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Scholarships Won By File Members Of Slate 4-H Clubs Coryli Five Oregon 4-H club IWfcrjier'i have been award ed (300 college scholarships In a statewidi contest. Announce ment of winners was made by Bsjrton Hutton, state 4-H club extension leader at Oregon State college. Winners are Suzanne Lozier, EnteQrise; Janice Powell, Hood River; Mary Klock, Troutdale; Carolyn Eickworth, Coos Bay; and Judy Wilcox, Milwaukie. Each will receive a $300 col lege scholarship presented by Standard Oil company of Cali fornia. All are 18 and all but Mi6s Powell are attending Ore gon State college. She is en rolled at Northwest Christian college in Eugene. Selection for the awards was based on demonstrated achieve ment in project work, leadership and sportsmanlike attitudes. Club members also had to sub mit a story of their 4-H record showing how 4-H club work con tributed to their development as members of home, school, church and community. Slate Clothing Winner Miss Lozier was 1955 state clothing winner and represented Wallowa county several years at 4-H summer school. Her par ents are Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lozier. . Miss Powell Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Powell, Hood River. In her 10 years as a 4-H member, she has won 110 ribbons and taken 17 champion ships at state and county fairs. Recently, she was named Ore- fon4-H leadership winner. Miss owell i3 now sharing her 4-H skills with younger club mem bers as a cooking club leader. Miss Klock is a former state poultry winner and national 4-H club congress delegate and is an active junior leader in her com munity. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Klock. Miss Eickworth was president of her high school FHA chapter, and took the lead in develop ment of a senior-or older 4-H group in Coos Bay. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lorance Eick worth. O Miss Wilcox was Oregon's 1956 state winner in recreation and won a trip to the national 4-H club congress ln Chicago. A 8-year club member, she has taken projects In usual home eco nomics subjects and in rabbits, and poultry. In her community, she has planned and led recrea tion for county 4-H leaders as sociation meetings, spearheaded club fund raising drives and pro vided entertainment for hospital programs. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wilcox. Alternates named In the schol arship judging contest were Elizabeth Job, Hillsboro; Eliza b e t h McEntire, Brownsmead; Catherine Carroll, Eagle Point; Don Walls, Hermiston; and Hel en Potwin, Newport. Voting Change Suggested For Commodity Commission The state board of agriculture ) brought out and will petition the legislature to amend the com modity commission act to make a 51 per cent affirmative ma jority sufficient for the forma tion of a commission. This action was taken Thurs day in the first of a two-day session being held at the depart ment offices. Under the present law, a two thirds affirmative vote is needed I Sign-Up Date Set j For Fryer Voting J Salem Oregon broiler and fryer producers must register with the state Department' of ; Agriculture by Nov. 18 to be ; eligible to vote in the referen : dum to be held from Dec. 9 to L 21 on creation of an ' Oregon - Fryer Commission, it is an- . nounced by Market Develop- ; ment chief, Paul T. Rowell. : This is in accordance with Oregon's Commodity Commis- : sion Act under which producers must register at least 20 days be fore the referendum is held, ' Rowell said. Tb registration period began In rirfd-September and was ex tended once because of the low number of early registrations, Rowell added. Rowell stressed that all pres ent broiler or fryer producers in Oregon are eligible to register and vote on the proposal for a self-help commission to promote Oregon's fryer industry. Any producer who did not receive a registration form by mail should Q obtain one through his county extension agent or direct from the state Department-of Agricul ture in Salem. Plans For Dinner To Be Made at Meeting Gold Hill Final plans for the turkey dinner, which will be held In the dining room of the Community Methodist church Saturday, Nov. 16, will be made at a meeting of the Woman's Society Friday, Nov. 8. The group will hold a potluck luncheon at noon at the church, according to Mrs. Ferd Jones, president of the Society. Each member Is to bring someone who has not been attending the regular meetings. Officers Elected For Antelope Club During Recent Event Bill Hubbard, Eagle Point, was elected president of the An telope 4-H community club dur ing the recent meeting. The