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Is That So? "Speaking of 'rocks in the head, said my marine biolo gist friend, John E. Fitch. looking at me rather sharply, "they're not generally consid ered to be much of an asset to a man. But in fish. Gene, it's another matter. You'd be sur prised if you knew what those little earstones will tell you. Because these otoliths, or earstones, are made of much the same material as clam shells, they are extremely hard. Usually, they are the last part of a fish to decom- pose when it dies and sinks to the bottom of the sea or when it is eaten and digested by another creature. As a re suit of this long-lasting qual ity some have lasted 300,' 000,000 years scientists esti- IS TmTVi mate they are extremely im portant to many people Nearly every kind of fish, said Fitch, has earbones which are distinctively his and his alone, thus telling the scien list whether the bones he finds came from a halibut, say, or a mackerel, cod, her ring or some other fish. And no other. Stranger yet, the earbones reveal whether or not a certain flatfish was "right-or left-handed." As for the many uses: The scientist who studies ancient fossils and frequently uncovers these hard long-last ing otoliths in deposits of sedi mentary rock or earth gets help in placing relative time during which certain geologi cal events took place. The geologist on the prowl for oil who encounters these ancient earbones can often re- late one type of formation to another " in time and space and thus perhaps gain valu able clues as to new oil de posits. The scientist who studies man's past often finds these earbones in the remains of prehistoric man's campsites. By determining from what fish the earbones came from, he immediately knows some thing about the diet and habits of these early humans. As yet little exploited but potentially important is the fascinating use these earbones may be put to in making wom Eagerness To Prime Economic Pump Gets Share of Criticism BfELMER'C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) The eager ness ' to prime the economic through many old de vices of credit and spending is coming in for some crit icism from market ex perts an econ omists. Those who argue against turning the Elmer Waizer tide before it has had its flow holdthat the future will suffer from the ac tion. Also, they point out, that injection of zip into the econ omy through wild spending, budget deficits, and other de vices make for return of in flation which has been fought for the past two years by the Federal Reserve Board. L. O. Hooper, analyst for W. E. Hutton & Co., warns against placing too much con fidence in what .Washington will do do to prevent the cy cle from running its course. Hooper believes that the glowing predictions on the 1960s are legitimate although he finds some of the estimates often "cut it too fine" so far as details are concerned. "The trouble is," he says, "that economic man still sins in spite of all the regulative paternalism with which he has been surrounded. And when he sins, he must make retribution. "If the economy makes full pennance now, the probabil ity of great things in the '60s is measurably increased. If this turns out to be a half way adjustment, 'on the other hand, the prosperity of the 1960s may not be as great." Market men also recall the situation of the early 1930s when the government used all sorts of artificial methods to stem the depression by sav ing a lot of businesses that should have been junked. The process, they assert, prolong ed that depression by several years, and it took a war to bring a recovery. But the Market experts agree on the current stock pump By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalitt en's jewelry. The large size of the paired bones, the variety of their shapes, their hard ness, their pure white color and delicate beauty particu larly those taken from such fish as the croakers make them a valuable addition to any woman's earring collec tion, charm bracelet, or neck lace. Earstones Are Headache To one profession I know of, these earstones are a head ache. Catfood processors find fish earbones a most undesir able ingredient in their pro duct, particularly when the pet food has been made from fish of the croaker family which have the largest oto liths. "T h e greatest practical value of these earstones as far as I'm concerned," stated Fitch who is a fisheries' ex pert with the California Fish and Game department, "is that from them we can de termine the fish's age, the season of year it was killed, the food habits of carnivorous fishes, marine animals, and fish-eating birds. (By the way, some of you trout anglers may have observed these stones atop rocks or along side streams in mink or otter droppings.) "As well, the earstones prove useful in identifying stomach contents of many va rieties of fish, sea lions, seals, porpoises and ocean-going birds." "This is all very fine," I pointed out, "but would you mind telling us, of what use these earstones to the fish themselves?" "Oh," said Fitch, "I almost forgot the fish uses them for hearing, keeping his bal ance, and maintaining muscle tone . . ." So now, we have muscle tone in fish . . . (Copyright 1958, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: Bv sDecial arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my nanel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care Med- ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. market which they hold is in no way to be compared with that of 1929-1939. "It is unlike most bear mar kets," says Hooper, "in that many real investment port folios still are held a profit rather than at a loss, in that most people own their stocks outright rather than on mar gin, in that government spend ing contributes much more to the ecotiomy, in that labor costs are inflexible, and on ac coun' ' of the big institutional interest in equities." Incidentally, Hooper also notes that bear markets pro vide many bargains, and he wonders why investors should consider bargain sales to be deplored. 