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They'll Do It Every
Mudfish Too Ugly.
Vicious To Live But Does
Nature must have been in a
foul mood when she created
such an unpleasant creature
as the common mudfish.
From any angle he's a mess.
He and his repulsive wife in
habit the muddy bottom of
many fresh water lakes,
ponds and rivers. Living as
they do, in the murky depths,
they are seldom seen except
by unlucky fishermen who
from time to time pull one of
these creatures into the boat
and wonder what manner of
fish they have hooked.
The mudfish looks about as
bad as anything can look and
still be alive. It's hard to un
derstand how this hideous de
mon can even tolerate himself.
At it is he hates everything
that lives and eats anything
that has the faintest resem
blance to flesh. Sometimes
called "bowfin," the mudfish
Is a voracious monster who
can cut an ordinary fish in
two with one snap of its
powerful jaws. ,
Black Body
The mudfish has a black
body or sometimes greenish
black, with a blunt head and
a repulsive face. The fins are
roundish and spineless. In ex
treme instances the fish
reaches a length of two feet.
The back or dorsal fin is very
long, running almost the en
tire length of the body and
containing many rays or
spines. The male has a round,
black spot at the upper base
of the tail-fin. The spot is
usually surrounded by a yel
low colored ring.
The general body outline is
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pare the manufacturers' suggested retail prices
posted right on the cars in the showrooms, and .
youll see this for yourself.
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Sometimes you run into price comparisons
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ment, and the other has lots of it. This is not
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Time
Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins,
more like an eel than a con
ventional fish., They swim
with a snaky motion. In some
instances a pair of rudimen
tary "legs" protrude from the
underside of the body, just
back of the head.' The body
itself is peculiarly soft and
unpleasant to handle or touch.
The fish is worthless as a hu
man food.
Extremely Tenacious
The mudfish is extremely
tenacious, capable of surviv
ing long time out of water
or under conditions of impure
water or even starvation
which would prove fatal to
any other fishj This is a fish
that nobody wants. Even
Mother, Nature herself seems
to have abandoned them for
the ancesters of today's mud
fish lived millions of years
ago.
This is determined by the
presence of a peculiar air
bladder which, functions as a
lung;, a breathing apparatus
that was characteristic of
primitive fish back when the
world was young.
Back then the mudfish prov
ed too slow or too reluctant
to adjust itself to changing
conditions. Higher and better
organized forms crowded out
of the sea those who could not
keep up with the advancing
pace. The mudfish, for some
unknown reason, moyed into
fresh water and struggled on.
Today they are the only liv
ing representative of a lost
fossil family; a throwback of
prehistoric times.
(Released by the Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1959)
MOST
SMHMUICK-CADILLM 143 S. Riverside
By Jimmy Hatlo
Federal Gasoline
Tax Boost Meets
Critical Barrage
Washington -OJPD- The ad
ministration's call for an in
crease in the federal gasoline
tax ran headlong into a con
centrated barrage of critic
ism today from organizations
representing road users.
Even before the fresh out
cries, there seemed to be vir
tually no chance Congress
would enact the proposed IV2
cent a gallon gasoline tax
boost proposed by President
Eisenhower in his budget mes
sage.
Some congressional tax ex
perts felt there was a possi
bility the lawmakers might
approve a V-cent a gallon
hike, but others felt this had
only an outside chance.
Motorists now pay three
cents in federal tax for every
gallon of gasoline purchased.
Gets Chilly Reception
The President's proposal-
which would raise revenues
by $724 million next year
received a chilly reception
from the American Automo
bile Association, The Ameri
can Trucking Associations,
The American Petroleum In
stitute, the National Highway
Users Conference, and Sen.
Pat McNamara t (D-Mich.),
chairman of the Senate pub
lic works subcommittee on
public roads.
McNamara said the Presi
dent's proposal "may well
sabotage the national high
way program by burdening
the motorist unfairly while
at the same time making it
far more defficult for the
states to raise their share of
the highway costs.
A burning match will pro
duce 1,500 degrees of heat
three times the number of
heat units needed to ignite
forest fuels.
IMPORTANT
It buys a Buick ESABRE instead.
You eoald pick the LeSabre 4-door sedan
pictured here . . . including Twin-Turbine
automatic transmission, "radio, heater, white
sidewall tires, electric windshield wipers, direc
tion signals, lighter, and automatic dome and
glove compartment lights. Even with all that
our statement will stand up.
