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Wednesday, December VS. 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TIVK o o o o o o Quotes From the Mm By UNITED PRESS London Kenneth W. Gatland, vice chairman of the Council of the British Interplanetary Society, hailing the successful firing of the American intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas as a '"great achievement": "It means the United States is right in the field with the Soviet in the development of long-range missiles. This development will enable them to put larger satellites into the air." Little Rock. Ark. Mrs. L. C. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP. charging one of the nine Negro students ,rho integrated Central High school was suspended for three days fter being jostled into spilling a bowl of chili on a white boy: "If it had been any other kid. they probably would have helped him clean up the mess, let him offer to pay the cleaning bill and forget about it. But because it was one of the nine Negroes, differ ent action was taken." Cape Canaveral. Fla. Gen. Donald N. Yates, commander of the Cape Canaveral missile test center, describing the successful firing of tbe intercontinental Atlas Tuesday: "We passed landmarks and we checked them off." Nenf York The son of an African tribal chief, Theophilus Adepoju Ideronmu, announcing his decision to give up a chance to win $128,000 on a TV quiz show because of "embarrassing" questions ftbout his two marriages and his visa qualifications as a medicfl student: "I o tht you ill will come to conclude thai I was a good rqin." Stanford, Calif. Russian-speaking Detroit physicist Robert Herfatan, on the Sunday outing here of Russia's five-man delega tion to the American Physical society meeting: "TheyQiad a wonderful time. They talked about physics and looked at the scenery-" Lincoln, Mass. Boston Museum of Science Education Direc Q tor Korman Harris, telling parents not to worry about a baby boa ftnstrictor which escaped from a local science classroom and is believed hiding under a school building: t "A baby boa constrictor could live a month or two in hiding. duI would probably die of starvation. Or at least could not grow up enough to b dangerous." o Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Although Antarctica is the rrtflst forebidding, hostile land on earth with not one living land mammal on it, nonetheless its surrounding waters are perhaps the earth's richest in foodstuffs Surrounding the continent is a belt of "sea-ice"- drifting ice which girdles Antarctica. Dur ing winter, the seas around the coast freeze. Under the buffet ing of violent storms, this sea ice breaks into floes which wan der with the prevailing winds. Sometimes this pack may be 600 miles wide, in others only 20 miles. In late summer, it may dis appear altogether in a few plac es, allowing ships to sail right up to the ice and rock-bound coasts. But this sea-ice rests in what is known as the "earth's "richest pasture" despite the extreme coldness of the water. So cold is the water in fact that a man without waterproof clothing be comes unconscious in it within 10 minutes and dies soon thereafter. Girl Scouts Troop Elects Members of Girl Scout Troop 151 organized this fall into a senior troop with a membership of 12 girls. Officers elected to serve for the first half of the year were president, Julianne Yoakley; vice - president and scribe, Dayle Ann Stratton; sec retary, Muriel Bledsoe; and treasurer. Ann Barker. Carolyn Finch was chosen as the troop's permanent represen tative to the Senior Planning board. Other members of the troop are: Janice Nelson, Carolyn Hitt, Diane Lewis, Cassie Thompsen, Karen Christensen, Donna Hus song, and Linda Samuelson. Mrs. Richard Finch is the troop advisor. Plans were completed at last week's meeting for a Christmas party. This will be a progressive dinner with all of the girls help ing to prepare" a course of the meal. Five homes of the girls will be used and the girls are pjiruiing to carol on their way . to each one. , Th party will be held Mon day, December 23, and an ex change of 'white elephant' gifts is planned. Senior scouts of Troop 151 have participated in several serv ice projects this fall and are working to complete the five point senior program by next spring. Yet, this water is so dense with tiny living creatures that it resembles a murky soup - the living creatures being plank ton, tiny one-celled plants to gether with tiny animals that feed on them. Per acre, this freezing water may be the richest on earth either on sea or land. And on this thrive millions and billions of other creatures, who in turn are swallowed by larger fish, by great 90-pound jellyfish, and by birds and sea-dweinng mam mals. Even the largest of all animals, the blue whale de pends for its food on this tiny life. Whales Have Enemies In addition to the huge whales which may weigh up to 150 tons are their enemies, the kil ler whale which although only 30 feet long attack in packs and rip out this great blue whale's tongue. The ice pack also abounds in seals, none of great commercial value. What fur seals once ex isted have almost become ex tinct due to man's depredation. Protected, they make a come back. Of the seals, the most numer ous is the crabeater seal and yet, precious little is known of them, reports Walter Sulli van in Quest for a Continent Less than half a dozen pups have been seen. Yet it is logical to suppose that these 500-pound beasts must migrate to shore somewhere to give birth and nurse their young. Surely, thou sands must congregate, yet no one has seen such a spectacle Pup Born on Ice A yet larger seal is the Wed dell seal the male weighing up to 900 pounds, and roughly ten feet from nose to flipper, The pup is born on the ice, a snug roll of fuzz about 57 inch es long. On the tremendous am ounts of rich milk, the pup gains about seven pounds a day and within two weeks is six feet long. The only other sizeable ani mal living off this "world's rich est pasture" is the sea leopard. A vicious killer, rivaling the killer whale, he has been ob served leaping out and snatch ing a three-foot Emperor pen guin which he consumes at one meal. As yet, no one knows where they give birth to their pups presumably it is some where in the vast reaches of the ice pack. (Copyright. 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) QUICfc ELECTION Lowell, Mass. (IP) Just two month after he registered to vote for the first time, 21-year-old William S. 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