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COMMENTS
Congressman Otto Passman, of Louisiana, made
a trip to Thailand recently, and returned with a
report of being “shocked to hear’’ members of the
Peace Corps on duty there publicly voicing their
opposition to US policy in Vietnam.
On the other hand, the Director of the Peace
Corps, Jack Vaughn, has stated that it is not nec
essary for Corpsmen to support this nation’s for
eign policy while serving overseas. In fact, when
Kep. Passman indicated that he was of the op
inion tliat corpsmen should impart a correct Am
erican image, Vaughn informed him that he was
misunderstanding “the concept of the Peace Corps
and what it is setting out to do.”
Perhaps Mr. Vaughn should inform all of us as
to the “concept” and the goals of the Corps. Is
it a separate entity, or an extension of the United
States? There are many Americans who believe
that if South Vietnam falls into the hands of the
Communists, then Thailand would be a next log
ical point for a so-called war of liberation by the
Reds.
Greased Skids To Bankruptcy
What is the answer to rising welfare costs? That
is a question that may soon be foremost in the minds
of voters, as well as officials at every level of gov
ernment. In spite of statistics that indicate prosper
ity, the relief rolls continue to grow.
Two states, California and New York are app
roaching a crisis -- 2.4 million people in these
two states live on relief. This amounts to 25
percent of all the welfare recipients in the nation.
These two states are expected to spend $4.5 bil
lion on welfare during the next fiscal year. Welfare
roles in New York State rose 40 percent in 1966
Masters Or Servants, Which?
Figures released by the General Services Ad
ministration show that Uncle Sam owns 760.4
million acres of land—a sizeable part of the land
area of the United States. The federal government
also owns structures and facilities in the U. S.
costing $33.4 billion. The greatest oortion of
these comes under the heading of utility systems,
power development and distribution, flood control
and navigation which altogether total over sls
billion.
When one pauses to realize tliat the federal
government in its role of lawnowner and commercial
business enterpriser is a nontaxpayer, it comes as
no surprise that private citizens are saddled with
a backbreaking tax burden. Every time an elected
representative of the people or an appointed official
advocates a federal business undertaking that could
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed by the
Congress for the purpose of preventing discrimi
nation in job hiring because of race, color, creed
or sex. When the bill was being considered an
effort was made to scuttle it by adding the word
sex to the text, but the Congress went right
ahead and passed the bill anyway.
Come November 30, 1968, readers of this and
every other newspaper in the country are de
stined to face bewilderment and inconvenience
because of that capriciously intended inclusion of
sex in the bill. By decree of a bevy of bureau
crats in Washington there is no difference in the
world between men and women. That may come
as sometlung of a surprise to many readers. In
deed tliat kind of thinking flies right in the face
of the population explosion around the world.
It is true that with long hair, beads and pendants
being worn by both males and females these
days it is not always possible to determine pro
mptly which is which. Or to care. But when the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission insists
flatly that there is no difference, in a strict new
enunciation of the law, it is time for Congress to
ave a birds-and-bees talk with the bureaucrats.
A Record To Reckon With
The U. S. Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare has issued some figures on the state of the
nation’s health that are encouraging -- and reveal
ing.
Acute illness, especially influenza - like res
piratory conditions and measles, reached a 10-year
:low in 1967. The figures are based on an annual
survey involving interviews with some 42,000
households and about 134,000 Americans across the
nation. In the words of an official of the National
Center for Health Statistics: “Respiratory diseases
declined 17 percent from the previous year and the
measles rate dropped to 0.5 per 100 persons, or
one third that of the previous year. This dramatic
Recline in measles undoubtedly is related to the
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Thus, Thailand has a direct stake in the war to
keep South Vietnam out of the clutches of Ho Chi-
Minh. Currently, there are more than 2,700 Thai
troops serving along with our own and those of our
allies in South Vietnam. The Thai government has
offered another 5,000.
What kind of goodwill do we show when “aides”
sent by our government to Thailand take potshots
at the policy of supporting our allies in resis
tance to Communist aggression?
We realize that not all Peace Corpsmen back
stab the United States and criticize its policies to
friends and allies. But whatever Mr. Vaughn’s
“concept,” it would seem appropriate that Congress
outline its own very clearly when it returns to Wash
ington, and require Peace Corpsmen to swear an
oath of allegiance to the United States.
