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PAGE FOUR r;1 ' ', U1 'JENKINS' !; BUI JENKIN8 " .'- ,:. ;-! ir edit,,, ..... . . - Managing Editor Cnttrtd Mtoeond class matter at the port ofllct of Klamath , Faus, Ore, :ca August 30, 1M6 under act of Congress. March I, l7 . '7'I MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED FEESS Tfee Associated Press WeutlUed exclusively to the use 'or publication of all lb tool news printed to this newspaper as well all AP new. : 1 month months'., t year t 1.35 111.00 . ( BILLBOARD By MIL JENKINS Embarrassing moments come to us all, but the chap we saw stalled halfway around the corner at Eighth and Main during the morn , lmr rush hour yesterday was in as bad a spot, as we can think of at the moment. He was out in iront. the hood raised and vallently pot tering with a,, dead engine, ap- '- parently, but stIU ' stalled. Our heartfelt sympathies went out to him. And to prove it we retrained from offering to help. Having all the mechanical aptitude of a lour. year-old any help from this quarter would have resulted only in a iur tber balling up of the situation. 1 Had our own moment of embar rassment coupled with a. slight feel' ing of age and remorse when we stepped Into a local haberdashery to be measured up for a fresh pair of slacks. Every year when we go In we Jind.tnai our girtn nas gained a bit. Still the growing boy type, I guess., ;. , Charlie Read, the saddle maker of Klamath Avenue, will probably sain a little In girth next Sunday, . too. He tells us he's slated to head for Lakevlew and the cowboy breakfast over there served by the ukerlew Roundup gang. It s a wonderful deal. I know, Aakevlew, In fact, is a wonder.'ul town. Charley and his henchmen will , be getting together coon to' talk over plans for the annual ride from here to Lakevlew. There's a trip ' for you. And the more the merrier. Any time you' feel like going along drop down by the saddle shop, which Is between Sixth and Sev enth on Klamath, and tell Charlie about It. We'd like to see a big gang go over this year. .Might even break down and go along. Af ter all, it's a wonderful chance to take a gander around for that Spanish Blase, And our offer of a hundred bucks to the finder Is still good and uncollected. Hunting season will soon be here gain. You know that for sure HAL BOYLE By RELMAN MORIN (For Hal Boyle) MUYI lUttll UTI IV WHS J1KC OIU tunes in New York this week. First, the president came to town for a day, ana then Adlal Steven son touched down, returning from bis trip around the world. Before you eould say "national commit tee", a fair copy of the spasms and convulsions that shake this republic every four years was tak ing shape all over town. The hotel corridors were neck flcep in politics. The newsreelmen, hoarse voiced and croaking, plead ed with people to get out of their foreground. Patient New York gen darmes were trying to keep order, usually with a wisecrack, some , times with an arm. The usual crams ano nangcrs-on invaaed tne news conferences. And there was that pleasantly familiar sensation of trying to take notes on a care fully worded statement with a pho tographer's elbow In your eye. Yes, sir, it was exactly like last year when Elsenhower and Stev enson were warming up for the de cision that, came In November, - Neither seems to have suffered much from the effects of election day. The President was bouncing around In his suite on the 32nd floor of the Waldorf with the easy, free-wheeling grace of a profes sional athlete. He was still wearing a pair of Army-Issue officer's shoes the buckle-over type they sell In the PX. He looked a little thinner, much sharper, and very much more sure of himself. He sat, talking deeply with Col. Harold Rlegclman, the OOP candidate for mayor tor New York, apparently oblivious to the bedlam going on around him.- The deep furrow that runs hori zontally across the top of his nose, in moments of keep concern, never appeared once during the day. He whipped through a crowded schedule like a very old hand at crowded schedules. In fact, it seemed to aniline him when Jim Hagerty, his press sec retary, gave the newsreel men "Just two seconds more" for their pictures. - "First Sergeant Hagerty." he said. "Hligerty'd make a great first sergeant." Adlal Stevenson looked a little tired, as well a man miaht after six months abroad. He said he would be glad to unpack now. . But he had the same bubbling, spontaneous wit which may have been a political handicap last year and he got the laughs, Just as he always did. . When somebody asked him to comment on the situation In Iran, he said he understood that Mos sadegh also had fled the country, pondered for a moment, and add ed: "There might be a good opening there for a politician." And when the radio men asked him to sit down, to be nearer the microphones on the desk, he said, "Certainly, a politician always likes to keep his seat." He stuck a thin stiletto between the sixth and seventh ribs of Sec- PICTURE FRAMING jfjg