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FEATURES
THE CHINA MAJIÏ; » SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1958,
FOR
YOUR PUZZLE AN OUTSTANDING TEEN-AGER—
CORNER
THAILAND CROSSWORD
Cartoonist Cal bas lettered in
THAILAND DIAMOND
BANGKOK,
fri important
BOYS
AND GIRLS
Circus Story-
His Boats Carry Him To Early Fame DANNY BRINGS IN
IRED of tauntà about
TIRED
teenage delinquency? Well, here's a dandy item to clip and mave, Next time for Puzzleman's word
to defend the diamond. The road word you have
Thailand's old name to give city of Thailand, provides a
you soine clues to Puzzlemon's centre crossword puzzle:
S
to
ACROSS
1 Wild donkey
4 Knock
* Devotee
8 Girl's name
Hawallan wreath
10 Males
11 Young dog
12 Mineral rock
14 Constellation
11 Was victorious
M
18 Revolutions per minute
iv Boy's nicknanie
20 African fly (var.)
1 Belelt
DOWN
* Compass point
a Compensa Kota
4 Bulwark
Fruit drink
Cooking utensil
12 Possess
13 Fish eg
15 Reams (ab.) ·
10 Mimic
SCRAMBLED SENTENCE
Puzzleman's sentence about Thailand is a little mixed up, but he thinks you con straighten it out:
port through 80 of les miles the the Phraya of which per Thailand's about inland Bes Menam
The Dankrok TERS.C# cent impariz, 26 from an. Chao,
THAILAND REBUS
In his rebus, Puzzleman has idden "A Siamese coin," "where Thailand is," "one of its products," and "what it is." Can you find these four facts from the words and pletures?
B
- Yo
RICE
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New
"a vehicle"; thing "a water pas honour of teen-agers, you'll sage": ffth "garden tools"; and have ammunition in this Mxth Spanish for "the." Conboy's story.
Fo complete the diamond?
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BANGKOK
K
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BACKWARD LOOK
If you have trouble Aguring DUL these three facts about Thailand,
them reading
try
backward:
DOOWKAET
KOKGNAB
STUNAOCOC
(Solutions on Page 10)
HOW
His name is Lon Willits and Bo lives in Tacoma, Wash.
He keeps out of trouble by keeping busy-real busy.
When
he was in school, he headed for his garage every day after school and went to work. Except for some 20 minutes off for supper, he didn't the quit until about 10.30 in evening. Then he did his school work.
What was he doing in the - Piaget
E
THE ELEPHANTS
ANNY didn't have
DAN
much of a job with the circus. Ho didn't even have chance to food tho animals, All he did was help
{}
oring in the food BO chat one of the keepers
could pass it on to
elephants or "cats."
the
"But some day I'll be a head
trainer, just like my Dad was,"
no tired to tell humscAL.
learning every day."
"ym
One morning as they unloading the circus in the grey
were
Lon Willits of Tacoma, Wash,, and three of his boats,
DAWN, Miku said, "I've got a Rick zebra to juok alter, take the cluphanis to the Just lol Queenie lead them in. You won't save any trouble,”
You 106
"She'd ride like a barge. But I could be wrong."
He was.
A second expert who agreed with him took a ride in the boat and changed his mind fast. "The bottom is so flat for so long that it can't porpoise," ha
says.
Tuting out boats They are 14- to 10-fool outboard con- vertibles and runabouts, the
Lon explains it this way: kes of which residents of the
The flat, long, sloping bow water-sport-conscious Puget
area have never scenes water ahead of it, provid- ing a cushioning effect so that Instead of slopping the waves, the boat rolls into them. An- gled nontrip chinoa lift the boat out of the water until it is al- most airborne, helping avoid
before.
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1N. FROM PAPER.
א! !
