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PAKE 2 A Scientists Probe Secrets Of Adelie Penguin Mystery HERALD AND NEWS. Klafoath Falls, Ore?. "DENNIS'THE MENACE''' WASHINGTON (API-Scientists are doing their best la drlrost Ihe wall of secrecy thai has surround ed Ihe private life of Ihe penguin. Especially' Ihe Adelie penguin. For years, the short-legged ' aquatic birds with llipperlike wings have waddled around in the cool antarctic pi cnty much undis turbed. Now they are the object of penetrating studies. The Adelie is Ihe main target. It's the smallest of the species, not to be contused with the medium-sized jackass penguin or the king or emperor penguin. The sexual behavior of Ihe Adelie is being studied at Wilkes Station in the smith polar area by Richard L. Penney of the Univer sity of Wisconsin. He also is look ing Into the Adelie's parental be havior and its orientation. The sail and water metabolism of the penguin will be sludied in the extensive penguin colony on Cape Hallelt. OPEN DAILY TlDD P. M. ENDS TONIGHT! FEATURE: 7:40 1Q,Q5 T MARIO f.Kl NZA ' IKHmlAI . HOmKOIOI Donald S. Douglas, researcher for a Duke University project, will gather Ihe metabolism informa tion. The penguin studies were in cluded in Antarctica scientific re search projects announced Sunday by the National Science Founda tion. The foundation's grants for 29 projects total $3.170,m. Colleges, universities and other agencies will conduct the' various studies starling in October. Olher grants will he made soon, Ihe foundation said. Scientists from some olher na tions will join America in studies which will include extensive map ping and geological undertakings. Dr. Alan T. Waterman, founda tion director, said many basic questions about Anarctica remain unanswered after the Internation al Geophysical Year which ended last December. "Work during Ihe forthcoming year will attempt to fill in many of these gaps in our knowledge, Waterman said. Jordan-Arabs Mend Quarrel CAIRO API Restoration of loimal diplomatic j-elallons be tween Jordan and Ihe United. Arab Republic has spurred new efforts to patch up quarrels splitting Ihe Arab world. ' The final step in healing the breach between U.A.R. President Gamal Ahdel Nasser and King Hussein of Jordan was announced Sunday. The foreign ministry said Ihe U.A.R. has approved Mnhamed el Shariky as Jordan's new am bassador in Cairo.. A new U.A.R. ambassador to Amman will be named soon. Steel wire nails first were made commercially in America in 1875. Doors Open 1:30 Show Shirts at 2:00 Out at 4:10 Matinee for Kids! Wednesday -- Aug. 19 , 7 CARTOONS Plus Jrr , iiifftHdJlr jim davis sivm.iv mtn 2 Terror-Topping Horror Hits ! ft" lOTM CINTUftV-'OI CinemaBcopE) Open 014S LAST 2 DAYS! fgWjffla Dofts0p,B NOW PLAYING! iThe Chun's STonu y i TECHNICOlOlf Every electrifying moment ell the unexpected drama of the wxrmly human best-teller that enthralled millions! f-r- Piiiai ,o rtitK niNtn im pix( (WtH (vim UM( KGf,YHC0t MNKGW niim 'Does anybody hvb to so ow-piAce. eesiv&z me v 'MiWayrAUguVt l7."-'i969 BladcDeath Found Here. lOOtherOregonCounties By DEA.V ST. DENNIS PORTLAND i The bodies of Ihe ground squirrels lay in Ihe forest. Death clung to them, rus tled on their nearly-cold bodies, waited for something warm to come by. BASIN BRIEFS Punrh Parly will he held at the Air Force Chapel, Kingsley Field tor the Klamath Council of Church es on Monday, August 17, at a p.m. Church representatives, com mittee members and friends are invited. There will be a short business meeting. Ill fienree Flurv. Chiloauin. went to Portland recently to re ceive medical attention at the vet erans hospital and lo visit with his brother, Chester, Flury, Kagle Point, who is critically ill in the same hospital. Home Ed Simmons who spent Ihe past four weeks at Hillside Hospital returned to his home in Bonanza last Saturday. Relumed Mr. and Mrs. Frank School Aides Approve Law LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)-A brand new weapon was unlim hered in the Little Rock school battle today segregated classes in an integrated school. School officials re scheduled classes for Ann McLend, one of 700 white students at Hall High so she won't have to sit wilh any or Ihe three Negro girls