subscription bates bi cabbies I month '3S months 10 lift 1. when you drop in on Carl Schubert at his gun repair shop and see that stack of work. Carl says that he has twice as much to do as he wants. "Worked for forty years," he says, "and the first twenty did two men's work. Now I could be just as happy taking it easy." We bad a fine time talking over the good old days of hunting when you went down onto Tulelake and Lower Klamath. Where there are now farms and ranches and home' steads was all Just huntliv terrt tory when he first started out. And my urst nunung nere saw a sea son that opened In September and a bag limit of 20 ducks a day. And lots of birds for tne snooting. But, anyway, It might be a time, ly tin for all of us to get our shoot' Ing gear In order. Those big bucks and tne ducts ana geese win ne ready soon. Us? We're all set to go right now. - A bis husky doe with a pair of twin fawns with her has been at- fording us a lot of entertainment lately. Almost every evening along about sundown the trio comes out of the woods behind the house, cross the highway, thread their way along the tides bordering prank Mccornaok s grain field and finally disappear down In a tangle of trees and brush to the north of us. It's lots of fun to watch them There's always plenty to watch from the porch, anyway. A bald eagie soaring over uie lake, occa' slonally dipping to grab a fish or something, the hawks and owls that haunt the thick brush waiting for a crack at tne ouail that live there. the big pheasants that sun them selves on the old stumps in the clearings and the constant proces sion of ducks and geese that fly up and down the rim of the lake. We notice that the pelicans are beginning to thin out.- A sign of coming fain But it can't be very cold yet. 'Cause the doves are still with us. And they generally null out at the first sign of real nippy nights. .. retary of State John Foster Dulles when he answered one question. A reporter, recalling what Steven son had written about the Middle East, asked if his views did not coincide with those expressed by Dulles. "I don't know what Lean answer that," Stevenson said. "I know what I think, but I'm not at all olear as to what Mr. Dulles thinks." All of which suggests, to this reporter anyway, that the gentle man from Chicago may be more In the center of the Democratic picture than this cagey remarks sometimes Indicate. He has said, you recall, that he doesn't know whether he will run for the pres idency again in 1986. Also, he declined to answer, di rectly, when he was asked wheth er he considers himself the lead er of the Democratic party. But along with this, he said he Intends to speak out on Sen. Jo seph McCarthy and on foreign pol icy. And, Jn his own way, he will work for his party. If these are pieces of the Jig-saw, they fit pret ty neatly. , ' Well, anyway, It was nice to have the champion and the chal lenger In town again , , .just like old times. , - Air-Backbone Strategy Asked WASHINGTON Wl Deputy De fense Secretary Kyes called Friday for a national strategy based on air power. He said It should be somewhere between the Ideas of "almost fanatical" backers of one sort of preparedness or another, and those of "the pacifist who would do nothing." "Air power Is the keystone make no mistake about that." Kyes declared. He added that air power would be basic In the new look at the nation's present mili tary strength and future needs be ing conducted by the new Joint Chiefs of staff on orders from President Elsenhower. The No. 3 civilian in the Defense Department addressed the Air Force Assn. The organisation In Its meeting here already has gone on record with stronir criticisms of administration-ordered cuts in Air Force spending. Man Thinks He Can Beat Defective Rap DENVER I Norman L. Peter. son thinks he has a chance to beat a charae he is facing in Denver traffic court. The ticket handed him last week says he ran through a signal light ai Tennyson street and West Col fax Avenue "Feb. 23. 1913." On that date, he contends, there wasn't any traffic light at the corner, his automobile hadn't been built yet and he wasn't born until three hours after the ticket is timed. YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME TO USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN VAN ORMAN'S . Year aiirf Netwear State They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo cl. , Zt'in xfK-r race. ' NcwHEfeBEiJBo'.Hxi6or4 Bre$iV JJtcSjsmt V wped to I oncn I r didn't know W4SxUWyS'l gyoJoRKV ASSISTANT-- WMT WORK W4S TILL about as aoa ( ix&RAW OTaS ( ZZKgfffl." BOOKKEEPER 6HXjeKER I'M " OK OER HIS I NgWjS TWE WORST , . i ' 1 Warden Says Pen Before He SALEM Wl ' ' Prison Warden Clarence T. Gladden told the State Emergency Board here Friday that a convict had been boss inside the walls until he put an end to It, He said the convict had assigned Jobs, taken money from convicts' leath er goods sales and run an illicit liquor business. . "Some of my men surprised one of his henchmen