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Our Stand on the Election
An opinion article by Byron Baker and Marjorie E. Smith. Baker and Smith give their own personal opinions, unaffiliated with the Guam Times Weekly, on the 1964 Election and the Democratic and Territorial Party
Our Fair Island
An article by Byron Baker. Baker talks about the growing dump in Dededo, known as the Dededo Dump, and how various governmental agencies still have not addressed it
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 7
(5) Cummings, Bruce, 1936, North Queensland Naturalist, 4, Cairns, pp. 42: Encounter Between Cone Shell and Octopus
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 6
(4) Yashiro Hirataka, 1939, Fatal Bite of Conus Geographicus. Venus, 9 (3-4): 165-166
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 5
Figure 1: This free-hand drawing of a Conus Textile shows the animal extended from the shell. Note that the proboscis extends the small end of the shell.
Figure 2: Shown here is an anatomical drawing of the poison venom system of the cone shell…
Figure 2: Shown here is an anatomical drawing of the poison venom system of the cone shell…
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 4
(3) Flecker, H., 1936, Cone Shell Molluse Poisoning, with Report of a Fatal Case. The Medical Journal of Australia, 1, pp. 464-466, 2 text
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 3
(2) Shannon, G.A. 1956, Comments on the Treatment of Reptile Poisoning, Venoms. 405-412
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 2
Collection of killers. Everyone of these lovely sea-shells, when alive, is capable of killing a man. Once bitten, there is nothing medical science knows that effectively combats the poison. Shells in top row, from left: Tulipa, Striatus and…
The Beautiful But Deadly Cone Shell Photo 1
This shell killed a man! On August 29, 1964, Ricardo A. Alerta was stung by this Geographer Cone (which at that time contained a live animal) while skin-diving at Cabras Island. He died four hours later. (Photos with this article are by Byron Baker.)
