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WOMAN DRIVER Putnam, Conn. -nU- 'When mechanic Hector Cote pointed out to a woman motorist that the reason her car wasn't working properly was because the choke was pulled all the way out, she replied, "Oh, I thought that was to hang my pocketbook on." IT'S A GIRL Holyoke, Mass. -UPD- The new six-million-dollar mater nity section. Even the doctors wear pink shirts, pink trous ers, pink gowns and pink hats, TRUSTING TO LUCK? Let Us Give You Concrete Facts! A REAL LOCATION BRAND NEW Best Duplex in Town Down Payment Easy Will Talk Some Trade also $4,500 3-Bedroom In Jacksonville Real Small Down Payment Move In At Once also Real Nice East Side Home Swell Location Also . West Side Dandy Owner Leaving Priced To Sell 3 Bedroom T.7EDF0RD REALTY COMPANY Phone SP 2-5750 1045 S. Riverside SUNDAY PHONES Roy H. Maudlin E. W. Kubli KE 5-17S2 ..SP 2-8805 J. Edwin Harper. SP 3-4032 Oscar H. Anderson..SP 3-4106 Harold Gordon SP 3-5478 News About Books From the Library Of 357 volumes added to the Jackson County library during the past month, 146 were for junior readers, 211 for adults. Gifts of 42 volumes were received, the donors in cluding F. W. Barnhart of Trail and H. M. Freeman of Medford. Following is a list of the 132 new titles added to the adult shelves of the library for the use of all residents of the Jackson County library district: Business: Management and Organization, Allen; Credit Management Handbook, Cred it Research Foundation; Con struction Financing for Home Builders, MacGiehan; Profit able Farm Management, Ham ilton. House and garden: Wood frame House . Construction, Anderson; Old Rooms for New Living, Chamberlain; Flowers of the World, Lemmon. Travel and Adventure: Sail Ho! Bisset; All About Portu gal, Long; The Americans, Boorstin; Homespun America, Brockway; Arizona Highway Color Album, Carlson. History and Biography: Double Exposure, Venderbilt; The Jack Dempsey Story, Schoor; Journey to the Be ginning, Snow; The March of Archaeology, M a r e k; The Great Declaration. Comma- ger;. The Conquest of Our Western Empire, Laut; The Territorial Papers of the U.S., Carter. Religion: Prayer that Pre vails, Jordan; A Prayer for Every Day, Sandlin; The Great Religious Leaders, Pot ter. Science and Technology: Earth's Shifting Crust, Hap- good; In the Beginning, Pil kington; A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, Co- nant; Popular. Mechanics Chevrolet Manual for Owners, Packer; Elements of Psychol ogy, Krech. Health: Heart Attack, Prinz metal; The Neuroses and Their Treatment, Podolsky; The Cerebral-Palsied Child, Phelps; The Better Half of Your Life, Lerrigd; So You Want to be Psychoanalyzed! Freeman. H o m making: Ceramics - and How to Decorate Them, Priolo; Sewing the Easy Way, Johnson; The Complete Christmas Book, Watts; The Family in American Culture, Truxal. i Fine Arts: Jewels and the Woman, Ostier; Gold Coins of the World, Friedberg; Photog raphy, Clerc; Beginner's Book of Dance and Ballet, Franks. Social subjects: Brave New World Revisited, Huxley; To Plow with Hope, Faris; Com munity in Disaster, Form; The Coast Guard, Paxton. Other non-fiction: The Per sonality of the Cat, Aymar; Yearbook of the United Na tions; Never Underestimate the Power of A Woman! Mc- Ginley; The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos, Mencken. Historical .Romance: The Golden Eagle, Jennings; The Winter Serpent, Davis; Jacob, Cabries. Other fiction: Madman's Memory, Vercel; Amedeo, Barclay. Warning Issued For Blight Trees A warning to remove blight from infected trees and shrubs in the valley was issued today by Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. This is the area's worst blight year in' 20 years. Cordy stated that branches with dead leaves still clinging are "an almost infallible sign" of pear blight. The easily transmitted disease affects numerous trees and shrubs. One orchardist removed 15 acres of pear trees to fight the blight, he said. The only way to remove the infection is to remove the af fected area well below the dis colored bark. If property owners don't re move the blight; Cordy said, it will get worse in their own trees and shrubs, as well as hazard other orchards and gardens. Blight is transmitted by in sects, especially during the bloom period, so preventive steps should be taken now, Cordy declared. There are now approximate ly 4,000 car washes in the U.S. In 1945, there were only about 50 of them. PATTERSON PLUMBING & HEATING 2747 North Pacific Highway NEW REMODEL Get oar installed price on a New Water Hearer OR a New Bath Room Set. Our trucks carry a complete line of Repair Parts SAVE with our ONE-TRIP PLUMBING SERVICE. Phone SP 3-2768 - After 5 p.m. TW 9-1004 Robert Fulton Painting May Be Valuable Item Though no one is likely to find an original working mod el of one of Robert Fulton's many inventions, it is quite likely that people will find more of his paintings and drawings. Whoever does will really have something of value, for the fabulous inventor of the steamboat was primarily a painter. Despite his having in vented an air gun while work ing when a teen ager in an arms plant during the Revo lution, he decided to switch