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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1958)
o 12 MfL$$Mft etf4, . W.e.day, Jun 25, 1958 Is Tfea So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Bairut $jebenon's valley of El Beqa' is 0 beautiful place but I shall always remember it because of necklace of be zoar stonfe 0 Rfohammedan tried to sell me. The stones ranefl from a half-inch diameter to golf ball size, and the owner swore they had the special merit of coming from wild Persian goats. For that reason, plus their carved cabalistic de signs, whoever wore it would never have to worry about illf Hi being poisoned. In fact, their power was so great a would be poisoner would die o frus tration. Regardls of his tory, tht bezoar stones ha probably never been nOrtr Ftrsit ;than e bomtn at the : goats or f Ltbanoa A bezoejr is like iirSll but don'i firccsuriiy nave any h$fc. Jit center my bt :comp4 tlracrt njr kind :of subftaftce Ibreiga to the : animal td4 f ou&3 which or ganic materials, acted upon :by internJU Heidi and other ae cretions, fatm i& reinout, : almost concrete mil!. Z A bezoar tht I saw from a -Pervian llama aeee composed alowst entirely of 11 ma wool, j-hera together by ort of ; cement, (plainly calcium phos "phate. IWas as larjjt as a Z sizable orange. Another, om -a leopard, was of -a rather soft consistency, like a hairball four domestic cats sometime Z cough up at home, o Z The bezoars of the Near and 1 Middle East, however, appar ently tend to have less hair fand to consist generally oi Z concentric layers of a stone--like substance. In the case of Z those from wild Persian goats, 'chemical analysis has shown II them to have an amount of 2 ellagic acid, a crystalline type ;that can be produced from 3 oak bark and gallic acid. Z Very likely the astringent -action ofthe acid is the sola 2 physical cause for the ' high Z value our ancestor placed on ! bezoars up to 150 years ago, especially those from the Orient. But the principal reason for the cures claimed for bezoars in the past, as well as in much of the East today, must be due to something other than as tringent action. In fact, since many cures were for illness in which astringent action would be of no benefit whatever, the success must be due to the faith of the patient in the remedy. And very possibly in the case of bezoars from goats, the patient felt the stone was acting like a scapegoat and carrying off his disease. (Released by McClure Kewspaper 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 na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30 - volume set of this world-famous ref erence 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 Tha't So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. iqh School Course Changes Suggested Augusta, Me. (UPI) The curriculum committee of the Maine State Principals' Asso ciation has proposed that tra ditional high school courses of study be abandoned. The committee recommend ed that new categories be sub stituted for the traditional general, commercial and col lege entrance courses. The new classif ications would put high school stu dents into three groupings gifted students, average stu dents, and slow learners. The plan was taken under advisement by the association for further study. The com mittee said the change would gear courses to the abilities of students." 1 - 'f'J '- V'-M; ''.' 'si v V"i , K 4'" HERE WE GO AGAIN The 12-ton raft Lehi IV, looking much UI;e its disaster-stricken predecessors, makes a trial float at Redondo Beach, Calif. Capt. Devere Baker, the Lehi's owner has been trying for some time to float a raft, to Hawaii to prove his theories on ocean currents. Baker hopes to drift the raft to Hawaii, and then from the Persian Gulf to South America. Previous attempts have been unable to get away from the California coast 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 witi by responsible agencies and counselors. Navy Barge Oldest Boat in Service Washington (UPI) The Navy's oldest boat in service is an unnamed 50-foot barge now flying the flag of Rear Adm. Harold Davis Baker,' commandant of the Potomac River Naval command. No portion of the all-wood hull structure has been re moved or replaced because of deterioration or mechanical damage since the barge was put in service 46 years ago. It shows no signs of decay or rot and is still seaworthy. It has gone to battle in three wars aboard the battle ships Louisiana, Utah, Flor ida, Arkansas and New York. And, the Navy says, it will continue in service as long as it is so sound and trim. It was built in 1912 by the Herreshoff M a n u f a cturing company of Bristol, R.I., at a cost of $12,000. The cedar planking, white oak keel, stem, frames, tim bers and deck beams, the Ore gon pine clamps and bilge stringers, and the teak deck and cabin are still showing no signs of wear and tear. The original gasoline en gines, however, were replaced by 