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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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hospital bill.
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