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Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist What's the best in outdoor clothing for rain, scorching sun, or raging blizzard? Some experts will tell you, "Wear what the' natives wear." For the long haul I'm thinking in terms of several generations so one can get accustomed to it that may be all right. But for the short time visitor, better take an other sharp look at that pat statement. So the boys who know will tell you. "Take the Eskimo. After our government con ducted a lot of research, it found out that the Eskimo's loose-fitting parka which came down to the knees was best for the bitter cold. In the tropics, we found abbreviated shorts the answer. For com fortable living, perhaps the native breechclout might be evert better." All right let's analyze this business of native dress. Sj in the Arctic during the crudest weather the native winter suits consist of a two f ply outfit An outer and in- Canine Actuary Gets Facts on Dogs, Men Hi ner jacket the outer parka reaching to the knees; two pairs of trousers; two pairs of stockings; mukluks; and gloves. The clothes next to the body being of fine polar rabbit, soft and warm inside; the outer having the rougher reindeer or seal hair on the outside. Bodies Rubbed With Fat In these clothes they live through some of the world's crudest weather. But look what happens at the southern extremity of the poles. The farthest south natives are the Selk'nam people living on. the southernmost inhabited is lands, off South Amperica. There in one of the windiest, most disagreeable spots on earth, the men and boys do not wear clothes. They rub their bodies with fat mixed with red earth. If the violent, snow-laden wind is unbear ably cold, they wrap around a guanaco (a type of llama) skin. Women, slightly warmer dressed, wind a loose skin around their middle, fastened with sinews. Around their shoulders they may throw a second skin. So, care to go along with the native dress for the cold? Similarly in the hot tropics, you'll get vast variations among the natives. True, in most places they are not over dressed. In Australia the aborigine is naked except for a little apron. In the Upper Amazon, a loincloth suffices and, incidentally, it is spun from cotton by the father. In the Sudan, a string of beads around the middle does the trick. Farther south, the Ba Congos wear a loincloth wov en of bark fibre. Heavy Clothes in Heat But in contrast to these ab breviated hot-weather outfits, go to the southern Sahara where the weather is extreme ly hot. Perhaps the hottest of all are these peoples. And there the men wear heavy clothes. The main garment is a sleeveles black or white tunic. Under this he wears wide cotton trousers and san dals made of zebra skin stitch ed with dyed red goat leather. On his upper arms are brace lets. They are the only men in the world as far as I know who wear veils over their faces so their mouths never show leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes. To go with this seemingly effeminine at tire, they carry a very mascu line sword. Their women in contrast are never veiled. They wear wide woolen cloaks and rich jewelry even their thumbs are be ringed. Should the women in vite young men and girls to hear them perform on the violin, the husband would be banished for the length of the entertainment. Still think the experts are right: native dress is always the best for the climate? (Copyright. 1958, By Eugene Burns) (Distributed by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) By MARGARET RICHARDS ' United Press Correspondent Kansas City, Mo. W A fat dog is likely to have a fat master. Gathering such bits of in formation .about man's best friend almost put Cordon Reabe out of business. Reabe, Jthe first canine cat uary in the United States, has temporarily stopped writing insurance on the health of dogs until he can find out more about them and come up with new and not-so-liberal policies. "If you're fat yourself and your dog is fat," Reabe says, "the chances are that your dog has caught your psycho somatic desire for too many calories." It was two years ago that Reabe founded Canine Shield, with the backing of the Mu tual Causalty Co. of Des Mo ines, Iowa, as underwriters. Canine Shield became the first hospitalization and vet ernary insurance program for dogs. For $15 a year, a dog owner could insure his pet against almost all known dog disord ers. Reabe confesses that when he started this pro gram, he had no idea how many disorders can affect a pooch. "The pace at which the in surance sold was exceeded only by the rate at which the dogs got sick," he says. Reabe's Canine Shield took its first beating less than a week after it opened for business. A German shepherd dog with a fondness for flowers unsettled him. . The dog stuck its nose Into a flower that a bee