Medford mail tribune., August 26, 1957, Image 5

Is That So?
Weather is a constant concern
of everyone. Want to add to your
store of weatherlore?
The basic ingredient of wea
ther is atmosphere . . . where
there is none, there is no wea
ther. On the moon, for example,
where there is no atmosphere
there is no wind, no storm, no
rain and no snow.
Heat, of course, is the spoon
that mixes the atmosphere to
make weather. Our primary
source of heat is the sun, a gi
gantic atomic furnace. It bom
bards us with 126 trillion horse
power of energy every second,
on the second, year in and year
out. Yet vast as this energy is,
it is but a half of one billionth
part of the sun's total output.
Most of the rest goes up the flue
lost in space, only tiny traces
of it reaching other planets.
Ayerage Weather
Because in average weather,
the sky is overcast 52 per cent
of the time much of this
energy is reflected back into
space. A typical cloud reflects
75 per cent of the sunlight strik
ing it. Hence, on overcast days
only one-fourth of the sun's en
ergy hits the ground.
Of the amount that comes
through, snow reflects 75 per
cent which partly accounts for
the cold of our Polar regions.
Dense forests, absorb about 95
per cent.
Lacking atmosphere to trap
the heat, the moon's surface
temperature reaches 214 de
grees Fahrenheit during its
two-week-long day; and it
drops to 238 degrees below zero
during the long lunar night.
A differential of 452 degrees!
Contains Water
The air always contains water
in greater or lesser amounts.
When it is warm say 86 de
grees Fahrenheit, the air can
hold almost six-and-a-half times
as much water as when it is at
freezing temperatures, 32 de
gree Fahrenheit. Each day,
lakes, streams, oceans and
plants send up a steady stream
of vapor weighing millions of
tons. In fact, one apple tree
may send up seven tons of water
during its six-months growing
World's Fair Design ...
A regional leader of the ar
chitectural profession is John
Stewart Detlie, a founding fath
er of the Seattle Civic Arts com
mission, nationally know design
er, and a world's fair dreamer
and planner.
Detlie is a leader in the plan
ning for an international exposi
tion at Seattle, with Washington
. State authority and financing,
for 1960. He is cooperating with
the planners for an Oregon
World's Fair, to celebrate a
century of statehood, in 1959.
The prospect is for the grandest
displays of wood in its 5,000
uses that mankind has ever wit
nessed. , John Detlie says "It is no won
der that wood ... a result of
living growth, born in the same
organic world as man and part
of the small calm flow of time
that threads the life of human
ity, has such a deep meaning
for us ... "
The Universal Material ...
And so John Detlie and other
western members of the Amer
ican Institute of Architects form
a mighty vanguard of forces in
design of the Pacific Northwest's
present projects for international
expositions.
Detlie says. "Buildings have
sprouted in urban centers, con
structed of glass, steel, light
metal extrusions, plastics , de
signed in a brittle geometry
usually confined soley to varia
tions of the right angle. As our
urban commerical, industrial
and institutional life is subjected
more and more to this dictatorial
expression of rigidity, the neces
sity for some humanistic and
svmDathetic material becomes
increasingly evident.
"Such a material is wood .
"The annual rings of wood
become the grain of lumber, the
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By EUGENE BURNS
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season.
With the earth's gravity work
ing on this water, why doesn't
it fall? Simply because the water
droplets or ice crystals are so
exceedingly tiny. The air cur
rents move and lift these tiny
droplets so that the downward
pull of gravity is overcome.
In comparison, dust- particles
which are visible in a shaft of
sunlight are much larger than
water droplets and they fall.
The average size of the cloud
droplet is one l2500ths of an
inch in diameter so small that
it wouldtake 16 hours to fail
half a mile in perfectly still
air. Only when the droplet
grows to a diameter of ten times
as large, to 1250 inch or larger
can it fall from the cloud.
Average Raindrop
In comparison, the average
raindrop contains a million
times as much water as a tiny
cloud droplet. Making big ones
out of small ones '"coalescing
the droplets causes rain, snow,
hail and sleet.
Unlike rain, dew does not fall.
