WIEDNES;vIs.f, 20, 1949 Friendly Nuthatch Trapped 60 Times A white-breasted nuthatch is a friendly bird, and there's at least one that is unusually friendly. Almost too friendly, Merrill Wood says. Wood, who is assistant professor of zoology, has a hobby of trapping and banding birds. The little nuthatch has appeared in his trap 60 times during the past year. As a bird-bander, Wood assists the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior • to study the migratory, feeding, nesting, and flight characteris tics of birds. Wire Cago Wood plants a wire cage with some bait and when a bird walks into it, he adds a band to the leg of the bird before releasing it. To be a bird-bander a State and Federal permit are required and before they are issued, the would-be bander must be qual ified for the job. The law also requires that at least 100 birds per year be banded. Wood started his hobby in 1927, assisting his father, Dr. Harold B. Wood, in Harrisburg. It has been only in recent years, how ever, that he has been a bird bander on his own. He averages about 250 birds per year and re cently banded his I,oooth bird. Among the birds Woods has banded, three have been reported by banders in other localities. Robins were reported in Georgia and in Florida while a barn owl was reported in Arkansas. Checks Traps Wood's program consists of checking his traps each morning, noon, and evening. If the bird caught is not a "repeater," he takes it in a small cage to his garage where he weighs it, re cords its species, approximate age, sex, color of eyes, type of trap in which it was caught, and bait used. While the birds are frightened when trapped, Wood says the trapping and banding doesn t harm them. In fact many of them (like the white-breasted nut hatch), come back for more. Lecturer— Continued from page one "The Alternative to International Anarchy," a pamphlet published jointly in 1936 by the Federal Council of Churches and the Foreign Missions Conference. Dr. Nash was Rhodes Scholar from Missouri in 1916 and served with the British Army in India and East Africa in 1917-18. "Within recent years the de mand for him as a lecturer has been so great that he is now de voting the major portion of his time to the speaking platform and to serving with post-war plann ing groups and organizations," a spokesman for the State College World Federalists Chapter re ported. 60th Semi-Annual NOW IN PROGRESS Messes -. Sport Clothes Swim Swies - Shorts Famous Quartet To Appear Here The Southernaires Quar t e t, one of the outstanding vocal en sembles on the radio or concert stage today, will appear in the fourth of the Summer Artists Series in Schwab Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 2. The Southernaires will re place the Ebonaires Quartet, originally scheduled to appear on July 28 and who cancelled their appearance here. Organized since 1929, the Southernaires' beautifully blend ed voices have thrilled audiences all over the country. They are exponents of all kinds of vocal music, except popular swing, and present classics and ballads as effectively as they do songs of their own race. They won immediate popu larity with their first radio broad cast twenty years ago over ihe National Broadcasting Company's networks. In response to popular demand that they make personal appearances, they now appear throughout the country on the concert stage. Here their success has matched that which they won on the radio. The Southernaires are perhaps best known for their Sunday morning broadcast sent out to more than 200 stations of the American Broadcasting System at 10:30 a.m. On this program they have made the Weatherbeaten washed Church a trademark dur ing the past twenty years. In this portion of their broadcast a short scene is injected into the pro gram so that the audience may hear the old songs of Zion and listen to the prayer band leader. The quartet is composed of Ray Yeates, lyric tenor; John Taylor Jr., second tenor; William Franklin, baritone; William Ed monson, bass; and Spencer Odom, arranger and accompanist. H. R. Knickerbocker, noted journalist, who was among 45 persons killed in a plane crash in India Tuesday, was known to residents here. Knickerbocker ap peared on the Community Forum program at the College with Walter Duranty, journalist, on March 13, 1947. Schiow's and Other Merchandise at Sacrifice Prices Visit Schlow's TT E SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE CCU, lIEWINSITLEANIIA Journalist Killed School Heads-- Continue& from page one ference members at a luncheon at the State College Hotel. An entertainment program featuring a tea, bridge, an a tour of the new woman's dormitories and the College gardens has been pre pared for the wives of confer ence members. The annual conference dinner will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn at 6:30 p. in. Wednesday. Dean Marion R. Trabue, of the College School of Education will be the presiding officer. The main address will be given by Cameron Ralston, author and lec turer, on "The Five Plagues of Democracy." Brief remarks will be made at the dinner by Francis B. Haas, superintendent of. Public Instruc tion of Pennsylvania; David H. Stewart, president of Pennsyl vania State Education Associa tion; and Mabel Studebaker, president of the National Edu cation Association. The seventeenth annual handi cap golf tournament, sponsored by the Educational Salesman's Club of Pennsylvania, will be open to club members and school men. This will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26 and 27, on the College golf course. 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