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Wednesday. August 21. 1957
Quigg Bo&sn't Like Intellectualism
Intihrgfrton to Singing Commercials
Wf uut QUIGG
7 UUU.V. (1121 la Jill if wv n-iiv ,
(J nlHa Pr Correspondent they'll be working Shakespear--ew
York v This town ean soliloquies into advertising
too all-fired intellectual for jingles.
iw Bermuda britches. Some of i Brainwaves alreadv are wash
aT gfttlng the eSghead blues. ing over our saloon life. In one
A little learning may be dan-1 joint, on certain nights every
KC1UUS ining, but a lot Of learn, twn uppI,. th hartpnripr whins ! 34th Strppt Hie har ie lnr-ator! in
ing can be a borig thing, par-'off his apron, gets all the cus- j what he calls "the axis of ad-
week he did Sherman's march
through Georgia and pretended
to be a member of Sherman s
staff just arrived in New York.
Coming up. he has the revolu
tionary Battle of Brooklyn and,
in September, the Landing at
tomers into the dining room,
closes the doors, and gives a
half-hour lecture on history.
The thirst for knowledge,
while perhaps not as powerful
programs the greatest herd of
iaci-packea"; tape-recorder brains
in
human
ticularl if it is spewed arour
on scnraiiy, nke insect i
cide from an aerosol can I
u Perhaps the double-dome)rend
is the result of the gathering
here, waiting to appear, or con-j a sorr.e other thirsts exhibited
tmuing to appear, on TV ouizby customers in the barroom.
has kept his lectures crowded
with attentive listeners, says Ed
Gormley.
Gprmley, besides being bar
tender, is proprietor of the
Guardsman restaurant and cock
tail lounge. He also is intelli
gence officer. of the 107th Regi
ment, New York National
Guard, and is deeply interested
in military history. His lectures
grew out of barside chatting
sessions in which some customers
old him history should be
taught the way he talked it.
Dresses Part
Gromley gets dressed up, for
hfs lectures, in military garb of
the period being discussed. Last
the history of the
race.
it whatever the cause, I
draw the rthe when this creep
ing intellectualism infittrates
my favorite form of culture, the
singing commercial. I almost
jumped out of my slaving lath
er the other morning when I
turned on the radio before
breakfast and out of it came a
jingle touting a product as a
"new ubiquitous comestible."
Jucy Lyrics
After that line, my orange
juice tasted as if it had been
curdled by the prevailing ubi-
vance of that landing
Another, but different, cave
of learning is the College of
Complexes, a Greenwich Village
nightclub which instead of the
usual run of comic-singer-dancer
entertainment books lecturers
and encourages debates among
its patrons. Among subjects up
for lecture, and later forum dis
cussion, this month are "Why
Does New York Theater Stink?"
"Should Nationalist Puerto Ri
cans Shoot Congressmen?" and
"Is Carmine Desapio Obsolete?"
It's getting so an ignorant slob
feels mighty lonely around here.
Holder Gets 18 Months
On Burglary Charge
Wendell Franklin Holder, Val
ley Center Trailer court, Med
ford was sentenced to 18 months
in the Oregon State penitentiary
Monday by circuit court Judge
Edward Kelly. Holder, who was
arrested by Oregon state police,
was charged with burglary not
in a dwelling from the Jacks
Sporting Goods company, Med
ford. Also appearing in circuit
court and continued for FBI re
ports were Michael Scott Knapp,
Phoenix, and Robert Gale Cor
bett, 516 Liberty st., Medford.
Knapp is charged with burglary
not in a dwelling and Corbett
with grand larceny. Both men
pleaded guilty.
'Prominent Rancher
Dies In Pendleton
Pendleton W A prominent
eastern Oregon wheat rancher,
former Umatilla county judge
and Oregon state internal rev
enue official died here Tuesday.
He was James W. Maloney, 86.
Maloney, a pioneer of eastern
Oregon, died after a short ill
ness. He was collector of internal
revenue for Oregon until his re
tirement in 1947, and active in
state Democratic affairs.
