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load groceries into a horse drawn sleigh.
The man on the right demonstrates what
happened to many motorists when they ven
tured into Kansas City's newly fallen snow
without chains. (UPI Telephoto)
dike, swirled through part of the city. The
flooding forced 8,000 people from their
homes. (UPI Telephoto)
He Wonders: Who Gave the
Orders to Repair the Nest?
It was a beautiful structure
hanging from the horizontal
branch of the tree. It was
shaped like a tear-drop, the
pointed end down, the large
upper section securely at
tached to the tree limb. It
was a large hornet's nest.
From a small opening in
the lower end a steady stream
of white-faced hornets came
and went. The nest, all of a
foot' long and about half a
foot in diameter, was a dull,
leaden gray color and wrin
kled deeply on the outside
like a prune.
Storms Blew Up
Then, in the darkness of a
stormy night, the wind
veered around into the north
and blew almost a gale. It
loosened the shingles on my
home. Water from the rain
ran down the walls. I listened
to the storm and thought
about the hornets' nest. Sleep
ily I wondered if such a thin
paper-like structure could
withstand the fury of the
storm.
The following morning I
hurried to repair my roof and
later drove out to see the hor
nets' nest. It hung down from
the tree branch by only a few
tattered shreds. The insects
were flying aimlessly about
apparently frustrated and be
wildered. I felt a little sad
All the work and care of
building the nest was almost
destroyed in a single night. It
seemed that the few support
ing shreds of material would
break at the next wind and
the entire nest would come
crashing to the earth-a total
loss.
However, the following day
when I returned the nest still
hung, and what yesterday was
an aimless bedlam of hornets
was now an organized pattern
of organization; the insects
were repairing the nest. I
found several hornets busily
scraping a thin layer of wood
from a barkless tree trunk,
mixing the material with sali
va from their mouths and
rolling the damp mixture into
tiny pellets. Flying back to
the injured nest they spread
the paper-like pulp over the
tattered shreds that were
holding the nest
Other Details
Not all the colony was
working on the construction
job either; some were coming
and going on regular food
gathering trips, paying little
attention to the work detail
that was repairing the dam
aged nest.
It took about 10 days to
complete the work but in the
end the nest was again secure
ly attached to the tree limb.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
It hung a little lop-sided and
some distance below the loca
tion of the old position, but
it seemed secure. I have often
wondered, but never found
out, who, or how, the work
detail was 'selected, or how
the order was given to repair
the nest.
The same storm that almost
wrecked the hornets' nest also
tore shingles loose from my
own roof. The fact that I re
paired by own roof was, I
would like to believe, a form
of intelligence. Structurally,
the hornets accomplished
the same thing, but what trig
gered their actions is some
thing the world of humans as
sures me is stupid, blind, un
thinking instinct.
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Mie Recommends New Power Project
On Pacific Northwest tor FSrst Tome
By
A. ROBERT SMITH
. Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington-President Eis
enhower finally dropped the
other shoe. His federal budget
for the com
ing year, the
last, his ad
min istration
will handle,
c o n t ained a
request that
Congress ap
propriate $1,
4 0 0,0 0 0 to
start construc-
a Robi smitfe tion oi tne
Green Peter dam on the Wil
lamette V a 1 1 e y's Santiam
river.
This marked the first time
since this Republican Admin
istration took office that it
has recommended the start
of an all-federal hydroelectric
dam in the Pacific Northwest.
Other all-federal dams have
been started in recent years
during President Eisenhow
er's tenure, but not at the Ad
ministration's request. These
other dams - John Day on
the Columbia, Cougar Hills
Creek in the Willamette Val
ley, and Ice Harbor dam on
the lower Snake River near
Walla Walla-have all been
started because of the success
of Northwest Democrats in
Congresss in aiding funds to
presidential budgets to per
mit the Army Engineers to
undertake new dams.
Additional Funds
Once the projects were
tacked onto appropriation
bills, the Administration has
followed up each year with
requests for additional funds
to keep construction going, al-
'Mr. X' Sought
To Back Alibi in
Louisiana Murder
Baton Rouge, La. - (UPD -Dean
George H. Mickey's at
t o r n e y declined comment
Monday on a report that the
educator's family had located
the "Mr. X" who could back
up his alibi in the murder of
attractive Margaret Rosa
mond McMillan.
