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MEDFORD MAIL- TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. ORE. lUESbXY, APRIL, 4, VW7 I u.. m .,.,-..,. ,,. , .,....,. mMmm wj-jpmmm:, i 11 11 - -;.. i, v r ., T - :r..- HIGH-SPEED CRASH Three persons were killed in this .sports car at Nashville, Tenn... after the driver' tried to .rioutrun police at speeds of 125 miles an hour. The car roar ti ed ,into a downtown intersection, . sideswiped a bus and slashed off two utility poles before It caught fire! The dead were the driver, Donald Lee Coats, 17; Mrs. Elizabeth Hannah Shippe, 22', and her 14-months-old ' daughter,' Rhonda Lee. All were from Peoria, 111; (UP! Telephoto) Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (Bsgistsr and Trlbun Syndicate 1981) Th Lowly Skunk Cabbagt BtcomM Homt for Bird Bleak and bare are the win ter woods. Under the snow blanket that has covered the ground so long, strange stir rings occur; under the forest floor life begins again. Some how the signal has been sent. Plant and animal sense the approach of spring. All living things hear the message, smell it or sense it. . Sap, the life-blood of tree and shrub, begins a sluggish movement. Melted snow water, from the faint heat of an early sun, has seeped down triggering all kinds of activ ity In the mold ol the ear in. Wild flowers . that have slept through the past several months feel the strange force and respond. The chemistry of growth is about to resume its annual performance. - ' The tissues in the lowly skunk cabbage felt the im pulse somewhat earlier than any of the others. This de spised member of the family of plants to which the jack- i.i-ihe-pulpit belongs, . Is al- MANY WONDROUS USES Mushroom Clouds and Radioactive Fallout Not Only Atomic Symbols r j LAO By DICK WEST Washington - (UPB - When I it think of atomic energy, I tend ,tto think of it in terms of t mushroom clouds, radioactive t n II ... A 1 other rtrparifnl symbols. E Seldom have I thought of it in terms of the sex life of a tropical fruit, fly, .which . shows that .1 have been missing a , lot. . ,; , - ; jV- I didn't know exactly how Timuch I had been missing until M'Tead over some of the testi .'Ttiony given at recent hearings --.by the Joint . Congressional i Atomic Energy committee. 1 The atom, I learned, is be ;ting put to many strange and j wondrous uses,, including one s that v provides some rather K racy reading. So before, we get ,,-into this any further, perhaps ?you.had better send the chil dren from the room. ; ; Now let us proceed. 1 I assume that most of us are familiar with epic strug- Wcjt gle' in recent years to eradi cate the screw worni fly by dosing young male insects with radiation from cobalt-60. Faces Extinction This, as you know, renders the male flies sterile and causes the females to lay in fertile eggs. Thus the screw worm population goes into a decline and eventually van ishes.. .' . . . , . ... If you have been stirred by th!3 adventure, it. may thrill you to know that the govern ment ;now is conducting simr ilar birth control experiments among fruit flies.? The fruit fly presents a dif ferent problem because,' un like the screw ' worm fly,- It mates more than bnce. In fact. L. D. Christenson, ah Agri culture Department research official,' used the word "fre-' quently." ' : ,-. ' This shall we say ' pro lific?"itrait on the part of the fruit fly. increases the odds that a female will get together with a potent male in addi tion to one that has received the cobalt treatment. : You can immediately see how that would complicate matters, Nevertheless, Chris tenson , was able to tell the joint committee that the fruit fly program shows indications Of being successful. : .. For Other Pests There Is hope that the same technique can be applied to such other pests as the mos quito, pink bollworm, codling moth, corn earworm, sugar cane stalk borer, tobacco bud worm, sheep "blowfly and tse tse fly.-"" , ; The fruit flies are sterilized in Hawaii and then airlifted to Guam, whence they are taken to Rota, a small island being used as the test area.. Between Nov. 26, 1960, and March 5, 1961, 21,582,000 sterile fruit flies and 15,158, 000 sterile melon flies were released on Rota. Christenson didn't say who counted them but it must have been quite a job.:' ' ' '' It' is believed that the is land now .has enough barren immigrants to outnumber the productive natives by about 10 to 1. This, ratio should in sure that a larger number of fruit flies will be fruitless. ' The Medical Roundup by mm Emarltug Consultant In Medlclna ; Mayo CUnlo Emerltui Profeisor of Madlclnt i ' Mayo CUnlo (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1961) Can a Short Boy Be Made To Grow Tall? Dr. Ralph H. Kunstadter points out what has been well known, that the pituitary gr owth hor mone obtain ed from ani mals does not work in the case of man, It does not make short boys grow tall. Some physic!