The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 August 1987 — Page 20

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., August 12,1987

-- .if THREE ( AR COLLISION — Three drivers escaped injuries after being involved in a rear-end collision near the intersection of South Huntington Street and Boston Street at 11:22 a.m. Saturday. Aug. 8. Alan S. Abrams, 29, Syracuse, was arrested for unreasonable speed to avoid a collision after his 1987 C hevrolet van hit the rear end of the 1985 Buick shown in the photo. C oralie B. Baker. 54, Goshen, who was driving the Buick, had stopped on Huntington Street behind Kelly Gay. 32. Syracuse, who had stopped to make a turn onto Boston Street. Abrams claimed he couldn’t stop in time due to.the hot black top nd oil and grease on the surface. The impact of.the Abram s vehicle t Baker s automobile into Gay ’s 1983 Chevrolet Scooter Damage for all three vehicles was set at $6.000.

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Owls: Real harbingers of spring

By CRAIG TUFTS Nat. Wildlife Federation While we ourselves may feel no hint of spring in the winter air, invisible hormonal changes are taking place within many plants and animals as their internal clocks tick to the tune of imperceptibly lengthening days. First signs of spring come earlier than the return of robins or the songs of bluebirds, or even the bursting into» bloom of hazelnut and skunk cabbages. Late December/early January sees a cranking up of spring activities among two large species of fairly common North American owls: the great horned owl and the barred owl. The great horned owl, the larger of the two, will be sitting on eggs come late January/early February, even in the coldest part of its nesting range. It starts setting up its nesting territories by Christmas, right around the shortest day of the year. That’s a great time to listen £or the hooting of pairs, as any hardy participant of the annual Christmas bird count will tell you. Some ice-crystal-clear morn ing, at 4:30 or 5 am., just sit yourself on a woodland hilltop and listen for the great horned owls, “partitioned off" from each other, each pair guarding acres and acres of woodlands. The deeper hoot of the male will respond to the more mellow alto hoot of the female. Sometimes different pairs of owls — perhaps four or five — will call to each other. . These “big-eared,” night flying tigers of the North American skies are incredibly powerful raptors Though great horned owls are known to prey mainly on small mammals and certain bird species, there are legends about the size and diversity of their prey: small house cats, skunks, even young peregrine falcons. Owls, however, like most birds, have more feathers than body, and so can’t fly off with prey that

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weighs more than they do Young great horneds are often feeding at the next by late February and frequently leave the next flightless. At that stage, they’re known as “branchers,” making their way from tree to tree by hopping and flapping. I once monitored a grieat horned owl nest for the entire nesting season in coastal New Jersey. During the six-eight week incuba tion and fledgling period, I was surprised to find (among various foods) very freshly-caught flounder at the base of the nesting The barred owl, slightly smaller than the great horned, seems to prefer stream bottoms and riparian woodlands, and perhaps it is more wary of suburbia than the upland-loving great horned. It does not have the great horned’s ear tufts. Nevertheless, its hearing is acute, as is its night vision, and it too is a very active, aggressive predator. I recently heard of one that killed a flam ingo. Barred owls tend to nest later in the season than the great horned. They 're more likely to take up residence in a hollow tree. or. not locating a suitable tree, a nest box. The great horneds in-

Golf course vandalized

■Mpers (rime Stoppers, a non-profit organization involving the police, the media and the public in the fight against crime, offers anonymity and cash rewards to persons who furnish information leading to the arrest and the filing of criminal charges against felony offenders. The following “Crime of the Week” was furnished by the Kosciusko County Crime Stoppers organization:

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variably take over nests built by crows, herons, or hawks __J A box in" your yard won’t, of course, guarantee a nesting owl, but you can try. Meanwhile, you can listen for barred owls on cold winter nights. Its hoot, often paraphrased as “Who cooks for you 9,” is similar to the fairly regular call of a great horned (“hoot”) owl. But it also has a large variety of other vocalizations — including what might be described as maniacal laughter enough to set your own internal time close back a month or two. For a Backyard Wildlife Habitat information packet, contact the National Wildlife Federation, Dept NB, 1-412 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 2266

Extensive damage to a golf course is the “Crime of the Week.” On the morning of July 30, a large amount of damage to the golf course at the Tippecanoe Country Club was discovered During the night, intruders had driven a vehicle over the area between the twelfth and seventeenth greens. The spinning wheels have caused over $2,000 in damage. Persons with information concerning this incident are asked to call Crime Stoppers, toll-free, at 1-800-342-STOP. Crime Stoppers will pay up to SI,OOO if the information leads to an arrest or indictment. Crime Stoppers also pays cash rewards on other felony crimes and the capture of fugitives. Callers will be assigned a code number and will not be asked to reveal their names.

Reagan criticized President Reagan did not consult with U.S. intelligence agencies about the possibility of retaliation from Iranian terrorists before ordering U.S. ships to escort Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said.

