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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, February 22. 1956
Negroes Indicted
In Alabama for
Boycott of Buses
Montgomery, Ala. (U.R) The
sheriffs office today started a
roundup of more than 100 per
sons named in indictments
charfcir-g Negroes with illegally
boycotting city buses in a segre
gation dispute.
A grand jury returned the in
dictments Tuesday. They were
reliably reported to name 114
defendants in a presentment
stating the boycott was one sign
of "a growing tension between
the races" in the city.
Stat Law Violated
"If we continue on our pres
ent course of race relations, vio
lence is inevitable," the grand
jury said.
The indictments charged lead
ers of the 11-week boycott with
violating a state law making
participation in boycott with
out just cause a misdemeanor.
. The boycott began as a protest
against the arrest of a Negro
seamstress for refusing to move
. to the segregated section of a
bus. It was continued to enforce
demands ; for better seating
arrangements.
To Continue Boycott
Some 2.000 Neeroes at a mass
meeting two nights ago decided
to continue the boycott despite
the grand jury action. The Ne
eroes have been riding ' in car
pools, accepting rides provided
by employers, or waiKing.
"We find that there has been
an illegal boycott existing in
this county," the grand jury said.
"Indictmentshav e been returned,
where guilt was shown."
The Negroes sought a neutral
zone on each bus in which seats
would be available on a first
come, first served basis. City of
ficials rejected the request as
being inconsistent with state
segregation laws. .
Mississippi To Be Bombed
With Constitution Copies
Chicago (U.R) Negro disc
jockey Al Benson planned to
celebrate Washington's birth
day by "bombing" Mississippi
with 5000 copies of the U. S.
Constitution.
Benson said he wasn't yet
sure whether he .would make
the flight in person because
Mississippi officials haven't an
swered his requests for an as
surance of safety.
But his chartered plane will
take off with its load of the
Constitution whether or not Ben
son decides to go along, he said.
To Emphasize Desegregation ,
The Mississippi-born record
spinner thought up the stunt
to emphasize the U.S. Supreme
Court ruling on school desegre
gation. He said the plane would
dump the Constitution on the
Mississippi cities of Jackson,
Vicksburg, and Meridian and
return to Chicago late today.
"I'm not trying to hurt or
harm anyone," Benson said. " "I
merely want to drop the Consti
tution,, which is certainly the
most legal document we have
in the nation."
The copies of the Constitution
weigh less than an ounce apiece
and they "sure can't hurt any
body," he said.
Mississippi Public Safety
Commissioner T. B. Birdsong
said the state will officially ig
nore Benson's flight.
Retaliation Planned
However, a Mississippi disc
jockey promised a counter
"raid" on Chicago and Meridian
City officials threatened to ar
rest Benson if -he lands there.
Jlhe retaliation "raid" plans
came from Allan English, -who
spins records for Oxford, Miss.,
radio station WSUH.
If Benson drops the Constitu
tion on Mississippi, English will
fly "ver Chicago and scatter
10,000 miniature Confederate
flags, he said.
is That So?
All we know of our surround
ings, is brought to us by our
sense organs, gateways to the
mind. Those affected by external
things are sight and hearing,
taste and smell, touch and tem
perature. For the present, let's
consider taste and smell which
are affected by chemicals only.
For example, we can only taste
sugar when it comes in contact
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As We Live
By ELIZABETH HUtLOCK. PH.D.
Driving Too Slowly
Can Be Dangerous Also
When a person allows himself
to be "talked into" something his
better judgment warns him not
o do, he is likely to be sorry,
sorry.
(Q) "My problem Is a different
and. you may think, a trivial one
but it is important to me and I
hope you' can
help me - with
it. I am a very
slow and care-
. f ul driver.
Shortly after I
started to
drive a car.
I when I was a
f mn.:.jM giri, i naa an
Bfef!&ttft -umwI accident and
Dr. Hurlock lhis
upset me
so much I thought I could never
drive again. However, es we do
not live right in town, it is neces
sary for me to drive for shop
ping, to take the children to and
from school, etc. I have never
gotten over the shock of my ac
cident and that is why I am i so
cautious now. especially in the
' winter when the roads are slippery.
"My children, both of whom
are in their teens but too young
to get drivers' licenses, are con
. stantly telling me to hurry up, to
stop poking on the road, that I
am a menace to other drivers,
etc. They claim that as soon as
they are. old enough to get li
censes, they won't let me drive
them. How can I get over this
fear that, has made me such a
slow driver?" J.T.
