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' '-'A'Ji'A . i-tfL ; a. tf xvr-WWim Kniiiii n mi , , , AUNT JEMIMA ARRIVES Aunt Jemima (Palmere Jackson) is showri being greeted by Medford Mayor Earl Miller on her arrival here for participation in the pancake jambo ree at Medford YMCA tomorrow. The jam boree is being sponsored by the Eagles lodge in cooperation with the Medford Fire Fight ers, sponsors of the Jackson County Disaster Car. Funds from the jamboree will be used to Grumpy Sun on Tantrum; Affect On Earth Conditions Expected By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent "Washington (U.R) Our par ent the Sun is in a grumpy mood. It probably will be snarling like a famished lion by the win ter of 1957-58. From now to then and beyond look for tantrums that may: 1. Cause your television set to start spouting Spanish, or maybe Portuguese (not too likely but possible). " 2. Mess up police, fire, and military- broadcasts (quite possi ble). 3. Smother long-distance ra dio transmissions for days on end (almost certain to happen often in the next several years). 4. Blot out continental tele phone and telegraph communi cations on occasion. The Sun's grumpiness stems from the fact that it is heading rapidly into another period of maximum sunspot activity. Wors to Come Right now sSven groups of j surispots, including one spot many times larger than the earth, are traversing the face of the sun. But experts are not alarmed by them. They say the worst is yet to come. Sunspots are associated with and are the visible sign, so to speak, of solar flares which pelt space with high speed electrons and protons, and shower it with ultra-violet and X-radiations. When the earth gets in the way of these bombardments, a lot of things happen. Northern lights in this hemisphere shim mer and glow more intensely. Electrical storms rage in the at mosphere's ionized layers 45 to 200. miles up. The earth s mag netic currents are agitated vio lently. . It takes only eight- minutes for the ultra-violet and other ra diations to travel the 93,000,000 miles from sun to earth and pro duce "sudden ionospheric dis turbances." These can stop all ordinary radio transmission for a few minutes to half an hour. The invariably precede by 24 to 36 hours the longer-lasting upsets caused by showers of elec i Sped Sears Are Offering RUG PAPS FREE with many of their popular rugs This Special Offer Good Only to Jan. 31 TAKE ADVANTAGE NOW! Stop in, See Samples On Display at 40 South Central or Just Call 2-6255 for a field representative to call at your home purchase needed equipment for the Disaster Car. Shown with Aunt Jemima and Mayor Miller are (left to right) Russ Jamison, chair man of entertainment for the jamboree; Wes ley Coleman, vice-president of the Disaster Car organization; and Lewis Parker, finance chairman of the jamboree and secretary of the Eagles lodge here. trons or protons (nuclei of hy drogen atoms) which hurtle through space at relatively slug gish speeds up to 3,000 miles a second. Some observers believe these events have profound effects on the weather and even on such things as the human tempera ment. It is certain that now and then they botch up man's com Alberta Considering Bonus To Taxpayers As Result of Wealth EDMONTON, Alberta - (U.R) -They're making so much mon ey in this oil-rich Canadian prov ince that the government is ser iously contemplating paying "bo nuses" to the taxpayers. One city. Medicine Hat, which the late Rudyard Kipling said had "all Hades for a basement," is pondering the eliminating all but school takes. : Alberta counts only a few thousand more than one million population, but the province re ported a net surplus of some $40,000,000 at the end of its last fiscal year after spending $95,000,000 on roads, . public buildings, parks and contrib utions to small towns. The province collects a 14 per cent tax on all income in Alber ta and also charges oil firms stiff fees to lease- thousands of acres of oil bearing land. Good Shape It is in such good shape ; f i-' nancially that it hasn't borrowed ed money for 21 years' and has followed a pay-as-you-go plan for all capital expenditures such as highways and public buildings ings since 1935. An apparently unlimited sup ply of oil and natural gas and an equally unlimited determina tion by thousands of Canadians and Americans to cash in on it are behind the boom. Rug munications systems. Sunspots are giant tornadoes on the face of the sun. Appar ently they are caused by explo sions deep in the sun's interior where the mass of atoms is con stantly being transformed into prodigious "amounts of nuclear energy. They go from minimum to maximum in cycles which av erage out at around 11.5 years. Also, Edmonton is the gate way to Canada's far north, a geo graphical asset that has resulted in a massive flow of military and other traffic through here to ward the wilds. Not Fooling Premier Ernest C. Manning, who doubles as a Mormon min ister, insists