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2 B SUNDAY. MAY 14. 19(1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Two Ashland Men Start Work on iiscum of Natural Resources Ashland - Two Ashland - men have formulated plans lor what they hope will be n unusual and self-supporting museum in the city. David Hagerbaumer and X. I. Haptonstall predict their Southern Oregon Museum of Natural Resources located in Lithia park will be in oper ation in a year. The museum will be dedicated to interpre tation and conservation of natural resources. Plans for the project have been developing for five years. The long-range forecast . originally called for opening the museum this August. However, as Haptonstall says, "We don't want to open until we have enough exhibits to make It worthwhile for the public." : Hagerbaumer and Hapton . siall first met five years ago. Hagerbaumer decided to sell his. taxidermy business in favor of water color painting. Haptonstall bought the busi ness. The pair decided they had' many common interests, Including a love of nature, and eventually the idea for the museum was formed. What started as an idea soon reached a feverish desire for action. Haptonstall says that whenever he and Hager baumer got together plans for a museum dominated the con versation. "Museum fever" soon drove them to investigating possible sites for the project. . . After much searching, they discovered the community building in Lithia auto court. And as Haptonstall puts it, "We couldn't have started from scratch and constructed a better building." Large trees and a small creek are located near the rustic log structure. The city park commission held administrative control of the building and proved to be extremely receptive to the museum proposal. Enthusias tic approval was given when Haptonstall and Hagerbaum er requested permission to lease the building. Hapton stall and Hager baumer are undertaking fi nancing and collection of dis plays on their own. "Asking for public tax money for such a project would be folly," Hagenbaumer says. Govern ment financing usually brings in a certain amount of politics and "we want to keep politics out of the museum," he adds. "We can do a faster and bet ter job if we are our own board of directors and cura tors," he explains. "However, if we find we can't carry the financial load ourselves, we may ask for money from a foundation," Hagerbaumer observes. Collecting exhibits is a time consuming job, both men ad mit. "A man could live for a million years and never com plete a museum," according to Hagerbaumer. "There is no end to the collections we can display." '. ' Immediate plans center around building displays for one main room. Three habi tat groups are planned, featur- D0N7 SLIP ON SLIPPERY WAXED FLOORS w i . - ,"- or varnish l used, only nnmbir PYLON it superior In biting win and stays glos sy nan slippery. Wo novo PYLON for linurtumi til wood Moon cement coverlnf In lut ing colors ar (iniih black top ual nr ones used, you will always uit it ... try If on new floors and coverings. Call RAY CHAMBERLAIN Medford SP 2-2332 Ing Bear creek, the Ashland burn and Mt. Ashland. Each group will show .birds, ani mals and plants common to each area in as near a natural setting as possible. Bbth men have taxidermy experience and Hagerbaumer has worked in two other museums. He was preparator and taxidermist for the Ne vada State museum In Carson City, and served as staff ar tist and assistant curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara, Calif. He has de veloped a process for repro ducing specimens by using latex and plastic. ' A nominal admission charge will be collected when the museum opens. However, all school children in or ganized groups making sched uled visits will be admitted without charge. Both men feel their main goal is educa tion through entertainment and are hopeful the museum will be educational for chil dren. Panorama Planned When the first display room is completed work on another will start. A large open porch will be enclosed and a south ern Oregon panorama will be constructed. It will feature a 112-foot circular case. The case will.be sectioned, with each section showing birds, animals and plants from each part of southern Oregon. Hagerbaumer and Hapton stall hope to collect most specimens themselves. How ever, they may ask the game commission and state biologist for help In acquiring rarer species. Specimens submitted by private individuals will be accepted. Federal and state permits are issued for collection of specimens for scientific and educational purposes.' Hagerbaumer and Hapton stall are optimistic about the museum's future. They think it could become one of the finest of its type in the country. ' - """"" s Vjfe ; Aw PLAN MUSEUM David Hagerbaumer, left, and L. I. Haptonstall are shown on the steps of the community building in Lithia park, soon to become the Southern Oregon Museum of Natural Resources. The museum. will be dedicated to interpretation and con servation of natural resources. When com pleted it will house displays valued in ex cess of $35,000. Current plans call for open ing the project in about a year. rrrr 'V. f .V ' .... 