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IsThaf So? While we toast before warm Urea during winter evenings, the warm-blooded animals of the outdoors have made marvelous . adjustments to the stinging cold of .winter and the scarcity of . food.' v ' ':, .:''' 'yf : : Many, have migrated from mountains to valleys," ; others , have gone .to warmer climes where food is plentiful; some have' undergone a bodily change putting on heavier fur or fea thers sometimes of a, pro tective color; others have insu lated themselves with layer of fat; countless others have enter ed into a big sleep. . -r ; The most unusual adaption, perhaps, is the one we are least aware of the deep sleep. It varies: J with some it is a pro found sleep, near death, for sev en months of the year during which time the heart-beat and breathing stop for minutes at a time and the .body temperatures drops to within a couple degrees aI S Anil tflAtA added cold, most, mammals , eat lew- ' ': "i '. ' X,:r" :-- The intensity of ' this winter sleep' is a highly individual mat ter family has nothing to do with it,: but the geographic lo cation seems to. .' - -Time Varies ' . ' - ' ,, In the north the groundhog goes below decks ' earlier than ,his kinfolk of the deep south. In Quebec it may be the middle of September while in the South it may be late in December. In s the high mountain tops ,of Ida ho the badger may hibernate, by mid-October and not appear un til V mid-April; in lower eleya tions,' say from 3,600 to 5,000 feet; he may disappear by- Jan uary 1 and seldom' reappear un til mid-March; in the southwest ' he may not hibernate at all: ' i Among the most profound sleepers are the ground squir rels (not the tree squirrels, close chucks; some bats, the; prairie dogs," jumping mice,, etc With these hiberation is almost a sleep " s j. . " - ...... oi aeain. . , . Dig out a ground squirrel from its burrow-and it will be as limp Br tntae Betes , RjR9tr-Natnrlitt and inert as if its neck were broken. Respiration and heart beat are scarcely perceptible. It is cold to the touch - perhaps within a degree of freezing. It can be shaken and dropped ron a table ' without waking. A fe male . ground squirrel . has been known to sleep for 33 weeks out of f 52. , Perhaps she out-classes all other mammals in this sleep marathon.. . .i. ? -: Other Deep Sleepers ' ' f Some of the ' non-migratory northern bats and ..the dormouse (the prefix dor means sleeps), are also deep sleepers. Although the bats tend to hang themselves up, upside down, in great clusters of hundreds and thousands,- the little dormouse builds himself a neat i little house 7 of dry - grass and then, once inside, seals the entrance so carefully that there is not the . slightest ,hint" of a joint or a weakness." And then it sleeps soundly. ... D ; ' .The skunk, recoon, badger and opossum become torpid for sev eral weeks but even so they, oft en" venture 'forth , during mild periods.; They are quite, easily rmiwHfS ". : '''. -" ' ., Even lighter , winter ..' sleepers are the squirrels and chipmunks. The chipmunk . wakens quite of ten and gets something ' to eat and the red ' squirrel . goes into winter seclusion only as a last resort, preferring to remain abroad. all winter. . Bears In Middle v 1 Standing somewhere, in the middle are the bears. In the" far north, the - female polar, bear may go into seclusion : under a mound of snow every two or three years when she: gives birth to a tiny young but the male plod stolidly , about. Farther south, the female black or brown bear tends to den up at the ad- Bloodmobile Visit ; Slated Feb. 8lh . The next blood 1 collection . In Medford will ; be on Tuesday, Feb. 8, it was announced Sat urday, by Red" Cross ; spokes man. -';': "; .r:r:--' '"'.- - The goal to be sought during the visit of the bloodmobile is 300 pints.. Since the bloodmobile visits ; every other month, , and since the use of blood in Jackson county amounts to ' about 100 to 150 pints per i month,, the amount sought : here ; is ,! only about enough to take care of lo cal needs, , the spokesman said. As in the past, the blood pro gram will be at the Elks temple from -1 to 6 p.m.. Appointments can be made starting later in the week by . calling 3-3813., ; vent of sub-freezing-temperar tures while the adult males are less likely to go to sleep and when they do,, usually k f or 7 a shorter period of time. The beginnings' of hibernation are apparent in birds: nearly all eat about two-thirds less in win ter than in summer ' as do most mammals, and' very many, like man's demesticated ' poultry, store up fat prior ' to winter's cold. ; . V ";; (Copyright. 