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o Is That So? Twenty years ago it was vir tually impossible to keep a gorilla alive in a zoo for five yean. Today, in the San Diego zoo, three gorillas are playing happily together, they are care free, and they may well live to a ripe old age. The "playing together" is a good part of it. And it underlines a great change that has come over most zoos in the world. Formerly the greatest impor tance was placed on diet today, zoo directors are beginning to emphasize the psychological care given to animals; keeping sur roundings free of disease-bearing germs; and giving the animals plenty of room in the sun. To return to the sensitive gorilla and he is so sensitive that if his feelings are hurt, he won't eat his dinner. "At one time, this magnificent beast was bagged, hog-tied, and thrown into a dark confined cage," . Carey Baldwin, director of San Francisco's zoo. told me. "But today the young gorilla is cared for kindly and given a playmate perhaps a chimp, they make a gne pair and get along well. Or, in some zoos, such as the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, a human will play with the young gorilla for an hour or two every day. Most important." Adequate sunshine, too, plays "an important role with many zqt animals, Baldwin stated. Cats particularly enjoy sun im mensely. Birds, too. Many will bask in the sunshine and spread 'out their wings to the fullest, snetimes even holding a wing aloft in such a way as to expose the under-surface to the bene ficift sift. . "Penquins proved exceedingly difficult z, (residents," added Baldwin, "until we learned that they had to be moved twice a year to quite different locations. I do this at seasonal times match ing their south polar migrations. Before I did this," he said, "they struggled so violently and per sistently in their pens, they often died. But changed, twice a year, THE. 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Petition Seeks Survey Of Irrigation Project Cave Junction A petition asking for further surveys on Sucker Creek Irrigation project is in circulation here. When sufficient signatures have been received, . the petition will be sent to the bureau of reclama tion. The Sucker creek project would create a dam in the pres ent location of Grayback park, and would provide irrigation water for almost all of the Il linois valley excluding the Sel ma area. A report by army en gineers last year listed the cost-benefit ratio as favorable, but gave inconclusive data on several important points. CHANGE OF VEHICLES Oporto, Portugal U.R) Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh rode into this city Thursday in a Cadillac covered with flowers. They departed in the back of a dusty police van. The queen and her husband visited newsmen from the open GRANDVIEW-LONE PINE School Addition Complete By LILLIAN KNIGHT Grandview-Lone Pine Last Sunday afternoon the six class rooms in the new addition to the Lone Pine school were opened for public inspection. Approximately 100 visitors went through the rooms. The building has radiant heat throughout. The six classrooms, which have radiant heat, will house grades one through four. There is also a teachers' room and POD FAMILY LOVfc CAVE JUNCTION PTA To Give Scholarship Cave Junction Kerby Parent I en by Mr. and Mrs. John C. Teachers association members Smith for their Valentine baby voted Thursday, Feb. 14, to give ! born Feb. 14 at Josephine Gen- a full tuition scholarship of $180 to the PTA scholarship fund as their project for the year. A nominating committee con sisting of Lorna Byrne, Helen Versteeg and Carol Costello was elected. Officers will be named at the March meeting and will be installed at a joint PTA cere mony May 2. Edith Whiteley, chairman of the by-laws committee, read the revised by-laws for the Kerby PTA. They were approved by unanimous vote and will be sent to Portland headquarters this month. Vice President Wesley Clark tcok charge of the meeting. Cherry cobbler and coffee were served by the refreshment committee. Gary Tycer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tycer and Arnold Mellow, son of Isabel Mellow, both of Cave Junction, took their Army physicals Thursday in Portland. They will begin their two-year enlistment in the Army at Ft. Ord, Calif. Planning to enter the Air Force around March 1 is Jerry Plersall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Piersall of Cave Junc tion. Lucinda Ann is the name chos- police wagon, which was used as a press car, and rode uncere moniously to catch their plane for London so the people could have a better look at them and they would have a better look at the people. About 18.5 million home gar dens are planted and cared for in the U.S. each year. boiler room in the new building. as well as girls and boys rest rooms. And a new dry storage room for the kitchen. One of the basement rooms, formerly used as a classroom, is now used as a music room. The other one is user7 for an audio visual aids room. A room vacat ed upstairs is being made into a library room. The principal's of fice has been relocated in a room in the same building with the gym, which was formerly a foilrth grade classroom. The over all cost of the new annex will be $90,000. The Lone Pine basketball team under coach Bill Walken shaw has won their last two games. On Feb. 8 they beat Grif fin Creek 38 to 35. The junior varsity also won that night but the girls' volley ball team lost their game. On Feb. 15 Lone Pine beat Shady Cove 38-13. The junior varsity and the girls' vol ley ball teams also scored over Shady Cove. