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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVKN O i JOY WAS UNCONFINED when Klamath County employes staged their annual Christmas party at the courthouse. Presents were exchanged and copious quantities of food consumed. Three celebrants pictured above are (lett to right) County Commissioner Ed Gowen, Ray Mclntyre, courthouse janitor, and Sheriff James Murray Britton. Ground Squirrel Reported To Raise Particular Havoc By HAROLD SCHlEFfcltSlLIN County Fcst Supervisor Southeastern Oregon and partic ularly Klamath County has long been troubled with a variety of de structive rodents that cause con siderable damage to the various crops grown here. The most serious rodents to be found in the county are two spe cies of ground squirrels, several kinds of field mice, house mice, moles, ground hogs, pack rats and porcupines., Most numerous and therefore the most important of these various pests is the Oregon ground squir rel. Tins rodent is widely distribut ed throughout the county and is to be found in all sections, both Irrigated and dry, as well as to some extent in the timbered areas al.'o. Under favorable conditions ground squirrels are to be found in almost unbelievable numbers and hundreds of squirrels may be concentrated on a few acres of land: or one may find them a few here, and a few there, scattered over a wide area. More Vaccine To Be Given . WASHINGTON MV-The Public Health Service today announced release of another 1.368.306 doses of Salk antipolio vaccine. Tills made a. total of 3,414,213 cubic centimeters or doses re leased thus far In December, and raised to 29.961,831 c.c.'s Uie total of vaccine released since April 12 when six drug houses were 11 censed to make it. The new supply included 219.900 re's made by wyeth Laboratories, Marietta, Pa. the first Wyeth vac cine released since Aug. 9. The remaining 1,088,406 were made by Ell Lilly & Co., Indianapolis. A health service spokesmen said the increased supply released this month after the low totals for October and November reflected a smoothing out in production pro cedures. The health service allocated 1.355.814 c.c.'s of the new supply to the states, territories and the armed services for use under the voluntary control program. The other 12.492 were reserved for the free program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. ACTRESS FALLS HOLLYWOOD IB Movie actress Irene Dunne fell in her home Fri day and had to eat her Christmas dinner from a wheel chair. She said she feared at first she had seriously injured her hip, but X rays disclosed no broken bones. Fortunately these squirrels are only actively above ground' for a period of about 120 days. They make their first appearance, usual ly m March and by the last of June or earlv July return to their burrows to begin the long period oi nioernation. me young are born in April and average about eight to the Utter, so tar as is known there is only one litter a year. .Damage done by these rodents is probably more conspicuous be cause of their wide distribution and general abundance. Their destruc tiveness to grain fields is often noted and their habit of nipping off standing grain at the joints, pre sumably to get tne moisture in the joints, as well as to eat this sweet succulent part has Resulted in as much as a 25 per cent, or more, loss to the grower. It has been said that one ground squirrel will eat in a season, as much as is required to feed a cow for a day. Thus one might assume that if 120 squirrels were permitted to run at will for a season they would consume as much as another ani mal unit would require for the same period of time. In the Irrigated sections of the county, squirrels often burrow into ditch banks causing breaks which frequently result in Hood aauv age to crops as well as costly re pairs to the irrigation system. They can also be carriers of the fleas which transmit the dreaded bubonic plague, thus they can be a serious threat to the health of a community. Squirrels should never be handled when either dead or alive. Of the many methods that have been used to combat these pests, poisoning has proven to be the most practical. Selected whole oats treated with powdered strychnine is most uni versally used and is the most re liable as well as the cheapest bait in use. Some people hesitate to use this bait for fear of poisoning quail and pheasants, but research of recent years has proven that these birds are not affected by strychnine and can consume large quantities of standard squirrel bait without ill effect. In the past 33 years (1923-19551 158,925 pounds of poisoned grain has been mixed and distributed by the county agent's office here for use in combating ground squirrels. This material is made available to the landowner, at cost, through several stores in the county as well as the county agent's office. A conservative estimate of the number of squirrels killed with this grain Is 67.193.490 squirrels over the 33-year period. Approximately $25, 000 was the cost of the grain but the savings in crops and forage amounts to many, many times that amount. Tule Contest Winners Listed TULELAKE Numerous homes in Tulelake and the surrounding community Joined In the 1955 Christmas lighting contest, "Glu tei way," sponsored by the Tulelnke Garden Club. ' Winners in the four divisions were: best decorated tree firsi, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hooper; third, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mosebar; third, Mrs. Evalyn Galloway. Best decorated doorway first, Mr. and Mrs. John Takacs and Mr. and Mrs. George Frey. (tie); second, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brown. Best over-all glitter first. