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0 SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, January 24, 1958 Explosion of Tank Hurts Silverton Man Salem TP) A 520-gallon tank exploded at the W. W. Rosebraugh Company foun dry here Wednesday after noon injuring the employee who was rust-proofing the in side of the tank. Taken to Salem Memorial hospital with lacerations, burns and bruises of the low er abdomen was Floyd Lau ber, 29, Silverton. He was re ported in good condition to day. Fossil Material Found in Alaska with an ivory tusk a yard long. Usually this whale is found in North Atlantic waters around Baffin Bay in Green land. Dr. Geist believes an other narwhal killed the specimen he obtained because he found the tip of a narwhal tusk imbedded in the jaw. This discovery indicates that a second narwhal is in Alas kan waters, and possibly a tuskless female over which the two males were fighting something naturalists have theorized does not occur. CANT BE COP Washington (IFI Presi dent Eisenhower is ineligible to become a policeman or a fireman in the District of Columbia. The district's com missioners ruled Tuesday that anyone suffering from ileitis the intestinal ailment which struck the president in 1956 cannot join either of the 'forces. Use Tribune Want Ads Quick In Results! College, Alaska (IP Alaska's fossil fields yielded a 2,000-pound harvest to Dr. Otto Wijiam Giest recently. Dr. Geist, research associate in paleontology at the Univer sity of Alaska, returned to the campus with more than 1,500 pounds of Pleistocene fossil material from the Se ward Peninsula. Earlier, he had gathered 500 pounds from the Forty-Mile area near the Yukon Territory-Alaska bor der and along various creeks in the Tanana Valley. The material will be studied by the university here as well as in the Frick Laboratory at the American Museum of Na tural History. Most of the specimens were of mammoths and bison, but one u n u s u al modern-day specimen obtained during the summer was the 13-foot skeleton of a male narwhal Slabs and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood Big Double Load or Single Load MEDFORD FUEL COMPANY Telephone SP 2-2111 Court & McAndrews Salem (IP) William F. Frye of Eugene has filed for the Democratic nomination for district attorney of Lane county. ''Jk Mill tstfrf 'Jiff i mniirt ' ft. Vim Hi mrt' etito miinr i rtjw&fliSfflfMis HOWDY POONAH, SUH Air Force Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization, tries on a Texas-style hat replete with the four stars of his rank prior to addressing a World Affairs group in Dallas. Reviewing the position of NATO in keeping world peace, Norstad said that "NATO as a deterrent to Soviet aggression could not be over emphasized." Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ringer-Naturalist In the animal kingdom as a whole, the sense of smell is probably the most important. Although modern man has tended to relgate it to the aesthetic whether' some thing pleases him, as the per fume of flowers, or contrib utes to his taste of savory foods, or disgusts him with bad smells nonetheless, it playi an important role in his ..life. Smells (or scents, if the cost is excessive) are just as exciting, depressing, stimu lating, soothing, head-turning, or nauseating as the sense of color, may. More, perhaps. They can recall past events to the mind quicker than any other stimuli. . Among social insects the sense of smell is deeply in grained. Strange odors set up antagonisitic, combative responses in most groups. So strong is this drive that if a member of the same colony of ants, termites, or bees has its odor changed, the other members will turn upon it, frequently killing it if it does not flee. Also, it is possible to take a strange individual and bring him into the colony and have him accepted by giving him the colony odor. As a result, it is possible to bring strange individuals from a strange colony into a nest by keeping them there for several hours but pro tected from the others by snesthesizing all with the same gas or cooling them in a refrigerator and allowing' them to recover together. It is possible then to bring dif ferent species together even different families who would ordinarily kill one another and have them live amicably together. How does this affet the hu man? Perhaps in many ways. Before-presenting a strange fiancee to the family, why not give her a lift of the f am-, ily's favorite perfume? The subtle nuances of odor might well win her the favor of her prospective mother-in-law. Evoke Same Memories , Or, perhaps future cooking troubles can be neutralized. Instead of' having the new husband drool for food as Mom cooked it, why not find out what spices his mother used and then use them on the newly-wed husband to evoke the same home mem cries spices, say, such as cinnamon for apple pie; nut meg for the custard; rose