The Seaforth News, 1959-01-22, Page 7A Use For Bedbugs
Perhaps the only place in the
world where the bedbug is.
Hampered is in a laoratory at
the University of California in
Berkeley, There, thousands of
the little parasites, comfortably
bottled, are being used to chal-
lenge one of the basic tenets of
modern genetics. The belief that
acquired characteristics—such as
an amputated leg or an addic-
tion to morphine—cannot be
passed on genetically to future
generations.
The bottled bedbugs have
nibbled away at this principle
simply by changing their accus-
tomed eating habits. The world's
bedbugs fall into three gastro-
nomic -categories — those that
feed on the blood of bats, of
pigeons and other birds, or of
human beings, Entomologist
Robert L. Usinger, however, is
starving bedbugs into a prefer-
ence for more exotic fare, Last
month, Usinger reported that he
bred bedbugs which for twelve
generations seem to have in-
herited an acquired taste for
rabbit and chicken.
"A hungry bug will• bite some
other animal or bird if the nor-
mal host is not available," Us-
Inger explained, "What I do is
take newly hatched bedbugs
whose parents preferred, for ex-
ample, human blood, and force
them to live on a new host.
Later, we check their prefer-
ences by offering them both the
old and new hosts." To do this,
a bug is placed in the stem of
a T-shaped glass tube. To the
right is a delicious human arm
—Usinger's; to the left, a nice
fat rabbit.
"The ancestor of all bedbugs,"
Usinger believes, "was a para.
site on bats." Since early man
and the bats shared the salve
caves, some of the bugs acquir-
ed a taste of man—although
others went on biting bats.
Usinger still hesitates to claim
that his bedbugs have actually
inherited their new dinner pre-
ferences. For one thing, not ev-
ery bedbug becomes a perma-
nent convert, although each suc-
cessive generation comes closer
to a unanimity. Now, Uginger's'
primary aim is to change the
food habits of the parasites in
one generation—"then we will
really have something for the
geneticists ` to - explain."—From
Newsweek.
Ten Million
Year Old Man
In the Bacinello mine in Italy
two miners have just discovered,
encased in a bed of coal of the
miocene period, the fossilized
skeleton of a man. It has prob-
ably been there ten million years.
Until now it was believed that
the transition from ape to man
was completed about a million
years ago, Now Professor Hurz-
eler, curator of the Basle Natural
History Museum, who has ex-
amined, the skeleton sixty feet
down with the aid of a miner's'
• Iamp, is emphatic: the skeleton
has all the human characteristics.
Only the headis missing.
The body, about tour and a
half feet long, is lying in a sort
of 'breast -stroke position. The
miners ' lost little time cutting a
near -by block of coal to see if
they wouldfind the head.
In a few days the skeleton will',
be transferred to the Basle mu-
seum and studied in minutede-
tail. According to the theory of
Professor Hurzeler, beings simi-
lar to, man .and different from
apes were living at. least -ten mil-'
lion years ago.
EYEFUL, NOT 'EIFFEL - Piercing
She sky over Tokyo Is this newly
completed TV tower If is 1,092
feet in height, 'making It 109'
feAt haler than the Eiffel Tower
•v ihich it resembles, It .'serves
four stations., 'ihe observatory,
level: is '377 feet . LI).
BATISTA'S SONS FLY TO NEW. YORK—An unidentified Cuban
secret serviceman accompanies Roberto Batista (right), 12, gad
his brother, Carlos Manuel Batista, 9, after their arrival in New
York by plane from Cuba. The sons of Cuban President; Batista,
the boys were greeted on their arrival by five Cuban sympa-
thizers of rebel leader Fide! Castro who rushed 'toward the
children! Police seized the rebel demonstrators before they
reached the boys.
Bing Race For The
"Keyboard Stakes"
Presenting a vastly different
picture from the gaping shell
caused by wartime bombing, the
Round Church of the Temple,
just off London's Fleet Street,
was rededicated recently at a
service attended by the Queen, •
Prince Philip and the Queen
Mother.
First built in the twelfth cen-
tury,, this historic home of law-
yers was badly damaged on an
earlier occasion—in the reign of
James .II—when it was partly
burnt out and the organ com-
pletely- destroyed.
The Old Benchers' of the '
Temple - ,K.C.s arid judges —
were intensely proud of their
church and decided that a new
organ was top priority. This
was not to be just another,
church organ—it had 'to be the
finest' Organ in' the land.
"There's only one way we can
make sure of this," theyrdecided.
