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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 21. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Crime wave hits city, six rob
beries reported to police.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The United
Nations plan to control and regu
late the "atomic bomb." It is re
garded as too potent a force for
man to monkey with. The regu
lations should have teeth in them
bigger and better and sharper
molars than, employed in the en
forcement of Prohibition.
10 YEARS AGO
.August 21. 1939
(It was Wednesday.
Mother bear climbs in rear
deck of auto in Crater Lake park
and pillages lunch while hungry
family (human) shouts and waves
In vain.
Crater Lake council boy scouts
arrive In New York on way to
jamboree.
SO YEARS AGO
August 21. 1925
O (It wa Friday)
Local "dry" enforcement force
fio be re-organized and "bootleg
sW-UJiii Hcourriy
ging crushed.
Coach Prink Callison predicts
Medford will be lucky if they
O win a game. The boys are too
O green.
40 YEARS AGO
August 21. 1915
(It was Saturday)
Temperatures reach 100 de
grees and heat lightning illum
inates hills. e
President Wilson maps plans
for "The New Freedom and Ful
ler Life."
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. tf55. Editorial Research Report
I. V-J Day, marking the end
of World War II, came six, eight,
10. 12. or 14 years ago?
2. In which country is the
parliament known as the Diet?
3. A dish is au gratin when
cooked with Newburg sauce,
onions, sour cream, tomatoes,
cheese or mushrooms?
4. Freemasons are or aren't
allowed to conduct lodges in
Spain these days?
5. Man was made on which
day of creation as given in the
first hnnlc nf trip 'Rihlp?
6. Sodium chloride is mote
often known as what?
7. Annie Oakley was a famous
actress, mistress of a British
'king, pistol shot, woman ath-
The Answers: 1. 10 years ago;
G (Jt. Japan: 3. Cheese: 4. Aren't;
O ;3. Sixth: 6. Salt; 7. Pistol shot.
Francis Nickerson
To Head Committee
Eugene (U.PJ Francis Nick-
Cerson, Westfir, Ore., Saturday
fwas named executive secretary
O (Of the state system of higher ed
ucation committee on high
'school-collese relations.
Dr. Earl M. Pallett, committee
(chairman, announced the ap
pointment. Nickerson succeeds
O J)r. E. Dean Anderson who han-
CCdled the program for the past
seven years.
Headquarters for the commit
tee will be established in Eu
gene. It had formerly been lo-
QCaied in Portland.
mail tribune
The Threat of Socialism
We are indebted to a visitor from Webster
Groves, Missouri, for the following observation :
" 'Government planners' have acted to block important
moves by privately owned utilities to defeat defense needs
where they occur. These fantastic goings-on have im
plications for free enterprise in this country, for once the
central government obtains a monopoly in electric power
no manufacturing concern large or small will again be
free to decide for itself where it shall locate, what it shall
produce, or whom it shall employ."
The article from which the above was taken is en
titled "Show down needed in fight against socialism."
"show down" IS needed!
This wild talk about socialism is getting exceed
ingly tiresome. It is time to have some evidence to
support the propaganda.
We wish our contributor for example would show
some evidence any evidence to support his claim
that "government planners" have tried to block ef
forts of privately owned utilities to properly defend
their country.
We would gladly print it and on the front page
too, with a banner.
IITE would like to know how the central government
" is going to obtain a monopoly, when the pri
vate companies control nearly 80 of the light and
power production now and its business is increasing
at such a rapid rate, that in many cases it wants gov
ernment aid to facilitate a program of accelerated ex
pansion. As to private enterprise in this country, in the
electric power field or anywhere else, ever being un
able to decide "where it shall locate, what it shall pro
duce or whom it shall employ," because the govern
ment with an electric monopoly won't permit same
that is just too absurd to
eration whatever.
ANY American citizen with such fears must have
a very low opinion indeed of the essential com
mon sense and loyalty to democratic ideals, of the
American people.
For after all what IS the government? It is an ex
ecutive and representative group, chosen to rule this
country and chosen by the American people, via the
free and secret ballot.
