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US Declared Being Prepared for Shock Of Russian Missile Washington (U.R) Sen.' Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) claims Air Secretary Donald M. Quarles is trying to "minimize" the importance of the intermed iate ballistics missile to cushion the shock when Russia gets one. Jackson, a critic of the admin istration's handling of the mis siles program, contends that Russia is ahead of the United States in developing an inter mediate missile. Therefore, he said, Quarles wants to prepare "the American people for the worst." To Hold Investigation Jackson will head a newly opened Senate investigation into the guided missile and jet bomb er programs. The Washington senator also said he . urged President Eisen hower without success last June Is That So? During the coming spring months, billions and billions of honeybees will, be transported thousands of miles throughout Canada and the U. S. in style by special truck, railway and air plane. For honey? Not on your life. Although once honeybees were thought of as producers of sweets, today in most regions honey and wax have become rather unimportant, secondary by-products. '. " - Due to the widespread use of poisonous insect sprays which have killed many of the natural pollinators such as wild bees, wasps, moths, and flies the im ported honeybee is now playing a vastly more , important role; fertilizing blooms of fruits, many vegetables, and the all-important legumes such as alfalfa and clo ver which replace nitrogen in the soil. : Demonstrably, these transported pollinators can quad ruple crops! . However as recently as 1930, their role was still misunder stood.. In that year, the Utah leg islature prohibited the introduc tion of honeybees. For Utah's legume crops it was hari-kari; within the year, the state's alfalfa-seed production dropped 75 per cent. In the three following years, it declined still further. Then, when 'the ill-advised em bargo was lifted in 1934, and thousands of bee colonies were hastily moved into the state, alfalfa-seed production soared once again! In one controlled experiment in California, where alfalfa for merly yielded an average of 220 pounds per acre which was con sidered high a super-saturation of bees boosted the yield to 1,000 pounds! As a result, where farm ers formerly extracted a fee from the migrant bee-keeper to day they are only too glad to pay him! " Miraculous Acts ' : In performing their duties, the honeybees perform many mirac ulous acts but none, surely, sur passes its method of communica tion within the hive. Should a lone bee find a new type of fra grant, nectar-laden flower, it passes the word along and sud denly the hive is changed;; at once, tens of thousands converge accurately upon the new source of supply whether it is 100 yards away or over beyond a hill, a mile away. How is it done? Essentially one -man solved the riddle Karl von Frische of the University of Munich whom I met when I studied there. First, mm I r For better tasting toast Make it to appoint a special presidential assistant to head the missile de velopment program. He said the proposal was one of the four he sent to the White House follow ing an airpower investigation, He said the other three recom mendations were carried out. Refuses Controversy Jackson refused to be drawn into a controversy with Mr. Ei senhower who told a recent news conference the United States is moving ahead with the missile program as fast as scientific man power will permit. But he said the chief executive never had denied Jackson's fore cast that Russia will test a 1500 mile intermediate missile this year. He said Soviet possession of such a weapon would expose this country's allies to "ballis tics blackmail." By. EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Professor . von Firsche deter mined the color-vision of bees and found that they could see only in the shorter wave lengths in the yellows, blue-greens, blues and ultraviolets (about l15th of the' human eye-range) and they could not see the longer infra-red rays at the opposite end of the human spectrum, say the glowing reds of our sunset. (For that matter, humans cannot see in the bee's ultra-violet range either.) This color recognition, then might explain how bees could recognize the flower at a short distance once they found it. -: Next, the professor found that honeybees have an acute sense of smell: a bee returning from a new blossom carried back with it the perfume of the flower and it was recognized at once by the other bees in the hive and it stimulated them to seek . nectar from this particular flower. Good, but where? Without lan guage, how, could one bee pin point to another the exact loca tion of its find? Like others before him, von Firsche noticed that bees return ing to the hive' with a plentiful supply of new honey performed a very distinctive dance on the honeycomb. (This was first de scribed by M. J. E. Spitzner in 1788 but its significance escaped him.) With painstaking experiments, von Firsche proved that these "nectar, dances", were part of an intelligible- language an attri bute totally unsuspected in these lower orders of animals. The "nectar dance" consisted first of gyrations in circles -dancing first one way and then another. Apparently, to get at tention. Next, the dance followed a more complicated routine dancing in a semi-circle, making a short run, then turning to dance the remainder of the cir cle, with abdomens waggling. Indicate Nectar Source Translated into intelligible language, von Firsche found that the circling dances indicated the nectar source within 50 to 100 yards of the hive. Then, for greater distances, the bees did the waggling dance which told both the direction of the find in relation to the sun and the length of the flight. As distances in creased, tails waggled more slow ly; and to indicate direction, straight runs were irfade In the dance and always in relation to the angle of the sun's light. ; Thus, other bees watching the performance could approximate both distance from the hive and the direction in relation to the sun's angle. With practice, von Firsche himself found that . he could locate the bee's new source of nectar! And in getting that nectar, the bee performed its most valuable act: cross-pollinating the plant! (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) with IfllGUKJluU!!!!! I f KATHLEEN M. BASH Files for Convention Delegates Kathleen M. Bash Seeks Election to Delegate Position Kathleen M. Bash, chairman of the Jackson' County Republi can Central committee, today filed to seek election as a dele gate 'from the - fourth congres sional district to the party's na tional convention in San Fran cisco next August. ' Mrs. Bash, active tin party af fairs in Oregon for a number of years, was elected chairman of the county Republican organiza tion in February 1954 and je elected to a two-year term in June of the same year. She is also an executive member of the State Republican Central com mittee. In announcing her intention to run for one of the -two con vention posts in the fourth dis trict, Mrs. Bash said: "I think it is necessary for the average citi zen to become interested in poli tics if we are to continue to have good government. Only the man or woman who works politically can fully realize how much in fluence the individual citizen can have in shaping the way in which our nation is run. ' Mrs. Bash . graduated from Roseburg High school and' at tended Oregon State college. She has , been a resident of Medf ord since 1932 and active in many community organizations includ ing the League of Women Vot ers, and such youth groups as the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Portland Gas Firm Speeds Repair Work Portland (U.R) Customers of Portland Gas and Coke company received welcome news from company spokesmen yesterday with the announcement that service restoration to all areas hit by the gas outage would be completed within a week. Earlier estimates had - set the date for completion of the job as pos sibly two weeks distant. Nearly 600 servicement were working on the tremendous job of shutting off each meter on the 61,000. affected by the shut off. They expected to start re connection of many of the serv ices in the residential east side section of Portland this morning. Customers in the Linnton dis trict, some 300 to 400 families, had service restored yesterday evening. Four 'of the six generators damaged in the Friday night fire at the company's Linnton plant were ready for operation yester day and spokesmen said they ex pected to have the other two ready by the time full output was required. Negro Sees Choice as Democracy in Action New Orleans (U.R) Hu lan E. Jack, Negro president of New York's Borough of Man hattan told an interracial con ference here Sunday that his election to the highest office ever held by a member of his race in this country was an ex ample of "democracy in action." Jack, who administers the governmental, affairs of nearly two million inhabitants of the borough, addressed a non-segregated audience in the Loyola University : auditorium , as part of the eighth annual Catholic Interracial conference here. The West Indies-born Demo crat said 83 per cent of the votes cast for him in 1953 were from , members of other races and creeds, including "the votes of thousands of Southerners who had made Manhattan their permanent home." 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