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Mode rn Comforts May Eventually Turn Humans Into Odd Animals Br DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York UJ.Pj TV din- jrters, contour chairs, labor-sav ing machinery, and air-conditioning place the human race in the danger of developing ev- ntually into animals resembling pea squirts. Prof. Laurence E. Morehead, f the University of California tat Los Angeles, sees this danger. ut he is only one of an in- reasing number of scientists ho think that soft, effortless iving is bound to make drastic hanges in human beings in ime. Listen to Morehead describe he sea squirt and you'll get the Idea. Said Morehead: "As a t-outh the sea squirt exercises a Well-developed neuro-muscular lystem while swimming in Search of choice morsels of food baptist Lumbarman ; C. Stanton (Stan) Gallup, j'.mber manufacturer and dis jributor of Plainfield, Conn., Las happy to hear of the award y the American Baptist Con tention, to the Rev. Grayden D. Loree of Reedsport, Ore. Stan Ittended the recent national eeting of the Baptists at &eav- e, as head 01 tne nauonai ouncil of American Baptist en. Stan Gallup is notable among e men who lead in the Korth- lastern Retail Lumbermen's as- lociation. He is well known in Ihese parts, as he has made hany a trip to the West Coast la do personal buying of Doug las fir. West Coast hemlock and (Vestern red cedar lumber. He ran rattle off the new grade lames of our products as read ily as the lines of the Doxology; Bo Stan Gallup is no stranger to Reedsport, lumber-town jewel jf Winchester Bay, on the Ore Jon coast. The Reedsport Baptist church had Just 46 members when young, personable and eloquent Grayden Loree began his min istry there in 1948. Now its members number 143. There have been 82 baptisms during the Loree pastorate. On the purely practical side of the rec ord the church's budget has grown handsomely, from an an nual $5,253 to $12,475. And the "Men at Work" flag has been out right regularly. A ichurch plant, but partly built in 1948. has been completed, from inside wiring to outside paint. a parsonage has been acquired and touched up might be a manse some day. Oregon Homa Mission ... True to the tradition of the pioneer missionaries of Oregon, the Rev. Loree faced up to needs for religious programs beyond Jiis own pastorate. So part of I She work of the Reedsport Bap jtist church members became the Ustablishment of a mission en terprise 25 miles away in the toastal hills. Boys' work was promoted through the open and (active secular medium of scout ting. I So the American Baptist Con Ivention, after surveys of work Irione in "Town and Country Churches" during 1955,' gave ne of three awards to Reeds lort's Grayden D. Loree. A econd winner was the Rev. Lor nz p. Michelson, pastor of the Japtist church at Cashmere, Vash. The third award was to he Rev. Roy E. Jones. First laptist Church, Olathe, Colo. The achievements of the three rural church" ministers meant nuch to Stan Gallup because hey represent talent, thought nd time given by church men. t is Stan's responsibility, as big chief of Baptist men. to per i"iade them to give of their ab ilities and skills, to offer heads and hands as well as dollar pledges to their local church bnd to church organizations. I He is powerfully persuasive because Baptist men look at him, listen and are quickly con kinced that here is a happy tnan, this Stan Gallup, happy in his faith and his works. Tree Grower Too ... There is a Gallup sawmill at Ushland, N.H., with 3,000 acres nf young pines and hemlocks back of it. His Plainfield, Conn., enterprise covers 36 valuable lacyes. It is first of all a kiln Jdrying and remanufacturing op jeration, with an S. A. Woods (412M matcher and planer, a Yates-American bandsaw, Heist r cany-cranes and fork-trucks and a fleet of 28 trucks and (trailers. Stan retails lumber kmly in the Plainfield area. Iwhile servicing other retail Wealers within a radius of 40 oniles. The Gallup remanufacturing and distribution yard is within 40 miles of New London and Hartford. 