who In legraled Hall last week. Ann's father, attorney John A McLcod Jr., invoked a litlle-noled state law to get segregated classes (or his daughter. School officials agreed the law, passed with a batch of other segregation mea sures In the 10SB special legisla ture, was valid. The law says no student can be forced to sit in the same classroom with a person of another race. An attorney for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, Wiley Branton of Pine Bluff, said the NAACP would go lo court lo fight any attempt to segregate Negro students in class. He said the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in an Oklahoma case that a Negro, once admitted to an integrated school, could not be segregated within the school. School Board Secretary Ted L. Lamb said McLeod's request was Ihe only one received so far. He said he hoped not many others would follow. Form League MEXICO CITY (API Fnni- Cuban exiles announced Friday night Ihe formation of a "commit tee to rescue Ihe Cuban Confede ration of Labor from Red hands." The four descrihrd thrmcplvec as officials of Ihe confederation and claimed the organiialion's office- are now illegally"in Commu nist hands. HAI.SKV PRAISED TOKYO (API Former Vice Adm: Takeo Kuril a said today that in Ihe death of Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey "America has lost a great admiral." Kurila lost the Baltle of Leyte to Halsey. Iterate anbStUr Kiamath falla. Oregon Starving Southern Oregon anrt Northern Cellforntg PuMUhori dally exceol atnrHaw K Southern Oregon Publtihing Company' Main at Knnlanarla Phono TUxrrlo e-Slll FRANK ll'NKINS. tel. lor BILL JENKINS, Managing Edltoi FLOYD WYNNE. City Editor Entered at aecond claw matter at the pnit office at Klamath relit. Oregon on Augual to. ions, under act of Congrria. March .1. 1S7S Secono-rlg.i pnttage peld at Klapath Fatli. Oregon, end at additional mailing office! SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier 1 Month - . ,, t .50 fl Month! eon 1 Year .. ' oo Hall - lit Advance I Month Montha Yeat Hrown and daughters, Trudy and Joanna, have returned to their home in Bonanza after several days in San Francisco. To Alturus Mrs. Florence Horn went to Alturas recently to bring her aunt, Mrs, Annie Cline, lo Bo nanza for a few days. Visitors Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Dix on, Bakecafield, are visiting her sister, Mrs. Ted Rowcliffe. They are on their way home from a trip to Colorado. Hnuseguests at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith Sr., are Mrs. Louis Par sons and children of Mount He bron. Nephew Mr. and Mrs. Art Taylor, Viclorville, were recent Langell Valley visitors at the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Monroe. From Kansas Visiting with Mrs. Mary -Huff of Merrill are Mr. and Mrs. Lee St. Clair from Harlan, Kansas. St. Clair is Mrs. Huff's brother. i Visits Parents Doris Raines, Medford, is enjoying a two-week visit wilh her. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Swisher of Merrill. Houseguests of Mr. and Mrs, Don Harris in Merrill are Mr. and Mrs. 0. J. Harris of Calipa- ma, aiiitinua, ana rtuarey .ever ett from San Bruno. To Los Angeles A. F. McQuis Ion of Fort Klamath and his aunt, Mrs. Minerva McQuiston, Los An geles, returned last week to that city after spending a month in Fort .Klamath where McQuiston has property interests. They will join Mrs. McQuiston in Los An geles where she has spent the past several weeks. Manager Says Public Wants Double Bills By BOB THOMAS AP Movle-TV Writer HOLLYWOOD (API-Notes and comment on Ihe Hollywood scene A rebuttal to our suggestion that the double feature is outdated comes from Frank Boyle, theater manager of Fitchburg, Mass.: "Does the public still want it 'twin bills!? Yes. The theater-going 'public the ticket buyers. This an intentional distinction be- tween the public that is literate and vocal about the movies but seldom sees one and the public that attends regularly and speaks only at the box office. The film business cannot af ford to be without it. Certainly 'Anatomy of a Murder,' 'A Nun's Stury,' 'Sleeping Beauty,' etc, need no second feature and should he played without one. But what about the numberless other ones that are