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Pge Bn EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Wd.. Nov. 21. 1962 I,jiiiu!iii''i;i"ii''1' I t( quick Y'" I I iiiC wuat- wac that? F' 1 1 you just bocshtI ' ' K QUICK fvjHAT HAPPENED') C SsA ( ME A MEW ORESS, tMI,OEAR,SIVEM6) If QUICK S SVATPPENED;I iVOO OARLINS TW6NTY OOLLARS-y- . VpUICKy , tfC?" f Ask Andy Oxygen dndy jndi a complete 20-volume set of the World Book Encyclopedia to Glynn Edward Robinson, age 11, 0 Montgomery 3, Hobama, or his question? Whit is oxygen made of? A chemical element is made from atoms all of one kind. An atom is too small for our eyes to see and countless tril lions of oxygen atoms dance around in every thimbleful of invisible air. Oxygen is the most important and the most plentiful clement on the sur face of our teeming planet. And it is made from oxygen atoms, every one of them too small for our eyes to see. An atom is an orderly ar rangement of even smaller particles. It has been com pared to a solar system with a central sun and a number of orbiting planets. The nu cleus of the atom can be com pared with the sun. It is a wad of particles bound to gether with terrific energy. This nucleus carries a defi Quo Vadis? To the 'Modern WASHINGTON Ancient Ro man travelers stopped at mo tels, complained about the food, bought paperback books, spent beyond their means, and in gen eral behaved like 20th-century Americans on the road. But the Romans faced a few exceptional hazards. They ran the risk of being sold into slav ery and of practicing cannibal ism unwittingly. To Your Good Health Changing 'Handedness' Not Good Idea By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Doctor Molncr: My question is about a profes sional ball player, lie is one of those mixedup people who are partially right and parti ally left-handed. When ho was small he could throw a ball with cither hand. Neither was dominant and nothing was done to influence him. At about 8 the left arm be came natural in throwing but he never could bat that way, so he is handicapped by being a "left" thrower and "right" batter. What can be done at the age of 19 to correct this? Is it possible for mixed "brain dominance" to affect the abil ity to learn? That is, to be a slow reader yet have outstand ing athletic ability? T.J.T. I quarrel with the term "mixed up" people in this case. Left-handers arc no different from right-handers and they aren't mixed up. Attempts to alter "handed ness" must be done very early if at all, and I think the less UW. (AHOTHIR ) I , .,,,. ,,,-.rr. II I - : 1 Zi&'i CH.UO! WHAT A, PRETTY ) AW, C'MON, NOW... ffffe; . T . I CAN USE THOSE C7QN?l'' .if -rW J NAYYItjq CtEAREP ZOOM... THE OTHER PLANES &1 LITTLE OL KITTY... ( THAT'S NO WAY Hi JJ OH, SO THATS TEETH OF YOURS IN 1 JAXr- - JJT i FOR TAKE-OFF. w-r i IN HIS FLIGHT ARE IS MINUTES fT AN' LOOKIT THOSE VtOREPLYTOA f'.H HOW IT IS, IS IT? A NECKLACE I BEEN ' TtfS. "iSSSa a OVER. 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These arc the basic facts about the oxygen atom and all the oxygen in the universe is mado from oxygen atoms. Eight is the number for the oxygen atom and so long as it keeps eight protons in Next Motel Conveniences' Aren't Roman highways stretched from Scotland to the Sahara and from western Spain to the Euphrates, the National Geo graphic Society says. Before the Roman Empire declined and fell, it had built, 49,633 miles of first-rate roads. A Roman rode in the most luxurious carriage he could af ford. Tho philosopher Seneca once took a trip in a compact done about trying to change a left-handed child, the better. He should be allowed to do things in the way that is natural for him. Then he will do them best. Left-handers who, for example, are forced to learn to write with the other hand are usually poor writers. It always seems awk ward to them. Except at a very early age (and 1 even have doubts about that) attempts to change the "handedness" confuse young slers, and I feel sure it is well that this young man was let alone. As to brain dominance having anything to do with the ability to learn no. That is purely a matter of training, plus aptitude and liking to read. Whether the writing goes from left to right or right to left (or even up and down, as in some languages) is of no consequence. There are some truly ambi dextrous pcoplo who can do such precise things as firing a pistol accurately with cither hand. I know an ambidextrous surgeon who sutures (sews) skillfully with either hand , It doesn't Plentiful its piK-ion. jt will be oxygen. But if it could lose a proton from its nucleus it would be come an atom of nitrogen which is chemical element