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Mark Goldy Reports to Club On Attitudes in Asian Lands In Kong Kong, the "listening post" between east and west, English people are surprised and displeased with American spon sorship of Chiang Kai-shek, ac cording to Mark A. Goldy, Med fcrd businessman just returned from an extensive trip through the orient. He spoke Tuesday for the Medford Rotary club at the Jackson hotel. Englishmen, Chinese and peo ple of all the lands he visited Is That So? By Eugene Bums Ringer-Naturalist What size have birds attained? Many Indian tribes tell of a gigantic eagle-like bird, the the thunderbird, which was the scourage of the western plains and was credited with being able to carry off humans and feed on bisons which it killed. But that famous story-teller, Marco Polo, reported a yet big ger bird, the rokh. Marco Polo said it was large enough and strong enough to seize an elephant with its talons and lift it into the air where it let it fall to the ground to kill it and prey upon its carcass. In a latter version, in The Arabian Nights, the bird took Sinbad the Sailor for a ride. For many years such bird tales have been scoffed at. Yet comparatively recently the re mains of an enormous eagle-like bird have been discovered in California. The skull of this large bird (thunderbird?) is twice the size of the bald eagle's (which has a wing spread of seven-eight feet) and its other bones are pro portionately large. Egg Contained Two Gallons As for Marco Polo's bird from Madagascar, skeletons and egg shells of a tremendous bird have been found. What's more, it lived until comparatively re cently. Enough of the shells have been found to let us know that the egg would hold two gallons of yolk and egg white its dimensions being 13 inches long by nine and a half wide. Judging from its bones, it may well have been over ten feet tall and extremely heavy. Its thigh bones, only a foot long, were a half foot thick. Comparing these birds with today's living specimens, we have condors with a 10-11 foot wing-spread apparently consid erably smaller than the thunder bird of legendary fame; and of the flightless birds, today's Afri can ostrich is smaller. But the African ostrich need not apolo gize some grow to weigh 300 pounds, stand at eight feet, take 25-foot long strides, and deliver a sidekick with force enough to break a man's leg. It is doubtful however, if the thunderbird could have carried off a human; and as for the rokh, it couldn't have flown off with a mouse because like most island birds which have found a haven of plenty with no en emies and a good climate, it grew large and heavy and lost the power of flight. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel 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 world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seai craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your question to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. ' with Mrs. Goldy were friendly to the U. S., despite frequent dis agreement with American for eign policies, Goldy said. The trade-minded English are con cerned with the need for trade relations with Red China, he added. Visits Clubs Goldy described the numerous Rotary club which he visited during his tour. The most cosmo politan clubs he attended wer those of Singapore, with 22 na tionalities in the membership and the Bankok, Thailand, club with 21 nationalities. Four Rotary clubs in , Hong Kong and the nearby club in Macao had among many civic projects the relief of refugees from Red China, pouring into their areas in great numbers Goldy reported. Dr. Wang, for mer ambassador to the U.S., vice-president of Rotary Inter national and distinguished Chi- i.ese citizen, was the speaker at one of the meetings Goldy at tended in Hong Kong. Support Projects Rotary clubs in the far east generally support community projects similar to -U.S. clubs among them the promotion of Boy Scout, YMCA schools for the blind, and others. In addi tion, several of the organizations aid in establishing the maintain in leprosy colonies. Rotary program chairman Clifford Hanson introduced the speaker. The next meeting of the club will be the Inter-City Gold en Anniversary meeting Wednes day evening at the Medford Elks club. Zellerbach Plans Plywood Plant San Francisco U.R) Crown Zellerbach corporation announc ed today it will soon begin con struction on a $750,000 green veneer mill in the Columbia river area near Portland, Ore. When completed the new mill will be Zellerbach's first ply wood production plant in tne United States, a company spokesman said. The firm pres ently manufactures plywood at its subsidiary Canadian Western Lumber company near New Westminister, B.C. "This will be our first step toward a full-fledsed U.S. ply wood operation running even tually into several million dol lars," company president J. D Zellerbach said. . . . , "It is also a significant de velopment toward further di versification of our operations with maximum utilization of our forest resources in the Pacific Northwest." Construction will begin short lv. Zellerbach said, and mill operations are expected to start within six months of the time work on the plant is started. Salk Using Funds For More Research New York (U.R) Contribu tions beine sent to Dr. Jonas Salk in arjDreciation for his his toric research on polio are being used to establish a fund lor tne financing of more research on preventive medicine, it 'was re vealed last night. Salk is turning the contribu tions over to the Jonas Salk fund which "very likely" will be used in the field of preventive medicine. Establishment of the fund was disclosed by Edward R. Murrow on his "See It Now" television show on CBS "with the knowl edge and consent of Dr. Salk." Murrow emoted Salk as say-: ins he will "keep and cherish the spirit of the giving," but is accenting only temporarily, and in trust, "certain monies, all the way from a dollar up" that are being sent him from all parts of the country. Murrow said Salk "does not solicit funds, but if the spirit moves you, communications and contributions can be sent to the Jonas Salk fund, care of the University of Pittsburgh." 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