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Thcyll Do It Every Time " By Jimmy Hatlo PUTELESS R4M WILD f lNDOHVE4H-4 SPRE4DER MM-I U ( I I IN "THE H4RDW4RE i ONE OF "THEM ELECTRIC fB HrsrA U iflfl STORE AHD BOUGHT A. EDCERS AHD TfJrWin ' (fill EVERY TOOL IN SIGHT AcTT: 3SrK7iC reTSHl Sb THE TOOLS 4RE ZISl SSS-I LIKE NEW IM THE -43 ST 1 JnSQS"4 G4R4GE,4MD WHO 5 FP&m ' TKlFs31 DOES THE WORK? Z7, W4) ' KgYlW,VH Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist BEES' HONEY FATAL Baghdad Via MEA The stingless bees of Baghdad pro duce honey. But they don't need to worry about its being stolen because it may be poisonous. That is what the owner of one of the city's beautiful gar dens told me as we watched some bees entering and leav ing a crack in an old wall. At first we thought they were wasps, but after he captured one as it emerged from a near, by flower we could see it was a stingless bee. As to the possible danger in its honey, the reason is that bees of this type do not feed onlv uron flowers and Mns- soms. They sometimes visit the vilest refuse, even the de caying bodies of dead animals. That doesn't mean of course, that the stingless bees honey is necessarily dangerous. Ex periments with artificial hives of stingless bees in the United States have shown that their honey can be high ly satisfactory. But in those countries where sanitary mea sures have not been so wide ly adopted as in ours, it has been found wiser to use honey of the usual type. Horizontal Layers The stingless bees, incident ally, generally build their honeycombs in horizontal ra ther than vertical layers, and the hive is usually entered through a long tube. Before we go out of the gar den we caught sight of a group of the regular honey bees swarming. They were forming a heavy mass of the trunk of an old willow tree, and the beekeeper, his turban ned head shrouded in a heavy Newest Slip Covers uoes your room need a new look? 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They had a grayish cast to them, quite unlike those I remem bered at home, and their re action to the beekeeper's ap proach was moderate, thor oughly in keeping with their reputation for having a gen tle temperament. . I saw no bumbleebee in the garden. Humblebee rather, to give them their proper name. There, are two main rea sons why the humblebee, is called that. One is that the queen among the humblebees is less class-conscious than her counterpart among the honey bees. The humblebee queen will pitch in and. help the workers in their duties about the hive. The honeybee queen, on the other hand, devotes all her time to the business of laying eggs. The second rea son is that the humblebees live in the ground instead of above it. (Released by The McClure Newspaper 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 world- famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week ,new submissions will be considered. Sorry, we simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, box 1069, San Fran cisco, Calif.-. Rise in Bread Prices Predicted Portland (DPD Retail bread prices went up two cents on the one-pound and one-and-one-half pound loaves here to day. Trade sources said the hike would be general throughout Oregon within a few days. Bakers attributed the high er price to a continuing in crease in labor costs and other manufacturing costs. The raise here followed a similar increase in Washing ton state last week. Tropicana Closes Casino Doors Today Las Vega? (UPD The mul timillion dollar Tropicana ho tel closed its casino doors to day when Manager Mickey Colohan reported "as they say at Monte Carlo, the bank is busted." A run of luck by gamblers, some winning $20,000 to $30, 000, was blamed by Colohan for the casino closure. Although the casino had a bankroll of half a million dol lars soon after its -opening two years ago, it was known to have operated with consid erably less recently. The remainder of the hotel, its dining rooms, bar and re vue, featuring Carol Chan ning, will remain open; Colo han said an attempt would be made to strengthen the ca sino bank after discussions with stockholders, most of whom are in Chicago. Quotes From the News United Press International Washington Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. John son, expressing faith in this country's space program despite the failure of Sunday's "moon-shot": "I feel that before this century is out we are going io have people not only on the moon, but also on near planets." Washington A House subcommittee, on the question of fair advertising practices in the medical field: . "In the field of ethical (prescription) drugs especially, the public has a right to expect and demand a degree of responsibility as well as standards and practices different from those in the promotion of soap, television and automobiles." London "Aetherius," an organization claiming to be in contact with space people, warning of "instant retaliation" if an earth rocket hurts anyone living on the moon: "This is an urgent warning. We have just heard from Martians at present visiting the moon." Colombo, Ceylon Minister, of food and agriculture, Philip Gunawardene, warning Western powers of Ceylon's future nationalization plans: "I assure you that wihin 5 o 10 years we will nationalize all plantations and the white companies will have to pack up and get out of this country without trying to dictate terms to us." Washington Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), charging Democrats with "legislative tyranny." "The members are being placed in the impossible position of swallowing a lot of bad legislation to get the good." Morse Named to Senate Sub-Group Washington, D. C. Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore) said he was "pleased and gratified" by the first meeting today of the Special Foreign Relations subcommittee on Canadian American affairs, of which he has been appointed a member. The purpose of the subcom mittee is to study the desir ability and possibility of es tablishing a permanent, regu lar body through which mem bers of the United States, Congress and the Canadian Parliament can discuss mat ters of mutual interest to the two countries. The subcom mittee members will explore with their Canadian counter parts the setting up of such a body. Morse said he intends to ad vocate and work for an inter parliamentary body of this kind for Canada and the United States. The senator continued, "Our inter-related defense problems, our inter related foreign policy, our inter-related trade, make it highly desirable, in my opin ion, that Congress keep in touch with Parliament on these matters by exchanging views and ideas on them." Montana has the thickest coal seams in Ameica, aver aging 16 feet. Those in Wyo ming average 12 feet. If ' : W Wfe" NUMB WITH GRIEF Elvis Presley (right) and his father sit forlornly on the porch steps of their home in Memphis, following the death of the singer's mother, Mrs. Gladys Presley. She died in a Memphis hospital, of an apparent heart-attack,, while Elvis was on an emergency furlough from the Army. SAD ENDING Otto Winzen (left), 0f Winzen Research Laboratories, and Air Force Capt. Grover Schock stand in the gondola of their balloon prior to its launching at South St Paul, Minn. Winzen and Schock were both badly injured when the gondola later dropped 100 feet to earth near Ashland, Wis., as they were attempting a landing. Schock's condition is described as "critical" by an Ash land hospital This was Schock's first balloon ascent, be ing made in order to qualify as a balloon pilot; later in the week he was to guide an Air Force experimental balloon in a 20-mile ascension. Canadian Captured In Apple Orchard Tonakaset, Wash. (UPE A 45-year-old Canadian wanted in connection with the murder of a Penticton, B.C., woman, and the shooting of a Royal Canadian Mounted policeman was captured in a Tonasket apple orchard Saturday, 13 miles below the Canadian border. . John Morrison was shot in the head and the leg by a Ca nadian Mountie two hours after he had escaped from a police car returning him to Canada. The Okanogan Sheriff's of fice said the murder suspect had been arrested in Tonasket earlier Saturday and was being taken by car to the border. Morrison reportedly jump ed from the police car six miles out of Tonasket and escaped on foot toward the banks of the Okanogan river, near Highway 87 leading to Canada. Shore Batteries Shell Quemoy Taipeh, Formosa (UPD Communist shore batteries hurled 88 shells at Nationalist China's Quemoy outpost islands today, and Soviet-built MIG17 jets ranged over the Formosa strait, the National ist Defense M i n i s tr y an nounced. The ministry said the artil lery bombardment caused no casualties among the Quemoy garrison. Air raid sirens sounded eight times between dawn and midafternoon on the heavily fortified Matsu islands at the northern .end of the straits. Three waves of four MIGs each were sighted near the Matsus, the defense communi que said. The ministry spokesman said no combat resulted from the MIG flights, which have become daily occurrences over the 100-mile strait sepa rating Formosa from the Red held coast. INDIANS CLAIM LAND Bay Minette, Ala. (UPD The Creek Indians announced Sunday they plan to continue their fight to regain 26 mil lion acres they claim the fed eral government took from them and turned over to white settlers. Ninety per cent of Brazil's soil could be used for farming. THE BABIES ON THE DOOR STEP They're girls, mostly. The Chi nese in Hong Kong try hard to keep a boy child. But the girls of poverty-stricken parents are likely to be found on the door step of an orphan babies' home. There's one "mama" for sixty five foundlings. And like every mother she loves to see a child's eyes shine with delight over a treat. There was the day when she gave the little girls some dried fruit picked by chil dren in California. It came through one of the overseas aid Programs of America's religious faiths. What excite ment it caused ! They need an occasional treat but more than that, they need the basic food that will keep them alive and healthy. Please help these and other needy people by sup porting your faith's overseas aid Program. ' PROTESTANT Share Our Surplus Appeal CATHOLIC Bishops' Clothing Collection JEWISH United Jewish Appeal Published as a public service inco operation with The Advertising Ctuncil and the Newspaper Ad vertising Executives Association. What Is The Law? This column is prepared as a public service by the College