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Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1960 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 3 Jfc3& TIKI OS OS DT! Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins ALL SALES FINAL! 7YJ. s S i RESULT OF CRASH An Avianca Airlines Constellation crashed at Montege Bay, Ja maica, after its landing gear collapsed dur ing landing, killing 37 of the 49 persons in the fifth airline disaster of the year. Shown here are two of the craft's four engines, sep arated by several hundred feet from the fuselage which is shown in the background. -(UPI Telephoto) HORNBROOK Everyone Wants Rain Br KATHERINE CHAPMAN . Hornbrook Hank De Voss said it last Friday in his Woods, Water, Wildlife col umn in the Mail Tribune: "Every week I call the weath er bureau and try to talk them into sending some rain pur way." His observation was made from the sports man's viewpoint, but many are the farmers hereabouts who would say the same thing. Bob Church and his valiant crew of weather watchers at the Medford airport, try their best, but it's little coopera tion they get from the "pow ers that be." In the face 'of what, at this stage, looks like a sure water shortage next summer, farmers are confi dently going ahead with their spring plowing, and getting fields and irrigation ditches ready for the next season's crops. To be a farmer must re quire a reverent faith in the promise of the Lord, given in the very beginning of the Bible: "While the earth re- maineth, seed time and har vest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease." Again we borrow a quote from Mr. De Voss: "T h e water is cold and low. Busi ness has been very very slow. Wait for a warm rain." This was his comment on Friday in his Angler's log concerning fishing in the Klamath. AI Kutzkey, of Kutzkey's . on-the-Klamath, is right there to back DeVoss up on that statement. Guide, trapper, and all-around-outdoorsman, Kutzkey two weeks ago had spotted several good runs of salmon, and had several sports writers from San Fran cisco booked into his lodge for the week of Jan. 17, but was forced to telephone the men to delay their trip north until such time as a warm spring rain came along. With a lull in what has been a busy season for them, Mr. and Mrs. Kutzkey have been enjoying a few days' vacation and Mrs. Kutzkey has been accompany ing him when he tends his trap line. Bennett. Darrell and Billy Jones, Randy Peters, Danny Thompson, George Chadwick, Guy Sanders and Ernie Bur cell. Scoutmaster Ronald Rhodes and Mrs. Rhodes, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farmer accompanied the boys on their outing. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Cum mins drove to Ashland Satur day for an evening with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Paulsen. To celebrate Paulsen's birthday, the two couples had dinner at Mary's Casa, Medford. Yreka High school and Elementary school bands pre sented a joint concert Thurs day at the high school gym nasium. Ann Rutledge, a so phomore, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rutledge, was clarinet soloist for the concert. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Rhodes drove to Grants Pass Saturday and brought his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Rhodes, back with them for a few days' visit. Medford received a bit of favorable notice in the Janu ary issue of "Water Works Engineering", the journal of the water supply profession since 1877. The paragraph, appearing on page 65, is as follows: "To protect its slogan 'A Mountain Stream in Every Heme' Medford, Ore., has covered its last two open re servoirs. Robert L. Lee, su perintendent of the city's water commission, described the aluminum roof project as the means for eliminating at mosphere dirt in stored water and preventing unfavorable algae populations. The com munity's water comes from mountain areas and is not treated. The roofs were built of V-beam aluminum, applied to treated wooden structures with stainless steel fasteners, Consulting engineers were Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryfield. Carl Cummins is a patient at Siskiyou General hospital, Yreka, where he underwent surgery Jan. 21. The Contract Bridge club met Jan. 19 at the home of Mrs. Dwain Hamner. Mrs. Ed Smith held high score, and the hostess second high. Oth ers playing were Mrs. Henley Clawson, Mrs. Grace Quigley, Mrs. Bertha Bradley, Mrs. Ivon Howard, Mrs. Lester Nye and Mrs. Fred Mills. Bamboo Has Many Uses Primitive man discovered that the plant known to us as "bamboo" was about the han diest thing that grew. It had more uses for him, than a shirt pocket has for us. He found that with bam bood he could build the frame work of a home, boats, furni ture and cooking utensils. From a section of the stem he could make a blowgun with which to hunt food, or arrows to shoot his enemies. Over his shoulder he carried Mrs. "Chuck" Merritt re turned last week from a three weeks' visit with relatives in Los Angeles. The Every-Other - Wednes day Morning Coffee club met Jan. 21 at the home of Mrs. Thomas Burcell. Attending were Mrs.. Ronald Rhodes, Mrs. Jim Spearin, Mrs. "Ike" Dooley, Mrs. Ralph Chadwick, Mrs. "Pete" Fisher, Mrs. George Smith, Mrs. Harley Beaker, Mrs. George Reese and Mrs. Andrew (Buck) Ske-ahan. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McBain and daughter Narcie of Yreka were Saturday, visitors at the Alvin McMaster home. In the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Mc Master and sons Steve, Gary and Larry visited Mr. and Mrs. Roger Smith and daugh ter Renee of Hilts. Mrs. Smith is a daughter of the McMas ters. They spent Sunday after noon visiting Mrs. McMaster's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Clyburn of Klamath river. Pre-schoolers Douglas and DeVon Widener of Denver, Colo., are staying with their aunt, Mrs. Thomas Burdell and Mr. Burcell and seven children. The children's moth er, Mrs. Aileen Widener, sister of Mrs. Burcell, is staying temporarily in Yreka where Grange News Griffin Creek Griffin Creek Grange held their first meeting of the new year Jan. 14 with Master Her man Kamping presiding. Roll call of newly elected officers found all present but one. The meeting was also the first meeting under the visita tion program for 1960. After the meeting was opened Har old Tolle, steward, introduced and conducted the visiting masters and officers to the master's station. They includ ed Lloyd Lacey, Phoenix Grange; Gail Buffington, Up per Applegate Grange; Robert Bitterling, County Pomona; Benton Boyce, Central Point Grange; Oril Moore. Roxy Ann Grange, John Walker, Gold Hill Grange, all Masters, and Roscoe Roberts, county deputy. Mrs. Jeane Dole was es corted to the altar and Dee Hendrickson, Phoenix, gave her the obligation for first and second degrees. Cyril Farnsworth, new lec turer, presented the entertain ment starting with some trick calisthenics. Then several young children played the ac cordion, playing solos and duets. A young girl gave her interpretation of a chicken dance. Eight of the 13 area Granges were presented at the meeting with 67 Grangers present. Buffet refreshments were served following the meeting. she is employed by the forest service. "The Drifting Ranger s," Lennard Sloan's western band, played Saturday night for a dance at McArthur, Calif. Their next playing date is Feb. 13 at Happy Camp. Mervin McMaster is a mem ber of the band. poisoned-tipped arrows in a j bamboo quiver. By removing the little; doors that grew at the joint ; of bamboo, very serviceable water pipes were made with ! which water from a distant; spring could be transported ! to his home. By splitting the j bamboo stem lengthwise, j evestroughs were readily con-! structed. By tapping the stem of the growing bamboo at one of the lower joints, the plant juice collected there could be used as a medicine for many human ailments. There are of course many varieties of bamboo, over 200, but all more or less inhabit ants of tropical or near trop ical countries, and all are characterized by the hollow jointed stem typical of all the grasses, of which, the bam boo is the largest member. One variety of bamboo known as the "pygmy" is used in Japan as a lawn grass. Here, too, as in many tropical countries, young tender bam bood shoots are used as hu man food. Some kinds of bam boo may grow three feet in a single day. Some species at tain a height of a hundred feet. All have the delicate fern-like, lacy leaves. Someone, a few years ago, wrote a song, entitled "Under the Bamboo Tree." This is impossible as the bamboo isn't a tree at all but a species of grass. However, we still call a group of these plants a "clump" rather than a lawn. Ideal Spear The outer surface of the grass stems, called bamboo, is almost as hard as flint. It possesses great strength with very little weight. A straight stem of bamboo made an ideal spear for the savage or a flexible pole for today's fish erman. The cane fishing pole of boyhood days is well remem bered by all grown men. We all look back with pleasure to the days when we dangled a worm at the end of a line in some brook or lake. That may have been our first ex perience with bamboo. In some countries maidens collect the white powder that forms under the sheaths of bamboo joints and use it as a face powder, It is as fine as the most expensive talc, and with a delicate flower frangrance added, it becomes a valuable aid to the com plexion of a native girL The average family in the United States uses 860 tin cans a year. , Orson Coleman received word Saturday of the death of his brother, Joseph Cole man, 79, in Inglewood, Calif. Mr. Coleman passed away suddenly from a short attack of Asian flu. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wes ley Coleman, and was born in this area. He worked for many years as a signal main tainer for the Southern Pa cific railroad out of Duns muir. His wife died two years ago. and he had been living in Inlewood with his daugh ter, Mrs. Mayme Dean. Other survivors include a son. Bill, in the Sacramento valley; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Jones. Mrs. Ellen Gil more, both of Dunsmuir, and Mrs. Harriet Finley, Medford; and three brothers, Pink, of Santa Ana. Calif.; John, Sa lem, and Orson, Hornbrook. Funeral services were held Jan. 25. Burial was in Inglewood. Mrs. Henley Clawson at tended a Girl Scout meeting Friday at the home of Mrs. Cecile Nelson in Yreka. The meeting was conducted by Jeannette Eslinger, Medford, chairman of the program evaluation and leadership training survey. Boy Scout troop No. 38 of Hornbrook held a toboggan party Jan. 16 in the Siskiyous. 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