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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
MATCHED PAIR Curly Thomassen is horse on the
proud of his matched team of horses, which while the one
he says is one of the best he's seen. The view.
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HOOKED The hook flower left) bites into respond to Thomassen's voice as they work,
a log as Curly Thomassen gives the com- although reins are also used,
inand that gets the team started. The horses
LONG HAUL Taking a breather before Lumber company uses horse loggers in
returning to work, Curly Thomassen re- "salvage logging operations,
laxes while his team waits patiently. Elk
Eagle Point Schools
To Open Sept. 8;
Classes Scheduled
Eagle Point Schools of
Eagle Point district 9C will
start classes Sept. 8 at the
regular scheduled time, Glen
Hale, , superintendent, has an
nounced. School will be In session
all day, and buses will operate
the same as last year, he
said, since most students reg
istered last spring. New stu
dents will be registered the
first day of school.
.The faculty at Elk-Trail, he
said, is the same as last year.
The only change in the Facul
ty at Shady Cove will be the
addition of Naomi Smith, who
will replace Anne Briggs,
who will be in charge of the
new special ' education room
in the Eagle Point grade
school.
Grad School Faculty
The Eagle Point grade
school faculty will remain the
same, Hale said. New high
school faculty members are
r Ardice Tilly, who will teach
English; Frances Henry, li
brary and speech; and Ken
neth Vannice, physical edu
cation, social science and
coaching.
A general meeting of all
high school students is sched
uled at 8:35 a.m. in the gym
nasium, Hale said. Students
win be given their schedules
Sunday, Aug. 30, 19S9
and fees are to be paid at that
time, he said.
Fees this year will be $13
for books, activity card and
towel fee. There will be spe
cial fees charged for arts and
crafts, vocational agriculture
and shop. Orders, Hale said,
will be taken for annuals,
which will be $2 down and
the remainder when they ar
rive. After high school students
have paid their fees and re
ceived registrat'on slips, reg
ular classes will be held, he
said.
BIG TIME GAMBLERS
Milwaukee (LTD Eugene
Meyer of Milwaukee has had
a long-standing bet with a
friend from Indianapolis, Ind.,
on the Wisconsin Iowa foot
ball game each year. When
the friend suggested that they
cut down on the size of the
wager this year because Wis
consin's team looks so much
better than Iowa's, Meyer
agreed. So there'll be a nickel
riding on the 1959 game in
stead of the usual dime.
MISSING PERSONS
Spring Valley, N.Y.-TCPD-At
least one telephone number
was accidentally left out of
the new Rockland County di-rectorv-that
of tho Rnrincr
Valley police department.
left smiles at the camera
on the right supplies a profile
Verification Needed
On Winner of Beef
The winner of the prize
beef drawing of the Kiwanis
County Fair has until Mon
day, Aug. 31, to verify their
ticket number, according to
Russ Renner, general chair
man. Renner stated that the win
ning numbers were posted at
the Armory, at Swem's, Pu
ruckers, and in the lobby of
the Medf ord Mail Tribune for
the convenience of residents
who wish to check their tick
ets against the winning num
bers. The general chairman ex
plained that ticket holders
should check their numbers
against the posted list and,
should they liold a winning
ticket, immediately identify
themselves by contacting Ki
wanis County Fair, 1221
Court st., Medford, to confirm
and to give their name and
address. The tickets as drawn
were additionally identified
in the order in which they
were drawn.
TOUCH SYSTEM
Boston-(UPD-Though his left
eye has been removed and
he has only 9 per cent vision
in his right eye, Bob Matti
son earns a living tying fish
ing flies. He works in the
kitchen of his home and is
able to tie about 40 flies per
day, doing the job almost
entirely by touch.
Limited Operation
Being Conducted
In Persist Area
Br RON ABELL
Mail Tribune Staff Writer
Horse: a large solid-hoofed
. . . mammal domesticated by
man since a prehistoric pe
riod, used as a beast of bur
den, a draft animal, or for
riding or driving. Webster's
Dictionary.
So it's been no mystery
Since even pre-history
That the horse,
Of course,
Keeps man from getting
blistery.
