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Hong Kong, with Japan Air
Lines As to be expected in
most countries north of the equa
tor, strong gusty breezes greeted
us here at the International air
port of this new-built city of
Hong Kong, none of the build
ings of which are more than 100
years old.
Across the bay, the colored
patched sails of a hundred junks
ping the channel from Hong
Kong island to Kowloon on the
mainland are all billowed.
As a result of these late March
winds, you may be breathing
air today borne to ' you from
many continents within the past
two weeks. Thus, your next
breath may contain air particles
which rushed up the slopes of
Fujiyama just 14 days before,
when I arrived in Japan; or have
drifted through the quiet halls of
the Vatican; or six days prior to
that have been warmed by the
Pyramids of Egypt and then
chilled by the ice-sheathed 12,-000-foot
mountains of Greenland,
while a tiny pinch of your day's
allotment of air may have come
from within a game hunter's seal
ed waterproof watch case in Nai
robi. Although March-April winds
rarely attain "whole gale" force
that is from 55-63 miles an
hour on the earth's surface
in the stratosphere such speeds
are not at all uncommon. In fact,
flying high over Japan, pilots
have reported winds in excess of
300 miles an hour; and above
the U.S., winds exceeding 200
miles an hour are not unusual.
Upon two occasions, 1,000 and
1,100 miles per hour winds high
overhead have been recorded.
Air Pressure Differential
Why are March and April
particularly noted for their tur
bulent air in our nothern hem
isphere? Basically because in
these two months a tremendous
air pressure differential is being
built up. During these two
months the temperature of the
Arctic region is still bitterly cold,
hovering around the year's min
imums which results in a high
pressure area. Meanwhile, the
contrary is happening in the
southern part of our temperate
region. There, for the past three
to four months, the coldest
period of the year has passed
and the midday sun is already
standing high in the heaven,
warming the air', expanding it,
and creating a low pressure area.
The two pressures, although
4,000 miles apart, are in
compatible. And the obvious hap
pens a rapid transfer of air
takes place from the hill of high
pressure in the north to the val
ley of low pressure closely
rivaled by those of April.
So great is this transfer of air
between late winter and early
spring that a noted British me
teorologist, Sir Napier Shaw, has
estimated that it involves the
movement of about 3,500,000 mil
lion tons of cold air southward
with a correspondingly heavy
warm load moving northward.
Winds Turned Aside
Basic as this primary reason
for the March-April winds may
be unfortunately for the weather
predictors it isn't cut and dried
as all this. At the same time,
there is the rotation of the earth
on its axis which turns all winds
aside from the path they would
normally pursue from cold to
warm. In the northern hem
isphere this creates a deflection
to the right; in the southern, to
the left.
Then there is the tilting of the
earth causing seasonal changes
in the angle at which the sun's
rays strike any part of the earth.
This creates a further disloca
tion, tending to make some of the
principal winds blow alternately
northward during six months,
and southward the next. '
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
To add to the confusion, dif
ferent heating and cooling effects
such as land and water, night
and day, mountains and valleys,
to say nothing of varying
amounts of moisture in the at
mosphere affect the movement of
our rivers of air.
But rough as our March-April
winds may seem to people of
inland cities, be assured of this:
shore dwellers are getting
stronger winds always, -and not
just along the shores of oceans
but also along lakes and wide
rivers. For that matter, dwellers
in inland cities away from near
by mountain peaks, such as
Omaha, may experience but one
gale-force wind every other
March while those in Chicago
may average four to six times
as many. And even in Chicago,
those living on Michigan Boule
vard facing the shore will have
winds half again as strong as
those living on a street but a
quarter of a mile inland.
(Copyright, 1956.
by Eugene Burns)
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patched two trucks at 11:05 a.m.
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Court Records
POLICE COURT
Clarence V. Walt, failure to stop
at stop light. S5.
Carl E. Christian, failure to stop
at red light. So.
Lulu Emily Saulsberry, violation of
basic rule. S10.
John Elliott Stoag, violation of
basic rule, $10.
DISTRICT COURT
Evelyn Arvilla Tice, failure to yield
right of way, $10.
Robert Earl Johnson, violation of
basic rule, 515.
Albert Fredrick Clauss, intoxicated
on a public highway, S30, (bail for
feited). Donald Brinton Walker, defective
muffler, $10.