1,''?,yfVfl s LfJ i 0 $ a.V mr FOR SPARKLING-CLEAN DISHES YOU NEED PLEIITY OF HOT WATER 00 TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE for your eld water haatcr on a Now "Day and Night" Jjtjliss Vtlsr Haslsr America's finest water heater rust proof, waterproof gives you over 30 more hot water. GUARANTEED 10 YEARS! Rtgular Price...... 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The Montana Institute, sim ilar to 74 others in the U.S., operates under the provisions of the National Defense Edu cation Act of 1938. Particip ants receive stipends and de pendency allowances. Purpose of the conference is to improve the quality of Instruction in foreign , lan guages and to increase the number of teachers in the field. Special' emphasis is placed on the oral skills, speaking and undersanding, and on the use of laboratory techniques In tht teaching of languages. ' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Response Good To YMCA's Auction A "heartwarming response" has been received from local citizens to the-annual Young Men's Christian association's auction Sunday, May 21, at 1:30 p.m. at the B and B auc tion yard, Jacksonville high way. . The auction is sponsored an nually to augment the finan ces of the YMCA, which is supported only 'partially by memberships and largely by United Medford crusade funds. Members of the lumber in dustry have provided an as sortment of lumber to be sold, and the Southern Oregon Salesmen's club is - working as a promotion team. The Medford Realty board has al so voted unanimously to pro vide beef to be auctioned. The B and B aution yard, and the services of the B and B staff will be donated to the YMCA. Auctioneers will be Orland J. Brenner and Wil liam Bray. Merchandise is still needed for the autclon, and will be picked up if requested. Used and new items "of any de scription" are wanted by the YMCA, officials note. Brittsan Installed Legion Commander Granvil Brittsan, reelected commander of the American Legion Post IS of Medford, was installed with other 1961 62 officers in joint ceremon ies with the Jacksonville Cen tennial Post 100 last night in the Medford Legion hall, 404 Walnut St., Medford. Other officers installed were Charles Burns, first vice commander; Art Woods, second vice commander; Kee gan Townsend, adjutant; Earl Bigelow, finance officer; El mer Ness chaplain; Ralph At ell, assistant chaplain; and Perry DaBolay, sergeant at arms. Elected to the executive committee for a fivc-y ear term was Eugene Orr, who was also the installing offi cer. Delegate to the state con vention lo be held here arc Brittsan, Townsend. Hugh McKenzie, Orr, and Ed Rus sell. A politick dinner was serv ed by tht auxiliary units of the two posts. The post and auxiliary elections were held Wednesday evening. Continuing today with Ma dame Tussaud and her world famous waxworks museum, this question occurs: How did she get her start? It's a grim story. It begins with the French Revolution, when "heads rolled in the streets like balls on a bowl ing green" as the guillotine chopped away day after day and week after week at its grisly job of eliminating the hated aristocracy of France. At first, it was enough just to chop off the heads and watch them roll. Then, gradu ally, as the blood lust was sated by the sight of rolling heads and flowing rivers of blood that coursed down the gutters like water after a heavy rain, the idea arose that some record of all this should be kept, so that these detest ed aristocrats might never be forgotten. THAT is where Madame TiiRsnurl rams in. ' She was a young woman of about 17. She had already achieved some ' fame as a sculptor In wax. So she was employed to make wax fig ures of the more prominent among those who had been executed. Included in the London col lection, is a figure of herself, working from the model of a decapitated head. It isn't a pleasant sight. The head lies on the table before her, as she studies the features of her subject. The neck is severed cleanly from the body by the razor-sharp ' guillotine, and blood pours from it in a ghastly stream. One doesn't spend much time looking ab it. But even a fleeting glance leaves you with a queasy feeling in the region of the stomach. ANYWAY, the