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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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:
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moved in and there was dou
ble the number of departing
families the year after the
crisis.
It became increasingly
difficult to employ profession
al skills.
Real estate" and home
building dropped 20 per cent.
New plants ceased com
ing to Little Rock and there
was only one expansion in
1958 and 1959 following the
September, 1957, trouble at
Central High.
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