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Show DESEkET NEWS, Satu.day, June 14, 196? A3 Hs a problem? Dial ), 6 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, or write to Box 1257, Salt Lake Gty, UN 84110. How To Raise Worms My Ivys are interested in raising norms nightcrawl-- ; ers. Wotii; you please let ns know where we could find book-let- s on this? Mrs. G.H., Salt Lake City. You have been sent a comprehensive bulletin issued by . the Utah State University Extension The S.L. County Agricultural Agent at 1750 S. Redwood Rd., also has some. Interesting. One can raise them inside or out. Some of the in- -' gredients involved include manure, topsoil, peat moss, con: meal or mash, water, burlap, commercial rabbit food (pellets) soybean meal, sugar, kitchen and garden wastes, fruits and vegetables, and of course, properly constructed boxes and worms. j, Sen-ices- , They'll Mail It Again : I mailed a cheek on May 20 to a radiology lab for some work for my wife. I asked for a receipted bill to sub- mit with a medicare claim. I have called them and they as-- " sored me they would send it but I dont get it. JJI, Salt Lake Gty. y Strange. They did mail It and it was returned unclaimed. rBut you say theres no explanation of why you would not ;.have received it. Address was correct, etc. However, theyll . and hope youll receive. il For Make Exceptions You-W- efll Last year you mentioned in your column something about wood finish which the U.S. forest sen-icpeople nsed on outside, picnic and recreation benches and tables. Could yon ' Mrs. J.C., Salt Lake City. repeat it for me? f a ; e cannot because of the Normally, Do-I- t Man does not old ones. However, number of new questions repeat large r he does make exceptions when he feels the question and information is of general interest to many. Hence, you have been sent the latest information on this provided by the U.S. Forest Service. Briefly, successful results are obtained from the use of polyester resin along with glass doth. One coat of super bonding resin is applied to the top and side surfaces of , the tables. After this, the glass doth, similar to that used for fibreglassing boat bulls, is applied. Then two finished coats of fiie resin are applied over the glass cloth. Better Take A Loaner I have had a typewriter in a repair service sto-- e In Provo since November 1968 and have not been able to get it .as the owner says he cant get a part. I need my machine for ' 'elasswork and hope you can do something about it P.M., In Whats the matter with getting a loaner? And why didnt you do this long ago? They say ones available and has been all the time. Delay on yours is for two reasons: Ma- chine is of foreign make and is old. They have not believe it or not, been able to locate the part which is needed. . At Last-So-me Ufy Is Alfa, Welt M Action - My admiration for your ability to kelp others win be .' even greater if you help me. On Jan. 16 I ordered an MOffi-- -i ial Student Guide To Europe front the U.S. National Stn-- ? tlent Travel Assn., In N.T. I have my canceled check back " but no book. Several letters to them have been answered ; your order will be rushed soon. . . but It never has. I will leaving for Europe on June 10 and need the guide. D.C.R., Provo. ; Your letter was dated May 2Q We wrote to N.Y. cn May the following from you. Thank you for your help in obtaining the copy of . . . etc. What you did in a matter of days, I failed to be able to do in months. The book arrived per Air Mail yesterday. 21. On May 28 we got I have a class of boys in Guide PatroL We have named our patrol the Panther Patrol. I am having a problem finding out the sound a panther makes. We have to have fills so the boys can do their patrol cerentorles properly. I was wondering if you have any idea where I could get a sound of one? Mrs. B., Salt Lake Gty. Apparently you didnt realize that the mountain lion, found in some Utah areas is also loosely known as a panther, bet your guide patrolers are a cougar and a puma. Also already quite familiar with how they sound. This is because if they watch TV (and they tell me children do) there is a pop- ular commercial which uses the sound of a cougar in their advertising. Why not listen? Certificate Mailed . I have been frying to get a lost stock certificate for 1006 shares of New Universe Uranium from a Nevada firm. A . S.L. firm issued a warranty bond for this lost certificate and I paid them for it. The Nevada firnf first said they didnt re , reive the bond, so a duplicate was sent by registered mail. Still no certificate. Can you help me or must I file a claim H. L., Salt Lake with the Nevada Securities Commission? ; ' City. The certificate has been mailed r to you. ;gji