FURTHERMORE, YOU'LL OWN A BUICK
Youll have a fine car, with a fine-car ride,
a true fine-car feel. You get a quieter, more
substantial car. This year's Buicks have been
judged the "outstanding" cars in their field
in a recent poll of car owners.
Exceptions
Search for
To Battle
Following Is the third of four
dispatches on latest developments
In the war against cancer.
By PATRICIA McCORMACK
New York -(UPD-A boy with
intestinal cancer was given
one of the first cancer-fighting
drugs in 1948.
Aminopterin, it's called.
For six years, the patient,
at Children's Medical Center
in Boston, continued receiv
ing the drug. The "boy" is
now a young man more than
six feet tall. He recently
passed his Army physical.
At a New York hospital,
another anti-cancer drug -
TEM - was given to a young
girl with Hodgkin's disease
six years ago. Now, she's mar
ried and has two children.
ine two cases are excep
tional. In many patients with
similar cancers, the same
drugs have had little or no
effect. (
isut exceptions such as
these have spurred the search
for a battery of drugs against
cancer. The use of such drugs,
chemical bullets, is called
chemotherapy.
A few of the pioneer drugs
have cured cancers in ani
mals. A dozen or more are of
"temporary" benefit in some
cancer patients.
Historic Search
Grasping at the straw,
Uncle Sani poured $20 mil
lion in 1958 into an historic
search for one or more drugs
that will cure human cancer
or beat it into submission
every time it flares anew,
It costs about $120,000 to
put one of the anti - com
pounds through the research
works, and at least 40,000
compounds are now being
tested. This year, even more
will be screened at the sev-
e r a 1 hundred laboratories
woven into the fabric of the
program across the nation
Man-made chemicals, anti
biotic beers, steroids and
even plant extracts are being
tried out against tumors in
animals in this push. Over
the years, nearly one million
naturally - occurring sub
stances also will be tested
The search for chemical
cancer killers goes on around
the world.
Regression of Tumors
In Osaka, Japan, mitomycin
C, an antibiotic, was given to
82 patients with far - ad
vanced cancer.
The trial started in August,
1957. Dr.- Yawmon Shiraha
and his associates at the Osa
ka City University Medical
School have now reported:
"In 30 patients, the anti-tumor
antibiotic caused regres
sion of tumors.
In the U.S. the same drug
has been reported effective
against a wide variety of ex
perimental animal tumors.
Recently it was made avail
able for the first time here
in an organized clinical test
' About 120 million Ameri
cans play cards in the United
States. They use up approxi
mately 60,000 decks a year,
PIUS NEW ECONOMY, HIGH TRADE-IN VALUE
The engineers planned to build noticeably
better gas mileage into the '59 Buicks. Reports
now in from owners, and careful competitive
tests, too, prove they did a very successful job.
Alongside all this, put the good trade-in value
which the Buick name and Buick's successful
new styling assure . . . and you can see why we ,
say this $200 difference in price is the most
important $200 in the automobile world today.
See your Quality Buick Dealer soon. Let him
prove it in detail.
THE
Spur
Drugs
Cancer
ing program on human pa
tients. The latest battle report on
drugs against cancer is this:
so far they win minor skirm
ishes. Sometimes, they beat
back the malignancy long
enough to add months or a
year or more to the patient's
life.
They don't cure cancer-yet.
(Next: Research Frontiers.)
Brig itte Bar dot Afraid
Of American
Planning To
Editor's note: American wives
who've wondered how their hus
bands would behave with Brigitte
Bardot need have no worry BB
is afraid of American men. In the
following exclusive interview with
United Press International Corres
pondent Robert Ahier, she tells
why.
By ROBERT AHIER
Paris -UPD- Brigitte Bardot
came out with a startling ad
mission today: American men
frighten her.
So much s.0, in fact, that
she doesn't want to go to the
United States and meet them.
She said in an exclusive in
terview that Frenchmen, des
pite their reputations, are
easier to handle.
"I would love to visit the
States as a private tourist
with nobody staring at me in
the street," she said on loca
tion at Joinville outside Paris.
"I'm sure I would love it
and I would have a lot of fun.
But to go as a movie star and
be shown off like the Statue
of Liberty - never!