VIN TRACE AROUND DAD'S FOOT
2.CUT 2 PATTERN SHAPES
FROM FELT SOFT LEATHER,OR AN OLD BLANKET. FOLD INTO THIS
SHAPE AND
WITH HEAVY
LACE UP TOE
CORD AND A LARGE NEEDLES
3.MARK HEELS IN CENTER
WITH APENCIL AND FOLD
THEM UP LINCH IN BACK, THEN OVER TO CENTER LINE AND SEW.
4. CUT SLITS
AND RUN LACE UNDER CUFF
MAKE THEM FOR DAD FOR A CHRISTHAS GIFT
this month!
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Selling them for prices rang- ing from $800 to $1,400, he was putting them out en un average of three a month,
And that waṭn't anywhere the customary slapping. near enough. Eager buyers were coming from as mach 28
300 miles away.
LON HAS a family precedent
himad designed and bulit in hla boating endeavour, Two
a real boat. Ever since
he put together his first one Willits of facoma,
14-foot
of his uncies, Earl and Floyd pre the the renowned
builders. of
A converted two-car garage, le ull the "factory" this talented tech-ager needs to turn out his successful product.
Tunabout he sold for $375, when he was still in willlts Built canoes, greatly in Junior high-the
rve a idea dream boat had been germinat demand throughout the nationa ing in his mind. It took him for the past 10 years. Like Lon, they started when they were in three
bigh school.
But Lon premies to equat if
uncles' not beller
reputa- ile has astounded his by working at odd jobs, ho tion,
Now that he's completed high is right now and then he'll go Brut school, Lon plans to devote full to college. He plans to take up bought himself the necessary teachers ever since his tools and, went to work. The wood shop class. Industrial art time to his boat works. He'll engineering. family two-car garage he con- teachers in Tacoma agree that stay with it until It's self- Did someone say teen-agers verted into his site of opera- they've never seen his equal.
sustaining-which it proelically are irresponsible!
through
four
end years
he went boats but he
finally got it.
With $700 he had saved up
liths. A combination 1g-paint
Aup was added to it.
During his scufor year In
high school he turned out some CRAZY WORLD-
XO boats after school and on
weekends. Ifis dad had to plich
in and help and he hired a fellow classmate, pald him union wages. Orders still kout piling op.
Plans for
call for full scale mass future production of the boat in a
the
immediate
plant employing eight full-time workers. Contaels in California
So You've Got Money Trouble?
MONEY
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"what the other man takes for
have been made and the opera- the things you want"-has Kion eventually will be ex-rattled in strange shapes in tended to that state,
·
WHAT'S 60 special about Willits' boat?
It has a radically now design that buyers and irresistible. It has twin fins and a roll deck. It has a long, sloping bow that
eminds you of a hydroplane.
curious transactions.
Cowrie shells, dog, pig and sperm-whale teeth have served as money. Fish- hooks, hounds, snail shells and stone coins 12 feet in France and dollars do today. diameter have passed as
Of all odd currencies, the
white and cowrie,
straw- Lon, in fact, bus copied several coloured Inch-long product of of that racing craft's features. the Indian Ocean, has perhaps These, he points out, contribute served more people than any to a second big selling factor.
other non-metallle Lender, the Outboard owners ato All National
Geographic Society familiar with the body-jarring porpoising that is no bomman with the smaji pleasure craft, Len wanted no part of that
Boys,
A native of Yay connis—and Jeans on his money.
ON IN. QUBENIÉ.
Thanks, Mike," cried Danny. "I'll get them in sit right." rest of the herd followed, and Quccale was already coming so did Danny. There Was down the platform, slowly nothing else he could do, swinging her long trunk. Bess "1 can't understand you," ha Was
bedind. Danny cried. "You've never refused to counter. Twelve
lumbering go in before! What's come over elephants, That was rigat. He you?" rati ancad to where Queente
going down the
WAB
المقال
They came to a gate on the road, opposite side and, to Danny's
swaed by the ugated ares. great relief, Queenle went in.
The elephants 'walked along
steadily, just - sa Incy had
Geen going over this same road
overy day this year.
