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O O o O O o o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II, 1961 B 7 . i -. , -J -it j I si 'i . 'I FREIGHTER AGROUND The 3,900-ton than 50-yards off Rapallo, Italy, Wednesday. " Panamanian cargo freighter Locarno is bat- tered by heavy sea after it ran aground less (UPI Telephoto) Work Halted on $12 Million Center ' San Rafael, Calif.-IUPll-The Marin County Board of Super visors Wednesday voted to hall work on the $12 million Marin County Civic Center, one of the final works of the ;jate architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The center, as envisioned by Wright, was a large complex of buildings built among roll ing hills and over water here. A matter of local controversy from the beginning because of its high cost, the supervisors ordered work to be stopped on the project by a 3-2 vote. Construction on the first phase of the center has been under way for a year and was to be completed in about another year. The board planned to in vestigate the possibility of completing the buildings ac cording to new plans for use as a county hospital. Jl Aaron Green, an architect With the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation, said it would be difficult to change the buildings-designed to house county government offices-to a hos pital. 'The center had been the only one of the controversial builder's plans ever accepted jjy a government body. PATTERSON PLUMBING & HEATING CO. j "The Ono Trip Plumber" i 827 WEST JACKSON ST. i Phone SP 3-2768 OF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith (c) 1980 Times-Mirror Syndicate If I were an 1 1-year-old English schoolboy, I might be looking forward to a good prep school. I've taken a test in the Sat urday Evening Post which is given to 11-year-old English schoolboys to see which ones are smart enough to go to a university prep. Those who don't pass, ac cording to the Post, are sent instead to an "ordinary school, from which they are thrust out, at age 15, into the harsh British economy. I found the test a snap, rath er, although it's been a few years since I was 11. For example, one of the questions tested one's ability to decipher code, spelling a word in numbers correspond ing to the letters of the alpha bet, to-wit: 2, 9, 4, means. . .bigbitaid bidbin. The second letter of the al phabet, of course, is b. So your first letter here is b. Right? To find the second letter, I merely counted my fingers, beginning with the little fin ger of the left hand and count ing to the fourth finger of the right hand. At that point my answer, of course, was the number . However, I quickly realized that what was required was not the number of fingers necessary to reach the number 9, but the letter of the alpha bet one would reach by count ing by letters (a, b, c and so on) and stopping at the count of 9. However, in order to know when one has counted to 9, as suming one is counting by let ters, it is necessary to count simultaneously in letters and numbers, in this manner-a-1, b-2, and so on. Using this technique, I de termined that the second let ter of the test word was, of course, i. Counting again from the left, and not forgetting this fl SHEET METAL CO. STOP Inspect your furnacs filter! I I now. Durt cleggeel filfers I I mean higher fvl bill, nel I I less heat from yer Ittmma. I I We stock all tiz. 97 and O o O time to count both by letter and by number, I discovered that the third letter was d thus completing the word. In case you plan to take the test yourself I won't weaken the validity of your score by telling you what the word was. I've explained the method of solution here at some length. It was in no mood of vanity. I merely intended to show the complexity of ratio- cination involved in what may seem to be the simplest prob lem. It s a situation faced by theoretical mathemat i c i a n s every day. Let's take another problem, one that asks something more of the schoolboy than mere fa cility with letters and num bers. In this one, five men (A, B, C, D and E) each live on one floor of a five-story house. B lives two floors above A and one floor below D. E lives one floor below A. The ques tion: Who lives one floor up? The solution requires imag ination and ability to think in the abstract as well as verti cally. By turning the hand sideways one may imagine that each finger is a floor. I tried this. I was able to imagine that each finger was a floor, but I couldn't remem ber which floor which finger represented. . . . I shut my eyes and ap proached the problem as a pure abstraction. However, with my eyes shut I was un able to read the problem and couldn't remember which floor B occupied in relation to A. I finally hit upon the idea of using the World Book En cyclopedia. I got out the A, B, C, D and E volumes and stacked them one upon the other. Then I rearranged them until I found who lived one floor up. While this method was suc cessful in my case, it may not be of general value, not every 11-year-old English boy hav ing an encyclopedia at hand. I can't help thinking that if I were only 30 years younger I might go to Eton with the Prince of Wales. Grange News The new officers presided at the regular meeting of Central Point grange on Jan. 6. Highlight of the meeting vas the conferring of the third and fourth degree on Mr .and Mrs. Duane Bever and Marcia Bever. Charles Morehouse was in charge of the team and the following