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Former Lady Hop Grower Now Breeds Fine Show Dogs By MAUDE ZIEGLER Mail Tribune Correspondent Applcgalo Valley There is always plenty going on, where 150 little dogs arc concerned. At Rogucland ken nels in Applcgntc, Wilma Smith has carved a niche for herself In the international business of breeding fine Pomeranians. ' This week three puppies, at the tender age of six months or so, are sitting on the iron ing board, posing on the table and are being walked up and down the road so they will know how to lead and stand at the dog shows this fall. . Also visiting at the kennels were more than 20 puppies awaiting their shipment by air to Maine. When Mrs. Smith ships dogs of her own, she also sells for other kennels in the county to make up the consignment. These pups were from the Weeping Birch kennel at Tal ent, Delta Waters kennel I if 4- wM- ROGUELAND'S I'M A WARRIOR TO Champion of the United States and Canada Regional News Tablets Table Rock - As this is written the curtain is being rung down on another great show, at which Richavd Nixon became the Republican par ty's nominee for president of a great country, the United States of America. Each party now has a young and vigorous candidate and we may expect a red hot cam paign with no holds barred. With all the noise, demonstra tions and nominating speech es, we can't say the Republi cans didn't show both sides of the picture. They told of the great things they had ac complished in the last seven years, but also told of the many serious mistakes the Democrats have made recent ly, and for many years back. Personally, Nixon seems to feel that his fitness for the presidency stems from the fact that he has been hard up for money from his boyhood days until even now. His salary and $10,000 expense money, with prices what they are, are merely chicken feed. If we don't miss our guess, both candidates will have plenty of dough to carry on one of the hottest and most expensive campaigns ever held in these United States. It's no crime to have been poor. Maybe it's an asset. Now it is a crime to have plenty of money, if it was made honestly. A 73 foot well, supplying 1,000 gallons of water per hour, was recently drilled on the Guy Nalson farm by the Goff Brothers, well drillers of Medford. We notice the while, which will eventually replace the yellow line, is beginning to appear down the center of some of our highways. This should please O. T. Wilson, who has claimed for a long time that this color would be more easily seen and last longer. The wind and lightning of Wednesday night caused us to wish we didn't have o many pretty trees so close to the house and other buildings. ' In our last Friday's column, the name Morrle, given in the horseshoeing story, should have been Morine, who lived here some 60 years ago in a house almost the same place as the present Benny Peek home. ' Mrs. Lelah M. Hull and three granddaughters are expected home this week end from a motor trip to Canada. Miss Anne Sharp Is spend ing some time visiting at her uncle's Big Flat ranch at Smith River, Calif. near Mcdford, and the Smith kennels on Jacksonville high way. Dog Wins Honors And just last month Rogue- land's Dark Magic, a two and half year old "Pom" won hon ors at Great Falls, Mont., in a series of shows known as the Montana Copper circuit. He chalked up more points to ward becoming a champion. And speaking of champions, the aristocrat at the kennel, but not appearing the least bit affected by his accomplish ments, is "Rogueland's I'm a Warrior To," who is the cham pion dog of United States and Canada. He won over all breeds, even beating a Peking ese who held top place for two years. Last year Mrs. Smith had two champions and usually has one every year, all Poms," except one toy poodle. She has innumerable tro phies and ribbons from win- 5, ST T- Br R. C NEALON Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Allen Jr., have sold their home on NEEDMORE ROAD in Sams Valley and are now living in Al's parent's house while they are on a tour of Europe. This is near the plant where the Rogue Wood boats, which Al de signs and builds, are manu factured. Also he has a dealer's franchise from a jet boat manufacturer and re ports the boat business as being very good. The Table Rock Sunday school has accepted the bid of Gilbert Johnson, Medford, for painting the school house. China pheasants have started picking holes in melons. This is earlier than they generally begin this destructive work. Mrs. Geo. Chandler and daughter, Marjorie, of Ban don, Ore., were recent visitors with relatives at the Guy Nelson home. . The Donald Richardson family arrived Saturday from Portland to spend their annual vacation with home folks and friends, to swim in the cool waters of the Rogue, attend the Shakespearean