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Is That So?
Although it takes the horizon
but two minutes to swallow up
our sun, twilight lingers on dur
ing these August nights, making
an easy transition between day
and night. But gradual as it may
seem to us, a tremendous transi
tion goes on each evening In
the animal world. Virtually, a
whole new shift goes to work:
in the vast minority are the
animals which remain active by
dav and night.
By nightfall, most daytime
animals are already asleep:
nighttime foragers scarcely wait
for dusk to take over. And a
surprising number sleep at the
same site, whether by day or
night. A fox will travel long
distances to be near his den.
A heavy lumbering bumblebee
will time Its coming and going
so that it finishes the day at
nearly the same spot. In fact,
many times you'll find, the same
bumblebee clinging to the holly
hock night after night, until the
flower has finished blooming.
A butterfly, likewise. After its
seemingly aimless flight over
the countryside, it may return
to cling to the same square inch
of bark.
Although a pair of birds may
have constructed an elaborate
nest, most kinds will go some
where else to a commonly used
roosting site. With the exception
of a few, like the owl, nest
builders use their nests only for
incubation and nursery pen.
Alighting at their roost, they
wrap their toes firmly about
the limb and their body's own
weight pulls taut a tendon which
runs over the knee, down the
shink, around the ankle and
under the toes. So secure is th
grip that even in sleep no wind
can loosen it. Lorus J. and
Margery J. Milne in their book,
"The World of Night" state that
the grip holds even in death.
Most daytime birds go to sleep
promptly: cardinals may cease
activity 10 minutes beiore sun
set: crows settle their noisy af
fairs by sundown; robins and
mocking birds may continue
their song a half hour into twi
light. But once daylight dwind
les, out swoop the mghthawks
to patrol their beat of sky while
bats commence their crazy writ
ing in the sky.
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in the dark from their color
and size, say the Milnes. Per
haps an even better tip-off is
the location whether in swamp,
field, or from an overhanging
branch. A bullfrog's eyes glow
green; an alligator's shine a bril
liant ruby red; a raccoon's are
a bright yellow; while members
of the cat family have a vivid
white or greenish eyeshine.
VThere are other methods of
identification too there are the
outdoor languages of sounds and
odors.
In season, a deer has a sour
sweet smell; an elk. much strong
er; a moose is rancid; a bear
almost pig-like; and a peccary
can be positively nauseating
downwind.
Sounds Mora Informative.
More informative perhaps are
the sounds of the night. At close
and break of day they follow a
regular, timed repertoire. There
are the calls of frogs and toads:
the shrill, strident rubbing of
legs and wings of insects; the
calls of night birds; the chal
lenge of mammals. (Yet am in
terruption of all sounds a sud
den silence can be even more
pregnant with meaning.)
Of course, the human's range
of hearing excludes many night
sounds. After all, each animal
has its own hearing spectrum.
Rats and bats, for example, com
municate in a pitch far beyond
ours which is pretty well con
fined to six octaves above mid
dle C. Others are very tiny
a foraging family group of mice
will small-talk in a pitch which
is not alone inaudible to many
predators but also carries but
a few inches.
But best of all night sounds
are the calls from high over
head, the honkings of a wedge
of wild geese in the night sky.
Or the howl of a coyote on a
frosty night when his breath is
steaming.
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Laboratory Studies
Jet Aircraft Trails
Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) What
to do about jet aircraft vapor
trails is a question that's been
tossed at the Cornell Aeronauti
cal Laboratory here.
The Navy's Bureau of Aero
nautical and Office of Navy Re
search has allotted $30,000 to
the lab for a three-year study of
contrails the attention-compelling
streaks in the sky that, in
wartime, would be a dead give
away to the enemy.
The laboratory noted, in be
ginning the research project that
contrails "often point a 100-mile
long finger" at planes that oth
erwise would be invisible.
"As an aid to detection of our
aircraft by a possible enemy,"
said a laboratory spokesman,
"they can represent the differ
ence between the success or fail
ure of a mission and life or death
of our pilots."
MODERN TIMES ARRIVE
Albany (U.R) The horse
drawn railway car is now a
thing of the past. It became of
ficial this year when Governor
Harriman, approved, a bill de
leting any reference to Ole Dob
bin from the railroad law. 1
WdnidT. August 22. 1951
The Family Council
editor1! Note: The Family Council consists of m Jiiflce. a psychiatrist, a
newspaper editor, a women pare editor and two newspaper writers. The:e
consult with clercymen ol all filths and denominations. AU letters ara held
In complete confidence.
TOM My wife's sister thwarts 1
my boy. !
LOIS He has indoctrinated
the boy.
TOM My wife has an older
sister who is past her 45th year
and has never been married. She
has a high position in the school
system and earns a good salary.
She has always said that she
would provide for the education
of our three children and make
them her sole heirs in her will.
This, plus the fact that my
wife feels that her sister gave
up any hope of marriage be
cause she wished 'to help her
after the death of her widowed
mother, gives my sister-in-law
quite a bit of weight in our
home.
As a matter of fact, I like my
sister-in-law. I not only respect
her for her accomplishments,
but I am fond of her as a per
son. I am not therefore disposed
to be jealous of her influence
or argumentative.