Then, those who do not wish to do so may come
home and sound off here, so tliat we all can hear.
Better than they should express themselves in op
position to our policy here, rather than in Thail
and. And it would intrigue us to know to whom the
dissident Peace Corpsmen profess loyalty.
and 1967. California’s welfare tally has doubled
in the last five years. Medicaid has become a ma
jor part of the welfare picture -- $946 million of
California’s $2.3 billion welfare budget for next year
is allocated to medical aid for the needy.
A New York official in commenting on what has
become a national problem says, “Welfare is now
almost bevond the power of anv city to handle. It
is getting too big for a State.” All of which brings
up the question of how much longer candidates for
public office can ask for voter support on the stren
ght of bigger spending programs.
be carried out by taxpaying, private enterprise,
he is proposing a new draft on the energies and
earnings of private citizens. Either directly or
indirectly, he is pushing toward the goal of making
government the primary employer of U. S. citizens.
If this goal should ever be reached, we will no
longer be entitled to call our elected representatives
public servants. They will be our masters.
We hear a lot about socialism—but, all it means
is tliat government is landlord and boss. It means
a condition of economic servitude wholly incompa
tible with the principle of self-government. These
are the reasons why we should look with a wary
eye on any proposal to expand government in the
electric power business or any other business for
that matter.
The EEOC—and if you pronounce those initials
aloud you’ll have our reaction to the Commis
sion’s ruling—says that after November 30 of
this year it will be illegal for any would-be employer
to place separate “male” and "female” listings
in the want-ad sections of newspapers. Until that
date, help-wanted advertisements may appear un
der male and female headings as a convenience
to the readers, so long as no discrimination is
intended. But after November 30, both sexes
become one in the eyes of the EEOC and ditch
diggers, lingerie sales persons, cosmetics de
monstrators and truck drivers will be lumped
under one conglomerate heading or a stern re
presentative of the EEOC will haul you—and us—
off to court.
All kidding aside, this is plain nonsense. If
the idiots who are enforcing this law don’t know
that there is a difference between the sexes then
Congress should straighten them out, forthwith.
The joke lias been carried too far.
It may be that there’s no difference between
men and women in the EEOC offices in Washing
ton, but there sure is a difference here in our
part of the country. And we don’t want anybody
declaring the difference illegal, either.
effectiveness of measles vaccination programs
throughout the country.”
In those last few words lies the nub of this
little statistical report on the nation’s health.
The decline in respiratory diseases and measles
was no fortuitous circumstance: It is the result of
endless research by American drug manufacturers,
in whose laboratories 90 percent of the 525 U. S.
drug innovations since 1940 had their beginning.
To turn research and basic knowledge into better
health for the world’s people, the U. S. prescrip
tion drug industry employs 125,000 workers in the
United States, requiring an annual payroll of more
than $897 million. This is the secret behind the
story of the nation’s improving health.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Aiiocioto Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington, Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OI K WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
MISSION TO THE NATIONS 1
Devotional Reading: Psalms 67
Memory Selection: I knew that :
thou art a gracious God and mer- ’
ciful, slow to anger, and abound
ing in steadfast love. Jonah 4:2 :
Intermediate - Senior Topic: i
God Loves All People ।
Young People-Adult Topic; <
God Loves All People 1
The Book of Esther which we
studied last week, is a tale of
bloodshed and revenge. It is '
the only biblical book in which
the name of God is not men- ।
tioned. It established the Jew- 1
ish festival of Purim, in which
the deliverance of the exiles in
Persia from wholesale massa
cre is celebrated. <
The Book of Jonah, one of the 1
Minor Prophets, is one of the 1
great books of the Bible in spite
of the fact that it has in many ■
modern minds degenerated into
a big fish story. But the heart
of the message is the heart of
all biblical teachings, both Old ’
Testament and New. Jonah was
a mixture of good and evil, cow- 1
ardice and courage, wisdom and ’
ignorance.
That makes him like many of
us.
The Book of Jonah is a great
missionary message. Jonah
symbolizes the nation of Isra- :
el, chosen to be a witness of 1
God’s power and purpose before 1
the world but often failing in its <
mission. In consequence the na
tion was swallowed up in the ex- ।
ile by the Babylonians, but in 1
exile the nation, like the pro
phet Jonah, sought the Lord and
found Him. There was a return
from the Exile; in other words, i
the nation was disgorged, as Jo- ।
nah had been from the belly of ।
the whale.
