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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1959)
o 10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mea'ferd, Or. Frfaay. 1mm ffi Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkin rufly Doosn'x Cat. He Utm for Lovo All day he had rested in a bark-crevice, his wings fold ed, his flattened, elongated body as dark colored as the tree bark on which he rested. His large eyes were open but they registered no image on bis. consciousness. He was asleep. . ' Being a full grown, adult, healthy firefly, heApent no time, night or day, m eating. His sole, purpose in life was to . fly in the warm, humid darkness "carrying the torch" for the shy little female fire fly who would be waiting somewhere in the deep sha dows. His activity, like hers, was geared to the temperature and the fading light. It bad been a year, and more, since he was born. As a larvae he had fulfilled his purpose in Nature's plan by filling his stomach with the juices of garden snails and slugs. He would never eat again after, he reached adult hood. tTaly Creature Ai l larvae he was an ugly, flattened little creature. with a narrow head and a pair of strong, curved mandibles Now the bodily changes had all been completed. He was now full grown, in the prime of insect adulthood, ready to wing his way above the low lands flashing his tiny light, telling all the little girl fire flys their "torch bearer" was a-wteg and searching for them. : As he took off from his resting place he was as happy a firefljDcatt) expect to be. He flew flowly, almost de liberately. The night ias warm, the air QUI, th nja fent odor of the swamg tm heavy and exciting. ' From the saO- abskusiaa? avsjmenis ox jus jjcxjdsb ' a greenish-yellow licht -fllaV ed out its signal, alternatel brightening and dimsan glowing about every a onds. The little crasjturt lojsa cot know it but the luagtjso organs of its body meSaa perfect light; light the slightest degree ? asaa. A goal human invaUtjaat) futilely tried to imfie. Winged His Way Abpost level with the tree tops, . the little torch bearer winged his way. He could see other flashing lights, all at th same level, but he ignor ed them. Dark shadows fre quently flew in toward him from the outer shadows as the hlocky forms of insect eating birds tQk shape along side him. But the birds, night hawks, whip - poor - wjlls and others, as if repelled by some strange invisible barrier, veeredNaway without eating he slowly movifig firefly. With clocklike rhythm the greenish-yellow light winked and glowed in the warm dark ness. Then a short distance ahead an low down, almost level with the grass-tops, a faint light winked on as the little female lighted her little candle. Hg, : at tree-top level, sees the faint glow at the grass tops knowing by some insect intelligence that the answer ing light will flash on about two seconds after his own. It does He circles slowly over the faint glow that says, "Here I am." He spirals downward the romance of the marshland - the lovers meet in the warm, humid night. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 19S9) Clackamas Woman , Killed in Kansas Oberlin, Kan. -(CPU - Mrs. Russell Whimsatt, Clackamas, Ore., was killed Thursday night in a pickup-truck-sta-tipn wagon headoa eoUicioa. IVi mile east at feio prth t anaa imrnm. Tw KaKaw rasafettt to th otrtiea m were killed. ' aasetl Waisnaatt and ft u'ftrt unified 'woman riding wit tha WhzmsaUa wet hv Jvtf aM taken to Decatur fV&j hospital Bi Onf or to fMf fiwsf flf Confirmed by Stxiof Washington -trt- The Sen ta Thursday confirmed tha taotoIAatioo of fUesa D. Jenk tm to ba postmaster at On tario. Or. It oO)ro Amos Voorhies of Grants Pass, State Newspaper Dean, Nov 90 Grants Pass (UPI) - Amos Z. Voorhies, the dean of Ore g e n newspaper publishers, celebrates his 90th birthday Saturday feeling much better "than so many much younger men I see." Voorhies is still busy every day at the Grants Pass Cour ier, which he purchased 62 years ago when it was a strug gling weekly." And only a week ago he served as grand marshal of the city's Centen nial parade on Memorial Day. He is known affectionately as "the Boss" to everyone in his own shop and to nearly everyone in town. Shares Load With fee, He now shares the publish ing load with his son, Earle X. Voorhies, and his grand eon, John I.