number seven. If its nucleus could gain a proton it would become an atom of the num-. ber nine element, which is fluorine. Oxygen behaves the way it is made. It is one of the busiest elements, always eager to combine with other elements to form molecules. And . molecules form com pounds which are different from the pure elements. Andy sends a Hammond's Library World Atlas of America to Donald Shyman ski, age 13, of Old Bridge, New Jersey, for his ques tion; What is meant by mean temperature? ' It sounds unbelievable when we learn that the mean July temperature of Antarctica is below zero. This kind of weather is mean in the nasty model, but the Stoic had to ad mit ho felt wretched all the way. On the road, Seneca and other scholars perused the ancient equivalent of paperbacks parchment books that were more convenient to carry than the ordinary papyrus scrolls. Some wealthy travelers slept In their carriages or in tents, foreshadowing modern campers. bother their learning ability. any more than being right handed or left-handed. Or mixed. No, I'd let the young ball player concentrate on throwing left-handed as well as he possi bly can, and batting right handed ditto. Changing at his age is out of the question. O Field Enterprises. Inc. Currents Perilous The Indian and Pacific Oceans are divided by the In donesian archipelago, the Na tional Geographic Magazine says. Dangerous currents as fast as 12 miles an hour sweep through channels be tween the islands. Farmers in Kashmir tend floating gardens anchored on lakes, the National Geographic Magazine says. Kashmiris har vest from boats, picking toma toes and pumpkins that grow on a solid but bouyant mass of topsoil, grass, and weeds. Element sense, but the word mean has other meanings. When the meteorologist talks about the mean temperature he is using a word which descended to us from a much older word for middle. The mean temper ature is the average temper ature to be expected in a cer tain place through a certain day or month. A daily mean temperature is the average temperature throughout a 24 hour period. The meteorologist may base the day's mean temperature on 24 hourly readings. He is more likely to take the mid dle point between the highest and lowest temperatures of the period. Daily mean tem peratures are totaled to give weekly and monthly mean temperatures. Andy award! each day a full let of the World Book Encyclopedia for the first question he selecta to aniwer. When a accond queatlon Is answered a large world globe or atlas Is awarded. Questions are accepted from teen-age or less than - teen - age readers. They should be addressed to the Register-Guard, 975 High St., Eugene. Andy prefers that questions be written on postcards, rather than tn letter form. So New Others stayed in expensive inns. Strabo, the well-traveled Greek geographer, recommended to his readers several inns where the food was excellent. Along the major roads were mansions, rowdy lodging places where a Roman could pull up his chariot and spend the night. The Roman counterparts of trav eling salesmen liked these primitive motels, but for the more sedate they could be sheer misery. Innkeepers watered the wine, stuffed beds with rushes instead of feathers, and grossly over charged. They often were in league with highwaymen who seized wayfarers and sold them into slavery. One mansio's guest found what looked like a human fin ger joint in an otherwise ex cellent stew. His suspicion was quickly confirmed by a travel ing companion, Galen, the great physician and anatomist. The Roman poet Horace wrote waspishly of "knavish publi cans." On one trip he com plained of being kept awake by noisy frogs and the designing daughter of his donkey driver. Romans, even as Americans of today, delighted in visiting historical landmarks. They loved to travel to Greece and western Asia Minor where pro fessional guides expounded the history and legends of Athens, Delphi, Ephesus, and other cen ters. Greek cities revived the staged long-dormant festivals solely to attract Roman tour ists. Obscure celebrations be came popular if they offered a picturesque or startling ritual. Oddly, promoters ignored such obvious opportunities as the SOOth anniversary of the Pelo ponnesian War. B itrm nwtaz vum wuj ' 'More things for h Xtarrg art nive! a kit for a 1 rrooel f3 Vbog maybe uddL U ' I IT'S WHAT YOU SSt " I ALLISON HAS A DISEASE KNOWN 1 I NO ONE CAN PREDICT ") I .1 . Orr SUSPECTED, . AS SYRINGOMYELIA I KNOW THE J I THAT, TONY...PERHAPS i . HAVEYOUANDDR. HAYNEST5 ISN'T ITTja NAME WON'T MEAN MLKH TO YEARS,jJ-afcH J, 1 COME TO ANY CONCLUSIONS, 1 pf-! 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