What Is A Snail’s Pace?
A Racy 23 Inches An Hour
A snail can race at a speed
of three inches a minute, and at
least one souped-up gastropod
shot eight inches in a breath
taking two minutes.
Few snail3 can keep up this
heady pace for long, however.
On a treadmill at the University
of Maryland, a snail maintained
an average speed of only 23
inches an hour.
But that is not bad, consider
ing the snail is not merely travel
ing but making the highway it
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travels on. The snail spreads
mucus on the surface it plans to
cross. This highway of slime pro
tests the snail so well it can
move along the edge of a razor
blade.
Pulls Heavy Weight
To compensate for its lack of
fleetness, a snail has fabulous
strength. It can pull a top wagon
loaded with 200 times its own
weight. To equal this task, a 10
pound baby would have to haul
an automobile.
Land snails are generally harm
less creatures but a few sea
snails are poisonous, the Nation
al Geographic society has point
ed out. The bite of a pretty Aus
tralian snail native to the Queens
land coast may cause painful ill
ness or even death.
The abalone, a snail with a
shell that behaves like a clam
shell, may kill a man in another
way. The abalone can slam its
shell down on a man's fingers
and hold him prisoner—to drown
in the returning tide unless res
cued.
Pile infamous Giant African
Snail (Achatina Tulica) is harm
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less tc man, but wreaks untold
destruction. A native of the east
coast cf Africa, this six-to-nine
inch monster has spread across
the w orld during the past cen
tury. It has repeatedly invaded
the United States, but so far
has been successfully repulsed.
Congress passed a law against
importation of the marauder jn
1953.
Each with 80,000 sharp teeth,
African snails chew up flowers
and vegetation and may even
rasp off pieces of buildings. They
have devastated parts of Hawaii
and the Orient. In some areas
they swarm in fantastic num
bers over everything. Pedestrians
and cars squash them under foot.
Trees hang thick with them. They
heap up in places, and drop
like overripe fruit from bushes.
Like the Japanese beetle, the
Giant African snail is not a
serious scourge in its homeland.
There it has plenty of natural
enemies —- including snail-eating
men—to keep down its numbers.
Hence biologists have sought an
other animal to prey on the snail.
One promising predator is a can
nibalistic snail that likes to
crawl into Achatina’s shell and
gradually eat it up.
Snail Dfihes on Oysters
Another pestiferous snail is
the oyster drill, a sea snail that
eats oysters. With its tiny radula
or rasplike tongue, the snail
bores a hole in the oyster’s shell
and then sucks out the nutrients.
While snails cause man con
siderable trouble, they also pro
vide pleasure for the epicure.
Shells strewn in. paleolithic camp
sites show men have relished
snails from prehistoric times. The
French have eaten more and more
snails since World War II. In
one recent year Gallic gourmets
consumed 600,000,000 gastropods.
' Snails themselves love to eat.
They file off vegetation with
their thousands of tiny teeth. A
hungry snail can quickly reduce
a lettuce leaf to a few shreds.
Besides its trencherman ways,
the snail has a mildly sensation
al love life to complete its dis
solute personality. Most snails are
both male and female. When some
snails meet each other they let
fly with “love darts”-—tiny barbed
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limestone slivers that penetrate
the tissues of the either snail.
These love darts apparently stim
ulate interest, as Cupid’c arrows
did.
World meat protection in
creased three per cent in 1959—
23 per cent above the 1951-55
average. Consumption ranged
from 234 pounds of meat per per
son in Australia and Uruguay to
only nine pounds in Japan. Per
capita consumption in the U. S.
was 160 pounds.
Bolivia, Waccamaw
Eagles Divide Wins
ash—Waccamaw’s Eagles clip
ped the Bolivia Bears, 52-47, and
the Lady Bears tripped the Eag
lettes, 50-46, here, Friday night,
in a Brunswick County twin-bill.
Earl Hughes paced the rebound
ing for the Waccamaw boys, in
addition to scoring 17 points. Shir
ley Little had 26 for the Eagle
ttes. Bolivia’s scoring leaders were
Russell Cook with 13 and Jackie
Lewis, with 21 points.
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WILMINGTON—One. hundred
or more amateur golfters from
arrmn 1 the two Carolina.- are ex
peeted to take part in the $2,500
oio am tournament here March
30, which precedes the annual
$12,500, 54-hole Azalea Invitation
al golf tournament scheduled for
March 31 through April 2. Both
events will be played at the Cape
Fear Country Club.
J. B. (Bunnv) Hines, president
of the sponsoring Wilmington
Athletic Association, says that
amateur entries for the pro-am
are being accepted on a first-come
basis.
Hines has urged all amateurs
who plan to participate to write
to Box 3251 for entry blanks. The
entry fee is $25, which includes a
season tickets to the three-day
Azalea Invitational tournament.
All amateur golfers who have
established handicaps are eligible
for the pro-am tourpament.
When the field is completed,
play will be in threesomes, with
two amateurs paired with one
professional.
Winning professionals will share
the $2,500 prize money, and win
ning amateurs will receive appro
priate trophies.
While the amateur field begins
to take shape for the pro-am,
many of the nation’s leading pro
fessional golfers have tentatively
agreed to play in the big Azalea
Invitational, and will also take
part in the pro-am.
The professionals include seven
former Azalea Open Champions:
Jerry Barber, Jimmy Clark, E. J.
'Dutch) Harrison, Howie Johnson,
•’illy Maxwell, Art Wall, Jr.,
and Tom Neiporte.
Also, Gene Sarazen, A1 Balding,
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Marty Furgol, Chandler Harper!
Horton Smith. Dave Ragan, Ernie
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wood, Jr., Tommy Jacobs. Shelly
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a id Johnny Pott.
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have accented invitations thus
far: Aubrey Apple, Chuck Alex
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Jos Chcves, A1 Goodrich, Charles
Farlow, Joe Maples, John Ruedi,
Bob Renaud, Doug Renaud, Dugan "
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