Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winning free Tress wednesday february 23, 1972 John Glenn 10 years afterwards those Flag footed Fiat footed fruit flies whew and How their flashes fascinate Fey females focus Columbus Ohio for most . Astronauts Fame is a fleeting fancy. There Are the few Days of world wide television coverage during the flight the momentary glory of the splashdown the presidential phone Call and the news conference. And then peaceful obscurity returns. Few of the courageous spacemen have the Charisma or the inclination to remain in the Public Eye for Long. But Fame has Clung to one astronaut with remarkable tenacity. It was just 10 years ago on feb. 20, 1962, that a Marine corps colonel named John Herschel Glenn or. Be came the first . Citizen to orbit the planet Earth. Yet considering his persistent celebrity the momentous event might As Well have happened last year. He still receives daily batches of fan mail at his comfortable apartment in a High Rise building on the out skirts of Columbus where he lives with his wife Annie. He is a popular speaker on col 1 e g e campuses where he says he talks about How this country has developed. My reception is very very Good More than i expect and he is still instantly recognizable on the Street where he is often stopped by autograph seekers and persons who ask what he thought about a decade ago when the rocket carrying his Cap sule Friendship blasted off from what was then called Cape canaveral. His Stan Dard Good Humoured reply is that he said to himself just think this was All built by the lowest it s not that or. Glenn s new line of work keeps him in i by Charles Hillinger i i san Francisco since the Early 1800s, i the world has had Only four authorities on Flat footed flies. One of them is or. Edward. L. Kessel 67, i considered the reigning expert for the last 40 years. I when diet exists scientists specializing in happen to catch Flat footed flies they mail them to or. Kessel. Or. Kessel has followed Flat footed flies to the Arctic. He s chased them All Over the . And Canada. He s caught an awful lot of them in California even in his own Back Yard in the Woods where he lives in Marin county. Most flies have rounded feet. If you spent All your time catching flies you might not catch a Flat footed Fly in your said. They re rare. You have to know where to or. Kessel knows where. He has thou Sands of the tiny Platy Ezide Flat footed flies mounted on pins in file cases in his office at the California Academy of sciences Here. I can spot them 20 feet he explained. They run around in circles on Large horizontal leaves. They run. Then they suddenly Stop. Then they go there Are about 175 species of Flat footed flies. Some have special markings on their feet like the Flag footed Flat footed flies that Flash in the Forest like sparklers on the fourth of july. Like All flies the Flat footers have. Six feet. But the Flag footed Flat footed flies have tiny Silver flags on their Hind legs. The flags Are sort of stiff like the Flag the astronauts placed on the or. Kessel noted. The Silver flags reflect the filtered Sun rays in the Forest the mat ing dance. Female Flag footed Flat footed flies can t resist the or. Kessel said. They egg lose their inhibitions. The females Fly to the males. Females take Over flying during mating towing the males. Males have two big red eyes. They remind me of a boat trailer with big taillights being pulled or. Kessel is the first person to describe the mating and the egg laying idiosyncrasies of these types of flies. The Gray haired Dieter is observed laying in his own Yard. I saw several Flat footed flies walking on top of a mushroom then disappearing Over the Side. Well it s not easy to see what s going on under the lid of a he fetched a shovel and dug a Hole for his head. I got my Reading glasses then Lay on the ground with my head in the Hole to watch. A neighbor spotted me and came dashing Over to see if i had had a heart what or. Kessel Learned that Day was that female Flat footed flies drop their eggs in spaces Between Gills on mushroom stems. I think i discovered Why these flies have Flat feet and incidentally females have bigger and wider Flat feet than males. It seemed the feet spread across several Gills Fine fluting to keep the female from slipping when she Lay her eggs to give her support on the mushroom. Up to that time i had a Hunch the Flat feet served As snowshoes on Over Ripe mushrooms. But i later Learned the flies do not Lay eggs on Over Ripe the world s Only Flat footed Fly expert is a professor of entomology at the University of san Francisco. He also is assistant curator of insects and editor of scientific publications at the California Academy of sciences. Or. Kessel said Flat footed flies Are neither pests nor beneficial Are sort of Neutral. He said you Don t have to worry about Flat footed flies coming in to dinner. They prefer the outdoors. Tons the limelight. He is an executive with the Holiday inn corp. Charged with develop ing new Motel projects and he also serves As a director of Royal Crown cola for which he once worked As head of the International Divi Sion. A combination of factors hippie go Home new cry across Asia by Tony Clifton Hong Kong nos