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261 Cattle Sell At Rogue Valley; Market Active Phoenix - A total of 261 cattle were sold at the Rogue Valley Auction yard In Phoe nix during the regular July 7 sale. The market was active on all classes, Manager Bob Be ver reported. Baby calves sold well with only eight head in the offer ing. Whiteface calves sold at $42 to $57 per head. Holsteins sold at $24 to $35 per head and Guernsey and Jersey calves sold at $10 to $15 per head. Light steer calves wer in short supply and one pen of five head sold at $28.50 per hundredweight. These calves weigned 325 pounds. Single calves sold at $27.25 to $28.75 per nunaredweight. One pen of 30 head of light yeaning steers sold at $25.25 per hundredweieht and weighed 503 pounds. Yearling steers weighed 600 to 800 pounds and sold at $22 to $23.50 per hundredweight. Yearling heifers sold at $20 to $22.25 and were in the 500 to 700 pound class. Heifer calves sold at $22.50 to $24.50 per hundredweight for 300 to 450 pound animals. Slaughter cattle sold at steady prices with grass fat steers going at $21.50 to $23.70 per hundredweight. Grass fat heifers sold at $21.55 to $22.50 per hundredweight. Slaughter cows sold steady with young cows selling at $16.20 to $18.20 per hundredweight. Utility cows sold at $15.20 to $16.30 per hundredweight. Canners and cutters sold at $13.50 to $15 per hundred weight. A few shelly cows sold at $8.50 to $11 per hundredweight. Slaughter bulls sold at $19.70 to $20.70 per hundred weight. "There is some pressure on slaughter cows and we don't look for much improvement on these until the grass cows are gone in California. If you have cull cows to seil, we would suggest moving them as soon as possible," Bever ad vised. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 7,204 Oregon Families Still Keeping One Cow Corvallis When Mrs O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp that set Chicago ablaze in 1871, some folks opined that "the city is just no place ior a cow. Others went even further and said It didn't make sense to keep only one cow in the first place. Time will come, they argued, when all cows will be managed in large herds with dairying the sole business of the operator. But that time hasn't yet arrived, report Oregon State univer sity dairy specialists Dairying in Oregon today is a complex mixture of Cen- Garden Tips Give Meats Care To Guard Health Salem Picnic-bound? Dr. M. L. Houston, meat inspec tion supervisor with the state department of agriculture, makes these timely sugges tions and cautions. Summer in Oregon brings backyard cookouts, beach pic nics and trips to the moun tains. Looking ahead to juicy hamburgers, wieners and steaks grilled over an outdoor fire, mother's shopping the day before the outingv in cludes meat as an important portion of her provisions. And herewith begins a tale. That appetizing steak is purchased from a refrigerat ed case and taken home to the chill confines of the fam ily refrigerator. But what happens in the meantime? Re member that all fresh meat, most smoked meats and sau sage contain small numbers of living bacteria and mold spores. These few organisms cause no harm and increase in numbers very slowly while temperatures are at 40 de grees or lower. But allow the meat or sau sage to warm up steadily or intermittently and the micro organisms multiply rapidly. This happens during your transportation of meat. Did you know that the tempera ture in the trunk of your car can go over 140 degrees on a hot sunny day? Similarly the interior of a parked car often goes over 100 degrees F. When you leave your meat purchases in your auto mobile the temperature of the exterior portion of the meat increases rapidly and the numbers of micro organisms jump at an alarm ing rate. Curriculum Changes Approved at College McMinnville Six academic departments at Linfield col lege have had curricular changes approved in recent months. The faculty is now Implementing these changes into the summer school and fall semester offerings. Departments involved re drama, home economics, jour nalism, physics, religion, and speech, reports Dr. W. W. Dolan, academic dean. New courses which have re sulted from these changes re home nursing in home eco nomics, picture editing and newspaper and the law in journalism, laboratory tech niques and advanced labora tory in physics, and camping and camp organization in re ligion. Changes in hours, division, and titles were made in other courses in these departments. Earlier the chemistry depart ment offering! were revised. By JOHN McLOUGHLIN County Exttniion Agnl Peach St Prunt Root Borer The peach and prune root borer is an important insect pest of peaches, prunes, flow ering plums and laurel throughout Oregon. This pest can be controlled with relative ease and low