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THURSDAY. JUNK 27. 196S MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON' Caught on Horns Spray for Radish Brings Thoughts Of Lowly Washington Baseball Team By DICK WEST Washington - m - Each lummer since I joined in the colonization of darkest su burbia I have grown a small t - ' I vlctorv gar fJ 1 dn" in my oacK yard. Lit tie things that I have beard and read in recent years lead me to believe that wt the Vic t o r y Garden campaign has been losing momentum since the : end of the war. But I have as continued to da mv narl People who have the stimu lus of war to grow a victory garden belong in the same class with sunshine patriots, I say. This year, however, we vic tory gardeners find ourselves caught on the horns of a di lemma, which is the next worse thing to being caught on the horns of a water buf falo. The dilemma got into the garden by way of Rachel Carson's widely discussed book "Silent Spring." Either that or somebody left the gate open. At any rat. I was spray ing a radish with an anti tomtit tincture (three parts tetraethyl to one part vtr mouth) when it hooked me. Suddenly I straightened up and said to myself "This spray I am using is undoubt e d 1 y contributing to the health and well-being of this radish, but how do I know it is not upsetting the balance of nature?" Miss Carson, as you know, raised a warning against the headlong use of pesticides and other horticultural chem icals lest it destroy nature's equilibrum. Her message has had a pro found effect upon us victory gardeners. We figure that na ture isn't any too well bal anced anyway. I put down the sprayer and was balancing myself in the hammock when my wife came out and asked why I had quit gardening. "I'm weighing the bene fits that will accrue to our radish from a spraying with an anti tomtit solution against the possible dis turbing efiect that it might hare on the natural order of the universe by driving away the tomtits, I told her. ' "I'm glad to know that," my wife said. ''It appeared to me that you were taking a nap." "I think better with my eyes closed," I explained. Later on, I tried to get my mind off the problem by tuning in the bail game. But there was no escape. At I watched the Washing ton Senators sink deeper into the cellar of the American league, I couldn't help but wonder if their inability to hit and catch baseballs was a re sult of Die chemicals that the groundkecper uses on the out field grass. It anything, the Senators are even more off balance than nature is. Perhaps Miss Carson will explore this situ ation in her next -book. HORN TREES HORSE N I b e, Denmark - fl'PD -Workers used a hoist Wed nesday to free a horse from the branches of a tree about six feet off the ground. Farm er Peter Nyborg said his ani mal Jumped up and got stuck between the branches when frightened by an automobile horn. Laborer Killed In Crash at Yale Vale - (I'M) - One man was killed and two others injured seriously in one-car acci dent near the Vale east city limits shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday. The victim was Francisco Romero, 17, of the Vale la bor camp. Two companions, Roy Sanchez of Driggs, Idaho, and Jose Silva Jr., San Beni to, Tex., were taken to Holy Rosary hispital in Ontario. They were farm laborers working at Jamieson, Ore. Police said their car struck a brick wall at the Vale Hot Springs swimming pool. CENTER CUT RIB CHOPS CENTER CUTS COUNTRY STYLE PARE RIBS c4 1 0 I C wcv- v2 ib fe LOTS & LOTS OF LEAN MEAT WONDERFUL for That COOKOUT SWIFT'S SWEET RASHER SLICED BACON MiCE & LEAN LOTS OF FLAVOR 3s FRESH SALMON Half or Whole RED MEATED BEAUTIES 51 U AS -fit)?. lb PORK LOIN CUT FROM THE TENDERLOIN END DELRICH S iggs M Mediyinni DOZEN KITCHEN CHARM 60 Count ICS CdHAM SNIDER'S Holi Gallon PRESERVES C.H.B. Assorted Flavors 10 oz. Glass Tumblers TUNA WHITE STAR LIGHT CHUNK No. V2 Tins 2 APPLESAUCE PAYETTE VALLEY No. 303 Tins 7i PREM LUNCHEON LOAF 12 oz. Tins 111 W APPLESAUCE DONUTS 2 DOZEN LIMIT l 1 32DP 49 DOZEN JELLY or LEMON ROLL 39c RAISIN-NUT BREAD liE 31c COOKIES . 5 Dozen $1.QQ POTATO ROLLS 19c DILL PICKLES Del Rogue 22 Oz. KOSHER 2' PEAS Del Monte EARLY. GARDEN No. 303 Tins SHE 7 V MEDFORD-Westgate Center MEDFORD-13th and Central ASHLAND-Gateway Shop. Center We Reserve The Right T Limit PrtcM IffactWt thru Sunday, Junt 30 Gw v J.J. 1 T, r 2L i . - v i m - . m . .V ... . j t ' ' t V i s ' ;.?. : a 1 f4 j i " i .-l.