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Negro Educator
Honored by Czechs
London - (ITD - William Du
Bois, American Negro educa
tor, author and editor, has re
ceived an honorary "doctor of
historical sciences" degree
from Charles university in
Prague, Prague radio an
nounced Thursday night.
Du Bois, 90, a native of
Great Barrington, Mass., who
now makes his home in
Brooklyn, N.Y., long has been
associated with the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
Only about seven per cent
of American women never
marry.
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Dairy Programs Receive Awards
Marilyn Deckelman, Ro
melle Fossen and Sandy Hig
inbotham will be awarded
county medals for their 4-H
dairy programs, according to
Marilou Garner, county 4-H
agent.
The medals are sponsored
by the Oliver corporation for
excellence in the 4-H dairy
program in 1958.
Marilyn Deckelman, daugh
ter of Joseph Deckelman,
Rogue River, has been a mem
ber of the 4-H Eager Beavers
club for three , years. She is
developing a Brown Swiss
herd and started a beef proj
ect last year.
Romelle Fossen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Fossen,
Ruch, and is a student in the
University of Oregon. She has
been in 4-H club work six
years. Miss Fossen has fitted
her Guernsey project to the
family farm situation. Part .of
the income from the project
has helped pay for her col
lege education.
Romelle was a champion in
in the coat and dress division
in the Jackson county fair
clothing project. She plans to
help lead 4-H clubs in home
economics in the Ruch com
munity. '
Sandy Higinbotham, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hig
inbotham, Central Point, has
been a 4-H dairy club member
for eight years. Through ac
curate record keeping on her
dairy animal, she proved to
herself and others the value
of obtaining a good animal
and and carrying it into production.
Power Failure Blamed
For Jet Plane Crash
Columbus, O h i o (UPB A
power failure shortly after
takeoff was believed Friday to
have caused the crash of a six-
jet Air Force B47 bomber
Thursday in which the three
man crew died.
Air Force witnesses said
they assume the giant craft
suffered a power failure just
after it rose from the runway
at Lockbourne Air Force
Base, veered and crashed onto
the field. An investigation
was underway.
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Lebanese Stamp
Commemorates Massacre
A friend and I were argu
ing over domestic politics
when his 12-year-old son. in
troduced a foreign note.
"Look," he said. "I just got
a set of Lebanon stamps in
a swap.
His father looked briefly
at the 27 stamps arranged in
a cellophane frame.
"Well," he said, "so one of
these memorializes the city of
Deir-el-Kamar. That's where
the Druse killed several thou
sand of the 14,000 Christians
they massacred in 1860."
The boy and I listened to
the story of how arms were
shipped into Lebanon in 1858
and how the French, British
and American consuls plead
ed for intervention to fore
stall the massacre that came
in 1860. ,
I asked to see the boy's
stamps. The series was one
put out in 1930 to commemo-.
rate the Sericultural Congress
in Beirut. The youngster
wanted to know what seri
cultural meant, ana I told
him it had to do with silk
worm raising. Lebanon is an
important silk producing
country.
"Did you get a good swap
on the stamps," I asked.
The boy nodded. They had
a catalogue value of about
$11, but those which he had
given were listed at only $9.
1ST EDITION KEATS' LETTERS FOUND IN BOOKSHOP
One of the more valuable The book, which is dated in
first editions of John Keats, Roman numerals, was issued
famnne ITnc-licV Aot nU
died in 1821, to .book of a binding of pale blue cloth
prose that was first published wlth the tltle lettered in gold
57 years after the author's across the back,
death. , The pages-there are 196 in
It is entitled "Letters of all, 68 of them being given
John Keats to Fanny Brawne" to the introduction-were un
and was privately printed in . . . . .
London in 1878. cut' a p0lnt that ls of lmPr-
Keats, who died at 26 from tance to the collector.
tuberculosis, met Fanny It shouldn't be, of course.
Brawne four years before his Having uncut pages means
death and promptly fell in that whoever owned the book
love with the 17-year-old girl, didn't care enough about it
The letters, though they to' read it, a matter that re
would not get beyond the fleets sadly on the author,
first reader in the editorial Nonetheless, this little
offices of any confession mag- work has a collector's value
azine, are important for what even if most people wouldn't
they show of the private life be particularly interested in
of a gifted poet, generally reading it.
thought of as the third mem- If you ever come across one
ber of the trio of Byron, Shel- -and I know a man who stum
ley and Keats. bled on one in a second hand
The letters were collected book store in Singapore, of
by Harry Buxton Forman of all places-you should have no
London, who wrote an exten- difficulty in getting $40 or
sive introduction for the ser- $50 for it. One of the best
ies . and carefully annotated places to try would be the
them. nearest university or college.