members filled the chairs: Edwin Gebhard, mas ter; Benton Boyce, overseer; Mrs. Charles Morehouse, lec turer; Mrs. Otto Neider meyer, chaplain; Charles Morehouse, steward: Chester Wendt, assistant steward; Mrs. Wendt, lady assistant stew ard; Delmar Smith, gatekeep er; Mrs. Harold Gebhard. sec retary; Gaston Floux, treas urer; Mrs. James Cornut, Ceres; Mrs. Cecil Keenan, Po mona; Mrs. William Straus, Flora; the executive commit tee, James Cornut, Cecil Kee nan, and Fred Kuest; Mrs. Delmar Smith, pianist; Mrs. Fred Kuest, soloist; Tableaux, Mrs. Walter Mang, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Dee Hendrick son, Mrs. Ed Walters, Janet, Cindy, and Billie Walters. Master Morehouse read list of committees for the year. The lecturer Dee Henririck son reported on programs planned for the year. Com mittee reports included agri culture chairmen, Arnold Bohnert, and Home Econom ics club chairman, Mrs. O. T. Wilson. The next meeting of the Home Economics club will be Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Morris Frink on Linden lane. Election of a chairman for 1961 will be held. Mrs. Frink will be sales slip chair man for the year and mem bers are to report to her each quarter. Guests for the evening from other granges included Mr. and Mrs. Victor Croxton, Sams Valley Grange. Mr. Croxton is lecturer of the Oregon State Grange, and was escorted to the master's station. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Poe, Mrs. Christine Dismore, and Mrs. Myrtle Hixson of Phoenix Grange. Mr. and Mrs. William Fo ley, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lull, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olson served refreshments. Upper Rogue Upper Rogue Grange held their first meeting of the year on Jan. 5 with good atten dance reported. Worthy Mas ter Howard Bishop presided. Names of committee chair men were announced. They are agriculture, Roy Vaughn; legislature, Harold Barber; ways and means, Georgia Grieve; education, Berti Moore; building and mainte nance, Bob Chamberlain; pub licity, Carrie Harding; wel fare, Rudella Myklebye; hos pitality, May Richard son; musician, Ann Gillespie: and home economics, Gay Cham berlain. Eda Torrance was conduct ed to the master's station and presented with a past-master's pin by the Home Economics club. The next meeting of the Grange will be a social night, Jan. 19. Members are to take a sack lunch. A baked food sale was announced for the Feb. 19 meeting. The Home Economics club will meet at the home of Dorothy Tockstein on Thurs day, Jan. 12, for a 1 p.m. luncheon, with May Richard son as co-hostess. The program for the year will be discussed. European Steel Production Is Up Luxembourg-IUPD-Stccl pro duction in the six-nation Eu ropean coal and steel pool set another record in 1960, in creasing more than 15 per cent over the previous year, it was announced today. A Schuman Plan authority said 1960 production totaled 72.8 million tons, compared to 63.1 million tons in 1959. West Germany led with 34.1 million tons. France was the next largest producer with 17.2 million tons. Other members are Belgium, Lux embourg and Holland. RESIGNS It was a day of resignation Monday for William Wirtz, 48, who will become Undersecretary of Labor Jan 20. Shown in his law office in Chicago, Wirtz wrote letters of resignation as: permanent umpire between United States Rubber company and the AFL-CIO United Rubber Workers union; a member of the United Auto Workers public review board; an umpire between the Franklin association, a group of commercial printers, and AFL-CIO Chicago Typographical Union; a member of the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind and Wirtz; labor law professor, Northwestern university; vice president and counsel of Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council. (UPI Telephoto) Check Presented To Munich Mayor Brauchle Munich, Germany -il'Pli-The U.S. Air Force Tuesday pre sented Mayor George Brau chle check for 8080 for the survivors of the 33 Germans killed in last month's crash of an Air Force plane here. Air Force personnel in Ger many and England raised the money. The plane, en route from Munich to a base in Eng land, crashed in a crowded Munich shopping street. All 20 Americans on board. In cluding 12 American students, were filled. SUBWAY VfnLATION New York - Subways are partially ventilated by the piston action of trains driving the sqj through the tubes, 0 3 SOC Faculty Members Return To Campus Duties Ashland-Thrce members of Ihe Southern Oregon college teaching staff have recently returned to their campus du ties afler authorized leaves during the past fall term. The three instructors are Professor Angus L. Bowmer, professor of drama and found er director of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival; Glenn T. Matthews, assistant professor of music, and Dr. Ruth E. Bebber. associate pro fessor of physical education and health. Professor Bowmer has re turned from a six months lour of Europe, England and Can ada. He and his wife visited 16 foreign countries and saw 41 theatrical productions, 13 of them Shakespearean. A Ford Foundation award furnished Bowmer the basis for the trip. Part of the award was to be used to see Shake spearean festivals on the North American continent and England. While on tour, the Bowmers decided to see representative productions in other countries. Muiic Education Matthews has returned from