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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mcdford, Oregon, Friday, March 6, 1959 ILLINOIS VALLEY Scout Banquet Held By RUTH RAUSCH Cave Junction More than 150 attended the Blue and Gold banquet of the Illinois Valley Cub Scout Pack 20 re cently. Boys . receiving bobcat awards were Tommy Collis ter, Lee Woodbury, Davis iT5reckenridge and John Kel ler. Visiting Scout leaders pres ent were David Chamberlain of Troop 70; Bill Burch of Troop 85: Gene Pulley, Troop 20; and Raymond Jones, Ex plorer Post 122. Mrs. Ron Prather, president of Kerby PTA, the sponsoring institu tion, was introduced. A second Centennial dance, to be sponsored by the Illinois Valley Democratic club, is scheduled Saturday, March 14. A club spokesman said that plans were made at the regular meeting of the club recently. Prizes will be again award ed for the best costumed couple and the best man's and best woman's costume. How ever, costumes are not a re quirement. "Wild Flowers of the West," a film produced by one of the leading oil companies, was shown at a meeting of the Illinois Valley Garden club re cently in the home of Mrs. Joe OUis, president. The annual flower show to be held in June and plans for a plant and candy sale were discussed during the business meeting. A new member of the per sonnel at the Illinois Valley Ranger station is Chuck Spoon who arrived from Ham burg, N. Y., recently. Guests at the Harold Crowl ranch recently included Mr. and Mrs. Les Henry, Mrs. Val eria Rauber, Crowl's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Peart of Med-1 ford: and Mrs. Alice Ott and her mother, Mrs. Mary Jacobs. sMr. and Mrs. W. C. Gib bons, parents of Frank Gib bons, left for their home in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, aft er a two weeks visit. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hill and 13-year-old son, David, are residents in the valley, leasing the Swanson ranch. They moved here from Po coma in San Fernando Valley. A request for joint sponsor ship in erecting a sign to ad vertise the proposed Sucker Creek Irrigation dam during the Centennial observance was discussed at a meeting of the chamber of commerce re cently. The request was made by the water resources group and Gordon "White, chamber president, with Allan Mark ley, secretary, were named as a committee to work with the water group. Doyle Hamilton, who with a delegation from Selma attend ed a hearing in Gold Beach concerning the Selma to Gold Beach highway, reported on the meeting. ' A report was also heard from M. A. Sprague who at tended a hearing in Salem on Senate Bill 183 which would provide for industrial water use of the Rogue river. Gary Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bell was elected master councilor of Redwood Chapter DeMolay recently. Other officers elected were Norman Sowell, senior coun cilor; Mark Nelson, junior councilor; Joe Hoskins, senior deacon; Dennis Bottle, junior deacon; Roddy Bottel, chap lain; Marvin Wright, senior . Y with a "Propel-R-Feed" ... 1st, you'll have a machine that distrib utes fertilizer in quantities as low as ,20 pounds per acre ... a lime distributor that handles all types of lime uniformly in quantities up to 10,000 pounds per acre. Equipped with row-crop bottom slides, your John Deere "LF" becomes the ideal machint fTy steward: Bob Wilhelm, junior steward: Robert Wright, sen tinel; Wendell Seat, .marshal; John Warn, scribe: Howard Ollis almoner and Bob White, standard bearer. . Mrs. Maynard Murdock, daughter of Roy Wells, is re cuperating at her home in Klamath Falls following hos pitalization. Mrs. Murdock, suffering both ankles in casts will be on crutches for some time. t Four-year-old John Zim merman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Zimmerman, is home after three days in Sacred Heart hospital in Medford, where he was taken following an accident. A splinter of flying glass from 3 broken saucer entered John s eye. A potluck supper in honor of Lloyd Olson was given re cently at the Illinois Valley ranger station. Olson, who' had been with the station on loan from Gifford Pinchot Forest service since last September assisting with the salvage tim ber sales in the beetle kill area, has returned to Wash ington. Besides the station person nel, other guests included Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Olson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grubb and family of the su pervisor's office in Grants Pass; Ranger and Mrs. Don Wood of