Victor Preston Clark, failure to
transfer title, S5.
Raymond Shirley Wise, failure to
stop at stop light, S10.
Charles E. White, failure to yield
right of way, S10.
Kenneth Leon Hawkins, no clear
ance lights, S10.
Virgil Avery Bower Jr., failure to
stop at stop sign, S10.
Sammie Lee Umberger, violation of
basic rule, S12.50.
Leonard Malcolm Settell. failure to
operate on right side of highway. S10.
Gary Milton Croucher, one license
plate. So.
Andrew Hamstra, violation of basic
rule, $12.50.
Pete Marion Jackson, violation of
basic rule, S15.
Harold Berkley Chapman, over
width, S15.
Darwin Phillip Moore, passing with
insufficient clearance, S10.
Homer M. Bell, violation of basic
rule. $15.
Charles Geariellie Hull, no oper
ator's license. $5.
Ivan Dean Lutz. disorderly con
duct. S30.
Mark F. Bernard, failure to display
PUC permit, $15.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Writer
Washington (U.R) What's i
new in Washington:
Some 40 members of congress
from both par
ties leave this
week for
"spring train
ing" at Day
tona Beach,
Fla. After lim
bering up in
the Southern
sun they will
return to
Washing-
Harman Nichols
ton for their little five-inning
"baseball game" for the benefit
of charity.
The lawgivers and their fam
ilies will pay their own ex
penses. Rep. Sid Herlong of
Florida is coach of the Demo
cratic team. King pin of the Re
publican squad is Rep. Glenn R.
Davis of Wisconsin.
Team members had felt they'd
be too busy to train this year.
But such thoughts vanished with
the Easter recess, the spring cold
snap and the lure of Florida's
sun.
Sen. Robert Kerr, the Demo
cratic sage from Oklahoma, al
ways puts in his newsletter a
"Kerr Kernel." , This week's:
"When, you have gone as far as
you can go on your feet, you
might try on your knees." The
likeable gentleman from the
Sooner state is a Sunday School
teacher on his day off.
The Washington Zoo has had
a sign out for years which reads:
"Lost children and articles will
be taken to the lion house." The
house of Leo long has housed
the zoo cops. They're moving to
new quarters pretty soon, and
the sign will be replaced by one
less scarey to the very young.
House Republican Whip Leslie
C. Arends of Illinois sent each
GOP member of Congress a blot
ter bearing this verse:
"Among life's dying embers,
these are my regrets: When I'm
right no one remembers, when
I'm wrong no one forgets."
The ditty was titled "A Con
gressman's Lament."
Eddie D. Abbott, Shreveport,
La., is an Army private in Ger
many. A buddy who was ro
tating home gave Eddie a batch
of pfc stripes he wanted to be
cleaned. Eddie dumped them in
his laundry bag. They came back
clean as a whistle, sewn onto
Eddie's fatigue clothes, his field
jacket and his khaki shirts. A
pair of scissors saved him from
charges of impersonating a pfc.
Bitter McCarthy Foe
To Seek Congress Seat
Sauk City, Wis. (U.R) Le
roy Gore, the newspaper editor
who led an unsuccessful attempt
to recall Sen. Joseph R. McCar
thy (R-Wis.) will be a candidate
for a Democratic congressional
nomination.
Gore said he will seek the
Third Congressional District
nomination. At least two other
Democrats are possible candi
dates for the seat now held by
veteran Republic Rep. Gardner
Withrow.
Gore started his "Joe Must
Go" movement in 1954, but
couldn't collect enough signatur
es to force McCarthy to run
again for his Senate seat. He
sold his newspaper, the Sauk
Prairie Star, a short time after
the drive failed.
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dog owner who confessed that his shaggy
canine companion had given the Bond a thor
ough chewing, and plaintively asked what could
be done about it. The Treasury wrote right back
assuring the unhappy man that his Bond would
be replaced upon presentation of satisfactory
evidence and enclosed
the proper form to be
filled out.
The Treasury could and did and even
tually the chewed up Bond was replaced. Noth
ing further has been heard from the man or
from the shaggy dog. (The Treasury is hoping
that no news is good news.)
Several days passed
A second letter arrived
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Treasury's letter and bits
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Could the Treasury please send along another
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