SIMPLE WHEAT DESIGN CLASS GOAL OF COLLECTORS
Antarctic Experiences
Related in CW Session
Expieriences on an Antarc
tic exploration were reviewed
at the Veterans administra
tion Domiciliary Wednesday
in a special event arranged
by the American Red Cross.
Archie Pierce, of the Tuc
ker Sno Cat corporation, Med
ford, related his experiences
in a talk, accompanying mo
tion pictures of the Navy ex
pedition as part of the Inter
national Geophysical Year.
Not the least of the trials
was the Sno Cat, which stood
every test in the tranarctic
trek of the British explorer
Dr. Vivian Fuchs. It was on
display at the theater during
the day and considerable in
terest was shown in the 'spe
cially built mechanism for rid
ing the frozen wastes of the
South Pole region.
Introduces Speaker
"Bud" Ash, of special ser
vices, who operated snow
tractors ia the snow measure
ment work of the soil con
servation service, introduced
the speaker. He pointed out
three features of Sno Cats
that adapt them for this use.
One is the equalization of
weight to a little over half
a pound per square inch. The
frame is made of aluminum
to lighten weight and front
and rear wheels are powered
and geared for turning.
England, France and Bel
gium in addition to the United
States operate Sno Cats in the
anarctic, Pierce stated. Spe
cial electronic and other
equipment is added, he said.
One scientific fact which
has been discovered is that
the South Pole is the coldest
spot on earth, with a mini
mum temperature of 104 de
grees below zero. Other in
teresting points related by
the speaker were that the con
tinent, larger than the United
States, is 92 per cent snow,
which in some instances is
two miles deep.
There is no life except pen
guins in the interior. The
chief danger is that of falling
into a crevasse. Metal do not
rust because of atmospheric
conditions.
Grange News
Phoenix Grange .
Booster night at the Phoenix
grange will be held Oct. 28
at 8 p.m. Mrs. Frank Perl
will be in charge. The pro
gram will be open to the pub
lic and all Grangers are in
vited. The League of Women
Voters will present a skit and
other numbers are planned.
A potluck dinner will start
at 6:45 p.m. Members should
bring their table service and
a generous amount of food
for invited guests.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdferd, Oregon, Sunday, October 26, 195 31
Titan among the earth's ro
dents is the South American
capybara, which resembles a
king-size guinea pig. An adult
male may measure four feet
in length and weigh more
than 100 pounds. Despite its
size, the capybara is a gentle
creature with many enemies.
It lives along streams and
makes its escape by swimming.
From Japan comes an in
vention that permits the
printed page to talk. The back
of the paper is treated like
magnetic tape and the sound
prerecorded. When a repro
ducing head is passed over
each word the word is heard.
Mt. Chocorua, in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire
is said to be the most photo
graphed mountain in America.
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Among the easily recog
nized types of collected
pressed glass is one known as
the wheat pattern. It is also
among the more valuable.
. The design consists of noth
ing more than a three-sided
shield device, flat along the
top, the other two sides ta
pering down to a point. With
in the shield is the unmistak
able facsimile of a head of
wheat.
Usually this design is only
found on opaque white glass,
but occasionally one comes
across it in clear glass, and
there may be still other
colors.
What firm produced it I
have been unable to find, but
it was probably manufac
tured during the 1870s and
'80s.
The most valuable among
the more commonly found
pieces with this design are
the pitcher and goblets. On
one occasion I had the chance
to. purchase the pitcher at $15
and four goblets at $6 each.
Unfortunately I thought them
too high.
In the past four years I
have never seen the pitcher
at less than $45, while the
price of the goblets has
ranged from $15 to $25 each,
Probably the rarest piece
in which thisdesign appears
is the dinner plate. I saw a
single one of 10-inch size two
years ago, but failed to buy
it when the owner asked a
price of $35.
Last year I saw four of
them sold for $1100, the
seller later concluding that
he should have asked at least
twice as much.
Though I have never seen
it, I have heard for a few
pieces in this design in green.
Whoever has any of this glass
in any color other than white
should certainly ask afa least
half again as much, ana- even
more if it is in one of the com
monly found shapes such as a
sauce dish or spoonholder.
The fact it is so widely col
lected should assure the own
er of a ready market.
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Electrical Appliance Service Opens Here
Harry Brownlee and Ren
Ells, who recently moved to
the Medford area from Los
Angeles, Calif., have opened
the Electrical Appliance Serv
ice at 246 South Central ave.
They have had experience
in manufacturing and repair
ing electrical appliances and
have been engaged in that
type business most of their
lives. The service shop in
cludes testing equipment and
facilities to repair all major
and minor appliances.
Brownlee said he has pur
chased a home on Delta "Wa
ters rd., and Ellis said he
plans to buy in the near future.
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