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jr. 14 A Bey Scouts TUESDAY. JULY 31. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON Pack 8 Cub Scout Pack 8 held their monthly meeting July 28 at Jackson park on the Up per Applegate. The boys and their parents swam in the Applegate river followed y a wiener roast and pack meeting. The awards given at the meeting were Roy Sours, Lion badge and gold and silver ar rows; Lucky Shopp, Lion badc; Dan VanLiew, . Pear badge; Dwayne Powers, two silver arrows for the Bear badge; Rickey Childress, Jay McCollough and Preston La Pratt, wolf badges; and Martin Hooper, a silver arrow for his Wolf badge. . Mrs- LaPratt with Den 10 received the best attendance trophy. FURNITURE 341 No. Central Headquarters for "I w Workshops Set At University Eugene-Two workshops de signed to give Oregon high school student council mem bers an understanding of th'j aims and objectives of the student council will be held at the University cf Oregon I Aug. 5-10 and 12-17. The program is geared to encourage more uniform prac tices in student council work and to develop techniques of group leadership. The workshops, which will be conducted by the Oregon Association of Student Coun cils, will be the 11th and 12th such sessions held at the uni versity. The Oregon Associa-1 tion of Secondary School Prin-1 cipals and the Oregon Stale Department of Education will assist. Graduate credit will be available for student council . sponsors, administrators, and i other interested educators who enroll in a special sec tion at the workshops. Director of the workshops is Amelia Auld of Madison High school in Portland. Marie Allen, Lincoln High school, Portland, is assistant director. Ray Osburn, execu tive secretary, Oregon associ ation of Student Councils, and Dr. Arthur Hearn, professor of Education, University of Oregon, are workshop coor dinators. Dr. Donald I. Wood, professor of education. Rice university, will serve as con sultant. Oregon high schools belong ing to the Oregon Association of Student counils may send from two to four delegates, depending on the size of the school. Approximately 350 students are registered for this year's two sessions. Dennis the Menace !ll Los rrvlfil Thats a lizard's tail, the best of him got away. Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med'ord. phone 772-6141; Ash land call at 1224 Iowa st., or phone 482-3002; Montague and Vreka. phone GLohe 9-3171. be fore 6:43 p,m. daily and 10:30 a.m Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate 1962) Mystery of Tails Was Finally Solved Some funny things were happening in the park, but just what, no one knew for sure. Visitors to the park were finding tails, tails without their owners. Four of the tails that showed up in one week were of common squirrels, and two were obviously from flying squirrels; all were per fect, and all had been severed from the animal's body that raised them, but left them on the woodland floor. No squir rel bodies were found, only tails. Something just didn't look right. Regardless of which di- if KBLHt ONLY ONE MORE WEEK OF FABULOUS SAVINGS ! GENERAL SIM. NYLONS Get famous General Tire Quality at these low money saving prices. Come in now while we have your size. FORD CHEVROLET PLYMOUTH STUDEBAKER SIZE 7.50 x 14 TUBELESS 6.70x15 TUBE TYPE IB $11 FOR 00DGE PONTIAC RAMBLER-AMBASSADOR MERCURY OLDSMOBILE DE SOTO BUICK U!l!5 fJJPjl TUBE It 00 14 TUBELESS SjJ 6 00. 13 Mi COMPACT CAR SPECIAL " ''- JUCKWAU RAYON TUBELESS onit WO CAR. SPZCAL NYLON , TUBELESS CADILLAC, CHRYSLER, BIG BUICK OLDSMOBILE, LINCOLN 7 60x15.800 8.20x15 GENERAL $2J95 lost Wf tHUCf MM" ill nut mw iicmt rttsH sioci MOUNTED fREC WHITEWAUS CLEANED WHITEWAUS IIACKWAUS Tub TvtT vMasa 'ALL PRICES PLUS TAX AND PECAPPABLE TIRE. WHITEWALLS ADO $3 J rection an animal is headed, or how fast or how slow it travels, its tail always follows; like a shadow it is always in close and intimate attendance. No animal intentionally leaves its tail behind; these "afterpieces" of squirrel an atomy are very essential: without the tail the animal could not balance itself on a tree limb; even if it survived the shock of its terminal am putation. Yet a search of the park revealed no dead squir rel bodies. Only tails. The owners had vanished, leaving their hindermost part, as a casloff on the woodland floor. The mystery of the severed tails attracted several woods men, hunters, and students of animal actions, all of whom had a theory and an explana tion. But because there were so many explanations was pretty conclusive proof that someone had to be wrong. The mystery of the detached tails became a point ot more con jecture than fact. Some of the arguments had considerable logic, and sound ed reasonable. Even very hun gry predators ordinarily would discard the furry tail of a squirrel, as a little too hairy to swallow, reasoned many people, but owls were known to eat, fur, bones and feath ers. By this line of reasoning the great horned owl, of which several were known to inhabit the area, would gulp down a squirrel, tail and all; so that seemed to elminate j this from the list of suspects. But, as there were tiying squirrel tails, along with the ones of those that scampered throughtout the daylight hours, would indicate