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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1861 MtjJrOnlJ MAIL, i mount, racuruttu. ual, Si IS Smo Worlds Around Lfs By Lynn M. Watkins Bgllter and Tribune syndicate 1961) LANDSLIDE This Is a view of the landslide ahead of by a rock and mud-slide. The locomotive is at the right of the cast-bound Union Pacific train which was pushed into the picture in the water. , a track-side lake in the Columbia River gorge Friday (UPI Telephoto) SCHOOL NEWS Walker, Ashland Mrs. Judith Paulsen's sec ond grade is learning about ways messages were sent long ago and how mail is carried now. Tuesday the class visit- cd the post office and found out about the postman's work and the machines that, help him. ': The fourth grade, room 6, has completed an Eskimo vll lage complete with Igloos made of flour and salt. Clay sleds, seals, killer whales, and other life of the Arctic are shown. The scene is In two parts, depicting summer and winter. " Dr. Rabenberg gave a talk and showed slides of Tule Air base in Greenland. There were lovely pictures of the Greenland ice cap. glaciers, and icebergs. All three fourth grades enjoyed his visit. Marvin QeUUna'i fifth grade class made valentine mobiles. Three teachers Judg- cd them, and first prizes went to Pali Brown and Peggy Aus- tin. - Feb. S, the class went on a skating party for all fifth graders. Mr. Gettling and Kathy Hall brought lemon pies for fraction work. We divided them and each had a piece. : On Vnh 9.9. ihm fifth ffrarlpa are going to give a patriotic assembly. John Cady's room has a new girl named Christine Lusk. The class has a student teach er, Miss Shaver. ;, Mr. Cady's fifth grade is 'going to have a valentine par ty Feb. 14. They have made folders to hold their valen tines. to come tell us about what they saw. They brought with them post cards and a folder on Mexico. They also brought with them a little glass image that the Indians used as a God. We learned many things about Mexico and enjoyed the boys' talk. Mr. Deets room chose new officers for the second half of the year. They are presi dent, Pam Rhodda; vice presi dent, Richard Schwelkl; room representative, Karen Gruber; secretary, Carolyn Hnsaell; treasurer, Nancy King; news paper reporters! Dawn Fitz gerald and Olin Ford; safety patrol captain, Kathy O'Harra. We are all happy to have Miss Marianna Fletcher for our student teacher this term. The girls In Mrs. Vera Bur- goyne's room had a doll show. Each girl brought her favorite doll. There were tiny dolls, big dolls and one old doll In the show. Each girl wrote a story about her doll. i 's The boys helped the girls get the room ready for the show. The boys wrote invita tions to all the first graders and other second graders in our school. Our room is full of book worms. Some of the worms are getting long. We read and report on library books to make the worms grow. Susan Coffey and Curtis Hasscll have both read many books. In science, we are study ing about temperature and weather. We have each made thermometer. ' We have learned the meaning of many new science words from our reading and experiments. We are each keeping a weather calendar. ' The class is making displays of the United States on tables Some of the displays are the western states, central states, southern states, middle Atlan tic slates, and New England states, Miss Allcne Inlow's fifth grade cibss completed their unit on the Civil War Centen nial and invited their parents to hear their reports and mu sic. Many of the boys and girls brought dolls dressed in the Civil War period for the doll exhibit. The class served cot fee and cookies to the parents New room officers are Mark Hicks, president; Mary Bowl in, vice president; and Lucin da Kaylor, secretary. The classes of Frank Koch and Lyman Pruitt's sixth grade are planning a Mexican fiesta as part of their culmin atlng activity. Member! of each class will participate In eating, dancing, singing, and game playing - all on Mexican theme. The final part of the program will be the breaking of the pinata. Bellview, Ashland For Valentine's day all the grades at Bellview school will have a party. The fifth grade will have a valentine box and will exchange valentines. We have been coloring pictures with crayons and painting over them with tempera paint as an art project. :, We have had many out of school with bad colds. Susan Hecox transferred from Briscoe to Bellview, and Lynette Cornelius has moved to Seattle. The sixth grade has been studying Mexico. Pete Krcls