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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.
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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."
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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.
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Fayette, Me. (UPJ) This Old-timers were not happy
small Kennebec County com- about it. but officials agreed
munity has just installed four that "you have to have light
street lights, the first here if you want business."
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