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o o O O O o o r9ratsan9 cosegoih mail trtvovz Thursday. February 14. 19S7 ; Kfwiyw " STUDYING PORKY CONTROL Above is the Jackson county delegation which dis cussed porcupine control with Klamath county representatives in Klafnath Falls last week. County Judge Rodney Keating is shown pointing out methods of eliminating porcu pine. Watching from left to right are Sam Taylor, Bill Donovan, Jennings Pierce, Keat ing. Glenn Allen, Ralph Cooke, Ralph James, E. K. Peterson, and Tenny Moore. On The Side (Distributed by King By E. V. Durling Features Svndirate. Inc.) How are you doing for laughs lately? Have you a friend or relative who frequently inspires you to indulge in hearty laugh ter? If so you are greatly indebt ed to that person. It was the dis tinguished physician Dr. Chris topher Hufeland, who said, "Of all man's functions that affect the body and soul together, laughter is the healthiest. Laugh ter aids digestion, circulation, perspiration and has a refreshing effect on the strength of all or gans." Almost Confidential How long were you married befofe you presented your wife with mink coat? Do you know who first popularized that type of coat? It was Queen Victoria of England, who wore a mink coat on her honeymoon ... it is from tackle to tackle where the real players on a football team are found. Eighty per cent of the greatest football pjayers of all time have been linemen. Sidelights Lillian Russell was 52 years old when she married for the fourth time. And then she mar ried a millionaire . . . The motto of the StoRie Wagering Associa tion of America is the following observation by Bacon: "Read not to believe and take for granted but to weigh and consider." Briefly Smoking should not be per mitted in theatres. Besides the fire hazard there is the menace of air pollution which is claimed by some medical men to be one of the causesof lung cancer . . . Florida has the highest percent age of widows. Many of them very merry wicfbws. New Hamp shire has the highest percentage of widowers, California of divor cees, and Nevada of bachelors. Bachelors The Swedish single men are the most difficult bachelors in the world to get into matrimo nial harness. The average Swe dish male marries at 30 years of age. The average Swedish fe- me doesn't get a man to call her own until she is 27. Twenty- five per cent of Swedish women are still unmarried at 40. Briefly ine word chiropodist was originirled by a Londoner" in 1795. Until that time those en gaged in what is now known as sijiropody were called "corn cut- Wrs . . . The lucky number of Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) people is five. Or, so say the stargazers. Incidentally, insofar as horse races are concerned, five is a good number for everybody. Thoroughbreds having post posi tion number five win more races than those having any other number. Love It was Anatole France, who said, "Those who know life and society know that women do not willingly wear upon their deli cate bodies the hairshirt of true love. Reflect how much a wom an of the world must sacrifice when she loves; liberty, peace of mind, the charming play of free imagination, coquetry, amuse ments, pleasures. Love is the least worldly of the passions, the most anti-social, the wildest, the most barbarous." Get It Right The Metropolitan Opera House opened in 1883 with a per formance of Gounod's "Faust." So states a music critic. The dis tinguished gentleman is in error. The Metropolitan opened in 1882 with a performance of the Strauss operetta titled "The Queen's Lace Handkerchief." Small Cars The very small automobile is becoming increasingly popular in this country. Some of the ma chines I have seen lately are not much larger than kiddie cars. The little automobile has, of course, been popular in Europe for many years. In 1938 in Paris I saw a small automobile that could go 98 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It could do 45 miles an hour. The owner had it made to order. I STAMP COLLECTION Boston (U.R) A Boston & Maine railroad passenger had only SI. 10 toward his $1.17 fare. So the conductor accepted three three-cent postage stamps for the balance and gave the passenger two cents change. FREAK LOBSTER Kennebunkport, Me. (U.R) Lobster dealer Byron Gooch found a freak live lobster which was half crimson and half black. Line Divine! Most of the dehydrated pota toes now being produced are in the form of dice, with their big gest use in canned stews and hashes. 9012 10 IS (Artie. Our new Printed Pattern in a dream of a party-going dress! Sleek, slim, curve-loving lines that say such beautiful things about your figure. Little man darin neckline with airy sweet heart effect very new, very flattering! Printed Pattern 9012: Missies' Sizes 10, 12. 14, 16, 18. Size 16 requires 2V yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat tern part. Easier, faster, accur ate. ' Send FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for . lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. " County Delegation Discusses Porky t Control in Klamath Jackson County Judge Rodney Keating headed a delegation of county representatives in an all day meeting at Klamath Falls last week to discuss- porcupine control in southern Oregon with about 25 Klamath county representatives. Tom Orr, forester of Weyer haeuser Lumber company, con ducted the meeting. Bill Lawr ence, biologist, explained the porcupine's habits, including habitat, food choices, reproduc tion rate and estimate damage to pine and fir forests. The delegations met at the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company headquarters, Klamath Falls. Jennings Pierce, representa tive of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and Med ford Kiwanis- club, discussed the porcupine reduction program, which has been underway in Jackson county since July 1, 1956. Save Timber Pierce told the group in six months local people ' in Jackson county had eliminated 4,400 porcupines. If a single porcupine accounts for an annual minimum damage to forest trees of $600, he said, local people have al ready saved $2,640,000 worth of timber in Jackson county. Pierce suggested Klamath county institute a similar pro gram as an adjunct to the Kla math control program by chal lenging the Klamath Falls Kiwanis club to' compete with Medford Kiwanis on porcupine control. The winning club in the con test could be dinner guests of the losing club after a year's com petition, he said. Greer Drew, president of the Klamath Falls club, said there