The power to retain or to change that government
rests solely with the people. What development in the
light and power field by government aid, has thus
far been accomplished, has been with the consent and
approval of the people.
Now if the people are tired of it and want no more
of it, they only have to go to the ballot box and vote
accordingly. If on the other hand they want a con
tinuation of it particularly where they believe it alone
can promote the general welfare, they can accom
plish that via the ballot box also.
THERE are a number of public power projects in
operation today, there
more.
But in the districts where they operate and have
operated for many years has anyone, including the
FBI, found any instance
electric power has not been entirely free to decide
WHERE he shall locate, WHAT he shall produce, or
whom he shall employ?
How silly CAN we get?
And how blind can we be to the fact, that this is
still a government of the people by the people and
FOR the people, and as long as it so remains, all this
talk of socialism creeping or otherwise as a real threat
to our democracy is a lot of political whang doodle,
and only those who have lost faith in our democracy
and in the essential wisdom and intelligence of the
American people, have any excuse whatever for using
it!
As observed the time for a "show down" has come.
Let us have a stop to this sort of foolish talk, unless
and until some real evidence is offered to support it.
R.W.R.''
The Floyd Hart Fund
Future -foresters of Oregon will profit from a
scholarship fund left to Oregon State college by the
late Floyd Hart of Medford, widely known lumber
man, who was decorated for heroic service as a flier
in two world wars. A committee headed by Albert
Powers, Coos Bay, chairman, will have the handling
of contributions to the fund. This is a characteristic
bit of public service by the late lumberman, who has
given the forest industries much in service and guid
ance. A former member of the Oregon advisory com
mittee to the Bureau of Land Management, he was
head of a committee appointed last year by the Secre
tary of the Interior to review its operations. His death
is not to interrupt his good work for the forests and
the lumber industry. Albany Democrat.
Stronger Lobby Controls
All Washington correspondents who reported the
recent session of Congress agree that there was more
and bolder, and probably more successful, lobbying
at the 1955 gathering of the lawmakers than an any
other recent session.
One of the Capitol news-gatherers (Scripps-How-
ard Staff Writer Jack Steele) reports that lobbyists
"almost took over some committee hearings invaded
press conferences held by legislative leaders got into
the press galleries clogged corridors around the
House and Senate chamber climbed over each other
buttonholing members."
THE biggest lobby drives were connected with
A changes in the Reciprocal Trade Act, government
Sunday, August 21, 1955
warrant any serious consid
may or may not be many
where the purchaser of the
!n fhe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The porcupine, long a favored
character in America, is in
trouble. In the generations
when we had more trees than
we knew what to do with, we
were tolerant of his eating hab
its, but as our virgin forests
began to decline and we realized
that we must depend more and
more on new growth we began
to get impatient when we'd go
out in the forests and count up
to a couple dozen porcupine
topped young trees from a single
stand.
We started saying to ourselves
that we couldn't stand it much
longer. We just couldn't afford
that much loss of growing tim
ber. So we began to take pot shots
at Porky.
TO MAKE matters worse, he
has developed a new appe
tite. The Bend Bulletin tells
about it. It says:
"Porcupines, whose . nightly
dessert is the tender tip buds of
growing pines, has discovered
a new delicacy highway signs
made of laminated woods.
"The cement or glue used in
the veneer provides a tasty frost
ing for the colored markers high
way people erect along roadsides
to warn motorists of curves or to
caution them to slow their speed.
A remnant of a highway sign
brought into the Bulletin office
this week revealed that porkies
are accepting the laminated
wood, with its appetizing glue,
in much the same manner a hun
gry child would take to a frosted
cake.
"The result:
"Practically all the new wood
en roadside signs on the McKen
zie highway between Cold
Spring and Windy Point have
been destroyed in fact, they
have been devoured."
OVER all these decades, Porky
has led an easy life.
Because of his spiny coat, he
has needed to fear no animal
enemy. Any such that tangled
with him came out of the en
counter wishing fervently that
he had left Porky strictly alone.