- a n s advised that short boys of 13 or 14 years of age be given some male hormone, perhaps with a . little female hormone. .-..:.: v . Recently a' man wrote me to say that this had been tried on his boy and the lad had promptly grown three inches. That was cheering; the only trouble was that recently I saw a lad for whom, a -year " ' . ' ''" ' "( i ' ' ;--'-'' , r There's no getting around it, machines have pretty much taken over our plant where we make Boyd's Coffee. Machines blend the green coffees together, they roast and grind the beans, they weigh and pack the coffee. All very modern. Just one thing-the flavor of green coffees can vary from day to day, but no machine takes this into account. Well, we wouldn't trust it, anyway. The good taste of Boyd's is our department, so science be hanged, we step in and do what we've done for half a century. We brew up test pots of coffee each day and we taste and taste, and the machines keep their electronic controls out of it. It works out fine. Four thousand restaurants prove it-they serve a million cups of Boyd's every day. PA - ihert isn't progress btrt, there ts pleasure. We do tbis Wi testing in lie morning just about mjjet-break time. ' BOYD'S COMES IN THREE CONVENIENT SIZES BUY IT BY THE CAN, CASE OR CARLOAD ago, when he was only 5 feet 2 inches tall, I had suggested a trial of male hormone, plus Vitamin- B complex. I was de lighted to see that- he had grown some seven inches. To show how very easy it is to be deceived when one is try ing to appraise the value of a drug, I learned that the lad's family physician had re fused to give him the medi cine that I had suggested, so he had had no medicine at all! It ' is well known that some boys who, at the age of 14 seem to have stopped grow ing, suddenly will shoot up .in the next year or two. The Meanaat Crlma Occasionally I am distressed when I see : in the paper -that a thief gbt away with all the savings of a blind woman; and then it seems to me that that's about as mean a crime as there is. But now doctors who have been working with the Ameri can Cancer Society say that one of the 'meanest crimes is to take four or five hundred dollars from the hard-working and perhaps poor -. sons or daughters of an old man or woman with inoperable and hopeless cancer, guaranteeing them a cure. I am glad to see that laws now have been pass ed in California, Kentucky and Nevada which will make it easier for, health authori ties to investigate the behavi or of cancer quacks, and to find out what is in the medi cines they are giving. , Incidentally, I was not at all surprised to read that at the session of the California State Legislature, the man who introduced the bill de signed to protect people from rascally quacks was snowed under by the largest mass of mail received by any legisla tor. The. letters were all from friends of the quacks who did not want them molested. Any time an ex-"con-man" or pro fessional, swindler goes into the cancer-quack racket he promptly, gets the sympathy of more than half of the citi zens by making out he Is an under-dog, being persecuted by the American Medical As sociation. Airlines Urged To Inform Customers Washington - (UPB - Federal Aviation Agency chief Najeeb E. Halaby has urged the na tion's airlines to keep their customers better informed. "I believe they ought to give us passengers available information on'which we can base a judgment on whether or not we'll fly," Halaby said in a copyrighted interview in U.S. News and World Report. "The man about to buy a ticket ought to be able to get information about weather, and delay, and air traffic con trol, and other potential prob lems in- the flight," he said. Then he can go to the airport with a greater sense of confl uence and assurance that he's going to do what he planned to do." Halaby said about air safe ty: . -Nothing Is "perfectly safe," not even bathtubs. -"I don't feel particularly safe crossing Fifth ave. at 57th st. in New York or on the Loi Angeles Freeway ... I feci safe enough in the air to fly constantly myself and have mywife and children fly." ways in a hurry to become the first to reap the benefit of early flying insects. Odorous Signal Almost as soon as this plant gets its first leaves out of the cold ground, it sends out its odorous signal. To the sense of smell of animals the odor is obnoxious; a punget scent closely resembling putrid meat, or