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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1960)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, I960 A 3 T'PRIC JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS EVER LIGHT BULBS INSTALLED - Working on scaffolding at the very top of the 70-foot National Community Christmas tree on the Ellipse, behind the White House, back ground, Paul Barran, right, assisted by Gene Honaker, installs light bulbs in the star which tops the Douglas Fir tree from Oregon. President Eisenhower will throw a switch Friday to light the 6,000 multi colored bulbs on the tree and officially open the annual Christmas Pageant of Peace. (UPI Telephoto) Small Worlds Around Us . By Lynn M. Watkins It Wasn't the Thunder That Soured the Milk One of the most colorful and interesting folklore tales of early rural America, was one that has persisted in many sections of our country to this day, is the legend of the sour milk the belief that milk al ways turned sour whenever there was a thunder and light ning storm. Actually, milk did sour quicker during the storms, but the thunder and lightning didn't do it. Milk at the time was stored in what was called a spring house, a small build ing built over a spring or even a small creek if one was handy. Some spring houses were built around a pump. The fresh milk in tin con tainers was immersed in the cool water and kept there until it could be transported to what at the time was called a creamery. Warm, Humid Before and, of course, dur ing an eletcrical storm, the weather was warm and hu mid, called by the farmer, "muggy weather". This heat and high humidity actually soured the milk and shorten ed its keeping time. Back then, the milk was not pas teurized before it was taken to the milk depot. This, too, added to the chances that it would sour.. At the same time, too, there was a superstition regarding the habits of a common snake that was called the milk snake. The reptile was usually found near a milk house if it could find one. Some peo ple even claimed1 that this snake derived its name "milk snake" because "it milked cows in the pasture." Actually the snake never did such a thing, and it was only in the milkhouse because it was comfortably cool in there. People Didn't Care At the time no one had ever taken the trouble or had the instruments to compute the number of electrical storms that occur in any region; neither did people care how many storms took place over a state or in the world. Prob ably it's a good thing, too; the truth would have scared those simple folks half to death. Christmas Check Presented to Aid A Christmas check of $50 was awarded to Carrol E. Brown, foresty aid, this week. The award was given to Brown for his development of a "Ribes Checker Pick" used in blister rust control activities. Brown has been employed by the bureau of land man agment since 1957, and pres ently is being trained to take over the BLM district blister rust control project. Brown was raised in Jose phine county and is a native to southern Oregon. He pres ently resides on Griffin Creek near Medford. While Sands National Mon ument in New Mexico con tains the world's largest sur face deposit of gypsum, When baked, the soft white gypsum sand becomes pure plaster of paris. Now, with measuring de vices, it has been discovered that thunder storms are really "big deals." It is believed, and is known, that about 16 mil lion thunder storms bombard the earth and the sky above, every year. That would 'fig ger' about 45,000 a day a heap of commotion and a heap of sour milk if you're a believer in legends. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) -V- SI ' J) 54 c fa A A Guaranteed Delivery by Christmas Eve! Shop Tonite and Friday Till 9 P.M ,r 'FlS ! 7r. ' FULLY AUTOMATIC 2 SPEED KENMORE Reduced to Wash and spin-speeds for any fab ric. 2 timed wash, rinse and spin cycles. Full-time filter for lint-free wash. Hot, warm, cold wash temperatures. 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