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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.
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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
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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
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Salem (IP) William F.
Frye of Eugene has filed for
the Democratic nomination
for district attorney of Lane
county.
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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).
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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
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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. She could invite Ter
ry's children on simple excur
sions which involve little or
no expense. ..
Of course, the effort can't
be one-sided. Terry will have
to lose some of her self-consciousness
and try to bridge
the gap.
(Copyright 1958, General
Features Corp.)
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