1955by ; ';. -'' Eugene Burns) (Released by MeClure ;. Newspaper Syndicate) ' ! ' Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my ' panels r of judges will award each week to the reader who sends . me '. the best question .on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set . of ; this; wbrld-f amous refer ence .work, in a handsome Seal-craft- binding. Each week, new questions .; will , be considered. Sorry I simply cant answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your questions to: IT THAT SO! -care of Medford Mail Trib une, . Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. - Celery, seeds are light brown in color and small in size, rare ly exceeding l-16th of ah inch in length. V. , .; v - yy : Vk liiiiiwii KD0 HAS DEEN TESTED m TOR iyinKl flFi mm ;; m?& Hie OUMN VOI sto Sit 21-mch cabk model wim side controls. Has Alaminised Pieaue Tab end PHOTOPownt Chasus. Grained Walnut and grained Ma bogany nniih. 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Central - Across From Penncy's - Phone 3-5743,1 " A (m-i- iW' ::ii; ?: ... . . ..... . .. ... ....... . ... FOUND GUILTY Claude Lfehtfoot and his wife. Gertrude. wait' outside Federal Court in Chicago during a recess. Lightfoot, executive secretary of the Illinois Communist Party, was tried on. charges of being a Communist under an untested section of the Smith Act which makes member ship in the .organization illegal. It was the government's first attempt to prove that mere membership in the Com munist Party is a crime. After eight hours deliberation, . . the jury found him guilty. , . ; . . ' -r' Heavens and ,n BY J. HUGH PRUETT .y ; Astronomer, Extension Division -Oregon Higher Education System : v. The one who studies the starry skies is often expected to give information? which is entirely outside his field of endeavor. Some feel that he : should ' be able to : solve theological diffi culties : since his telescopes ex tend, vision, seemingly almost to where the waters . of time lap on the shores of eternity; U'.; ; The vast expanse of the starry universe is absolutely incompre hensible to mortal mind A ray of. light .travels ; a distance , in one second equal to over seven times, the circumference- of the earth. From the - moon, light comes to us in about 1 13 sec onds; from the sun, in eight min utes; from, the most dista n t planet, in five hours. These dis tances involved ere enormous. No ; Indication of End ' ' ' v "":yj But beyond : our solar- system light, from the nearest star, it self a- sun, xequires 4.3 years; from other parts of our own siar system, in 100, 10,000 and even 100,000 years. 'The largest .tele scope brings light to' us from outside galaxies in one million, 100 million -and -even, two bill lion years. And there is0 no indi cation that - the end has been reached. . -: " , :v y. .y ' y It :' is , unfortunate that '. "the heavens" 'and .."h e a v e n" " are terms 'almost alike . while ' they arie sbr ' different : in . 'meaning. What we can see abo ve 1 us without - optical aid 1 appears to be a blue dome, not very far away, which is set with multi tudes of stars. Many: ancient peo ples- considered this firmament to be a solid dividing 'surface, Below it birds' flew and clouds Heaven floated; above it was the abode of the Deity and the spirits , of the blessed. Thought Material Place . i . The dividing surface was call ed i , the heavens"; the space im mediatel y above .it; w. a s "heaven." Heaven was thought to be definitely a material place above the world, and was divid ed into various heights." One new. Testaments writer spoke of. the "third heaven." The Mohamme dan. Koran .was said to have come down from the "seventh heaven." ' ' .Some today believe this earth will finally be heaven. Others conjecture that : this honor will fall to one of the planets' or to some region .far bey o h d the Milky' Way in the region of an other, galaxy or even1 beyond all galaxies." There are limitless possibilities fer locations in our Vast universe. ,v -y:l ;- 'i Entirely' Spiritual ' --.V'; is '? purely v a superstitutioh'. of child-like faith without any .real ity of any kind.. A third group holds, that heaven is not mate rial but entirely spiritual in ..na ture. They believe that aft e r "crossing the , bar" we ;m oh y e "from out our : bourne of time and place." . yy'-: 1 ....'v. . The Study of astronomy Is pri marily concerned, with material locations, al thou g h wonder aroused may well lead to inter esting speculations. But never has astronomy been able to give any light on " the ;: location. , of "heaven.". No telescope has. de tected such a place: Such discus sions surely belong mostly in the realms of philosophy and relig ion. . , :-5:v.:'. ""y.:. .. ,y -;- Hre Damages Old r Jacksonville Fire originat ing, from; an unmsulated stove pipe damaged; the E. E. Evans home, at 410; East California st. Saturday morning, .: Jacksonville volunteer- f if e rn e n. reported. Damage from the fire and water was confined mainly to the west end of the large two-story frame house. v': - V UUis fe'i :; ' Most of the furnishings ' were believed to have been saved, according to the report. : , . j; About. 