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f53VorIds By Lynn M. Watkins Liltle 'Dowiicher Makes Like Sewing Machine The strange little shore bird called the "dowitcher" makes like a sewing machine, mak ing as many as one hundred stitches per minute and keep ing it up for long intervals of time. The bird isn't "sewing" just to sew but is stitching along a beach, exploring for food. It's a fancy stitch, too. It zig zags; it follows the changing edge of the beach right at the water's edge; it is often in graceful loops. Before a wave washes in, one can follow the course of the little "sewing machine" by the lines of tiny holes stitched in the sand. During the short northern summer near the Arctic Cir cle, the dowitchers raise their families. When the wind grows cold and before the snow begins to cover the sandy beaches, the dowitchers launch themselves into the air and begin their long migra tion. Somewhere, where tropic waters wash a sandy shore around the Gulf States or in Central America, the little brown birds will spend the winter stitching along the sand. Come spring again and once more to the airways, back to the self-same spot on the tundra, where they were born. The dowitcher is about the size of a robin or a mocking bird except the tail is much shorter. The color is a pale cinnamon, dotted with dark brown spots; the breast is mot tled with gray, and there is a white band across the tail. The feet are a light greenish color; the legs are long, as is the bill Tfiey are tame birds and can be approached closely before they take wing, and even then they fly but a short distance before alighting again. Usual Qly they are in company with other shore birds. But their peculiar habit of "sewing" altng the beach makes their identification easy. The preferred food of the dolfitcher is worms and small crb that lie buried in the Sefid or mud right at the wa ter' edje. The bird twinkles along rapidly like a toe-dancer, keeping one eye on the incoming waves, the other eye on what's happening on the shore, and all the time bob bing ite head up and down. PlmmjMS Bill At every downward bob of Jhe heaA the bill is plunged into the sand. Every little distamce the probing bill strifcei something edible. The bill quickly picks it up and swllows it, all without losing harflly a tingle stitch. Occasionally the bird stops, look around to see that everything is straight and abveboard, and then away it trots, ttitching rapidly; seem ingly aewing together the white waves of lacy foams into the "cloth"; which in this instance is the sandy edge of the sea. Along -with the jaunty little dowitchers are often found the Hudsonian curlews; little brown birds with a down curved bill.. They, too, nest and raise their young near the Arctic Circle but go along with the dowitchers for win ters in the warmer parts of the country. (Released by The Register and Crikmne Syndicate, 1960) San Trancisco - (UPD - Percy Hadden Brydon, Salem, Ore., nurserymen, has been named dS-ector of the Strybing Ar boretum in San Francisco's famed Golden Gate park. .JOB SECURITY Prepare for a Job with a Future Higher salaries are paid to business-trained secretaries, account ants, stenographers and machine operators. Robertson Graduates secure top positions and salaries in busi ness, professional and government offices. Register Now! SPRING TERM STARTS MARCH 28 Day and Night Classes ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 40 N. Riverside Mcdford SP 3-4264 619 S.E. Cass Roseburg GR 3-7256 Please send me your Name Address City ENVOY IN HAVANA U. S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai waves to Cubans as he arrives in Havana to try to salvage steadily worsening relations between the United States and Cuba. Several hours after his arrival, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos flatly accused the United States of "un deniable sabotage" and "criminal aerial attacks" against Cuba. It marked the first time a high Cuban government official had lodged such charges directly against the U. S. in public. (UPI Telephoto) Tennessee ring Bond By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York (UPD In the not distant future, the socialistic Tennessee Valley Authority will come to c a p i t alistic Wall Street Street for a !$''v b i S bond is 1 -sJ sue - possibly three quarters of a billion dollars. The term "s o c ialistic" fits the-TVA Elmer Walzer accurately since it is a cor poration owned entirely by the U.S.. government. Up to now it ha3 been fi nanced, by the United States. Now it is to' be permitted un der an acf of Congress to do its own financing up to $750 million. '.- -; The bonds will be termed revenue bondstwith a matur ity jip to "50' year's from date of issue with the proceeds to be used for1, additions and im provements to the TVA power system. " ' " , ' ' . Under Congress action, the TVA bonds shall be lawful investments and may be ac cepted as security for all fiduciary, trust, . and public funds, the investment or de posit of which shall be under the authority or control of any officer or agency of the United States. They will be legal for purchase by com mercial banks for their own account. Exempt From Taxation They are exempt both as to principal and interest from state and local taxes except estate, inheritance and gift taxes, but interest is subject to federal income taxes. According to Brig. Gen. Serial Numbers of Bills Prove Handy New York - Who'd ever think of writing down the serial numbers of all their dollar bills? - - Mrs. Rena Archer did. And it made her seven bucks rich-er-that is, she's not seven bucks poorer-well, it's like this: Her wallet was stolen from a food shop she operates. Later a transient cook was arrested for burglary. In his pocket, police found seven dollar bills. They turned out to be Mrs. Archer's. She knew the numbers be cause she was saving the bills in hopes of winning a news paper's "Lucky Buck" con test. 411 Main Klamath Falls TU 2-4126 r v-i; f Spring Schedule J i j