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Page 4Bnx EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Thurs., June 21, 1062 Qeologists Probe Andy tends a complete, 20 volume set of the World Book Encyclopedia to Rusty Mims, age 13, of Nashville, Tenn., and Gwendolyn Hinson, age 13, of Cleveland, Ohio, for their question: What causes earthquakes? Geologists are taking a deep er look for the causes of earth quakes and other upheavals. A new theory suggests that the crustal unrest which causes earthquakes may be caused by upsets from deeper within the earth. Project Mohole, that bold plan to drill down to the earth's mantle, may help prove this new theory right or wrong. The restless upheaval of growing mountains, accom panied by volcanoes and earth quakes, is called diastrophism. And more than 80 per cent of this activity occurs in the huge rim of stresses and cracks in the earth's crust around the Pa cific Coast. Earthquakes are caused by faults where two layers of the earth's crust are moving, at maybe a few inches a year, in different directions. At the fault, the two edges of the crustal blocks cling to gether by friction for days or years. They bend under the strain like coiled springs. At last the springs uncoil with a shuddering earthquake. The two sides of the fault may slide 20 feet in different directions, pop up or down to form a ridge of cliffs and the huge crustal blocks unbend all in a few mo ments. A few earthquakes are Mecca Pilgrimage Becoming WASHINGTON Though a pilgrimage to Mecca still tests Moslem's faith and endurance, it is gradually becoming less rigorous. Most of the devout Moslems who attended the recent annual rites at the sacred center of Islam have now returned or are on their way back to homes ranging from north vest Africa to Southeast Asia. As they enjoy the satisfaction of having fulfilled the Koran's Injunction to visit the birth place of the prophet Moham med, they can also remember such novel comforts there as air conditioning and running ice water. Oil Buys Improvements In the last decade the King of Saudi Arabia has poured mil lions of dollars from oil reve nues into improvements for the holy places under his official protection, says the National Geographic Society. The 45-mile road to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jidda has been paved. Trees are being planted to shade travelers from the sun's blistering rays. Arriving in Jidda by sea or air, pilgrims no longer are forced to trudge or jog by cam elback over rough desert rail. They can go by bus or, if afflu ent enough, hire a limousine. A public light-and-power sys tem was Installed at Mecca in the early 1050s. The Great Mosque has been vastly en ( HURRY, SAVIYtR-iAM.' Wt'RI HOlDINt Tilf PUtlS 7ZA WUf 0,MR! 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A deep fault between layers moving in different directions explains earthquake activity and most earthquakes are no deeper than 40 miles, which is within or near the limits of the crustal layer. But a few earthquakes on record were 200, 300, and 43S miles deep, which is down in the dense mantle layer below the crust. Maybe the upheavals of crustal diastrophism are caused by activity in the dense, hot mantle which reaches down 1,800 miles. One theory suggests that con vection cells, like gigantic pots of boiling soup may occur throughout the mantle. In such a cell, hot, rising convection currents could push up some areas of the crust while other .sat. 8 Andy awards each day a (uli ut of the World Book Encyclopedia for tha flt question be selects to answer. When a second question Is answered a large world sloba or aUaa la awarded. Questions are accepted from teen - aae or less-than-teen-age readers. They should be addressed to tha Register-Guard, 75 Hl(h St., Eugene. Andy prefers that questions be written on postcards, rather than In let ter form. larged. Hundreds of thousands of worshipers can stand togeth er in its open court before the holy of holies the cube-shaped basalt Kaaba that Moslems be lieve was built by Abraham at the bidding of God. To make room for the mosque's expansion, the sur rounding jumble of shops is being torn down under a multimillion-dollar building pro gram. A huge air-conditioned pilgrim shelter rises at the site. Pipes carry cold water from a refrigerating plant to the nearby village of Mina to bring relief to the thirsty crowds who camp out there for the three day ritual of animal sacrifice. Even more important are the modern health regulations. Epi demics of cholera, smallpox, and typhoid once traveled with the pilgrims. Today, vaccination controls contagious diseases. Hospitals and mobile first-aid units tend the sick; food chill ing and sanitation help keep others well. Hardships Inevitable Yet despite the ameliorations, the great hadj, or pilgrimage, is by its very nature an ordeal. Many participants spend meager life savings to get to Mecca, leaving little for later needs. Some are elderly and ailing. All face overcrowding and lack of facilities in a city whose permanent populntinn of less than 150,000 is suddenly multi plied many times. In recent Quakes areas were sucked down by cooler, descending currents, if across the vast oceans of space, this idea is correct, It could ex plain the heaving crustal activ ity and the overall patterns of the earth's diastrophism. In any case, several interlocking causes play a part in these dramatic events. We can still say that most earthquakes are caused by frac tures and the crustal move ments of diastrophism. But these crustal upheavals may well be caused by activity in the mantle. We need to know of the nature of this deep, dense layer and maybe Project Mo hole will supply the missing clues. Andy sends a Hammond's International World Globe