SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Horticulture Expert Joins
Experiment Station Here
Dr. Roland C. Elake, recent
ly of Mount Vernon, Wash., will
join the southern Oregon ex
periment station as horticulturist
starting March 1, experiment
station officials have announced.
He replaces Dr. John Higdon,
who recently resigned to go into
DR. ROLAND C. BLAKE
New Horticulturist
Farm
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Growth Regulators
Increase Cherry
Size in OSC Tests
Corvallis Growth regulator
chemicals may help orchardists
get more and larger sweet cher
ri from their trees in the fu
ture, according to two Oregon
In a three-year experiment
with Royal Ann cherry trees,
Quentin Zielinski and Ralph
Garren Jr. found that proper
use of certain plant hormone
sprays increased the weight of
individual cherry trees as much
as one-third. The added weight
Qwas found to be due to an in
crease in the fleshy part of the
fruit not to larger pit size.
Blossoms Increased
The research workers also
were able to increase the num
ber of blossoms setting fruit on
the trees in the spring. Flavor,
O color, and other quality charac
seem to be aUected.
Zielinski and Garren checked
five different growth regulator
chemicals in the trials, using
sprats made up of different con
centrations of chemicals known
as "Duraset." PCPA, NOA,
NAS,. and 2,4, 5-T. The sprays
were applied to entire trees at
the rate of about 450 gallons per
acre.
Most promising of the chemi
cals were 2. 4. 5-T, and a combi
nation spray of NOA and PCPA,
the horticulturists said. How
ever, they emphasized that more
experimental work on the long
range effect of the chemicals on
0 sweet cherry trees is needed be
fore specific recommendations
can be made.
Secfona FFA Contest
Scheduled for March I
Cave Junction A sectional
contest between Future Farm
ers of America of the Rogue
Umpqua and lower Willamette
districts is scheduled for March
1 at 1 p.m. at the Illinois Val
ley Hich school gymnasium.
Winners in the district parlia-
mentary procedure and public
speaking tourney held in Janu
ary will compete for higher hon
ors at that time. Teams from
Crater and Eagle Point will
represent the Rogue-Umpqua dis
trict. 4rC For Good
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private business after three years
as horticulturist at the experi-
Assistant Horticulturist
For the past three years Dr.
Blake has been assistant horti
culturist for the northwestern
Washington experiment station
of the state college of Washing
ton. He was graduated from How
land . High school, Howland,
Maine, in 1937 and was an agent
of the United States Department
of Agriculture at the Cheyenne
Horticultural field station from
1940 to 1941. He was then in
the Army Air Corps finance de
partment for 30 months, serving
in Africa, Italy, France and Ger
many. Received Degree
Upon his discharge from the
Army, Dr. Blake attended the
University of Maine, and re
ceived his bachelor of science
degree in horticulture in 1945.
He recived his doctor of philoso
phy degree in horticulture at the
University of Minnesota in July,
1954.
He is affiliated with Alpha
Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi and
Gamma Alpha fraternities. Dr.
Blake is married and has two
daughters, Kathryn, 3, and Caro
lyn, 10 months.
Duties Outlined
As horticulturist for the south-
and Garden
Scholarships for Forestry
Enthusiasts Announced
Corvallis An expanded col
lege scholarship program recog
nizing 4-H club members in the
field of forestry,-was announced
this week by Burton S. Hutton,
state 4-H club leader.
This scholarship program in
volves the awarding of four
SI. 600 scholarships each to pres
ent or former 4-H club members
who will be enrolled in their
freshman year in 1957 an(i PIan
to study forestry.
Present Scholarships
These scholarships are being
presented by HomeLite,. a divis
ion of Textron, Inc., of Port
Chester, New York. The scholar-
Donald T. Bohnert
Gets Oustanding
Farmer Recognition
Central Point Donald T.
Bohnert, Central Point, has been
chosen Outstanding Young
Farmer in this area, the Central
Point Junior Chamber of Com
merce has announced.
General Farmer v
Farming 120 acres, Bohnert
is engaged in general farming,
raising Marion blue grass and
alfalfa for seed, alfalfa hay and
grass feed. He also has about
80 tread of Suffolk sheep. With
his father, Arnold Bohnert, he
raises sweet corn, has some row
crops and in the past has raised
sugar beet seed. Outside of his
own farm, he does custom com
bining of grain.
