MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or., Monday, September 29, 1951 S
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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!"
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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.
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