to most people who detect it, an odor combining the very worst of spoiled meat, garlic and the scent left by a skunk that has been dis turbed to the point of retaliation. Even the color of the skunk cabbage resembles spoiled meat, a sickening purplish col or with conspicuous, yellow ish veins. The plant aspires to attract insects to itself by both sight and smell. The more in sects that come the better-the plant's chance of satisfactory pollination. Various species of flies as well as beetles find the odor a delicious invitation to come and dine. :: The actual flowers of the plant are very small and hid den wit.;hv a swollen horn like object called ' a spathe. The blossom is usually close to the forest floor. The plant has a large crown of leaves some what like a cabbage. The plant thrives in wet, soggy ground; in swamps or damp woodlands. In the grooved leaf stalks, the water from spring rains or melted snow collects. In the little water-filled reservoirs hundreds of small insects lose their lives. They came to help but drowned in what, to them, is a deep pool. Their decaying bodies help to feed the plant that lured them to their even tual death. v But Nature's plan has many angles, for to the horn-like spathe of the skunk cabbage, later in the spring, comes fre quently a saucy little bird, the Maryland Yellow-throat. She builds her nest in the open spathe and there she raises her family secure in the knowledge that the objection able odor of the plant will keep her enemies at a safe dis tance. , Fortunate, indeed, that the little bird has no sense of smell. To her the skunk cab bage has no odor. The chemis try of . spring, of growing plant, of nesting bird is close ly -linked; all a part of the complex mystery of creation and continuing life. 3,824 Students Enroll At Portland State , ' Portland OJPD Spring term enrollment at growing Port land State ' College reached 3,824 Monday. Last spring It was 3,242. . " A 3 LOOK FOR THE Annual Crater Lions SPORTSFAIR nome & uaroen dhow MAY 5TH - 6TH & 7TH ANY PARTIES INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES , , , ; . Sportsmen , Hobby Collectors '.M Home Builders Home Appliances Furniture Patio Equipment ' Boats & Motors Nurseries Garden Clubs And Others FOR INFORMATION OR REGISTRATION CALL Dr. Earl Johnson SP 3 3873 M Rememknitien your budget) W (Today it takes just pin-money to call across the country) This little drawing-room drama took place a long, long time ago. Grandma has just received a newsy, question-filled letter from her grandchildren. She's delighted and anxious to hear their voices but she just can't bear to pick up the phone and call them. You really couldn't blame her. Thirty-five years ago, a Long Distance call took a generous bite out of the family budget, and a few nibbles out of the nervous system too. For example, if Granny wanted to call person-to-person to Philadelphia, it would cost her nearly $20 for 3 minutes or about 12 a second? She might have to wait hours for "Central" to make the connection. Then, while she shouted to make herself heard and wondered what to say 'next, the ather half of her mind was think ing: "Goodness gracious time's up what have I done?" Happily, this kind of nonsense went out with kerosene lamps and Hitching Old Dobbin to the Shay. Today, talk is cheap and calling Long Distance is easy. For example, person-to-person to Philadelphia is $3 , plus tax, and only $1.75 plus tax for a station-to-station call during the off-hours. You can call between Portland and Seattle for 50..pius,,i.';.t;: ' Modern grandmothers know how wonderful it is. to . call their grandchildren often, to share their laughter, ; to learn what they are doing. 1961's low rates make. Long Distance a convenient, personal way to keep in touch a pin-money way to have a family reunion. If you haven t called Long Disr tance in the last thirty-five years, you're in for a surprise Now, it takes 66 seconds or less to reach anywhere in the U.S. (Even, fast er with Direct Distance Dialing.) There's no1 need to shout (ot even , talk loud) It's less expensive than you think, and you'll' get more; than your money's worth. Why don't you call your grandchildren -or someone else's-right now? ' LONQ DISTANCE RATES ARE LOW . Here are some examples: Klamath Falls to Phoenix . . Astoria to Minneapolis . . . Portland to Chicago . , . . . Eugene to Ann Arbor . . . . Medford to Atlanta . . . . . Salem to Washington, 0. C. Siatlon-to-siallon roles lor the first 3 minutes, after 6 PM and all day Suit day. (Add the 10'A, World War II red- .' . era! Excise Tax suit In eOett!) . "' $1.20 . 1.40 : i.5o ,. 1.65 1.65 , 1.75 Biecit TriFPHONE NORTHWEST
