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Show THE BORN LOSEP Jt lllllllit "fc&lklfe ART I P i TW r, J AWF V KikVt' miim;t LISTENERS AND TOE' RBST-TW- ESPECIALLY Es" .J wjvic l uh.woj. ST Vtf I I AND ITS ACTUALITY GOING OUT ON THE AIR CAN HARDLY "i Cft J;mu MM " lfii ( HANDSOME, P50ONAI?, AND AMBrflOUS II J I 5 J n In two, would Ralph Poupore, Richmand, Va. 1 ... I MV .UNF0RTUNATELV FATHER WAS L0OKIW5-P3- R A POZEN PONIES AND A COUPLE OF BLANKETS J " J nu"iY I rs fcf W A -- I L i , I By . CUrt TTRPFRQ nUDlN MAU.Wl W4i 'rrwm, IVE WHAT DIP MX) LOOK FOR IN A HU60AND WH6N YOU WERg CS I AKD THAT L.BRAR1AN TYPE IS PRETTY HARD) TO BELIEVE, TOO, JAH rl7 I ft FOR? money-change- quoias In California, have lived for more than 3,000 years! Trees like the aspens are old at 70. Gray birches die soon after they are 40. So each tree lives for a different length of time. After a seed has been lying on the ground soaking up moisture (as in the acorn seed, for of wood inside. The wood inside divides example), the shell splits and the cambium is called sapwood. be saved! lUl-f- - GOSH, THE GUV I reaLv TURNS INTO A NEW PERSON WHY WE SAY IT It is made up of tiny units' called cells. These cells form pipes and carry sap, which is soil water with minerals or food dissolved in it. Sap travels between the roots and the topmost branches and leaves. A second set of pipes brings down water with food in it. The food gives every part of the tree the energy it needs to grow. The leaves of a tree make Our word "bank" comes from sugar, which is the tree's basic food. They also give off water "banca." the old Italian word bv evaporation, since only a for "bench." In early times did their busifraction of the water in the sap is needed by the tree in making ness sitting on a bench. In LatThe outer layer of the trunk is in, "runt" meant "broken." Put food. its bark. As the tree grows them together and you have ' thicker and taller its bark bankrupt, or a broken bench. FUN TIME A bankrupt man can't do busistretches, and it may split after The ChucHe Box a while. The rough outer bark Teacher: Johnny, give the def- ness because his "bench is on a tree ii dead, but it pro- inition broken!" of "crowbar." tects the living tissues inside. where It's a plac Johnny: Just underneath the bark Is the birds Win the New Book of Knowl get drunk. cambium. This is the part of edge Yearbook. Send your ridthe trunk that grows. Each year Answer to yesterday's Puz- dles, jokes, to: "Riddles, Jokes; the cambium builds a layer of zle Box: 29 minutes. Only the Tell Me Why!" Give zip code. bark on its outside and a layer first minute in which one Today's winner is: two pale snoots appear. One shoot, will bt'ime the roots of the tree. The other will form its trunk and leaves. The root grows down, the trunk grows Roots anchor a tree in up. the ground. Trees often have a long main root, with hundreds of other rootlets branching from it. The roots and rootlets have millions of tiny root hairs. They soak up water and minerals from the soil. The water then travels up into the trunk of the tree and from there to the branches and leaves. By GORDON BESS By DICK BROO .viAvwifMAM. .. AUO FOR ALL MY I l CAVAUJ By DICK y I ) j XVr r Win the New Book of Knowledge (20 volumes). Send your questions, name, age, address (including zip code) to "Tell Me Why!" care of The Daily Herald. In case of duplicate questions, the author will decide the inner. Today's winner is: Shelly Reid, 8, Hayward, Calif. A tree comes from a seed. A tree is alive. It is burn, it breathes and grows, It drinks water and makes food. It pro duces seeds from which new trees grow. After a time it dies. Some trees, like the giant se- IV i'- THF 1ACKSON a 1 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1963 By A. LEOKUM Bv HEIMDAHL i ) Tell Me Why How Does a Tree Grow? BUGS BUNNY I SANFr,M SOMEHOW. 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