Festival and fish in the high mountain streams, where the fish in the cold waters are the finest in the world. Miss Debbie is spending much of her time with Auntie Sis and Uncle Emmeit. Last week, we had as our house guest, Miss Norma Martin of Cave Junction, who was hei. to supervise the daily vacation Bible school sessions. Friday night's program given by teachers and their respective classes was well attended and showed that dur ing the week's session, the 23 students had gained a goodly amount of knowledge of the Bible. Several youngsters were given certificates for perfect attendance. Dale Sculs, the Sams Val ley farmer and harvester, has finished threshing tha barley on the Richardson farm and reports that the yield and quality are excel lent. Thought for the day: Practice What You Preach TRAILER PARK PURCHASE Happy Camp - Mr. and Mrs. Farley of San Rafael have purchased the Card's Trailer park of Happy Camp. They have already moved Into their home at the park and are now operating It. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Card bought a new car and trailer and plan to travel for soma time, nines at the dog shows, al though she seldom attends. Instead she loaves the dogs with a handler, because it Is difficult for her to leave her business. She has attended, however, the shows of the Southern Oregon circuit at Medford, Klamath Falls and Eugene. Wide Sales Mad Mrs. Smith has sold dogs to every state in the Union, and has sold in Canada, Guam and Japan, as well as receiving in. quiries from Cuba, Panama and South America. She has been in the bus! ness for. almost 30 years and became interested when at tending a dog show in Los Angeles. I didn't even know what a Pomeranian was, but I bought two and a Pekingese, and from there on the bust ness grew," Mrs. Smith said. "All the money I could get went into dogs, she con tinued. "Believe me, I've worked at anything I could do to make money, even to jobs in logging camps. Was Lady Logger For four years she worked with the Kmcaid logging com pany on Thompson and Wil liams creeks. She measured logs for the fallers and on Saturdays set , choke and helped to load trucks. When the Clute hop yards were in their heyday, she did every kind of job in the fields from irrigating to running the picking machines and driving tractor. "I know how to grow hops as well as dogs," she says, but the dogs are paying for them selves now." Busy as this dog owner is, she takes time out to do a "descentectomy" on pet skunks of the neighborhood, The business of dogs has its worries and when Mrs. Smith once shipped five German shepherd pups to Guam, she was afraid something would happen that the $450 air freight bill would not be paid at the receiving end. There are little unexpected high spots tucked here and there, too. On; time she sold a miniature Schnauzer to a pet shop in St. Louis, Mo. Afterward she received a let ter from the woman who had bought the dog. She also sent a snapshot of her daughter, who was training the dog to show. Assistants Named ! Mrs. Smith soon expects a visit from her nieces, Patricia and Claudia Purse of Chico, Calif. The girls are seven and 13, and since they make an nual trips here, they are adept at handling and helping with the dogs. Mrs. Lindy Elan, who li'.es at the Smith home, is an assistant, as is Mrs. Pat Basnett of Grants Pass. Rogueland kennels flourish in a thicket of shrubbery that provides shade for summer days, and no little pet is con fined to pen or cage; they have large runs and cozy buildings for housing. Two years ago Mrs. Smith and her kennels rated an article in "Pomeranian Re view," publication of ' the American Pomeranian club. Mrs. Smith was credited in the article with the gift of knowing how to pick a fu ture champion in a litter of pups. Mrs. Smith was born in Grants Pass, and is the former Wilma Eggers. Buying and Selling Noted, Happy Camp Happy Camp - There has been quite a bit of buying and selling of property lately in Happy Camp. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Curtis bought the Lester Flannigan home and plan to move in about one more week. Mr. Curtis owns and operates the Three Rivers Gas company. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Has kell bought the Ester Apple gate home and they will soon move in. Mrs. Applegate and her family have moved to Redding to be near Mr. and Mrs. Eddie McBroom, her son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spencc bought a partially finished house from Mr. and Mrs. John Reedy. The Spences plan to finish the house and move in soon. 2 31 BEEF ROAST 45 lb. MEDFORD MAIL Student Council Delegates Study Honor Code EhkIc Point - Acdone Jen sen, recently returned from the 24th National Conference of tlie National Association of Student Councils, reports that one of the most benefi cial study sessions was en titled. "Development and Use of the Honor Code." One 5,000 student school has used the honor system tor four years now. For the past two years the touchers have not been present in- the room during tests and absolutely no cheating has taken place. During the lunch hour a gong is sounded and every one stands, bows their head and sings a simple blessing, regardless of location. The teachers were the hard est ones to switch over to the honor system, it was report ed. Miss Jensen was one of the seven boys and four girls rep resenting Oregon and Wash ington at the conference. Chaperon for the group was Vernon Larsen, formerly of Illinois Valley, now with the State Department? Knee cap length dresses, stockings about four inches below the knee and dirty ten nis shoes were the dress fad at the conference. Acdene stated that they never wore clean tennis shoes unless they wanted to return home with sore feet as well as dirty tennis shoes. Forty seven states were rep resented. All schools that have a recognized school or ganization or have plans to organize one are eligible for emblem contains a torch which symbolizes leadership and ability; a scroll, honor and citizenship; the gavel, authority, and the quill, thought and recorded action. Miss Jensen stated that she would like to see more In terest taken in the student councils by the students. She said that she Is sure when they find out the many real functions and possibilities of the self governing group that they will take a keener in terest. Rural Reflections By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley - A very strange love was born. Perr haps it was to fill the awful vacancy when the black silk en Dinah-spaniel lost her life to the speeding wheels of the public highway. But this new creature lay sleek and gray, grasping with his paws for the first time a dolls nursing bottle filled with formula. He had the ugly-beauty of the newborn, a slim tail yet to receive its full plumed ele gance, and the leg structure over proportioned where hind legs were concerned. It was a strange love be cause he was a baby gray squirrel and Sister, the Sia mese cat, had brought him home, not as prey, but proud ly watching him follow be hind. They came out of the forest together. Probably from confusion, the Baby found the Man's shoe and a place to climb, and was sitting on the Man's head soon after arrival. Sister watches with interest around his bed of soft flannel and the Folks know she can be trusted alone with him, The Lady says the little stranger went right to her heart, and she wonders what new" developments will take shape. A squirrel would find it fun to climb the heavy drapes, but after all, drapes can lend themselves to pur poses other than the conven tional, she says. And there will be a name to select. Regional Calendar Eagle Point - Work on the Community building is sched uled to start 3t B a.m. Satur day. Potluck lunch is set .for noon and homemade i c e cream will be served in the afternoon. Happy Camp - D. V. Gil more has started preliminary work on a copper mine near Preston Peak. He has, a crew of 4 men with him on the job. EAST SIXTH ST., PORK SAUSAGE SKINLESS WIENERS 2 ibs. 85c 29 lb. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Eagle Point Boys Study Safe Hunting Procedures By DOTTIE HARBISON Mall Tribune Correspondent Eagle Point - Ten boys graduated from the first Ore gon Hunter Safety course sponsored by the Oregon State Game commission In coopera tion with Oregon Stale Po lice, the State Board of Edu cation unci Affiliation of the National Riflemen's associa tion nt Eagle Point recently. All boys received their Ore. gon State Hunters Certificate of Competency and were giv en a gold cloth patch with blue outlining of Oregon State and lettering which reads "Oregon Safe Hunters" to be worn cither on their hat or shoulder. Volunteer Instructor Ted Hoffman stated that the course concentrated on safe ty rather than marksmanship. No guns or live ammunition were brought to the class by any of the boys until they have been thoroughly taught to handle a gun properly, car ry and walk with the gun safely, how to correctly cross fences and ditches and logs with a gun, proper care and cleaning, how to care and store their ammunition, how and what to shoot at and the courtesies of hunting. The boys were taught the proper respect for their fel Post Office Opening Set For Saturday By MARY KELL Mail Tribune Correspondent Gold Hill - Gold Hill's new post office will be dedicated at 2 p.m. Saturday, Postmas ter H. D. Force announced today. "Our beautiful new postal facility is symbolic of the modern, businesslike ap proach now being applied to postal improvements through out the entire nation," the postmaster said. "Under the leadership of Postmaster Gen eral Summerfield, the United States Postal Service