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53 rd Year MEDFORD Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1958 Pages 1 - 8 CAT RESCUE Mrs. Elsie Chavez of Los Angeles emerges with her cat, Tommy, from the crawlway under her house. The cat had been trapped for three days be tween two walls, until Mrs. Chavez crawled under the house 2nd tunneled under a wall to release him. Dirty and hungry, Tommy was otherwise unscathed. Is That So? By OLGA BURNS Several kinds of land snails, such as the special French .types served in luxury hotels, are good eating, but -what about those found in your garden or the country side? The likelihood is that many of them are edible. At least, that is the suggestion in the following account by A. V. Mitchell, of Oakland, Calif., concerning his experience with an Ecuadorian snail. Mr. Mitchell, while in the East Ecuadorian rain forest a few years ago, not far from the savage Auca Indian area, found that he and his party had to live off the country for a few days. When the rain let up, the Indians went hunting, returning in an hour or so "with two frogs, a snail as large as one's fist, and eight orioles, including five chicks." They had bagged the lot in one tree: "The Indians were quite elated about it," he writes. "There were few culinary pre liminaries. Cooking as an art had not evolved from the Nuclear-Laden Bomber Crashes Lake Charles, La.- FIUPD-A Strategic Air Command B47 Stratojet armed with a nu clear device exploded and burned Wednesday on the flight line at Chennault Air Force Base, killing the pilot and burning a crewman. At the time, the B47 was on alert for nuclear retalia tion in the event of enemy attack. However, the Air Force said there was no dan ger of a nuclear explosion and no harmful radiation was present. The pilot, Capt. Joseph T. Lyles, of Bossier City, La., was killed instantly. The navi gator, 1st Lt. Robert R. Simp son of Sacramento, Calif., was burned severely. Col. T. S. Walters, base commander, said the plane caught fire and burned while parked on the flight line. Oth er aircraft in the area were moved as a precaution, he said. All personnel except fire fighters were evacuated from the base, and military and Lake Charles municipal fire and police units set up road blocks around the base. The roadblocks were removed when the fire was brought under control. Hearing Center at SOC Collects Toys Ashland The speech and hearing center at Southern Oregon college is now spon soring an annual drive for toys and attractive pieces of clothing for the mentally handicapped children at the Fairview school, according to Leon Mulling, director. Mulling said small toys, cos tume jewelry, sport shirts, sweaters, sox, and stocking fillers would be appropriate for the youngsters. Those in terested may send contribu tions to Mulling at the college. Going Under Polar Ice Claimed Easier Than Surface Trip Editor's note: The rirors of polar travel above and under the ice are compared In this dispatch by a correspondent who did it the hard way on top while covering "Op eration Deep Freeze" in the Antarctic. primitive. The snail was shell ed and thrown into the lire. The' frogs, undressed, were wrapped in wild banana leaves and placed in a rake-up pile of coals. The big orioles were skimpily plucked, spitted and partially toasted, and the chicks were : wrapped in leaves and placed on the hot embers. "The snail was a curiosity to me, although I had seen their shells all over the jungle. In spite of a lack of appetite, I forced myself to try a taste. It must have been in the fire all of five minutes when they thought it was ready. I asked an Indian to cut me off a small piece. He cut a cube about three-quarter of an inch thick. Undercooked Gristle . "To start with there was no taste, unless of an undercook ed gristle. But, I' reasoned, the taste would come with the chewing., The taste, however, did not develop and the send sation was like nothing I ever felt. The particle would give a little when I bit down on it. The instant the pressure was released, my jaws would spring back . and the cube would start a hide-and-go-seek game with my tongue. I kept on until nausea overcame me. "That I did not accept any further of their offerings did not offend-the Indians. They finished the meal, not full an Indian never gets full but just as happy as if they were, and completely contented." Mr. Mitchell's feelings are easy to understand. The snail, though edible, was not good eating for him. Very likely, as he suggests, the fault lay in the extremely primitive Ecua dorian Indian cuisine. (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 Sealcraft binding. Each week new sub missions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. By CHARLES R. MOORE UPI Correspondent San Francisco -UP&- It's a lot easier to go under the polar ice than through it. This was obvious from ac counts of the men who sailed the atomic submarines Nauti lus and Skate under the North Pole. They lived in air-conditioned comfort and neither rocked nor rolled as the subs glided beneath the ice cap. In addition to their military significance, the trips opened up interesting possibilities of year-round contact with scien tific bases on the