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Show . 1 6 D .. tlr r5jyffl!rs 1 - DEStRH NEWS. THURSDAY, MAY S, 1975 Hi & Herman loss h &.; "Do doctors ever get sick hke real pecpfa?" Animal Cracksrs The Ryft I I5O0SH TO TOOS-- i ! OubT-- 1 WMK 'TIL COR LEs?& 3iOE OOT-- 04 A sod" wls Nirictf VJS'PE Boner's Ark 6GM6 SCTTS?0-PA2!- weil m sTtoFa rschMABi 6k,eUW80D9A AD I OORCMAWCfS IOWER AMD LOME' ami -- rt UNli.Jb m,,? I GFPOOUAtf-TBACK DOO)-ND- O MU SI r j A'S t C5MKmiM PERKtMS CONHN IN AnD Roma os arr - Catfish :? , imy Leu Trim's Arena Ropemaking is an old industry Ropemaking is one of the oldest industries in existence The first ropes were knotted together from leather thongs, pieces of bark, or even roots. The ancient Egyptians made ropes fiom vegetable fibers, and these resemble the ropes made today. All fiber used in making ropes is generally called but it may come "isernp from many different plants The bst rope material is the fiber of a plant called the abaca, which grows in the Philippine? and is known as Manila hemp It Ls easier to wurk with and stronger than other; forms of hemo. Until the 19th century, ropes were made entirely ty head til ropewalks 'jmmj wefw long, low buildings in which "Ring . . - Sin? . . ? the ropeii.ati.er washed backward, step by step, unwind ing the filters from about his waist At the upper end of the walk, a boy turned a wheel to which one end of the rope they are into yar$ and the yam is wound mto !' spook or ribbons. The bobbins are mounted! yarn was attached. This on a revolving disk Thayaro wheel kept twisting the yarn is pul through a, metal tubq while it was being spun. which presses the separate pieces together and as it; comes out it is twisted into a strand Then Ihtf! same process take three o? , four of thece rttrie swf to mafafl tl.en twits is" together all rope Today almost 4 ; mad by machinery. The a rope ii i the 2b volume New, fibers ale passed through a Scasf Book of Knowledge, senes of machines caili-breaker, wkih look hkn your question, Inaiap, ng&-an- d steel combs They comb the address to Tell M -- ? Tell me uihy ftT'if'? a1 Tn fttt tye tin-geth- 4 i'QPfl 0 fhoiTv.flptirl1 Box 1257, Sait Hvf straighten out the snarls, and turn the mass o fibers into a sliver This is a straight, . continuous nonon of loose tbaadi. equal n thickness. TIm-- , a.. Si.nl to the smiming machines Here New, p 0, Lake City, Utah S4U0. stirs to include vout rip cnde n case w duplicate question tne authoi will dmdtp the winner. Today's winner i John Hubbell, 10, Rent. Only- 1 |