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o O o TWTLVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE r rid it. Marelt 29. 1957 On The. Side By e. v. During (Distributed by Kina Features Syadieate. Inc.) i lov how tweet the nam, a mother s love1 the helpless babe to 4irht u-mle it lies forlorn Q 9ae that dearest sight seei aersen new oorn. la i MiiMence lose her own. Ana aw breathe in it alone, lis a a mother's love. James Montgomery What 30-year-old mother of your acquaintance has the most children? Thirty-year-old Mrs. Charles Sharp of Keighly, Eng land, has 12 children. These in clude four sets of twins. Mrs. Sharp may yet break all records for twin births. The United States record is seven sets of Horn Managers Where are the world's best home managers born, reared and trained? My nomination for that rating would be the Scotswom en. The most popular course in the University of Edinburgh, in so far as the coeds are con cerned, is domestic science. The average Scotch girl embarks on matrimony extremely well pre pared as to the culinary art home management and infant care. The Scotch lassies make very good wives and extremely competent mothers. However, they are not intensely affection' Ford Foundation Announces Final Grants to Schools twins. The world s record is . ate and after the first few vears claimed by the Russians. They claim one of their countrywom en gave birth to 16 sets of twins. However, this must be viewed with skepticism as the Russians claim this same woman gave birth to 69 children in all. That, in addition to the 16 sets of twins, she also gave birth to sev en sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. So They Sy What about the marriage of a Libra (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) woman and a Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) man? Such is the query of a young woman of Manhattan. The astroiogists claim the signs men tioned are incompatible. A Libra woman wants to dominate the household. A Scorpio man al ways wanls his own way. Both have bed tempers. The Libra woman wants to be humored. soothed and calmed down when angry. A Scorpio male doesn't go tor that. He likes to fight. Libras and Scorpios are both very extravagant and unless pos sJKBe) of an unusually large sup ply of coin of the realm will probably be heavily in debt in a cwupl of years after their mar riage. Or, so say the stargazers. Sidelights Eamon De Valera, Irish states- swan, suffers from weak eyesight. He had a special typewriter built with letters one-half inch aiga . . . You are young if you Use slays or films that make yofl cry. If you like those that make yeu laugh, you are getting old. Xtck is the claim of a character aaaalyst. of marriage are inclined to be come much more interested in their homes and children than in their husbands. Briefly Women talk 25 per cent faster than men, but say 40 per cent less. The females use too many unnecessary adjectives in con versation . . . Usually cigar smokers make the best baseball players. However, there is one notable exception to this rule. Ty Cobb has always been a cig arette smoker. He rolls his own Hones and Women Not content with wearing what are with some justice call ed "silly hats," women are now going in for ridiculous hair styles. The most silly of the lat ter seems to be something called the 'Two Tone Hair-Do." This calls for a woman having her hair so dyed that she appears to be a blonde in front and a bru nette in back. For a married woman to feature such a freak ish style should be grounds for divorce in all states. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What actresses played the featured roles in the silent film titled '"Sally, Irene and Mary"? A. Joan Crawford, Constance Ben nett and Sally O'Neill. That film was produced 32 years ago. Q. Wasn't the tune titled "Maple Leaf Rag" the first ragtime pi ano number? A. No, sir. The "Harlem Rag" by Tom Turpin was the first. The "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin.was the second. Is That So? E. G. Henielman, I94S Stew art are., Medford, has won a 30-folume set of Encyclopedia Americana for submitting a "best nature observation" to Eugen Burns, ranger naturalist SCONES nd COFFEE GRAND OPENING FREE CHICKS Prizes-Prizes-Prizes SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957 SORAII & WHITE FEED CO. T3T W. 4th "Fisher Feed Dealer" Ph. 2-5687 New York OJ.PJ The Ford Foundation announced Thursday the final grants in the founda tion's $90 million program to bolster the country's 45 private medical schools. The grants, ranging from 5600,000 to S3. 