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Is That So? As I've said before, the best part of writing my column is the warm correspondence with you readers and the many out door experiences and observa tions you share with me. In to day's mail, for example, I re ceived a letter from Darl G. Whitney of Creswell, Ore., which I'd like to pass along for your reaction. (It goes without say ing that he pulls down this week's award of the 30-volume set of the Encyclopedia Ameri cana). Beavers, writes Mr. Whitney, are among the most intelligent of small animals. As everyone knows much of their time is spent in building dams and stor ing water. In fact many cattle men and ranchers have water holes today because of the beav er's work. But there is more to their dams than appears on the sur face. Two years ago while pho tographing beavers for a story, I found out about the safety valve on beaver dams. This safety valve is the place on the dam where a certain amount of water is allowed to escape at all times. This keeps the water from running over the face of the dam which would of course wash the valuable mud and chinking away and cause the dam to leak. Besides, with this safety valve the beavers can raise or lower the amount of water in the dam by simply adding or taking away a few sticks from this escape gap. In event of flood, this safety valve might conceivably let that part of the dam wash out as this A For Over 25 Years A Dependable Place to Buy Safe -Satisfying OIL HEAT QUAKER HEATERS JOHNSON BURNERS STANDARD HEATING OILS Expert Oil Burner Service Valley Fuel Co. 26 West Main IK. C. Smith l-Vj..--- , Demolition I;.. ;S4SiiiL?"i :i l:,r - ' ' ' ' ' "'"-'- :.' Tru-Mix Concrete Co. Concrete W. V. Reed Cement Finishing Dee Zimmerman Masonry Bruce Bauer Lbr. Co. Rough Lumber Big Pines Lbr. Co. Finished Lumber Padgham Glass & Millwork Co. Millwork arid Glass. Medford Steel Co. Structural Steel Modern Plumbing & Sheet Metal Co. Plumbing, Heating, Sheet Metal Wiley & Reinholdt Insurance and Bonding By EUGENE BURNS Ringr-Naturlitt part is not as strong as the rest of the dam and, again, in this way beavers protect their house and the main part of the dam's structure. No Damage Allowed I once removed sticks from the upper part of the safety valve widening "the gap from 24 to 48 inches. In doing so, I removed only loose sticks which would be replaced again easily as in Oregon the law does not allow anyone to damage a bea ver dam. Taking a position 10 feet away from the escape gap in a group of poplars, I waited to see if the beavers would ap pear. Sure enough after five min utes, a large beaver started across the pond and once he hit the current of the escaping water he made a beeline for the escape valve where I had set my auto matic camera and I came away with a fine shot of a bea ver! Then I replaced the sticks and drove back to the city, happy with my picture and the knowl edge that the beaver discovered my work within minutes. 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 sufc-nissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer Phone SP 3-1576 TABLE ROCK School To Start Tomorrow By R. E. NEALON Table Rock Monday morn ing, Sept. 9, school kids will be called to classes at the Central Point-Crater system, which is at tended by students from this area. It has been a long and joyous vacation ag the summer has been minus the usual hot days. It reminds us of the song, "school days, school days, good old golden rule days, reading, writing and arithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick." The hickory stick seems to be a thing of the past, which some folks regret, and the big bell on the local school house, as in other country school districts, will be silent. Some think it still should ring. The school children living within the boundaries of old district 44, some 25 in number, will be boarding big powerful buses which will quickly whisk them to the beginning of anoth er nine month's term. Compared to the schools in our day, we sometimes wonder how so many of us lived so long and how we came to know what little we do know. The two local 4-H clubs, Home-living and Sewing, led by Mrs. Frank Myers and Mrs. Everett Brown, did well at the recent 4-H fair, winning many ribbons, according to Glenna May Brown, a club member. The only member from here show ing livestock was Don Ryan, who was a prize winner with his polled hereford cattle. Recent visitors at the J. S, Richardson's were Arden Ty- rell, of the Rogue River district, and his daughter, Arietta, her husband, Denver Bullock, and two boys of San Pedro, Calif. Another visitor at the Rich ardson home was Clarence Wil- hite, of Butte Falls, who dropped m Saturday to talk over old times. He was a resident of the Beagle and Sam's valley areas for many years, moving away some 40 years ago. Frank Straus. Sams Vallev farmer, and representative of the United Farm Agency, a na tion wide organization dealing in farms and farm homes, was a brief caller here Monday. He says he gets many letters from people in other states asking about acreages for home sites in southern Oregon. According to Mrs. Ed Robin- your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box .575, Sausalito, Calif. (12- "VV- "" GIRLS COMMUNITY CI.UB -'9 v. .... v.... , . 1 mM-Tt'Meim--siisii fc, j.- .. -nfr-tr - in - j- . ----Jw-vi.-- - Vi -ir --. , , .-. . . .. .u. - .