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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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Sensational New Developments Seen
Little Rock, Ark. U.R) Sen.
John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) Sat
urday said there may be some
"sensational developments" in
the next session of Congress in
volving his investigations sub
committee. McClellan also predicted that
the American public "may hear
as much about TVA (Tennessee
Valley Authority) and public
power in the next session of Con
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