Jesus declared (Matt. 12:40)
on one occasion; “For as Jonas i
was three days and three nights ।
in the whale’s belly; so shall ■
the Son of Man be three days
and three nights in the heart of i
the earth.” ’
The theme of the book is that
God loves all his children, and
this was indeed hard for any
ancient Hebrew to believe. Ch
ristian teachers who worked am
ong Gentiles had a hard time
convincing their colleagues that i
this was so even though this -
teaching is reflected in the ear- ।
liest sections of the Old Testa
ment and brought out in the de- ।
lightful story of Jonah and his <
adventures.
We know practically nothing ।
about Jonah save what we find
in the book which bears his
name. The hero of the story
is presumed to have lived in the
reign of Jeroboam 11, king of Is- ।
rael, which makes him a con
temporary of Amos. He re
ceived a command from the Lord
to go to Nineveh, capital of Ass
yria, and cry out against its
wickedness.
Here we get our first glimpse
of the character of Jonah, and
it is both understandable and a bit
ludicrous. For Jonah believed
that he could flee from the Lord
and thereby escape his duties.
He found a ship going to Tar
shish, believed to have been a
town in the south of Spain, near
Gibraltar.
Jonah was not given to half
way measures. He got as far
away from the Lord and his duty
as the best ship would carry him
to the other end of the Medi-
BY MRS. ROBERT I. BURALL
TENTH DISTRICT DIR.
GEORGIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS
AND TEACHERS
Last week I mentioned the
CONVICTIONS the Georgia Con
gress of Parents and Teachers
stood firm in, on Educational
Opportunities.
Today I would like to add the
HOMES tha t provide the follow
ing:
♦Love, security and guidance.
•Safe, healthy and wholesome
environment.
♦Practice in and emphasis on
good citizenship, acceptance of
responsibility, respect for prop
erty and understanding of the cul
ture and rights of others.
I would also like to add COM
MUNITIES that have:
♦A climate that encourages
differences of opinion, respect
for all citizens, and an under
standing of local, state, nation
al and world problems.
♦Continuous health super
vision.
♦Fluoridation of public water
supplies.
♦Veneral Disease Education.
♦Programs which help to pre
vent mental illness and to pre
serve the mental health of all
the members of the family In
cluding the young as well as the
aging.
fauul Chuuk
THE COVINGTON NEWS
terranean.
But his efforts were futile.
Hardly had the ship set sail be
fore a great storm arose “so that
the ship was like to be broken.”
Even the sailors were terrified,
and each began praying to his
god - some to Jehovah and oth
ers to idols. They cast the
cargo into the sea, but Jonah,
thinking himself perfectly safe,
went down “into the sides of the
ship” and fell fast asleep.
The captain of the ship rous
ed him, and after conference of
all and sundry it was decided to
cast lots that they might know
whose evil had brought this great
storm upon them. “So thev cast
lots and the lot fell upon Jonah.”
Jonah shared the belief of his
day that all suffering and trouble
was the result of sin. It is my
fault, he said simply. “Take me
up, and cast me forth into the
sea; so shall the sea be calm
unto you.” The men tried to br
ing the ship to shore by hard
rowing, but to no avail. At last
they took up Jonah and cast him
forth into the sea, “and the sea
ceased from her raging. . .Now
the Lord had prepared a great
fish to swallow up Jonah. And
Jonah was in the belly of the fish
three days and three nights (Jo
nah 1:11-17).
“And the Lord spake unto the
fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon
the dry land. And the word of
the Lord came unto Jonah the se
cond time, saying, Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great city, and pr
each unto it the preaching that I
bid thee.”
Nineveh was a great city, hav
ing a circumference of sixty mi
les. It took three days’ walking
to pass through it. Jonah enter
ed the city in a day’s journey,
cried out against the evil of the
nation so effectively that king and
people repented, cried mightily
to God, and turned from their
evil way. “And God saw their
works, that they turned from
their evil way; and God repent
ed of the evil, that he had said
that he would do unto them;
and he did it not.”
Go preach to the Ninevites.
That would have been the same as
if God, during the Second World
War, had directed an envoy of
the Allies to go to Berlin, ex
tend a gracious hand to Hitler,
embrace him, and assure him
of the world’s love.