When they reached the me- nagorie tent Mike sald, "Gosh,
There was on old cesspool down with the by that other gato una the cage hippo feit through. How did you come 10 around?"
"It's my first big job," Danny kept telling nimsuit. "Maybe I'm glad you got in all right. can bring them in overy day from now on,"
Toe milo to the circus grounds scored only a few s.epa.
Queenie started in the gate and then stoppad.
Danny patted her leg up as. high as he could reach.
through
20
"It was Queenie's idea," said Danny. "I just followed along." "0 "Good old Queenio," said Mike. "Somehow or other she knew that ground wasn't safe, She's sure all right."
Then he grinned at and added, "You're all too, Fellow."
pa, honey," he begged, "Go on in. You don't want to bust me on the job before I even get started, do you?"
He begged and coaxed but Queenie wouldn't take another step. Instead she turned and started around
the lot. The
Danny right,
-By Mabel Harmer
Tomorrow's Breakfast
—Magically, Ms. Marlin Servos It Today!-
By MAX TRELL.
COME
64/1OME in! Come int" said Már Merlin, the Magnificent Magician, as he opened the cocoa beans bought a slave. Coor to knarf, the 6hasow-Boy, Coloured Amazon River stones and Teddy, the Stuffed Bear. resembling. fish served the They had come to pay him Curibs in Gulana as a medlun visit in Mr. Merlin's beautiful of exchange.
home called Mogle Mansion.
Strango House
The sperm
It was a strange house oven for a magician.
whale's elusive- ness, like gold, raised its teeth to enormous value in the Fiji Islands. Generally owned by chieftains and hand-polished, a tooth bought a bride or a cai- The front door of Magic Mart prit's way out of trouble.
sion was behind the bookcase. Other things hard to obtain The back door was underneath have also passed for money in the rug, Just to one side of the lands for Apart-halls, for fireplace, There were rabbits instance, were as good as cash in the garden, and a scarecrow at one time in Scotland and ijin the flower bed who could pre-Revolutionary New Eng say "Good morning" and tip his Salt bars are still sound hat when he saw anyone pass. exchange mediums in some countries where the life-giving clement is scarce.
land.
"I suppose," Mr Merlin said, as he led Knarf and Teddy into the sunny room that looked out into the garden, "that you'd Eye-appealing baubles simi- † like some breakfast," lar to the cowrles won wide- spread popularity. Just as North American Indians gavo · valued lands and akins for.
moro
Not Hungry
Merlin Raked Kozrf and Teddy to come in.
Mr Merin pulled it open and in rushed table. It pranced around the room on its four wooden legs and finally came to rest near the sunny window. It was all set with a snowy tablo- cloth and lives and forks and spoons and pepper and salt and napkins and a big Jar of pure
"Well," said Knarf, "I'm not maple syrup.
this
In Uganda a thousand cow- bla boal It was one of the ties bought a 02-pound Ivory main bugaboos he was deter- tisk; 2,300 bought a cow; a mined to iron out in his three bride was sold for two cowries. years of experimenting.
Sometimes a surplus of cow- He has succeeded in elimi-ries brought inflation.
beads, the Araucanian Indians really very hungry Tarn
Knart and Teddy smiled and nating porpoising almost com- tribal leaders hoarded quantt-
of Chile accopied green Jadeite "Neither am I," said Teddy. drew up two chalks and tucked pletely.
Salised buyers can'ttles of the shells in an effort to ed the tooth, for traders a half beads.
Mr Merlin smiled.
the napkins uner their ching say enough about its welcome control their value.
century ago shook the economy
Apart from
and waited for someone to come ordinary Boating absence.
"Very well," he said. " in with the breakfast. experts Dog teeth found favour among with Imports of porcelain
patterns of currency, Antwerp you're not hungry for scratch their heads over it." distantly separated Bolomon counterfeits.
