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a By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
Who am I?
As animate go, I am long
lived, sometimes attaining 50
years. I live with one mate, for
good or . bad, until death does
us part. Tamed, in some coun
tries, I am put out to herd.
In my family, there are about
0 species nearly all in the
northern hemisphere.
Couples usually look alike ex
cept the male is larger. We
weigh from 4 to 14 pounds.
I change my plumage once a
year and during that time I am
flightless. During migration I
am able to touch 70 miles an
hour. I have covered up to 1,000
miles without resting.
Most of us are noisy way
farers talking away as we
' make our steady migratory
flights.
During spring and summer we
' feed freely on large insects,
along with plant leaves, seeds,
. berries and even roots. Later
perhaps small crustaceans. But
. our chief food is largely vegetal.
Our nests are bulky, composed
, of twigs, weeds and reeds and
3 then softly lined with down
, t pulled out of our breasts by the
, beakful. The female lays a large
creamy-white egg every other
day and incubates .the-eggs with
in 23-28 days.
Precocious Youngsters
Usually there are four to six
young, rather precocious young
s sters.
, The parents are usually wild,
"defying their enemy by opening
: their mouths and hissing. Small-
. ' er adversaries are seized in the
strong hard bill and beaten to
death with the wings,
e Having lived with man since
the dawn of history, my uses
' are many: I offer a great lump
s of savory meat; I lay quantities
of huge eggs; my grease has
. been a stand-by remedy for
t colds in chests and whatever ails
. you; my fat is used for cooking;
my down for quilts; my quills
J: for writing; my flight feathers
: can" be bundled into , hearth
brushes.
s I am: A. Swan, B. Mallard, C.
s Goose, E. Peking Duck,F. Peli-J
1 can. -
. I am: A goose.
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to, Calif.
Israel Envoy Asks
For Military Aid
Portland (U.R) Ebba Eban,
Israel ambassador to the United
Slates and United Nations dele
gate, last night renewed his
1 pleas for United States military
aid to his country.
Eban noted that the U.S.,
Britain and Turkey all have
made military pacts with the six
Arab states. That no such agree-
ments had been made with Israel
he said, caused "a high improper
balance in the relationships of
the Middle Eastern countries.
The ambassador charged that
Egypt had maintained "a tight
blockade" of Israel through the
Suez canal, and that other Arab
nations refused to trade with
Israel.
Eban said the "stringent block
ade" of Israel by the six Arab
states was in defiance of the se
curity council of the United Na
tions. .
"Choctaw Scrip" is scrip
is
sued to Choctaw Indians in Mis
sissippi in lieu of lands to which
thev were entitled under the
treaty of Sept., 27, 1930.
I STEAK I
Legislative
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tribune City Editor
Salem Frank Bash Jr., who
was elected "president of the
League of Oregon Cities" during
the Elks student government day
earlier "this week, was a legis
lative visitor Wednesday after
noon. Young Bash, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Bash,' Medford, (he's
a Copco vice-president; she's
chairman of the Republican Cen
tral committee) flew from Med
ford to Eugene Wednesday morn
ing, where he inspected the
headquarters of the league with
Diamond Flynn and Herman
Kehrli.
Flynn, former mayor of Med
ford, is president of the League,
and Kehrli is the manager.
The group then drove to
Salem, where the youth was
shown through the Capitol, met
a number of the legislators, and
then flew home Wednesday
night.
There were many southern
Oregon people in Salem, on er
rands of one kind or another,
Wednesday.
Lester Adams, manager of the
Oregon Milk Producers, was in
town working in behalf of bills
sponsored by his group, which
recently elected Dick Wester
berg, Ashland, as president.
Adams, with his wife, owns a
dairy ranch in the Applegate.
Bob Shaw, secretary of the
Medford Teamsters union local,
also was here, with other team
sters officials.
Frank Van Dyke, a former
speaker of the house, flew in
Wednesday morning with his
son, John, for a day. He was to
have appeared at a committee
hearing Wednesday evening,
held on measures to make the
Oregon Liquor Control commis
sion a paid full-time group, and
to abolish the group in favor of
a one-man organization.
Van Dyke opposes both meas
ures, favoring the present set
up, and "unofficially" was repre
senting a number of non-profit
clubs who feel the same way.
Claude Davis, formerly of
Medford and former president of
the Southern Oregon Truckers
league, is in Salem. He is now
a resident -of Coos Bay.
State Sen. Mark Hatfield,
Salem, who made the principal
talk at student government day
in Medford, returned to Salem
early Wednesday, to be met by
overcast skies. He got in a good
deal of good-natured kidding
with Sen. Phil Lowry about how
the sun was shining when he left
Medford, only, to come back to
gray skies.
iiatfield, by the way, young.
Seven Men Picked
Oil Alaska Slope
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R) '
Helicopters picked seven men
off the bleak, treeless slopes of
Mt. Susitna yesterday in the
face of gale winds and ava
lanches which thundered down
the mountain where 11 Navy
men died in a plane crash eight
days ago.
