SQUIRRELS’ CACHES
NET$35,000AY R
By JACK B. EVANS
United Press Staff Correspondent
SATSOP, Wash.—(U.R)—Mrs. Cliff
Rice is Public Enemy No. 1 to
squirrels, but her business—one of
the strangest in the nation—nets
her $35,000 a year so she isn’t
much worried.
The business is the Reed Seed
Co., which markets seed from the
famed Douglas, Noble and Silver
fir trees of the Pacific Northwest
all over the world and to tree nurs
eries throughout the nation.
Mrs. Rice explained she is an
ardent student of nature and had
a “woman’s crazy dream about
doing a new kind Of business and
persisted in it.”
Mrs. Rice said in some sections
of the nation squirrels store nuts
for the winter.
“In Washington and Oregon,”
she said, “they store up evergreen
cones.”
Mrs. Rice buys cones by the sack
from pickers she sends into the
woods in search of squirrels’
caches of food. She pays $1.50 to
$7 a sack, depending on variety and
quality.
Squirrels Resent It
“Guess I’m the squirrels’ No. 1
villain. They don’t like to have
their caches looted,” she said.
"Some come down to within a
few feet of the pickers and dance
and scold like crazy. Others get
so excited they try to start building
a new supply immediately.”
She said some squirrels store as
many as 15 sacks of cones in one
cache. Discovery of one of these
caches can net the picker as much
as $60. She said these are, how
ever. average caches running about
eight sacks.
Squirrels store cones in hollow
trees or in holes around the roots
of trees, Mrs. Rice explained.
“At higher elevations the caches
are largest and sometimes will be
completely restored by one squir
rel in two weeks,” she said. “And
each of the little animals guards
his stores zealously against his
neighbors.”
She purchased 7,000 sacks of
cones this season and could have
used nearly twice that much for
domestic and foreign orders.
She said spruce seed (98 per
cent pure) brings $8 a pound and
Noble fir $7.50.
Middle-Of-Road Attitude
I n Sociology Taught
CLEVELAND. — (U.R) — A new
course in sociology, designed to
jive the student a "middle-of-the
road" attitude in his views has
been announced by Western Re
serve University.
Carl F. Butts, assistant profes
sor of sociology, said the course,
called Human Nature and the So
cial Order, should help students
appreciate problems of modern
life, and aid them in charting a
“middle road" stand between ex
treme views in religion, politics,
and the like, suggesting a stable
philosophy for life.
"The middle-of-the-road attitude
long has been characteristic of
Am e r i c a n life,” Butts said.
“America, a hodge-podge nation of
religious, racial and ethnic groups,
has been successfully because we
have usually compromised and
struck a balance between ex
tremes."
Northwestern U. Starts
$500,000 Research
EVANSTON, 111. —(U.R)— North
western University has started a
three-year, $500,000 program of
fundamental research in physics
which university officials say may
lead to new and improved com
munication devices.
The program, financed by the
Navy, will be directed by Profes
sors Walter S. Huxford aiid Robert
J. Cashman of Northwestern's
physics department.
It is an extension of war-time
research in which they developed
a new invisible-ray telephone and
many new types of photo-electric
cells used in the ’phone and in
various Army and Navy secret
Weapons.
Quonset Hut Church
Solves Dilemma
BEAVER, Pa.—(U.R)—Church ser
vices are held as usual in Our
Lady of Peace Catholic Church,
but there’s nothing usual about the
building.
This newest Beaver County
house of worship is a 96-bv-20-foot
Quonset hut. More than 200 wor
shippers crowd into the semi-cir
cular structure each Sunday.
Since 1943, when the parish was
founded, the congregation had
been meeting in a vacant store
room. Tired of waiting for materi
als needed in their permanent
church, the men donated their
spare time to the project and put
up the Quonset hut in six weeks.
Pews and decorative materials
were donated by a neighboring
parish.
MARILLYN IS BUSY AND SMART !
SEATTLE. — (U.R) _ Marillyn
Brooks, 13. has no trouble keeping
out of mischief. She is too busy
Marillyn paints pictures, models
m clay, makes dolls and designs
dresses. She is an accomplished
p.amst, raises vegetables, swims
and roller skates. For the past
two years she has received straight
As on her school report cards.
The Anjou and Winter Nelis are
late-season pears used for dessert
purposes.
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Two Warheads Missing;
j Army To Try New Idea
Mystery Of Vanished Mis
sies Of New Mexico
Still Unsolved
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — UP) -
The Army, already sleuthing for
two missing rocket warheads shot
114 miles into the sky, announced
Thursday it is working on a para
chute to bring future stray nose
caps safely back to earth.
So far, Army experts have ex
perimented successfully with a rib
bon-type ’chute to retrieve the war
head of a projectile whizzed 31
miles into space.
That leaves them an extra drop
of 77 miles to work on.
The Army said eariy tests, using
standard type parachutes, failed
when the 'chutes burst and the war
heads loaded with scientific in
strument were shattered upon im
pact with the ground.
Lt. Coi. James G. Bain, chief of
l °u:<^ec* missile branch, said a
“WAC Corporal” type rocket —
much smaller and shorter of range
than the giant V-2 rockets which
have soared as high as 114 miles
—was used in the test. A clock
work mechanism set off an explo
sion which blew off the nose of the
tocket and freed the parachute as
the “WAC Corporal” reached its
zenith, he said.
Meanwhile, the “Mystery of the
Missing missiles cf New Mexico,’
was still unsolved.
It was disclosed some time ago
that a V-2 warhead vanished in
flight over the a White Sands, N
M., testing grounds on Dec. 17
Thursday Lt. Coj. Harvey Riv
kins of the Ordnance dept, reveal
ed that this was not the first one
to go A. W. O. L. A one-ton
werhead disappeaxed from a 14
ton modified German V-2 fired
into the blue last July.
In both cases, the 13-ton bodies
of the rockets came down and were
recovered—as were the bodies and
warheads of 15 others sent up
from the White Sands station. But
nobody knows what old happen to
those two.
Lt. Col. Harold B. Turner, at
tached to the White Sands unit, -said
he believes the missing warheads
also landed—probably within 18 to'
30 miles of the launching site—
rather than having taken off for
the moon or still floating around
on their own. But jeep and plane
searchers haven't spied then yet
Officials reassurances aren’1
keeping the layman from ideas
however.
Since the first report of a V-2
blowing its top, the War depart
ment rocket research section has
been getting a flurry of tips from
people in widely-scattered parts
of the country who believe they
saw it.
Also, they've actually had volun
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teers for a rocket ride just to see
what does happen aboard a foot-1
loose warhead.
John R- Boyd, Sioux City, la.,
wrote that he believes a man;
could be fired aloft and return
safely by bailing out. ‘‘I would
like to volunteer my services as
a passenger on such a flight,-’ he
wrote.
Boyd wouid be in for a fast ride
The V-2s travel at 3,500 miles an
hour.
As a measure to reduce fire haz
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be stored in an underground tank
or at least 75 feet from other
buildings.
Face Powder To Rescue I
In Bank Building Job |
SEATTLE, (U.R) — The Pacific:
Northwest’s first “drive-in” bank
opened in time here, thanks to a
box of milady’s face powder.
The 5100,000 branch office of
the National Bank of Commerce
was completed just before the
opening deadline whene telephone
linesmen, struggling with a seluct
ant cable, brought delicately
scented powder into play to aid
construction.
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