had beaten him to and wound up with an infection of the salivary glands, among other things. Canie Shield paid S75 to. get the dog back into flower sniffing shape again. "Every dog is the country apparently comes up with a case of tonsilitis as soon as it's insured, not to mention leukiemia,4 assorted tumors and a multitude of skin dis eases Reabe said. "Nothing But The Best" "Skin diseases" used to be called "mange," but Reabe says that's an expression to be avoided in selling dog health insurance. "Believe me," he adds, "to day's dogs get nothing but the best. They get cortisone and ACTH, male hormones and female hormones, antibiotics, blood transfusions and fancy surgery." Canine Shield even paid for paychiatric treatment. One Pomeranian had an anxiety neurosis that compelled him to overeat. Turned out the dog sensed the anxiety tensions of its master and developed the same symptom, -Reabe says. Things like this caused Reabe to shut the door in the face of new business. Dogs already carrying policies will continue to get their ills treated. And Reabe hopes to get back in business with a revised policy one that will allow him to make some money. "We may stipulate that if the dog requires psychoan alysis, the dog's owner must pay for it," says Reabe. Canning Industry Marks Anniversary 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 na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence 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! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif, By PETER HAYES United Press Correspondent San Francisco (IP Cali fornia's billion dollar canning industry is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with a sweeping bow to the grizzled miners of the fabu lous Comstock Lode. A Bostonian and a New Yorker launched the first food canning operations in San Francisco in 1858. Shortly afterward the inustry got its big push when the Comstock Lode was discovered in Ne vada and tinned food became a premium item to miners who were, more interested in digging for gold and silver than in tilling the soil. By 1862 Francis Cutting of Boston and Daniel Provost of New York were canning more than 5,000 cases of fruit a year in their separate opera tions. Juicy peaches grown in the San Francisco area were canned by Cutting and sent around Cape Horn to Boston's Parker House and New York's Fifth Avenue hotel. Industry Mushrooms The industry mushroomed as California became the No. 1 agricultural state in the na? tion. Last year the state pro duced 217 million cases of food in cans, glass jars and fibre containers one third of the nation's supply. Today's California pack in- Washington W Presij dent Eisenhower Saturday proclaimed the week of Jan. 26 to Feb. 1 as National Junior Achievement Week "by hon oring junior achievers and their volunteer adult advisors through appropriate ceremonies." Dead Line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day. except 10 a.m. for Monday; for Sunday, noon Saturday. eludes many fruits besides peaches, vegetables, fish, olives, juices, citrus, dairy and formulated foods such as soups. The can of Cutting's day was a simple affair. All foods had to be cut into strips and stuffed by hand through a small hole in the top. A cap about the size of a half dollar was then hand-soldered over the vent to close it. Shortly after the turn of the century the canning in dustry was revolutionized by the development of the mod ern open-top "sanitary" can. It permitted airtight closing by crimping on a full lid by machine and paved the way for complete mechanization of production lines. The "Tinless" Can ' Today an automatic can line produces as many as 27,000 containers in an hour the same time it took an early day canmaker to fabricatefive cans by hand. Cannery men are always looking for new improved con tainers. One possibility is the "tinless" can that would make the United States independ ent of foreign countries in time of war as well as be in surance against the day when the world's dwindling tin supply is exhausted. Possible substitutes for tin are aluminum or steel chem ically treated to resist cor rosion. Researchers also are experi menting in radiation process ing of foods. . This may one day allow the housewife to choose virtually fresh food from cans and cook it accord ing to her own ideas and recipes. The radiation process con sists of subjecting canned meats and other foods to gamma rays that would kill spoilage bacteria without hurting the taste. Do what your friends and neighbors do ...wrap up your bills in one bundle with a Pacific Finance "Cash-For-BiHs Plan." Hie result? Just one small monthly payment. TOP OF YOUR BILLS Visit yoer nearby PF office to arrange for a loan. Here, your money matters will be handled quickly, courteously and generously. (parents? 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