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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfora. Oregon, Monday, February 23, 1959
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There At Slill Some Things
Unknown About Flowerlight
Many common flowers
have the peculiar ability to
glow at night, giving off a
soft white, green or bluish
light. Science has looked with
interest at many of these blos
soms and has in some instanc-i
es, been able to explain part
of the mystery. There are
some things about it still not
too well understood.
The deep orange colored,
double marigolds actually il
luminate their blossoms on
dry, clear evenings by emit
ting waves of light that play
over the petals like mimic
lightning. This light is green
ish and sometimes so strong
as to cast a glow on nearby
leaves.
The large blossoms of sun
flowers often glow with vary
ing degrees of light. The nas
turtium is another one that,
for some unknown reason,
becomes luminous during cer
tain times of the night.
Tiger Lily. Too
The tiger lily emulates a
phosphorescent glow to such
an extent that the flowers
sometimes look like luminous
bulbs of greenish light.
Many mushrooms glow dur
ing the darkness and many
times oak leaves which have
been dampened with dew or
rain present a strange, eerie
glow. Usually the yellow
leaves which are covered
with spots of mildew are the
ones which emit the light.
This is undoubtedly a fungus
growth on the leaves which
give forth the glow and is a
result of decomposition. This
is definitely different from
the light- that plays over the
living flowers. The latter is
for a diferent purpose, and
results, not from decay, but
from some unexplained reas
on still too complex for easy
explanation.
Perhaps flowers have the
ability of storing up sunlight
during the day and emitting
it slowly after the sun has
gone. Common granulated
sugar has this propensity, and
has been known to emit a
soft glow of greenish light
in a dark room. Diamonds
and many other precious jew
els give of rays of light that
have been imparted to them
hours before.
You Can See It
These light givers are fun
damentally different than the
light given off by living flow
ers, however. The flowerlight
is there, in your garden right
now for a very definite reas
on. Sometimes it takes the
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human 4y e a considerable
time to detect the soft glow
of flowerlight, but you can
do it if you want to.
Give your eyes time to ad
just to the darkness. Select
a place where reflected light
from streetlights does not
neutralize the soft glow of
p h o s p h o rescence and you
too, can see one of the pro
foundest mysteries of nature
with your own eyes.
Perhaps you also will see
the reason for the light. Some
where in the outer darkness
night flying insects are wait
ing for the little lights to
come on; waiting to follow
the beam to the flower, it
self. This is the reason for
the glow. The blossom needs
the insect and it is doing all
it can to guide the little night
voyager to itself. There is
a close association between
flower and plant, insect and
darkness; a n intimate rela
tionship as vague and as mys
terious as the soft glow of
flowerlight itself.
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate. 1959)
CENTRAL POINT
PTA Meeting Scheduled
By DORIS HUGHES
Central Point-The Crater
High school Parent - Teacher
association will meet Mon
day ,Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. at the
school cafetorium.
On the program for the
evening will be demonstra
tion put on by the parliamen
tary group of the Crater chap
ter, Future Farmers of Amer
ica. Don Denning will also
present his winning speech
and James Backen's students
will present a play on mental
health. Past presidents of
Crater PTA will be intro
duced. Refreshments will be
served.
The Crater High school
PTA executive committee met
Feb. 17 at the school. A nom
inating committee was select
ed and plans were discussed
for a food sale to raise money
to meet the budget demands.
Cakes, pies, and cookies
will be sold at Gold Hill and
Central Point. The date will
be announced later.
Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks spoke
on civil defense at the meet
ing Thursday night of the
Central Point Parent-Teacher
association. Three guitar num
bers were played by "The
Eager Beavers" and Mrs. Lois
Sullivan's room won the
count fot the largest number
of parents attending.
There are now 625 mem
bers in Central Point PTA.
Gen. Hicks commented on the
pleasure it gave him to see
the number of men who at
tended the Central Point PTA
meetings. Charles A. Meyer
made the announcement that
Louie Alvarez had won the
Jackson county grade school
basketball free shot cham
pionship in the contest held
in Medford earlier Thursday
evening. Alvarez will repre
sent Jackson county in the
state shoot to be -held Feb. 28
built a plan
ndeit
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There'd be eight long holiday
week ends each and every
year for each and every one
of us if only the government
would adopt the calendar de
veloped by William C. Fogle
Jr.
Fogle, 54-year-old supply
department manager of the
Federal Reserve Bank in Kan
sas City, created the calendar
as a hobby, copyrighted it
and is now offering it to the
United States and the world.
It would consist of 13
months of 23 days each. Since
that would add up to only 364
days, Fogle would tack an
extra 24 hours onto the first
day of the year. This would be
designated Jan. Al-the "A"
being New Year's Day and
the "1" the normal working
day that follows.
Another 24 Hours
Every fourth year, which is
now leap year, would contain
still another 24 hours at its
very beginning and would be
called Jan. AMl. The "M"
would represent Meditation
Day, a new holiday.
Fogle calls his creation the
"Almanebi Perpetual Calen
dar," Almanebi was coined
from the first two letters of
the names of each member of
his family - Alice, Margaret
Ann, Neil and Bill.