cost by the use of DDT sprays applied at this time of year when the adult moths are emerging. It is suggested that in the Rogue Valley the first DDT application be made about July 15. This date would probably not be far off for other sections of the state where the peach and prune root borer is a pest. What to Look For The larvae or "borers" are responsible for the injury to peach and prune trees. Young trees one to two inches in di ameter may be comDletelv girdled by the borers. Older trees are often seriously de. vitalized. The appearance of sap, gum and frass exuded from the burrows of the bor ers around the base of the tree is evidence they are pres ent. Frass-covered pupal cases may be found protruding from the burrows after the moths have emerged. Control Good control of this import ant pest can be obtained us ing DDT sprays at the rate of eight pounds of 50 per cent wettable DDT powder to 100 gallons of water. The spray is applied at low pressure, about 60 to 80 pounds, to the lower scaffold limbs and trunk. The spray should be applied thoroughly and in an amount sufficient to allow it to puddle around the base of the tree. Trees four to six inches in diameter will require about one to two pints of spray solution per tree. Two applications should be made if the borer infestation is heavy; the first when the moths have begun to emerge and a second spray about 25 days later. If borer damage is not severe, a single applica tion will usually be sufficient. From observations made this year, moth emergence may be somewhat extended. Under such conditions, the second application would be particu larly valuable in heavily in fested orchards. Some varieties of flowering plum are also suceptible to at tack and can be seriously dam aged by this insect. Home owners can protect these trees by spraying or painting the tree trunk with a solution of DDT prepared by mixing one cup of 50 per cent DDT in one gallon of water. A cup or two of this solution should be sprayed or poured around the base of the tree. Two applica tions are suggested for orna mental flowering plum. College Students Visit In Valley Three young students from the British Isles have arrived in the Rogue valley recently to work for the summer while living with families here. Frank Brierley, a student at Clare college, Cambridge university, arrived in Central Point July 4 to begin work for Cheney Forest Products company. He will live with a Central Point family during his 10 week stay. In Grants Pass are Michael Blair, 21, Aberlady, Scotland, a graduate of Clare college, Cambridge, and Guy Knap ton, 21, Guilford, England, who will be a senior at Pem broke college, Cambridge, next October. Blair will live at the home of William F. Johnson, Grants Pass lawyer, and will be em ployed by Southern Oregon Plywood. Knapton will live with the Lee Alley family, also in Grants Pass, and work at the Spalding and Sons mill. Blair has been awarded I Paul Mellon fellowship for study at Yale university dur ing 1962-64. Knapton is ma joring in economics aifd so ciology at Pembroke college. All the students are here under the sponsorship of the Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce. Nineteen Cam bridge students will live in various parti of the state dur ing the months of July and August. tury 21 and the 19th century of Mrs. O'Leary. Big, auto mated dairy farms of 200 to 300 cows share the state's milk production with 7,204 families that keep only one cow. However, the trend to few er and bigger dairy farms is clearly apparent with most of Oregon's 160,000 producing cows in so-called commercial herds. More than 2,200 Ore gon farms reported herds of 20 or more cows for the latest agricultural census in lSSS. Nearly 600 farms had herds of more than 50 cows. Average size of herds in the Portland milk marketing area is now 45 cows. Produces 1 Billion. Pounds All told, Oregon produced more than one billion pounds of milk in 1961 equal to more than one-half billion quarts and valued in excess of $46 million. Many millions of dollars were added to this base figure in payrolls to make butter, cheese, ice cream and other products and to put milk into containers for Ore gon stores and doorsteps, How is this billion pounds of milk used? In 1960, about one-half was used as fluid milk and the other half went for manufacture of dairv products, says Oscar Hagg. OSU dairy products market ing specialist Biggest processed item was butter made from nearly 235 minion pounds of whole milk, Cheese used 170 million pounds of milk, and ice cream and other frozen products re quired 90 million pounds. The rest went for a variety of manufactured products includ ing cottage cheese, evaporat ed milk, and dry milk. Another notable dairy trend, along with larger herds, is the improved milk produc tion capacity of cows, report