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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1976)
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See you at Ken Farmer’s Service 407 E. 11th Ave. The Volvo people, service and 343-4225 part, and used. 2370 W. 11th 30th & Hilyard Eugene Cottage Grove Oakridge Oregon Grown Grade t Whole FRYING CHICKEN 67c Family Size Crest TOOTH PASTE Red Ripe TOMATOES Produce: Frozen Foods: Meadow Gold asst d flavors ICE CREAM 2gal tubs $349 Tree Top APPLE JUICE 470 Extra Fancy Red Delicious APPLES 5 ,„s *1 Variety: Meat: Agio six-pack COMPREST WOOD 590 fire place log with starter DuBuque sliced BACON 12 oz pk 970 Grocery: Drive-N-Save MARGARINE , 3/s1 Phpscant APPLE SAUCE 4/890 Wesson Pure VEGETABLE OIL 3e02$118 Blue Mountain PETFOOD is oz tin 4/81 Chicken n' Liver, Chicken n Kidney or Chicken 'n' Tuna Jiffy corn MUFFIN MIX <m„2pk9 5/970 Tempting TOMATO JUICE 45e Tempting yellow cling PEACHES 79 02 tin 430 Nalley s Tang SALAD DRESSING 890 Hunts tomato CATSUP 14 oz 390 Blue Mountain INSTANT MIX 41b890 20 lb $3.69 M.D. BATHROOM TISSUE 4 roll pack 63e Page 6 Drive-N-Save BREAD White or Whole Wheat 22 oz. loaf Umbrellas: Oregon lifesaver bears Iona historv By ANNE KERN Of the Emerald Before you leave to go to work or school, don’t forget your "little shadow,” if it looks like rain. A “little shadow” is an umbrella — at least it's the meaning of the Latin word from which the English word “umbrella” comes . Umbrellas, those trusty and necessary instruments that many Oregonians carry as an extension of their arms, actually originated in ancient Egypt and Assyria as sun shades. One of the first pictures of an umbrella is in a carving of King Xerxes I of Persia that is over 2,400 years old. The first umbrellas were little more than parasols held over kings and other wealthy people by slaves. In ancient Greece and Rome, umbrellas moved into the common sphere and many paint ings on Grecian vases portray women carrying delicate parasols. The ancient Romans were the first people to use the umbrella against the rain. During the Middle Ages use of the umbrella as a sunshade or as a rain protection almost completely disappeared But the umbrella and its use was revived in the late 16th century in Italy where the Pope and the clergy exhibited it as a symbol of power and distinction. Meanwhile in the ancient Far East, the umbrella devoloped into a high class object and only high officials and royalty were permit ted to use it. Even today, in Burma and Thailand, the umbrella is an emblem of rank. The Japanese have used the umbrella or the parasol since the first days of their empire. Use of the umbrella in Europe first appeared in France in 1680 An eccentric London merchant, Jonas Hanway, was the first En glishman to adopt the umbrella as a protection against rain in the 1750s. He was scorned and laughed at but eventually the fad caught on and today no self respecting Englishman goes without his umbrella. By the 18th century, the use of umbrellas was widespread in western Europe The basic construction of the umbrella has changed little in its few thousand yeal’s of use Waterproofed bloria, alpaca, silk and synthetics like nylon and rayon have replaced oiled paper as the fabric of the umbrella and grooved steel ribs, introduced in 1850, are used instead of bam boo, rattan and oak ribs of ancient times. But the essential frame is the same one that fashionable people m ancient Egypt used And though, like snowflakes, no two umbrellas are alike, every Orego nian knows what one is For no matter if it's black or multi-colored, standard or foid-up, with a plain handle or a fancy one, it's still an umbrella and a recognizable ob ject in the familiar Oregon drizzle '-'I Yes, but what does it mean? (CPS) If you are in college taking a writing course, or even if you have younger brothers or sisters in high school English courses — composition as opposed to literature — you and they will find that the longer, more pompous, high fallutin and unorganized sentences you write on yours or their essays, sentences like this one, for example, you will receive better grades from your teachers, many of who can t recognize good writing, a Chicago researcher has found _____> i” —— “The plan of creation applies to all organisms” 1 jf * "c stem of macro-evolution requires j self-contained universe, in whuh everything dc VCI'11S by natural laws into higher levels of nr ganization Panides eventually evolve into < plex animal life and finally humans No external i processes requiring the special activity of an out side Creator are needed. One assumption made by evolutionists, which amounts to no more than blind faith, is that transitional organisms existed in the past w lie sru gci t ic gaps between species in the evolutionary process l he existence of these organisms ,s essential it the "vertical-continuum tx-tween each fossil organism and irs evolutionary ancestors is valid ut these transitional organisms have not been found As paleontologist G.G Simpson wrote I bis regular absence of transitional forms is an almost universal phenomenon An example is the evolutionary transition of organisms from n eric iratcs to vertebrates It must have involved billions of animals, hut no one has ever found a fossil of one of them it- earliest vertebrates supposedly are certain orders of iisli vo utionists agree that a long evolutionary history must have taken pluc e prior co the time the "first vertebrates appeared But they admit that they are ignorant of that histor> In simple fat r, no fossils have yet lieen found of incipient forms k-admg up to those fish from their assumed invertebrate ancestors It t-s more sense surely, to believe that vertebrates and invertebrates were separate creations from the beginning I, /•'oil't mmsts are asking us to acc ept the existence of transitional inns wiih out any concrete evidence simply because thev arc neecssan for the evolutionary system to lH- valid hi-rw *KL ^rC|'n 111 l,n (ke other hand, ac tually predic ts gaps '[!' !”' S slx‘ciesf ,n 'he fossil record, gaps that would basically resemble those between kinds the modern world. or vi, L S |,1U ,m 1,1 ‘rK,rion aPPhes to all organisms, w hether living ZZ " , Even a"'mals which have become extinct (and extinc tion ,s or, „n I P L " 1 ttay' nnr development) must have been a part of the original categories. ' Invi- ‘k:rccs t*1ilt man>' changes within the kinds may 1 C!led’ thtSC tl,an«t-s provided by the C reator s forethought k adaptation to changing environments facilitated by the antariXr'i vanat,o"al potential in each kind. Hut the kinds have Ix-com 10 s,nct beginning, except for those that have oecome extinct. l or more information, write: Box 5199 Eugene, Oregon 97405