quality pictures but just don't have it? Should these be burned in the studio incinerator? "Teamed with another good pic ture, they make a good show and sometimes the combination strikes off the box office spark that either picture lacks singly. Double features give pictures a play-off they could never make on their own. The twin bill was with us long before depression times. Here in New England, silent pictures were double-billed for years. Then the tremendous popularity of sound made twin-billing unnecessary, "When the novelty of sound wore off, twin-billing came back. The first Cinemascope pictures were single-featured. But when the stage - wide screen became commonplace, back came com-' panion features. You will note the industry's tendency to tHrow off double features when it has the upper hand and the return of the double feature when it becomes a buyer's market. "Sure, Samuel GoldWyn attacks double features, because he's very single - feature producer, About one single feature every five years. ' Movies are longer than ever and so are shows. But if you try to book a single feature outside of the real blockbuster your most frequent comment is: 'What only one pitcher?' " In Klamath Falls Van Bran ham, Fort Klamath, is visiting in Klamath Falls with his daugh ter and family, the Charles (Chuck) Smiths, who recently re turned from Oroville. Smith is a longtime employe of Montgomery Ward and was transferred to Klamath Falls as assistant man ager. Weekend Trip Weston Engle, Fort Klamath, made a trip to San ta Clara, last weekend, returning Sunday evening with his wife and children who have been visiting in Southern California with her moth er,, Mrs. Lillian Black, and olher relatives. To Colorado James, Taul and Merle McAuliffe, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. McAuliffe of Fort Klamath, are spending a week in Denver where they are participat ing in a junior rodeo. Butte Kails Mr. and Mrs. Dick Pepple and daughters of Butte Falls are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Pepple, of Bo nanza. Moved Faye and Al Vogel have moved from Klamath Falls to Eu gene to make their homo. She was a former Langell Valley resident before moving to Klamath Falls. Court Mulls Tykes' Fate ATLANTA (AP) - The future of eight children, given away by their mother after their father abandoned them, apparently will be decided in the courts. Mrs. Carl Daniel Quisenberry. 2. faces a charge of neglect. Her 32-year-old husband is scheduled to get a hearing in city court on a charge of suspicion of abandon ment. Mrs. Quisenberry admitted giv ing her children" to friends and relatives. She said she tried to run away from her troubles after her husband, left and both money and food were exhausted. And soon'it came, a man. a fisherman who noticed the bodies, paused to look and then strode past. In that brief, fatal moment death deserted a squirrel and leaped to the man. Death was a flea, a tiny flea. It soon bit the man. In a few dayr the man was dead. Why? In bilinfc, the flea transmitted to the man a virus called pasteurelia pes-tis. That virus causes plague, dread ed as the Black Death, for cen turies the scourge of Europe and Asia. The scene was not Asia but Cali fornia, the time not the Middle Ages but last year. In California, ground squirrels have been found carrying infected fleas. In Washington state, fleas carrying plague have been found on field mice. And now, after II years, plague again has been found in Oregon. Th! time: Spring, 1959. The place: Near Highway 97, south of Klamath Falls. There, a two-man team from the Oregon Department of Health shot two ground squir rel. The squirrels were put into cloth sacks, the sacks were tied and then thrown into a large metal can. Cyanide powder was poured into the can, and the top sealed. In a few minutes, the fleas that infested Ihe squirrels were dead. The fleas were scraped off, put into saline solution, sealed in vials. The next step was to send the vials to the U.S. Public Health Service Laboratory in San Fran cisco. At the laboratory, the fleas were crushed and injected into test animals mice and rats. In a few days they were dead. The cause? Plague, autopsies showed. Plague. The same plague dread ed for centuries throughout