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satellite: 20-inch diameter, 2114 pounds weight birds. Though very similar, ex-jlayers about six inches thick 'perts say the two specimens sandwiched between fine mud. I were but distantly related. The As the valuable limestone was first to be discovered keeps the quarried, an amazing discovery group name archaeopteryx, the! was made. Man was not the SATELLITE Third rocker hikes over, accelerating satellite to top speed in spoce.

other has been named archaeo-l first to use it to make pictures. -XL 1 noris the first bird. These early birds, and others like them, lived in the Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago. They enjoyed life in what to nmii Via TPi iPAnnnM Arrf fn rf Mother Nature herself had used it to keep her records. The limestone of Bavaria was a nature book, r-ning with countless fossils of ancient creatures.

Jurassic animals perished in Lost stage falls away, leaving satellite to continue on orbit at 18,000 m.p.h. under own momentum. IONOSPHERE Bavaria. In the dim past, this; the lagoons and sank into the STRATOSPHERE 1 1 i A 0 Exhausted lint stage scp- TROPOSPHERE arates Second stage carries satellite up to about 250 I A miles. was a place of lagoons and limey mud.

Turtles, cuttlefish, limestone reefs. The limestone squid, fish, dragonflies and was made by masses of special ancient crocodiles were found seaweeds. These algae secreted fossilized in the pages of lime-calcium into the water. The stone. Here, too, were found waves of the lagoons chomped the fossil early birds.

Their this stony calcium to powder bodies had fallen into the mud and cemented it into the finest 'and, after millions of years, EARTH JFirst rocket propels entire assembly SO to 60 miles up through densest layers of air. limestone. perfect impressions of bones, Before the age of modern wings, feet and feathers remain machine printing, lithographers in the lithographers' stone. Little Resemblance to Modern Bird The early birds were small- teeth. They also had the long, ish fellows, no larger than backboned tails of lizards.

How-crows. They were covered ever, unlike their lizard cousins, with feathers and they had the tails of the early birds were strong feet suitable for running adorned with pinnions. The or perching. They had feathery tail was made wide and flat wings, but here the resem- with a border of feathers. Some blance to a modern bird ended.

of these tail feathers were six For the head, skeleton and tail inches long and an inch wide, of the earlv birds showed them I In spite of the differences, it A Leaving earth: Diagram shows launching. US. SATELLITE PROJECT SPEEDED Spurred by the successful launching of the Russian satellite Sputnik, the U.S. is now speeding work on a baby moon in the race for space conquest. Illustrations here show the U.S.

satellite, its launching vehicle and the trajectory it might follow. IN VIEW EVERYWHERE Sputnik Takes Global Bow Early December to be close relatives of the liz- is believed that our high-flying, ards. After all, this was the singing, feathery birds des-age of lizards, when the giant cended from the archaeopteryx I dinosaurs were kings of the and creatures like them. Those earth. Jurassic early birds seem to I The early birds had the heads prove that the birds and the 'of lizards.

They had long lizards came originally from pointed snouts with jaws and the same remote ancestors. riMRPTnnV Mas riTPl "hicrhlv visihlp" hrtwppn Dpp. 1 Nearly everyone on the face of and" 3, according to Karl NIGHT TO HOWL Pint-Sized Spectres liie trcu in siiuuiu ue aute iu sue Venice. the Russian satellite rocket in! He said everyone from south-early December, an astronomer ern Canada to Argentina and said Tuesday. from Great Britain to South The rocket's orbit will lie in Africa should be able to see the the twilight band of the earth rocket either evening or morn-during these days and will beting between Dec.

1 and 3. F7 1 0 now. IN ALL IO oio it zzS YOU KNOW-ON tl FASHION SHOTS, DiaV, i THAT'S JiJ leV4 1 I HER, IT LOOKS YOU'RE WEARINO THE SAME ,4 1'T rVt IV AS THE ANIMAL VXTF" IfCjH Vk -Ls t(r il LJ HSl 33 I TRACV, WE'VE FOUND DONY QUITE SAVVV MJ Vf B0V5 t1, CLAUDE CRVSTAL AND AS I TWE PITCH.SAM, BUT 1 1 4 TE SOMEHUSKV VES, ITS HIM-ITS MV SOON AS WE GET HIM PUT UV iVl STILL HEReJ iW fLING mmm soi 1 1 seems more like A BARGAIN ONE VANILLA XYf THIS SODA. PLEASE sgp QSX (m f-v- jrjr "IfTT" iwwcnuw, irL I 'M I WHAT HAVE I DONE? M'fcv! DESERT SILENCE, i W', ZJfM "rV Lr -ml 1 1 -i i II ni- staff I rj -A i I MEETING SIR YES, ff iTji TJ II II 1 HP-1 1 -li 1 P' 'if' vJ AN'FEfePiN'THeCHIUJAfOriON EWtldH FI6HTOPF TH' 60CNIS UWO SI3HT 7- CW1. PfEP PBrirauS EFFECTS NCW, gTCFPlN ThT fWS" nsjSTJf UCTHJitWSefctlSTCJPC XJNiegMO.6 FCOH SAtOtON'-THarE- THf ONLY CStAfURB IN srCaKLHeetCHT 1 AINTNOfc-SOPfffCK X-X wvAoeywHosiw- aintuevkalin' rrr vHER-cll52r f()r VES, I UNDERSTOOD LJ 1WLK MJJRb I GUI i THtN ILL Vi- HE WAS GOING TO I'D- IN.

