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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. APRIL 4. 1113 n j( Sr L Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Regular and Tribune Syndicate, 1 963 Capitol Mimo Course of Bills Traced Through State Legislature In Spile of Anti-Gravity' Gadget, Fish Adds Weigh! "Anyone ought to know," claimed the man, "that a live fish is suspended in water, and therefore a fish in a pail of water is weightless." Whether you are a fisher man or not you have heard this argument. Possibly you may be one of those "show me" folks who will only be lieve after you have actually performed the experiment, or you may be one that, like the man who argued the point, in sist that a pail of water con taining a live fish does not weigh any more for having the fish inside. Unlike the senseless argu ment of the irresistible force and the immovable object, the live fish in the tub is an open and shut case; the fish weighs just the same, the weight of the water is increased bv the weight of the fish. Fifty puunds of water in the tub, add a five-pnund. live fish, and the total weight is 55 pounds. Gravity's There Our eld friend, gravity, is right there, still on the job. We are all thankful that it is, for otherwise we and every thing else would be in a rath er bad way. Gravity keeps our feet on the ground, but to a fish it is not quite so power ful. The fish has a counter acting agent working against the pull of gravity; it has a "lifting device" called an air bladder. This membraneous little "anti-gravity gadget" is filled with gas, and is more or less controlled by the fih itself; it keeps the body suspended and guarantees that the spe cific gravity of the fish equals that of the water in which it lives. This specific gravity business is all lost on the poor fish, he doesn't know or care how it works; he's dumb. And the rest of us don't care, either. We all take this gravity pull for granted. W never think to he just a little grateful that when we set down a cup of coffee, it stays put; we just know it will, and of course, it always has. About the only time a fish runs smackdab into what gravity can do is when he is yanked from the water and falls with a plop on a hard bridge, or a boat deck. In this unnatural position the air bladder is of no use; the fish flnps and strikes with a spine tingling abruptness. And when the poor fish j leaves its watery home, its j lidless eyes become as useless as his air-bladder; he can't see a thing. Even in the water he is painfully nearsighted, I but his eyes do have an ex tremely wide angle of vision; he can see in nearly all direc tions at the same time. This seeing that he does requires a great deal of doing, for every thing in his underwater world is distorted; everything has a different and rather confus ing perspective. The eyes of a fish must be ' corrected for refraction of the light, as well as light reflec tion. In order to place his mouth over what he wants to eat, he must take into con sideration the optical fact that things under water are not : where they seem to be. Most : of the fish's food is in motion, I i too. This adds to the uncer tainty of getting what he goes after; he can't afford to make more than one grab at it. I It wouldn t be too difficult to believe that the fish that i makes a pass at the fisher man's lure, and misses, may j be suffering from astigmatism ' or some other eye disorder. tven with 20-20 vision, it would do the fish but little good, for then he couldn't miss, and would be hooked. The poor fish, like so many of us, can't win for losing. Bv ZAN STARK Salem UP! - Is Gov. Mark Hatfield right when he terms this a "snail's pace" legisla ture? Are leg islative lead ers right when they say this is the "hardest working" lcg i s 1 a t u r e in memory? The answer de p e n d s on whether you number or by If the Senate amends a House measure, it must then go back to the House. If the House does not agree with the amendments, the measure then goes to a conference committee. Many of the hundreds of bills introduced thus session are unimportant Many are "special interest" proposals submitted by a legislator at , the request of the folks back ' home. The problem facing this session is that the state has ' serious money troubles. For the first time in recent years there is no surplus. Taxes I must be raised. Exhaustive hearings are be ings held on methods of in creasing taxes. The Ways and Means Committee la critical of every budget. Legislators not only are faced with a difficult job, they are dealing with an un popular one - raising taxes. An improperly drawn tax program could cost some of these legislators their jobs at the next election. The Democrats hold a bare ;tl-29 majority in the House. The Republicans dominate j the executive offices. The results of this session I could strengthen the Demo crats' hold. They could just as easily give Republicans control of the House. The governor and legisla tive leaders are equally aware of the possible change in the balance of power. This is at the root of the widely-differing views of the legislature now in session. A 3 9 HELPUS! We meal cloth, n,, ,(,., disk, furniture, and bedding. We nek U. HILP OTHtRSt The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly 771-7333 Russian Rocket Heading for Moon Moscow-iUPD-Russia's Lunik 4 moon rocket continued on course today, heading for its target with all instruments reported functioning accord ing to plan. The lVj-lon unmanned So viet rocket was launched Tuesday to speed to the "vi cinity" of its target by late Friday or early Saturday. The official news agency Tass 3aid Wednesday Lunik 4 covered 134,215 miles dur ing its first 24 hours. Alexander Khabakov, a ge ologist, said that "a soft land ing on the moon of a contain er with instruments and aux iliary apparatus seems to be technically possible." But Soviet officials did not reveal whether the rocket's mission was to hit the moon, orbit around it, or possibly return to earth. A '"'m mm sum measure by content. And to understand who is right, you have to know the ; nrnrMq invnlvpH in pptrinp a bill through the legislature to the governor's desk. The Senate has received more than 420 bills, in addi tion to more than a scoreof memorials and resolutions. ' The House has about 820 bills and more than two score memorials and resolutions - j in addition to more than 100 budget bills. The budget bills automati cally go to the Ways and Means Committee which is : made up of both rcprescnta- tives and senators. After re view by a subcommittee, such bills go before the full com-1 mitlee, then, if approved, go to the house. Non-revenue bills follow a different course. Let's follow a mythical House bill through the legis lature. A representative presents his proposed bill to the Legis lative Council Committee which drafts it into legal form. The representative then "in troduces" the measure, and it goes to the state printer. The bill is given a "first reading" a few days later. The next day it is given a "second reading" and sent to a committee. There are 20 House committees. This is where the real work begins. A measure may breeze through a committee after one hearing. It may require many hearings. The committee can recom mend "do pass." and send the bill back to the House for action. The committee may "defer" or "table" a bill. This is the polite way of killing a bill, for technically it is still under consideration. A do not pass recom mendation will send it to the floor in hopes the bill will be killed. Quite often several legisla tors will introduce similar bills. 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