will be an an swer to Pierce's challenge in the future. In the afternoon the group took a field trip out into a pine tract near Klamath Falls which showed over 75 per cent damage by porcupines. Accompanying Keating and Commissioner Ralph James of the county court, were Pierce, Sam Taylor, Glenn Allen, Ralph Cook, Gene Peterson, Tenny Moore and Bill Donovan. Gay Scrap Quilt Bank af Chicago Goes Electronic Chicago (U.R) A Chicago neighborhood bank has gone electronic, creating an adjacent drive-in complete with electric eyes, flashing signal lights, two way customer-teller s p e a k e rs and an automatic turntable that points cars in the proper direction. A closed-circuit television sys tem permits tellers to check de positors' signatures with a mast er file in the bank's main office The drive-in equipped with three bullet-proof tellers' cages that can be entered only from a tunnel, was designed by Chicago architects and is weather-proof. . A customer drives inside the main garage-like structure to a centrally located turntable. Elec tronically controlled t r a f f i c lights tell him whether or not to drive onto the turntable. Once he's on it, it points him toward an available teller. Two-way speakers allow the customer to converse with the teller without leaving his car. Transactions are conducted through metal drawers adjacent to the cages. G p . , . . $ t e . f -- ; ? "j s- . - ' 4 !! ,- . ' -- i o STANDING BY... O O The planes operated by nationally-famous Mercy Flights, Inc., and its velunteer 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 $4 per family per year, you can know the peace of mind of beina 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 O service in operation for the health and safety of your neighbors. 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Way Found to Ship Pears Safely Davis, Calif. i(U.R) A fruit packing specialist, using a ma chine that rocks and rolls like a moving freight car, found a way for nearly ripe California pears to enjoy an undamaging ride to eastern markets. University of California pom ologist Noel F. Sommer was in formed that recent shipments of California Bartlett pears, jumble-packed in fiberboard cartons, arrived at eastern markets with price-lowering discolorations. So,' surrounded by piles of pears. Sommer went to work with a - vibrating machine de signed by R. L. Perry, agricul tural engineer at the University of California at Los Angeles. Sommer tested typical fiber board cartons, holding 36-38 pounds of pears on the machine for periods varying from 45 minutes to three hours. Ordinary jumble-packed pears were ser iously discolored after only 45 minutes on the tester, and the 90-minute test was sufficient to bruise every pear in the con tainer. Finally he hit on placing a simple pad over the fruit and securing the lid tightly. The in expensive pad a paper envel ope filled with shredded paper stopped the vibration. Bruis ing was almost entirely elimin- Sommer reported that further tests of this method showed that bruising stopped only when the carton lid was fastened tightly and the pad compressed between the lid and the fruit. Secured in this manner, he said, the pad worked as well with nearly ripe fruit as with greener samples. Balance in Rations Needed, Expert Says WHAT? Lewiston, Me, j!U.R) Wilfred F. Perreault sent a $42.97 biU to Lewiston's Board of Public Works, after a tree branch dropped on his new automobile with this note attached: "What if it had hit me on the head?" The greatest distance, east or west, in the United States is about 3,100 miles. From north to south the maximum span is about 1.700 miles. Three Polio Virus Strains Purified Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Uni versity of California scientists have achieved the purification and crystallization of all three major known strains of poliomy elitis virus. The report was made by Dr. Carleton E. Schwerdt and his co-worker, Dr. Frederick L. Schaffer, of the school's virus laboratory. They reported the crystalliza tion and purification of one polio strain MEF-1 in the fall of 1955, the first any time any human or animal infecting virus had been crystallized. Now they have since purified the Mahoney and Saukett strains. The three strains are those used in the Salk vaccine. Corvallis New "miracle" feed ingredients can't do the job alone, it was stressed last week at the 15th annual Animal Nu trition conference at Oregon State college. Nearly 200 commercial feed processors and dealers attended the two-day conference, sponsor ed by the college and the Oregon Feed and Seed Dealers associa tion. They heard Dr. O. O. Thom as, professor of animal husband ry at Montana State college, em phasize that balanced rations are needed before livestock can make maximum use of the new feed additives. Antibiotics are now of estab lished value in the rations of many animals, Thomas said. And he also cited experiments show ing that use of animal hormone, stilbestrol, has upped weight gains when fed to animals. Another visiting speaker. Dr. G. F. Combs, professor of poul try husbandry at the University of Maryland, explained use of the new "calorie-protein ratio" to the feed men. By far the largest part of the poultry feed dollar is spent on feeds supplying energy and pro tein in the proper ratio so feed is efficiently utilized to produce animal products most economi cally. I Efficiency Key j Efficiency is the key to pro- fitable production. Combs point ed out. He said the cost per ton of feed isn't a good way to mea- j sure feed costs, since commercial feeds often differ in their over all efficiency. Basically, the cost of feed needed to produce a unit of animal product is the real measure of efficiency, he declared. Use of antibiotics in feed to control chronic respiratory dis ease (CRD) in poultry was dis cussed by J. H. Hare of the agri cultural research center, Charles Pfizer and Co., Terre Haute, Ind. Although antibiotics may not get rid of the CRD organism in poultry, the antibiotics do help birds maintain production during times of stress,Hare said. He also emphasized the necessity for a good ration to keep the dis ease level as low as possible. Dr. L. E. Bodenweiser, Oregon state department of agriculture, discussed the place of the feed dealer in control of livestock diseases. Many feed dealers have field men who work closely with livestock and poultry men in their area, he said, and these field men have a definite respon sibility to help control and pre vent the spread of disease. 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