Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 19, 1963, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JUNE U. 1963 Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate ;963) ' Silliiih and Needlefish hamn Art Appropriate In -the clear water just be- ow the surface, and directly kinder the dock, a small school if billfish and needlefish leemed to be sewing two in- iisunguisnaDie areas 01 water ogetner. ineir exceedingly long and slender bodies, like silver streaks, slashed in and cut with the rapidity of flash ing javeiiub. As each slender fish turned n the water, its silvery sides caught the sunlight and flash ed wiin a oriiuani sneen. a Covering gull overhead detect- id the flash and swooped . Sown with wide open mouth, 1 feady to snatch the fish from fie water's surface. The gull missed, the target ; disappeared before his very yes as the fish suddenly turn ed. The silvery flash was gone, only the dull, greenish -fide of the fish, which match-,-ed the color of the water, va, turned toward the diving gull. - The back of the fish was an Olive green and it seemed to know when to turn this side , toward its enemy. Crrectly Named ,i It is easy to see why these . long, slim, pencil-like fish ac quire the name of "needle fish." It is readily understand able why one of the species is called "billfish" too, for this elose relative of the needle fish has exceedingly long Jaws which is its most promi nent feature. ; The long bills are armed ilong their lengths . with tiny (eeth which give the slender little creatures an almost , ferocious appearance when yiewed at close range. One of its relatives, the "hound fish" often reaches a length Of nearly five feet, but most of the comon species seldom exceed 20 inches. ' The needlefish, apparently fearing the boredom of "gel- ting in a rut" constantlVary their swimming -procedure by : often progressing through the Water in unorthodox posi tions. Instead of swimming ; horizontally, like fishes are expected to, these odd-balls frequently become verlcial, ' and ply along with their . stomachs as a cleaving edge, I It the same time moving for ! jward with amazing speeds, i .Sometimes they move head Uppermost, at other times with the head downward. It teems to make little differ tence to the fish which end is up, or which is down; either way they swim equally well To carry the unusual into the outer edge of the utterly ridiculous, the needlefish lay the most freakish eggs of any fish in the sea; eggs that are like nothing else in the world. Each egg of the many that are laid in the early spring or as soon as the water warms up, has tufts of tiny hairs scattered over its surface. These hairs, or what could better be called, strings, en tangle their strands in and among the sea weeds, or mat together and hold the precious eggs in one place against the surge of the tide, or the push of the waves, until they hatch. inis arrangement assures the mother needlefish that her eggs will not be scattered over the seven seas. Her fam ily will all be together when they have to face their aquatic world as very tiny, thread like youngsters' with long bills, and the ability to move like darting slivers of light just below the water s surf ace. They will grow fast, and with good luck, reach length of some 20 inches, but no larger in diameter than wooden clothespin, with their upper and lower jaws form ing into long, ridiculous looking beaks. 1 jt ft i " ' r las6-"- -ifk v A 1 Sr. -V v ,Stx i I . , ,i, ... f CHIEF EXECUTIVE Actress Angie Dickinson receives a kiss on the cheek from actor David Niven after she was sworn in as the chief executive of Universal City, Calif., by deputy mayor Niven. Mayor Dickinson , succeeds Doris Day in the mayoralty post of the community, which consists entirely of a motion picture and television studio and has had its own mayor since 1927. Universal City's 408 acres makes it 28 acres larger than the domain of Monaco. (UP1) Gambling III 'Gamblers Anonymous' Organization Last Refuge for Compulsive Gambling A 9 By HARRY FERGUSON , Washington - (IW - Tele phone directories in many big American cities have a listing of "Gamblers Anonymous." This organization is the last refuge of the compulsive gam bler, the man in whom the urge to gamble has become so strong that he is a psychiatric case. The other day I looked up Gamblers Anonymous in the Washington telephone book and dialed Regent 7-6800. Ninety minutes later I was sitting in a parked car talking to a compulsive gambler who found his own salvation while poised on the dark brink of suicide. The "anonymous" in Gam blers Anonymous means what it says. No member of the or ganization is allowed to reveal his identity or that of any other member in a newspaper story, a magazine article or a television broadcast. They arc trying to make new lives for themselves, many of them hold good jobs and they don't want anybody to rake up the past and use it against them. "Just call me Ed W.," said the man sitting next to me in the parked car. "I know I'm cured now and it wouldn't hurt me personally to be identified, but it's the rule of our organization. "I'm retired now and have a small income. But I in still paying off my gambling debts so I've taken a part-time sell ing job. I might as well be frank about it, I was a com pulsive gambler for 30 years. Any kind of gambling. Horses, craps, cards, roulette, but mostly at the horse tracks. I don't think I missed a track in the United States, and I figured out the other day that I must have lost between $75,- 000 to $100,000. "Anyway, a couple of years ago 1 owed about $10,000. I had done everything. Sold my war bonds, borrowed from the bank, put my life insurance in hock. "Sometimes you win, but most of the time you lose. Once I had a big day at the Pimlico track and won $6,000. 1 owed money all over the place it never occurred to me to" settle up with my creditors. I was saving that $6,000 to gamble some more and eventually my bookie got all of it. 1 lost it all in four days, "That was my last stop. I began to develop suicidal ten dencies. There wasn't much communication between me and my wife. 1 went to a clergyman and a doctor, but they didn't seem to help much. Then one day my wife was reading in a magazine, some thing about gambling called on voluntary donations. A fi nancial statement for last February showed expenses of $747.67, which left the head quarters $300.42 in the red for the month, Nexts . The fixers and odd5 against the player. 'A Tiger On His Back,' and j ganization exists entirely it told about Gamblers Anonymous, "She called them up and took me to a meeting. . I lis tened to those men tell about their troubles. Don't ask me to explain how it happened but right there in that meeting I got cured. I haven't touched a card or been to a race track since. I'm still in debt for about $S.00U - this car isn't even fully paid for - but I'm cutting down the debt all the time. And, brother, do I feel like a new man. I'm really living now for the first time. As long as I live I'll never forget April 6, 1962. That's the day my wife took me to Gamblers Anonymous." Psychiatrists know compul size gamblers are sick men and they have all sorts of fancy names and explanations for the ailment. Ed W. doesn't know about those things, and his explanation is simple: "You Just don't give a damn about anything except gam bling. Day and night it's the only thing on your mind and nothing else matters." National headquarters for Gamblers Anonymous is In Los Angeles (Address: P.O. Box 17173), and U was found ed in 1957 by Jim W who previously had been a mem ber of Alcoholic Anonymous. There are no dues Bnd the or- GIRL KILLED Sweet, Idaho-illPD-A 20-year-old Huntington, Ore., giri, Jackie Aldridge,; was killed near here Tuesday when the jeep she was driving skidded on loose gravel, overturned and crushed to to death. F..EE-delicioiiiJ iKHAUT HECH'ESi Dept. M . h j P.O. Box 2589, Portland 3, Ore. 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