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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wtdnwdar. July 14, 1937 f'-'JS' iff Jk 'V' MISS UNIVERSE 1957 Voted the most beautiful woman in the world at Long Beach, Calif, is Gladys Zender of Peru. The new Miss Universe, 18, daughter of a wealthy Lima paper manufacturer, has been reared in the old Spanish tradition. She has never been out on a date only with groups of friends and always chaperoned. Miss Brazil was chosen first runner-up. Last year, South Americans complained that their entries were being ignored. js That So? By EUGENE BURNS Rangcr.Nattiralisr Tie lowest natural tempera ture ever recorded on earth was 120 i degrees F. below zero. Where? Not as you might sup pose near the earth"s poles but near the Equator at an elevation of 10 2 miles. Why over the Equator? The earth's temperature tends to be lower there because the stratosphere is highest there. By the nature of the earth's atmo sphere.' air tends to get colder as altitude increases until the earth runs out of stratosphere; then it levels off, or even begins to get warmer. Hence, the region with the highest stratosphere tends to produce the coldest air. Speaking of cold, the biggest chunk of ice in the world is at the bottom of the earth, in or on Antarctica. A hump of ice, perhaps 2V4 miles thick in the center, fans out over the vast expanse of the Antarctic which is twice the size of Australia. Slipping toward the sea in all directions a distance from 400 to 2,000 miles the coat of ice runs to the sea, exposing cliffs of ice up to 2,000 feet high at the water's edge. When ice from these cliffs "calve," some of it tumbles down to depth twice as high as the Empire State building. This huge cake of ice is the product of snow which as been falling through the thousands upon thousands of years. Look ing at the cross-cut section of the cliff, it takes about 230 feet of snow to turn into pure ice. Below that level, the ice is a solid blue. Roar of Express Train In this country, it blows. It is the home of the blizzard. There are records of winds blow ing 107 miles for eight hours without interruption. For one entire month, day in and day out, the average wind velocity was 60.7 miles an hour, with some gusts estimated to have reached 200 miles an hour. At such times, the wind had the roar of an express train and rocks were blown off exposed rocky cliffs almost like dust in a sandstorm. In Quest for a Continent, Wal ter Sullivan (McGraw Hill, N.Y.) tells of a plane which was secure by lines fastened to moorings frozen in the ice. The wind was so strong that it turned the pro peller of the plan at a speed where the air indicator touched 8 miles an hour. Small wonder that some of the . inland lakes are brackish, al- j thWigh well above sea level the strong winds blow in the salt-laden seaspray. I It was here that two doctors j tested men and came up with i an answer which may in part account for "cabin fever" among I prospectors and trappers a j hyper-touchiness of individuals i during the long cold winter of j the mountains. i Blood Pressures Soar ! Drs. Russell G. Frazier and ; IT . V 1 nnl-harrf who aCCOm- i panied the U.S. Antarctic Expe- How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do vour false teeth annoy and em- kocw. . -niatr odor" (denture ESit Ge FASTEETH today at auy dr-i counter. dition, 1940, from Boston took blood tests and kept other checks on the men in the expedition from the day they left until they returned. They found that when men stripped to their un dershirts and sat in the frigid tunnels, their blood pressures soared. As they kept records of how men could stand barefaced in sub-zero wind to see how long it. took for the first frostbite to appear, they found that their metabolism increased markedly. Even their skin structure al tered. And throughout the win ter so much adrenalin was se creted by- their glands that when it came to tooth-pulling even the slightest injection of adrenalin with novocaine produced adrena lin shock. "This Increase in adrenalin se cretion," observed the doctors, "may produce some of this in creased touchiness of individ uals. And this same phenomenon may account for 'cabin fever' among the best of friends who are prospectors and trappers." (Copyright 1957. By Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judge? will award each week to Nail Kegs Going; Popular Style Now Is Box of Nails Chicago W The keg of nails is headed for the same fate that overtook the cracker bar rel. Nails now are showing up in hardware stores in cardboard boxes designed for the con venience of the do-it-yourself trade. Package designer Bruce Beck believes the transition from keg to cardboard container will jprove a boon to nail sales. it win uuce mem out oi ma ing in bins behind the counter and put them on display where customers can see them," he said. Beck, vice president of Design Dynamics, has come up with a package bearing a chart that translates such obscure jargon as "6-penny" and. "10-penny" into length in inches. "That's so the do-it-yourself enthusiast can buy nails without revealing his ignorance," Beck said. "Not many carpenters really know the length of a 10-penny nail. They just know which jobs to use it on." Beck didn't know, either, un til he began researching the lore of nails. It seems that in 15th century England nails were sold by lots of 100 at four pence, five pence, six pence, etc., depending on their size. Hence the "penny" designations for size. Later, thehy came to be sold by tne pound, ana the penny designations have confused gen erations of occasional carpenters. Beck conceded that the switch from kegs to packages is not the biggest revolution to hit the nail industry. That came at the start of the 19th century, with the introduction of nail-cutting machines. Up to then, nails had been hand -forged, hammered out laboriously by blacksmiths. They were expensive and they were used sparingly. When old houses were razed, the old square nails were salvaged. Prior to the industrial revolu tion, nail production largely was a household industry. In Birm ingham, England, 60,000 persons were so employed, using up a weekly supply of 200 tons of nail rods. But in 1786 Ezekiel Reed of Bridgewater, Mass., got a patent for a "cut-nail" machine. In 1790 .John Clifford got the first English patent. And by the early 1800 s nails generally were being turned out by machines. 