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w - -~~~y* r;~za*,. Why the swirling winds leave their traditional paths toward the Deep South and Gulf Coast is a caprice of hurricanes that escapes p r e c i s e explanation. What is known, though, about, hurricanes is this: Those that occasionally visit the United States form in two major regions, the southeastern part of the North Atlantic, south of and near the Cape Verde Is- fands, and the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. The average one lives nine days, though in August some have been known to last 12 The hurricane's cloudless cote, or eye, is from five to 20 miles across. The area of destructive winds along the path of the hur- ricane may be from 25 to 500 miles wide, with winds of mare than 150 miles an hour and gusts of even higher speeds. The storm may move forward slowly and sometimes-as did Hurricane Connie-stay still for a short time. In the tropics - where many a hurricane dies unobserved - the speed forward is usuaIly 15 miles an hour or less. As the storm moves north- ward, the speed may increase to 50 miles an hour or more. The hurricane's cause is a con- siderably more complex matter than its appearance. Meteorolo- gists like to explain as much as they know about it in terms of convergences and divergen- ces. What this amounts to is that intersections of wind and air pressures bring about a dram- lng of air from areas aloft, creat- ing a fall of pressure in the column immediately beneath. Warm moist air from the sur- face rushes toward the low-pres- sure area, and the effects of the ISH, FLESH, FOWL-Tony Baird, fakes on attributes of the finny cnd feathered world when he's ut play. Towed by a fast motor- boat, he takes to the air with kid of a kite while riding water skis. Holder of an unofficiol world's altitude of 100 feet for ihis means of soaring, he's shown making the sport even more éxciting by wearing only one ski. earth's rotation and converging winds create the whirling mass that forms the outer rim tofthe douglinut-like storm. Apparently we are having more numerous and more costly hurricanes. One and a hailf times as many storms are spotted each year now as at. the turn of the century, though the total of 21 observed in 1933 has not been topped in recent years. And while on an average only twa hurricanes reach the na- tion's coasts each year, there wvere three in 1954. Moreover, while p r o p e r ty damage last year topped by $500,000,000 the old 1938 record loss of $300,000,000, the resulting loss of life bas dropped. The fury of the hurricanes last year brought death to an estimated 200,campared with 6,000 deatas in Gaiveston in 1900 and 1,800 deathis in Florida in 1928. The fact that more electronji eyes have been hunting down hurricanes explains in part why more are observed. Moreover, an inproved warn- ing system is an important rea- son why the number of deaths has decreased in recent years. And in explaining the increase in property damage, officials point to the unexpected shift in the storms, at least last year. to industrialized areas of the north- east states and Ontario, writes Alvin Shuster in The New York Times Service. This shiflt bas led some ex- perts to theorize that possibly a new pattern in hurricanes is shaping up. Under the old pattern the hur- ricane, as it started up the At- lantic coast, encountered the prevailing westerlies m o v i n g across the United States from west to east. These winds tended to push the hurricane out into the Atlantic. The coastal areas were spared. In recent years, though, me- teorogists have noted a pileup of air - a high-pressure area, they cali it - in the Atlantic off Maine and Newfoundiand. This area, they think, may be acting as a hurricane roadblock, deflecting storrms from theIr former course and sending them inland over the 'United States, From past experience, meteor- ologists figure that only five or 10 hurricanes a century would be expected to hit New England. Yet last year alone two of them .- Carol and Edna - pounded the six-state region. A third, Hazel, went west of New England and on up to Canada in a remarkable display of in- dependence. No one knows when the area of high pressure is expected to !eave its present home. Some guess it may be just about ready to fold up its clouds and silently steal away. As long as it remains, though, there is the possibility of more extraordinary hurricanes for the Middle Atlantic and New Eng- land coastal areas. There have been no ideas ad- vanced on how to get this unin- vited neighbor to move. But there have been some ideas on how ta minimize the effect of the hurricanes. One proposal for trying to switch the tracks on a fast-mov- ing swirling air mass involves oil saturation of the ocean be- neath it. hurricanes die 'vhen they SWEET POTATO, SWEET PATOOT Yamettes, daughters of South Lou pers. The Yamettes are, frorn Amy, Julia lawkins and YvetteJ secret. travel over land, partly because the landscape hinders the free flow of winds. The oil slick would be a kind of false land- scape, intended to slow up some