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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, November 10, 1957 Buried Treasure I Collector at Auction o Discovers 1876 Colt The bidding on the Colt .38 aix-shooter opened at S50 and proceeded in $10 jumps to $30 at which point the man next to me spoke up. 'I bid $160," he said. "But why such a jump," I asked the winner. "It isn't a really old Colt. Not one of .the early ones." "Any Bisley Colt in good con dition is worth it," he said. The revolver had a blued fin ish, ivory grips and a gold bead front sight. But aside from that, and a flat top to the frame, it looked like any other Colt .38, so far as I could recall. The new owner pointed to an inscription on the barrel and passed, the gun to me. It read: "Coifs Mfg. Co., Hartford. Conn., U.S.A. Bisley Model, .38 Colt." "It was probably made about 1876," the owner said, calling my attention to the flat top of the frame along which lay a se ries of patent dates, the last be ing Janu. 19, 1875. "But who was Bisley," I asked. "It makes no difference at all," the owner said. "All you got to know is the name of Bis ley adds to the value of a Colt of this period." "The ivory grips and gold sight don't mean much, maybe another $15 in value. But the fact this Bisley's in good con dition means I'd have gone to $200 if I'd had to." Another arms collector who came in late felt much the same. He offered $225 for it on the spot but was refused. ROSE MOTIF ON GLASS CLUE TO EARLY CRAFT There are several different patterns ' of American glass in which the dominant motif is a rose. And while all of them have a value, the one which con tains a sprig of rose as the prin cipal design is among the best. It can easily be recognized by the fact that the single stem with one rose and several leaves on it usually appears in about four panels on each object. It is a product of glassmakers of the 1800s. Recently, I was surprised to see a friend using a large din ner plate in this design as a si lent butler. The plate, like so many in the rose sprig pattern, was square with its edged turned up and scalloped. The bottom of the plate is di vided into four sections by two diagonals at the intersection of which is a star. That would have been enough to arrest my attention, but when I realized that the color of the glass was an apple green, I in sisted on taking it out to the kitchen. The owner was surprised at my interest in the piece. She had found it, along with some 10 or 12 other odds and ends, in a carton in the basement. It had been left by the former tenants who intended to have it thrown away. But that apple green plate with its ornament of a spray of rose will never be thrown out by its present owner. It is worth at least $35 and very probably it would bring more. For even if it were only clear glass, rath er .than its very unusual color, it would be worth at least $10. GRUESOME WOODCUT KEY TO OLD ORK OF SATIRE My first impulse on picking up "The Fiend's Delight" was to put it back. I had just had an excellent luncheon, and the picture on the title page of a man roasting (ft) child did not make a favorable impression. I started to follow the impure and then stopped. In defense" of my generation I could afford no squeamishness. I turned back to "The Fiend's Delight" with firm determina tion. Beneath the picire was the two-lined admonition, "Count that day lost whose low de scending sun views from thy hand on worthy action done." The book was printed in Lon don in 1872. It was bound in a reddish cloth. I looked again at the title and the author's name. It was Dod Grile. It was the pen name of Am brose Bierce, the famed Ameri can satirist, arch enemy of cant, apostle of pessimism. The woodcut ceased to be so gruesome and became merely a mordant bit of satire, instead. "The Fiend's Delight" was lit erature. I glanced at the price. It was 50 cents. "Where did you find this?" the clerk asked when I took it to him. I told him. "You're robbing us blind," he said, accepting the coin. "We should be getting at least $30 for it." "I quite agreed, but kept the book all the same. (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) PHOENIX Thompson Leaves For Base By LILLIAN KNIGHT Phoenix Keith Thompson left by plane Thursday to report back to Ft. Lee, Va., where he III jilllll i . 7Z , 7 A veto Cavalier (portable Electric Heaters For entire home or individual rooms. Most flexible system you can have! Plug into 230V outlets, light weight, heavy duty. Entirely automatic. Accu rate thermostatic control. Easy cleoning. Easily stored. 