some other species of owl. The fly ing squirrel was abroad in the night, and so were the owls, so the screech owl was the prime suspect. The Culprit This smaller version of the owl clan would be pretty apt to discard the tail as an unap petizing morsel. Any of the smaller owls might eat the brdy and discard the tail. But, as so often happens, the finger of suspicion was pointed in the wrong direc tions, as conclusive evidence was uncovered one night, by a man with a flashlight. The pencil of light pierced the park's darkness and revealed the shaggy coat of a feral cai, eating a flying squirrel, whose complete tail was beside the animal. A fcrel cat is not some seldom-seen jungle beast, but just a plain, everyday house cat that has gone wild: little won der the squirrels "went away and left their tails behind." 'Federal Officials Discuss Jackson County Program Salem-Federal and region al representatives of the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare were in Salem recently for a second consul tation with members of state staff rmd staff from the Jack son and Multnomah county public welfare commissions on Oregon's case classification plan. The plan for strengthening and rehabilitating families re ceiving public assistance has drawn inquiries from other states planning similar action as part of a federal goal set by Secretary Ribicoff. Ore gon's plan, started in Jackson county and Portland's Penin sula district office in Multno mah county in January, s one of the first in the United States to be developed entire ly by members of the agen cy's staff without outside con sultation. In Salem for the meetings were Mrs. Jean Szaloczi, from the department's division of statistics and analysis, bureau of family services. Washing ton, DC; and Miss Helen Foster and Wilbur Rice, both from the department's region- la! office in San Francisco. Team of Consultants Mrs. Szaloczi was a mem ber of the team of consultants from Washington, D.C., who were in Salem last January after the program was launch ed. She consulted on methods Monks Organized By Labor Union Lafayette - HOT - A local of the carpenters union may have established a first in labor organizing. Th local has organized the monks in a monastery. Ten monks at Our Lady of Guadelupe Trappist Abbey at , this liny farming community ! southwest of Portland have I joined Millmen's Local 1120 j of the Carpenters Union at j Portland. The monks are cabinet makers and their income helps support the monastery. They broke their rule of si- j lence long enough to take the union's membership oath. The Mcdkal Roundup rt. fcmtrttiit Etncrltm (it emitter Consultant In Mayo clinic PrfMur of Mayo Clime and Trlhurit MSI) Median Medlclnt New Typt of Suiura ask anxiously if keloids are A new suture (material I cancers, and how long the of collecting and data about social and community resources for helping alleviate these prob lems. Since the plan started, the entire caseload of about 4,000 cases in Jackson county and the Peninsula district office in Portland have been analyzed, and special caseloads have been set into operation for in tensive effort in serving a number of these families. This has included an intensive staff training program for the coun ty staffs. The plan calls for eventu ally conducting the program throughout Oregon. Late Sep tember has been tentatively set for the time when more counties will be added to the program. with which a surgeon sews) has recently been described BJf ' a material IT i which may re place the cat gut which has been used for .,.-S so many years. " -I One trouble with catgut is that some times and in certain per- analyzing I Aivr. sons it gets ab- problems sorbed so rapidly that the wound breaks open, and then there comes a rupture which later has to be repaired. The new suture is a filament made from a chemical called a poly propylene. It has a high ten sile strength, comparable to that of the best nylon; it has good flexibility and resistance to "work fatigue," and a good knot can be made with it. Work with it has been report ed by Drs. F. C. Usher. J. E. Allen Jr., R. W. Crosthwait and J E. Cogan, all of Hous ton, Texas. Keloids People get the strangest ideas in their heads. Here are letters from some people who person is likely to live with them? Actually, keloids are harm less, but somewhat disfiguring swellings that occur in the scars of cuts in the skin - of some few predisposed persons. There is no sense in cutting out a keloid because another one probably will form. All one can do usually is to go to a skin specialist who probably will apply a little radium to the swelling, and thereby will I cause it to shrink down. If I had a tendency to keloid-formation, 1 certainly would warn any surgeon who ever wanted to make a cut the skin of my face or neck or arms or hands. Such cuts should be avoided whenever possible. Dr. Alvarez is informative about the different forms of epilepsy and their treatments in his new booklet, "What Is Epilepsy?" To obtain it, send 25 cents and a stamped, silf addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al varez. Dept. MMT, The Regis ter and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Dcs Moines 4. Iowa. 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