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r n- O Tuesday, November 5, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN O By JIM STEVENS Tree Tarm Haiders ... The boomer (otherwise known as "Aplondontia" and "mountain beaver") is a real problem on tree farms. Now comes the sea son of his dirty work. At night in the winter months the slant-eyed rodent will sally forth and follow path through ferns and other tough ground cover. Every few feet he will encounter a tree seedling. With his buck teeth nippers he'll strip It into a naked stem skin it alive. He will uncover the roots of a Douglas fir six inches in diameter, and strip the roots, killing the tree. Such forays of the boomer usually go beyond satisfaction of his hunger. Once started on a row of planted seedljngs, he is . either too stupid to know when to stop, or he is a natural-born devastator. He is apt to destroy all seedlings in the row before be backtracks for a day of rest. The boomer is strictly noc turnal. Two hours or so of ex posure to hot sunlight will kill him. He is a sucker for decep tion. One forester had his plant er crew in a boomer-infested area cover each seedling with fern leaves. The planting was practically unmolested. A Pure Rat . . . Under any name, this noc turnal animal is a real rodenf . As a beaver he is an imitation and a runt, seldom packing more than three pounds. He sports four large buck teeth. He Is narrow between the eyes, iiHrfrrfi'il'grii 'Jim ELffATSQ jB-4ttf bm at of a emj (g ot pm. t&k jKclinf fcoroj dvrinf th tddlt bronc bust ing Htig GnM ft&tioofl Iivosta Kxpotfo in Sin Mrp&&)'B Cof Ftltt liU ehotofrmgkw Jtoli &s idtioi, U i. Ott u kn Torn tsfea Obscure Unfit Alkn hm$ - Unite tm CeonOent New Yor$ (ft or the first 10 y8rs 6t hfi) professional life. Tom Poston botffei in obscur ity. He came out of the Air Force after World War II and organ ized a dramatic stoc company Jin Delaware that eventually foundered on its flops, he mi grated to Broadway and landed a succession of small parts. He did comedy and drama onTV and even ran a local show of his own on TV for 15 weeks, but still remained a no-name. Then last December he joined the cast of Sieve Allen's NBC TV Sunday toow. 3bday, Pos- Crosby Dedicates Library at Gonzaga Spokane OP) Crooner Bing Crosby, Gonzaga university alumnus and benefactor, dedi cated a memorial library on the campus of his alma mater Sun day. c The singer, with his bride of 10 days, Cathy Grant, twin sons, Phillip and Dennis, and two brothers, Ted and Larry, were honored guests at the hour-long ceremony, at which an estimat ed 5,000 persons attended. In a short addres, before un veiling a gold plaque, bearing the presentation inscription, Crosby attributed most of his present success to his education at Gonzaga. He drew a chuckle from the crowd when he quipped "if only Bob Hope could see me now." The library, a $705,000 mod ern, three-story structure in the center of the 21-acre campus, will carry the memory of Bing and the family in a section to be known as Crosbyana. Salt in salt lakes is different than the salt found in the oceans. which slant. The eyes, boring at you like two nail points, belie his buck-toothed grin. The boomer's habitat is main ly the Douglas fir region. He is a devilish destroyer of forest seedlings. For years he kept him self pretty well hidden, and his ravaging of second-growth was so occasional that it was not taken very seriously. Big, tough timber beasts, such as the mink, coyote and the wildcat, kept the boomer under cover. Predatory animal hunters reduced his nat ural enemies. The boomer multi plied. His tribe spread as it in creased. It filtered into all necks of the woods. Ihe boomer could live on skunk cabbage and bracken fern sprouts. Well, why doesn't he? Because, probably, he enjoys killing baby trees the dumb rat. Boomer Control ... The boomer's fur and skin are worthless, so no commercial trapping of the animal can be expected. No one will advocate restocking of the forests with wildcats and coyotes, unless the destructiveness of the boomer becomes more generally serious All poisoning experiments have failcg- In areas where the boomer has actually threatened the ruin of tree farming, intensive trapping has solved the prob lem. At present, Aplondontia, alias the mountain beaver, alias the boomer, always a rat, re