Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
LETTER RECEIVED by the editor of a big family maga
i zine: "Sir: My wife was about to divorce me until she
read your touching article about -the evils of a broken home.
Now she says she is going -
to stay. Kindly cancel
ray subscription.'
la this wonderful age,
muse Jack Faar, when
man can fly through the
air Ska a bird, and navi
gate under water like a
fiah, wouldn't it he great
If he also still could walk on
til th earth like a man?
Millionaire had a couple
ef babes out on his yacht
when an icy wind suddenly ,
Jhlew up. The millionaire
called down to his crew, ..
"Is there a macintosh down there big enough to keep a couple of
young ladies warm?"
"No" came the answer, "but there's a MacPherson hete who'
w$ing to try."
C 19i. t7 Bamttt Cert Diitributed by King Teaturtf Syndicate.
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Selma Man Injured
By MARGARET M. CROWL J and national president from
Cave Junction - Ralph Fer-j Oregon of the association, was
guson, Selma, was seriously Principal speaker. '
injured one evening late last! Illinois Vail pv Hieh school
week when the car he was xnt a bus to Medford Friday
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The day's news ...
a " Cold wars and rumors of hot
wars . . . and the terrible
weapons that will be used if
a outer space . . . with the prob
ability that a MAN will soon
er or later be sent out there
. . . for better or worse. Peo-
rije who become rich and fa-
mmie hv hrMlrina pll thf mn-
g,ral laws . . . strikes . . . in
flation ... the growing yen
&r the quick buck . . . the
demagogue politicians and
what they say to garner
thoughtless votes . . . the
growing struggle to make
ends meet. 1 ;
What a mishmash it is.
I'M SURE some such thought
must have been in the
mind of the editor of the
Grants Pass Courier the other
day when he took the cover
off his trusty typewriter and
tackled his daily job. At any
rate, he wound up by writing
a nostalgic piece about SOR
GHUM MAKING.
The sorghum cane in the
field ... in those golden days
everybody grew a little of it.
The hauling of it in to the
Sorghum mill that squeezed
th sweet juice out of - the
slks. The steady old mare
that plodded around and
around to transform horse
muscle into power that would
turn wheels. And the vat in
which the juice of the cane
was boiled down to the sticky
syrup that tasted so-o-o-o good
on corn pone or flapjacks.
And ... which could be
transformed by a gifted cook
into a taffy candy that was at
least an acceptable substitute
for the store candy that was
wonderful beyond belief but
cost too much to be afforded
And the men and the women
and the children who went
around chewing the sweet
pith of the sorghum stalks to
get the sugar their systems
craved but their skimpy purs-
s forbade.
Y THE TIME the Grants
,JL Pass editor got through
with sorghum, his allotted
space was filled, and so he
quit. But he could have gone
on.7 And on. And ON.
There was lard rendering
time. You wouldn't know
about that, so I'll have to tell
you. At hog butchering time,
the fat was trimmed off the
lean meat and boiled down
in a huge iron pot strung from
a tripod out in the back yard.
The residue was CRACK
LIN'S. You ground the crack-
lin's up and mixed them-with
corn meal to make cracklin'
bread. And . . . while the boil
ing down process was under
way, you took tender tidbits
of high-on-the-hog lean meat
and tied them at the end of a
string and dangled them in
the bubbling lard until they
were cooked to luscious, epi
curean perfection.
Yum-m-m-m-m-m!
AND THEN - ,
There was HARVEST
TIME.
In , those hallowed days,
there was no migrant labor
problem. No international cri
ses over the hiring of Mexi
can nationals. No migrant la
bor cimps."
The neighbors just
SWAPPED WORK. Accord
ing to a prearranged schedule,
the threshing machine was at
the Brown place one day, at
the Jones place the next day,
the Smith place the day after
that and so on until the
grain was all threshed. (And
NONE of it went into govern
ment warehouses. It was sold
as soon as possible and the
proceeds used to pay up the
year's bills at the store.) -i
rriHE MEN workedv in the
-- fields, and the women
SLAVED in the kitchens. Ev
ery woman's reputation was
at stake. She knew that if she
fizzled when her turn came
for threshing dinner (they
called it THRASHING then)
her name would be mud and
her descendants even unto the
third and fourth generations
driving Went - out of control
on Highway 199 north Kerby.
He was taken to Josephine
General hospital in Grants
Pass by Valley Ambulance
with head and back injuries.
