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Oregon Families
h Host Youths
As IFYE Members
Six International Farm Youth
Exchange delegates from Paki
tan, Costa Rica, Israel and
India will soon be living with
Oregon farm families, according
to Mrs. Winnifred Gillen, state
4-H club extension agent at Ore
gon State college.
Coming to Oregon are Nar
ayan Sarkar and Mohammad
Nawaz Arbab, two young men
from Pakistan; Carlos Harley,
Costa Rica; Chaim Rosenthal, Is
rael; and Miss Shakuntala Sar
naik and Miss Adarsh Nalwa,
India.
After a day's orientation at
OSC, the IFYE exchangees will
live on host family farms for
about three weeks.
Families seletOd as hosts for
delegates are:
Sarkar Cecil Jackets, "Mon
mouth; Fred Andrews, Echo; Ar
bab George Gordon, Mon
mouth; Edwin Hoeft, Pendleton;
Harley Robert Hoffman, Beav
ercreek; Halbert Wilson, Malin;
Rosenthal R. L. Wimer,
Brownsville; Orie Mahanna,
Wallowa; and Bruno Hukari,
Hood River. Miss Sarnaik
Edwin Eyman, Canby; Joe Stah
ancyk, Prineville; Miss Nalwa
Louis Babcock, Molalla; Dwight
Macy, Culver.
The IFYE delegates will at
tend the Oregon State fair in
Salem, Mrs. Gillen said, and
participate in an International
Night program September 1.
Since 1951, when Oregon be
came active in the International
Farm Youth Exchange program,
52 young people from 28 coun
tries have come to the state to
learn about American family
and community life.
Oregon has sent 24 young peo
ple to 21 other countries to learn
about their way of life and to
help them know about the Un
ited States. The exchange pro
gram is financed by private contributions.
Eagle Point FFA
Takes Shop Award
The Eagle Point FFA Chapter won 'a mineral feeder. Carl Weisbrod of
a blue banner donated by Moore Steel
Company, Wednesday, at the County
Fair for having the outstanding FFA
shop exhibit.
Ronald Hanson of Eagle Point won
an electric soldering iron donated by
the American Steel company for hav
ing the outstanding individual shop
exhibit. Ronalds exhibit was a horse
trailer.
Individual Jackson County FFA
shop p lacings were:
Livestock. Trailers Ronald Hanson
of Eagle Point 1st and champion. Jer
rv McDonald of Eagle Point 1st and
Bill Moore of Crater 2nd.
Utility Trailers Bill Moore of Cra
ter 2nd.
Large Wood Construction Bill
White of Crater 1st and Champion
with a cayle feeder. Earl Warne of
crater ist wiin a loading cnuie, Al
len Higinbotham of Crater 2nd with
a loading1 chute; and Lewis Nickerson
of 2nd with a calf shed.
Large Metal Construction Robert
Hays of Eagle Point. 1st and -Champ
ion with a hay elevator. Art oaraner
of Eagle Point 1st with a hay eleva
tor. John and George Miner of Eagle
Point 1st with a hay elevator and
Dave Carr of Phoenix 2nd. with a
field hay elevator.
Small Metal Construction Don
Wallace of Phoenix, 1st and Champ
ion with a gas welding cart. Lyle
Bigham of Crater 1st with a tractor
lift. Lyle Bigham of Crater 1st. with
a floating draw bar, Galen Clifford.
of Eagle Point. 2nd with a tractor
lift. Lester Schleigh of Phoenix, 2nd
with a welding cart.
Small Wood Construction Allen
Higinbotham of Crater. 1st., and
Champion with a set of pick-up truck
racks, Don Ryan of Crater, 1st, with
Stilbestrol Implants
Boost Beef Feeding .
Stilbestrol hormone implants
for boosting livestock gains have
proved profitable under a wide
range of Oregon beef-feeding
practices as tested by Oregon
State college research workers.
Yearling and two-year-old
steers receiving stilbestrol im
plants in the ear gained about
one-half pound a day more on
the average than untreated
steers, according to . David C.
England, OSC animal husband
man. The OSC scientist conduct
ed 10 feeding trials under wide
ly different feeding conditions
during the past year in coopera
tion with Oregon ranchers and
county extension agents.
