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e EUtiEN'E REGISTER-GUARD, Friday, AprU 6, 1962 Page SBxix Ml, III YOU'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE I FOR A HALF . HOUR -WHO That's Nature By PRINCE HELFRICJI Northwest Conservation!! NERE VOL) TALKING , TO 9 , ( Come and See Boat Parade ,:jiiiili)iililiiiH illl IT WAS A Rl"' J WPONG NUMBER, f BUT WE JUST SEEMED J TO H IT IT OFF j ' (who is) (SHg.pr' 0 (robins J 1 i mw: w The deep green waters of the McKenzie are flowing swiftly from pool to pool. A faint tinge of color is present from the melting snow. In the quiet pools a fish rises for a May fly and an occasional kingfisher wings his way up river to a better fishing pool. But this peaceful scene will be replaced by a colorful ar ray of some 200 boats next week (April 15) when the 24th annual White Water Boat Pa rade will float the river from Redsides to the Leaburg Dam. The first W.W.B.P. was held by a group of guides on a family outing in 1938. On succeeding years other river runners joined them and soon the boats numbered over one hundred. This year will see more than 200 floating crafts of all kinds shoot the 20 miles of rapids. Thousands of spectators line Ask Andy Quicksilver Is a Fascinating Substance Andy sends a complete, 20-volume set of the World Book Encyclopedia to Scott Woodside, age S. Ottawa On tario, for his question: What Is Quicksilver? Quicksilver is that shiny grey thread in the thermome ter which goes up when you have a fever. It is the same shiny thread which tells the temperature on a weather thermometer and it is the same thread which rises and falls to show air pressure on a barometer. If you have seen it only sealed away in one of , these thin glass tubes, you would never guess what a fac cinating substance this quick silver is. If you break a thermome ter, a few drops of quicksilver may run out from the tiny glass tube. It looks like silver and behaves like drops of water. A small puddle may separate into drops like sil very beads and, when several drops touch each other, they merge again into a puddle. Watch out, or the silvery beads will run down a slope or run right off a table. Watch out also to keep this frisky silver away from your mouth Andy awards each day a full set of the World Book Encyclopedia for tho first question he selects to answer s When a second question Is answered a large world globe , or atlas Is awarded. Questions are accepted from teen-age Si or less-than-teen-age readers rhcy should be addressed to the Register-Guard, 975 High y St., Eugene. Andy prefers $ that questions be written on h postcards, rather than in let- ter form. HAIN'T NO MORE. REASOM TO GOT TWO HOOMlNt J, ' It o '( HERE, HELP ME GET MY FRIEND INTO 10UI? ) -j RICKSHA. HE'S HAPA FEW TOO MAMV. j 4H?60TTA BE SURE f I , j the banks to see the boats come by and to see an occa sional boat capsize. This hap pens quite frequently. In the past years ten per cent of the boats have tipped over. Clover Point, just above Nimrod, is the first place where accidents are expected. The parade reaches this point about 11:30. In the afternoon the hot spot is Martin Rapids, which is reached about 2:30. This is the biggest rapids on the riv er and every minute is filled with spills or near misses. Hundreds of cars cross Good pasture Bridge and go up river to watch the excitement of boats coming through. The McKenzie River Guides have patrol boats throughout the floating craft to pick any unfortunate adventurer out of the water. They ask all par ticipants to wear life pre servers because this is a very and food for it is poisonius. We call this wonder stuff mercury, though the old name quicksilver was a very good one. In days gone by, the word quick used to mean liv ing and mercury certainly acts like living silver or quick silver. Actually, the wonder ful material is metal. It is so full of life because it is the only metal which reaches its liquid state at ordinary tem peratures. Iron, copper, gold and aluminum are stiff and solid because they are frozen at ordinary temperatures. Mercury too can be frozen solid, but the temperature has to be a chilly 38 degrees To Your Good Health Tic Douloureux Strikes With Savage Pain By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Doctor Molner: We read your article on tic dou loureux with great interest, as my husband had it for 14 years. Six years ago he had an operation performed by a neuosurgeon. It has given him great relief. The surgeon said my hus band would have to trade, pain for numbness, which he was very willing to do. MRS. E. G. Tic douloureux is an afflic tion of the trigeminal nerve, which is particularly sensitive to pain. The nerve is part of our