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.0 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, June 3, 1958 Esjjiat So? (tairoQl IeR the fabulous Brass Bazaar detwminedOto go 1o the Pyranwis six miles or so away, hut I got no far ther thair lslgdCLth the -Kile. O ,Tf The reason was the nilonit ter and an ichneumon. j j T.!q nilomeWis the W thfOnonjgter'of Egypt. "JJie one at Cairo there are more of them up thft river is an octagonal pillar sensing ufa square well on tp islancT of Roda, the sse,,where Mose's was found in xne Duirusnes. is connected with The VS-fell the rivpr ThP Tto anH of the river's rise aSd faliqS4wildle complete 30-vol measured ot)Me pillar that is graduated in cubits. Why that was important is that the Nile is thelife blood of Egypt, and by ftmparing its depth on a given day with the data for other years the q Egyptians could tell what to expect and how to regulate irrigation. In the . old days, taxes were set by it, high in a good year, low in a bad. QUp to less than 100 years ago it wasn t known where the river's sotrrce was, and toaay, Because weather re ports along tQ Nile's 4,000- q lie length are still rather scanty, it continues to serve br some much as it did in the days of the Pharoahs There was a somewhat greenish cast to the water. asked if the rather bilious color was the origin of Nile green d was assured it was only a temporary condition. The green is caused by algae from the marshes upstream during low water. As the wa ter rises through the summer it reach its peak in Sep temberthe grefj disappears as the algae die. O In recent yrs, L-was told, the maximum rise at Cairo was 23 feetQThe maximum is far highefi unstreirti, 32 at Aswan Dam. 4"he reaaSn for the difference, aQde from the dam, js That so rrHch is drawn off f krigatton. - PrettyfairfFish As I wa fished some small ) boa sailing upstream, their triargular sftfls filled with a (Jiorth windo a boy fishing 5 aearby anKed out a perch it was a nrettv fair fish. sQtie. vgiatqh the ordebf our com-? was a disgusted look on The youngster's face as if he had Qraught a suckeQwhen expect ing a trout. 3 My guide explained that he was fishing for "bayad." I haven't Qyet seen one, but since it lOsaid to be witlut scaIcs, like .-our catfwh.to reach tiaxmum length of three and a half feet and to be ver,jK gcod eating, that's what itTriay be. The boy whistled. There was a flurry of brownish grey fiRS a weasel-like creature slith ered swiftly paslus. It was an ichneumon, the Egyptian mongoose thaj) is known to maTry as "Phaoah's rat" and that is alrtrost twice as big as the Indian variety. This one, a pet, vas nearly 20 inches long with a tail not much shorter. He puffed dis dainfully at a fii and? moved off to nose gmofti some 'stones, hunting a rat or moifte which, withQirds and snakes stands next to egg? among their favorite food. O Vmm the i1enV efftripnt Way in vhich he worked it was obvious why the ancient Egyptians memorialized him on tnr stone-ronuments as a mouser Absence of Crocodiles ; According To some, the ich leumoais responsible for the almost Total ab&ce of croco diles frorn th Nile of lower Egypt. EDrause ofehisove for th.e2gs 0f birds and lizards it li assumed that he killed off the crocs by eating their eggs, too. But Nile crocodile eggs are the hard-shell type. Very hardgFuhermore. they are buneQ under a foot and a half to two feet of sand, and since the mother crocodile spends thereater part of the 12-week hatching period ly ing on them, it is difficult to see how exen the wiliest ich- .iu L iunn. neumon wwua gti. ucm mem. Almost certainly the reasofi for the crocodile's retreat up the Nils is the higft-powered rifleerM the exploding popu lation ofOthe country. The nnnnlation has naore than doubled in the last century. And though the area of the country Egypt proper is nearlip400,000 square miles, HELlClN DEATH Cincinnati, Ohio (UPI) Cfcnstruction company em r&ovee OdeJl BlackQvas held 0 for the U. s-Omarshal's office rnnnectftn with the death0o5 rever?u agent fol lowing a scume. over ciacK s ftcoftotax troubles. A levy haP ften Qnad against BCfeck salary (Jot backHaxes and he was typing to raight eO out ijis difficulties with the aid of agent Joseph G Strohofer. Suddenly, Black grabbed Strohofer by the throat, and another tax agent Standing near by Robert 'Maurer, 43 pulled Black A short time later Maurer collapsed and died. By EUGENE BURNS Rjnger-Naturalit O I its more than 22,000,000 peo ple are crowded to the 13, 500 square miles thgjt) lie fcjong thaCriver. (Copyright, 1958, by Eugene Burns) (Ueleased by McClure News paper Sjjdicate) Free: By