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Is That So? uia you know that ... a giant toad has been found in the Colorado river basin, a na tive to both Arizona and Cali fornia, which is nearly a foot long and can squirt a deadly poison from glands on the back of its head. Hybrid bees may produce up to 30 per cent more honeythan Q their parents and increase their egg-laying up to 35 per cent. The average pulse rate of rhesus monkeys is 188 ranging from 90 to 233 a minute. (The normal human rate is 70-72 for males; 73-82 for females.) Minks are gluttons. In the wild, they consume about one third of their weight in meat daily. The 15-foot hammer - head shark gives birth to live young a specimen has been taken with 37 well-developed em bryos. Skin can be taken from a re cently dead body and stored for 1-16-56 three weeks or more in skin banks to be used for grafting on severely burned persons. Such skin does not "take" permanent ly. It lasts from 10 to 30 days until the patient is well enough to have raw areas of his body covered with his own skin. The humming bird takes 10 days to hatch its eggs; the smal lest finphes, 11; and the canary, 14. A pair of mourning doves may producers many as six broods during the hot spring and sum mer months of our southwestern deserts. Minute lateral hairs on the shafts of the male mosquito's antennas vibrate to the note pro duced by the movement of the female's wings in flight. Because the vibration is strongest when the soundwaves strike at right angles, the male can locate, very exactly, the whereabouts of the female. From Ocean Oceans, almost virgin terri tory to scientific investigations, . may eventually provide most of the world's food and energy. The orange contains more than 150 different chemical con stituents. Mildew, a fungus growth, is insoluble and cannot always be removed from fabrics. Tears consist of a complex so lution with a surprisingly high protein content. Tears shed -in pain, sorrow, or anger differ from those prompted by peeling an onion or those caused by smog and other irritants. A small herd of musk oxen remnants of an unsuccessful experiment to introduce them into Alaska from Greenland - live on Nunivak Island in the is driving Q How you can own a bigger, more powerful Chrysler Windsor V-8 for the cost of a medium-priced car I Sl .jZXZ-Ji :' '- J 0 Frankly, we believe yon will find that the Chrysler Windsor is the only real luxury car. that sells at a medium price ... a car far in advance of its contem poraries and ahead of its time. We would like to put you behind the wheel of this car . . . because we've found from actual comparative demonstrations that 3 out of 4 open-minded men who drive a Chrysler for the first time prefer it to anything else. There are many reasons. In the first place, the 1956 Chrysler is the only car in its price class that has been completely restyled this year. It has that "hair-trigger" look for which designers have been striving many years. We call it "PowerStyle." But there's more to the Chrysler story than styling. There's power . . . more power to pass safely when necessary . . . mere power to drive without effort . . . more power to stop. There is not a car on the road today as completely power-operated as the "Power Style" Chrysler. Its PowerFlite transmission is controlled by pushbuttons . . . the By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Bering Sea. Adult musk oxen stand about 3M feet at the shoulder and are about six feet long. In appearance they seem related to both the bison and sheep. In winter their long shaggy coat protects them. And well that it does for they in habit some of the world's most wind-swept wastes in North America and Greenland. Chile, Canada, and Japan are profitably tapping rich coal de posits miles out to sea. Last summer a pair of cranes in the Milwaukee zoo produced their first offspring in 23 years. It takes about four pounds of feed to make one pound of turkey. But worth it! (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McCIurs Newspaper Syndicate) Free: Ey 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, 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! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Eugene Boy Killed fa Tractor Upsef Eugene (U.R) A 12-year-old boy was killed and his father was injured Sunday when they were pinned under a trac tor and trailer near Gillespie Corners about six miles west of here. The victim was Ralph Lance, 12. His father, Prentice Lance, was reported in "fairly good" condition in a local hospital to day. The boy and his father had gone to the home of a neighbor, Frank Griffin, for a load of en silage They started home and the tractor left the road and overturned. Both were pinned undenreath. Griffin heard the elder Lance's cries for help and neighbors managed to right the tractor. The boy was believed to have been killed outright. General Motors Plans Record Outlay in 1956 New York (U.R) Harlow H. Curtice, president of General Motors Corp., said yesterday the world's biggest business will back its confidence in national prosperity with an all-time rec ord outlay of $1,000,000,000 in 1956. Curtice, in his annual business forecast, predicted prosperity will continue throughout 1956 and another record year for U.S. business with full employment. 