The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 29, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE K&Y WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 29, 1954 The Key West Citizen —————$————— Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. : . Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ..... ;. 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN oceans Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 Se Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or Se aiereee credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- lished here. Member Associate Dailies of Florida NBR stan as ice nas en od Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 “~~ ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ——— eee Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues pei subjects “of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communicat IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Hotels and Apartments. Barth and Bai Pavilion. Citmolldation of County’ and City Governments. ov Community Auditorium. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. PERFUMED GHOST SHIP FOUND About four weeks ago workers were building a road circling the Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid was built by Cheops almost 5,000 years ago. It was the be- lief of the Egyptians of this day that their souls survived death and that they could cruise through the upper arc and lower arc of the heavens in their burial ships. Cheops had built himself the mightiest tomb of all Egyptians, and travelers and tourists have been admiring it for thousands of years. The workmen building the road around the great ‘pyramid were engaged in an effort to make it easier for more tourists to view the magnificent Giza pyramid, which was in effect — Cheop’s burial monument. They came upon a large limestone block as they cleared the roadway. : Kamal el Malakh, director of archaeological work for Giza and lower Egypt, was informed of the discovery. He immediately inspected the uncovered blocks and sus- pected they might contain an important historical secret. Two years ago a slab containing hierogtyphics telling of a southern tomb at the side of the pyramid had been found. No southern tomb had ever been uncovered. Science Replaces Ceremonial Dance Man Gains In Efforts To Control The Weather'|« of silver iodide closely “game “lit Editor's Note—In one of man’s earliest attempts at forcing rain from skies, he angrily-fired can- thos of dry ice. The theory is that these sub- non balls at likely looking clouds. |stances provide “nuclei” for mil- But since a brilliant discovery in|lions of tiny ice crystals in the 1946, his attempt has been more|cloud. As the natural crystals at- scientific and is in progress on an]}tach themselves to the nuclei, the impressive scale. Here, in the first|formation grows and eventually A few days ago workmen under Malakh completed chiseling through one of. the fifteen-ton limestone blocks which had been found. Malakh had two other Egyptian scientists with him. They peered through the small hole which had been made in the huge block. They smellgd perfume. Then they saw a wooden deck. They could hardly, believe their eyes but then the pieces of the puzzle sudé denly came into place. What they had been viewing, the first humans to,view it in almost 5,000 years, was one of Cheop’s burial ships. Cement had been used over the blocks to keep the burial chamber airtight, and the per- fume and wood used in the tomb were still intact! Two wooden oars on a deck were observed. Linen ropes were still in place. And Malakh thinks another ship lies behind this first one. It was the greatest archaeological discovery in years! Robbers have looted every other funeral chamber of the pyramids, except one — discovered in 1925 — and thus scientists‘now have a second burial chamber to study which has not been stripped by profiteers beforehand. HESS: ea a Regular exercise is the secret of old age. Compliments are usually thinly-veiled apple-polish- ing. 7 The man with the loudest mouth offen wins argu- “ments among morons. 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By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter WA‘ IGTON — A scientist athéd into a home-type freezer b irs ago and started a mini- storm that has grown ai inf blizzard swirling around qegstion: ‘Can ‘man control the weather?” Tests of rain and snow making have been hailed as milestones of new era in man’s relation to na- ture. The faithful think it may be possible to break droughts and hold back floods, sidetrack hurricanes, prevent tornadoes and hailstorms and dissipate fog at airports. Some even envision man using the weather as a weapon of war— bogging’ down the enemy’s troops in mud, parching his food crops in burning sun, perhaps manufac- turing storms to be infected with germs or radioactive dust. Skeptics — including scientists of the U.S. Weather Bureau — main- tain that evidence is far from con- elusive that weather control has any chance of being achieved on a practical scale. There is no clear proof, these skeptics say, that when rain in- creased it was due to artificial techniques. It might have rained anyway. A committee appointed by Con- gress to evaluate the tests has not yet reported, but