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10 A Small Worlds Around Us K By (Btiliter A Tribune Syndicate, 1912) Evtr Bait Your Hoolt With a Hellgramita? In a way it was exciting to catch them. We hunted up a place along the creek where the water was shallow and wift. Wading in we bent nearly double and began lift ing up stones from the creek bottom. Under about every fourth stone we would find a hellgramite. Avoiding the strong, forcep-like pliers the creature carried on its nose, we would grab him and pop him into the bait box. Eight or 10 hcllgramitcs would usually assure us of four or five black bass later when we arrived at the lake. Sometimes we could catch three or four bluegills with a ainizle hellgramite. The fish of whatever kind, always seemed to prefer these funny looking things over worms, crickets or even small min nows. Good For Fishing The hellgramite has a tough skin and a hard collar just back of the head that holds a fish hook securely. The plao ing of the hook didn't seem to hurt the hellgramite, but it did make him very angry. Small fish had trouble tearing the bait off the hook; a de cided advantage to the fisher man. Boy-like, we seldom ques tioned the reason for this pe culiar creature that hides under rocks at the creek bot tom. We didn't know or care at the time that this creature, which looks something like a thousand-legged worm, is real ly the larva form of the dob son fly. Neither did we associate the irregular white clusters of eggs, deposited on branches and weeds overhanging the water, with the hellgramites. We never suspected these to m at " " MILK OF MAGNESIA PHILLIPS . 73c 98c BACTiNE WITH SPRAYER 73c "no SAFFLOWER OIL ,u,Caps 87c 51? PREP H. OINTMENT 63c MAYO SPRUCE SWEAT SHIRTS Put el Colors Assorted Colors REFILL KITS 49 ONE-PIECE RUBBER CAR MAT 6 29 i99 Valu. X. a V1 W rpK egS; 59c frr m -ssa. 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Pursues Other Life Looking down into the clear water of the creek we had often seen one leave its rock and scamper along the creek bottom after other forms of aquatic insect life on which it feeds. It would grab the victim in Its forcep-like mouth and eat it while holding onto a plant stem with the two small hooks V ' pasHc BOOKS chair p CSU w L l si-r L! pad E Dinners h V rfetJ 5d"",B 1VV L wn" P M zizr 1$ s for 7 HOME PERMANENT, RICHARD HUDNUT 34 NUTRI TONIC attached to the rear end of its body. Sometimes one would grab onto a support with its tail hooks and wait for the cur rent to float a bug within reach. Occasionally, we caught one that was all of three or more inches in length. Later still, we learned identity of the hellgramite, and that, after three years, the creature crawls out of the water and up on the bank. There it rests awhile and later becomes a moth like creature called the dobsonfly. It seems every fisherman we ;..fy-i cotton ; balls 59c PAY LtSS OPEN NITES Till SUN. TIIL 7 OLWM 1.20 MM. KRT MU -4 II II IV- ijj fc Value TI2? LzlU ZZ--T zr- r" i - H MlEm TV TV THRMn 3liH Limit Rights Reserved gd I Jl W "'HtflU V" Pricej Good Tuesday ,hru Saturday QSj E Mil - ffiiJ getting his rabies shot. (UPl) meet has a different name for what we call the hellgramite. Rather peculiar, that now we have learned a little about it, we realize how very little actually is known about its life history. Even its name, hellgramite, fails to tell any thing about it. So, better we leave it there - under the rock. TRUCK DRIVER KILLED Salem (UPII Wayne Elliott Trull, 26, Boring, was killed early today when his poultry truck crashed into a pole along the Pacific freeway south of here. PRESCRIPTIONS ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESSI Ph. 773-7474 COTTON BALLS 250 COUNT J"Tifm ii a Mil II TB 1 I M I y LIMIT IK-aUl m MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Wooden-Hull Ship Included in Event Crescent City - A visit of the USS Thrasher, a wooden hulled minesweeper, is sched uled for the Crescent City Fourth of July Jubilee. The ship is 144 feet long, was built in Tampa, Fla., and com missioned in 1955. Her war time complement is four offi cers and 35 men. The Thrasher is currently assigned to the Mine Warfare component of the "selected reserve" of the United States Naval reserve. The command ing officer of the Reserve crew is Lt. R. W. Johnson, Stockton,. Calif., who is a lawyer in civilian life. Other activities planned for the Jubilee are a parade, a Navy jet fly-over and acro batics, a beach barbecue, an Independence day ball, and a street dance. Also scheduled is a .lumber jack contest, which will in clude high climbing, log load ing, eye splicing, chopping, and log bucking. The fireworks display will take place the evening of July 4. SUIT OF ARMOR NEEDED London-(UPD-An item in the personal column of the Times of London today said: "Gentleman requires suit of armor. Even Brand 'X' con-sidered." VAIL MMLCC in the Attractive Red and Yellow Carton ALL INSPECTED GRADE A MILK SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! GaL 