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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1957)
r"--"T MFnrowD (OREGON) 7 I ' IX ZiA $r; - MS V s ' & . ' S tS 'sijy&jff,; 'UiJ "fsi i "'s yy , V !Z "fy-yyy " S 'W 'k'' ? r- y . "vyiy-'yjii y yy ' TERRAIN MODEL When the scheduled fire school field trip was rained out Thursday, Lyle Beyers, above, of the state forestry de partment, Salem, built a model of a typical section of terrain to demonstrate forest fire control methods. Using several loads of gran ite, he built miniature roads and canyons to show where fire lines should be constructed FIRE CONTROL The basic course of the fire foremen's school held at the state forestry department headquarters on Table Rock rd. Wednesday included demonstrations of how various types of water sprays are used to control a forest fire. A portable high-pressure pumping unit, such? as would be used on an actual fire, took water from a nearby sump for use in the demonstrations. In a real fire water would be supplied by a stream or tank truck. FiRE SCHOOL Using a portable loud speaker, District Ranger Vern Taylor of Star ranger station, above, explained forest fire control methods to about 80 men attending the advanced course for fire foremen at the state department of forestry headquarters on Table Rock rd. Thursday. The group consisted of men from lumber and logging operations in this area. The two-day course was sponsored jointly by the South ern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association, the state forestry department, and federal agencies. Is That Although spring has been heralded by unthinking man as that time of year when a "young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," this schedule ' for the larger warm-blooded ani mals is far from true and it is high time to put a stop to this frothy nonsense. ' For many of the larger ani mals such as deer, elk, and sea otters, courtship and mating oc cur during November and De cember, in the closing gasps of the old year. For the skunk, wolf and coyote, it may occur late in January or February. And in Canada, our northern lemming may even mate under the snow in mid-January. Contrary to sentimental hu mans, the" abiding objective of the timing is to have'mothers de liver their offspring when food is most abundant and weather most moderate. To effect this appropriate timing, a bear mates in midsum mer; a deer usually in the late fall or early winter; and the ro dents, with short gestation pe riods, in the early spring so that s imb it i r n i ii MAIL THIBUNE 1 y" t y y'y - yi . 'y y7 f yy V tyvvyy By EUGENE BURNS Rpnger-Naturaiiit they can have several litters with the last maturing before snow flies. This timing has re sulted from each species' - length of gestation which may vary greatly. Length or shortness of day light, apparently, is the built-in timing device which triggers the courtship "pattern for each species. Courted Earlier To prove this point, one ex perimenter exposed field mice to extra doses of infra-red light during the early winter and they courted several weeks earlier than normal. Similarly, by sud jecting crows to long hours of light during early winter, an other experimenter found that he could even chanee misratory patterns: turned loose when the snow was flying, these light charged . crows headed for the northland actually reversing the field and flying in the direc tion they would normally have taken months later. Spring maters such as fox, marten, weasel, and .wolf have been- readied for midwinter ro mance by longer hours of day light. Sensibly enough, the abiding factor when animals are left to their own desires is that the young must be delivered when both mother and infant have the best chance to survive. Sorry . . . but for the larger animals, Z'yS f ..". i4-iil 1 Sunday, April 21, 1957 Jr v, 1 1 I 1 and the best ways to fight certain type fires. Small bulldozers gave "scale" to the model and signs indicated the kind of fuel and other conditions supposedly existing on the minia ture mountain. The demonstration was con ducted at the state forestry department head ' quarters on Table Bock rd. County Delegation To Livestock Show Receive Awards Jackson county's 4-H delega tion to the Grand National Jun ior Livestock Exposition at Cow Palace returned home Thursday with several honors. The show was held April 12 17. Eight Jackson county young sters attended. Bill Hernlein, Ashland, was named top 4-H'er and placed third in livestock showmanship. He was one of 10 classified as "excellent showmen" out of about 450 beef showmen at the event. He also placed first in his class with a star prime Here ford. Dale Smith, Central Point, was the fourth highest scoring 4-H club member in the live stock judging contest. There were 700 in the livestock judg ing competition. He also exhibit ed a prime steer. . 