7FiDAY. JULY 26. 1963
B 5
! Small
Worlds
Around
Us
By
Lynn W.
Watkins
Keclsutr & Tribune Syndicate, 196?
MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON
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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.
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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.
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