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-
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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.
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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.
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neighbors do ...wrap up your
bills in one bundle with a
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
UAW, Chrysler
To Meet Monday
Detroit (IP) Officials of
Chrysler, Corp. and United
Auto Workers Local 3 were
to meet today in an effort to
head off a strike at the Dodge
main plant here that could
tie up all Chrysler operations
in the area.
The UAW executive board
Friday night authorized a
five-day strike notice for the
plant after Dodge Local 3
President C. Pat Quinn told
the board attempts to settle
a - production standards dis
pute had failed.
Only hours after, the notice
was announced, a Chrysler
spokesman said negotiators for
the corporation and the local
had arranged the meeting.
UAW Chrysler department
head Norman Matthews said
a strike would probably "halt
all ' Chrysler operations" in
the southeast Michigan area.
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