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ASTRONOMY NOTES _
By OLAF HALVERSON
The planet Mars, which is s°
brilliantly shining in the eastern
sky, revolves around the sun in
687 days at the average distance
of 142 million miles from the sun.
It rotates on its axis once in 24
hours and 37 minutes.
Its diameter of 4,200 miles is
slightly more than half the earth’s
diameter. Its atmosphere is not
sufficient to hide its surface.
Mars is distinguished from the
other bright planets in our skies
by its red color. It is a planet of
special interest especially when
it is nearest to us.
The equator of Mars is inclined
24 degrees to the plane of its or
bit, which is close to the inclina
tion of the equator on our earth.
The direction of its axis is dif
ferent. The northern end points
toward the vicinity of Alpha
Cephei instead of our pole star.
The seasons on Mars are about
six months long.
SECTY. McELROY on WORLD
TOUR OF U. S. BASES
SEOUL, Korea, (* — U. S. De
fense Secretary Neil H. McElroy
arrived today for three days of
conferences with U. S. and South
Korean officials,' McElroy is on
a round-the-world tour of U. S.
military installations.
Detroit Polio
Epidemic Takes
Tenth Victim
DETROIT, UP) — A 10-month-old
girl is' the latest victim of De
troit’s polio epidemic.
Sharon Scott’s death Wednes
day was the city’s 17th polio
death of the year. She was one
of six children. Her mother told
health authorities none of the
family had received any Salk
i polio vaccine shots.
Four new polio cases were re
ported in the city Wednesday, to
bring the total thus far this year
to 553, compared with 173 cases
and two deaths for the similar
period of 1957.
MAYBE CONSCIENCES—?
SAN FRANCISCO, UFl — For 10
years, residents of Visitacion Val
ley have complained that South
ern Pacific Railroad’s freight car
switching has kept them awake.
Someone poured cement on the
SP yard tracks. The prank was
discovered in time to prevent any
derailment — but switching
wasn’t resumed until after day
light.
Some residents had a new com
plaint: It was so quiet they
couldn’t sleep.
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‘Big Foot’ Prints
Those Of Indian
SEATTLE, — A taxidermist
says Big Foot, the creature whose *
huge, human-like footprints have
the people of the Weitchpec area
of Northern California guessing,
is an Indian gone wild.
A1 Corbett said he and another
taxidermist, Bob Titmus, of An
derson, Calif., inspected the tracks
25 miles north of Wetchpec last
Saturday and found. the prints to
be “very large, definitely human,
tracks.”
Corbett said the clearest print
was 16 inches long, 5 inches ac
ross at the heel, and 7 inches
across at the ball of the foot.
A logger in the area, Gerald
Crew, last week brought out a
plaster cast of a clear footprint.
“The story behind this is that
there was a mentally deficient
Indian'boy who was kept chained
by his parents,” Corbett said.
When this boy was 17 years
old, 28 years ago, he broke the
chains and disappeared. The In
dians found his clothes, but never
saw him again. They said fc$, had
extremely large feet.
“We talked it over a great deal
and figured this man now must
be 6 feet 7 inches to 7 feet 6
inches tall. We thought he might
weigh as much as 400 pounds. He
made firm footprints in hard
ground.
“Measuring the footprints for
a distance of more than 60 feet,
we found the average stride was
50 inches. We checked his against
the stride of a man 6 feet 4 inches
tall, with long legs, and his stride
was 30 inches.
“We were told by people who
saw footprints made when this
unknown man was running that
they drere 10 feet apart.
“I know positively this is a
human being.”
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Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
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Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER HO. I
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V«tty Matron
Holon Dunbar
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Bob Grant
Secretary
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ROSCOE WILKIE, President
MARY DIEDE, Secretary.
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