New Testing Speeds
Location Of Reactors
Oregon dairymen may not i Beagle, in charge of federal vet-
realize it, but the new brucello
sis testing program through the
milk ring test will step up the
drive to locate reactors.
This is the word of the State
Brucellosis Advisory committee,
which met in Salem August 15 to
review procedures now under
way also to study the new regu
lations governing this program.
Members of the committee,
named in July by the governor
are Al W. Lindow, Portland,
chairman; Louis J. Wettstem,
Ontario: Rod McKenzie, Sixes;
Larry Williams, Canyon City;
and Pat Cecil, Burns. Albert
Julian, Scio, substituted for Mc
Kenzie at the August meeting.
First official ring tests are
being conducted in the federal
state laboratories attached to the
state department of agriculture.
The Initial samples are coming
from the Portland area.
At least two times each year
the ring test will be performed
on all fluid milk samples going
through the state department of
agriculture dairy laboratories
and the municipal milk inspec
tion laboratories at Portland,
Eugene. Astoria and Medford.
Also all milk that can be col
lected at creameries, cheese fac
tories, receiving stations and
other manufacturing plants will
be subjected to the ring test at
Salem. Dairy herds suspicious to
the milk ring test must be blood
tested. A. .
The committee believes this
will increase the benefits of bru
cellosis testing because of the
more frequent check on the herd
than has been possible in the
past. .
While use of the ring test is
new here, Oregon leaders believe
its use in other states has pro
gressed sufficiently that it may
now be .'afely incorporated into
the Oregon control program. The
ring test is one of the procedures
recommended by the federal gov
ernment in the accelerated bru
cellosis program.
The brucellosis advisory com
mittee also believes that range
counties in the state will now
rfri toward reaching brucello
sis certification, particularly be
cause the new law and the regu
lations guiding its operations are
designed to make the movement
of clean cattle easier.
In another new development
to speed up the certification pro
gram in Oregon, the suite is now
taking blood samples in slaugh
terhouses and sales yards, lne
results of these tests are being
credited, where the animals are
free of brucellosis, to the official
standing of the herd from which
they originated. This will count
in the county history record
when it comes up for recertif ica-
tion.
T hi s brucellosis committee
acts in an advisory capacity to
the state department of agricul
ture in all phases of the new
eradication program. Depart
ment officials attending the Au
gust meeting were Robert J.
Steward, director; M. E. Knicker
bocker, chief, and Dr. K. J.
Peterson, state veterinarian, both
in the division of animal indus
try. Also present were Dr. A. G.
erinarians in Oregon, and his as
sistant, Dr. O. J. Halverson.
The advisory board reports
that copies of the -new regula
tions governing the brucellosis
program (and also tuberculosis
and paratuberculosis) were sign
ed August 6 by Director Steward
and are now available. Anyone
interested may obtain a copy by
writing to the state department
of agriculture at Salem.
Eaele Point. 2nd with a aheeo feeder.
and Allen Barnes of Crater. 3rd with
a ladder.
The following special shop awards
will be given those having the out
standing shop exhibit in each class:
Implement trailers. $20.00. govern
ment certificate from Moore Steel to
Ralph Simon of Crater.
Stock and horse trailer class. $10
gift certificate from Industrial Air
to Ronald Hanson of Eagle Point.
Utility trailer class. S10 gift certif
icate from Hubbard Brothers to Bill
Moore of Crater.
Large metal construction class, $20
gift certificate from Moore Steel to
Robert Hayes of Eagle Point.
Small metal construction, five dollar
gift certificate from Industrial Air
to Don Wallace of Phoenix.
Large wood construction, $10 from
Norton Lumber company to Bill
White of Crater.
Small wood construction. $5 gift
certificate from Hubbard Brothers to
Allen Higinbotham of Crater.
FFA Crops
The FFA Crops exhibit consisted
of exhibits from the three valley
chapters of Crater. Phoenix. and
Eagle Point. Crater exhibited the ma
jor portion of the truck and field
crops. The judge was John Yunger
of Southern Oregon experiment sta
tion. Results of his placings in the
Danish svstem were as follows:
Alfalfa Hay
Blue Award Clifford Bigham, Cra
ter and Gary Legler, Crater.
Red Award Bob Elden. Crater
White Award Bob Hayes, Eagle
Point.