4JC 2 Half Gals. 93c SAVE S Super ii ii i yean nranr9 . Irrrll if w u ' The Family Council Kdltor'i note: The Family Council consists of Judge, m phychtatri.l, three clergymen, three editors end a women's editor. Keen arUcle la a summary of a family disagreement preiented to the Council. The council dealt with problems, major and minor, encountered by cuidanee counselors and social workers, edited by by Mrs. Alma Denny. ICopyright by General Features Corp.) Louis G. - We want to see them, not their children. Ralph C. - Our family is a unit. Where one goes, all go. e Louis G. - Ralph and I are lifelong friends. We went to school together and even serv ed in Korea in the same in fantry battalion. Although he married first, I was always welcome at his home and I'd bring along my girl friends on dates where wi made it a foursome. He was best man at my wedding a few months af ter his own. Now, after ten years, we're out of touch. Why? Not be cause we don't see each other, but because we can't see them without their three children. Since my wife and I are child less, we come a adults and pals. Ralph and May are eter nally Momsy anl Popsy, busy with lollipops and kiddy squabbles. I'm sure if they tried they could manage an eye-to-eye date with us, like in the old days. e e Ralph C. - Not having chil dren of his own, Lou thinks he and I should be able to con tinue at the same old stand in the same relationship we had 5c Market QPEN TILL MIDNIGHT as kids. If he and Lois were themselves they'd parents realize things. how chil " rn change To us they corm first. We're not going to up and desert them every time Lou feels like having some fun wtih us. Those kids are just part of us now and where we go, they go. Anyone who want to see us, sees them, too. They're po lite and beautiful children. In fact they're better company than a great many adults we know who Just sit around and complain. I certainly prize Lou's friendship. But he can't ex pect me to lock up my family when we meet. Whatever we say can be sai in front of them, too. e The Council: One of the age-old tests of true love, as phrased by John Heywood -a sixteenth cei.tury epigram matist - was, "Love me love my dog." More explicitly the idea is thai when you love somebody you must accept all that comes with him - his problems as veil as his charms. That's the deal Ralph is invoking, a package deal. "Want to keep on being my RED SNAPPER FILLETS So Delicious So Economical Limited Supply 29t COUNTRY STYLE SAUSAGE OK's Own Grind 3 $1 lbs. I PAPER PLATES 9" Bondware-White 40 Plates ! 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It's certainly hard on unmarried friends, too, and on alert bright cou ples who may be parents themselves but who realize the world is filled with a num ber of other interesting topics. Let's lay it on the line, Ralph. When you talk of your children you're talking of yourself and that can become boring, especially to people without children who'd like a chance to talk -bout them selves a little. They can only purr over your darlings for a limited time. Also, dragging the youngsters around to adult gatherings isn't good for anybody. Either beg off and stay home, or look into the HAM Buy Now for the Shank Half Whole Hams RIB STEAKS For Bar-B-Q or Pan SHORT RIBS Economical Good 45 LOCKER BEEF Still 43 Only Cut, Wrapped and Frozen Free Well Aged Come in and See Bonus Silver Dollar stamp t OFFER . ! With the Purch ase of , , . i w 4 iu. Luoi leifseid unet.de it Anil ClmAnS Vielo Car Polish : - nuj wiiiiuiiii. 1101a or CiMnor 1 . ... , . ,,. j Alice Love Preserves XVL 1 n a n it n ... .. wuan or aanoia, oamower uil Frlskies Dog Food .V'm, 45 Jumbos CANTALOUPE Sunkist Valencias ORANGES 3 Jl 30 Size AVOCADOS ,.10 noble institution of baby-sitting. To Louis we'd suggest this: If Ralph continues to use his offspring as "bodyguard'' to keep you at your distance, re gard it as a iorrr. of brush off. He may regret this fore shortening of his social con tacts. But it's obviously his own choice. He cou'd manage to meet you on an adult level if he wanted to. That would be much harder for him, per haps. (Copyright 1962, General Features Corp.) Practical Nursing School Scheduled Applications are now being accepted for the Southern Oregon School of Practical Nursing, according to Lind say M. Vinsel, director. The course is 12 months in length and consists of classroom and on-the-job hospital training. The course, which will qualify applicants for exam ination by the Oregon State Board of Nursing for licen sure, will begin in October, However, since the enroll ment is limited, persons should make application now. Information may be ob tained by writing or calling the adult education office at Medford High school between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Mon day through Friday, 773-7220. SALE 4th of July Holiday Butt Half 49c; Lean, Tenderized Fry lb. lb. By the lb. Halfl ftft FREE W Stamps Given Any of the Following OL 7 DAYS A WEEK G