"I'm not going to comment
one way or the other on some
thing like that," said attorney
Robert L. Kleinpeter.
Held in Jail
The report that the man
had been located in Dallas
was said to have circulated
among friends of the Mickey
family. Mickey, 49, an in
ternationally known scientist
and dean of the Louisiana
State University graduate
school, is in East Baton Rouge
Parish jail, charged with
murder.
"Rosie" McMillan, 38, an
unmarried assistant professor
of biology in the LSU New
Orleans branch, was slain
with 13 bludgeon blows that
shattered her skull. Her body
was found on a private lane
six miles south of Baton
Rouge at 6:30 ajn. Sunday,
Jan. 10. She had been a scien
tific protege of Mickey's for
several years.
In Company of Man
District Attorney J. St.
Clair Favrot announced over
the week end that on the
night of Jan. 9, when she was
savagely beaten, Mickey
claims to have spent from
5:30 to 9 p.m. in the company
of a man named, to his best
recollection, Sharon, Sheri
dan. Sherrill, or something
similar.
The district attorney said
Dr. Mickey told him the man
was 30 to 35 years old, five-feet-ten,
of medium build, and
dark-haired. Mickey said the
man was from the U. S. De
partment of Education in
Washington. The dean said
he and the man discussed
graduate fellowship grants
over dinner in a Baton Rouge
hotel.
Check Fails
The dean said he then took
the man to the airport to
board a plane for Houston,
Tex. The district attorney
said no one of that name or
description is doing such
work in the education depart
ment, that no one left the air
port for Houston at the time
indicated, and that investiga
tors have concluded that "no
such person exists."
Favrot called the man "Mr.
X" and suggested rather sar
castically that everybody
should try to help find him.
He implied that he believed
the attack took place during
those three and one-half
hours.
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Shortly after the new GOP
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fice in 1953, it announced its
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Local untilities would be wel
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Utilities eagerly came for
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Congress responded with bills
authorizing Portland General
Electric, Pacific Power and
Light and Washington Water
Power Co. to make a deal
with the government to build
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the big John Day dam as a
partnership project. Similar
arrangements were proposed
for building other dams pre
viously authorized by Con
gress for all-federal construc
toin. They included Cougar
dam and Green Peter dam in
Oregon and Bruces Eddy dam
in Idaho.
Cordon Defeated
A year later, in the 1954
elections the principal spon
sor of such legislation, Sen.
Guy Gordon of Oregon, was
defeated by Richard L. Neu
berger, whose campaign at
tacks focused on the partner
ship power policy. Sen.
Wayne Morse, then a self
described independent, joined
in the attack on the power
policy. In Portland's congres
sional district, Rep. Homer
Angell, another Republican,
bowed to Democratic Edith
Green.
In 1955 Reps. Harris Ells
worth and Sam Coon, both
Republicans, continued their
advocacy of partnership-built
dams. That fall Sen. Neuber
ger and Coon conducted a
public debate on the issue in
a series of appearances across
the state The Democrats now
controlled Congress, and de
spite the Administration's
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pursual of the policy, the part
nership bills never got out of
committee. ,
Power Policy Killed
The partnership power pol
icy was killed in the 1956
elections, when . both Conn
and Ellsworth fell to Demo
crats Al Ullman and Charles
O. Porter, and Douglas Mc
Kay, returning from his ser
vice in Washington as Secre
tary of the Interior, failed by
a heavy margin to unseat Sen.
Morse.
Nevertheless the Adminis
tration refused to give up es
pousal of the power policy.
Budget messages repeatedly
reiterated the principles, with
little hope of implementing
them. The only surviving Re
publican from Oregon, Rep.
Walter Norblad, kept safely
aloof from advocating the pol
icy. The Democrats succeeded
in adding funds to the budget
to start all of these proposed
partnerships dams as all-federal
dams all, that is, but
Green Peter dam, which elud
ed their strongest efforts.
Last year President Eisen
hower dropped all mention of
partnership in his budget.
This year he dropped the
other shoe and came out for
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that Alary Ella Quesenberry has
been appointed Executrix of the
Last Will and Estate of ESTHER
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qualified. All persons having
claims against said estate are here
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