MAIL TRIBUNE, Msdford, Or. C
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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.
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Small Worlds
V?f$ Around Us
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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.
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