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Llndsey and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hodges, (tie I; sec ond. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heiney; third, Mr. and Mrs. Al Hardman; honorable mention, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Urbach, Mr. and. Mrs. Wil liam Huse. Best decorated window first, Mr and Mrs, Robert Valias; second. Mr. and Mi's. Waveiiy Pierce; third, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald John son; honorable mention, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Barron, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ott Jr. Moose Give Toys, Candy The Merrill Moose Lodge No. 306 delivered toys to the children of seven needy families in Tule lake and one in Malin, announced Tommy slaughter, chairman of the drive. Slaughter said that a total of 134 toys were presented to the '33 chil dren. Each child also was given a bag of candy by the Moose Lodge, the chairman reported. The toys were collected at Earl's Market and the office of the Cali fornia Oregon Power Co. in Tule lake. The students of the Newell Elementary School gave a large number of the toys to the drive, as they did last year. The Merrill Volunteer Fire De partment gave toys to the needy children of Merrill, it was reported. OIL DISCOVERED LOS ANGELES 11 Oil has been struck m Boyle Heights, a resi dential area Just east of downtown Los Angeles. Richfield Oil Corp. said its first well has been com pleted there and Is flowing at 170 barrels a day. Gas production was recorded at a rate of 60,000 cubic feet a day. Additional wells will be drilled befoie the potential of the structure can be evaluated, Richfield said. Remote Ordeal Told By Roseburg , Scribe Editor's Note: Chuck Grell, Roseburg News-Review reporter, was with the group which pushed through the slides on Highway 42 Monday, to reach the community of Remote where five members of the Marion E. Ncal family perish ed In their crushed house. In the party were Coroner L. L. Powers. Don Bell, Roseburg radio ham; Chuck Reinhart. radio announcer, State Patrolman A. C. Haystead, and Charles B, Kash,. Winston Photographer.) By CHUCK GRKLL Roseburr News-Review Staff Writer ROSEBURG iPh- We got to Mile post 34 and had to stop there for the first of Innumerable slides to be cleared from our path. Several loggers from Camas Val ley joined us there. Among them was Frank Kinnan. Kinnan. a rawboned independent logger of 30 or perhaps less, brought his cat. State Patrolman A. C. Haystead, who knows him well, said Kinnan Is a man who will do anything on a bet or a dare. He proved his nerve Monday night. We started moving at 5 p. m. Night had fallen. Repeatedly Kin nan nudged mud, logs and other debris into the Coquille River, raging In its narrow canyon below. Sometime, where the river was pounding at the edge of th pave ment, the shoulder of the road threatened to collapse. Fifteen times in the six miles to Remote, Kinnan shoved his ma- Holiday Party Said Success WEED Thirty-one employes of the Weed Mercantile attended the company Christmas party at the Savoy Hotel .on December 20. The employes had voted to contri bute a Yule collection for a select ed Weed family rather ihan hold a gift exchange among themselves. Bill Hanchey was master of cer emonies and conducted the store wide talent contest. O. B. Smith, manager, and J. Kersey, assistant store manager, were hosts. Mrs. Joe Braden was In charge of table arrangements. Other em ployes present Included Mrs. Rach acl Ccdros, Mrs. Caroline Carplne. Dave Johnson, Mrs. James De Luca, Mrs. Ray Acatiistapace, Mrs. J. Ingram, David Kersey, Ralph Study, Pete Aiello, Gerry Gilliam, Mrs. C. H. Rooney, Mrs. Lem Gilliam. Mrs. Lawrence Ul ley, Eugene Watklns, Delbert Doan, Joan House. Bert Arens. Le land Dunlap, Theo Lockett, Mrs. Joe Lobis. Alma Lester, Mrs. Margaret Garcia, Mrs. Norma Aiello, Joe Pamatlo, Michael De Nero, Mrs. Emelia Kegg ' and Mrs,, E. Holley. . OVER THE GARDEN GATE BONANZA LANGF.LL VALLEY By Irene Hartley Verda Urback was reelected president of the Bonanza-Langell Valley Garden Club at a meeting held December 16 at the home of Louisa Horton. Betty Rice was co hostess. Also elected were Peggy Alberta, vice president; Gloria Woolen, sec retary and Betty Rice, treasurer A poll was taken to determine plans for membership next year. Suggestions were also asked for programs for the coming year. ' There will be no standard flow er show sponsored