Authorities said his -; car
went across a ditch, through
a fence and into a pasture. He
was thrown from the vehicle.
. -
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Hunting
of the State line have return
ed home from a two. weeks
vacation in southern Califor
nia. While there they attended
the Retired San Diego Police
officers picnic. Mr. and Mrs.
Hunting were both members
of the San Diego Police de
partment. They also visited
friends in Los Angeles, Sac
ramento and Redding.
Mrs. Joe Ollis, Mrs. Jim
Payne, Mrs. Floyd Wells and
Mrs. Harry Smith attended
the fall meeting of the Sis
kiyou district of Oregon Fed
eration of Garden clubs Wed
nesday in Medford.
Mrs. Ollis, president of the
local garden club, Mrs. Wells
and Mrs. Payne were voting
delegates. Mrs. Smith was a
guest speaker. .
The Episcopal Guild will
hold its regular business meet
ing Wednesday, Oct. 21. Regu
lar work days in preparation
for the annual bazaar and
plant sale will continue on
Wednesdays.
Mrs. Harry Smith, chair
man of the Josephine County
Hospital board, attended a
business meeting in Grants
Pass. Monday. She plans to
attend a meeting of the State
Hospital association in Coos
Bay : this week.
"Mrs. David . Wilson will
show slides of her trip to
Eurone last summer at a meet
ing of the American Legion
auxiliary Wednesday at 8 p.rh.
in the auxiliary room of the
Legion hall.
to hear the Marine band at
Hedrick Junior High. Pupils
were picked up at the high
school, Kerby grade school
and Jerome Prairie school.
Ross Salvage, brother of
Fred and Herbert Salvage,
was seriously injured at the
mill where he . works in
Brookings last week when a
log rolled on him. Fred and
Herbert Salvage went to
Crescent City where Ross had
been taken to the Del Norte
hospital.
Mr.' and Mrs. Charlie Reese,
Mrs. Lackey, Mrs. Reese sis
ter, and her two boys, escap
ed serious injury last week
when the car in which they
were riding was struck by a
vehicle driven by Norman
Maynard Mellis, as they pull
ed out 'of the parking lot near
Cave Junction.
THE EVIDENCE
STACKS UP
there's no Gin like
GORDON'S
It iF .Mi 1
him 1 1 en
tut i
SL fite
ma ion snns noma am on. m im. mm m a a. in. urn ll
Illinois Valley Federated
Women's; club met at the home
of Mrs.; Jack Spitz recently.
Guest sDeaker - was Mrs.
Carl Peterson, first district
president, who gave an out
line of coming events and an
nounced that November is
National Art Month and sug
gested that displays of local
artists be placed in windows
in the' city. -
Guests besides Mrs. Peter
son' were H. W. Vellmer of
Glendale, Calif, who is here
visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Wilber, Mrs. Cora
Barnes, and Mrs. Marie Olson.
Mr. and Mrs. William (Bill)
Raines returned recently from
Seattle, Wash.; where they at
tended v the funeral of their
son, Lewis -Donald Raines,
who was killed in an automo
bile' accident . Oct. 7.
Raines, a sergeant in the
Army stationed at Ft. Lewis,
was killed when returning to
the base from his home in
Seattle.
. Mr. Raines was born in Tul
sa county,- Oklahoma, Dec. 11,
1930. He was an MP and in
terpreter during the Korean
conflict and spoke .seven dif
ferent' languages. He was at
tached to the. staff personnel
at Ft. Lewis, working in the
guided missile program.
He is survived by his wife,
Evelyn; a son, Glenn; a step
son, Johnnie, and step-daughter,
- Evelyn; his mother and
father and four sisters; Mrs.
Carl Jolly and Mrs. Jim Mes
senger, Cave Junction, Patsy
Smith and Norma Lea' Jones,
Seattle, Wash.; two brothers,
Francis and R. L. Raines of
Renton, Wash.
Principal Wes Peters of the
Illinois Valley High school
returned last week from a con
ference at Salem of Oregon
Secondary School principals.
Cliff Robinson, " formerly
with the state department,
would live under a cloud.
And leave us not forget the
little colo'ed gals who, come
dinner time (dinner was then
at noon) stood behind each
sweating diner and shooed
the flies away with leafy
branches. There were no
screens them, and no toxic fly
sprays. '' "..
AH, ME! Those were the
riavs
.
Do it. again. -Mr-- Grants
Pass editor..
Sandra Piper, Lonnie Plum
lee, Margy McDermott, R. J.