At a boat show in Tacoma atislanders of the Pacific and
gin became money in Tierra morning's breakfait, I'll be very Yap, the Facile island, and del Fuego a century ago.
glad which Lon's boat was on ex-Shoshone and Bannock Indian Paraguay, the South America
to serve you Tomorrow hibit, one of them wogged his of North America.
country, once stood at extremas In the Pacide, Loyalty Island Morning's breakfast," head and anickered at the post- In 1890 the Indians valued a fn weight of currencies, The purchases were made with red Kharf and Teddy quickly ed advertisement stating that tooth at 25 cents. The islanders, zomed stone money of Yap fur found under the care of the agreed that they would be good the boat would be the smoothest trading among themselves, paid weighed hundreds of pounds, flying fox. In the Gilbert and hungry for Tomorrow's riding boat ever.
Waih circulation nearly impos- Islands buyers once used Ash-Breakfast, Bible, the enormous stones stood hooks made of shells, Ergo before the rich man's dwelling, became a limited currency od "Fine," said Mr Merlin. "Now bespeaking his resources. Nauru Island.
what would you like for break- Last, Knarr
"It would be the roughest- riding bost here," be salt,
for canoes with teeth.
When selling to outsiders, bowever, the Llanders scrutinis
ZOO'S WHO
"THE STICKY LA BREA TAR. PITS OF LOS ANGELES TOOK A FEARFUL TOLLOF PREHISTORIC WILD LIFE MORE THAN 1500 SABER-TOOTHTIGER SKUUS ALONE HAVE BEEN RECOVERED
FROM THE ASPHALT BEDS
THE YONKEY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ANIMALS TO BE TRAINED BY MANų
VABARY APIE IS ONE OF THE CLEVEREST THIEVES
OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOMLANILE ONE OR TWO OF THEM 1999ÊND GUAMP READYSE BOUND THE ALARM IF THE HARMEITAPFFÄRS,
FELLO PES PAIP VEGETABLE GARDI
In Paraguay, natives cut snail. The main currencies of Alar, shells to shirt-button size as tiny East Indian Island, are mcnoy. A hundred buttons metal kettle drums and brasa bought a sheep, while in Nica- gongs. Arrows are considered
of small change.
the
sane number
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"I'd like a scrambled egg, a slice of toast and a cup of cocoa, please," sald Knart,
"And what would you like, Toddy?" asked Mr Merlin.
Teddy's Order
"I'd like hot cakes and maple syrup and a glass of milk, Me Merlin," said Teddy, "And also sume biscuits.”
*Very good,” said Mr Merlin. "Sit down at the_table."
Knart
and Toddy looked around the room.
"It, you don't mind, Mr Mer lin," Knarf said in an embar ressed voice, he don't wo don't mo ang table to sit down
(Oh, dose?" said Mr Merlin, "I forgot to ask the table to be hore, for breakfast,” Just · one. moznent, please.”- L
Clapped His Hands.
Extraordinary, Things
Then the most extraordinary things began happening. together and
Mr Merlin clapped his hands
A chicken ran in with an ogg, and
A frying pan flow in and broke the ezz and scrambled and fried it, and
A slice of bread toasted itself over the fire in the fireplace and dropped on Khart's plata And
A cup of hot cocon floated down the chimney and settled itself without spilling a drop o Knarf's side of the table aid
A skiflot came in and filpped and flapped Alx beautiful golden-browa bot-
cakes and
Glass Of Milk
A. cow romped in with a glass of bubbling milk. Then The salt shaker sprinkled it- self over Koart's egg and
The far of maple syrup poured itsgît over · Teddy's black of holcakes, "Eat, my deare," said · Me Merlin,
That was the bont breakfaat
I ever had," Teddy and later to With that. Mr. Merlin, the. Kaart, as he patted his fongue. Mingnificent Magician, clapped: "I wish I wore a Magnificent
is hands together and in a loud Magician like Mr Müriin, MICE, video called out "Table" and Khart“ - "I'd feet - Tomorro
Inalantly there was a rat-i. Ereakfast every day in sus tat-tat on the door.
wook."
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