(A) If, by "slow driver" you
mean that you literally creep
along the roads, you are a men
ace to other drivers and are like
ly to have another accident. If,
on the other hand, you are mere
ly cautious, not taking chances
or going at speeds that- could
lead to an accident, don't change
your tactics, regardless of what
. your children say:
It is very questionable if you
will cr could ever get over the
effec.s of the accident you had,
no matter how hard you tried.
People simply cannot forget such
an experience just by wanting
to do so.
Impatient With Caution
Because your children are
growing up in an age of speeders,
and hear their friends talk about
how fast they can go, they are im
patient with your caution. It cer
tainly is not good for the morale
of a driver to have the passengers
constantly complaining and urg
ing speed. ,
If I were" in your place, I would
tell the children that they can
have their choice, riding with
you at the speed they consider
safe or-walking. When they be
gin to complain, pull the car to
the side of the road and stop un
til they understand that you
mean what you say. It is always
better to be safe than sorry, and
the sooner they learn this, the
better for all concerned.
(Copyright 1956, 'General
Features Corp.)
STUDEBAKER'S CHEVROLET
Danville, 111. U.R) Police
recovered Mrs. Shirley Stude
baker's stolen Chevrolet Tues
day. .. ..
with taste buds; we can only
smell roses, skunks and. vanilla
when their essences enter ' the
olefactory cells behind the bridge
of the nose. .'
Taste and smell are closely
allied: In fact,, smell often plays
the larger part in what is com
monly called taste; temperature,
too, plays its role. Next time
you drink a cup of coffee hold
your nose and with the fragrant
aroma gone, coffee will taste
very flat. As well, when the
nose is blocked with a cold,
much of our so-called taste van
ishes and food has lost its zest.
As for temperature, when the
same food is served cold and
then hot, the hot . meal will
evoke much more taste because
the heat stimulates " the lining
of the mouth and tongue.
In insects, both taste and smell
are highly developed. Bees, for
example, smell and taste nectar
and pollen and in gathering
them cross-pollinate plants to
produce many fruits on which
man is dependent.
Smell guides certain moths
and butterflies to lay their eggs
on particular host plants on
which the young caterpillars
feed. By spraying extracts of
these host plants on other plants,
these insects will lay their eggs
readily on the wrong plants
to the chargrin and sometimes
death of the ' oncoming cater
pillars. As everyone knows, houseflies
are quickly attracted by odors
of food cooking. Fruit flies, par
ticularly, are very quickly at
tracted by ripening or overripe
fruit: . within an hour, overripe
fruit may be covered. And fe
male mosquitoes are lured by
body odors. -
Ants, bees and 'wasps smell
through their antennae.
Out. of 30 sugars and related
substances which taste sweet to
the human, only nine are sweet
to honeybees that is because
only these nine are found in the
bee's natural foods.
The sweeter the nectar which
female honeybees discover, the
j more will they excite the work
ers in the home hive upon their
return from successful foraging
trips.
Essentially, humans have but
four major tastes; salty, sweet,
sour and bitter. The salty taste
buds are located on the tip of the
tongue; the sweet taste buds in
a band directly behind these; the
sour along both sides of the
tongue; and the bitter toward; the
center of the root of the tongue.
The central part of the tongue is
insensitive to taste! -
The catfish, Amirus, has taste
buds along the sides of its body
and even though blindfolded will
snap at bait which is suspended
near its flank.
Taste sensitiveness var
ies widely from one person to an
otherand it's largely a matter
of heredity: for example, then
is a chemical, Phenylthiocarba
mide, which may taste sweet to
the first person, bitter to the sec
ond, salty to the third, sour to the
fourth, and not -have any taste
whatever, to a fifth.
Within limits, both the organs
of taste and smell can become
fatigued within minutes of a cer
tain taste or smell: for example,
the first piece of candy always
tastes sweetest; and the stronger
the odor, the more quickly it will
fade a solution of camphor can
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
seldom be smelled for more than
five minutes.
Man can detect odors: rancid,
vinegary, fragrant, and burnt.
Although man's smell is very
feeble as compared with cats and
dogs and many other mammals,
even so it will respond to re
markably small amounts of sub
stance a synthetic substance for
the odor of violets can be detect
ed when it is present as one in
over 30 billion parts of air.
(Copyright, 1956, by Eugene
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Shoppers Flock To Downtown Washington
For Washington's Birthday Sale Bargains
Washington (U.R) This being
Washington's Birthday, hordes
of shoppers flocked downtown in
search of. 99-cent typewriters,
ladies' pink panties at a penny a
pant-leg and fur coats that never
should have left the rabbit.
By tradition, or long-ago plan
ning, merchants take advantage
of the anniversary of the first
President's birthday to unload
their shelves of excess goodsj
some of it junk.