Filing Fees Raised,
County Clerk States
Higher rates for filing and re
cording fees in Oregon went into
effect today, according to the
county clerk's office. The higher
rate was voted on in the last ses
sion of the state legislature.
Recording rates are now $1.50
for the first page of any instru
ment with SI charged for each
additional page. The rates were
formerly 75c per page with a
minimum fee of $1 charged.
YES. IT IS
Grand Rapids, Mich. (IP
Paul Long, 23, learned a kiss
can be expensive. . Long was
fined $100 and sent to jail for
10 days after police arrested him
when he tried to get a kiss from
a 17-year-old girl.
DRAMATIC
SAVINGS
SUNDAY
Watch Sunday's Tribune
EIGHT MINERS KILLED
Caltanisetta, Sicily (If) A
fire-damp explosion in a sulphur
mine near here killed eight min
ers and injured eight Tuesday.
Two more miners were reported
missing and rescue snuaris wp
feverishly digging through the
collapsed vaults of the mine to
locate them.
COALS TO NEWCASTLE
London W Nathaniel Nuno,
13, a Boy Scout from Ghana,
went to the London Zoo Tues
day to look at the lions. "I had
my leg pulled so much about
never having seen a lion that
I had to go to the zoo before re
turning to Africa," he explained.
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Is That So?
By EU6ENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
In the waters of the earth
there are more than 30,000 dif
ferent kinds of fish, almost eight
times as many as warm-blood
ed mammals, and their ways of
reproducing their kind are
many.
Some fish, like the ling cod
and the ocean sunfish simply
cast millions upon millions of
eggs into the open sea trusting
to chance, they will be fertil-
Ized. Most inefficient but
by their tremendous numbers,
they ucceed in propagating
their own kind.
Fish like the salmon and
trout have improved upon this
chance method by pairing up.
The female prepares a nest in
the gravelly river bed and lays
her eggs into it while her mate
fertilizes them immediately
upon extrusion. The timing is
perfect. But these are external
ly fertilized.
Hatch Alive ,
Some rays have the eggs
fertilized within the mother's
body where they hatch alive.
But, unlike warm-blooded mam
mals, these young within the
mother are not nourished by
her. Actually, there is no more
connection between these de
veloping young rays and their
mother than there is between
a hen and the eggs on which
she Is sitting; the female's body
is merely the nest in which the
eggs remain protected until
they hatch. Her eggs, just like
the hen's, draw upon their own
yolk tor nutrition and not upon
their mother's bloodstream.
But this is not true for many
other fish. Fish like the guppy
(Mosquito fish), Mexican sword
fish, surf fish, common top min
nows, and western sea perch
and sharks, which are hatched
in the mother's body, are nour
ished by the mother within her
body and bm mature enough
to take care of themselves.
How do these young feed
within the mother? Again, the
methods are diverse. Some
merely absorb maternal fluids.
In others, growths form which
bring the membranes of mother
and young fish in close con
tact. Sometimes, flaps grow
from the mother's tissues into
the gill openings of the baby
young. And in one instance, the
embryo actually feeds on the
other.
Number of Eggs
The efficiency of the various
methods is attested by the num
ber of eggs required to maintain
each species: an ocean sunfish
may lay 300.000.000 eggs at
one spawning. The salmon,
much more efficient, will lay
about 1.000 eggs per pound
that is, a 20-pound salmon will
lav about 17.000 eggs. But the
fish' which protect their eggs
and young by internal fertiliz
tion "and carry them within the
body after they hatch, have
v-erv few young comparatively
speaking the number vary
ing from four to a hundred or
more.
The maturity of fish born
alive varies. Some are very
minute at birth hardly dis
cernible. In others, such as the
surf fishes, the young are held
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inside the mother until they
reach a large size and they
are only few in number.
As to be expected, the shark's
young are large at birth and
well prepared to take care of
themselves. But this maturity is
carried to an extreme by some
of the western sea perches: they
give birth to sexually-matured
adults.
(Copyright, 1957. by
Eugan Burns)
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Mickey arrives at the Sherretz
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