Of late, however, I have be
gun to be resentful of her at
tempts to argue our oldest child,
Frank, out of his ambition to
become a West Point man. It
so happens that this was my
boyhood ambition, but I could
never make it. I think Frank
has a good chance because eur
Congressman makes his appoint
ments as the result of competi
tion, and his school principal
seems to think highly of his
chances.
My sister-in-law sees no point
in this. All she can see is that
I am trying to get him a free
education, and she points out
that she is ready to finance him
She will not admit that Frank
would be as frustrated as I was
if he fails to. get to West Point.
LOIS It isn't at all that I
think my sister is the boss be
cause of her money. I would
side with my husband if I did
not feel he was wrong. He has
indoctrinated Frank without
realizing it. I cannot see Frank
spending his whole life as
soldier.
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THE COUNCIL: There are
some misconceptions to be clear
ed up. A West Point education
is a good education. While it
imposes moral obligations upon
its beneficiaries to serve their
country, it does not necessarily
mean that he must be a soldier
in the narrow sense. West Point
training can lead to careers, in
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law and other related
professions. As for the obliga
tion to serve in uniform, it is
now a common obligation im
posed on all youth, although it
applies with greater degree to
those -educated at West Point.
Now, as to the father's al
leged indoctrination. Career
choices are most often made as
the result of indoctrination.
Little boys are impressionable,
and they are stirred to their
ambitions by factors that cannot
always be traced, but they get
most of these ideas through what
thev hear and see about them.
Frank obviously has been sub
ject to his aunt's influence as
well as his father's, and it is
admitted that the father did not
consciously hammer the West
Point into his son's head If his
aunt can stir the boy's interest
in specific matters, well and
eood. But she should not set
herself against West Point if
that is the boy's desire and has
such strong approval from the
father.
(COPYRIGHT 1956.
GENERAL FEATURES CORP).
Cars Are Problem to
70-Year-Old Stroller
Clifton, N.J. !U.B To Wil
liam Hanson, 70-year-old Clifton
hiker, solicitous motorists are a
problem.
Hanson, to whom a 30-mile
jaunt on foot is just a stroll, has
this bit of advice for well-meaning
motorists who keep stopping
to offer him a lift on his annual
hike to Greenwood Lake from
his home here:
"If you see some one walking
at a steady pace toward Irreen-
wood Lake, please keep right on
riding."
Hanson, in addition to his an
nual walk on the lake, walks be
tween 10 and 12 miles every
week end. He says his zest for
hiking goes back to 1909 when
he won a five-and-hall-mile road
race.
To round out the year, Hanson
visits relatives on Christmas
Day in Clifton, Paterson, Totowa
Borough and West Paterson on
foot, naturally.
Salem U.R) Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton's office
has declared that sales tax re
ceipts derived from automobile
retailers and parts dealers need
not be allocated to highway and
park purposes.
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Per Capita Income
In State Sets Mark
Portland (U.R) Per capita
income in Oregon rose to an all
time high last year, according to
federal report.
Harold K. Cherry, manager
of the Portland field office of
the United States Department of
Commerce said that the per cap
ita income of Oregon residents
in 1955 was $1834, the highest
mark since records were started
27 years ago.
Business also enjoyed a record
year in Oregon, the report said.
Manufacturing coiaiributed the
most to the state s record per
capita income with 656 million
dollars, or 21 per cent, of all
personal income coming from
that source.
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and the most modern servicing
facilities are among other
progressive steps we have taken
since 1945, to give shippers everywhere
in our territory more and better
freight service.
Airman Cleared In
Parks AFB, Calif.-4U.R) Air
man 2C William A. Ott, 22,
Selah, Wash., was found, inno
cent Tuesday of charges that he
assaulted three trainees during
a barracks inspection at Parks
Air Force base In Alameda
county.
A court martial cleared Ott
of four assault counts after 40
minutes of deliberation.
Testifying against Ott were
Airmen James W. Milford, 19.
Apalachicola, Fla., John Odom.
21, Beaumont, Tex- and Donald
J. Ainsworth, 17, Lincoln coun
ty, Ida.
Milford testified that Ott. a
tactical instructor at the base,
poked him in the eyes and
S. Ps freight
carrying capacity
has increased
in the last
Under our post-war program,
Southern Pacific has acquired or
ordered 56,854 freight cars, including
34,850 boxcars, at a cost of $356,000,000.
Today we have over 75,000 cars in
service, representing a post-war
increase in ownership of 38.
Our carrying capacity has increased
46 per cent in the same period.
But there' is more to progressive
railroading than new freight' cars.
Keeping cars in good shape is another
way to increase car supply, and .
we are proud to say that our record
in this respect is outstanding, too.
In 1955, an average of only 1.7 of the
cars on the S. P. System was out of
service for repairs, as compared to
a national average of 4.2.
' Dieselization, centralized traffic
control, improved communications,
jouthern Pacific
Assault Charge
shoved him against a bunk dur
ing -a barracks inspection July
28.
Odom and Ainsworth testified
that Ott pushed their foreheads
when they looked sideways dur
the SEASON'S
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fnff' if
10 years
ing the same Inspection. At ft
time, they had been in the Air
Force only two days.
Three of Otts superior offi
cers came to his defense. One
of them. M. Sgt. Charles W. Pet
ty, Otts immediate superior,
said Ott is "one of the best tac
tical instructors I have ever
known."
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