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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1971 Houswives Don't Blame Farmer As Food Prices Steadily Mount Mystery Planet Pluto Target Of Rocket Probe Page Nina The Noise of Melting Icebergs The missing world of the solar system is swinging closer to Earth than at any time since its discovery 40 years ago. Pluto is looping inside the orbit of its neighboring planet, Neptune, a shortcut it takes only once its own 248 year meat and dairy products, and circuitduring of the sun. another Newark housewife said On November 6, 1989, Pluto prices had definitely risen, add- will be only 2,766,000,000 miles ing, I complain about it every from the sun, and the closest it week. ever comes to Earth 2,670,000,-00- 0 She admitted that she wasnt miles. sure why they were up, but was Astronomers and other scienquick to say, I know the farmer tists plan eventually to explore isnt getting any more. Too many some of Plutos mysteries by people are leaving the farm. If sending an unmanned rocket in they were getting enough cash space, the National Geographic they would stay. says. A young Phoenix housewife, The rocket probably will be who thinks food prices have launched in 1977, and will flash doubled in recent years, said by Jupiter, Saturn and after 9 For the price theyre charging years, Pluto. us, what the farmer is getting Scientists hope monitoring de:s not fair. vices aboard the rocket will raSo it seems that if the U.S. dio back clues that will help to housewife and the American solve at least one unique puzfarmer exchanged stories, they zle: Plutos impossible density, would probably conclude by 35 times that of water and five shaking hands in sympathy. The times that of lead. Plutos lop sided orbit tilts farmers, like shoppers, are now aware that food prices are in- from 10 to 17 degrees from the other planets orbits, which lie creasing. But the farmer has a story of in nearly the same plane. Pluto is thought to be less than change to tell, a story of progress the size of the earth, 3,600 half :hat is benefiting the consumer, miles in diameter or smaller and while leaving him a bit like the Inventor who dies a pauper. its average temperature is estiWithout this farm progress the mated at 360 degrees below zero. Percival Lowell first predicted price of food would be much that an undiscovered Planet X greater than it is today. as must called he be it, orbiting Almost unnoticed by a growout beyond Neptune, in 1905 ing suburban and city populto be the most distant ation, farmers have been trading thoughtin the solar system. Dr. muscle power for machine power body at accelerated rates. In the early Lowell theorized that the graun1800s farmers were using the vitational attraction of some must force known be the planet grain harvesting tools that had the planet Uranus swing making eras. Biblical changed little from of out line at one point in its Yet in a little over a hundred orbit. years they traded these hand Twenty five years later Pluto tols for giant machines that can was discovered by a fledgling complete the entire harvesting atstronomer, Clyde Tombaugh, operation automatically. working at the mountain top observatory near Flagstaff, Ariz. Economy is that mysterious Now a famous astronomer, Dr. something which impels us to discovery made good pay too little for something we Tombaughs another his high prophecy need, and too much for some- school yearbook predicted, He thing we want. will discover a new world. Not too many years ago riders to tell you. I dont believe its on the Paoli, Pa., Local commu-nitin- the farmer who is benefiting. between there and Phil- The middle man is getting the adelphia could look out from the money. rail car windows and see an Mrs. Robert York, a suburban occasional farm still remaining Newark, N. J., resident, felt that amid the sprawling fields of new there were substantial rises in g ranchers and colonial homes. Todays commuters have to continue west of Paoli, toward Lancaster, to see an active farm from their air condtiioned cars. While city and suburban dwellers are becoming more and more removed from association with farmers, they are, naturally, tied to the farmer for their very existence. But many residents of our growing megopolis communities relate to the farmer only through their food bills at the supermarket check out counter-Whilmetropolitan housewives are unanimous in their condemnation of increasing food prices, most of them feel the farmer is not to blame for the increases they see marked on the grocery e shelves. Mrs. William Major, whose husband is an oil company sales executive and who resides on an appropriately named street, Rustic Lane, thinks food prices today are fantastic. But I dont think the farmer is to blame. The increased price for food is not filtering back to them. Its the middleman. Mrs. Major admits to distant contacts with the farm, noting that her husband has relatives who operate a dairy farm upstate, and they have really had a rough time of it. They had to let one of the hired men go last year. But other housewives, who do not have even this remote contact with the farm, are not blaming the farmer for the spiralling food costs. When asked if she felt food prices have increased substantially in the last three years, Mrs. Joy DeMarco, a Chicago housewife, said, Oh, they cer- tainly have, to inflation. but attributed it Mrs. David C. Stewart, a Des Moines homemaker, said, I hope Recorded by Researchers Icebergs make noise in the sea. They appear to do so by means of a seltzer effect, whereby tiny bubbles of air, trapped in the ice during its formation, pop out into the water when melting occurs. Scientists described their findings at a recent meeting of the Acoustical Society of America recently in Houston. The fact that icebergs make noise has been demonstrated by means of sonobuoys dropped by aircraft near a number of bergs off Newfoundland. A peculiar sizzling white noise was observed that, according to calculations, could be heard by a quiet listening sonar out to distances of many miles. Not all icebergs appear to be soniferous, however, and the amount of noise must depend on many factors, such as size air content and especially, rate of meling in the surrounding water. The process by which icebergs make noise is not at all certain. If you drop a cold ice cube into a glass of warm water you will hear a crackling, popping sound a kind of acustical cocktail effect, that does away after a time as thermal ejuilibrium is established. If the ice cube is cloudy and if you use a sensitive hydrophone for listening you will also hear a sizzling frying sound that is likely to be caused by escaping air bubbles. But for real icebergs in the sea, the principal sources of noise has not been firmly established and require further study for their understanding. About one fifth of our average grocery bill is not food at all. It is something to wear, or read, or listen to or clean with, or cook with. For every dollars worth of food that goes into our super market basket, we put in 20 cents worth of laundry soap, insecticides, paper towels, hi-records and other nonfood items. About 90 percent of all sales of cat and dog food go over the supermarket checkout counter, with about half the hair are not just academic. Half of along the 192 page reference guide is spray, aspirin, and toothpaste filled with illustrated how twas we buy for personal and family ? use. done on popular swaps. 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