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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. SEPT. 26, 1957 About Elephants In one way, elephants are like people: Some are smarter than others. There are those elephants who, when the monsoons have caused a logjam in the rivers, can sopt the key log and without advice from the mahout -- pull it free. Despite this display of technical prowess, the elephant's intelligence has been overrated (most cocker spaniels are at least as smart). They have a fairly good memory, but experts say that if elephants were truly never to forget a dirty deed, there would be very few elephant trainers around. Despite his size and his strength, the elephant is rather delicate. His trunk is so powerful that it can uproot trees -- yet sensitive enough so that the animal can pick up a pin with it. A French scientist once set out to count the number of separate muscles in an elephant's trunk. He gave up when he reached the 20,000 mark. Elephants are subject to severe stomach cramps if exposed to cold weather for any length cf time and will start trumpeting with pain. They can be cured, however, by a large bucket of gin and ginger. After taking the cure a few times, the elephant becomes a crafty alcoholic, feigning pain and moaning pitifully for his daily swig. Elephant steak looks like a prime cut of beef, but when cooked it tastes like pasteboard and "clings to the teeth like soft glue. Though those culinary distinctions attract the natives who will swarm over a carcass looking for a choice cut, Westerners are apt to find the meat no delicacy. Elephants don't live to be 150 er more. They die at 65 or thereabouts, and they don't go to any mysterious graveyards to do it. (Where "graveyards" have been found, the tusks were always missing -- proving the elephants were driven there and killed for the ivory.) Elephants are very nice animals -- kind, thoughtful, and smart enough to have fine working conditions. After an elephant puts in four hours of work, he stops. He may go swimming, or eat, or just stand around with his hind legs crossed, thinking -- but he's through for the day. -- From NEWS- Dingo Dogs Queensland, Australia, was bustling last week and this tieant bad business lor tne £venous and increasingly dar-g dingo. Squads of workmen were pressing ahead with tha Job of stringing a fence, 3,500 iniles long and 5 feet high, to keep the dingo back from the rich, remote grazing land of northeast Australia. It will enclose an area larger than Texas and serve as a second line of defense to a "dogproof" fence stretching from the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north to the Great Australian Bight in the south. The single object of all this is the slant-eyed carnivore, an insatiable killer with a price of up to $10 on his head. Each year some 2 million sheep and countless cattle fall prey to the beast. Though the new fence will cost Queensland $1 million it will be well worth the expenditure -- if it is successful. Storms, however, wash away fences; sandstorms cover them up and large bush animals, the ebullient kangaroo and wombat among them, trample them Paradoxically, the decimation of one of Australia's traditional pests has led the dingo to invade man's domain. By importing a vicious strain of myxomatosis, Australians killed off millions cf rabbits. The shortage of the succulent rabbits has forced the dingo to change his diet. With Australia suffering her first drought since the war, they have ranged in huge packs to sheep and cattle country from the rough arid western scrub. This year's casualty list for sheep may rise to 3 million. Australians are divided on how to control or eradicate the dingo. Some favor fences others trapping. In mountainous New South Wales, horsemen round up packs of dingoes and drive them into a line of guns. Hopeful cattlemen have recently tried aerial baiting, packing half a grain of strychnine into a pellet of brisket fat, then dive-bombing water holes and suspected feeding areas. Unfortunately, birds and insects usually beat the dingo to the poisoned pellets. Biological-warfare experts have considered infecting them with distemper and mange, but are wary of creating an immune strain. The only hope for his extinction now lies in the discovery of some virulent disease peculiar to the dingo. Harassed cattle and sheep owners can take small consolation from one theory advanced by the French anatomist Baron Georges Cuvier in 1827. A dingo cannot swim. A good deep billabong will keep him out of the pasture anytime. -- From NEWSWEEK. Rungs Of Doom From time immemorial man has used wood for one purpose or another, including crime. Apart from numberless examples of wooden weapons there have been dummy revolvers made of wood and in one case, a convict had wooden keys made to fit several of the doors in his prison. Wood can easily be identified by experts, who' will name the parent tree, its type, and where it is grown. Wood is a medium" which retains the characteristic marks of tools which have been used on it. ping theLlndbergh baby, a ladder found at the scene of the crime was handed to an expert. It proved to be home-made from wood which had been planed before delivery. The expert looked for a mill which had- a planing machine with eight blades. There were 1,-598 mills from New York to Alabama and only twenty-five used an eight-blade planer. Two of these were eliminated as they did not handle one-by-four stock. Samples from each of the remaining twenty-three firms were obtained -- and one had revolution marks of exactly the same spacing as on the ladder. 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