a the Days when the far East was a far out Refuge for the world s itinerant hippies May be numbered. For years Long haired wanderers seeking simple life styles in tolerant surround Ings communion with East Ern mysticism or simply cheap and exotic drugs have drifted across Asia. Now governments and their people from India to Bali Are turning off the Welcome signs where hippies once turned on. In Singapore your visa May be in order but if your hair is too Long you Cut it at the Border or you Don t get in. Ceylon has banned hippies altogether. India is limiting the entry and stay of foreigners who Are Likely to be a social nuisance because of their indulgence in narcotics indecent behaviour vagrancy and and in Bali where the sight of Bare Bosomed Maidens used to Delight generations of non hippie tourists the attitudes of the mysterious East have come full Circle. Bali today is part of Indonesia ruled by a puritanical group of generals who Don t like Public nudity. So on the famed Beach at Katar the balinese today come to stare nervously at hippie Sun worshippers who left their bathing suits at Home in North America and Europe. The asian reaction stems from Many sources. Flagrant use of drugs and open sexual display offend religious sensibilities in countries that feel ecstasy should be a private not Public affair. And hip r i i i j i i i i Grid irony new York is. Regina j hey what s a c by Norman Webster i at its recent meeting the Canadian football league c decided not to accept the bid by a . Promoter to put a Cal franchise in new York. It was a Wise move. History suggests that allowing the Camel s nose inside can Lead to a drastic change in environment for the Origi Nal tent dwellers. Certainly it would change Canadian foot 0 Ball and not to the Benefit of canadians. Winnipeg Blue bomber general manager Earl Lunsford has pointed out some of the dangers. For one it would be a significant step toward unlimited use of american players. Cal regulations currently allow 15 non canadians on a 32-Man roster. This keeps the general calibre of play somewhat below that in the . National football league. It does however Root the game More firmly in c Canadian communities and provide a stimulus for minor football in this country. It also keeps expenses within reason for . Imports 9 carry High Price tags. The most serious consequence of i unlimited use of imports would be to make major football too expensive for a number of Canadian franchises and those in the Prairie cities would be first to go. But How Long would a new yorker owner or the owner c of any other . Franchise that might follow happily i abide by restrictions against american players Espe 9 daily if his team were losing and his fans screaming expansion into the new York Market would also be a direct Challenge to the National football league. Or. Z Lunsford says it would constitute an open invitation to the nil to move into Toronto and Montreal and we could t say a word. In my opinion that would kill the other consequences come readily to mind. Directing i attention South it would Likely Rule out expansion in Canada. Or. Lunsford for example would like to see a team i in Halifax it would mean More pressure to bring Canad an football rules in line with american ones. It certainly would change the nature of the Grey cup game the i country s major National sporting event canadians might find it hard to get too enthusiastic Over a new York Regina i final. New yorkers might too. The Fate of Canada s erstwhile National game in the hands of the National hockey league should give the Cal i some pause. The nil owners put Money Wen above the Quality and character of hockey or any obligations to the j people from which its players Spring. I nil hockey is now an american game every bit As i skillful and exciting As the Roder Derby. It is played in i j places that rarely or never see ice or Snow while most j i canadians stand not a ghost of a Chance of Ever seeing a game live. There is no nil franchise in the maritime none in Quebec City whose fans know hockey As Wen As any m the world no second team around Montreal or Toronto where no seats have been unsold in decades none on the Prairies where much of the country s hockey Talent has traditionally come from and one in Vancouver under american ownership Only As Soai Felting of an after thought. The world hockey association Biess aed preserve it and it May Bave to be could change the set ratios some what. Bat Bow much better bad greed bees a Bale Jess is nil at inae and Sone decent cobs Dertke taken a Awdra interests. Cal expat sea fim states Neww be a wite Grable with and of it is necessary Wake. It Stos fid stat Erfft its i i i pies from the affluent West who come to beg in poverty stricken countries like India seem to be playing at an institution that is life or death reality for Many local people. The hippie go Home feel ing probably is strongest on the Island of Singapore. Prime minister Lee Kuan Yew runs a tight Little Island and he does not like Long hair on either visitors or his constituents. So All of the two million inhabitants must be properly bartered. But hippies Are his prime target. Recently Lee s foreign minister s. Rajaratnam said hippie ism is no mumps it is cancer. It is a