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Tragic Holiday Fires
Fatal To 19 Persons
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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, 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)
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