mains a forestry problem in the Douglas fir. ton's ca i$ gno93 to millions. But thg millions gtill don't know h,rme. . But that's not too surprising. Poston plays a TV character who can't remember hie, name either. Jk,cis Begildere9 Poston is owner of one of the heads that bob up in Allen's "Man in the Street" TV inter views. He essays the comic role of a bewildered character who tries each week to remember his monicker and fther pertinent facts of his life, but can't quite make it "it's kind of funny," sid Pos tonas he looked fcind of funny, "but people &eep pulling my own routine on me. I'd say about 10 times day some one will stop me and pretend he can't remember my name. "All kinds of people go through the bit. They do it in the streets, in elevators, at par ties. I don't know how many hundreds of hackies have yelled at me from their cabs 'Hey, you. You. What's the matter? You can't remember your own name?' When you get down to it, it's kind of an old thing to be known as that stupid guy who can't even remember his own name." Likes The Role Poston feels a kind of affec tion for the dim-witted charac ter he plays. "He's a curious little guy," said Poston, "the kind who probably doesn't have a wife or kids and probably lives in a rooming house with a motherly housekeeper to look after him. Somebody would have to take care of him. I don't think he could make it alone. "The key to his character is that he panics easily. He really does know his own name, you know. It's just that when he gets under those hot lights and sees all those cameras, he can't fight it through. When Steve Allen throws that first question at him, he ast falls apart." fry qn -ly IIMNETT CERF- AMY LOWELL was called in by her publisher to give a little pep talk on her new volume of poetry to the as sembled sales staff. It turned out to be a bad idea. In the middle of her talk. Miss Lowell stopped, pointed to the West Coast representa tive of the firm, and an nounced to her editor, "This man has a face like a cod fish! I won't go on until he stops staring at me." "AH I need Is one more dol lar," whined a panhandler, "to get my book published." "That's a new approach," ad mitted his well-dressed pros pect "What's your book called?" "I'm naming it '100O Easy Ways to Make Money, said the panhandler. "So how come you must beg?" asked the prospect. "This way," the panhandler assured him, "is one of tne easiest." Interested in a foolproof fire prevention? Many the boss daugh ter! 1957. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Dulles In Good Shape Following Operation Washington (IP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was declared in "excellent" physical shape Saturday, a year after his operation for intestinal cancer. It apparently was the signal for him to continue his rigorous working schedule. Only a short time after leaving Walter Reed Army Hospital where he under went a checkup, he met infor mally at his home with Aneurin Bevan, leader of the British Labor Party. The 69-year-old secretary of state underwent an operation for intestinal cancer Nov. 3, 1956. Doctors who examined him said they found no recur rence of the malignancy. The report on Dulles' health gave new weight to recenjt pre dictions that he plans to remain in the Eisenhower cabinet for the rest of the President's second term, ending early in 1961. Bevan, a long-time critic of U.S. foreign policy who has mod ified his views somewhat in re cent weeks, is in line to become counterpart of Dulles' post, should the Labor Party succeed in ousting the conservative gov ernment. Adopting Softer Altitude Bevan has been adopting a generally softer attitude toward the close U.S.-British alliance which has beeen a cornerstone of the foreign policies of both Remodeling Starts ithin City Hall Remodeling of second floor offices in the city hall started this morning, according to Rob ert A. Duff, city manager. The project will consist main ly of moving office partitions to make better use of the space available, Duff said. He said sev eral departments will change their locations to make access by the' public easier and to make communication between offices more efficient. The $2,500 remodeling job is expected to be completed with in two or three weeks, Duff said. Although the job could be com pleted much faster, it will be delayed by