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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. April 12. 1SS7 os That So? Most of the winter sleepers sgre now awake. But this adapta tiea to go into deep sleep dur ing the stinging cold of winter and the scarcity of food and wa ter is a most unusual and won derful adaptation of the warm Wooded animal. It varies: with some it is a profound sleep, near death, for seven months of the year dur- , ing which time heart-beat and breathing stop for minutes at a time and the body temperature drops to within a couple of de grees of freezing. The intensity of this winter sleep is a highly individual mat ter family has nothing to do with it, but the geographic loca tion seems to. In the north the ground hog goes below decks earlier than his kinfolk of the deep south. In Quebec it may be the middle of September while in the south it may be late in December. In the high mountain tops of Ida ho, the badger may hibernate by mid-October and not reap pear until mid-April; in lower elevations, say from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, he may disappear by Jan. 1 and seldom reappear un til mid-March; in the southwest, he may not hibernate at all. Among the most profound sleepers are the ground squir rels (not the tree squirrels, close family relations), some wood chucks, somevbats, the prairie dogs, jumping mice. With these, - hibernation is almost a sleep of death. : Slept for 33 Weeks Dig out a ground squirrel 11U1I1 IIS OilU lb Will UC as limp and inert as if its neck were Dronen. itespirauon ana heart beat are scarcely percepti- V LI. Tl 1- 1 -I 1 1 1 1 Die. it. i tuiu iu uie (.uuin per haps within a degree of freez ing. It can be. shaken and dropped on a table without wak ing. Cut a toe and it will not' bleed there's virtually no cir culation. How long is this sleep of near-death? A female ground squirrel has been known to sleep for 33 weeks out of the year's 52! That leaves only 19 weeks for being awake. Some of the non-migratory northern bats and the dormouse (the prefix "dor" means sleep) are also profound sleepers. Al though the bats tend to hang themselves up, upside down, in great clusters of hundreds and thousands, the little dormouse builds himself a neat little house of dry grass and then, once inside, seals the entrance so carefully that there is not the lichtest hint of a ioint. or a weakness. And then it sleeps roundly, and soundly. ' The skunk, raccoon, badger, and opossum become torpid for several weeks but even so they often Venture forth during mild weather. They are quite easily roused. Along with it, their res piration, rate of heart beat and Doay tempera luxe uu nut uiujj as drastically as do those of the true hibernator. Even lighter sleepers are the squirrels and the chipmunks. Bears in Middle Standing somewhere in the middle are the bears. In the far north the female polar bear may go into seclusion under a mound of snow every two or three win ters when she gives birth to a tiny young but the male plods stolidly about in the dark of the northern winter. Farther south, the female black or brown bear tends to den up at the advent of subfreezing temperatures while . the adult males are less likely to go to sleep and when they do. usually for a shorter period of - time. ' ii University menu Finds Varied Flavor Knoxville, Tenn. (U.R) A hnardine house on the Univer sity of Tennessee campus prob ably has more foreign chefs disn ing out meals of an international flavor than the swankiest New York restaurant. Each Sunday, diners find a dif ferent menu varvinc from the " pieza de buey Catalan of South America to a fried mixture of rahbaee and escs from India. The chefs, representing about 10 foreign countries, are students at the school studying under the exchange system. The student chefs take turns serving dishes- native to Iran, India, faKistan, Honduras, Jordan, Colombia, Bo- livia, Spain. France and China. The custom orieinated with a graduate student from Mandalay who came up with such tasty riishps of beef curry, chicken curry and fried green beans that sfticeints oracticaliy demanded tint the practice continue. if 9V Tnenus are posted in both 3fjlish ini the language of the K-e-the-day and guests are en IfcMWuned with recorded music t'm country identified with o Br EUGENE BURNS Rjnger-Naturalirt With the bear, temperatures do not drop drastically, breath ing continues fairly rapid per haps necessary to give warmth to the immature cub which is born during the sleep and to transform fats and starches into milk for the newborn. These bears can be wakened quite eas ily, and wakened are under standably short-tempered. Bet ter take my word for it! (Copyright. 