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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 $40 an hour for heli
icjiters to ride herd on their
The Waggoner ranch has been
ifslrifc helicopters for some time.
The ranch said the first 'copter
'paid for itself within a few
weeks because of the Targe num
ber of cattle driven from mes
quite thickets which otherwise
probably wouldn't have been
recovered.
Another Texas ranch has a
utility type 'copter and two
plush craft such as are used at
the White House.
Sam Chapman, Bell Aircraft
engineer who accompanied a
helicopter to a ranch near Ama-
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THE ASHLAND ANTIQUE SHOP
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years, last 4 years in Ashland, is forced through circumstances to re
return to California. A TOTAL SELLOUT from Dec. 5 to Jan. 10. 1958
will take place cn the premises. PRICES REDUCED 20 6 to 50 6, a
rare opportunity to acquire the finest things for yourself and the most
unusual Christmas gifts at bargain prices! Thousand of items from 50
cents to hundreds of S$! Antiques and objects of art from every
where! American, Continental, Oriental! Rugs Tapestries Needle
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Persian, etc. A big lot of brass, copper, bronze, silver, pewter, iron.
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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.
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till 4:30 p.m.
GENUINE NAVAJO saddle blankets
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GIBSON SADDLERY
225 W. 6th St.
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VALLEY VIEW Dorcas food & fancy
work sale at City Appliance, Dec.
9th. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Silver Tips, White & Douglas Fir.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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