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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-
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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.
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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.
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Local Teacher Gets
Institute Selection
Hugh H. Shurtleff, teacher
at Hedrick Junior High
school, Medford, has been se
lected to participate in the
French section of the summer
institute for secondary school
teachers at Montana State Un
iversity, June 19 to Aug. 11.
Shurtleff, who lives at 1860
Archer dr., Medford, teaches
English,, Latin,' and French,
and has been with the Med
ford public schools for about
seven years.
Ha also received an alter
nate appointment to an aca
demic-year institute in French
at Emory college, Atlanta, Ga.
The institute will begin Sept.
19 and will last through May,
1962.
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.
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PERHAPS the greatest
single exhibit, in a fabu
lous assembly of exhibits, is
the Hall of Kings. Starting
with William the Conqueror,
every ruler of England since
Duke William is depicted. In
all of them she achieved the
startling Illusion of living,
breathing reality that has al
ready been described in these
sketches. As you stand before
them, you simply can't escape
the feeling that you are stand
ing in the actual presence of
these kings and queens. It is
an eerie sensation.
If is also a splendid history
lesson. 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-;
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