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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1958)
SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE 5 D ' - y THIS GORGEOUS orchid cactus has been grown by Mrs. Don (Dorothea) Nolan of 4708 Laverne Avenue. Its deep red blooms have lavender stems. The plant, 15 years old is fertilized once a year, grows in the family bedroom. Mrs. Nolan, co-owner with her husband of the Driftwood Cafe, is an ardent cactus fancier does much of the actual work in a well-kept yard in addition to caring for her modern home and assisting in business details. IflEMBTI By RUTH KING There isn't a do-it-yourself proj ect on earth that has so much ing. You can learn a lot from seed I catalogues, the garden columns ot newspapers and magazines, ra dio, TV and friends. There's on easy way and hard way to go about most garden tasks. The nard way, when it rnmes to weeding, is to wait until the weeds get really big and tough and are crowding out the tiny plants if you have planted seeds or are entwined with your peren nials. The easy way Is mostly a mat ter of timing, -the key is "get them while they're small." When that carpet of green starts to spring up go into action like a Dira aog alter quail. - ... . . First sharpen that hoc. A few minutes with a file will make the job so much easier. A sharp hoe will also nick your knuckles if your don't watch out. If the hoe gets dull before you finish the job, stop and file again instead ot depending on brute strength. Save energy for dolling up for dinner. The trick is to cut the weeds just below the surface not to root them Egg Production Slightly Less out like Pansy the pig. Deep hoe ing just wastes brawn and if you get too close to your tiowers, you are likely to cut off roots of your posies. (Jetting down on your knees for the close work is must. This close cleanup may do for whole season as the sages sav. but we've yet to see a sum mer when it didn t need to dc done more than once. A little touch of fertilizer, liquid kind is most potent, poured around the flower plants after the clean up job helps the roots take the shock of weeding in stride, if they have been disturbed by removing weeds too. Took off over the mountain Sun day for the Rogue River Valley The white dogwood, was exquisite against the forest green ... the wild lilacs clung to banks by the wayside in lavender beauty, and the lacy shadows of a cut leaf birch danced upon a sunny eddy close to the bank where a lush lawn curved to meet the river. An estimated 53 million eggs were produced in Oregon during April according to the Crop and I ivoeinrV rinnnrtine Service. This is four per cent below the 55 mil lion eggs produced me same month a year ago. The average monthly rate of lay. at 19.1 eggs per layer, compares with the rate of 18.8 eggs per layer during Ap ril 1957. Laying flocks averoged 2,762.000 layers during April 5 per cent less than the same month last year. Farm flocks in the United States laid 5.495 million eggs dur ing April 3 per cent less than in April 1957 and the lowest April production since 1941. Total egg production, January through Ap ril 1958, was 4 per cent below the same period last year. Laying flocks averaged 295,054.000 layers during April 3 per cent less than April 1957. Ran some rapids in the' Rogue in an outboard motor boat, me snrav whinnine above the bow down and back, the motor pound- ine while the churning water tugged against me crau s smoom sides ... an exciting trip. A SPREADING APPLE TREE, as full of buzzing bees as it was pink and white blossoms when the Herald and News photographer passed by, is believed to have been one of many trees in an orchard once owned by the historical Applegate family of Oregon. The tree, in the rear yard of Miss Nona Hall, 91b East Main Street, is a disappointment to small boys who love green apples. Its fruit is tart when eaten raw, even when ripe, but the pies that it makes would make a connoisseur of apple .pies ask for a second help ing. Miss Mall has Uvea in Mamatn rails since ivuv ana rne Tree was a large one wnen they bought the home where she now lives, soon after she arrived. fit' v.j i f i -ran EYES ON THE STARS Capt. Mary Converse. 86, has turned to space research. She is the only woman in the United States licensed to command ships on the high seas. Captain Mary Converse, 86, Has Her Sights On The Moon Job - Rated DODGE Power House Farm TRUCKS Cunningham & Rickey Motors So. 7th & Commercial 5F J9 Currin's u a- Headquarters For Veterinarian Supplies: and Madicinei ' FvMvthlnn far Animal Health! CURRIN'S for Druqt Ph. TU 2-3475 a 9th I Main Watched litterbugs. high upon the mountain, toss off refuge from the car with abandon, the papers float- ine down, down toward the neat green farm below in the hollow of the hills, and it brought to mind this little poem, sent me by an anti-litterbugger. . . . . TO A LITTERBINI O, Spare this spot, Dispenser of discarded pasteboard And empty can whose brew rides recklessly With you! May you pass on and linger not To mar this view. Bessie Berg Happy weeding! DENVER l Denver's great-1 grandmother sea captain is culti vating a new hobby space. Capt. Mary Converse, the only woman in the- nation licensed to command craft ot any size on the high seas, says she has been struck by moon madness at 86. Space is no stranger to Capt. Mary. She taught astral navi gation to more than 2,500 Navy, toast Guard and Merchant Ma rine students during World War II. The school room was in her Denver home. Now it's rockets. She is a mem ber of the research association of the High Altitude Observatory of the University of Colorado, work ing in the International Geophysi cal Year program. Her interest at present is research on the ionos phere. In between IGY articles, Capt. Converse is working on her auto biographybut she admits it's I pretty slow going with ,her other interests. In fact, she said, -she1 hasn't been able to get past 1910. Capt. Converse was born Mary Parker in Walden, Mass. Her husband, Harry E. Converse, was, wealthy Boston shoe manutac-. turer and yachtsman. He died in 1021 and Mrs. Converse movea to Denver four years later. When she was C7, Capt. Con; verse again turned to navigation and won her master s papers, iut license was renewed for five years after examination in 195a. She spends much of her time now with a son Elisha in Cama rillo, Calif. Two other sons live in Massachusetts, Parker in Mar ion, and Itoger W. in Boston. A daughter, Mrs. Joho Butler lives in Winnetka, 111. Capt. 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