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Is That So? Wireless and shortwave op erators have been having con niptions this year: New York's radio links with London, San Francisco s with Tokyo, and ships' operators at sea have been blacked out sometimes for an hour or more at a stretch. How come? It's all due to our sun which has been tossing out storms storms that make our greatest cyclones and hurricanes seem like the gentlest of zephyrs. The sun's tempestuous outbursts are accompanied by vast surges of flames shooting 250,000 to 300 000 miles out into space that's distance enough to wrap flames around the equator 10 to 12 times: This spring one huge ball of gas, mostly hydrogen, some 20, 000 miles in diamater was hurl ed into space at the incredible speed of 3,500.000 miles an hour. according to Dr. Donald H. Men zel and his staff of the Sacre- mento Peak Observatory, New Mexico. This explosive eruption, he added." equalled in violence the simultaneous explosion of about 100,000.000 H-bombs. And how do these explosive eruptions of our distant sun af fect our radio signals millions of miles away? Several hundred miles above our earth there is a layer of air called the ionos phere. Under normal conditions, radio signals bounce off this lay er and reach their destination within the instant, even thou sands of miles away. But when the sun has these super-colossal explosions, it peppers this ionos phere with ultraviolet rays and the radio signals are absorbed into it rather than bounced off. Brilliant Heavenly Display These ultraviolet rays shot out by the sun during violent eruptions, incidentally, create some extremely beautiful north ern lights, even in mid-summer and the larger the solar dis turbances the more brilliant the heavenly display. As for the cause of the sun's disturbances, this is still shroud ed in mystery, but as a guess they may be due to shock waves from the tremendous upsurges of gases. Want to have peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries and apricots in your backyard? With plenty of space for 'all these trees and the right climate that would not be difficult. But to grow them all on one tree, that s difficult. This s e e m i n g ly impossible coup was brought about by Guy Hobgood of Vista, Calif. Start ing with an almond tree, Hob good succeeded in grafting on it a peach, three variations of plums, French prunes and a nectarine. But when he attempt ed to graft a cherry and apricot the tree balked, refusing to harbor such totally foreign fruits. But Hobgood persisted and outwitted the reluctant host by grafting on the fourishing peach limb a cherry, and on the necta rine, an apricot. Both cherry and apricot sprouted this summer. So. Hobgood's almond tree may well be entitled to the honor: The Hostess with the Mostest! Of our common house pets. cats may well have the longest life span. At least so says Brit ish zoologist Alex Comfort of the University College, London. He states: 'The cat would ap pear to be quite the longest lived of the smaller domestic animals, its maximum age just under 30 years." This compares with 20 years for terriers and 18 years for larqe hybrid rabbits, he adds. Besides, old cats are strikingly preserved, reports Comfort. The oldest female tab by in his records, 31 years old was '"in kitten" at 26; and up to the very end of their lives some of the oldest Toms exercised their romantic prerogatives. Within the memory of man. many of our world's areas now denuded were heavily forested. They include China, the land of the Tigris and Lebanon, and large areas in our Northern U.S. In our beautiful west, pine and fir forests are being cut down faster than ever before. Yet, happily with the difference that present tree growth exceeds the Bain To Insist on Kefauver With Adlai Portland 0J.R' Jack Bain, a delegate to the Democratic na tional convention, said today he would insist that the Stevenson committed Oregon delegation work for nomination of Sen. " Estes Kefauver as vice presi dent. Kefauver recently threw his support " for the presidential nomination to Stevenson. Bain said he talked to Kefau ver i by telephone Wednesday nisht. "He didn't say definitely, but I certainly got the impres sion that he would take, and wants, the vice presidential nomination." Bain said. Oregonians voted for Adlai Stevenson over Kefauver in the May primary", thus pledging the state's 16 delegates to support him for the nomination. r EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist i high cutting rate by 32 per cent, j At this writing, there are more i than 28.000.000 acres of private- j ly-owned land in our country t committed to growing trees for tomorrow's use. This favorable balance, incidentally, has oncur ed within the past 10 years. (Copyright. 1956. by Eugene Burns) (Released by The McClur Newspaper Syndicate) CGuminiST CH I.ESt BPOfiTE0LT MOVE INTO NORTHEASTERN BORDER AREA OF BURva. ALONG SOOM'LE FRONT FROM RuTAO SOUTH TO UNlONG FERRY PENETRATION IS ESTIMATED UP TO 60 MILES DEEP IN SOME PORTIONS OF VAGUELY DEFINED BORDER AREA CIINA Free: By special arrangement with the editors pf the Encyc lopedia 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. Please adress your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Trib une, Box 575, Sausalito. Calif. m 1 DEFINED BORDER AREA , , j PAKi.TAN J ) jn JijNiONG ' VI J I z I lit 01 t!NCl Fairbain Appointed -Happy Camp Constable Yreka Fred Fairbain has been appointed constable of Happy Camp, Calif., by the Sis kiyou County board of super visors. Residents of Happy Camp were divided in their recom mendations for a constable. One group favored Fairbain and rec ommended that the constable and sheriff's deputy office be combined at Happy Camp. An t other group favored Herbert I Young as constable and favored maintaining separate offices for the constable and deputy sheriff. I Friday. August 10. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUTES KIHK RED MOVE ON BURMA BORDER Shaded area on newsmap indicates where Communist Chinese troops Tiave reportedly crossed the Nebulous border area between China and Burma on an estimated 500 mile front. 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