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e e o o O O O O O o o 0" o O 0 o O o O o o o 3! o p i O o o o o 05 o o o o O o O Tragic Holiday Fires Fatal To 19 Persons n f UNITED PRESS o O A ex-rips ol tragic holiday ire, two ol them blamed on Christ- mas trees, have killed 19 per sons, 10 ot them s.T.all children. OO A Christina. Day flash lire kiiied three youngsters when O flames, apparently touched oif by a yule tree, trapped them In the ocdrooni of their home an Crt Falls. Mont. The children's fa'.iier, Joe Long, who carried two young Nephews to safety, had to be o G O restrained from dashing through a wall of flames in an effort to O rescue his own youngsters. Dead were Roxanna Rose, 3, Joph Oliver, 4, and Rose Marie, r8 months. Fare B.ittaUon Chief Herman Hurd, said althouglf the exact o Oo Second Christmas Theft Of Automobile Reported V.'ildwood, .V J. U P A Sanot Claus in" reverse made pedestrans of the Robert Beare q iayt-.lj; fcr the second Christmas ineight ars. O BcSre parked his car outside 00 hi home and whn the family looked out Christmas morning it O was gone. Another thief made off with Beare's auto on Christ mas mor&ing.in 1948. o 0 Nomura Proposed as Japan's Defense Chief Tokyo UR An influential KtfupOfif thg government's .Lib- 1 erJ Democratic party today oproposed Kichisaburo Nomura chif of the defense agency on the new cabinet being formed by reniier Tazan Ishibashi. Norinura was ambassador to 3 the tfniied States at the time of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Is That So? 5 How long has it baen since you've ste.lped outdoors on a (jlear, dark night and witnessed the greatest sliow on earth, the G J-ast twinkling pectacle of Tieaven? Tonight, let's look up t the Milky Way. the luminous band which stretches all arourjdMhe fky. Now, duriry; the frosty bite of winter, it's at its very best. A;nd then, as my twin daughters id. fire away with the questions: First off, what is the Milky Way? It is made up of countless stars. All of the stars you can see in the sky with the nakedeye ai members of this Milky Way, Including our solar system which rotates around the sun. Evert the raajority of stars which can be Hen by our most powerful tele gi opes are members of this Milky Way. How big is tiiis Milky Way? Its Hfce is nothing short of tremendous. Traveling at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second which would whip us around our earth seven times within a second, and from our earth "to the moon in a little more than one second, and from our earth to the sun in ariout Of'ait minutes, it would take four years merely to reach ttie near est star. Alpha, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Cen taurus: And ft wouM take roughly 3 100.000 years to go from one end of our Milky Way to the other. How manv stars 8re there in Othe Milky Way? Arta Enormous A!iut 100 bi'lion. But yet the area is so enormous that only a very ffiifiute fraction of the totSl space it occupies is taken up by the stars themselves. As tronomer Bart J. Bok. co-author Off the Mflky Way (Blakiston, N. 0Y.)0assfc.-ts that a millioa times o as n-ny e is cou'd be Stored A this space without risking an unuf( frequency of stellar col-lisfe-ins? Coo Are tere other galaxies? Qlcantic as ours is, it is dif- ficuji to conceive of other ga laxies3 but yet poTeiful tele scopes have already discovered more than 1.200 each a Milky Ijjay system of its own. Some Qistrono'i'ers believe that Were maxwell be tens of thousands of others. What is the over-all shape of feirqsalaxy? b It has the shape of a flattened disk, a gigantic wheel. O Where in tis great wheel shaped gaiaxy does our solar te lie? Today. according to G" a prosperous new & .'-.;.yAf I t - .' - ':" f ' ir 3 I SAVE nu" W u" V- -P f MARKET C 1202 NokHi RivcrsiJa J fr?1 PvaoHj P-SS OPEN EYERY L o , cause of the blaze was not i known, the parents had left the ! Christmas tree lights on ali : night. ! "This fire could serve as a tragic reminder not to leave ; Christmas trees unattended," ; Hurd said. Three other small children ! burned to death Monday in a fire that swept their home in Northern Maine. The victims' mother, ?.Irs. Ar- lene Goodboue, 21, Allagash, ' Me., was not told her three sons were dead until after Christmas. She and her husband were hos j pitalized with burns suffered while trying to save the chil ' dren. I Killed were Gary Gaodboue, ! 3. and his brothers, Kelly, 2. ! and David. 2 months. Authorities j blamed the fire on a defective ; wood stove. Earlier, eight persons were ! killed in a fire caused by defec tive Christmas tree wiring at Doctor's Memorial Hospital in Minneapolis. Four patients and a nurse were in critical condi tion from smoke inhalation as a result of the blaze. Authorities at Meriden, Conn., continued their investigation in to the cause of a tenement build ing fire that killed a mother and four of her children. Mrs. Louis Rios, 39, and her rhildren, Gladys. 17, Isabelle, 6, Eddie, 3. and Eddie Nelson, 4, were killed. Meat on Dinner Table Figured at $1 a Pound Bethany, Conn. U.R) Rich- ard Wardell had plenty of meat for his table today but cost more than SI a pound. Wardell struck a 150-pound deer with his car, causing $200 damage to the auto. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist , Bok, the evidence seems to point oui mai we are locaiea toward the rim of the great wheel. Is this Milky Way galaxy in motion, including our solar system, of course? Roughly Circular Orbit Indeed, yes. This great wheel is turning with the Great Star Cloud of Sagittarius pretty well in the hub or center. Our solar system, lying some 26,000 light years from the center is whirl ing in a roughly circular orbit around this center at a speed of almost 140 miles a second. Yet so vast is our galaxy that even at this fantastic rate of speed the sun takes 200 million years to complete a single swing around the center. Are we learning anything new . about it? Each year brings new exploration and soon the picture of our Milky Way should be pretty well filled out. And once we know this, surely the beauty of our Milky .Way will become intensified as we understand more of its scope and majesty and orderly procession through the sky. (Copyright, 1958, by Eugene- Burns) (Released by McClura 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-iife nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous ref erence 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 Mcdford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. All tlircjugl i the liolicte loiiaays... 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