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MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or., Monday, September 29, 1951 S Try and Stop Me k By BENNETT CERF- GRACIE ALLEN recalls: "The first time I ever met George Burns he gave me a pass to the theater in Union Hills, N. J., where he was doing a vaudeville act I went to the matinee the next day and was I sur prised! George was being co-starred with a movie called The Birth of a Na tion' and 10 other acts, but he was so modest he hadn't even mentioned them. I felt very proud. There must have been eight or nine peo ple in that audience and I was the only one with a pass." Grade had a fine vacation In Honolulu recently, and was telling a reporter all about it. "Did you go by boat or plane?" asked the reporter. "I don't really know," ad mitted Grade. "George bought the tickets." A man working in the XT. S. Weather bureau took time out to dis cuss his new wife the other day. "How that gal can talk," he ex claimed admiringly. "Her usual velocity is 160 words a minute, but she has gusts as high as 190!" O 1958. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate. til In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Another American rocket has soared into the air from Cape Canaveral, carrying in its nose another instrument bearing satellite. As this is written, it isn't known wheth er the satellite has gone into orbit. It will be known, pre sumably, by the time this is read. How important is another satellite? Not TOO important. We've orbited satellites be fore. If we can do it once, we can do it again. What is im portant is the MISSILE that carries the satellite aloft. II7TCY are missiles import " ant? The answer is simple. When intercontinental mis siles are PERFECTED, they can get us away from the need to keep American troops on foreign soil-at bases where American bombers can be launched quickly against an enemy in massive retaliation for an attack directed at us. The sooner we can get American troops off foreign soil, the better our world re lations will be. LET'S put it this way: If the British, or the French, or the Germans, or the Japanese-any of our allies -kept troops on our soil, we'd KESENT it. That's just human nature. ALONG that line, there is this hopeful note in the news this morning: American troops in Leban on are getting ready to PULL OUT and come home. Marines are loading fuel, ammunition and heavy equipment in pre paration for their departure. A reliable military source pre dicts that ALL AMERICAN FORCES will be out of the Middle East country by Oct. 17. If that turns out to be true, our relations in the Middle East-which are far from good now-will IMPROVE. EMTiMisiiL wis wmu GETTING back to the missile-It will make atomic war no less terrible. An atom or a hydrogen bomb in the nose of a missile will be just as frightful, just as destructive, as a similar bomb dropped from an airplane. The missile will be no less expensive than the more con ventional bomber. Modern war is costly in dollars. It will get more costly still as time passes and as weapons become more complicated. But when the intercontin ental range missile is finally perfected, it will be possible to launch it from our own soil. Is That So? By OLGA BURNS One of the drollest birds to look for in the fall migration is the red-breasted nuthatch. When you see him, or his cousin, the white-breasted nuthatch who spends his sum mers in this country, as like ly as not he will be strolling head first down the side of a tree-or maybe even swagger along on the underside of a branch. The nuthatches, red or white-breasted, have a jaunty cocky air about them that one would expect from bigger birds with more handsome plumage. Why they have it is probably due mainly to their manner of hunting. As the little fellow -they rarely reach a length of sev en inches from bill tip to tail end-hops along the . bark, he pauses occasionally to cock his head. The reason is he is looking or listening for an in sect. When he locates one, he tips his head back quickly and brings down his powerful tapered bill hard into the bark. Because of him, many a borer or other insect detri mental to our trees is done away with. And he doesn't catch them only in the bark, itself. During much of the year he hunts them on the wing as well. But it isn't through his pur suit of living prey that he got his name. That is due to the way in which' he deals with nuts and seeds when he varies his diet in the fall. Naturally for so small a bird the business of cracking some of the nuts presents quite a problem. How he solves it is to take the nut to the side of a tree, fix it firmly in a crevice of the bark, then batter and hack it with his bill until he breaks the shell. Sight Impressive The sight of him at work is quite impressive. Anyone who sees him and who has tried to crack a hickory nut with a metal nutcracker will immediately realize that his punch is packed with power; As to where you are most likely to see a nuthatch on his way south an orchard is probably the best place. They seem to favor such places as a most likely source of food. Parks are nearly as good, though, for they tend to be quite friendly to man. In fact, if you have a feeding area for birds near your home, you are quite likely to have one take advantage. (Released by 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 the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome. Seal craft binding. Each, week new submissions will be consider ed. 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