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Is That So?
Some pet sayings and beliefs
about weather, however cherish
ed, sholud be takenwith a lick
ot salt; others noi ai au. uur
Fact vs. Fallacy today concerns
wind.
Fallacy: When March comes
roaring in like a lion it will go
out meek as a lamb; when it
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comes in like a lamb, it will go
out like a lion.
Fact: This pat and often-repeated
phrase, which originated
in Europe, as did so many of our
popular weather sayings, was
given the hot-foot, not in Amer
ica but in its own land by
George H. T. Kimble, author of
Our American Weather. For 16
successive Marches, Kimble av
eraged the speed of the wind at
Kew, Surrey, England.
His test showed that March
came in persistently meek and
lamb-like, with a gentle wind
averaging Just under 10 miles an
hour. At the end of the month, it
also went out meek and lamb
like, just over 10 miles an hour.
In those 16 years, on only one
occasion did March come in at
By EUGENE BURNS . .
Ranger-Naturalist
all resembling a lion at a fresh
breeze of 22 miles an hour.
To reverse the situation, Kim
ble toon the record of a notor
iously windy are a Lerwick,
Shetland Isles, northern Scot
land. There, as expected, March
came roaring in with a gale six
years out of 16 and it went out
the same way, almost as often!
For that matter, the stormi
ness of March, even here in Am
erica, has been highly overrated.
Except for a few isolated areas,
such as the top of Mount Wash
ington, New Hampshire, the
wind of March is much more
likely to average a gentle breeze
of 10 miles per hour than a leon
ine gale of 40. ,
Fallacy: Winds tend td move
horizontally, or at a slope with
the ground.
Fact: Not at all. Actually,
winds often blow at angles to
the horizon, from any direction
and sometimes even up and
down. Such vertical air-current
are most common during thun
derstorms a subject more prop
erly relegated to July, the month
when more thunderstorms occur
than in all other 11 months put
together. In such storms, the up
rising air currents frequently
travel 2.000 feet a minute, and
more than 5.000 feet a minute
have been registered.
Fallacy: As one ' is airborne,
the speed of wind -usually in
creases, sometimes many-fold.
Even in a 30-story apartment
building, the circulation of air
will be much better and the wind
will be consistently stronger, as
anyone knows who has stood on
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the parapet of a tall building. In
fact, it may be doubled, or trip
led. For another thing, it will
probably be blowing from anoth
er direction even up to 40 de
grees differently. In both in
stances, surface friction causes
the difference.
Fallacy: Wind consists of a
mass of air moving fairly stead
ily at the same speed.
Fact: A normal wind is not
uniform. It is full of waves and
eddies and flows in a succession
of gusts and lulls due largely
to the irregularities of the sur
face on land, there are humps
and hollows, trees and build
ings; on sea, waves set up eddies.
inis gustmess varies, usually
leveling off as the wind's speed
increases. Thus a 30-mile-an-hour
wind may gust up to 60 miles an
hour again as fast; while a 60-mile-an-hour
wind will seldom
gust 80 miles an hour only a
third faster.
During early afternoon, the
wind tends' to be gustier than in
early morning or late evening:
the higher the elevation, the less
the wind is affected by surface
irregularities and hence it is
steadier; and finally winds
blowing over the sea tend to be
only about half as gusty as those
blowing over land.
Fallacy: The speed of wind in
dicates its force: thus a 40-mile-
an-hour gale exerts four times
the force of a gentle 10-mue-an-
hour breeze.
Fact: Speed of wind and
strength or force are two differ
ent things. To measure force ac
curately, it should be stated in
pressure exerted say, pounds
per square foot upon a surface at
right angles to the wind s path.
Measured, this would be true:
when the wind's speed is doub
led, its force it almost squared,
or quadrupled.
Thus, a wind of 20 miles an
hour whosetspeed is twice that of
a 10-mile-an-hour breeze, exerts
a "force about four times as hard;
a gale of 40 miles an hour, whose
speed is only four times as fast
i as that of the 10-mile breeze, ex
i erts a force 16 times as hard, and
1 a whole gale blowing at 60 miles
an hour which is only six times
1 as fast as the 10-mile Dreeze, ac-
tually exerts a pressure almost
36 times as hard! And at 60, it's
really roaring like a lion, wheth
er it be March, June or any oth
er month of the year.
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Cypriof Gunmen Kill
British Teacher
Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Four
Greek Cypriot gunmen shot and
killed a British school teacher
and wounded his taxi driver in
an ambush in front of a Limas
sol school today.
The dying teacher . pulled a
gun from his pocket and fired
several shots at the gunmen but
did not hit any of them.
I - Dozens of shoppers dived for
j cover as shots zipped through
the busy downtown street.
The gunmen started shooting
as the taxi pulled up to the curb
in front of the school.
The teacher, described only
as an inspector attached to the
Cyprus Department of Educa
tion, was wounded by one of the
first shots. .
The wounded taxi driver man
aged to drive the teacher to a
nearby police station. He died en
route from there to a hospital
after gasping a few words to
detectives. -.
