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8 B MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. ' MONDAY, NOVEMBER U. I960 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo 17, . - . f)Vm VDU JUST MADE IT, BUSTER-T JT T?A lyU.THE MAGICIANS ( ONE seat lept-HURRV hp I- V ri 'i PLEASE TELL US HOWCUMpP' "--t GET ABOARD.'.' rL, . iMtJ yOUR BAG IS THE LAST TO --- rmZXSViSl UeeAGE 1 p I Vet when yoo arrive at the ' I pF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith (e) llll Tlmei-Mlrror iyndlcit. Our barometer says rain today. It won't rain, of course. Our barometer always says rain. It has said rain since the day we got it, four years ago next Christmas. At least it is always right on rainy days. I like our barometer the way it is. It's one thing close to us in this unstable world that never changes. It said rain the day before the election, It said rain elec tion day. It said rain the day after, and It says rain today. If you listened to the alarm ing prognostications of both candidates In the recent cam paign, you'll know how com forting it is to find that some thing you have loved and trusted Is the same today as It has always been. I'm not, of course, speaking of the dollar. I was convinced the nation was on a supersonic collision course with oblivion, which ever party won, and that in cither event nothing good would ever be the same again. Maybe this is so. Maybe it's too soon to toll. But I've been looking about. All around me I find constants that imply a reliable and imperishable uni verse. . i Last night, for example, I woke up hungry for a graham cracker and butler sandwich. I groped through the dark living room to the kitchen and pulled out the cookie drawer. The graham cracker box was empty. It is always so. . This morning I looked fear fully in the mailbox. I ex pected to find nothing but a pink notice warning of Arma geddon and advising me to re pent. The box was stuffed instead with cheerful missives ad dressed "Occupant." That's what I'm called by every mall order house in the nation with Which I have not yet done business. ' I snt down with a cup of coffee and my' mall and went through the lot. They were all there. The power lawnmowcr people, the rose bush people, the bulb people, the fertilizer people, the telescope people and the book people. Friends, all." I wanted to order every thing to show my faith in the future. But I already have everything. I had too much faith in the future in the past. I'm overextended. The gross national product hasn't kept pace with old Occupant. My wife got up and walked through In her old white robe with the little flowers on it, I had bought it for her, I remembered, the year she planted the fig tree. It may be a little frayed here and there, but fundamentally it's still a good sound robe. It looks lived in. "What would you like for breakfast?" she asked. "The same," I said, cherish ing the phrase. "The same as always." ' She went in the kitchen and : turned things on and banged pots and pans around, the way they do to let you know they arc at work. The eggs were flawless. Sunnyslde up, not too hard, not too runny. Four strips of lean crisp bacon. A glass of orange juice, one slice of buttered toast with apricot and pineapple jam. I have survived four admin istrations and one war on that dally breakfast. I'm' sticking with It. It's a sound, non partisan, non-sectarian break fast. ' ' When I opened the back door to the garage and went in to get the car, I stepped on the rake and the handle lash ed out and struck me across the bridge of my nose. It does that every time. I drove off to work with a singing heart. Inter-Agency Council To Meet Wednesday The Oregon conference on children and youth, which was held in Snlcm recently, will be discussed at a meeting of the Jackson County Inter- Agency Council at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, In the Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne ave Mcdford. Council Chairman Laura Porter said the 15 delegates who attended the conference will discuss the recommenda tions studied in the five gen eral workshops on health, ed ucation, child welfare servic es, recreation and family. The public Is invited to the meeting. Doomsday is Set For November 13, 2026 Study Shows Washington (Science Serv ice) - Doomsday is set for Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. On this date, three mathematl clans have calculated, human population will approach in finity, if It grows as it has grown in the last 2,000 years, and will promptly annihilate itself. . . . . With their calculations based on paradise-like condi tions - no environmental haz ards, unlimited food supply and no detrimental action be tween elements - the math ematicians believe their pre diction of doomsday is accu rate within 10 years. In studies partly supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Bethes- da, Md., Heinz von Foerster, Patricia M. Mora and Law rence W. Amiot of the Univer sity of Illinois, Urbana, show that, with the DroDer figures. Charlemagne 'could have, pre dicted doomsday accurately within 300 years. Elizabeth I of England could have pre