6 Th New-Reylew, Roseburg, Or, Frl., Dee. 2, 1949
Termite Ancestry Goes Back 250
Million Years; Cockroach Is Kin
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON UP) Proud people who trace their ancestry
to the Mayflower got a rude jolt. A termite, who rarely gives
himself airs, can trace his ancestry back 250,000,000 years.
This tidbit comes- from the Smithsonian Institution, which has
Just completed cataloguing 1,932 different species of termites.
When It turned out that the
cataloguing chore had been done
by a Department of Agriculture
man who has been studying the
termite and ways to. control It
for 40 years, I promptly called
Dr. Thomas E. Snyder to find
out what's new In the termite
world.
The answer Is, nothing much.
Termites have been calmly
chomping wood and developing
a complex social organization for
30,000,000 years. And their ances
tors, Dr. Snyder eald, go back
250,000,000 years.
"Somewhere along the line,"
he said, "the family spilt, and
one group became the cock
roach. Dr. Snyder has a certain ad
miration for the cockroach.
("He's very adaptable. He was
on earth long before man, and
I suspect he'll be here long after
we're going.") But his real love
is the termite.
Dr. Snyder met up with the
termite quite by accident. Some
telephone poles had been dam
aged, and he went out to look at
them. There he saw his first
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"I have seen a tropical queen
termite," said Snyder, "who was
four and one half inches long
and nearly two Inches In cliam
eter."
It has been during only the
last lew thousand of its su.uuo,-
000 years that the termite has
eiven man any trouble. That's
when man moved out of a cozy
cave into a house, and termites
moved Into chew on the house.
Dr. Snyder says there's one dif
ference between the ant and bee
kings and the king termite.
"The ant and the bee kings
die after mating," he said. "The
termite king lives on. If you're
going to be a king, a termite
king Is much the best proposi
tion." I said I'd keep that in mind.
Brannan Farm
Program Rapped
SPOKANE, Dec. 1 OP) A
charge that the Brannan farm
program would mean govern
ment control and is "clear away
from the parity concept," was
made last night by Ralph Gil
lespie of Pullman, president of
tne wasnington state farm bur
eau. Speaking before a group of
young' Republicans, Gillespie de
scribed the plan as a "subsidy
program" and said its disclusuie
"really shocked the nation."
He charged that it was "hatch
ed up In the Inner sanctums of
the agriculture building in Wash
ington, D. C, between govern
ment bureaucrats and the CIO."
He urged continuance of a pro
gram of price supports.
(The Brannan plan, so-called
because It Is sponsored by agri
culture Secretary Charles F.
Brannan, calls for full parity
supports through purchases and
loans, as at present, for corn,
cotton, wheat, rice, peanuts and
tobacco. Perishable products,
however, would be permitted to
seek their own market price with
the government reimbursing the
grower for the difference be
tween the selling price and a pre
determined "fair price.")
The Lost Colony of Roanoke In
N. C. is still a mystery in our
history.
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Offers Guide To
Income Tax Filing
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON. UP) For
25 cents you can get a lot of in
formation on making out your
1949 income tax.
You don't have to figure the tax
on your 1949 Income, or pay it,
till 1950. .
But If you want a lot of de
tailed information there's a
government booklet you can buy.
It's called "Your Federal Income
Tax."
It runs to 138 pages, is put out
by the Internal Revenue bureau
which collects your tax, and is
intended to answer a lot of ques
tions. You can buy It by sending 25
cents to the superintendent of
documents, U. S. government
printing office, Washington, D. C.
Last year the government put
out a similar booklet and sold
265,000 copies.
in ivih aDouc minion people
filed an income tax return on
their 1948 income. In 1950 around
58 million are expected to file a
return on their 1949 income.
When the income tax deadline
it's March 15, 1950 draws near,
this writer and other newsmen
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filalnlng who does what about his
ncome tax.
But none of these stories can
go Into the details, and cover as
many different problems, as are
treated in this booklet. So it's a
good quarter's investment for a
great many people.
The government will mail to
everyone who filed a return in
1949 an Income tax form for fil
ing their return In 1950.
Choice Of Two Form
It will send out two kinds of
forms: An easy one, called 1040A,
and one that requires a little more
work, called 1040.
With the latter the government
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come tax filing.
Still, this booklet, helpful as it
Is, does not cover as much ground
as the 138 page booklet explained
above.
As an example of some of the
fields treated in the larger
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things like contribution deduc
tions, medical and dental ex
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tions, alimony and automobile de
ductions, payment and refund of
taxes, and so on.
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CHICAGO UP) Joseph Dollnaj
a husky railroad signal operator
from Dunellen, N. J., the nation's
new male crocheting champion,
attributes his success to his wife.
Proudly holding an engraved
loving cup for his prize entry,
at the National Needle Craft bu
reau's eighth annual crochet con
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"I wouldn't be what I am to
day if I hadn't bet my wife $5 I
could crochet better than she
could. I couldn't even hold the
needle. She had to show me. I
got some books and practiced un
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my family."
DolinaJ won the $5 bet from his
wife six years ago and his win
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brought him a prize of $100. He
hopes to sell it for $350.
RollnaJ said during his spare
time at work he crochets, and
when Mrs. DolinaJ "takes the
kids to a movie, I stay home
and crochet."
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In his preface, the commis
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the average taxpayer can
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Mrs. Thomas L. Nightingale,
72, a great-grandmother of Sac
ramento, Calif., was named
grand national crocheting cham
pion. Sex Slayer Sentenced
to Electric Chair
FORT WAYNE, Ind Dec. 1
UB Franklin Click, 25-year-old
father of five children, was
sentenced to death today In the
electric chair for the rape-slaying
of Phyllis Conine, 17-year-old
high school gir.
Click also is under Indictment
In two other sex murders.
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