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O O o o C3 o O' 0 o MXDJORD (OREGON) I " n-r-TT .n ii.mh .inL.jiun i !, . .iinpi .infi THi'' 'II ' prfm 4Ti:RE EXPLOSION X1A on Mojave Desert is under investigation at Edwards Air Force Base, Cal. Plane is be ing carried by mother ship during test before crash. Maj. Joseph A. Walker, Lancaster, Cal., scrambled to safety in mother ship before rocket ship dropped to desert. (International) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Teletype chatter: Adlai Stevenson tells news men in Chicago that he'll dis close his political plans by the end of November. Referring to whether he will seek the Demo cratic nomination next year, he said: "I'll do what is best for my party and not what I think is necessarily best-for myself." THAT'S HIS side of it to J. which he is fully entitled. Let's now get OUR side of it straight. In order to do that, we must regard Mr. Stevenson as a pros pective employee who wants a job. We the citizens and the voters are PROSPECTIVE EM PLOYERS. As emixLosrcra, v want the best possible man for the job. That's our side of it. fFHERE are two theories ; of S A politics: fr, 1. To the victors belong the spoils. E 2. The people are entitled to gthe BEST POSSIBLE govern ment. I prefer Theory No. 2.. VI'ILD . Woman Connie has a E ' younger sister. Her name is Diane. Connie and Diane like all their tribe were born down in the area known as The Dol drums. The Doldrums are lo- cated to the northeastward of j South America and almost due c ast of the Bahama islands which lie to the southeast of Florida. Here they grow up (very quickly) and migrate to the east G coast of the United States. The United States has become fin T icky about immigrants, but no ilaws have yet been devised that will keep out these rough and tough and altogether undesirable characters. In their migrations, they're r es regular as the migrating birds. They begin to move in on our 'East coast along in August. When Annie or Abbie begins to kick up a disturbance in the offing, we say: "Heck! Fall's coming again." ANNIE and Betty and Connie and Diane belong to the hur ricane tribe. If you want to know What a hurricane is like, fill your bathtub with water. Then pull the plug and watch. As the surface of the outgoing water nears the ' outlet of the tub a whirlpool will form over the hole. The whirlpool is caused by the water that is rushing -;to get out. In its haste some of the water misses the target and 'swings around in a concentric circle to hit the hole and get out. If you can imagine a whirl pool upside down, you will have fjA perfect picture of a hurricane In the case of a hurricane, hot ir at the bottom forces a hole inrougn a layer of cooler air above and whooshes upward. Some of it misses the hole and 9 swirls around in circles just as 'does the water in the whirlpool in your bathtub. IN A HURRICANE, the wind SEEMS to be blowing straight, but in reality it is going around and around what is known as the hurricane's "eye," which is a calm spot in the mid dle, just like the hole in the water in your bathtub whirl pool. LET'S close this piece with a tragic incident that is not too uncommon in the early teens. It concerns 14-year-old Alfred Green, of Livingston, N.J. He lost his girl. All he knows is that her name is Mary and she's 12.' and has red hair. He met her at an amusement park last week and was smitten but when they parted he for got to ask her last name and her address and phone number. He's so far gone about it that he's running a high temperature and has lost his appetite completely. So he's asking the police to help locate her, and the old softies ire giving him all the help they can. But no luck, so far. OMMENT? I reckon he'll GROW OUT OF IT just as our East coast will grow out of the hurricane sea min come October or November. w o MAIL TRIBUNE of rocket forcing ditching and Is That So? Other animals may have stranger ways than these of get ting their food, but I doubt it! When the electric catfish feels pangs of hunger, it sidles along siae anotner nsn and iires an electric broadside. This causes its victim, quite frequently to disgorge some of its pre-digest- ed food which the hungry raider promptly gobbles up. The imperial spider of Aus- e3 tralia uses a minature "line and hook" to catch its prey. During the cocoon - spinning season, when a generous supply of nu tritious food is needed, this spi der spins a filament about lVa inches long, on the end of which is a sticky globule about the size of the head of a pin. When angling, the spider suspends line and hook with one of its forelegs. If a moth approaches, the sticky hook is whirled about to attract the victim. And no sooner is it hooked, then it is hauled, up, killed, and its juices sucked at leisure. The small archer fish of Ma laya improves upon this: he goes out and shoots down his food. Like any good huntsman, he has sharp eyesight. With eyes that can be directed sideways, up ward and backward (but not downward), he can detect small insects lurking amid the vege tation on the bank of a pond or stream. After "sighting in" his prey, he swims backward or forward to maneuver himself into the best position for a "shot." His ammuntion? Pellets or jets of water. His weapon? In the mouth of this archer fish is a deep groove: when the fish's tongue is placed against the roof of the mouth, this groove is con verted into a blowpipe about l16th inch in diameter. Gill Covers Compressed The propellent? To shoot the pellet of water, the fish com presses its gill covers and water is forced under pressure into the blowpipe. The thin rounded tip of the fish's tongue acts as a valve, and the fish can thus expel the water in a single drop or a succession of drops; or, if the valve is left open, in a con tinuous jet. However, one or two pellets usually are sufficient to bring down its prey. The distance fired may exceed a yeard two archer fish in the New York aquarium easily could hit small cockroaches at. a length of five feet above the water; when the shots misfired, they were seen to splash against the ceiling, which was 12 feet above the water. When the phalarope wants its r WHO CAN HELP YOUR HEARING? C. R. ADAMSON I am a trained Sonoione Hearing Aid Consultant SONOTONE C. R. Adamson, Dist. Mgr. 839 East Jackson Blvd. Sunday. August 14. 