Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 08, 1957, Image 35

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Newspaper Page Texto o o o Q; o o o o O Med Treasure Ot Frosted Background Adds Much to Pitcher's Value We had been hunting in tha Indian summer weather and de cided to stop at a little farm hfijfe. The mistress of the place of fered us loaf of hot bread, and she would stuff it with country butter and give us a pitcher of milk too provided we felt a fair exchange would be a brace of partridge. The milk came in a two-quart pitcher of apple-green color. Sorridhing about the pitcher at tracted me. The design was a rather uncommon one. It con- nf a tprip. nf full hlnwn Qwfoses, each spray separated WATCH FOR INVERTED FLA TB cancellation marks over- apping the stamp were neavy ones, blurred somewhat but clear enough for one to see the letter had gone through the New York mails in 1876. The stamp was a 30-cent item, of a bright blue and carmine color that has long seemed to me one of the better color com binations in our earlier stamps I looked regretfully at the torn envelope end on which were still a few of the last let (frs of the name and address of the long-gone addressee. The let ter must have been an impor tant one to merit 30 cents post age. Quite possibly both the ad dresser and addressee were im portant people, too. In which case . . . But that line of thinking nev er gets one anywhere. I was looking over an accumulation of itamps a friend of mine had in herited, and this was the first DEATHBED SCENES CHEAPE O There were 30 or 40 prints worth looking at in the gallery, but Jim spent so long staring at a small one that I finally went over to see why. It was a picture of Washing ton on his deathbed. "What are you so interested in that for?" I asked. "For several reasons," he re plied. "One is that Dec. 14 is Washington's death day, and al most nobody realizes it. Another is that this happens to be one of those done by Nathaniel Cur rier, some years before James Ives joined the firm in 1857, just a century ago, as partner." "But who would want ..." I began. "I want it," he said. "And I'm going to buy it. The price is only $10." While we waited for the small 9-by-12 inch print to be wrapped up, the clerk said that they hap pened to have another, showing a different interpretation of Washington's deathbed scene, Top Cowpuncher Costs More Now Amarillo. Tex. (TO Once rillo for demonstration purposes, upon a time, a cattle baron could hire a top cowpuncher for $40 a month, plus room and board. (Slow tome owners of the few $as spreads still in operation &i paying $40 an hour for heli icjiters to ride herd on their The Waggoner ranch has been ifslrifc helicopters for some time. The ranch said the first 'copter 'paid for itself within a few weeks because of the Targe num ber of cattle driven from mes quite thickets which otherwise probably wouldn't have been recovered. Another Texas ranch has a utility type 'copter and two plush craft such as are used at the White House. Sam Chapman, Bell Aircraft engineer who accompanied a helicopter to a ranch near Ama- DEAR FRIENDS AND PATRONS: THE ASHLAND ANTIQUE SHOP 91 and 80 North Main St., Ashland, Oregon, one block north of the Plaza, renowned as one of the finest of its kind on the coast for 20 years, last 4 years in Ashland, is forced through circumstances to re return to California. A TOTAL SELLOUT from Dec. 5 to Jan. 10. 1958 will take place cn the premises. PRICES REDUCED 20 6 to 50 6, a rare opportunity to acquire the finest things for yourself and the most unusual Christmas gifts at bargain prices! Thousand of items from 50 cents to hundreds of S$! Antiques and objects of art from every where! American, Continental, Oriental! Rugs Tapestries Needle point. Fabrics, Gobelins, Drapes, etc. Paintings, water colors, prints, hundreds of fine old engravings, etc. China: Dresden, Meissen, Royal Vienna, Berlin, Old English, French, Chinese! etc. Old Glass:. American pattern, colod, cutglass English, French, Cranberry, Bohemnian, Persian, etc. A big lot of brass, copper, bronze, silver, pewter, iron. Q etc. Antique Furniture: French, English, Continental, American, Chi nese. A GORGEOUS CHICKERING ROSEWOOD Square Grand