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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1960)
Sunday, Mb. 7, 1960 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mecfforel, Or. I' ft I ( if i x f I SPRING TRAINING Terry Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith of Lake Belton, Texas, is getting in some early practice for the coming marble season. Although the only spring she has seen so far this year is spring showers, she isn't taking chance on someone getting the jump on sharp ening the eagle eye. (UPI Telephoto) Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Wat kins We Might Call Vines Snakes of Plant World If we looked at plants with the same objective with which we consider animals, we would probably classify vines as the snakes of the plant world. Any plant with a long slender stem that creeps, clambers, crawls or climbs by winding itself around a support or holding fast with tiny vegetative fingers or ten drils can be numbered among the plants called "vines." Some clamber silently up the perpendicular sides of a building or a wall, their tiny holding rootlets resembling clasping fingers, wriggling and squirming to enter a crack or crevice. Some vines show almost plant-intelligence by holding their leaves and stems flat against the sup porting surface to avoid tear ing winds or other factors that might tear them loose. Timid Vines Some vines appear almost timid, emerging from the earth that cradled them as if afraid, and later grasping ea gerly some support as if in apology for clambering aboard. Others are bold and aggressive, may eventually destroy by strangulation, the host plant c- which they for merly leaned for support. Vines are unusual inasmuch as most of them depend upon some other plant or object for upport. Being naturally weak, they can only attain their place in the sun by climbing and grasping trees, racks or buildings. Some nev er develop beyond the stage ahere they can cling to small plants, hardly larger than themselves. Vines are equipped with various kinds of clasping, or finger-like tendrils, that either grip or penetrate the support in order to hold on and grow ever upward. To attain this, many ingenious methods have been developed. All are suc cessful depending on the en vironment, the variety or the surface over which the vine is desirous of growing. Gen erally, these little "holding fingers" commonly called ten drils only keep the vine in po sition. They carry no food or water to the leaves or stems. Tiny 'Hands' There are vines that actu ally appear to send out tiny "hands" that seek and find a firm grip on flat surfaces. Once affixed they hang on with an actual "death grip." They can be torn in two be fore they can be torn loose. Some tendrils seem to ex ude a cement-like fluid that becomes exceedingly sympa thetic with the surface, actu ally gluing the plant stem to the support. Vines serve an important function in the plant world. In many places they literally tie the tropical forest togeth er, creating of themselves, powerful vegetable ropes that twine and hold with a tena cious grip. The vines may be "lazy,", but most of them show considerable initiative. All their efforts go Jto "getting somewhere.' They waste no time or energy in creating a trunk when some one else's will do as well.. . . (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Timber Units in Reservation May Be Readvertised Portland - The department of the interior Saturday an nounced that three Klamath Indian timber units valued at S21.23S.030 will be consid ered for readvertising for sale if sufficient requests are re ceived from industry. Bureau of Indian affairs said the units were offered first in the Jan. 20 bid open ing. However, no bid vas re ceived, although there was a request for extending the time for submitting bids for two units, the Modoc Point and the North Marsh units. The request from the Spe cialty Gas Products, Inc., of San Francisco for the exten sion was denied. Consider Readvertising The interior department has notified that if it receives, prior to Feb. 23, sufficient re quests to show there is sub stantial Interest in bidding, it will seriously consider read vertising. Only one of the four units offered Jan. 20 was sold. It was the Antelope Desert unit, which Crown Zellerbach pur chased at $1,642,182. , The other units in the de partment's proposal for con sideration in readvertising for bids are the Modoc Point with 56,389 acres nd 374,569 board feet of Ponderosa pine and other saw timber with a realization value of $3,784, 618: the North Marsh with 45.895 acres. 393,751 board feet of saw timber and 174, 890 cords of lodge pole pine pulp with a realization value of $11,047,3756, and Sykan with 61,611 acres, 282,797 board feet of saw timber and 204,217 cords of lodge pole pine with a realization value of S6.403.036. 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