has un dergone the most far-reaching reorganization in the long his tory of the Department." "Postal Service is being ex panded and improved in many ways. Major changes have been made in operations, methods and techniques to hasten delivery of the mall. Last fiscal year alone, mail service was extended to over one and a quarter million ad ditional American families, nearly 100,000 additional bus iness concerns and nearly 4, 000 new city delivery routes, including city'delivery for the first time in 110 communi ties." The new facility, located at the corner of Second ave. and Fifth St., is part of the Post Office department's unique Commercial Leasing plan, the force explained. Leasing Plan Explained Under this program, invest ment financing is used to ob tain' needed facilities which remain under private owner ship, pay local taxes to the community and are leased to the federal government. At the same time, the need for large outlays of money from the federal treasury for construction purposes is elim inated. New post offices are built to postal specifications and designed for efficiency. The Department has built, or placed under contract for con struction, approximately 3,500 buildings since 1953. Another 12,000 more post offices must be replaced, due to the lack of space and obso lescence, to achieve the Post master General's goal of com plete modernization of the en tire plant. Force said, Our patrons wili derive more enjoyment from doing business here, their mail will be handled more efficiently and this building and its up-to-date equipment will enable our postal employees to work un der the best of conditions." Will Serve As a Link "The new facility," he ad ded, "will be a link with a postal system that today has over 35,000 post offices. This system serves more than 170 million persons, and handles over two-thirds of the world's mail. Our over 500,000 postal employees are handling more than 62 billion pieces of mall SLICED BACON . 351, low hunters, farmers and their properly. A demonstra tion on each phase Is given prior to a test. The boys learned of tha fol lowing typos of guns: cup and bull rifle, automatic, lever ac tion, bolt action, flint lock, pump or trombone action ri fles, single action and double nntlmi nlitlu Hoffman contended that a "ltttlo knowledge Is danger ous." After such n course, a boy can be trusted to both shoot and go hunting with out Injury to either himself or other hunters, he said. Accidents Increasing Ho also noted that due to the increasing numbor of ac cidents during hunting sea sons, legal action Is being tak en to require all boys be tween tlie ages of 12 and IS to pass a competency test be fore being Issued a hunting li cense In Oregon, Hoffman was taught the Old Golden Rule of Guns" by his father In Powers, Ore., at the age of eight when he killed his first deer. At that time he used a long barreled Winchester for most of his hunting. Ted moved to Eagle Point in 1047 and his wife la the former Arleno lilckson of Eagle Point. a year, including over a bil lion parcels," the postmaster added. "National population In creases will add over two million people to the popula tion In the next 12 months, with about one and a half mil lion marriages and establish ments of approximately three quarters of a million new households, including - many In this community," the post master said. "This will be re flected in increasing de mands for more postal serv ice here," he added. "Con tinued increase in mail vol ume is reflected in our over expanding American econ omy." CERAMIC TILE BY MEDLEY Installations and Full Do-It-Yourself Supplies 2747 No. Pacific Hwy SP 2-4459 How is it you know you're taking no chnncea when you let a youngster take your shopping list? Isn't it for the same reason that you buy 10 of your family's food without actually seeing it? You know that A good brand Is your best guarantee : . . and that the name on the label is your best buying guide. You have learned to count on good A p it Kf'-ilj -u l n t -M wlw-V SAFETY COURSE GRADUATES-Ted Hoff man, Instructor for the hunter safety courso In Eagle Point, shows part of Ills class how to place a gun barrel, In a hat if a fence must be crossed alone. Looking on are NEW! NEW! NEW! DUTCH MILL DAIRY Wait Main Across From Matlacks Next to LOOKI Your Choice PASTEURIZED HOMOGENIZED RAW MILK LARGE m ym fa send a child fir" , m?v.r .fsM 1 , EGGS Curb Service-No Waiting WE SELL THE BEST Hours: 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. to the store? brand names. You know the company stands back of them. You know they protect you. The more good brands you get to know, tha fewer buying mistakes you'll make. Get ac quainted with those brands in this newspaper; You'll get more value for your shopping money if you do. 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