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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 12, 1955 Business Disfrict Destroyed by Flames By UNITED PRESS Spring breezes have whipped flames which destroyed the en tire business district of Bowling Green, Va., and raged through brushland and prairies in four states. Brush and prairie fires flared up in New Jersey, California, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The worst was in New Jersey, where shifting winds fanned 50 fires which ate through 37,072 acres. The flames struck most dra matically at Bowling" Green as they destroyed an estimated 19 buildings in the small Virginia town. The wi I Manned fire wiped out a two-block area on both sides of U.S. Highway 301 be fore it was brought under con trol. There were no injuries but the blaze left Bowlling Green's 600 residents without water or eelctricity today. All highway patrolmen in the vicinity were ordered into the town. The town's well went dry at the height of the blaze and fire men had to pump water from a millpond a mile away. Idaho Power Expected To Win Hells Canyon Washington (U.R) Some power experts predict here that the Federal Power commission would award the controversial Hells Canyon dam site to the Idaho Power company. The experts felt the commis sion tipped its hand last Friday when it issued three-year pre liminary permits to Pacific Northwest Power company of Portland for Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams in Idaho and Oregon. To be consistent, the experts said, the commission should also rule in favor of the Idaho Power company as some of the same issues are involved at all the sites. All the dams are at sites pre viously proposed by the Army Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation for federal dam development. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo f 3uT WHEhl US FINISHED AND ' JMSf - SBSlS RE4CyR?RS4LE-NO80ly-8UT T " ' I lgf , ' " 5 g ? .'.1"-..v-.--' rrk',VtTS UTimiCATt, t. WOULD MmjS ESEtvp Boiled Acorns Eaten by Indians, Researcher Says Madison, Wis. (U.R) Sit down to a dandy meal of boiled acorns, black lichen broth, tubers of groundnuts and yellow lilies. That's what you would have had as the dinner guest of an In dian family back before the United States was settled by whites, a University of Wisconsin researcher says. Mrs. Wilma Zicker, a botanist, has gone through translations of Jesuit records of explorations in the Great Lakes region of the nation and come up with what she believes is a good idea of the Indians' diet in those days. "The acorn was probably sec ond to wild rice as a vegetable staple," she said. She quoted a Father Ragueneau as recording in 1650 that the Indians, after a long famine, regarded "acorns and bitter roots" as "delicious." He said in the absence of acorns or such tubers as groundnuts, wild beans, water-chinquapins or pond nuts, the Indians would "live partly on garlic baked under the ashes or cooked in water without sauce." The acorns, when available, were first boiled in water with ashes to remove the bitter tannic acid taste, Mrs. Zicher said. Washington Man's Body Located in Columbia Kelso, Wash. (U.R) Div ers making a second descent into the Columbia river here Satur the Columbia river here have recovered the body of George A. Funderbuck, 21, White Sal mon, Wash., who disappeared en rout to Ocean Park on Neuberger (D-Ore.) said yester day. Earlier, divers located his empty car. The body was found in about 40 feet of water some 20 feet from the river bank. Istanbul was formerly known as Constantinople and Byzantine. Lichens, a mossy delicacy pre ferred by the moose but few others, was used to ward off star vation by the Indians of the far north. Father Rasles called it "a very black and disagreeable por ridge," and said "one must close the eyes on first tasting it, and take care lest his lips stick to gether." A, fellow Jesuit, Father Lalemont, wrote that eating lichen broth was "feeding the imagination more than the body." Other wintertime delicacies for hungry Indians were oak and basswood bark served as a stew along with water in which fish has been cooked. In the summertime, things were better with the Indians, both for meat, fruit and yegeta bles. Mrs. Zicker said all kinds of berries were eaten, along with maize, or corn, which was usu ally the responsibility of the women to cultivate. Also avail able to some Indians was pump kin. Monkeys Valuable To Science Contaminated By Link With People New York U.R: Scientific research couldn't be the same without monkeys but the trou ble with monkeys who live with people is that people contami nate them people never do a monkey any good. And so scientists of the Air Force decided to get their mon keys fresh out of the wilds. They sent three of their number to India twice, the first time to fetch back 440 monkeys, the Fecond time, 500. Once in the jungles of North India where there are many, many monkeys but Vfery few people, they got an idea of what people do to monkeys. For one thing, the monkeys were relatively free of exces sive parasitism, which is the way a scientist says they didn't have too many fleas. The impli cation is uncomforably clear that monkeys either acquire fleas from people or people introduce the animals to the fleas. Monkeys around people are very prone to tuberculosis. And sure enough there was practi cally no tuberculosis among the wild monkeys. The closer the monkeys lived to Indian vil lages, the more they had TB. The scientists Benjamin D. Fremming, Richard E. Benson, and Robert J. Young hired a professional trapper. He guarded his know-how in monkey trap pings as he guarded his life. Whether he was afraid the mon keys .would get wise to his secrets or thought rival trappers might, he did not make clear. However, the monkeys were to be reckoned with. 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