R. A.
The horse, as any caveman
could have told you, is a work
animal.' Just like the elephant,
the yak, the ox, op the water
buffalo.
But modern life being what
it is, old Dobbin has gradually
been replaced: first by t" e
steam engine, then the auto
mobile, then the tractor, and
finally even in the psycholo
gical western movie, until to
day the only place he's found
is on a racetrack or in a pa
rade. Even a once significant
term, "horsepower," is treat
ed with derision. Why, one of
those little foreign cars has
30 or 40 of them!
Well, in Jackson county
the good old days are coming
back.
Horses are being put to
work in the logging industry.
On Limited Scale
That's on a limited scale, of
course. But up in the Persist
area, in the woods between
Prospect and Elk creek, three
teams, of horse loggers are
currently at work under con
tract to Elk Lumber company.
Roy Elmgren of Medford,
forester for the company, said
that they were the only teams
he knew of locally and the
men themselves agreed,
though it's been suggested
that in other parts of the state
there has been a slow revival
of the old art.
If horse logging sounds like
an unfamiliar concept, it
should be explained that the
horses aren't used in place of
men, but rather in place of
machinery.
Specifically, they're used in
place of tractors. -
And more specifically, their
f o u r-legged horsepower is
used to skid logs down to a
landing and load them on
trucks.
Big Advantage
As Elmgren explained it,
there is one big advantage to
using horses: they do far less
damage to timber areas than
do tractors.
Because of their relative
mobility they are able to haul
logs through wooded areas
without skinning up standing
timber, without knocking
down small trees and without
blasting out a wide skid trail.
Jim Ros, who both in Idaho
and Oregon has been a horse
logger for 35 years, said, "You
go in an area that's been log
ged by horses and a year later
you can't tell anyone was in
there. But you look at where
a Cat's been and it's all torn
up."
'Back to Nature'
L Elmgren agreed. He drove
through an area that had been
horselogged a short time ago
and showed that it was prac
tically "back to nature."
As a forester, he is con
cerned primarily with the
protection and conservation of
timber lands held by Elk lum
ber. He said that the com
pany's "tree farm" program
and the interests of future
logging inspired the company
to contract timber areas out
to horse loggers where it was
practicable.
Horses can't replace trac
tors in big logging operations
because their production ca
pacity is smaller, but even so,
four teams of horse-loggers
were responsible for about 3
million board feet of lumber
at Elk last year.
7V2 of Output
That represented about 7Vi
per cent of the company's
output and, as even the horses
could tell you, that ain't hay.
The primary drawbacks to
using horses in biggei opera
tions are that strong as they
are, the beasts can't be used
to haul huge logs, or to haul
for long distances or over
especially steep grades.
Tractors can skid logs over
as long a haul as necessary
but horses are seldom used
for distances of more than
100 yards.
Besides Ross, the other two
horse loggers currently in the
local area are Jess Williams,
who has been engaged in the
art for about 10 years, and
C. W. (Curly) Thomassen,
who has been doing it for
about six years.
Enjoys Work
Thomassen said that he en
joys the work, partly because
he's his ownboss and partly
because, when he wants to
Aro LoggDimg liasDimes
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FAIR EXCHANGE Participating in the
American Field Service exchange program
are students Therese Inglin (left) and Rein
hart Kostlin. They arrived in Medford on
Foreign Students Arrive Here
To Attend
A charming pair of young
sters arrived here last week
from almost half-way around
the globe and will attend
Medford, High school as sen
iors during the school year
to come.
They are participants in
the American Field Service
exchange program, which
this year is bringing more
than 1,300 teenage foreign
students to the United States.
Introducing Medford to the
girls of Geneva, Switzerland,
is pert Therese Inglin, whose
auburn hair and brown eyes
frame a fetching smile and
the biggest dimples this side
of the Alps.
Staving with Finch's
Therese, who will be 17
years old next month, is stay
ing with the Richard Finch
family at 223 Bradford way.
And representing the tall
young men of Germany is 18
year - old Reinhart Kostlin,
with short, sandy hair, blue
eyes-and a sun-tan to be en
vious of here or in his native
town of Ludwigsburg.
Reinhart is staying with
the P. G. Humphreys family
on Ross lane.
