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MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Lynn W. Watkint "y kcibUr A Tritium lyndkltf, IIP in Nj'S mmwm These Creatines Invented Anchor Far Ahead ol Man Besides being the seashell liiat jingle, jangle, jingles, this was one of the creatures thai predated man in at least one important accomplishment. Neither early history nor tra dition gives us much informa tion as to when the first man made use of an anchor to hold his crude raft or floating log in i fixed position. Today's anchors serve the same purpose as the rock at tached to a vine did lor tne dawn-man when he anchored his floating raft to the ocean bot tom. Before Men Yet millions of years before the bleary eyes of the dawn man looked out across his an cient sea and timidly ventured out upon its restless surface, Mother Nature was successfully using anchors to hold some of her subjects to some solid sup port. Two of these, very com mon ones, are the so-called jingle and the penshcll; two mollusks that attach themselves by means of bycuss cords which run through regular little "haw sepipes" and hold the anchored shell in spile of rough seas and violent storms. The shell collector, ns well as those millions of folks who walk along an ocean beach and tramp many of llicse shells into the sand, have many common names for them; especially the simple little jingle shell. Most of the common names are des criptive of some characteristic of the shell. Because several of them held in the hand and jig gled together, give off a faint musical sound, they are called "jingles." "Baby's foot" is named because of the remark able "imprint" of a tiny font where the abductor muscle Is attached. It is also known as the "saddle shell" or "lamp Khell." One very common, and usually found in great numbers after a storm, has the scientific name of "anomia Bimplcx." Adrift At Sea Those millions thai wash up on the beach are those whose anchor dragged. Willioui ineir attachment lo the bottom, or some, other object, they were helpless and adrift at sea. The jingle shell Is thin, shiny, and irregular in shape and shows a wide diversily In colors. cnmn am niav. black, or Dink: yellow predominates, but com binations of all these hues are common. There are times, after a storm, that these simple shells are deposited along ocean beaches. They are almost world wide in distribution, but over abundant in warm, tropical wa ters. They attach themselves, with their anchors, to rocks or to others of their own kind, and take the shape of the support on which they rest. This of course results in a wide diver sity of shapes. A colony may build up, one on anolher, until the "underdogs" anchors give way and the entire group is tumbled along the bottom. Buf feted by waves, or strong tidal push, the dislodged colony even tually comes ashore. They have "weighed anchor," and are w,.n,.Wor. Ilioir l:iminatrrl lim ey, shells become a part of the heterogeneous confusion that nature deposits at the water's edge. 2 Oregonians Get 4-H Honors CHICAGO (UPl)-A Corvallis farm youth and a home eco nomics student at Oregon Stale University are among national winners at the National t-H Club Congress here. Hoger Hamlin, 17, was named a winner in the 4-11 field crops program and I.incla Jenkins, 18, of Kairview, Ore., was one of six national winners in the 411 bread program. Hamlin cleared IS aires of land and put them into produc tivity. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hamlin, operators of a 250-ncre farm near Cor vallis. The national honor is his sec ond this year He was one of Oregon's delegates to Bnys Na tion in Washington after being selected first cilitrn at Oregon Boys State. Miss Jenkins, a freshman In home economics at Oregon State, is the daughter of Mr. Qust and Mrs. 0. P. Jenkins of Kair view. 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