Evening star. [volume], May 06, 1941, Page B-7, Image 30

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Merging of 2 Courts
Asked by Georgetown
Progressive Unit
Loading Platforms Also
Urged at Three M
Street Intersections
The proposed consolidation of the
Police and Municipal Courts in the
District was indorsed last night bv
the Progressive Citizens’ Association
of Georgetown.
Walter F. Bramhall, Police Court
clerk, offered the proposal in his
report as chairman of the associa
tion's Traffic Committee. His report,
which was unanimously adopted,
also recommended indorsement of
the Keystone Automobile Associa
tion traffic safety program.
In another motion, the association j
asked for the erection of loading
platforms on M street at the inter
sections of Thirty-fourth. Thirtieth
and Twenty-eighth streets N.W. A
recent accidpnt in which two per
sons were injured while standing in
a safety zone was cited.
The association expressed its
regret ovpr the resignation of Earl
Cassie and Mrs. Cassie as heads of '
the Industrial Home School in a
resolution presented by Henry W.
Draper. Tire resolution commended
the two “for their services to the
community.’’
Mrs. Lawrence Martin announced
a meeting to be sponsored by the
group's Clean-up Committee for
representatives of several organiza- *
tions in Georgetown A program to
encourage participation of school
children in clean-up drive will be
outlined.
Dr. David B Wilson, assistant
surgeon of the United States Public
Health Service, spoke on the rela
tionship of public health to defense.
Russia's postal service handled
about 2.000.000.000 letters last year.
Nature’s Children
Matamata Turtle
(Ghelys fimbriata)
By LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
‘‘Do my eyes forsooth deceive me?"
you naturally want to know when
confronted by one of nature’s chil
dren whose appearance is decidedly
out of the ordinary. All who have
seen matamata for the first time'
1 claim that this turtle reminds them
of very bad dreams.
In creating this masterpiece,!
nature saw to it this reptile had a
j place of its own. It is a genus by
> itself. This fact alone makes us
! wish to know more about it.
In the tropical rivers of Brazil
and the Cabanas this species spends ;
i all its time. An adult matamata j
has a •hell 18 inches long. A sizable
turtle! That is not what most im
presses us, because we have turtles
of that length in America and do
not get unduly excited about them.
It is the weird assortment of points. !
frills and filaments, all possessed by
one creature, that makes us stare
open-mouthed and suddenly im- 1
agine how much It resembles the
creature we encountered in a recent
nightmare.
Fare to fare with matamata, the
effect of the small eyes, placed so
far forward, is startling, to say the
least. Then the snout, long and
tubular, is wide at its base, flat- ,
tened and heavy, with long pro
jecting ridges. To intensify this
ludicrous combination is a series of
flat, fleshy projections and filaments '
which are usually scalloped and
studded with small rounded knobs.
To add to this, some of these fila
ments have the power of move
ment!
When the owner of all these
gadgets wishes to dine, these thin,
fleshy filaments sway back and forth
with every movement in the w'ater.
Imagine seeing matamata swing that
long, laterally-folding neck back and
forth in the slowly moving waters
of the home stream or river, search
ing for fish for dinner.
With the exception of the time
when the mother leaves the water
to lay her eggs, the lifetime of each
matamata is spent in the water.
This does not mean that you cannot
see the strange formation of the
shell covering the creature. Through
the clear water you may see how
each shield of the flattened shell
rises to a point and how this gives
its back the abnormally rough and
hilly pppearance. This is a sort of
camouflage, too, as it is an aid to
making the creature less conspicu
ous as it lies in the wake of schools
of fish.
The serpentine neck of this turtle
is altogether too long to be tucked
wholly back into the shell. So a
part of it is folded sidewise along
the inner margin of the shell. When
something occurs to frighten the
matamata, this long, weird neck is
thus folded by nature's plan as
safely from danger as possible.
That is why these turtles and cousins
have been called •'side-neckers.”
Jamaica is shipping over 100,000
bunches of bananas weekly to the
, United States.
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Civil Service Agency Acts
To Speed Promotions
Moving to speed promotions and
transfers necessitated by the de
fense program, the Civil Service
Commission today authorized di
rectors of personnel to make changes
without prior approval by the com
mission in junior-typist and under
clerk-typist positions in grade 1 and
in grades 1 and 2 for clerical and
machinp-operating positions. Ordi
narily the commission must approve
a shift before it becomes effective.
The commission order sets up a
schedule of experience requirements
and provides that no employe may
have status changed unless he has
had six months’ service in a non
defense agency or 30 days in a de
fense agency.
It is also required that where a
change from a non-apportioned
position to an apportioned position
is involved, prior approval must be
obtained from the commission.
The commission today also an
nounced that employes obtaining
civil service status under the Ram
speck Act will be required to take
non-competitive examinations unless
they have passed appropriate com
petitive examinations within five
years, or unless their name is on an
appropriate register.
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