to Stewart Moser, age 9, of Hou ston, Texas, for his question: Why do stars give off radio waves? The sun and the stars pour out seething atomic energy in all directions. We can see their light and the sun is close enough for us to feel its heat. But these seething furnaces also radiate other kinds of energy, such as the ectromagnetic en ergy we call radio waves. The radio telescope is a giant receiving set which traps the invisible radio waves coming from the starry nuclear fur naces. It is a new invention for probing the distant skies and almost every day it reveals sur prising new information from Less Rigorous years, when Islam's lunar cal endar put the annual pilgrim age in hot summer months, hundreds of people died from sunstroke and the infirmities of the aged. The required rituals held under the blazing Arabian sun are exacting and exhausting. Worshipers must circle the Kaa ba seven times on three sep arate occasions, and run anoth er seven laps between the neighboring hills of Safa and Marwa. They stand bareheaded for hours, praying before the Mount of Mercy. At Mina, they stone a white pillar represent ing the Devil, and slaughter goats, sheep, and camels on the Field of Sacrifice. To strict Moslems, however, the greater the hardship, the more merit acquired. Returning home, they welcome the pres tige of being a hadjL Some hope to die in the sacred city of Mec ca, for they believe death there will entitle them to a special place of honor in heaven. eggs in mixing their paints, perience, it takes the knack of j vS?' fe 1 eVJ3 5T i r$P2r Of r?ilv:ix' Sff " Technicians restoring Renais- knowing one's limitations, to 'vTaSrai M0VIM EGalVMS tiiis.ii A VLoii HQ ' A "V'SF sance paintings have found make the best use of nitrogly- co dbJuJ!l SrSfi CO. fwCaf It" THINK V -3 W$W Z that a modern synthetic poly- cerine. J2rJr. Ts,Im ' eaJr-4-' ' W :iyl TUIMlf ijw vinyl acetate mixed with dry But at that point the patient's O "''! ss - 1 lo 0 ILJcZLxZ. pigments is likely to stand the knowledge adds immeasurably 3 jr53tKKa7T21 g IJSlI"!!'1' W f TTL-5rr-Xr--:n7liy test of time far better than the to his own daily comfort. il5t!'OrT5vri SsL iLai '-y- VsT traditional egg medium, the Na- No, nitroglycerine is not hab- v. FL&&3) w-f , aii ?. vkl lil v2T 2 tional Geographic Magazine it-forming, and it does not lose -LTXta. xLA (id To Your Health Angina Pain A Signal Of Trouble By JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Dr. Molner: Your recent article on the heart has been a blessing to me. I have angina pectoris and take nitroglycerine tablets quite often for pain. Prior to reading your article, I had never known about taking the pills before the pain starts. I have been doing it now and it helps me in making my bed, go ing up and down stairs, running the vacuum sweeper and many other things that cause pain. Thank you! MRS. I.L.M. And thank you, and others who have written. The pain of angina pectoris comes when the heart is sub jected to more strain than it can comfortably meet. The pain, in a very real sense, is nature's warning, so we cannot altogeth er object to it It does us a serv ice. ... However, when a patient has learned to know the amount of effort which is going to cause an attack, but still has that neces sary activity to perform, a pill in advance wards off the pain, or at least makes it milder. The nitroglycerine is not a "pain killer." It relieves, or avoids, the discomfort by per mitting a temporary extra surge of circulation in the heart mus cle, and this removes, for the moment, the condition which causes nature to sound its alarm. It takes patients a bit of time and experience to know how much work their hearts can do without this painful protest. Once they realize the amount, it is possible to take the pill in advance. This might lead (indeed it has) to a question as to why patients couldn't swallow the pills all the time, and thus avoid pain completely. For one thing, it would be a dreadful waste of money, be cause the pills are effective only at these moments of over load. You can't "save up" their ef fect, any more than you can give up breathing right now just because you breathed twice as often 10 minutes ago. Anyone who mistakenly sup posed that taking twice as many pills would let him overtax his heart twice as much would, of course, be sadly in error. Nitro glycerine is a wonderfully help ful drug, but It can do only so much. Or to put it still another way, two aspirins yesterday don't help today's headache. But one aspirin, just as the head ache is starting, is better than two later on. That's the simple secret of getting the most good from ni troglycerine. It takes some ex perience, it takes the knack of knowing one's limitations, to make the best use of nitrogly cerine. But at that point the patient's knowledge adds immeasurably to his own daily comfort. No, nitroglycerine is not habit-forming, and it does not lose its effect from repeated use. rp , . 1 1 J- ANaoAiswooaA. T ' -v J uu --i.--taV.L II Jjil.'iaiiiiiUll'.W'riH dont Name "TShe had no choice! GideonV On the surface! I p.n g f t iiXST'u' .wahin a Gideon! Jjdy decided ) wouldn't .have been- fit to f ne X Inside she must be ) bu mtw.IUalt?Wtryviress is thinq on jAjNewVn if he hadn't QoiJ& ) crying her heart J Ijudu has given Uptl? cor K her om Br&J preaa ' tot I j&iS2A)Za! r- - the cottage so O, west-Side, k$r, sST- ' A rR does! SV aaA v TlTS, rN0,HE'5 0NH0U5r.l (vy WOULD YOU PLEASE TELL HIMXiSj fcWV THIS 15 A5 600D A TIM T5KT"!1I ' -V 1 U CALLS. MR. FARNU J51 IT WONT BE NECESSARY MR IJIwl rTRASANYTO FINDOUT ABOUT fc.ffl1' MISS GALE? THIS ISl IS THERE ANY Jt Vr2V!IM TO SEE MY WIFE fcLSAySl MSoTHIS MAN SINDOO fMjiL OH, WE'LL UC TKAT aL0 OA.WE'U. 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