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TEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Augult 28, I95S They'll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo V: STAHD-UP GUY-" 3iT NOT J.ATSLV-" HA-HA-HA! TM4TS PRETTY GOOD, IP I DO SV SO, MYSELF.' WOW ILL DS4WS3 YOU A RJMNjy PITCHER" poor me; uao WO INSUR4MC6 WD WES OUT OF A JOB. I DOM'T SEE WEM .4UTDGR4PHING MY CHECKS' vER-ee FUMwy.' UP VOI fiUYS." ( TRIPLE COMPOUND I I MT TUIS-'DeAH H FRACTURE. HE'LL I arucco-LBG-iF Y Be in traction yVOUOHKAD TWS TILL THE GRE4T V AHY CHECKS y yOWfiSA COH- J SALT LAKE TURNS J V7 ' I I l. X I 111 . j THE PLASTERERS' m v. i '' 'IV Wi.-uyi i: m UK IMERICAMOS VERY STRANSE PlPPL.ES yES,WO? WFPINKS WHEW SHOULD CRY .THAHX AND A TP OP TUE HATLO HAT -TO " 'SUSIB SCOVILLE, CARMEL,CALIF. Mars Nears Closest Approach To Earth; Study Preparations Made Chicago U.P) If we re ever going to find out whether there are little men on Mars, next month would be a good time. For the planet with the rud dy complexion will be closer to the earth than it has been in 32 years. And it won't come as close again until 1971 During the first week in Sep tember, our solar neighbor will approach to within a mere 35, 120.000 miles, its closest brush since 1924. Earth-bound astronomers are prime for the occasion. Already Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist So you've got an eider-down and shoulders. Over this spread Tobe. a four-point Hudson's Bay blanket, or a sleeping bag. Now what do you do to get a good night's rest in the woods? Equip ment, you'll soon discover, is just the beginning now it's up to you to make it sleep-producing. If you are traveling light and fast, intending to stay only one night and get up with the birds, there is no point in being time wasting fancy: merely smooth out the ground, dig shallow hip and shoulder holes, spread out your water-proof ground cloth and arrange your bedding on top. If you've got more time, cot lect a pile of dead leaves and grass and wrap your ground cloth around them . to form a mattress. Should you be limited to one blanket, roll up in it, with both sides under you, and the tail-end tucked in under neath. If two blankets. fold them lengthwise down the mid dle placing one between the other with a folded edge at either side. Get it? Then tuck in the foot end and crawl in. If you're staying for several days, then take an hour to make a framework and fill it with leaves and grass. Cut four logs for the frame: two five feet long; two seven feet long. Form a rectangle, driving stakes on the outside so the frame will not shove apart. Smooth the ground carefully, removing rock and roots. Then fill it with leaves or grass depending on the country for materials. Spread it on a groundcloth, and unfurl your bedding on top. It will make a fairly comfortable bed. If you have time and are in the right country why not indulge yourself? Put two hours in and really make a comfortable sleep-inducing bed. One of spruce and balsam. There are no short cuts: either you make it well, or it will be miserable. After the frame is made, ga ther a couple of big armloads of spruce boughs from several trees. Starting aUthe head and pointing the tips toward it. shinele the boughs over the en tire bed surface. Although springy, this foundation is coarse and would be hard to sleep on. So now, gather a great big armload of fragrant balsam boughs again from several trees. In gathering, these should be broken off between thumb and forefingers. Any tips too hi to break this way, will be too large for the use in the bed. Shingle these over the spruce foundation carefully. Start at the head of the bed, again, setting the twigs on end by shoving their butts down through the spruce boughs. Point the tips to th head always, and see that each succeeding layer covers the hntts of the previous one. Place th halsam boughs' underside to ward the earth. Makes it slightly snrincier. As for the lower third of tiw bed. don't give it too mucn at tention your feet don t need a soft mattress that's fox hipe your ground cloth if you have one, and then your bedding. And fall asleep amongst the wood's finest perfume: balsam. If you're not in balsam coun- stry, use hemlock, juniper, or cedar but over that spring base of spruce whenever possible. If weight and expenses are no problem, get an air mattress. They are good. You can compror mise to this extent a knee length one is almost as good and weighs less. But do not depend upon the mattress to keep you warm beneath. Far from it: it does not permit body moisture to escape so it becomes cold and clammy. You'll want wool blan kets to separate you. And now, a few hints: your bedding will be much warmer if you air and dry it thoroughly each day. Throw it over a low tree limb or a rope stretched between trees where the sun can hit it. A small airplane - sized pil low for the head provokes rest ful slumber. For a sleeping bag owner: for those warm evenings which turn cold in the morning. Crawl into your bed atop the quilting. Then, when you wake up chil ly, get out and snuggle into the comfort of the inside. For airing, be sure you get a bag that can be unzipped and the insides ex posed every morning. For the air mattress man: care ful there, don't inflate it too much most do and this sleeps hard. Test by lying, not sitting, on it. If the ground is wet. make an extra thick mattress of leaves or grass covered with the ground cloth. If snow, shovel away the snow to the ground before ma king your bed. If the snow is too deep, lay some boughs on top of it, then cover them with your ground cloth. As for cotton pajamas, these are hardly worth packing into camp. Instead, carry a spare of two-piece woolen underwear to change into come night. Two light ones, undoubtedly are war mer than one heavy pair. They'll serve as an extra blanket and be lighter, too, and less bulky to pack. (Copyright. 19S6. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McCluro Newspaper Syndicate) 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. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Americans Outnumber Foreigners by ?0-7 Kansas City, Mo. iU.PJ Amer icans outnumbered foreigners only 10 to seven among interns who began service recently at St. Luke's hospital. Five of the new interns are graduates of Santo Thomas Uni versity. The Philippines and two came here from universities in India. RMfi Mil Hu - ' - AJ Tfce Conimunty'e fiifgeM Marketpiae variations, they have their telescopes train ed on Mars, but so far nobody's spotted any flying saucers. Actually, the learned star gaz ers arent' looking for anything quite that fantastic. Instead, they'll try to chart Martian weather maps, and they'll con duct further studies of the plan et's atmosphere. This in itself might give some further clue to the age-old ques tion of whether life could exist on the red planet. A "photographic patrol" set up in 1954 by the International Mars committee will be carried on by astronomers at 20 obser vatories, including famed Mt. Palomar in California. . Some of the participating ob servatories are in the southern hemisphere, where viewing will be best because Mars will pass directly overhead. One Gas Known So far, the only gas detected in the Martian atmosphere is carbon dioxide, discovered by University of Chicago astrono mer Gerald P. Kuiper in 1947. Kuiper, under a contract ar rangement with the University of Texas, now is manning the telescope at McDonald Observa tory in the Davis mountains in southeastern Texas. He hopes to get a better determination of the carbon dioxide content through use of infra red spec trum techniques. Kuiper also will study color changes in the dark area of the planet, which some experts be lieve consists of vegetation of a low algae form, something like reindeer moss. Kuiper and others will study details of the Martian polar cap, now in the process of evap orating. They'll also train their telescopes on the "Mountains of Mitchell," a high plateau area on which snow remains after the surrounding area becomes bare. Further studies will be made of the planet's satellites, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is of par ticular interest because it's slowly spiraling in toward the mother planet. But the experts say it won't fall for another 30, 000.000 years. Northwestern university said astronomers don't expect to de termine whether there really are "canals" on Mars. Fine sur face markings on the planet were reported in 1877 by an Ital ian astronomer, but they've never been photographed and most scientists haven't been able to detect them. Northwestern is opening its Dearborn observatory to the public on the evening of Sept. 5-7. For the edification of the lay man, the university said Mars will appear in the southeastern sky about 9 p.m. on the nights of its closest approach. It will be highest in the sky about mid night. It will be brilliant and red, and it should be easy to spot. Cabbage Worms Gel Immunity To DDT Geneva, N Y. OI.R) Ento mologists at the Cornell Univer sity" Experiment Station here be lieve cabbage worms are steadily acquiring an immunity to DDT. Experimental findings show the cabbage looper particularly has become resistant to the in secticide with the imported cab bage worm now showing less susceptibility. Growers on Long Island were among the first to report trouble in controlling worms with DDT, the entomologists said. Western New York growers got the same result where concentration of DDT have been stepped up three to five per cent. One to two per cent concentrations were found to be effective in the early years of using the insecticide. However, the entomologists say this poor control cannot be blamed on seasonal or area Parts of Russian Area Restored San Francisco U.R) Early in 1812 a group of Russian ad venturers and voyagers landed at Bodega bay and, after hunt ing and fishing around the area for a while, moved 13 miles north and founded the settle ment of Fort Eoss. i They laid out their settlement skillfully. As its center they built a stockade of 12-foot red wood pores forming a 300-foot-square enclosure. An octagonal blockhouse was built into each of two diagonally opposite cor ners of this stockade. Both the blockhouses and the stockade had embrasures through which mounted cannons could be fired. Inside the enclosure was a commandant's house, a chapel, officers's quarters, barracks and storehouses. Outside was a wind mill, tannery, granaries and liv ing quarters for Indians who had come with the Russians from Alaska or who had gathered from the surrounding country side. Crops and cattle were raised to supply food to Russian camps in the far north, and many goods were manufactured for sale in nearby San Francisco Finally in 1841. pressure from the Spanish and, later, the Mex ican governments, which consid ered the Russians troublesome intruders, led the Russians to sell their settlement to John A. Sutter for $30,000. They return ed to Alaska. Parts of Fort Ross have been restored by the California State Park commission north of San Francisco on state route 1. Doc Soys People Live Longer But Not as Happy 'Niles, Mich. (U.R) Dr. L. L. Harrison, who was graduated from medical school 50 years ago, believes "people are health ier today than they were when I began practicing, but I doubt whether they are happier." "The life expectancy was about 47 years when I graduated from medical school in 1906," Harrison said. "Now, chiefly be cause of a reduced infant death rates, the expectancy is about 68 to 70 years. "But we spend most of those extra years worrying about our health or something else." w 7 rr n ttp r VAQ Vj MEETING -IN LONDON, representatives of five powers given task of presenting case for Suez Canal internationalization to Egypt, discuss procedural plans. Prom left: United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Australian Prime Minister Rob ert G. Menzies, Bo Gurtnar Richardson Hagglof, Swedish ambassador to England; Ethiopian Foreign Minister Aklilou Habtewoki and Dr. Ali Ghali Ardelan, Iran's for eign minister. Robert Menzies is the committee chairman. (International Sotatdphoto) MW . ... 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The answer to the question then, holds true today. . . The delightful, unvarying flavor and purity of Olympia Beer cannot be obtained without the naturally perfect brewing water from our own artesian wells. Olympia's skilled Master Brewers attempted, in years gone by, to duplicate the quality of Olympia Beer at other locations, using other waters. The results never satisfactorily approached the unchanging quality and refreshing flavor that have come to be the hallmarks of Olympia. That Is why ws confine the brewing of Olympia Beer to our one plant at the site of our artesian wells, and why so many who appreciate a superb, sparkling beer agree . . . "It's the Water" that makes the difference "Visitors welcome to "One of America's Exceptional Breweries,' OLYMPIA BREWING COMPANY, Olympia, Washington, U.S.A. 9:30 to 4:30 every day. a IstAalhsj. .. M. OH.