- Voorhies. His own working routine includes the filing of photographs used in his picture-conscious after noon paper, compiling of it ems from the paper of 30, 40, 30 and 60 years ago used as a Saturday feature, and super vision of a 75th anniversary edition scheduled for publica tion April 3, 1960. Born on a farm near Green ville, Mich., Voorhies went to Portland after graduating from high school and work ed as a printing apprentice. Working on the Portland Sun when it ceased publication in 1895, he came to Grants Pass as printing foreman on the Oregon Observer. . . He lost his job the next year because of a depression. Note Signed But he recalled today that a spokesman for a group of five local businessmen came to him and said: , "Amos, you have made good here and we don't want you to leave. We know you and we wantyou to stay. If you will get Mr. (C. S.) Price to go in with you we will sign your note for $400." This was . half the first DON'T with yom fruit prc3& ViSARS should be protected from fttci by raft. Till job can now be turned over to an extra-safe, easytarue miticide called KELTHANELast year, many orchards had full-season control with only one applictioiwf Kuaham. Ah ideal time to clean out a mite potential t in tha first cover spray. To clean out the tops of trees vht spny ries may not give good coverage, Keltham 2 parceat dffst is effective. YouH like the safety and lonf-resiiual action of Kelthane . . . plus its abilityto control all of mites which attack pears with a minimum Bums ti applications. Ask your supplier fct KiWHAfci faUBAKW Chemicals for faht't' r payment on the purchase of the Rogue River Courier, a struggling weekly paper then for sale," Voorhies said. "Those men had also assur ed me in writing that they would continue backing the note if at any time I had fi nancial difficulties. X had not solicited their help and it was all a sudden pleasing shock. "I was a long time paying that note as X used all the money I could collect as first payment on labor-saving im provements for the Courier. "At one time a prominent attorney called at the. office and advised my one office girl to collect her pay every week, for I was broke. In fact everyone in town except my self krew X was broke, and even I suspected it, but I kept on. "It has been a great satis faction to feel that I had the confidence of such friends." The Rogue River Courier became a daily in 1910, and changed its name to the Grants Pass Courier in 1919. When it first went daily the Courier contracted for United Press wire service, and car ried the' following legend on its masthead: "No other town in the world the size of Grants Pass has a paper with full leased wire telegraph service." Of his birthday Voorhies said: "There is a certain satisfac tion in having reached within three years of the age of my father, who lired to be 93. I am now in much better physi cal condition than so many much younger men I see that I have no complaints. Adrice to' Others "During the years that have passed there has been much hard work, many pleasures, the memories of many friends, both still alive and those who J have passed on." Asked if he had any advice p;, 2 . if1 tf PUSCS POLIO VACCINC Ben Gamble, ot Edenwold, Tenn., has. been indicted by county authorities for re fusing to allow his two children, Elizabeth, 8, (left), and Hay, IS, (right), to be vaccinated against polio. Gambia says he will go to jail rather than permit the vaccination. Medford Pupils Win Top Awards Top awards In the furniture division went to McLoughlin Junior High school students t the State Industrial Arts project exhibit at South Eu gene high school in Xugene last week end. . The outstanding project award was a tie between Den nis Gaster, , son of Mr. and Mre. Donald Gaster, 009 Cher ry st:, .. with a modernistic blanket chest, and Jerry Nie denneyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Niedermeyer, route 2, box 402, with a modernistic coffee table. The award was the highest in the freshman-sophomore di vision for woodworking in furniture. They received cer tificate and pins. - , Dave ilmgren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy .Elmgren, 3300 Jacksonville highway, won the only first prize given with a ash slab table. The legs were laminated and bent to shape. Jerry Zemlicka, son of Mr. and . Mrs. Weldon Zemlicka, 1209 ML Pitt ave., was one tt four winning a second place ribbon. He entered a mahogany desk. Twenty-five items from all parts of the state were shown in the furniture ' division. Judging was based on crafts manship," design and finish. Vera Voss, instructor at Mc- loughlin, attended the show. The winning furniture is on display, in the window of Mann's department store this week. 1 About SO per cent of all U.S. adults drink some milk