2, 3 er4 KW capacities. Ask for details. No OWJgofion. SEE OR CALL YOUR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR will be stationed until spring when he will receive his dis charge from the service. While home on leave he visited rela tives and friends and he and Mrs. Thompson attended the OTI Homecoming game in Klamath Falls last week end. Man Who 'Talked With Spacemen' Ordered Confined Kearney, Neb. HP! A grain buyer who threw Kearney into an uproar when he claimed to have talked with spacemen was confined Friday to Hastings State hospital for mental treat ment. Reinhold O. Schmidt, 48, of Bakersfield, Calif., was com' mitted Thursday night after a hearing by the Buffalo County Board of Mental Health. ine action vas taken on recommendation of two exam ining psychiatrists who advised that Schmidt was "in immediate need of psychiatric treatment.'' Schmidt, an ex-convict who once served a term for embezzle ment, was ordered confined to the hospital for "an indefinite period for observation, diagnosis and treatment." Authorities said they had re ceived information from his family that Schmidt was suffer ing from seeming "instabilities," and demands on him from un- laenunea persons and crack pots." Schmidt stirred considerable excitement and touched off a major investigation Tuesday when he raced into Kearney to tell of seeing a space ship parked on a creek bottom southwest of the city. He said the occupants of the ship, four men and two women, were friendly enough and in vited him to have a look around inside the cigar-shaped craft. The spacemen and women spoke German and English, he said. County 4-H Teenage Council to Discuss 'Oregon Cede for High School Students' Scandal To Revise Magazines Policy Hollywood (IPI An agree ment has been reached where by Confidential and. Whisper magazines will revise their edi torial policy in exchange for dis missal of criminal libel charges against individual defendants. The magazines, affiliated cor porations and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meade, West Coast information agents for the publications, were tried last fall but a jury dead locked after a lengthy trial, and was dismissed. Under the agreement reached between the attorney general's office and defense attorney Ar thur Crowley, charges against the Meades would be dsmissed and the magazines would stand trial on the 'basis of the trans cript of their earlier trial. As part of the agreement, Con fidential Publisher Robert Har rison will publish advertise ments in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles newspapers an nouncing the change in' format of the magazine under which it will not publish expose stories about film personalities. New York , OP) Isabel Low den, 82, founder and president of the Music Education league, died here Tuesday following a brief illness. Miss Lowden was a former editor of Tempo maga zine, a publication sponsored by the music league. . A new "Oregon Code for High School Students" will be dis cussed during a meeting of the Jackson County 4-H Teenage council Monday night in the county courthouse. These are the rules formulat ed by a teen-age committee in Salem appointed by the gover nor. The code was established for students of grades 9 through 12. It contains several recommenda tions for teenagers, according to Glenn Klein, county 4-H agent. "No one has the moral or le gal right to serve any alcoholic Leverages to other people's chil dren," according to the code. "The adult who does so may be charged criminally and is di rectly responsible for any of the serious consequences which may result." Other Recommendations Other recommendations in this category include: "Oregon state law prohibits sale or gift of alcoholic liquor to minors, and forbids minors from pur chasing, acquiring or having liquor in their possession. "Parents should impound any alcoholic beverage which is brought to a party and notify the parents of the offender. No alcoholic beverages should be accessible to young guests. "Young people should under stand that it is not a disgrace to decline an alcoholic drink. "They should realize it is foolhardy to ride with a driver who is under the influence of alcohol, and should instead seek safer means of transportation." Consider Smoking Consider smoking the code points out "Oregon state law prohibits sale of cigarettes and tobacco to persons under 18 years of age and prohibits such persons from smoking except in their home and with their par ents' consent." However, as one local youth leader pointed