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Grafton Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Graf ton Sr. are settled in their new homes on Springbrook road. The younger Sheldon Graftons have three boys, two of them now at tending Lone Pine school in the first and second grades. H. S. Grafton St. soon will retire from logging. Grafton Jr . is a min ister. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pyle have bought the Al Huvinan home on Roberts road. They came here from Grants Pass. They were married in Medford 26 years ago this month. Pyle is employed by Peck brothers. They have a son, Jackie, in Lone Pine' school. Another son, Donald, is in the Navy stationed at Norman, Okla; a daughter in Curry City, Ore., and another daughter in Calif ornia. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Neal, Mr. and Mrs. Clint Evans, and Le- nore Williamson, all from St. Marys, Penn., returned home after visiting last week with the Bill Neal family. They visited Crater lake on Sunday. On their way home they will visit the Bill Neals' eldest son, William Jr., stationed in New Mexico at Clovis Air Force base, and other relatives in Texas. The McCarts and the Huffmans have been steelhead fishing quite a bit lately. The women proved to be the better fisher men, as they brought home the catches. Mrs. McCart caught a 10 pound fish and Mrs. Huffman caught one weighing eight pounds. Deadline for Getting Dog Licenses March 1 A penalty of one dollar, in addition to the $1.50 license fee, will be imposed on dog owners who fail to obtain licenses by March 1, according to J. Chris Hagler, county dog control of ficer. Dog licenses may be purchased from the Ashland city police j department; M. W. Young, chief j of police at Talent; Walter C. ' John, Phoenix police depart- j ment; the dog pound, 2872 j Market, Gold Hill; Harold Ot- i tosen, city marshal, Eagle Point; j Frang Carter, Jack-Orva Jean j Cruise, city recorder, or Lois O. ! Morgan, city treasurer, Rogue I River; Kizzie Edmondson notary I public, Butte Falls; and the j county clerk's office in the court- j house at Medford. eral hospital, Grants Pass. The little girl was welcomed at home by her brother Danny, and her grandmother, Mrs. Her mlnio Sandoval and her son Bil ly, who arrived Saturday from Los Alamos, N.M. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith of Bridgeview. A film, "The Family Circle," showing the interplay between school and home was shown by County Health Nurse Martha Woolley at the Evergreen PTA meeting Monday night. Mrs. Woolley told of mental health study groups formed in Grants Pass, and invited Illinois Valley people to attend. Audrey Larson, Katherine Scott and Naomi Seat were elected on a nominating commit tee to select candidates for next year's offices. Election is set for the next meeting, March 18. President Emily Allen an nounced. Margaret Crowl presented a brief recognition speech on Founder's day. Refreshments of coffee and cake were served by Marg Paul and her assistants. Future Farmers of America returned from the Rogue-Ump-qua divisional contests at Rose burg, Saturday, Feb. 16. with two first prizes, four second place awards, and one third prize. Of the ten boys who made the trip, six won ribbons, and they brought home yet another award to a classmate, Leland Rosenberg, who was unable to attend. Gary Bell's hog calling prow ess brought him a first prize over all contenders. Dick Buck endahl, with his auctioneer's song, took first in the entertain ment division. Second place winners were Robert Wright for his secre tary's book; Jerry Buckhaults, rope work; David Savage, acety lene welding; and Leland Ro senberg, scrap book. Mike Burnett was awarded third prize in public speaking. The boys also entered contests in agricultural mathematics, spelling, project record books and arc welding. They Compet ed with FFA groups from Coos Bay, Myrtle Point, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Crater, Phoenix and Eagle Point high schools. Mr. and Mrs. Will Benjamine of Cave Junction have bought a 330 acre ranch in back of the Illinois Valley airport from Clayton E. Burton. Benjamine, a former employee at the Bank of Illinois Valley, plans to put cattle on the ranch. He and his wife will remain at their home on Rockydale road until they rebuild on their new ly purchased property. The acreage known for years as the . Farren . ranch, borders Rough and Ready state park and is near the Illinois river. Mrs. Harry O. Smith of the Illinois Valley Garden club at tended a constitutional revision committee meeting of the Ore gon Federation of Garden clubs last week in Portland. ' Jeanne Tycer and Dick Stroh kirch were crowned king and queen of hearts at the PTA spon sored Valentine dance Friday