Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 8

CORPUS CURISTI CALLER Sat Oct 1 196C (j Fun of All Kindt Puzzlei-Storiei-- 'Things to Pan Poll "My Most Important Childhood Lesson Account Book Was Correct But She Spent It on Herself This article is one of a series by the leaders in which they tell ths most important lesson that shaped their lives FROM PEDALS TO PROPELLERS Airplane Grew From Bikes Ghost Light of North Texas Still Puzzles After Century Wright brothers and their first airplane flight But did you know that their daring invention began with bicycles? Their first plane flight was BY FRANCES BOLTON Congresswoman From Ohio My father was a very stern min with piercing blue eyes and a then fashionable moustache We children always knew when then was trouble ahead as then the moustache drooped! had been started eff on an Indians Relished Chuckwalla An 18-inch-Iong lizard ef Utah New Mexic Arizona end Southern California ii impor- tant because It served for food for the Shoshones and other desert Indians They prized it as we do beef The chuckwalla in some ways looks like a pocket-size dino- taur It has a narrow head beady eyes huge mouth heavy Jowls wide belly short stumpy tail and thick baggy hide It lives among rocks and often is the color of Its surround- Inga It may be black purple or dull rusty brown The color of the tail most likely will differ from the rest of the body It may be lighter end ringed with 1 broad blaek bands The chuckwalla feeds upon the flowers of desert plants Some writers say that it prefers i yellow and blue blossoms Its I second choice is red and pink ones It will eat the buds or green leaves and stems when there are no flowers Tfct Indians would find it perched upon a rock ledge It cents and given a little red patent leather seeount book At the end of the first week I toCk my book to him rather troubled because of the angle of the moustache He looked my account over handed it back to mo without a smile and said "Yea that is quite accurate" I then i sited "But what is wrong with it? You ara not pleased" His reply was "You are right my Dear I am not pleased became you have spent all of the 10 centa on yourself You have not thought of anyone else But It IS accurate" went off to my room closed Rep Frances Bolton the door end wept bitterly and Frances Bolton Ohio has been a long-time member of the I think I have never forgotten VS House ef Representatives Here sha admires ioma African tha lesson sculpture which she brought back from a trip to that continent on December 17 1903 At the time they had been making bikes for ahnost 10 years In their small shop at Dayton Ohio They read accounts of glider flights by Otto LUienthal a German aviation engineer who studied flight of birds and built gilders Ha showed tho advantages of curved eurfaers aver flat ones for wings Lillenthal's discoveries thrilled Orville end Wilbur Wright They read everything they could find about aviation But they depended upon their bicycle business for their livelihood until a year after their successful flight Their bicycle shop served aa tha place for tho making of their first aircraft They began by improving model gliders They tried oat their models with air currents in a homemade wind tunnel They decided in 1900 that they needed strong steady air currents They asked advice of tho US Weather Bureau It suggested Kitty Hawk NC Tbe winds there blow strongly and steadily from tho north They moved their camp in 1901 to nearby sandy field next to Kill Devil H1IL They laanehed gliders from tha slopes of tha bill during 1903 and 1903 They built a biplane in 1903 They called it the Kitty Hawk after the place where they were carrying on their experiments They flew tha Kitty Hawk on December 17 the first successful flight in a man-carrying airplane powered by a motor Let's Take a Trip Deep Inside Iron Mountain Going into a mine sounds like a scary experience but Iron Mountain Michigan is not scary at all It is a tunnel half a mile into the side of a mountain It is wet and dirty so the guide gives you a raincoat and helmet Inside the lighted tunnel is to move the vein would have to be a large exposed lode which would most certainly have been discovered long before now Others think that luminous gas similar to tho kind known as might be responsible Some believe that the light la a mirage It's true that inverse mirages require a special type ef stratified air such as abounds in the China tis It is also true that mirages ara reflections of distant artificial lights And 100 years ago the brightest light in this part of America was a kerosene lantern Some day perhaps someone will unravel the mystery But for one century at least the Chinati Mountaini have guarded their secret welL Ferguson Almost a century has pasted Inca the settlers north of Texas' Big Bend National Park first reported a mysterious light It glittered like a weird eye from an isolated peak in tha Chinati Mountains Tima has not dimmed its brilliance travelers along US Highway 90 between Alplna and Marfa can still see it plainly most any night Strangely enough no one even now knows what it is where it originates or why it shines Countless persons have searched for this ghost light without success When it is approached from the air or across the searing floor of the desert it suddenly vanishes At