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The Mai Water Bug
Becomes a Reluctant
'Baby-Siller'
Even if the poor dope was
receptive to reasoning, which
of course he isn't, it would be
impossible to convince the
male giant water bug that his
wife had his best interests of
the species at heart when she
holds the poor guy and se
curely cements a group of
eggs onto his protesting
back.
The fact that he is about the
largest of the true bugs helps
him not at all, for his schem
ing and determined wife is
iust as big: just as strong and
twice as active. Besides she is
stubborn. Countless genera
tions of her ancestors have
assisted her in developing a
"holding technique" and, too,
she possesses the compelling
instinct to place her eggs
where they will have a reas
onable chance of hatching.
That place is right smack on
her husband s back.
He's Stuck
Chances are, once the eggs
attached, the whole un
pleasant business is forgotten.
He's stuck with them, so he
makes the best of it. He has
become an insect "baby-sitter."
It's obvious he is never
H7hnl-heartedlv in favor of
the role he is forced to play.
If he was he would not strug
gle so fiercely but so hope
lessly. He always loses, for in
spite of his most strenuous
efforts his wife holds him
while she lays and with wa
terproof "glue" cements to
Court Records
MUNICIPAL COURT
Darrell Robert Hageman. 1615
Grand ave., raced with another ve
hicle, $25. .
Eugene Earl Gemaehlich. no ve
hicle registration plates displayed.
5paul James Blair, violation of ba
sic rule. $10.
Jim Richard Westensee, violation
of basic rule. $10.
" Cleo Malcolm White, disobeyed
traffic sign. $3. -
Richard Leroy Champion, exces
sive noise, $2.50. .
Kenneth Earl Coleman, violation
of basic rule, $10.
Carl Gardner Burk, no vehicle
registration plates displayed, $5.
Bernard Victor Schieber, wrong
wav on one-way street, $10.
William Sidney Wylie, disobeyed
traffic sign, $5. ,..,.
Harold wayne 1 j is
registration plates oisoiojcu,
Richard Everett McCasland Tal
ent, raced with anotner venicic,
Harold G. Jones, violation of ba
sic rule, $10. . . , . .
James Edward Daniel, violation
of basic rule, $10.
Shirley Ann Collins, violation of
basic rule. $10. . , . , ,
Robert Bruce Baker, violation of
basic rule, $10. , .
Michael S. Stephens, displayed
expired plates, $5. , ,
Walter Jackson Tackett. follow
ing too close, accident, $25.
Ruby Edith Stevens, violation of
Aaronugust Walruff. violation
of basic rule. $10. ... '
Jarold Arthur Keith, Inadequate
equipment, $5.
Monty Charles PenwelL dis
obeyed traffic sign. $5.
Darrell Lilburn Smyhe, failed to
yield right of way to a vehicle on
a through highway. $25.
Robert Clifford Burns, disobeyed
traffic sign, accident. $5.
Nathan Kern Mills, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Walter Kenneth Goldsby. dis
obeved traffic signal. $10.
Thomas Edward Bortis, no opera
tor's license in possession, $10.
niHToirT rOITRT
John A. Ells Jr, improper safety
Oliver Y. Beard. Inadequate
v.. i... tm
Charles C. Hoover, failure to sig
"'cynthia A. Rukovina. violation of
Basic ruie. io.
Ravmond W. Couser Jr., petty
Earl W. Lockwood. failure to
stop, $10.
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Lida M. Childers vs. John W.
Childers. divorce decree.
Svlvia Virginia Williams vs.
Clarence L. Williams, divorce com
plaint.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
his cringing back, a group of
eggs.
After they are once in place
she abandons them and him.
Then the poor sap is stuck
with the entire "litter." They
will always be with him until
the baby-demons hatch and
cast themselves from the par
ental back.
Fully grown they will be
Just about the fiercest and
most blood-thirsty inhabitants
of the fresh water pond. Each
will be armed by Nature with
a pair of powerful jackknife
type holding arms, and a
sharp beak that will penetrate
the bodies of small fish, frogs,
snails or any other small deni
zen of the pond in which they
live. n
Paralyzes Victim
When the bite is made in
the body of the struggling vic
tim, a powerful digestive flu
id is injected which quickly
and effectively stupefies and
paralyzes the victim. When
the struggles cease, the for-
cep-like forelegs release their
hold. The beak now becomes
a tube through which the vic
tim's body juices are sucked
up and into the stomach of
the water bug.
