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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN
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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,
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
She has plenty of fur coats and
stoles as it is, and she certainly
did not need the beaver coat,
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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
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to his removal as deputy chief
of protocol.
Because this town just now is
actutely gift conscious, Mamie's
acceptance of the coat set
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