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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Consultant In
Mayo clinic
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Median
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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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Educators Gather
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Salem - HTH - Some 200
j educators gathered here Mon
day for the kickolf of a two ;
i week workshop on a $.1.5 mil- :
! lion Oregon program for im-
provement of education
Speakers include Dr. Harry j
A. Becker, superintendent of i
schools in Norwalk, Conn.; j
Dr. Mediil Bair, schools super
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Dr. John Goodlad of UCLA: j
and Dr. Stewart North of the I
University of Wisconsin
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Shell dealers suggest
7 things to tell your son when he
first borrows the
family
car
shift, keep L'lutcli pedal
With automatic trans-
ever lo make sure it's in
1 Don't take other drivers for granted.
They sometimes do unexpected things.
In the U.S. in 1960, they ran into slnlioit
ary objects more than 150,000 times.
So don't he too optimistic. Cars backing
out of parking spaces do sometimes back
out blindly. Cars coming Irom the other
direction wigil su ing into your lane es
pecially on hills and curves.
Your best protection is to drive defen
sively. The only driver you can really be
sure of is yourself.
2 If the car w on't start, there arc a num
ber ol simple things worth try ing- Use
the starter in short bursts. Press accelerator
to the floor oitcc, ihcn hold it there while
vou trv starter.
With nunna
all the way down
mission, jiggle
neutral.
IVolc from Slicll: Wc recently published
an advertisement with 7 simple starting
tips. For a free copv. w rite to the Shell Oil
Company, 110. Box 2"2, New Ymk4fi. N.Y.
3 Courtesy is contagious and adds to
evervonc's driving pleasure and salcty.
Nolxxlv ever cured a tiallic iam by losing
his temper. II vou can keep iur sense ol
humor and wait vonr turn, cenone will
probablv get where he's going sooner. In
cluding vou.
Another suggestion: It lakes onlv sec
oiids to let someone enter the roadway
ahead of ou, but it can save the other
driver inclines. Just remember lo signal
the car behind that you're slow ing down or
about to stop.
4 Cars respond to good care. I lave the
oil, battcrv and water checked every
time vou slop lor gasoline.
When you're driv ing. listen for unusual
mechanical sounds. II you heir one, have
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On tough roads, take it casv tire are
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Many a young man first borrows ihc. family car lor a summer dance. On this page, your
local Shell dealers offer Mime driving tips that tan he useful to him all his life.
Remember what you learned to get
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stem from improper driv ing practices
such as speeding, lading to yield right-of-way
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'I ruck diivrrs and olhcr professionals
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6 If ou'r going to be late, call home.
And if car trouble i;, the reason, call
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Park of the traffic lanes and wait in i'ic
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hole jwm Slicll: Over 12,000 of our
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