meeting was held in conjuction with the annual achievement and pot-luck dinner at the Eagle Point Grange hall. Other officers elected were: Ronny Anderson, Eagle Point, vice president; Nyla Murray, Medford, secretary; Betty Ann Higday, Eagle Point, reporter; and Darrell Stanley, Eagle Point, treasurer. ' Alan Eames, assistant manag er of the Medford branch of the First National bank of Portland, gave a short talk to the 4-H club members. Gene McCurley, agri cultural field man for the bank, presented cards and pins for pro ject work. Other special awards present ed included county style revue medals to . Nyla Murray, Karen Jossy, and Georgia ' Hubbard; county achievement medal to Robert Hayes; clothing achieve ment medals to Jo Anna Mal loroy and Nyla Murray. Club members receiving cards and pins were Robert Hayes and Mar jo Murray, tenth year; Nyla Murray, eighth year; David Woolford, Fred Jossy, Sharon Coffman, Diana Gardener and Arthur Gardener, seventh year; Vernon Harper, Jo Anna Mallor oy, Bill Hubbard and Larry Meyer, sixth year; Alice Wool folk, Beverly Little and Donald Higday, fifth year; Karen Jossy, Judy Bradshaw, Ronald Ander son, Georgia Hubbard, Charlotte Bush, Marlena Coffman, fourth year; Steve Geren, third year; Donna Geren, Ricky Anderson, Christene Bartels, . Marvin Lit tle, Eldon Little, Errol Coffman, Judy Hill, Carol Jaffrey, and Phyllis Jaffrey, second year; Mary Ann Gardener, Bobby Hub bard, Florence Woolfolk, Mike Reid, Sandra Bayliss, Vance Harper and Paulette Anderson, first year. Land Reserve Idea Helps Land Uses Farmers with land to retire from production should find the soil bank's conservation re serve program of particular benefit in shifting such land to other uses, according to Albert L. Straus, chairman, Jackson tion and Conservation Commit tee. In the past, the chairman ex plained, many owners have been unable to shift land out of crops because they could not afford to lose the income, and at the same time assume new expense in establishing the al ternate use. The conservation reserve, ac cording to Mr. Straus, meets this problem by providing two kinds of payments to farmers who participate in the program. For removing general cropland from production and establish ing . such practices as grass cover or a stand of trees, farm ers may earn annual payments during the life of the contract This gives them some income from the land. They also may earn up to 80 per cent of the cost of establishing such conser vation practices as permanent cover of grass or legumes, ap plication of lime for permanent cover, planting trees for for estry, using shelterbelts or windbreaks, water storage for irrigation, stock ponds or fish ponds, wildlife cover, wildlife water and marsh management Benefits continue even after the term of the contract, the chairman pointed out. Trees produce forest products; shrubs continue to provide shelter and food for widllife; and grass can be used for grazing. The signup under the 1958 conservation reserve program is now under way, Straus said. Farmers who wish to take part in the program or who wish further information should call at or get in touch with the Jackson County ASC Office. onnie Cat Food 1 OFF at your grocers' bow. Large can. Made with fresh ocean fish, nature's best food for cats. 1 CAT jft to create a commission, in addi tion to the requirement that all who vote must represent at least one-third of the entire commodi ty grown in the state. The board agreed that this latter require ment should remain the same. Suggests Petitions The board also passed a mo tion directing a petition to be prepared to Oregon's congres sional delegation urging that the Production Credit Associa tion in this Internal Revenue district be permitted to build tax-free reserves for loan losses equal to the amounts now ac corded commercial banks. It also recommended that the Production Credit association petition the state tax commission to allow the organization to set aside a non-taxable reserve for protection against bad loans, ac cording to Ward Spatz, board member from Medford. Robert J. Steward, secretary of the Board and state director of agriculture, will work with John Horn, chairman of the tax commission and Philip Brandt, manager of the Willamette Pro duction Credit Association in preparing the first petition. If federal funds are to be kept coming into agricultural re search programs, the people must be educated on the direc tion this research is taking, Dean Earl Price told the group. The board agreed that phases of pro duction research still necessary actual and potential agricul tural diseases and insect emer gencies, improved marketing, and