Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1960
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
ALL SALES
FINAL!
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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.
S c o u 1 -participating were
Dale and Steve Farmer, Doug
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