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.
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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. .