a A'aTrirtnnnnryrmTnmnrmTmTnnrmTrymTns i - Weekly Calendar Fun And Culture: 1: ! !: I I Music And Dance CBS radio and TV broadcast In tti Tabtrnac:, Mormon Ttbtmtcl Choir 0.30 a.m., Juna 15; rehearsal, 7:30 p.m., Juno 10. Free. Student recital. Salt Lakt Public Library Michael Judd Sl.aranian, Violin Ltcturt Hall, J0 E. 5th South, 7 p.m. June 10. Theater -- r e o' o' ' Institute of Fine Aria Contest Plays "Hotel Gringo," by Utah Slat Kenneth Post, Juno It; "Indian love Call," by Van C. Gessel, June 17; C. Workman, Juno IB; all plyi 1:30 p.m., Babcock "Canned Laughter," by Paul Theater In University of Utah Pioneer Memorial Theater. "A Funny Thing Happened On Tha Way To Tha Forum" Lagoon Optra House, 1:30 pm., Wednesday through Saturdays. Theater 131, "Tht Paisley ConvortiMo" East, 1:30 pjrw Juno Id, 30 and 21. Sllvar Wheal Ttwatar, Park City, 0 p.m., "Tha Cat and Th Canary" June U. 30 and 21 Desmond Darkhoart" of Deeds Golden Splkt Playhouse, "Th Dastardly Brigham City, 0 p.m., June Id, 20 and 21. Other Events ' , ing. project at the University a few years ago to transplant 4,006 bulbs elided in failure when someone watered them too much. Only 14 flowers bloomed the next year. A of Utah But let them go their own way and theyll flourish. Dr. Cottam said earlier this week he found them blooming out by Vernon, Tooele County. They also grow on Promontory Point, Stansbury Island, by Lookout Pass in Tooele County, etc. grow all over the Dr. Cottam said. Its good state flower, They state, a The segs Uly, dear to the hearts ot Mormons because of the part it played in helping the pioneers stave off hunger in the spring of 1848, was made the Utah state flower in 1911. Salt Palace. June 10 through 22. National Gem and Mineral Show Star Chamber program, Hansen Planetarium, IS S. "Th Black Cloud" Stale, dally except Mondays, beginnine June 10. Admission fro to museum and exhibit hell. The Spiral Staircase Lagoon Patio Gardens. 0 p.m., June 21. "It's A beeutifut Day" Light show, with Santana, end lights by Rainbow Geru. Terraco Bellroom, ddd S. Main, 7 and 0:30 p.m., Juno 31. Golden Spike Promontory, 1 to 1:30 p.m. dolly. Fro, Music Hall, 1:30 p.m Juno 20. woody Herman g i Its true the sego tiles have been crowded out of the Salt Lake Valley where homes and roads and subdivisions have been built, but they havent given up. Anyone who has been up in the foothills above the university the past two or three weeks can attest to this. Literally thousands of the creamy white lilies with their spectacular purple and yellow centers dotted the dry hillsides. The sego lily (calochortus nuttallii) appears to be a persistent, independent little blossom that grows where it wants to grow without any coddling or meddling from mankind. It favors plains or hillsides and doesnt tolerate much waterwell-drain- tony tti number of colto and tti volume of molt to answer ovory ouostlon. Piano, no medical or local it ImpoosiW mok ana Wrt can suMtiona. Don't aond otompa nr onvolopot only b vivon In tbit column. Only nutation of gontrol Monti arid bo at (tie boon proscribed. Olva yew nama, addraaa and talapbana nnmbtr Man abac answared and tatapbona call can ba accaplcd only on tha Do-I- t but It help Do-Man bain you.) not for publication (Editor's Mol: Wo'r 4 ri Arthur H. Holmgren, professor of botany at Utah State University, said there are 10 species of sego lily in the intermountain country. There are three varieties of the state flower of Utah. In addition to the white one, some with pale lavender petals are found in southern Utah and one has a In fact, Dr. Walter P. Cob tarn, professor emeritus of botany at the University of Utah, declared emphatically this week, There are more segos now than there ever have been. Watch TV Commercial - pact they would fight m mar battles oa fields where the sego lily grew, and fins it was that peace, friendUneM and prosperity was established amoung the Ute Indians. , Contrary to a popular belief started a few years ago, Utahs state flower, the sego lily, is far from disappearing from the scene. .be . Wh By MAXINE MARTZ Deseret News Staff Writer -- ' spring of 1848 Pioneers supplemented meager diet by digging bulbs of sego lilies which grew abundantly in the Salt Lake Valley. The settlers had learned from the Indians that the bulbs of the sego lilies couid be used for food. That spring before their field and garden crops had matured and bfore golden color. may be found blooming from through the first week of June, depending on where you are, but the individual flowers last only a short time. As soon as they are pollinated the Sego lilies mid-Ma- y ', petals drop off. The same bulbs go on tor several years producing more flowers, and hi addition, the seeds from