Bargains Listed
If you were in Washington to
day and were one of a lucky
few, you could buy:
' Men's shoes at 79 cents a pair.
Olives in large cans for a dime
a can. Mattresses "and box
springs, 99 cents, regular $139.
Bookcases worth $39.50 for
$1.95.
Some more than used TV sets
were offered-at 99 cents.
.Ladies dresses came down
quite a bit . in some of the
cheaper stores.
For $8.98 on the going mar
ket to $2. Nylon girdles could
be had on a grab deal for $1.48.
Local Ads
One store was proud to pay a
considerable sum to a local paper
to advertise "assorted fur pocket
books, muffs and collars, 25
cents. Also mink scarfs, $5."
One shoe store advertised
shoes ordinarily costing $14.95
for a buck and a half. And the ad
said you could have a second
pair for a nickel.' And the ad
added: "If you can't use both
pairs, bring a friend."
New York also had its version
of ' the Washington Birthday
sales, largely limited to low-
price and cut-rate stores. As
here, the sensational values ac
tually were few. But one New
York chain rented the basement
of Madison Square Garden for a
George Washington sale, featur
ing such come-ons as three pairs
of nylon stockings" for $1. '
Sfrafo-Plane Crashes,
Explodes in Florida
. West Palm Beach, Fla. (U.R)
A four-englned Strato-freight-er
crashed and exploded "like
a rocket" in a routine landing
attempt Tuesday on the edge
of Palm Beach Air Force Base,
killing the five men aboard.
The Air Force withheld the
names of the victims pending
notification of next of kin.
Witnesses said the KC97 Boe
ing cargo craft slammed into a
road beside the base in making
a low-altitude approach and
skidded onto the base.
Mrs. Lillian Palmer, living in
one of some 2,000 homes in an
adjacent housing development,
said flames "shot 80 feet into
the air and a big ball of black
smoke covered everything."
Flying debris from the plane
did not strike any of the homes
or other buildings in the vicin-
Grange
Griffin Creek Grange
Grange will meet Feb. 23 at
8 p.m. with a short business
meeting, followed by social
evening of card playing and
games. . .
HEC met for potluck dinner
at Mrs. Will Darby's with Mrs.
Mable Bucanhan cohostess.
There were 12 members present
and one visitor, Mrs. Ethel
Wheeler. HEC will have a public
turkey dinner Sunday, March 4,
at the Grange hall. Dinner .will
be served 12 noon to 5 p.m. .
' The earth's orbit is such that
the sun is 3,000,000 miles closer
in January than in July. If the
sun's rays did ' not strike the
northern hemisphere more
obliquely then, winter would be
warmer than summer.
ity, but flames which enveloped
the plane started a grass fire on
the base.' .
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POLICE COURT
Jerome Neil Shopp, failure to yield
right-of-way to oncoming traffic. $10.
Odus Edger Roberts, violation of
basic rule, $10.
HerDert Donald Ames, failure . to
stop at a red light, S5.
Ralph Hale, violation of basic rule,
$15.
Ivan N. Farris, violation of basic
rule. $10.
Keith Ray Bakshaw, violation of
basic rule. $10.
Dewey Roy Anderson, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Jorrn Raymond Fool, violation of
basic rule. $10.
Jack Herbert McCandliss, failure to
yield the right of way, $10.
Robert Clay Perkins, failure to
yield the right of way, $10.
Joseph Ray Beeson, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Mark Spurgeon Tolle, violation of
basic rule. - $10.
- Ernest Joseph. Breckenridge,' expir
ed drivers license, $5.
Beverly Bruce Nbrris, violation of
basic rule. $10. -
Joseoh Avery Bowdoin, turning
from wrong lane of traffic, $10.
Dale Frankie Culky, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Margaret G. Wilcox, violation - of
basic rule. $10.
Cecil Orville Watkins, - failure to
stop at a stop light, $5.
Madelyn Mae Beeson, no operator's
license. $10
Weldon Franklin Goodin, violation
of basic rule, $10; no operator's li
cense, TpO.
Larry K Tolle, reckless driving,
$10: violation of basic rule, $10.
Edward Waitman Carte, violation
of basic rule $15. ,
Donald Clark Barnes, four people
in front seat of vehicle, $5.
Richard Eugene Foy, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Paul Dale Vincent, no operator's li
cense, S10 . ' -
Joe Junior Holmes, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Edith VanHise, violation of basic
rule. $10.
Harold Raymond Littrell, failure to
stop at a red lighf, $5 - .
Maynard Oren Grove, violation of
basic rule, $10.
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