We recall that when Paul was
converted on the road to Damas
cus and struck blind by the bril
liance of the heavenly light, a
certain desciple named Ananias
was instructed by f a Lord in a
vision to go to the street called
Strait in Damascus, inquire for
Saul of Tarsus, and put his hand
on him that he might receive his
sight. Ananias made a firm and
astonished rejoinder. He argued
with the Lord. “Lord,” he cried,
“I have heard by many of this
man (Saul) how much evil he hath
done to thy saints at Jerusalem
... .But the Lord said unto him,
Go thy way: for he is a chosen
vessel unto me, to bear my name
before the Gentiles.” Then “An
anias went his way, and enter
ed into the house; and putting his
hands on him said, Brother Saul,”
and healed him.
Preach to the Ninevites? Heal
that murderer Saul? Yet Jonah
did preach to the Ninevites and
Ananias addressed the erstwhile
persecutor as “Brother Saul.”
The right spirit gets into our
hearts if we let God have his way.
♦Safe, supervised recreational
programs for all age groups.
♦Programs that emphasize ju
venile protection.
♦Sound law enforcement poli
cies that will protect our comm
unities from forces which would
be harmful to children as well as
adults.
♦Effective safety and civil de
fense programs.
♦Public libraries, mass med
ia and other facilities and pro
grams that are dedicated to the.
Improvement of the cultural and
educational levels of all Georgia
citizens.
And last but certainly not least,
I would like to add SPIRITUAL
Development that insures:
♦High moral and spiritual val
ues in the home, school and com
munity.
♦Respect for all religions and
members of all religious groups.
♦Participation in the religious
life of the community.
We recommend the IMPLE
MENTATION of these CONVIC
TIONS by each and every Indi
vidual Interested in the children
and youth of our great United
States of America.
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Dear Editor,
I surely do agree with the “Of
fice Boy” that the new Hercules
plant is a wonderful addition to
Newton County.
I must take exception to one
statement regarding what was
described as “new low rent ho
mes being constructed by the
Government”. It was stated that
“these fine homes cost the city
and county not one cent”.
Perhaps, in the world of fan
tasy, there are good fairies who
can whip up new homes for “not
one cent” but in this world of
reality, in which we all live, it
just isn’t so.
“Someone” had to pay for the
cost of the planning, materials,
labor, etc. involved in the build
ings and in this case that “some
one” is the Government.
Government has no source of
income except that which it takes
away from you and me, its ci
tizens. All the money which is
taken via taxation goes into one
giant bureaucratic pot where it is
being constantly stirred by a mul
titude of bureaucrats who each
take out a sip here and a sip
there for their own salaries. The
remainder is “given” back to the
same citizens who sent it in the
first place so that they can stand
back and admire the “gifts” that
didn’t cost them one cent. Hitler
is supposed to have called it the
“big lie technique”—if .you tell
a big enough lie often enough,
people will begin to believe it.
This “robbing Peter to pay
Paul” philosophy reminds me of
how to kill wolves in Alaska.
You take a razor sharp blade
and place it in the snow, blade
up. Place a few drops of fresh
blood on the blade and wait for
the wolf. He comes along, smells
the fresh blood and “thinks” he’s
getting a free meal. He starts
lapping and at the same time cuts
his tongue. In his eagerness to
partake of his free dinner, he
doesn’t notice he’s really consu
ming his own blood until he drops
from lack of it.
The Word of God says, “Thou
Shalt Not Steal”. Does the fact
that men pass laws to make it le
gal, also make it right? Karl
Marx established in the Commu
nist Manifesto in 1848, the idea
of a progressive income tax to
help communize the world. It
was the second of ten points.
Our Congress adopted this idea
and were given power to tax the
incomes of its citizens up to
100% in the 16th Amendment
to our Constitution in 1913. It
had been installed earlier in 1862
and repealed in 1872 after being
declared illegal.
Public or Socialized Housing
which began in this country in
1937 was the first directive in
Marx’s ten points to communize
the world.
Now dear reader, you may draw
your own conclusions regarding
housing that “cost not cent”.
“Then Jacob gave Esau bread
and pottage of lentiles, and he did
eat and drink, and rose up, and
went his way; thus Esau despised
his birthright.” Gen. 25-34.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Robert Helton
Route 1,
Oxford, Ga. 30267
THE
CHATTER
...EOX...
you learn all about the duties of a
Deacon! Where are you Dea
cons, of every Baptist Church,
in Newton County?
