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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thuridtj, April 18, X9S7 Investigation of Vice In Portland Becomes Mass of Indictments wiiand OJ.R) What started out year ago as an investiga te into alleged attempts by teaers Union officials to take ove vice operations in Portland and m corrupt public officials today has grown into a mass of indictn-eints so numerous no one seerr sure of the axact number. A succession of grand juries has returned criminal and mis demeandor indictments against top city and county officials, union bosses, racketeers petty crooks and bawdy house mad ams. Spotlight on Portland The national spotlight was turned on Portland when a par ade of witnesses appeared before the Senate Rackets Committee during the opening phase of Its current hearings. Among those facing charges is Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, 44, a Democrat who won an over whelming victory in November defloite reports linking him with racketeering. He has been ac cusal of taking a $500 bribe from a Arer bootlegger, of prejury, and t illegally obtaining some wire recordings. Schrunk denied before the committee that he had taken the the brige. The wire tap count was returned after his appear ance in Washington. Ironically, it was his chief accuser before the committee who Is the first to come to trial in connection with the recordings. Racketeer James B. Elkins went on trial in Federal Court Tuesday on the first of nine counts of illegal wire tapping. Also - accused was Raymond Clark, an employee of Elkins. The county grand juries have failed to return any indictments j against Elkins for wire tapping, but he has 12 other state charges against him, ranging from ex tortion to accepting the earnings of a prostitute.. Only On Convicted District Attorney William M. Langley is the only one so far to be convicted on any of the in dictments. He was found guilty of the misdemeanor charge of failing to prosecute a gambling law violator. The court delayed entering judgement and Lang ley's attorneys indicated they will ask for a new trial. If his conviction sticks he will be re moved from office. The district attorney still has other charges of malfeasance, conspiracy and bribery against him. One prostitute pleaded guilty and was fined $250. Oregon teamster boss Clyde C. Crosby and Oregon Journal re porter Brad Williams have been indicated for violating Oregon's wiretap law, charges similar to the wire tap indictment against Schrunk. Crosby and Williams are accused of making copies of the recordings which were seized in an illegal raid on Clark's home last May at a time when Schrunk was Multnomah county sheriff. The original tapes now are in the hands of the FBI and presum ably will be used in the federal charges against Elkins and Clark. Is That Birds, which are highly mo bile in the main, have a sure answer to the polar cold and want of food and water. Mostly, they migrate and, now with returning warmth in the north land, many are now winging back to the food-rich areas of th north. Besides birds, mammals too make seasonal migrations. Most ly in the high mountain country, understandably so. Elk, sheep, mountain goat, llama, chamois, and deer de scend the slopes to warmer lev els where food is still available. TH Migration being near-vertical, ery 1,000 feet descent in ' altitMe is equivalent to a 600 miBs uthward migration. And the? plant-eating animals are toV&qiei in turn by the large preTrjucoug beasts the foxes. wolv cougars, and snow leo pards. Upietad birds also seek lower an4 warmer levels this move- met ifeing precisely comparable to tic southward flight of the migratary birds from Canada to Mexica and from northern Eur op to Africa. In the former, the movement Is again measured in feet; in the latter in miles. But the change, essentially, is equally dramatic. And within the animal there must be an implicit understand ing that to avoid the oncoming bite of winter's cold and the want of food and water, it must . go to a warmer clime. And sim ilarly, the drive to return to the north, the return to higher land. Others of this migratory group, who have greater mobil ity, make a lf000 to 3,000 mile horizontal migration and they include animals such as the mon arch butterfly, the fur-bearing Alaska seal, the whale, hum mingbird, and goose. Eat Less in Winter In some birds, curiously enough, there is another adapta tion or more accurately, inher ent in them are the "beginnings of hibernation." Nearly all eat about two-thirds less in winter than In summer as do most mammals, and very many, like man's domesticated poultry, store up fat prior to winter's on coming cold. They can go for a considerable time without food though they would die in half that time if they were left with out food in spring. Yet, despite this remarkable provision, many birds starve in winter. (Mistak enly, they are taken for frozen birds the freezing really oc curs after the bird has died). One bird occasionally gets into the hibernation act com pletely the poorwill- A pair, studied recently, were found In a cliff. Their heart beat was so drastically reduced that it could not' be detected; no moisture could be noted on a cold mirr:r placed in front of their nostrils; and a strong light beamed at the pupils brought no response, not even an attempt to close the eye lids; yet when spring came, they roused, and were fully alive. For yet another reason, the hummingbird "hibernates"' each By EUGENE BURNS Hanger-Natuuliit night but only for the conser vation of energy and to stretch out its food supply. For its size, its food consumption is perhaps the greatest of any warm-blood ed animal. It must devote muil) of its day to gathering food, mainly nectar and insects. If this intense metabolism con tinued undiminished through the night, as it does in other birds, it would be in great danger of starving to death before morn ing. So, during the night, it be comes practically insensible, scarcely able to move. Its body temperature drops considerably to 75 degrees. But before day break its body spontaneously re turns to its normal temperature and it is again warm, awake, and J . , i r r i i- ready to aart on in searcn m food. Again, a remarkable ad justment. (Copyright 1357 by Eugen Burns) (Released by McClur Newspaper 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, Sausa lito, Calif. Visitations Topic At SOC Meeting Ashland Francis B. Nicker son, executive secretary of the High- School-College Relations committee of the Oregon state state system of higher education, conducted a meeting of SOC visitations personnel Monday af ternoon in Churchill hall. Results of the current school year's visitations were discussed and evaluated byNickerson, who made known the results of a survey of schools visited which indicated the services had in general been of value to students ' in planning college programs. Those present included Dr. j Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC presi dent. Dr. Alvin Fellers, director j of student personnel; Hal Cloer, ! director of guidance; Mrs. Mabel j W. Winston, dean of women; Miss Fran Barta, assistant dean of women; Don Lewis, business manager; and Hugh G. Simpson, director of information. 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