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 '
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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.
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The additional shots brought
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amount of vaccine released for
children under 15 and expectant
mothers. It was the seventh allo
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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
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far as Redding were Mrs. Smith's
mother, Mrs. Dora Marlahan,
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