Oats and Vetch Hay
Red Award Clifford Bigham, Cra
ter. Grass and Clover Hay
Blue Award Gary Legler. Crater.
Red Award Ronald Meade. Crater.
Oats and Pea Hay
Red Award Jerry Leonard, Cra
ter. White Award Norman Barnes, Cra
ter and Allen Barnes, Crater.
Field Crops '
Barley
Blue Award Clifford Bigham. Cra
ter. Red Award Jerry Leonard, Cra
ter. White Award Phoenix FFA chap
ter. Oats
Blue Award Lyle Bigham. Cra
ter. Red Award Clifford Bigham. Cra
ter. Wheat
Blue Award Phoenix FFA chap
ter. Sorghum Grain
Blue Award Don Savage. Crater.
FFA Livestock Judging
FFA Livestock judging was an add
ed feature at the Jackson County
4-H-FFA Fair this year. Four FFA
Chapters Crater, Phoenix, Eagle
Point and Grants Pass entered live
stock judging competition this year.
Placings and team scores were as
follows:
Crater FFA 1453.7
Grants Pass FFA 1428 8
Eagle Point FFA 1381.0
Phoenix FFA 1353.2
Top five individual scores were at
tained by the following:
1. Lone Pritchett, Grants Pass, 566.4.
2. David Mack. Crater. 519.9.
3. Bill Hubbard. Eagle Point. 4982.
4. Jack Hoffbuke. Phoenix. 485.4.
5. Jack Esp, Eagle Point, 484.6.
Banners donated by local agricul
tural business firms will be awarded
as follows:
Crater lst-place banner. Donor
Medford Feed and Seed.
Grants Pass FFA 2nd-place ban
ner. Donor A. H. Dudley.
Eagle Point FFA 3rd-place banner.
Donor Fabers' Farmers Supply.
FFA Beef showmanship
Advanced
1st Art Gardener. Eagle Point.
2nd Jack Esp, Eagle Point.
Beginners
Don Ryan. Crater: Steve Carroll,
Eagle Point; and Jack Hoffbuhr, Phoe
nix. Champion Beef Showman was Art
Gardner with an Angus heifer.
Ed Griggs. Crater FFA
Nat Etzel. Eagle Point FFA
Jack Dube, Phoenix FFA
First Spray Applications
Made Under New Regulation
The first spray applications
under the new ragweed control
law were made on a field near
Salem August 14, the state de
partment of agriculture report
ed. As fast as possible it will
cover known infestations in
western Oregon. When the spray
equipment enters an area, ad
vance word will be given.
At the same time, Director
Robert J. Steward said that all
1957 revisions or additions to
agricultural laws administered
by the department were effect
ive on August 20. Anyone inter
ested may obtain .copies of any
of the laws by writing to the de
partment at Salem.
The 1957 acts which became
effective this week are:
Grade A milk audit law
Under it the department will
determine by audit of milk deal
ers, including cooperatives, the
uses of all grade A milk received
by plants.
Hay dealers' law This re
quires licensing and bonding of
all buyers of Oregon-grown hay
and forage plants not intended
for buyers' own use. This law
includes forage plants used for
feed, which brings such items as
pea vines and other silage under
this law, which is a new one.
Livestock district law a
new feature makes the depart
ment of agriculture a hearing
agency to determine present dis
trict boundaries within a period
of one year. It also makes the
department a central depository
of information on all district
boundaries. (This is related to
the fence laws which were re
duced to less than 200 words,
with the exception of fencing
of railroad rights-of-way, which
remain unchanged.)
Agricultural seeds House
keeping amendments, the prin
cipal features of which deal with
germination dates on the label
and increase of license fee (the
first increase in 20 years) from
S2.50 to S5 annually, effective
on December 31.
Herbicide law Provides for
department investigation on re
quest of alleged damages from
use of weed killers. A second
amendment to this law was spon
sored by the tax commission and
affects the taxation and creation
of control districts.
Warehouse act Amendments
relate primarily to procedures in
cases of shortage or quitting
business.
Voluntary poultry inspection
A new program under which
poultry and rabbit slaughter
plants may elect to come under
state inspection.
Potato law Housekeeping
changes dealing with labeling,
movement and inspection points.
