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New Schedule Suggested For State Legislature Annual legislature should b arranged so the farmer who is "fighting it out on the line" can be present through out the session to see his prob lems through, suggested Rob ert J. Steward, director of Oregon Agriculture depart ment, told the meeting of the Talent Farm Bureau center recently The farmer is allowing him self to be put on the shelf, he said. The state department of ag riculture wants the farmer's problems brought in. Steward reminded his listeners that he helped organize the Farm Bureau in Eastern Oregon. He was once a center and then a county president at Baker. He resigned to enter the Ore gon legislature. The Jackson county Farm Bureau was organized in 1951 with a membership of 62. L. S. Tiegs of Talent was the first president. In 1957 mem bership grew to 264. The org anization hopes to increase this to 300 during 1958. Meetings Listed The county meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month in the courthouse starting at 1 p.m. during the winter and 8 p.m. in the spring, summer and fall. County officers are Maur- ice Davis, president; Neil Moore, vice president; David Blair, organization director Mrs. Grover T. Mulkey, secretary-treasurer and A. L Lemley, insurance agent. Three centers are active in the county. The largest is" re ported at Talent. Meetings are held in the Valley View schoolhouse the second Tues day of each month, starting at 8 p.m. William Bagley, Tal ents, is center president. Gil bert Hill is vice president, William Wroe is director and Irs. C. V. Carmichael, secre- Tary-xreasurer. Next largest center is Evans Valley with meetings held at the Enterprise Grange hall in wimer. uuicers are jjavia Blair, president; James H Martin, vice-president; Char les White, director; Mrs. Char les Milligan, secretary-treasurer and Mrs. David Blair, as sociated women's chairman. The third center meets at Eagle Point high school. Of ficers are John Reid, presi dent; C. C. Hoover, vice-presi dent; and Maurice Davies, secretary-treasurer. Central Point has a strong membership but the center is now inactive. What Is The Lav? This column is prepared as a public service by the College of Law. Willamette University, Salem, to explain basic legal principles, sot to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not lo apply these cases lo his own problems without an attorney's advice, for differing facts may change the outcome. Railroad Held Responsible For Playing Boy's Hurts Almost 90 years ago the United States Supreme Court decided that a railroad com pany would have to pay for the injuries that a young boy received while playing on the railroad's turntable. Work ers for the railroad had sden children playing on this de vice many times before this boy injured his foot on it. The court thought that a railroad should know that children would be tempted to play on such a highly danger ous thing, and that because it was highly dangerous the railroad should take precau tions to prevent their being injured. Because of the case in which it originated, the de : cision is often called the "turntable doctrine." Howev er, it is more often referred to as the doctrine of "attrac tive nuisance." To explain it simply, the doctrine merely requires that anyone creating or having a dangerous condi tion attractive to . children must take reasonable precau tions to prevent injury to them. Over 40 years ago two young boys were exploring a vacant field on a hot summer day and discovered what ap peared to be a pool of water. It actually contained a great deal of sulphuric acid. A com pany had abandoned its plant there and left this pool, knowing that it contained . much acid. The two boys went swimming and later died of the effects of the acid. At that time the Supreme Court said that the company was not liable for the death of the boys because they were not attracted onto the prop erty in the first place, by the pool. In fact, they could not even see it from the road This view is no longer fol lowed by the Supreme Court. Children can already be on the premises when they first see the "attractive nuisance" that later injures them and still recover for injuries suf fered. Some Disagreement About six or eight highly industrialized no r t h eastern states-do not1 recognize the attractive nuisance" doctrine at all. The remainder of the states are not completely in agreement on it. Some still say, as in the case involving the two boys and the pond, that the thing that injures them must have attracted them onto the property in the first place. The Supreme Court of Ore gon has not heard many cases of this nature. In 1929 the Oregon court said "attractive nuisance" did not apply when a small girl was injured while playing on a pile of bridge timbers, though the owner of the property knew of it and did not object to her use of these timbers as a play ground. In 1936 a father received damages from a city in Ore gon for the death of his four-year-old son. The boy had drowned in an unguarded quarry filled with water. The city knew children played there and that it was a dang erous place. Tuesday, February 18, 1858 Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Ever consider the protec tive devices nature provides her young to insure reaching adulthood? Without them, the species would perish. The musk ox calf which is dropped in the treeless, bar ren, cold world of the far north, when Arctic nights are still much longer than day and blizzards may rage, is equipped at birth with a long heavy overcoat of curly, dark brown hair as far as I know, the longest of any mammal at birth. The otter young, although unable to swim until taught, is born with oily fur suitable for its aquatic life. At birth, the armadillo has a leathery but soft and flexible skin which will not harden until he is full grown, thereby in suring him a "perfect fit" throughout life. The porcupine is born not only with half-inch protective spines but also with fairly well-developed molars. With in 7 days he can climb trees and gnaw. As a matter of fact, he has an appetite fop solids within 24 hours. And so for each animal young there are protective de vices sufficient to the needs. But perhaps the most inter esting of all is the opossum's young because it is born only 10-14 days after mating! Sharp Hook Claws In size, it is no larger than a bee 16 will fit comfort ably into a teaspoon. Hind legs are buds but then, they are not necessary for survival. Most developed are the essential organs for liv ing, such as the circular mouth, the tongue, front legs and "these have sharp hook ed claws to help them climb. Yet immature as it is. locked within it is the correct impulse to clamber against the grain of the mother's hair to find her "incubation" pouch which is at least 3 inches away and for such a tiny helpless young, this is a fantastically long and hazardous journey. But it strikes out accurate ly, using and overhand stroke much like an Australian crawl and finds itself in the warm pouch where there are 13 tiny nipples. Once there the head swings from side to side in the maze of hair until the tiny muzzle encounters the tiny pin-head nipple. Then immediately, the strong circular mouth grasps it and the newborn 'possum hangs on for jiear life, re maining attached for 4 to 6 months to finish its gestation while mother blithely goes about her chores of house keeping and searching for food. 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