When fully grown the gi
ant water bug may be all of
three or four inches in length
with a dark brown flat body
and wings with which to
leave the pond-home and fly
to some electric light in a
nearby city where it will be
called by some interested ob
servers an electric light bug.
Its rear legs will be devel
oped into oars, or what is
commonly called "swimming
legs." Inbred in the females
will be the inherent compul
sion to deposit her eggs on
her husband's protesting back,
to make him an unwilling vic
tim, caught in the backwash
of biological necessity.
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, -I960)
Three Drivers Get
Licenses Suspended
Salem -The department of
motor vehicles has released
names or 41Z drivers wnose
licenses were ordered suspend
ed during the period begin
ning Feb. 19 and ending Feb.
26.
Length of suspension va
ries, depending on charges in
volved, recommendation of
court, discretionary action by
the department or requir-
ments of Oregon law. The de
partment said some of the
licenses involving court rec
ommendations may have been
reinstated after suspension
was ordered.
The department warned
drivers that the penalty for
driving while suspended is
a jail sentence of no less than
two days and up to six
months, and there may be
imposed a fine up to $500. Un
der licensing procedures, this
will also result in an addi
tional year of suspension.
Among those suspended in
Jackson county were: -
Driving- While Suspended (In
cludes any conviction for viola
tion of traffic laws, involving op
eration of motor vehicle, while
driving privileges were sus
pended.
Dennis Linn Garboden, 19, of
Fifth st.. Phoenix, driving; while
susDended. 1 year.
Discretionary Action of Department
Alvin Harold Hiebert. 40. of 2510
Country Club rd, Medford, driving
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Earl Freeman Wallace. 54. ort
724 , North Oak St.. Medford. driv
ing record, 1 year or until inter
view completed.
TREE JOGS BROADWAY
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searchers of the Davey Tree
Expert Co., Kent, Ohio, say
that city officials curved the
street around the tree when
its tavern keeper owner ob
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Defense Planners
Backed Into Corner
By Road Clearances
Washington - (DPD - Remem
ber the old story about the
man who painted himself into
a corner and couldn't get out?
This is the situation in
which some of the nation's top
defense planners think we're
in right now.
It all began back in 1956
when the federal government
began building a 41,000 mile
network of highspeed limited
access superhighways.
At about the same time,
the government began build
ing the high new missiles and
rockets for the nation's de
fenses and deep space probes.
These missiles, mostly built
on the west coast, sometimes
have to be hustled around the
country fast.
Someone Goofed
Now, you might think this
brand new road system might
be just the thing for moving
missiles. But somehow some
one goofed and the missile
builders and the road build
ers didn't get together.
And so today, thousands of
the overpasses constructed to
carry local traffic across the
interstate system are too low
for the missiles and the trail
ers they travel on. Also, the
new superhighways have ex
tremely limited access and it's
difficult to leave them in
search of by-passes.
A number of solutions have
been proposed.
-Raise all the 8000 over-
passes now m tne ini.ersi.ate
system to an adequate height,
This might be all right ex
cept that Bureau of Public
Roads specialists estimate it
would cost more than $500,
000,000 and no one is quite
sure what an adequate clear
ance would be.
- Forget the nice new super
highway and move the mis
siles by train and barge. But
most railroads have bridge
widths of only 12 feet and
barges are terribly slow.
Even so, this is the way the
National Aeronautics and
Space administration is plan
ning to -move its 1,500,000
pound thrust super booster,
the Saturn.
To Go by Barge
With, a staggering girth of
22 ft, the Saturn will be moved
by barge north along the Ten
nessee river, west along the
Ohio, down the Mississippi,
across the Gulf of Mexico
and around the Florida pen
insula to Cape Canaveral.
Another idea, toyed with by
the defense department, was
to make a sky hook out of a
number of blimps and float
some of the space monsters
around the country.
And finally, there's the pos
sibility of lowering existing
missile trailers. This week,
committee interrogation of
defense department and truck
ing industry officials brought
out some of the highly techni
cal difficulties faced in mov
ing oversized loads on the na-j
tion's highways.
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on its specially designed
"transtainer," has a vertical
clearance of just under 14
feet. This was the bureau of
roads' requirement until the
new 16-foot clearance was an
nounced last month.
But the actual clearance is
only one part of the problem.