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O'Keefe Pleads Guilty In Brinks Robbery Boston (U.R) Joseph Specs O'Keefe, pint - sized hoodlum who "spilled all" about the Sl, 219,000 Brinks holdup, pleaded guilty to armed robbery at. a sur prise arraignment yesterday. O'Keefe who turned informer and implicated 10 others in the fabulous robbery Jan. 17, 1930, was ordered held without bail for sentencing. No date was set for the sen tencing by Superior Judge Dan iel D. O'Brien. The arraignment came as po lice expected two other Brinks suspects still at large, to surren der "momentarily." O'Keefe's guilty plea indi cated he would be the govern ment's star witness in its prose cution of the remaining nine members of the gang. Knowland, Ike To Be In Illinois Primary Springfield, 111. (U.R) The Illinois primary filing period opened yesterday with an an nouncement that the name of Sen. William F. Knowland of California will be placed on the Republican ballot along with that of President Eisenhower. Gov. William G. Stratton had already announced he was filing the President's name in the pre ferential primary today. But the announcement by a Chicago woman that Knowland's name would be filed came as a sur prise. Mrs. Marion R. Cleveland, a Chicago widow, said the 3000 to 5000 signatures necessary to run a name .in the Illyiois presi dential preference primary would be filed for Knowland "before the end of the week." The average American will consume 160 pounds of meat in 1956, highest in two generations, and total meat production is ex pected to be the highest on rec ord. " ultimate in automatic, foolproof con trol. But do Chrysler's competitors have this mechanical trouble-free sys tem? Not yet! Chrysler's PowerPilbt - Steering works vS 80 of the work, not just m parking, but in long distance driving, in traffic and ' in rough going. Competitive power steering cuts in and out . . . does only a fraction of this job. And what about engines? Chrysler was first to adopt the principles of the airplane-type V-8 engine. Today's engine is a new and bigger version of this engine . . .250 hp in the Windsor Spitfire V-8 . . . 280 hp in the New Yorker FirePower V-8 and now 340 hp in the blazing new Chrysler 300-B. Then there is the all-important matter, of brakes. Chrysler's newly designed PowerSmooth Brakes not only bring you safer, surer, straight-line stops -they out last the others 2 to 1. So if you have been driving another make of car in Chrysler's price class ... ask yourself this question: Don't I want to know what my money can buy before I spend it? Then make a drive-them-both comparison.. We'll leave everything else to your judgment With the addition of the Chrysler Power Train at alight extra coiL "PowerStyle CHRYSLER the year-ahead carl IE gjgtj JIK STEVENS Sgg Forests and Floods ... The Rev. Samuel Parker, Far West traveler of the early 1830s, made a good many references to high water and floods in his famous book of the time, "Journ al of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains." Parker's start wag on an Ohio river steamboat, which rode water so high that it submerged the 22-foot falls at Louisville. S" the steamboat did not need to use the new canal around the falls but kept steaming down the great, swollen, muddy river. A year later, on the 14th of June, 1836, the Congregational missionary "took a water excur sion in the steamboat Beaver, Capt. Home, down the Columbia (from Fort Vancouver) to the confluence of the western branch of the Multnomah; up this river into the Willamette, and then (around) into the middle branch of the Multnomah, and through it into the Columbia, and back to the fort." Parson Parker's narrative went on: "All the lowlands were overflowed with the annual freshet, and presented the ap pearance of an immense bay, ex tending far into the country. The day was pleasant and our com pany cheerful." Flood Facts ... The past year has brought death, destruction and terror to millions of Americans in regions where rivers periodically over flow and present a common "ap pearance of an immense bay, ex tending far into the country." There will be many pictures of the kind in the' newspapers this coming spring, and on television and the newsreels. So it was in the old days. The Rev. Parker, a noted Bible scholar of his time, could have cited 45 texts on floods. In our own time a nature-faking superstition has taken deep root. In a nutshell and that's where it comes from the super stition declares that floods are effects of harvesting of old growth timber. Nutshell Notions ... If the thinking of Sam Parker had been of the species that sees government controls as the an swer to every resource manage ment problem, he would most likely have started a campaign to enact laws to cut and burn all forests in short order. Why not? Parson Parker was in flood trouble most of the way from Boston to Astoria, and the forests were ALL old growth in those days, continuous along the rivers. It would have been natural for the parson to have blamed the virgin forests for the floods if he had owned a nut shell mind that answered every question with, "This is a prob lem that only the government can handle." The scholarly missionary took another trip on the first steam ship of the Northwest. It was to the mouth of the Columbia. m.n Who full time . . . does He gave the floods no more notice. collected the large bivalve shell petrifactions, embedded in cal-carious-sandstone of the Tertiary formation . . . No volcanic ap pearances were visible in the vi cinity." 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