at one time with 200 in cash, In $10 bills, in his pocket," the warden told the board, HUGH The frequent suggestion .: that men will soon reach the seeming ly airless moon, brings the ques tion of, what life would be like without our atmosphere. Even should we overcome all physiologi cal discomforts due to lack of air existence would be very diffi cultthe optical effects would be so weird as to make us feel we were in another world, How changed -.would be the appearance oi a laminar sky without the gaseous sea which covers the earth to a depth of a few hundred miles, should Its molecules sud denly be released from gravitation al attraction and be dissipated into the great spaces beyond. Without our covering of air. we should miss the twinkling of the stars, which makes the clear, cold winter skies so charming. The stars would glow with a steady. non-flickering light and In Intensi fied Brightness which would be a Joy to astronomers but a genuine sorrow to poets. The stars would be Just as bright on the horizon as in the zenitli, instead of the dimming we now know near the skyline. And what a change In the day time skyl The splendid, luminous blue would be replaced by an Inky blackness In which Cie stars would be visible as well as the sun. All places shaded from the sun would be very dark and Illumined only by starlight or sunlight re flected from ground objects. The moon would also do Its part. Should .we have forgotten to ad Northwest History Highlights By DAN E. CLARK Professor Emeritus of History, University of Oregon No.' 44 Today's question: What were the so. called "Wolf Meetings"? In a previous article it was in dicated that Lieutenant Charles Wilkes discouraged the movement toward the formation of a provi sional government when he visited the Willamette settlements m tne summer of 1841. Interest In the sub ject was revived during the fall of 1842, after the arrival of more than one hundred American settl ers led by Dr. Elijah White. A lyceum or debating society organ ized at Oregon City debated the subject during the winter oi 1842 43. , - On February 2, 1843, there was held at the Oregon Institute, with in the present limits of Salem. what is usually called Che first Wolf Meeting". The ostensible purpose, and one which appealed to most of the settlers, was to adopt measures for the protection of cat. te, horses, sheep and hogs against predatory animals. It was agreed that a general meeting should be called for the first Monday In March at the home of Joseph Oer- vais, ano a committee of six men was appointed, to inform the set tlers are prepare a report. The second "Wolf Meeting" was held at the home of Joseph Cer vais on March 6. A treasurer and a committee were appointed to re ceive suoscrinuons to a fund with i Two bedroom home, two years old. Excellent loca tion. Corner lot opposite Kiwanii Park. Hordwood floors, fireplace, electric heat. Beautiful lawn, sprinkling system, storm windows. $13,500, 1111 Division, Phone 9334. HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH High f. Q. Con Dossed State Took Over Control Himself . His report was In support of his request for money to hire more guards, Oladden refused i to name the. convict, ocx said ne was "a smart hombrc with an IQ of 129." Such an Intelligence quotient (IQ de notes unusually high intelligence. The warden said the convict boss, until he learned of it, dla tated assignments of convict jobs Inside the prison, controlled cell assignments, and. even controlled PRUETT just ourselves to ultraviolet light, fearful burns would result when ever we ventured Into direct sun light. At present the air protect- nigiy screens out these Injurious short-wave radiations. Our atmosphere gives us six to eight minutes more of daily direct sunshine tnan if it were absent. Refraction (bending! of light as it passes through the various densi ties of air causes the entire sun to appear Just above the horizon when all of It Is actually a little below. This works equally at sunrise and sunset. A simple experiment will illustrate: , Place a coin in a dish other than glass, and walk far enough away so that the coin just disappears be low the rim. Get someone to pour water slowly into the dish. Soon one edge oi the coin will be seen. As more water Is added, the coin will gradually come entirely into view even though it has not been moved at all. The light from the object actually bends as 'It passes from a medium of one den sity, water, to that of another density, air. In the same way sun light bends when coming from the emptiness of space Into the ever Increasing air density Without our air protection there would be little pleasure studying the sky for we might have to stay inside deep bomb-proof shelters to insure safely from tremendously swift meteoritles from outer space, Perhaps we should keep our at mosphere, poorer star-gazing not withstanding, " ! which to pay bounties, according to a specified schedule, for the killing of wolves, panthers, and other animals known to