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2 kl-' Not A Drop To Drinkâ€" Dr. George Klotzbaugh holds a "dry raindrop" in the path of a radar beam at the Westinghouse Laboratories. The make-believe drops, made from a plastic mixture, have the identical electrical behavior of real rain. Using the drops and sensitive measuring instruments, scien- tists can determine the effect of rain, sleet and snow on ultra- shortwave radar, the kind used by military planes. ^ A SixbitCritic Sloth, ignorance or some other f>i the seven deadly vices caused us, In a recent column, to set down the number of tie games played so far in the National Hockey League as Just double the quantity of these no-decision affairs that had actually taken place. In other words, we added up the number appearing in the league standings, and then neg- lect ctl to divide by two. * * * We hasten to express our humble apologies for this contretemps â€" (if we know what we mean) â€" with the hope that no great harm has bet n (lone to QUOTE the world's la.mest sport UNQUOTE. * • * But our regret for the boner by no nitans weakens our long-held belief tliat games were meant to be played to a tieci-sion, and that when no efforLs are made to break a dead- look â€" will, it may be good box- office, but it certainly isn't sport. Also. We still coiitenil that if the â- well-paid gladiators understood that, In case of a deadlock, they would have to play to a sudden-death fin- l«h or else that neither team would set a point in the standing, the pub- He would see quite a different brand of hockey, especially during the £nal ten minutes or so pf a great many games. » • • Those who have watched the de- velopment and increasing popularity of basketball, ever since its com- paratively recent invention by a Canadian, of recent years have been Ticwing with alarm the growing tendency of coaches to search the highways and byways for players showing at least a trace of giraffe ki their ancestry. ♦ * ♦ According to the tjood Book "the Mice is not always to the swift, nor Ike battle to the strong"; but, as •a old-time gambler once said, /ou'll need a very healthy bankroll â- C be? the eth?r way. And Jn n« #lh«r sport hot i\'in football, h&l Ac "good big man" such an over- whelming advantage over his just â- a ^'i>ni\ but finaller adversary. These profound remarks are occasioned by the news that there has at last appeared on the basket- ball scene a player who must be just about a coach's dream. * » * He is a gentleman of color, Ray Harris by name, and he measures a mere seven feet seven inches in height. (The dispatch didn't say if that's in his stocking feet or bate- loot, but possibly that doesn't mat- ter." If you'll take the trouble â€" and a yardstick â€" to mea.sure seven feet seven inches on the nearest telephone post, you'll have a better idea of just what a picture Mr. Harris must make when he looms up on a basketball court. * * * Harris, who is presently perform- ing with a Negro professional team, can sink the apple for a couple of points merely by reaching up as he runs bast the basket, not even hav- ing to go to the bother of jumping. But great as his scoring ability must be, it is on the defense that he is most impressive. * ♦ * We have often wondered how it would be in hockey if a goal tender ever appeared so broad and hefty that he completely filled the space between the posts, making it im- possible to jam the puck past hm. (And the way some of the goalies pile on the padding and tack these days, that is by no means the pipe (fream it might have been a few years ago.) » * * Well, that is practically the situa- tion rival basketball teams are con- fronted with when Ray Harris is on the defence. He simply stands by the basket and taps away oppo- nents' shots as they come, making "lay-ups" impossible. Now they're saying that if Harris gets into the baiketball "tig time" he may forlre a revision in the rules. ♦ » * However, what wit]) winter com- ing on, we can think of a lot of other things better worth worrying about, such as the price of coal, clothes, alcohol â€" for the car ra- Pocdles In A Puddle â€" Out in Hollywood, Hjordis and David Niven treat theJr poodles, Baba and Sura, to a boat ride in the Niven pool. With aueh goings on, and a maeter and mistreaa like that, a dog's life isn't what it used to b«. Shed New Light On The Bible The ancient Hebrew scrolli â€" found by accident, in â-  cave in Trans- Jordanâ€" possibly date, In the opin- ion of sxperts, from the second century befors Christ. Professor Plenderleith, keeper of the research laboratory of the British Museum, describes the work he is doing on some of the fragments in "London Calling." This would seem to be the most outstanding discovery of Biblical manuscripts ever made. The whole of the Book of Isaiah â€" a scroll seven yards long; a considerable fragment of another Isaiah; a com- mentary on Habbakuk; a selection oi the Psalms; several sections of the .Apocrypha, as well as some other documents of the greatest historical interest â€" all of these were found stored in sealed jars in a cave in the hills near Jericho. Archaeologists have now exam- ined the jars and the scrolls, and agree that the manuscripts are gen- uine, possibly dating back to the second century before Christ. It is an incredible piece of good for- tune that, after 2,000 years, the finest of the scrolls are in such good condition that all have been un- rolled witliout mishap. This, I understand, is in no small