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ft Hfl ' Bl 1fi MAILTRIBUNl, Medford, Or. idii Hiiiud iviuvmg nciJiuijr i uvvai u Self-Rule: Post-War Calm Vanishes Tuoidiy. April 12, 160 LONDON -IDPD- In the Vati- can, the first black African cardinal is cheered to the echo . . . In South Africa, Boer police shoot down more than 80 na tive demonstrators; a while farmer shoots the prime min ister . . . In Kenya, white settlers boo and cry "traitor" at British Colonial Secretary Iain Mac Leod for promising the Kiku yu and Luo and other tribes more political power . . . Black Africa has the bit of independence between i t s teeth. And if it seems at times to be moving too fast towards self-rule, there is no stopping it. At the close of World War It, the great colonial empires were Intact. Then India, Pak istan, Ceylon and Burma be came self-governing within the British Commonwealth. Indochina broke away from French rule, Indonesia from Dutch colonialism. Cut British Tie All Africa took note and the calm erupted into storm. Egypt and the Sudan cut all ties with Britain. Morocco and Tunisia gained their freedom and Algeria still is in the midst of a bloody war of in dependence. The Mau Mau terror par alyzed Kenya. Blood flowed in Nyasaland. France was forced to offer its many colonies free dom or full partnership. Today, apart from the Union of South Africa, where the policy of apartheid is ad ministered with an iron hand and armored cars, the contin ent is comparatively quiet -and much of it is free or has been promised fredom. Half Freed By the end of 1960, more than half the 260 million pop ulation of the "black conti nent" will be run by black Africans. Most were former colonies and territories administered by Britian, France and Bel gium. Of the other indepen dent nations, the main ones are the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia, the tiny republic of Liberia, and Libya. Of the vast sections of the continent once colored red on IB fit? ?TscZXS8SttX. raw , t , ; rm' 1 Easter Novetlies Madonnas Easier Planters Corsages mVf 1 Flowert Gifts fF Cr SP 3-1733 26 SOUTH CENTRAL maps to denote allegiance to Britain, Egypt became inde pendent in 1922 and was de clared a republic in 1953. The Sudan became a republic In 1956. Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, became an inde pendent nation within the British Commonwealth in 1957 and now is moving swiftly towards a republican constitution. Negro Is Cardinal Kenya still is a colony, but with growing African repre sentation in the administra tion. Tanganyika-home of the new cardinal, Msgr. Laurian Rugambwa - is a protectorate with well-advanced plans for an elected African majority. Uganda is a British-administered U.N. trust territory des tined for self-determination. The central African feder ation, formed by the white dominated colony of Southern Rhodesia and the protector ates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, originally had high hopes of becoming a do minion ranking equal with Canada, Austrailia and South Africa. But agitation In Nyasa land against the feared dom ination of Southern Rhodesian whites led to bloodshed last year. The Monckton commis sion now is touring the fed eration examining how best to reconcile opposing views. On Oct. 1, Nigeria becomes the biggest independent na tion in Africa, with a popula tion of 39,500,000. The Brit ish Cameroons vote next year on whether to join Nigeria or the republic of the Cam eroons. British Somaliland be comes independent late mis year and may join with Italian Somalia, which becomes self governing July 1. South Africa Different Progress in the smaller Brit- sh colonies is slower, but Africans are getting more and more say in their own affairs such places as Bechuana- and, Swaziland, Basutoland, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar and Mauritius. Main stand-out In the Eng lish-speaking world is the Union of South Africa and its mandated territory of South west Africa. The dominion, stubbornly opposing the flood- tide of African nationalism, is moving towards a republic outside the commonwealth. The French flag has disap peared entirely from Tunisia, Morocco, Guinea and the Cam eroons. Togo becomes fully in dependent April 27. The future of Algeria Is In the lap of the gods, the French Army and the Algerian na tionalists. But most other French African possessions have chosen the status of autonomous republics within the French community. As such, they are full partners with France, which conducts their defense and guides foreign policy. The members of the French community are Dahomey. Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Upper Volta, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi Shari and French Somaliland, The Mali Federation, compris ing Senegal and the French Sudan, also is a member of the community but under agreement reached early this month conducts its own de fense and foreign affairs. The Belgian Congo, with spur of a series of riots last year, has been granted dependence starting June 30 this year. The adjoining U.N. trust territory of Ruanda Urundi still is administered by Belgium, but future plans envisage two independent kingdoms. Spain and Portugal are the principal remaining colony powers in Africa, but neither shows signs of granting more than token self-rule. Spam administers Ifni, Spanish Guinea and the Spanish Sa hara, while the principal Portuguese possessions are Angola and Mozambique two of the largest countries south of Sahara. Governor Accepts Book Writing Offer Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield has accepted an offer from the New York publish ing firm of Harcourt, Brace and Company to write a book on the role of the modern-day governor. George L. White of the firm told Hatfield in a letter he is especially interested in Hat field giving consideration to questions of ethics and today's government, intelligence and government, ways of com municating concepts of change to the people, and how new problems which beset state government may be more in telligently met. Hatfield