Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 19, 1960, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextWEB MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKB. 04. T1UHUKT. SfiCEMBER 19, 1980 as Tre e Trimmings, C. igarett es Blamed for Fires; 34 Peris! By Jack Smith (c) 1960 Tirnes-Mlrror Syndicate Old Ebcnezer was correct. Christmas is humbug.' It's seasonal dementia brought on by the inces sant playing of Christmas carols. They poison us with nostalgia and turn us into children again. Once more we feci love pouring into our young hearts as warm and vibrant as a sun beam. The world is a silver tree hung with baubles, all for 'us to pick. Everybody be lieves in Santa Claus. Every body loves everybody. Well, we're not falling for the old razzzmataz this Yule tide at our house. We're too old and too cyn ical and too worried about steel production, the Dow Jones averages and the gross national product. It's easier than you might suppose to cast off these silly old traditions and view Christ mas in a practical light. I merely called a family council and proposed a plan by which we could enjoy the holiday without running up a mess of bills and filling the place with white elephants. ' "Why don't we," I said, "just declare a few tilings that we need and would have to buy sooner or later any way? That way nobody would get something he didn't want, and yet he wouldn't know exactly what he was going to get. so it would still be a THE COURT HELD IS o public service by I he COLLEGE of LAW WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY , Adam, many years ago, planted some poplar trees near his property line in order to provide a windbreak. One day Baker, his next door neighbor, noticed that the foundation of one of his out buildings had developed sev eral cracks.. Upon further in vestigation, Baker discovered that the cracks were caused because the roots of Adam's poplar trees had spread and were growing beneath the building's foundation. Baker, unable to come to an agree ment with Adam, filed suit for damages for injury to his buildings. The Court Held: No recov ery for Baker. A landowner can plant shade trees and in noxious plants on his own land and not be guilty of cre ating a nuisance merely be cause the roots or branches of the tree or plant enter the land of his neighbor. The planting of trees can not be enjoined and damage resulting from the spread of roots and branches is not ac tionable. However, the in jured party is not without remedy. He can cut off the in truding branches and roots without being liable to the tree owner. surprise, and kind of Christ masy." That's the first time I ever used a word like Christmasy in my life, I believe, but I was trying to sell an idea. You have to talk their langu age. They were delighted, of course. I have always found that the. almost geometrical beauties of economy can be as appealing, if presented in the proper light, as the glitter ing facets of extravagance. I decided to set an ex ample, while they were in the mood. "One thing I really need," I said, "is some black shoe laces. I 'could also use a paperweight for my desk. It could just be a rock-a kind of pretty rock. You could probably find it someplace out of doors, in nature. You get the idea?" "I think so, Pa," said Doug. "I guess I need some adhesive tape." "Adhesive tape?" I said, puzzled. "Why's that?" I dared hope that at, last he had decided to become a doctor instead of a professional short stop. "My bat's busted," he said. "Maybe if I taped it up it would last until I could get a job and earn enough for a new one." "That's the spirit," I said. "We'll see, boy." His brother had been think ing, too. "I'd like a new barrel to put the cans out in," he said. "If that's too expensive, could my tennis shoes be half soled?" "Ha, ha," I laughed, falling into the spirit of the season despite myself. "We 11 see, we'll see." . .-.,;: I turned to my wife. "What about you?" "Who, me?" she said. They always say who me like that. as if they are surprised to be considered a, member of .the groups," . ., '"Oh, I don't need any thing," she said. "Really;" "That's what you said last year," I reminded her. "Maybe some nice handker chiefs," she said. "You said that last year, too," I said. "Whatever hap pened to the handkerchiefs you got last year? "Or maybe a nice new roll of quarters," she said, "for the laundromat." I wonder if they were kid ding me. I bet they go out and spend my money on gold, frankincense and myrrh. Humbug. Florida, Texas Each Record Six During Week End By United Press International Defective Christmas tree trimmings and forgotten ciga rettes headed causes today of a spate of week end fire deaths across the nation. A United Press Internation al count showed at least 34 persons burned to death or fatally injured in fires since Saturday night. At