every day. Cheese is found in 90 per cant of U J. homes. Thero ara about 3,000 farms in Rhode Island that averfge 74 acres each,' far be low the national average. SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF 1 I RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS n fr fe. WITH RENTED SAIMR for young publishers, he said "In the newspaper busi ness you cannot please every, one, sometimes not even your self. You just have to have a determination to work for the best interests of the community. "There are more good peo ple than bad people in every community." Voorhies' roots go back more than half a century in many areas of Grants Pass life. He has been clerk of the Bethany Presbyterian church congregation for 50 years and a member for 64 years. He has been a Shriner and an Elk for 50 years, a member of the Oregon Press Associa tion for 59 years and is a former president. And he liv ed on the corner of Second and Southwest B sts. here for 59 years. He has one great-grand child, Sandra Voorhies, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Voorhies. ; ThcyTl Do It Every Time " By 'itnmy Hatlo PIN ALLy . ACHIEVED TME TWO-CAQ FAMILY STATUS ' baY Coildcrs Srlj J?r rlir. . 50 i " 'TT nuin i frzTTTs LL McAadnwa USE ONE CAB TnSES" O MAQWET-X UAVC X) I "IP:, J 3-457$ 4W ,. . , , ,, .. - . m jiu. 1 o Tha mgst recent discovery of a major planet occurred in ? 1930 when agronomers iden tified Pluto,, a strange area which lies an average of 3.665 ; million mfles from the sun. Spirit Lake, located in the North of Idaho, has a bottom of solid stone. - - Official colors of the Unit-i Some of tho tes s fne ; ed States Marina Corps ara! moon t cttiaataf ba; scarlet and gold. JleO milee aeroat. SP3-429S . BHT't U-CRIVI tdford Alrsoit Eiiy t Opermta, L Ktntil RsHs, Clcaa ni Dmtkw. KII PARKING! 24S S. Central at19ta Here's the proof expert and impartial tou mi m HESH iw (SHEW Take it, not from us, but from the published opinions of outside, independent experts and from on-the-record facts and figures: Chevrolet gives you these 7 big.bests over any other car in its field! o - 1. BEST BRAKES In direct competitive tests of repeated stops from highway speeds, conducted by NASCAR, Chev rolet put-stopped both of the other leading low priced cars and why not: Chevy brakes are far larger, built with bonded linings, to help lengthen brake life by as much as 66. " Or 1 1 2. DEST ECONOMY No doubt about this i two Chevrolet Sixes won their elass in this year's Mobilgas Economy Run, getting1 it best mileage of any full-size car. Official figure: ?.38 miles from a gallon of gas. That's the kind of engineering that keeps your gasoline coste way down. . . ' j 1 O , ' . .... f 3. BESTRIDE fon aoa't Veally need an expert's opinion on this ofte-yemTI ti able to tell yourself0instantly. But SIOtOA TI?D magazine expresses it this way: T. . . lit aascBthestcaioSaaiuiat, softest riding car 4 BEST ENGINE , Every motor magazine has given Chevy s standard and corvette vos ujistinted praise. As SPORTS CARS ILLUSTRATED puts it: "Indeed, this device is surely the most wonderfully responsive engine available today at any . price." And there are -eight of these vigorous powerplaats to pick from the widest range in Chevy's field. ' o w ;-. . 6. BEST TRADE-IN Co ahead check the figures in any official N.A.D.A. Guide Book. You'll find that Chevrolet used car prices last year averaged up to $128 higher than comparable models of the "other two." Nutiml AmtvmtbiU Mn Ammtim NO WONDER MORE PEOPLE ARE BUYING CHEVROLETS IN '59 THAN ANY OTHER CAR ! lsaal 5.0E$YR00n Official dimensions reported to A.M.A. makathis clear. Jer example, Chevrolet's front seat hip room is up to 5.9 inches wider" than in comparable cars. And Chevy even offers more front seat head room than all but one, of the high-priced cars! . o ' v 'AutomobUt Manufacturer Association ' 7. BEST STYLE POPULAR SCIENCE magazine taya Chevy is unmistakably modern in every line this way: . . in its priea . class the Chevy establishes a new high in daring styling ..." I . war r v v ' y&r j i o XZr ' fLVS THESE mUEVDOVS WmS-Who'd want to do without Chevrokt'a tra luaafias Like Safety Ptotf Glast all around, the protection et faU rtpround bucjtpers, crank-operated ventipanea, eil-aasML lydraulic valve hf tera in every standard eagiaa fev auieW waning, t bigeJtd luriare compartment oaf MVaitatatomtUc choke in sr try model! , Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the Oregon Centennial Exposition in Potlmd, and set yoyt feeil uttcritt8 Chetfojet dealer 9th AT DARTLETT MEDFORD Eff O O