Bohnert is a past master of
the Central Point Grange, chair
man of the adult advisory coun
cil for vocational agriculture, a
member of the Jackson County
Young Farmers and is a mem
ber of the Medford Congrega
tional church.
He is 29 years of age and he
and his wife, Shirley, have one
boy, Darrell. age 3. He gradu
ated from Central Point High
school and took a two-year agri
cultural course at Oregon State
college.
Pendleton (U.P.) Twelve
tracts of land owned by mem
bers of the Umatilla Indian tribe
will be offered for sale at the
request of the owners.
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Thursday, February 28, 1957
era Oregon experiment station,
Dr. Blake will conduct research
on tree fruit nutrition, nutri
tion in relation to soil manage
ment and soil moisture, root and
trunk stocks for pears and ap
ples, pear breeding and variety
testing, stony pit of pears and
other fruit tree diseases and fact
ors affecting fruit set and finish.
The program is conducted in
orchards of the Rogue valley as
well as on station orchards and
is in cooperation with specialists
from Oregon State college.
Dairy Breeders Group
To Meet Here Today
The annual meeting of the
Jackson County Dairy Breeders
association will be held at 8 p.m.
today at the court house in Med
ford. All members of the associa
tion and others interested in art
ificial insemination have been
urged to attend and hear re
ports of the activities of the
Jackson County Dairy Breeders
association and the Oregon
Dairy Breeders association.
Fred Roberts, manager of Ore
gon Dairy Breeders, will be pre
sent to discuss the activities of
that association.
ship plan is a part of the Na
tional Awards program in co
operation with the National
Committee on Boys and Girls
Club Work in Chicago. The
granting of these national schol
arships in the field of forestry
is an added feature to the 4-H
club program to recognize spe
cial studies on the part of 4-H
club members or those who have
been in 4-H club work.
Second Program
This is the second special
scholarship program of this na
ture to be made available in the
4-H club program. The other
was started in 1956 with two
S800 college scholarships being
made available by Colgate-Palmolive
company to juniors in the
school of home economics plan
ning to major in clothing and
textiles.
The forestry scholarships at
$1,600 each will be awarded on
the basis of one in the 11 west
ern states, one in the mid-west,
one in the New England states
and one in the southern states.
The county extension agents do
ing 4-H club work have full in
formation concerning eligibility
for this special scholarship
award, it was reported.
Shipments of Fruit,
Vegetables Increase
Salem January shipments of
fruits and vegetables from Ore
gon inspection points totaled
4,652 cars, an increase of 190
cars from January, 1956, the
state department of agriculture
has reported. Shipments since
July 1 the start of a new ship
ping year for the state are
1.003 cars ahead of a year ago
January movement topped all
months so far this shipping sea
this year were top item at 2762
cars, with major movement from
the Klamath Falls and Redmond
districts. The Klamath section
shipped out 1728 cars of spuds;
the Redmond area, 960 cars.
Number two spot in January
went to onions movement of 885
cars, 452 of which were from
Ontario district and 413 from
Salem district. Third high com
modity was pears, with 754 cars
moving out, including 383 from
Medford and 304 cars from Hood
River. Apples held the fourth
rung with 190 cars shipped out
of Hood River.
Good Profits Feed
with the feed that irtsofes
Seed Is Important
In Producing Good
Crop, Agent Says
Good seed is the number one
factor in producing a good crop,
extention agent. All good farm
ing done in the last years will
not be -of much value if poor
unclean seed is planted, he said.
Surveys in Washington, where
department of agriculture em
ployees took samples from drill
boxes as farmers were seeding,
indicated that farmers were seed
ing one weed seed on each
square foot of their field he
said. Among the weeds were
leafy spurge, all hard to kill per
ennials, Jossy noted.