job made Madame Tussaud famous, and the realism of her work suggested to her the idea of a historical museum contain ing figures of the great of the world. So "she moved to Lon don, and tackled the job of creating the museum she had envisioned and peopling It with the earth's greats. When she died, her project was carried on by her pupils. son or on TV seem LESS real. FDR doesn't quite come up to living, breathing re ality. President Kennedy is al ready in the American group. He is recognizable, but he also doesn't seem to BREATHE. HHAT shakes you a little. THEN, just as you begin to feel the clutch of the cold fingers of disillusion, you stop before the figure of Joan of Arc. In her gleaming armor, with one hand holding the standard with the lilies of France, the other hand on the hilt of her -sword, her lovely and dedicated face looking out from the opened visor of her helmet, she is the LIVING Maid of Orleans. Suddenly, you BELIEVE the unbelievable story of her life and deeds. It was Mme. Tussaud herself who created that figure. No understudy had a hand in it. All of a sud den, you KNOW that this worker in wax was a GENIUS. ' I'VE SPENT a lot of time on this Exhibition of Mme. Tussaud's. It could be just another way to rake in shill ings and pounds and dollars. But it isn't. It HAS some thing. If you're ever over here, don't fail to see ft. Shady Cove Man Submits High Bid For FS Timber Don Harper of Shady Cove was high bidder last week for 1,300,000 board feet of na tional forest timber in the river road select area, Pros pect ranger district. Rogue River National forest. Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown reported the high bid totaled $48,880, compared to the forest service appraised price for the timber of $38,- 008, an increase of 29 per cent. Next high bidder in the oral auction was Trail Creek Lum ber company of Medford. Other bidders were C. M. and D. Logging, G. and R. Logging, Olson-Lawyer Lum ber, Inc., Red Blanket Lum ber, Inc., Southern Oregon Plywoods, and George Williams. The timber in the unit con sisted' of 880,000 board feet of Douglas fir bid in at $40 per thpusand board feet, 400, 000 board feet of ponderosa pine and western white pine bid in at $33.75 per thousand board feet, and 20 thousand board feet of white fir and other species bid in at $9 per thousand board feet. McGraw Brothers of Med ford was high bidder on the same day for 4,000,000 board feet of national forest timber in the Big Bear area, Prospect ranger district. The high bid totaled $26,240, compared to the (forest service appraised price for the timber of $25,- 700, an increase of 2 per cent. Next high bidder was Med ford Timber company of Med ford. Other bidders were Olson-Lawyer Lumber, Inc., and Steve Wilson. The timber in this unit consisted of 2,600, 000 board feet of Shasta red fir and Douglas-fir bid in at $7.40 per thousand board feet, and 1,400,000 board feet of white fir and other species bid in at $5 per thousand board feet. . . Toasfmaslers Will Meet Tomorrow "Equivocating" is the word of the week for the Medford Toastmasters club which will meet Monday, May 15. Toast master will be Dr, John Wei sel. Speakers Monday will be James Spangler and John Harding, with Dick Swan as an alternate. James Warrin er is in charge of table topics, and Wally Campbell and Dwlght Wilson are (valuat ors. Members may bring guests. Special at Electric Shaver Shop mm a, aJMaioMteo mm in mm How only 50 With Trade In NEEDS NOTHING BUT WHISKERS No wires ... no water . no sockets ... . no soap! Give yourself the wonderful convenience of cord lees shaving . . . . 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Standing in the com pany of these makers of English history, you seem to; be LIVING in your own per-, son the history of our English-speaking part of the' world. I I) is uncanny. - 1 SO MUCH for the greats of the world of the past many of whom were contem poraneous with Mme. Tus sard herself. These are REAL, j They LIVE before your eyes.. They seem to breathe. You expect them to SPEAK. Then You move on to another group. It is entitled Ameri can Presidents and Statesmen. These came AFTER Mme. Tussaud's time. Somehow, they seem LESS real. George Washington is the most life like. He also seems about to speak to you. William Pcnn is a living character. But President Lincoln larks some thing that is PRESENT in the statue of himself in the Lin coln Memorial in Washington. Hoover, Eisenhower, Tru man men who are still alive.' men w hive all seen, In per-; W nafi enn iiiimi-i i " ' i ii m n an ii I Yes, every day - ESPECIALLY TODAY - Mother ploys a leading role in life's continuous drama. 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