-. - .a r A : f i BACK IN JAIL-Sari Jeinette (Jo Ann) Jonet, 23, serving a 10 year sentence for armed robbery, was paroled June 18 to that she could continue her education at the University of Tennessee. Correction Commissioner Harry Avery ot Nashville, hauled her back to jail and asked that she be charged with parole violation. Avery said she was found "celebrating'' until the wee hours of the morning. (UPI) Man and Spoc Russians Believed Behind in Fun of Conquest of Space By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. Cape Canaveral - (UPD - The Russians are beating the Unit ed States In manned conquest of space - but it's safe bet they aren't having half as much fun at It. America's No. 1 spaceport at Cape Canaveral Is tension laced with tomfoolery - a strange place where strange things might be expected to happen. They do Like the time a Mercury astronaut spiced up an other I wise boring "dry run" by tud' denly clutching at a gantry elevator and yelling: "No! 1 don't want to go!" The n lion's press was on hand lor that one Or the evening , the U.S. Navy managed to lose a boat load of newsmen at sea for an hour when four officers were unable to find the port from five miles offshore. But none of It quite match ed the recent evening when the Fenwlck Aeronautics and Space Administration came to town, recruited virtually ev eryone from U.S. atronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. on down, and laid claims to beating both Russia and America to the moon. The slightly touched up "documentary evidence" was a movie, "Mouse on the Moon," which related the story of how the tiny, mythi cal Duchy of Grand Fenwlck started out to seek U.S. fi nancial aid for plumbing and ended up by landing the first astronauts on the moon. Grand Fenwick may also be remembered as the 24-square-mile country that, In an earlier movie, decided that the best way to get U.S. for eign old was to go to war with and get beaten by Amer ica. . . The movie may never win an Academy Award. But from Cooper on down, those space- porters whose lives are wrap- Women Indicted By Columbia Jury St. Helens -IUPD- Two wonv en involved in shootings were Indicted Wednesday by the Columbia County Grand Jury, A manslaughter Indictment was returned against Mary Lou Normal!, 31, of Vernonia, in connection with the fatal shooting of logger Glenn . Wood. 31, of Aloha early Mon day. The shooting occurred at the woman's home. She is being held on $2,900 hail at Rocky Butte jail in Portland. Mrs. Donna Hedges, 27, Portland, was charged with burglary not in a dwelling. The Indictment grew out of the alleged burglary of a Rainier tavern May 13 and a subsequent gun battle in which Rainier Police Chief Don Allen was wounded. Gerald T. McCombcr, al legedly an accomplice, also was wounded and has since been returned to the state pen itentiary as a parole violator. He was arraigned on a bur glary charge, but the grand jury has returned no indict. ment. ped in and around missiles. rockets and space travel found It delightful spoof of their daily headaches and heartaches. It was perhaps the type of fun that "outsiders" might find hard to comprehend, es pecially amid the scientific fame and fortune that is Cape Canaveral. But the Cape Isn't a place where you would want to live Just for fun. Alter the Initial glamour wears oft - and It invariably does - it takes a high degree of dedication to keep a top grade scientist or technician or missile worker here to put mea and machines into space. Depressed Areas Bill Has Chance Washington (UPD Demo cratic leaders felt that chances of pushing expanded aid to depressed areas through the House on a second at tempt were brighter today after overwhelming approval of the measure by the Senate. The Senate voted, 63-30. Wednesday to authorize f 4SS million more for the Area Re development Agency over the" next two years. The vote in favor was two higher than when the agency was created in 1961. Democratic leaders hoped the Senate vote would be enough to make the House change Its mind after it de feated the bill by five votes, 209-204, two weeks ago. The House vote was President Kennedy's worst legislative defoat of the session. The Area Redevelopment Agency provides funds for business enterprises In areas) of persistent unemployment. But opponents said the pro gram had been manipulated politically and had failed to reduce unemployment signifi cantly. House leaders are expected to take their time building support for the bill before setting it up for a second vote. Indications were the at tempt would not be made un til the House has finished with Kennedy's civil rights proposals or until late Au gust or early September. NOT EVERYTHING Milwaukee - (UPD - Henry F. Bilrk, Richmond, Vs., sent a 13,000 check to the county board of public welfare Wed nesday for the care of indi gents with the note: "Now ! am old, in August fit), alone, last of my line. Money is not everything." Oregonian Drowns In Canadian Lake Williams Lake, B.C. - IUTD -A 26-year-old Oregon man drowned Tuesday in a re mote British Columbia lake when his small boat overturn ed. Robert J. Baker of Hills- boro was one of six Oregon fishermen in two boats on Nimpo lake, 240 air miles north of Vancouver. The 10-foot boat overturn ed in rough water, tossing Baker and two other men Into the lake. All had life pre servers but one of the sur vivors said Baker discarded his and began swimming a mile to shore. He drowned before his companions in the other boat could reach him. SMALLER CREW NEEDED Tokyo - (UPD - A 12,000-ton cargo ship which can be op erated by a crew ot 28 men will be launched next Decern ber at Kobe, Its builders an nounced today. .
