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6 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ. Oregon, WedneiJay, August 6, 1958 Texas Man's Ranch For Boys Pays Off; Nearly 1400 Benefit Editor'! note: For almost 20 years, a Texan with an idea and a love of ebildren has been helping straighten out "bad boys." To date, some 1,400 of them have been helped out and only 37 have stayed wrong" after the experi ence. This Is the first of two dis patches telling the story of Cal Farley and his Boys Ranch. By PRESTON McGRAW United Press International Amarillo, Tex. CPU A kid with a scared voice tele phoned Cal- Farley late last Christmas Eve from the Am arillo bus station. He asked whether Farley could take him in at his Boys Ranch. Farley went down to see what the boy looked like. He found a 12-year-old in worn tennis shoes, faded and dirty jeans, a ragged shirt and a leather jacket, long since outgrown. He was cold and hungry. The boy told Farley he did n't know where his father wasi He had been living in a nearby state with his mother, but she had abandoned him. Sheriff Got Him So, in desparation, he hitch hiked to a town 200 miles from Amarillo where he knew some friends. But they were gone when he arrived and the sheriff picked him up. The sheriff fed him and put him on a bus to Amarillo. "You go see Cal Farley," he said. "He'll help you." Farley took him to Boys Ranch, 40 miles from Ama rillo. The ranch staff worked fast and next morning there were a few presents for him under theig Christmas tree. When he got the gifts, he started crying. "He has been with us now several months and he has gained weight," Farley report ed recently. "He smiles a lot and is perhaps one of the hap piest and most appreciative boys we have at the ranch." Only 37 Failures He also is one of the easier "problems" among the 238 boys now living there. Farley has taken in all kinds: thieves, boys whose only aim in life seemed to be to destroy, kill ers. Since Farley started his ranch in 1939, nearly 1,400 boys have lived on it. He has failed to make upstanding citizens out of only 37. "If my staff and I knew what we know now and had the facilities we have now, we wouldn't have lost that many," Farley said. During World War I, Far ley was middleweight wrestl ing champion of the AEF. He also was a professional base ball player and in 1922 went to St. Paul of the American Association for a tryout. He missed and moved from his native Minnesota to Am arillo to play with a ball team there. He has been in Amarillo ever since. Farley didn't stay in base ball long. He organized a tire business and when he sold out in 1947 it was grossing over $700,000 a year. Long before that, delin quent boys and their prob lems had become a besetting interest with him. His first organized attempt to help them was through a group called the Maverick club. But it didn't help the kids who needed it most. In 1939, he met Julian Bivins, a wealthy rancher, and told him what he really needed. Bivins offered him the old townsite of Tascosa, an unin habited but formerly tough and bustling Western town, complete with boothill and 27 graves; The Boys Ranch layout has now grown to 30 buildings and 10,000 acres, in addition to an irrigated farm where Boys Ranchers raise their own beef and pork, feed for livestock and other crops. Farley doesn't stand for any foolishness, nor does he lec ture his boys. No matter how bad a boy is, Farley and his staff show him that they like him and that he is among friends. (Next: Good boys out of bad boys.) Portland (LTD Portland Attorney Lester W. Hum phreys has withdrawn as a candidate for the Oregon Supreme Court. MOONSHINE RAID County sheriffs deputies wearing cowboy hats muscle Russian refugee Nikolai Federow away from his home in Goshen, Indiana, after he and his wife had stood police off for two hours with a shotgun. Officers were reluctant to fire at the house because of the Federows' six ch ildren, some of whom can be seen in this picture, and finally flushed Federow and h is wife with tear gas. Action started when police arrived to serve warrants on Federo w for illegal sale of whiskey and for operat ing a still. Five officers were required to g et the handcuffs on Mrs. Federow. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS - Ranger-Naturalist Baghdad The quiet of a palm grove seemed an un usual place to see a life-and- death struggle between a wasp and a cockroach, but that is what we saw. The mahogany-colored cock roach ran down the palm tree 8-6-53 ?S THAT SO? trunk and took off across the ground. There was a flash of brilli ant greenish blue plunging out of the air after it. 