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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY. APRIL 20. 1962 V -it, - . -s n' " .? fe;.' yki M. !!.?. fl... Pakistan To Hold First Election Under New Constitution in April A 3 By JOHN F. BARTON Unittd Prtit International Karachi, Pakistan - UM -Thousands of'Pakistanis. from cabinet ministers to camel RANGER LAUNCH DUE Ranger 4 will be launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Cape Canaveral, Fla., within a tew days. It will represent the second attempt by the United States to make closeup pictures of the moon. An artist's sketch shows some of the evenis thai will iae piace after tne Ailas-Agena B launch rocket injects the spacecraft into a lunar transfer tra jectory. Developed by the California Institute of Tech nology Jet Propulsion laboratory, Ranger will make the lunar trip of some 225,000 miles in about 60 hours. (UPI) Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Watkim CReclater & Tribune Syndicate, 1962) Capitol Memo Did Wily Woodpecker U Cake to Bait Insects? The lady who watched and who had placed the stale cake on the feeder, being pretty familiar with birds, was sur prised to see an insect-eating woodpecker carry away a piece of cake. By watching the bird the lady thought she had a solu tion, for the bird had carried the. cake to a nearby tree where he carefully crammed it into a crevice in the tree bark. The lady figured that, like a dog that buries a bone, or a squirrel that hides a nut, the bird was storing away for some future time what he didn't want to eat at once. By storing it safely in a tall tree, he hoped it would be out of sight of the small birds. Visits Feeder Several times the wood pecker visited the feeder and each time he carried away the largest piece of cake. Each time he flew to a different tree and repeated the same packing-in process. He was actually seen to hammer the pastry solidly in to the bark crevice. Once he stuffed a large hunk into a knothole. After wedeing the cake into the crevice, the bird would cock his head from side to side, carefully surveying his tamp ing job. If he found it good, he would fly away. From her kitchen window the lady could see half a doz en places within a stone's throw from her window where the wads of cake had been stuffed into their re spective containers. A couple of days later she noticed the same bird visiting, one after another, the caches. The bird didn't seem, how ever, to be eating at the place the cake was stored, but was working around it, pecking at something on tne tree trunk. Pays No Heed She left her work and walk ed toward the nearest tree where the bird was at work. He paid no attention to her close approach. He was eating insects that evidently were feasting on the cake. The bird had used the pastry as a lure to attract the insects. The stupid bugs were out in the open where they could be picked off, one by one, by the wily bird. On cleaning up all the insects in sight, the bird flew quickly to the next little storage bin where other nnsiisnecting insects wSre taking the bait. Is this, the lady asks, char acteristic of all these birds? Do all woodpeckers, if given a chance, put out bait to lure insects, or was this just an unusually bright individual? How did the bird know the cake would attract the bugs, or did the bird intend to eat the cake at some future time and found the bugs had ar rived first, so ate them? The questions have no easy answers. So far no one has entirely untangled the com plex skein of animal behavior ism. STRIKES SERGEANT Bicester, England- lUPD -Pvt. Peter Stewart, 19, was sen tenced to 84 days in the stock ade Wednesday by a military court for striking his ser-geant-major. His weapon? The sergeant -major's swagger stick. Careles smoking and care less use of matches is said to be No. 1 among causes of fire in the U. S Outdated Provision Makes Hatfield State Fleet Chief By DOUGLAS GRIPP subcommittee of the Oregon Salem-OM- If Gov. Mark i Constitutional Revision com- Hatfield wanted to, he could mlssl" recently, me mem- ucia icei u 15 sale to rccom- step into the shower and sing. with gusto: I am the mon- arch of the sea, ruler of the q u e e n's navee . . ." These lines readily identi fy Sir Joseph to any fan of Gilbert and Douilii Gripe S u 1 1 i v a n's famed operetta, Pinafore. But the highborn and tat tered Oregon constitution still says this about the governor: He shall be Commander in Cheif (sic) of the military and naval forces of this state." Naval forces? You bet. No ships maybe, but plenty of boats.' The., .State Marine Board counted up today, and said Oregon's "navy" currently consists of 131 boats plus three ferries on the Columbia river at Astoria. If Oregon's fleet has a flag ship, she is the largest of the Astoria ferries - the M. R. Chessman - A 180 fool, 570 tonner that is 14 years old. j Larger, but a tow boat, is i the Port of Portland's 928 ton! stpamcr Portland, a 2191 foot sternwheeler that i hauls visiting ships in Port land harbor. The marine board f didn't count this vessel, orj three others owned by the port, but since the port is a i state agency, the grand total j of vessels in the Oregon navy is 138. Next biggest is the Acona, a geodetic survey craft owned by Oregon State university. She is 80 feet long and is 154 tons. Eight state agencies have boats, and the most nautical is the game commission, with I 59. The state police are next: with 44, including a 40-foot cruiser. In addition to the Acona, OSU has 11 boats. The uni versity of Oregon claims nine, and the board of forestry, highway department and Ore gon Technical Institute a t Klamath Falls, two each. The board of health even has a boat. They use it to check water pollution at close range. Article 5, section 9 of the constitution which gives the governor power to press these vessels into battle is, you might say. outdated. It brought chuckles from a mend that the reference to naval forces can be cut out of a proposed new state con- stitution. Programs Scheduled by Good News Clubs Rogue River - The Wimer and Rogue River Good News club will hold a closing pro gram at Evans Valley school at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Mrs. Ford