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
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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
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ies he will visit on the state's
100th birthday Feb. 14, Rep.
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today.
Nixon is scheduled to visit
Astoria to attend ceremonies
to commemorate a Centennial
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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.
Here he feeds on tiny shrimp,
crabs and other small animal
life, growing in size and
weight until he may find him
self on a menu as filet de
sole.
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