specjg arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my pa&J of judges will award each we& to the reader who tjends me the best true-life nature Cfedventure, the best nature observation, or the . . j i oest question on nature ana ume Set of this world-famous reference work i a hand some Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sjjrry, I sim ply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letters to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Trib une, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. Business Upturn Said Due July 21 Eugene (UPI) A Min neapolis economist predicted here today that the nation's business will enjoy an upturn at 8 a.m., Monday, July 21. Dr. Arthur R. Upgren told theaonvention.of the Oregon Bankers association here that setting an end to the recession at a precise hour was not so humorous as it might appear. He said that is the moment that heavy industry would resume work after its tradi tional vacation period. Dr. Upgren, consulting economist for the First Na tional Bank cl& Minneapolis, said tfcat when inventory li quidation has run its course and nrodnrfinn is liftpd to match fte still relatively high consumption, the first auto matic force for recovery would be at work. He commended such posi tive economic moves as hous ing and highway programs for maintaining personal incomes and supporting the rate of con sumption. He blamed the declining rate of investment by busi ness as the principal cause of the recession. Car Production Off 30 Per Cent Detroit (UPI) -'General Motors increased its share of auto production of GM, Ford and Chrysler was more than 30 per cent under car-truck building in May of -1957. GM built 215,754 cars and trucks in its U.S. plants in May, compared with 269,762 year earlier. For the first five months $f this year, GM production is 1,199,124 com pared with 1,509,059 last year. Ford production in May was 111,358 cars and trucks, compared with ' ?92,432 in May, 1957. For the first five month this year, Ford has built 607,262 units compared with 1,023,229 last year. Chrysler May production was 56,411, down from 129, 396 last year. In the first five months this year, Chrysler built 294,594 cars and trucks, compared with 643,631 last year. Chevrolet, with 601,127 units built so far, and Cadil lac, with 64,445, eame closest to their output of 1957. But none of the big three car makers is ahead of last year in production. Secretary Seeks Record for Talking Fayetteville, N. C (UPI) A Fayetteville secretary, shooting for $1,000 in prizes, was still going strong early today fn her attempt to set a new national talking record. And if Mrs. Lois Grant, 27, failed in her attempt, six oth er local women were waiting for a crack at the jackpotof prizes. At 12:30 a.m., Mrs., Grant had passed the 14-hour mark attfl a spokesman for the tele vision dealer who is promot ing the contest said her voice "is holding up fine. She's still gppg strong and she prom ises ne li suu De nere , ana still talking in the morning." Mrs. Grant began her as sault on th, record at 7:30 a.m. (ps.t.) Monday. The pres ent record for talking by a woman is believed to be 26V hours. PHILANTHROPIST D?ES London-1 (UPI) Sir ; Louis Sterling, philanthropist and industrialist who was born in New York's lower East SideQlums, died here-on Monday. He was 79. A natur alized Englisman, he was kinghted by King George VI in 1937. During his life, he gaye away nearly $3 million krehanty. Thornton To Attend Attorneys' Conference Salem (UPI) Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton will leave for Chicago Friday to attend the annual confer ence of the National Associa tion5 of Attorneys General. Thornton is scheduled to address the meeting follow ing Tuesday on the "defense of state officers by the attorn ey general in civil and crim inal cases." Grads Urged To Work for Peace Emmitsburg, Md. (UPI) President Eisenhower urged the graduating class of Mount St. Mary's College here Mon day to crusade or justice at heme and abroad, and for world peace. The President delivered the commencement address at the small Roman Catholic college for men after spending a quiet Memorial Day week end at his nearby Gettysburg, Pa., farm. The college, which ic cele brating its 150th anniversary, gave Eisenhower an honorary law degree. The President was cited for standing "a modern collossus against petty aims and mean ambition" in his efforts to maintain the free world alli ance. The President told the 110 members of the graduating class that despite the closing of America's physical fron tiers "there are more frontiers to explore, more