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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,
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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.
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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.
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TABLE ROCK
Many Vote "No" On Bonds
By R. E. NEALON
Table Rock Monday, Feb.
8, the day set aside for voting to
accept or reject the issuing of
bonds for school room additions
and football facilities at Crater
High school brought out a far
greater number of local voters
than usual. The majority turned
thumbs down on the bond issues.
Since the election we have
heard many reasons given for
the heavy "no" vote. 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
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Point and the Elmo Stalhngs
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The sun was hidden by clouds
here on the morning of Feb. 2,
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