- . ' .. is : 3 v xr son, the Robinsons' son, Elgin has recently been taking in practice battle maneuvers said to be the biggest ever put on by the U.S. Marine corps. These were held m the Mojave desert near Camp Pendleton, where the temperature most of the time ranged from 130 degress in the shade to 150 degrees in the sun depending on eievauon. Callers here Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mingus of Eureka, Calif. Mrs. Mingus, the former Vivian Ross, is a direct descendant of the pioneer Ross family who, in early days, naa extensive land holdings on Ross lane, northwest of Medford. Albert Allen, builder and de signer of the Roguewoods boats, Table Rock's latest business en terprise, reports a. good demand for his type of boats which are handled through the Johnston stores in Medford. George Loftin, former Texan and optimistic Democrat, re ports the sale of his 760 acre Beagle ranch to Johnnie Orsak, of New Mexico, who will take possession about the first of next January. At that time he says he and his wife will move to a home with smaller acreage as they have sold everything, including 110 head of cattle, with the ranch, reserving only two suit cases and a collie dog. The Loftins report more inqui ries this summer from out-of-state people for large farms in this section than during their entire 17 years residence here. Charley Sanderson of Sams Valley was a recent business visitor here. He and his wife had just returned from a motor trip to Canada resorts. Sander son says he sold his farm be cause for the last few years he never made a cent trying to operate it. Mr. and Mrs. Milas Richard son of North Bend, Ore., were recent visitors here with rela tives at the J. S. Richardson home. Milas Richardson was born near Medford, close to the pres ent site of the Lone Pine school. The land was donated to the school district by Richardson's father. Milas worked at the transportation game for many year, driving motor driven buses and stages, after his begin ning with horse drawn livery rigs of many kinds. He remem bers back in 1908 driving a span of coal black stallions kept in Dr. Helm's Nash livery sta bles in the block just across the street from the First Na tional bank, and used by under To iris' Community Their Board of Directors and the Donor For Their Continuing Fine Work at 229 M. ISartlett Myers D. Jones, General Contractor takers to pull the hearse In fu neral processions. James W. Bayliss, of the Sis kiyou Veterinary hospital on Earnett road, was a business visitor at the Table Top ranch Wednesday. The Rev. Jea M. Shelley and wife, Central Point, were call ers here Wednesday. Larry Pirkey returned Sun day from Yakima, Wash., where, as a reservist, he took two weeks of basic training with Headquarters company second battalion 413th infantry regi ment of Medford. The shotgun blasts heard here morning and evening come from the scattergun of Bill Glass as he tries to salt the tails of pheas ants that pick holes in water melons, and scare the blackbirds out of Sam's com patch. Table Rock people .attending the state fair at Salem this week were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Brown and daughter, Glenna May. Mrs. Arthur Doty Is conva lescing at her home here after undergoing major surgery in a Medford hospital. Mrs. Elizabeth Grogan has re turned to her home in Larna rada,. Calif., after a month's visit here with her niece, Mrs. Bert Pierce and family, 1 at the Bert Pierce home. Little Jimmy Fleischer Is car rying his right arm in a sling with two fractured wrist bones, caused by a fall from a shade tree in the Fleischer yard. We used to pride ourselves on our sales resistance, especially if we didn't want what the sales man had to sell, but we must be slipping as a young rebel from down Alabama way has succeeded in breaking it down. He started about a month ago telling us we needed a new car, we had managed to keep him off with good reasons and ali bis, until the other day he ap peared with "an exceptional value" which he said he had re served for good folks like us, and if he didn't know it was a 100 per cent value he wouldn't think of selling it to us. Late in the evening he man aged to get in the house to use the telephone, where he pro ceeded to put on a southern fili buster which ended up with us having a '55 Ford, and him with our old "forty niner" and about all the loose and tight money around the place. Believing him to be a loyal southerner we tried to pay him with a confed erate bill. He looked at it yearn ingly and said, he was afraid it The Sunday, September 8, 1937 Irish Setter Owner Sought in This City Kelly, a red Irish setter who wears a dog tap identifying him as from Medford, is in the Or phans of the Storm animal re fuge in Chicago, according to an article clipped from the Chi cago Tribune. The animal was left by an un identified man at a Chicago gas station several days ago, the clipping said. The dog license tag bears the owner's name as "James G. Elken, Medford, Ore." Owners of the shelter have tried to call the name in Med ford, with no luck. The name is not in the Medford telephone directory or the city residential directory. The shelter will keep Kelly a few weeks in hopes his owner can be found. The Mail Tribune learned of the Chicago paper story through clippings, one mailed by Dr. F. L. Unmack, Plaza, apartments; the other mailed by David Hol mes, Hillcrest-Phoenix rd. 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