"We must announce a cOmpeti-•.
tion. We will offer a big money'
prize. Let the best organ build-
er in the land wine'
At that time there were two
celebrated organ -builders in the
land, Renatus Harris, an English
craftsmen, and Bernard Schmidt,.
a German, who was renowned.
for his fiery: temper. These two
great craftsmen were bitter
rivals, Each declared that he,
could build a more magnificent
organ' than his opponent.
And se the contest began. It
raged for more than .than a year, and
kept the . whole of London
amused.
"Who is to build first?"
Schmidt, asked. the Old Bench-
ers. • ..
"Neither,' they retorted. "You
"will both build together. 'There's'
plenty of room- in burchurch
for two organs." -
Ignoring each other, the rivals
and their assistants set to work,
and slowly, two grand; new
organs took shape in the stately
old church.
The. Benchers came every day
to watch progress, but offered
no opinions, The rivals worked
• on, Hostile as two bantam cocks
before; battle.
Finall• the day came
when
the two mighty Organs were
completed.
Now, it is one thing to • be a
master organ -builder, quite .an-
other. to be a -•first-class organist.
Thus the problem arose as 'to
•,who should play ,for each -com-
petite; when the Benchers filed
'into; their stalls to judge.' the,
merits of each instrument.
This question. was the talking
point among 'the London sellers
of broadsheets, who were soon
referring to the t'Keyboard'
•Stakes," "Who will"'ride' for
Schmidt?" they asked, "and who
for. Renatus?" '
Harris was' first off the mark
in selecting his "jockey." "My
organ will be played by Baptiste
Draghi," he 'proudly declared
This was quite a capture, for
Dreghi was; Court Organist to
,Queen. •Catherine, a ' very cele-
brated'musician. indeed.
But old Bernard Schmidt
wont one better. He triumphan-
tly announced that his organ
would •.be played by the great
Purcell, the 'finest composer et
UhUrch music in the country
and a brilliant', organist,;
All London. was agog by the
time the 'big ;.day ',arrived. The
church, in which Richard the
Lionheart had ` worshipped, 'was
thronged With 'excited people,
- Each .organ was played in
turn. The Benchers :listened at-
-
"We11?" queried the contest -
tants, as the final chords faded
away, "Who wins?"
But the Benchers, like all
lawyers, were wily and cautious
men. They replied: "One test—
that is nothing. We ,shall have
to hear many more."
So; week after. week, Draghi
and Purcell played the two great
organs for the Benchers. As time
passed' the atmosphere became
more and more tense. -
One day a fat Bencher re-
marked to Bernard, Schmidt -af-
ter a recital, "The pipes' of your
organ are really not very hand-.
home."
"They may look like: 'the.
devil," exploded the old man,
"but .; ven Purcell plays, they
make sounds like' angels 'in
Heaven!"
But the' contest: could•, not go
on indefinitely. At length the
Benchers simply had to give a
decision. The race for the key-
board Stakes with its. prize of
£1,500—worth at least £10,000..
to-day—simply had to come to
an: end: • • •
At last the, Benchers called
both organ -builder before them.
"We• much' regret the delay,
gentlemen," they explained, "but,
we cannot come to an agreement
about the 'respective merits .' of
your two very fine organs. We
have, •therefore, requested my .
Lord Jeffreys to 'hear both play-
ed and 'make a final decision."'
.Lord Jeffreys ' • heard both
organs and was quick to make
up his, mind. "The best organ is
Mr, Schmidt's," he declared. So
Bernard Schmidt: won the' covet-
ed £1,500: prize, .
There is , a ,footnote to this
story. During -the last war, the •
Temple ,Church was again set on
fire 'and ' Bernard ' Schmidt'•s
organ; which had boomed out .in
that ancient .church for more
than two centuries, was des-
troyed.
Once more the Benchers were
faced with - the same problem.
But this time they did not ar-
range. a contest. ..There was no
need. A fine organ was .present-
ed to them; • "
If you turn ,off Fleet Street
one Sunday and take the nar-
row lane that leads to London's
oldest place of worship, you can
hear this splendid organ being
• playedby' that great organist
George Thalben-Ball
Small Mice Cause
Big Scare
"Warning: White mice, used in.
rabies tests,- have been stolen,
from the animal laboratory of
the State Health Department on
Capitol Hill, The mice — 25' of
them -- all have been injected
with material potentially very
hazardous, The lives of anyone
who comes hi contact with these
mice are in danger ..."