The American Field Serv
ice is a private, non-profit or
ganization whose purpose is
the furthering ,of understand
ing and accomplishment of
this end, teen-age students
from abroad are brought to
this country to study for a
year.
Sharing the cost of bring
ing Therese and Reinhart to
this country are the field
service, local Rotary and
Lions clubs-who are sponsor
ing the students, the Finch
and Humphreys families -at
whose homes they will stay
for the school year, and the
families of the students them
selves. Leave Rotterdam
Therese and Reinhart left
Rotterdam earlier this month
on the Dutch ship, ".Water
man," along with about 800
other exchange students.
After a 9-day boat trip they
docked at New York, stayed
four hours and left by air
plane for San Francisco, this
take a short vacation he isn't
forced to let a lot of expensive
machinery stay idle.
All it costs him is for pas
ture. The men have reins to con
trol their horses but the ani
mals understand quite well
the voice commands of their
drivers.
"Gee," "haw," "whoa," and
an occasional swear word
seem to do the job.
Williams said that his team
recognizes his voice and that
if someone else took the reins,
they would know it.
Horse logging is usually
done with a team of two
horses and the loggers usually
keep another team in reserve.
They try to work a team one
day and rest it the next.
Requires Large Horse
It requires a large horse to
do the heavy work and it's
said that they're hard to come
by in this area. Thomassen
said that he wouldn't be sure
of where to obtain another
horse if he needed one, though
he said he's heard that some
one near Pendleton is raising
them.
The . horses, in addition to
hauling the logs to a landing,
are able to load them on
trucks. That doesn't make
them as intelligent as it may
sound, since a pulley system
or a ramp set-up is used and
the horses just do what comes
naturally: they pull.
Still, you'd think if they
had that much pull they'd be
able ot get a softer job.
Medford High School
time with the scholastic con
tingent reduced to 70.
A short layover in San
Francisco preceded a bus trip
to the Rogue valley, and
Therese and Reinhart arrived
here on Aug. 20, with almost
a month to go before school
opens and the better part of
an exciting new year to look
forward to.
Bus Trip East '
A bus trip to the East coast
next June, followed by a
White House meeting, will
treat them to a look at the
United States that they had
missed on their way west.
Two things at least Rein
hart and Therese have in com
mon, in addition to their
good humor and healthy good
looks: they both speak Ger
man and they both come from
big cities.
Geneva has a population of
near 200,000, and Ludwigs
burg is a suburb of 'Stuttgart,
which exceeds a half a mil
lion. The quiet Rogue valley
will be quite a change for
them.
Big Difference
They said that a big differ
ence they had noticed already
was that here, most people
seem to own their own
houses.
Therese has an older sister
in Switzerland and living
with the Finch family here
she will have two "sisters"
for a year. Similarly, Rein
hart, with two brothers and
two Humphrey boys as part
of his "family" here.
Both young students ex
press themselves well in Eng
lish. Reinhart studied it for
six years at school, along with
Latin and Greek; and one
would never guess that The
rese has studied English for
only two years. She also
speaks French, German and
a bit of Italian.
Does America seem differ
ent tq them?
Doesn't Seem True
Well, yes and no. People
are people the world over.
"I had heard that in America
people were always hurry
ing," Therese said, "but this
doesn't seem to be true."
She added that she has seen
a lot of things she hadn't seen
before, and "I like them."
She has run across a lot of
foods that are new to her, she
said, and she was pleasantly
surprised at the number of
home appliances found in the
homes here.
And, she explained, in
Switzerland one has to be 18
years old before he can drive
a car. She said it seems
strange to her to see 16-year-olds
driving around city
streets.
Both youngsters have been
busy since arriving in Med-ford-meeting
people, getting
acquainted and getting set
tled. Works Out Daily
Reinhart has been doubly
busy because he has been
working out twice daily with
the Medford High football
team. ,
School starts on Sept. 14
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WESTERN THRIFT
Aug. 20 and will stay with local families
for the coming school year while attending
Medford High school as seniors.
and to Therese Inglin, who
has attended girls' schools all
her life, and to Reinhart Kost
lin, whose school last year had
one girl attending, it will be
a new experience to be at
tending co-educational classes
and it should prove to be an
enjoyable one.