It is water vapor that condenses
on solid surfacS such as the
"sweat" outside of a glass of
cold water on a hot day. Frost
is like dew only it occurs at
temperatures below freezing,
the water vapor changing direct
ly into small, fine frost crystals.
Although lakes and ponds
store a great deal of fresh water,
a vastly greater amount is stored
as snow and ice in snow on
mountains, in glaciers and in our
tremedous polar ice caps. In
fact, thanks to Greenland and
Antarctica, one out of every ten
square miles of the earth's land
area is ice-capped.
(Copyright, 1957
by Eugene Burns)
(Released by McClure
Newsaper Syndicate)
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with the editors of the Encyclo
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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 world-famous refer-
patterns and markings of its
surface, of infinite variety, each
particle unique, a special crea
tion. While the machine imprints
its hypnotic monotony on every
thing it touches, the Creater of
living wood reveals the cosmic
variation in every fiber ..."
The Westerner ...
John Detlie speaks with a
genuine western voice in the
architecture of his place and
time. He was born in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, December
23, 1908. He was educated at the
University of Alabama and the
University of Pennsylvania. His
schooling in architectural design
was completed under the famous
Albert Kahn. He saw war serv
ice as a lieutenant colonel of
engineers through the years
1942-46. Then he became a part
ner in the Seattle architectural
firm of Young Richardson and
Carlton. His own work on
schools, churches and university
buildings won national awards
from the American Institute of
Architects.
Active in the Seattle chapter
of AIA, Detlite served as secre
tary and vice president for two
years and was the chapter's
president in 1954. The firm of
Detlite and Peck was formed in
1956.
So runs one man's story in
the profession that is vital and
basic in every important Amer
ican building program, from
family home to international ex
position. John Detlite' concludes:
"While the 'international school'
architects were over-stressing
metal, glass and plastics, some
of us knew all along that there
would be a resurgence in the
intelligent and sympathetic use
of wood. That time is here, and
now."
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Mae West Says Magazine
By VERNON SCOTT
United Press Hollywood Writer
Hollywood (IP Mae. West, the
sexiest siren of her generation,
says Confidential magazine
"done her wrong" in printing a
story linking her with the late
prize fighter Chalky Wright.
Mae, still buxom and platinum-curled,
tabbed the magazine's
yarn, "Mae West's Open Door
Policy," an outright lie.
"There wouldn't be any ques
tion about it if Chalky Wright
were still alive," she said in a
soft voice. "Before he died,
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Chalky told me he didn't say any
of the things they printed."
A Drowning Victim
Wright drowned in his bathtub
two weeks ago.
The siren of the 30s went on to
say that she hired the former
featherweight champion as a
chauffeur because she needed
protection from extortionists.
"And the story that one of my
chauffeurs once knocked me out
and threw me into a car was ri
diculous," she laughed. "Anyone
who did that would never have
lived to talk about it."
Monday, August 28. I9S7
'Done Her Wrong' in Story
Busy writing her autobiogra
phy, Mae is planning to return
to the footlights this winter ei
ther on Broadway or in a new
TV show. Meanwhile, she lives
in quiet luxury at her beach
home in Santa Monica, ,
"I haven't been subpoenaed by
either side in this case," she said.
"So I won't have to. take the
stand. This is the first time any
thing like this has ever happen
ed to me."
Mae could have Jolted her
memory, back 15 years to the
time when she was in the midst
of a sensational court trial. In
the summer of 1942 the razzle,
dazzle "come up and see me
sometime" gal admitted she had
been married after keeping the
fact a secret for 31 years.
During her heyday when
Mae was a Jayne Mansfield, Mar
ilyn Monroe and Mamie Van Do
ren rolled into one she regular
ly denied she'd ever been mar
ried. Frank Wallace in 1911
After a long legal battle she
finally admitted she'd said "I
do" with song and dance man
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Frank Wallace in 1911. It oreat
ed a minor sensation.
The actress who made the
quip, "Peel me a grape" a na
tional phrase, isn't overly upset
by Conf idential's story about
her. She shrugs it off as easily
as she once shrugged into her fa
mous white fur capes.
"Most people who read the
magazine don't believe what's
printed," she said. "And It's al
ways nice to think about how
many people never lead Confi
dential at all."
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