SZHBESQ3UDELUV r HOME APPLIANCE n I AROUND ¡TH E FARM CO $ Don Coin Walrod £ HARDWARE V" - W Only about eight jx-n-ent of Ore­ gon's wheat growers, covering about 30 pervx-nt of the allot cd acreage, had signed up to participate in the 1905 wheat program at the end of last week. The deadline for sign-up of fall wheat is October 2 The 1ÄJ5 program is voluntary, but to qualify for diversion payments ami certificates in addition to price sup­ port loans, fall wheat growers must declare their intentions to partici­ pate at this time Growers making a fall sign-up will have an opportuni­ ty to revise their intention in the spring Full details are available from the county ASCS office. St Hel­ ens. >; Oernonia E agle 8 - L THURSDAY. NOV 12, 1964 a APPLIANCE MONTH AT COAST-TO-COAST STQ ELECTRIC F U R N IT U H E Heater Fire Safety Is Urged by Agent Fire is the deadliest killer in the home More people, age 1 to 64. die from fires and bums than from any other home accident cause, points out Margaret AJIyn, Columbia county extension agent Estimates by the National Fire Protection association show that fire killed 11,800 Americans in 1963; •,500 of these died in their own home Of this 2,300 were children. During National Fire Prevention Week, October 4-10, fire departments throughout the nation were paying particular attention to acquainting people with hazards that cause home fires. More than 1,500 American homes will be struck by fire today and every day, causing nearly $1.000,000 worth damage. There are various reasons for this annual toll, but [ieopl<; still cause most fires The best time to fight fire is before it starts Some of the major causes in home fires are: faulty heating equipment, defective o r overloaded wiring ; smoking and matches, spontaneous ignition, and flammable liquids There are ways to guard your home and family from the ever pre­ sent danger of fire Every family should plan at least two escape routes leading directly from each room in the house, to be used in case of fire Rehearse them with the en­ tire family until even younger child­ ren know exactly what to do. Plan to use garage and porch roofs, lad­ ders. and even tree tops to escape from upper floors Keep a flashlijd»» handy. We have heard of people who a t­ tempt to explain the universe, when they really do not understand a sim­ ple blade of grass Oakland Fireplace Wood Heater "B IG 8" HOLIDAY TRANSISTOR RADIO • B IG 1 0 " H O L ID A Y T R A N S IS T O R R A D IO WE D E L IV E R State Director Tells TB Facts The extremely popular Oregon State University Extension Service bulletin, "Trees to Know” is out of print but is being prepared for re­ printing Extension Forestry Special­ ist Charlie Ross, bulletin author, in­ dicates the new issue will have two pages devoted to Oregon’s big trees. Currently, it appears that the larg­ est tree in Oregon today is a Sitka spruce on Crown Zellerbach land near Seaside The tree is 15.9 feet in diameter at breast height and 195 feet high. The largest Douglas fir in Oregon appears to be one growing in the Oregon Caves National Monu­ ment and, strangely, at 4000 feet ele­ vation. This old fir is 12 3 feet d.b.h and 182 feet high. Published reports list the tallest Douglas fir ever founo in Oregon as a 295 foot tree had once grew in the Siuslaw National Forest near Pawn. A most interesting story in the Na­ tional Geographic Magazine fur July F IN E 1964, tells of a newly found group of tall redwoods in Humboldt county. California. The tallest one of the group is ;dso the tallest tree in the world, at 367 feet. The California miwood findings have aroused new interest in tall trees and. according to Thornton T Munger, retired USFS Experiment station director who lives in Portland, have revived old rumors of a 385 foot Douglas-fir that once grew in the Northwest Authent ic records of this reputed skyscraper do not exist, and Munger questions if there was a fir of such height A rumor dies hard w hen even one w ish­ Thermostatically es it were (act Oakland Wood Vaccination of dairy heifers for brucellosis has been a recommended practice when done between the ages of four and eight months. Now the national brucellosis committee is Again everyone is urged to take recommending that emphasis be put on the four-month age since calves advantage of the opportunity to have vaccinated at this age develop as a chest x-ray when the mobile unit great an immunity as do those vac­ makes its semi-annual visit to Co­ cinated at an older age, and they do lumbia county, on October 28. 19 ami not retain a vaccinal titer as to the 30. Some of the hard facts about tu­ calves vaccinated at later dates. The committee is also recommend­ berculosis are stated by Ambrose S ing that research be conducted to de­ Churchill, M.D., Oregon's state tu­ terminate if an earlier age could be berculosis control director He |»ints employed for vaccinating Certainly out that more than one new case ot the job is easier to do on younger tuberculosis occurred every day of 1963. One death occurred almost ev­ animals. ery week, thus elevating the mortali­ Brucellosis eradication from all states of the nation is the goal of ty rate over that of 1962, and pro­ this national committee. Besides a vided further evidence ihzit tubercu­ loss to producers of cattle, swine, losis is the most serious communica­ and goats, the disease is a public ble disease in Oregon Although the health hazard with nearly -WO cases state and city of Portland showed a decrease in the number of newly reported last year Utah recently scored as the first reported cases for 1963. 