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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ' 7 t'r, -6 K '?'" ,'' V x ft. ? v s A . , ? Family ; S UNABLE TO FLEE because stairway was in flames, seven children ranging in age from two to nine die in N. Philadelphia blaze. Firemen at right are descending with body wrapped in blanket. (International Soundpkoto) Is That The Filla-ma-loo bird likes to see where he's been and prefers to fly backwards, particularly on April 1, and if you like to ' consider that kind of a zoo you ought to visit with Henry H. Tryon, a retired forestry expert. Now if you think the Filla-ma-loo bird is a bit odd you ought to hear about the "Hide behind" a fearsome" creature which sticks with a man in the woods who is alone. And no mat- ter which way the man turns, the Hidebehind is always behind him. There's the Agropelter which lives In a hollow tree and breaks off a dead branch the heaviest it can lay its paws upon and whacks you over the head with ' it as you pass underneath. Many a lumberjack can testify to this one. Then in his collection of fear some critters in a book by the name (Idlewild Press, Cornwall, N.Y.) you'll find the "Axehan dle hound" which is long like a dachshund and it comes prowl ing into lumberjack's camps at nights and eats up all the axe handles it can find. And that can put a mighty big crimp in a camp's output. Harking back to his own expe rience, Tryson says: "Many years ago on my first wood's job, I was taken on a snipe hunt and one bird actually did enter the big bag I was holding. Knowing that I had what may well have been a very rare specimen, I couldn't keep from peeking. And of course that was exactly what the snipe wanted. Instant ly, the snipe dazzled me com pletely with a stream of yellow soarks from his right eye. And being only a kid, I naturally fell back, dropped the gunnysack and let the precious bird escape. And as he flew through the un derbrush, I distinctly remember hearing a rather easily recog nized cry not unlike a bronx cheer." .-,. Then there's the sidehill gou ger. Due to spending his life on steep hillsides, the legs on one much longer. Meeting him face to face may be very amusing particularly U tne siae hill gouger tries to reverse him self. He simply cannot do it and as to be expected, capsizes Immediately and has to be help ed to his feet. The best time to see any I these animals, of course, is to day April 1. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Insects, although sometimes a pestiferous nuisance, are end lessly fascinating and never more so than when one con siders their many uses, through out the ages. About a thousand years be fore Christ, Homer tells in the Iliad, how horses were fed with honeyed barley. And today? It is common veterinary practice to feed a lean horse on honey and bran to put flesh on rapidly. For a long time it was believed that people habitually exposed to honeybee stings did no.t suf fer from rheumatism so badly. Many times people exposed themselves deliberately to get Eurcease. So what do we find today? Chemical Analysis Chemical analysis has recent ly revealed that honeybee ven om contains a substance which acts favorably to minimize rheu- By EUGENE BURNS Rmgtr-Naturaliit rnatic pain. As a result of this old observation, honeybee ven om is now put up in ampules, each containing the equivalent of from one to 10 stings. It looks like water and tastes like ban anas. In early medical literature there are numerous references to the use of black ants for clos ing incisions and stitching ex tensive wounds. Dr. Lucy Clau sen in Insect Fact and Folklore (Macmillan, N.Y.) traces back one reference to Hindu writings, 1000 B.C. Large black ants sometimes better known as car penter ants and some of their near relatives, possess powerful jaws with which they are able to grasp objects with extraordi nary firmness. To effect a suture, the ant was placed so that when its ,wide open jaws snapped shut, upon contact with the skin, the edges of the skin would be held to gether snugly. Then the ant's body would be pinched off and the saw-toothed jaws would re main firmly attached until the wound healed. By using a num ber of ants, a sizable suture could be effected. For making fadeproof ink and dyeing, the Aleppo gall, an ab normal cancer-like growth on oak trees caused by insects, was used in ancient times . . . and even today. It is specified in the formulae for inks used by the U. S. Treasury, the Bank of England, the Danish Govern ment and in Germany. (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) FREE: By special arrange ment with the editors of the En cyclopedia Americana, my pan el of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature ad venture, the best nature obser vation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a hand some Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I sim ply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Mall Tribune, box 575, Sausal ito, Calif. CHOIR WEAKENED Canterbury, England i(U.R) The voice of the famed Canter bury Cathedral's Boys Choir was weakened today by five cases of mumps. gl j" i M OUSTS BECK After a meeting of -the AFL-CIO high command in Wash ington, President George Meany announces the sus pension of Teamster Presi dent Dave Beck as an AFL CIO officer and directed an investigation of the Team ster union. The executive council also ordered Beck to stand trial on charges of "bringing the labor move ment into disrepute," ' ifrte, a a& w wants ma & SSCrffiSi GSSSSlZgS- Ellea BasseTS ia tSe? Efcai& a eaJ sSSSte ;. '. . v Mr. a P-S?y tfii 3 hav- beeft fo 29 gsgss ad have three &&$ga. We hawe nevg? $$ef feseny &eOi& and have beih ha4 exfeqm3Eitajl affairs. here tea ieen a greaSa deal oif bitterness 'feween uS, 9 yet we always rg.iaged- t-s feejK) it secret from the childpca arap gave them & very hapgy hoise life. Now, however, wo'vereallj come to the parting of the wQys I am very much in love with a young woman I have been going with for years. We are in a great hurry to marry and my wife has at last consented to a divorce because, I suspect, she has now found somebody she wants to marry. The big surprise in the whole thing is my daughter's attitude. Ellen is 19, old enough to have more sense, but she has turned on us and claims that we are, ruining her whole life and we should sacrifice ourselves to her until she marries. Ellen D. My parents seem to think we are idiots or some thing. My sister and I have known for years that our father was having affairs, and we be lieve it wasn't true until recent ly about our mother. They think they gave us a happy home life because there were, no fights we knew about. Just the same, we knew our parents hated each other and we certainly weren't happy about it. We think our youngest brother is now on to it, too, and he certainly isn't happy. I am now going with a won derful young man from a very fine, happy family. He has told me many times that his parents put tremendous emphasis on family life and believe that broken homes are the worst pos sible kind of background for anyone. We are in love, but it may be a couple of years before we can marry. His parents like me now, but I don't know what they'd think if they knew about my home. It's time my parents made a real sacrifice for us. The Councils Ellen has really pulled her parents up short on how badly they have muffed their attempts to supply a "happy home life" for their chil dren. If they had put as much effort and energy into creating a genuinely happy marriage as they did into concealing their "bitterness" and extramarital af fairs, it is just possible they could have created the reality of-a happy home instead of a very poor facsimile. It is too late now to undo past damage. But for the future a new kind of home life can be created through tremendous will and effort on the part of both Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Perhaps Ellen's clear vision of their con duct can be the spark that will give them an incentive to take a completely different view of their marriage and the possibil ities of happiness together. Ellen calls for a sacrifice, but she may be pointing the road to genuine happiness for her par ents if they can rise to a bet ter understanding of themselves and each other. They may find they want help from a clergy man or counseling from a family service agency. If Ellen is not successful in bringing her parents together, she should not be too sure that her young man's family will re ject her because of an open rift between her parents. They have had the chance to know her and like her for herself. They are probably aware of what She has learned through sad experience that not every home that looks happy en the surface is sa in actuality. (Copyright 1957, General Features Corp.) Young Mother Held For Killing Baby Eureka (U.R) An 18-year-old mother confessed to beating her two-months old daughter to death because she "cried and fussed all the time," the sher iff's office said Saturday. The mother, Mrs. Lonita Ann Dobson, of Blue Lake, was book ed.in Humboldt county., jail on suspicion of murder. Coroner W. Lloyd