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,
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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)
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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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