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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1959)
. i - U - , f Cougar Mauls Deer; Search Attempt Fails 4-H Club News Kraiy Kooki On Aug. 28 the Krazy Kooks met at the home of Mrs. James Pullman. Bobby Pullman called the meeting to order. John Zenor read the minutes. We worked on our records, and talked over the goals. Steve Nelson, Reporter. WALKS BEHIND GIRLS Of all American workers who live five to 10 miles from their jobs, about 77 per cent of them depend on the family car for their transportation. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 9 Sunday, Aug. 30, 1959 " Bradford, England (UPD-Clif- ford Thompson, 34, arrested A forked horn deer was Hill, who called state police. on a breach of peace charge after walking along behind two teen-age girls stood up for his rights Friday. "If looking at girls is a crime then I am guilty," he told the local mag istrate. He was bound over for trial. Average farm in Japan has only about 2.5 acres. Both White and Dunlap said the cougar apparently is a "fair sized one." Dunlap said he found tracks near a water hole north of the road in the hills, and the tracks were "good sized." He said he also found the remains of an other deer which apparently had been attacked by the cat within the past week. Dunlap said he searched theh area all day Friday, but was unable to find the cougar. He went back to the site along the road that night, thinking the cat would return to the scene to find "his kill" but he said he saw nothing. May Go Back Dunlap, who said he has killed about 13 cougars since he purchased his dogs, said he may go back into the area soon to see if the animal can be tracked. Several reports of a cougar in the Gold Hill area have been made in the past few years. Last spring, Terry Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Meister, Gold Hill, re ported seeing a cougar on a mauled by a "fair sized" cou gar about three miles west of Gold Hill along Old Stage rd. north of the Rogue river Fri day morning. The young buck was put to death later, according to state police. But the cougar escaped when tracking efforts failed because of dry weather. The incident occurred about Police contacted Harry Dunlap, 1216 Saling st., Med ford, who tracked the cat off and on during the day with four dogs. Dunlap said, how ever, that because of the re cent dry weather the animal's scent was not enough for good tracking. He said the dogs tracked the scent about a quarter of a mile up a hill north of the site where the incident occurred. The scent then became so slight the dogs could not fol low it. ...WHEREVER GOOD FOOD IS SOLD... niderV Quality DAIRY FOODS ' 'Ail j HELP US! W Need Clothing, Shoes Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 trail just north of Gold Hill. A couple of years ago, a fam ily living near Gold Hill re 9 a.m. Friday. Two employees of the county, riding in a dump truck, saw the cougar attacking the deer and rerort- ported seeing a cougar one night after a deer was chased through their yard. ed it to Edsel White, Gold A 1 Vi J0 Q RARE SIGHT An unusual sight "occured at San Fran cisco Zoo when Vicki, a Ko ala, finally let her new-born out of her pouch, giving the public its first real look at the young. The Koala retain their young in the pouch quite a while after birth. Vicki is one of three rare Koalas donated to the San Francisco Zoo recently by Sir Edward Hallstrom of Australia. Rogue River $ Rooster Rules Crow-Off Roost Rogue River A Rogue River rooster crowed 96 times in 30 minutes Saturday to break a tie with a Medford bird during a "crow-off' con test here. The first-place gold trophy j was awarded to Sandy, own ed by Paul Elbert Sanders of Rogue River for the second highest number of crows ever recorded in the annual rooster crow. The Saturday event was necessary to decide the win ner of the gold trophy. A tie occurred between Sandy and Twinkle - Twerp, a rooster owned by Howard and Arlen Simon of 2105 Roberts rd., Medford, during the regular June contest, Twinkle-Twerp came in a close second Satur-1 . flair ritK nrnnrs in tVio half- ' hour period. f A crowd of nearly 300 Der-1 sons attended the contest. County Judge Earl Miller counted Sandy's crows. Twinkle-Twerp was coached by Leo Deja, Two Rivers, Wise, Rogue River's "tourist for the day," who also counted the bird's crows. For a while Saturday it was thought an overtime per iod would have to be called, as the two roosters stalled at 67 crows each. It was report ed that not only did the roost ers continue to crow after the contest, but during the bar becue which followed. ; This is the first time that . a "crow-off has been neces sary, it was reported. The two birds tied with 67 cocka-doodle-doos last June with the owners splitting $325 prize money. Applications Being Taken for Courses Applications for the auto motive mechanics and elec tronics courses are still being taken by the adult education office at Medford High school. The classes will be held for a two year period, from 3:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The auto mechanics course is designed to prepare persons for employment in the auto motive industry and the elec tronics course is designed to prepare persons as technicians in electronics defense indus tries. : W - ' y, J LYING in car near Bliss. Idaho, with two bullet holes in head, body of John Hunt, assistant professor at Tale University, sparks manhunt. Wfe Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central From! Room Sixes Savings 25 to 50 1 t nun WaU-to-Wall t t u aq. 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