6 million, are to be held as invested endowment for at least 10 years during which time the income is to be used for instructional purposes only. After the 10 years the schools may use the principal sum as well as the endowment income. Henry T. Heald, president of the foundation, said in announc ing the new grants that he hopes they will help focus public at tention on the increasing finan cial needs of medical education. Initial Grants Initial grants totaling $21, 750,000 to 44 medical schools were announced by the founda tion last September. Checks for the 568,250,000 remainder an nounced today will be mailed about the end of May to the 45 institutions now participat ing. The additional institution is Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry which was not in operation at the time the initial grants were announced. The 590 million medical school program was part of a $500 mil lion appropriation announced by the foundation in December, 1955. The half billion - dollar total also included $210 million to raise college faculty salaries and $200 million to improve hospital services. The foundation also has ap proved an additional S10 million appropriations to match contri butions to the National Fund for Medical Education by indus try and individuals and thus far has paid about $1.4 million to the fund, the announcement said. Neuberger Motion Defeated by Senate Washington (U.R) The Sen ate by voice vote has defeated a motion by Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.) to eliminate the Bruce's Eddy dam project of Idaho from the omnibus public works bill. The action came late yester day after a floor debate between Neuberger and Sen. Henry Dworshak CR-Ida.). Neuberger called the Bruce's Eddy project the "least desirable aspect of a very extensive bill" to practice economy." The Oregon senator said "lead ing conservation groups through out the country" were opposed to the project because the dam would "flood out valuable wild life resources." Dworshak answered that Neu berger "never seemed to be in terested in economy when simi lar projects were proposed for , his state." The Idahoan said Neu j berger and others "want to keep ! Idaho a complete wilderness for ever while projects are approved for other areas. So?" Mail who writes "Is That which appears in the Tribune. Henselman's article con cerned wood rat nests in New Mexico. He described the ar ticle briefly as follows: "Wood rat nests in New Mexico are made up of twigs, leares, pieces of wood and cattle dung. The nest in the center is so protected that the rain never penetrates it. Abore the nest is the rat's winter supply of Pinon nuts. "The Indians find these nests and lake out as much as $5 worth of nuts, leaving the rats, without their winter food supply. The nuts are something like a pine nut and are good to eat. "I was camping out in the mountains one night and un rolled my sleeping bag an old garage which had a tin roof and sides, but no door at the entrance. I thought I was go ing to have a good night's sleep, but a wood rat kept me awake most of the night. It would sound like the animal was rat tling the tin on the sides. I got up once or twice to try and see the rascal with my flash light, but was not successful." The article was submitted to Burns about eight weeks ago, Henselman said. A panel of judges makes the award for the "best true-life nature ad venture, or the best nature ob servation, or the best question on nature and wildlife." MUDDY DRIVEWAYS 9 05 YEARS of experience building and surfacing driveways and streets with our CRUS H n D ROCK CALL US FOR estimates and prompt delivery. A crushed rock driveway is also a perfect base for a fine asphalt job which we are equipped to furnish at any time. MEDFORD CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION CO. 1320 N. Riverside Phone 2-6469 Did you know that . . . the honeybee has been associated with man for more than 4,000 years? The tunnel-driving mole has a sense of direction for its tun nels under hollows and over ridges, it keeps approximately the same depth. It can excavate tunnels, shoveling away the dirt, at about 15 feet an hour. In times past a giant ground sloth roamed the Americas which was 20 feet long and considerab ly larger than a full-grown ele phant. In Patagonia, South America, the rolled-up dried skins of one of these animals was found along with cut grass and traces of early humans, sug gesting that these beasts may have been kept in herds by primitive man, or at least that they existed at the same time. Monarch Butterfly Soon as warm weather comes to the southland in California and the Gulf states, the beauti ful black and gold Monarch butterfly will push north, lay ing its eggs on young milkweed plants. Butterflies d c v e loping from these eggs, will again push farther north. Thus, by leap- iroggmg and taking several gen erations they will finally reach southern Canada in late June and July a trip of some 2,000 miles. When colder fall weather ar rives, these fragile-seeming but terflies several generations re moved from the original spring migrators governed by some in stinct we can hardly guess at, will begin their long journey south. Then, suddenly, mir aculously, they will be found clustered by the thousands upon thousands on a single small tree One of the most dramatic winter ing grounds is in Pacific Grove, Calif., just out of Monterey Speaking of migrations, just how the almon can manage to return to the same river, even the identical tributary in which it was spawned and hatched, after spending most of its life in the trackless ocean also re mains an unexplained mystery. That they do this has been dem onstrated time and again by tag ging fish and catching them years later in the same stream. Distance of Travel While in the sea, the salmon may travel 1,500 miles and their journey upstream, as in the Snake and the Yukon rivers, may be an additional 1,000 miles. During sea magrations their su stained speed may be as high as 45 and even 60 miles a day. The spiny anteater, or echidna of Australia, is one of the last re maining warm-blooded mammals that lays eggs. Usually it lays a single egg a year, places it in her incubator a pocket of skin By fUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist on her abdomen inside of which are mammary glands to provide the immature infant with milk once it hatches. The soft-shelled egg, with a parchment-like cover ing, hatches in a few days. It carries the young until the babies' spines become uncomfort able. All bats sleep with their heads hanging down, holding on with their feet. Most bats see perfect ly well in bright light. Prairie Dog Just how the prairie dog ex cavates the sou as it extends its burrow is still something of mystery. The entrance hole goes down almost vertically, 10 or 12 feet, before leveling off to a horizontal runway. Surely it couldn't scratch the soil out be hind it, or push it up on its head, or carry such a load in its arms, or in its mouth. Yet, there is the perpendicular chute with the large pile of soil around it! The young sawfish is born alive fully armed with an elong ated flat, blunt blade about one- third the length of its body, each side having a single row of 24 to 32 strong, sharp teeth. Luckily, when born, the saw" with .which it impales fish on one of the teeth, is soft and flexible and covered with a membranous sheath. The A m e r i c an short-tailed shrew's sliva contains a poison similar to that of the cobra bring ing on convulsions and death from failure to breathe. With its bite, it can quickly subdue animals twice its own size. Tail and all it is about 4 inches long. However, there is an Etruscan shrew ot the Mediterranean region of southern Europe in which head and body measure 1 Vz inches and its tail about 1 Vi a total of two and three-quarter inches making it the small est mammal on earth. (Copyright ,1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure. or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous ref erence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Mail Tribune, box 575, Sausalito, Calif. EAGLE POINT Observes 79th Birthday By MRS. THOMASINE SMITH Eagle Point '"Granny" Weid man, well-known Eagle Point resident, celebrated her 79th birthday aturday, March 23. Granny's motto through life has been "I'm happy when I'm busy" and her many activities prove this must be so. She was born in England and moved to Portland in 1910, com ing to Eagle Point in 1916, where she made her home. She is a charter member and was a charter officer of the Eagle Point Grange. She served as the first president after World War I, of the Eagle Point PTA, clerk for School District 9 Eagle Point, treasurer for the Towns end club, superintendent of the Community Sunday school, and was usually serving as chairman of entertainment. As singer in the church choir, she was leading soprano in many contatas. Through all these busy years Granny stressed that she always walked to where she was going and not until lately has she owned a pick-up. Mrs. Weidman has one son, Rudolph Weidman, of Eagle Point, four grandchildren and two great - grandchildren. She has been a widow 27 years this August. Fred Arens, Medco foreman. killed a three and one half foot rattlesnake in the Reese creek area. Arens reported this to be the earliest he has seen one in this particular place. Pvt. Wayne Arens, Ft, Belvoir, Va., will be discharged from the 'Army April 2. He, accompanied by his wife, will report direct to Cal Tech at Pasadena, Calif., to do research, work in guided missiles. Wayne is an electrical engineer. Air Controllman 1c and Mrs. Jackie Allen and children, Kim and Jill have returned to tne United States from Hawaii where Allen has been stationed for 18 months with the Navy. The Aliens are visiting with Mrs. Allen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Weidman, of Eagle Point, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen of Medford. The Aliens plan to make their home in Medford. MUSIC MAKING MUDGUARD Hollywood U.R) Spike Jones said Thursday he will play an original musical score called "Hollywood Euophoneyia" on his new television show Tues day. "The main sound in the arrangement is the clanging of fenders on the Hollywood Free way," he sadi. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Tuberculin tests were given at the Eagle Point grade school Thursday, March 28 by Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health doctor. He was assisted by Mrs. Nina Vandewalker and Mrs. Cleo Kent, county health nurses, Mrs. Harold Hanscom, PTA health chairman, and students Georgia Weidman, Carlene Hinson, Jeri lyn Hansen and Geraldin Rodg ers. Out of the 800 students en rolled in the grade and high school, a total of 637 were given the test along with seven preschoolers. A building permit was issued to the Eagle Point Community church to erect a $9,000 addi tion. The new Sunday school unit will have two auditoriums, eight class rooms and two rest rooms. The construction work is being done partly by volunteer labor. We're NOT FOOLING! Don't Miss Page 3 Sunday's f.lail Tribune Jerry Cave completed his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, in February and is now taking a 19-week course at .the Aircraft Instrument school, Chanute Air Force Base, 111. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown of j Eagle Point and Mrs. Ray Huson of Medford motored to Spring-! field Saturday, March 23 to visit ! Mr. and Mrs. Leon Brown. ! Landing Strip Is Approved by Group Portland '(U.R) The State Highway commission yesterday approved a request to build a landing strip for airplanes on Nehalem sand spit after it was told more and more persons are traveling to recreation areas by private airplane. Chet Armstrong, state parks superintendent, told the com mission he has received a num ber of requests for flight strips near state parks. It was not indicated when the strip, to be located about mid way between Tillamook and Seaside on the Oregon coast, would be built. The commission denied a re quest that the state take over development of a park area just south of the Coquille jetty. The highway committee re jected an offer from the Port of Coos Bay to contribute $10,000 to the cost of a reconnaissance survey of a proposed new high way route which would cut off 22 miles between Coos Bay and Roseburg. State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams said cost of the pro posed Coos river, route was esti mated at around $20 million. Such a sum, he said, is not avail able "in the foreseeable future Interest in China Trade Continues . Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States has informed Britain it is "actively considering' whether free world interests would be promoted or set back by increased Allied trade with Red China. U.S. assurances of continuing interest in the China trade prob- j lem were expressed by Secretary ! of State John Foster Dulles to ! British Foreign Secretary Sel- : wyn Lloyd at the recent "Big Two" conference at Bermuda. The United States is not will- ; ing to change its own policy of j no-trade-at-all with Communist China. The question is whether j the United States would agree ! to some increased trade by Brit-1 ain, Japan and other allies if the ban against strategic trading is preserved. Bob Kimmel left for Portland Tuesday, March 26, for induction into the Army. A farewell party was given Saturday by friends and relatives at the Ed Kimmel home. Bob's wife, Janet, will remain in Eagle Point until he completes his basic training. The Eagle Point elementary school PTA held their March meeting last Tuesday and elect ed officers for the coming year. New officers are: Mrs. John Huffman, president; Mrs. Her bert Perdue, vice president; Mrs. Shy Callaghan, teacher vice president; Mrs. LeRoy Beding f ield, secretary; . Mrs. Clinton Ayres, treasurer and Mrs. Ray Palm, historian. Youth organ izations of the community pre sented a program and displays. Mrs. Clinton Ayres, treasurer elect, will represent the PTA at the convention in Pendleton April 9, 10 and 11. T One Trip ;f LOANS jyqf Borrow The American Way! LOANS S25 to S1.500 AUTO .SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET1 American Finance Corp. Phone 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford News About Servicemen GETS PROMOTION Douglas V. Peters, son of Mrs. Maxine Vincent, 326 Benson St., Medford, recently has been pro moted to specialist third class in Germany, where he is a member of the 11th Airborne division. Specialist Peters a clerk in Company M of the division's 118th infantry regiment, entered the Army in 1953 and completed basic training at Fort Campbell Ky. He graduated from Medford High school. Most of Albania's population are Mohammedans. 1955 CENTURY BUICK HARDTOP This nice Hardtop In loaded with Go-Power 23S H.P. A heautifulltr colored car with satin trty and metalic blue Ta-Tone. Radio and heater with variable pitch $0 1 OR Dynaflow. 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