18 counties, western state to achieve complete including Columbia, showed an in­ eradication of brucellosis The state crease of from one to 11 new cases Tuberculosis is a contagious di­ was also the first of the beef pro­ sease that respects no age. creed or ducing group to reach the ultimate goal. In so doing, she joins New color From an economic standpoint, Hampshire. Maine, and Rhode Island it is costing Oregonians over $4 000 00 per day for hospitalization alone In on the brucellosis-free roll addition, there is the cost of medicai Utah's battle with brucellosis be­ gan in 1934 when testing revealed in­ care outside the hospital, loss of in­ fection in 35 5 percent of the state's come. and other costs which repre­ herds and 9 14 percent of its cattle sent a staggering loss to the state According to Dr Churchill. Ore­ To achieve its certified brucellosis- free status, all herds were proved gon's physiciare and public health free of the disease by on the-farm personnel are doing an excellent job testing, or through adequate screen­ of diagnosing and treating cases of ing of market cattle, or by milk-ring tuberculosis, examining contacts of new cases and providing follow up testing. Brucellosis has now been eradicat­ of old cases. It is through this con­ ed from 295 counties in 20 states, certed effort of case finding, that the Puerto Rico, and tlie Virgin Islands. prevalence of infectious cases of tu­ National goals are to reduce the in­ berculosis in Oregon have been cidence of the disease to one percent steadily reduced. In order to stamp out tuberculosis in all counties by 1965 and to estab­ lish a brucellosis-free nation by 1975. and promote better health, all per­ Columbia county reached the less- sons are urged to have periodic than-one-percent level more than a physical examinations, including an year ago, but the problem is not annual chest film solved in that reactors still turn up, and one county herd currently is on the quarantined list A small group of Columbia county- folks participated in a pot-luck din­ ner and a field day at the John Jacob Astor Branch Experiment Station at Astoria recently. Visitors were shown some of the forage work on the sta­ tion. along with the new equipment for hay handling, and part of the registered Geumsey herd by Superin. tendent Don Claypool. Visitors from Columbia county in­ cluded Mr and Mrs. Russel Carver, Mr and Mrs Eino Lammi, Mr and Mrs Olaf Olson, and Mr and Mrs Dan Spragu, all of Clatskanie Mr and Mrs Elmer Lloyd, Deer Island, and your writer and family took part. 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C cam«- bock and asked A how long it would lx- before the exclusive listing with B would end A told C the listing would oxpire m a week C then said that he would buy the house as soon as the listing expired if A would reduce the price by $600, or half of th<- amount of th<- 1200 commission that A would save by selling the house after the listing expired A agreed to sell on thos,. terms After the listing expired. A -old the house to C for $19,400 and told R nothing about it Later R found out about the sal«- and sued A for the six (x-rcent commission l>o you think B can win the suit far his commission? The answer is that B can collect his commission. He earned it when he produced C, who was ready will­ ing and able to buy A s bouse A and C could not cheat R of his eommis sion merely by waiting until the list- ing on the house expired. The court would require A to pay R the com mission, and the fact that A reduce« the purchase price by half of the amount of the commission would not change the result. 'Oregon lawyers offer this column as a public service No person should apply or interpret any law without the aid of an attorney who is com pletely advised of the facts involved Even a slight variance in facts may change the application of the law j TAXATION OF ALIMONY W lw-n Regina dnrei-ecj Rr l di vorce decree provided t h a t Rex would pay hn former wife $300 a month as almwny (or continuing supfurt for life During the next year Rex deducted from his income the amoiatf hr pnid Regina as alimony paying ,n««ne tax on that ,jart of his intxenr which he paid user as alinxmy Regina however, did n.x list the alimony pay menu a* income to hre believing that since the $2ro nvxUhly w « pod ( » her suW. s taxable to the f()nner hu4) " ,h" f"n ' M r * ‘f- »» Kovcrmd ,)V 'W u a g e and the provisions of divorce decre«.. not by the 1-I„.f (lf - l-n y « tlw other that the J | ‘r sirty shtaild be required to p.iy (h,. taxes on alimony. offer ik. 1 “ «Oregon - .......- lawyers X iK id ’, •” lm «"i»« '(* aid of an attorney ; pletely advised of the f,«^s 1 / slight variance in facts in- v i " *' «PpUcation of ,he |, - X ‘ h,‘n,?e aw- , The handicap,,,, h«n.iout but a b.-lpmg h i u i ^ , ' irof.t Goodwil, in,llK,ri the help , h « . y ^ ^ , , h » -', \.\|> au ria» t A P I E U SI H E Electric Wire Plan Needed Io have good eiertlical wl«i«w' when piann.r g a new home « rrtrvnl Wing it must I« | home «wtrol »w.tdies dviuM 1«. 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