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i MAIL TRIBUNE, MtaW, Oreeeit, Tue.o'ey, December 7. 1958 rr p,-, """1 rv, "I Centra! SP 3-7301 . " gl, ' 41 JM . y j 5f- . 77 T I MEETING IN BERLIN, commandants of West Berlin sectors are in good humor as they discuss crisis precipitated by Russia's decision to give control of city to East Germany's Communist government. From left: U. S. General Barksdale Hamlett, French Brigadier General Jean Labomme and British General Francis D. Rome. Is That So? By OLGA BURNS In the next week or so the striped chipmunk will stage what may be his second dis appearance of the year. The reason for the second one is to hibernate. The rea son for the first, which he probably but not necessarily made, was to estivate. in other words, if it got too hot for him last summer, he went un derground for a snooze, Jost as he does in the winter when it gets too cold for the cheery little rodent. For years it was not known that the reason for the sudden disappearance of the chip munks from an area was be cause he was an estivator as well as a hibernator. Most peo ple thought they had just tak en off on a summer migra tion. One man, however I be lieve he was a member of the faculty of Cornell thought it strange they consistently re turned, and so, one day after their disappearance, he got a shovel. He found other surprising things bsides the fact they had migrated only three feet be low the surface. One was that the chipmunk is something of an engineer with a surprising awareness of the need for san itation. For example, among the separate chambers at the end of the 20-foot tunnel dug up was a separate one, used exclusively as a toilet, and it was on a lower level than the others. j Just as extraordinary was the discovery as to how chip munks could move stones out of a tunnel that had a bigger diameter than the tunnel it self. They solved that problem by the simple expedient of cutting grooves along the edges of the tunnel, fitting the stone into them and then pushing it on through. When all the stones had been re moved, they filled up the grooves. Bushel of Food Some of the storage cham bers in a chipmunk's under ground home are big enough to hold a bushel of food, con sisting mainly of nuts and seeds. They store so much be cause they are not true hiber nators. They do not sleep afway the winter like the woodchucks, bears and frogs. Instead they " periodically awaken, eat, sense the feel of the weather-if there is an ex ceptional winter thaw, they even go out for a look around -and then go back to sleep again. Because chipmunks are usu ally seen on stone walls, rocky hillsides, or in brush piles, they are thought to be poor tree climbers. They are good ones, however, and have been seen in tree tops often, usual ly when there is a good crop of seeds or nuts to be gath ered. (Released by McCIure News paper Syndicate) Injections Could Bring on Trouble, Scientists Claim By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-UPD-Two medical scientists were only curious at first. They wondered what happened to the skin when a doctor push es a needle in to it. When they found out, their cu riosity turned into worry. In a ma- jority of such Dei o smith needle punc tures, they discovered, the pores of the skin are not mere ly pushed aside as the needle goes through. The needle cuts core of skin a little smaller than the diameter of its open end. And this core is likely to be injected into muscle, vein, or the tissue under the skin depending on where the doc tor is aiming the needle tip) along with whatever medica tion is in the syringe. The oretically at least that is not Southern Pacific Reduces Services em San Francisco-(DPD - South- Pacific has announced that its Shasta Daylight, oper ating between San Francisco and Portland, will run on a three - times-a - week schedule during the winter months. Claude E. Peterson, vice president of passenger traffic, said that under the new sched ule trains will run tri-weekly from Jan. 15 to May 28 and from Sept. 15 to Dec. 14. The train will continue to operate daily during the sum mer months and over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Peterson said that the new schedule was necessary be cause winter traffic declined 26 per cent in tha past two years. He said northbound trips will run on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with re turn trips on Thursday, Satur day and Monday. 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 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft bind ing. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sor ry, 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. There is one motor vehicle for every 700 feet of every lane in both directions of all the streets and highways in the United States today. Oil Bearing Sand in Linn County Lebanon, Ore. - (UPD - Oil bearing sand was produced at the Barr well No, 1 of the Linn County Oil Develop ment company, five miles northeast of here, it was an nounced Monday. Testing equipment was en route here from Sacramento, Calif., to evaluate the sand brough up Sunday, according to Adolph Hildebrand, Dallas, secretary - treasurer of the firm. The Sells Drilling company of Bakersfield, Calif., is drill ing the well on contract for the Linn county firm. Hildebrand said experts ad vised him the prospects are extremely good for a deposit of oil. The sand was brought up from a depth of 4200 eet. State Car Bids Claimed Too High Salem (DPD John Richard son, state finance director, said Monday that all bids to supply the state government with 800 cars next year have been rejected because the price was too high. The low bid was $1,850 per car. Richardson said this was $400 higher than last year. He said state agencies will be advised to do one of two things: Continue to drive ve hicles which would have been turned in on the basis of mile age. For cars needing replace ments, to take a "serious look to see whether a more eco nomical type of car may not be satisfactory to meet the state's requirements." so good. But the scientists, Drs. Thomas Gibson and Walter Norris, had to acknowledge that thousands of needles are pushed into thousands of peo ple by thousands of doctors every day, and there has been no reported trouble from all these cores of . skins trans planted into deeper body lay ers. Relation lo Illness Possible "With more widespread aware ness, however, the very high incidence of detached portions of skin getting trans planted deeper into the body may be correlated with patho logical (sickening) processes," they reported. That was their purpose- spread awareness among doc tors. They were struck both by what they had found and why no scientist having been very curious about the fate of punctured skin before. So far as medical literature reveals. theirs was the first thorough investigation. in eiiect tnese tiny cores of skin become skin grafts when injected into muscle or under-the-skin tissue, they said, and there Is no reason why these grafts should not "take" and grow if they get Into a proper "bed." But they're surrounded in the be ginning by the medication and later perhaps by blood clot. Either would tend to prevent a take. Might Cause Cysis Just the same, they con tinued in reporting to the in ternational technical journal, "The Lancet," there is the pos sibility of the skin cores caus ing, under-the-skin cysts. In deed, in experiments with lab oratory rats, they ve pro duced cysts by injecting cores of the rats' own skin. J In cases where injections are into the veins, it is at least theoretically possible for the skin cores to lodge in tiny veins of the lungs, they said. Gibson and Norris experi mented with hypodermic and injection needles of all pore's, from the smallest upward. They punctured healthy skin, removed during surgery, many times and then counted the number of times detached cores of skin got into the needles. This happened in 69 per cent of all punctures. The least meaning their In vestigation has, they said,- is that doctors should disinfect the skin carefully before push ing a needle into it, lest sur face infection get carried into deeper layers. Skin prepara tion before injection is often perfunctory, they said, and this could be the cause of ab cesses under the skin and in muscles which are not uncom mon after injections. - it- V ' 1 1 - . . ' See Wards Tremendous Vi fS Selection of Timely New Gifts 19 I 1 II I fa? Q JiJSFLm0iW . t-J Glft bxd We REG 5.98-cn.nitl ' " 1 I S I I J jf Wf I . ifflPl Y TBW? briefs forwomen. Run- robes. Many stylet, ' V :':a" Wi Mi. 3.33 id. 3.98 EET HAVE AN " E EXTRA VACATION - ON THE. WAY! zE yoortrfp GO BY miP! See us NOW-even if you're going NEXT SPRING! 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