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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1959)
Price 1 0 Cents 54th Year - T A TT MedfordTribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959 Pages 1-8 1 .'''" ".'"S. : :- '"v:. -N Jpjl STARTING OUT Luggage in hand, Colin Kelly m .(left) arrives at West Point Military Academy to begin four years of cadet training. Kelly, 19, is the son of ' Colin Kelly Jr, first American hero of World War H. tYocng Kelly passed up a Presidential appointment, in order to take and pass competitive examinations on an equal footing with other cadets. Extradition in Wagons Head for G.P. Case Refused Sacramento, Calif. - (UPD -Gov. Edmund G. Brown Wed nesday refused to extradite Bernice Frances Arnold of Albany, Calif., who was want ed in Grants Pass on a swin dling charge. The Oregon charge said Mrs. Arnold allegedly todk part in a "pigeon-drop" swin dle in 'Grants Pass April 21, 1959. - , At a hearing in Brown'a of fice last June 18, an over whelming array of witnesses testified that Mrs. Arnold did not leave the San Francisco Bay area during -the time of the alleged swindle, Brown said. He said the only evidence leading to the charge against Mrs. Arnold was an old pho tograph which was shown to the victim in Grants Pass. Identification was doubtful, Brown said, and the entire case so far showed evidence of mistaken identity. However, he told Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield that if more persuasive evidence against Mrs. Arnold should be discovered, he would look fa- extradition request, Twin Falls Camp Rupert, Idaho (UPD - The On-To-Oregon Cavalcade ar rived here Wednesday and was greeted by 40 horsemen from the Minidoka Wranglers, a local club, who escorted the wagons to the county fair grounds. The horsemen formed an honor guard and escorted the seven covered wagons to the eastern edge of Kupert for Wednesday night's encamp ment. The Wranglers served fried chicken to the wagoneers and the combined chambers of commerce of Rupert, Burley and Paul provided an evening of entertainment. The Fifty-Niners had break fast in Burley this morning and headed westward, toward the week end camp at Twin Falls. WELLS-FARGO 'HELD UP' Winston-Salem, N. C. -(DPD-j. T. Sprinkle locked the key inside his Wells Fargo ar mored truck. J. T. Fain Jr., manager of a City National Bank branch, burgled it out for him, with a piece of chew ing gum on the end of a wire vorably upon renewal of the! coat hanger, inserted through one of the truck's gun ports. mfflfflL& Oregon Has Same Number Of Horses Now As In 1859 Corvallis-Oregon has trav eled far since 1859, but is right back where it started with one thing horses. There were . about 40,000 horses in Oregon when Con gress declared it a state. And there are about that same number now. In the mean time, there were 100,000 horses in 1877: 200,000 in 1887; and 300,000 in 1917. Autos and tractors came on the scene, however, and horse numbers started declining. History doesn't say when the first horse appeared in Oregon. Indians showed their appreciation of horses, which they called "big dogs," by drawing pictures of them upon walls of caves, cliffs and smooth stones. None of these horse pictures seems to have been drawn before 1700, so there probably weren't any horses in the state before that, surmises E. R. Jackman, Ore gon State college extension range crops management specialist. Lewis and Clark When Lewis and Clark ar rived in 1805, they found horses to be plentiful among the Walla Wallas and Nez Perces. These "big dogs" prob ably had been bought, traded or stolen from southern In dian tribes who had used sim ilar means to obtain them from Spanish settlers in Tex as. Early settlers m eastern Oregon took to horse raising with a vengeance. Malheur, Harney and Lake counties soon were headquarters for vast horse, ranches. Long be fore the railroads came, huge horse herds were driven east to Kansas City and other horse markets. Bill Brown of the Gap ranch in nothern Lake county was a colorful horse baron whose animals ranged for 200 miles. Jack Craddock of Sil vies valley drove herds to the East. There were many others. At the peak in 1917, the census showed 300,000 horses in Oregon. But the old horse men's figures were lamenta bly short, Jackman recalls. The correct number, counting wild horses, could have been nearer to half a million. Horse Fairs Homesteaders on good land, as in Sherman and Union counties, got into the horse business, too, with registered Percherons, Clydes and Bel gians. These folks were truly proud of tbpir draft horses and sent them to Chicago and Kansas City to leading horse fairs. . A. C. Ruby, Portland, trad ed in horses widely and was known nationwide . A big horse show at Union, Ore., attracted many of the same animals that showed at Chi cago. ' Still another class was the wild horses. They were to be seen on every distant horizon in eastern Oregon. The wild horse still hangs out in a few spots, but there aren't many left. Thousands were killed for their hides which were made into pony coats - high fashion for women about 30 years ago. Fox farmers killed many "more for they found wild horse meat just about right to feed their foxes. . Horse Meat Many another horse went the way of the meal table. During the war, horse meat required no ration coupons and colt steak graced many a table. Oregon still has 40,000 horses, and now the saddle horse is having its day. A few persons raise fine riding horses to sell. Another group, such as Sherman and Umatilla wheat ranchers, raise horses for riding clubs. They find that a colt eats no more than a calf and sometimes sells more briskly. Quarter horse, Appaloosa, Arabian, Palomino, Tennessee Walking horses and Shetland and Welsh ponies have pretty well displaced the Indian pony and the Clydesdale and other work horses. Oregon horses were famous for most of the last hundred years. Conditions for horses are still good here and it's likely that some will be around forever, Jackman concluded. New Jersey has 23 railroads with 3,128 miles of track. NEW LIFE To Fabrics with RETEXTURE SERVICE OPEN 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. Clot Saturdays 1:30 p.m. Medford Cleaners SP2-6S01 34 N. HOLLY FREE Pickup and Delivery talk about Volkswagen If you arc Interested in economy (and who isn't) then the ear to driva is Volkswagen. You'll get unmatched econ omy in driving and they're economical to buy too. See for yourself at MORSE MOTORS M 6th and Ivy Medford 1 . ,., j ' II .L-..J. MM 2330 Crater Lake Ave. Phone SP 2-8188 Ad Prices Effective Thurs. 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