the world. The same plague that swept through Europe in the 14th cen tury, killing 25 million persons. That was the biggest recorded footprint the plague left on his tory. But there were others. In a few months in the 17th Century, it blot ted out 70.000 lives in London. Asia bore the brunt of the next big epidemic. Sweeping out of China in 1896, the plague ravaged Asia for a decade, killed from 6 lo 10 million persons in India alone. Since then, plague has dimin ished, takes a few hundred lives around the world . each year but now is practically unknown in hu mans in the United Stales. However, health authorities say there is a vast reservoir of plague in ground squirrels, field mice. chipmunks, rabbits and marmots throughout the Western states, To keep some kind of watch on the plague among the rodent pop ulation in Oregon is the job of the two-man team sent out by the state Department of Health each spring. Those two bacteriologists for month trap and shoot rodents throughout Eastern, Central and Southern Oregon, collect thousands of fleas and, incidentally, scrupu lously try to avoid being bitten. operating out of Portland for more than 20 years, these state teams have found enough to keep health authorities more than oc casionally concerned. Plague has been found in 10 Ore gon counties. In one county it has cropped up six different years. How much of I threat is it. Bacteriologist Ken Michener says there isn't much danger unless you come in contact with a dead rodent. It mav. he said, have been killed by plague and the infected (leas may be waiting for a new host. However, authorities say me vast reservoirs danger is lessened because areas in which inlecled rodents are found usually are sparsely populated. In the classic plague epidemics. Ihe disease has been spread through vast cities by rats. Dick Barger, assistant director of the Oregon Public Health' Lab oratory, said every city in the na tion now has a rodent control pro gram that stunts the rat popula tion. Filthy conditions spur the dan ger of plague. The nation's gen erally high standards of living, es pecially in housing, are an ef fective weapon against the disease, he said. , Where plague breaks out in hu mans it is fought with anti-biotics. They have been fairly effective. There also is a live-virus vaccine. Michener says it at times can be almost as bad as contracting the disease. Michener said the annual plague surveys in Oregon probably will be taken over by the state Vec tor Control System, and will be broadened to cover most of the year. Authorities are concerned over the discovery of plague last spring, and new outcroppings of tulare mia in Eastern and Southern Ore gon. Then, too, there's the mem ory of the one known fatal case of plague in a human in Oregon In 1939. a sheepherder south of John Dav shot a marmot, skinned it out and in the process was bit ten by a plague-infected flea. When his body was found days later, black splotches all over the PILOT DEAD NEW BOSTON, N. H. (AP) -An Air Force pilot was found dead Saturday, 12 hours after he parachuted from a jet fighter plane which had run out of fuel. He was Capt. Russell Nelson, 27, if Big Spring, Tex. Officials said his parachute failed to open. FILM Developing 8-Pictiir Roll Jumbo Prints 39c Western Thrift 7th & Main I i so ISO tit on carrier and Dealer Ween day, copy ae ttundye ropy . . the UNITED PRrss INTERNATIONAL ASsOCl.l'ED PRESS AUDIl BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Suhecriher not reoetvint delivery nt their Heretd and Newe, Dleei phone TUiedo 4 till before t PM After T P M. vhnne Meurlre Miller Cir culation Manager at TUmexM 4-4 TU DIIVI t4 Wll fill MOIIIS III TOM Mill II ROBIN . MYERS NEW & USED CARS 1200 E. Main TU 2-SS11 skin provided health authorities with the ominous clue to the causa of death. Probably because of the isolat ed area in which the man died, there were no omer cases of plague in humans. The sheepherder was killed b the bubonic form of the plague. Bitten by the infected flea, the man developed the trademark buboes, or severe swellings of thi lymph glands. Other symptoms: vaulting tem. peratures, delirium. Incubation can take as little as 36 hours. 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