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Philharmonic to hold auditions

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus, directed by John Loessi, will hold auditions for new members on Friday, Aug. 28, from 5-8 p.m. and on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the East Rehearsal Room of the Performing Arts Center. Audition appointments may be made by calling the Philharmonic Chorus manager at 747-5252 after 3 p.m. Applicants

Moving seat of government not always a capital idea

j By BORIS WEINTRAUB a|* National Geographic Over the next few years, if everything goes according to plan, Argentina will begin to move its capital from Buenos Aires to the virtually unknown city of hjstory is any gpiae, a number of things will happen: -/There will be significant cost overruns and lengthy delays in construction. — Government officials, foreign embassies, cultural institutions. and ordinary citizens will resist the move, protesting that the new capital is too far away from anything that makes life worth living. — The government will move anyway, and critics will then complain that the new capital, the result of careful planning, is too sterile and artificial. — After 50 or 100 years, everyone will accept Viedma as the capital and point to it with pride as a national symbol. No one will remember what all the fuss was about Nations create new capitals for many reasons: independence, as in the case of the United States, compromise, which is why Australia’s capital is Canberra, not Sydney or Melbourne; a desire to open vacant land for settlement, as Brazil did in building Brasilia; a leader's wish to modernize his nation, which is why Peter the Great built St. Petersburg, now Leningrad; and even the need to avoid hurricanes, the reason British Honduras, now Belize, built Belmopan. Argentine President Raul Alfonsin startled his nation April 15, 1986, with a speech designating Viedma and its sister city across the Rio Negro, Carmen de Patagones, as the new

should prepare a song or hymn of their choice. An accompanist will be provided. The chorus will rehearse weekly during the Philharmonic season on Tuesday evenings from 7:30-9:45 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center, beginning September 1. Performances will include Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Requiem”

i ’ capital. Their combined popula- | tion is about 50,000, far from the 10.7 million —a third of the nation’s population — who live in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. It wasn't the idea of moving the capital that was so startling. Such a move had been considered since the 19th century, and there is a genera] agreement that Buenos Aires plays far too dominant a role in Argentine life. But few expected Alfonsin to choose a site in Patagonia, which has a fourth of the nation’s land but only three percent of its population. Nor did anyone expect him to announce that he anticipated such speedy action that the next Argentine president could be inaugurated in Viedma, 495 miles south of Buenos Aires, in 1989. Argentine legislators have supported Alfonsin. But no one is entirely certain how a debt-racked nation will come up with the estimated $2 billion it will cost to establish a new Federal District that may have half a million residents by 1995. Mario del Carril, press spokesman for the Argentine embassy here, urges that the cost be 'ooked upon as the price for de >'■loping the Patagonian frontier, nut just as the expense of building a new capital. But he admits that a 1989 inauguration date in Viedma is “elastic," and would be symbolic in any event. Alfonsin’s speech encouraged Argentines to look for guidance to West Germany’s selection of the sleepy university town of Bonn as a capital, rather than to neighboring Brazil’s establishment of the new, central capital city of Brasilia. Like Argentina, Brazil had long talked of building an inland capital. The country’s first constitution, adopted after independence in 1822, called for one. But Rio de Janeiro remained the capital until Juscelino Kubitschek, campaigning for the presidency in 1956, pledged to build the new city. A plan was developed for a site 578 miles northwest of Rio. Construction began in 1957, and by the time Kubitschek's successor was inaugurated in Brasilia in 1960, its population was 100,000. Construction continued even through the years of military rule that followed. Despite protests about the sterility of the central city and the emergence of

at the February 6 Philharmonic concert and Verdi’s “Stabat Mater” at the April 9 Philharmonic concert. On the Spectrum series, the chorus will perform Part V of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on December 13 and 14 and will perform Copland and Joplin at the concerts on February 13 and 14. The chorus will also perform on December 5 in a Holiday Pops concert.

slumlike satellite cities, the Federal District has continued to grow. The population is now estimated at 1.6 million and is still rising. In the new United States, the Founding Fathers fought bitterly about where the capital should be. The first Congress almost chose Germantown, Pa., and a Massachusetts congressman ) spoke words that have been echoed by many who have come toWashington, D.C.: ‘‘lt is the opinion of all the Eastern States that the climate of the Potomac is not only unhealthy, but destructive to northern constitutions. Vast numbers of eastern adventurers have gone to the Southern States, and all have found their graves there.” Weather played a more important role in establishing a new capital for the Central American nation of Belize. After Hurricane Hattie destroyed three-quarters of the old capital of Belize City in 1961, killing more than 260 people, British Honduras built the new city of Belmopan 40 miles inland. The government moved in 1970, and Belmopan today has about 5,000 residents. British authorities also were responsible for building New Delhi and making it the capital of their Indian empire, cljoosing a site that had been homeMo eight previous capitals over 3,000 years. True to form, the site was chosen in 1911, but not until 1929 did it replace Calcutta as the seat of government. Canberra, whose isolated site 153 miles from Sydney was selected in 1912 — wags called it “the world’s best-lighted sheep station” — took 15 years to become Australia’s capital. A permanent home for its parliament is only now being built. v Capitai-creation of a country is not merely another city, it is a leader among cities. It is a symbol of our hopes. It is a mirror of our desires. It is the heart and soul of the nation.” If that’s the case, some nations have divided hearts and souls. Bolivia, for example, has an administrative capital at La Paz and a separate legal and judicial capital at Sucre. And South Africa goes it one better: It has a legislative capital at Cape Town, an administrative capital at Pretoria, and a judicial capital at Bloemfontein.