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f t,' i : ji I $ ' - - , r"::';v-:v V ' ' ' ' ( r I if W ' I J 1 5 rW?nv r "-'Ui 'Midi'.,. 1 ft r sf r PREMIER PERUSES PJKEMAN Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin intently studies attire of pikeman at Mansion House, London's city hall, on his arrival for lunch with members of the city council. ODDS CHANGE Agua Caliente (U.R) The odds on Needles as the Kentucky Derby future book favorite re mained at 2-1 today but Career Boy's price went from 4-1 to 5-2 and Head Man dropped from 5-1 to 4-1 on the basis of his Saturday triumph in the Wood Memorial SUGAR ON ROAD Greenwood Lake, N.Y. (U.R) Sugar Ray Robinson planned to do five -miles of road work today before leaving his camp here and going to California to wind up training for his middle weight championship fight with Bobo Olson on May 18 at Los Angeles. Officials, Pilots Differ on Drinks Washington (U.R) Commer cial airlines and their pilots and stewardesses differ on whether airborne drinking has changed airliners into flying saloons and burlesque houses. The pilots and stewardesses protested to Congress Friday that serving alcoholic drinks to passengers during flights is dan gerous. They said drunken pas sengers often become obscene, troublesome and create a safety hazard. But an airline spokesman de nied that serving passengers drinks was dangerous to the plane's safety. He said 8,000,000 of the 10,000,000 persons using -ommercial airlines last year wanted to be able to have a drink aloft. Both sides of the question were discussed at a hearing be fore a house commerce subcom mittee considering legislation to forbid the airlines to serve al coholic drinks. Civil Aeronautics Board Vice Chairman Joseph P. Adams told the subcommittee the CAB has not received "an authentic ac count of a single accident" in which liquor affected safety. But he said the CAB held no official position on the question. Rowland K. Quinn Jr., presi dent of the Airline Stewards & Stewardesses Association, told the subcommittee that drunken passengers often became "can tankerous, boisterous and gen Is That So? Volcano House, Hawaii, With Hawaiian Air Lines Without doubt this is the world's most unique hotel. Here I sit, amid luxurious surroundings, eating dollar-sized hotcakes doused in ohelo-berry jam, at the very brink of one of the world's largest and most consistently active craters, Kil auea. And this 4,000-foot vol cano, the world's only drive-in crater, in turn nestles on the shoulder of a yet larger and al most equally active volcano, Mauna Loa, the world's most massive mountain. The impressions one captures at this famous Big Island resort are many. Kilauea is a gentle mountain the vast dome as cends in a beautful easy slope, never steeper than 12 per cent. Yet this is a harsh mountain on its sides are the remains of thousands of clincker lava flows which have threaded their way DOG WEARS MOCCASINS Kingston, England (U.R) Pe destrians reported Sunday see ing a dog walking the street wearing tiny Indian moccasins on all four paws. erally unruly." He said they annoy the other passengers who are sober. Quinn said the airlines started serving liquor to create the atmosphere of a family living room. Instead, he said, they've turned the atmosphere to that of "a saloon or a burlesque house." By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist down to the sea destroying fields, forests and villages taking everything before them. About it, there is a brooding silence the vast crater stretches out be low you with steam rising silent ly from its many vents. And yet, like a sleeping giant, it may suddenly stir as it has in the past and spew out millions of tons of white-hot lava in foun tains 500 feet high. Or, in ex treme violence, it may even hurl ton-sized boulders high into the air from the -exploding cauldron, as happened in 1924. On the one side, toward the rain forest, there are giant tree 4-23-is S. ferns growing under a thick canopy of native ohia-lchua trees amidst which tuneful birds are darting; on the other, there is a grim barren desert with sand dunes. At its seashore base, summer is never failing; at its summit, in the hidden cracks, ice is always present. From Giant Rift How can I ray this Volcano House rests on the side of the world's most massive mountain? That's easy. The Hawaiian arch ipelago, geologists tell us, re- Monday, April 23, 1938 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE suited from a giant, 2,000-mile rift on the 18,000 foot-deep ocean floor, extending from this Big Island to Kure (ocean) Island. During its 60,000,000 year-history, eruption after erup tion occurred, and flow by flow, built up this enormous submar ine mountain range. Of the mountains which rise above the level of the sea, Mauna Loa is the bulkist, rising 13,680 feet. But taken from its ocean base, this mountain is over 30,000 feet a mass of 10,000 cubic miles. In contrast, Mt. Shasta'a 80 cub ic miles is puny indeed! Such talk tends to dwarf Kilauea, into which I am now looking but in its own right, it is surpassed in size by few of the world's volcanos. It rises 20,000 feet from its ocean base. The floor of its crater contains 2,000 acres and within this crat er here is yet another, with a p't about 300 feet across and 1,000 feet deep. During the past 100 years, since the white man has record ed its history, molten lava has filled thig cauldron more than 60 per cent of the time. Coming eruptions often give advance warnings: the solid rock side of the mountain swells; a series of earthquakes start at great depth and rise to "the surface as the lava wells up through deep cracks in the volcano; then, fin ally, the surface cracks and out gushes the white-hot lava in spectucalar fountains. Within hours, people from all over the territory converge upon this grand spectacle. Firs 300 Feet High During 1952, a solid curtain of fire spouted 300 feet high, with one fountain playing to a height of 750 feet. Two years later, the moulten lake had a 600-foot long series of fountains. As you look upon this spec tacular sight, you suddenly real ize that you are privileged to to see the earth-building. With tremendous force, the hot lava builds ups a 50-foot wide river, perhaps 10 feet thick. At night, the sight from the Volcano House can be particular ly spectacular; the reflecting glow lights up your room facing the crater, making it bright enough to read the Hilo Tribune Herald. Thus earth is created. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (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-amous 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. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. 9 MARKET ' 1202 North Riversida A 1 OPEN EVERY J v NIGHT TIL J& WANTED! 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