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TABLE ROCK Sunday. July 28. 1957 MED FORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Family Visits From Tehran R. E. NEALON Table Rock Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Dooley and two imall children arrived home Thursday after a 12-day trip from Tehran, Iran, where they have spent the past two years. Dooley holds a position as Ag ricultural Engineer with the Near East Foundation. Mrs. Dooley states that she is ex ceedingly happy to be back home here with friends and home folks, although she and her husband enjoyed the work there very much with the kind, friendly people. When asked if the farmers there still used horses for their motive power, she replied that they used oxen. The purpose of the Near East Foundation is to o tench the farmers to use tractors and more modern methods In their farming operations. The Dooleys will leave here Aug. IS for South Dakota to visit relatives. They will leave there about Sept. 15 for Tehran M resume their work. across the road from us, keeps reaching toward the sky, and has already shut off our view of the neighbor's house. If it keeps up this pace will soon shut off our view of Upper Table Rock Mrs. Glen Smith passed away Saturday in a Medford hospital after a long illness, being a vic tim of cancer. Mr. and Mrs Smith have lived at the Modoc orchard for the past five years, where he was employed. Wr. and Mrs. Roy Weston, of L Angeles, were visiting with 14 time friends here last week. Mrs. Weston, the former Grace Bickison, grew up here. The Cickison family some 50 years ait owned and operated what is low the Red Skin orchard, the Horrii farm on the south side 0t the road, the Table Rock or chard, and all the Tuttle sub division on the north side, the east boundary running along the Modoc road, and the west at the Baker farm. Dan Sage, of Coquille, was a recent visitor in the valley! on his return from his naval re serve hitch in the Panama Canal zone. He reports having taken a position In the Hayward. Calif school system for the next school year. Tree props are beginning to appear in local pear orchards where an average, or better crop of pears is rapidly growing to maturity. Many Table Rock ladies, bear ing the usual appropriate gifts for such occasions, attended a pre-nuptial shower for Miss Lu cille Smith at the home of Mrs. Norman Mayfield on Wilson road Thursday. Eugene Childers, who died recently In Medford. lived here and attended the Table Rock school back in the 90s. The Chil ders family at that time oper ated a farm which is now part of the Reter holdings, and lived In the house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Hunst. A newcomer to the neighbor hood is little Trudy Coleen Plummer, born July 17, at the Sacred Heart hospital, and weighing in at 7 pounds. The Plummers are leaving here on August 2 for Portland, Ore., where Plummer is being trans ferred by his company. We understand that one of our enterprising farming firms has taken on a side line of raising skunks for pets and has a num ber on hand. The price is said to be $35 for the deodorized, and $30 as is, or an even trade for a nutria of the same age and color. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Vincent, of Central Point, and Miss Nellie Collins, from St. Joseph, Mo., were callers in Table Rock Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent were former Table Rockers, Miss Nel lie Collins, who is Mrs. Vincent's cousin, taught for several years in the schools of Jackson coun ty. She is now a music teacher in the St. Joseph, -Mo., schools. Table Rock Teenage club joined Sams Valley teenagers on a hay ride which ended at the Bill Duggan ranch, where a wiener roast and potluck sup per was held at midnight, Satur day, July 20. Fred Smith and children, Wayne and Lucile, accompanied by Glenna May Brown, left Thursday, July 18, for the week end at Diamond lake. They were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith and Jim Gann on Friday night. Allan Ray and Roger Sharp stayed with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Doran, while Mr. and Mrs. David Doran were on a trip to California. Among rectnt Table Rock vis itors were the Herman Priemg of the Beagle district. Herman Mas searching for a photograph of himself when he was a school boy and better looking, so he Ays, than now. The Sam Glass corn patch just The Kenney Wyatts of Hay ward, Calif., were week end visitors with home folks here at .the Ray Wyatt home. Kenny has a responsible position in the school system there. Several from here attended the funeral of Mrs. Halley Head, held recently in Medford. Mrs. Head, the former Elsie Beebe, is the oldest of the Watt Beebe family. In past years, when peo ple traveled with horse and bug gy she used to attend and take part in local social functions as did other folks in the Agate district. Is That So? A Philadelphia Bulletin read er asks: "Do you believe in these stories about children be ing raised by wild animals such aa these wolf-reared children we hear about in India?" Many legendary heroes from Zeus of olden days to Tarzan of this 20th Century were credited wii having been reared by an imals. But the commonest tales concern children who are reared by good humane wolves ever since that very famous story of Romulus and Remus being suck led by a wolf and then going on to greater and better things, founding Rome, the Eternal City. These days, hardly a year goes by but what some account comes from southeast Asia tell ing about Indian wolves (some what smaller than our timber wolf) rearing human children. A fairly recent report con cerned an Anglican minister, J. A. L. Singh. It told of how the Reverend had rescued two girl "wolf children" from a den in India. Dr. Singh supposedly kept these girls in an orphanage and he kept the matter secret for six years, the account says, so that their background would not prejudice their marriages. ' The story .-eceived wide ac ceptance in the U. S. in fact, Dr. Arnold Gesell, director of Yale's Clinic of Child Develop ment, wrote an article for Har per's about these two girls and later published a book. Wolf Child and Human Child (Har pers, N. Y.). Unfortunately when investi gators tried to verify the details on the spot' the children had tied and so had Dr. Singh. All that remained was his diary and some very, very vague photo graphs. Mystery Remains For the record, then, wolf reared children remain a mys tery. There is considerable ques tion: were the children raised by wolves? Or were they picked up near wolves and so supposed to have been reared by them? A small child may be carried off by an occasional wolf in India but the likelihood of sur viving for any length of time seems remote. It is not totally inconceivable that a female, nursing pups would befriend a helpless child, states Dr. George C. Goodwin of the American Museum of Nat- By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist ural History. He points out: 'Cats that have lost their kittens have gone out and found and raised baby rabbits, and a wolf might do the like. If only once in a thousand times, the circum stances might be favorable the right wolf might meet the right child, one that happened to show no fear." So ... to answer the reader. Perhaps once in a thousand kid nepings the conditions might be favorable. But the likelihood seems extremely remote. (Released by McClur News paper 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, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft 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 Trib une, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Sfrafojet Crash Kills Four Crewmen Abilene, Tex. W A B47 Stratojet, taking off from Dyess Air Force Base, nosed to earth Wednesday night, erupting into an explosion seen 15 miles away and killing its four crew men. Witnesses said the jet bomber was only about 200 feet in the air after taking off when it sud denly "hung in the air," nosed down and crashed into a creek just off the runway. 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