Its creator has spent about
S1.000 developing and promot
ing the calendar but doesn't
at Corvallis
Meyer also expressed his
appreciation for the safety in
struction and films which
were presented at the Central
Point schools by Sheriff Joe
Walsh and Chief Criminal
Deputy Paul Bettiol. In honor
of Founder's Day, past presi
dents of the Central Point
PTA were introduced. The
second grade mothers served
refreshments.
Mrs. Grover Mulkey, secre
tary, announced that the
Jackson County Farm bureau
will meet Tuesday, Feb. 24,
at 1 p.m. at the Old Stage
Realty office in Central Point.
All members are welcome.
The Willow Springs Home
Extension unit will meet on
Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Richard Savage, Old North
Pacific highway, Central
Point. The meeting will begin
at 10:30 and a potluck lunch
eon will be served at noon.
Mary Pat Lucy, Jackson
county home extension agent
will give a demonstration on
nutrition food values. Child
care may be obtained by call
ing Mrs. Rinehold Boes at
NOrmandy 4-2961.
Mrs. Arthur Ayers of 121
Manzanita St., had as guests
last week end her son and
daughter - in - law and grand
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Del
Ayers and Sue of Portland.
"Visitors recently at the
home of Mrs. Mary Herrmann
were Mr. and Mrs. LaVere
Herrmann, Russie and Rickie
of Portland. Mr. and Mrs.
James W. Clark, Jamie and
Jana Marie of Medford, Mr.
and Mrs. Emmitt Herrmann,
Raymond and Julie of Central
Point and Mr. and Mrs. Al
Danielson, Bobbie Lee, Rob
ert, Dale and Robin of Cen
tral Point.
Mr. and Mrs. LaVere Herr
mann .and family from. Port
land were also visiting Mrs.
Hermann's mother who was
in the Saccred Heart hospital
where she had undergone sur
gery. , The Ladies Berean class of
the Communitty Bible church
met Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Arthur Ayers
of 121 Manzanita st. in Cen
tral Point. Devotions were led
by Mrs. Joe Gray and Mrs.
Cora Card was in charge of
entertainment. Refreshments
were served by the hostess.
Attending were Mrs. Ray
Minger, Mrs. Ted Hill, Mrs.
Cynthia Smith, Mrs. Carrie
Hamrick, Mrs. A. B. Mead,
Mrs. Edward Higinbotham,
Mrs. Henry Muller, Mrs. Os
car Minnick, Mrs. Card and
Mrs. Smith.
Jones and Wright
Start Appraisal Firm
Walter J. Jones, Medford
appraiser, and William
Wright, Ashland and Medford
realtor-appraiser, have an
nounced their ssociation with
offices at 425 East Main St.,
Medford. The firm is known
as "Jones and Wright."
Jones has been in the real
estate and appraisal field since
1922. Wright is president of
the Ashland Realty board and
vice president of the Med
ford board. The firm will of
fer market value appraisals to
realtors, lending institutions
and to the public on a fee
basis, it was reported.
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Holiday Week Ends
expect to make any money on
it. The copyright, he ex
plained, is merely to "prevent
unjust excessive gain, to pre
serve my right as originator
and author and to give this
calendar to the world without
restriction if I should deem it
advisable."
Fogle has sent copies of his
calendar to the United Na
tions. Not so long ago he was
in New York on his vacation.
On arrival, he said, he tele
phoned the U.N. "and they
had me come right over. At a
personal interview I was told
Russia, Canada, India and sev
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Must Be Delayed
But Fogle said he was also
told that due to the current
world situation, consideration
of a world perpetual calendar
would have to be delayed in
definitely. He believes that if the U.S.
would adopt his calendar, it
would "become world - wide
overnight." He has written all
th U.S. senators and governors
and most congressmen and has
received several replies. But,
he added, "none has promised
to start the ball rolling on
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"Like most new things,"
Fogle said, "it must buck the
reluctance ' to change, But I
think it will be accepted by
the world in the next 10
years. Most people who see it
are amazed at its simplicity
and many advantages."
Th calendar would make
Sunday the last day of each
week and Monday the first.
All holidays would fall on Fri
days or Mondays, making pos
sible the long holiday week
ends. ')
Since every month would
start on a Monday, Fogle
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Proposed
explained, "business would
avoid closing its books in the
middle of the week."
Other advantages he listed
were: "For statistical purposes
all months every year would
always have theh same num
ber of workdays; printers
would save millions by not
needing to change plates for
calendars every year, and
there would be no holiday in
terruptions at the end of each
year."
13th Month Named Nemo
By the way, his 13th month
would be called "Nemo," a
word made up of the first two
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There would have to be
some juggling of holidays to
make them conform to the
Fogle system.
New Year's Day, of course,
would always be on a Mon
day. Washington's Birthday
would remain Feb. 22, but this
too would always be a Mon
day. Memorial Day would be
a Sunday, May 28, but the
holiday would be celebrated
on the 29th, a Monday.
The Fourth of July would
fall on the fifth, a perpetual
Friday. Labor Day would con
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in September. Veterans, who
are now given their Day on
Nov.- 11, would have to wait
just 24 hours, until the 12th, a
Friday.
Thanksgiving would be
celebrated on the third Friday
of November (the 19th), and
Christmas exactly four weeks
later, Dec. 19, another per
petual Friday.
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