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! ' A " I f ' " ' ' 's I- 1 : ' I., . ' - ; i ..J CITY WRECKER The 60-foot Redstone guided missCe thunders into the stratosphere during a recent Ordnance Corps test at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. It was developed by the guided missile team headed by Dr. Wernher Von Braun at Redstone Arsenal and is now one of the projects of the Army Ballistics Missile Agency. Now designed to strike targets at 200-mile range, the Redstone is fore runner of city-wrecking weapon that will carry atomic destruction to enemy target 1500 miles away. (Department of Defense photo.) Is That So? To add fuel to the fire of won derment, did you know that . . the female nereis, a marine worm, dies in reproduction: in the moment of fertilization, she literally explodes, scattering her fertilized eggs in every direction A large elm may put forth 7,000,000 leaves a season whose total surface expanse ; amounts to more than five acres! A duck can fly upside down. . A fly can detect sugar in a dish in which there is only one part rof sugar to 'a million parts of water ... a solution so weak that there is no chemical means available to prove the presence of sugar. " " r The firefly has Ihe largest number of facets in each eye. There are 4,600 of such tiny eyes,, each with its own cornea and retina. If the nest eggs are systematic ally removed, a pheasant may lay 100 eggs a year. All spiders spin more than one kind of silk. The orb weavers, for example, spin four kinds: one for ballooning through the air and for drag lines; another for cocoons; and two for two types of webbing net silk and trapping silk, the latter covered with beads of a sticky fluid. The temperature of a fruit on a tree, infected by fungus, rises jjyi TRANSISTOR ft Just imagine! A finest quality 4-tran-sistor Zenith backed by an iron-clad 10-day money-back guarantee of full satisfaction, yet telling for one fourth the price of many comparable aids. So small, so light it can be bidden behind a man's necktie... worn in a woman's hair! Operates for only about 10 a week. 10-DAT MONEY-IACK etMMNTH I Also the for extremely severe hearing impairment only Special "f owr legulator" for regressive bearing Losses S 1 E A ld-Djr Money-lock Guarantee - IdU Batteries Cords Repairs for All Makes George E. While Hearing Aids 131 W. Main - Medford By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist one to two degrees over that of the rest of a tree. . It takes one hour to soft-boil an ostrich egg. The largest living spider in the world is the Theraphosa lebondi of western Africa , whose legs span 10 inches, the diameter of a dinner plate. Its body is 3Vz inches long, v ; In the last three centuries the world's population has grown from 500,000,000 to 2,500,000,-000- and in the next 30 years, it is expected, it will number 4, 000,000,000. . ' . Eggs Laid Early . A horned owl lays its eggs as early as mid-February often sitting on its eggs with snow humped over its back; while a cedar-waxwing or the goldfinch often wait until late Augus't to lay, their ' eggs when sumac leaves are already reddening. 'ii. Spider silk which can be as slender as 1250,000 of an inch in diameter is stronger than a steel wire of equal thickness. A total of 1,000,000,000 bac teria could be packed into a box shaped capsule whose longest side would measure l25th of an inch. " If a hen is fed onions, its eggs taste of onions. Blood leaves the human lungs at the rate of about one mile an hour, slows down in the maze of capillaries, and then speeds up again on the return journey through the veins, keeping up this constant rhythm by pressure of the pumping heart. A mosquito cannot walk. Its legs are long, very thin, and fragile. They are used for sta bilizing its flight and upon land ing are extended like a stork's legs. Fresh eggs sink in water, oth ers float. Fluid Mixture There is a small hump-backed spider with thin legs which can spray from its fangs on a small insect a half inch away, a fluid that is a mixture of gum and poison. The victim is glued to the spot by the gum and dies from the poison. The jellyfish, Cyanea arctica, has tentacles 300 feet long. It lives in the Arctic. In the average man, some six quarts of blood circulate through a system of vessels 60, 000 miles in length over twice the distance around the equator which run In size from the aorta, the artery . leading from the heart which is an inch and a half in diameter, down to the microscopic capillaries the smallest of them less than ll,000th of an inch in thick ness. "With this introduction, I now suggest that you read Spider, Egg and Microcosm by Eugene Kinkead. (Copyright, 1956. by Eugene Burns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who . sends ' me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Flease address your letter to IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Tuesday, February 28, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVaM About 60 Der cent of Mexico's DODUlation is said to be of mixed Indian and European descent. Housing for Subversive Groups Left Tangled by Court Refusal Washington (U.R) The I Supreme Court has refused to review part of the government s entangled program to keep members of subversive groups out of federally-aided, low-rent housing projects. Before ; the court's refusal Monday to review a Los An geles eviction case, state en forcement was hampered by various lower court decisions making the program valid in some states and not in others. But now there is even a con flict in different areas of . a single state California. No Blanket Decision The upshot of the denial of review is that the program is outlawed in Los Angeles but ef fective in San Francisco. Be couse county appellate courts have the final word in eviction cases,, the California Supreme Court cannot make a blanket decision that applies statewide. " The U. S. Supreme Court, re convening after a four week re cess, also handed down a batch of complicated decisions on tax, labor, public utility and . other issues. In a 6-3 ruling of importance to labor unions, the court held that strikes against unfair la bor practices may be called without regard to the 50-day cooling-off period" laid down in the Taft-Hartley law for rou tine collective bargaining. Justice Hareld H. Burton's opinion said neither the law nor a no-strike clause in a contract stands in the way. of a work stoppage when a company pen alizes its employees for -lawful union activities. ' The court also agreed to ex amine the constitutionality of a Pries! Offers Eyes To Crippled Children Milan, Italy (U.R) A Catholic priest dying of cancer in a Milan clinic has offered his eyes as a last bequest to war crippled children he has helped. The priest, Don Carlo Gnoc chi, 53, told Milan eye special ist Cesare Galeazzi, "I want one of my blind children to see again with my eyes," Galeazzi promised he would carry out the request. Don Carlo has given some 2,000 war-crippled children new hope in life through institutes organized by his foundation. When doctors announced he was dying of cancer of the spine children all over Italy started praying for him. Michigan law banning the sale of books which contain obscene language or descriptions tend ing tj corrupt' - youth. 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