night the strange light twinkles in the distance like a star that has come to rest on the mountain slope An Indian legend has it that It is a campfire kindled by an ancient Apache ghost condemned to roam the high mountain trails forever It Is pale compared with tha light of a star sod often appears as a double light And one minute it can be a tiny almost invisible sparkle tbe next a vivid splash brighter than any automobile headlight At other Umea there la no light at ail Ona explanation la that tho light Is a reflection of the moon from an undiscovered mica vein But to allow a reflection First fllpM ef Mrs Polk's plantation her religion and something about her family: BROOM REFUSER SHOT TIMED LORD EH INCH DIAMOND Mrs Polk's father was a wealthy PLANTER which provides Puzzle Pete with a center for his word diamond The second word is malt third fifth and sixth Indian Can you complete the diamond from the given clues? A PLANTER SCRAMBLED SENTENCE Help Puzzle Pete out by rearranging the words in his sentence so they will make aense: Childress educated Moravians tha Folk Sarah by was Chuckwalla basking in the sun They would creep upon it and slap a hand down upon it It sometimes would wriggle from under the cupped hand It would lift its body from the surface of the rock end in half-waddle half-run make for tha nearest rock crick It would dig its head in and equeeie through to safety It would then puff its loose skin full of sir until it became smooth and rounded This made it larger than when It entered the crack It wai almost im-i possible to grab It by the tail end work it up through the crack Visiting Mrs Folk: sots FOLK REBUS Usa the words and pictures correctly to find what Puzzle Feta has hidden here As dues they are Mrs maiden name her last name the name of her husband and what she did as first lady CROSSWORD Cartoonist Cal put Puzzle Pete's crossword puzzle on the silhouette of Mrs Folk's head to make it look nice: ACROSS 1 Sarah was tha of James Polk 5 Social insects 4 Lohengrin's bride 9 Optimistic DOWN 1 Common drink 2 Within 3 Foot (ab) 4 Literary composition 7 Behold! 8 Steamship (ab) MIX-UPS Rearrange the letters in each strange line to find the site of PdolQB the Wrlpht brothers' plan at Kitty Hawk NC ride in ii made from iron Tbe first things known to bo made of iron were beads which were worn by Egyptians 4000 years ago It seems a short walk back to the entrance The mine has been so cool and fresh that the summer day strikes your face like a blanket You quickly shed raincoat and helmet and re glad you live la the outside world of trees and sunshine Powers After Supper Drop a Line To a Pen Pal Steven Csnipe Route 1 Lin-colnton NC Age: 13 Virginia Zillmer 314 Washington Waukesha Wis Age: 14 Bobby Erwin Route 1 Brasher Mo Age: 7 Dorothy Patrick 139 Canada San Clemente Calif Age: 9 Bobby Jones 213 Court St Chickasaw Ala Age: 11 Angela Quarie 204 Central Ave Biloxi Miss Age: 7 Mary Jane Aleera Box 533 Nsalehu Kau Hawaii Age: 13 Joso Trevito 812 Farragut St Laredo Texas Age: 10 Carol Rockwell Box 73 Stratford NY Age: IB Susan Foilvka 13 Main St Dolgeville NY Age: 10 Glenda Janeno Weaver Box 144 Connelly Springs NC Age: 13 Lynn Schramm 124 Clemmer Ave Akron 13 Ohio Age: 12 Sharon O'Brien 3973 Fishcreek Rd Stow Ohio Age: 11 Georgianna O'Brien 3973 Fish-creek Rd Stow Ohio Age: 12 Mary Ann Koehler 20-A Kayes Ct Superior Wis Age: 13 Donna Snoke XL 1 Cham-bersburg Fa Age: 12 Lceann Shaffer 575 Palisades Dr Akron 3 Ohio Age: 11 Great for Scribblers Lead Pencils Aren't Lead Not Really Pencils Either Collecting pencils is fun You a narrow railroad track for small cars called "donkey cars" They cany the iron out of the mine Tha tracks run slightly downhill toward the entrance This helps the heavily loaded cars to roll It would be easy to get lost bees use the tunnel curves and branches There are II more layera below and threa above It la like a 14-story building Tbe iron that men atarted digging nearly 100 years are is gone now Then they had no machinery and could dig only six feci a day They used only candies for light Now mining is done by electricity At the end of the tunnels is a huge room It is over twice as big as a football field The ceiling is a great dome high over your head A faint streak of light shows where fresh air comes down a shaft from far above This was once all solid roclc but was taken out chunk by chunk in the donkey cart to be shipped away Many things you use every day have come from iron-parts of your telephone come from iron The toaster on your breakfast table has iron in it Much of the automobile you JrfWS 1 PUNCH 5 HOLES IN A SMALL CAN LIKE THIS USEAHAMMEfll lNl MDimiNMU 2NOTCH A5TICK ABOUT 15 IN LONS SO THE NOTCHES ARE THESAME DISTANCE APART AS THE HOLES 3 FASTEN CANTO STICKIVITH WIRE OR STRING 4THREAD A HEAVY NYLON THREAD OR STRING THROUGH A SMALL6P0N6E RUBBER BALL AND TIE STRING TO CANwa lavfteeOLi OF STRING TO SHORT PIECE OfTOOTHFICK TO HOLD IT IN PLACE T05STHE BALL IN THE AIR AND TRY TO CATCH IT INTHECAN Things Are Reversed In This Zoo In Africa there te a aoo where the animals ara free to roam anywhere and tbs people are kept Indoors These tool are immense gsme preserves when the animals ere protected by strict laws and travelers visiting the zoos must drivo through la cars In the crater of the too Is building where