said he would be gin serious work on the book during a vacation period next summer. IS 1113 Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Hatfield Schedules Week's Activities Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield will address the Ben jamin Franklin Friars in Portland this evening. At noon Wednesday the Salem Rotary Club will honor him and the other members of the Board of Control at a luncheon. Thursday morning the gov ernor will swear in Drs. J. Warner Henderson, Hood River, and William B. Proph et, John Day, to the Oregon Board of Dental Examiners. lobilgas Economy Run! IMK V-8... REPEATS FOR SECOND YEAR 23.28 miles per gallon with automatic transmission ! Minneapolis, Minn. (Special). For the second year in a row, the amazing I.ark V-R, liveliest of all the compact cars, out economized everv V-8 car in the rigorous 5-day offi cial mileage test. All can entered were slock cars. The entire Mohilgas Economy Run was closely supervised by the I'niied States Auto Club. The results Look at the figures . . proof that The Lark combines economy with performance. Ever Hear of an Ant Keeping a Milk Cow? It is a strange sort of pa rade; a performance that goes on nearly all the time,, but one that is all but unnoticed by most of us. Its results and its repercussions concern nearly everyone who owns tree, a shrub, or a living plant. It is a strange and almost unbelievable drama: an act where the actors are so small we only see them when we look closely. Seldom do we comprehend the meaning un less we look with a discern ing eye at what takes place on the trunk of a hibiscus bush, or at the base of a plant. By a close scrutiny you too can have a front row seat at the free performance. Notice the ant struggling up the trulk of a plant stem, carry ing in its foreclaws a wrig gling form. Small Insect You may need a strong glass to see what it is the ant is lugging, but the glass will show you it is a small, plump- bodied insect, greenish in col or, about the ant's size except much slimmer. It is an aphid Some people call it a plant louse. Up the plant stem the ant pulls the little insect until it arrives on a tender leaf or stem. Here the ant carefully deposits the aphid. The aphid goes immediately to work by plunging its sharp little beak into the tissue of the leaf. Then the little body becomes tiny pump that sucks the sap from the plant. The ant will now hurry away to cap ture another aphid and bring it too back and place it along side the one already there. This may go on for several days; or the ant may go else where, seeming to know by some strange reasoning that baby aphids will soon be born. They will populate the leaf from end to end with hun dreds, or even thousands of individuals. But whether the ant brings more aphids or waits until those already established raise a large family, it does know when there are enough for its purpose. For then it, and all Its fellows make regu lar trips up the plant stem to where the aphid herds are pastured. Each ant selects an aphid and gently strokes the little insect with the anten nae, and the aphid exudes a tiny drop of honey-dew from its body which is greedily lapped up by the ant. Some of the sweet, honey-dew may be carried away by the ant to the nest and fed to the ant lar vae. Leaves Get Sticky The aphid hoarde may be come so great as to exude honey-dew on such a scale that the leaves of the entire plant may become sticky. And all the time the ants are herd ing the aphids here and there on the plant where the pas turage is the best, for the more sap the aphids can drink the more honey-dew they exude. Many scientists have watched and marveled at this ant-habit of "keeping aphid cows to milk" and mostly have been amazed. Honey-dew seems to be a very necessary part of an ant's diet, and there are some species of ants that feed entirely on it, but nearly all ants practice the herding procedure and actually keep "stables of aphid-cows" just to "milk." Carried Underground Some varieties of ants cap ture and carry the aphids down into their underground tunnels, along with fresh, green leaves and plant stems, on which the aphids can pas ture. Thus the ants have the "insect-cows" always near at hand so that they do not have to leave their homes to tend or milk the herd. In the ant-world, as well as in the world of the aphids, there are habits and actions that cause thinking people to wonder what it is all about, and pose a question as to how these insects we call ants ever learned in Ihe first place how to keep "milk-cows" for their own use. Just a wee bit per plexing, don't you think? (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Medford Police Investigate 102 Major Offenses Medford police last month investigated 102 major of fenses of which 18 were burg lary and 11 larceny under $50, according to the depart ment's monthly report. Police cleared 20 of the major offenses reported for a 19.6 average. This is compar ed to the March, 1959, aver age of 36 per cent when 36 out of 100 major offenses re ported were cleared. No cases of rape, robbery, manslaughter or assault were reported to police last month. They received eight reports of auto theft. Eleven reports of embezzle ment and fraud were received during March and 22 cases of embezzlement and fraud were cleared, many of them being cases of previous months. Grand Total . A grand total of 2,156 re ports were received by police of which 2,018 were cleared for a 93.6 average. This compared to 1,669 cases re ported in March, 1959, of which 1,532 were cleared for a 91.8 average. There were 58 motor veJ hicle accidents reported to po lice during March and 17 in juries resulting from traffic accidents. There were no fa talities. During March, 1959 there were 51 motor vehicle accidents reported resulting in 12 injuries and no fatalities. Police issued 368 traffic citations last month compared to 434 for the same period in 1959. The greatest number of citations were issued for vio lation of the basic rule, 52, and no stop at sign or signal, 44. 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