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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE frlday. June 7. 1337 Basic Eeauly 9391 3" 5 III 13 ? Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Rjnger-Naturaiiit Accustomed as are . . . I air is moist and shrinks when it yet, it s a strange world. Con-jjs dry. When your stairs some sider: before the white man set- Umes" creak at nighti tnat-, be. tied in North America mere were more different languages "Go everywhere" in this Classic shirtwaist dress! It's your favorite tyle for summer; sew EASIEST, because it's our new Printed Pattern 'for simple, ac curate sowing). Have it in three i ev versions all-seasons mart! Printed Pattern 9391: Misses' Size" II, 14. IS. 18. 20; 40. 42; Size 18 requires 5 yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat tern part. Easier, faster, accur ate. Ser-d THIRTY - FIVE cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst elaa mailing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribura. Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, J) Y. Print plainly, NAME. AD XBZSS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Smart Scrap Quilt spoken by the native tribes of Indians than there are today by all the immigrants of countries our government recognizes. There is no sound in space for the simple reason that there is no air for sound waves to travel on. All mammals, including mem bers of the cat family, cannot see in pitch blackness. But when there is a little light such as that from starlight, they can see quite well. The first horse we know of to day once lived in what is now Wyoming. He is known as the Dawn horse and was eleven inches high. His fossil remains, discovered by Dr. Frederick Brewster in 1903, are now in Amherst college museum. Ducks lay their eggs in the early morning. If you want to be sure to collect duck eggs keep your ducks confined until around 9:30 a.m. Jade got its name because people once believed it cured a pain in one's side. The Spaniards called the stone piedra de ijada, meaning "stone of the side." San Francisco's original name was Yerba Buena (good herb). Honolulu's. Fair Haven, Los Angeles' El Pueblo de Nucstra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncolo. One-Tenth Under Ice More than two-thirds of the surface of the earth is under water and of the third remain- about one-tenth is covered with ice. The earth, truly, is a middle- sized planet: four are larger Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus; four are smaller Mars Venus, Mercury and Pluto. To reach space, space travel ers will need to go only half the dislance between New York and Washington, D.C. Space is marked by an imaginary line only 120 miles above the earth. Golf was once illegal in Scot land. Men were supposed to spend their spare time practic ing archery, the principal weapon of war. You. can start a grass fire by simply leaving an empty glass bottle on the ground. The bot tle's curved sides may concen trate the sun's rays upon one spot and the resulting heat can set the grass burning. Listeners sitting fairly close to a TV screen can hear the speaker before many of the peo ple in the speaker s audience can hear him. Wooden Parts Change The wooden parts of a house and its furniture keep changing size. Ihis is because wood con tracts with the cold, expands with the heat, swells when the cause they are shrinking in the cooler air. For some more amazing facts of the world around you, read Surprising Facts by Frances N. Chrystie (Watts, N.Y.). And for a bonus: Manhattan island weighs less today than it did when the Man hattan Indians lived on it. This despite the millions of tons of steel, stone, concrete and human bodies. The weight of the soil and rock that have been dug out and dumped to make way for subways, sewers and water lines, building excavations is more than all the things that have been added. (Copyright, 1357, by Euqene Burns (Released by McClure 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 yvorld-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! c'o Medford Mail Trib une, Box 575. Sausalito. Calif. Oregon Airports Due Help in Seal Coating Salem OP The State Board of Aeronautics will assist vari ous Oregon cities in seal coat ing airports runways it was an nounced today. Board Chairman Ralph Scrog gin, Lebanon, said under provi sions of a program approved by the recent legislature the board will pay up to S3.000 for the cost of materials used in seal coating one runway at each air port. DOCTOR CAUGHT Flat Rock, Ind. HP Dr. J. A. Davis had the surprise of his life. He caught the measles. "I had them a day before I knew it," he said. He said he probably caught them from a recent case he treated. Nehru Charged With ' Corrupt Campaigning New Delhi W An inde pendent candidate who stood against Premier Jawaharlal Nehru in India's general elec tions last February filed a peti tion Thusrday charging the Pre mier with corrupt campaigning. Sitaram Khemka, heavily de feated by Nehru, charged the Premier denied political parties or individuals other than those connected with his Congress Party the right to broadcast election addresses or use other means of communication. ADVERTISING MAN DIES Philadelphia W George H. Reichard. 75. retired Scripps Howard advertising executive, died Thursday. HARDTOP RACES Saturday, June 8 TIME TRIALS 7 P.M. RACES 8 P.M. Everybody Welcome VALLEY VIEW SPEEDWAY To Buy or Sell - Use Tribune Classified Ad TV fuy quilt comes right jtrrtjn your acrap bag! Easy to do use fabric cut in strips, snip off piocrs as needed! Just one bloclt makes a colorful porch pillow too! Pattern 7S19: Charts, direc tions, pattern- for five-patch quilt. Yardaes for single, and JoubI bed Snd THIHTY - FIVE cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st rlass mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune. Household Arts Dept . P. O. Box Ifi. Old Chel sea Station. New York 11. N.Y. Print plainlv NAME. ADDRESS n PATTERN" NUMBER. A bonus for our readers two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Needle craft Book for 1957! Plus a won derful variety of designs to ord rer crochet, tnitting. embroid ery, hucfc weaving, toys, dolls, others. 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