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
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TO UHTfcEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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News About Books
From the Library
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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.
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Zdchary Taylor Stamp
Worth $50 Used or Not
I sat down opposite a man who mine he extended his hand hold
wai reading Scott s Stamp Cata- ing the stamp. It was a light green
lKJe. item with an oval portrait of
) 1 ieanra lorwara in an attempt Zachary Taylor surrounded by
to see me secuon ne was con- the words "Rough and Ready.
ulting. About the oval was the legend
air. Marx tor so l shall call "Swarts' City Dispatch Post."
him did not raise his head, but I thanked him. He said noth
O he did lift his eyes and fix them ing further, looked again briefly
on mine. at the catalogue and left.
1 was wondering about your I seized the catalogue. The
stamp." 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)
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