MEDFORD MML TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1962
Recessive Kneei
A 3
Dick West Doesn't Get Far in
Interview With Author of New Book
i t m ti
By DICK WEST
Washington 0TP& The best
book on topic A that I ever
read was the classic study
i w r i 1 1 e n by
James Thur-
ber and E. B.
White under
fi the title "Is
Sex N e c e s-
s a r y?" First
pub lished in
1929, it was
widely regard
ed as a 1am-
WtIt poon of the
sexology literature that
abounded in that period. To
me, however, it was too real
istic for parody.
In one chapter, Thurber
and White described a syn
drome that so closely fitted
my own experience I figured
It had to be based on an actual
case history. They called it
"the recessive knee."
Summarized briefly, the re
cessive knee occurs when the
knee of a male is bribed, ac
cidentally or otherwise, by
the knee of a female. The
male knee immediately breaks
contact and veers off in an
other direction.
According to the Thur-ber-Whit.
findings, in 93
par cent of recessive knee
cases the male is suspici
ous; in 4 per cent he is
ignorant, and in 3 per cent
he is tired,
I was reminded of their
study this week when Fate
(Sam Fate, a local press agent)
put me in contact with the
author of a new best-seller
on the subject.
This book, a sort of spin
sler's manual, is "Sex and the
Single Girl," and the author
is Helen Gurley Brown, who
used to be a single girl her
self.
To quote the publisher's
blurb, the book is "uninhibit
ed and outspoken." Well, sir.
I used to be single myself,
and adjectives like that still
make me nervous.
Nevertheless, I steeled
myself and went ahead with
the interview, which to the
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went something like this:
Q. What is the central
theme of your book, Mrs.
Brown?
A. I take the position that
the love life of an unmarried
woman . . .
Q. Did you enjoy the recent
World Series?
A. I don't know anything
about baseball. The point I
am trying to make is that sin
gle girls are entitled . . .
Q. How about tropical fish?
Do you like tropical fish?
A. I don't have any hob
bies. There is no reason why
a single girl should not . . .
That was as far into the
subject as I got. Thurber and
White neglected to mention
that you can get recessive
knees from a book.
Bids Opened for
S9.1 Million in
Highway Projects
Salem-IUPD- The Oregon
Highway Commission Tues
day opened bids on $9.1 mil
lion worth of projects, includ
ing the big relocation of the
Columbia River Highway at
The Dalles.
Roy L. Houck Sons' Corp.,
Salem, got the job with an
apparent low bid of $3,931,
459. The 5.63 miles of grading
and structures will carry the
highway north of The Dalles,
along the Columbia, bypass
ing The Dalles.
State Highway Engineer
Forrest Cooper said this will
eliminate the biggest bottle
neck on the Columbia River
highway.
There were two other jobs
of more than $1 million. Ro
gers Construction Co., Port
land, had the apparent low of
$1.3 million for 2.4 miles of
paving and other work on the
Hill Creek-Oxman section of
the Old Oregon Trail High
way 18 miles south of Baker.
Peter Kiewit Sons' Corp..
Medford, was low at $1.8 mil
lion for the north and south
Ashland interchange on the
Pacific Highway near Ash
land. This involves 7.1 miles
of paving and signs.
All 25 projects ran a sharp
10.8 per cent below state esti
mates, Other apparent low bidders
included:
Benton: Install traffic sig
nals at Kings rd. and Harri
son st. intersection in Cor
vallis; Steeck Electric, Med
ford $4,275.
Clatsop: Build Sunset Lake
bridge five miles south of
Warrenton on a county road;
Larson construction, Astoria,
$68,562.
Clatsop: Fort Stevens state
park facilities; Grimstad &
Vanderveldt, Astoria, $72,979
Coos: Coquille River-Bea
ver Slough section, route 677,
7 v w 15
with a new
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115 East Main Street
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BARGAIN STORf-Medford
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ing, structures; Coos Bay,
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Jackson: Three structures
on the north and south Ash
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Pacific Highway: Tom Lil
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Jackson: Valley of the
Rogue Park interchange
section. Pacific Highway;
Southern Oregon crushing,
Medford $126,180.
Jackson: Widen Evans
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247. Jackson: Latrine in Casey
State Park on Trail-Crater
Lake highway: Harley E.
Lowe, Ashland $10,247.
Lane: Judkins Point inter
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McKenzie highways, roadside
improvement; E. P. Baltz &
son, Portland $49,874.
Lane: Grading, paving and
structure on the Noti Bridge
section, Maplcton-E u g e n e
highway: Hamilton & Thorns
Eugene $58,390.
Lane: Devils Elbow slide
viaducts, Coast highway north
of Florence; Orlando C. Ben
nard and Glenn Snook, Eu
gene $154,925.
Malheur: Install traffic sig
nals at intersection of East
Idaho ave. and 2nd St. ir
Ontario; Marson & Stokes
Roseburg $6,476.
Marion: Build sand shed at
Detroit; B & M Construction,
Portland $23,330.