measure due to the protection of the jars. Now why Is this find so very im- portant? As we know, the Bible has been handed down to us from texts copied and recopied many times. Two of the principal sources are the Hebrew text of the ninth century A.D., called the Massoretic text, and the Greek Septuagint, translated from the Hebrew about the third century B.C. The newly discovered documents are actually 1,000 years earlier than the Mas- soretic text, and must be almost contemporary with the Hebrew writings from wihich the Greek Septuagint was derived. Scholars are translating and comparing texts, and already we are told that there is very little change to record; the Bible has been tran- scribed for us down through the ages with astonishing accuracy â€" a tribute to the strictness and fidelity of generations of devoted scribes. Now, in a find of (his kind, it will be understood that every scrap is of the utmost value; not a word must be lost. After the main scrolls had been removed, the cave was visited and searched by Mr. Lanke- ster Harding, the curator of an- tiques of Transjordan. He gleaned every fragment left in the cave, from the floor and from the jari, and it is these gleanings that he brouglit to me at the British Mu- seum for examination and treat- ment. The manuscripts, I find, are com- po.sed of parchment, that is, animal skin prepared for writing â€" in this ca.se, probably goat skin. The ink is a carbon ink, the most perma- nent kind of ink, traditionally made from a mixture of soot and gum. The Hebrew writing is black and as legible today as it would have been 2.000 years ago; but the fragments from the floor of the cave, not proterted by the jars, are in a sorry condition. Some of the pieces are no bigger diator, naturally â€" shoes et caetera. Basketball is just one of several major sports in which coaches and managers have come to think that fheir own personal records and reputations are of far more im- portance than pleasing the custom- ers. One of these days a movement will start aimed at giving games back to tho.se who play them. Knows His Stuff Disillusioned conuuent of a knowledgeable English trade union- ist on the tobacco situation: "If they nationalize the smokes indus- try, the only thing that won't strike will be the, matches." Sad But True Melancholy sigh of a British Tory industrialist with a Biblical education: "A profit ii not without honor, save in this country I" Mental Cruelty â€" Divorce judge â€" "Now, just why do you wisih a divorce, Mrs. Whanglockf" Mors. WhanglcK:k â€" "Your Hon- or, you know I am the mother of the child movie itar. Dimpled DmnpHng, and ttiia man never ealls ms anything but 'the goose that Wd the golden egg'!" /UICHIE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AUBNTS WAMTBD IM BVIiRT district there la a â- o-toMwr with a keen eenee of 16111119. Be may be eelllns fenclnff, or fertilizer, or any numl>«r of tblnfra. We are looking for that man. We Bttll have some vood territories open to tbe rljrht man. We want him to handle our line of blvh quality farm equipment. Our prices are rlsht. 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There is great danger in using too much water. However, in the laboratory we have experience of old parch- ment and a simple' piece of appar- atus for a job of this kind. The parchment it placed on a support, in a glass vessel. In tihc base of the vessel is a glycerine- water mixture, which has the effect of keeping the air in the closed vessel at a predetermined humidity. In time, the parchment absorbs the moisture from the humid air, and after two hours, the specimens have again become pliable, without change in appearance. It is now possible to ea«e the leaves apart, th^s exposing fresh layers of writ- ing as the work proceeds. However, there was a serious complication. At one edge of some of the wads, holding the leaves together, was a black substance like pitch. It was not pitch, but was actually a localized decomposition of the tissue to parchment glue- decomposition beyond recovery. This glue absorbed more than its •hare of moisture in the humidifier and became like black treacle, and threatened to spread over the small fragments and obliterate the writ- ing. It had to be hardened again, and quickly. What was I to do? 1 put a trial piece into a refrigerator, and found that this worked. Soon, the black substance solidified and lost its stickiness; and it was now possible, wiith the aid of a scalpel, to slip it •way from the text, and so sepa- rate the leaves entirely, so that they could be mounted between glasses in preparation for study. It was going to take time and patience to read the many fragments in my possession, but when the work is completed, there will be the satisfaction of knowing that all of the remaining script has been saved. MINNEAPOLIS-MOLINE Pick-up Baler, auto- matic wire tie. Wisconsin engine, brand new, 12400.00. 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Instantine brings really fast relief from pain and the relief is prolonged! So get Instantine and get quick comfort. Instantine is compounded like a doctor's prescription of three proven medical ingredients. You can depend on its fast action in getting relief from every day aches and pains, headache, rheumatic pain, for neu- ritic or neuralgic pain. Get Instantine today and always keep it handy Ifistantine 12-Tabl*ITin25|< Economkol 48-Tablet Bottle 69^ ISSUE 46 _ 1949 »• * ^ ^ 4 > > > -». r- •« r -1 -^ .♦• at * -» V T T â- A *