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Storage Pits of Malta Workmen remove grain from an
cient storage pits at Valletta, Ma'ta, which are fitted with
stone slabs to keep grain and cereals for three years.
Mayflower Ancestry Is Old,
But Not Compared to Termite s
By ARTHUR EDSON
Washington, Dec. 7 VP) Proud people who trace their ances
try to the Mayflower got a rude jolt today. A termite, who rarely
gives himself airs, can trace his ancestry back 250,000,000 years.
This tidbit comes from the Smithsonian Institute, 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 call
ed 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 an
cestors, Dr. Snyder said, go back
250,000,000 years.
"Somewhere along the line,"
he said, "the family split, 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 before man, and I sus
pect 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
queen termite and he's been
looking at termites ever since.
In this country termites meas
ure only a quarter of an inch,
with the winged adult measur
ing a half inch.
We got off lucky.
"I've seen a tropical queen
termite," said Snyder, "who was
four and one half inches long
and nearly two inches in di
ameter."
It has been during only the
last few thousand of its 30,000,
000 years that the termite has
given man any trouble. That's
when man moved out of a cozy
cave into a house, and termites
moved in to chew on the house.
wr. snyder says theres one
difference between the ant and
bee kings and the king termite.
'The ant and 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 proposition."
I said I'd keep that in mind.
Arfuro Toscanini
Made Life Senator
Rome, Dec. 7 W) It's Senator
Arturo Toscanini now. '
The famous conductor was
named a life-time senator of
the Italian republic yesterday
for his contributions to the world
of music.
President Luigi Einaudi made
the appointment to the man who
left his native country during
Mussolini's fascist dictatorship
Toscanini, born in Parma, It-
Bidault Ready
For Showdown
Paris, Dec. 7 (fp) Premier
Georges Bidault prepared today
for a showdown with the restless
parties who have men in his sha
ky French cabinet.
The showdown will come
when the national assembly, the
lower house of parliament, fixes
its agenda for the coming weeks.
Two important bills stalled in
committee are the focus of
general discontent among the
parties the socialists, Bidault's
Catholic popular republican
movement (MRP), the moderate
radical socialists, and indepen
dents.
Bidault, it was reliably-re
ported, will seek urgent action
on the budget bill and a bill to
unfreeze wages and restore col
lective bargaining between labor
and management.
Should the committees balk
Bidault may seek an assembly
debate and ask a vote of confl
dence. Informed opinion was
that he would have difficulty
getting such a vote and would
have to resign.
A minister and an underscore,
tary of state have already resign.
ed from Bidault's cabinet, but
reports that three independent
ministers would quit yesterday
did not materialize.
Business Expects Bang-up
Christmas Season Business
By G. A. PHILLirS
New York, Dec. 7 VP) Business and industry cleared the last
major labor hurdle in good stride last week and quickly pre
pared for what most experts believe will be a bang-up Christmas
season.
Already behind schedule because of economic upsets due to
the steel and coal strikes, store
managers put finishing touches
on elaborate plans to lure
enough dollars into cash regis
ters to equal or exceed last
year's record volume.
Their chances of topping 1948
were regarded as excellent, not
withstanding the short time left
(only three weeks). Many ob
servers believed the odds were
no stiffer than even that unit
volume will be higher this year
if the dollar total falls a little
short. This is because prices of
most Christmas merchandise are
lower this year than last year.
The authoritative magazine
'Sales Management" forecast a
December total of $12,745,000,-
000 for the country as a whole, a
decline of about 3 percent in
dollars from the all-time peak
of $13,166.00C,000 reported by
the department of commerce for
December, 1948. If allowance is
made for a decline of from 214
to 5 percent in average prices
this December against those pre.
vailing a year ago. unit volume
this year should be larger.
From other quarters came
equally optimistic forecasts of
Christmas business this year,
The retail news bureau, a pri
vate research outfit that serves
department stores throughout
the country, said a survey of
167 stores big and little dis
closed 40 percent are planning
for an increase in sales, five per
cent expect volume to match
that of a year ago and 55 per
cent expect It to decline.
As of now, the news bureau
said, 37.2 percent of the mer
chants reported unit sales are
running ahead of last year, 16.3
percent said business was even
and 46.5 percent found transac
tions trailing.
Advertising budgets follow I
similar pattern, the survey dis
closed. About 40 percent of the
stores have budgeted for busi
ness gains, 47 percent plan to
spend less and the remainder to
aly, in 1867, lived most of the
time of his self-imposed exile
in the United States. Since the
war he has returned many times
to Italy to conduct concerts
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LET YOUR DOCTOR' HELP
YOU maintain your health,
through a balanced regime,
worked out for your particular
needs, and your particular
body.
During upsetting times, Doc
tors will tell you that it is
highly important to the health
of nerves, minds and bodies to
make every effort to strike a
"balance."
PHYSICALLY
MENTALLY-
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Very important are the mar
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for sick bodies, but you can help
your Doctor to keep you well.
Work should be offset with
some play; our sense of security
should be balanced with an
equal sense of satisfaction that
we are meeting our responsibil
ities; our urge toward "prog
ress" should leave us with
"freedom" for living.
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spend about the same as last
year.
Aided by cold weather, this
week's retail trade rose slightly
over that of the previous week
but was under volume of a year
ago, the weekly Dun & Brad
street review said, adding that
there was a general preference
for lower-priced merchandise.
A red-hot market for televi
sion sets was reported from ev
ery quarter and merchants be
lieve this one item will be a ma
jor factor in sending business
above the 1948 mark.
A bullish demonstration in
the stock market was the most
pronounced reaction in business
circles to the final decision of
John L. Lewis to let his miners
work three days a week instead
of going out on another long
strike.
Nearly $1,000,000,000 was
added to the quoted value of
shares listed on the big board
in New York; the market was
at a 13-month high and volume
pushed above the 2,000,000 share
mark on Friday for the first
time this year.
Wall street brokers, elated at
the sustained interest in t h e
wares, threw in their lot with
the top officials in Washington
who have said repeatedly that
with the end of the
Shah Ignores
Hollywood
Los Angeles, Dec. 7 VP) Per
haps a cat can look at a king,
but Hollywood got no such
chance with the Shah of Iran.
The shah declined to visit a
movie studio.
Instead he eagerly inspected
nuts, bolts and crankshafts at
an aircraft factory.
His failure to watch Holly
wood at work was unique. Even
the great among visitors usual
ly want to see a set or meet the
stars. Studios continually are
fighting off lesser guests.
Now, for once, filmdom knows
what it's like to be passed by.
Advisers to the 30-year-old
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ex
plained, with diplomatic care, 1
that his imperial majesty s re
gretful refusal doesn't mean he
isn't interested in motion pic
tures. On the contrary.
But, they said, throughout
his current American tour the
shah has consistently declined
all unscheduled invitations. He
has had scores of these and to
accept an invitation to a studio
the spokesman said, might of
fend some of those he had dis
appointed. State department attaches ac
companying the monarch said he
had received quite a few si.'h
invitations here, although he
had not been "overwhelmed."
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1949 27
Frozen Fruit
Industry Gains
Portland, Dec. 7 (IP) The froz
en fruit and vegetable packing
industry gained 20 per cent dur
ing the past year, delegates to
the Northwest Frozen Foods as
sociation convention were told
yesterday.
President Arthur Symons said
the year s pack by the industry
was valued at $35,000,000 and
volume was 400,000,000 pounds.
He predicted a similar expansion
in 1950.
A. L. Reiling, Hillsboro, Ore.,
became president. He had been
vice-president the past year. A.
B. Chappel, Seattle, was elect
ed vice-president.
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