Here is where you learn about
teaching; here is where Church
Orientation Classes are held for
all people who join the Church,
all should take this course when
we join the Church. . . .Here is
where you learn every phase of
church work, as well as what is
expected of you, as a Christian,
within the Church.
You are taught to witness to
your fellow man. . .to work dil
igently, untiringly and prayer
fully for every department of your
Church. . . and here is where
you learn every phase of Church
work. Do you now feel capable
of going out and witnessing to oth
ers of the Christ you know, that
you might be responsible for
bringing them to the feet of your
Saviour?
Is it fair to the pastor, you
have called to bring you the very
best he has, to decline to take
part in any pait of the Church
Program?. . .We are not cheating
HIM, guess who we are cheat
ing? Ourselves, and our fam
ily. . .and letting down the Sa
viour who ( gives us life itself!
How many of your Deacons
attend church services, Baptist
Training Union where they should
be the leaders. . .and do these
men have a Brotherhood in your
Church? Let us know how many
Baptist Churches in Newton
County have a Brotherhood, by
name of the Church.. .not of the
men who do not participate.
If you do not have a Brother
hood, then organize one NOW!
Your Baptist Church will get all
the information and materials you
need, or the Baptist Headquar
ters will! Now, let’s turn over
a new leaf before the year 1969
comes around, and show the
world, as well as our Lord and
Saviour, that we can, and will,
put HIM first within our daily
lives.
Yes, and what about prayer
meeting? Sure you have time for
the Lord on Wednesday evening..
and so do your children. . .es-
WORDS TO LIVE BY
James H. Olivent, Pastor
Prospect Methodist Church
‘fl heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us? Then said I,
Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:
8).
Today the entire human race
is searching for stability, for
peace, for values that are en
during. A small portion of the
world population is groping after
a religious faith. The prophet
Isaiah was confronted in the tem
ple with what every person of ev
ery generation deeply needs.
Isaiah was in a dark hour of
discouragement when he received
a heavenly vision. This was an
unlikely time for a vision but God
uses unlikely times to visit us
with his grace. Jacob was running
away from the wrath of Esau when
his memorable vision of the lad
der to heaven came to him. Mo
ses had lost hope for himself
and his people when God spoke
unexpectedly from a burning
bush. Gideon was threshing wheat
in a winepress, hiding from the
Midianites, when he received
God’s commission. Paul at Troas
had just undergone the sufferings
and bewilderment of Asia Minor
when he received the Macedoni
an cry. Likewise have we had
the experience of a providential
turn of events when our day
seemed darkest.
In the moment of vision Isaiah
saw the uncleanness of his own
life against the background of
God’s perfect purity and right
eousness. This deep conscious
ness of sin on the part of Isa
iah was necessary before he
could receive the words of the
seraph, “thine iniquity is taken
away, and thy sin purged.” Only
then could Isaiah respond to the
voice of the Lord saying “Here
am I, send me.” Thus do we see
Lapina Glenn
Savs..
The long Labor Day weekend
has come and gone, and w - it
has gone no telling how . .ny
for whose pleasure and consort
the day was originally set aside!
Why does man insist on turn
ing his blessings into dooms
days?
When God turned this world
over to man He told him to take
charge and subdue the creatures
He had made for man’s service
and pleasure.
If man had only done what he
was suppose to do, and let God
look after the rest, things would
have moved along easily and life
would have been a joy on this
old planet.
Instead of that man neglected
his job and aspired to run God’s
part of the work!
E^CIENCE
'TOPICS^® I
HELIUM, the familiar lifting
gas used in blimps and balloons,
will help boost the Saturn rocket
in the Apollo moon shots. The
rocket requires about 13 million
cubic feet of the gas for a fir
ing. The first-stage rocket mo
tor is fed with fuel pressurized
by compressed helium. The
lightweight gas is used, reports
Chemetron Corporation, because
it will not react with propellants
or plumbing. Helium was first
discovered 100 years ago by a
French scientist in the spectrum
of the sun’s chromosphere and is
named after the Greek word for
sun -- hellos.
DEVELOPMENTAL evidence
suggests that primates did not
evolve from tree shrews, a Uni
versity of Wisconsin anatomist
says. His research indicates
that tree shrews are not closely
related to primates. Other sc
ientists have claimed a sequence
approximating evolutionary ch
anges from tree shrews, through
lemurs, monkeys, apes and man.