Cross and Walter Eichler, in
structor,' attended the Oregon
Press conference at Eugene
Friday and Saturday. The stu
dents are members of the
journalism class at IV high.
Mrs. Charles De Nure and
grandson, David, left last
week for . their home after
spending 10 days in the val
ley visiting friends and rela
tives. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
White entertained with a din
ner party in their honor. Also
present was Hugh's mother.
After . dinner they; joined a
going away party for them at
the home of Mrs. Alice Hogue
in Kerby. ; "
American Legion auxiliary
pinochle parties started the
winter season of play Satur
day. ... -
Guardian Council of Job's
Daughters Bethel 36, met at
the home of Mrs. William
Weingart Monday. Guardian
Stella Piper opened the meet
ing. Reports from the daugh
ters candy sale were good. .
Refreshments of chicken
sandwiches, cake and ice
cream were served by the hos
tesses, Mrs. Weingart and
Mrs. Rackner.The next meet
ing will be held at the home
of Guardian Stella Piper,
Nov. 9.
President Mrs. Margaret
Crpwl, American Legion aux
iliary, announced that at the'
next auxiliary meeting Wed
nesday, Oct. 21, at 8 pan.,
Mrs. David Wilson, fourth
grade teacher at the. Ever
green school, will show color
slides of her trip to Europe.
The slides are all arranged in
sequence from " the time she
left until her return. The aux
iliary, has invited the public
to attend. It will be the reg
ular social meeting of the
Legion and the Auxiliary.
Kerby School PTA will hold
its fall Carnival Saturday at
the school gymnasium, when
special events and contests,
under the direction of Princi
pay Arch Johnson, will be
scheduled.
Mrs, Robert Steimer is the
overall chairman of the Car
nival committee.
A weather balloon was
found by the Rev. LeRoy Ni
dever of Kerby, while hunting
1 in the mountains back of the
Q-Bax-X ranch on the West
side rd. The balloon and the
radio equipment inside it
were in good ; shape. It had
lodged in some brush on the
side of the hill.
The tag inside of the box
made the request to have it
retr-ned to Joliet, 111., and
show that it had been released
in Medford on May 22.
Pupils of the Illinois Valley
High school who are studying
leather craft are displaying
their work this week in one
of the windows at Trehearnes
store.
Harold Smith, son of Emer
son Smith of Selma, will
graduate from the Northwest
Technical Institute in Port
land, Oct. 29. Harold will re
ceive a degree iii heavy duty
mechanics. .
The margay of South Amer
ican forests . is a tiger-cat
about as big as a domestic
house cat.
No Alphabet Soup
For These Fellows
New York (CPU The man
agement promised today that
no alphabet soup would be
served when the Rt. Hon. The
Earl of Elgin and Kincardine,
K.T., C.M.G., T.D., LID,
J.P, is served lunch at a hotel
next Tuesday
Lord Elgin, guest of the
Provincial Grand Lodge of
the Royal Order of Scotland,
U.SA., will be accompanied
by Dr. Alex F. Buchan,
M.B.E., B.S.C., Ph.D., F.R.
S.E.; Maj. R. H. F. Moncreiff,
TJX, and the Rt. Mon. The
Countess of Elsgin and Kin
cardine, D.B.E.
POLITICAL FIGURE DIES
Vaduzn, . Liechtenstein-flJPD-Dr.
Joseph Hoop, 64, top poli
tical figure in Liechtenstein,
died Monday in Chur, Switz
erland, after an operation.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1959
I"
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Long Ears Seen 7
Sign off Long Life ?
Tokyo -(UPD- Got unusually
long ears? Don't let it trouble
you. ' -
A municipal official in Ise
zaki City, northern Japan,
says it's a sure sign you'll lite
to a ripe old age. .
The official, Fusakichi Iga
rashi, said he surveyed all 18
persons in his city who are
at least 90 years ld and
found that all of them have
ears that are two centimeters
(four-fifths of an inch) longer
than the average person's.
"I am not a doctor so I can
not explain scientifically the
relationship between ; long
ears and longevity," he said.
'.'But from, the survey I con
ducted it appears to be a
fact" ' 1 ; -
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29
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Flannels, worst
eds. Many pat
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SPECIAL! COMPACT
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SALE! Full panel
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21
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SALE! Stitched
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Regularly $ 1 . Con
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Special purchase
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Step-by-step instruc
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169 ALUMINUM
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