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PHILADELPHIA - Learning
from studio upon millions of
flour beetles competing for food
end living apace in laboratory
glass jars, Dr. Thomas Park,
University of Chicago zoologist.
In delivering the retiring presidential and principal address of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science here
Saturday warned:
"If man doe not manage his
biology, il wilt manage him."
Although reluctant to draw direct parallels between insects and
men, Dr Park is apprehensive
that the world's human population
explosion is very dangerous.
Farts that
studies are:
emerge
OverexplofUUoa of scarce resources and intense interference
from crowding are perilous and
the peri! increases as the population increases.
The largest population, if exposed to stress, does not necessarily enjoy the best prospect of
survival.
Man, as we all know and pontificate, has the intellectual , talent and the technical skill to
avoid such coleopterous (beetlelike) hazards.
He has the capacity to manage
his own population and, of equal
importance, to conserve those
myriad other populations on which
he depends.
from his
Dr. Park created "an indoor
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in laboratory experiments with
small flour beetles known technically as Tribolium.
Tribolium is one of the oldest
insect pests known to man. Remains of the title insects were
found in a jar of milled grain
entombed with an Egyptian paroah more than 4,000 years ago.
While the flour beetles are a
major nuisance to the housewife
and the grain man, they are
suited for ecological and genetic
studies. Their habit of living—and
multiplying—in flour makes them
useful.
In his laboratory, the beetles
are kept in glass containers with
measured amounts of flour. Every
30 days—the average span of a
beetle generation—the old flour
is sifted through a terles of
graded sieves, and a census Is
taken ef the adult beetles and
their young to determine bow well
the population is doing. After the
beetles are counted, they are put
in another container with fresh
flour, and the study continues.
out how each trhives under varytog conditions and what happens
when the two species are together.
He has found that when the
two species are put together, one
is always eliminated, and the
other survives and thrives.
When the beetles are tested
under varying conditions, he
said, "common sense" could predict that "the species superior by
itself should retain that superiority when with its rival."
However, by testing the two
species under differing conditions
of temperature and moisture, he
found the prediction was rarely
entirely fulfilled.
In a tool, arid climate, for example, the species that did better
To solve one population problem, Dr. Park and his staff spent
four years simply making the observations needed for analysis:
400 individual populations were
sifted and examined every :S0
days, and some 3,000,000 beetles
were counted.
Dr. Park uses I wo species of
flour beetles, Tribolium confusum
and Tribolium castaneum, to find
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by itself always proved to be th*i
together.
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But in a cool, moist climate it
was the specks that did less well
by itself that usually survived
when the two species were together.
And in a hot, moist climate, the
two species did equally well alone
—but when they were placed together only the Tribolium castaneum survived.
Competition, even under supervision, is a complex phenomenon
Dr. Park observed. "It is clear
that intraspecies processes can be
deeply modified by those new
types, of interference and exploitation which emerge as a consequence of togetherness."
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cording to a list released Sunday lost his license for failing to subby the State Department of Motor mit to a blood test for intoxicaActually an embroidery, and not
tion.
a tapestry, the famous Bayeux
stories that the Viet Cong has Vehicles.
Three Clinton County men sufOther revocations were: Donald Tapestry documents the story of
Flower Shop
buried
resisting
Montagnards
fered
license
revocation
for
drunk
K
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of
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for
driving
the Norman Conquest in England Morrisoflvllle Rd.
alive,
driving
convictions.
and
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from
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without
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and
Harold
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Change in Viet Cong tactics is
Hamburgh, N. Y
They were John L. Pinkos of Crowningshield of Lewis for a 11th Centurv.
viewed widely as an indication the
Communists are losing and forced the 820th Installation Squadron, speeding violation.
to use terror in place of persua- Plallsburgh Air Force Ba.se: May- License suspensions were listed
nard ,!. Boyea Jr. of Ellenburg against two countv men.
sion.
Mountain Tribes Brighten
Viet Nam Hopes in RedFight
Pay Raise
SAIGON. Viet Nam (API - of the south, where most of the
Mountain tribesmen called Mon- fighting takes place.