It should prove equally en
joyable to the Medford stu
dents. Tax Commission
Sayings Scheduled
Salem (DPD Innovations in
the State Tax Commission
will save thousands of dollars
in administrative costs, reduce
personnel, and simplify the
filing process for taxpayers,
Gov. Mark Hatfield said Fri
day. Income tax payers will be
filling out a small card instead
of a four-page form, at ieast
75 clerical personnel will no
longer be needed and the tax
explanation booklet will be
reduced from 12 pages to one
explanatory page, a work
sheet and a tax table, Hatfield
said.
New audit and processing
procedures also will speed
processing of the returns, Hat
field said. As a result, refunds
will be faster.
FDR's CRIB
Campobello, New Bruns
wick -(DPD- A heavy wooden
crib once used by the late
President Franklin D. Roose
velt as an infant was put
back in use this summer,
Christopher C. Smith, 18-
month-old son of the head of
the National Arts Foundation
of New York, Dr. Carlton
Smith, slept in the crib at the
Roosevelts' summer cottage
on this island.
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Space Craft Test
Flight Postponed
Edwards AFB, Calif. - (DPD -The
first powered flight of
America's first manned space
craft, the experimental rocket
ship XI 5 was postponed Fri
day because of technical difficulties.
The black, needle-nosed
ship was to be carried aloft
under the wing of a giant B52
jet bomber and released at
around 40,000 feet where test
pilot Scott Crossfield would
have put power to the two
8,000-pound thrust engines.
Club Enters 4-H
Fair in Yreka
Montague-The Willow Creek
4-H club entered a variety
of exhibits in the Siskiyou
County 4-H, FFA fair last
week in Yreka.
The club entered an activity
booth, with the theme "Fit
ness Through 4-H, Activities."
It was illustrated by display
ing several lands of projects
which provide entertainment
as well as personal advan
tages for the 4-H member. It
was a second place booth in
its division.
Miss Ardyce Joslin, Miss
Dorothy Hessig, and Miss
Judy Young all entered Here
ford steers. They sold them
at the Junior Livestock auc
tion Sunday. Ardyce sold her
925 pound steer for 35 cents
a pound to Mrs. Ruth Barklow
and Charles Harris of Yreka.
Dorothy sold her steer at 38
cents a pound, which weigh
ed 1,005 pounds to Simons
and McCarter Insurance and
Mt. Shasta Milling company
of Montague. Homer Atchley
of Yreka bough the 1,040
pound steer from Judy at 35
cents a pound.
Carol Petersen and Judy
Young entered range ewes
which they took home fol
lowing the fair for breeding
stock. Judy Suva entered the
only clothing project of the
club. She took several prizes.
I A 200 pound live hog
dresses down to 146 pounds.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
JEROME BEATTY has made
today's successful authors
are a few nuggets he collected:
J. P. Marquand: Tf you
have one strong idea, you
can't help repeating it and
embroidering it. Sometimes
I think that authors should
write one novel and then be
put in a gas chambers
Robert Penn Warren: "Po
ets are terribly sensitive
people and one of the things
they are most sensitive
about is cash."
Robert Frost: "You've got
to love what's lovable and
hate what's hatable. It takes
brains to see the difference.'
William Saroyan: "The writer who is eccentrie is probably
the sanest man alive."
C 1359. by Bennett Cert Cijtr&xited by King Feature Sj-ndkale,
WINNING Democratic nom
ination for governor of Mis
sissippi, Ross Barnett, 60,
lawyer who advocates defi
ance of U. S. Supreme Court
desegregation rulings, is as
sured of election.
Local Students Make
Dean's Honor List
James Culver Miller, son of
James C. Miller, 411 Oakwood
dr., and a student at California
State Polytechnic college, San
Luis Obispo, has made the
president's list for the college
year 1958-59.
Miller, an animal husband
ry major, maintained an aver
age of B or higher in all stud
ies to make the list, it was re
ported. Older people have fewer
short illnesses than younger
people but they also have
more longer illness periods.
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it his business to discover what
are saying between books. Here