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When the wasp returned some minutes later, the cockroach had re covered somewhat, enough so that when the wasp pulled it along to the palm and up the trunk to the pencil - like hole it had found, the cockroach was able to stagger along on its feet. It took sometime before the wasp could manipulate the cockroach into the hole. When it had finally done so, it en tered, too. Then, after a few minutes more, it emerged, blocked up the entrance with a mass of cobweb, leaf and other material, and disappear ed. . Egg Deposited What it had done while it was in the narrow hole with its victim was to deposit an egg on a part of the cock roach's body. It walled up the entrance so the cockroach, when the effects of the sting had worn off completely, wouldn't be able to escape. Why it used a narrow prison was that the cockroach would be unable to remove the egg. That procedure was vital to the wasp as a means of perpetuating its kind. In suc ceeding days the egg would grow. In 48 hours or so it would begin to enter the cock roach's body. Finally, as a maggot, it would enter its host, consuming its vitals while it grew strong and the cockroach gradually expired. Eventually, the maturing wasp would grow strong enough so that it could move forward out of the dead body in which it was encased, eat its way through the plug at the entrance and take off into the hot sun of Baghdad on a search for another cockroach. (Released by McClure News paper 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 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft bind ing. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. 4-H Club News Hayburners 4-H Horse Club The Hayburners 4-H Horse club held a meeting July 29 at the home of Linda Smith. The members practiced horse manship and trail horse class es before the meeting, and were given instructions on the points to look for when judg ing horses. It was decided by the members to participate in the rodeo parade to be held in middle August. The next meeting will be held Aug. 12, at which time final plans for the fair, Aug. 17, will be made. Marsha Watson, Reporter. Nationalist China Forces on Alert Taipeh, Formosa (UPD The government reported that Communist Mig-jet fighters deployed only 22 minutes fly ing time from President Chiang Kai-Shek's capital to day. All Chinese Nationalist military forces were ordered on "the highest degree of alert." The chief of the Nationalist staff made an emergency broadcast to Formosa and the Nationalist-held offshore is lands urging all precautions against possible air attacks by the Chinese Communist jets. Defense Ministry spokes man Adm. Liu Hoh-Tu said "All our armed forces have been ordered into the highest degree of alert." The Defense Ministry an nounced Tuesday night that supersonic Mig-17s had moved into the closest possible at tacking position to Formosa since the Nationalists were driven off the China main land in 1949. The ministry said that Migs were now operating from Lung Chi Air base, 30 miles west of Amoy port on the China mainland. The base is three minutes flying time from Nationalist-held Quemoy Island, 22 minutes from Tai peh and 19 minutes from the industrial city of Kaohsiung in Southern Formosa. MORE TIME TO COOL OFF Alexandria, La. (UPD Or ville Chellette, convicted of disturbing the peace at a cafe, had his sentence doubled from 30 to 60 days when he turned to the witnesses who had testi fied against him and shouted: "That's all right, -the rest of you' liars can go home now." VACATION MONEY! CASH TO GO-GO-GO! Do what your friends and neighbors do . . . get going with a Pacific Industrial "Cash for Summer Fun Plan." Visit your nearby PI office. Here you may borrow the cash you need to sssure a pleasant vacation and a fun filled summer for you and your family. . Pacific Industrial Loans make possible worry-free summers for more folks every day. This year, why not join them. ic---o. PARENTS7 a wvision or pcine fmmtx. PACIFIC , INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Central Ph. SP 3-5308 JIM ELBERT, Manager Suffocation of Palmer Infant Told in Report Montesano, Wash. (UPD A pathologist said Tuesday a preliminary autopsy report showed six - and - one - half month old Joyce Palmer, whose body was found buried beneath a porch of her par ents home at nearby Porter, died of suffocation. Dr. Kenneth P a r 1 1 o w, Olympia, said a complete re port would not be made pub lic until Friday, but the indi cations were that the child could have choked on regur gitated material while she slept on a couch in the Pal mer home. Mrs. Darlene Palmer has told Sheriff Richard Simmons she found the baby uncon scious and when she was un able to revive her, became panicky and buried the in fant. Extensive Search The 21 - year - old mother then told neighbors she had been beaten by an unknown assailant and her child taken last Wednesday. Extensive search evolved, ending the discovery of the body Sunday afternoon. 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