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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1958)
t 53rd Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1958 16 Pages Is That So? By OLGA BURNS All axolotls are the larval form of a land salamander, but some turn into salamand ers and others don't a con dition that has resulted in considerable confusion. Until a discovery made in Paris back in 1865, the atti tude toward axolotls was rela- r IS THAT SO! tively simple. It was general ly felt that the axolotl, which Mexicans consider an excel lent dish when boiled or roasted and served with pep pers, didn't turn into a sala mander. However, when an observer in the Jardin des Plantes noticed that four young axolotls of a litter, but not all, shed their external gills and tail fringes to be come adult salamanders, the attitude toward axolotls changed. A similar event took place in Germany a little later, and the scientists of the day were presented with an enigma. If an axolotl could become a salamander in France or Germany, why not in Mexico? Was it because of a difference in altitude, or merely because Axolotls in Mexico hadn't been observed closely enough? During the next 75 years scientists found out plenty about the' axolotls of Central Mexican lakes and streams, but the information served more to compound the mys tery than clarify it. While all axolotls were larval forms of the tiger salamander, there were startling differences among them. Axolotls in lakes south of Mexico City wouldn't become salamanders in their native waters, but some would in aquariums. Those of Lake Patzcuaro wouldn't under any conditions. Those in some mountain streams would make the change regularly and breed afterwards. Those in other streams would make the change, but some of them would breed while still in the axolotl state. Some Isolated Apparently the best ex planation for these differ ences is that the axolotls in some waters have been iso lated from those in others for thousands of years. The iso lation probably resulted from lava flows due to the volcanic activity in the area. Over the centuries such isolation would result in modifications of the local stock, but these modifi cations were arrested as the isolating barriers were broken down or circumvented in one way or another. Whirlwinds, for example, have often re sulted in the transfer of life forms from one body of water to another. As for the use of the word axolotl, it will probably not be restricted to the nontrans forming type of Lake Patzcu aro as some have . wished. Most likely, people will con tinue to use it to describe the larval stage of the tiger sala mander just as the Aztecs did who invented the name. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Sorry, I simply cannot an swer your many friendly let ters individually, but I will be glad to answer letters of general interest, co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. About 400,000 More Due For Social! Security Money Editor's note: Following is the second of two dispatches telline about forthcoming changes in the social security law. By LOUIS CASSELS Washington -flJPD- There are about 400,000 people in the U.S. who are newly eligible for Social Security payments The Social Security Admin istration is trying to locate them to advise them of their rights. They won't get the money unless they file claims. You, or someone you know, may be one of them. Their right to benefits stems from a series of amend ments to the Social Security law which Congress enacted at its recent session. Here are the principal groups affected: Disabled Workers and Families Since 1957, disabled work ers who are covered by the Old Age and Survivors In surance (OASI) program have been able to collect, begin- Sapphires, most of them suitable only for bearings in watches and fine instruments are mined in parts of Mon tana. mng ai age 50, the same monthly benefits they would have gotten had they retired at age 65. About 200,000 dis abled workers are drawing tnese benefits. Now, for the first time, their dependents also are eligible for benefits - on the same basis as dependents of retired workers. There are about 180,000 of them. But they must file applications at local social security offices. Also, thousands of disabled workers who were previously turned down are now eligible for insurance benefits. The law used to contain two re quirements for eligiblity. First, the worker needed to have Social Security credit for at least five out of the ten years before he became disabled. And second he had to show that he had been working at a job covered by Social Security for at least one and a half out of the last three years before he became disabled. The second of these re quirements has been abol ished. Any disabled worker who was turned down be cause of it should immediate' ly file a new application. Aged Parents The new legislation liberal izes the conditions under which survivors' benefits are payable to parents who were dependent on a worker cov ered by Social Security. Pre viously, dependent parents were not eligible for benefits if the deceased worker' also was survived by a spouse or child. Now dependent par ents who survive an insured worker are entitled to bene fits regardless of whether other members of the work er's family are drawing sur vivor's checks. There are about 60,000 such dependent parents. Social Se curity is having a very hard time locating them. They must file applications to get their checks. Adopted Children Under the old law, a child must have been adopted at least three years before an insured worker died in order to be counted in figuring the family's survivor's benefits. That restriction has now been eliminated. An adopted child counts like any other child, regardless of the time of adoption. 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