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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1958)
JiMWM Diary $SMf Bird WatcKei IT Monday, Sept. IS I hadn't planned a morning field trip for today because a nephew was visiting us overnight. However, it turned out he had to be on his way soon after breakfast. So I proposed to my wife that we take a little run out to Hoover lake and she. took me up on it. As often as I have been out there it is strange that she never had been there yet, so I was glad it worked out this way. On the way out along Foothill rd. we saw a Swainson's hawk fighting with a red-tailed hawk. We had seen the same thing last week in an entirely different location. There must be a feud between the species Actually, the two hawks are similar. Both commonly soar and feed on rodents. So I sup pose they have competition over feeding territories even, when they are on migration. We also saw a Cooper's hawk plummeting down after some prey which I think it missed (they usually seem to miss when I watch them) so it was a good day for seeing hawks. At Hoover lake the most notable thing we saw was a larger number of pied-billed grebes than usual. One of them sat calmly among some weeds in the shallow water, quite oblivious to our near presence. My theory on this is that it had made a migration flight in the night and was too tired to move or dive. We also saw a greater yellowlegs and a couple of great blue herons. Tuesday, Sept. 16 White-crowned and golden-crowned sparrows, mostly im matures, are now staying regularly around our place. I have watched them again to be sure of their distinguishing marks. The adults are easy to tell. The white crowns have alternat ing black and white stripes on the top of the head. The golden crowns have a yellow spot surrounded by black. The imma ture white crowns have buff and brown stripes in place of the black and white. The young golden crowns are even more nondescript. They have a faint yellowish crown which is only visible in good light. Otherwise they look a lot like fe male house (English) sparrows. It appears to me that the legs of the house sparrows are set farther back giving them a more awkward appearance when they hop. Actually they belong to an entirely different family from our native sparrows. Wednesday, Sept. 17 Distinguishing sparrows is easy compared with distin guishing different kinds of flycatchers. Early in the day to day I was pretty sure I saw a western and later I was quite sure I saw a Traill's. Unless you know the calls and can hear them you can never be sure of these species without shooting them and even then you often have to send the skins in to an expert. I have my own ideas about how to tell these two apart and I hope I am right. I'm always glad to have any kind of flycatchers around the place and could use more. Insect life is in great abund ance at this time. Innumerable tiny yellow caterpillars dan gle from the oak trees. They make fine food for birds but I don't seem to have enough birds to keep up with them. The same is true of weed seeds. There are enough on our lot, but even more across the fence, thisties, flax, grasses, and many others. The gold finches, both kinds, are around now. They and the house finches and sparrows are all great seed eaters. The gold finches, especially the bright yellow and black American goldfinches are changing to their winter plumage now, so they don't look so gold any more. In their winter or intermediate plumage they become harder to recognize, too. Thursday, Sept. 18 I had a call from Charlie Hoover telling me how the birds get drunk on the pears that he is trying to dry for pig feed out on his place. He says some of the blackbirds and others get so drunk that they can hardly stand up or fly. I have heard of this before but have never actually seen it. I'll have to go out and take a look if I can find the time. T.M. 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In the category of imagina tive literature the award was won by "The Prisoners of Combine D," by Len Giovan nitti (Henry Holt, publisher). This was declared by the Be a Smart Santa 7258 -CV judges to be a novel of "un usual honesty and perception about Americans under con ditions of suffering and en durance which compel them to reconsider the assumptions and prejudices of their lives and .which bring some of them to heroic determina tion." Acceptance Speech The author said, in his memorable acceptance speech "I have tried to express the idea that when a decent man, in chains, is divested of al most all the essentials of life, his hope for justice, his desire for liberty, will sustain him. In a camp for American pris oners of war in Germany, I knew such men. Though skeletonized by near starva tion, trapped by walls of barbed wire, and persecuted by their Nazi guards, these men not only clung to life but stubbornly resisted all efforts to destroy their spirit, to divide their ranks, to crush their hopes." The American Library as sociation's purpose in making these awards is to draw at tention to books which con tribute to traditions of liber ty and justice; to encourage authors and publishers in cre ating such books; and to rec ognize those who do so. These books many be re quested through any agency of the Jackson County library system. Boy Scout Groups To Deliver Booklets Some 4,000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Explorers of the Crater Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America, will mo bilize Oct. 11 for their biggest "good turn" of 1958, delivery of the new Federal Civil De fense "Handbook for Emer gencies" to every home in the Council's three counties. On "delivery day," Scouts from 145 local units will carry safety messages and the CD booklets to homes in assigned territories. Distribution cen ters for each district of the council and details for deliv ery of the handbook have been set up and organized by committees of volunteers, ac cording to Donald R. Rutter, chairman of the council health and safety committee. The handbook is a guide to help families prepare for na tural and man-made disaster. It emphasizes five steps to safety, covering such topics as home shelters, flood and hur ricane preparations, first aid, warning signals, Conelrad in structions, fallout protection, and community emergency planning. 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The program was conducted under the joint supervision of the general safety division and the aircraft engineering division. CRASHING INTO FARM at Hastings, Minn., B-52 jet bomber of Strategic Air Command is demolished, killing seven of eight crewmen, injuring eight members of August Kahl family. Lower arrow points to holes dug by four en gine pods at impact. Top arrow points to burning farm. Subsidies Proposed By Parole Association Salem OIPD State subsidies for counties forced to house juvenile offenders in jails be cause they have.no juvenile detention facilities were pro posed Friday by the National Probation and Parole Associa tion to the Legislative Interim Committee on Judicial Administration. Lyle Bigham Places Fifth in Contest Central Point Lyle Big ham, past vice president of the Crater High school Future Farmers of America chapter, placed fifth in the national Lincoln arc welding compe tition. He has placed fourth and sixth in the nation in pre vious years. This year he built a tractor scraper with a three point hitch to fit on the hydraulic system of a tractor. To compete in the national arc welding contest, an FFA boy must draw plans, build the piece of equipment in the farm shop, and after the proj ect is completed and in vari ous stages of construction, he is required to keep notes and pictures of the project. The boy must complete the project by preparing a step-by-step instruction manual on how to build the piece, and it must be written so anyone reading it could build the ob ject. In previous years, young Bigham built a grain and hay elevator and a hydraulic im plement lift for this tractor. Charles Crary Named To Nilsen Committee Charles, W. Crary of Med ford was named to the labor committee of the Re-Elect Nilsen for Labor Commission er committee, Norman O. Nil sen, state commissioner of labor, had announced. John Gillard of Portland was named chairman of the Re-Elect Nilsen for Labor Commissioner committee. 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