30 miles west of Prov idence. R.I.. 45 miles south of Worcester. Mass. While in Seattle Brother Gal Use Tribune Want Ads Easy, Just Dial 2-6 14 1 and favorable environments. Larga Gill Systam "In middle age the sea squirt settles down and attaches him self to a rock or piling and de velops a large gill system through which he allows food rich water to pass. His well muscled tail gradually sloughs away, and he remains a mass of flacdidity." Consider the remotest origins of living things, said Morehead in a scientific lecture. When life could move about to get more and better food, animal life emerged from vegetable life. But these newly acquired "organs of locomotion" requir ed bodies capable of supporting them. Heally Complicated So matters racked along un til something really complicat ed resulted human beings. master lup was mainly interested in saving souls by rigging up new ways to put Baptist laymen to work on the theme of the con vention, "I Will . Build My Church." Spiritual building was the heart of the matter. But Stan talked well and at length on the building of new church ed ifices in the Northeast, with Douglas fir timbers and dim ension basic in most of them. And he preached with a punch on the need for renewal of pop ular faith in the FHA insured home loan for home building. He is District Governor C. Stanton Gallup of Rotary In ternational and has been ap pointed to an international post of honor by Rotary's new Pres ident Jean Paulo Lang of La- verno, Italy. It did my soul great good to meet Stan Gal lup. What a lumberman! PCegpjfgp . ii n i n " iniM m w iipi'j mun uin i , , jj, I 1 " . . - - r- - - - .-'-re ' . 20. - : '1: ' S . JUST BAIT SIZE, JOANNE A' couple ot lair catches themselves, these Redwood Empire beauties Joanne Cope land (left) and Roberta Browne hold up their catches at Sausaiito, Calif, with Joanne definitely on the short end of things. The girls are warming up for the first of two Sausaiito Golden Gate Salmon Derbies. The first runs from June 30 through Aug. 10. The second from Aug. 11 through Sept 21. Paid Hawaiian or Mexican vacations are among the prizes. New Wheal Export Plan to Continue Washington (U.R) The Ag riculture Department said Friday the wheat export program un der the new international wheat agreement will continue even though, the agreement has not been ratified by a sufficient number of participating coun tries. The present wheat agreement expires July 31. A new one was drafted several months ago and was submitted to participating countries for ratification. In the expectation that the agreement would be ratified by Aug. 1, the department said, it will make sales of wheat during the remainder of June and July for export after Aug. 1. QUICK RAISE Waterbury, Conn. (U.R) Mrs. Marcia W. Ford, the new secretary to the city's director of administration, received a pay increase before she was official ly hired. Board of finance mem bers couldn't find any salary bracket under civil service rules which paid S3, 000, the amount for which Mrs. Ford was en gaged. The board confirmed her appointment at the salary closest to that amount S3, 032. Their bodies were intricate, co ordinated muscular, nervous, and chemical systems each de pendent on the others. And all depended upon use exercise. The trouble with the soft-living to which the American hu man beings have now fallen heir is that it results in a "dishar mony" of bodily function. More head said. "Hard muscular work attended by a violent ex penditure of energy" no long er raise "bodily functions to support higher levels of activ ity." Emotions, however, ele vate bodily functions. There is nothing for the ele vated functions to support and "disorganization" follows. "If this disorganization is al lowed to continue, the over-ac tive autonomic discharges will predispose to circulatory and di gestive disorders," he continued. "Thus, the very constitutional endowments which made man a robust animal in the savage state may contribute to his de terioration and destruction in the civilized state. Gradual Extinction Perhaps the climate of a heavily populated and highly civilized world will force the gradual extinction of ardent and inventive men, and encourage the development of a race of ir resolute stoics, but we cannot wait for this kind of solution to the ever growing problem. We must now modify ourselves so that we can exist in the envir onment of effortless living we have so modified." He wasn't quite sure what soft-living human beings should do but he thought the answer was in physical exercise, steam baths, and massage. The exer cise substitutes for the violent physical activity of primitively living human beings, the steam baths give work to the body's mechanism for regulating its own internal temperature which air-conditioning slows down, and massaging restores reflexes which have become "vegata tive." $286,000 Burglary Repc orfed in Miami Miami Beach OJ.PJ A S286,- 000 burglary from the safe of a well-known plastic surgeon's home, believed the biggest in this resort's history, baffled de tectives Saturday. Dr. Daniel Shorell. who was in New York at the time of the burglary two nights ago, report ed his closet safe contained some $270,000 in securities, $5000 to S7000 in cash, $2000 to S3000 in U..S. money orders and $9000 in jewelry. Two days of investigation-including an inch-by-inch search of the swanky Shorell home on Rivo Alto Island failed to pro duce a single clue, detectives said. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at at noon Saturday. m .H MAPLE FURNITURE and LAMPS Is That So? The gravesf danger the camp er encounters in the outdoors is one he can't see and yet, for his personal welfare it is the most indispensable. That's his drinking water. Although sparkling clear, bub bling out of a spring, it may be contaminated. Besides, there is the danger of not drinking enough; and yet stomach-upset can be incurred by not drinking it carefully. Before we untangle this maze of seeming contradictions, let's look at one of the most mistaken beliefs about running water. It has been said repeatedly that a swift, well-aerated stream purifies itsel within 100 yards. Ridiculous. Only if the water runs through beds of fine sand - -3 is it filtered and rendered more or less pure. But at other times and this is in the overwhelm ing majority of times the swift ly running water flows over solid rock and then even in one mile the chemical content will not be changed. And it can be as contaminated as it was at the source even if that source is five miles upstream! Now, to maintain the ability to hike and carry a pack in the outdoors it is most essential to drink plenty of water. Army ex periments carried out in high altitude country and deserts dur ing July have shown that an average man, fully clothed and resting between times, needs two quarts of water daily in the mountains; three quarts in the coastal lowlands; and nine quarts in Death Valley. Hence the need for an adequate supply must be anticipated by the camper: this can never be taken for granted. Where water is scarce, sav ings can be affected. For example a shade-giving tarpaulin can re pay its own weight in water sav ings in one day alone when used for four hot midday hours. With it, there are other water econ omies, such as: avoid hurrying, wear adequate clothing includ ing a hat; and rest in the shade during the heat of the day. Re garding the latter, arrange your day's trip through the canyon in the early morning when it is cool and full of bird songs in stead of during the heat of the noonday sun when it can be a baking inferno and dehydrate your body. Study Trail Map Before taking a hike Into new country, study the trail map care fully and plan to reach a stream side for luni h, if you can, where it is fairly cool and you can rest and rinse out your mouth first and after a time quench your thirst' more fully. If no stream is available, carry fresh fruit or a small canteen of water. For the midday snack, experienced hikers often tote a small billy can and make a cup of tea( us ing plenty of quick energy-giving sugar as a quick restorer. It's a safe rule not to drink too often when hiking particu larly so with overheated young sters who can get upset stomachs easily from drinking cold water quickly. Better first to rinse the mouth, wait awhile and then drink slowly. But thirst can become an ob session. To relieve a parched tongue and throat, carry dried prunes and eat one from time to time, retaining the pit in the mouth. This stimulates the flow of saliva. I've even carried small pebbles. Chances Become Greater And now for the unseen dang er: as our great land becomes more and more populated, the chances of befouled water be come greater and greater, even in the mountainous regions. Care less campers and resort owners are the usual sources of contam ination in wilder parts; in more congested areas, cities and in dustry. Thus, unless you are sure of no human activity upstream, you'll always be wise to "pur- New Chilean Order for Maritime Into Affect Santiago, Chile (U.R) A law requiring that half of Chile's in ternational maritime transport and all of its maritime coastal shipping be carried on Chilean ships went into effect Friday. President Carlos Ibanez sup ported the measure against the protests of the United States, Britain, Sweden, Norway and other shipping nations which called the law "discriminatory." ZV-Z 1 I rx Br EUGENE BURNS Rjngar-Naturalist ify" your water. There are two ways. You can use water purifi cation tablets such as Halazone which can be purchased in a drugstore a tablet to the pint; and you can boil your drinking water for at least 5 minutes 20 is better. To remove the "flat" taste, pour it back and forth after boiling from one clean con tainer into another. This restores the oxygen. 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