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.
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