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() Or TUESDAY. JURE H. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. illi Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Super-Simple Anti Store. Huilc and Grind Their Own Grain Two days previously it had rained. The welcome moisture triggered growth in tiny seeds. Wilted plants drank the mois ture and responded. The wa ter seeped into the galleries of the harvester ants, alerting the colony and setting in mo tion a strange chain of events. The water-seepage triggered growth and mildew in the liullless grass seeds so care fully stored in the under ground granaries of the ant hill. In the close, still air, the damp seeds started to mold some to sprout. The ants gathered the dampened seeds and one by one carried them along the passageway to the earth's sur face. Seemingly the insects knew that the rain was over and the sun was shining. In the warm rays the seeds were laid out to dry. Had Been Gathered Those same seeds had been gathered one by one from the grasses that grew a few yards from the ant-hill. Each seed carried by a hard working ant had been de-hulled and, if necessary, de-sprouted before it was stored in the ants' gran ary. The student of ant-behavior denies that some instinctive foresight on the part of the ants prompted them actually to plant the grass seeds out there in the first place. He insists that the grass just naturally grew there and Jehovah Witnesses Slate Convention Portland d'PD - The District Assembly of Jehovah's Wit nesses will hold its annual convention July 28-31 at Mult nomah Stadium with 14,000 to 18.000 persons expected to attend, according to Maurice O'Callaghan, rooming direc tor. O'Callaghan said some 3, 000 housing acommodations had been obtained so far. the ants built their home close by it. Sometimes, well-kept roads are built by the ants from the nest to the grass forest; roads over which many generations of ants have made their way to and from the harvest-fields. The human observer does admit, however, that the chaff that is always removed from the seeds by the ants is car ried away from the ant-hill and deposited in the grass. Whether this is for the fer tilization of the growing plants is a debatable question. The student and the scien tist believe the smell of the mildewed grain prompts some nervous response in the ant mind to remove the dampened grain. The dry seeds, having no odor of mold, are returned to the granary. Also admitted is the ant's attention to the removal of the embryo part of the seed to prevent it from germinating. 'Millers' Crush Seeds Inside the colony ants with large heads and large chew ing mouth parts, called "mill ers," crush the seeds, making them edible for worker ants who have weaker jaws. It is supposed that these heavy-jawed "millers" are de stroyed by other members of the ant colony after the "fall grinding is completed," there by saving what food they would eat during the period when no grass seed is avail able. Observers have found the miller ants heads have been sawed off and the extra food saved. In the economy of the colony, it would be pointless to feed extra and non-produc tive citizens. The collecting, storing, husking and grinding of grain for food sounds fantastic when applied to insects; and so, too, is the peculiar habit of the harvester ants in re moving wet grain to dry in the sun. Reporting the actions of these highly organized in sects is easier than explain ing why or how they do it. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1960) I.W $ 11 9061 SIZES 14Vi-24V4 v Look slim, smart, COOL in this easy-sew sundress with wide shulder straps to conceal bra. Ideal for work, relaxing, gardening. Doubles as jumper, too. 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Persons interested in em ployment in Washington, D.C. as stenographers, typists, and clerks must be at least 18 years of age, and must qualify by passing a civil service examination, a physi cal examination and a back ground investigation. Young people interested in 'Foreign Service" employ ment as secretaries, stenogra phers, communications, mail and pouch clerks must be at least 21; American citizens for at least five years; single with no dependents; high school graduates in excellent health, and available to go to any one of 286 embassies, le gations or consulates located in 90 countries throughout the world. They must be able to pass performance tests, and meet a minimum work experience requirement of three years. College training may be substituted for a maximum of 18 months of experience. Starting salaries range from $3,730 to $4,180 plus travel expenses and housing allowances. Further details and applica tion forms may be obtained from the employment divi sion, department of state, Washington 25, D.C. wages of farm workers. Farmers in the nation's rich est agricultural state have served notice they will fight any wage increases. They charged that wage higes will send food prices soaring. An opening signal of the campaign came a fortnight ago when the AFL-CIO gave official sanction to the Agri cultural Workers Organizing Committee - a group with which California ranchers are already familiar. Norman Smith, the man chosen to direct the organ izing drive, told farmers last year how he was going to force farm wages up. He said he would first try to negotiate a price, before the harvest of a given crop. His aim is to get an average minimum of $1.25 an hour in all fruit and vegetable picking. For those who refuse to pay his rates, Smith said he would wait until the fruit is ripe then picket the ranch. The California Department of Employment has ruled that when a farm is thus in volved in a labor dispute, it cannot recruit domestic work ers or assent to the use of Mexican nationals until the dispute Is settled. The farmer has little choice but to give in to the union or let the fruit crop rot. Two cherry farmers chose the lat ter course two weeks ago and lost an estimated $100,000. The union's reason for choosing California to start the natoin-wide campaign is obvious: If it can do it here, it can probably do it any where. "California has the great est concentration of both farm workers and corporate farms, as well as year-round har vesting," Smith said. Central Valley Target He has centered his opera tions in the state's great Cen tral Valley, one of the richest agricultural areas in the world with over 200 crops, many grown nowhere else in the country. Quotes From the News Mrs. Neuberger's Funds Criticized Portland 0IPD r- Mrs. Collis P. Moore, Republican nation al committeewoman from Oregon, today criticized cam paign contributions to Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, Demo cratic candidate for her late husband's Senate scat, saying most of them have come from sources outside of Ore gon. Mrs. Moore said the elec tion report filed with the sec retary of state's office showed backers of Mrs. Neuberger put up $24,875 before the May 20 primary. She said more than $21,000 of this amount came from "non - Oregon sources-most of it from New York, Chicago and Washing ton, D. C." BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL New York Floyd Patterson, after regaining the world heavyweight boxing crown with a fifth round knockout over Ingemar Johansson: "I was 'wailing for him to come to me. When he didn't, well, I had to go to him. I guest I did, huh?" New York Edwin Ahlquist, Johansson's advisor, telling reporters the former champ would have no statement just now: "Ingemar doesn't feel like talking to anyone right now . . . The best man won." Hollywood Robert Stack, on receiving an Emmy award as best actor for his TV role in "The Untouchables"; "I always laughed at people when they got things like the Emmy. But I'm not laughing now." Springfield, Ohio Dr. Barbara Moore, still trudging across the country in the wake of two British sergeants who completed the San Francisco-New York hike Friday, re peated her charge that the men got rides: "They just had a good hitchhiking holiday across America. But if they try to claim a record. I will subpoena them." During the peak harvest month of September last year, the Department of Em ployment reported 544,000 farm workers in the fields. Of that total, 84,000 were Mexican "Braceros." The Braceros are Smith's second target. He wants to get rid of the "foreign army" which he says depresses the wages for the domestic la borers. 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Director Irving Perluss of the Employment Department to reinterpret his definition of a farm labor dispute to allow the department to recruit workers in struck fields. Attorneys for the farmers argue that Perluss's definition of a labor dispute should not include agriculture. Perluss has asked them to take a case to court in order to de cide it one way or the other. Farm wages already have risen considerably in Califor nia in the past 10 years. For instance, 10 years ago pick ers of early apricots were getting 70 to 90 cents an hour in the Central Valley. This year, after union ne gotiators talked to framera in the early opening Solano Yolo county area, the aver age rose from 90 cents to $1.25. Eventually, Smith said, the union hopes to get a national minimum wage based no California's, which is the highest. Smith is not moved by ac cusations from farmers that his efforts to raise farm wages will drive up the price of food. 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