Breathlessly interrupting the
usual Sunday _morning television
and radio programs in Atlanta,
Ga., recently, announcers sent a
chill over • the city which' had
already had a severe. case Of jit-
ters since last 'October When 55 -
year -old Willie Ester Ray died,
of rabies after he was bitten by
a rabid dog, -
As Atlantan waited the search
for the mice went on. At the big
buff -colored .brick animal labo-
ratory, state special agent, Sgt.
Maj. W.P, Holley, assisted . by
W,M. Bowman, coordinator of
technical service, checked the
cages and lab tables for finger-
prints. Later, as he drove home,
Holley noticed four boys in their
early teens walking down the
empty sidewalk "neatly dressed
like they might be going to'
church," On a "hunch," the
agent pulled up, and called to
the 'boys,. "I didn't want to scare
them off," Holley said, "so I just
said some dangerous rats had
been taken, and did they know
any boywho had any white
rats, One of the kids — a real
willing one - said he knew
some boys who had rats."
Holley and the boy drove to
a brown -stained shingle house,
Where ' Eddie Wallace, 13, and
Zoe Ragsdale, 15, were 'routed
put of bed, Told of the peril of
the missing'•mice, the terrified
teen-agers produced a wooden
box containing about half of the
missing animals, helped to catch
another that was running loose
in the house. They also confess-
ed that two other boys, •James
Scarbereugh,'14, and his broth-
er,, Charles, 13, were involved in
their escapade. Nine• more mice
were foundat their home and
all four youngsters were taken
to the Atlanta police station.
'Two of the boyps, Eddie Wal-
lace and Joe Ragsdale,had been
bitten on the hands by one of
the white rats, Bitten, also were
. the father of the two other ar-
rested lads, Calvin Scarborough,
58, an older brother In the fam-
ily, and a teen-age boy neigh-
bor., All the victims were given
anti -rabies shots. The boys were
released in custody' of their par-
ents.
But to the public at least, the
sense Of peril still existed. Three
of the stolen mice had been kill-
ed by the boys and their bodies
thrown in the Atlanta streets,
where, it was feared, dogs or
cats might have eaten them. This
menace, . said Bowman, "prob-
ably was exaggerated. A dog' is
net likely to eat a dead mouse,
and a cat 'dosn't generally eat
anything that it hasn't killed
itself.- From NEWSWEEK.
Sick Ducks
In some parts . of the United
States, water birds ; have been
dying in large numbers — as
many as 10,000 dead' ducks to
the mile have been found -along
some lakes. 'They've been killed
(U.S. Fish and Wildlife people
think) by one of the deadlist of
all poisons - botulism.
Villain in this case is a :mi-
crobe known , as Clostridium,
botulinum. He's highly.' resistant:
to heat and grows only in the
absence of oxygen — which ex-
plains why ' many '-deaths ' have
occured from eating homecanned
foods not correctly processed, or
which have later spoiled.:
In•the"case of the ducks: the
microbe' abounds in the 'soil in
some areas (in the U.S., mostly "
on, the west coast) where they
areeaten by insect larvae. Later,
the ducks eat the insectswhich
by then contain considerable
botulinum toxin. Result: dead
ducks.
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A. Try sponging with good
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with a soft -clean cloth. It the
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Q. How can I set the color in
colored wash fabrics?
A. Soak the material in 'salt
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can or bottle has been opened?
A. Dissolve two lumps of loaf
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Q. How can I make old fur
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Congress approves
Alaskan statehood.
is
Mao Tse-tung resigns as
Red China president;
remains party boss.
U.S.S. Nautilus makes first
undersea crossing of North
Pole later followed by Skote
De Gaulle's star rises; named
French premier; later elected
president of 519 Republic.
In
New Berlin crisis begins as
Khrushchevannounces city
will be turned over to
East .Germans.
!l'
Pope Pius XII dies; John
)(XIII is successor.
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A
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It
Ijed'Cbinese begin
bombardment of
Nationalist -held
Quemoy.
Democrats sward.
:ongressienal election
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Arkansas -Goy. Nails oses Liftlo$ack schools.
Ninety-three chi Idron, 3
nuns perish in Chicago
schobl fire.
1
Sitermtat Adams -Bernard
Goldfine influence scandal
explodes.
11.5. orbits 4 -ton
"talking" Atlas es
climax of meet
numerous missile
and satellite firings
tnrd,1a I t,
ou
t Vice President Nixon
attacked by ,robs in
5. America; U.S. troops
ordered to Caribbean. ,_
U,S, Marines land
In'ratolt-torn
Lebanon.
Batista govornmegt totters;
as Coban rebels launch
major offensive.
King Faisal of Iraq killed
as government's overthrown,
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