the necessity of re modeling one department at a time, he said. Upon completion of each de partment, employees will move in and the contractor, Don Jacobs, Medford, will move on to the vacated offices. The first section to be remodeled is the building and engineering depart ment, Duff said. The CLEANEST Rock and Sand Makes the STRONGEST CONCRETE And We Have Both! READY T.1IX bv LIHINGER'S BEST BY TEST Stop flAo nations. Formerly, he felt that Britain was tied too tightly to U.S. policies and that this pre vented his nation from taking its own course toward easing tensions with Russia. Bevan is a strong advocate of a unilateral cessation of nuclear weapons tests by Britain but opposes a unilateral cession of nuclear weapons production. He told reporters after his arrival by plane that he had "come to find out what the American viewpoint is." He said it was not the purpose of his visit to attack U.S. policies, but added: "I can't say different things abroad than I say at home." He then went on to say that he does not object to U.S. oppo sition to Russian and Red Chi nese policies as such but that the cold war "won't abate until the United States reaches some accomidation with them." Truman Schedules San Diego Visit Los Angeles (IP) Former President Harry S. Truman, as chipper as if still campaigning, was scheduled to travel 130 miles south of here today for a brief visit to San Diego. The ex-chief executive and his wife, Bess, will stay in San Diego until Tuesday when they will travel to Palm Desert, Calif., near Palm Springs, as guests of Mon Wallgren, former governor of Washington. Mr. Truman attended Sun day's Los Angeles Rams-Chicago Bears professional football game here and traded wise cracks with comedian Bob Hope and other spectators. The for mer president was greeted with the usual "Hi, Harry!" shouts when people saw him sitting with Hope and his friend, oil man Ed Pauley. One man near him in the crowd of 80,456 greeted him with the query, "Any room for a Republican here, Harry?" Al ways ready for a crack at the GOP, Mr. Truman quipped, "there's never any room for a Republican!" The ex-president was inter viewed by three radio stations during halftime and chatted with various well wishers with his usual aplomb. One of five motor trucks pro duced in the U.S. during 1956 was exported. Always GOOD! 1. 1 nil. i,. . .v; '''itt Li I Ole Re-washed "Rocky Phone: SPring 2-5336 SPring 2-5897 MUrdock 5-8121 & w Mr Tnmum Back Stairs: Mamie in Gummy Argument By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer Washington (IP) Backstairs at the White House: The President's wife, a gregar ious and talented party guest, has walked, with her sDarkline shoes and matching hose, into one of the gummy arguments of our time. The recent flare-ups in the government over the propriety of accepting gifts seemed to be quieting when Mrs. Eisenhower accepted, with benefit of news cameras and in apparent delight, an $1,800 beaver coat from an association of Maine trappers. True, Mrs. Eisenhower paid $385 to have the coat made, but the trappers gave her the pelts from which the garment was put together, and they said the fin ished production was worth $1,800. The President's wife did not have to refer the matter to the State Department legal division. 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Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. In the Pioneer Room, Hotel Jackson Htre's What You'll Set cats any horizontally tif I for dowob , otc SHAPE ftKINOtt i 50 bo bom. rtUMI, VTC MAIN AND RIVERSIDE SANDfR run to mv tow ooolo am m n n la is m is rm -z-k Liu w LniUuL -nrC&l x ImM Imp. bfeSSM! MEDFORD, OREGON but accepted it to help along the Maine fur industry. However altruistic her action may have been, it came on the heels of the now famous Olds mobile which King Saud of Arabia presented to the family of Victor Purse of the State De partment, an event which led to his removal as deputy chief of protocol. Because this town just now is actutely gift conscious, Mamie's acceptance of the coat set tongues a-wagging in some Washington circles. One story going the rounds was that a fam ous dress designer offered the wife of a prominent government figure one formal dress to. wear WORLD IDEA MAN DIES Mamaroneck, N. Y. (IP) Leonard W. 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