SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, November 10, 1957
Buried Treasure
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Collector at Auction
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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.
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PHOENIX
Thompson Leaves For Base
By LILLIAN KNIGHT
Phoenix Keith Thompson
left by plane Thursday to report
back to Ft. Lee, Va., where he
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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
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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.
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