H. P. Ewalt and Don E. An derson, OSU extension dairy specialists. Comparative records of the Oregon Dairy Herd Improve ment association show that in 1950 average annual pro duction of DHIA test cows was 8,108 pounds of milk and 380 pounds of butterfat per cow. By 1961, production had increased to 9,694 pounds of milk and 420 pounds of but terfat. Point Up Shift DHIA records also point up the general shift in herd sizes. In 1950, Oregon had 637 herds on DHIA testing for a total of 19,183 cows or an av erage size herd of 30 animals. By 1961, the number of herds had decreased to 488, but to tal number of cows was 25 735 for an average herd of 33. Where is it all leading? Some of the experts believe the time is not far off when less than 1,000 farms will sup ply all the dairy products needed in the state. Mean while, some 7,000 Oregonians will set their alarm clocks for tomorrow morning to go out and milk one cow little concerned that they're a dis appearing statistic. Dairymen Request Standard Package Salem - Oregon law says the standard for a ton of coal shall be 2000 pounds and for a cord of wood 128 cubic feet - but it doesn't say the stand ard for a pound of butter or oleomargarine shall be 16 ounces. So the dairy relations ad visory committee to the state department of agriculture is recommending that something be done about the butter and oleo matter. It has suggested that the department propose a regulation, under the Ore gon food law, to establish a retail package weight stand ard for these two products. The committee is prompted by the recent appearance on the Oregon market of a pack age of margarine which weighs 13 ounces instead of the customary 16 ounces. Historically, the weights for these products have been one or two pounds, a half pound or quarter pound. Anything else, the committee believes, would disrupt the trade and deceive the consumer. Kenneth E. Carl, chief of the department's dairy and consumer services divi s I o n, says the department has the committee's recommendation under consideration. H. S. Dixon, manager of the Tillamook County Creamery association, is chairman of the advisory committee, which is chosen by the statewide indus try organizations. In a further move to pro tect the public on another dairy front, the committee has requested a study of ways and means to Inform consumers when substitute dairy prod ucts are served in public eat Inghouses, In vending ... chines, in coffee or on .ereal Substitute milk and cream undersell dairy products by 15 to 20 per cent presently and so well simulate half and half or cream In color, taste and appearance that many people are unable to tell the difference. At this time the Imitation milk act does not cover these new products. Range Camp In Grant County Set Aug. 6-11 Corvallis - Oregon boys in terested in the state's range land country have an oppor tunity in August to learn more of this great natural re source in a "laboratory as big as all outdoors." The 1962 Youth Range camp is scheduled Aug. 6 to 11 In Logan Valley in south eastern Grant county. Tucked away in the Malheur National Forest, the camp will combine instruction in range manage ment, outdoor living, and rec reation. It is sponsored by the Pacific Northwest section of t h e American Society of Range Management. Oregon boys 14 through 17 years of age are eligible to attend on a local selection basis with $30 scholarships provided by local sponsors to cover costs of attending. All eastern Oregon coun ties and Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Coos and Curry counties are eligible to send four boys each, reports Dil lard H. Gates, Oregon State University range management specialist who is program chairman for the event. Selection in each county is made by a county extension agent and a local representa tive of the Society of Range Management. At camp, boys will learn about range management, identification of range plants, how to judge soil, public re lations of wildlife manage ment, and other related top ics. Evening campfire programs touch the lighter side of life on the range: "dreams of a working cowboy" as told by R. A. Long, Fort Rock ranch er-philosopher; a session on photography; group singing, and special contests. Some free time will be squeezed in for fishing and other recre ation, camp planners said. Instructors for the camp will be drawn from bureau of land management, Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wild life service, Soil Conservation service, Oregon Game com mission, ranch managers, and Oregon State university. Ed Abbott, John Day, Mal heur National Forest, is in charge of this year's camp, and William K. Farrell, Grant county agent, will be camp boss. Interested boys may obtain more information from their local county extension agent. Group Adopts Report Regarding