Piano in all-around perfect condition, with needlepoint stool! Small Estey walnut reed organ! Fine antique clocks, fire tools, fenders, etc. Statu ary! etc Respectfully yours, F. and J. DOMASCHEDITZ, Props. Open Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 1-5. Evenings by Apopintment. Phone MU 9-3401 from the others by a tiny sprig of a bud and a couple of leaves. The design, I knew, was a product of the 1880s, but beyond that I could recall nothing of it or its value. I looked the design up when I got home. Such a pitcher, with out a frosted background, is worth from S35 to S50. It was known only in clear glass. The one I had seen, therefore, was worth a lot more. How much, it is difficult to say. But so far as I'm conce.ned, anyone having such an item in apple green, or any other color, would be foolish to part with it for less than S80 to $100. Q ON 1875 STAMP item of consequence I had come across. It turned out to be the only one one as well. Of the balance of some 2,000 stamps there wasnt' one worth so much as a dollar. In fact, $40 for the lot would have been a good price. The 30-cent :tem, however, was another matter. A study of the report on it in Scott's Cata logue showed it to be an 1875 re-issue of the original that had been first put out in 1869. Its value, used, was given as $75. but owing to the heavy can cellation marks it turned out to be worth not more than $50. The stamp is one of the most important to remember, though. It shows an eagle over a shield behind which rise several flags on either side. Some of the stamps have been found on which the flags are inverted. The value of those is $4,000 to $8,000 respectively for used and unused. ST CURRIER & IVES PRINT and if Jim would care to have it, she would throw it in for only an additional $7.50. Jim asked to see it. That print also was by Nathaniel Currier, dated in 1852, as I recall it. "I'll take it," he said, having given the piece a brief study. "And by the way, any more deathbed scenes you get of great Americans, let me know. I might be interested." "Why?" I asked, once we were outside. "Deathbed scenes," Jim said, "are among the cheapest of Cur rier & Ives prints. Almost no body wants them. I'm going to make a collection." At this point he has acquired 23 different ones including four of Washington's at an average nrice of a little less than $11. And already he has received an offer for his collection oS $450, just a shade under $20 each. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) said prices range to $75,000 for the smaller craft. The cost of operating a utility type 'copter, he said, would run about $43 an hour of operation, including the pay for a pilot, gas and oil, maintenance and depreciation over a five-year period. Bell pilot Steve Spaulding said he sees little chance of heli copters coming into widespread use. If we tooled up to build 10,000 of them in a year the price would come down to maybe $8,000, but demand for them isn't enough now to prompt any company to mass production basis," he said. For this reason, a good many Texans still earn their living on horseback, although the pay 6cale for cowhands has risen considerably since the old days. 37-BUSINESS DIRECTORY Plumbing Phone SP 2-4801 Browni 'g Plumbing & Heating Inc. 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Adults. 927 W. 13th. WILL purchase small contracts and mortgages. Write Tribune Box 9999. 1949-OLDS. 88 4-door sedan for sale for repair bill. This car is good. Haw kins Kite Garage. 616 S. Riverside. DWARF APPLE TREES A distinctive gift for the back yard fardeners on your Christmas list, everal sizes. SP 2-7470. ROSES A good gift even for your self. ELTON'S FARM & GARDEN STORE 217 W. 6th SP 3-5539 FOR RENT 3-bdrm. large living rm., fireplace, dining rm. Garage. 12 baths. SP 2-6514. or call at 661 -J" St. SAVE CASH & CARRY PABCO 3-tab roofing S8.90 square. 90-lb. green, gray & red roll roofing S3.75. 