Americans have played a key
MADRID. Spain (AP> - Gen lagnards have helped anti-ComFrancisco Franco announced Sun- munist forces pain a precarious ' role in chipping away Communist
foothold
in
South
Viet
Nam's
ceninfluence
in the highlands. U.S.
day nipht he is giving Spain's
unskilled labor force a new daily tral highlands for the first time Army special forces, American
minimum watie of 00 pesetas- since French Colonial days. Pros- AID officials and the Central InSi — nearly double the former peels for 1%:! look fairly bright. telligence Agency have all been
But there is a long way to go.
scale It was welcome news to the Scores of new protected ham- j active.
lets have been constructed deep
The Americans developed new
Government forces must move
peons
in territory formerly controlled communities this year for relo- tribal communities one by one for
The announcement came in a absolutely by the Communist Viet
eated tribesmen, trained them to ( resettlement in secure areas. The
New Years speech, hroadcast by
Congo.
fight, armed them and paid them. v i e l C o n g > w n i c h 0flen [ o r c e s vilradio and telewsion. The speech
Tribesmen inhabiting the region
lagers to live out of reach of govsemed to reflect preoccupation
have been armed with tommy
Viet Cong propaganda de- ernmnt patrols, is hard to find.
with a rash of strikes that handiguns and other weapons and trib- nouncing anti-Communist activiAnother problem may arise
capped the Spanish economy from
al striking forces are working ef- ties among the Montagnards has when Americans, who have spearMay to Soplemher and with the
fectively against the Viol Cong. stepped up sharply. Communist headed much of Ihe work, turn
Fi anm e.i.\eriniior.t's interest in
The highlands, blanketed by guerrillas, who once went to great over practical details to Vietnaob'ajninc an early association
\\",\: llie Kurnpean
Common dense jungle, are sparsely popu- lengths to make friends with the mese authorities.
lated, but make up about two- Montagnards, now attack villagthirds of the land of South Viet es in force, loot undefended comMontagnards are Vietnamese
Nam. The area has been of spe- munities and draft tribesmen for citizens, but of different racial
the :tfl-page address, recorded cial importance to the Viet Cong hard labor.
and linguistic stock from the lowFriday for hn.adcastiufi by radio as a corridor from Communist
In the Darlac plateau, a par- landers. Many Montagnards reami telc'isjon, was denoted al- North Viet Nam to the rice bowl ticularly wild area, there are
gard the lowlanders as exploiters
nio.-t entirely to economies and
And many lowlanders regard the
a *'nut defense of the political
Montagnards as savages.
s\-tem di'vcln;>ed under Franco's
The Saigon government has
been driving hard for the past
The ;eneiai:s*:mo made only
year to overcome the breach, but
p ^ i i e , mention of international
traditional prejudices persist. In
com mi: asm. blaming it for an
many
instances,
Montagnards
FT.,
truui wilt soon begin on a large
OTTAWA
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arrr> i • e v. hich drained billions
have told Americans they would
•edine up repi
scale. Lamprey control measures
of (I:-.;. :s from funds that miitht
work with Americans but not the
1o h. •ip ropopi
are also beginning on the other
ha\e !. en Used for humanitarian
, Vietnamese.
h lake tn
'lakes.
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In a Lake Superior study, it
•lmerit spokesman sa.-d
Reports made to the
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I'ltlniaU-ly. the struggle for the
was found that whereas in 1950
18 per cent of Spain's labor iorce Lakes Fi.-.hory Commiss.-un
highlands will be won or Inst dethe youngest spawning male lake
of iniie million men and women. meeting here showed that tl
pending on whether the haicoti
trout was eight years old and the
Would profit from the new mini- are spawning about two
government itself — as distinct
mum wane scale The old official younger than fish biologist con- youngest female trout with eggs
from mixed U.S. and Vietnamese
was nine, in 1962 four similar
minimum was 3Cj pesetas — 6(1 sider normal.
forces — is able to extend its
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• males were found at the age of
cents
control.
The lake trout population of the four and females in the sevenThis s[Mikesmaii said the actual
; The "(Hl.OOO Montagnards are reeiieet of Franco's announcement Great Lakes has been almost, and eight-year age class congarded as a key to control of ihe
wouid be to gi\e peon uorkers wiped out by sea lamprey attacks tained eggs.
republic. A simple people, they
Because of the peesent scarcity
about loo pesetas—SI i>!>| - per day, except in Lake Superior, where
are at home in jungle warfare.
> of the trout, these comparisons
im hiding supp.emoiils in the form only breeding slock remains
Rut the lamprey are being are only an indication of a posof th:ee c t r n mnirh- pay annually plus v.iiduy and vacation brought under control in Lake sible trend toward younger spawn
Superior and rebooking of lake ing.
Ui
•«n-l from the holOm of
under new management
is thai there remain some
if Sitvn, isolated minori','. l.ii'h i,i r economic pro6 United States Avem- e
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ihis niv govhas duelled the estabMonday thru Thursday
erns!.
of the new minimum
hslm
• u.nspc< lahzed workers.
kr • that this boost may
Friday and Saturday
disturbance in some
prodi
C l o s e d on Sundays
s of our economy But
my government cannot longer
contemplate ihe existence of minimum salaries which are intoler49 Margorer St. — Tel. JO 3-5120
able and which social justice
will not ptinr.it."
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Repopulation of Great Lakes
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