he is not fooling when he talks of paying people bonuses based on the boom. In a budget speech last year, he pro posed establishment of "citizens' participation dividends." "These would be a direct pay ment to the inividual citizen, representing his share of the profit made from, the develope ment of the natural resources," Manning said. A convention of his Social Credit party happily endorsed the plan. Legislation is' expect ed to be drafted next month but it may take several years to put it into effect. TEACHER NEEDS LESSON Milan, Italy (U.fi) A school teacher has charged a magazine editor with "obscenity" for pub lishing pictures of actresses Mari lyn Monroe and Anita Ekberg. Hie teacher took the charge to court when he discovered his students admiring pictures of the lightly-clad actresses instead of their school books. Offer 40 SOUTH CENTRAL - MEDFORD Phone 2-6255 . Ashland, Talent Comm. 9860 is That So? "Warm blooded animal, cold blooded fish and snakes give birth to their young alive or lay eggs, right?" states R.E.M. "But what about birds? Do any of them bear their young alive?" "Do any animals migrate as birds do?" asks S.W.B. "Man, there is a wrangle on at our fishing club. Some say trout can swim backwards, oth ers that they can't. I belong to the second school. "What about it?" asks R.D. "And while you're at it, I claim a bass can maneu ver better than a trout." Fish Wrangle: Frankly, R.D., this is one I'd rather duck. , I'll tell you why. As you know a fish can "back water" and with a considerable burst of speed. You've seen them, and so have I, come out of. holes in the bank backward. But if by swimming backwards you fellows mean a steady tail-first progress through the water for any great distance, then I'd say no fish is able to swim backwards. If it is of any interest to you men, there are fish which can swim forward while holding a verticle position with head pointing upward. And there are others who swim upside down in fact, they live most of their lives belly up. And a few who swim on their sides, like the flounders. As for maneuvering backward, sideways and about, both the bass and striped bass, which are more advanced fish than the trout, are more agile in their maneuvering. And me, a trout angler, too! Egg Layers: You are right, the vast majority of mammals bear their young alive (with only two exceptions, the egg-laying platy pus and the echidnas), and many fish and snakes, too, bear their long alive. But as for birds; every one without exception lays eggs. And birds lay anywhere from one to upwards of 20 in a clutch. Why this great discrepancy? It's nature's way of assuring ade quate reproduction: unless a bird reproduces enough young to meet the ravages of the en vironment, it becomes extinct. Which has happened. And so, . several . ducks and game birds which nest mainly on the ground, are subject to considerable depredation and pillaging. To -maintain the species, they took the simplest way out: more eggs! But the sea birds, which bring up families often on lonely, remote ocean side crags, have scarcely any enemies at all. Hence for them, one egg suffices. Actually, only one hen out of three or more Antarctic penguins lays an egg a year or, the hen lays every three years or so. This is .because in her nesting ground there' is not one serious predator! Moth erless hens are more than co operative, though: they help in cubate the single egg and feed and pamper the fledgling. Mammal Migrations: Yes, S.W.B. , many mammals make seasonal migrations. Many of these annual migrations are lim ited just as it is with upland gamebirds. Deer, elk, moose make it a more or less down mountain migration from the high snow country to alpine meadows. (But a descent of 1,000 feet is equivalent to a 600-mile southward movement.) Caribou make a longer migra tion but curiously, weather is not the sole reason: insects, too. To avoid the summer scourge, they move from lowlands to windswept plateaus. Perhaps the most- celebrated mammal migration is that of the little six-inch long lemmings of Canada and Scandinavia. In cen tral Norway and Sweden, hordes of these mice-sized animals mi grate westward ' during peak years to the Atlantic and often times continue west into the sea and drown by the tens of thou sands. In Canada, our lemmings make much longer migrations across the tundra and they con tinue their frenzied . trek until not one survives! To my mind the most notable mammal migration, an annual affair, is that of the Alaska fur bearing eal which often makes a 6,000-mile return trip run from the Pribiloff Islands in the Bearing Sea to southern Korea or southern California. (I should limit this to the cows and year lings. The staid mature bulls simply make a short off-end run to Alaska.) A few whales, too, are great migrators. . But the most truly bird-like migrations are made by some bats. Several northern species, WHO GETS THE WORM? BE AN. 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