crusades that need to be waged than ever before in our history." He cited slum clearance ed ucation, juvenile delinquency, race relations and above all "the struggle against atheistic Communism" as areas where American young people should crusade." Morse Attacks . High Dam Defeat Washington (UPI) Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) today called defeat of 1 the Hells Canyon' dam bill a "tragic loss to future generations of American boys and girls." He said "it is but another example of the predatory sel fish interests of the Eisen hower administration prevail ing over the welfare of the people of the country." Morse added, "it is my pre diction that within, 50 years. the people of the country will recognize the vital impor tance of the high Hells Can yon dam to our natural wel fare and security and that they will tear out the pigmy dams which the Idaho Power comnany has built and return the Snake river to the nation and to all the people." Rhododendrons Start To Bloom on Mt. Hood Timberline (UPI) Mt. Hood's own color spectacular, a display of rhododendron blooms, is now ready for viewing by thousands of the early summer motorists. The blooms were reported opening on the lower slopes of the mountains Monday and should be in full glory all the way to Timberline by the end of the week. They are early this year. ,.. 4-H Club News Sam's Thumpers Sam's Thumpers' May meet ing was a tour of all the rab bit members' houses. We saw how well the rabbits were get ting along. The June meeting was held at Dean and Linda Sommers' house. The meeting was called to order by Vice President Dean Sommer. Un der old business we talked about our showcase which is half finished. In new business we talked about pre-fair and went into a long discussion about showmanship. The meeting was adjourned. Re freshments were served by Mrs. Sommer. Linda Sommer, ' Reporter. More people come to HFC . for money help IftOOfiOO amities a year borrow confidently from HFC. OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main SL, 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 3-5301 No New Adjectives Left To Describo Television's 'Studio One7 By WILLIAM EWALD United Press International New York (UPI) One of the toughest things about be ing a TV critic is describing shows of me dium quality in new ways. So far this sea son I've used up mildly in g r a t i:a t ing, fairly pie a s mg, moderate ly compelling, t o 1 erablv ar- William Ewald r e s t ing and passably interesting. I've also used up other mildies like in between, average, so-so, re spectable, admissible, 50-50, lukewarm and neutral. Frankly, I've run out. And so, all I can say about Mon day . night's CBS-TV "Studio One" medium quality offer ing, "Ticket to Tahiti," is that it was mildly" ingratiating, fairly pleasing, moderately compelling, tolerably arrest ing and passably interesting. It was also in-between, aver age, so-so, respectable, admis sible, 50-50, lukewarm and neutral. It had some plusses a mildly ingratiating perform ance by Franchot Tone, a Cuban Army Seeking Rebels Havana (UPI) The army has launched an "all-out push" against rebels entrench ed in the Maestra Mountains, seeking to drive them into the sea, it was reported today. Private sources said 8,000 to 11,000 troops attacked last Sunday along an 80-mile front between Manzanillo and San tiago. They reported fierce fighting and said casualties have been heavy on both sides. . A victorious advance by the army would drive the rebels to Oriente Province's south coast. Naval patrols along the coast have been reinforced to block rebel attempts to escape by sea, the sources said. The rebel radio, back on the air after nearly two months' silence, said Monday that insurgent leader Fidel Castro has "nearly 5,000 men" holed up in the mountains about 2V times the figure estimated by observers in Havana. In HaVana. the Senate ap proved President Fulgencio Batista's request for a 45-day extension of the current state of emergency in Cuba. The House will meet soon to con sider the measure. Eddie Fisher May Undergo Surgery Hollywood (UPI) Sing er Eddie Fisher may undergo an appendectomy after ful filling a month-long engage ment at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Ney., beginning June 11, according to his doc tor. The singer was hospitalized at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital last Saturday. He expects to be released today or Wednes day. Fisher's physician said sur gery did not appear necessary at this time but that perhaps it would be required later. WANTS CITIZENSHIP Washington (UPI) Rep. Francis E. Walter (D Pa.), says