Buying certified seed is one
way of being sure seed is free
of noxious weeds and contains
a minimum of other weeds. The
certification tag also insures
that the variety of seed in the
bag is the same as represented
Selection Important
Selection of varieties is im
portant to the final yield of the
recommended the following var
ieties for spring planting on
Jackson county farms: oats, carl
ton or kanota; wheat, federa
tion 38 or lemhi; barley, Bon
neville or Velvon (use Velon on
lighter soils where moisture is
a problem); corn, for grain pro
duction, Idahybrid 544; for sil
age, Illinois 200 or Illinois 1570.
These must have plenty .of water
and high fertility, Jossy said.
In alfalfa two varieties are
tops. Talent and lahontan are
equal in quality and yield, he
1 said, and lahontan has the ad
vantage of being tolerant to the
spotted alfalfa aphid and res
j istant to bacterial wilt.
For irrigated pastures, grass
and legume mixtures, akaroa
orchard grass and ladino clover
were recommended. Where bloat
is serious, lotus can be used in
place of the clover, or as a mix
ture with clover,. Jossy said On
lands where irrigation is apt to
be interrupted alta fescue will
do better than orchard grass.
For dry land pastures where
fair soil conditions prevail Alta
fescue and Subterranean clover
(Nangeela, Talarook, or Mt. Bak
er) are recommended, he said.
Dry land where soil is shallow
and will not support perennial
grasses" very well sub clover and
burnet are recommended.
Appointments Being
Taken for Clinic
Appointments are still being
taken for the annual landscape
clinic March 4 and 5 in the court
house auditorium, according to
C. B. Cordy, county horticulture
agent.
Landscape architects partici
pating in the clinic will be Mrs,
F. C. Lorish, John Adams, C. E.
Corry, and I. B. Solberg aid
George Fredeen from Oregon
State college.
Appointments are being sched-
uled on a 30-minute basis, Cordy
said. A resident desiring advice
on landscaping will meet with
one of the landscape architects
during that time.
Those planning to attend have
been asked to take a photograph
or rough sketch of their dwell
ings, Cordy said. Appointments
may be made by telephoning the
county agents office, 2-5264.
Shrubs will be on display at
the courthouse by local nurseries
so homeowners can have some
idea of the different shrubs,
Cordy added.
Appraisal Short
Course Scheduled
Corvallis An appraisal short
course, designed to improve
property appraisals throughout
the state, will be offered at Ore
gon State college March 18 to 22.
Approximately 100 county as
sessors, deputy assessors, and
other persons interested in ap
praisal training are expected to
attend the course. It is sponsored
jointly by the college and the
state tax commission.
An introductory course, which
covers the basic principles of ap
praisal will be offered along
with a second-year course that
will cover special appraisal
problems. Three field trips for
practice appraisals of farm, ur
ban residential, and urban com
mercial properties are included
in the second-year schedule.
4-H Club News
Outdoor Cooking Club
- The meeting of Eagle Point
Outdoor Cooking and Living
club was called to order by Mrs.
Dunn on Feb. 23. Officers were
elected. They are president, Ann
Higday, vice president Gayle
Norris, secretary Jim Ackerman,
and reported, Cathie Carrol.
We decided to have two meet
ings a month. Our next meeting
will be March 9 at Jim West's
home at Eagle Point. If there
is anyone in the Eagle Point
district who would like to join,
they are welcome to come to
our next meeting.
Cathie Corral,,
Reporter.
The percentage of disposable
income spent for drug prepara
tions today is about one-fourth
less than it was in 1939, reports
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Conservation Reserve
Program Described
Albert Straus, chairman of the
he by soi
raL Con
c4five y
Jackson County Agricultur;
Stabilization and Conservati
committee, has reminded Jack
son county farmers they have
through April 15 to sign con
tracts to put part of their crop
land in the conservation reserve
program.
Straus pointed out that land
put in the conservation reserve
must be land which otherwise
would be in crops. The same
acres may not be put in both
the acreage reserve and the con
servation reserve. A farmer is
eligible to participate in the
conservation reserve only if he
does not exceed any acreage al
lotment established for his farm.
Elements Noted
The chairman also reminded
farmers that to participate in
the conservation reserve, the
farmer .must sign a contract to
keep the designated acreage in
an approved conservation prac
tice for the required period of
years. Approved practices in
clude protective vegetative cov
er, water storage facilities or
other soil-water-wildlife or for
est conserving use.