So
Because of this fact, the por
cupine since the time whereof
the memory of man runneth not
down the forest lanes unafraid
iO the contrary has swaggered
of any four-legged foe. ,
E WAS singularly fortunate
in his relations with man.
whom all other animals must
dread and fear.
Man developed a curious
theory with regard to Porky.
The theory was this: Because
of his lack of fear, the porcupine
can be approached closely.
Therefore, a man could KILL
HIM WITH A CLUB. So if a
man were lost in the woods and
was starving, the theory ran, he
could knock over a porcupine
with the end of a sturdy limb
and so nourish himself.
Stories of men saving them
selves from starvation by killing
and skinning and cooking and
eating a porcupine are rare, but
the superstition persisted and
Porky went his way unmolested.
WELL, all good things come to
an end.
As so often happens when,
for one reason or another, men
or animals HAVE TOO MUCH
POWER IN THEIR HANDS,
Porky developed bad habits.
He is beginning to pay the in
evitable price.
Army Enlistments
Now Being Accepted
Washington (U.R) The Army
has announced it will accept
immediate enlistments from
young men who want to serve
six months on active duty and
then spend 7V4 years in the reserves.
pay raises, methods of financing an expanded high
way program, and exemption of natural gas producers
from federal price control. Lobby expenditures as
OFFICIALLY reported came to something like $4
million, which was less than in some other recent
years. However, there are many loopholes in the fed
eral Regulation of Lobbying Act and no adequate
machinery for enforcement. One industry committee
is known to have raised $iy2 million to bring pressure
on Congress to pass the Natural Gas Act exemption,
but it made no report on expenditures to the Clerk of
the House or Secretary of the Senate.
..
CONGRESS has now had almost a decade of experi-
ence under the present lobby act adopted as part
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. Con
stitutionality of the act was upheld by the Supreme
Court last year in a split decision which opened new
loopholes when the Court majority in effect rewrote
many of its provisions.
Late in the 1955 session Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
introduced a bill to revise the 1946 statute, with the
general purpose of strengthening its constitutionality,
clarifying its requirements, and providing for better
enforcement. Kennedy has announced that a sub
committee of the Senate Government Operations
Committee, of which he is chairman, will hold hear
ings on the bill and make a comprehensive study of
lobbying early in the 1956 session.
The testimony should be of compelling interest to
citizens who want to know more about an important
part of the legislative process that usually escapes
public notice. E.R.R.
Matter of
THE REAL SATELLITE STORY
Washington The American
decision to build a small earth
satellite was announced in a
manner that
did credit to
the great
brains of Madi
son ave.; and
it has been ac
cepted by the
nation at large
as another
cause for hap
py complacen
cy. The deci
sion looks a
Joseph Also
bit different,
however, in the light of the real
story behind it.
In brief, the American govern
ment made an announced decis
ion to build a satellite of the
MOUSE type in order to get in
ahead of the Soviet government,
and for no other very good rea
son. It was needful to get in ahead
because intelligence had brought
word to the Eisenhower admin
istration policy-makers that a
similar Soviet announcement
was planned at the impending
annual Congress of the Interna
tional Astronautical Federation
at Copenhagen. Long before, the
American government had re
ceived convincing proof that the
Soviets had actually started a
satellite project. But now they
were preparing to let the whole
world know about it.
The same old reason alleged
defense economy had prevent
ed a serious American satellite
project from being started in the
earlier period, when the Soviet
satellite project was started.
The whole subject was conven
iently classified. There was no
one who could effectively pro
test the delay.
But it was clearly going to be
disastrous, from the standpoint
of American domesjtic politics
as well as American internation
al prestige, if the plans for the
Soviet satellite were dramatical
ly unveiled at Copenhagen when
no 'American satellite project
had even been ordered.
Hence the Administration policy-makers
were forced to act
with some speed. The decision
was made to build the MOUSE
type satellite because this so-
called "Minimum Orbital Satel
lite of Earth" could be built
mos't rapidly. The MOUSE-type,
to be sure, also had minimum
military value. But Presidential
Press Secretary James Hagerty
could fairly safely promise that
it would be launched into the
upper air in the period 1957-'58.