10 firemen and others assisted at '.the blaze-t:-;''; .Theresidence : is one of the big, old homes built during the heyday, of Jacksonville as gold rush town and county seat. TworYeafiOld Wounded By Accidental Gunshot : Oregon .Cityf XU.B-A two-year-old was accidentally shot in his leg by his father here Friday night. " y:-:yr.; Victim of the shooting ' was Arthur Dale Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs; Louis' Edwards of Boring. -; - .-;.' : -. i , Edwards told police he had just cleaned his gun and; was showing his wife how to operate tt when it discharged. : , ' Northwest Machinists , ; Study Negotiations 'M "tfp Tacoma (U.R) ,4-AFIj ' Ma chinists from Oregon and Wash ington met here . Friday to mapv a program for coming . negotia tions with employers in the two states. . i yy'yyr-: 4,iir ! J. L. McBreen of i Portland, general ' vice-president of ".the AFL International Association of Machinists, said action was taken to request a minimum wage' in crease of. 15 cents an hour and to correct inequities wherever they exist.. . ; ' Woodworkers Give QKy. To Wage Boost Plan Spokane U.PJ -CIO .Interna tional Woodworkers union mem bers employed by seven Spokane firms voted 'Friday night to ac cept -new contracts including wage-increases of 7Vi cents err hom. - -.'' ' O. D. Armstrongunion busi ness agent, said the firms employ about ' 500 union members. The contracts are retroactive to Jan. 1 and extend to April 1, 1956; . EMPLOYMENT UP- - : y Salem U.PJ Employment in the Portland- Vancouver metro politan area: increased. -1300 ,to 239,600 last month but remained 2900. below December,. 1953r, the State Unemployment Compensa tion -Commission.said Saturday. FURNITURE STORAGE - CONCRETE BUILDING DRY & CLEAN . "A Safe Place for Your Household Goods" " it"5 t'-v-v FURNITURE MOVING PADDED VAN zr: Dependable Service Rare Reasonable F. E. SAMSON CO., I nc." : i '.Furnitu. 4TH i FRONT Furniture Moving Fursdrare Storage MEDFOCP PHONE 2-5295 Sunday, January 39, XtSJ MSDrORD (CSUBGOR) HAIL Overnight1 Response to Aid Appeal for Family Reported Valley residents. responded ov: (family stayed after the fire. ernight to a . call '' to help the Belle Akins family, whose home at 547 Effie st, burned Thurs day. . ' , c v The family now has. a home in the .- same neighborhood, and most of the needed furnishings for itr Mrs..: Akins and: her four children lost everything , in the fire except the clothes they were wearing' at, the time. 4 Though the family" may still need some more furnishings and apparel, they .have been gener ously aided, according 0 to the sister-in-law;-Mrs, Charles Akins, Jacksonville, in whose home the ' Sheets and pillow cases, and shoes for the boy, Bill, 9, are still lacking. : The other children are, Nancy, 12, Martha, 10, and Frances, 6. 'Everyone Wonderful r "Everyone was wonderful," Mrs. Charles Akins, remarke L Many brought clothing, bedding, dishes and other . items to the Jacksonville home, and - others delivered items to neighbors on Effie street in Medford. ' Many of those who gave to the family are neighbors and school friends of the children, bid aeeay were . persons unknown to the family. Schoolmates of one of the children divided their cloth ing for the child. BANDITS GET $1300 ' Portland (UPJ Two bandits held up a supermarket here Fri day night and escaped with loot estimated near $1,000. - WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Increas ing high cloudiness tonight and Sunday. - Dead Hm for Sunday duliM Is at noon Saturday. TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES t ' Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 $. Giih Nwm 2-4100 ... ...- V Pay Yourself FIRST! On Payday Invest Part of , Your Income in a FIRST FEDERAL' SAVINGS ACCOUNT Invastmcnts m a 4 e by tha 10th' of the. month - earn divi dends . at of the Firit. , SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS PAY YOU ? LIBERAL DIVIDENDS WHILE YOUR ACCOUNT IS IN SURED SAFE TO 1 110,000.00 BY THE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORP. An Insured Saving! or Investment Account Will Givo' You a Nest Egg For Retirement or Vacation . ' or .things you want. Build Your Own Security r Safely - Profitably. . 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