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fclGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Is That So? For 10,000 years now, man has been dependent upon the honeybee for food. In fact, un till three centuries ago before the advent of cane, beet and ma pie sugars this sweet, amber fluid was the sole sweetening scent known to man. Today there are about 6,000,' 000 honeybee colonies in the United States alone all im corted. because the America: had only bumblebees. And from these imported honeybees ap proximately 250,000 pounds of honey and 5,000,OOU pounds oi beeswax are taken each year More important than the . honey thirty times as import ant, say agriculturists are these honeybees' pollinating ac tivities. Without them, many crops such as clover would per Ish and the yield of such diverse crops as alfalfa, apples and cot ton would be drastically cur tailed. In California alone, 800, 000 acres of crops are absolute- v dependent upon these import ed though highly organized so- Jal workers. No scientist has yet discover ed or invented a purer food, nor e one that is sweeter its chief in gredient is levulose or "fruit sugar" about twice as sweet as cane sugar. Properly ripened, the concen tration of sugar in honey is so high that bacteria harmful to humans cannot live in it more than an hour or so some kinds of honey keep almost forever. Three - thousand-year-old honey was unearthed in the royal Egyptian tomb. Though dark ened and thickened by time it was still pure honey and palat able. And no doubt still re tained the fragrance of blossoms from which the nectar was col lected by the humming horde during the days of the Pharaohs. 87,000 Trips Required The work performed by these dedicated bees in collecting the honey is nigh incredible. Figure It out: for each pound of honey ' Look Choose "Hmmml Still cold!" H Why borrow trouble? Get a new automatic Gas water-heater and be sura of tankful after tankful of hot water whenever you want it. We'll be glad to advise you about the most economical size for your home, for your needs. Coma In. automatic water-heaters give hot water 3 UTILITYWSERVICE MAIL TRIBUNE By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist it requires approximately 37,- 000 trips to the flowers and back. And it often takes 300 pounds of honey just to keep one bee colony alive which doesn't include the surplus which man collects to put on his hot biscuits. Averaging a mile and a half for the round trip, the colony may fly over 16, 000,000 miles a year to supply a single city with its food! Now add several million more for man's surplus. . In this unceasing airlift, bees kill themselves with work. Lit erally. It is the destiny of all good workers (females, natural ly) to die flying, struggling to bring back one last load to the hive. As a result, after 2-6 weeks' of peak exertion, the fe male worker drops unnoticed in some field or lake, her place taken at once by another. Each drop of this precious golden cargo is highly nutri tious, especially as a fuel for the energies of the body. Four fifths of each drop's compon ents are carbohydrates, the other fifth being proteins, min eral salts such as traces of iron, copper manganese, potassium, sodium and phosphorus; five coloring materials, aromatic bodies, enzymes, and some rare sugars. Hundreds of Flavors Unlike table sugar and salt which have but one taste, honey has hundreds of flavors. In this country alone there are some 2,000 plants from which bees collect nectar, each lending a distinct flavor and aroma. Some, such as almond are bitter; others like prune honey. ferment readily; but the ma jority, made from the blossoms of red raspberry, buckwheat (in the darker honeys), white clov er, vetch, alfalfa, blueberry from Maine, goldenrod from New York State, bluevine from Mis souri, milkweed from Michigan, sourwood from the southern Appalachians, orange tree, and sage from the west all make ambrosia. Which is best? That, I'd say, which you ate in your childhood! (Copyrighl, 1955, by Eugene Burns.) (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate.) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the readers who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, to the Future! GAS Appliances times faster! Sunday, November 20, 1935 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Portland, in common with most other cities of its size, is having its mass transportation troubles. The burden of the public's complaint in Portland and elsewhere is that there aren't busses enough, that they don't run often enough, that they don't give adequate service to all sections of the city, and that the price is higher than riders want to pay. The transport companies in Portland and elsewhere retort that the REAL trouble is that in these modern days people aren't willing to pay enough to make the business of public transport in the cities profitable enough. If the business was profitable enough, they say, they could and would provide busses enough, that schedules could be and would be frequent enough and that all sections would be pro vided with adequate public transport service. The upshot of it all is that in the big cities there is a continu ous ruckus over mass public transportation. THE real nub of the situation is that in Western America, at least, where nearly every body owns an automobile, peo ple would rather drive their owns cars to and from work and to and from their shopping. The result of that is that in most of our bigger cities parking places are becoming almost as