man and Gary Jones, high school students, went to Mex ico and stayed for seven days. When they got back our teach er, Noel Deets, wanted them bought a long play story rec ord. , Last week, we did finger painting. We used two colors of paint and our pictures turned out pretty. When we came back from Christmas vacation we start ed going to the school library every Thursday. Miss Owen, our librarian, reads us a story and then we get to choose a book to take home. We can keep our book home for a week. . The girls and boys in Mrs. Thelma Wadley's third grade room have Miss Genevieve VanderWeyst, from Southern Oregon college, as a new stu dent teacher. Our class is enjoying our study of American Indians in social studies. We are learn ing about the four main groups, the Northwest Fisher man, the Northeast Woods man, the Plains group, and the Southwest or Desert In dians. We are planning an Indian program for a school assembly in February. Farm Bureau Hears Convention Report Robert Lytle, Ashland! dis cussed his trip to the Na tional Farm Bureau conven tion in Denver recently at a meeting of the Talent Farm Bureau at the Valley View school house last week. Mrs. Lytle", who accompa nied her husband, reviewed meetings she attended while at the convention. Jackson County Commis sioner Ed Taylor reviewed a proposal by a citizens group for a stadium In the county and discussed trapping coyotes in me county ana state. David Blair, Rogue River, talked on phases of legisla tion, and current trends in the state legislature, and Mrs. Blair talked on bargaining in the markets ' today. A. L. Lemey, Ashland, in troduced David Passon of the county extension office, who showed films relating to agri culture. . : k The meeting was conducted by Evan Rasmussen, Mcdford, former chairman of the bu reau, in the absence of Chair man Gilbert Hill, Talent. Here's a Look at in Best Dressed Duck The little wood ducks are the dapper dandies of Amer ican ,water fowls. As though color -was not enough to make them the handsomest of birds, Nature went a few steps further and striped them delicateljfc. with snowy white, 'which gives them the appearance of hav ing been frosted with 'icing, or striped with a striping brush yielded by a very steady hand. The white lines accentu ate the greens and reds and make him the best dressed of nil the ducks. Both the male and the fe male wear a "hat" that flares out at the back and looks like a colored scarf had been tied on the head, leaving the corn ers streaming out behind. The female usually looks rather sad, but her husband carries the jaunty air of a Beau Brummell, and to all appear ances has not a care in the world. The wood ducks were named because of their pref erence for woodlands and oft en can be found there, even though no water is in the vi cinity. At first this "unduck likc" habit was not under stood until someone noticed that the birds' fondness for acorns probably lured them into the forests. Strange Nesting Sites Another habit that seems strange for ducks is their nest ing sites, which are always in hollow trees. An abandoned woodpecker's nest does very nicely: if the tree is near a pond or lake, the "ducks" like it all the better. Just how the' baby ducks are moved from the nest to the water Is a question about which many arguments are held, and which is still only partly understood. If the ducklings were taught to fly before they enter the water for the first time, the answer is easy, but such does not always seem to be the case. When they leave the nost, they are incapable of flying and must tumble from the hollow in the tree to the ground from where they could waddle to the water's edge. . If the hollow "nest tree" is within sight of water, the mother quite often commands from the edge and under par ental urging, the babies plane down by themselves, their tiny feet and wings extending on the maiden voyage which quite often must result in painful crashes, and even broken bones. . Found During Night These ' poor unfortunates never live to become hand some ducks for some hungry predator finds them during the night, following their first short flight. The wood ducks have no close relatives in America; their nearest kin being the strikingly garbed mandarin duck of Asia. . ' Under protection afforded by the migratory bird laws, the wood ducks are increasing rapidly. This is as it should be, for this little fashion-plate, who graphically illustrates what the well-dressed ducks should wear, deserves our ev ery consideration. His beauty alone is reason enough for saving