He said that tree shrews appear
to be the most primitive of all
mammals alive today and are
most similar to moles, shrews
and carnivores.
ASTRONOMERS from Harvard
University are busy studying
more than 4,000 pictures of the
sun as never seen before. The
photographs, the first ever taken
of the sun in ultraviolet light
froma satellite, reveal new in
formation about the chemical
composition and distribution of
peclally the young people! Les
sons can be learned after prayer
meeting. . .or before they go. . .
We’ve seen many of them up. .
far beyond the church services..
even when they were not at Chu
rch. Let’s get started NOW to
begin the new Church year 1969,
right. “ALL OUT FOR CHRIST,
AND HIS PLANS FOR US.” Think
carefully while your Office Boy
does the “SWEEPIN’ UP.”
P. S.: EVery denomination needs
it’s young people in every Church
Activity!
Thursday, September 19, 1968
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that the prerequisites for ser
vice on the part of Isaiah were
consciousness of sin, repentance,
receiving of forgiveness, and a
willingness to serve. Ibis same
pattern must be followed by mo
dern man. We must understand
afresh today that the answer to
life’s problems is a spiritual
answer. The tragedy today is
that so many of our modern eff
orts for advancing the cause of
Christ have everything to make
them successful except spiritual
power. We stubbornly insist on
substituting our own plans for the
plain pattern God requires his
servants to follow. Before we
can render acceptable service to
Christ, we must be made over
on the inside. Too many of us
talk and write about religion,
head up Christian movements,
or teach Sunday School classes
who have done everything in pre
paration for Christian service
except to repent of our sins, ask
Christ’s forgiveness, and seek
divine direction.
Indeed, the anser to life’s pro
blems is a spiritual answer. Eth
ics takes us just so far and stops.
Education can never become a
substitute for salvation. Isaiah
as a sinner could not serve God
in a satisfactory manner until he
faced his sin and found it forgiv
en. Today we have the redeem
ing grace of Jesus Christ which
does for us what the seraph did for
Isaiah.
The pattern is relentless and
unyielding. We are undone if
we neglect it; we are on our way
to a glorious life in Christ if we
adapt ourselves to it. Isaiah’s
response was prompt and uncon
ditional. What is your response
to God’s call? Whenever there
is some service you can render
to God’s glory, let your response
be that classic of spiritual con
secration given to us by Isaiah:
“Here am I, send me.”
He is still at it! Notwithst
anding the mess he has made
of carrying on the work God gave
him to do here on this globe
man now proposes to conquer
space, and assume the respons
ibility of trying to inhabit worlds
not prepared for human occupa
tion.
Evidently God prepared this gl
obe for the express purpose of
being occupied and used by man
for his pleasure and profit.
See how man appreciates all
this care!
He is now trying to produce
life, —not by producing after
his own kind as God provided,
but independently! In a test tube!
One wonders at the infinite
patience of God and His wonder
ful mercy.
temperatures within the sun. The
astronomers say their findings
will undoubtedly modify the
theory that accounts for the temp
erature and chemical elements
present at various heights in the
sun’s atmosphere. In turn, this
would modify currently held ideas
about the origin and evolution of
stars like the sun. ,
BIRDS of a feather don’t al
ways flock together - -especially
if they are tropical birds and
breed at different times during
the year. Many tropical bird
species breed more than once
during the year, and their breed
ing periods alternate with the
breeding periods of other spec
ies.
SCIENTISTS using germ-free
animals in research may have
to take a new look at their
findings, a Pennsylvania State
Universtiy pathologist says.
Some commercially produced
germ-free mice used widely in
studies of disease and the ef
fects of drugs, vaccines, radia
tion, etc., have been found to be
seriously undernourished. He
said that because the use of these
'animals affects many scientific
investigation, users of such an
imals should consider the im
pact of undernutrition on their
data.
SOME DAY foresters won’t be
able to see the woods for the
people, reports a University of
Wisconsin naturalist. He says
that foresters must learn how
to meet the recreation demands
of a growing urban population
while maintaining or Improving
efficiency in timber production.
SEA WATER is about 220 times
saltier than fresh lake water,
reports the U. S. Department
of the Interior. When one cubic
foot of sea water evaporates,
it yields about 2.2 pounds of
salt. One cubic foot of fresh
water from Lake Michigan con
tains only 0.01 pounds of salt,
or about one-sixth of an ounce.