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SMITH-DYIIGE LUMBER GO. 8th Street & Fir Phone SP 2-7166 Israelis Plan To Turn Small City Into Large Port Eilat. Gulf of Aaaba TO A master plan now in preparation by the Israeli government is to turn this tiny outpost in the Bay of Aqaba into a major port cap able of handling large-scale two way traffic with Europe, Africa and the Far East. French experts are aiding the Israelis in assesing and blue printing the projected port, only a few miles from Aqaba, the Jordan outpost on the stra tegic waterway. All the indications are that Israel is going ahead, on the firm assumption that the gulf will be navigable to her ships and to other nations' vessels that intend to call at Eilat. The Israeli government makes no bones abouts its deter mination to force its way through the straits of Iran in the Aqaba Gulf if the neighbor ing Arabs Egypt and Saudi Arabia attempt to interfere. The cautious approach, to the Suez issue does not apply to this waterway. They emphasize on every occasion that they will not tolerate" the return of con ditions which, prior to the Sinai campaign, virtually barred the. gulf to them. Boom Town Shipping was resumed short ly after the Sinai campaign and, with little publicity, has since been going on, though on a mod est scale to date. It is modest, officials say, for lack of facili ties more than Israeli reluctance to use the waterway. These projects have made Eilat a boom town almost over night. Its population has nearly trebled since the Sinai cam paign last autumn. It is still be low the 2.000 mark but the hustle and bustle make the visi tor aware that something big is in the air. Officials, frankly admit that they have been caught unpre pared. The big plans for Eilat are still in the blueprint stage and to carry them out the gov ernment will need a lot of money and time. Situated at the tip of the Ne gev triangle, Eilat is still vir tually cut off from the Israeli hinterland by a vast expanse of desert. A small Dakota (DC-3) plane keeps up a shuttle service with Tel-Aviv, carrying experts, military men and the occasional tourist. A rough road links it precariously with Bersheba, the new key point in the northern part of the Negev, nearly 200 miles away. Conditions Good The French are examining the prospects of building a rail way net between Bersheba and Eilat, with sidelines to the pot ash center of Sodom (also in the south of the Negev desert). Its cost would be, according to present estimates, about $30, 000,000. And it will take time to build it. But -the government appears firm in its resolve to do it, or alternatively, to bulid a road system there as it has suc cessfully done elsewhere in the country. Moreover, the port itself re quires considerable develop ment if it is to perform anything GOOD DEED BACKFIRES Milwaukee (IB Ezra Evans spotted a car on fire to he stopped his truck, grabbed his fire extinguisher and put out the fire. When he returned to his truck he found that police double parking. But the story had a happy ending when grate ful firemen, who arrived after the fire was out, talked the po liceman out of the ticket. like . the ambitious task envis aged by the government today. The government's plan is to pass through Eilat some 700,000 tons of cargo annually. The experts claim conditions for a deep water port in the Aqaba Gulf are exceptional. There is no need for a break water nor for deep underwater excavations since the water reaches a depth of 30 feet or more at a distance of 150 yards from the shore. Israel's calculations are based on the assumption of large-scale exports of phosphates which are found in the Dead Sea area and also on exports of cement and salt, the latter to Asia. The ex perts say Israel could export about 70,000 tons of salt annual ly and about 80,000 tons of pot ash in years to come. She ex pects, moreover, that much of her imports may go this way into foreign ships. Twenty miles to the west of Eilat Port Israel is building now a big copper extraction plant. It is situated in the middle of the desert in this area of King Solomon's mines of Biblical fame. The plan is to process the copper on the spot and export several thousand tons per year to the Far East. WAR FLAO Delaware, Ohio, (IB A giant flag that floated over the U.S. Navy cruiser Brooklyn dur ing the Spanish-American War has been presented to the City of Delaware. The flag was donated by Walter S. Pollock, 92, who re ceived it from his late brother, Capt. Edwin Taylor Pollock, a former officer on the ship. The first vessel to pasa through the Panama Canal was the Alex La Valley in 1914. SAWDUST Phone SP 3-6297 McGinty Fuel Co. GOING ON A VACATION? Here's A Tip! SEE US FIRSTV FOR YOUR JSBSIs VACATION LOAN Repay In Convenient Monthly Payment - LOANS FROM - s25.00 to $2,500.00 AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE SALARY COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORP. Phone SP 3-4564 Sparta Bldg. 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