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TAKING OFFICE at end of week-long convention in Kansas City, here are new leaders
of Future Farmers of America. Front row, from left: Adin Hester, president, Aurora,
Ore.; Norman A. Brown, student secretary, Temperance, Mich. Back row: Lee Todd,
Bells, Tenn., vice president, southern region; Thomas E. Stine, Ozark, Mo., vice presi
dent, central; Richard Van Auken, Monroe,. N. J, vice president, North Atlantic.
Saw Fish Said To
Use Saw Mainly as
Rake To Find Food
By DELOS SMITH
, UPI Science Editor
New York (UPD Among
the innumerable unanswered
scientific questions is what is
the saw of the
saw fish for,
and a fish sci
entist has pro-
! posed a new
answer.
I It is used hv
the fish more
as a rake than
as a saw, sug-
TSZiixJ sested J-c-D-
Delos Smith w atts; the
fish rakes the sea bottoms
with it, rooting out small fish
hiding in the mud and then
gobbling them as they ap
pear. Previous answers centered
on the obvious. Surely any
animal with a snout as long
and mean-looking as the saw
of a saw fish, used it as a
weapon. Watts said, perhaps
o now and then, but that
wasn't its main purpose.
Among Nature's Ugliest
If you've never looked a
saw fish in the eye, you have
a nightmare waiting for you.
They inhabit the warm seas
and are among the ugliest of
nature's creatures " many of
which are ugly enough to
stop a clock. In the first place,
they're rather flat and
spready at the belly. Then
there's the saw of bone lined
on both sides with triangular
teeth, which can account for
more than one third of the
total length.
Finally they run to size.
The largest with which peo
ple have become acquainted
were 20 feet long with six
foot saws, weighing around
1,000 pounds. Fortunately for
human peace Of mind, people
don't see them often because
they are bottom livers.
Watts is employed by the
fisheries research unit of the
government of Sierra Leone
on the African west coast, a
good place to study saw fish.
Occasionally they get washed
up on beaches and fishermen
encounter the disaster of get
ting one in a net.
10 Miles From Sea ,
They're known to swim up
rivers for long distances when
the rives are in flood. Watts
based a part of his contribu
tion to science's scant saw
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fish knowledge on one he
caught in a river 10 miles
from its outlet into the sea.
This fish was male, 14 feet
long, weighed 566 pounds.
In its stomach was a small
fish which, having been gulp
ed down, was whole and in
"a fair state of preservation,"
Watts reported to the inter
national technical Journal,
"Nature."
This small fish had been
both sawed and stabbed by
the saw fish's saw. On the
basis of this, Watts admitted,
you could think the saw was
a weapon of offense. But he
thought it was a happen
stance. When saw fish are in
the rivers at flood time, the
water is so muddy they could
n't see prey at a great enough
distance to use their saws.
4
CLUB
-mi NEWS
Wesiside Beefy's 4-H Club
The Westside Beefy's 4-H
club met at the home of Don
Bradshaw one of our leaders,
Sept. 28. Completion cards
were filled " out and turned
in. A discussion followed on
how to properly complete the
record books. We talked
about buying a steer, feeding
it out and selling it at the
4-H auction and turning the
money over to the Shrine
hospital.
Officers for the coming
year were elected. They are
Linda Gibson, president; Mar
sha Watson, vice president;
Roxy Terry, secretary; and
Clint Gibson, reporter.
A motion was made and
seconded that a member
could not miss a meeting
without a good reason and
when three meetings are
missed they will be dropped
from the membership. The
motion passed as the mem
bers believed that a member
would be interested enough
to attend all the meetings if
he wanted to be a 4-Her.
The next meeting will be
Oct. 26 at Marsha Watson's
home at 7:30 pjn..
Clint Gibson,
Reporter
Westside 4-H Hayburners
The Westside Hayburners
4-H Horse club held there
overnight ride Oct. 11 and 12
The members met at the'
Posse Grounds Oct. 11 and
rode from there to the Rags
dale home near Lake Creek.
Saturday night the club
had their regular meeting.
Linda Gibson, reporter, was
the only officer present and
she acted as president and
Sharon Forde acted as secre
tary. Four new members at
tended the meeting and they
were Judy Bradshaw, Pam
Roberts, Roxy Terry and
Nancy Hurlbut. Two guests
attended the ride and they
were Nancy Lusk from Ash
land and Jan Main of Med
ford. The club decided to have
a hayride instead of a Hal
loween party. The hayride
will be Nov. 1 and will end
at the Ragsdale home. The
next meeting will be at Shar
on Forde's home Nov. 8, at
10 a.m. After the meeting
was adjourned, Wallace Rags
dale played the guitar and
his daughter, Barbara, play
ed the accordion.
Sunday on the ride home
the club did a good deed of
helping the H. W. Robertsons
put their straying horses back
in the pasture.
The club left the Posse
Grounds about 10:30 ajn.
Saturday and returned about
6 pjn. Sunday. Eight mem
bers, our leader and two
guests attended the ride.