For the missile movers, faced
with 85-foot-long loads, point
ed out that the roads under
the bridges were often "dish
ed." This, they explained, meant
that the front end of a load
would start climbing up the
incline on the far side under
an overpass before the rear
end of the load had reached
the low point.
The result: Clearance needs
for long loads are often a
good deal higher than the ac
tual distance between the
road bed and the overpass.
Valley Boys Sell
Candy for Camp
Several boys in the Med
ford area are earning their
way to the Young Men's
Christian association's Dia
mond lake camp this summer
by selling candy mints in the
valley, YMCA officials have
announced.
Jim Coovert is presently
leading the selling with 10
boxes sold, entitling him to
three weeks of camp this
summer. Ken Rogers has sold
six boxes, YMCA officials
said.
Any boy wishing to sell
candy mints to earn his way
to camp may contact the camp
office in the YMCA building
to obtain an application to
sell, which must be signed by
the boy's parents.
Dates for camp are July 17
to 23; July 24 to 30; and July
31 to Aug. 6. The camp is
open to any boy between 8
and 15. A day camp for boys
6 and 7 will be operated from
June 20 to July 2.
Additional information may
be obtained from the YMCA
camp office between 8:30 ajn.
and 4:15 p.m. daily and be
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5i per cent annually. Of 152
state chartered credit unions,
the association said, 81 paid
dividends of 4 per cent or
more annually while 18 paid
between 5 and 5V4 per cent.
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The Family Council
Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers.
Each article is a summary of an actual ixm history. The Council reports
on problems that have been dealt wife by responsible agencies and
counselors.
Mrs. E.J. - When are we
going to hear those wedding
bells?
June J. - He isn't quite ready
to settle down.
Mrs. E. J. - My daughter
June is 24 and has been going
with a fine young man for
about two years. At first they
just dated occasionally, but
for the past year they have
been seeing one another regu
larly. I think it's time we heard
something about the wedding
bells, but when I ask June she
says to leave her alone. I'm
not the kind of mother who
interferes at every step, but
I think I have a right to know
what is going on. . .
My husband and I like
Frank, but he isn't very
friendly toward us. He tries
to avoid coming to the house
and sometimes gets June to
meet him downtown. It seems
to me that if his intentions
were right he wouldn't be
that way.
June J. - I'm old enough
to manage my own affairs
without any coaching from my
parents. I don't like their in
tereference. My mother keeps
reminding me ,that when she
was my age she was married
and had three children. Well,
then she certainly should
realize that I'm old enough to
take care of myself.
I think Frank loves me but
isn't quite ready to settle
down. Sometimes he talks as
though he is on the verge of
proposing and then he backs
down. I know it's leap year,
but I don't want to do the
proposing.
Frank is an unusual sort of
man moody and easily hurt.
My parents don't realize that
they make him uncomfortable
by acting suspicious of him.
The Council: We don't think
the E.J.'s are helping matters
by acting suspicious and put
ting pressure on June as far
as this relationship is con
cerned. We get the impression that
June is just as anxious about
this relationship as they are.
Frank makes her uneasy too.
Obviously she is attracted to
him, yet we think she may not
want him as much as she
thinks she does. If she sincere
ly wanted him as a husband,
she would make an effort to
bring things to a decision.
We don't feel June should
do the proposing if she doesn't
want to, but she should make
it clear that she wants to
know whether this is a court
ship or a mere friendship. If
it is not a courtship she should
be going out with others. If
THE IRON AGE
New York-fUPIr-Letters that
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kings of Asia Minor and the
pharaohs . of Egypt in 1600
B.C. show that iron was five
times as valuable as gold and
40 times costlier than silver
in the "iron age" economy.
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it is a courtship it should come
to a conclusion within a rea
sonable length of time.
It is more than likely that
Frank and June are merely
using one another in an un
certain and unhealthy way to
avoid making meaningful re
lationships with others. After
a year Frank still seems to be
somewhat of a mystery to
June. Even if this relationship
is a casual one, she should
have a better understanding
of what they both want out
of it.
June needs to talk to some
one about this relationship
and she might open up to her
parents if they pressed her
less. Their pressure has put
her on the defensive. She feels
she has to justify her friend
ship with Frank, instead of
understand it. Yet only by
understanding it can she grow
to further maturity through
it. June can and must deal
with her private affairs with
out interference, but she
should recognize that dealing
with them involves an active
effort toward a goal not a
mere battling with those she
suspects of interference.
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