by the club next fall. The usual spring show will be held. The next meeting will be held at the Bonanza library. January 27. with Vi Brown, Jessie Spillane and Francis Jacobs as hostesses. chine at slides.' In plaoes, you could see the red-mud highway cuts slither toward the roadway while he was working. In others, water came In falls or small rivers down the sides of the mountains. Although the tractor's fan belt broke and a hole was punched in the radiator, Kinnan kept the cat moving. Meanwhile, Don Bell, ham radio man, was talking steadily to what we had come to think of as the "outside world." He kept the out side advised of our position and relayed instructions to and from Roseburg. ; ' He learned that a man from Remote had walked 21 miles from Myrtle Point to try to get a doctor to Care lor the injured children, Margaret Elaine Neal, 13, and her brother Billy, 6. We didn't know how many were dead or injured. We had heard at lirst that one body had been taken from a slide and four more per sons were thought drowned. We knew a house had been destroyed. Bell kept talking. To get mes sages to Roseburg he talked to hams in Santa Clara and Redwood City, Calif., who relayed to Co quille. The hams there relayed to Roseburg. Messages came back the same way. My wife learned by this method where I was. Kinnan kept pushing at the slides. Sqme were small but still made the road impassable. Others were worse. It took an hour for him to cut through one which covered a 150 foot stretch of roadway to a depth of 13 feet. Out in front, helping him clear the way, were the Camas Valley loggers. Fqulpped with a power saw, they cut through logs, some up to three teet in diameter, and Kinnan pulled them out of the way. While Kinnan was working on the big slide, radio contact was made again with Roseburg. Bell said an amplified telephone line was effected to Remote. Roseburg people had talked to John Cawrse, Remote mill operator. 1 Cawrse, we understood, was try ing to meet us with the Injured children, but was stopped by slides a mile east of Remote. We finally met him Ihcre. He had left the children at his home. It was when we met Cawrse that we first learned the complete story of the casualties 'tve dead, two injured, one unhurt. Coroner L. L. Powers' ambulance was driven to the Cawrse home and Margaret and Billy were put In It for the ride to Roseburg. Both were conscious but neither spoke. Margaret's face and legs were bruised. The children, we were told, had lain in the near-freezing rain and mud from 4:20 a. m. until their plight was discovered at about 9 a. m. No one teemed to know who found them. We understood It was Cawrse. As the children were put into the ambulance, faint moonlight filtered through the clouds. It ru- venled that the slide was perhaps 100 yards wide. There was no sign of the house. It had been disinte grated by the thousands of tons of muck which had. crashed from the hillside, funneled down a gully 'and washed over the Nels' one story house. 't Wt- c I i if I ! 77 Cr it JOHN FOSTER, LEFT, dressed up In a traditional Santa Claus outfit, aided a group of Moot members load up hundreds of packages last week to be distributed to needy children in the Klamath Falls area. Next to Santa, from left to right, are: Lee Benda, Gordon Grow, E. M. MacBeth and Roy Sharp. Dairy Honor Roll Listed The November honor roll of the Klamath Dairy Herd Improvement Association was announced by Ray O. Petersen, assistant county agent. A two-year-old purebred GitfTn- sey owned by Ken Waters led the list by producing 556 pounds of but ter fat and 10.947 pounds of milk. Runner-up was Beauty, a five year old grade Holsteln owned by E. G. Born, which produced 553 pounds of fat and 16,142 pounds of milk. Other cows making the honor roll were Ellen, a three year old registered Holsteln owned by Mario Rizzardo, 486 pounds of fat and 12,650 pounds of milk: Kailiv, a three year old registered Holsteln owned by Rizzardo, 477 pounds of tat and 13.043 pounds of milk; San dy, a three year old grade Holstein owned bv S. C. Masten and Son, 475 pounds of fat and 12,640 poundo jf milk, and Pug, a two year old registered Holsteln owned by Riz zardo, 408 pounds of lat and lu.m pounds of milk Requirements for the honor roll are baoed on the age of the cow. To make the roll, a 2-year-old must produce 400 pounds of fat; a three-year-old. 450 pounds; a 4-year-old. 600 pounds, and a 6-year-old or over, 550 pounds. Fifteen cows in herds tested pro duced 70 pounds or more of butter fat during November. There were 20 herds with 1.095 cows on tne standard test. The average milk produced was 566 pounds and the average fat 25.8 pounds. This fig ure was the lowest monthly aver age so far this year, Petersen said. He added that the one owner- tested herd, with IS cows, aver aged at 1.034 pounds of milk and 41.3 pounds of fat. WE ARE YOUR (oRMj HEADQUARTERS We have all the rnajeriajg yoit need for making a necu ORMIca: sink, bathroom anitory or resurfacing a . table. NetjOORMlcSk Contact Bond Cement p requires nopressure. 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