1953 destruction of rocket ship Bell By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist meal from the bottom of the pond it does not dive instead it whirls the water until it has produced enough of an eddying swirl so that the insect life is brought to the top from the shallow depths. He dines com fortably off the top of the table. A black bear will take its stance alongside a stream where migrating salmon are working their way upstream. With a sud den flip of its paw, it flips a salmon ashore. The giant salamander of Ja pan has its own method: when it comes to the surface of the water under a group of small fish, it suddenly opens its mouth wide and distensible throat. The inrush of water is so great that it sucks small fish into its gap ing mouth. A little crab found on Great Barrier Reef takes its food second-hand. When hungry, it catches an anemone and holds it in its claws which are special ly adapted to hold firm such slippery objects. In time the anemone catches a tidbit with its waving tentacles. This the crab removes and eats with gusto. Toad Uses Tongue We mustn't overlook the toad, however lowly. Whenever a pros pective meal comes within its range say four inches his sticky tongue, rooted at the front of the mouth to increase its range, flicks out and grabs the prey. So fast is the action that the tongue's journey flicking out four inches and back takes less than 15th of a . second. That's over 26 feet a second as I figure it.' At that speed, one easily can accept the statement of an observer that a toad has been snapping up 50 misquitos a minute. Another curious thing: when a toad swallows, it closes its eyes. That's because the toad's eyes lack bony sockets. Hence when crushing its prey against the roof of his mouth with his tongue and the swal lowing, the pressure pushes his eyes out of sight. Nothing ecstat ic here strictly a matter of necessity. (Copyright, 1955, by Eugene Burns) (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 true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observance, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letters to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. BATTLESHIP AGROUND London (U.R) The 45.000 ton British battleship King George V ran aground off Scot land Saturday. Funds Allocated For Pacific Coast Civil Works Jobs Washington (U.R) The Army Engineers have allocated 55,515, 000 for planning navigation, flood control and other civil works projects during the cur rent fiscal year. The funds were earmarked for 11 navigation projects, 61 flood control projects, and seven mul tiple purpose projects. Money also will be made available for re-examination of nine projects which had been deferred. Planning Slated Planning also will be done during the year on five other projects, for which Congress pro vided planning funds along with construct on funds. They include Coos Bay, Oregon, $36,000, and Hills Creeks Reservoir, Oregon, $10,000. Allocation of the $5,515,000 planning fund included the Port Hueneme Harbor, California, $70,000 and the Shilshole Bay in Washington, $50,000. Flood Control projects in cluded: California: The American River Levee, $90,000; Black Butte, Reservoir, $50,000; Car bon Canyon Dam and Channel, $50,000; Success Reservoir, $110,000, Terminus Reservoir, $50,000; San Lorenzo Creek, $25,000. Columbia River local protec tion: Grand Ronde River, Ore., $66,000, Malheur River; Ore., $6000, Randle, Wash., $3000, Prineville, Ore., $4000. Nevada: Pine Canyon Reser voir, $65,000. Oregon: Amazon Creek $22, 000; Johnson Creek, $35,000; Lower Columbia River Improve ments to existing works Multno mah Drainage District, Ore., $35, 000. Utah: Salt Lake City, $40,000. Washington: Colfax, $40,000. Multiple purpose projects in cluded: Oregon: Green Peter Reservoir $100,000, John Day Dam, $55, 000. Air Force Official Says Russians Have Same Objective San Francisco (U.R) Lt. Gen. Frank F. Everest, Air Force deputy chief of staff, warned Saturday that despite Soviet Russia's friendly new at titude "the long range objec tives of the Kremlin remain unchanged." ' Everest told the ninth annual Air Force association conven tion that the United States still must present a strong front be cause Russia's objecives still "are incompatible with' freed om. The general said this country "is confronted today with here tofore undreamed dangers" and he added "We must maintain, at all costs, a posture of military strength and a determination to employ that strength if the need arises." Speaking at a banquet by the Night Fighter association, he said the U. S. "must face to the immediate problem of defending our liberty and our institutions." "This problem is as serious today as it was to the minute men of 1775," he aid. "In fact, it is a great deal more serious for the threat is far greater. "Many informed people ad here to the belief that, although there have been significant shifts in Soviet tactics and dip lomatic mannners, the long range objectives of the Kremlin remain unchanged." STEAMED UP AGAIN Green