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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 20. 1963 10 B. fcobin-like Notice Flutters When Spring Comes, the Sap Begins To Rise in Dormant Publicity Men MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON By DICK WEST United Press International Washington (UPD Here it Is almost spring again. I can tell it's almost spring because the sap is be- g i n ning rise in press agents, many of whom are dormant dur ing the winter The o t h e day, for in stance, there came flutter Wert inn into the office a robin-like notice that Alfred Hitchcock, the movie director, was coming to town, It said he planned to visit Lafayette park near the White House and feed the pigeons from the famous bench that Bernard Baruch once used for an office. Reading that gave me the same sensation I get when I spy the first crocus, or in hale my first whiff of fer tilizer. Awash With Pigeons On the appointed day. Hitchcock arrived at the park in a long limousine and de posited himself on the bench while a press agent sprinkled peanuts around him. In trice, he was awash with pifieons. Some of the more astute observers at the scene were able to detect a tie-in between this ornithological tableau and Hitchcock's new movie, the name of which momen. tarily escapes me. My own thoughts, how ever, were flying off in an- omer direction. It occurred to me that we were witness ing the creation of a new status symbol. After this, nobody who is at all interested in keep.'ng up appearance will dream of feeding the pigeons in the park unless he can afford to hire someone to sprinkle the peanuts for him. Another harbinger of spring came my way in a press release announcing that a new liqueur, created in Japan "from the fragile pet als of the cherry blossom" would be introduced here during this year's Cherry Blossom festival. Fairly Reeling A sheet of vital statistics listed the liqueur as 40 proof, but the press release must have been close to 100 proof. By the time I had finished drinking in its ''eady hyper boles, I was fairly reeling. What Intoxicated me was a narration telling how "the magic mood of Japan" had been captured In liqueur so that the "gossamer enchant ment" of the islands could be enjoyed in bottled form. "In the cherry blossom for ests of Japan in early April you will find thousands of men, women and children strolling among the cherry trees picking the beautiful fragrant, fragile blossoms They take these lovely blossoms home, place them on Ex-Medford Man Gets Ranger Post Portland - Dale L. Farley, U.S. forest service, Portland, has been named district rang er of the Skykomish Ranger district of the Snoqualmie Na tional forest effective March 31. Since 1961, Farley has been assigned to the division of recreation in the Pacific Northwest regional office, transferring from a job as an assistant to the timber man agement staff officer on the Rogue River National forest, Medford. Before that he served as as sistant ranger on the Pasayten Ranger district at Mazama, Wash. He began government service in 1955 with appoint ment as a forester on the Tonasket Ranger district of the Okanogan National forest. Farley is a 1952 forestry graduate of the University of Washington. a wooden tray and pickle them with the addition of salt. For to the Japanese, the pickled cherry blossoms are an exotic delicacy . . ." This ancient tradition has now been carried a step fur ther by a distillery, which "collects the most perfect and fragrant of these blossoms and through a process known only to themselves extracts from the blossoms 'he essence of the 'yae sakura'." Think of that! For years, people have pickled cherry blossoms and now a way has been found for cherry blos soms to pickle people. Pearson Prepares Income Tax Bill Salem -(UPD The state in come tax would be a simple percentage of the federal in come tax under a bill being prepared for introduction in the Oregon House. The bill is being drafted by Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Port-land) but since it is a revenue measure it must be intro duced on the house side. House Tax Commitee Chair man Richard Eymann said he would seek to have the bill introduced for study purposes. Under it, an income tax payer would simply take a percentage of his federal in come tax and that would be what he owed the state. Pearson said the percentage could be adjusted by the legis lature to produce whatever revenue was needed. MASTODON TUSK Anybody want a tusk from an extinct mastodon, estimated to be 400,000 years old? Mrs. Kenneth Straub of Santa Rosa, Calif., is selling hers, and is asking $3,500 for this unique 13-foot, 200-pound item, which has been in her family since her uncle discovered it. in 18B while gold mining in the Klondike. Mrs. Straub is tired of hauling it around every time she moves, and feels it should be on display somewhere. 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