Local Government Cities and counties should be given more flexibility by state governments so that these local units can respond more quickly to problems cre ated by rapid growth and spread of population. This statement was part to report released this week which was adopted recently at a meeting of the Advisory commission on Intergovern mental Relations held in Washington, D. C. A member of the commission is Robert B. Duncan, Medford, speaker of the Oregon House of Repre sentatives. The commission adopted the report dealing with alterna tive approaches to govern mental reorganization in met ropolitan areas. This includes use of interjurisdictional a greements, voluntary metro politan councils, the urban county, multipurpose dis tricts, and annexation. This report on governmen tal reorganization in metro politan areas supplements a 1961 report. The present re port suggests that the states give municipalities authority for planning, zoning, and sub division control in unincorpo rated fringe areas. It also recommends that states en courage formation of volun tary "metropolitan councils," which are growing in use. Members of the commission also gave their approval to "A directory of Federal Statis tics for Metropolitan Areas," which is expected to be high ly useful for business, eco nomic, and planning surveys n metropolitan areas. Walla Walla Man Cited for Accident A Walla Walla, Wash., man, Mark T. Fowler, 69, was tak en to Sacred Heart hospital early Sunday morning after he was injured In an automo bile accident. Fowler was the operator of I car which struck a parked vehicle registered to Richard Miles Johnson, Bishop, Calif., about 12:33 a.m. on North Central ave. between Cedar and Beatty sts. Fowler, who was released from the hospital Sunday night, was cited by city po lice for driving the wrong way on I one way street. 1 Jean Hart Opens Branch in Ashland A branch store of Jean Hart, Inc.. women's dress shop, was opened Monday in Ashland in the Mark An tony hotel building. The store to be known as the Boutique Shop will be managed by Mrs. Mae Gib bons of Ashland, who has been employed for six years in the Medford store. The shop interior is done in an early American theme. The business will feature the same brands as the Med ford shop and on opening day favors will be given to all customers. During the Shakespearean festival informal fashion shows will be given. Mrs. Lenore Kellom and Miss Ellen Ward will be part time employees. TUESDAY. JULY 10. 19S2 Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Alii Tribune In Medford. phone 772-6141; Aih lartd call at 1224 Iowa it. or ?hune 462-3002: Montague and reka. phone Globe 8-3171, he fore 6:45 p.m. daily and iu.JO a-rr Sunday If regular delivery arrives nortly after you call please notity office, thug eliminating pecial metier ger service. Local Man Named To University Honors George M. Wilson Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Wilson, 1449 Oleander St., is one of 51 students at the University of Kansas, Law rence, Kan., who earned straight A grades during the spring semester. Honor roll students at the university are permitted to enroll for more than the maxi mum course loads, and are eli gible for honors courses. Local Physicians To Attend Meeting Drs. Arnold M. Depner and Robert D. Gallagher of Med ford will attend the Oregon Podiatry association's annual membership dinner and meet ing at Portland's Benson ho tel on Saturday, July 14, ac cording to Dr. George Mc-Cauley,- association president. Dr. Robert Shor, Los An geles, president of the Amer ican Fodiatry association will address the assembled fool specialists on such recent ex tensions of health insurance to include podiatric care as the new Blue Cross-Blue Shield coverage for federal employees. Delegates will also install their association's new offi cers for 1962-1963. SOFT DRINK TRICK Prairie Duchien, Wis.-OTli-A service station operator wishes the thieves who made off with the contents of 13 soft drink bottles would re turn and tell him how they did it. The soda was removed from the bottles without tak ing the containers from the vending machine. C,,9 Memorial Park and Funeral Home "More IS wcleiu- 1395 Arnold Lane Phone 773-7338 "BBPit 1 NAME TO TRUST 1 I Understanding" npin Iimm"i or 8 u uy 1 1 1 u Night Service 4 well-known "facts" about none of which is true! 1. "It rains all the time" Not so! It only rains on the day of the company picnic. Actually, Portland's 40 inches of annual rainfall is less than Houston or Nashville or New York or Washington, D.C. Sure, Oregon gets plenty of rain on the coast, but it trickles down to a tiny 12 inches in the interior. (You just can't generalize about 96,981 square miles of varied topography ! ) It's never too hot or too cold, either. Western Oregon enjoys pleasant summers (average July, 66) and mild green winters (January, 38). Eastern Oregon is less temperate, but compared to the humid summers and freezing winters of the East and Midwest, every one of us Oregonians lives in an air-conditioned paradise! 