the home of Mrs. Bailey's moth er, Lizzie Thomas, in Grants Pass for Christmas. Also present were Mrs. Thomas' son and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Thom- j Phone 2-9912 The planes operated by nationally-famous Mercy Flights, Inc., and its volunteer pilots, are ready, day and night, in all but the very worst weather conditions, to carry the sick, the injured, the pain-wracked and helpless, to emergency medical attention. You can participate in this work of mercy. For S4 per family per year,' you can know the peace of mind of being protected should you need the emergency services of these planes and pilots. And if it never happens to you, you still will know you are helping keep the service in operation for the health and safety of your neighbors. Mail your check to (And be sure to renew promptly MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEK Oil The Side (Distributed bv King Tennyson was one of 12 chil dren. Benjamin Franklin one of 15. Enrico Caruso, one of 19. Clarence Darrow, once asked to express an opinion of limited families, said. "I am prejudiced. I was the fifth child of my par ents." Get It Right It is repeatedly said that Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Jim Corbett with a "solar plexis" blow. That "solar plexis" term was originated by an imagina tive sports writer. What follows is Fitzsimmons own description of how he flattened Corbett: "I saw a clean opening in his stomach and came in with a left hand shift on his wind and. then without changing the posi tion of my feet shot the same hand against his jaw." Remarkablt Animal What was the greatest per forming animal you ever saw? I think tops for me was a mon key that was a trick cyclist? When I was in Paris a man in formed me that a couple of years ago there was exhibited in the Fremh capital a frog who could play the piano. That is, play recognizable tunes! as of Grants Pass and her daugh ter, Mrs. Vern Esgate and fam ily from Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hager left last week for Areata, Calif., to visit Mrs. Hager's mother and brother. They later took her mother, Mrs. Rachel Berg, to Los Angeles with them, where they visited another of Mrs. Hager's brothers. Guests at the Ed. DeMersse man home recently were Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Brown and chil dren from Medford. former val ley residents. Mrs. Brown is en rolled at Southern Oregon col lege. Her husband is employed at a Medford plywood plant. Doug Dick Ray PRESENT "3" Keys to Easy Western Living PLANNING BUILDING FINANCING Let us show you one of the building sites we have available in Country Club Manor. We will build to your specifications. Ask, too, about the HAPPINESS HOMES recently completed in Wilson Park. One may be just right for your family. JUST PHONE FOR THE KEYS 3-5037 - 2-9715 - 3-1418 THE'3'McKEES BUILDERS OF BY. . . when you receive your notice!) By E. V. Duri ng Features Syndicate, Inc.) Pleas Not What we call suspenders the English call braces. What we refer to as gasoline they call petrol. They call an elevatpr a lift and a truck a lorry. The pro priety of this I do not question. After all English is their lan guage. Still I cannot understand on what grounds the Britsh ! "'" 11 oarKeiey Square or why tney pronounce Pall Mall as "Pell Mell." Sidelights Arthur Brisbane was a be liever in late marriage for men. He didn't marry until he was 47. He became the father of six children. . . It was Gladys Coo per who said that Ingrid Berg man, Hedy LaMarr, Vivien Leigh and Greer Garson are beautiful but that Lana Turner. Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford are attractive rather than beautiful. Housekeeping Is your wife an efficient housekeeper? C o n s c i entious, hard working housekeepers are said to be plentiful but women who handle their domestic tasks efficiently are rare. According to the domestic efficiency ex perts, the time it takes a woman to do her housework should be figured on a basis of a half an hour for each room plus one hour for each small child. Thus. if a woman has a six room house and two small children her housework should be done in five hours. Asides It was not Tennyson but By ron who observed: "She was divinely tall. I hate a dumpy woman." However, Tennyson did describe a woman as being: "Divinely tall and divinely fair" . This department always has been and still is strongly op posed to the use of the abbrevia tion "Xmas" for Christmas. It seems somewhat sacrilegious. P.O. BOX 522 MEDFORD ORFRfthl r i t, a MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