The Associated Press has surveyed rgpresentative rain-making operators, clients and scientists. Their conclusions might read like this if you put them in form of a forecast: “Prospects unsettled over the na- tion. High enthusiasm followed by: skepticism in some sections.” Rain-making projects were in- spired by what happened one day in 1946 in the laboratory of Dr. Vincent Schaefer, then of the Gen- eral Electric Co., in Schenectady, N.Y. Ee Schaefer had been trying to duplicate in the laboratory one of nature’s “supercooled” clouds — clouds which contain water in liquid state even though the tem- perature is below freezing. The water doesn’t freeze because it is perfectly pure. He wanted to find! out how this ‘‘supercooled” water is suddenly changed, in nature, in- to a snowstorm. He produced clouds by blowing his breath into a freezer. But he couldn’t produce snow even though he added to his clouds a variety of materials — soap powder, sugar, | talcum powder and volcanic dust. Then one day he was having trouble keeping the freezer at low temperature. He dropped some chunks of dry ice into the box. A miniature snowstorm devel- oped before his eyes. The find touched of a host of experiments involving the ‘‘seed- ing” of clouds with dr yice room airplanes in an effort to make them yield snow or rain. Schaefer and other investigators, both civilian and military, claim they produced precipitation by this means — or at least that precipi- tation quickly followed seeding . Later it was found that silver iodide, dispersed from or generated as a kind of “smoke” from devices on the ground, could Serve the same purpose. Crystals ‘ falls to the ground as snow or rain, depending upon the temperature beneath the cloud. In general, seeding works. only on “supercooled clouds.”’ Fortu- nately for the rain makers, a lot of these are floating around, even in summer. But they are found only above altitudes of about 12,000 feet. Silver iodide is supposed to have some advantage over dry. ice be- couse it can be dispersed in.a sort of “smoke” over ys ly large areas. Also ,it can ispenged arom generators be Dry ice must always be dropped from airplanes. Silver iodide costs more per pound than dry ice, but a little goes a long way. Rain makers. using one or the other of the materials usually charge‘ farmers 3 cents an acre for “seeding” clouds over range land, 20 cents an acre for wheat land. If an area suffers from too much rain, cloud seeders believe ‘over- seeding” may be the answer. Thy say that with overseeding it may also be possible to sidetrack hurri- canes, break up small thunder clouds beore they can brew tor- nadoes and clear fogs from air- The theory of overseeding is that enough artificial nuclei are fed into a cloud, all the water in it will be used up in making very small ice crystals, none of which will ever get big enough to fall as snow or rain. Even the most enthusiastic pro- Ponents of cloud seeding grant that much more has to be learned about the inner secrets of clouds before weather control can reach maxi- mum theoretical effectiveness. Various scientists are making in- tensive studies of these - secrets. One of the most unique studies will be carried on by the recently es- tablished Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at Tucson, Ariz., jointly operated by the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago. The Sloan Foundation of New York gave $150,000 for the establishment of the institute. Among other ventures of the in- stitute, a radar set will be placed on one of the mountain peaks sur- rounding Tucson and aimed at rain clouds in the hope of obtaining “echoes” from tiny droplets when they grow big. enough to cause rain. Special cameras will be used PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes ers, but the editer reserves pings tight te delete any items which unwarranted. The writers should paper 7» Signature writer must acco the a IMPROVEMENT NOTED Editor, The Citizen: Those brewer's yeast tablets (or the Key West air) must have set up a metamorphosis in Bill Meyers’ pen hand! His over-emotional style, top-heavy with superla- tives, has all but, disappeared in favor of a fine, new quality of writing. It’s nice to see a fellow of sixty-five coming into his own. Congratulations, Mr. Meyers. ERMA WAGNER. “TREES PERISHING” Chamber of Commerce Key West, Florida Gentlemen: Recently I paid a visit to your lovely town. Five years ago on my first trip thére I was impressed by the beauty of the drive into town. This trip I took my aged mother and father along and we were all so very disappointed to find that these lovely trees seem to be perishing. What is the reason? I feel sure other tourists feel the same as I about the subject and hope something can be done to save them. To your fair town my thanks for a wonderful visit and that delicious turtle steak and key lime pie. Yours truly, MISS HELEN JONAS, Vale, N.C. Blast Wrecks Car WASHINGTON, N. C. wi — Of- said it must have taken two sticks of dynamite planted under the hood of Mrs. Susie Key’s auto- mobile to have done all the damage yesterday. HONEST NAME TOKYO (#)—New, high-priced Tokyo. night club designed for the tourist and American soldier trade Proudly | bears the title “The Parking Ticket Changes Hands; Judge Is Angry CHICAGO