'Qualified Showman' Judy Bradshaw, Antelope, was one of 50 receiving a "qualified showman" rating. She also exr hibited a prime steer. Others from Jackson county participat ing in the exhibition were as follows: John James, Talent, star choice steer; Charles Elmore, Applegate, star choice steer: Carol von der Hellen, Central Point, choice steer; Susan Wright, Medford, choice steer; Jo Ann Mallory, Antelope, choice steer; and Leon Small, Sis-Q, choice steer. The Josephine county team of three won the judging champion ship at the Cow Palace show. This is the first time this trophy has left the state of California. Hospital Liability Bill Passes House Salem (U.R) The House Fri day passed a bill making hospi tals liable to suit for damages for injuries caused by negli gence. House bill 334 provides that the charitable nature of hospi tals will not be a defense in such suits. ' Also passing the House was House bill 283 appropriating S50.231 to set up ragwee con- trol districts in 18 counties un- der direction of the Department of Agriculture. Counties included would be Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Co lumbia, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lin coln, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Tillamook, Washington and Yamhill. spring is mostly the time of birth, not courtship and mating. (Released by McClur 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 adventure, the best' na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference 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 Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa lito, Calif. Red Fir Slabwood SUMMER SPECIAL J Loads J J 1 LOAD $12.00 Immediate Delivery Ph. 3-5878 or 2-5055 PHELPS FUEL CO. 1337 So. Peach St. Save this ad for reference School PHOENIX HIGH SCHOOL The homemaking class will hold a style show Thursday, May 2, in the afternoon as part of the program for the PTA. About 67 girls will model one complete outfit of clothing, al though many girls have made more than one ensemble in their classes. The girls have made all sorts of clothes ranging from Bermuda shorts to riding pants. The public has been invited and refreshments will be served. Pretty dresses, high -heels, hats, and all the accessories that go to make up an Easter outfit will be seen around the halls of PHS Monday, April 22. Every year, the Monday fol lowing Easter is "Dress Up Day" and the students, mostly the girls, come to school in their Easter finery. Agriculture classes, under the instruction of John P. Dube, are taking several new projects this week. Some of the new projects include wheelbarrows and hose holders. There are also many projects n e a ring completion. Some of the projects the boys are completing include trailers and hay loaders. A state unemployment typing test was given several senior girls Tuesday, April 16. The test will be on record in the state un employment agency, and will be given to any prospective employ er when the girls apply for a job. Those taking the test were Barbara Blankenslrp, L y d i a Plummer, Elvie Watkins, Betty Medford, Gale Larson, and Charlotte Stovall. Cake, ice cream and punch were served to members of the "Afraid of the Dark" production staff after the presentation on April 17. Refreshments were served in the Homemaking room and records were played to pro vide some of the entertainment. Marva Suit, Charlotte Stov all, and Janice Grove provided the cakes, and the ice cream was bought with Mask Club funds. Those who attended were Ri chard A. Dickenson, Ron Daugh erty, Henry Scott, Stanley Zwan, Dorothy Bean, Wanda Oetken, Charlotte Stovall, Mar va Suit, Gail Glidden, Gayle Larson, Nedra Harris, Charles Swingle, Glen Bradley, Mary Fowler, Jim James, Janice Grove; Dale Haggard, Roxie Shea, Betty Rupp,- Neil Gearin, and Liz Pramman. Campaigning for student body offices will begin April 22 and end April 29. Final voting will be April 30. tudents running for an office must have at least a 3 average in grades and a 2 in citizenship. The president will come . from the present junior class, and the vice president, secretary, "and treasurer will be from the present sophomore or junior class. The student council and teachers will select nominees for yell leaders April 25. The final election of yell leaders will be April 30. TALENT GRADE SCHOOL Mary Hampton and Bob Ja cobs were chosen by popular vote to reign as Queen and King New Conduit Being Placed in Alley PacificJTelephone has started work to increase underground cable conduit in an area south of its central office at 502 North Central ave. Excavation is under way of a 1,600-foot long trench in the al ley between Bartlett st. and Central ave. from Jackson st. to East Sixth st. and along East Sixth from the alley to Bartlett. The conduit to be placed in the trench, according to Man ager Jack Creager, will provide eight cable pathways. New cable to be placed in the conduit will serve the south and southeast portion of the Med ford exchange. The area is ex periencing rapid residential de velopment, Creager added, be cause of recent annexations to the city. Cost of completing the conduit work has been set at $16,500. The cable which will be placed in the new conduit this year will cost an estimated $50,000. Contractors for the conduit project are Hamilton and Thorns of Eugene. At OK MARKET SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS! at: MEDFORD MUFFLER and DOODY'S RICHFIELD SERVICE STATION News of the Seventh and Eighth grades spring dance, held Wednesday evening, April 17, in the school gym. W. B. Mearns' seventh grade sponsored the dance. The gym was decorated in red and white, the traditional grade school col ors. Music was furnisned by the "Downbeats" a high school dance band organized by Ralph Carroll, high school band director. The annual Talent school open house will be held Thursday, April 25. Doors will be open at 7 p.m. Following the room visi tations, there will be a short pro gram in the school gym. HEDRICK JUNIOR HIGH On Friday, April 19, an awards assembly was held at Hedrick Junior High school. The orchestra and band play ed their numbers for the con test coming up April 27 at Med ford High school. The awards were later presented by John Drysdale, orchestra director, and Ronald Bartlett, band director. Talent High Sports Page Gets Rating Talent Talent High school's sports page was rated second in the state for excellence by the Oregon Scholastic Press associ ation .according to a bulletin re ceived Wednesday. Talent's rating was in compe tition with schools of 300 or less enrollment. Judging each year is based on a particular phase of scholastic journalism. The sports page was this year's selection. The Lan tern of Pendleton placed first, and the White Buffalo of Mad ras was third. Sports editor is Jim Spangler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Spang ler. Three issues of the paper were chosen for judging. Points emphasized were general cover age of coming and past games, sports features, athletic associa tion coverage, makeup, photog raphy and printing. Honors awarded to the Hi-Life in previous years in addition to many first-class ratings are two All-American ratings by the Na tional Scholastic Press associa tion, a first in editorial page ex cellence and a third in first page excellence as rated by the Ore gon Scholastic Press association. Editor of the Hi-Life is Pris cilla Welch, and adviser is Mrs. Mary Lucille Offutt. Massey Transferred To Eugene Office F. K. Massey, ' commercial agent for the Medford office of the Missouri Pacific railroad, has been promoted and transferred to general agent at Eugene, ac cording to company officials. The change was effective April 1. Massey and his family resided in Medford for the past year. Before coming to Medford Mas sey was in Salinas, Calif. While in Medford he was chairman of the entertainment committee of the Rogue Valley Transportation club. His family will remain in Medford until the close of the school year. Massey will be replaced by R. A. Sheldon Jr., of Sacramento, Calif. DO TOV EUR OCT OF Wfestinghouse Water Heater wmt a w-teai CBorecTKW potior TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN ELECTRIC COMPANY 214 W. Main Phone .2-5211 at: ROXY ANN MARKET and CRATERIAN BEAUTY SALON n More Direct Dialing Will Be Available in PT&T's Improvements Telephone users in Pacific Telephone's exchanges in the greater Medford area will be able to dial more telephones di rectly without paying long dis tance charges after April 27. That is when the company's major service improvement pro gram goes into effect, according to Medford Manager Jack Crea ger. Under the new service plan Medford telephone users will be able to dial directly to about 23,- 250 telephones. The total in cludes 14,700 telephones in Med ford, 4,050 in Ashland, 1,580 in Central Point, 500 in Gold Hill, 540 in Jacksonville, 1,340 in Phoenix-Talent and 530 in White City. Other Calling Areas The. other expanded local calling areas and the total num ber of telephones in each will be: Ashland 20,100 telephones in Ashland, Medford and Phoenix Talent. Central Point 17,860 tele phones in Central Point, Med ford, White City, Gold Hill and Jacksonville. Gold Hill 16,790 telephones in Gold Hill, Central Point and Medford. Jacksonville 18,170 telephon es in Jacksonville, Central Point and Medford. Phoenix-Talent 20,640 tele phones in Phoenix-Talent, Ash land, Medford and Jacksonville. Remain the Sam The local calling area of White City telephone users served by the Columbia Utilities company will remain the same. The area includes a total of 16,810 tele phones in White City, Medford and Central Point. When the plan goes into ef fect, Creager pointed out, tele phone rates for service in Ash land, Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Central Point and Phoenix-Talent will be the same as those in Medford. At the same time the', local calling areas are expanded, new telephone numbers will be in troduced in Medford, Ashland, Gold Hill, Jacksonville and Phoenix-Talent exchanges. New Members Medford's new numbers will have the prefixes SPring 2 or SPring 3; Ashland's MUrdock 2, MUrdock 5 or MUrdock 9; Gold Hill's, ULrick 5; Jacksonville's TWinoaks 9 and Phoenix-Talent's, KEystone 5. The NOrman dy 4 numbers in Central Point and TAlbot 6 numbers in White City will not be changed. In using these new numbers it 'Til Hide the Eggs . . . and You Ice the MILK," say most wise Dads on this Easter Sunday because they know that the kids are) going to burn a lot of energy hunting those eggs and romping across the lawn. Youngsters need that extra pep MILK gives them ... and it's great for grownups too. So, be sure there's plenty of cold milk in your picnic thermos or refrigerator to day ... the kids will love you for it. - Drink at Least 3 is important to dial the two cap ital letters and numeral of the prefix and the following four numerals. Total cost of. the service im provements, Creager said, has been set at about $675,000. That amount includes some $200,000 to establish the new Phoenix Talent exchange. Roseburg Students To Discuss Problems Five Roseburg High school students with stuttering prob lems will appear on station KB ES - TV Sunday on the pro gram, "The College Hour." As part of their speech ther apy, the students will discuss their experiences as stutterers, problems they have encountered and help they have received in overcoming their difficulties, ac cording to Leon C. Mulling, di rector of the Southern Oregon college speech clinic. Dick Schwerzbin, speech ther apist in the Roseburg public school system, will accompany the group. 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