HE'S GOT HE WAS BE LOOWNG FOU I SURE I'M SURE! GO RUT SURE NO ONE JUST-. VE3, ThATS Tk J-Z---- DOC'3 NOT LETTIN" JhEU. NEED SOMEH THINK SOI ELSE THAT RGHT, I C. a I OF A.BOJT, Jf! ME MAkE TH' (ONE TO GO WITH KNOW OF Sj MX) SAID pJ NlNE-THICTY? llTO! NEXT TIME HIM, WONT HE? (( V'0 UK -rfTv "I Ready for Halloween A hPk 1 avi ita By TOXY DICKASON The night of mystery and magic will have black scudding skies, a wan moon, ghostly vagrant winds fingering the dead leaves with mortuary-like indifference, black cats, aquiline- aW ftrliiii MTT agY' By FREEMAN KING witches astride tufted Word comes from Charlotte- be conducted along the patrol nosed 1 1 1 1 Bonfires, which will spark into life here on the eve, were originally lighted to drive the evil spirits away. The Druids, who allegedly rendezvoused at Stonehenge, thought this one up.

But Halloween is also a day of rejoicing for the harvest returns. So we have jack-o-lan-terns, nuts, candy, and apples, bobbing in tubs of water. The children here in their visits from door to door In the neighborhood say "trick or treat." On the prairies, the youngsters merely yell "any Halloween apples?" while in town, N.B., where the Executive Council of the Boy Scouts Association held a meeting, that system, an outdoor cooking orooms, aim a iui vi stunt will be held on the Sun-, fun. day. This of course will be Hal loween ceieDratea in a merry the ap limit for Bov Scouts is Tr raised to 18.

The present limit ranged'by Betting in touch wXh macabre fashion this Thursday Is 17. I district headquarters, 1034 thoroughly tangible spooks, At the two-day session a Johnson Street. generally in a hand me-down rational camping committee! Tne cost of the course will be from mummy's wardrobe, was set up to promote more wnich Includes meals. HOLY NIGHT outdoor activities by scouts. Halloween means, literally, Sond MoiiiU Tolniie "Bw "hallowed evening," which Victoria Districtr-The scout-j rack-A Halloween party and means jjterally againi "holy masters training course Is parents' night was held in the njcnt SSnSlfSK i day is son.named because 1 Frenchspeaking Canada they shout "charitie!" The business of giving tasty edibles away is loosely connected with the offerings of it is the eve of All Saints Day, ages ago for the souls of the de w.

muriurty evening. sessions will be held at the Sun- Prizes were given for the best which is a thoroughly Christian parted. Only now, the offerings observance. But, tied in with are riven the little souls that snine camp, booKe. ah possime costumes displayed by theC-s, troop Scouters are asked to at have newly arrived, having just tend these meetings, they will this day, designed to mark the memory of people now dead who were holier than the aver Assistant district commissioner Jim Castle and district cubmas-ter Thyllis Sheffield paid the pack a suprise visit.

age citizen, is a lot of pagan rung your doorbell. The noisy stumbling from house to house is generally ended by around 9 p.m., bedtime for most of the small vagrants, often accompanied hy Third Vldorla ChlneKe Troop stu" which today is considered U.S. Quadruplets Doing 'Just Fine' ELGIN, N.D. (AP) Quadruplet daughters born last Fri A Advance compass instructions Even the ancient Egyptians, were given at the regular meet ing and semaphore practice was Greeks and Romans marked one or more dads who stands the eve with all sorts of sombre well back on the street when day to Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Meier of rural Burt, N.D., are leaders. A number of boys will shenanigans, tossing food for 1 the motley crew makes its pitch Hewn? iormuia ieeuings every ho tnvpstpd smuts the me spinis into me 111c, uie imiuaiuiua. similar somewhat wasteful pro- For the little people, goblin three hours at Lorenzen Mem-; near future I just means gobbling. cedures- orial Hospital here. A hospital spokesman said Willows Troon The strength Tuesday the girls are doing of the troop is now 14.

A fine." All are in incuba- ber of recruits are being trained tors. The 32-year-old mother and will be Invested shortly, also was reported in good con- Plans are under way for a dition. patrol hike and compass expedi A tion for the troop. KKCOM) Mt. ARKOWSMITH GKOl'P: At the meeting of the group committee C.

E. Ross was elected as chairman, vice-chair- 2-Stage Aussie Rocket Launched CANBERRA (AP)-An Aus- tralian-designed two-stage roc-'maii I. Ek. secretary-trcUsurer ket was launched to a height Ches McLcod. of 80 miles at Woomera rocket i During evening Mrs.

range today, Supply Minister Mary Fix who had been the Howard Bcale disclosed. "Akela" of the pack for eight Beale said the rocket landed years, was presented with a 90 miles away. A considerable case of silver coffee spoons In I 2 13 11 I 15 lb 17 13 I 1,0 In ri is 15 lb 17 1' a ft 2fc 28 30TT 32 H7 5f 50 151 bl 5T aHLaaaJLaaaaJ tmmJLmmljLmil mmlmLm21 quantity of scientific apparatus the Wolf Cub motif. The pres was recovered. entatlon was made by "Sixer" and "Second" Jimmy Burgess A and Raymond Erieson.

Both packs of the 2nd Arrow-smith group held an outing on Thanksgiving day and a camp- For Halloween afifte cost -with hetlthful, delicious Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. Buy it in 5-pickijt units. fire and sing-song was held. Churchill Exhibition OTTAWA (CP)-Forty paintings by Sir Winston Churchill are to be displayed at the National Gallery in Ottawa following a planned United States tour. Dates of the showing have not yet been determined.

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