The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 7, 1953, Page 8

Page 8: FLASH: GORDON THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, March 7, 1953 +AND GHES BREATHING HEAVILY AS Qi SHE WERE LOADED WITH SLEEPING) HERE.SOU WILL BE KING UNTIL 1 COME BACK. ¥ INKL IF SHE E MANORAKE 16 THINKs.II '§ U CANNOT 60-10 THE JUNGLE TCH! R 4 2 YOU Wiad NEVER RETUAN! OF COURSE, DARLING...BUT YOU DON’T MIND IF GUS TAGS ALONG 1S Ih OVE A EVETOOTH TO Git A PEEK AT TUN THAR STATUE (04, PLASTER 16 MPN OF Pew, JUGHAID:- iF ID KNOWN SHE WAS = 1'D HAVE 12 SING = 10 Hav ‘BRIDGE WORK - BUT WHAT AN AWFUL voce! ANO IS HE CON- CEITSO* Au THar Fan MAL HE Gor THAT STUFF was _\! AGAG“~ We SENT }} THOS® LETTERS AND > SIGNED GIRLS NAYES cradle, that the- remain permanently Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy | face of the sea where. rEzoeB me particles of Yood that may he swept within their reach: by the: waves. Q. How large does the whale shark grow? Is it, dangerous to man? J. A. Perrori, Tampa, Fla. A. The whale. shark, - Rhincodon typus, is the largest of all fishes, reaching a reported length of 50 to 60 feet, but it is. harmless.to-man.- This shark the huge mwuth Placed near, the:etid of the-snout in- stead of beneath win “x sharks, and. .f¢ strajning small crustaceans, fish, and..other organisms from. the water through its sieve-like gills. A __slow-sivim- ming surface, fish, pre wert : may be y its: ‘pattern By Lee Falk and Phil Davis| maybe a else — W'LLCOME BACK darker background... ;- ulp)--1 HOPE! Q. What is ‘the function -‘6f | an: = “automizer ‘muisele’” in crabs? A. This -is the name gi to'a particular typeof. mustle.. whose function is.to. amputate>an injured leg automatically so that it may later grow back entire. Automizer muscles are possessed. by . crabs, lobsters, and shrimp, and ff held by a leg or pincer; they will often “drop” the meniber- in’ :order:. to escape. An | injured, -or -:partially broken appendage must also’ be dropped, since it will grow back only from the’ peint of automatic detachment by the automizer mus- cle. Q. Do needlefish “run” on ‘their tails over the sugface of the water? A. Some Spepies do.- The best j known of these.is the one known ,, Strongylura rap- hidoma, whith o¢casionaly reaches a length of 5 feet, This fish ‘will often run at great’ speed over the the suriace of the water with only the tail s.bmerged. This is accom- plished by holding “the pectoral (side) fins outward at right angles, so that they catch the air like the wings of a plane and raise: the e- longate body upward at an angle to the sea surface. Q. What is the peculiar, jointed PASH NOTES! slow way of a buil,"When his: broad-isw: came around Rimbaud ask& you Booger Bill?” ed “gun. . Revealing | : prise nor anger. he got} 7 up, discarded the cigarete, and |: +asked sullenly, “Whe be you?” . . “Naime of Rimbaud.” , Booger Bill stared at hini, de: manding, “Jim Rimbaud?” “Yeah.” “But Lew said you was. lavin’ drunk in town,” Booger Bill ob- for funning.”- 5 “He wasn't funnin’ me, sisted solemnly, ‘W said’ yo Southern Bell Annual Report Cites Record Growth In South Southern progress in commerce, |pany experienced .. its greatest agriculture. and industry in -1952 telephone navement for a sin- ‘was accompanied » by: ‘telephone gle), 12-mouth: period. activity’ that. broke several ree: | tions; changes from. one address ords, according. to the Annual Re-|to another ot aan ar rt of the Southern Bell « Tele- | connected. le movem wel Company.released March in~ 1952 . totaled. 1,954,720. - tele- Telephone movement inchdes new installa- | one of its exchanges Key West included. struction dollar vol 1951 by about $23,785,000. et ® i i ilt ATi ii if tft! i i ORIGINAL ILLEGIBLE 2 $ = it Gs re ij u = st eid | eff { z EF fs ¢ = a . | i il aa 1 i z : i rs a i | | elt epee Ay i