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Show Dugway Proving Ground, Fnday, Jan. 13, 1967 now Facts and Fancies Did you know that snow is never really while? It s usually and its the reflection of liht which makes colorless or the crystals seem so while. Red. green. and even lilack snow has lieen known to fall - a phenomenon caused by fungi or dust around which the snowflakes has'e formed. SNOW RESULTS when water vapors in the atmosphere freezes and forms crystals around a central core, such as a particle of dust. The structure of snowflakes is one of great eum- -' lie composed of one plexitv. varietv and lieauty. A snowflake can or a cluster of hundreds' of crystals. The designs are branched and usually although some with three sides have lieen e, par-lii'l- : ' rs d, recorded. While the first snowflake drawing was made as early as 1553 by Archbishop Claus Magnus of Uppsala, Sweden, the real of Jericho. Vermont, pioneer in the field was Wilson A. Bentley who made over fi.000 plates of snow and ice crystal formations in a period! Snowflakes may seem light as they float in the air, Imt a tightly packed pail of snow can weigh as much ax 50 pounds. snowfall can deposit several million tons of snow nd a h "over the land. Silver laike. Colorado, holds the record for the most snow in one day - 76 inches liack in 1021: the heaviest annual snowfall was l.(XX) inches at Paradise Ranger Station at Mt. Rauicr in Washington. WHILE YOU MAY agree that show can lie a poetic, inspiring sight, it often creates a nuisance liv choking driveways and walks and tying up traffic on busy streets. g In the department, the first apparatus was iatcnted by a New York City man in 1869. The device scarated a mass of snow into flakes and then melted them. Tixlay, though, an individual has available to him an easy, quick way of melting snow and ice. Certain chemicals melt snow and ice at temperatures of 40 degrees lielow zero and do the job seven times faster, than rock salt! These chemicals. available in liags. dissolve snow and ice m the store front, the driveway, path or doorstep. Many communities are also making their streets and highways safer in winter through the use of chemicals in bulk form, at a cost of only pennies a pound. SNOW HAS BEEN a subject not only of practical concern Imt of literary expression as well. The fairy tale, The Snow yucen," by Hans Christian Andersen has delighted children of all ages annind the world. In contemporary literature, Emest Hemingway wrote the famous story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, n works is Stopping liv and one of Roliert Frost's Yoods mi a Snowy Evening. Many literary critics agree that Snowliound" was John Creenleaf Whittiers finest poem. Snow caters to the farmer as well as to the author. In certain areas of the country where winters are severe, snow blankets dormant vegetation with an insulating layer which protects it against the fatal cold. This snow blanket" works to retain the heat rising from the warm layers of earth lielow. SANTA CLAUS visits Dugway. Children at the Post Nursery and school children at the Elementary School got a good look at OF Saint Nick over the holidays. Here, children at the Nursery wait their turn to sit on Santas lap. 50-ye- ar ten-inc- . " i CAPTAIN DALE R. BARR, commanding officer of the U. S. Army Met Team, swears in Specialist Fifth Class George P. Watts, who reenlisted for a period of sis years. snow-meltin- ' liest-know- i CAPTAIN CORDON M. ROSELLE!, JR., commanding officer of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, congratulates SP5 Ted Sleekier during his reenlistment ceremony. 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