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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1957)
SIXTEZJf MEDFORD (OREGOX1 MAIL TRIBTTHT TABLE ROCK Arthur Doty Home Sold By R. E. NEALON Table Rock The Arthur Doty home here was sold las? week to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sharp, of Medford. The plot of land contains five acres of fertile soil with irrigation rights from the local ditch company. The price was said to be $11,500, with terms, and pos session time indefinite, depend ing upon Mrs. Doty's health, when the Dotys will move to Carson City, Nev., where their daughter, Mrs. John Bunten, and family reside. The Doty family fitted well into our community life, and fully intended to make this their permanent home, when Mrs.- Doty was stricken with a serious illness which makes it necessary for a change in their plans. There are at the present time, two more nice homes with small acreages for sale in the commun ity, o Mr. and Mrs. Charley Plow man and grandson and Mrs. Chester Logue of Yacolt, Wash., and Mrs. William Turner of Van couver, Wash., were recent vis itors with old-time friends at the J. S. Richardson farm. Mrs. Plowman and Mrs. Logue wye members of the Pomeroy faiily who lived in this vicinity more than 50 years ago. Charley Plow man resided here at that time also, and was employed for some time at the Modoc Orchard, which he remembers was worked with mules as the source of pow er. About 20 teams of the "crit ters" pulling walkingplows, (foot burners) each 12 -inch plow steered by a man between the handles. A letter frbm Mrs. William B Li hop of Kansas City, Kan., states that they have been get ting some hot, sticky weather there with the thermometer some days registering more than 100 degrees. Brief callers here with old time friends were Mrs. Eva Mc Coy of Sacramento, Calif., and lister, Mrs. Joe Quink of Alame da, Calif. These ladies were resi dents of the Table Rock Com munity some 40 years ago, and stopped here on their way home "from a get-together meeting of the relatives of the late G. P. Hall at Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. McCoy claims the California tax system is the worst in the coun try, with a state income tax, a state property tax, ftate sales tax, and many of the counties and cities now levying sales taxes, and of course the Federal income tax has to be paid. The Bill Hubbards of the Eagle Point area were here Thursday after a supply of can taloupes. Bill says the cheaper feeds for the dairy cows seems to have created a surplus of milk which leaves the dairyman with less take home pay than before the drop in feed prices. Lloyd Beers, the logger-farmer of the Beagle district, a recent caller here, reports poor crpp yields and the ground so dry and hard that a cat jfcn't scratch.it. That may explain why we are getting so many stray cats down this way. Several rattlesnakes have been seen secently at the Modoc Or chard. One was discovered by John Dickey crawling out from under his back porch, and being half in and half out,', couldn't rattle the war signal, and with so much under the house he eouldn't beat John to the draw, so was quickly dispatched by John's trusty rifle. Another big rattler was treed in a bush by the Bert Pierce dog, and taken care of by Bert John Deaver of the Ford Im plement company of Medford, was out this way one day last week trying to scare up a trade with us with a little "boot" money on the side. Field men from other imple ment houses have been over this way just to keep in touch. So far none of them has tried to tell us how many tractors it would take to buy a ton of hay or vice versa. Another victim of the fast moving traffic on the Table Rock and roll road, was the cute little dog belonging to Miss Rae Bos worth, which was hit and killed a few days ago. The threshing of grain was finished here in quick time this CORN REMOVER CtvM initanf rmtimf from pain mnd pew. ry nmovwt kard eonu. soft eorm tka Iom. callovMi. warn, papilloma. tM aoilt. k eoatoim wv ral different oils that wMi. Iirniin na m or covm H irrHwioK as do Wrong acid oiiilurct. Who a ko fo'Ud try tUit ana. Try or tunioa tkf. wkkh nTwo mam. mxmii, twallmg fust or nlBnJ ho. iti ramaoWt to id aa bock owaront.0 Exclusively at WESTERN THRIFT Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL ' Taa mutt b utisf iad at four man ! ckaartully rafundad. 'Gal bottla to-; 4my at WESTERN THRIFT. year. Three combines, one owned by the Table Top ranch, which did the threshing on the ranch, one brought here from the Fran cis Russell farm near Medford, ariti operated by the Robinsons, and the Dale Schultz new ma chine from Sans Valley. For the first time in this sec tion, all grain crops were threshed in bulk, no sacks being used. It was a far cry from the first grain harvftting we can re member, at that time the grain was first cut with a machine called a header, which was usu ally pulled, or perhaps we might say pushed by four horses which were hi'hed to the rear and driven by a jnan who straddled a tiller wheel. The three header boxes, each drawn by two horses took the cut straw from the header spout which was pitched out and stacked by two men. Later a threshing machine, consisting of a separator and horse power did the work of separating the grain from the straw. The power to turn the machinery was furnish ed by 10 or 12 horses hitched to sweeps. In this operation there was some 12 to 15 