the flowers start new plants. Prof. Holmgren said. The sego lily's small bulbs were food supplies arrived from tha east, many of the pioneers supplemented their meager diets with sego lily bulbs. new The bulb, about the size of a sparrows egg or walnut, Is usually five or six inches down in the hard dry ground at the end of the slender stem which bears the flower. The morsels were eaten raw, boiled or roasted. Boiled, they are said to taste something like a potato. Roasting supposedly gave them a butternut-like flavor. The white in flower lip-lik- e has a triangular appearance with its three sepals, three petals and six stamens. The slender stems, which may grow 8 to 20 inches tall, have a few grass-lik- e leaves. cup-shap- The Indians frequently the bulbs and made bread from the starchy meal. The name is of sego ground Shoshonean origin. The belief that the sego lily was disappearing from Utah gave rise to a big project in 1963 when highway construction was going to cut through a field at eaten by the Pioneers raw, boiled or roasted. 27th South and 23rd East. The field was filled with sego lilies and Mrs. Leon Sheya, 4900 Emigration Canyon, leader of Brownie Troop 246, thought it would be worth trying to transplant the bulbs rather than having them bulldozed out and destroyed. I got advice from all the experts on the best time to transplant the bulbs and how to go about it, and permission from the highway department and property owners and half a dozen others to dig them np and plant them again, Mrs. Sheya recalled. The best time to dig them up was after the blooms had gone and the foliage had died back. So dozens of little Brownies went out in the field while the blooms were on to mark the spots with sharp sticks and then went back a month later to dig up the bulbs. Mrs. Sheya estimates perhaps 1,000 bulbs were dug up with a variety of digging tools and of that number the about half survived ordeal. They were transplanted to the hillsides by This Is The Place Monument, Pioneer Monument State nonj Park, at the mouth gration Canyon. of Emi- By the time she had consulted all the experts, got all the permission necessary, herded Brownies around for the stake-ou- t, the digging and the planting, Mrs. Sheya had about had it with sego lilies. In the intervening years she never once stopped by to see if any of them survived. Mitchell Sims, superintendent of the park, said that last year there were lots of sego lilies blooming on the hillside north of the Visitor Center, but he doesnt know if they were natives or the transplants. No flowers were blooming when he checked this week, but they may have been in blossom earlier and not visible in the tall June grass. Dr. Cottam believes everyone should see the state flower, but he cautions not to pick them or dig up the bulbs. Leave them for others to see and enjoy. The best way to really enjoy the wild flowers is through color photography. Many visitors to the State Capitol and Temple Grourds ask about the sego lilies and would like to see them, but because of the difficulty in transplanting and caring for them, particularly the waterno attempts ing problem, have been made to raise the state flower in cultivated gardens. However, there is a possibility that sego lilies may be on the Temple blooming Grounds in a year or two. A special section is being prepared around the Pioneer Handcart statue to resemble the Utah desert with sagebrush, rabbitbrush. Indian paintbrush and cactus. The superintendent of the grounds said he plans to transplant some sego lily bulbs into the plot and, hopefully, they will be there for visitors to see next spring. There is a legend about the Indians and the sego lily. One morning after a great battle in which hundreds of red warriors had been slain, the battlefield was covered with thousands of these little flowers. The Great Spirit showed his red sons how to dig and eat the bulb of the plant and save themselves from starvation. The Indians then niade a 1 He echoed Dr. Cottams sentiments that the sego lily is far from becoming extinct. Its just a matter of looking for it in the right place at the right time. For all its historical interest, the sego lily has not been extolled In verse much by Utah poets. However, one poem did appear in The Improvement &a in 1950. It follows: The Sego Lily By Lydia Hall 7n springtime in a desert land found a treasure in the sand: The ichite icings of the floxcer graced upland of the arid icaste. And , oh, I icished that I 1 could share That splendid thing blossomed With aU there that who walk dag after day Where streets and hearts are cold and gray. , For many souls have need to go Along a sundrenched trail. 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