W—Somebody tagged a parking ticket on Mayor Martin Kennelly’s car, and a judge threat. ened motorist Jack Keisman with a $100 fine if it turns out he did it, Policeman Edward Maher testi- fied in Traffic Court yesterday a ticket he put on Keism auto Jan. 22 later turned up on the windshield of the mayor's limou- sine. Maher said the mayor’s po- lice chauffeur told him he saw a man make the switch on the street peice we Hall. Keisman was charged with failing to pay the parking fine or answer a court summons. But Keisman, 35, a clothing man- ufacturer, said he never saw the | ticket and did not make the switch. _ Judge Joseph J. Butler, who con- tinued the case to July 28, said if Keisman is guilty “I. will fine him $100. It shows disrespect for the law.” Vic Vet says The blast shattered the car’s front end and windows in a near- by home, dug a deep hole in the ground and hurled part of the mo- tor and hood 25 feet. Officers said they didn’t know who did it. Neither did Mrs. Key’s 17- old son Jibe, who said h pt through it all in the back seat. $5,000,000 To Charity CHICAGO (#—Nearly five mil- lion dollars was left to charity by Mrs. Mary F. Southwell Worcester, 93, her will filed in Probate Court disclosed yesterday. Mrs. Worcester, who died June 20, was survived by her husband, Charles H., retired president and treasurer of the Munising Paper Co. DIG THAT STATUTE! SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP)—Sheri- dan city officials have uncovered an old ordinance that’s threaten- ing to disrupt the dating habits of to photograph the echoes if they i show on the radar screen. Automatic cameras will be mounted on other peaks to photo- graph continually the visible parts of clouds. Air Force planes and crews are expected to be made available for flights through clouds to take tempratures, stud ythesz ie of droplets and measure other fac- tors with special instruments, This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb The Key West Safety Council will meet tonight at 8 o'clock, at the JayCee Clubhouse, Flagler Ayenue and Roosevelt Boulevard. Try to be there. “The life you save may be your own!” Fourth Of July If 3-D movies scare you, wait until you see the 3-D drivers on the highways over the Fourth of July! What are 3-D drivers? Well, the National Safety Council says they are dumb, daring and dead- ly. And if they don’t kill you, they scare you almost to death. Fortunately, the Council says, the 3-D drivers are in the mi- nority. But there are enough of them on the road to make driv- ing in heavy holiday traffic a risky business. The Council estimates that more than 40 million vehicles will be on the move during the three- day weekend and that they will roll up mileage in the neighborhod of five billion miles — the greatest Fourth of July traffic jam in his- tory. In such heavy traffic, the Coun- cil pointed out, a driver is never more than a second away from an accident. It is estimated that a driver makes from 20 to 50 deci- sions an hour, and a wrong one can be fatal. EXCESSIVE SPEED “Excessive speed contributes to one out of three fatal traffic acci- dents,” said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Council. “Last ‘ nf Fourth of July, which was only a two-day holiday, 261 persons were killed in traffic accidents. This Memorial Day, a three-day holi- day, 362 died in traffic accidents. Speed control is the personal re- sponsibility of every driver. A heavy foot on the throttle can mean a heavy heart for someone.” In an effort to reduce the holi- day toll, National Safety Coun- cil is coordinating a nationwide Fourth of July safety campaign in which 160 national organizations are participating. The cafnpaign seeks to increase public awareness of the extra holiday hazards and the extra caution needed to over- come them. The campaign also is designed to help officials, traffic officers and safety leaders in their efforts to reduce traffic accidents over the Fourth. Safety Tips As a part of the campaign, the Council offers five ‘tips for a safe holiday trip: 1. Start early, before traffic is heavy, and take it easy. Cut your usual speed 10 miles an hour. 2. Obey legal and common sense speed limits. Slow down before you get to an intersection or traffic signal. 3. Be especially careful when Passing other cars. Don’t be an eager weaver in traffic. 4, Keep a safe, clear stopping distance between you and the car lic dance “unless accompanied by father, mother or other mature and competent person.” Use This Convenient Want Ad Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space Figures or Initials Count As One Word Speeding is driving faster than you eught to—for the condition of the roads, your car, and the weather. Nobody ever needs that kind of apeed. Nobody ever ought to speed that way. In a word, don’t! Be Cereful .:. the life you seve.mey be your ewnl KEY WEST CITIZEN In Cooperation With THE KEY WEST SAFETY COUNCIL | Order-Gram START AD RUN AD ___. DAYS NUMBER LINES ____ 3 LINES 4 LINES 5 LINES é LINES 7 LINES 8 LINES 9 LINES 10 LINES rn Rates Per Line Multiply by number ef lines 1 dey se 3 days ahead. Watch cars behind in your| USE ORDER-GRAM TO— rear view mirror. 5. Signal for turns well before turning — and avoid abrupt stops. 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