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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1958)
o CD o o O o o 4 ?AIL?glBV. , sen, Monday July 14, 19SS JABLjJ, BOCK Mcqgftooj Plague Area - Table R t- lh carrent move to sea tourists on the idea it Siis ist Wonderful gauntry topegd t vacation in, is well tken, .specially by those from eh heated and - smog sections of California. It seemsT5arder to convince Ore- gonians of our fine climate Howayer, there is a fly in the ointment, and a bad one, this is our peoXy mqequitoes, now hatching out by the mil lions and rally making it miserable for those .working out doors. The sightof our beautiful scenery, our wonderful cli mate and friendly manners will lose iW effectiveness if rtourists are , plagued by a horde of vicitus mosquitoes trying to gdk blood samples from exposed parts, which some Jourists- have quite, a few oft In ceremony held at li a.n Kriday, July 4, in the home oOIr. and Mrs. Charles Adams of Modoc Orchard, Miss MyrSa ftlams, and Wil liam Pleasant Jr. were mar ried 0 TlVe cerenony was per fornjpd by the groom's father, the ev. S. H. Pleasant, and witnessed by relatives of both parties. The couple left Satur day for San Jose, Calif., where Pleasant is employed in the Ford assembly plant. BerPpierce, who is known for his efforts to do well what ever comes his way to do, is battling a double barreled siege of mumps. - About 10 little tots, mostly cousins, attended a birthday party held in the home of Mrs. R. E. Nealon, Thursday, hon oring Joyce Bishop's anniver- fary- Q A wedding ot interest to Table Rock people was that of Delbert McDonald, of For est Acres, and Miss Marie Hutchins, which took place Saturday in the Four Sqnare church in Medford. Delbert is well known here, being fre quently employed by -many farmers in the hay harvest. . Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lancy, of Walnut Grove, Calif., ac companied by Nevell McMull en of Belvedere? Calif., and Mrs. William Gregory of Med ford, were callers here Tues day. Mrs. Gregory, born and reared in this district was showing these California rel atives farms and places of in terest they had heard their parents talk about. McMullen is the son of the late Mattie Collins, born in this commun ity. Mrs. McMullen's grand parents, James W. and Martha Ann Collins, were owners of the farm we are on, having purchased it from William Bybee for $1,200, in 1871, the deed calling for 159 acres, more br less. The new owners were re stricted from permitting the use of any part of the land as a landing place for any ford on Rogue River. At that time Bybee operated a toll ferry, where the present Bybee bridge is now located The last meeting for the season of the Table Rock Com munity club, held recently at Touvelle Park, , was only sparsely attended, due to measles, mumps, and lack of publicity. Those attending en joyed a fine evening, with a temperature not too warm or too chilly Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Wilson, of. Central Point, were bus iness visitors here Wednesday. O. T. was telling us that his son, Steve, and wife left by aeroplane for a week's vaca tion in Detroit, to be guests of the Gord Motor company, Miss Gail Bishop fell from the lower branches of a plum tree on the Sage place, Mon day evening, which stunned her for a short time, but she suffered no ill effects. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Edge combe and son, Jerry, of Su sanville, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Houston, of Applegate, and Mrs. Emma Houston, were dinner guests in the R. E. Nealon home Sunday. In Cas if Cadillac InoVitamins it's ... FILAXIS with 1-12 Tha Most Com pitta Vitamin and Mineral Formuja AT ANY PRICE. No Vitamin Upset THREE MONTHS $1095 SUPPLY Available at Your Drug Star Our friend, Minnie, told us a true story about a Sams Val ley farmer. It seems he had a fresh cow, but didn't like to milk her so he told a neigh bor who worked at field work for him that the cow gave more milk than they needed, so he could have half cf it. The farmer, seeing no milk the next day, asked the man if he had milked the cow, and was told he had, and that he had milked his half which was two teats, as the cow had four teats, two were left for the owner. A car, said to be driven by a woman from California, went out of control recently at the junction of the Modoc and Table Rock roads, hit and broke off a telephone pole. Recent visitors with mem bers of the Bigham clan were Harry Linman and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Griffin of San Fran cisco. Mrs. Griffin is the only living aunt of the Bigham children. Mrsi Ray Wyatt is spending some time in the home of her son, Kenneth, in Hayward, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Army's Atlas Firing Called Off Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI The Air Force tried to fire a full three-engine Atlas