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.
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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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