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
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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
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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)
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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
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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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Soviet Ready To Offer
Latin American Aid
Moscow (U.R) Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai Bulganin said yes
terday the Soviet Union is ready
to extend technical aid to Latin
American countries if such aid
is needed.
Bulganin also said Russia is
prepared to establish diplomatic
relations with all Latin Ameri
can countries with which it now
has no such relations.
Bulganin stated these views in
reply to questions submitted by
the editor of the Latin American
magazine Vision.
Bulganin said the Soviet
Union will not interfere in the
internal affairs of any other
country and expects other coun
tries not to interfere in affairs
of the Soviet Union.
The Premier offered technical
aid and the use of specialists to
Latin American countries if they
are interested.
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. "
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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:
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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.
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The Lindbergh law, making
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offense, was passed in 1932.
loved Sam Parker's book. Me
too.
"The verdure of the trees and
plants," he noted, "the red in
digenous clover in full sweet
ness . . . and the mildness of
the season, all combined to make
the scene enchanting. It was on
the shore of this bay where I
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