of the air currents that may be influential in deciding the hur- ricane's forward movement. Another idea involves an ef- fort to dissipate the hurricane's rain-carrying clouds, thus rob- bing it of the moisture needed to keep the storm going. Planes wouid fly aloft and bombard the storm with dry ice and more dry ice i an ef- fort to prevent rain. The rainmaker tries to intro- duce just enough particles to collect sufficient moisture ta fall ta the ground. To break up a hurricane, the theory goes, the cloud-seeder would introduce so many artifi- cial particles that no single one could get enough moisture to falil. Cautious Weather Bureau of- ficials are quick to say that the intense fury of a hurricane could very well bar artificial efforts to kill it or change its course. They estimate that a hurricane expends in one minute mare energy than the entire United States produces in electric pow- er in 50 years. So with this in mind, the main expends in one minute more trate an locating a potential hur- ricane, napping its expeted path, and keeping the public ad- vised. Veal On-The-Htoof SoId Autornatically At the Ontario Stock Yards, Toronto, a new method of re- ceiving bids in the calf pen was tried recently for the first time on the North Anerican contin- ent. Patterned after the Dutch method of selling live stock, the system employs a large electri- cal dial, nine fet high by three feet wide. The upper section of the mechanism uses lights ta show the dollar price. A centre turning hand ticks off the cents in five cent graduations. Revel- ving counter-clockwise, the cents hand makes a complete revolu- tion in about six seconds. Speed of the cents'haud can be stepped up or slowed down. The lower section of the calf bid receiver shows in lights the registered number of the buyer after a sale has been made, Soats for fifty buyers are provided in a small amphitheatre. When the machine reaches the figure he wishes to pay, the buyer presses a button in front of him. The clock is automaticaliy stopped and the buyer's number flashes on the bottom section ofi the dial. The mechanism is so rigged that af- ter a buyer touches bis button, the buttons of other buyers are disconnected. As a protection to the seller, the commission agent retains command of the sale throughout. He instructs the clerk operating the dial where ta star, and when the price has dropped to the figure the commission man feels the animai should bring, he can stop the sale if no buyer shows interest up to that time. Stopped sale animais are driven from tihe ring to be brought back at a later time. IES - Meet Mr. Yam and the uisiana yam farmers and ship- left, Jo Ann DeChicchis, June Martin. Mr. Yam's identity is Let's witness an actual sale made through the sales ring on a recent trading day. The animai is driven into the ring. After examination, t h e commission salosman instructs the operator to start the machine at $24.00 per cwt, The figure flashes in lights on the uppor face of tie dial. The centre arm, represen- ing first 95¢ (offering price $23.- drop counter-clockwise register- ing Irst 95é (offering price $23.- 95 per cwt.) and moving down in units of five cents. No buyer presses his button and the cents indicator reaches zero, at which time the lighted figure at the top of the machine changes to 22 and the cents hand drops to 95. As this hand reaches the hal- way mark, a buyer presses his button. Instantly tie machine stops, and the buyer's number lighis up on the lower section of the diai. The sale price of $22.50 is clearly shown on the machine. Details of the - names and mathematics, has no memory at all for tunes and finds it impossible te learn a foreign language. Some experts say that on the whole women have better mem- ories than men, but usually find it harder to forget things they don't want to remember. It re- quires a greater effort to erase something from the mind than to memorize it. No idea that has ever been in the mind can ever be entireiy forgotten, we are told. Like the elephant, man never forgets. But illness can interfere with the efficiency of our memories and boredom and tiredness often pre- vent a man or woman recalling a name or an event. We've ail said at one time or another, "It's on the tip of my tongue, but for the life of me I can't remember it . . . Your memory can be your best friend But it needs constant exercise, A good detective says that after five minutes in any room he shuts his eyes and can call to mind every detail there. Try it - and see how dificult it is! The sense of smell can often conjure up memories. A French- man tried vainly for a long time to recall details of a certain im- portant happening. Then, during a visit to Paris, he travelled by Metro, the French Underground. "Immediately the whole scene I had not been able to remember came vividly to my mind," he said. "It had happened in a Ca- nadian paper mil - and the Jack Sea Dr Average depth of about two miles. A been calculated that t average waves break: seashore is seventeen square yard. 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