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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963
Mb'OKORU MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON
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Lots of Work Goei Into
Making Jack-O-Lantern
At first it was just a tiny knob
at the base of a simple yellow
flower, growing on a vine that
snaked in and out of young, ten
der shoots of growing corn.
The blossom fell away; the
corn grew higher; and the vine
reached farther and farther, its
exploring end almost racing
away from the parent root.
The little knob grew; the
pumpkin became as large as a
tennis ball, and kept on grow
ing, all during its younger days
it was watched over Dy a scare
crow, an eerie being of no sub
stance in tattered rags and un
raveled straw hat, whose flesh
less arms waved and flapped in
the warm, summer breeze.
Under the warmth of the sum
mer sun, and during the soft,
mellow nights, the lonely corn
field received the thudding rain
and bowed to occasional winds,
these agencies were conspiring
together to bring about the
growth and eventual fruiting of
the pumpkin and the corn.
When the nights were warm
and muggy, the growing pump
kin heard the rustle of the corn
stalks, for 'tis said the noise of
growth in a cornfield is plainly
audible, so rapid is the expan
sion of the tissues of healthy
cornstalks. In the night, too,
small animals scurried back
and forth through the cornfield,
stopping occasionally to look at
the expanding green globes on
the pumpkin vine, in tne aay.
time, birds sang, rains came
and the season marched on.
What before had been a mur
mur of leaves when the wind
rustled the corn now became
a roar as the corn plants tower
ed several feet above the eartn.
Along the ground, In the tower
ing forest of corn the pumpkin
grew. Ridges etched the plump
pumpkin - body. The green slow
ly faded. A yellow blush spread
over the fat sides, tinted with
golden streaks.
Days and weeks passed;
balmy nights gradually turned
cooler. The sword like leaves
of the corn turned brown; the
heavy ears, bowed from their
own weight, pointed earthward.
Then one night a stranger visit
ed the cornfield; a heavy frost
came. The morning sun glisten
ed on frost crystals. The vine
on which the pumpkin grew
withered and browned. The har
vest moon shone in the night
sky.
Then came the men with
wagons, tractors, harvest ma
chinery and determination. The
fat pumpkin, along with all its
fellows was loaded and carted
away. Row after row of corn
plants fell to the 1 1 a s h i n g
blades; the corn forest was
laid low.
Off To a Home
Far from its home field,
where it had matured, the
pumpkin folk jounced and
moved in the truck body on its
ride to market. Finally is, along
with others of Its kind, was re
moved and displayed in front of
a roadside vegetable market,
where It was seen by eaijer
children who patted Its fat side
and imagined what it would look
like with holes cut In its rounded
body.
It was a happy child, the one
who finally owned it. Incisions
were made in the bulging side.
Eyes, a triangular nose, and an
inverted new-moon mouth were
cut into one side. A round open
ing was cut in the top, with the
stub end as a handle.
The tissue and the seeds were
scooped out. It was now a hol
low, yellow globe a jack-o-lantem.
Inside, the light of a smoking
candle danced and flickered,
throwing a faint yellowish light
out through the fat sides. Much
brighter was the light that
eerily emerged from the eye,
nose and mouth openings.
Through the umsterious Im
pulse of growth, over months in
a lonely cornfield . . . after be
ing watched over by a scare
crow, drenched by rains and
warmed by the summer sun.
with its only companions the
wild things of the woods and
fields and the growing corn . . .
the great, yellow pumpkin had
at last kept its rendctvous with
destiny. It became a jack-o-lan-tern
for Halloween.
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Hons to prevent fuin-s tires like
the myvo, h-x-De biaie that
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be presented to the
sUie Heath Board today.
Slate Health Administrator T.
0. Carver said the recommen
dalions were made by the Hos
pital Advisory Council which
met last week at Burley.
Seven elderly patients died
when flames consumed the Par
adise Pines rest home at the
Community of Pinehurst in the
Little Salmon River Canyon
south of Rigglns Sept. 17. A
coroner's Jury absolved operat
ors of the home of any wrong
doing but was critical of the
State Health Department.
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Berlin, hours after the escape.
Hammonton patrolman Frank
La Sasso arrested Ronald
Mitchell, 21, Atlantic Citv, as
he walked along 12th Street at
9 a.m. State troopers from the
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Walter Reber, 19, Linwood, 30
minutes later.
Solen Car
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of the men in Berlin, N. .1 ,
early today in a stolen car.
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missed from their cells until
state police notified officials thy
had picked up James Harris. 1!)
Atlantic City, and Albert Young
22, Philadelphia.
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Violation of Law
During Halloween
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SALEM (UPI) -r- Ghostics
and ghoolies and thinfis lhat go
bump in the night had all best
beware Atty. Gen. Robert Y.
Thornton hooted as he rattled
some legal bones to take some
of the spoof out of the Hallo
ween spooks.
"Spooks and haunts roaming
around on Halloween should
know lhat while there is no
spccilic state law against soap-
ins winuows, any Bit ot mischief
that amounts to defacing prop
erly is severely irowned upon,
Thornton noted.
. Halloween is tonight.
He said such school or church
sponsored activities as collecting
funds for UN1CEF have his full
approval but he warned any
CoblinS fillsolv renrnsplllinrr t',
collect money for charity would
run mio a real live nightmare.
It's against the law.
"Even the phnstu ni- Wilnhrre
who are traditionally supposed
tO frolic in OravpvnrrU at mid
night had better be careful, be
cause mere arc slate laws
against disturhinp the r!e:iH Inn.
pling gravestones, or otherwise
being a nuisance in cemeteries,"
Thornton said.
Besides grave markers, there
are a preat mnnv r.nnrifir- nK.
jects protected by state law
irom damage or clelacmg, in
cluding buildings, crops, fences,
guius, n c a g e s, macmncry,
monuments, motor vehicles,
shrubbery and signposts, the at
torney general reminded.
Oregon Said to
Have Tremendous
Business Future
PORTLAND (UPI) - Oregon
has a "tremendous business po
tential," the operating head ot
Dean Witter 4 Co. said Wednes
day as the firm opened new
electronically equipped offices
in the Standard Plaza building.
John Witter, managing part
ner in charge of operations, said
the company was impressed by
Oregon's progress in moving
from a one-product lumher
economy to "a well diversified
one which includes an ever ex
panding number of highly re
puted manufacturing enter
prises." Future Prospects
He said Oregon has no lop
sided dependence on defense
business "at a time when some
skepticism has been voiced
here and there about the future
prospects for many defense in
dustries." Witter praised the state's
"healthy political climate,"
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debt, a crime rate far below
the national average, and above-
average educational levels. He
said the Oregon population
should grow from 30 to 37 per
cent in the 10's.
William B. Boone, resident
partner, told a breakfast audi
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gon had grown in 10 years from
50,000 to 150,000. and were ex
pected to reach 225,000 by 1970.
The Netherlands bus an area
of 15,764 square miles.
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