night, Feb. 15, at the high school. Both are juniors, as was last year's queen of hearts, De lores Rollins. The dance followed the Brook-ings-IV basketball game played in the high school gymnasium. Plans 'to remodel the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall were made at the regular meeting Thursday night, Feb. 14. Work will begin Saturday, according to Comman der C. V. Arnold, and will be done mostly by volunteer help ers. Members voted to allow veter ans of World War I the use of the hall for their meetings. This organization has previously met in the room behind the city of fice in Cave Junction. It was decided that the VFW, in cooperation with the World War I Vets and the American Legion; sponsor a Fourth of July celebration and dance this sum mer. Staff members of the Cougars' Echo, Illinois Valley High school newspaper, left Wednesday for Seattle, Wash., where they at tended the Pacific Slope Press clinic at the University of Wash ington. They are Ronine Rausch, Karen Kuil, Judy Collman, Pat Sowell, Barbara Hawkins and advisor Elwin Bridges. Headline speaker for the Fri day night banquet was William Randolph Hearst Jr., who flew from New York to address the high school journalists. START SAVING NOW flllr 9 MAMVCI 1202 North RiveniU OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL MIDNIGHT I a Third Anniversary Observed by 60C About 40 members of the Medford Ground Observer corps attended a meeting last week observing the third anniversary. Wings were presented to two volunteers and 100-hour awards were presented to seven mem bers. Lt. Paul Faberman, of Hamilton Air Force base, Calif., presented awards. He was in troduced by the area Sgt. Clif ford Paulson, local Air Force representative. Lieutenant Faberman and Sergeant Poulson reported on the mock bombing raid staged on Medford by, two B-29s last Saturday. Poulson was a mem ber of the lead bomber. He- described how the planes flew too low to be detected at the coast by radar but were spot ted by GOC posts and reported to filter stations in Sacramento, Calif. Four jet fighters from Hamilton, air base, intercepted the B-29s over Point Arena, Cal ifornia. Faberman said there is need for the local GOC to recruit more observers. Sam Price, Med ford observer, also was aboard one of the B-29s. Supervisor K. J. Knutson pre sided at the meeting. Chin Up Club Adds Hospital Bed The Chin Ud club has added a hospital bed to its handicap aid pool, it was announced today by Mrs. Harry Chipman, club president. The club's pool equip ment now consists of two hospi tal beds, three wheel chairs, a walker and numerous pairs of crutches. The equipment ,is stored at the Jackson county Red Cross headquarters from where it is loaned out, Mrs. Chipman said. The club makes no rental charge for use of the equipment but does accept contributions. Money for purchase of the equipment is derived from an antique show which the club presents each spring. The organization is made up of handicapped persons. California oroduces ud to 65 per cent of all the asparagus packea in tne u.o. skim mmwmm ' y-i . I "Ul ' Wards asphalt shingles. 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Some think it was because parents of many students being taken in from outside district, and others, couldn't go for the $85,000 to be used for football field construc tion, while many think the main reason stemmed from the fact that rural people are already taxed enough and were in no mood to take on any more bond Work was started Tuesday morning on the foundation of the future home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith, to be located on a plot of land on the southeast corner of the Fred Smith acre age, just over the fence from the home of Mr .and Mrs. Elmer Hull. The dwelling will be a different type than any dwelling of this vicinity. The construc tion has been contracted by Stock Still of Medford, who ex BUY NOW SAVE City Appliance Co. 39 ft. fl Reg. 45c Aluminum sliding window unit 29 50 SIZE 40x26" Removable, rustp roof aluminum window glides smoothly. Weath ertight fit. Screen 2.95 NO MONEY DOWN pects to complete the work in from 60 to 90 days. A birthday party was held Tuesday night honoring Abe Halfhill, who, his wife says, is the same age as JacK Benny. Among those attending were tie Ed Knaff family of Central Point and the Elmo Stalhngs family. The sun was hidden by clouds here on the morning of Feb. 2, until almost noon, so the ground hog saw or didn't see his shadow, depending on when he emergsd from his winter's sleep for a peek. Some claim that nine o'clock is the deadline. If the little animal doesn't see his shadow before 9 a.m., he stays Continues Until March 9! -THE BIG 2nd ANNIVERSARY SALE AT THE CRATER DEPT. STORE , 2nd And Pine St. Central Point BIG SAVINGS IN ALL DEPTS.l """BIG SAVINGS! , . I t-t rTZ n-- AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC jKftpOint WATER HEATERS 52 GALLON UPRIGHT Regular $134.95 Now $9995 Reg. 10.65 New, GET FREE Now protect your home with Wards asphalt shingles. Extra thick tabs. In colors. 100 sq. ft. Wards Galvanized Sieel Eaves Trough in modern box slyle! 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