men, and that many horses. Our threshing, done this year by Dale Schultz, was a one man job, the 60 bushel grain tank was filled in the field, the machine driven to the granary and the grain elevated through a window to the bins in the granary. No sacks, no lifting, no muss or dust. In the horse-power days wheat was worth 50 cents a bushel, and now $2 and farmers are net getting rich yet. New Bridge Scheduled To Cross Rogue River The Bureau of Public Roads is advertising for bids for con struction of a bridge across the Rogue river. The move antici pates a new, road to be built along the south side of the river from the Coast Highway to Agness. At present a low standard road extends from the Coast High way up the north side of . the river to Lobster creek.' Surveys have been made for a new road on- the- south side of the river. althpugh no construction work on the road itself is scheduled for this year. The bridge would cross the river at Lobster creek. It will be a 527 foot steel truss bridge. Bids are being received urtil Sept. 5 at the bureau's Portland offices. San Diego (1ft Two ships of Amphibious Squadron 1 collid ed Thursday night 180 miles west of here and one man was reported missing. Alger Hiss Working As $12,000 Assistant By Comb Company New York Alger Hiss, the convicted perjurer, is now em ployed in a $12,000 per year job for a comb manufacturing firm, the New York Herald Tribune reported last week Hiss, whose 1950 conviction involved concealing espionage for the Soviet Union, is em ployed as a special assistant to R. Andrew Smith, president of Feathercombs, Inc. Smith said the former State Department of ficial has made himself "quite indispensable" in the three months since he joined the firm. The Herald Tribune story con tinued: The head of the company, which makes special combs to hold women's hair in place, said that he had heard Hiss was in need of a job and offered him a "clerical" post which was ac cepted at $100 a week. Hiss was so "tremendously successful" at solving office problems and im proving, procedures, Mr. Smith said, that this salary seemed . "disgraceful" and the rapid pro-! motion followed! i Hiss was unavailable to dis- cuss his work. As to the perjury conviction, j the manufacturer said he had no "pre-formed opinions" at the j time Hiss was hired but that now, as a result of personal con- I tact, "I don't think he could lie i and get away with it." Mr. Smith said that he has been try- , ing to read the Hiss book In the Court of Public Opinion" but that he is finding it "dry." Persons in book circles said yesterday that sales of the vol ume, in which Hiss put forward his own defense, were "disappointing." Warning Issued On Pholo Soliciting Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has issued a warning to local residents about solicita tion of portrait photos by out of town firms. The chamber said, "One of the most frequent subjects re ported in the Portland Better Business Bureau bulletin and those of the National Better Business Bureau are complaints involving traveling photograph ic studios. "Bureau reports, checked over the past two years, indicate a wide variety of studios solicit ing photos in towns throughout the Pacific northwest. A broad range of complaints often fol lows." One report came in a Janu ary, 1957 bulletin. Complain ants reported that they pur chased $2 coupons (many in tending to use the photographs as Christmas gifts) with the un derstading that the photogra pher would call at their home "in a day or so" to take the pictures. In November, 1956, a bulletin said pictures ordered from an other firm were either not de livered as agreed, or were so poor in quality they were worthless. A direct mall approach ap peared in the April, 1956 bulle tin. Parents reported receiving mailings claiming "The interest and appeal of your child's pic ture qualify it for attention of the nation's leading TV produ cers, publishers and advertising agencies." The firms ask that $10 be sent to have the picture published. ' The chamber advises, "Those Nwho plan to have a special pic ture taken for the Christmas London Iffl Radio Moscow told Russian listeners Fsiday that the Hollywood Confidential trial proved "an excellent illus tration" of "those morals about which American political figures so dearly love to pontificate." season should always investi gate thoroughly when solicited by out of town photographers." Use A1-T Classified Ads- Youth Holds Girl, Others at Gunpoint Tallahassee, Fla. HP A frustrated young swain was held Friday on charges he tried to force his girl friend to marry him at gunpoint, then blazed away at her uncle with a shot gun. Police arrested James F. Shields, 22, at his Walnut Hill home early Thursday and they charged him with breaking and entering, destroying property and attempted murder. . Sheriff Emmett Shelby said Shields barged into the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Mclane of Myrtle Grove and held them at bay with the gun while he plead ed with Emily McLane to marry him. The sheriff said that when McLane bolted to call for help, Shields fired at him but missed. UP-. MEDFORD m Penney New Fall Look! STORE HOURS: 9:30 to 5:30 Open Monday Evenings Until 9 P.M. Buy on Lay-A way r a v. A thrifty price for Penney's Pure-wool PLAID PLANS FOR COLLEGE Smart miss, she's scotch! Pays less, gets ho of Penney's fun-splashed toppings. 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