Galice; and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Allen of the Aerial project. Youngster Missing In Wooded Country Kelso, Wash. -IUPD- A three-year-old boy was lost in heavily-wooded country northwest of here today. Jimmy Van Hook, son of Mr. and Mrs. j. j. Van Hook of Longview, vanished about noon Thursday. A helicopter and blood hounds joined the search to day. Between 200 and 300 per sons hunted throughout most of the night. Tracks which may have been those of the lost child were found in a canyon. Jimmy was wearing blue jeans, a charcoal jacket and a red cap. The sheriffs office request ed thorugh broadcasts that all abandoned wells in the area be reported. Committee Pares State Fair Budget Salem 0IPD The -Joint Ways and Means Committee today reduced the budget for the State Fair from $1,125,- 114 to Sl.0'58.640 to provide for a fair of eight days dura tion in place of 10 days as in 1958. Rep. Leon Davis (R-Hills- boro), chairman of a subcom mittee which studied the State Fair expenditures, said pro visions had been made for ag riculture premiums for the two State Fairs in the next biennium at the same level as set up last year. No money was provided for any major improvements of extension, Davis said, but a small increase was made in the premium list for exhibits by 4-Hers and members of the Future Farmers of America. No money is required from the general fund as the State Fair is supported by racing funds and other receipts. Cub Scouts Cub Scout Pack 35 Pack 35, Jacksonville Cub Scouts, held their annual Blue and Gold banquet Feb. 27 at the Jacksonville IOOF lodge hall, with approximate-! ly 120 present. The Rev. King Jones of the ' Jacksonville P r e s b yterian church gave the opening pray er. Following the dinner the ; awards were made. . Bobcat Dins were nrpspnt. ed to Danny Davis, Joe John- j son; won badges went to Da vid Johnson, Bill Rundle, Bill Taylor and Bill Snow; bear badges to Curt Offenbacher, Gail Strong, Larry Milligan, Mike Iverson, Joe Davis, Lar ry Winona, Bill Hihkle and Mike Stratton. Denner badges were pre sented to Curt Offenbacher; assistant denner badges to Larry Milligan and Gail Strong; gold arrow badges to Bill Rundle and Frank John son: saver arrow badge to Offenbacher, Gail Strong, Bob Glather. One-year stars went to Curt Offenbacher, Gail Strong, Mike Iverson, Eddie Dahm, Larry Milligan and Joe Davis, all of Den 1, and to Gary Mathney of Den 2, Larry Win nona of Den 3 and Mike Strat ton, Bill Hinkle, Bob Glather and Henry James of Den 4. Mike Iverson, Frank John son, Bill Rundle and Bill Hinkle presented their moth ers with Den Mother pins. Den chiefs present for the dinner were Rafe Anders, Bob Bar rentine, Larry Hogan and Bob Dahm. Cubmaster Bruce Ma theny and his assistant, "Wood row Davis also were present ed pins. Guests attending 'were Mrs. Jones, and the Rev. and Mrs. Elwood Irby of the Jack sonville Assembly of God church; Mr. and Mrs. J. Mc Dougal and E. O. Graham, in stitutional representative. Providing enter tainment were Kathy Mitchell, Alice Peterson, Virginia Stewart, Betty Davis, accompanied on the piano by Cora Bell Rave nor. Each den presented a skit and the meeting was clos ed with a prayer by Rev. Mrs. Irby. Eagle Point Scouts Cub awards and Scout merit badges were presented when the groups held a potluck din ner at the Eagle Point grade school gymnasium recently. The awards to Cubs were made by the Rev. Joseph Mun shaw while Dave Harbison is sued the merit badges to Scouts. Full Scout ceremonials were observed. The flag was presented by the Cubs at the opening and retired by the Scouts at the close. The cake was cut by Mr. and Mrs. Mun shaw. The occasion was made pos sible through the Jaycettes and the Lion's auxiliary. Greenery for table decoration was provided by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Curry. Visiting guests included Neighborhood Commissioner Mr. and Mrs. Munshaw; Presi dent and Mrs. Don Kimmel; Dave Harbison; Lester Mar shall; Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kai ser; Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Reg- ester; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hoff man; Gary Haynes, and Mr, and Mrs. Curry. It was announced that there was a need for a number of hand tools and for scrap ma terials for shop activities Tools could be marked and loaned. Tools needed include coping saws, screwdrivers, hammers, nails of? various sizes, paint brushes, braces and bits, squares, wood plane, sandpaper and screws. Scrap materials include pieces of plywood, hardboard, distributor