protection against damag ing the delicate organs of the face eyes, nose, mouth, etc. When for some reason the nerve is injured or affected, it I tranmits pain signals with great CAREFUL: AM DOUBTS THET ONE is HOOMIN NEAH.IHeY'BE ALU fwiNS back frcya Tor7 i V important safety measure. The parade is slated to leave Redsides at 10:00 in the morn ing and reach West's gravel bar where a lunch is served about 12:30. An interesting and lively program, including presentation of the beautiful White Water Queen and her court, will be going on until time to continue on down the river. Other good places to watch the boats go by are Cooks Rapids about 11:00 o'clock, Bear Creek at 1:30 and Gate Creek towards the end of the run. Boats take out at the dam about four o'clock. Invited guests of the guides are made up of radio, televi sion, newspaper, movie and magazine writers, as well as state and national dignitaries. Some funny and unusual things happen on the run. One time a large fat lady fell out of the boat in a big rapids. below zero. On such a bit terly cold day, the runny mercury in a thermometer would become solid like a sliver of iron. It could not move up and down to tell us the temperature or whether we have a fever. In an oven at 675 Fahrenheit degrees, our runny mercury would boil away and become a gas eous vapor. In the modern world, we have about 3,000 different jobs for mercury to do. But we have to dig for our sup plies of this wonderful met al. We find it as an ore, mixed with other minerals. One mercury ore is a bright intensity. Tic douloureux has been compared to "a toothache of the face," "a headache lower down," or "an acute attack of. sinus that keeps on and on." It has a tendency to start and stop, which gives the victim a little time to relax between as saults. But it's savage. . I wish that all who are read ing this column will never ex perience it but I know better, statistically. Some readers, com fortable now, will have it. "Tic" is not always as severe or lasting as in today's case. Sometimes the situation cor rects itself. Whatever is bother ing the nerve ceases to do so. Alcohol injections are some times used to deaden or anes thetize the nerve for a matter of weeks or perhaps even HO. TO WAITIN6 (DUNG K56 aiLoiiTp ( WHERETO? UlAVY PIER? Vu"ujoivpc y C efvjhuteverwasintha5 I eJiicSSi WA HOOMIM THEY'D BE J V r.iLTr? J ' UCKIN' THAR CHOPS.' r-S Her husband was trying to row with one hand and bring her into the boat with the other. The over-balanced boat rapidly filled and soon they were both in the water. A low-sided boat will slowly fill with water in the big waves and sink from underneath its passengers. Two or three boats will get too close to gether for rowing and all will float helpless through a white foaming run. I have seen a poorly made boat disintegrate into a mass of boards in the first rapids it hit. Sometimes a boat will stall in a huge wave and throw the oarsman into the icy water, leaving the amazed passenger to float through alone. This event on April 15 is the official opening of spring in the upper McKenzie Valley. Everybody is invited to join us. red stone called cinnabar. In this rocky ore, the mercury is combined with sulphur. When the red rock is heat ed, the mercury steams off as gas where it can be caught and allowed to cool in silvery drops. A cinnabar mine in Spain has been yielding mer cury for almost 3,000 years. Mercury vapor is used in ultraviolet and other lamps. It is combined with other elements to make explosives, paints, disinfectants and germ killers. It is used in making paints and dyes and there is mercury in the pretty red mercurochrome you put on a cut finger. months, in the hope that the trouble will end. Sometimes it doesn't. Then cutting the nerve is the last re sort. With the nerve once cut, the pain impulses no longer can reach the brain, and the patient is permanently comfortable. It is, indeed, a matter of "trading pain for numbness," and after continued pain, the numbness is a reasonable price to pay. - Dear Dr. Molner: What causes cold sores? H.C.C. A virus involving the root of a nerve. You'll notice that if a person is subject to cold sores, they tend to recur in the same area. Why? Because some par ticular nerve may be vulner able to repeated attacks. Q1S62, Field Enterprises, Inc. HURRICANE BASIN. I HAVE A JUNK JUST FOLLOW MY KICK5HA COME TOtHlNK. OF T.I DOfrT "MIRK IVjj EVfcK StfcN SO VMS' I HAP A1'1 " 1 iB (f HIYU, YOU En h aooo one ( know you're w 3 THEN IT I Ml A NOT ALLOWED B FADE? I I U , Ifn IN HERE L, Clovia's math .teacher was very nice, Nina. sue brie says all Llovia neeas n a little help nome. IT'S QUITE LATE. 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