Startling Admission
"I don't like that sort of
thing and in any case I'm
afraid of American men."
This was a . startling admis
sion coming from the girl
whose naughty adventures on
the screen have won her
world - wide fame as the "sex
kitten." Naturally Miss Bar
dot was asked why.
"Every week I get some 200
fan mail letters," she said, the
famous pout much in evi
dence. "About half of them
are from Americans, propos
ing marriage or simply offer
ing to take care of me.
"Imagine going to the
States and meeting all those
people. I'd never be able to
keep them off."
Brigitte talked' oil the set
of her latest movie, in which
she switches from sex ' to
RIFT IN UAR
Jerusalem, Israel -(UPD- A
decision to replace Bulgarian
military experts with inex
perienced young Egyptian of
ficers in Syria has caused a
serious rift in the United
Arab Republic high com
mand, reliable sources here
said. They said Egyptians
just out of foreign training
schools are taking over as in
structors in Syrian infantry,
artillery and air force units.
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Fmil Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers.
Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does
not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt
with by responsible agencies and counselors.
1
Marvin J. My wife and I
have been married ten years
and have two children, aged
five and seven. I have a night
job and from the looks of
things now I'll be working
nights for years. It's not a
pleasant prospect, but nothing
can be done about it.
. My wife wants more social
activity and I certainly don't
blame her for that, but I say
we're going to have to restrict
Men; Not
Visit U.S.
smiles to play the frothy
comedy role of a girl soldier
in the wartime French army.
Film for Children
"I'm not going to get un
dressed in this picture," she
said firmly. "Anyone can
come to see it even the chil
dren.
"Don't think that I have
given up sexy parts. I'll play
some more. But I have to feel
in the mood, and right now I
want to show people that
there is another side to BB.
Miss Bardot also scotched
rumors that her engagement
to guitar-player Sacha Distel
was on the rocks. Left Bank
gossip has had them drifting
apart for some time.
jusi as soon as we can
find some time and a quiet
place, we are going to get
married," sue said. "We want
the ceremony to be a private
affair.
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it to week ends. My wife says
she wants to belong to a cer
tain club that meets during
the week and she'd like to go
visiting a neighbor's home
occasionally.
I feel that she ought to stay
at home with the children.
They need her in the house
especially since I'm not there.
don't like leaving the kids
with a baby sitter for so much
time.
Rose J. Marvin is distort
ing the whole issue because
he happens to be a bit jea
lous. He talks about this
"baby sitter" as if I were
leaving the children with a
stranger. Actually my sister,
who has been a perfect gem
about it, stays with the chil
dren. She goes to college and
says she can study in my
house as well as home.
Marvin is really riled be
cause our neighbor's husband
has taken me home on several
occasions in the past. This
man is very good-looking and
has an impressive personal
ity, but he is a perfect gentle
man. There certainly can't y e
any harm in his taking me
home.
Marvin knows how I love
to get out evenings. I have
more patience with the chil
dren when I can have a lit
tle change.
The Council: It probably
would help to clear the air if
Marvin would state his full
and honest reasons for want
ing to keep his wife home
evenings. Possibly he is
ashamed to exhibit any, jea
lousy, but , we think that
I there is no reason to be
ashamed. It is perfectly
understandable that he should
not like the idea of a hand
some neighbor escorting his
wife home at night.
We suspect that Rose takes
some pleasure in this event.
Probably she. wouldn't want
any "harm" to come of the
whole thing, but she should
be thoughtful enough of her
husband's natural feelings to
give up any trivial gratifica
tion she gets out of her neigh
bor's attentions. If she must
go out evenings without her
husband she should make dit
ferent arrangements for her
return.
Neither do we think Mar
vin is so far off the beam on
the baby sitter issue. A col
lege student who happens to
be a doting aunt may make
an excellent sitter, but she is
still only a substitute. Child
ren who cannot have their fa
ther's attention in the eve
ning need a little more than
a substitute mother.
We don't recommend that
Rose remain at home resent
fully. If she feels angry and
chained down by her mater
nal responsibilities she won't
be doing her children much
good. We would suggest in
stead that she try to see
what she can do about round
ing up a little social activity
in her own home. Possibly she
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two evenings a week. She
should try to find some crea
tive things to do and she'll
feel much happier about the
time she must spend alone.
(Copyright 1959, General
Features Corp.)
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