The seven-man rescue team
recovered one unidentified body
in the twisted debris of a Navy
Neptune bomber strewn over
500 yards of the mountain's
perilous slopes.
However, Maj. Wayne L. Dan
iel, flying safety officer at El
mendorf Air Force Base and a
member of the ground party,
said efforts to recover the re
maining ten bodies had to be
abandoned because the lives of
the seven men were endangered.
Rita Hayworth, Mate
To Make Own Movies
Hollywood (U.R) Rita Hay-
worth and her husband, crooner
Dick Haymes, said today they
will start making pictures on
their own after the actress has
fulfilled a two picture obliga
tion to Columbia Studio.
Their company, Crystal Bay
Productions, will release two
two films through United Artists.
Miss Hayworth will star in both,
while Haymes will be the pro
ducer.
Haymes, sporting a new beard
appeared in court yesterday and
won a continuance of his con
tempt of court hearing until
March 10. His ex-wife, Nora Ed-
dington Flynn Haymes, has
claimed he owes her $3800 in
back alimony.
EAST SIXTH
Letter
and personable, is a favorite
with many of the younger folk
who visit the session. He's
widely known for his speeches
and other political activities,
which, combined with his looks
and affability, make him one of
the most sought-after senators
for autographs.
Wednesday afternoon he spent
a good 15 minutes in the Capitol
lobby signing autographs for a
group of young schoolgirls here
from Corvallis.
Autograph-hunting, and col
lecting copies of the state seal
which are passed out by both
the governor's and secretary of
state's offices, is a popular and
legitimate sport for the younger
fry.
One of the favorite tricks of
some of those here is to get a
group oi Kias ana sic em ' on
some unsuspecting lODDyist or
news man for autographs, warn
ing the youngsters in advance
that the man is bashful "and will
probably deny he's a distinguish
ed senator."
On The Side
By E. V. DURLING
(Distributed by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Gentle sleep,
Scatter your drowsiest poppiei
From above, . .
And in new dreams, not soon to
vanish.
Bless my senses with the sight
Of her I love.
Horace Smith
What's the world's record for
number of mink coats owned at
the same time? How about
Maria Felix, Mexican actress.
She owns twelve mink coats,
Incidentally, on her last trip to
Europe, Maria had forty pieces
of baggage in which, among
other articles of attire, were 100
dresses. She is 31 and has had
four husbands so far.
Hangtown Fry
Just what is a "Hangtown
Fry?" Seems to be a difference
of opinion as to this. The dish
was born in Placerville, Calif.,
formerly known as "Hangtown.'
Clair Butts, Placerville restau
rateur, says a Hangtown fry is
a mixture of oysters, eggs and
bacon. Nothing else.
Briefly
Who was the most beautiful
of all the Ziegfeld Follies girls?
Flo Ziegfeld said it was Olive
Thomas. I knew Olive well. Her
real name was Duffy. She was
from Pittsburgh . . . Italy has a
regularly scheduled railroad
train that averages 150 miles an
hour. A train like that could
take you from New -York to
Philadelphia in thirty-six min
utes. Get It Right "
Jayrie Mansfield of Dallas is
named as "the 100th Texas girl
to" sign a film contract." Joan
Crawford of San Antonio is
named as "the first." Joan is the
greatest film star born in Texas
but was not the first to sign a
contract. That was Bessie Love
of Midland, Texas. Bessie signed
with D. W. Griffith in 1916. Sec
ond was "Texas'" Guinan of
Waco, Texas, who in 1917 signed
a contract to appear in a series
of two reel western films in
which she was billed as "the two
gun girl."
Prediction
"You will never lose another
fight." That is what an astrol
oger told British heavyweight
Don Cockell several years ago.
Since that time Don has won
ten, straight fights. However, the
stargazer's prediction is due for
a terrific test. Don is scheduled
to meet Rocky Marciano who
has won forty-seven straight
fights.
Asidei
If the letters m a woman's
handwriting slant to the left, it
indicates she is ruled more by
the head than the heart and is
not particularly affectionate or
emotional. That s what the
l-ianrlwritinff exoerts say ... In
Philadelphia there is a popular
restaurant named Benny the
Bum's Steakhouse. A very .un
usual name for an eatery. How
ever. I still believe tops for
rmaint restaurant names is
Ptomaine Tommy's in Los An
geles. Get . It Right
Note a reference to "the 400
left-handed men mentioned in
the Biblical passage." It was 700
men. The passage (Judges 20:16)
is as follows: "Among all this
people (the children of , Benja
min) there were 700 chosen men
left-handed: every one could
sling stones at an hair-breadth,
and not miss."
ST. I
Free Junior High
Textbooks Approved
. Salem (U.R) The House Edu
cation Committee yesterday ap
proved a bill to give free text
books to junior, high pupils in
union high schools. Free text
books now are given only to
elementary pupils. "
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