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8 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Washington CorrespondentOffersCrystal Ball Look Toward Events for Coming Year By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Editor'! not: One again A. Robert Smith, our Waih ington corripondnt. with the bandit of 20-20 hind sight, takes a far-sighted glance into his slightly cracked crystal ball to oi ler a tongu-in-chk fore cast of 1963 events. January - An Oregon Stale university professor finds Or egon's storms and earth trem ors In late 1962 were caused by a ground swell of cold anger at the grass roots concern i n g Cuba, which encoun tered a heavy and thick blanket of hot air from politicians, resulting in terrific turbulance President urges new era of bipartisanship for peace, of fers Sen. Barry Goldwaler ambassadorship to Katanga. Sen. Everett Dirkscn agrees and suggests a purple heart for Adlai Stevenson. Mark Hatfield, offering his theories on coexistence, says: "Wayne Morse and I have had a bi partisan policy for a year to cooperate against such threats to our peace as Sigfricd Un ander." Congress receives new Ken nedy budget of $99.9 billion. Ten Oregon chambers of commerce telegraph Senators Morse and Neuberger to op pose wild Democratic spend ing, but to be sure and in crease federal payrolls in Or egon. February - Attorney Gen eral Bobby Kennedy asks M-TS-w- ? ICY AFTERMATH A firemen is covered with ice after battling a fire at a lumber yard in Providence, R.I., in sub zero weather. (UPI) Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Raglirer and Tribune Syndicate, 19631 Horntail Insect Drills Hole In Tree Wood to 'Lay' Eggs The adornment of a horn Is usually on an animal's front end, cither on the head or the snout. That's the conven tional place to have one, but the "horntail" insect has his or hers on the posterior or tail, and it is a useful object. There arc those who claim to have seen a snake with a horn on the tail but if there is such a thing it has so fur cscipcd scientific observa tion. But anything is possi ble in the world of Insects and the horntail Insect is rightly named, for that's where the horn is located. The horntail Insect Is close ly related .to the sawfly ex cept that the fly possesses a suw instead of a horn. And stranger still, the horn is present on both sexes of the hot-mails. Interesting History The life history of the horntail reads even more in terestingly than a chapter in Arabian Nights. Mrs. Horn tail, feeling the urge to de posit her eggs, drills a hole In the solid wood of a tree or a fallen log. Ordinarily wo think of a drill as a turn ing rod with a cutting point chewing its way into wood or inetnl and accompanied by considerable noise, but the hmnlHil insect drills without the .slightest audible sound. She bores a hole neverthe less, .is much as a half or throe quarters of an inch into solid wood. Once the opening is made she deposits an egg Even the ci!gs she lays arc "sharp." that is they are oval but pointed on one end: she can Just about drive the sharp end of the egg into the hole she has bored. There's a very good reason, too, why the res is pointed and placed Into the wood, for as soon as the egg hatches the larvae Is headed in the right direction, deeper into solid wood. Arrivnng at the preferred depth the larva, now a gray ish white grub, builds about Itself a coccoon of dirty silk A considerable amount of sawdust is mixed with the silk, sawdust left over from the drilling. Both adult horn tail. as well as horntail larva, are expert drillers; it's part of their lifework. Larca Inside Once the cocoon Is finish ed - and by now the larva Is deep Inside the tree - It goes into its transforming sleep to awaken as an adult hornfly. Of course as soon as it is strong enough it drills an other luitiiel (this time toward the outside world) and enters it as an adult horntail. Boring into the wood of the tree and out of the tree again pretty well Justifies the common name of "wood borer." The larva of the horntail has an enemy that can reach it even if it is buried in solid wood: a species of wasp which also has a very long tail, or more correctly an egg laying ovipositor, that can probe into the wood. She tries, and often succeeds, in laying one of her own eggs in the body of the horntail larva. If this happens the horntail larva "has had it." It Is a peculiar way of life, the young of an insect to be locked in solid wood. It's a good thing the horntail larva has nothing to think with or any rendezvous with bug cles liny. Whatever purpose they serve is rather obscure, un less to prove that a horn on cither end of a rhinoceros or an insect can be usT-ful. Congress to outlaw paper bal lots and aid states to install voting machines. Phil Roth launches campaign to "keep Kennedy machine out of Ore g;n." Jcbby Davidson noted that it was a little late but offers to make Roth's cam paign bipartisan. Says Bob by: "Election results were in doubt In too many states for weeks. In my home state, how ever, we knew who would win ahead of time. My broth ers and I find machines most rewarding." Oregon legislature fails to muster quorum as many law makers return home for "per sonal reasons." Newsmen dis cover the reason; new expense account crackdown by Inter nal Revenue has ended free loading on lobbyists, forcing legislators to pay their own way. By Feb. 15 they were broke. Dr. Arthur Flcmming makes non-partisan Lincoln Day din ner speeches in Eugene, Sa lem and Portland, claiming Lincoln saved the Union by stockpiling strategic materi als. March - Moviemaker Otto Preminger says he'll do Ho ratio Alger life of Mark Hat field. In Salem, the governor denies he inspired it, says he's flattered. Louclla Parsons reports that Travis Cross inspired it, sold Preminger a scenario en titled, "Looking Upward the Mark Hatfield Saga," but Preminger plans to Jazz it up, star Elvis Presley, and change title to "Sheik of the Cascades. Antoinette Hat field flies to Hollywood to protest. Bipartisanship blossoms in state legislature as legislators return to pass salary increase bill and toss big party for all the lobbyists who have supported them through the lean years. Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger help Hat field by lobbying for his in creased tax on liquor and cig arettes. April - JFK invites Wayne Morse, Edith Green and Mike Kirwan to lunch to review budget for Oregon projects and national aquarium. It features Jackie's favorite reci pe for irreconcilable politi cians: crow currie and humble pic. It's a bust. According to the Sal. Evening Post, one luncheon guest jumped to his feet shouting: "I'm amused at this slick attempt to get me to compromise my principles and eat crow." And another declared: "Ya think I'm gonna let this guy and that woman blab that Kirwan ate humble pie." The first guest demand ed: "I want pork, and lots of it." The other chap asked for fish. Mrs. Green insisted on the school lunch, and the president double his usual bi carbonate. May - Republican senators emerge from secret caucus, charge that "The White House palace guard is drunk with power in suppressing news. Arthur Schlesinger is quo ted in Life as saying the charge is false because all New Frontiersmen are sober young men who at all times can walk a straight line, which is not only the shortest dis tance across Bobby's swim ming pool but the quickest path between a secret meeting and the president's pet jour nalists. Back from Hollywood and successful negotiations, Mrs. Hatfield says Pat Boone, not Presley, will play governor in the movie, and he will sing three hymns. Congressman Waller Nor- blad makes his first speech on C'npitol Hill in five years in tree planting ceremony near Tail Memorial. The tree, a middle-aged birch, was sent by Portland's Arlington Club. June - Gallup Poll shows 72 per cent of voters think presi dential and vice presidential candidates should have experi ence in foreign affairs. Gov. Nelson Hockofoller leaves on HOUSING STARTS DIP Washington - ilini The Commerce department report ed Monday that construction of privately owned housing units declined in November but remained 14 per cent ! trip to Africa. Governor Horn- above a year earlier. II esti mated that 117,110 private units were started in Novem ber, compared with i:i:t,40U in October and 1(13,000 in No vember, 19(i ney leaves for India and a week of fasting, Governor Scianton flies to Viet Nam. Governor Hatfield subscribes to the West Coast edition of the New York Times Postmaster General Day admits new UN stamp mis takenly shows Adlai Steven son standing on head, orders five million printed to avoid making it collector's item. Receives note from JFK: "I've taken up stamp collecting. Send me over a thousand of those." July - Maurine Neuberger finished writing new book called "The Women Status Seekers." Deploring discrimi nation against women office seekers, she rebukes JFK for failure to appoint Edith Green ambassador to any place, and calls on the Democrats to nominate a woman- for vice president. Denying she is a candidiatc, the senator flics to Europe with Muffet hidden in a bathing suit bag on her lap. Dr. Edwin R. Durno returns to Washington to head ami medicare lobby. Starts by de manding end of free medical services for congressmen. Says ex-congressman: "While serv ing in Congress, I had the benefit of a free government physician, free pills and cut rates at a government hos pital. I could feel socialism creeping up on me. I don't want this to happen to Bob Duncan much as I 'like him to save a buck." August - Governor decides to try to balance stale budget by taking advice of Howell Appling and Howard Belton on use of prison labor on state jobs. Next day, clerks in of fices of Appling and Belton and Thornton are replaced with convicts having office experience - safe crackers, forgers and embezzlers. Appling and Belton say they were not consulted but have no objection "as long as it saves money." Thornton sues Hatfield, charging the plan is "unconstitutional be cause the governor is trying to handcuff the attorney gen eral offices." Maurine, after a fortnight in Paris, arrives in Nigeria for one day inspection of Peace Corps. Says she never heard of Sen? Ellender and urges ban on all billboards, except of course, no smoking signs. September Pierre baiin ger announces that presiden tial conferences on TV will be sponsored hereafter "by public-service-mindcd organi zations" to help balance fed eral budget. NBC sells time to U.S. Steel, but Roger Blough won't make a pitch for steel price increase. ABC time Is sold to GOP National committee, so Ev and Charlie can interrupt JFK for "a few words." CBS says its sponsor will be the Teamsters Union, hut .Mm., Hnffa will speak only on behalf of physical fit ness and the clean life. Postmaster Day issues a new Cuban freedom fighter stamp mistakenly showing Bay ol Pigs, then prints 10 million; JFK drops stamp collecting. October - A University of Oregon professor reports hu man motivational re s e a re h shows secret fears or desires can be deduced from a per son's favorite songs. Cites ex amples: Maurine Neuberger, "Smoke Gets In My Eyes"; Wayne Morse, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Ayes": Sig Unander, "Tiger Rag"; Terry Schrunk. "Gypsy Love Song '; Nelson Rockefeller. Barry Goldwatcr and Lyndon John son. "Rocking Chair." The new "American states men" stamp series mistakenly includes Nelson Rockefeller. This time JFK drops Post master General Day. November - Maurine flics home from Greenland, where she visited an Air Force offi cers club and won a twist con test. "They misunderstood," she tells reporters in Wash ington. "I was just trying to keep warm." Hatfield and Prem i n ge r hold joint news conference after preview of Hatfield story. Governor thinks Pat Boone too romantic in spots. Preminger agrees to have Pat put his shirt back on and sing one more hymn. December - The "Happy Oregonland" Coloring book reaches book stores for Christ mas trade. It tells all about the Queen of Multnomah (color her green) who has taken a few spills on the slip pery steps of the royal court (house); and the Queen of the Dunes (color her aquamarine) who lives in a sand castle; and Sir Sigfried (he remains abso lutely colorless) who has nothing to govern anymore but his gold reserves. It also tells of the dashing duke named Grcnn whom the Queen of Multnomah tries to banish from the court. One night Grenn fell off his horse into the bushes, leaving a damsel in distress. (Color him shocking pink). And all the duke's men couldn't put him back together again. After a thriving two -day sale, the book is banned by the mayor and burned by the fire chief. American Civil Liberties Union becomes so busy protesting the book burn ing it hasn't time to protest Christmas trees on Portland State campus. 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