Bay, Wis. (U.R) An old steam locomotive had been sitting on a railroad siding here for years, but one day neighbors were startled to see smoke pour ing from the old engine's stack. Firemen discovered that some boys had stuffed an old mattress and other rubbish in the firebox of the engine and set it afire. By training and experience with many different kinds of hearing lost, I have been oWe to bring better hearing to hun dreds. Now I have another wonderful new hearing aid to help break through that iron curtain of deafness. This is the micro-midget Senotone "100." It is as small as a matchbook and weighs about one ounce. If s not a gadget designed to attract by just being smoti. This is a real aid to HEARING, with troditionol built-in Sonotono quality. -f' wwn j vw 00 Dimness wiiii Sonotono, you invest in a com plete hearing service and join thousands of happy users m a proven better hearing program. As We Live Defeatist Attitude Is Mental Poison The feeling that you cannot do this or that, even before giv ing it a fair trial, is a form of mental poison. It colors your whole outlook on life and slowly de stroys s e 1 f confidence. ine person ith a defeat- attitude so c o n vinces Dr. Heilock himself that he cannot do what he wants to do or what is expected of him that he builds up an inferiority complex. From one situation in which he feels licked before, he starts, he extends this attitude to other situations. Before he real izes what is happening he has built up a general feeling of in adequacy. Nothing will kill a person's confidence in himself more quickly than the belief that he cannot do this or that, though other people seem able to do them successfully. Then, too, it stifles any incentive he might have to try. Sure he will meet with failure, he convinces him self that it is not worth the trouble to try. But that is not all. The de featist attitude is unsocial. When a person has convinced himself he cannot do what he should be doing, he throws extra work on other people's shoulders. He has them constantly helping him in situations he should be able to handle alone. Limelight Satisfying Without realizing how selfish this is, the defeatist gets a cer tain amount of pleasure from the attention and help others give him, it is not only easier to let other people do his work for him, it is also satisfying to be in the limelight. This, too, is a form of selfish ness. A person should have the attention of others only when he deserves it. Playing on others' sympathies to get undeserved. attention implies that the per son is worthy of attention b& cause of his inabilities but re fuses to use them. This is like a form of mental poison just as it distorts his attitude toward himself. 1 Wm 11 THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Western Peoplt, By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. LETTERS FROM READERS Monopolizing Telephone: "In most homes it is the teenagers who tie up the phones. In our house it is my wife. Every eve ning, as soon as supper is over, she sends our daughters to the kitchen to do the dishes while she gets on the phone and talks to her friends. Is this fail?" (A) Perhaps your daughters monopolize the phone in the afternoon, so your wife takes her turn in the evenings. Also, she may be too busy with house hold duties to talk to her friends during the day. I am sure she would turn over the phone to you or to your daughters if you asked her ahead of time. Re member, a housewife has few op portunities to talk to her friends except over the phone in the evening, after the day's work is finished. Elderly Relatives: "I have sev eral uncles and aunts in their seventies and eighties. They feel abused if I don't come to see lhem often, but I am married and have other things to do. How can I make them see they are being unreasonable?" (A) I doubt very much if you could make them realize that they were being unreasonable. Go as often as you can, and call them on the phone at other times. When people are old they are lonely, and short visits and telephone chats mean far more to them than the sacrifice of your time. Doing Dishes: "I am a boy of 17 and will enter senior class in high school this fall. My fam ily likes to think it is democratic and insists that every member do some work. My sisters don't like to do dishes because they say it is bad for their nails. So, I get stuck with them. Is this fair?" (A) If your family has a policy of democratic rule, bring up your complaint to the assembled family. Request some duty more in line with your interests and abilities. Suggest that you and your sisters rotate on the dish washing. When they complain about the damage to their nails, suggest that they wear rubber gloves. (Copyright 1955, General Features Corp.) Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5 :30 Drevious day: Starts FALL The fulure of Jackson County, of Oregon and the Nation rests with the young folks . depend-, upon their energy, integrity and good citizenship. That is why Copco is so enthusiastic over the fine 4-H club and Future Farmers of America movements, which instill in boys and girls the finest type of training in self-reliance, resourcefulness and sound citizenship'. That is why Copco urges YOU to lend encouragement to these out standing youth organizations by attending the Rotary Club-sponsored fair this week. 6) Jackson County Fairgrounds Published in Cooperation with the MEDFORD ROTARY CLUB, Sponsors of the 4-H-F.F.A. Fall Show, and Jackson County F.F.A. and 4-H Clubs by . . . Sensational New Developments Seen Little Rock, Ark. U.R) Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) 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