53rd Year
Medford
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Tribune
2nd SECTION
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
Pages 1 to 10
Is That So?
By OLGA BURNS
There are plenty of sea
gulls in the United "States to
day, but there probably would
not be any if the millinery
trade and egg hunters had
been left to their own devices.
The fact of the matter is
that back in the 1880's, sea
gull plumage was as mt ch in
demand for women's hats as
the egret's. As for the eggs,
though some people made a
living by fattening young sea
gulls for the poultry market,
the effgers made money fast
er by raiding the rookeries
in the nesting season. Boiled,
coddled' or fried, they were 9
popular item in seaport rest
aurants from Boston to San
Francisco.
Too popular, because fi
nally the people were con
fronted with a problem un
ique in ornithological history
-which would go first, the
gull. or the egg.
Gradually the question
tightened its grip on the pub
lic imagination. In 1885, New
Jersey passed the first strong
law against gull killing. Ten
years later, California for
bade the sale of gull wings
or feathers for millinery pur
poses. During the next two
decades 38 other states pass
ed similar measures.
Serves as Scapegoat
But, as the history of con
servation shows, passage of
laws is one thing and enforce
ment another. In too many
cases the. law has served only
as a scapegoat for the public
conscience. Not so with the
gull. Why?
Part of the answer undoubt
edly is an early recognition
of the gull as a scavenger. In
that respect the herring gull,
commonest of our sea gulls,
is little short of a flying 'gar
bage disposal unit. Though an
able and resourceful hunter,
he would much rather find
his food the easy way. Since
almost any organic matter
will do, the harbors of Ameri
ca present him with a steadily
increasing food supply. His
comeback has been a strong
one-so much that' by even
the late 20's, conservation of
ficials found they had to be
gin destroying a percentage
of the eggs. There was no
protest at the waste, the pub
lic having largely fortgotten
their taste.
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Newspaper Syndicate)
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San Francisco, Calif.
Nixon Says Senate
Can Adopt Rules
Washington-(UPD-Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon held
for the second time in two
years Wednesday that the
Senate can adopt new rules
by majority vote at the open
ing of any new Congress.
The vice president's "ad
visory opinion" not a bind
ing ruling came only a half
hour after the Senate opened
its new session with a bitter
fight brewing over attempts
to change the rules and make
filibusters easier to curb.
It came shortly after Demo
cratic Leader Lyndon B. John
son of Texas announced that
the Senate would take no ac
tion on the rules fight today.
As the Senate's presiding
officer, Nixon, held in his ad
visory opinion that the Sen
ate at the time was operating
under its old rules, but that
it has the "constitutional right
at the beginning of each new
Congress" to decide by ma
jority vote what rules it wants
to adopt.
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TO THE VICTOR Outgoing Gov. Goodwin Knight (left)
presents the keys of the Governor's Mansion to his suc
cessor, Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, prior to Brown's being
sworn in as new governor of California at Assembly
ceremonies in Sacramento. Brown, is the first Democrat
to be governor of the state in 16 years.
The first man-made snow
storm in the United States was
made by air, dropping dry ice
on clouds over Mount Grey
lock, Mass., in 1946.
Thomas G. Clemson, found
er of Clemson College, was
United States charge d'af
faires in Belgium from 1844
to 1852.
Hatfield Suggests
Neuberger Address
Salem-flJPD-Gov.-elect Mark
Hatfield suggested Wednesday
that the state legislature
might like to invite Sen. Rich
ard Neuberger to address a
joint session to set forth views
on national and international
problems facing the current
congressional session.
Hatfield said he made his
suggestion after learning that
Neuberger would remain in
Portland for treatment for an
other three weeks.
"I cannot recall the Ore
gon legislature having heard
an address in joint session
from one of our . U.S. sena
tors," Hatfield said.
A new breed of cattle de
veloped in Australia is called
the Droughtmaster and is re
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tick. It is a cross between the
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Scheduled to Rise
Portland - (UPD - Prices have
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on six brands of bourbon
whiskey carried in Oregon
state-controlled liquor stores.
The OLCC said that sim
ilar increases are expected
on about three more brands
Feb. 1. Reason for the price
increase is a price hike by distilleries.
Less than one-third of all
the single men in this country
between the ages of 65 and 69
still work. For married men,
the proportion is more than
half.
there's only one
from Oregon.
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