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o Rogue Sells 168 Head of Cattle Phoenix-Saturady's sale at the Rogue Valley auction yard was active on a small run with 168 cattle sold, ac cording to Bob Bever, sale yard manager. Baby calves sold high. Whiteface calves brought $37 to $50 per head. Guernsey and Jersey calves sold at $8 to $17 per head. Whiteface steer calves sold jvell with the top of the light calves selling at $26.50 to $27.30 per hundredweight. One pen of yearling Here ford steers sold at $26.10 per hundredw eight. Yearling steers in the 650 to 800 pound class sold at $21.75 to $22.90 per hundredweight. Holitein Steers Holstein steers sold at $22 to $23.10 per hundredweight. These steers weighed 400 to 500 pounds. Heifer calves sold at $23.50 to $24.75 per hundredweight and weighed 300 to 425 pounds. Yearling heifers sold at $21 to $22.75 per hundred weight and weighed 325 to 680 pounds. Slaughter cows sold well with light offering and a dol lar higher than the week be fore. Standard cows sold at $17 to $19.20 per hundred weight. Utility cows sold at $14.50 to $16.10 per hundred weight. Canner and cutters sold at $13 to $14.70 per hun dredweight. A few shelly cows sold down to $10 per hundredweight. 4-H Prefairs Set June 28-July 28 Five 4-H prefairs designed as primarily practice sessions before the Jackson County 4-H and FFA fair are sched uled throughout the county from June 28 to July 28, ac cording to Jerry Brog, county 4-H agent. The schedule is: June 28, Sis-Q prefair. Bell view Grange hall, 9:30 a.m. July 19, Desert Pegasus horse prefair, Camp White, 9:30 a.m. July 25, Antelope prefair, Elbert Bigham ranch, 9:30 a.m. July 27, Ruch - Applegale prefair, Francis Krouse ranch, 9:30 a.m. July 28, Central Point Westside prefair, county fair grounds, Medford, 9 a.m. The above listed prefairs are open to all 4-H members in the county, Brog said. Lunch will be served on the grounds. The program for each prefair includes judging contests, and showmanship contests in each kind of live stock. Award ribbons are provided by the Jackson County Fair association. Smith Lumber Firm Entry Is Checked Smith Lumber company, 102 South Fir St., was entered sometime Sunday evening, Medford city police reported, and about $16.45 was taken from the firm's cash regis ter. There were no signs of forcible entry, police said. The entry was discovered by company employees around 8 a.m. Monday. Investigating officers said a similar incident occurred at the company about two weeks ago. buy four trawl pSS L, f Qjy; foiipit get the fifth one FREE! OFFER EXPIRES JULY 14, 1962 A Now EBBS i"1 PHONE j i SV TV A FISHY LOOK-A six-pound carp caught by James Seymour, 14, in an Almany, N.Y. lake causes his sister, Winnie, 4, left, to back off in a hurry after she was allowed Henry Thoreau Is Honored On 100th Year After His Death (Editor's Note - A cen tury ago Sunday death still ed one of the great pens of American literary history, but the writings of Henry David Thoreau remain alive as an influence in the lives of free men, A leading scholar discusses Thoreau in the following dispatch. The writer, a native of Elgin, 111., is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina and will lead cere monies in New York Sun day night formally admit ting Thoreau to the Hall of Fame), By DR. RAYMOND WILLIAM ADAMS Written for United Press International Henry Thoreau, author of "Walden," died just a century ago. Curiously, his reputation has been growing and spread ing around the world ever since. That doesn't happen often even to the reputations of authors. Books, of course, can have a longer life than the men who wrote them. But it is not only the reputation of Thoreau's great book that has grown. It is the reputa tion of the man himself. When a hundred years after his death, Thoreau's name is add ed to the Hall of Fame of New York University, it won't be his book, that is hon ored; it will be the man him self. What did Thoreau do that throughout a hundred years has made him increasingly a world-wide influence? He was put in the village jail for one night because of a tax bill of a dollar or two, surely not an impressive detention. And yet that single night in jail out weighs perhaps all the other imprisonments of history. That is because Thoreau made his night in jail symbolic of a free man's relation to his gov ernment, to all government, and then wrote an account of the event which has caught the imagination of people ever since. Not long ago it taught Gan dhi how to resist imperialism and free India. And just now it is teaching freedom riders and sit-in demonstrators how gallons... at a good head-on look at the fish. By the look on Winnie's fact, she didn't like the look in the fish's eye. (UPI) to make states abandon old laws and customs. That's a good deal for a man to do be cause of one night in a little country jail. Builds Home About the same time, when Thoreau was less than thirty years old, he built himself a one room house on the shore of a beautiful lake just out side the village of Concord, Mass., within a mile of the family home and the shop where he and his father op erated a little pencil manufac tory. He stayed at Walden pond hardly more than two years, not doing anything spec tacular, and certainly not act ing like a recluse or a hermit. Most of the villagers thought he was a bit eccentric. And they still thought so after he had tried to explain his ac- Foreign Assistance Business Benefits Medford Merchants Medford business firms re ceived $19,000 in foreign as sistance business between Jan uary, 1954, and December 1961. according to a report of the U. S. Agency for Inter national Development. This contributes to a total of $76,072,705 in business in the state of Oregon. According to the report, a large share of this internation al business goes to port cities, as this is where the interna tional exporters have a ten dency to locate. Under the current AID pro gram, about 80 per cent of the money used for grants and nearly 100 per cent of the funds for commodities financ ed through loans are spent in the United States. The figures on each state's share in business resulting from the foreign assistance program are based on AID financed transactions with ex porting firms. This is cither through the sales unit of a firm or through an export merchant located in the state and engaged in overseas sales of American-produced com modities. The total amount of assist ance business in the United States was $4,429,581,138. Machine Shop at Fairview Destroyed Salem - (UPll - Fire destroy ed the machine shop on the second floor of the boiler house of Fairview Home here early Monday. Damage was estimated by a spokesman for the State Board of Control at between $20,000 and $30,000. The fire was discovered about 3 a.m. Salem firemen controlled the blaze which ap parently started in a roof or attic. It was the second fire at Fairview In the past several days. The previous fire damaged a loading dock at one of the cottages. Ride Coolly ?;f Ml hewn -v-f.ilyi MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON S 1 tions in some lectures which he gave at the village lyceum and even after he wrote a whole book about his twenty six months at the pond. But people since then have not dismissed it as an eccen tric incident; and the book has become a great classic that has gone through a hundred edi tions and been translated into all the major languages of the world. That is because Thor eau tied his experiment in liv ing at Walden pond to anoth er fundamental principle: how a man can simplify his life and be himself in the face of the complexities of the ma chine age and the involve ments and pressures of west ern society. States Case He didn't think everybody should go live in the woods. That happened to be his way of simplifying his life. But his statement of the case appealed to a human longing to live a life of single purpose and in tegrity. Ever since 1847, when Thoreau moved back to the village, or since 1854 when the book "Walden" was pub lished, industrial and social and scientific advances have been making life more and more complex and steadily in creasing the desire of people to get out from under modern pressures, and to count as in dividuals again. Thoreau did a third thing that has made him increasing ly important. He established a first-hand human relationship with nature and the wild. Like the free man's relation to his government and the in dividual's relation to complex society, the need of people to keep contact with nature has grown in importance during the century since Thoreau lived. Interest in wild nature has increased steadily. Mean while, the growth of cities and the spread of suburbs and the population explosion around the world have pushed wilder ness farther and farther from our reach. Thus Thoreau in creasingly voices for twen tieth century man another basic human need. Not many men in a short lifetime felt so accurately the concerns of the century still to come. Even fewer of them found the answers' so long be fore most people even knew about the questions. It takes a great man to do that. A century after his death no one doubts that Henry Thoreau is a great man. Smoker for Men Is Scheduled Thursday A men's smoker for Ameri can Red Cross volunteers and their friends will be held at the Red Cross building at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 28. Bridge, canasta and pino chle will be played. Smoker chairman, Robert Ross, pointed out that most of the fund raising activities of the organization are carried on by women "oluntccrs. The smoker will give the men a chance to do a part. Reservations are asked and can be made by telephoning 772-4405. MONITOR, BY MARK IV The ultimate in auto air conditioning. Ride se rene, unruffled car windows closed arjainst wind, dust, noise. Ar rtve unwilted, unwrin ';!cd Monitor dehumid fies, as well as cools, the .r in your car. 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Permits were issued 10 Dean and Taylor Ponliac company to remodel its shops at Fifth and Grape sts. at an estimated cost of $8,000: to Gregory investment company to erect a residence at 2750 Connell si. at an approxi mate cost of $11,950; and to Gene Forset to construct a residence at 1530 Miracle lane at an anticipated cost of $10. 000. Other pemits were to the First National Bank of Ore gon, Medford branch, to re model and make an addition to the building at Main and Front sts. at an estimated cost of $12,000; to Robert P. Brown to remodel h i s residence at 2545 Tennessee st. at an approximate cost of $1,000; to Medford High school to erect a football sta dium on South Oakdale ave. at an estimated cost of $88, 500; and to Rogue Valley hospital, 2825 Barnett rd to remodel the hospital at an estimated cost of $30,900. Others included Jay Har. mon to make an addition to his residence at 2500 Country Club rd. at an approximate cost of $10,000 and to A. 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Operators say the average wage in the Douglas Fir Belt is now $2.57 an hour and they cannot afford any more in creases because of the de pressed state of the industry. Union spokesmen say the Torpedo Failure Overcomes Sailors Honolulu - (UPll - The Navy today sought the cause of a practice torpedo malfunction which forced the submarine Tiru to make an emergency surfacing 15 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Eighteen men were treated for smoke inhalation as a re sult of the accident Monday, but the Navy said none was injured seriously. The vessel returned to port under its own power. The Tiru, a completely renovated World War II mod ified snorkel-type submarine, carried a crew of 11 officers and 75 men. The practice torpedo, which had been placed in a firing tube in the after torpedo room, was started either by accident or through a ma terial failure. 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