PAG SIX (Second SectionJ
THE WAYNESTTLLE MOUNTAINEER
MoncUv
Mature Has
Stinging Trees,
Bashful Reptiles
By ALTON 1 BLAKESLEE
AP Science Reporter
NEW YORK Yuu meet such in
teresting animals . . .
There's a walking ball of tooth
picks that c. ;inl:,. a kangaroo
that play; I'aivin, ihv cu-cus.
bandicoot, 'fi mice." and the
bashful ci ototliJc.
For
good im;i-uio
Iheie
a I e
green ants and a - tli.it 'tings
you. There's the obliging carpt't
snake Hut can hci' in good hniw
keeping. the ii.,,'; death adder,
and nastier or hi boss of
nasty snakes.
You can rub c!bo- nith this
frightful sr.einiiarie en th,. Cape
York peninscia i.l :ioi ! i.e.ist Aus
tralia. Belli i .-el. you can mspeit
them e!;. o-.,ti and ii;.nnl.-.v
at the A:. niuan Mil .cum ol Nat
ural lll.toiv
Scores of these odd fellows plored much b
were just brought back by the l ! ' A ,ll !;
1948 Arch bold (ape York V.- i 11 l'" ::,
pedition (ape York is a 100,- I!"
000 square mile area full of Thi ;i '' r
strange plants and animals and kn.d
up to now it hi'sn't been ex- "ii:inon
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a vimvor of a
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How he survived is easy to see.
He's a fat little fellow about 16
inches long, with a bill-like snout.
He's covered with long, sharp
quills 1 to 2 inches long, like fat
rounded toothpicks. He can stick
them erect and roll into a ball.
This anteater. formally known as
Tachyglossus, is one of two egg
laying mammals.
He cats termites and ants, and
is aided in the search by sharp
claws. Australian natives sav he's
1 good to eat and tastes like pork.
I He shivers violently when cold,
i but hu t very good at controlling
his body temperature. He's evi
dence that shivering was one of
the tirst methods that mammals
developed to warm themselves
when it gets cold.
I he ti ee-climbing kangaroo is
another oddity. It Uvea in the
trees, even gives birth and brines
its young up in this arboreal
home. Four to live feet lone and
weighing about 15 pounds, he
jumps from branch to branch,
ratin-,' fruits, leaves and ferns,
and ma) come down to earth if
food sets scarce upstairs. His
front paws arc well developed,
and hr grabs hold with them
and pushes with his hind legs
like a boy elimbins a rope. The
ball of his foot is a thick pad
of tissue something like sponge
rubber. It serves as a shock
absorber and gripping device.
The cuscus js another tree-dweW-er.
He s from one to four feet long,
uith soft fur The male is spotted
grey and white. One native boy
said he could smell them. He'd
sniff an tistop under a tree, saying
"cuscus up there." Often it took
him ten minutes of sharp-eyed look
ing to soot the discus.
Geoffrey M. Tate, business man
ager of the expedition and brother
of Dr. Tate, hunted down snakes
and croeodiles. He brought back
tun of the Johnston fresh water
crocodiles, youngsters about IB
inches long. They grow to lengths
of 7 to 8 feet. Timid they are. too.
Mr. Tate said
"You could jump into a pool
of water with them, and they
wouldn't bother you," he said.
But watch out for the death ad
der, a slim little fellow 13 to 24
inches long Its poison afreets
the nerves, like a cobra's venom
Your chance of living if you get
bitten is only 50 per cent. You
have a far better chance with the
rattlesnake. Worse still is the
Taipan snake, a seven-footer. If
he bites you, you may have as
little a.s two minutes to make out
your will.
Leonard J. Brass, botanist and
expedition leader, brought back
11,600 specimens of plants.
Most dangerous of these Is
stinging tree It looks quite
harmless, Mr. Brass said. It
resembles a bush, and usually
is 10 to 12 feet high. It has
broad leaves, but they're covered
with stiff, glistening hairs. If you
brush against the leaf, the hairs
stick into you and sting like a
nettle. Each hair gives you a lit
tle hypodermic of formic acid.
Natives say the slinging tree can
kill a horse. It doesn't kill a hu
man but it can make you quite
U.N. PRESIDENT HERE FOR SESSIONS
A CORDIAL HANDSHAKE is given Herbert V. Evatt by Dr. Norman J.
Makin, Australian Ambassador to the U. S., as the Australian Foreign
Minister orn cs at LaGuardia Field, New York. He Is current president
of the U.N. A.-cmbly, meeting at Lake Success, N. Y. (international)
Congressmen Collect Votes Also
Horses, Neckties, Pipes, Etc.
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thai is woumI h,
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from tin- HI. id;
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"I would to h,
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every hour, ini h I or.
at once. 'I'hi- tickm
used to."
Kvery .lanu.n l;c
N.Y.t i s s .in,. -d t i
new calendai-.. Keiv.
his friends eiel l.m
keeps tip to d.ile
calendai .' like I In.
lures of aii'pi.me, i,
Rep. liril.li. Ii
pipes. They .ii. ii ; i
howv(r. 'Iiii' (on
to .smoke 1 hem.
