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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)
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That So! care of Medford Mail
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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.
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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."
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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)
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