l Valley Authority To Issue To Wall Street Herbert D. Vogel, chairman of the board of TVA, the bonds will be issued by an agency of the federal govern ment but will not be guaran teed by the United States. The National Federation of Financial Analysts Societies was sufficiently impressed by the proposed issue to devote several pages of its current issue of The Financial An alysts Journal to these bonds in an article by Vogel. Neither Wall Street nor business generally is too pleas ed with the whole operation of the socialistic, government owned TVA with its vast pow er generation operations TVA, according to Vogel, has multiplied its generating capacity 10 times in the past 20 years and has doubled in the past five years. The authority was establish ed in 1933 on the old Muscle Shoals site. Its original func tions were supposed to be navigation and flood control. It soon turned more to pow er development than flood control, and not too long ago added to its generating of power potential by installing coal burning facilities. To day about 70 per cent of its power is generated from steam plants. Things Have Fertilizing the f Ji 1 It 1 ' curty, smeiiy jod. now imngs nave BUILDER is light, clean, odor-free. .the precise Scotts Spreader, set the dial to 6 then take a walk. Gives 0TAOnOT liilrv. lioollii o-r rtioco ? &iwvi, .mvavi, iivuiimvi So easy, even a i More and more folks are comint? to us inr advice nn imnrnvine thir lawns through an easy-to-follow W e'll be glad to prescribe j Save $5 ! Scotts Spreader (16.95) plus iTurf Builder (4.75) both only 16.70!! Mbardl Bros Southern Becoming Editor's note: Lunchcounter sit downs In six southern states in re cent weeks have given emphasis to economic factors involved in the segregation question. In the follow ing dispatch, Al Kuettner, a UPI correspondent who has covered ra cial developments in the South for many years, shows how some of these economic factors work and the effects they have. By AL KUETTNER Atlanta-IUPD-Its been argued for a long time whether racial misunderstandings in the South actually are more eco nomic than racial. A large part of the answer to the riddle may come out of the current stage of racial transition in Dixie. This phase centers around the Negro's po sition that his dollar is worth as much as the white man's dollar and that he is accumu lating enough greenbacks to put in a strong bid for the gross regional economic prod uct. Thirty years ago, a pretty good Negro domestic could be employed for from $5 to $10 a week in the big cities of the South, for less in the Financing to date has come from the government. All federal power projects have cost nearly $6 billion. Ameri man taxpayers have had to foot the bill although, accord ing to utility companies, only one American in five lives in an area served by federal power. To date, for example, the companies pointed out, Ohio taxpayers have paid $338 mil lion in taxes for federal pow er yet none of that federal power is available in Ohio. One of the theories of TVA is that it is to serve as a yard stick to test the fairness of rates charged by investor owned companies. According to privately own ed utilities, this theory is fallacious since TVA's. tax exemptions and the availabil ity to it of low-cost money make a mockery of the yard stick theory. It is like meas uring with a 24-inch yard stick, say the utility men. According to these experts of publicly owned private in dustry, TVA will exhaust its $750 million realized from the bond sale in six or seven years and then will either revert to congressional .appropriations or be given an enlarged bond issuing authority. Changed Since lawn used to be a T-T jl .1 grown-up can do it! Scotts Program for Western lawns. the correct Program for your lawn. Negro's Pocketbook Economic rural areas. Today the rate is from $5 to $7 a day. For out doors domestic work the fig ure is $10 a day. -Salaries Boosted High schools and colleges are turning out thousands of new potential employees ev ery year, well trained for manual trades, highly educat ed for the professions. They are commanding and getting the highest Negro salaries ever. Just 10 years ago, only one out of five Negroes in the South earned more than $3,000 a year. By 1956, the last year for which reliable figures are available, almost one out of every two Negroes in the re gion earned at least that much. In metropolitan Atlanta, where one of the largest big city concentrations of Negroes in the South is located, the average Negro's earnings in creased 40 per cent between 1949 and 1956. Playing Large Part The 1960 census figures are expected to show with even greater emphasis that the southern Negro, long shackled by the thinness of his pocket book, has become an economic factor measured in terms of actual buying power. The Negro's buying power is playing a large but incalcu lable part in the current lunch counter revolution and its off shoots. No merchant will say flatly that the protests are anything more than of nui sance proportions. But this kind of assault on racial cus toms, as opposed to the more ponderous route through the courts, is having a worrying effect on southern business. When a few Negroes at tempted to desegregate a base ment grill in a big southern department store, the board of directors was quickly sum moned to see what should be done. The store, which has a huge Negro trade, decided to maintain the segregated status quo, at least for the present. Liltle Rock Report One of the most complete studies on the effect of racial troubles came out of Little Rock after the school desegre gation troubles there. It was prepared by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools and includ ed compiled replies from 68 plant officials and 101 pro fessional people, plus studies of comparative business in dices for the city. Accordihg to the report, this is what happened to Little Rock: We Were Kids backbreaking? -a - . ' ' t - cnangea! 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