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MAIL TRIBUNE, Msdford, Or. C Sunday, Aug. 23, 1959 3 i -4 'A Try and Stop Me By BENNETT ERF A A. MILNE, whose "Winnie the Pooh" is one of the great children's books of all time, met a colleague in a London bar one noon, and being in an expansive mood, proposed, "Let CHAMPAGNE, PLEA me buy you a drink. You name it; IT1 order it." The colleague' decided; I think I'll have a pint of the best champagne they have." Mil ne's expansive mood van ished at once. "Oh!" he ex claimed. "Suppose you try thinking of something near er sixpence." Two unusual gifts were reeorded last week: a com passionate friend treated a cannibal chief to a whole case of indigestion tables. It seems the cannibal ate somebody who disagreed with him. And a famous Hollywood star sent an agent he detested a live alligator bag. Wynn Catlin defines diplomacy as the art of saying "Nice doggie' till you can find a rock. ISM. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King; Features Syndfcite. i . r, ' i r r . Small Worlds V?f$ Around Us ft 4W j lSm By Lynn M Wa,kins If you can tell when it's go ing to rain because your corns or bunions hurt, ypu may possess a prophesying ability that finds its counterpart in just about all of the lower animals. It's called meteor ological aptitude. This responsiveness to cli matic changes, ahead of the actual change, is simply "knowing enough to come in out of the rain." This "knowl edge" is acquired early in life by every bird, bug or animal. Farmers used to claim they could tell the duration of a rain by the way the chickens acted. If it was to be only a quick shower the poultry sought shelter, but if it was to be an all day rain the hens ignored it and stayed out in the rain. Various animals possess this aptitude in greater or lesser degree, depending on their in dividual way of life, or the conditions under which they live. Butterfly, Too Insects must have this ap titude to a great degree. A shower must be anticipated by the butterfly some time before the wind starts or the rain to fall, for these frail creatures must find protection ahead of a storm in order to survive. J .st how finely this anticipa tive warning is developed in insects is not too clear, but a falling barometer, or the ad vent of a wind or rain sends its warning ahead and all those insects who cannot "take it" seek some sort of shelter. Even a dry, dead pine cone possesses a certain responsive ness to atmospheric condi tions, raising or. lowering its individual scales; their move ment depending on the amount of moisture in the air. Different Than Animal This mechanical aptitude of the pine cone as a barometer is different than that of the living animal, but the result is similar. The dividing line between meteorological or me chanical, is something like in tuition, and we certainly wouldn't want to credit a bug with having intuition, so we will have to setttle for meteor ological reaction. ' Maybe some of us have a meteorological aptitude that compares with that of some of the lower animals. Or maybe your feet hurt "just before a storm" because the moisture in the air, or lack of it, causes your shoes to shrink enough that they pinch your feet-just because your shoes are about a half size too small. It is altogether possible that some people really can foretell " the changes in the weather by the way they feel. Many folks complain of a headache, just ahead of a hurricane. They are sensitive to the falling barometric pressure. The actions of a dry pine cone, the response of a corn or a bunion, or the promptness with which a bug hunts a shel tered location, can. all be at tributed to meteorological ap titude. Perhaps there is semblance of similiarity be tween the bunion on a human foot, and a pine cone on the forest floor. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1959) Bids Called for Phoenix Canal Camp White-Bids for the construction of the Phoenix canal diversion dam in the Talent project, will be re ceived until Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. by the bureau of recla mation here. Plans call for a concrete dam, a river regulating struc ture, a bypass and . canal headworks. Completion time will be 165 calendar days and speci fications can be obtained from J. A. Callan, P.O. Box 386, Camp White, or from bureau of reclamation offices at Denver and Boise. The project will require about 3,100 cubic yards of channel excavation, 1,320 cu bic yards of common excava tion and 100 cubic yards of rock excavation. It will also require 620 cubic yards of backfil, 440 cubic yards of compactmg backfill, 240 yards of rip -rap, 35 cu bic yards of graded sand and gravel for filters, 237 cubic yards of concrete, 29,800 pounds of reinforcement bars and 350 barrels