nearly extinct as the passenger pigeon. GETTING back to Portland where a popular political war cry back in the days when street car fares, along with other goods and services, were begin ning to rise in price used to be: "Seven cents is too much for a five-cent ride" the traction company is coming up for an extension of its franchise. The city commissioner whose depart ment specializes in public trans portation says it isn't going to the best nature observation, 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 address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Also Tank Gas Service You can also have mod ern cooking and water heating BEYOND THE CITY MAINS ... In quire about our LOW RENTAL PLAN on tank gas systems. HORNBROOK Snowfall Sets Hornbrook, Calif. The recent snowfall here of approximately 18 inches was something of a record for so early in the sea son, according to the recollection of several "old timers." While it has forced a slow down of operations at both the Hornbrook Manufacturing Co. mill, and the Black Mountain mill, and has practically halted logging operations in this vi- get a franchise extension unless: 1. It is reorganized to give local control (the majority of its stock is owned by outside interests). 2. It sets a price at which it will sell out to local ownership. If it is unwilling to meet either of these conditions, the commis sioner says, he will award the franchise to outside investors, who, he asserts, are ready and able to go into the operation in Portland of an entirely new mass transit, system. NOTE, please, that he DOESN'T say that if no pri vate outfit is willing to do some thing effective about the situa tion the 'city of Portland will go into the transit business as a municipal utility. When that happens - and it has happened in cities all over the country the usual result is that the city establishes fares that are too low and the city goes in the hole and charges the loss up to the taxpayers. The net result of that is that the taxpayers SUBSIDIZE the business of public transit. That is to say, the taxpayers as a whole reach into their pockets and dig up the money with which to pay a part of the bills of those who ride the busses or the streetcars, or what have you. IT seems to me that the business nf ciih:irli7atinn has crrin about as far in this country as it ought to be permitted to go, and I'm glad to see that so far Port land isn't proposing to go into the mass transportation business, with the more or less inevitable result that the city will pay a part of everybody's bill for rid ing down town and back. New Record cinity, it is hoped the snowfall will result in the storage of enough moisture in the moun tains to prevent the drying up of numerous private wells, and the restriction of use of the town water supply next summer, which was the case in the sum mer just past. Mrs. Jess Cummins was hon oree at a bridal shower Nov. 14 at the home of Mrs. Loren Cum mins, who was assisted by Mrs. Robert Cummins as co-hostess. Guests present were Mrs. Gus Larsen, sister of the honoree, Mrs. George Smith, Mrs. John Silva,and daughters Vivian, Car oline, and Delia, Mrs. Gladys, Jones, Mrs. Ardon Burns, Mrs. George McCann, Mrs. Lester Nye, Mrs. Henley Clawson, Mrs. Robert Farmer, Mrs. Nellie Cum mins, Mrs. Lawrence Breceda, Mrs. Bill Wylie, Mrs. Ray King, Miss Myrna Cummins, Miss Jen nifer Cummins, Miss Shirley Moffett, and Mrs. Wayne Cum mins. Gifts were also sent by a num ber who were unable to attend. Preceding the opening of gifts, games were played, and prizes were won by Mrs. Nellie Cum mins and Mrs. Henley Clawson. Floyd Spearin and family, Dunsmuir, Calif., were week end guests at the home of Spearin's sister, Mrs. Wayne Cummins. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watt and sons, Ronnie and Tommie, made a combined business and pleas ure trip to Portland the past week end. While there, they were guests at the home of Mrs. Watts' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ruebisch. The Contract Bridge club met Nov. 15 at the home of Mrs. Les ter Nye on Henley rd. Following a dessert luncheon, the members playing were Mrs. Bertha Brad ley, Mrs. Marshall Horn, Mrs. Duane Hamner, Mrs. David Hol land, and the hostess, Mrs. Nye. Guests playing were Mrs. Stan ley Butler of Yreka, Calif., Mrs. Fred Mills and Mrs. Laura Swin nerton. First prize was won by Mrs. David Holland, while sec ond prize went to Mrs. Marshall Horn. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Smith and More Polio Vaccine Available To States Washington (U.R) The U.S. Public Health Service has made 1,773,485 more Salk polio vac cine shots available to states, territories and the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis. Some 32,000 shots were re served fo. the foundation. The rest will be allocated to the states and territories for com mercial and public use. The additional shots brought the. total to 12,442,437 the amount of vaccine released for children under 15 and expectant mothers. It was the seventh allo cation made under the voluntary control system which started July 1. Portland (U.R) The State Board of Health Saturday scored daughter Dorothy spent the week end in Corning, Calif., with their son and daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Edward Smith and son Mi chael. Accompanying them as far as Redding were Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. Dora Marlahan, and Mrs. Rose Burton and son Ernest, all of Ft. Jones, Calif. 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