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SATURDAY, MARCH 10; 1956.
FOR
BOYS
MANY AN ANCIENT,SAILING SHIP BROKE UP on Hatteras.
The Puzzlemen
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HUSKS HAVE MANY
USES FOR INDIANS
OPNE KAN
IN CORNOA PIPE
کی کی گر
KUTANA NA
de lá 716 2 Line FUL ATEN ZIM LOTIONS
ĮŢIODAY'S western Talian Tes al in the lands
it
earnstalk or a corbush it
somag brandest batuve barn-
WALAU M ating Reg
Modern Scientific Inventions Have Brought Many Changes To Cape Hatteras Which Used To Be
The Graveyard Of Ships
The F
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AND
Bustling
GIRLS
1
Miniature Cities
Lie Underground
"Nvellous in the small-
TATURE is most mar-
est al great tells us
This
her creatures," Swedish
a
scientist
certainly seems truc, for the life story of the tiny ant seems like fairy tale. After a lifetime study of the ant many scientists havo found it difficult to believe that the insect cannot reason, So great is its wisdom.
HER MAJESTY
THE QUEEN
HUMANG ARE NOT THE ONLY CREATURES WHO LIVE
TOGETHER IN GROUPA DEPENDING ON EACH OTHER TO CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR WAY OF LIFE-
ANTO LIVE IN COLONIES
WITH THEIR WORKERS NURGES AND GOLDIERS, ALL
WORKING FOR A
QUEEN.
the rest of her ilfe which can bo as king as 17 years.
There are more than 3,000 species of these little insects In the whole world. The most commonly seen arc the black and the red ants, They have a very alender
care for them. The nurse workers waist, six legs, and two carry the tiny larvne and cocons long slender antennac. These out into the warm sun and then As for the males with wings, they have to hope of a long antennae wave back and carry them back underground as
the sun sinks lower-before they life under iny circumstances. forth as the unts move.
have a chance to gel coul.
With ut spveles the sexcD At fast, after mothering a meet in the air and mating takes All ants live together as
lagu family of workers the place there, bous do, sometimes uren lags The eggs which will hundreds of thousands in a hatche milo males and females. with winga. This fully colony.
These colonies are organ- ised very much like nations, They have qucens, wingless workers, and nurses, winged males and females. In some of the colonies the workers into two ulvided
ilre
is very carefully guarded, fed, The young queens set about and tended by workers until it is vytablishing new colonics alone. ready for the marriage flight, The busy workers have no usu In places where there are for the males, so they are not many ant communities the air allowed to come back into the may be filled with the females home colony after Weir Arst trial light. They soon become a starting off on this fight,
or
Not all of them ind it possible meal for a bird or spider, to fly off and make new com- arvet death in some other way. mualties for the workers try to In some aut communities enpture them as they are leaving wild nethers are killed by the and drag them back to keep the workers just as soon as they be- home communit populated, come too feeble ki do their slure the Jemni capturest of the work. For the law of the
Cape, maay of them came fron thema mig fy wl The
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to the herd of a Dese Hatteras North Caro the cabins of the sh ps.
de the Teppe thown the [data. the The remains
Even the people who live
A pli ven on the island are descend tening Fight of think it was 2.300 hip, victima of
battle constan!
amit ng sise, in a safe chamel groups, the large workers, when the ants of men who were crew
the bent, the pand the soldiers. The duty she Wan Gulf Stream with or passengers of the wreek. Felt wing
picks off her wings and Ant Hill is "Work or diet" and would hirm the ship toward the cold Saath Atlantic Current, od ships,
uf the soldiers being, of stays in the underground home is taexorable! wuld he where it
to- The Brig is ometimes call
ved on the shouls. vi Trumcane Junelion:
Cape Hattera :: with Hatterns Ishund. which 4X mules long best
narrow,
very
The all lighthouse at the Whit warned many days that atron hing
V
danser, Ex how pronet ved an Mapapal noun at. The
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course, home defonce.
Nowadays the Const Guard keeps 11 careful
Ant colonies ali begin the watch over the ships that
Anne way. A female leaves Et comme
to an end here. Bel
this pirate-like The cargo is
home community atj brought off protone, one at the village
called Nag's swarming Baba land is Their ow the voarela under empervision, and auctioned
Ndotum.tely, with the help trader, and the to the highest bidder,
Havigators can
and
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time and lays
The Mysterious Caller
her eggs. These eggs hatch Everyone Knew Him, Although He Didn't Have a Name- into maggots,
the
The mother ant feeds youngsters from her body until Ship- Etney spun their cuVONS. After La veral weeks they eme buf ando pad a pack of cut just blast in there evenons and become ty
mure and
the firt worker anls of the new That bakery delude.
many colony.
They take care of the queen so that all her time can Wight brother night at Kitty he spent laying eggs.
which 18 1521 struders Husk
CAF agminase and tod B whatever Bungs you have read about the have been faken over by a Paplit, core
Pa
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works,
4-lance RWDY, chaps are also warned of
mmper by a light-lap which, int chip
#hehered whont eight
nil off the coast.
MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD
but: the Coast thuard assum guardianship of Ta gion, almost every storm longht
a wrecked ship.
Salynge was the principal;
A LES 1 for the residents of the island. In fact, the Lourses,
Carning & Eving A
slerpant platform buildings are
he follows the amewat Ci kota this fre Woven
tum
of
Di
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Haitens
at
the
se liked sin the sad skoot the wierit
the number "Memator" alter her duci with the not they delilerntely "Miedzimae, and the artylins
destruction
Bilekbeard, the Pirate,
Sure this are family has not been very wel Ped it is snu:ller Ja size than the later broods whe
have many workers to feed and
METEORITES, NATURE'S
SPACE TRAVELLERS
METEORITE
is
small, solid mass that has wandered among the
churches, and business stars for perhaps millions of years and humily landed Built from From wrecked upon our earth. It is called before it lands, Mats slips and the furniture in a meteor
of the tubers 11
1:a prople. All Fast, doa summer wear
1 iesp
STAA minde Irun nelti objects can based husks. ;༩ རྩྭ- ↓་གླུ་
Doornals arc Le mant freen them.
constructed in the me faste H.
an old re.
Old men still innke pipe bowl; vape he can cutest a lotiun form cornenbe They're exent. from The crushed rurit tent for hand brushes and back;
Tota la excelent for scratchers too, Wamen te them
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A TOUCH
while
its light emblazons the sky.
There are three kinds of
OF meteorites; the nickel-iron, the stony, and the stony-
for scrublding, and when they' MODERN ART
Pen y a t
fruise, we dried, they are burned Then it can be wrapped in a make tag ders for smoking dish. clean, dry
They are also Cornhtasi ban meat and hides.
utilised in the tring of dage.
pots.
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Before The white man intro- duced matches
the west, single cornhusks were twisted
lamplighters into thin
which were carried n short distance from one fire to light another. These were also red as kindi- ing to mirse the apark from a Are drill into flame.
Women ale braided them In order to construct clotheslines
clay
}
iron.
A meteorite falls to earth because it contacts the earth's atmosphere and
By MAX TRELL
TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear, heard the secret telephone bebid the bookcase ringing. He waddled over to as fast an nis plumpness let him, for he was much too round be able to run. It was still very early Ile pleked up in the morning.
the ahouc.
"Shush!" he said, speaking
10 the phone withou! know- ing yet who was at the other end. "Everybody's asleep!" Then himself he suddenly reminded and added: "Oh, who is this?"
A Gruff Voico
A big, pruit voice answered: "Hi, Toddy. my good fellow. This is an old friend of yours.
"An old friend?" said Teddy. very puzzied,
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"What's your name?" Teddy asked the telephone caller.
corner. There
Cat,
was the "Don't tell me you don't re- curled up in another corner. cognise my voice," sald the There was Mr Punch asleep in stranger on the telephone. "I his rocking chair nçar tho You window. There was Hiawatha, was here all last winter. sat on my shoulders many Lime."
a the Indian Bay, stretched out
near the radiator.
"Who's your nome" sald Teddy.
"Well,
well, well," said the voice on the telephone, "I don't
feel
Standing Very Still
The only one who seemed to
very good about your for- be awake was General Tin, the getting me, Teddy. But I can't Tu Soldier. He was leaning on door. tell you my namo. I haven't his musket next to the
He good very still. He might go one."
have been asleep standing up.
Teddy waddled over to him
Teddy said: "What do you lock like?"
Corncob Pipo
at otice.
"There's someone on the tele-
"I'm big," said the man en phone," he said to General Tin..
"Is it for me?" asked General he telephone. "I've got a round
Many mothers also like to have art about them then the ping at terrife speed through 60,000 years ago. The crater is it is the only exclusive meteor- | pabbles. Well, do
in
a few husks of corn bandy urder to construct a quickie dull
by twistin for a sleepy child and folding the strands into a head, body, arms and legs. But such a little dolly never has face If it did, according to on Id superstition, i just might turn into a real live person.
ZOO'S WHO
THE KOALA BEARISAN
ANCIENT ANIMAL, AND OWING TO A PRIMITIVE DIGESTION, CAN ASSIMI-
THE AMERICAN INDIANS DID NOT HAVE HORSES BEFORE. THE ARRIVAL-OF EUROPEANS UPON THIS CONTINENT,FIRST HORSES SEEN BY THE INDI- ANS WERE THOSE BROUGHT OVER BY THE SPANISH IN-
VADERS OF MEXICO..
