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MAIL GOII THROUGH IN COMFORT Newest motor
feed vehicle for the U. S. Post Office is this "Mailster."
The Sleek, maneuverable machine is designed for fast,
efficient and economical delivery of mail and parcel post
in residential areas now being serviced by earners on foot
or bicycle. The Government has ordered 1500 of them
from Cushman Motor Works in Lincoln, Neb. They will
be us.d 6y post offices in the Southeast, Southwest and
in C!if oraia.
Is That So?
For good or bad. In sickness
or in health, insects are here to
stay as our constant companions
CJre to know more about them?
w O 8 In man there are some 782 dis
ci tehct muscles; in grasshoppers
soe 900 have been described,
and in caterpillars about 4,000.
The average insect can pull
over 20 times its own weight
the small leaf eating beetle
Donacia) pulling 42.7 times its
fcwn ight, by test. In contrast
puny man can pull Dut .88 oi nis
own weight; a horse from .5 to
.83.
The powdery substance which
rubs off the wings of moths and
butterflies so easily are minute
scales which cover the bodies
as well as the wings in over
1 a p ping, arrangements like
shingles on a house. And as
shingles protect the inner sur
faces of nouses, so too do the
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scales protect the wings and
bodies of moths and butterflies.
Though extremely minute, these
scales v;y in shape, size and
color. When rubbed, off from
one wing, the insect's flying abil
ity is hampered not only by the
loss of weight but also by the
uneven flow of air over the
wimg's surface and thus they
become much easier prey for
birds, ants, beetles, and otner
animals that feed upon them.
rCost scales are never replaced.
The walking stick from the
Malay peninsula has reached a
length of 13 inches the long
est inset in the world.
When amplified a hundred
million times, the female mating
call of the mosquito sounds like
a movie version of a dive-bomber's
shriek. The male's answer
is -in a distinctly higher pitch.
The black whirligig beetle
usually found gyrating in masses
on the surface of relatively calm
water or basking like a turtle
on a log or stone has the ability.
when danger threatens, to catch
a bubble of air under a wing-
cover and dive deeply under the
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
surface and remain there,
breathing off the captured oxy
gen, until the danger is past. Al
though it spends most of its ac
tive time on the surface of the
water, it can both fly well and
dive freely. In "walking" on the
water, it keeps from breaking
through because of the water's
surface tension the tiny sur
face film on water. Add a deter
gent and it will fall through.
Katydid's Music
A wingless katydid not only
can produce music by rubbing
the rasps on the inside of her
legs against short teeth project
ing from her body, but she can
also make her joints squeak
while walking.
A pair of flies beginning op
erations on April 1 might be the
progenitors if every egg were
to hatch and live and bear off
spring of 191,010,000,000,000,-
000,000 flies by August 31. Al
lowing 18 cubic feet to a fly,
that figures to cover the earth to
a depth of 47 feet. Happily only
an infinitesimal number of each
fertile pair's progeny survive.
The Department of Agricul
ture considers that bees are up
to 20 times more valuable as
pollinators than as producers of
honey and beeswax. In a little
over 6 minutes, a bee averages
50 apple blossoms. It has been
estimated that bees in America
pollinate about 2,843,890 apple
trees during one season. Those
trees in turn produce a $90,000,-
000 crop.
Hums in Key of F
The housefly hums in the key
of F in the middle octave and
its wing beats equal 20,700 wings
beats per minute.
Drangonflies no true flies
are extremely fast fliers. The
larger species have been esti
mated to travel at 55 miles an
hour. Even when traveling at
top speed they can change
course abruptly or stop quickly
to alight upon a blade of grass
or to hover above water. It cap
tures its prey by forming a
basket of its six long legs in
flight, and thus it scoops up its
prey. It does not use its legs
for walking.
The Hessian fly, a wheat pest,
was introduced into this country
in the early 1700s in fact,
George Washington experiment
ed in 1760 with various sub
stances in an effort to reduce
their number.
, (Copyright, 1957,
by Eugene Burns)
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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'Satchmo' Armstrong Does't Miss A Beat As Dynamite Rocks Hall
Knoxville, Tenn. U.R) Ne
gro trumpet player Louis
"Satchmo" Armstrong refused
to interrupt his southern tour
today because of a racial bomb
ing targeting his concert here
Tuesday night.
"I've been playing the horns
for 44 years and never had any
trouble before." Satchmo said,
commenting on the blast set off
outside the auditorium in city
owned Chilhowee park.
Armstrong was bearing down
on his "Back O' Town Blues"
when two or three sticks of dy
namite exploded outside, send
ing a shock wave through the
segregated auditorium jammed
with 2,000 white and 1,000 Ne
gro jazz fans.
There was a stir. Many heads
turned toward the direction of
the earth - shaking explosion,
which tore a five-foot hole in
the ground outside. But it did
no other damage and no one
was hurt.
The Armstrong instrumental
ensemble did not miss a beat
and Satchmo himself stopped
blowing his trumpet only long
enough to say "It's O.K. folks.
It was just my telephone ring
ing." The concert of Armstrong fa
vorites such as "I Get Ideas"
and "Lucky Old Sun" continued
for 20 more minutes. The troupe
left immediately afterward by
chartered bus for Columbia,
S.C.
Eli Weinburg, a show promo
ter from Bluefield, W. Va., said
Armstrong will not let the in
cident shorten his southern
tour now in its third week.
Armstrong, wearing a dark
blue suit with white buttons and
a black four-in-hand tie, told
reporters afterward, "I feel like
I could go right to Birmingham
and play I don't believe we'd
have any trouble."
Negro singer Nat (King) Cole
was asaulted on the stage of
City auditorium in Birming
ham, Ala., a year ago by white
segregationists c a m p a i g ning
against mixed musical perform
ances. Armstrong was asked wheth
er he realized Knoxville is only
about 20 miles from Clinton,
Tenn., where dynamite dam
aged 30 Negro homes last
Thursday night in a recurrence
of school
strations.
"What's Clinton?
Integration demon- said. Til blow anywhere. The
thorn doesn't know anything
Armstrong about these race troubles."
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