1x6 No 4 sheathing S30 per M. 2x6 No 4 T&G S35 per M. Sheet rock S1.60 sheet & up. Beautiful cedar paneling SI 10 per m. NORTON LUMBER CO. Phoenix, Ore. KE 5-2037 HARTZ MOUNTAIN Pet Products. Bird cages. At prices vou'll like. ELTON'S FARM & GARDEN STORE 2 1 7 W. 6th SP 3-5539 HOWARD SCHOOL P.T.A. holding Rummage Sale at Eagle's Hall Tues day, December 10th from 9:00 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. GENUINE NAVAJO saddle blankets singles & doubles. GIBSON SADDLERY 225 W. 6th St. USE OUR DAIRY FEED AND SAVE. S242 Sack ELTON'S FARM & GARDEN STORE 217 W. 6th SP 3-5339 FOR RENT nice light furn. apt., close in. uu af 3-4ub. PRACTICE PIANOS We have one at $114 and two at SI 19 each. These are fully reconditioned and guaran teed. Very easy terms. Deposit will hold till Christmas. Come in today. Open Sundays. ERSKINE'S PIANO STORE 1304 Kings Hwy. VALLEY VIEW Dorcas food & fancy work sale at City Appliance, Dec. 9th. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. AFRAID OF THE TRUTH? Read Local Author's "Ben Roland Gospel". Swem's FOOD & RUMMAGE SALE. Eagles Hall. 217 W. Main. Mon.. Dec. 9 10 to 5 by Eagle Point Dorcas So ciety; CHRISTMAS TREES Silver Tips, White & Douglas Fir. 1' to 15'. Large cones. Special trees for mobile homes & hospital pa tients. 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A Holiday Gift Offer To YOU From 10 Medford New Car Dealers! 1 Z&rJW If I Theyll Do It Every Time ... By Jimmy Hatlo Wf VVriWV HOWEVER, WHEN! HEf? MOTHER COMES A Y4s4y?) IFr? FOR EVEMIMG VISJT-OH HOVV HE JpV V J SHOWS OFF IN THE HELPlNSWND DEPT.' CV.V o ,J, ' L.i W HERE.' you TWO GO M AHD ffF lUl cU W 1 W) 3 WE TABLE! I'LL COOK THE &a aA f X7ZZWSX$ PH DINNER VOU JUST TAKE. IT ' jg I tfSKERVILLE'S POOR WIFE WORKS SL'tTHi I 10umaDU' . LIKE 4 TRUCK HORSE GROUND THE '2Slz0M If Plii ttELL5"Si HOUSE.ND HE NEVER SEEMS TO NOTICE- gjllffj i f f "E ' .JSW7. KINO FEATURES SYNDICATE. Int. WOBU) riCWTt ItsnYtB. Study Being Made of Basic Food Source of Marine Life Houston, Tex. (IP) Dr. Leo nard Roy Freese, University of Houston biologist, has completed two-thirds of a 10-year study of a basic food source of marine creatures. Dr. Freese is studying diatoms of the Arctic tundra. Diatoms are microscopic yellow algae one-cell, glass-valved members of the vegetable kingdom which make up the principal part of she sea's floating or drifting organic life. They are so minute they serve as sea food for micro scopic sea fleas. ( The salt water versions pass ively drift with the currents and reproduce by splitting to form two new units once every 36 hours. Fresh water varieties are more enterprising and move around on their own. although how they do it is still somewhat of a mys tery. Apparently their move ment involves changes in pres sure between the surrounding water and the protoplasm within the delicate membrane of the channel which runs down their middles like zippers. Dr. Freese captured diatoms in eye droppers from 150 pools, streams and lakes of the tundra within 200 miles of Point Bar row, Alaska, on a field trip in 1951. Paper Due In 1960 The diatoms were boiled in acid which consumed the liv ing protoplasm within the tiny glass cells and other living mat ter found in the water samples. What was left was mounted on 300 microscopic slides, two from each sample. Painstaking scrutiny must be "used on each slide to classify the shells. An average diatom is two thousandths of an inch in length. A sea diatom may be disk-like with radiating ridges or etch ings. The typical fresh water dia tom is an elongated, flat pod TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY SAVE CASH & CARRY 100 pes. each 18' & 20' 2x12 stand ard & better S85 M. 4x4 & 4x6 standard & better S100 M. PABCO 3-tab roofing $8.90 sq. 90-lb. roll roofing $3.75 roll. No. 3 re-saw sheathing S55 M. B grade panel shakes (unstained) S10 sq. Full line of Dutch Boy Paints. Low Every Day Cash & Carry Prices FHA Home Improvement Loans. NORTON LUMBER CO. Phoenix KE 5-2037 A Grand Vacation Famous Pasadena Tournament of COURTESY MEDFORD with transverse lines on either side of a central channel run ning along its long axis down the middle of its face. In the past six years, Dr. Freese has isolated some 300 different known species and va rieties and identified 175 new ones from his Arctic samples. He will publish a scientific paper by 1960 with Dr. Ruth Patrick of the Academy of Nat ural Sciences in Philadelphia, re porting the results of his study. The 10-year projecf has been financed by the Arctic Institute