edge of the vast Antarctic continent. These now are isolated during the long months of winter darkness. I've never gone under the ice in a sub, but I made two trips through it, to and from the Antarctic aboard the ice breaker USS Glacier, and made many flights above it.. The Glacier does it the hard way. South from New Zea land through turbulent seas, then battering through the ice. The passage of the Glacier through the ice has been de scribed .accurately as "like riding a hay wagon over a frozen cornfield." Rough, hard going for ship and crew. Last season the Glacier lost a propeller blade to the ice. The resulting -vibration brought part of a mast, loaded with electronic gear, crashing to-the deck. Later a tough floe jabbed a hole in her bow. It was neces sary to "beach" her on the; 15-foot ice of McMurdo Sound for repairs. The open areas in the ice reported by the Nautilus and Skate exist also in the Ant arctic during the summer sea son. Some are many miles wide. Few Feet Thick Whether means can be found for a sub to break through the solid ice sheet in winter is a question. But in most places it is only a few feet thick and it seems likely this problem can be solved. Killer whales already have suggested a possible method. Where the ice is not too thick, these submarines of nature sometimes smash it from be low to reach a tasty seal or penguin. The submarine voyages under the ice are only the beginning of polar atomics -but a comfortable beginning foe those who have done it the hard way. The United States contract ed for about 145,000 Mexican farm workers this year. Ores and minerals repre sent 6 to 8 per cent of the total value of world trade. , y SPANISH SAtOESlA FEDERATING The two Independent states of Ghana and Guinea, recent withdrawals from the British and French empires, respectively, have announced an agree ment to merge, as "the United States of West Africa." The agreement is subject to ratification by the national assemblies of both states. In the announcement it was stated that the confederation is intended to be the nu cleus of a nation of West African states. Liberia, adjoin ing Guinea, is also an independent country. Medical School Undertakes Study Portland (LTD The Univer sity of Oregon Medical School has announced that it is undertaking, in cooperation with a South American uni-. versity, a study of the role of the adrenal glands in toxemia of pregnancy. The U.S. Public Health Service has awarded a four year, $82,300 grant for the work. The project is under direction of Dr. Howard J. Tatum, association professor of obstetrics and gynecology. Cooperating in the" study will be the University of Valle School of Medicine in Cali, Colombia. The school said that tox emia, which occurs in three to five per cent of pregnan cies in northern United States, is characterized by. hyperten sion, or high blood pressure, and retention of water and salt in tissues, leading to an abnormal, puffy swelling. The disease is a leading cause of maternal death in the United States, the school said. Eisenhowers Host Son and Family Augusta, Ga. - (UPD - Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower played host Thursday to their son and his family. , The scene was "Mamie's Cabin," the local term for the relatively, small, but highly comfortable Eisenhower house on the grounds of the Augusta National Golf Club. The President's son, Maj. John S. Eisenhower, his wife Barbara, and their four chil dren, David 10, Barbara Anne 9, Susan 6, and Mary Jean 2, arrived from Washington ear ly Wednesday evening. They flew here aboard a govern ment plane bearing official pa pers for the President and members of his staff. Dr. Graham Named Chairman of Group , Ashland Dr. Alva W. Gra ham, director of graduate studies at Southern Oregon college, . has been elected chairman of the college chap ter of the Oregon Education association. Miss Florence Al len, post chairman, was elect ed secretary-treasurer for the group. Dr. Graham will represent the college chapter at the OEA Representative Council meet ing in Portland Dec. 5 and 6. The council will consider re ports on federal legislation, state legislation, school eco nomic welfare, as well as hear and act upon reports and rec ommendations of the Centen nial action program commit tee. . Helicopters Join Hunt Murfreesboro, Tenn. -UPD-Helicopters joined ground par ties Thursday in a wide-ranging hunt for Spence Edwards, 35, a convicted killer who fled from a Georgia road gang, kidnaped and wounded a hos tage, bound a highway patrol man to a tree and stole the patrol car. South Bend-ffiPD-The Stude-baker-Packard strike which idled 6,200 workers since Monday was settled Thursday. The Shady Valley area of Johnson County, Tenn., has mined manganese continu ously since 1883. Crater Lake in Oregon, with a depth of 1,996 feet, is the deepest in the United States. 1 Robert Raikes of Glouces ter, England, founder of the modern Sunday school, open ed his first school in 1781. ?venjtfewer Jromehind the'Jfheel I Odds are you've seen the new 1959 Cadillac by now perhaps sweeping regally past you on the boulevard . . . perhaps making its majestic arrival at a fine club or hotel. 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