Wallace said an autopsy disclosed the baby died of multiple blows about the face and chest. Back Staim Not Sorry About Publicity '.B:MeR.STMXN' &MIXJ3: fe-eht imotorin from the White tM&4 pfeik; WSesB $s5i T flojjs to the District of Colum- 'sSisSx,S5 !9.E)- m mm b.ta ; Armory, his car went througn m && s9 tssm psW -y uaps u eigi as Uf. &gBW9m & ess essseo to cSJsJihSsi: gsffigs tSCoirJtg fSHsiP mSSS andi lks&g Iglits. I'OSBl Presidents; rurtvan) and &!5seveii refusgg to fty.e) such eSs.r4 'except fcgi teghly, oiroal tfJSfasionsj op whj vvisi.ting such &g cities f f ggg Yoxk P33? fed lights. Now Many Webr FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat. talk, laugh or sneeze without fear of insecure false teeth dropping, slipping or wobbling. FASTEETH holds plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath . Get FASTSETH at any druj counter. $YOfc I'NII "IMMEDIATE YRIAK Sj&rut (weapiig hat) ef EQfflsnm Ste.man trnM Ce3 6y sheriff & is prarea mp fii. Da eentep Captain Howard Kelly of th Sftsrffi's office to tftuflg Schrunk surrendered after a GraJ Jury indicted him on charges of perjury and accepting a bribe. The mayor said he will demand an immediate trial. fysfsU' in a high ipoweEed iop down convertible frcon GhaEl.ottgsvillH, ,to 'Washington ajfcajt speeds "ffiaet biajjchiea exsa thjmpst oase tlrdened ?ivej(s. At one point bs was sorely pressing a Virginia State Pglice car ahead of him arrjd motioning fjr the trooper to go. faster. It may be that the White House is such a confining place that when a president has a chance to get away, he likes to move in a hurry. Tokyo (U.R) Chiba Pre-, fecture fishermen tday lay their baby problem before the govern ment fishery board. Usually they haul in small fish in their nets, but Saturday they found a 150 pound baby seal. The lost "little" baby Che should be in the cold waters of the Northern Pacific) Is a problem because an agree ment signed between the United States, Canada, Soviet Russia and Japan prohibits the catch ing of seals. Mr. Truman once addressed a highway safety conference and told how he observed traffic laws quite carefully, advising other Americans to do the same. He madfe the particular point of his observance of all traffic lights and stop signs. But Salisbury Resigns Government iLondon U.R) Lord Salis bury, ne of Britain's most pow erful statesmen, resigned from the government in protest against the release from exile of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, it was announced Saturday. Britain's press unanimously tagged his unexpected resigna tion as a severe blow to the Con servative government whose popularity has been falling steadily since the abortive de cision to invade Egypt last No vember. The 63-year-old Fifth Mar quess of Salisbury was a behind-the-scenes power whose avoid ance of publicity made him little known outside Britain. ' He held the powerful posts of leader of the House of Lords, lord president of the Queens Council, and minister without portfolio in Prime Minister Har old Macmillan's cabinet. He also had ' charge of , Britain's atomic energy program. Washington i!U.R) Twenty five speakers, including Presi dent Eisenhower, will address the fifth annual Republican women's conference opening that here today. And Mr. Eisenhower a fw years ago told a morning newi conference that he wanted th newspapers of the nation to giv him their heartiest support in convincing the public of the) need for accident prevention. He made the appeal in connection with his proclamation of Traffic Safety Week. That was the afternoon that press cars following him to Gettysburg had to roar up to well over 90 miles an hour in order to keep him in sight. It was after such a ride that one veteran reporter told his of fice that even if it meant losing his job, that never again would he follow the President in a motorcade to Gettysburg. The question arises: Why do reporters drive at excessive speeds to keep up with the Presi dent when he is motoring through the countryside? The answer is simple. ' If the chief executive of the United States is going that fast, the press had better keep him in sight just in case a farm truck cuts out of a side road suddenly and causes the nation's most celebrated traf fic accident. Ghoulish? No. Real istic yes. Nerve wracking, very definitely yes. Who Launder Shirt Bcttf Dumat Domestic laundry .Zk.. v Vk l . a V. k'a . i L a a a J a . J - 3v fJNFvKrfkrirvRAAIAl AAAAAASls m,.:. '!"''" i" . j "-.nigmM NOW YOURS IN 15 SECTIONS AND A TWO-PART BINDER! 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