new ver Sion of the opium of the peo ple. It is the kind of opium War an enemy would launch for the successful Conquest of a the hippie invaders have in fact become a real prob Lem in India. The 60s found thousands of hippie types pouring into the country some attracted by Mystic gurus others by prime hashish for less than is a Pound. Well heeled nirvana seeking celebrities like the beatles and Mia Farrow came and went in style. But the Money has Long since run out for Many shaggy haired wayfarers and they now emulate Indian beg Gars holding out their hands for alms streets where they Are in Competition with some of the Earth s most wretched poor. Others use sikh temples As if they Are free youth hostels because sikh religion says temples must House and feed tra Vellers. Certainly not All hippies nor even the majority abuse the local privileges. But a certain percentage have spoiled it for All. Like the hip pie boy and girl who recently walked naked Down the main Street of pan Jim capital of the former portuguese Colony of Goa on India s West coast. They attracted a crowd that stopped traffic. No one was born dressed no one will die the couple said. We Are ready to live two said a Goan magistrate. Local people ask understandably enough Why the hippies Don t do their thing at Home instead of travelling Halfway across the world to express themselves in Asia. A 42-year-old Frenchman who Calls himself simply Monsieur Michel had an answer recently As he sat Reading outside a hindu Temple in new Delhi. It is not possible to Reform one s own soul in the he said. It is a society of individuals where they compete each other to become Richer and Richer. People Are Rich but they Are not Nappy. In the East people Are poor but they Are Western officials sensitive to native resentment of hippie visitors Are trying to con Vince their nationals to get their behaviour in line with local morality and Meres. Sometimes it seems a losing Battle. A bedraggled hippie entered the . Embassy in new Delhi not Long ago seeking assistance and an official berated Cha. Toe an a disgrace to Yoor the official sex open. He Kitwe bowed am fee sow of in re seems to be. Responsible for keeping the 50-year-old former fighter Pilot in the Public s consciousness. First he has always been hand some congenial and articulate almost a stereotyped . Hero who perfectly filled the Bill As the first genuine Star of the space age. Then too or. Glenn s Abid ing fascination with political life has helped keep him famous. Almost As soon As he landed Back on Earth he re signed from the space pro Gram and launched himself into political orbit As a Chal Lenger to incumbent Ohio sen Ator Stephen Young for the 1964 democratic senatorial nomination. But the Man who had sur Vived not Only a space shot but 159 combat missions in the second world War and Korea one of his planes took 200 hits in a single Mission fell victim to a throw Rug. He was standing in the bathroom one morning fixing a Cabinet doer. The door slipped he reached to grab it the Rug skidded out from under him and or. Glenn smacked his head so hard on the Bathtub that he seriously injured the mechanisms in the inner ear which control balance. He was forced to withdraw from the Campaign. Six years later or. Glenn took off on another political Mission that was aborted by another curious twist of Fate. Again he tried for the Senato rial nomination and again he was Given a Good Chance of Victory. Ninety five per cent of the voters in Ohio knew of him almost nobody knew anything about his opponent a millionaire named Howard Metzenbaum. Or. Glenn s Fame did him in. He found himself faced with insoluble Money raising problems because none of Ohio s major Campaign contributors could believe that anyone so famous needed More exposure in the Broad c a s t Media. Or. Metzen Baum s millions meanwhile were being used to develop a stunningly effective television Campaign. To this Day or. Glenn refers to his loss As one of the biggest disappointments of my but defeat barely dimmed his ebullience. Soon after his loss to or. Metzenbaum who himself lost to Robert Taft or. In. The november or. Glenn signed on As chair Man of a citizens committee to help elect John Gilligan As governor of Ohio and that Campaign at least was a Success. This year he is supporting senator Edmund Muskie for the democratic presidential nomination and he has said he will try for a seat on the Ohio delegation to the demo cratic convention in Miami Beach. Or. Glenn still has a great commitment to the space pro Gram and he does not approve of the slackening of Public support for new extra terrestrial endeavours. Many have regarded it As to the Moon with the russians and Are saying now we be won so let s he observes. But it s deeper than that. It s very Basic re search helping to solve our problems right Here on in most conversations How Ever or. Glenn s first love flying takes a Back seat to his greatest love politics. It secret that one reason he has continued to be so Active in the democratic party is the fact that two years from now Republican senator William Saxbe will be up for re election and or. Glenn wants to establish Good credentials within his party. 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