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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The greatest danger of the dis.
ease is that bubonic turns into
pneumonic plague, where the vi.
rus invades the lungs, among oth-
er things causes a usually-fatal
pneumonia.
Bubonic is spread by the fleas.
The highly-virulent pneumonic ii
person-to-person, spreads like the
wind.
Since 1937, plague has beeg
found in these years in these coun.
ties:
Josephine 1942.
Jackson 1942.
Klamath 1942', 1948, 1947. 1959.
Lake 1937, 1940, 1942, 1947, 1941.
Harney 1940, 1941, 1942.
Grant 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941,
1942, 1943.
Malheur 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943.
Baker-1938.
Union-1938, 1942, 1943.
Wallowa 1937, 1939, 1940.
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