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Show THE BORN o ICSER art By m !f r E mm By A. LEOKUM itnuit Include your Zip Code. In Britannici case et duplicate questions the Junior Encyclopedia for school. author wUI decide the winner, and home, Send your questions, Today's winner is: name, age, address lo "Tell Me' John lldwary, 14, Averill carer ol this paper. Yoiij Park, New York. VVhy! iO I ik. iic By HED Bv NOW A30.T MORE SPECIFIC? TIME 16 T bJVNwR-X'- rb V&S vesVyvellA f' YOU r5,TQfTfll y MAY EXPECT - BE History I I Today is Sunday,' Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 1966 , with 83 to ' VU Jk JfiveI LL 1 0. ppeasiLV SSHTC I In Today BUGS BUNNY crawl out of their dens. At first &ey are thin ana weaRriof djiiv ing their winter sleep they may havejlost as much as 40 per cent of their fatAs soon as they be- gin eating again they become fat and active. .... ' Did you know that many cold' blooded animals hibernate also? Earthworms crawl down' into the earth until they are below the frost line. Frogs bury 'themselves in the mud at the bottom of ponds. Snakes crawl into cracks in the rocks or holes in the ground and .sleep" there all ;. winter, , And even some fish such as the carp bury .themselves in Thelriuddy bottom and pass the winter there! In the tropical regions of the world, there are some animals that sleep through the Summer, the time of great est heat and dryness. These are Win the I SYLVESTERl COME !M WRfi AN' WEUP - ME WHEfil YA PiNilSM PAINTIN NUMSeSSi SUKDAY, OCTOBER 9, 195S Why Do Animals Hibernate? F ' sansoMi Tell Me Why - follow. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The mornine stars are jk Jupiter and Mars. The evening star is Saturn. Vprssently! j The word '"hibernate" comes from the Latin and means "winter sleep." The reason some animals hibernatf is that their food supply grows scarce in the winter and they do not store up 8. food supply. For example, the squirrel does store up food, so it doesn't hibernate.' The wood-chadoesn't, so it goes to sleep for the winter. The animals that hibernate live on the fat which "they "have stored up in their body. The sleep of a hibernating animal is almoSLJike death and is quite different from ordinary sleep. While an animal is hibernating, all its life activities nearly stop. The temperature of its body decreases until it is only a little warmer than the air of its den. Because of this the animals burn the food stored in their bodies very, very slowly. Since they burn less fuel, they need less oxygen. As a result, their breathing is slower and their cf Aimee American evangelist McPherson was' born on this , day in 1890. On this day in history: In 1781, Gen. .George Wash ington fired the first gun at the siege of jorktown. In 1858, a 'tnail - earrvine overland stagecoach reached St. Uuis, Missouri, after a trip of 23 days from San Francisco: In 1958. Pope Pius XII the 261st pontiff of the Roman hearts beat only faintly. Catholic church, died, i f the temeprature in the den In 1963, thousands of persons died when a dam in northern becomes very low, the hibernating animal wakes up, digs itItaly overflowed. self in a little deeper, and goes to sleep once more. When spring A thought for the the animals are awakend Monroe said: comes, James, "National" honor is"national by the change" in temperature"," property of the highest value " moisture, and by hunger. They , '"P cT. 3 By DICK CAVALLI MORTY MEEKLE i I wmpding -- v I miiti ini J wn id my A I I A 'or - neweercf&xfOJUBei am WILL THE ' WILL JONfCG5 TEACH EC SLOW WLL 6H6 ( CSV,MBB2 THB WH6TLE OK HMFDC A TD7ZJCKJHB2 eaAPOREKA. CHeATNON ' - HI6 ALSBCA, m f V FIND UNCLB FQED4 TOOPEE? 1 1 iAVAU- -l " ""- "- an'shecbacks -- caimet? am' gentle?, Wee somanyjokesi JILL I WOULDN'T GT SO' I FEEL. WELL.,. FYENj 4 I SORTA START QOIN' ON MV HOWEWDCJfeT. 4 UH. STAR 60iN urLrou know.. rCTT77J UN. 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OH, AND MILES AKI THE BLOWS A TROUBLE LL a i our of tha. began long 97 to protect Movement From themselves.? prehistoric - times- By ERNIE BUSHM1LLER OH, NANCy YiyADDy 'IS X 7 tsuy AE A DOG CrOlNlNA THATlS NICE, PEEVVEE ri VYHy GET DON'T you J?Q POINTER 'A- By AL VERMEER Z' SOME DAY WE MIQWT SIT vWERE AND WATCH CARLYLE ) WHAT WOULD YOU thimkJ op THATJ PR1SCILLA? y 1m - T1 $ 1 ON DURING MY COWBOY. ...'POINTER l U.1.P M, At! p,(W I itr4ri CAME HERE TODAY AND CHEWED THEM OUT.'.. MADE THEM TURN THE KIDS LOOSE," NIFTy LIESI WAS JUST OPENING THE 'CELLAR DOOR WHEH... t3r . VWJ ALFRED ANDRIOLA My IT'S STAG.'. HE AND BEEFy PULLED THIS CRAiy SNATCH SO LONG AS IT DOESN'T COMB PC?nflPAM PINCHER JOB! - POP OR A BOXER, OR A PINSCHER? jJ- HERE'S ONE DF THEM, SGT. DRAKE: BUT ITS HO USE CALLING AN AMBULANCE FOR PKISCILLA'S XSC R fT . tfflPt' fslf "A FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS SOMEBODy'S STILL ALIVE DOWN THERE IT'S EITHER BEEFy A ITS VtoRJM' T WORKS IJERE, IT MIGHT WORIC INOTtEl HOMES, AAR, CRUNCH',. MO IF A TRY FRECKLES, WE'LL DO IT. V r COMES HOWE, ' J WE'LL BE READY FOR. KM' iossst ' WMEMTiGeR." L A A t '.l'r h' j JmJ f .Y f WOW DID THINGS e&A GO AT SCHOOL Today, som? ) . .Uc |