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7FiDAY. JULY 26. 1963 B 5 ! Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Watkins Keclsutr & Tribune Syndicate, 196? MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON mi Future Sea Menu To Offer Fronds and Sea Urchins? Sea food is taking on a more complex nature. No more do we consider only iish, oysters, clams, and lob sters as a basis for our menu. Now, in addition, we incorpor ate a hundred or more other things as food, with many pal atable dishes still untried. Future experimenters with the same blind courage as that of the man who tried the first oyster, will have to pio neer the way and demonstrate that food is where you find it. Eventually, all that is flesh will be a necessity to some diet of the future. Hesitant To Try There are people today, like goats, who will eat any thing. However, most of us are a little reluctant to try new foods. We will be the last to adopt a radical change in our food preference. We will be the last to sample the green scum that blankets stag nant fresh water ponds and which, someone discovered, contains a great many neces sary nutrients. The discoverer himself ad mits the scum tastes a little fishy. Actually he has not dis covered anything new, as al gae and suspended animal matter such as insect life, fish roe, and plants have existed since the very beginning. The man only discovered that the scum was nauseating, but highly nutritious. Green Scum The green scum of ponds is only one o the countless en- tres on nature's elaborate menu. Most of them are strange to nearly all of us. They are unusual as bird's nest soup or shark fins, but perhaps we will learn to like them. There are millions of greens that wash ashore on ocean beaches after a bad storm. These tons of seaweed contain just about every ele ment necessary for the sus tenance of human life, Under the waters of the Oceans there are thousands of square miles of luxuriant vegetation wait ing for someone to discover how best it can be used. Irish moss, which in some parts of the world is gathered and used in a pudding, is a form of seaweed. The giant kelp beds of th Pacifio coast contain food enough for thou, sands and thousands of peo ple. Some of the individual fronds are said to be several hundreds of feet in length. Sea urchins, the little ball like animals covered with spines, that plod along the bottom of the sea, contain very little flesh, but at cer tain times of the year half of these living pin-cushions are heavy with eggs. Seagulls Ahead of Us The roe is golden brown in color, and as high in food val- . ue as the finest caviar. The day may come, and probably ' not too far in the future, when 1 sea urchin caviar will be a delicacy. Eight now the seagulls are ahead of us for they search for sea urchins that are heavy with eggs. The birds eat this roe with gusto, indicating a long familiarity with an ar ticle that is good to eat. For those who, after becom ing familiar with the roe of these marine creatures, want a change, the roe of the sand dollar and the sea biscuit, can be an extra treat. There are hundreds of thousands of eggs carried by every female sand crab. These eggs have a del icate flavor. There are thousands of strange and unusual food items all waiting in the sea and on the surface of the pond. Happy eating to all of you. Consolidated Strike Settled Denver (UPB - A strike by a Denver Teamsters local against Consolidated Freight ways, Inc., in five major Western cities has been set tled, according to Consoli dated. The company said Thurs day "all issues" had been re solved in a dispute between the local and the huge truck ing company over the use of a four non-union drivers by a Consolidated subcontractor. The strike began last week in Denver and spread to Salt Lake City, Portland, Los An geles and San Francisco. It was halted temporarily by a restraining order issued by U.S. Dist. Judge Hatfield Chllson in Denver. Chilson had set today for a hearing on a request by the National Labor Relations Board for a preliminary in junction, but cancelled it 'then the company reported J,- dispute settled. 1 -A 4 & trf Ml " .v...afeu.;..iV mi' V illtf r 4 ( liiiiil v-X . x . . .'. T" , ' v ' 1,1 1.' v , - 1 S f ' vN ' -i' s , V 't K . (' 1 ; ' v ,, ' " - vi 'r V - , f . 'rf" . ' 'fin' 'iff l" PS ! ,v ','' - '7f'r' i' ' 5 ; if Rare Bird Not many in captivity. Nearly extinct. He represents the lonely, vanishing breed of people who do not read newspapers. Hard to find people not reading newspapers? It's almost impossible. Because over 99 million people, in 9 out of every 10 households, read newspapers. Are they all birds of a feather? Nothing could be further from the truth. People of all tastes and persuasions, in every age group, educational level, income bracket find a private sanctuary each day in the daily newspaper they choose to call their own. The daily newspaper is highly selective and personal, yet completely universal. This is the special quality only the daily paper can deliver. rM0RE PEOPLE DO MORE BUSINESS THROUGH NEWSPAPERS
