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Snail Starts Coast Scientists
Studying California's Coast
I
By Jim Thomas
AP Newspapers
■Bodega Bay, Calif.—A scientif
ic study of the “leftst known coast
in the world" has been started
because of arguments about a
snail.
It's a cooperative study, initi
ated by the California Fish and
Game Department and involving
scientists from several universi
ties, government agencies and a
number of private citizens who
just pitched in to help.
Officially the study of the “Ab
alone Tagging Program” of the
Bureau of Marine Fisheries of the
Fish and Game Department. Ac
tually it involves the whole gamut
of science concrened with the un
derwater life along the coastline.
The program had its inception
early in 1951, when the California
legislature got tired of listening
to continual, bitter and largely
pointless arguments on whether
or not the northern California
coast should be opened to com
mercial abalnne diving.
.For the a ha lone — one of the
sea’s great epicurean treats — is
the snail in question. And the
northern California* coast—from
Bodega Bay to Crescent City—is
the unknown land
Scientifically described as a
marine gastropod or mollusk, the
abalone is simply a big saltwater
■nail. But, cut from his halfshell,
sliced and fried In batter, the
abalone is one of the most deli
cious of all sea foods. Hundreds
of. thousands of persons dive into
tte iCy Pacific waters along the
California coast when the tide is
low to obtain a few of the prized
alfalone steaks.
Bouth of the Golden Gate. en.
trance to Son Francisco Bay. com
mercial divers can take abalones
for the markets, but the area
njrth of the Gate has been closed
to commercial diving. It was the
efforts of the market divers to
iqvade the north that brought
about the directive for the Aba
Ufcte Tagging Program
•The directive required the Fish
agkd Game Department to determ
ine whether the abalone popula
tion north of the Golden Gate was
sufficient to survive, commercial
divine.
‘Fulfilling the request was some
thing else, Abalones live in water
up to 100 feet or more deep and
tje only way to take their census
ia down where they live
' So Richard Croker. chief of the
Bureau of Marine Fisheries, con
f
verted the 36-foot patrol boat,
Broadbill, into a research vessel
and set out to find out about aba
lones in their home territory.
Capt. Thomas Reveia is skipper.
To fulfill the legislative direc
tive. the tagging program must
provide an accurate survey of
abalone population, both in the
shallow waters reached by sports
divers and in the deeper areas
reached by commercial divers
with deep sea equipment. And it
must establish a behavior pattern
for the slow moving snails.
Those opposed to commercial
diving argue that offshore aba
lones move into the shallows each
year to repopulate the areas thin
ned out by the sports divers. But
no one really knows whether the
abalones move in or out, or
whether they move at all.
Capt. Reveia and his crew dive]
for abalones as often as the
weather permits underwater work
But instead of sending the deli
cacies recovered to the market, a
bright plastic disc is attached to
each shell and the abalone is
carefully put back in the same
place from which h»' was taken.
The operations of each dive are
carefully recorded as to location,
depth, water temperatures, con
struction and kind of bottom
strata, plant growth, and size of
abalone tagged. Subsequent dives,
carefully checked against the rec
ords, show what the abalone are
doing
from the shoreline to the SO <*nd
ologist, switched his gathering
Col. Lee O. Miles, Reveia's bi
100 foot depths. Capt. Tom sends
up anything unusual he sees on
the bottom from rocks to new
forms of algae and star-fish. The
specimens are preserved and sent
to scientists by Col. Miles. Al
ready several types of algae, or
kelp, hitherto unknown on the
north California coast have been
identified, and one type of coral
line, apparently never named be
fore, has been found.
One of the scientists helping
classify the specimens Riveia
finds is Dr. Irene McCulloch, mit
rin'- biologist of the University
of Southern California. Several of
Dr. McCulloch’s associates also
help with the work, as well as
scientists from the University of
Cn^fornia, the Scripps Institute
of Oceanography, the Pacific Ma
rine Station of the College of
Pacific, the California Academy
of Sciences, the Const and Geo
detic Survey and the Bureau of
Mines.
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News From Mt. Pleasant
• • •
Mrs. Jack Fletcher Helps Organize
Ocean Springs Demonstration Club
By Mr*. Gertrude Carter
Mrs. Jack Fletcher, Mt. Pleas
ant. Home Demonstration Club
president and Miss Melionee Al
len, home agent, went to Ocean
Springs Tuesday to organize a
Home Demonstration Club there.
The Rev. and Mrs. Dclwin Thig
pen, Vancleave, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Taylor Sunday.
Mrs. W. E. Clement and Mrs.
N. M. Carter visited in Biloxi
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Colton Carter at
tended services ut Vancleave
Methodist church Sunday.
Mrs. Colton Carter attended a
bridal shower Friday at the Van
cleave church honoring Miss Bea
Ellis.
Mrs. P. A. Carter visited in Pass
Christian Thursday.
Mrs. Jerry Harris visited in
Pascagoula Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Colton Carter vis
ited in Biloxi and Ocean Spring*
Friday.
Attending the wedding of Bea
Ellis and Orell King from Mt
Pleasant were Mr. and Mrs. Lau
rin Ware, Eula and Florian Ware
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ware, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Fletcher, Mr. and
Mrs. Q C. Roberts arid Mrs. Cand
ler Roberts.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurin Ware vis
ited Mr and Mrs. Phil Ware, Pas
cagoula Saturday.
