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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1957)
Sunday, February 10, 1957 Examinations Announced The civil service commission has announced examinations for communications coding clerk for filling positions in various fed For Civil Service Job application forms may be obtain ed from Chester W. Silliman, U.S. post office, Medford. The lack of a satisfactory ink ing device caused the first cylin der printing press to be regard ed as a failure. Snow Course Taken On Page Mountain Snow at Page mountain h 24.2 inches, with five inches of water content in 1957, compared to 14.4 inches, and 1.6 inches of water in 1956. At Althouse there was 19.5 inches of snow, con taining 39 inches of water this year, while in 1956 snow meas ured 16.2 inches, with 2.7 inches of water. The moon in its elliptical orbit around the earth every four weeks (27.3 days) travels an average distance of 238,900 miles or equivalent to 30 times the diameter of the earth. Burled Treasure Cave Junction The first snow course of the year, taken Jan. 31 for the forest service, in dicates from three to 10 inches more snow in local mountains last month than in January, 1956. Dave Chamberlin, timber man agement assistant at the Illinois Valley Ranger station, and Ralph Huber traveled 10 miles on skiis last week to measure snow depth and water content at Page mountain and Althouse. eral agencies in the Washington I D.C. area and in the signal corps in the Winchester, Va., area. Additional information and o Read and Use Classified Ads TO UHTfcEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE o o o o o I News About Books From the Library o Announcement of 42 "Notable Books" of 1956 has been received by the Medford Public library, according to Librarian Helen Webster. The list, covering books pub lished through Nov. 30, 1956, was compiled by the Notable Books counqil. a special com mitter of the Public Librarians Division of the American Li brary association. Thirty-f i v e public libraries participated in . the selection. According to Bernard W. Van Home, librarian of the Library association of Portland, and chairman of the council, the listed titles are particularly val uable for their contributions to understanding among individ ' ualsnd groups, their originality -fine writing, and their gen uine interest and appeal for the general reader who seeks to broaden and deepen tiis under standing of himself, his world, and his society. Four novels are O included in the selections. I Books on the list include the following, all of which are avail able through any agency of the Jackson County Library: "My : Lord, What a Morning," Ander- ' -) son; "Helen Keller," "Brooks: ! "Through These Men," Brown: 0"This Hallowed Ground," Cat ton; "The Secret of the Hittites," Ceram; "A History of the Eng lish Speaking Peoples." Church- ill: "Eisenhower: the Inside i Story." Donovan; "The Age of Fighting Sail," Forester: "Youth: the Years from 10 to i 16," Gesell: "A Single Pebble," I . Hersey; "The Nun's Story," Hune: "Profiles in Courage," Kennedy; "Behind the Moun tains," La Farge; "Harry of Mon mouth," Maughan; "Olympio: the Life of Victor Hugo," Maurois," "Arms and Men," Millis: "The Earth We Live On," Moore; "The Last Hurrah," O'Connor; "The American Presidency," Rossiter; "Autumn Across A m e r i c a," Teale; "Three Saints and a Sin ner," Tharp; "An Historian's Approach to Religion," Toynbee; and "Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South," Warren. Isthmus of Panama is 31 to ' 118 miles in width and about! 425 miles long. It contains 32.- J80 square miles which is about equivalent to the area of the state of Maine. Soft coal deposits underlie 57 ot Missioun s 115 counties. MOVING? 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I saitf. value of the stamp was S50 used O ow"nom taxing nis eyes off or not. an A virtu fiUntAU GOTTEN AT BARGAIN I It was the first night I had which was obviously mahogany. spent in the house, and because 1 pulled open the drawer. It : it had heen a rnmfnrtahlo nn I was divided on the inside into , , , . .. , . three compartments one of which 1 u WJ uuu. UIC ,uum De- contained shaving materials. re getting up. . I reached forward and topped j There was something about the mirror. It moved through a j w- mcuuirauin.i uiuu 1 Ktm quiie sman arc. ai oreaKiast 1 men-1 in Keeping with the rest; it tioned the find.to my host. "seemed older. X got up to ex- "Sure. It s an old-fashioned . amine it. shaving glass. I picked it up - 11 wasn 1 me Dureau llsell, as not long ago at a country auction . it turned out, but something on in Utah. Probably was brought i O O top of it that I had assumed was across the plains by some early pari 01 me wnoie. Mormons. f In effect it was a small bureau He had paid S25 for it, and he i inches wide, one drawer high didn't seem at all excited. I ex- and about ten inches deep, plained that he had undoubted- Mounted on it near the rear was y got a real bargain. an oblong njirror in a frame that That might be, he agreed. An was quite imple, except that interior decorator his wife had ; the top of it rose into a low brought out from the city to do! pitcned peaK wnicn was orna- one of the rooms had offered mcated with an inlaid fan. prob- him $175 for it. but wasn't in- 3 nbly of sumac wood, judging terested in selling it for three irom its contrast witn the rest times that sum. O WORD DOUBLES VALUE OF MAUGHAM FIRST EDITION Doug is a great admirer of ested in page 124?" Somerset Maugham. He had driv- "I might as well tell you." he -en me u miles to see me be- said. "For years there have been ; cause someone had told him I renorts that the linp nn iu -i ' had just got a first edition of which reads a 'swinging blow to Maugham's "Liza of Lambeth." the stomach' reads a 'swinging 1 11 was a good clean copy of blow to the belly in the first 1 the work published in Mau- issue. If it does, then your copy, ; gham's youth, in the London of and mine; are second issues of 1897, when he was a medical the first edition, instead of the " student, ancj for that reason, first as we have thought." $uite aside from my having got That's one of the maddening : it for a dollar, I rather expected things about book collecting. For ! uoug 10 examine tne book care- the remainder of my days, when- tfuily and critically. ever I come across an old copy ; But he didn t.He flipped the of "Liza of Lambeth," I'll be ! agcs rapidly until he got to looking at page 124 for the page lit, read it briefly, banged hitherto elusive word "belly." the bock shut and gave it back And so will Doug. As he put Otome. it, "Under the circumstances, I "What's the idea" I demanded, would be quite happy to pay "I'll have you know this is a $150 for your book if it used line copy one that is worth 'belly' in place of that con- so ot anybody s money." founded word 'stomach'." Yes, yes, he said. "I know. Of course, he would. It would 1 nave one exactly like it, for be a bargain at such a price, which I paid $80." (Released by MeClur "Well, why are you so inter- - Newspaper Syndicate) a. 1 I 1 MtUrURD 0 FEMEYS AT PENNEY'S YOU'LL FIND VALENTINE'S DAY GIFTS For Mother.. Wife.. 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