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-«• JPAOP. If - PLA1NDEALER WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5,1»7> course of instruction are eligible for three hours of college credit in Physical Education and Hygiene. A 1979 graduate of McHenry Community high school, he joined the Navy in June, 1979. SERVICE NEWS Visits Asian Ports At Naval Confer ERIC M. LANGE Navy Seaman Recruit Eric M. Lange, son of Duane R. and Virginia R. Lange of 3802 W. Clover avenue, McHenry, has completed recruit training at the Naval Training center, Orlando, Fla. During the eight-week raining cycle, trainees studied sneral military subjects signed to prepare them for rther academic and on-the- i training in one of the Navy's 85 basic occupational fields. Included in their studies were seamanship, close order drill, Naval history and first aid. Personnel who complete this Took Part In 1 Field Training Pvt. Brenda L. Umbarger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Umbarger, 914 Laguna drive, McHenry, recently participated in a Held training exercise at the major training area in Grafenwohr, Germany. The training provided soldiers an opportunity to train and test themselves in the Held and requalify with various weapons. The private is a clerk with the 3rd Armored Division Artillery in Germany. \ Air Force Tour Begins Raymond W. Kierna, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kierna, Sr., 5417 West Sher­ man, began a four year tour of active duty with the United States Air Force in August. Kierna, a 1979 graduate of McHenry West high school, will train as a missile systems repairman. Navy Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Robert G. Cowles, son of Robert L. and Ruth O. Cowles of 3108 W Bull Valley road, McHenry, recently visited Hong Kong. He is a crewmember aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, homeported in San Diego, and currently operating as a unit of the U.S. 7th Fleet. During the remainder of the cruise, the Kitty Hawk will be combining regular training operations with an extensive search of the <&ulf of Thailand and the Sowtb China Sea, looking for Southeast Asian refugees in distress. Additional port visits are scheduled in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. The Kitty Hawk is 1,062 feet long and displaces more than 80,000 tons. She carries a crew of 2,800 officers and enlisted men, plus 2,150 personnel assigned to an attack aircraft wing. She is capable of carrying 85 jet aircraft and can travel at speeds in excess of 30 knots. Cowles joined the Navy in April, 1976. Animal Antics &llf of i*tb Ch Receives Promotion Marine Pfc. Estelle K. Foreman, daughter of Arleen Foreman of 1509 W. Pine street, McHenry, has been promoted to her present rank while serving at Marine Corps base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. A 1976 graduate of McHenry high school, she joined the Marine Corps in January, 1979. McHenry-Nunda Library Announces Longer Hours Beginning Sept. 6, the McHenry-Nunda Public library will be open new, longer hours. In an effort to improve services to its patrons, the library will now be open Tuesday, 10 a.m.- 12p.m.and 1-6p.m.; Thursday, 2-8p.m.; Friday, 2-7 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The library has a wide selection of books and records that are on hand or can be ordered. In addition, filmstrips, slides, tapes and paintings are available on request. The library has begun regular publication of a newsletter. The public can go to the library and pick up a copy of "The Bookshelf". No one knows why a huge fin whale beaches itself. Is it committing suicide? No one knows why an 8-ton killer whale jumps completely out of the sea. Is it just being playful? Animals perform hundreds of acts that humans don't un­ derstand. But the science of animal behavior is now finding explanations for wildlife antics that have puzzled man since Aristotle first studied birds and bees in the fourth century B.C. The study of wildlife is also becoming more closely linked with the study of human behavior, the National Wildlife federation says. Reports on recent studies are contained in a special issue of International Wildlife devoted entirely to ' animal behavior. Here are some of the questions about wildlife to which researchers have found an­ swers: Why Do Wolves Howl? Contrary to popular belief, it's not because they're lonely. Wolves are highly social creatures with one of the most complex communications systems in the animal kingdom and the howling is a pack's way of keeping in touch at night or when visibility is poor. Howling also serves as a mechanism for keeping dif­ ferent packs away from each other. Rather than fight other packs, they howl. 