be destruc tive to livestock. Since there was little or no money in the country, 'drafts on Fort Vancouver, the Mission, and the Milling Company at Oregon City were to be accept ed in payment of subscriptions of live dollars by each settler who wished to participate. When this business had been transacted the real purpose of the Instigators of the "Wolf , Meeting" was revealed when a speaker called attention to the need of "pro tection for our persons and lives as well as our cattle and herds". and therefore he offered a resolu tion calling lor tne appointment of a committee of twelve "to take Into consideration the propriety of tak ing measures for the civil and mili tary protection of this colony". The resolution was unanimously adopt ed and the.commlttee was appoint ed. Apparently this committee held a meeting at Oregon City about uie middle of March. In spite of some opposition to the proposed or ganlzatlon the committee issued a call for a general meeting to. be held on May 2 at Champoeg. Next question: What happened at Champoeg on May 2, 1843? Clip and paste In your history scrapbook. (If you have a question ycj would like answered on Ore gon or Northwest history, mall It to Dan E. Clark, care of this news paper.) 1 .Is FALLS, OREGON a deputy, not named by the war den. i Oladden came out of retirement from the federal prison service last spring when the State Board of Control fired Warden Virgil O'Malley on the charge he had let things . at the prison get out of nand.; Oladden quelled an uprising last month by leaving men out in the yard until ringleaders surrendered. They were put in solitary. . There haven't been enough guards, Oladden said, to stop such things as weekly pruno drunks pruno Is a fermented drink made from potato peelings ana fruits tneits of meat from the commis sary and other practices.- "We took between 70 and 80 truck loads of contraband out of the prison following the recent riot," Gladden said. "It was there because we did not have enough guards to properly shake down the inmates. He said, too, that after the riot he found ' "the best prison-made guns I ever. saw." He said lack of supervision accounted for them. Oladden asked for $143,000 so he could add 25 guards. "We dumped 700 gallons or pruno one night," he said. "The inmates in the garage dormitory used to thi-w drunken parties every Sat urday night. We just didn't have enough guards to prevent it. "Thievery was rampant all over the place. They stole sugar out of the dining room and the cannery. They stole the best cuts of meat out of the commissary and smug gled It out leaving only the poorer cuts for the Inmates In tfie main line." Gladden told the board that wages now paid guards at the prison are very good and compar able to wages paid In federal prisons and he felt that he is slowly building up a staff of guards that will stay with him and not quit when they have been trained to do a good Job. , . K. Falls Man OnAFL Board PORTLAND I Results . of mail balloting for officers of the Oregon State Federation of Labor were announced Friday. Most top positions were not contested. Alice Wesllng. Portland, defeated Dean Smith, Portland, for second vice president. Dale Adklns, Sweet Home, and T. H. Cruikshank, defeated Ray I. Mclnnls, Eugene, and C. P. Glass, for positions on the executive board. All other officers were elected without opposition. They are: J. C. McDonald, president; Cecil W Jones, first vice president; and James T. Marr, secretary-treasur cr. . All are from Portland. Other members of the executive board: ' M. E. Steele, Portland: J. A. Boehrlnger, Salem; C. D. Long, Klamath Falls; J. L. Ross, Bend; Tom Swift,, Oregon City; and Charles W. Crary, Medford. 'Nominations were made last June at the federation's conven tion at Coos Bay. . DANCE TO PEE WEE STIDHAM and His Rainbow Melody Boy's Appearing At The RED BARN in DORRIS Ivery Sat. Niqht 9-1 Oreqort Time 10-2 California Time. Admission $1.00 (tax inc.) The Doctor Says In 1940 the population of . the V. 8. was close to 132.000.000; in 1950 it was Just over 151,000,- 000- and in JUly, waz, was esu mated at almost 157,000,000. For the United states this represents an increase of- 1.47 persons per bun dred each year Irom 1940 ; to W50, and 1.71 persons per year from 1950 to 1952. Similar in creases, some of them even considerably-larger, are occurring in other countires as well. What does this great Increase in the number of people living In the world mean to health? No one knows exactly, although it is almost certain that in some parts of the world there are already more mouths to .feed than there is food to put in them for adequate nourishment. It Is Interesting to note that about 150 years ago an English man by the name of Malthus pre dicted that with the increase In population then occurring It would not be long until the num ber of people on the face of the globe had been so Increased that the products of the land would not feed them. ' ' During that short space of time the population