'He notes shrewd women shoppers gloat over January sales. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Raymond Roberts Hubbard, im proper passing, $10. Arthur Nemeyer Purnell. allow ing an unlicensed driver to oper ate his vehicle. $10. Ralph Kenneth Snow, operating a vehicle with no Oregon license. S10. Edrd J. RoseCrans, violation of basic rule. $10. Melvin Leland Anhorn, violation of basic rule. $10. Glenna Marie Knorr, disobeyed traffic signal, $5. Jane Vivian Anders, violation of basic rule, S10. Bob Ownby, disobeyed stop sign, $5; no Oregon driver's license, $10 Kenneth LaVern Bakshas, viola tion of basic rule, $15. Richard Arthur Sorenson, viola tion of basic rule, $10. James Arthur Rose, disobeyed stop sign, $5. Richard Elywn Hart, defective equipment, S2.50. Bill Emory Backers, disobeyed stop sign, $5. Robert Walter Castle, failure to obtain Oregon operator's license, $2.50. Clarence Edward Sutton, viola tion of basic rule, $10. DISTRICT COURT Herchel George Rainey, operating motor vehicle while driver's li cense suspended, $105. Will Thomas Fehely, defective muffler. $6. Albert James Volk, .failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Richard Larson, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. bail. David Don Legg. improper head light. $10; overweight. $15. George Lawrence Minter. failure to operate on right side of high way. S15. Merlin Lewis Dewey, violation basic rule. $15. Carrie Rex Yoakley, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Francis William Terry, no clear ance light, $6. CIRCUIT COURT . Hazel McCoy MrDaniel v Ray A. AIcDaniel. divorce complaint. 52nd M EDF0RD Second Section TESTIFYING ON NEED FOR MORE" SPEED in the bal listics missile race with Russia are James H. Kindelberger, North American Aviation Corp., left; and William A. Allen, Boeing Aircraft, - before Senate committee in Wash ington, D. C. (International Soundp koto) Ultrasonic Waves Fail To Scare Off Ducks and Sea Gulls By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (IP) It is the stern duty of this science re porter to report a scientific failure in the field of weap ons develop ment. The weapon was for use against wild ducks and sea gulls to scare the day licrht c rmt nf Deios smith them, rather than hurt them. But it turned out that science doesn't yet know enough about those birds. This is no joke, understand. Wild ducks cost Canadian farmers large sums annually, by helping themselves in grain fields. Sea gulls mess up air traffic by squatting in hundreds on the runways of some coastal airports. Weapon Wanted So any weapon which could scare them away and keep them away from places where they're not wanted, would be a Godsend. So. G. J. Thiessen and E. A. G. Shaw of the Ca n a d i a n National Research Council turned to ultrasonics. They're sound waves of such high frequency human ears don't hear them, but when they're high enough and intense enough, they can irritate ear drums and even damage them. The scientists began their work by finding out how high and intense these waves had to be in order to "irritate" Peking ducks. Those ducks are domesticated and can be worked with. But the family was developed out of the wild mallard duck and the pre sumption would be that what irritates the former would also irritate the latter. Knowing the "irritation thresholds" of the Peking, the scientists moved their ultra sound generators to farming areas. They discovered they could lift clouds of wild ducks into the air by irradiating their marshy resting places. MO NOW IN 100 PROOF AS WELL AS 80 ' Specify Smirnoff when ordering vodka drinks. It's the Vodka of Vodkas mirnoff THE GREATEST NAME IN 80 AND 100 PROOF. DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. STE. PIERRE SMIRNOFF FLS. (DIV. OF HEUBLEIN), HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1958 The ducks were scared all right, but the trouble was, they didn't stay scared. They came right back. Experimented With Captives They got their "irritation thresholds" for gulls by expe rimenting with H which had been taken captive as fledg ings. When they tried out these thresholds on wild run way squatters at a Montreal airport, the results were "quite erratic," they said in a report to the Acoustical So ciety of America. Ducks shake' their heads, twitch their tails, open their mouths. Gulls seem to cringe, and their tails dip. With the gulls, there is a sudden and drastic increase in heart rate. But the rate quickly drops back to normal even while the ultrasonics continues. Professor lo Meet With Local Groups Dr. R. N. Lowe, associate professor of education at the University of Oregon, Eugene, will be in Medford, Jan.,. 