scientists may liva and itudr Within Just one of these coos are mountain forest tropical forests and grassy plains and rivers On a short ride you can ara dozens of different wild animals Elephants lions hippopotamuses antelopes and cobras caa all be teen living la their wild bomes Usually the animals pay little attention to the cars that travel the Jungle roads or cress the grassy plains bnt visitors are advised to stay in their ran for their own protection relay Game Divide tha players into two teams Give the first player of each team two pieces of cardboard about eight by ten Inches The player stepa on one piece of cardboard with the left foot end places the other piece as far ahead as it can easily be stepped on with the right foot Standing on tha right foot the player picks up the cardboard from under the left foot and advance it ahead of the right foot The object of the game is to walk across the room and back stepping on the cardboard all the way In other words the players lay their own stepping stones as they walk along This gams is very funny and exciting as a relay The team finishing first is of course the winner Time Marches On Time isn't lazy It hurries along It's schedule is perfect And never wrong Wasting a day Will not halt a No clock is made That can ever change time By Kay Cammer tWi I foH Vv PETRELS NEVERARE FOUND INLAND DRIVEN TE PE BY SEVERE STORMS- Have You Ever? By Miriam Harris Have you ever climbed up A mountain so high That you almost felt You could touch the sky? Have you ever been riding On a merry-go-round And almost forgotten What it's like on the ground? Have you ever been flying In a fast-moving plane And thought it was fun To look DOWN et the rain? Have you ever done anything So strange and ao new That you felt very different And not REALLY Ilka you? Pencil Magic Ask a friend to write down the number of his birth month and multiply it by two Hava him add Ave and multiply that answer by SO Now have him add his age to this sum and then subtract 343 Ask him for his answer Now your paper and pencil Add 115 to the number he gives you The two figures to the right will tell you his ago and the left hand figures tell the number of his birth month It'i fun like magic and it works every time Try it for laughs and fun An example Joe's birth month is July his birth data the 19th July is tha eeventh month 1 Seven times 3 equals 14 plus 3 equals 19 times SO equals 930 2 Add Joe's age which is 13 and you have 963 Subtract 363 equals 600 3 Here's where you do your 600 plus 115 equals 713 4 To ths right is his age 13 to the left hie birth month the seventh monthl Puzzle Answers sueiAMojtj aqi Xq pains -npa stw wu ssajpflqa qeins OTIHKVHDS H3S B3XX3 HSXKVTd SNVTV 3TV uajptpp ON tojoqsaajpnjg igdA-XIlT asnoH oimt pauqiqoJd tsamef -mo mod saw My Umbrella By Frances Gorman Risser Most of the time my umbrella Looka hungry lean and oil: Its ribs stick out like little bones Between each droopy fold But you should see my umbrella Grow big and young and gay When I take It out walking on A drippy droppy dayl can save hundreds of them One of tho most famous collectors is Edward Schmidt of Los Angeles Calif He counts his collection by the thousands A sign reads "Do you have any pencils that would like a happy home?" Mr Schmidt said that the secret ef building up a pencil collection Is to ask everyone for one He does Most iro glad to give ona for collection Tha most surprising thing bout tho lead pencil Is that actually it is not lead at all Neither la it truly a pencil The lead ii really graphite The word "pencil" is from the Latin penicillum which mean's "a little tail" Tho first pencils were fine brushes of hair or bristles There Is a penril for every purpose Tho I'eneil Industry now makes 379 different types In more than 79 different colon and In IS degrees of hardness Soma write dearly on glass plastic home freezer packages and other slippery surfaces Surgeons usa a special pencil for outlining the operation area on the human body Packing plants use another type to write on sides of beef the kind ct beef it is Woodson Roles for Iters Try never to badly split ao infinitive Don't never use a double negative Don't end sentences with prepositions like the word with Don't use ain't it good grammer PETRELS ARE FOUND IN BOTH THE northern and southern hemispheres ALONG WITH FULMARS SHEARWATERS ALBATROSSES-THEY MAKE UP THE ORDER KNOWN AS "TUBENOSED SWIMMERS DUE TO CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NOSTRILS Brain Teaser Certain number are always used in certain for instances we say "one at a time" Can you supply the numbers missing from each blank below? 1 day! wonder 2 the wonders of the world 3 kill birds with stone 4 of and half-a- dozen of the other 5 league boots 6 to 7 cheers 8 on all 9 score years and 10 tha iairi 1 01 'C 4 "9 'L 01 '9 -L 0 uazop-e-Hiq pu I jo I qj spzjq TIN 2 now sZep i IT By Francis Gorman Kisser Tha sun plays hide-snd-seek with me! He is an awful tease No matter if I stand beneath The biggest of the trees Old sun pokes golden finger dawn Through learn and branches too And touches ma as if to say: "YouVo IT now I found your THEIR FOOD CON-SISTS OF OILY REFUSE AND SMALL MARINE LIFE PICKED UP FROM THE WATER THEY COME ASHORE TO HE5TTHE SINGLE EGG IS DEPOSITED IN AURROW AND THE YOUNGARE FED PARTLY DIGESTED FOOD 4.