of cement. The contractor is to furnish three steel side gates, an in strument shelter, float well and piping and a water-level recorder. Senate Rackets Group Told of Staff Padding Washington - (UPI) - A witness told the Senate Rack ets Committee Friday that a United Auto Workers official in Toledo, Ohio, padded his staff with aides who were used for political activities. Jesse F. Motsinger, Detroit, said some of the aides of union Vice President Richard Cosser sent in bogus reports to indicate they were doing work for the union. Motsinger himself was an international representative on Cosser' s staff until dis charged in 1955. He said his refusal to conform to the prac tices of other members of the staff was one of the reasons for his dismissal. Tried Expose He said he tried to "expose what I thought was corrup tion on the international lev el" and to prevent the waste of dues money by union field workers. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R. S.D.) said Motsinger's descrip tion of the activities of Ces ser's staff members indicated a "clear-cut misuse of union dues." Motsinger told the commit tee Thursday he was required to make "voluntary" contri butions to the UAW political fund in order to hold his union job. He said one $10 contribution was sent in his name-but without his knowl edge to former Sen.. Guy Gillette (D.-Iowa) during Gil lette's unsuccesful 1954 cam paign for reelection. Further Questioning C o m m i ttee Republicans, who motivated the UAW in quiry, questioned Motsinger further about his contribu tions to the "flower fund" a fund set up by UAW offi cials for use in intra-union political campaigns. Mundt said Motsinger's claim that many union em ployees contributed to the fund unwillingly represented the type of salary "kickback" that has in the past sent some members of Congress to jail. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D. Mass.) lisagreed with this comparison. He pointed out that a union was not a fed eral agency and that there was nothing illegal about the flower fund. But Mundt in sisted it was. a "highly un American ' concept." FHA Distributes $183,038 instate During the fiscal year 1959 the Federal Housing Authori ty distributed cash refunds totaling $183,038 among 2,085 Oregon families. The announcement was made Friday by Oscar Peder son, director of the FHA in Portland, who added that na tion-wide the FHA distributed $11,401,713 among 102,629 families that have paid off insured mortgages on their homes. FHA Commissioner Julian H. Zimmerman said that, FHA operates a mutual mortgage insurance system under section 203 of the Na tional Housing act. Any part of the mortgage insurance premiums paid by the borrow er, over and above the amount needed by FHA to meet its op erating expenses, is returned to the owner of the property after the mortgage is paid in full." In the last 15 years, since the first refund payments were made, FHA has paid out oi its mutual fund a total of nearly $95 million to more than 791 families. Drilling costs account for 47 per cent of the expense of finding and producing oil. Stony Pit Virus Studied in Valley Dr. John Milbrath, patholo gist from Oregon State col lege, visited the vally recent ly working with county ex tension agents on the stony pit virus disease of pears. The county agent's office has asked pear growers to be on the outlook for the trouble in Bartletts during the har vest. Stony pit, sometimes known as barkoedema, has been a problem in Bosc for many years and is also caus ing trouble in some D'Anjou orchards. --.' The disease has recently shown up in a few Bartlett trees in the Rogue river val ley, agents said. It, however, has been troublesome in bart letts in England, Australia, California and other areas. Dr. Milbrath pointed out since the Bartlett strain of virus is different from that which attacks D'Anjous and Bosc it may be possible to reduce the incidence, or per haps eliminate the trouble by cutting out infected Bart lett trees as it appears in them. Growers who are finding pears with pits or excessively rough appearance resembling stony pit on their trees are re quested to leave their pears on the . trees and tag them, then notify the county agent's office, SPring 3-6211, so rec ords may be obtained on the trees and the trouble positive ly identified. The rate for financing the purchase of an automobile and other durable goods has re mained substantially the same for the past 20 years, accord ing to a national association of sales finance companies. WILL TRAIN TWO MEN THE JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY WILL TRAIN TWO MEN IN THE MEDFORDAREA OVER A THREE YEAR PER IOD BOTH LOCALLY AND AT OUR HOME OFFICE IN BOSTON. 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