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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.
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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.
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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," '
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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
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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.
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