dicted the critical date within 110 years, and Napoleon with in 30 yeurs. Better Position "Today,1 however, we are in a much better position, since we are required to ex trapolate our evidence only four per cent beyond our last point of observation: we can predict doomsday within ap proximately 10 years." While tlie optimists consid er growing population no problem because they believe food technology advances will provide for the masses, and the pessimists argue that there is a limit, the Illinois mathematicians state in Sci ence (Nov. 4) that both arc wrong. The principle of "adequate technology" has hold for 100 generations and can be expect ed to last at least three more. B u t "our Ri-cnt-grent-grahd- chlldrcn will' not starve to death. They will be squeezed to death." . jSaSmair KjWorlds f w3Around 'wli!lJs By Lynn M. Wotkini HUGE BEARINGS Pittsburgh - A single roller In tlie huge roller bearings used in the giant machines employed by the steel Indus try for rolling out cold flat steel sheets sometimes weighs up to 700 pounds. Tox 2S holi&ay seasons it has been tra6ittonat to seroe if OlDCROWrO I $C00 Serve QlftQBffiF- UUiUULU UUtV it tUt V VVUVW 45Qt. buy for iwtnselves than any other MM CM DSTUEn COMMIT, flUMRI, KT. KltllDUl IT M1RMI HBHIIB rWOKIS CWMKT. KIMUttT $NK! MMMH Wnatl It HM The Tusk Shall Was Indian 'Wampum' If Mother Nature ever en tertained the desire or the intention to create an elephant only four inches high and six inches in length, she already would have the tusks avail able In generous amounts on the sandy bottoms of the oceans. Scientists classify these lit tle tusk-like shells as scapho pods or tooth shells. Tooth perhaps Is a little more des criptive, than "tusk," because of the tapered shape and the graceful curve, which is exactly like a tooth. The tusk shells common to many American beaches are usually from an inch to two inches in length, and about the diameter of a common match at the larger end of the shell. From the butt end they taper gracefully to almost a sharp point. When the animal that creates the shell is inside and alive, the pointed end is uppermost in the sand. Filamants Protrude From the smaller or upper end, a number of filaments protrude that wave around In the water and act as sense organs. From the larger or lower end, the muscular foot af fords a certain limited loco motion to the living mollusk. Often this organ is called a tongue. It is doubtful if the animal ever actually travels over a few feet in its entire lifetime. Nature did not equip the tusk shell with gills, but al lows the mantle to do this work. Water is pumped in through the length of the shell as it stands upright in the sand.- There are a great many things about the tusk shell that we do not understand. In fact there is no reason for the existence of such a shell, but nevertheless they are present in nearly every ocean on our globe. There are tusk shells in some areas of the Pacific Ocean that measure several inches in length. 'Wampum' for Indians ' The tusk shell Is undoubt edly the mollusk the Indians used as "wampum"; It is still used as money in many South Sea Islands. Numbers of tusk shells were arranged in pat' terns and pictures for the ornamentation of canoes and tepees in Indians who lived near American seacoasts. In dians living at a distance from the edge of the sea duplicated the same designs by using the quills of the porcupine. But millions of years before the Indian, or even before pre-historic man put in an earthly appearance upon the scene, Nature was making the tusk shell for some reason that Is still a mystery. Even on the beaches of the earth's early beginning, millions of these shells, that arc shaped like an elephant's tusks, were cast up on a wild and desolate shore - shells exactly like you can find today along the ocean's outer edge. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) SOC Anticipates Increased Building Ashland - Building activity at Southern Oregon college is expected to increase within the next year or so with voters' approval of Measure No. 6 on last Tuesday's gen eral election ballot. Measure No. 6 was a pro posal to provide bonds to fi nance additional self-liquidating higher educational facili ties. According to the slate sys tem of higher education, pro posed facilities for 1961-63 under the non-tax bonding au thority for Southern Oregon college includo a $200,000 dormitory, a $75,000 student health service building, and $145,000 for athletic facilities including tennis courts and grandstand development. Cancer Film Slated For March Showing An American Cancer Soci ety film, "Time and Two Wo Men," will be shown in Jack son county March 1, according to the Oregon division of the Society. The film is part of the So ciety's concerted attack on uterine cancer, second most common cancer in women. The film will be shown state wide In every county at least once, and In the more popu lated areas more than once. SKELETON MAKEUP New York-A human skele ton Is made up of about 200 bones, 74 located in the head, neck and the trunk and the remainder in the legs and arms. 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