Tillamook: Jackson Creek-
Cape Lookout section, Ne-tarts-Sand
Lake county road,
1.3 miles grading; Grimstad &
Vandervelt, Astoria S144.928
Wasco: East The Dalles-Union
pacific railroad overcross-
ing two miles east of The
Dalles; Pacific Concrete, Port
land $396,333.
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University Forms
CD Organization
Eugene - The University of
Oregon has formed a civil de
fense organization lo meet
emergencies on the campus
working with the Lane coun
ty civil defense agency, Uni
versity President Arthur S
Flrmming has announced.
The civil defense plan for
the university has been or
ganized by Col. Louis D,
rarnsworth Jr., U.S. army
colonel and head of the de
partment of military and air
science at the university.
Work on the plan was start
ed early this year and has
been refined further in the
past two weeks after the re
ceipt of detailed information
from Washington, D.C., con
cerning the civil defense capa
bility of the university.
Persons who have responsi
bilies under the plan have
been made acquainted with
the nature of their duties. Ar
rangements are now being
made to tost the effectiveness
of the plan.
Under operational status,
university civil defense would
be directed by President Flem
ming wilh Colonel Farns
worth as his deputy director.
Tax Commission
Affirmed in Case
Salem - (L'PIi Oregon Tax
Judge Peter Gunnar has ruled
that a Seattle woman
acquired, as far as tax pur
poses are concerned, an Inter
est in the Medical-Dental
Building in Klamath Falls in
1939 ralhcr than 1951. Gun
nar, wno issued tne decision
as Marion County Circuit
Judge pro lem. affirmed the
Oregon Tax Commission in
the case.
The wf,m;jfi. Gerda A.
Berry, contended she had no
interest in the Klamath Falls
building until II years ago
when she acquired her inter
est from her late husband, Na
thanial E. Berry.
Small I
Worlds
Around
Us
(Reelster Tribune Syndicate, 1S6Z)
Prized Seashell Found By
Raccoon He Was Robbedl
The hot sun, the gentle
breeze lazily drifting over the
nearby ocean, the tang of salt
in the air, brought on a sense
of extreme drowsiness.
We were pretty comfortable
with our back against a huge
mangrove tree, and it seemed
the most logical thing in the
world to do was to take a
nap. Half asleep, we looked
out to where a group of sea
gulls, themselves looking
sleepy, sat on a sandbar, wnn
the exception of the gulls we
seemed to be alone on an un
inhabited island.
Our sleep was later inter
rupted by a vague rustling. It
seemed to be in a heavy
growth of mangroves at our
back. Remaining as motion
less as possible we slowly
turned our head to see what
was disturbing the solitude.
The rustling appeared to be
coming nearer.
Then we saw him a giant
raccoon ambling slowly
through the beach grass. His
back was humped grotesquely
high, his nose searching the
air currents. He was leisurely
ambling toward the water's
edge. Hardly had he passed
our hiding place when another
raccoon, obviously a female,
followed him along a well
worn trail.
Lumber Past
While we wailed, several
other raccoons of various sizes
and ages lumbered past, all
following the much-used game
trail. Their bushy tails drag
ged along behind them more
like afterthoughts than as part
of their anatomies.
By changing our positions
slightly we could see the rac
coons clawing at the clumps
of oysters attached to man
grove roots, exposed by the
ebb tide. The raccoons grab
bed an oyster clump, gave it
a firm twist and broke it away
from its support. The animals
whammed the shells on a rock
at the water's edge, breaking
the shells and exposing the
tender flesh.
Some of the anmials, evi
dently fed up on oysters,
searched the mudflat for other
tidbits. A big raccoon, directly
in front of us, suddenly dug
in the sand, picking up vari
ous objects, inspecting them
and discarding them. He
found several clams and
whelks. His appetite was not
loo sharp, for he displayed
considerable daintiness in
what he selected to eat. He
seemed to be hunting for
something special.
Usually Night Hunter
The raccoon habitually
hunts al night, but these ani
mals were abroad in bright
daylight. The big fellow di
rectly in front of us still
searched. He ladled handfuls
of wet sand into little heaps
and then moved on, only to
repeat the procedure a few
feet farther on. He seemed
perfectly willing to dig up
the entire island to find what ;
he wanted.
He had remained in one
place quite a while, dipping
something from a hole in the i
sand. Then he picked an ob
ject out of the hole. He turn
ed it over and over in his
paws. He dunked it in a small
pool of water. The object took
on a changed appearance; it
was very bright and shiny.
We couid see the delicate
markings on it.
We suspected what the ob
ject was. We leaped up and
ran toward the big raccoon.
All the other raccoons fell
over one another in the excit
ment. Like little gnomes with
packs on their backs, they
scampered for the shelter of
the mangroves.
Gallops for Shore
The big raccoon dropped
the shell he had been holding
and galloped for the shore. We
picked the prize from the
sand; it was a perfect speci
men of the lion's paw shell,
one of the most desirable of
seashells. Carrying our prize,
we walked back along the
beach with the gulls scream
ing overhead.
We were proud . . . but we
had not found a lion's paw.
The raccoon had found it; we
were the pilferers. Through
fear and intimidation and by
superior size and strength, we
had robbed a weaker creature
of the results of his labors.
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