No crop may be harvested
from the land put in the con
servation reserve, he stated. The
only exception is timber from
trees thinned out as required
Recommendations
Due at Public Meet
All Day Friday
Recommendatiens of more
than 200 members of Jackson
County Agricultural council
committees will be presented to
the public at a meeting in the
county courthouse auditorium
Friday.
The meeting will begin at 10
a.m., recess for lunch at noon,
then resume at 1:30 p.m. The
session is expected to conclude
at 3 p.m. After the recommen
dations have been presented and
discussion held, members of the
council will elect a chairman
and vice chairman for the com
ing year. Arnold Bohnert, Cen
tral Point, has been chairman
of the council for the past two
years and Don Nichols, Ashland,
has been vice chairman for one
year.
Various Phases
Recommendations of the com
mittees cover various phases cf
activity in the county, including
youth activities, home and com
munity life, forestry, poultry,
farm and truck crops and horti
cultural crops.
I W. B. (Ben) Tucker, county
agriculture agent, said a report
will also be given on mosquito
control in the county. Problems
now existing and suggestions for
a more effective control program
will be included in the report.
Committee members were ap
pointed last October and have
been studying county conditions
since that time. Their recom
mendations for improvement are
based on their studies.
Stockmen Elect
Officers for Year
The Jackson County Stock
men's association, at its recent
annual meeting in Central Point,
elected two new community
directors and reelected seven
others to represent communities
in association work during the
next year.
Newly elected directors were
Richard R. Hein Ashland dis?
trict; and Leon Offenbacher, Ap
plegate district.
Reelected directors included
Ernest J. Lathrop, Central Point;
W. J. (Bill) Bigham, Eagle Point;
Merton Bradshaw, Lake Creek;
Collier H. Buffington, Medford;
Herb Carlton, Prospect; Ogden
Kellogg, Rogue River-Gold Hill;
and Ike Piele, Sams Valley
Shady Cove.
All current officers were
elected for another term. They
include Charles Stanley, Lake
Creek, president; "Warren Bay
liss, Medford, vice president; W.
B. (Ben) Tucker, Medford, sec
retary; and John Bohnert, Cen
tral Point, treasurer.
Auditions for Friendship
follies Slated Saturday
Auditions for the third an
nual 4-H Friendship Follies, to
be held in the Medford High
school auditorium March 14, will
be held in the courthouse audi
torium Saturday from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m., according to Glenn Klein,
county 4-H agent.
All participants in the pro
gram must have their numbers
auditioned, Klein said.
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sound forestry management.
Contracts run from three to
ears if the land already is
in approved cover, five to 10
years if approved cover must be
established and 10 years if trees
are to be planted. For participat
ing in the program, the farmer
may earn an initial payment
representing up' to 80 per cent of
the cost of the practice and an
annual payment for the period
of the contract. In Jackson coun
ty, this averages about Sll per
year, Straus said.
The chairman advised anyone
interested in participating in the
program to contact the ASC of
fice in the courthouse.
NATILIA
At left, for film role;
Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.PJ The Worst
part about being the first Holly
wood actress with a Yul Bryn-
ner-tvne hair-
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pretty Natalia
Darryl decid
ed. Natalia Is
bald. Or, rath
er, she has
about a 7
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Aline Mosby ciuck suauuw
all over her head. She looks like
a doll after a child tore off its
hair.
The pretty Russian-born act
ress made the news two weeks
ago when she had her head
shaved for Universal-International's
exploitation picture, "The
Secret Diary of Joseph Stalin."
Today I looked in on Natalia
to see how she was holding up
as a hairless female.
Head Displayed With Poise
We sat in a restaurant. Some
of the diners looked at her cur
iously. Others apparently didn't
notice, possibly because she is
a tiny brunette who carries her
self with great dignity and
poise.
"It was worth it," smiled Na
talia. "The studio liked my
scene and gave me a seven-year
contract with 40-week options.
I accepted the role because I
feel an actress' life is not her
own. Whatever a picture re
quires, she must do."
Under this theory Natalia sat
before the cameras weeping
while a barber sheared off her
shoulder-length hair and then
went to work with shaving soap
and a razor.