ONLY a few weeks before,
these reporters had caused a
species of riot, in the National
Security Council by daring to
discuss the satellite problem in
this space. The usual reprisals
for this "shocking breach of
secrecy" then followed. But the
Administration's secrecy fetish
has a way of breaking down
pretty rapidly under political
pressures. And so secrecy was
forgotten, and the hastily reach
ed American decision on the
satellite was given to the public
by Hagerty with maximum fan
fare. Immediately thereafter, the
Copenhagen Congress of the
Astronautical Federation was
held as scheduled. The Soviet
delegation was headed by the
astro-physicist, Prof. K. Ogorod
nikov, and the gas-dynamicist,
Prof. L. Sedov. Prof Sedov is
also chairman of the "Soviet
Commission for Co-ordination
of Interplanetary Flight," which
is probably Moscow gobledygook
for the Soveit satellite project.
In short order, Sedov and Ogo
rodnikov proceeded to confirm
the indications of an intended
Soviet announcement that the
Eisenhower policy-makers had
previously received from the in
telligence analysts. The two
Russian scientists declared for
quotation that "from a technical
Fact by joh a
point of view, it is now possible
to send up a satellite of much
greater size and weight" than
the MOUSE, which Hagerty had
revealed would be about the
size of a basketball.
For quotation, Sedov and
Ogorodnikov contended them
selves with adding that the
"realization of the Soviet proj
ect is expected in the near fu
ture." Off the record, with their
fellow scientists, they were more
precise. They not only stated
that the Soviet satellite would
be considerably larger than the
American one. They also de
clared that they hoped to get
it into the air during 1957, or
a few months earlier than the
American date promised by Hag
erty. Whether the Soviets will real
ly get there first is of course
open to question, because of the
relative ease and cheapness of
building the MOUSE. What real
ly matters, however, is the
strong probability that the
Soviets, as indicated by their
discussion of satellite sizes, are
not building a satellite of much
greater military value than the
one we are building.
"POR example, the most dis
cussed practical military use
of a non-habitable earth satel
lite is as an instrument of recon
naissance. Fitted with appro
priate television broadcasting
equipment, plus serv-mechan-isms
to insure that only the
desired earth surfaces would be
televised, a satellite of quite
practicable size could tell its
builders almost everything that
can be learned from aerial re
connaissance of another nation's
territory.
The MOUSE-type satellite is
too small to be used in this way,
but a somewhat larger one un
questionably can be so used. And
a satellite of this type, when
launched, would make a rather
hollow joke of President Eisen
hower's Geneva proposal of mu
tually agreed aerial reconnais
sance.
Yet the real point of the satel
lite story lies in the fact that
sure knowledge of the Soviet
satellite project was possessed
by the American government as
early as January, 1954. The De
fense Department leadership
therefore knowingly gave the
Kremlin ' at least a year-and-a
half lead in this vital race of
the satellites. And then, when
this shocking delay threatened
to produce embarrassing results,
an advertising stunt was used to
cover up.
It is fortunate that the Amer
ican satellite project has at last
been ordered, but its history is
a pretty grim commentary on
the real character of our present
defense planning.
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Station Manager
Levels Charges
At Demo Officials
Oregon City U.R) Irwin
S. Adams, general manager of
Radio Station KGON, Oregon
City, Friday accused two Demo
cratic party officials of "second
ary boycott' in connection with
a labor dispute at the station's
Gladstone studios.
Adams said Kenneth E. Rin-
ke, chairman of the Multnomah
county Democratic central com
mittee, had induced Mike de-
Cicco, president of the WiUamet-
te Democratic Society, to with
draw advertising from KGON.
Station Picketed
The station has been picketed
by the AFL International Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers for
alleged refusal to bargain, de-
Cicco said that ' In view of the
fact I am president of the Wil
lamette Democratic society, I
decided to ask Adams to termi
nate my advertising as long as
he had pickets.