mary for the veal. Bees, too, are affected by , odors. This may be the en swer why flowers have de veloped so many different kinds of odors. Bees tend to visit one kind of flower for a definite period they are at tracted by the odor; and the preference for certain odors will dominate the hive, all bees in that hive collecting nectar from certain flowers. We in North America seem to have developed supersen sitivity to smells. The slight est ''off" odor is enough to kill our interest in food, or even in household furnish ings or wearing apparel. As ! a result, manufacturers are employing osmics, the sci ence of smell, to improve the sales appeal of everything from castor oil to insect kil lers. One of the first to assail sales resistance via the nose was a factory owner who sprayed his plastic upholstery to make it smell like leather and his sales zoomed, out selling every similar product tomobile manufacturers, like wise, have developed a spray which imparts a smell of ''newness" to an automobile. Soap manufacturers have im parted balsam smell to con jure up the imagination of peaceful piney woods. Look next to have your bedroom scented: sleep ex perts state that smells have a potent influence on dreams. DUCHESS TROUBLE Surbiton, England (IF) The Duchess of Devonshire gave 17-year-old Mary Cole a little trouble Wednesday before Mary passed her driving test. Mary said the Duchess her name for the car, a 1908 Renault painted with white stripes skidded almost across the road in making an emer gency stop. Ontario, Ore. OP) Employ ees of the Oregon Frozen Food Company here voted against affiliation with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers Union of North America. What'll it be: dreams based on beefsteak, charcoal, or li lacs. (Copyright, 1958, by Eu gene Burns). (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia 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-vol-ume set of this world-famous reference work in a hand some Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I sim ply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Trib une, Sausalito, Calif. The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Mrs. R. D. Ellen should help her sister. Ellen M. Terry is jeal ous Mrs. R. D. I am very much concerned about my two married daughters. Ellen is married to a suc cessful businessman. She is very well off. She and her children have beautiful clothes and all kinds of lux uries. Terry is married to an ordinary workingman. They have barely enough to get by. Terry works her fingers to the bone and can't even take a day off for a little fun. The girls were always good friends as children, but they have grown far apart. I feel that Ellen should make more of an effort to do things for her sister. It would mean nothing to her to take Terry out occassionally. She could, also do things for the chil dren. Why shouldn't sisters help one another when they are in a position to do so? Ellen M. I'm sorry to have to say a thing like this, but I do feel that my sister is jeal ous of me. For a long time I have tried to -get her to come out with me to a show or to some little function given by my club. She always refuses, saying she is too busy. Yet I know that she goes out occasionally with one or two of the women from her neighborhood. When Terry and her chil dren come to my home, I al ways feel some kind of re straint. She seems to be in a hurry to get away. She doesn't seem to even listen when I tell her things. She never in vites me to her home. My mother seems to think" I should shower Terry and her children with gifts, but I don't think she would like that. She is much too proud. The Council: We agree with Ellen that Terry would prob ably prefer not to be shower ed with gifts. This mother is a little too anxious to equalize her children's material posi tions. She fails to realize that Terry may have quite a lot of I I h ffl'l J m V WA .Jill I Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport contentment, despite her eco nomic hardships. We think, however, that El len is rather harsh in her judgment of Terry's "jeal ousy." It is quite possible that Terry is a little uncomfortable with her sister because she feels she cannot afford to pay her own way to the shows or functions Ellen attends. She probably feels that Ellen in habits a different world so cially. Terry's clothes, her lack of time, her heavier home responsibilities prevent her from participating in this world on an equal basis. Nevertheless, it is a shame to let this economic difference drive a wedge between the sisters. Ellen should make an effort to find a basis for com ing together with her sister that will cause no embarrass ment. She might suggest they get together for simple, family occasions. She should show that she is eager to have her children know their cousins better. 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