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By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
fry-'-
Hollywood U.R) After 2V4
years of a family feud, the An
drews Sisters are a team again
all because of
unhappy fans
who sat down
and wrote let
ters. The famed
singing trio
Maxene, Patty
and Laverne
called it
quits in 1953
Aline Hosbr after a squab
ble about who got how much
money and other difficulties.
Patty pulled out with the claim
her older sisters treated her
"like a baby." ,
-But recently the 'girls got to
gether to talk over a movie that
will be made at MGM'on the
story of their life,. with other ac
tresses portraying them. After
reminiscing with the script writ
er about their past glories, the
girls talked themselves into "go
ing back into harness.
Fans Express Opinions
"It just wasn't wanting to
sing together again, but the pub
lic never wanted us to break
up," Laverne explained. "We
have been getting as many as 2,
000 letters a week from people
asking us to get back together
ever since we appeared on an an
niversary program for 'A Show
er of Stars' on television a cou
ple of months ago."
The girls admit they also dis
covered, like Martin and Lewis,
that a team is successful because
it's a team. Patty was a good
single in night club acts but her
act didn't have the impact of the
team.. For months Maxene and
L a verne conducted a talent
search to replace Patty in their
routine but gave up because,
"We just couldntl find any
body." The two sisters toured
Australia and realized, as Max
ene says, "The crowds were dis
appointed. They wanted to see
three of us."
Feelings Concealed
"I missed Patty," she added
with a smile at her sister, "al
though I never wanted to admit
it." S,
'"We sort ot can't get each oth
er out of each other's hair," grin
ned Patty. "Everything's been
straightened out -and every
thing's water under the bridge.
I'll still do records of my own,
and I have signed for four TV
shows on CBS this year. Other
wise, we'll be together."
The three sisters, who did an
$8,000,000 business with 680
songs, will open for business
again June 28 at the Flamingo
hotel in Las Vegas, Ney.
"We never realized what an
impact our break-up had on the
people," Maxene said. "They felt
without the three of us together
it never would be the same."
TO PROBE DEATHS
Washington (U.R) Rep. Ken
neth A. Roberts (D-Ala.) Tuesday
was named chairman of a House
subcommittee to investigate
traffic deaths. He called the
group's first meeting for Thursday.
MOULDY MONEY UNCOVERED Detective Sgt John T.
Howland of the Boston District Attorney's office inspects ;
nearly $100,000 in mouldy bills which were in the beerJ
cooler on table at right Men from the D. A.'s office along
wun am agents round ine money oenina an omce panel
in Boston. Discovery of the money, "definitely" a part of
the $1,219,000 lost in the Brink's holdup, was based on
"information" gained in the arrest of ex-convict Jordan
Perry, 31, in Baltimore.
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RECREATION CHIEF -r Ralph
Ash, above, bas been appointed
chief of recreation of special ser
vices at the Camp White Domic
iliary, succeeding Frank (Jerry)
Girard, who has retired. Ash has
been assistant chief for the past
two years. He also has been arts
and crafts supervisor. Ash has a
master of arts degree from the
University of Indiana in athletic
direction.
FIRST MEETING
Vienna, Austria (U.P) Aus
tria's newly-elected parliament
will meet for the first time Fri
day, it was announced Tuesday.
Hours for Junior
Department Listed
During the school vacation
period starting Monday, June 11,
the junior department of the
Medford public library will in
crease its open hours.
' The children's room will open
each day at 10 a.m. Closing hours
will remain the same as during
the school year, 5:30 p.m., every
day except Tuesday when the
department is open until 9 p.m.
Young readers will be assisted
by Mrs. Nora McKay, Mrs. Flor
ence Perkey, Mrs. Joyce Fuller,
and Mrs. Marjorie Shepler. Stu
dent assistants, Barbara Lickess
and Mary Fredenburg, also will
be on duty in the, junior depart
ment. There will be no change in the
adult department, which is open
from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. every
day except Saturday, when it
closes at 5:30 p.m. A reference
librarian will be available on
Monday and Wednesday eve
RECORD SPOILED
Newark,; N.J. (U.P A minor
collision with a police car
wrecked a 15-year old "safety
record" for John Brown. The
record had nothing to do with
accident-free driving. Police said
they discovered Tuesday Brown
had been driving without a li
cense for the last 15 years.
Midwest Banks Lose
$30,009 To Bandits c
Chicago (U.R) Federal agents
today began the task of tracking
down bandits who robbed three
Midwest banks of nearly 30,000
in 24 hours.
Two of the robberies yesterday
were carried out by lone gun
men. The third was a lightning
raid by four robbers oh a Chi
cago bank. .
An apologetic bandit tied up
four employees and a customer
in the State Bank of Triumph,
111., before driving off with an
estimated $20,000, every cent the
bank had in cash.
The other one-man holdup
was carried out in Milo, la,
where a bandit drew a gun from
his shirt and helped himself to
about $1,400.
The Chicago robbers wore
masks fashioned from stockings,
and carted away at least $13,666,
in grape baskets, from the Mount
Greenwood State Bank.
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