105-horsepower diesels. Admiral Baker is its sixth commander. Students Practice At Restaurant Grand Rapids, Mich. (UPI) Cafe-owner Ralph Arriaga speaks English but not when Grand Rapids high school stu dents enter his restaurant. Students from various high schools practice their class room Spanish at Arriaga's place by ordering meals and conducting dinner-table con versations in Spanish. The student who skips his studies and can't come up with the right words or lapses into English while trying to order gets a smiling "no com prendo" from the waitress. "Almost all conversations is in Spanish and, naturally, all orders for meals must be spoken in Spanish on order of the teacher who accom panies the class," said Arriaga. Complex Molecule Said Disease Cause Madison, iWs. (UPI) Dis covery of a complex organic molecule has led a University of Wisconsin biochemist to be lieve that it may be a cause of plant wilt, including Dutch elm disease and oak wilt. Prof. Mark A. Stahmann said the plant disease, fusarial wilt, is caused indirectly by the Fusarium group of fungi. The molecules, called pec tic enzymes, cause clots in the plant's "blood stream," he said. This results in wilting and the plant's death. Stahmann said crude ex tracts and tissue fluids from plants which resist fusarial wilt slows the growth of the fungi. Further tests with the para sitic fungi on host tissues may be "valuable in screening or detecting resistant varieties of plants," he said. The name "Quakers," refer ring to the Society of Friends, is said to have originated with an English magistrate arraign ing the founder. Karen S. Margaret made trouble In our office. Margaret M. Cheating galls me. ' Karen S. I am 19 and work in a large office with a lot of girls of about my own age. Recently I brought in one of my best friends to work here, too. Margaret has always been the kind of girl who gets into the middle of every mix-up and sure enough, that's what happened here. Some of the girls were doing something wrong in order to avoid an extra amount of work. Mar garet went and told the super visor. She g6t them in a lot of trouble. Now everyone is sore at me. Nobody speaks to me be cause I am Margaret's friend. Margaret says she did the right thing and I shouldn't even want to be friends with with those girls, but I used to have a lot of fun with them and I miss them. Margaret M. I am two years older than Karen and a lot more experienced in many ways. I can see that if Karen went on being friends with those girls, she would get to be like them irrespon sible and 'dishonest. She is a very sweet kid and . I would hate to see that happen. I was brought up to be hon est and sincere and when I see cheating it really galls me. Those other girls were getting good money for han dling their job, but they just refused to give service in return. The way Karen treats me now I can see she just doesn't want me around and is sorry she ever brought me here. But believe me, the supervisor isn't sorry I came here. She is grateful to Karen. . The Council Margaret ap pears to have appointed her self general supervisor of the morals of everyone around her. She may congratulate herself on her virtue,, but she can't expect others to like her when she takes on the role of of the office informer. Honesty and sincerity are certainly great assets in the working world and Margaret's virtues and abilities would certainly be recognized by her superiors, but this does not justify her spying on fellow employees. The supervisor is undoubt edly grateful for the informa tion she got, but we wonder whether she is greatly im pressed with Margaret as a person. We believe Karen made a mistake in bringing Margaret into her office. One of the sat isfactions of- a job is in finding new relationships, often quite different from the ones ex perienced in the past. ' Karen has a right to get to know and understand the girls she works with even if their characters are not the best. She must discover her own values and stick by them. She has a right to make mistakes and to remedy them in her own way. If she cannot undo the dam age to the relationship with the girls in her office, Karen ought to try to find another job. (Copyright 1958, General Features Corp.) TV -Quiz Show Heads Into Fourth Tie Game . New York (UPI) Quiz queen Elfrida von Nardroff headed into a fourth tie game with - school teacher Robert Leicester Monday night in a close battle in which she set her sights an $295,500. Miss von Nardroff, 32, has won $253,500 on the quiz show "Twenty-One" to be come the highest money Win er on television. She and Lei cester now are tied 10-10 in a fourth game which will be played off next week. She could boost her winnings by $42,000 by defeating him. Cornerstone, of the U. S. Capitol was laid in 1793. PLANER BLOX Clean Quick Delivery Nedford Fuel Go. I I LET THERE BE LIGHT since It was founded la 1785. Fayette, Me. 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