2. "It's isolated too far away" Sez who? Two million tourists vacalion in Oregon every year probably three limes that many will visit on their way to the Seattle World's Fair! We're on the great circle air routes to the Orient, and smack between Europe and Disneyland. We're catered to bv 10 airlines, 5 railroads, 50 steamship lines, and 63,000 miles of superb highways. Portland's dcepwater port is the " 1 dry cargo tonnage harbor on the Pacific Coast and 250 miles closer to the Orient than any California port. With neighboring California destined to be first in popu-. Union, and nearby Hawaii and Alaska ready to boom, and an expected half-million more Oregonians by 1970, being "isolated" isn't one of our problcms. 3. "No industry just tall timber" Sure, we got trees. A mere 30 million acres. Why, just to see the view, we cut down 9 billion board feet a year, or 25 of the nation's needs But with 21 million acres of rich farm land and a big chunk of the nation's potential hydropower, don't overlook our cheese and textiles, wheat and furniture, peppermint and electronics, frozen foods and exotic metals, pears and plywood, potatoes and nickel, onions and alu minum. (We're even the first state in the nation for snap green beans. Try that on a Texan.) However, our greatest resource is people. Oregon workers are skilled, permanent (65 own their homes), happier, better paid, more productive than the national average. We have a balanced state budget, too. Oregon's the only state that reduced the per capita tax the last two fiscal years. And most important we have a state government that is working hard to continue this great diversified growth. Cut this out and mail it to one of your Eastern friends4 4. "No culture just pioneer wilderness" Hardly. Oregon is about as wild and uncultured as Man hattan, including Central Park'. Ask any of ihc "pioneers in busy, bustling Portland. Or visit Salem, Eugene, Medford, Bend, Pendleton, Corvallis or the other "Trading Posts"! How do you measure culture? Oregon schools rank in the top three states in scholastic excellence. Oregon's liter acy rale is one of the nalion's highest. We boast 24 col leges and univcrsilies, ana one of them Reed College has supplied a higher ratio of Rhodes scholars than any other American school. We support art festivals, museums, symphony orchestras, ballet, flower shows, opera, the theater (Ashland's Shakespearean f estival, for example) and, by gosh, don't forget the Pendleton Round-Up, the Hart Moun tain Antelope Refuge, Ihc Albany Timber Carnival, and the Rogue River National Rooster Crowing Contest! We also have the first baby elephant born in America in 40 years at our handsome new Portland Zoo. Astoria was the first American settlement on the Pacific Coast. Jacksonville claims ihc oldest Protestant church west of the Rockies. And. on Ihc new side, Portland's 50-acre shopping center is one of the world's largest. If that isn't enough culiure for you, come out anyway and we'll show you where lh, fish arc biting. Other than home town pride, why should you care if the rest of the world has the wrong "facts" about Oregon? Simply this: Oregon is long on resources and short on industry. We're bursting with potential. We must broaden our industrial base with more and different industries. Every increase in our economy every new industry every family which moves here benefits you in three ways: . More diversified industry means more jobs a higher standard of living for everyone in Oregon. 2. More jobs mean more job security for you, more opportunity for advancement, better wages. 3. More research-based in dustry means more job opportunities for our science and engineering college graduates in their home state. Why is the Telephone Company promoting Oregon? We're proud to be a part of the team of private industry that's working to help Oregon achieve its ultimate growth. We're second only to Georgia-Pacific in the number of employees. We're first in total capital investment over 289 million dollars! Like you, our future is invested in Oregon. Like you, we arc working to make Oregon the most rewarding, the most prospcious state in the nation. Particularly it your friends arc thinking anout coming to the Fair. It's up to you to sec that they stop over in Oregon while they're in the neigh borhood. (If you'd like more copies of this advertisement, call our business office or write p.conomie Development Manager, Pacific Northwest Bell, Room 861, Lincoln Bldg., Portland 4.) Let's Tell the World about Oregon! PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL
