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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
TUESDAY, MARCH.15..1949
Millions of Snails
Practically
Up Pacific Islands
Washington. March 15 Ut
Multiplied millions of snails the
size of pups are practically eating
up our western Pacific islands,
and the government is torn be
tween two plans for getting rid
of the pests: .
1. Sweep up the snails, dry
them as you would so many apri
cots, and ship them to Japan for
food.
2. Turn loose on the giant land
mollusks a much smaller but
tougher "cannibal snail" which
gets its living by devouring alive
other snails 10 to 20 times its
size.
Dilemma Reported
The government's dilemma was
reported by the Smithsonian in
stitution which has in its custody
. some of the snail cannibals, an in
significant but mean-acting-creature
no bigger than a peanut.
The seeds of the dilemma were
sowed by the Japanese after
World War I. Japanese like to
eat snails. So, when they took
over the Mariannas islands under
a league of nations mandate, they
decided to augment the islands'
food supply by raising snails.
They Imported the giant east
African snail, described by the
Smithsonian institute as "one of
the largest of land mollusks,
about the size of a large rat, with
one of the most voracious appe
tites of any living creature."
' . Idea Viewed
The Japanese idea looked good
on paper but 1 didn't work out
well in practice. The Airican snau
thrived in the Mariannas and mul
tiplied at considerably more than
a snail's pace, as the expression
is generally understood. But the
natives never took to them.
ate them," the Smithonsian said,
were the (Japanese) govern:
ment administrators."
'By the time the Japanese had
foueht and lost World War II and
the U. S. riavy ha taken over
the Mariannas, the giant African
snails had become a serious pest.
"Sometimes their slimy bodies
covered roads so thickly that it
was dangerous to drive a Jeep at
night," the institution said.
: And armies of snails "would
clean up a garden in a single
evening." The reason these snail
giants thrived so well in the Pa
cific islands was that "they had
no natural enemies."
DAIRY EXPANSION PLANNED
Madras, March 15 Pete and
Gene Bicart, former residents of
the Malheur county irrigated dis
trict, who the past three years
have been busy developing water
ed tracts on the North unit of the
Deschutes project here, plan a
substantial expansion of dairying
this year. The men returned the
Jast week from Ontario where
they purchased 10 heifers for
their operations, the men also
' brought . to their local tracts a
.quantitv of farm machinerv.
FUNNY BUSINESS
CLINSTfCW-tTAUTO FINANCE
.BeC&sg 3. if J?wtoni.'ft ir hi srnvici, ihc t. m iic u i at. oh.
"A fine place to run oytt of gas and us six payments be-'-
- hind on the car!"
Deaf Mute 'Talks'
Way Into Trouble
Atlanta. March 15 (IB AI ro
mantic deaf mute today faced a
$50,000 damage suit here because
he "talked too much.
Miss Leile B. Campos, who de
scribed herself as a "virtuous, un
married deaf mute," filed the suit
in Fulton superior court against
Glenson B. Grizzard. .
She charges that Grizzard was
too fast with the finger talk.
First, she said, he "talked" too
much to her, and then too much
about her, all in sign language.
According to Miss Campo s pe
tition, Grizzard "paid her every
attention and courtesy due a
member of the female society."
Eventually, she said, by "fever
ed promises and proposals of 'mar
riage" and by avowals that "un
less he could have her, his life
would be one unending plain, bar
ren and bereft of every and any
pleasure," he persuaded her to
succumb to his charms.
Then, the young woman charg
ed, the tone of Grizzard's sign
language changed. She charged
that he laughed at her, withdrew
his promise of marriage and
taunted her on the streets.
When she meets him with other
deaf mutes, Miss Campo claims,
they laugh and poke their fingers
at her.
The suit is scheduled for trial
in April.
LIBRARY GROWS FAST
Ithaca, N. Y. Mi Cornell uni
versity's library now has 1,350,000
volumes, including 50,000 acquir
ed during the last year,' reports
Dr. Stephen A. McCarthy, librarian.
By Hershberger
CP
Odom to Tour
Nation for RC
Teterboro, N.J., March 15 IB
William P. Odom, flying his record-breaking
light plane "Waikiki
Beech," took off today on a 17,000
mile personal appearance tour on
behalf of the 1949 American Red
Cross appeal.
Odom is scheduled to appear at
rallies in 13 cities. He planned to
make the entire trip in the 185
horsepower plane lnwhich he set
a light-plane distance record last
week in a 5,000-mile flight from
Honolulu to Teterboro.
His schedule calls for stops at
Boston, Buffalo, N.Y., Philadel
phia, Chicago, New Haven and
Bridgeport, Conn., Brooklyn, Cin
cinnati, Washington, D.C., Port
land, Ore., Tacoma and Seattle,
Wash,, and San Francisco.
Plentiful Meat
Supply in Nation
Chicago, March 15 IP Meat
"continues in good supply"
throughout the nation and prices
are down an average of 20 per
cent below the peaks of last sum
mer, the American Meat institute
said today.
The institute noted that farm
ers were sending fewer meat ani
mals to market, but said whole
sale prices on meat on the basic
markets in New York, Chicago
and San Francisco are down from
the all-time highs of last summer.
Round steak Is down 30 per
cent and chuck roast 28 per cent
on some markets, the Institute
said.
EASY TO REMEMBER
' Boston U By coincidence,
Jack Donnell's street address is
1280 Beacon strppt and Kia tpln.
phono number is Beacon 1280.
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Crook Pioneers
Slate Reunion
Priheville, March 15 Mrs. Effa
Calbreath, president of the Crook
County Pioneers' association, has
announced committees for the
preparation and holding of the
organization s annual picnic and
reunion, scheduled this year for
Sunday, August 7. I he event
annually attracts former resi
dents of crook, the original coun
ty of Central Oregon, and Prlne
vllle, the oldest town of the area
and the county seat, from all parts
of the Pacific coast.
Committees named for the 1949
reunion and picnic are: general
arrangements, Ernest Reynolds,
Arthur Foster, Roy A. Demaris
and Bob Yancey; decorations.
Grace Kizer, Birdie Norton, Addie
Wallace and Ruth Hopper; pro
gram and memorial, Carey W.
Foster, Fay Bailey and Beulah
Bechtell; pioneer relics, Jim Mc-
Clun, Ethel Cram, Keyes Hyde
and Howard W. Turner; transpor
tation, queen and flowers, Mildred
Ross, Elma Davis and Eldted
Breese.
Membership and registration,
Goldie Stover, Mabel Zevely, Ma
ble Doak Reynolds and Frances
Price; table, Ross Robinson, Ray
Mackey, George Crosswhite and
Lloyd Powell; coffee, Orrln Mills,
Ralph Breese, J. F. Ireland and
Jesse Tethrow; old fiddlers'' Con
test, Alvin Grimes; joint chair
men on reception committte,
Adah Robinson and Mabel Graf
fenberger; and publicity, Arthur
Michel and Winifred Jordan.
Wabash Railroad
Workers Strike
St. Louis. March 15 (U'l Some
3,500 operating employes of the
Wabash railroad walked out today
after a breakdown in grievance
negotiations and the railroad halt
ed all service over its six-state
system. '
The strike was called at 6 a.m.,
CST, but George H. Sido, Wabash
vice-president in charge of oper
ations, said all trains en route at
that time would continue to their
destinations.
The walkout was the climax of
several months of negotiations
conducted by a federal mediator
between the unions representing
engineers, firemen, conductors
and trainmen and the Wabash
system.
vice-president w. t. Donoghue
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen said the strike was or
dered because the unions were un
able to obtain a settlement of
"long standing grievances involv
ing time claims, discipline and
other working conditions."
BIGGEST BOBSLED CLAIMED
Bridgton, Me. ili'i Students of
Bridgton academy claim they own
the world's largest bobsled. Their
76-foot sied, an 1,800-pound affair,
carries from 75 to 100 passengers
as it speeds down a mile-long
slope near the school campus.
Services Set
For John Gage '
Prlneville, March 15 Funeral
services will be held at the chapel
of the Prlneville funeral home at
2:30 p. m. today for John Edward
Gage, who died suddenly Friday
evening at his home here. Rev.
Marvin H. Skidinore, -pastor of
the First Baptist church hero, will
officiate and interment will fol
low at the Pioneer cemetery.
Mr. Gage, 49, was a native of
Mitchell. He had lived here for
the past several years. He is sur
vived by his wife, Elizabeth; two
sons, Patrick. E. and Gerald Clif
ford, and three daughters, Mrs.
Mury B. Durkee, Bonnie Gage and
Mrs. Artice Allep,
Official Records
Assumed Business Names
Isahelle Sarenson, et al, has
filed the business name Service
Station Auto Camp with County
clerk Helen Dacey, it was report
ed today.
Circuit Court
Suit was filed 'In circuit court
Monday by the state unemploy
ment service seekine a ludirment
of $284.76 'against Ralph C.
BrooKs, owner ot Brooks Plumb
ing and Heating, for delinquent
unemployment compensation tax-
DOUBLE JEOPARDY -
Minneapolis (ll'i Peter Paflio-
lis walked out of the police, sta
tion traffic office, where lie had
just paid a $2 parking ticket, to
find a policeman writing a tag
lor nis car. He was lined another
$2 for parking in a "restricted"
zone alongside the city hall.
Refrigeration
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LEAGUE ELECTS OFFICERS
Prineville, March 15 C. V.
Henkle, dean of bays at the Crook
county high school, has announc
ed that new officers of the Boys'
league were Installed at a meet
ing the pust week as follows:
Gale Billsborough, president ; Pat
Gage, vice president; Bill Goben,
secretary, and Dale Coonse, treas
urer. Committee choirmen for the
semester are: Dale Coonse, fin
ance; Fred Galligher, intra mural
sports; Ray Bailey, social recrea
tion; Keith Nye, buildings and
grounds; Dan Doe, service, and
Billie Ray, r.'obby.
Principal to Host
Schoolmen's Club
- Powell Butte, March 15 Enard
Gentry, principal of the grade
school here, will be host next
Wednesday evening to the Cen
tral Oregon Schoolmen's club,
composed of male faculty mem
bers of schools in Jefferson, Des
chutes, Crook and Harney coun
ties. The dinner, to be held in the
school's cafeteria, will be follow
ed by a program in the Powell
Butte school gymnasium.
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