him; he is too pretty to eat. , NAZI HANGS SELF Dortmand, Germany - IUPD -Former NaziSS Commander Rudolf Batz hanged himself in a jail cell Thursday, police reported. He -was . awaiting trial on charges of murdering 263 ' partisan fighters and slave laborers at the end of World War II. Harpsichordist Slates Concert at SOC Campus Ashland - Harold Chaney, young American harpsichord ist, will appear before the Southern Oregon college fac ulty and student body Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. in Churchill auditor ium. Chaney, who has gained recognition through his many recitals and broadcasts throughout the country, exhib its a characteristic flair for early keyboard music. For some time, he was an active musical figure in southern California where in addition to his work with the San Diego County Bach Society, he was engaged in the field of church -music as an organist choirmaster, and as a mem ber of the Los Angeles Episco pal Diocesan Commission on Church Music. He has taught for San Di ego State college, and is cur rently a member of the facul ty of the school of music of the University of Oregon. , Chaney was recently in vited to perform at the Amer ican Guild of Organists Con vention in San Francisco in June. From the vast treasures of PLANES FERRY FOOD Wiesbaden, Germany- (UPD -American planes flew 1,092 tons of emergency supplies to The Congo during the 10-day food airlift that ended last week end, the Air Force an nounced Thursday. The food went to starving tribesmen in The Congo. early music, Chaney has chos en a program both representa tive in scope and highly ap pealing to a wide range of listeners. The program pro vides an opportunity to hear masterpieces of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries on the orig inal instrument for whose del icate sonorities these works were written. To be heard are pieces of Handel and Bach, works from the Spanish repertoire includ ing sonatas by Scarlatti, and selections by Couperin and Purcell. Chaney will play his own harpsichord which, inci dentally, is one of the largest in the country by virtue of its extraordinary tonal resources. 8ENTENCED TO LIFE Yazoo City, Miss.-dJPD-Lewis Coffee, 22, and his brother, Charles, 20, were sentenced to life imprisonment Thurs day for raping a 5-year-old Negro girl. The United State -capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington in 1800, f, CHRISTIAN I SCIENCE 1 Station K-BOY Sundays 9:45 A.M. Dr. Robert D. Gallagher thi announces opening of his office at The Medical Center Bldg. Suite 419 v Chiropodist - Foot Specialist SPring 3-6864 ' SMALL WONDER Come in and drive one! MORSE MOTORS, 6th and Ivy, Medford The new officers of room 10 are president, Terry Kerby; vice president, Christine Deck er; secretary, Carolyn Miucti; room representative, Virginia Bradshaw. The fourth grade has been studying about the cold re gions of the world. Each one has been making a report about Alaska. Thoy are mak ing an Eskimo picture. The third grade is planning an In dlan program. Several pupils from our room have been absent. The names of the ones who were absent are Nancy Hecox, Alan DeBoer, and Yvonne Miller. Mrs. Eleanor Sllverwood's first grade room held an elec tion for new room officers, Barry Brown was elected pres ident; Donna Beagle, room representative; Bobby Ellis, II hrarian; and Sharon Kerby, newspaper representative. At the December PTA meeting, Mrs. Sllverwood's room won the room count. We Pear Research Funds To Be Asked . Washington -IUPD- Rep. John F. Baldwin (R-Calif.) said Fri day he and other Pacific Coast congressmen would seek an appropriation for research into disease that threatens to wipe out the pear industry. Baldwin said congressmen from California, Oregon and Washington have met and came to the conclusion that an "emergency research p r o gram" was needed to combat the disease known as "pear decline." Pear decline first appeared in Washington about 10 years ago. Since then It has spread to Oregon and California and last year killed an estimated 150,000 trees in the latter state alone. 1 The cause of the dlneane is not known. MrretMTic nun torn ma, Hun It, M Iwm It M MMIItlullT. TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN (2I4 Wes. M,in sm ad the BG Y APPLIANCE CENTER $ WESTINGH0USE wmmii noaiM tna kiit, fart tmi nttar M, Mill la mi fain,. UfT-OFT ovu DOOt Pvtt tviry ant at ana vlthia rtica tar dtia-ap. Makes cooking simpler . . . clean-up easier PtUrOUT OVER NUTCRS . 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