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o 0- 6 MAIL TRIWjNfc 3M, , Monday. July 21, 1958 TheylfDo It Every Time k By Jimmy Hatlo I KNEW IT HE'S THE MOST 4 NATURAL HE'S OVER TO ThiE I Q3T EYE SO TRUE HE DOESMY LEFT JUST AH NEED 4 TR4SSIT V; WiLAS . y Gooz D OL' JOE , PLUMBOB THIRTY YEARS A SURVEYOR, AHD NEVEF? OUT OF LIKE A FR4CTIOM OF AH INCH SuT ON THE HOME FRONT CAM HE EVER RUM UP TWO WINDOW SH4DES AMD GET 'EM EVEN ? BUT NO, NOT-SO-EVER NO HOW fH JNX dNO 4 TIP OF "C ib Mrs. George ? 4LLEN, COOTE l.B0XM2,i C4RMEL, VWb 1 1 Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist We were walking through some scrubby brush on the edge of a small oasis when I saw what seemed to be a jack. rabbit leap up out of the brush some 50 yards or more ahead. It wasn't an illusion. When we got there a little later sure enough, there vere his tracks. Unmistakably those of a large rabbit. The phenomenon was not a new one. It was only the place that made it surprising. A jack rabbit or hare occasional ly leaps straight up in to the air for the simple reason that he wants a quick look around, and that is the easiest way tq get itPMany of us have seen the same, thing happen while walking through thick sage brush. One of the Arabs told me that he once saw two hares fighting. Their method of combat was to leap at ech other, kicking and biting. The sight had evidently surprised him, because, like most of us, he regarded the animal as among the least offensive in creation. o The truth is, however, the hare has such a reputation as a fighter that the expression "mad as a March hare" refers only to his pugnacity and not ito his sanity. As one might suspect, the fighting season and mating season are the same. They have a playful side as well. Occasionally people have reported seeing ten or more assemble in a circle, sit watching each other for a while, then retreat in short hops te come back and repeat the performance again. . At least one writer has tried to read some esoteric meaning into it, but probably it has no moge significance than mere amusement. Speed Indicated We attempted to follow the hare we had seen but soon gave it up. The few tracks we could find here and there in the scrub were about 14 feet apart, indicating that he had found the sight of us suffici ently alarming to take off at Vancouver Man Killed in Crash Boardman, Ore. (LTD A Vancouver, Wash., man was killed and his wife was in se rious condition at Pendleton's St. Anthony's hospital follow ing a headon collision on Highway 30 about two miles west of Boardman Sunday night. Dead is Philip Ray Pfeif fer, 38, of Vancouver. Late Sunday night hospital attendants reported his wife, Mary Sandra, 37, was in se rious condition following an operation in which a rup tured spleen was removed. She also was suffering from several fractured ribs. Police said the Pfeiffer car collided with a pickup truck driven by Conrad Hofferber, 67, of Twin Falls, Ida. He was uninjured. Portland Man Oft In Fire at Home Portland iUPD Albert Delmar Smith, 50, Portland, died Saturday in fire at his home btre. Cairo OT The United Arab Republic has rejected as ambiguous an American warning, against any attacks on U.S. troops in Lebanon by units "under. UAR control.".. a moderately high speed. As we started to backtrack and let the hare go about its business, I thought I heard a low, bugling call. My com panion heard it, too. It was repeated. Its source seemed to be somewhere from the direc tion the hare had taken. What it was I don't know. But it could have been the hare calling its young. This is the time of year when it could be weaning a family. And hares are known to warn their young of danger by means of a low, bugling note that can carry for 200 or 300 yards. (Released by McClura 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 na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co.Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. Teamsters, AGC Expected to Meet Portland (UPD A meeting was arranged to be held be tween the striking teamsters union and Associated General contractors today before fed eral mediators in a attempt to settle issues in a strike which has halted construction in Oregon and southwest Washington. A meeting between AGC and the Operating Engineers is tentatively set for Tuesday, according to Federal Media tor Leroy R. Smith. Both unions and the AGC met several times last week with the aid of federal mediators. Democrat Committee Reelects Dave Epos Portland (UPD Dave Epps of Sweet Home Sunday was reelected chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee at an organization al meeting here. He was not opposed. Mrs. Beaulah Hand. Clack amas county, was elected vice chairman. Lloyd Rea of Bak er was reelected secretary and Irma Lindquist of Aurora, treasurerer. Gov. Robert D. spoke to the group. Holmes ILLINOIS VALLEY Chamber Sets Meeting By RUTH RAUSCH Cave Junction The - first meeting of the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce for the new fiscal year, to be held in the American Legion Auxil iary room Thursday, July 24, will be open to the public, with the idea of soliciting sug gestions for projects which will be beneficial to the Illi nois Valley. All suggestions will be con sidered and final goals will be set for the year's work. Standing committees and some special project commit tees will be set up at this meeting or at the meeting im mediately following. "There are plenty of worth while projects and to get any of them accomplished will take team work among the people of this valley the chamber can't do these things alone," was the statement made by Gordon White, presi dent of the Chamber. At thefcity council meeting Tuesday evening, a contract between the city and the Illi nois Valley Rural Fire Pro tection District was author ized and signed, providing the same service for the city as to the rural area members. The city pays $100 a month for the first nine months of the one-year contract, the last quarter the payments will be adjusted on a basis of equality with a four mill tax levy. There was some discussion on making arrangements to have the weeds inside the city limits burned. Chief of Police Phil Kellar, who also acts as fire chief, was instructed to obtain the cost of such burn ing from the local unit of vol unteer firemen. Property owners may ob tain a permit for burning off their lots, or can also, for a fee, have the firemen do it. Where weeds and grass con stitute a fire hazard and is not taken care of by the own er, the city will have it done and charge the actual cost back to the property owner, Kellar said. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lackey of Kerby left Wednesday for a week's vacation visiting sev eral former valley residents, with the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Waterman in Wolf Creek the first stop. In Sutherlin, the Lackeys will visit the Rev. and Mrs. Don Trimmer, former pastor of the Kerby jAssembly of God church. Also in Sutherlin. they will visit with Mr. and A new set of plans, drawn by student archetect, Robert Easton, was submitted to May or Banks and the council members at the meeting Tues? day evening, and Bob Ford was called in for consultation. Minor changes in the speci fications may be suggested be fore Easton makes the final draft. The City Hall site com mittee still has not made a report on the several locations being considered. Mrs. John Hardy and chil dren, Jean and Johnny, are here from Eagle's Nest, N. M., for a month's visit with Mrs. Hardy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Reich. Several trips are planned for the month, including a fishing trip to the coast and a trip to Oregon caves. Sam Mickey has been sick in bed this past week with a back condition. He hopes to return to work Monday. Mrs. P h a y o Pfefferle is with her daughter, Mrs. Oak ley Summers, in LeGrande, who is waiting for the arrival of her baby. The Pfefferle's daughter from San Francisco, Lt. Marian, Pfefferle, arrived in the valley in time to make the drive to La Grande with Mrs. Pfefferle. Justice court cases this week were two minor viola tions. Charged with failing to stop at a stop sign and fined S3.50 each, were Grant W. Ford of Cave Junction and Donald Hubert of Selma. PLANER BLOX Clean Quick Delivery Hedford Fuel Co. ' Miss Oregon Judges Picked by Officials Seaside (UPE The five judges who will select Miss Oregon for 1958 at the 12th annual pageant here next week end have been announc ed by contest officials. They . are Virginia Kemp ston, dean of women at Ore gon College of Education; El ectra Gailas, Portland, direc tor of the drama department at the Maria Easterly Charm School and. Model Agency; Mrs. Ulan Rhoden, Roseburg, of the Little Ballet theatre; Lawrence D. Woodworth, Kent, Wash., ex-state presi dent of the Washington Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, and Maurice Brennen, Salem, associate professor of music at Willamette university. The 10 contestants will be judged for beauty, talent, poise and personality The winner will be announced on Sunday afternoon. Quotes From the News Visalia, Calif (UPD An Army helicopter returned from the high Sierras Sunday with the body of a Trona, Calif., camper who died of pneumonia before rescuers could bring him from the wilderness. UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Aboard USS Saratpga Off Lebanon Rear Admiral George Anderson, commander of the U.S. 6th Fleet carrier force, after revealing , that no serious damage has been re ported so far from rebel sniping against his force's low-flying planes: " "But I don't want my boys to lake chances--lhey can't shoot back." - , t Sarasota, Fla. Dr. Gordon Aldrich. after treating Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine's son, Horace Maxwell Gold fine, who slashed;his face and body nearly 100 times with a razor last week: "I don't think his father's troubles in, Washington had anything to do with the apparent suicide attempt." New Orleans Authorities at Ochsner Clinic, where Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault leader of the 'famous Flying Tigers clung tenaciously to life in his fight against lung cancer: , "A lesser man would have dropped out long ago, but his remarkable will to live has enabled him to hold on." ' Beirut American insurance salesman Kenneth Shaker, of West Hartford, Conn., after arriving here to sell "battle policies" to U.S. Marines and paratroops: "The situation is made to order." AEC Installations Have New Guards Las Vegas, Nev. (UPD "Critical" installations of the Atomic Energy Commission were guarded today by Civil Service employees brought in after a strike of 87 members of the Independent Guards Association of Nevada. The guards left their posts at Tonopah, Mercury and Las Vegas Sunday at noon and set up picket lines after a con tract deadline had passed. AEC officials brought in security forces from Los Ala mos, N.M., to guard installa tions. Although the association served notice it was standing I talks had been scheduled fm- Dy ior negotiations, no new mediately . TROUT CAME FIRST Rutland, Vt. (UPI) Lt. Gov Robert Stafford inter rupted . a consecutive 20-day "chicken banquet" circuit in his quest for the GOP nomi nation for the governorship the day the trout season open ed because he figured nobody would be around to hear him speak. r Builders Supply 3 QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tiltf 727 W. McAndrewi Ph. SP 2-4107 SPECIAL NOTICE AMERICAN LIGION AUXILIARY f MeoifrJ, Oregon are contlwcting their 1958 SUBSCRIPTION CAM PAIGN t buy More Sick Room Equipment for FREE home use to all residents of Jackson County NO DONATION Be sure and check credentials signed by these officers President Mist Laura York. 517 West 10th Street Vice President Mrs. Clark Walker, 3222 Lone Pine Road Treasurer Mrs. Ross Minneci, 224 Vancouver Ave. Equipment Chairman Mrs. Leo Williams 1003 Reddy Street Child Welfare Chairman... Mrs. K. C. Goldsmith, ISO Ross Lane Community Serive Chairman, Mrs. Bert Stoats Jr., 702 Park St. Mrs. Charles Batman, former O Brienites. Before returning home they will go on to Roseburg to vi sit with Stan Waterman's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Kieth and baby, former residents of the valley and now living in southern California, were vis itors of the Sam Mickeys last weekend. Two county tax checks were received this week by Mrs. Amelia T)ick, city recor der and treasurer. One was for S238.53, covering delin quent tax collections and one for. current tax collections for $107.03... your new sensational price on 4 cu. ft BARROW wmm) buy st mm OPEN 77 a S. 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