intercontinental missile Satur day but called it off with sec onds to go when unexplained trouble developed. Earlier in the day a Thor missile was fired successfully. The search was called off for a little white mouse that was sent aloft Wednesday in the nose cone of another Thor intermediate range missile. Engines of Saturday's giant 70-foot Atlas were roaring on the launching pad when they were suddenly shut off and the firing was cancelled. The Air Force made no offi cial announcement of what the trouble was, but said the launching would be resched uled as soon as possible. One-Cell Plants Creep Thru Lawn Albany (UPI) A mys terious black substance that has been creeping up through the lawn at the home of Mrs. Irvine Hood here was diag nosed Saturday as an unusual ly large slime mold made up of one-cell plants. jPr. Lewis Roth, botany professor at Oregon State col lege, said the cells begin mov ing in the ground after col onization and, in this case, moved "out of it." . The gummy fungus first ap peared on Mrs. Hood's lawn two months ago. Finally, she called city police who turned the matter over to city en gineer Dan Lee who called on the OSC botany depart ment at Corvallis to investigate. Your New Corvallis Boy 1st Fatal in Two Years Corvallis (UPI) A 2V4 year old Corvallis boy was dead on arrival at Good Sa maritan hospital here Satur day as a result of injuries suffered when . the pickup truck in which he was rid ing collided with a car at a residential intersection. The victim was Lynn Cor- dell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro land Cordell, Corvallis. The tot was thrown from the truck and received head injuries. The pickup was operated by his father. The car was driven by Howard L. Gruv er, 26, Corvallis, who was un injured. It was the city's first traf fic fatality sines Feb. 1, 1956. Monday, Gov. Robert D. Holmes was scheduled to pre sent city officials with a traf fic safety achievement award for the two-year record. Wyatt have a new son and Grandma Wyatt has been helping get the youngster started on the right track. Mrs. Don Wheeler has been mixing the milk shakes at the store during Mrs. Wyatt's absence. STEPPING FROM HELICOPTER is Navy Airman T. R. Mosness, of Ames, la., first of 30 American servicemen to be released by Cuban rebels. He was hostage for two weeks. At right, Lieutenant Phineas Newton, security of ficer at Guantanamo Bay naval Base. Is That So? By EUGENI BURNS Rangcr-Naturaliit Amman As we stepped out onto the beach where the Jordan empties into the Dead Sea, assorted ravens, vultures and other birds flapped lazily away to the other side of the delta. They had been gorging themselves on dead fish that had foolishly come down the river to die in the heavy, leaden-greenish brine in which the brown freshwater loses itself. The water is heavy. It slapped listlessly on the sand in little, tired waves. ; One . of the leaden waves pushed three or four gasping fish onto the sand. 1 1 picked up the biggest one. It was a type of carp, about 12 inches long. I took him over, to the fresh water and released him. He righted himself briefly and headed out into the cur rent", but not upstream. In no time at all, he was taking the same route he had tried a little earlier. The phenomenon is a com mon one on the deltas of streams emptying into the Dead Sea. And since death is quick and inevitable, there must be some logical explana tion. It doesn't seem likely the fish are obeying a migratory tendency inherited from pri mordial times when the Dead Sea was first created. And there is nothing I can find to indicate the fish feel the current too strong for them and so are swept into the sea. The Jordan is not so swift in its lower reaches. Point of No Return What does seem a possible explanation is that food con ditions in the river may oc casionally become so difficult that the fish go downstream farther and farther until they reach the point of no return. Since there is no tide, there is no brackish interval to serve as a warning. This possibility is height ened by the fact that the Sea of Galilee is rich in fish though fished extensively, for commercial purposes. The Jor dan, however, is not exten sively fished. Along much of its course fishing . would be difficult. Also5 the v majority of the inhabitants in the rath er sparsely.: populated valley are not especially interested in fishing. ' . As a consequence, it could happen that the river fish population periodically be comes overcrowded and ex pands downstream where pressure is instantly relieved by the briny water of the Dead Sea. (Released br McCIure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends, .me the best true-life nature adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft bind ing. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sor ry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. 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