23, to meet with leaders of com munity groups sponsoring parent-education programs. Dr. Lowe, who conducts classes at the university in child development, . counsel ing and guidance, has served as a chairman of family-life education for the Oregon Congress of Parents and Tea chers, the Montana 'Congress of Parents and Teachers, and as a consultant in this field to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. He will confer with dis cussion group leaders in of fice rooms of the Jackson county school superintendent in the courthouse between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Dr. Lowe will meet at noon with the Mental Health com mittee, a group studying the need of family counseling for Jackson county. Oilmen have developed a floating offshore oil drilling platform that can operate in water to 600 feet deep. VODKA PN McKay Doesn't Take Neuberger's Critical By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Douglas Mc Kay, who is seeking a way out of the impasse with Can ada over dam building o n the upper Co lumbia, didn't exactly take kindly to the lambasting ar ticle by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger in last month's A. Bobt. Smith tl a r p e T S, which termed McKay "an even more conspicuous sym bol of hostility to federal power" than Len Jordan. "I was working on federal development when he was a boy in college," humphed Mc Kay. "I was chairman of the Willamette valley project (for developing a flood control program). Served for 14 years. So I know a little about water." After his unsuccessful bid for the Senate in 1956, McKay succeeded Jordan as chairman of the International Joint Commission. Neuberger claims the IJC hasn't pressed Canada for a solution because the Eisenhower administra tion, with its "private-utility bias against the expansion of federal power plants," doesn't really care. , McKay dismissed Neuberg er's arguments as "political" and declared: "These left-wingers talk like I'm a tool of the private utilities. Why, when I was mayor of Salem I was presi dent of the public ownership league." He explained that the issue was whether the city should take over the water works, which McKay favored and which was done. "And I don't own a share of private utility stock," said This big luxurious IS Tribune McKay, although he did own some years ago. Then, with a grin and a twinkle of puckish humor, McKay adds his clincher: "But I do own some public power bonds, in Priest Rapids dam." More flags fly from the main staff of the U.S. Capitol probably than anywhere else in the world, sometimes sev eral different flags each day. And one of them is all set to be run up and brought down again February 14, on Ore- Investigation of Mine Blast Starts Price, Utah. OP) A full scale investigation was begun today into the cave-in, explos ion and fire which claimed lives of four miners trapped deep inside the Spring Can yon Coal Co. mine near here Friday. The body of the fourth min er was found just before noon Sunday, nearly 60 hours after an earthquake-like "bounce" started the tons of coal and rock falling inside the mine. The investigation was being made by state and federal mine inspectors and represen tatives of the company and United Mine Workers. The body of the fourth miner, Russell Dean Nielsen, 29, was found under tons of coal and debris which clogged a portion of the mine. Bodies of the other three were re covered Friday and Saturday. Officials indicated the ex plosion following the cave-in probably was caused when short circuited power lines created sparks that set off coal dust and started small fires. mm We're giving top dollars on trade-ins-reducing pay ments to the minimum and Edsel prices actually start lower than 32 models of the low-priced three car outperforms everything else in the medium-price field! Wonderful new way to drive Exclusive Edsel Teletouch Drive puts the buttons where they belong. 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Porter is on the House Post Office and Civil Service committee. At a dinner the other night put on by the American Le gion, both men were among the invited. When someone turned to Porter and men tioned the high post his de feated rival had been given, Porter wisecracked: "Hah, I made him what he is today." Congressman Walter Nor blad was tickled with a terse letter to the editor of The Oregonian the other day com plimenting him for sending out a questionnaire to get the views of the voters instead of sending out copies of speeches expressing his own views. Not only did this sound like an unfavorable refer ence to some of his colleagues who do make speeches and send them out, but it fit in with Norblad's practice of not making speeches on the House floor. "That was worth six front page headlines," said the hard running Norblad. TO mm Exclusive new Teletouch Drive Out-ahead jet-grille styling Big, safer self-adjusting brakes More passenger room Inside k New comfort-shaped contour seats Satellite Launching Set By California Tech Men Pasadena, Calif. 0P1 A 20 - pound cylinder stuffed with delicate instruments within the next five weeks may become the first success ful satellite to be launched by the United States, accord ing to a copyrighted story ap pearing in the Pasadena, Cal., Independent. The newspaper made the prediction as a result of re marks made this week by Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, President of Cal Tech, in a speech at the University club here. Cal Tech Ready Dubridge said he had told the Army two months ago Cal Tech could put up a sat ellite up within 12 weeks if it were provided with rock ets. He pointed out there are five weeks remaining. The copyrighted story said it was announced last Nov. 15 that Cal Tech's jet propul sion laboratory had been giv en the responsibility for pay load "in high speed propul sion stages" of the U. S. ef fort to launch a satellite. According to the Inde pendent, Dr. William H. Pick ering, laboratory director, has revealed a satellite of the type to be prepared. It was describ ed as a clyinderical object a foot long and five inches in diameter, jammed with tiny Cub Scouts Pack 8, Den 10 Den 10 of Pack 8, Jackson school, recently made a tour through Gilman's dairy farm. Methods of milking, bot tling and care of milk and its products were explained. Making the tour were Cubs Jack Rice, Bill Bennett, Dale Durkee, Tom Courtright, Bob Longen, Jim Dodge and Lance Stanley. Accompanying the boys were Den Mother Mrs. D. J. Durkee and Mrs. Carl Bennett. ANT LAUNCHING RESET Pensacola, Fla. 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