DeCicco is a Portland auto
parts dealer.
Adams asked Rinke in an
open letter, "Is it the policy of
the Multnomah county Demo
cratic committee to encourage
or participate in actions which
appear contrary to declared pub
lic policy in this state?"
Rinke said he considered It
his duty to inform de-Cicco of
the KGON dispute.
PPL Jells Plans
For Utility Merger
- Portland (U.R) Pacific
Power and Light company of
Portland has announced a plan
for merger of Western ublic
Service company of Laramie,
Wyo.
Paul B. McKee, Pacific presi
dent, and W. L. Breslin, head of
the Laramie utility, said the
merger plan would be effected
by an exchange of common
stock.
Both utilities had served Lar
amie's power needs. Future
generation for Laramie will be
supplied by a large, new steam
plant, construction plans for
which were announced recently.
Supplemental power would be
obtained over a transmission
interconnection with Montana
Power company, to be built In
1956 by PP&L.
Pacific stockholders wUl.vote
on the plan Oct. 18.
IPOTIUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
We're indebted to B-Mike of
the Oregonian for this latest in
the doings of Frank Van Dyke,
Medford attorney and former
speaker of the house. Here's the
story as "Mike" tells it:
"Van Dyke :. . . checked into
hotel. As he lay in bed. exhaust
ed, he saw a slot whicTi he sup
posed would turn on TV. Drop
ped in quarter and found that
bed was a gyro job, gave him
thorough mechanical shaking up
for several minutes before he
could escape by crawling out on
floor."
Employees of a certain
large Medford area grocery
store went on their annual
picnie last Wednesday, and to
keep the program moving took
along their public address
system.
However, when the PA was
plugged in something went
haywire. It just wouldn't
work.
So what did they do? They
went straight to another large
Medford area grocery store,
borrowed their PA system,
and the picnic was on.
Potluck seems to be develop
ing a reputation as a reporter
of the doings of Jackson county
wildlife. Here's the most recent:
Tom Carlton, of Lampman rd.
Gold Hill, was tending his irri
gation ditches the other day
when he was startled to see a
raccoon, with a mean look on its
face, bearing down on him.
Not wishing to harm the an
imal, Carlton backed out of the
road. But, the 'coon continued
toward him, bristling and grow
ling. Finally, convinced he had
gone as far as possible to be
friendly, Carlton was forced to
defend himself with a shovel.
Anyone want a Davy Crockett
hat?
Former Medford resident
who moved to southern Cali
fornia recently writes back
about a couple of things wa
Is That So?
Diverse and wonderful are the
ways of animals to store food
during fat times against lean sea
sons. Under the irresistible im
pulse of inherited instincts, fish,
birds and mammals now during
the heat of summer are prepar
ing for the pinch of winter's nec
essity. The simplest and most univer
sal of all methods is to store food
by an accumulation of fat- and
tallow making the body a port
able food locker. A salmon, in
preparation for her rigorous up
stream run to spawn, will double
her girth by interlarding fat be
tween muscles.
A caribou buck, in preparation
for the sharp bite of winter and
the mating season when he eats
next to nothing wiUtore a two-
inch thick layer of fat from his
shoulders to rump which may
constitute as much as one-sixth
of his weight. Eating until it al
most bursts, a woodchuck stores
up enough fat in its body tissues
to make its belly sag almost to
the ground in prepartion for its
foodless winter hibernation
and this right during the middle
of summer's heat
For that matter, it is not nec
essary to go to the animals
the Hottentots of Africa store fat
by eating prodigiously during
seasons of plenty and their but
tocks widen appreciably and be
come portable pantries a con
dition called steatopygia by cul
tured peaple. .
Some natives in Africa keep
sheep which have the knack of
laying up quantities of fat in the
tissues of the tail where it is re
tained as a useful store of en
ergy at times when food is
scarce.' There is an African
mouse, too, which covers its
whole body with a layer of fat
including its tail which becomes
three or four times its regular
size. Sufficient to see it through
sharp winter.