to art. It was a smart move. By the time he was 21, he had made so much money painting Philadelphians that he was able to .buy his wid owed mother an 84-acre farm, plus several lots as dowries for his three sisters. When he was 22, right after Ben Franklin sat for him, he went to London to complete his training as a painter. The English went nuts about him. Two years later he was ad mitted to the Royal Academy, and from then on he was swamped by commissions. Fulton however was a rest less ; fellow who apparently could paint with one hand while he invented - with the other. After helping Watt build one of his steam engines and having invented a ma chine for sawing marble,, he decided to go to France While there he built a sub marine that operated success fully in the Seine and painted a picture in a specially con structed' building, making a small fortune by charging ad mission to see it. But France soon palled on him. He couldn't interest Na poleon in an automatic tor pedo he had invented, so he returned to England and sold an option on it to the British for a sum that made him independent. A few years later, he re turned to the United States and settled down to the task of inventing the steamboat and operating those he built, Because of that remarkable contribution to progress, his art was largely forgotten, and almost immediately. His ar tistic output, however, was tremendous, and much of it is undoubtedly still undiscovered. -&o, if you come across a drawing, crayon, water color or oil marked R. Fulton, Pinxt-that last stands for painted-there's a distinct pos sibility you have come across a real treasure. VALUES OF GLASS TOOTHPICK MATCH HOLDERS HIGH If the manufactures of glass toothpicks-or match holders of the 1870s and 1880s could see what is happening to their products today, they would undoubtedly be shocked at both their use and their prices. In those days cigarettes were a sign of effeminacy in a man and forbidden to wom en. It was the time of the spittoon, the heyday of the pipe and cigar, but today the main use of the match-or toothpick holder is to hold cigarettes. - 1 As . for the prices-well, a friend of mine, highly out of favor with his wife, didn't bat an eye the other day when he saw the price tag on one of them. "That's for me," he said whipping out his billfold. At first, I thought his attitude was due to a certain sardonic appreciation of his position. The toothpick-holder was a glass doghouse, done in a amethyst color. It was about five inches long and maybe four inches high at the roof- tree. From one end protruded the head of a sad-looking bull dog. The top could be lifted off to get at the contents. "This will mollify her somewhat," he said, handing over $30 plus tax. "She has one in clear glass, but she's always wanted one in either blue or amethyst. ... If I could only get a blue one, too." . I though she was a collec tor, but she wasn't in the usu al sense. She merely realized that among the vast quanti ties of novelties turned out by American glassmakers dur ing the Victorian period there was a substantial number that were either attractively quaint or beautiful and which could, be put to a good use today. She also knew enough of their values to know that the firm whose name was on the box in which it came had probably not marked up its value more than 20 cent above the price at which it would sell in many shops. GUANACASTE OVERPRINT ON STAMP GIVES IT VALUE What medium do teen-agers rate "most practical"? RADIO? pj 1 jf " v MAGAZINES? TELEVISION? C3 WrSalf Sitpspastr CD THE DAILY NEWSPAPER? ONE OF A r I. ! I? SERIES ANSWER: THE DAILY NEWSPAPER. In a recent study of teens made by Eugene Gilbert & Co., the daily newspaper was shown to be a big influence on their living and spending habits. When asked which medium they considered the most practical, 54 said it was the daily newspaper, while only 17 named TV. To. advertisers who want to get their share of the $9 billion teen market, we say, "Tell it to the teens in the daily newspaper!" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE If you ever come across a stamp with the word GUANA CASTE printed across it, you may have found a fairly valu able item. In any case it will be one that is linked to one of the most romantic parts of Central America. Guanacaste is a northwest ern province of Costa Rica, bordering on Lake Nicaragua which : is inhabited by man eating, fresh water sharks. It is a rich area which Wile liam Walker, an American filibuster financed by San Francisco pioneers, Jried to conquer only to be totally defeated 101 years ago. The Guanacastians were an independent lot who deeply resented Walker's effort to en slave them. They saw no per centage in. The Guanacastian stamp is a case in point. Back in the 1880s, Nicara gua thought it could persuade the Guanacastians to become Nicaraguans. Though the Guanacastians were intensely patriotic, they saw a chance to get greater concessions from . their central govern ment. They let it be known they were tempted, and sure enough, the concessions began to roll in. Among those they grabbed was an offer of Costa Rican stamps at wholesale rates an almost unheard of propos al before or since. They