Patterson is in charge of the clubs, which are sponsored by the Inter national Child Evangelism Fellowship. Awards will be presented to children winning first, second and third places in each class. Heart trouble is more com mon among men than among women, except at ages of 75 and over 75. i Dollars-For-Duncan Office Will Open A Dollars-For-Duncan Cam paign Committee has opened headquarters at 311 East Eighth st., Medford, and will hold open house and coffee hour for Congressional Candi date Robert B. Duncan, be tween 3 and 5 p.m. April 21. Mrs. Dee Newton, co-chairman with James Redden for the Duncan campaign in Jack son county, will be hostess at the open house, assisted by Mrs. Hugh Friel, Mrs. James Redden, Mrs. Ralph Poston, Mrs. Jean Mills and Mrs. Thornton Shively. Duncan, who has been cam paigning through Lane and Linn counties during the past week, will be on hand. Mrs. Duncan plans to attend. All friends and supporters as well as anyone wishing to meet the candidate are invited to at tend. Redden said. The headquarters, following its official opening Saturday, will be operated by Mrs. New ton and Mrs. Friel, assisted by any volunteer workers who wish to donte time. Tele phone numbers, for the head quarters will be SPring 2-9806 and SPring 3-6184, Redden said. ." Newbry Speaks at Stockmen's Meeting State Senator Lynn Newbry told the Jackson County Stockmen's association a t Central Point Grange hall last night that reductions are be ing made in range permits throughout southern Oregon. Senator Newbry told the group that in Harney county the same reductions are con templated. He said the interim com mittee on natural resources has become alarmed and will hold public hearing in Jack son county early in May. He said he called the com mittee to hold a hearing be cause, "the 'Hulo Hoop' meth od of evaluating range capa bilities raises serious doubts in my mind. How can this pos sibly be accurate?". "The real proof of range capabilities lies in the condi tion of stock grazing the range. Certainly it is in the best public interest to see that range lands in Oregon are properly maintained, but plain common sense would tell us that stockmen are not going to overgraze the ranRe at the expense of their stock," Newbry said. TO GERMANY Army Pvt. Hudson Ray Bransom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bransom, route 1, box 57, Central Point, will leave soon for Germany for an 18 month tour of duty. He is a Jacksonville High school grad uate and entered the service in November, 1961. He com pleted his basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif., and recently completed a six weeks cleri cal course. drivers, will try their luck in constitution, political panics . liamentarv system because the first elections to be held could only be formed with i ..jt is si , , k under the new constitution ' the approval of the national ! at-in ir m,r ...mi, ,t- i.i. assembly. (ory ant lcss ljal)ie to ,cad , Last January former Pak- instability - a luxury that a istan Prime Minister H S. developing country like ours . , cannot afford. " late this month There have been no national elections since President Mo hammed Ayub Khan took over the government in a mili tary coup in October, 1958. But Ayub's military govern ment has introduced a consti tution and is gradually re turning the nation to parlia mentary rule. The elections will fill 150 National Assem bly seats and the 150 - seat State Assemblies. Voting is expected to be completed by early May. Papers Filed Nomination papers have been filed by three ministers of Ayub's present cabinet, and a host of private citizens, including lawyers, industrial ists, businessmen large and small, labor leaders, journal ists, milkmen, camel and rick shaw drivers, and a jockey from a Karachi race track. Members of the national and provincial assemblies will be elected by basic democrats, some 85.000 Pakistanis who were specifically chosen in a national election for the pur pose. Thus there will be no direct election for national or provincial assemblies, or the presidency. The basic demo crats will serve as an electoral college. On March 1, Ayub made good on his promise to restore democracy in Pakistan. The constitution, which provides strong executive powers and is based on a presidential rather than parliamentary system, calls for establish ment of unicameral legisla tures at the national and pro vincial level. Nearly Ruined President Ayub still does not trust politicians, whom he blames for creating the na tion's financial situation which nearly ruined the country and was the cause of his declaring martial law and assuming power in 1958. Ayub banned political par ties in 1958. Under the new prior to announcement of the new const i the government and charged with anti-state activities. The arrest of Suhrawardy, a lead er of the Awami League which was very popular in East Pakistan, caused demonstra tions by students at Dacca university Feb. 6. Sought to Embarrass The demonstrations were thought to have been insti- liv fnri-tin.. nnliti-jl aln. mcnts which sought to em barrass the administration ltution. Chudhri Khaliquzz a m a n. former president of the now defunct Pakistan Muslim League, made a public plea to President Ayub to allow the formation of political parties. Khaliquzzaman told news men "unless the President himself allows the formation of political parties and favor ably considers the withdrawal of desirability of the old . . . party leaders who can not take part in the present elec tions thore does not appear any prospect for the forma tion of political parties for a long time to come." Simpler to Work But in a nationwide radio address, Ayub said that the presidential system was adopt ed in preference to the par- Sale of Newport Paper Announced Newport Beach (L'Pfi - Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rcddick have announced the sale of the Newport Harbor News Press and its companion pub lication, the Orange Coast Free Press, to the Twin Coast Newspapers, Inc. Twin Coast is publisher of the Long Beach Independent, Press-Telegram and the Pasa dena, Independent, Star-News. 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