for side-dressing many cultivated crops. Equipped with a grain feed shaft, it will handle small grains and hard-to-handle grasses. And another attachment eqyips it for sowing small .grass seeds. Calcium, chloride, cinders and similar materials may also be handled efficiently with your "LF." "Wherever Crops Grow, There's a Growing Demand for John Deere Farm Equipment' Hubbard-Wray Co. "The Farmer's Store Since 1884" 25 South Riverside Medford I ' L ff ' 'BEST ACTRESS' Marilyn Monroe holds the star-shaped French award for Best Actress of the Year, presented to her at the French Consulate in New York. She received the award, French equivalent of the American "Oscar," for her role in "The Prince and the Showgirl." "Si f4 "S Mother's Inventiveness Saved Baby Squirrels The businessmen in the block were interested in the little family of squirrels. They regretted the location the mother squirrel had selected to house her three "babies. Their inexperience, when once they left the nest, would be fatal. They would be traffic victims. They were born in a hollow tree limb. The tree stood in a narrow three - foot strip of earth, bounded on one side by a sidewalk where several thousand people passed every day, and on the other side by a busy pavement where cars streamed past night and day. The nearest tree to the den tree was nearly a block away, The hollow in the tree limb was seven leet above tne ground, and the tops of pass ing cars only a few feet from the nest. People passing on the sidewalk could have reached up and touched the hollow. Rained On To make matters even worse, the hollow in the limb pointed up. Every time it rained, the, water must have made the baby squirrels quite wet and miserable. Mama squirrel certainly hadn't used her head when she selected this homesite. Many times traffic was so heavy during certain rush hours she dared not come down the tree to feed the lathing, dowling, ,b o a r d s, molding, formica, leather, cop per and copper tubing, oil cloth, wallpaper, "spools, cof fee cans, can lids, large cans of a gallon or up, plastic con tainers, plastics, fancy pack age ribbon, popsicle sticks, paints, and plaster of Paris. CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly' Phone SP 3-1014 Evenings $7995 ga!jj&. Portable Model Km -w1iimili jhS&H SWBBI S Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins babies. On days such as these the smoke from thousands of automobile exhausts must have nearly overwhelmed the baby squirrels. Their tree home shook and vibrated, al most around the clock. But the babies developed. Soon they were able to climb up the few inches of the nest cavity and peek out the open ing. Here they would watch, sometimes for hours, at the busy life of the city. During the week some of the busi nessmen would put out pea nuts. ' The babies would venture forth and grab one, then hurry back to the safety of the nest. On Sundays when the stores were closed, the little ones would go hungry. During the rest of each week the three j little heads were always peep- ing from the hollow limb. Mother's Decision The time soon came when mother squirrel decided the youngsters were old enough to leave the home nest. It was a decision fraught with dan ger. The businessmen along the street agreed it was the critical time, so they watched j carefully. But mother squirrel seemed to have a plan. She took one baby at a time, not along the street but over the tops of the buildings. Three trips she made, all success- i fully, to the little park three blocks away. No one can say if her plan was one well thought out, something she had planned a long time ago, maybe even i before the babies were born It's hard to say just where in stinct leaves off and reason ing begins. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) CRASH KILLS 25 Durban, South Africa-flJPD-Authorities said today that 25 native ' mine workers were killed and 23 others were in jured Thursday when a bus left the road on a curve and plunged into a deep ravine near Matatiele, East Griqua land. ACTOR'S MOTHER DIES St. Petersburg, Fla. - (LTD -Mrs. Daisy Taylor Backus, 70, mother of television actor James B. (Jim) Backus, died at her home Thursday. She was born in Hazelton, Pa. opens the door to Complete stereo ... nothing to add! Plays all records ... all speeds automatically. 12-foot connecting lead betweea speaker units . . . dual amplifiers . . . separate volume control for each channel. Turnover monaural stereo eartridg has 2 sapphire styli. 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