Several other 1957 laws com
ing under the department juris
diction became effective earlier,
either through emergency
clauses or specific dates named
in the law. These include the
compulsory meat inspection law;
brucellosis eradication; livestock
auction markets; the new rag
weed laws; the fluid milk act;
the act reducing meat dealer li
censes; brand inspection and re
cording; and the revisions in the
state board of agriculture.
MAKES PILGFIMAGE
Bordeaux, France (IP) Dr.
Albert Schweitzer made a pil
grimage to the high Pyreness
monastery where he spent much
of his time during World War I.
Schweitzer, 82 - year - old Nobel
Peace Prize winner, lunched
with the director of the Lanne
mezan Psychiatric Hospital and
then went on to the Garaison
Monastery which he usually vis
its on his European vacations.
IT'S A GIFT
Chicago (IB Mrs. Gloria
Dembinski, 32, and Mrs. Pattie
Heinsbergen, 33, were reunited
Wednesday after a 30-year sepa
ration and found they had much
in common. The sisters can wig
gle their noses and ears.
Seattle Woman Gets "
Bad Case of Goose
Bumps; Sees Big Boa
Seattle -fi A wandering
boa constrictor gave a Seattle
housewife a few bad moments
Tuesday before police dis
patched the reptile with a
shovel.
Mrs. Ralph Heaton. 47, said
she got a bad case of goose
bumps when she spotted the
six-foot boa slithering around
her backyard.
Mrs. Heaton called the po
lice, who are still trying to
determine where the snake
came from.
Ashland Resident
Elected To Board
Sterling Fryrear, Ashland,
has been elected to the execu
tive board of the Ancient Order
of Blotch.
Other executive board mem
bers are Chester Green, Union;
Jim Coffee, Salem. Ed Mullen,
in charge of brand inspections
at the North Portland stock
yards, is the new grand master
of the AOB. Other 1957-58 offic
ers are Elmore Nicholson, Fort
Klamath, assistant grand master;
Elmer Stukel, Merrill, treasur
er; Lee Hunsaker, Lakeview,
keeper of the irons.
Several western states have
asked the Oregon department of
agriculture for information
about the ancient Order of
Blotch.
This is an organization of
livestock brand inspectors the
first of its kind in the nation.
Inquiring states want the AOB
constitution, by-laws and initia
tion ceremony. Presumably this
is a forerunner to organizing
in other states.'
Oregon officials are pleased
with this outside interest for
they hope that th AOB will
spread nationwide or at least
to every state employing live
stock brand inspectors.
Oregon's AOB, formed a year
ago, held its first annual meet
ing in August. The members
presented a handsome . silver
belt buckle with the order's
brand to Gene Kunkel, retiring
president who was recently pro
moted from inspector at Red
mond to the Salem district as a
livestock officer. The group also
presented a silver plaque to T.
A. Matschiner,' Salem, in appre
ciation of the idea which devel
oped into the -order. Matschiner
is the department's supervising
livestock officer in this field.
The order now has about 80
members, including 21 initiated
this month. Honorary members
inducted at the annual meeting
were: Robert J. Steward, direc
tor of agriculture; Ed Coles,
Prineville, secretary of the Ore
gon Cattlemen's association; and
three members of the livestock
advisory board: Tom McElroy,
Vale; Alfred Boquist, Tillamook;
and Kent Magruder, Clatskanie.
Navy To Build Sub
Killer at Groton
Groton, Conn. (IP) The
Navy is embarking on a new
phase of its atomic undersea pro
gram with a contract award to
General Dynamics Corp. for
what it calls an "anti-sub sub
marine." This new sub will be built at
the corporation's Electric Boat
yards, which already have
turned out three big nuclear
powered submarines, and are
completing the Navy's largest,
and also the fastest submersibles.
The anti-sub submarine, first
of a killer -type, will be the
smallest unit of the fleet and
will have the single purpose of
tracking down enemy subs and
eliminating them. Speed will be
sacrificed for maneuverability
and "maximum capacity to kill."
It will have a surface displace
ment of 1,950 tons.
The Navy has not released its
overall length, nor when the
keel will be laid.
CRYING ON THE INSIDE
Montgomery, Ala. (1PI It
wasn't washday blues that
brought tears to the eyes of Max
well Air Force Base laundry
workers. A small bottle of tear
gas fell from a moving truck,
rolled under the laundry and
burst. An intake fan pulled
fumes into the building.
switch to
never an
after-thirst!
