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o o o o o ;X MEDFOUD (OlSGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Is That So? Before World War II. farmer U. Liu was plowing his rich i blacg, farmland in South Man churia pftparatory to sowing O sghum, millet and wheat when his plow suddenly turned up some hard, strange-looking ob jects. They looked almost like wine cups. Curious, he took 0 them home, cracked them with a heavy object and found inside each "cup" a dozen acorn-like dark brown objects which con tained soft creamy centers. lii tasted them and they tasted good. But what could they be? Finding other sweet - tasting objects in his black loam in suc ceeding days, the puzzled Liu sent them to a botanist ffiend, Ichiro Ohga, in Tokyo, telling ill' G him he had been finding them while plowing in a fieid bord ered 3)y willows, elms and pop lars. Dr. Ohga at once identified them as lotus seeds but how could lotus seeds occur in plow ed land and land that had been plowed by our genera tions of Lius? Curious scientist that he was, Dr. Ohga went to Pulantien in South Manchuria to see for him . self. There, sure enough, he too found seeds near a grove of pop lars and willows. Judging from the peaty nature of the soil, he surmised correctly that the land had once been under water. Per haps an earthquake, not uncom mon to that region, had raised the land; or an eruption of a volcano deep inside the "earth had raised the valley floor so that the lake had drained; or a tremendous flood had sluiced out the lake. But judging from the size of the poplars, that must have been at least 150 years ago. If so, the lotus seeds must have lain in the ground all these years. Now if he could get them to sprout, he might JACKSONVILLE Date Set For Smorgasbord O By MRS. C. S. HOSKINS Jacksonville The Jackson ville Parent-Teachers associa O tion has set the date for their annual Smorgasbord and Square Dance for Feb. 9, according to Mrs. Ross Crowley, general chairman of the event. It will be held at the Jackson ville school with dinner to be served from 5 until 8 p.m. Mrs. Fred Edens and Mrs. John Neid ermeyer will be swving with Mrs. Crowley, co-chairman, and other nwnbers of the PTA as sisting with serving and prepar- p,ation of the food. On theftnenu will be roast tur key, baked fish and ham, Swed ish meat-ball and the usual trimmings. There will be a charge of $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for children under 12. Ten of the valley's popular call ers will be on hand for the square dance for which no extra O charge will be made. Dancing will be m 8 until 11 p.m. Some out of town visitors last week were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Peterson of Brainerd, Minn. They spent a day visiting with the J. E. Johnsons with whom they hav been friends for 40 years. O Mr. and Mrs. Byron Sanford moved last week to the small house on the Preston ranch on -the Applegate. Their home here, at 801 South Third street, has been leased. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Rcavis have recently sold their home at 610 south Fourth street to Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Tetreault of Dark Hollow road near Griffin creek. The Reavis family has Need Cash? Prompt Service! You can b sur of fast, depend able servic whenever you need money! Step in or call . . all ar rangements quickly made. Loans On AUTO SALARY FURNITURE S25 to S1,500 PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! Call or Write American Finance Corp. Phone 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist have the oldest viable seeds that any scientist had yet come across. He tested 200 of these seeds in his laboratory and 200 sprouted. Seeds Given Scieniisti Ohga gave other seeds to scientists and explained how they were found in a cultivated field. Some scientists made wild guesses as to their possible age others, frankly, disbelieved the whole story. Finally, the true story came after World War II in Chicago and the answer is today in Washington, D.C. The answer came through a new dating method, called Ra diocarban 1 test a test based upon 'the intake of radioactive carbon by all living things, in cluding man, and its slow but steady disappearance from the tissues of all plants and animals once they die or stop growing. Using the best of these seeds, the founder of the method, Dr. W. F. Libby of the University of Chicago discovered that these seeds were 1,040 years old, give or take a few years. Thousand year old seeds! Still viable but how viable? They had sprouted in a laboratory but would they grow, blossom and bear seeds to reproduce themselves? That was the cru cial question. Story Jumps Now our story jumps to Wash ington. Horace V. Wester of the National Park service took two 'of these now precious seeds. He filed through their flinty sides and soaked them in water for 15 minutes. Then he put them under moist cotton in a covered dish. On the fifth day, a tiny rootlet came out: of one. On the seventh, the other seed sprout ed. He transplanted them into large pots immersed in a tank of water in a greenhouse. If you want to see plants growing today from this oldest living seed ever discovered, then go to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington, D.C. And tell 'em Burnso sent you! (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Bruns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the and plan to move there about March. Burial services were held last Thursday at the Jacksonville cemetery for Charles Eek who died at the Veteran's hospital in Portland last Monday. He was well known in this area. Surviv ers include tbree sons, John and James Eek of Jacksonville, and Robert Eek of Medford, one daughter, Mrs. Louise Flagg, also of Medford as well as other relatives. Eek was a World War I veteran, serving in the 167th Infantry. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Belau and children had just returned re cently from a week's visit at Gridley, Calif, where they were guests of Mrs. Belau's brother the Rev. Hazen Chester, when they were called to Akeley, Minn, by the death of Belau's father Fred Belau. Leaving the two school-age children in the care of their grandmother, Mrs. Earl Chester, of Jacksonville, the Belau's took their two younger child ren and drove the family car. They report that the whole 5000 mile, 16 day trip was made in disagreeable ice and snow con ditions. The Belau family were reunited for the first time in 23 years at the funeral services. Enroute home the Harry Belaus stopped off at Culbert son. Neb. for a four days visit with Mrs. Belau's uncle the Rev. Earl Larson and family. Mrs. Pearl Kitchen returned this week after five weeks absence from Jacksonville, rid ing as far as Oakville, Wash, with the Quintin Jordons on their recent trip Mrs. Kitchen visited in Oakville at the home of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Channing. Enroute home she visited a sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Lakes at Portland and also spent a week with her daughter. Mrs. Gertrude Tryon of Grants Pass before returning to Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Lions club report that their Jan. 31 pan cake supper at the Community hall was a success. They served over 100 people and cleared a total S69 which was turned over to the March of Dimes. The men report that they carried out the entire project without the as sistance of their respective mates. Henry Newcome, of Van couver. B.C., who has been visit ing at the Quintin Jordon home the past few weeks, left for home last week. He is a cousin of Mrs. Jordon. Mr. and Mrs. Quinton Jordon and family and the Henry Jor dons and family, of Jacksonville, were all evening dinner guests Sunday, Jan. 22, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jordon of Central Point. Mrs. Mabel Groves of Jacksonville also ac companied the Quintin Jordons. Tuesday, February S, 1957 I 11 F A 33 LEAVING WASHINGTON TOGETHER for a brief vaca tion are the President and Charles E. Wilson, defense secre tary, left, with Mrs. Wilson. If there is any difference between them over Wilson's remarks about the National Guard it Is not apparent here. (International Soundphoto) best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be consid ered. Sorry, I simply can't an swer your many friendly let ters. Please address your let ter to: Is That So; care of Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. TABLE ROCK Many Attend By R. E. NEALON Table Rock The Table Rock Community meeting Friday night, Jan. 25, drew a larger at tendance than usual, with many visitors present from other parts of the valley. The program consisted of a "litterbug" skit by members of the Central Point Garden club, a trumpet solo, by Jeffrey An horn, accompanied by his moth er, both of Central Point, a short play, "The Scandal," by five Table Rock ladies, Ruth Brown, Norma Matteson, Bar bara Taylor, Joyce Robinson, and Lois Smith and a song by Anita and Rita Pierce. Miss Marjorie Hatten, 4-H leader, a recent sojourner ui Norway, showed, slides illustrat ing farm life and conditions in that country, explaining as she went along, farming methods and machinery used in planting and harvesting crops. Mrs. Ernest Smith, heading a committee to study some plan of arousing more interest in com munity meetings and spacing the time of meetings, made a report in which plans were submitted to be voted on by members at the next meeting, Feb. 22. . During a round table discus sion at Saturday night's meet ing of the Sams Valley Grange, it seemed to be the concensus of opinion that the family size farm that Ray Gill, past master of the Oregon State Grange, claims is the back bone of the nation, is fast disappearing as a place to make enough to live and raise a family. One farmer stated that if the Soil Bank would pay him $12 an acre for keeping his land idle, he would make more than he does farming it. The ground was frozen here to a greater depth than for sev eral years. The little woman de cided that we should dig a mess of carrots, so we started in with a trowel, and ended up using a pick before we go a few carrots out of the five inches of frozen ground. The flock of swans that have been coming to this section to winter for about 11 years with this year only 3 or 4 showing up at first, have now increased to some 14. Jim Cornutt, the Kanes creek poultry and dairyman was up this way last week after feed, and took back with him 10 gal lons of drinking water, his