Many Hoard Food
To augment food stored within
the body as fat, many animals
hoard food in times of plenty. A
notorious hoarder, the American
red squirrel, may store up to ten
bushels of pine cones and mush
rooms a season. A much smaller
animal, the kangaroo rat, has
been known to accumulate al
most 14 bushels of seeds and
dried grass cut into short lengths.
Methodically, too: each kind of
seed by itself. The American
beaver in his way stores branch
es and tree trunks in the bottom
of his pond and always enough to
last the colony through the win
ter. Woodpeckers and jays store
hadn't heard about from tha
Los Angeles Chamber at
Commerce.
He says: "I am starting I
get a very nice souther Cali
fornia suntan and I've If
been to the beach thre times.'
The third time the sand flea
chewed me alive ant 1 atari
ed my case of flu."
Sand fleas and influaaaa la
southern California? We mvtt
have been reading tha vnsf
travel folders. .
During a Kiwanis club lunch
eon Wednesday at Rogua Vallay
Country club Bob Rector, ax
president of the servica organiz
ation was seen out on tha course
hitting practice shots.
President John Dellenbeck
designated Jimmy Bolton to
serve as sergeant at arms and
instructed him to go out and col
lect a $1 fine from Rector. Bol
ton proved to be a roaring suc
cess. When he came back, he not;
only had collected the $1 from
Rector, but he also had two bits
he obtained from Clayton Lewis.
And Lewis isn't even a mem
ber of the club. -
Pptluck's regular compiler
stayed home this week. At last
reports he was painting his
house, his shrubs, and him
self. Vacations are wonderful?
Applications Requested
For State Fair Displays
John Davis, who is in charge
of land products displays for the
Oregon State Fair Sept. 3-10
at Salem, has requested persons
Interested in presenting displays
to fill application blanks, Don
Berry, Jackson county horticul
tural agent, said yesterday.
Berry said application forms
are available at his office in the
court house, where there also is
available for inspection a prem
ium list for the state fair.
.O
No entry fee is required on
land products, which include
vegetables and fruit, when dis
played, Berry pointed out.
Br EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
nuts. Crows, considered by some
the wisest of birds, have been
known to bury nuts in manure
piles. Why in manure? Manure
remains steaming warm in win
ter which prevents the nuts from
freezing at a time when they
are most urgently needed.
The shrike or butcher bird
stores its surplus food in an open
air pantry particularly during
the nesting season when a good
ly supply of meat is required.
After catching his prey, whieh
consists of small birds such as
goldfinches and larks, bees, field
mice, shrews and lizards, it fre
quently impales them by the
throat on thorns. After tearing
off bits from a score or so of
"joints" it leaves the remainder
hanging up in the nearby larder
to be eaten later.
Small Game Found
Of course, everyone knows
how dogs will dig a hole to bury
a bone. That is quite usual. But
many wild flesh eaters such as
the red fox, bear and wolf store
remnants of their last fill too for
future use covering it with dirt
and leaves or snow. The blood
thirsty weasel of England (stoat)
hoards a vast and varied quantity
of food when she is about to give
birth. At such times, large quan
tity of birds, mice, rats, frogs
and other smaU game has been
found in her larder aU laid out
neatly, side by side, sometimes
even to having their heads point
ing in the same direction. In one
instance, an American weasel's
cache contained the bodies of 44
mice and two magpies arranged
neatly, one above the other in
layers separated by "sand and
earth, which prevented air from
reaching the bodies and thus
kept them in fresh condition.
However, a mole improves
even upon this method of pres
ervation it keeps its food alive.
Masses of as many as a thousand
earthworms have been found in
their caches. Thev were alive.
too. How were they kept togeth
er, alive? By the simple expedi
ent of biting off the front ends
and burying "them under the
earth where no light could reach
them. And for a good reason
if left where light could touch
the eyeless earthworms, they
would crawl away.
(Copyright, 1955. hr Kusene
Burns.)
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