of the world has been multiplied, more than four times, and It is probable that no more people are starving today than did so in Malthus' time. The rea son for this is that the earth has been made more productive. : New areas have been explored and opened up to cultivation, and the yield of food substances per acre of land has been enormously Increased by a multitude of meth ods. Including fertilization, Irriga tlon, new tools, better seeds and the like. Malthus has not been alone in his pessimistic predictions. Twenty odd" years ago, when the United States was in the great depression, the birth rate fell off and stayed that way for several years. The ex perts then started to figure that the United States was going to reach it speak population in a few years, and that before long not enough babies .would be born to replace the old folks" who passed away. This was the exact reverse of Malthus' worry. ( When World War n came the birth rate started to go up by leaps and bounds. All figures on the size of the United States popu lation, and when the peak would be reached, had to be completely revised. Perhaps the experts weren't wrong, but the people didn't behave as the experts thought they were going to. Where are we today? If the pO- ulation grows to the point where the earth can feed no more, there will be mass starvation. Just when this point would be reached is dif ficult to Dredlct. It appears that in some parts of the world starvation is already chronic, but others like ourselves are still comparatively well off. ITU to Keep Union Papers DETROIT W) The Internation al TvDographical Union closed its 95th convention Friday after de cisively beating down a second at tempt to kill tne unions multimillion-dollar Unitypo program. As they had done on Thursday, the 400 delegates overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to take the un ion out of the publishing business. Under the Unitypo program, the ITU publishes daily or weekly newspapers In 11 cities where un ion members are on strike. Supporters of the project con tended that union-created compe tition was the most effective wea pon against struck publishers. Op ponents, noting a $63,000 operating loss for Unitypo last year, called it an Ineffective, costly experiment mat lauea. Gen. Wainwright's Condition Serious : SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Iffl The aging hero of Bataan, Oen. Jona than M. Wainwright, was still in a serious condition here today. He was admitted to Brooke Army Hospital July 6 after reportedly suffering a stroke. His health has not been of the best, friends say, in several years. The general spent four years In a Japanese prison camp during World War II after he surrendered his Army forces at the fall of Bataan. , . KICKED TO DEATH AARHUS, Denmark Wl Mrs. Signe Eskildsen, 68, was kicked by a horse and trampled to death Fri day while on the way to a church yard to lay a wreath on the grave of her husband. I ' JAMES.MARLOW .... ctrTnn-iTviv sn If this story njwnuiw.v.. ".' - - - - had a title it would be:. A tale oi no progress, or how history repeats itself. In January 1946, five months af ter the first atomic bomb had been i j uLnchim. the General Assembly of the brand new United Nations neio its iu". i At once It voted to create a com mission to find an answer to the question: how to get all nations to agree to outlaw the bomb In such a way that no one could cheat? By Sept 23, 1949 the commission, which Included the United States and Russia, had met more than 200 times without finding a solu tion. On that date President Tru man had an important announce ment. t The Russians, he said, had pro- A an .tnml, Avnlnsinn. He Said this development emphasized the' necessity lor iruiy tuk"i -forceable international control of atomic energy." Four years passed, a period in which It seemed likely the Rus sians might have been able to build a stockpile of several hun dred bombs and the United States, .einnn It MaA a'hoaH St.fl rt ' might have been able to store thousands. In order to be sure It stayed ahead of the Russians the United States, in those four years, began work on the hydrogen bomb. The Russians apparently were doing the same, although they didn't say so. . ' . ' . . In those same four years the TT KT ..a..i nt.1i1n' finA a formula for outlawing atomic weapons on wmcn itussia ana vae West could, agree. , Yesterday, just a little less than fn abc- alt aw T.mnn an. nounced they had produced an nounced they had exploded a kind oi nyarogen Domo. . Immediately the United States ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL By KEN McLEOD "Acclimatization," is a good five-syllable word frequently used in the discussion of the possiblity of the Introduction of some par ticularly desirable specie of plant or animal. However, all too fre auently there has been a great deal of confusion of this word with the terms "naturalization" and "do mestication." ' Many of our domesticated and most extensively cultivated . plants have