COCA-COLA BOTTLING
. CO. of MEDFORD
Thursday, August 22, 1957
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Central Pointers Triumph
In Forestry Club Displays
Central Point Forestry club 'Central Point, state fair entrants-.
Wallace, Brush Busters, red ribbons:
Robert Piete. Applgate. and Earl
Van Hoy, Central Point, white ribbons.
walked off with four of the six
championships in the forestry
projects exhibited at the 4-H
and FFA Jackson county fair.
The Phoenix Brush Busters won
the other two championships.
Champions were Mike Char
ley, Central Point, forestry 1A;
Wallace Skyrman, Central Point,
forestry IB; Clifford Pinkham,
Central Point, Forestry LC;
Henry Scott, Brush Busters, for
estry ID; Carl Skyrman, Cen
tral Point, Forestry IE; Fred
Jossy, Antelope, Forestry II. '.
Other winners are:
Forestry 1A Mike Charlev. JnhnJ
caster. Alison Pinkham. and Tommy
Abbott, all of Central Point, state fair
entrants: Mike Charley, John Caster,
Alison Pinkham, Tommy Abbott, Dan
iel Edmondson. all of Butte Falls,
Steve Chapman, Erroll Coffman, An
telope, Fred Swingle. Brush Busters,
Faye Chapman, Sis-Q; Leonard Han
son. Elk-Trail: Linda Naumann, Elk
Trail: Gregg Schmidt. Gold Hill: Lor
na Fowler. Brush Buster: David Hix
son. Gold Hill: Sandra Wallis. Sis-Q:
Florence Wolfolk. Antelope; Jim Wad
dell, Sis-Q: Bill Hernlein, Sis-Q: and
Margaret Hanson, Elk-Trail, red rib
bons; Earl Naumann. Elk-Trail; Cheryl
Miller, Elk-Trail; Jeff Fowler, and
Roger Fowler, Brush Busters, white
awaros.
Forestry IB Wallace Skyrman.
Anne Carter. both Sis-O: Dennis
Pfaff, and Verne Pendleton jr.. both
Thundershowers,
Gas, Postpone Test
Las Vegas, Nev. (IPI Thun
dershowers and the shortage of
helium to fill a balloon which
had sprung a leak gave the
Atomic Energy commission a
double reason today to call an
other 24-hour delay in its 13th
nuclear blast at the Nevada prov
ing grounds.
Rain fell on the test site as
scientists awaited the arrival of
a shipment of helium to. replace
the supply lost Tuesday when
the plastic balloon developed a
leak. The nuclear device, called
"Doppler," will be suspended
from the balloon for detonation
at 1,500 feet above Yucca Flat.
Forestry LC Clifford Pinkham and
James Ccott, both Brush Busters;
Bill Anhorn, Central Point, and Alice
Wooifolk. Antelope; Nyla Murray An
telope, red ribbon.
Forestry ID Henry Scott, cham
pion, state fair entrant, blue ribbon.
Forestry IE Carl Skyrman, Cen
tral Point, state fair entrant and
blue ribbon.
Forestry KK Fred Jossy, Antelope
champion, state fair entrant, and blue
ribbon; Robert Rosenbaum, Sis-Q.
white ribbon.
Roman Catholic Priest
Receives Prison Term
Vienna (IB A Czechoslovak
Roman Catholic priest was sen
tenced to nine years' imprison
ment Wednesday by a Commun
ist court in Prague, the Prague
Radio announced today.
The broadcast said the Rev.
Vaclav Philipek, of the Silesian
Order, was accused of 'directing
an illegal spy organization in
Moravio. The radio claimed Phil
ipek had received "espionage in
structions" from the U.S. Intelli
gence Service and the Vatican.
Newcombe's Car Hits
4-Year-0ld Boy
Linden, N.J. UPl An automo
bile driven by Brooklyn Dodger
pitcher Don Newcombe struck a
4-year-old boy Wednesday, injur
ing him seriously.
Newcombe told police he was
returning to his home in Colonia
from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn
when John Chase ran into the
path of his car. The child was
reported in fair condition at an
Elizabeth hospital with head and
body injuries.
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