Linda Gibson,
Reporter
Grange News
Roxy Ann Grange
Roxy Ann Grange met Fri
Alva Sims presiding.
Home Economics chairman,
Mrs. Carl Quackenbush, re
ported HEC met at her home,
with Mrs. Marvin Garrett as
co-hostess. There were 30
members and four guests
present. She announced there
will be a public dinner at
the Grange hall, Sunday, Nov.
2. The public is invited. The
next HEC meeting will be
at the home of Mrs. J. O. My
hre Nov. 5. Mrs. Byron Ellis
will be cohostess.
Mrs. Clarence Pfnister wel
comed Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Moeller who had' not attended
for some time.
Mrs. Madge Nowlin i n
charge of display had old Bi
bles, each owner gave a short
history of their Bible.
Roscoe Roberts, insurance
agent, announced there will
be a change in fire insurance
and raise in extended cover
age. He urged everyone to
clean up fire hazards and be
careful of cigarettes.
The Master read a letter
from State Grange saying
they had passed the resolution
regarding labeling of shoes
and was sending it to Nation
al Grange.
Agricultural chairman,
Charles Whitcher, reported
beef prices steady, hay off a
bit and there had been a
change in wheat acreage al
lotment. Mrs. Bruce Moffatt, lectur
er, read a piece entitled
"Something to think about"
and games were played.
Refreshments were served
by Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gar
rett, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Moeller and Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Burchfield.
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WACs Find Valuable Places
In Army Posts Around Globe
Editor's note: What are some of
the complications in training a
small army of women to take np
the slack behind the front in war
time. This second of two dis
patches from we Women's Army
Corps training center discusses
these problems.
By WILLIAM TUCKER
United Press International
Ft. McClellan, Ala. - (UPD -"Send
us more WACs!"
That, according to Lt. Col.
Marjorie C. Power, command
er of the Women's Army
Corps training center, is the
most frequent communication
she receives from generals en
gulfed in paper work across
the globe.
"And I'll repeat the de
mand," said the graying lady
soldier. "Send ME more
WACs."
It isn't that the WAC does
not get the right kind of girls.
The wrong kind are screened
out at the recruiting office, or
early in service.
But the WAC has an inade
quate, thinly spread recruit
ing force. Its publicity budget
is low and the WAC tradition
ally has had a poor press
since its creation in the con
fusion of World War II.
Wants Right Headlines
"If only they would make
headlines out of a WAC get
ting the legion of merit in
stead of one getting arrested,"
said the salty colonel who
would not look out' of place
on the liveliest battlefield.
The WAC has 72 recruiting
stations in large cities
throughout the country. But
each is '"manned" only by one
WAC officer andor a WAC
sergeant and the total force is
less than 200.
"An officer covering a
large territory will sometimes
spend all day on the road and,
just as in the traveling sales
business, you can't take or
ders when you are driving,"
said Maj. Mary Jane Eldridge,
public information officer
here who has also done re
cruiting duty.
"Our moral standards are
very high and rigidly en
forced," she continued. '-'If a
woman in the army does
something wrong she will
stand out.
"Especially must a woman
on recruiting duty conduct
herself as a paragon."
Takes Great. Pride
Occasionally a WAC will
write her home town news
paper, without giving her
name, that she is "looked
down on" in the community
and she wonders why, be
cause she takes great pride
in her service.
Major Eldridge said her ex
perience had been that she
PAPAL DOCTOR RESIGNS
The cardinals of the Ro
man Catholic Church have
accepted the resignation of
Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi
(above), physician to the late
Pope Pius XII, as director of
the Vatican health service.
The action followed the out
cry against the doctor's ac
tion in selling his "diary" of
the last hours of the Pope.
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was "looked at instead, of
"looked down on."
"We're a curiosity in places
where there is no military
concentration," she said.
"Most people do not even rec
ognize our uniform and they
are inclined to stare."
Veteran WAC officers who,
through the hurly-burly of
World War II, admit that the
corps had a few undesirable
members in that period. But
they say the WAC drew a lot
of criticism it didn't deserve.
"In those days it was easy
for girls doing any kind of
defense work to say she was a
WAC and try to dress the
part. I believe a lot of the
so-called WAC delinquents
were really outsiders."
Civilians Make Passes
In their relations with
men, say WAC veterans, the
tendency is for the military to
fuss over them and for civil'
ians to make passes at them.
"I still hear suggestive re
marks if I ride a New York
subway, said one officer.
You learn to pay no notice
to them."
When a WAC group arrives
at a remote base, said this of
ficer, the local commandant
will usually make a great stir
of detailing men to set up
housing, sanitation and other
facilities for the girls to en
sure privacy.
"We know what to do," she
said. "We learned it in basic
training. When the men have
left us alone, we have set up
our own camps without a
hitch."
Enlistments and re-enlist
ments are on the upswing,
Colonel Power said.
"Maybe we are getting bet
ter publicity," she said, "and
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WACs. And to get them, we
will have to get out and re
cruit them."
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