Director Likes Scene
Director Russell Birdwell had
heard that Stalin went for bald
women and, being an ex-press
agent, Birdwell couldn't pass up
that scene.
"I was supposed to look be
wildered and frightened," Na
talia said. "After the scene I
didn't look in the mirror right
away. I took a shower first. I
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asencles and counselor!.
Karen K I must marry now.
Mrs. B. J. She should stick
it out at home.
Karen K. I am 17 years old
and a senior in high school. 1
have a boy friend and would like
to marry him as soon as I get
out of school, but my sister, who
married at my age, is against it.
The boy I am planning to mar
ry is still in the service. My sis
ter thinks he is lazy and would
not be a good provider. Just the
same, we are in love and want
to get married.
DARRYL
right, before razor used.
By ALINE MOSBY
United Proas Correspondent
was afraid to look at myself.
finally did and I said, 'Hello, Yul
Brynner'l"
The studio gave Natalia three
wigs to wear but she usually
leaves them off because, wigs
are not good if you want the
hair to grow." On the street
some pople give her a double
take but she's "used to it now."
George Fox College
Plans New Building
Newberg Steve Ross, former
ly of Salem and Medford, has
been appointed to a committee
of the student body of George
Fox college here to confer with
architects on plans for con
st! uction of a student union at
the college.
Other student body represen
tatives are Fred Hewkirk, Melba,
Idaho, senior, and Jack Newell,
Forest Grove.
Ground breaking for the new
building will be May 4, accord
ing to Milo C. Ross, president
of the college.
Reward Unacceptable
In Meier-Frank Bombing
Portland (U.R) Two postal
inspectors who played a role in
solving the extortion plot bomb
ing of the Meier and Frank de
partment store in April, 1955,
will not receive any of the S28,
000 reward offered for solution
of the crime.
David H. Stephens, chief in
spector for the post office depart
ment, said in Washington, D. C,
yesterday that it would be
against the policy of the de
partment's investigative branch
to accept any part of the re
ward. Ancient Byzantium, called
Constantinople by the Romans
and Istanbul by the moderns,
sits astride two continents, a
bridge between East and West.
It was the center of the Roman
Empire of the East -from A.D.
330, until 1453, when the Turks
seized control.
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My siiter thinKt l'uld wait,
but I feel I mutt Mt away from
home. My lather etrinfcs and is
very domineering. Hy mother is
under his heel, our nome nas
always been very unhappy and
it seems to ha gefting worse as
I get older. I would run away
right now if I.eould only sup
port myself.
Mrs. B. 3. I know what Kar
en if going through because I
nael it ail my me too. i wouia
take her ia to livej with me if
only ws had the bom. I have
four small children and my own
home isn't too much of an im
provement over what Karen has.
I married to get away from
home and I have regretted it.
My husband has many of tha
faults my father had. I feel that
if I had taken my time, I could
have made a better marriage.
The boy Karen wants to mar
ry is too young. He is not ready
to undertake the responsibility
of a family. 1 feel that, hard as
it is, Karen should try to stick
it out at home until she can make
a better marriage. She is very
pretty and can do well.
The Council Karen is very
fortunate in having a sister who
can understand and sympathize
with her situation, yet has the
experience to be able to guide
her. Her sister's example should
be enough to tell her that mar
riage for the purpose of getting
away from home is not likely to
work out very well. It can be a
case of going from the frying pan
into the fire.
Nevertheless, Karen does not
need to suffer at home. If she
stays at home, the pressures of
the situation may later lead her
to do the same thing that she is
now ready to do.
A much better solution for
Karen would b? to select a ca
reer, like nursing, that enables
her to live away from home, to
develop a useful skill and broad
ens her horizons. She will make
friends and learn to judge people
with more objectivity and ma
turity. If nursing does not appeal to
her, she might consider joining
one of the women's branches of
the armed forces. Here, too, aha
will expand her contacts and her
view of life and will be able to
live away from home under a
certain amount of adult guidance
and protection.
There are too many opportun
ities in the world today for any
girl to feel that she must marry
in desperation to get away from
a miserable home.
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