Mr. and Mi's. Paul A. Carter
and Paul Grayson Carter visited
Mr. and Mrs. Johnsie Ware, Moss
Point, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurin Ware, Jr.,
Crysial (Springs, visited Mr. and
Mrs. L. ft. Ware during the week
end.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. G.
Carter Saturday were Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Mayes, Gulfport.
Mrs, Chester Smith, Pass Chris
tian, visited here Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ware and
Mr and Mrs. Laurin Ware visited
Mr. and Mrs. Will Fletcher, Bon
nie Chapel, recently.
1 Attend Vancleave Meet
Mr. and Mrs. R M. Roberts
attended the Chrstian Youth pro
gram Sunday at Vancleave. Mes
dnmes W. E. Clements and Colton
Carter served refreshments.
Mrs. Jack Fletcher attended the
Christmas party for the Home
Demonstration council members
Thursday.
Methodist men's brotherhood
will meet Saturday, Dec. 29 at the
church.
Mis. Jack Fletcher visited in
Biloxi Thursday and Saturday.
Mrs. Jack Fletcher and Alfred
Roberts visited in Gulfport Mon
day.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ruble
Roberts Saturday and Sunday
were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ed
wards, Pascagoula; Jimmie Cun
ningham, C. L. Severs, Pascagou
la; Benjamin Comfort and Jim
mie Hamilton, Biloxi.
Mrs. Ruble Roberts and Mr
and Mrs. Charles Edwards visited
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Murphy, Jr.
Sunday.
Mrs. Ruble Roberts' visited in
Pascagoula Monday.
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p<uts of entry and centers of the
AEK in World War 1.
Greetings. Friends....
. . . and blessings to all of you and
to all of yours, on this joyous holi
day. May the hospitality of good
fortune always be open to you.
Moss Point
Insurance Agency
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Hip, Hip, Hooray!:
Sparking's Back
In Vogue Again
By Cynthia Lowry
AP Newsfeature* Writer
As a devout believer in cycles, i
I had been awaiting with ill-con
cealed impatience the return of
the old-fashioned spanking.
It has come—and I must have 1
been looking the other way. It ’
now appears that, for Some I
months, the administration of
mild corporal punishment in cer- i
tain designated areas of the;
youthful body is, once again,
looked upon with favor by the
experts
So far, I haven’t had a chance
to bone up on the exact limita
tions which accompany this most
recent revolution in theory. It is.
of course, heartening to know that
an instinctive reaction to an ap
parent disciplinary need in grand
mother’s day has the modern]
aseptic seal of approval.
All I hope is that it hasn't come 1
too late.. Yesterday’s approved
method—the free rein and the
soft answer—of handling young- j
’uns was supposed to assure the
emergence of the child into lif>
with unfractured security, intact
ego and superb self-confidence
What the system has done to,
adults including those outside
the perimeter enclosing parent*
and offspring—-shouldn’t happen
to a person without the price of
a series of psychiatric treatments
Modern children, brought up
under what now seem to ho the
mistaken ukases of the experts
may be free souls. fEven this i*
debatable, as it now' •'•aopcars.'
But the s"stem certainly ha1
raised hob with the security, ego
self-confidence and most of all
disposition of grownups in the vi
cinity.
As I understand it. all the old
fashioned remedies for youthfu’
wrongdoing a"1 back in favor
Mischievous, ill-tempered smal’
fry may be w'alloped upon occa
sion. provided the administerin'
parent is not in a black fury a*
the time.
Ii Is even permitted to bundle
a young offender off to bed with
out supDer—under certain condi
tions. All this, the experts now
explain, is healthv in that i'
“clears the air,” while not disturb
ing the delicate balance of family
relations.
I hope the experts also nave
removed the awkward ban on the
use of the negative (as in “No
you can’t haw another piece of
candy!” or “Get away from that
bu/7 saw. you little idiot.”) in
dealing with children.
Trying to cope with modern
methods in dealing with children
is a major problem of the well
: intentioned neighbor who seeks to
protect himself vet at the sanv
time observe the procedures of
pnren's in correct child unhrinr
ing. In mv own neighborhood
(and, conversation leads me to be
Hove, almost all others' young
sters roam like prides of liens anJ
with about the same destructive
j results. Mavbe the word hesn”
• reached there vet. but T don’*
I think anv of them has ever been
| invited into the wood shed by r
| stern father.
I When thpy took to huildine bon
I fires on top of mv hulh plantings
| I was not one to invite frustration
I itist strung barbed wire around
the bank and gave them a lecture
on the function of the metal bar
rier. So they started to build P
tree house in mv favorite apnle.
When they were torturing a
tomcat by tossing him merilv in
the brook. I rescued the cat. Th«r
I explained whv they should he
gentle with cats. The next dav
they were tossing a dog into the
brook.
When burning leaves in my
driveway, I kept a civil tongue in
my head as they tried to see who
could stand closest to the flame.
I tried to explain about fire and
boys and girls. They paid no at
tention until I charged them with
the rake.
But now I can't wait. If the
heat's off the hairbrush and the
razor strop. I can revise my own
tactics in dealing with these
young demons. I don’t know how
it will affect their formative years,
but it’s sure going to do my own j
disposition a world of good.
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ances.
The Milky Way ■ galaxy, of
which the earth is a tiny part, is
made up of between 200 and 300
billion stars.
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1951
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mas Holiday Vacation, we will be
closed all day Sunday. Monday and
T uesday.
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