out, this regula tion is seldom enforced. . The teenage behavior code includes a "basic rule which suggests that students and par ents inform each other of their whereabouts while away from home. Parents should know what their sons and daughters are doing and with whom they are spending their time, and should also know what time their young people return home." The code emphasizes that the home be the center of young people's social activity. Inexcusable custom "Party crashing is an inex cusable custom and presents a problem for the host and other guests. " Crashers should not be admitted. "It is important that a parent or responsible adult be at home and on call at all times when young people entertain but should provide an agreeable measure of privacy." Included in the section under hours, are suggestions that so cial activities on non-school nights be planned to end in time to comply with the curfew law. On school nights teenagers should be home by 10 p.m., ex cept for special events, it is rec ommended. Another recommendation states that the teenager go di rectly home and telephone if delayed. Three Factors Three factors should be con sidered by a parent when giving s teenager use of the family car. They are possession of a driver's license, proof of ability to con trol themselves and the car, a healthy attitude regarding lives, rights and welfare of others. "Parents should be firm in their decision to take away the car privilege when abused. On the other hand, they should be generous in their praise of prop er driving attitudes and careful handling of the car. "Young people should under stand it is wise to refuse to ride with a reckless driver. Call par ents or call a cab." General Fund Money For Highways Proposed Salem (IP) An appropriation of $10 million from the general fund to the state highway fund to be used in construction non federal aid highways in the state was introduced in the state Sen ate Friday by Sen. Dan Dimick and Reps. Al Flegel and W. O. Kelsay, all Roseburg Democrats. Los Angeles (IP) Margaret Truman has arrived here to re sume her dramatic career. Light Bulb Sale Set By Craier Lions Club A light bulb sale is scheduled Tuesday, Nov. 12, by the Crater Lions club of Medford. Only part of the city was covered at the last light bulb sale, according to sale officials. A number of light bulbs remain to be sold in areas not covered previously they said. Sale hours will be 6 to 9 p.m.. All proceeds from the sale will be for the Lions club and blind program. Slabs and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood o Big Double Load or Single load MEDFORD FU COMPANY Telephone SP 2-2111 Court & McAndrews v Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Kenneth Daily. 75 Garfield St.. Ash land, furnishing liquor to minors. $100. Charles Patrick Doyle, disobeyed stop sign, S5. Francis Asbury Morgan, disobeyed stop sign, S5. Radford Earl Magruder, lane usage, $5. Barbara Lee Barnum, violation of basic rule. $10. Mark Spureeon Toole, violation of basic rule, $10; disobeyed stop sign, S5. Frank David McCully, disobeyed traffic signal, S3. Ronald Allan McCully, disobeyed traffic signal, $5. Melvin James uoyie, aisoDeyea traffic signal, S5. Larry Robert Anderson, excessive noise, $10. Gary Cam, four m front seat. $2.50. Mart Alma- Thompson, U-turn in middle of block, S3. Maynard Alonzo Putney, disobeyed traffic signal, $5. SAY THAT AGAIN .. Fort Carson, Colo. (IPI Army officials at Fort Carson say Pvt. Albert K. Kahalekula, a combat trainee from Wailu ku, Hawaii, has the longest middle name in the army. The K. stands for Kahekililuiikale- waokamehameha. Mrs. Emma Keith is recuper ating in the '. Ashland General hospital after surgery the latter part of last month. Clard Smith is recovering in Sacred Heart hospital from a stroke he suffered last Thurs day. He was 80 years old last Friday. Dan (Foxie) Foxworthy is re ported improved' after suffering a stroke last week. He is at home. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Nikodym and children have purchased and moved into the former Harold Briggs' home on Pine st. Niko dym is employed by Brill Metal Works in Medford. Mr. and Mrs. . Harold Briggs are settled in the new home they built in the Griffin Creek dis trict near the - Griffin Creek school. Salem (IP) By unanimous vote the State Senate passed Senate bill 11, lowering the tax on shrimp caught in Oregon off shore waters from 3-4 of one cent to l-10th of a cent per pound. Sales - Rentals Fofcflne . 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