new and improved process ing and uses of agricultural products must be emphasized. Steward brought out that 'the layman sees surpluses recorded in commodity after commidity, and consequently misunder stands the aims of present pro duction research. Robert Pierce, board member from Ontario, emphasized that farmers must take a stand on marketing, , and suggested more of the state circulars distributed to Oregon farmers and ranchers carry marketing news, instead of production information. Still on the problem of more effective marketing! the board discussed the need for convin( ing small growers or livestock people to pool their products and form cooperatives in order to compete more successfully on the market. A marketing research study of unnecessary processing done by Oregon cattlemen will be initiated as a result of Thurs day's discussion. Thursday, NoTember 7. 1957 December 5-6 Set For Horl Meeting Corvallis Oregon State Horticultural Society, oldest farm commodity group in Ore gon, has scheduled its 72nd an nual meeting, Dec. 5 and 6, at Oregon State college to review latest production and marketing practices for the multi-million dollar fruit and vegetable indus try. Electrical gadgets to measure soil moisture, mechanical bean pickers, plastic mulches for vege table crops, and a host of chemi cals to kill weeds or boost fruit yields through hormone action are .among new advances slated for discussion. President Ross Hukari, Hood River fruit grower, says top scientists and industry represen tatives from throughout the west will report on topics se lected through a poll of grow ers. Committees have been working for1 the past six months, Hukari stated, sounding out growers and industry fieldmen in shaping the program. About 1000 growers are ex pected for the meeting, accord ing to Secretary C. O. Rawlings, OSC horticulture specialist. The bulk of the program is scheduled in four sectional meetings to handle special interests for growers of apples . and pears, stone fruits, small fruits, and vegetable crops, Rawlings said. Sectional meetings get underway Dec. 5 at 9:30 a.m. Two-hour general assemblies are scheduled the opening after noon and the morning of Dec. 6. First day assembly speakers are G. E. Korzan, OSC agricultural economist, discussing probable impact of market organizations on Oregon growers; and M. H. McVickar, chief agronomist, California Spray Chemical cor poration, Richmond, Calif. Water rights In Oregon as affected by the state's new ground water act will be re viewed by Lewis Stanley, Ore gon state engineer, at the Dec. 6 general assembly. Bob Blackburn, Portland, KEX radio sports director, will be banquet speaker, Dec. 5, and Don McCutcheon, KODL, The Dalles, master of ceremonies. Buy At Builders Supply fetfflwM QUALITY HJ BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrewi Ph. SP 2-4107 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo (pediment STARTS WHISPER ING AUD W4LKING ON TIPPY-TOES a mile away FROM. WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO FISH... x V(SMar;rtui ic Bra- - - 2? mmxiui aal H-"1 "SA yjflggjftlgjjgfljgBafca 1T. E!NC FEATURES SYNDICATE "Then he gets to the likely, SPOT...4NP ' you'd think rr WASAHAVAL ENGAGEMENT... HAT TIPS TO LEONARD STRE5SER, I8O6 S.E. 5912 AVE, PORTLANO, ORE- , m RAVA.WERS. , 1739 3lSr4VE.NO.,, v ST PET6RSBURS 4,FL. OKA! this PLACE! HA! HA! HEAVE-HO THE ANCHOR! HEt! TURN ON THE. RADIO-.I WANNA HEARTH NEWS!! 5T. KING FEATURES SYNDIC ATI . WOSU fclGHTS RESEBVED List of Odd Names for American Tcwns Continues To Find Way To Quigg's Desk BY DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York (IP) There are are some things that, once you get them started, just keep roll ing along, like Old Man River or the Sputniks in their cour ses. Such a thing is the game of digging up fine place-names from the fertility of the American map. This department has been showered with communications from all over the country since listing a few of our great towns, such as Slap Out, Ala., and Ham bone, Calif.. The contributed names keep coming and include such quaintness as Bowlegs, Okla., and such sweeping poetry as Skygusty, W. Va. There is Nitro, a wee town in West Virginia which produced an explosion on the national .scene last fall in the form of a native son who made good in the World Series. Nitro was an ex plosives manufacturing town in World War I. Now, a modest sign at the city limits proclaims: "This is the. home of Lew Burdette." ' Burdette From Nitro The sign was there even be fore pitcher Burdette won three games in the World Seriesi There is also, in the mail, a kind and only mildly chiding let