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Dr. Purdom Will Discuss Trends For Education Tr. Glen Purdom of the state department of education will discuss new trends and developments for mentally re tarded children at a meeting t 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne ave., Medford. The meeting is being spon sored by the Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health asso ciation and the Council on Exceptional Children with the cooperation with local school officials. Dr Purdom is consultant in mental retardation with the department of education. He will discuss the role of schools in the education of children1 of limited capacities and the results of recent experiments in this field. Consider Classrooms Association members point ed out that schools throughout the state are being asked to consider special education classrooms. A legislative interim com mittee recently completed a study on the need for special education in order to prepare young people in this group to assume their responsibilities to avoid maintaining large state institutions for their care, according to ALf Mek vold, county school superin tendent. Jackson county now has two classes for educable re tarded taking care of 30 chil dren. Mekvold estimated there is a demand for classes for at least 217 such children in the county. 4-H CLUB NEWS Central Point Forestry Club The Central Point 4-H For estry club held its third meet ing of the year at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Skyrman Saturday. Some members gave reports on various spe cies of trees. Also, the pro gram of work for the year was planned. Two identifica tion contests were held; one for new members and one for older members. The next meeting will be Feb. 21 at Skyrman's. John Caster, Reporter. Table Rock Packrals The Table Rock Packrats met at the home of Judy Leurs recently. All were pres ent. We had the business meeting after which we had a report by Carol Myers and Pat Striplan. Judy Leurs and her mother served refreshments. The next meeting will be Feb. 9 at the home of Glenna Brown, president. t Anita Pierce, Reporter. Busy Bakers . At a recent meeting of the 4-H Busy. Bakers, the follow ing officers were elected: President, Carolyn Zarosin ski; vice president, Molly Ely; and secretary-treasurer, Lynn Rickman. The outgoing officers are president, Luana Loffer; vice president, Ramona Rausch; secretary-treasurer, Cathleen Rentz; and reporter, Linda Farfan. A demonstration and judg ing of table setting was en joyed by all. Ramona Rausch made chocolate peanut butter cookies. Mrs. Jack Rentz serves as the leader of the 4-H Busy Bakers. Mary Ann Snider, Reporter. Sam's Thumpers Sam's Thumpers 4-H club meeting Jan. 11 was held at the home Caryl Zapell. We discussed the secretary's book and our goals. Linda Sommer gave a talk on safety. We discussed 4-H summer school. A bake sale will be held at the Valley locker Sat urday, Jan. 31, starting at 10 ajn. Nancy Day, Reporter Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins TONITE & SATURDAY If You Enjoyed "White Wilderness" Don't Miss This Great All Disney Show ft Ytg & : v vw. .e .-... .. m horse Sil MINPfl COO"TLAN a mills v wtmxj cafcv ALSO WALT DISNEY'S IflHalku AKunvHn MilllJHIl 1 11?: TtOIWlCCtOW Nature Knocked Flounder Family Flat Nature dealt a cruel blow to the flounder family of fishes and knocked them as flat as a pancake. They never get over their flatness. This fish becomes filet of sole on the menu and in the cooking of this fish the housewife is ending just about the most unusual life cycle of any crea ture that lives in the sea. The flounder belong to a large and peculiar family of fishes, called the "flat fishes", the largest number of which is the halibut. He, too. is flat and his progression through the water is a floundering, wavy undulation of the body. The flounder is the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the ocean. Their transformation is complete and startling. From the graceful symmetry and grace of conventional fish, the flounder becomes' a gro tesque caricature of awkward homeliness and abject de spondency. Float Aimlessly The boyant eggs of the flounder float aimlessly on the surface of the water. At the end of a few days what few escape the hungry hoards of the sea, hatch out into tiny, free - swimming fish. These little fellows dart hap pily about, feeding on mic roscopic food and attempting, by being almost transparent, to elude their enemies. Their bodies are round and their position in the water is na tural and graceful. They possess, like most fish, an air bladder and maintain a nor mal swimming position. They feed constantly and grow rapidly. Shortly a tendency to lean sideways begins to trouble the little fish. He does not know it but his air-bladder is be- Nixon Will Visit Astoria Next Month Washington-IUPD-Vice Pres ident Richard Nixon has add ed Astoria to the Oregon cit ies he will visit on the state's 100th birthday Feb. 14, Rep. Walter Norblad (R.-Ore.) said today. Nixon is scheduled to visit Astoria to attend ceremonies to commemorate a Centennial stamp. Plans already had been announced for him to visit Salem and Portland. ginning to disappear. His youthful buoyancy is gone, forcing him to sink toward the bottom. His frantic struggles to maintain a ver tical position and remain up near the water's surface be comes increasingly difficult. The body begins to lose its roundness and becomes flat tened. This accentuates the pro nounced leaning until he is tipped over on his side. Strangely enough, he tries to resist this leaning force by swimming fast in the oppo site direction, away from the way he is" leaning. But the force is irresistible; he sinks to the bottom on his side. Pale Underside His underside, now forever robbed of the sunlight, be comes pale and unpigmented, while the upper side corre sponds to the color of the sea bottom on which he finds himself. While all these changes have been going on, his under eye begins to act strangely. It begins a slow, deliberate migration toward the top of the head and over toward the upper side. The upper eye, the one already on the top side, begins sympathetically to move down In order to make room for. the one com ing over from the under side. Often the nose and skull of the fish becomes distorted and twisted but the under eye continues Its movement and eventually the two eyes, side by side, look up from the tipper side of the face. The little flounder has, by now, accepted the inevitable MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, January 10, 1fS H and begins his life right on the very bottom of the sea. 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