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MONDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1963
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Soft, Cuddly Hamster
Menace to Grain Field
The explosion had been noise
less, but terribly destructive.
The numbers of hamsters in
and near the fertile fields of
Belgium had reached a peak;
the grain crops were being
ruined. Something had to be
done. So a bounty was placed
on the little animals; four cents
a head.
Other European countries, al
so plagued with a hamster ex
plosion, resorted to poisons,
guns, traps and fire.
The soft-eyed little animals
had always been present in
Europe and Asia, but an expand
ing human population resulted
in more acreage being devoted
to grain crops and this encour
aged greater numbers of ham
sters. Animal populations are con
trolled by food supplies, avail
able hiding places and shortage
or absence of predators. The
hamsters made their under
ground shelters; since enemies
were few and food was in ample
supply, numbers of animals be
came astronomical.
Right for Pet
This little burrowing rat-like
. animal, with the short, bushy
tail, is a soft, cuddly little crea
ture, just right for a child's pet.
As such some of them were
Introduced into America and
have now become common in
every pet store and in thousands
of homes.
The hamster actually is a
rodent, has a tooth arrangement
like that of the rat, but unlike
the rat, the hamster has two
cheek pouches, one on either
side of his face in which seeds
and grain are carried. These
pouches closely resemble those
of the American pocket gopher
and perform the same purpose.
For this resemblance our own
pocket gopher has often been
called the "American hamster."
A pair of healthy hamsters
can store unbelievable amounts
of food in elaborate underground
galleries by carrying the grain
in the cheek pouches.
Store 200 Pounds
Investigators have found that
a single pair of the little ani
mals have stored as much as
200 pounds of grain. A colony
of hamsters near a fertile field
would be an expensive group
of boarders.
The hamster is usually brown
or near-black in color and about
six inches in length. They are
harmless little creatures with
no means of offense or defense.
Their only recourse, when dan
ger threatens, is to scamper
home and remain there until
the enemy is gone.
They survive, and in enorm
ous numbers, in the wild, be
cause of their ability to become
parents at an early age. As
many as 16 can be born at a
time, and this process can be
repeated several times a year.
Where multiplication is con
cerned, a pair of hamsters make
the rabbit or the guinea pig
look like pikers.
McNeil Appointed to
Executives Group
Donald P. McNeil, manager of
the Medford Chamber of Com
merce has been appointed to the
membership committee of the
American Chamber of Com
merce Executives, it has been
announced by William E. Dauer
of Kansas City, Mo., president
of the national association.
"He has distinguished himself
in the field of chamber adminis
tration, and we are pleased to
call upon his knowledge and ex
perience in furthering the work
of our organization," Dauer said
in making the appointment.
It is the purpose of this com
mittee to build and maintain
the membership strength of
ACCE to assure it adequate
manpower and financial re
sources. The American Chamber of
Commerce Executives is the na
tional management association
for more than 2,300 local cham
ber executives. It is dedicated
to the principal of the develop
ment and enforcement of ethical
practices and the maintenance
of high educational and manage
ment standards.
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I'utxis Willi UHIUE - British actor, Alan Dobic, 31, of the
"Chips With Everything" cast on Broadway, poses with his bride
British singer, Maureen Scott, 20, outside Plymouth Theater in
New York. Dobie went AWOL for 24 hours to marry in his bride's
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York at 5:45 p.m. (New York time) Dec. 2 to take the leading
role in the play. (UPI)
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
NEW YORK (UPU - In
addition to being a sure way of
losing weight, giving up eating
may also be a way of getting
the gout.
this scientific nail-nelson has
been thrown on the medical:
idea that total fasting is a safe
ana noi too unpleasant means
Wild Dogs Cause
Fear in Portland
PORTLAND (UPI) -Packs of
dogs in north Portland have
driven deer from a game pre
serve and have made people
"afraid to leave the populated
areas at night," a park foreman
said today.
J. Howard Williamson said the
near-wild dogs, sometimes num
bering 40 to 60 in a pack, have
virtually driven deer from For
est Park in the St. John's bridge
area.