the University of Oregon where he has been working towards his doctorate in mu sic education. He has com plex his course require ments and has had his pro posed topic for his doctorial dissertation accepted by the comhiittee. Concerned with the over all improvement of instruc tion in colleges and universi ties, .Matthews is specializing in Ihe topic, "An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods for Training Skills in School Music Conducting in Oregon." Matthews, who joined the staff at Southern Oregon col lege in 1946, founded the an nual summer Siskiyou Band camp and serves as its direc tor each year. Dr. Bebber has been on sabbatical leave during (he past term in California, where she performed a medi cal statistics research study in Monrovia at the clinic of Dr. Francis Pottengcr. Dr. Bebber also did independent medical library research at the medical school in Loma Linda. Calif. Advertisement ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATISM, NEURITIS SUFFERERS Can Eaie Minor Pains Day after Day Sf trntinVnlly formuUtrd and new AR-PAN'-KX works dire, tly tliroush blood Mrram to bring fat tempo rary rrhef ol minor pins of arthri tis and rhriimalini. Sen m today about AH-l'W'-liX tablets. M'fyy b.uk g'ur.tfii'9 WAINSCOTT'S PHARMACY 322 E. Main r Medford Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (neglster and Tribune syndicate, 1961) There is a certain variety of bee that is very particular. She demands and will use no other leaf than that from a rose bush. For some peculiar reason she insists on cutting disks from rose leaves for her specific purpose. Look at a rose bush some time, examine it carefully; the chances are you will find leaves with a perfectly circu lar notch cut out of some section. In some individual leaves there may be several round holes cut out by the aptly named "leaf cutter" bee. The holes are usually about one-half to three-quarlers of an inch in diameter. You arc mistaken if you think the bee eats the section she so carefully cuts out; she doesn't. She uses the little section in the construction of her nest. Each piece is car ried away in her mouth to become a cradle or a nursery for the egg she will later de posit in the little leaf-envelope. Smaller Than Honey Bee The "leaf - cutting" bee is slightly smaller than a honey bee, with a large head and a shiny black or metallic blue body. There may be at tunes few finely drawn white lines across the abdomen. She has a long tongue and a pair of sharp, scissor-like mandi bles that can snip out a thrae quarter section of leaf in less than 10 seconds. As soon as the cut is made and the little round section is free, the bee takes it in her mouth and "high-tails" for home." Home may be in a hollow plant stem or under ground in a burrow, or even in an unused key-hole in an a b a n d o n ed building. But wherever it is, the bee takes there only a section of rose leaf. Carefully she pulls the two outer edges of the leaf to gether, making a tiny, thim ble-like receptacle and gluing the edges with saliva from her mouth. She may fashion a dozen or even a score of these compartments, placing them end to end. Then she surveys her work; finds it good, and flics away again on another, but different, mission. No Interest This time she is not interest ed in rose leaves; she is hunt ing for flowers. Fervently she gathers pollen, carrying it back to the empty cells. Into each leaf-cell she crams a full load, almost filling the cap sule. When they are all full, she begins at the first one and in rapid succession, lays a single egg in each. When all the receptacles have had her at tention, she carefully closes the open ends of each cell. When the eggs hatch and the tiny bee larvae crawl from their leathery husks, an ample supply of vitamin-rich pollen is waiting for them. There is always enough to give lliem t h e necessary strength to push through the now fragile rose-leaf cell and emerge into the world of sun shine. A few moments in the open air and their gauzy wings harden: they fly away, limit ing for rose bushes from whose leaves Ihey can cut circular pieces to make little leaf -crypts for their own babies. Thus the wheel re volves, circling endlessly through succeeding genera tions of leaf-cutting bees, and always in step with the limit less procession of living in sects. OCEAN POSITION The Pacific ocean reaches east to the longitude of Maine. BORAX PRODUCTION The U.S. is first, Chile sec ond in borax production. Here's what POPULAR SCIENCE Impartial Experts Say about OLDSMO BILES Businessmen Would Let Students Drive Carbondale, III. -tUPII- Local businessmen got added sup port Tuesday in their drive to have Southern Illinois uni versity relax its ban against letting students drive cars. Latest to side with the group was the operator of a local drive-in movie. CLOGSTCNS Metal Weather Stripping and Screens EsHmalet Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings it's a car that you still like after I a 900-mile day... and r there aren't many x,s cars like that." After a 10,000-mile lest, the authoritative port i.Ait s ii: k 6-man team alto staled: ". . . uncanny ability lo keep its feet on the ground over rough roads." "Rides beautifully , .1 handles well I" Make your own F-85 TEST today! ME YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED OIDSMOEIIE QUALITY OEAIER1 DARRELL MILLER CO., 415 S. 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