took it, and soon the central gov ernment began delivering stamps carefully overprinted GUANACASTE. The overprint may be eith er vertical or horizontal and in black or some other color. One of the more valuable of them is a two-centavo, carmine-colored Costa Rican is sue bearing the portrait of General Prospero Fernandez. There are three types of over prints on this item and all of them are black and ver tical. The , most valuable is worth around $70. (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) St. "V - 'w' fe.4 V; ; , - fc mm Bl SUCCEEDING GEO. DICKERSON, Bill Barnes (right), is given early Christmas , present by UCLA athletic director Wilbur Johns, contract as head football coach. NOW IT CAN BE SOLD VX-6 ... tested and proved, unconditionally guar anteed cadmium . battery additive. One treatment gives new life to old batteries, prolongs life of new batteries four to eight years. Treats 6 and 12 volt batteries. " Approved by U.S. Govt. and Underwriters Laboratories Only $2.98 postage prepaid. Send check or money order to George MacDermot, Trail, Ore. (Allow two weeks for delivery.) Free literature upon request Dealerships open Diary T" of 9 Clv Bird Watchei W - I Friday, Dec. 19. Late this afternoon my young son and I drove by the new Wilson school to see what it looks like. I noticed a flock of starlings maneuvering around in the air, but they passed out of sight before I got any clue about where they are roost ing now. If I had the time I am sure I could find this out, but these are busy days. Sunday, Dec 20 , Today I finished off another week's list of birds noted on the home place with 26 on it. We still see cedar waxwings and bluebirds sometimes. No doubt they feed on mistletoe berries in nearby oaks, and in good weather catch some in sects. I saw both ruby-crowned and golden-crowned king lets this week. This has been a good year for golden-crowned kinglets; some years we have had a hard time . seeing any. Lately, a Lewis' woodpecker has been coming to the home place frequently, apparently picking up acorns. It is larger that the commoner acorn woodpecker and flies with a crow like flight, different from other woodpeckers. Monday, Dec. 22 In spite of the Christmas rush J. H. and I decided to go out binding this morning to relax our minds and do a little more surveying of possible good territories to cover on our Christmas count. Once more, we visited a couple of new ponds (new to us, that is) which we had discovered on a map. We found three birds that gave us special pleasure: a golden eagle, a prairie falcon and some whistling swans. I will be happy if we can see these three species on our Christmas count. They are fine birds, strong in flight, and the swans most graceful on the water. ' Over on the north side of the Rogue we found impressive numbers of birds in flocks. There were some immense flocks of goldfinches feeding on star thistle and other weed seeds. We saw one flock that included easily ISO mourn ing doves. Coming back toward home via Gregory rd. we went by Charlie Hoover's- place and stopped to ask him for passes to visit his lakes. He talked to us most enthusiastically about plans for establishing more lakes for recreational pur poses and also planting trees and grasses. We were glad to see his interest in wild life. Tuesday, Dec. 23 This morning three starlings landed in our birch tree. This is the first time we have had them on our place this season. I stared at them and they moved along. I am not interested in trying to feed them in numbers, even though they m,ay not be actually bad birds. I have enough trouble with jays and house sparrows etating up my food and mon opolizing the feeders. Speaking of staring at birds, that is what I do to the jays when they land on the window sill where I put a little special food in the mornings. They get pretty bold when they are hungry, though, and sometimes I have to raise a hand as well as stare to get them to move along. . " Thursday, Dec. 25. This was a beautiful Christmas morning. The sky was mostly clear when I got up at 6:30 and the full moon was going down behind a few clouds in the west. When we opened packages after breakfast there was a long one that interested me especially. It turned out to be what I had hardly dared to hope for, a small 30 power telescope. I have long wanted one to make it possible to see birds farther away than I can with my binoculars. I have wanted it the most at the coast where so many birds stay just too far off shore to be seen clearly, but I know I can get a lot of use out of it here in our valley, too, for seeing ducks that are so shy they fly before you get close enough to identify them or hawks that perch on a distant tree, The telescope was sent by my son and his wife that are in Japan. . I was like a child with a new toy. I wanted to go right out and try it. I intended to go to Hoover lakes. There I could use my new pass and new telescope both. But I discovered the fog was pretty thick in the lower valley so I decided to go part way up on Roxy Ann. I found I could use the telescope quite handily by letting it rest on the car window. I could identify birds two or three times as far away as I could with my binoculars. I didn't happen to see any rare ones this morning, but some day I wilL While up on Roxy Ann I met my friend, J. H., and his daughters, who had been higher up on the hill. I was able to share with them my joy in the new gift. T. M. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday. December 21, 193S Ik CLEARANCE SALE New York -UPD- The Met ropolitan Museum of Art held a clearance sale this summer and did a thriving business in such articles as neolithic flints, scarabs, jars found in tombs and fragments of stone and pottery. The purchasers were adults and children who visited the Museum during its " . . m 1 second annual saie 01 surplus materials that other museums in the country did not want. The sales have netted the mu seum about $230,000, with which it bought a painting, an Egyptian cat sculpture and a couple of other important objects. For Lease Suburban Duplex Adults only. One of the nicest in valley New Two large bedrooms 1 6x20 living room, dinette, wall to wall ' carpeting in all rooms. Large fireplace... Oil fired furnace. Washer, dryer, built-in dish washer, range and oven. Birch cabinets. Huge cement patio - with barbecue. Garage and storeroom. Shown by appointment only. SP 2-4471 days, SP 3-2400 evenings. THIS You Will LOVE All Four Aeries This beautiful 4-bedroom home has fust been com pleted and ready for you to start moving. Here are some of the many wonderful features you will enjoy in this home: 4 Bedrooms 3 Huge Fireplaces 3 Baths ceramic tile 16x22 Family Room 22x28 Redwood Playroom Living Room and Breakfast Room Large Utility Room Double Carport with Circle Drive Large Circle Patio Central Oil Heat 5-Speaker Inter-Com. System All-Electric Kitchen Purchaser to Select Carpet Partly Draped The important thing Is for you to see this lovely home the location is just the right distance from the city for suburban living. The price not only but just $39,500.00. JIM BOYCE Phone SP 2-7805 for appointment Only one-fifth of the land area of Massachusetts is de voted to farming and three quarters of this is used to grow hay. Salem-flJTO-Gov. Robert D. Holmes has appointed Fenn E. Emerson, Albany, to the State Chewings and Creeping Red Fescue commission. V Rich in the promise of new discoveries and neio progress is the New Year now dawning. May it generously fulfill your expectations with a full measure of success. happiness and good health. fl MS-W Start the Year With A Home of Your Own!, ANTELOPE CREEK RANCH 120 Acres ... No Buildings . . . There are approximately 100 Acres cultivated, and about 20 Acres irrigated. The price it right and the terms are the most liberal. If you are looking for a ranch and aren't made of money ... Give hi a call right now and let us show you Hilt good buy . . 6 ACRE RAllCIIO This 6 Acre place Is about six miles from Medford. It fiat a brand new 3 bedroom home en a hill overlooking the valley. The the acres are all Irrigated, and are rich, deep toil. You will love the view and the spaciousness of this lovely home. It is of top quality construction with a very efficient central hearing system. It hat a fireplace and all the other features you would expect to find only in a home costing much more than the low price of only $16,900.00 the owner is asking. Better call at today if you want to get out into the country where you cast raise your own beef and have your own horses and other pert without interference from anyone. Phone us now. We will be glad to show you. 2 DUPLEXES We have two duplexes for tale now. One hat two permanent tenants in ft now.. One of the tenants hat lived there for mote than teven years. The other duplex is vacant now, having just been entirely redecorated inside, and the price will include the painting of the outsid and the garages. You can live in one tide and rent the other to make the payments. The owner will take a late model car or trailer house as part payment. If you are interested in a duplex yen should see these two. ... Phono ut anytime. I0TIIII1G DOl'ill TO G!'S We have several homes, both two and three bedrooms that an eligible Gl can buy for nothing down. All you have to pay is the closing costs (usually about $250.00 to $350.00). You can move right in and pay rent until the loan is approved. If you are a veteran of World War II, or of the Korean war you are eligible. Phone us today for information on your Gl rights. DID YOU U7 There's less fog and lower taxes in Ashland? We have a lovely 2 bedroom home located at the north edge of Ashland, about 15 minutes from downtown Medford. The place it fresh and clean with all new paper and paint. There is a circulating fire place, wall to wall carpet, just lots of cupboards and many other nice features in this charming place. The full price it only $6,. 0.00. You can assume the Gl loan with its 4Vi per cent interest rate. The owners will consider trading for a place in Medford. Phone us now . ' :i LOT HI ASHLAND We have a large View Lot in Ashland. It it close to the College and the full price it only $1,500.00 (remember the low taxee there too). You can call Ellen Barker at MU 2-2091 ... She will be glad re show the let anytime ... luinn n REALTOR MULTIPUT USIING SERVICE No. 1 Brophy Btdg. . SP 3-7345