water system being frozen. Of interest to Table Rock folk was the news of the birth of a son, Alan Patrick, Saturday Jan. 19, to the Delmar Dooleys in Tehran, Iran. Mrs. Dooly is the former Thalia Doty, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Doty of this district. A young black and white dog, about the size of a cocker span- OIL TO DISTRIBUTOR LET US FILL, YOUR TANK TODAY! MEDFORD FUEL CO. Court and McAndrews Telephone 2-21 1 1 WE GIVE "S&H" GREEN STAMPS s;2J l-s Larger Homes Seen as Offset to Building Lag Portland (U.R) Carvel Lin den, vice president of the U.S. National Bank, has predicted that the current lag in home building would be offset this year by a greater number of larger homes. Linden addressed Oregon and Washington chamber managers at the first session of a two-day meeting. Club Program iel, came to the A. C. Allen place recently. The dog is a nice friendly critter, and would be a nice pet for children. It can be obtained by communicating with Mr. Allen. Mrs. Ray Wyatt left by plane Friday morning to visit her son, Kenneth and family, in Castro valley, Calif. She expects to be i gone about two weeks. According to figures we have obtained from farmers here who are feeding cattle, there is some thousand head of cattle being wintered in the district. This in cludes, besides th regular farm herds, cattle belonging to stock men in other parts of the county, who bring cattle here to feed on the dry pumice soil. A birthday dinner given for J. S. Richardson last Sunday at the R. E. Nealon home was at tended by Mr. and Mrs. James Cornutt and Mrs. Emma Hous ton of Kanes creek, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Leavitt of the Old Stage road and Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Richardson of this district. L. D. Inskeep, our 180-pound doctor, was asking us if we knew of an old timer who told him some 37 years ago about a big snow and flood in the Rogue River valley. The man telling the story was supposed to have been here, he and his partner, at the time having built a cabin near the present site of the Table Rock store. When the five feet of snow finally went off, the fast moving water got so high that the cabin was almost submerged before the occupants knew it, and the partner was never seen again but the narrator was saved by getting to Table Rock. The date as "Doc" remembers it was '73. We have heard the same story, but the date was 1860, but we never met the narrator or knew his name. ' John B. Caird, deputy asses sor, was on official duty here Thursday. He was taking a cen sus of new buildings construct ed since last year's census, and buildings torn down or de stroyed. E. A. mentioned to us that he felt complimented that we named our typewriter for him, but we are afraid we spoiled it when we said Eric was an awful poor speller. The Rev. Allen Hill and fam ily of Central Point, were vis itors last Sunday at the local Sunday school. The Table Rock Ladies club will meet Feb. 14, on Thursday, instead of the usual Wednesday at the Ray Bosworth home. "Tippie," the watch dog at the Don Wheeler farm, recently increased the dog population by a half dozen, which Mrs. Wheel er says over-stocked the farm, so she is giving the pups to folks who might want just a common dog. BURN' Medford Attorney Back From Salem Edward Branchfield, a partner in the legal firm of Roberts, Kellington and Branchfield, re turned last week end from Sa lem where he had been for two weeks. Branchfield was assisting in the State Bar association's pro gram of furnishing lawyers to draw up bills in their proper form for members of the legisla ture. The plan has been in effect for the past several sessions, and has been well-received by the legislature. The Bar association program is one of three ways legislators have of getting bills prepared. The others are through the leg islative council and the attorney general's office. Mrs. Branchfield and their son, Paul, visited Branchfield for a few days during his stay in Salem. Bolivia's f. nit of currency is called the boliviano. Be Chosen As Our Just register your name er have your husband do it for you at Home Appliance Company. That's all there is to it. Nothing for you to buy . . . and there's no gimmicks. On Valentine's Day, February 14th, we'll have a simple drawing . . . and some luck lady will have a brand new 1957 G-E Mobile Maid delivered to her the same day. Only rules are: It must be a lady whose name is registered (we'll have a contest for bachelors later much later). All names must be registered by 5:30 p.m. February 13th. You can register as many times as you wish . . . whenever you're downtown. Of course, as in all Home Appliance Company contests you needn't worry about us using your name as a "Birdog" list . . . no one will ring your doorbell every other day. Be sure you register soon . . . and maybe you'll be OUR VALENTINE and win this beautiful new G-E Mobile Maidl IF YOU HAVE A G-E MOBILE MAID- IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A G-E MOBILE MAID . . . (and a lot of you dol) the winner of our MRS. VALENTINE CONTEST . . . can, of course, have a credit of $200 towards any other G-E appliances or TV that we have in stock ... 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