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some al hou.e .
says his irn ci i ,
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secret. -ii y I i
nas neen
years, has nioi
tie fellow
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hilsy (,n, , ,,
a half hie.li i : 1 .
tie. In addition
lures of Pcne, i, ii
Hep. Walt i
doorknob . .'m c ii
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I'lin'l collect just
i i 1 1 i I calendars,
(linn knobs, rifles,
Inn i", or any-
' ' their fancy.
out I he house
ii :i ' I). -H.I. i. His
'.' Iin he was a
i Hun:: froin the
a1 ii in clock to
in a I'dhl ease
li.ini'.e:. in the
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mail clock that
him as ;i fiift
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the only one set
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d! went olT at
' half hour
I've Kol ten
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a hatch of
lanuarys
Huts. He
S C.), 27 and youngest member of
Congerss, is a chess player. Rep.
Passman (D.-La.) boys neckties by
the dozens, especially the hand
painted jobs and feives them to
fridnds.
Tojo'g Button in Vermont
MONTPELIER, Vt. (U.P.I Mrs.
Daniel Davis' button collection of
more than 10,000 includes one from
the prison uniform worn by Pre
meir Tojo of Japan. Another prize
button in the collection is from the
uniform of Admiral George Dewey,
who once lived here.
Van Wells Is
Head Of E. Pigeon
Community Group
Residents of the East Pigeon
Community last Monday night took
another step toward complete or
ganization of Iheir community de
velopment prociam when they
i named their principal otltcers at a
meeting at Bethel School.
Van Wells was elected chairman;
C. S. llollins. vice-chairman: Mrs.
Raymond Duckett, secretary: prank
Sorrells secretary; and Mrs. Will
f Kuykcndall, reporter.
The 45 people who attended the
organization meeting heard Assist
ant County Agent Wayne Krank
lin tel lot the purposes of the
county-wide program.
They scheduled their next meet
inc for tonight at 7:30 o'clock at
the home of Will Kuykcndall.
Walking Hardware
Store Arrested
ANDKHSON, Ind. UI' When
police searched the pockets of a
man they booked on a vagrancy
charge, they found:
An automatic revolver, a hand
ful of .shells, nine pocket knives, a
hunting knife, four screwdrivers.
two tobacco cans, two pipes, three
watches, a lire gauge, four key
rings containing 80 keys, three
pairs of scissors, a gun holster, 29
old coins, a pencil sharpener.
A hunting knife sheath, 43 rub
ber hands, five empty tobacco
sacks, four cough drops. 20 hand
kerchiefs, two wooden paddles, a
nail file, a hair curler, a pencil,
two pairs of pliers, a pair of leather
glove ;, a package "f cigarettes, a i
roll of friction tape. j
Two plugs of chewing tobacco, '
two1 billfolds, two purses. 10 spools
of thread. I!) safely pins, 33 needles l
and pins, two padlocks, a cigarette
lighter. 10 hoxes of matches, four
rings. In match folders, a wrist
band, a pair of glasses, and 35
pieces of asnrled junk identified
as nuts, holts, screws and washers.
One of lh0 billfolds contained
$22 in cunency and a purse con
tained 47 cents in silver
Doomed Cancer Vi,
Advises: 'Conquer F8
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FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) The
worst part of caneir is fear. Such,
in essence, is the belief of an elder
ly man who has spent a small for
tune fighting it, only to lose the
battle.
But J. Harry Lawrence, who has
an artificial windpipe, figures he
won a victory over the worst stage
of the disease.
Lawrence, a well-groomed, self
reliant man, underwent surgery
here for cancer of the throat. It
was too late, however, for surgeons
to remove the infected "voice box."
The cancer was too far advanced.
So they inserted an artificial
windpipe to make breathing easier
and to keep the cancer tissue from
strangling him. Though the opera
tion was too late to effect a cure,
Lawrence's life will be prolonged
and more comfortable.
Lawrence, who is 71 but who
doesn't appear more than fit),
walked out of the place while sur
geons awaited arrival of the artifi
cial windpipe ordered from another
state. Because of a letter he had
written to the American Cancer
Association, some three weeks
earlier, his doctor feared he would
commit suicide.
Police throughout the state were
alerted and told to urge him to
return for the operation. Then
three days later he turned up at av
Tyler, Tex., hospital and agreed to
return.
An "unexplainable fear" caused
him to leave the Fort Worth hospi
tal, he said. Lawrence can speak
only in a whisper now, but gave in
writing his answers to an interview.
"When one is scared, he is scared
that's all, and it cannot be ex
plained." he said. Fear of an opera
tion has caused the deaths of many
men and women, he believes.
"I realized I had done the wrong
thing," Lawrence said, in explain
ing why he had walked out of the
hospital. "I realized it would nol !
help my illness. I had to conquer
fear, which I did.
"I resigned myself to the fact the
operation had to be performed for
me to live a few years longer, and
I trusted in Cod and medical sci
ence and let the rest go."
Ili.s advice to fellow cancer suf-
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