THE FLEA POSSESSES THE GREATEST JUMPING
LATE NOTHING EXCEPT THE LEAVES ABILITY OF ANY ANIMAL. OF SOME TWELVE VARIETIES OF IT CAN JUMP A DISTANCE
EUCALYPTUS TRESS....... OF 200 TIMES ITS OWN LENGTH.
n
head. I smoke a cornecb pipe. I Tin. wear an old albuch hat. My
"I don't know who it is," said you like your stamps gravity
eyes are two pine cones. The Teddy. He hasn't got a name. draws it earth-
black around 20,000 to which is now at Sedona, Ariz, buttons of my coat are with a touch of modern ward. The friction of travel- ploded there
Would you go to the telephone you know
and find out?" Its bottom ite museum in the world and me now?" a mile wide, aboul new issue you will plump our atmosphere causes its
The ridge contains specimens acres. 40
from 000
tried as hard as he "Certainly," Teddy
Buid Generol covery for is one from Yugoslavia.nery
(There are only could. Ho couldn't
got a remember Tin. "But if he has. " If und around it is about 200 feet high different fails. appearance.
1,450 meteorito falls represented who the man was, "Just a name, what good will it do?" when
It strikes the ear, and a half mile wide.
museums of the minute, please," he salch **I'll it is believed that when the in all the most of itu heat in dis-
However, Ganerat Tut wont be right back." meteorite exploded, it voper world.) sipated.
led and metallic droplets sent- During the past 32 years Dr Teddy put the telephone re he said. fored over the ground. Millions and Mrs Nininger have travelled ceiver on a book and waddled of these hardened dropicts have extensively and have studied the back from behind the bookcase. been Bound over n area of meteorites of the world. Today He looked around the
It shows
an impres- sively powerful Kiri send- of a white dove) complete with a o
branch.
י.
hi
peaceiuit JUGOSLAVIJA
usturo to
tho world
of Yugodavia
from German
SHOOTING STARS
Newly fallen meteorites are black on the outside al- though they may be greyish inside. Old, weathered ones are usually runted.
rooni.
to the telephone. "Hello there,"
"HI, General Tin," said the voice. "I bet you don't know. who I am, either!" 100.000 meres around the crater. Dr Nininger is the world's Everyone was sill asleep.
authority Fach metvorite has its own highest
'on these There were Knart and Hanld, For just one moment, Gonerol visitors from Individual pattern. These strange ferns are valled Widmaustatien space. figures, and can be seen when
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ineteorita 1A treated with acid. When a memorite explodes, A million small meteorites each fragment can be identified
is to commemorate the Eberation hit our atmosphere hourly by its pattern as belonging to cecupation Just over. 10 years and are consumed by fric- that meteorito fall."
tion. These are the shooting Since that momentous event, stars we see. Few reach the this young country led by Mar-earth.
Bro.
political ups and downs.
shal Tito bus known muny There is evidence that a few prehistoric meteorites Stolin tried to take It aver, onco scarred the earth. One Nothing doing. America wanted in recent times did con- close relationships which Tilo, at
hi the Arizona meteorlie fall
have diamonds grado anda amall one in Russia, low- found. These are of no mercial value, however,
been
com-
UNUSUAL MINERALS
Traces of platinum, copper,
that time, did not relish. He siderable damago in Siberia, chromium and cobalt have been
I shot down Amurican planos. And in 1954
now looks to the West for aid
a small one found in the Arizona météorite
earth--
And so I went on until Tite came through the roof of a fragments; and two minerals not
found elsewhere, on and pursues a polley of coudous house in the United States schreibersite and colenite. and hit a woman. But tho Arizona's crater was
friendship with the Erst.
whito-dove only one in millions.
firat
This desire for good relations chanco of a meteorito hit studled extensively by Dr D. M. alt round is the theme that lasting, a
in Barringer and is sometimes house or person called the Barringer Crater," inspired the now stamp.
In 1928 Dr H. H. Nininger "Meteorite Cruter (ee pleture) (pronounced -inger) took p printed and costs 6d. in London in Arizona Was made by a the work and lator datablished tickle-iron meteorite that x. the Arizona Meteorite Muséeën
"It is perforated 121⁄2.
~J. A. A
ress-
outer the shadows with the
about names, curled up
turned-
In
slowly a Tin
frowned, then a smile began forming on
his
face.
Familiar Volco
Rupert and the Gold Acorn-28the
While the gari listens gravely the boy ten fully expialni, hú The Tokan, our Royal
Token," he murmure. When
gone. What shall I do ? **** Nay do not give up hope. comes tha: deep role of the Bath Lei'ui welch that heile mon
4 win Arse captured; I threw it' thatoughly.” As they midve AWAT decretly into the dark hollow of Rupert Rival í skart, MA hallow
tree. My enemy saw it not. Erkek besaspera”. Could that be- Bui, elán, on, my return it was a mig tree.25. He dashes nicht them. ^
ALL RIONTA BELENTED
"
cald
General Tin to"
man at the other and of the phone, "your voice is very famillar. It gets moro familiar overy minute. Just tell me, this, are you made of mow?
The voice at the other eild of the phone roared with laughter bully “You guessed,” he sold to General Tin. "Just tell the others that I'm. on my ̈ way hero. I've been walling for the weather to turn cold. I' be around
the first thing to-
morrow morning. Be sure to look for moryanb By this time, edryone awake, Generát Tin hung up and faced them. 411" da
Who was 14 General Tin?" Teddy, naked.. P'who is coming the fist thing idmorrow mwen- Eng1 h
Grand, Ueneral i "The Snow, MAE,"
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