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30 volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Four Illinois Valley Students Get Honors Cave Junction Four Illinois Valley High school students will receive honors and end-of-school awasds,' Principal Vernon Lar son has announced. Loretta Mayfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Mayfield of Holland, and Eldo Swift, ward of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rausch, of Cave Junction will receive the Stem citizenship awards. Chosen as delegates to Beaver Girls State are Linda Marshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Marshall of Holland, and Delores Reinoehl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Reinoehl of Kerby. The two girls will join other high school girls irom Oregon June 16 to 16, at Salem where they will elect officers and set up a State legislature.. POSTAL PROCESS REPORT Amarillo, Tex. (U.R) Mrs. M. A. Howell thinks the threat ened cut in postal service has al ready gone into effect. She com plained that a birthday card she mailed to Mrs. George Thomas three days before her birthday arrived three days late. The wo men live less than three miles apart. On The Side By E. V. Durlinq (Diitributed by King Future Syadieete,- Inc.) Do women understand men better than men understand the women? The females usually have the opinion that their sex is the most difficult to under stand. This is an erroneous be lief. Get it right. It depends on the individual. Experienced wo men understand men very well. Inexperienced females such as co-eds, bachelorettes and the fe males who have led sheltered lives, do not. That's why young widows and divorcees usually win in husband hunting compe tition with a woman who has never been married. Experien ced men understand women just as well as experienced women understand men. An experien ced man usually wins a battle for a beauty from a fellow whose knowledge of the female sex is superficial. In this con nection, it might be well to ad vise all male subscribers who feel baffled by the alleged mys terious workings of the female mind to pay close attention to the findings of our world fam ous Horses and Women Depart ment. Am constantly buying new types of cigar holders, safety razor blades and ballpoint pens. I must have about 50 different kinds of cigar holders and at least 15 types of ballpoint pens. My most recent ballpoint pen acquisition is one which can be quickly adjusted to write in any of three colors red, green or blue. Very handy. So They Say ' Men born under Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) like women who are hard to get. They don't want a girl to say "I surrender, dear," too soon . . . The lucky number of Cancer (June 22-July 23) people is two. Libra (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) men have a wonder ful sense of rhythm and are the best dancers. Virgo (Aug. 24 Sept. 23) men generally have a highly developed sense of hu mor. Or, so say the stargazers. Records . , What's the record for length of residence in the same hotel? Can you top the record of Mrs. Clara Bell Walsh who, on Oct. 1, this year, will have lived in the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan, for 50 years. Speaking of records, who is the oldest active dentist in this country? How about 82-year-old Dr. George Cunning ham Sharp of Pasadena, Calif., who has been practicing dentis tryfor 60 years and is still going strong? ' Idols Teen-ager females going wild over crooners is by no meang recent development. Twenty years ago, in 1937, a teen-ager named Julie Cruse wrote a song titled "I'd Like To Be The But tons On Your Vest." It was dedicated to Bing Crosby. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Has Puccini's opera, "Madame But terfly," ever been sung in Eng lish? If so, where. A. Opera you refer to was sung in English in this country before being ren dered in Italian here. That was by the Savage Opera Company, Washington, D.C., in 1906. Was first sung in Italian in this coun try at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1907 with Farrar, Ca ruso, Homer and Scotti in the cast. Q. The quotation as to a man "building a better mouse trap" was by Emerson. You should know that? A. Should I? All right, you tell me exactly where in Emerson's works this quotation can be found. Sidelights It was Dwight Morrow, who said, "Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought" . . . Has your city an official flower? The of ficial flower of Brooklyn is the forsythia. Keep that in mind. The next time you call on a Brooklyn beauty bring her for sythias instead of roses. Sfolfz Transferred To Ward's Store Here Montgomery Ward has trans ferred Kenneth H. Stoltz from Grants Pass to the Medford store to assist J J. Materie, manager. Stoltz, who has been with Wards for four years, was as sistant manager of the Grants Pass store for VA years. Mr. and Mrs. Stoltz and their four children have moved to 424 Fair mont st. Stoltz replaces M. B. Hag gerty, who recently was trans ferred to Eureka, Calif., store. Nickel is distributed widely but in only a few localities is mineralization sufficiently con centrated to form ore bodies. JUST FOR THE RECORD Hollywood (UJO Tb Cap tol Records Building' leases a small portion of its ofice space to business firms. One of the firms is an advertising company which handles the RCA Victor records account. CASH! DfMSKM Of MDPet MSttt PACIFIC , IHDUSTRIAL 16 S. 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