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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-
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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)
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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.
The U.S. Department at Agri
culture says candy sales in 1955
amounted to 16.8 pounds for
every man. woman and child
in the country.
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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.
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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.
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