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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
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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.
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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,
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