actress Olivia de Havilland has requested spec to save her U. S. citizenship. The star, who has lived in Paris since 1955, would lose her citizenship in two years under present law. Walter has introduced a bill which would exempt Miss de Havilland from a provision of the Mc-Carran-Walter Immigration act that revokes the citizen ship of naturalized Americans who Jive abroad continuously for more than five years. Reason? HFC, America's oldest and largest consumer finance company, offers courteous, money manage ment advice and prompt loan service backed by 80 years of experience. At HFC you can borrow up to $1500, get one-day service and take up to 24 months to repay on terms you choose. Offering fairly pleasing one by James M a c A r t h u r, a moderately compelling one by Kim Hunt er and a tolerably arresting one by Olive Sturgess. " It also had the bones of a passably interesting plot: the father who has reached the middle of the journey and who suspects his blood is not merely tired, but asleep, and yearns to shuck. his responsi bilities and sail "for Tahiti or Chavez Ravine or some re mote spot like that there: the son, young, married, in debt, restless, spoiled, who is sad dled with a young wife who also is married, in debt, rest less, etc. But its neatly packaged lit tle ending in which father and son and son's wife and father's girl-friend all "con gealed in one grand and gooey gob of togetherness was ab surd, what is sometimes call ed "Deus ex machina," which I might freely translate as "Gob (sic) out of a machine," but I wouldn't dare.. Summing it all up, I would say "Ticket to Tahiti" was one of the those in-between efforts, average, so-so . . . aw, you finish it yourself. Short Shots: Arthur God frey's CBS - TV "Talent Scouts' had three performers of quality Monday night, and for a change, I thought his audience showed good sense in its choice of the winner singer Leslie Scott . . . Von nie Nardoff, who upped her winnings to an all-time TV quiz high of $237,000 on NBC - TV's "Twenty One" Monday night, indicated all her friends want her to quit, but I'm all for her staying on forever she's the only really bright spot left on Monday TV. The Channel Swim: CBS TV's Patti Page will undergo a tonsillectomy after her last "Big Record" show of the season on June 11. Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Lor en, Bill Holden and Jacques Tati are among those who'll appear on film on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show" June 15 the entire program will cen ter 'around the Brussels World's Fair. ZSs0' STARTS fllEir SpP. JUHE 21- . Wft vMBiBwamja f4m , e$ duiNUW! WXD" " "7 vgTzJ SAVE NOW! f-JJust in time for your vacation - Don't miss this special oppor is' tunity! All this month we are celebrating the 10th (Anniversary of the ed sullivan show with spectacu lar buys. Not only special low prices, but unusually high trade-in allowances. It's the biggest money-saving, event of the year. fin H Little Rock Opens Suit To Suspend School Integration Little Rock, Ark. (UPI) A hearing which could result in suspension of integration at Little Rock Centra High school and other schools here until January of 1961 opened in Little Rock today with ap proximately 15 witnesses schedueld to be called. The Little Rock School Board was to present its rea sons for asking Federal Dis trict Court for a three-year delay in its gradual school in tegration plan. The witnesses will present a "cross-section" of the per sons involved, according to one school official. Judge Harry J. Lemley, of Hope, Ark., will hear the case. He-estimated it would take the board two days to present its case for asking the delay. -,'' Negroes To 'Sit Back' Wiley 'Branton, of Pine Bluff, Ark., a Negro attorney, said attorneys for the Negro children who started the orig inal suit to integrate Feb. 8, 1956, would not know how many witnesses they might call until the board gave its case. "Since ,the burden is on them, we'r going to sit back at first," Branton said. He said he' "doubts seriously" whether Gov. Orval E. Faubus would take any part in the case. He pointed out Faubus is still prevented by injunction from doing anything to pre vent integration. Faubus told newsmen last week he would not take part. . VERDICT OF MURDER Hamilton, Ohio (UPI) A jury of nine women and three men found Shirley Ed ward Campbell, 22, guilty of first degree murder Monday night in the slaying of a Ne gro student nurse. Campbell was tried on charges of push ing the nurs, Syl vesta Andy, 20, of Piqua, Ohio, from the roof of a five-story hospital. 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