of Law, Willamette University. Salem, to 'ex plain basic legal principles, not lo provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for dif fering facts may' change the outcome. ASSAULT AND BATTERY Martin and Wright were in a violent quarrel. Martin pulled a pistol from his pocket and in a threatening manner said to Wright, "I'm going to kill you?" Martin knew the pistol was not load ed but Wright did not. Quick ly Wright jumped through the window and ran. Wright is now suing Martin for $5,000 damages for this "assault." Should he get damages? Yes, Martin should get dam ages because an "assault" was committed here. In law an assault has three elements. (1) It must be an unlawful threat or attempt with force or violence to do physical harm to another. (2) The threat or attempt must be coupled with the ability or ap parent present ability to exe cute it. (3) And it must be done under such circum stances as to cause a well founded fear of immediate harm. Well Founded Fear Wright didn't know the pis tol was unloaded and he was placed in just as much fear as if it had been loaded. It ap peared to Wright that Martin had the present ability to kill him and he had every reason, under the circumstances, to have a well founded fear of being killed. Quite often the words "assault" and "battery" are used together as though they were the same thing. But in most states there is a very dis tinct difference. The actual offer or threat to use' force io the injury of another person is assault, the use of it is bat tery. It is true that in many, if not most, instance the threat is carried out and there is both a threat and an actual physical harming of another. In assault the threat must be unlawful.. Some threat: are lawful as in a boxing maicn wnere xnere is a con- MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, Augui 18, 1958 IS X A .01 tytff' -vnff,. pi4 i?5 Y BACK TO THE SHIPS Lebanese civilians watch quietly as U. S. Marines in truck board LST on beach near Beirut, in the first contingent of American troops to be with drawn from Lebanon. The 1800-man battalion will rejoin the Sixth Fleet, with about 12,000 U. S. troops remaining in Lebanon. Accident Victim Dies in Hospital Portland (UPD A nine-year old girl died Saturday night in St. Vincent hospital here from injuries suffered in a fiery auto accident Aug. 8, bringing the accident's death toll to two. L i n d a, Strassel, severely burned in the crash that took the life of her father, August J. Strassel, 41, died from burns suffered when a station wagon driven by her father exploded in flames after col liding with another car near Beaverton. Another passenger of the station wagon, Donna Jean DeFreitas, 21, remained in critical condition at the hos pital. A fourth occupant, Kenneth Kyllo, 41, was reported in fair condition. TENT CAMP F.AIDED Verden, Germany (UPD A week end outing for 70 young members of a motorcycle club ended abruptly Sunday when police raided their tent camp where- they were asleep in the nude and arrested them. Boy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Til 727 W. McAndrewt Ph. SP 2-4107 stant threat of bodily harm. In boxing the threat is lawful becaues both contestants have agreed to this lawful type of threat by entering into the match. Sometimes it has been said that there cannot be a battery without an assault. This is not true because in a case where one is struck while asleep, there is clearly a battery but the person was not placed in fear of physical harm before the battery. 0D KM to! Phone SP 3-3613 TJi for replacement of m I W'MJlt BROKEN hWmBk WINDOWS HirjR SELBV GcoSS Daily's U-Brive II .. .... Mill i.jt.j l LI hJi . Jim, BelaVarga knows the price of freedom. He escaped from behind the Iron Curtain . . . leaving his family, his home, his belongings behind him. But 70,000,000 people like Varga still remain behind in the oppressed countries of Eastern Europe. They will drown in the flood of Red lies, restrictions, distor tions unless you help. For, word of freedom can only come to them in one way: from stations like those of Radio Free Europe. Every day, every hour, the 29 super-powered transmitters of this freedom network are at work, overpowering Red efforts at "jamming," slashing through Red lies, renewing hope that free dom will some day return behind the Iron Curtain. What you must do: Radio Free Europe is a private organization supported by the American people. Your dollars are needed to help operate its trans mitters, pay for equipment, supplies, announcers and news analysts. Remember: Freedom is not free! Send your truth dollars today to .Crusade for Freedom, care of your local Postmaster. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE I our dollars are needed io keep RADIO FREE EUROPE on the air! These broadcasting tubes wear out fast . . . cost thou sands of dollars to replace. Help us buy more! Give now! He puts freedom on the air. Your truth dollars pay the salaries of dozens of tech nicians like him. Are you giving? Do it today! Yo dollar pays for one minute of broadcasting time. Give now to spread the word of freedom be hind the Iron Curtain! Send your truth dollars to CRUSADE FREEDOM Care of local Postmaster MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
