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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1962 A 3 Menace Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS IR.giiter and Tribune Syndicate 1962) MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON Dennis the Q) NW,THATCONTHEU I 7 CANT PBAO'. Accuracy Provided By Courtroom Aid New York - WPH - A new kind of witness has been crop ping up Increasingly in court rooms these days. This witness has no tongue, but it talks. And what it says is helping make the course of justice swifter and less fall ible. The witness is a machine and it signifies the extension of electronics into the field of jurisprudence. Courts in many American states, Puerto Rico, the Ba hamas, Canada, New Zealand and Israel now use electronic equipment to record every word uttered during import ant trials. Outside interviews for pos sible court use also are being taken on the machines (Dicta phone Distacord) on an in creasing scale. Judges, other court officials and lawyers favor the automatic recorders because they provide an un changeable, verbatim log of testimony, with no chance of misquotation. Tone It Recorded Plastic recording belts (Dic tabelts) recorded in court or at other sites may be played back 10 impeach a witness or refresh his memory. The fact that the manner or tone in which testimony was given also is recorded was cited by legal experts as important in that the inflection often is a key factor in evaluating testi mony. The electronic setup is used as a double check on stenog raphers in the federal and county courts of Charleston and Florence, S.C., and the South Carolina Public Ser vice commission, which uses it for hearings. Shortly after installation in the federal court at Omaha, Neb., an electronic recording was used to discredit the main witness in a $30,000 insur ance suit. The court reporter at Port land, Ore., circuit court uses the system to backstop his manual recording and says it removed ihe feeling of con stant pressure because, if he misses anything he can clarify it later. A transistorized machine called D.I.R.S. (Dictaphone In terview Recording system) is used extensively by claims investigators of insurance companies desiring verbatim interviews with policyholders, claimants and witnesses. Such recorded interviews are now accepted as admissable evi dence in most states. PLANT GROOMING New York - IUPD A sood thing to remember when en tering plants in garden club competitions is that good grooming gets them better recognition. Select plants that have enough buds to last two or three days and are free of unsightly leaves. Use new or freshly scrubbed clay pots that have been set in water for several hours so they can store extra moisture. Shepherd's Weather Glass It Unutual Flower Just about everywhere here in America-alongside country roads, in sandy areas, in waste fields, even in vacant city lots-lives a common plant so sensitive to weather changes that it makes a piker out of a mechanical barometer. It is very aptly named shepherd's weather glass or, perhaps ever more appropri ately, poor man's weather glass. This plant, usually consid ered a noxious weed, is not only sensitive to changes in the weather, but also seems conscious of time, as the flow ers can be depended upon to Barbecue Slated For Thornton Delegations from several Oregon counties and from Portland and Salem plan to attend the Jackson and Jose- phone counties' barbeque honoring Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, Demo cratic nominee for governor, scheduled for the William Davidson ranch in the Apple- gate, Sunday, Sept. 30, from 1 to 4 p.m., according to Mrs. Ralph Poston, chairman of the local Thornton for gov ernor committee. Mel Ottis and Mrs. Dorothy Gates are co-chairmen for the Josephine county committee. Democratic Congressional Nominee Robert B. Duncan will introduce Thornton, who will be the main speaker at the barbeque. James A. Red den, Democratic nominee for the house of representatives, will be master of ceremonies. Tickets and reservations may be obtained by calling Mrs. Poston at 773-4760 or Democratic headquarters, 779 1351. Tickets may be obtain ed in Grants Pass by calling Mrs. Dorothy Gates at GReen wood 8-4205 or Mel Ottis, GReenwood 6-4622. Children will be given pony rides and music will be furnished by John Lusk, Med- ford. Signs will lead guests from the town of Applegate to the barbeque grounds. Former President Harry S Truman was a membership salesman for the Auto Club of Kansas City in the early twenties and turned in a record total of 1.550 members during a drive in 1922. if When you grow up in the West '...you grow up t o hermitage! close up tight by 3 in the afternoon. For a plant so common, it possesses some highly unus ual characteristics. The flow ers, for one thing, are small and a peculiar shade of red dish copper - more aptly de scribed as terra cotta. To be terra cotta, an object must be brownish-orange, like that of unglazed earthenware of fine quality, or as fancy-work used for architectural decorations or for statuettes. This color makes the blos som of this common plant about the most unusual of any flower color. It is unlike any other flower, wild or tame. 'Weather Glass' Next time you walk afield or follow the twists and turns of a little-used country road, or stop for a spell beside a sandy field, locate a "poor man's weather glass." If you have trouble locating one, ask any farmer where any red chickweed is growing, for many folks know it by that name. - Some folks who do not real ize this plant's capabilities as a weather forecaster call it shepherd's clock or scarlet pimpernel. When you locate the plant, watch the blossom. If it is clos ing, you can be assured it will rain within the next few hours. Of course, if you find the flower closed on a sunny day, look at your watch. It will be after 3, Open After 9 The flowers open shortly af ter 9 a.m., on a bright, sunny day. They will remain open unless a storm is coming, or unless the day becomes cloudy. So sensitive are the flowers to the light of the sun, they often will close if a cloud passes overhead. You can fool the plant by holding a newspaper or an unmbrella in such a position as to cast a shadow on the plant. Wild birds of many spe cies, themselves pretty good weather forecasters, always are ready to eat the seeds of the scarlet pimpernel. A few centuries ago housewives in the Old World, believed the leaves and fruit of the plant were corrective medicines for any or all diseases affecting the liver. 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