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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1959)
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In the U.S.- alone lightning kills some 600 persons an nually, injures about 1,500 others and causes more than $100,000,000 property dam age, according to the Light ning Protection Institute here. All states have electrical storms, though some more of ten and some more severe than others. The average num ber for any given area is about 40 storms a year. There are from 40 to 80 lightning strikes a year within the average square mile in this country. Although there is still no known method for prevent ing lightning, there are ways to protect against it. Gigantic Spark Lightning is a gigantic spark resulting from the surge of electrical charges rushing to meet their opposites. This interchange may be from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth. The average light ning bolt is composed of 20 separate chargets in rapid suc cession. The average lightning stroke is about 4,000 feet long. In general, a tall object is more likely to be bit by light ning than a low one. Positive electrical ground charges con gregate in tall objects in order to be as close as possible for an explosive meeting with their negative opposites found in storm clouds. A house in an open area is more likely to be hit than a house closely surrounded by taller structures because a "cone of protection" is provid ed by the highest object. This cone theory holds that an ob ject will shield an area within a radius of one to two times the height of the object. Grounding Systems Lightning rods and ground ing systems properly design ed and installed will protect a house from lightning dam age. These safeguards escort a lightning bolt into the ground or dissipate it into the air.. . ' - ' . - The average TV antenna, even : though grounded and with a lightning arrester, does not offer protection to the house proper. It is neither grounded with a sufficient sized conductor nor does it provide enough paths to earth to function as an efficient lightning rod. The most dangerous places to be in a lightning storm are on a golf course, in a boat, In the water swimming, atop a hill, at the beach, under an isolated tree, near a wire fence or overhead wires, and riding a bike, tractor, horse or farm machinery. Safest Placet The ' safest places are In buildings protected with lightning rods, steel-framed buildings and inside closed cars. . If outside, seek protection in a ravine, ditch or cave, or lie flat on the ground so that you are not the tallest object in the immediate area. If in-. doors in an unprotected build ing, keep away from door ways, open windows, metal objects, the fireplace, the sink, the telephone and the tele vision set. Lightning, which can strike twice in the same place, is as likely to strike wood or ma sonry as it is steel. Boy in Nashville Is More Than Boy Nashville, Ga. -UPD- "Come on, Boy!" snapped Arnold Ray as he waved a piece of bacon rind tied to the end of a long stick. "Bov" is anything but a boy. In fact, he's a mean looking, one-eyed alligator eight feet long owned by Lon ni Lewis, who found him by the side of the road three years ago and keeps him as a pet. Rav's iob is to feed Boy. of whom he says: "He's about as tame as alligators can get. which isn't quite tame enough to get too close. He knows when it's feeding time, and he knows my call." Rav said the critter "will come from as far away as he can hear me" to be fed. Just then. two massive jaws clamped on the food and the 'gator slowly slipped into the cool water of the lake. "He always goes back in the water to eat it," said Ray. He beckoned again and Boy came up for more food. But the alligator "won't eat in the wintertime," his feeder said. "I eot him to eat a little piece of mullet last October, and from then until March he wouldn't touch a - - - n thing."