ter from a lady whose enormous ly gifted husband, the late Ste phen Vincent Benet, was mis quoted in the first column on names. I said that he ended his Yreka Meeting Set To Discuss Freeway Yreka A public meeting will be held Dec. 10. in the Siskiyou county courthouse, Yreka, Calif., at 11 a.m. when the California district highway engineer will explain plans for rebuilding U.S. Highway 99 into a freeway between the Oregon-California line and Henley way near Horn brook. The meeting, to be held in the supervisors room, will give in terested individuals an opportun ity to express their views. The project calls for 6.7 miles of construction for a four lane freeway built to interstate stan dards. Opposite lanes of traffic will be separated by 60 feet, as now proposed, and the basic right of way would b 184 feet wide. Included in the plans are four traffic interchanges which will be separated by overhead cross ings or underpasses. Rhode Island Joins Income Tax Field Chicago (IP) Many states adopted sales and cigaret taxes in the decade sinces war but only one has voted in income tax. The Federation of Tax Ad ministators said that since 1946 11 states have adopted cigaret taxes and 10 sales taxes. This brought to 42 the number of states with cigaret taxes, and there are 33 states with sales taxes. Rhode Island became the 34th state in the income tax field in 11947 when it enacted a net corporation Income tax as an alternative base for its business corporation tax.: Daily's U-Drivo Medford Airport poem on American names with the line: "Bury my Heart in Painted Post" which is a town in New York. Mrs. Benet said he was fond of the town, all right, but re minded that the poem actually ended: "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" (South Dakota). The contributor of Bowlegs, Okla., is a gentleman from Tex as, Bruce L. Parker, of Pampa. He also says that, the towns of Edna, Tex., and Louise, Tex., are on either side of a fine place named Comfort, Tex., which has a big highway hotel sign read ing: "Sleep in Comfort Between Edna and Louise." Laney. Was Zaney But the man who really show ered down names to the glory of his state is Rex Laney, a Louisi ana patriot. Consider, he says, the great names of Happy Jack, La., Cut Off, La.; Plain Dealing, La.; and Yamn, La. He presents the pairings of Topsy, La., and .Eva, La.; Hold up, La., and Trial, La.; Hotwells, La., and Cold Water, La.; Perry La., and Como, La.; Hite, La., and Lowe, La. And then, he says, there are Franklin, Delano, and Roosevelt, La., none of which was named for FDR. Laney resides In Baton Rouge, La., right on top of a magnificent southerfi name that crowns the street where he lives Honey suckle ave. There must be some glorious names of streets kicking around, and I herewith offer one on which I once lived in Honolulu. The thoroughfare's moniker was Menehune Lane. The Menehune, in the Hawaiian or Polynesian languages, are the little people probably far Pacific cousins to the Gremlins and the Leprech aunsand, as everbody knows, they'll gitcha if ya don't watch out." California Man, Niece Arrested by Police A California man and his 15-year-old niece were arrested by Medford city police early Wed nesday at the corner of South Central ave. and . Stewart ave., and charged with vagrancy. Earl Duane Miles, 24, San Mateo, Calif., was lodged in city jail and the Compton, Calif., girl was taken to county jail pend ing action by juvenile authorities. Police reported the man ad-1 mitted writing several bad checks in the Portland and Calif ornia areas. He is being held here pending reports from those authorities. Free Parking Time . Eliminated by Device Chicago (IP) Cities may earn more money from parking meters with a gadget tested in San Francisco, according to the American Municipal Associa tion. The device makes every one pay, eliminating the "free" time left by the previous parker. It works through a photo-electric cell set into the street about 30 inches from the curb. When the car leaves its park ing space over the electric eye, the ' light strikes the cell and throws a switch, raising the meter's "expired" flag. San Francisco found that rev enue rose 37 per cent in a 12 day test of 50 meters. Federal dole (direct relief) ended Nov. 29, 1935. It had cost $3,694,000,000 since May, 1933. Better get 2 cartons . . . one s 1 fo .riever enough! J GINGER ALEf for an on-tlie- CANADAl spot quick-energy hit. Light, dry. Available in 6 bottle cartons. 'DRY- PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, MEDFORD ' '' 1' ' f txW f ife. - Qive the Jnited Way MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE 3 D .0.1 tnru t5