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A bird's "song" is a succession of musical notes repeated in a recognizable pattern. Of the world's 8,600 or so bird species, nearly half are songbirds, and it's usually the male of a species that does the singing. Their songs, which young birds must learn from adults, are closely connected to nesting and mating. Birds use their melodies-some species have a repertoire of half a dozen-to define their nesting territories and woo their mates. Aside from all these practical reasons, some researcher* now believe that birds, like people, sing just for the "sheer joy of it." Why Do Monkeys Make Faces? The "faces" are an important part of monkeys' communications with each other, but people have wrongly interpreted those expressions as if they were human. What looks like a monkey "yawn" may be a warning to another monkey to keep away, or it may be an expression of frustration. A monkey "grin" or "smile" is a signal of fear or submission. Why Do Raccoons 'Wash' Their Food? They don't, really. Raccoons have fingerlike paws that are as nimble and sensitive; as human hands. The animals use them to probe and sift a stream bed with what looks like a scrubbing motion. Once a raccoon locates a crayfish, snail, or mussel, the tidbit is popped directly into its ihouth without so much as a rub or rinse. Why Do Cranes Dance? If they didn't there would be no crane chicks every ytear. For young cranes that have never mated, dancing reinforces the union. Their courting ballets "synchronize the male and female sexually." Incidentally, all 15 species of cranes in the world dance to the same steps. Why Do Animals Fight? Mates or territory are usually at stake wheri two creatures of the same species fight. What's surprising is the fact that these encounters seldom end in a fatality. "Over millions of years; animal weapons and ritualized fighting methods have evolved so thai one creature can usually escape from another without major injury," says the magazine. , Why Do Vampire Bats Suck Blood? Unlike its fictional counterpart," this common flying mammal of the south­ western U.S., and Central and South America is not a ruthless and terrifying mankiller. Actually, the tiny vampire bat doesn't suck blood, but laps it up like a kitten with a saucer of milk. It is true that the vampire bat may partake of human blood~a foot protruding from a blanket is a tempting target-but no one has ever perished from the bite of a healthy vampire. The bats prefer wild animals or cows, swine and goats After alighting on its victim, the bat slices a shallow cut with its razor-sharp teeth and laps up the flowing blood. It needs about an ounce of blood a day. No one knows how the vampire bat got started on its SUBSCRIBE To The McHenry Plaindealer unique diet, but now its system is so specialized that it caft't eat anything else. I Why De FlrefUes Fireflies, which are ac beetles, produce light complex chemical reactic takes place within the! dominal cells, luminescence is reflect^ out through their transparenfiskin. Researchers have fount| that almost all of the 1,000 tyr so species of fireflies Jiave distinctive light male of one species bli pattern of flashes and w« a female to flash back. If she <k>es so, he recognizes her as one of his own kind, and flies off toward her. Despite progress that has been made since Charles Darwin published "The Ex­ pression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" in 1872, the science of animal behavior is still an infant discipline. Within another ten years, it may an­ swer baffling questions about the whales and other animals. In the meantime, we have much to learn from "our fellow creatures." , STAMPS AND STORIES By Stanley Ja • • e • ww w w w i^w*w% I J USA « And Save $7.30 Over Newstand Price FIU OUT AND MAIL OR BRING TO: McHENRY PLAINDEALER 3812 W. Elm St.. McHtaryjlfc 60050. with chock or money order for *13.50 ff< subscription within McHonry County. • year NAME ADDRESS CITY I ~~ I ZIP 'MONEY BACK GUARANTEE FOR UNUSED PORTION" f claraOmaass ; r Mlit* ipivt* lit*r lift* | At the outset of -the Spanish-American War Clara Maass, a graduate of the Newark German Hospital, in Bellesville, N.J., volunteered to be a nurse in the U.S. Army. In 1900, she worked with yellow „ fever victims in the Philippines and Cuba. As part of a team that included Major Walter Reed and Major- William C. Gorgas, she as­ sisted in research aimed at determining the cause of and a cure for yellow fever. Finally, the team theorized that the disease was caused by a mosquito. In mid-June, 1901, Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by the suspected insect. She contracted a mild case of yel­ low fever, from which she re­ covered. Again she volun- (• teered. Ten days later, she died of yellow fever. She had given 1 her life to save others. Her death offered final proof that the stegomyia mosquito was . the carrier of the yellow fever V'germ. A cure was developed and yellow fever is no longer the feared disease it once was. On August 18, 1976, a 13- cent commemorative stamp ! was issued in honor of Clara Maass. It was issued in Belle­ ville, N.J., at the Clara Maass ' Memorial Hospital--the old Newark German Hospital where she had gone to nursing school. 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