He said he rescued one doe
from the dogs which collapsed
at his feet.
Williamson added that he and
others employed in the 4,000
acre forest area had found ske
letons of deer after they had
been chased over the brink of a
quarry.
"I would hate to think what
would happen to a child if the
dogs, excited, set out after
him," he said.
The Oregon Humane Society
said it would help apprehend the
dogs.
Biggest Dog Title
Claimed by Briton
LOUGHTON, England (UPI)
Frank Hollis claimed today
that his St. Bernard, Sir Baron,
is the biggest doe on earth.
Sir Baron, he said, stands 37
inches high, is six feet long
and weighs 224 pounds.
of slimming persistently fat peo
ple who can't be slimmed
through dieting.
Several physicians have prop
agandized in behalf of this cold
turkey - without - turkey-or-any
food ' technique of reducing.
They've had spectacular results
(it goes without saying) which
they've reported to the profes
sion.
Drs. Rosemary Murphy and
Karl H. Shipman put the tech
nique to scientific test from a
kidney rather than a weight
reduction viewpoint. They put
five women, whose average
weight was 234 pounds, into a
hospital in order to starve them
under supervision.
They could drink all the black
coffee, tea or water they wished
They were given one multivita
min pill every day. But not one
morsel or drop of sustaining
food could they have.
Sure enough, toss of appetite
appeared after 4he second day,
just as the starvation experi
menters had found. After that,
the women didn't mind too
much going without anything to
eat.
They fasted thus for three to
10 days. At the end their aver
age weight was 215 pounds, rep
resenting an average loss of 19
pounds per woman. But the
scientists were really interested
in their kidneys.
Those organs choose the pro
ducts of body metabolism which
arc retained and those which
are discarded. Among them are
the metabolic products of uric
acid. A relative little of it is
always present in body meta
bolism and is doubtlessly use
ful
But a relatively lot of it Is
now considered to be a prime
cause of gout since urate, a uric
acid product, is found deposit
ed in gouty toes and other gouty
joints.
In the starving fat women
this potential chemical crippler
piled up in their blood ses'um
to as much as twice the normal ! In reporting to the American
amounts. Evidently as the result I Medical Association, thev ex-
of giving up eating, their kidney pressed surprise that the medi-
rcauccd tne rate ot filtering and cat advocates of total fasting
the rate of clearance. for the persistently obese, had
Support Contention I made. n0 mention of fasting in
n u j ou- creasing uric acid blood leve s.
Drs. Murphy and Shipman tu. ...... r.-... j ; ,,
bolstered this pp nt with kidney and it secmed ft thcm lha
studies of eight other obese
women (average weight. 195
pounds.)
They were not hospitalized
and they were not starved. All
they did was report periodically
for testing while going about
their usual lives, eating as they
wished.
Their blood uric acid levels
remained normal; their kidneys
chose what to do with uric acid
metabolites in a way to keep
the levels where they should be.
With comparisons, Drs. Murphy
and Shipman concluded that
fasting upset kidney dealings
with uric acid.
total fasting shouldn't be ap
plied to persons with any his
tory of gout.
High uric acid blood levels
may not be the only cause of
gout. There may be a heredi
tary factor, too. Medical sci
ence still has much to learn
about gout.
Freighter Misses
Safety by Minutes
ASTORIA (UPI) - The 256-
foot i freighter C. Trader ran i
aground in the Columbia River j
Saturday just minutes before
she reached the safety of As-1
toria harbor. j
The freighter, her main deck '
awash, was taken under tow
Friday night by the Coast I
Guard cutter Mallow near Wil
lapa Bay, Wash. Tho tow was
transferred to the commercial
salvage vessel Salvage Chief of
Astoria at 4:38 a.m. Saturday.
The ship reached the mouth
of the Columbia about 8 a.m.
and proceeded across the bar,
settling about four feet more
in the stern as she did so.
The C. Trader was swinging
back and forth on her towline
before she ran aground in 29
feet of water, according to the
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