least eight of the victims were children. I Florida and Texas each i recorded six fire deaths. Four persons died in Kentucky, I three in Missouri, two each in i Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, I Michigan, Maine and Georgia, i and one each in California, ' New Hampshire and Okla homa. Deputy Sheriff George Owens, 21, his pregnant wife and his wife's mother were found suffocated Sunday in Dade County, Florida. Fire men said a gas heater, used to fight cold holiday tempera tures along the peninsula, ap parently consumed the oxygen in the Owens home. Three Children Die At Springdale, Mo., a sub division of St. Charles, faulty Christmas tree wiring was blamed for a fire that killed Patty Beck, 9, and her broth ers, John, 7. and Kenneth, 3, Sunday. Intense heat in the children's bedroom defeated a rescue attempt by the young sters' father Joseph. - In Texas, Herman Pinks, 35, and his three daughters, twins Corcne and Pauline, and Virginia, 10 months, died in a fire which swept through their Tyler home Saturday night. At Houston, Carleen Head. 5, and her sister, Donna, 3, died Sunday morning in another home fire. A S1.5 million blaze in a block-square recreation center at Louisville. Ky., Sunday killed three firemen. Capt. Joseph Buren, Sgt. Jesse Wil son and Fireman Riley Prior. Betty Level, 70, died in an other Louisville fire which consumed her frame home. Cigarettes were believed to have started at least four fatal fires, taking lives in Los Angeles, Chicago, Norman, Okla., and Savannah, Ga. Couple Burned Fatally A South Omaha, Neb., cou ple burned to death early Sunday. Investigators traced the center of he blaze to a Christmas tree in their living room. In the woods of north-central Maine, Kenneth London, 26, and Vernon Martens, 16, were killed in a home fire at Mattawamkeag that also in jured five persons, including three firemen. Two victims of an Onamia, Minn., fire Sunday managed to crawl to within four feet of their front door before being overcome by flames and heat. The dead were identified as Mrs. Mary Foxx and Harry Mitchell, both about 38. In Waltonville, 111., owner G.E. Rollinson, 45, suffocated in his combination grocery-1 service station. In other fires, Walter Fuler, 84, died in the ruins of his one-room cabin near Amherst, N.H., and John W. Proctor died in a fire at his Miami, Fla., home. 218 EAST MAIN Give a GREAT DANE . for Christmas! Aged 3 months. He's beau tiful, blond, affectionate gentle. An alert, intelligent, easy-ro-train thoroughbred. Ph. NO 4-2550 This column of general le gal principles is presented by the Willamette University College of Law. It is not to be taken as legal advice. Slight changes in the facts may change the outcome of a case. ART PROFESSOR DIES Basle, Switgerland-IUPII-Dr. Karl Lehman, 66, internation ally known archaeologist and New York University fine arts professor, died Saturday. Alice Corbelt Clears Vote Sland Salem-(UPU-Sen. Alice Cor belt (D-Portland) clarified her position Saturday on the bat tle for Oregon Senate Presi dent between Sens. Harry Boivin. (D-Klamath Falls) and Alfred Corbett (D-Portland). Both Boivin and Corbett have claimed her vote. Mrs. Corbett said that if Al fred Corbett receives 15 votes for President-that would be half-she would "be the 16th giving him the majority. Oth erwise, she said, she is pledg ed to Boivin. Boivin claims 19 votes, including Mrs. Cor bett's, three more than neces sary to win. r f AY P l 0mi To Lighten the Burden in Time of Sorrow Our understanding counsel and quiet competence are a source of deep comfort to the family, who can leave every detajl of the funeral service to us with full confidence. PERL' - Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT Southeast Salem Market Robbed Salem -(UP1I- A masked gun man held up Ed's Market in southeast Salem Saturday night after striking the son of the former owner and lying up the store manager and two employees. . . Cash and checks totaling $6,300 were taken 'from the safe. Timothy C. Hawkins, 17, Jefferson, was hospitalized for head injuries after being struck by the gunman as he fled. He is the son of Edward Hawkins, former store owner. John W. Smith, 39, store manager, Salem, and two em ployees were leaving the store when the gunman appeared and forced them back inside. They were tied up and the robber went through the safe. Wall Street Chatter New York-IUPD-Earnlngs of the steel companies may be expected to; rise, a bit next year but the results ( will still make poor reading, according to the Value Line Investment Survey. - , ;: With the March quarter seen as next year's low, the survey says, a number of di vidend cuts may be announced as 1961 opens. Cyclical issues are unlikely to participate in the hoped-for year-end rally, Shearson, Hammill says. 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