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.
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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. When some
were caught in ensnaring nets
and then transferred to cages,
their brothers, sisters, uncles
and aunts swarmed down and
made every effort to set them
free. These would-be liberators
were willing to attack men.
These were little rhesus mon
keys that weigh only five to
eight pounds. After trapping in
any given area, the trappers had
to stay out of, that area for
months. The monkeys didn't
quickly forget.
AWAKENING GIRLS after It smelled smoke, Dick, pet German
shepherd, saved Ruth Martin, 2Vt and Lee, 9, when fire raged
through their Los Angeles home while parents were riding in
neighbors new car. Dick got big steak as reward. (International)
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