never come acclimated to our weather conditions that is. they can not stand all the vlssitudes of the seasons without protection a fact many a farmer and city gard ner has learned to bis sorrow when an early frost strikes the harvest and susceptable plants are des troyed by the cold. On the other hand we have a great many plants and animals introduced into the country that have become naturalized and are able to withstand the severity of the seasons without protection. In many of these cases there has been no evidence of the necessity to be come accllmitlzed. In fact, many seem to find a more congenial abode here than In their native land and have flourished with sur prising results. Acclimatization implies that a animal must gradually, aoapt itself to conditions that are. at first in jurious to it. Naturalization merely means a transfer from one place to another without climatic condi tions exerting any check upon the growth of the species. A great deal as been said about upsetting the so called "balance of nr.ture," by the process of naturalization and the adverse problems created by rxotlc species. . Many of the sad experiences in ie past have made us cautious in rying out new plants and .animals In our already naturally balanced economy, even though we know that naturalization experiments fail as often as. they succeed. Science has learned much from these fail ures yet there are still many things to study before we can hope to have lull understanding of the laws of nature. Perhaps when we have a complete understanding oi natural law we will then be able to dis cover why many native forms of life have disappeared from our country, often without any present Many new exclusive McCuiloch jotur. 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For one thing, Russia opposed the West's plan for check ing on a nation's atomic develop ment,' .: , ; .;' 5 ,. The commission', "the report said, did pot meet because' no new plans had been offered mino. 1 , - Oc tober a year ago. i 1 And yesterday just' as on flia day in 1949 when Truman told the world of Russia's ntnmfn - 1 . and called for renewed efforts to control the bomb Sen, Wiley, Wis consin Republican, made a plea ' Wiley, chairman of the Senate's Foreign .Relations Committee now attending the' General Assembly meeting to New York, proposed action by the American and Rus- sinn frnvernmpntn tn nntrni power. ..''.:' : : Andrei Vlshinsky. the Soviet dele- p-ntp Wrq rtrtnrtir1 tn v,B..n o n Jiovii sain yesterday that he may have some- . w ng -in ume," .wmcn means he'll - SUffCest , ft RtlSKlnn rilsafma.. -. d v uiUiMCUk plan in the Assembly In September. Dince uie- west ana Russia haven't been able yet to find the answer to the question raised in the United Nations seven years BCD': there's -nn rpnnnn in ,w ' ' ' -Ab, they'll find one any time soon. - assignable cause. As an example, we might tura to a study of the geological past of the Klamath country. Not eo many years ago, as geologists rec kon time, the Klamath country abounded with truly "bijj game." Such an animal as the mammoth roamed the Klamath plains. Tne mammoth, an elephant, was s species that Is closely allied to the present elephants that now inhabit tropioal. regions; the mammoth, however, was not a tropical spe cies but lived under climatic con ditions somewhat cooler than what we experience today. Along with the elephant we find that other animals were a common sight in our valley basins.. Native horses and camels apparently were quite numerous upon the plains ot Lower Klamath and Tulelake. Yet for some reason these animals became extinct in our country even while they flourished In -other re mote parts of the globe. The horse came back to us with the Spanish conquest of the New World. The elephant and camel are merely occasional visitors with some touring circus. There were other odd forms of big game roam ing the country back in those old en times the giant buffalo, the saber-toothed tiger, oreodoh, ground sloth, the .giant short-faced bear and many others. Just why they all should suddenly disappear from the lush plains of the Klamath country as well as from the rest of their extensive native ranges will always be a subject for scientific specula tion. We realize that as geological his tory hasdeveloped there has been great changes experienced in clima tic conditions, yet certain animals have been able to show great pow ers of adaptibility and have thrived and developed! In this ever chang ing geological scene. Then they suddenly vanish from the land leav ing a scientific riddle the question oi speculation. Why does a race become Incapable of facing ne conditions after successfully meet ing nature s problems for nuinf thousands of yenrs? Is it the question of acclimatisa tion? Or is it a question of some other basic natural pnenomews. These are questions that will pos sibly remain unsolved. 4-30 CHAIN SAW Mi f-ma saw manufactured and guaranteed by the world' largttt buffrferf of chain tow saw shop Ph. 6500
