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FOUHTEEjr W?rW (OBSCCJf) MAIL TPIBUNE
ThuMdy. Mtreli 7, 1957
Is That So?
MEDFORD
By tugtno lunii
Ranger-Naturalist
Of nocess-.ty, equipment car
ri"d Into the outdoors must be
l.it", compact, and servicable
Because most of these articles
have been built for home-use
and are often based upon in
herited tradition, many do not
fit the outdoorsman'g bill at all
Now to invent something for
the outdoors, one need not be
a genius: much more, it's the
person's imagination which
counts sizing up the need and
then meeting it with a practical
solution. So. while my judges
are climbing out of the many
suggested most-wanted-outdoor-inventions
provoked by my Feb
ruary contest offer, here's an
other helping culled in part
from Raymond F. Yates' 3100
Needed Inventions (Wilfred
Funk. N.Y.).
A pocketbknife which can be
opened more easily without dan
ger of breaking the fingernails.
An ax blade cover most ac
cidents in the woods are caused
by axes.
An improved non-sinkable
lifeboat. A sailboat that cannot
capsize. Arid finally, a better
method of attaching outboard
motors to boats each year,
hundreds of motors are lost from
boats due to capsizing. J
A wind, rain, and mosquito-j
proof tent which can be put up
Msily and weighs less than to
day's tents. I
Being a camp cook usually !
by preference I'd like a de-
vice to focus the heat of the j
cnpfire upon the material to
be cooked not upon the bull ;
cook's red face. I
I've often wished I could can j
and preserve for home use the i
wonderful early-morning aroma
of coffee boiling, eggs sputter
ing in butter; bacon frying; and
the smell of pines and fresh air.
But I'd be willing to settle for
the moment, for something that
would keep the wonderful oven
aroma 'of fresh bread, or any
other bakery" products for that
matter. Say, capture and hold it
for 48 hours.
Sure, there are plenty of small
radios on the market but
what about one which can be
included within a camera with
out increasing the weight ap
preciably. Or one within field
glasses.
You've had the distasteful
task of picking tinfoil out of
gooey, melted chocolate bars.
Certainly there must be some
way of raising the melting point
Qf chocolate. It would mean a
great deal to the chocolate-candy
industry too. At present in many
' parts of this country, the pro
duction of chocolate goods is
airman, completely halted dur
ing summer months. (Which re
minds me: During World War j
II, the army added something to
butter I believe paraffin so
it wouldn't melt in the tropics.
You're right, by mistake a ship
ment went up to the Aleutians.
We had to use axes to cut into
It.)
An onion peeler to prevent
smarting, tear-flooded eyes. A
simple Pasy-to-clean egg beater.
A better case in which to pack
eggs into the woods for ship
ping anywhere, for that matter.
Indicator for Gunt
A lighter rifle but still accur
ate. A shotgun that will not
kick. A visible indicator for
guns and revolvers that will give
conspicuous warning when they
are loaded. A simple gauge that
will give the hunter the speed
of the crosswind to help him
shoot more accurately.
A better method for preserv
ing meat fish, fowl and game
in the woods.
A dry fly that will Jteep afloat;
a wet fly that will sink when
new. A strong knotless tapered
leader with a heavy butt which
will sink while the line floats.
For that first off-the-beaten
road fishing trip and that late-ln-the-fall
deer hunting trip, a
muahook for easy and quick ap
plication around a tire which
will fit the modern disk-type
wheel.
O Some way of treating knots
in knotty pine so they will
never drop out.
And finally, some safety-proof
cigarettes and matches which
will quickly extinguish when
discarded to reduce the hazard
of forest fires.
(Copyright. 1957. by Eugene
Burns)
(Reltased by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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best true-life nature adventure,
or the best nature observation,
or the best question on nature
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That So! care of the Medford
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ito, Calif.
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