SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1958
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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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.
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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
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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. Converse's
47th great-grandchild arrived recently.
Capt. Converse grants that she
may have slowed down a bit.
"I haven t played tennis since
I was 80," she said.
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