of North America. Dead Line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day, except 10 a.m for Monday; for Sunday, noon Saturday. R A D I O D I S P A T C H E D IF WE MIX IT, YOU CANT LI'L Got a Fluid Driveway? (and a shiftless husband?) Got a Party Planned? (and wall-to-wall mud?) Give Dear Old Dad a Concrete Walk or Driveway (we'll bill him after Christmas) Listen To Our Rewashed News 7:30 A.M. - KBOY Sunday, December 8, 1957 'See-ll-Yourself System Being Used Chicago (IP) The "see-it-yourself" system can be used when inspecting urban renewal projects in Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver. Demand for guided tours of urban renewal areas in those cities proved too much, National Association of Housing and Re development officials reported, so the cities prepared maps show ing the urban, renewal story. Depicted are traffic improve ments, slum clearance, rehabili tation, recreation facilities and housing problems yet to be solv ed. The urban renewal sightseer, on his own or with a group on a bus, can take a map and be off. OLE WHIRLY-BERT, MIXER-MASTER READY MIX by LlflldGER'S SPring 2-5336 SPring 2-5897 MUrdock 5-8121 A) -TRIP' for rui inJ Visit to Disneyland And Roses! See Page 3 -This Section MAIL TRIBUNF ' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN 82-Year-Old Dallas Man Finally Finds Dallas, Tex. OP) An 82-year-old Dallas man has finally found his sister after 44 years. John Baston and his family came to Dallas by covered wa gon when Baston was 20, from Somerset, Ky. "It was a long walk," t h e agile, quick-thinking man re marked, "but I had a shotgun and I hunted all along the way. There wasn't a bridge across ny river along the way, except for the Arkansas. We crossed the rest of them on ferries or forded them in our wagons." It took 51 days to make the journey in those days. After a couple of years, part of th fa mily moved on to what was then called Oklahoma Territory. "My father and a friend start ed up a town there; called it Blair," Baston said. Baston was a cowboy around Dallas for years and in 1897 delivered the Star Route mil three days a week on horseMck. For reasons of health his doctor advisedjiim to move to drier climate. "How about Oklahoma?" Bas ton asked. The doctor told him he "had never heard of -ater more than a foot deep up there, even during a flood," so Baston headed for the Sooner stat. Back To Kentucky During that time his fathtr remarried and in 1910 his hflf sister Gertrude was born. He saw her for the last time in 1913 when she was three years old. Baston moved to. North Dalo ta where he began 31 years of farming, ranching and business. "I tried to locate her during all those years, but I just could not pin her down," he said. "Finally I retired in 1946. Sold out just like you sell a shotgun, lock, stock and barrel, and head ed back to Texas." He again settled in Dallas. On a- visit to his native Kentucky, BEAT IT! H O T W A T E n T O o To the- and the . His Sister Baston barely missed seeing his sister. She had left town before he arrived. He kept looking and finally in August he located her through the town his father had started, Blair, Okla. "I had been in town a couple of minutes w-hen I met a neph ew who told me that Gertrude was in Turkey, Tex. I dropped everything arid started looking for her." Finally they met, for the sec ond time in their lives, in Blair. Gertrude had become Mrs. Ger trude Crawford of Somerset, Ky. Everybody's happy and Baston said he'll keep her visiting him in Dallas as long as she'll stay. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads The Low Cost Way To Sell IS SANTA CLA'JS COMING DOWN YOUR CHIMNEY OR THE LANDLORD'S? CENTRAL POINT SPECIAL You'll leva this cUsirobl and homey thro bedroom homo with a nico fire place, and it's located near every thing. Nicer neighborhood for your family's enjoyment and happiness. City water and sewer. Immediate pos se is ion with only $1500 down. To let SANTA find you here, you must move quickly. I'M DREAMING Yes, just like you, I've been dreaming T a happy family gathered in the living room around a beautiful Xmas tree, made more beautiful by the glow from the charming fireplace. 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