Wednesday, December VS. 19S7
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TIVK
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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."
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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)
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month after he registered to
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to tt.CD city's school committee.
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