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
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wear pink shirts, pink trous
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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.
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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"?
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MAGAZINES?
TELEVISION?
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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.
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paper Syndicate)
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SUCCEEDING GEO. DICKERSON, Bill Barnes (right),
is given early Christmas , present by UCLA athletic
director Wilbur Johns, contract as head football coach.
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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.
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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
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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