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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 21, I960 4A Mountains May Shout They Float, Top By Dr. Robert R. Kadesch , University of Utah Mountain ranges float like Icebergs on the dense rock be- neath the Moho. Like an Ice berg, by far the 'greater portion of a mountain I lies hidden far beneath the sur-,fac- This much has ' been known for 'some time. Recent geolog-r", v w ical y evidence, however, lends Dr, Kadesch support to the idea that these mountain or rockbergs will, bergs - completely unlike real grow at tjje bottom if heated, disappear at the bottom if weighted down from above, and magicaBy maintain their size when worn away at the top. THE KEY TO this strange behavior lies in the suggestion that, chemically speaking, the earth beneath the Moho is the ' same as that above. The Moho, or Mohorovlcic discontinuity, is the boundary between the earth's thin crust and the mantle beneath. Relative to the earths size, the crustal layer above the Moho is thinner, than the skin of an apple. , - suggests that the sea" is chemically the same as the berg." The two- may differ in crystalline' form. only JUST AS pencil lead Is chem-icaBidentical to diamond, so would the mountains and continents, according to this idea, be the same chemically as the material on Which they float Just as diamond is denser than graphite, . although both are forms of carbon, so is the material beneath the Moho denser than that above. If this theory is correct, present concepts of mountain building and origin of the continents will be drastically changed. THE COLORADO Plateau TIIE EARTHS apple skin" is a thin 2.5 to 3.0 miles under the ocean deeps, medium thick J8 to 25 miles in the region of the continents, and extends as much as 35 miles or more below mountain regions. It has been generally believed that mountains and continents are but huge masses of relatively light granite which float on a chemically different sea" of basalt. y THE MOHO, the division between the light and the dense, extends to various depths merely because big bergs of rock have deeper hidden portions than smaller ones. Accumulated evidence now . p has long been an enigma. This region' a quarter of a million squares miles in area, stood at sea level some 40 million years ago. Today It rides a mile in the air. The Colorado' River fought its way through the uplift to form the Grand Canyon. According to the new theory, the temperature of the rock and the pressure to which it is subjected are the factors which determine whether it shall be the dense type rock or the less dense kind. y SUFFICIENTLY high pressures transform the lighter rock to a denser form. At elevated t e m p e p a t u r e s, even greater pressure is required. Diamond can be nade from graphite, for example, only at pressures in excess of 100,000 times normal atmospheric pressure. To lift the Colorado Plateau a mile in the air, all that Is needed is to heat the rock by perhaps 20 or 30 de1 grees, THIS WOULD convert dense rock to light rock, add deeper roots to the plateau, and float it higher In the sea of denser rock. The permanence of mountains has never been explained in a satisfactory way. Mountains and continents should have washed themselves , into the sea long before now. The average rate of erosion of the entire United States is such as to wear away a foot of its surface every 10,000 years. - h : r 5 1 - - - $ - y $ I o - , f 1 v, - - - w,. 4k h conse-quentl- , Public Opinion Survey Sitdown Airs Protest to GQP Remains Party of U.S. Minority Political Composition of U.S. Electorate (Based on cases 9115 ) Segregation By Dr. George Gallup American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 20-- No matter who heads the GOP ticket next November, he will face the hard political arithmetic of running on the slate of the minority in U.S. politics. And, as a special analysis by the Gallup Poll shows, the Republican Party is in the minority not only at the national level, but in most major in the groups population. This analysis, based on per- sonal interviews with 9,415 voters across the counprovided try, by the voters own testimony about his pollti Dr. Gallup cal preferences on this question: Unskilled workers Union families families ' Cities:' 500.000 and. over 50.000 to 499,999 2,500' to 49,999 J Under 2,500 ' - . ,23 20'" Protestants V 36 Catholics Jews 18 9 farms ; s 57 43 23 23 24 51 24 51 41 25 25 33 37 ' 33: His Sermon? ( 22 34 Non-itnlo- - ,55 - By AsincUted Freni KANSAS CITY, Feb. 20 The" "chaplain Tat St Lukes Hospital, the Rev. Thomas A. Simpson,, occasionally fills the pulpits of Episcopal churches when their rectors are absent. On one of these occasions, he related Saturday, he told the congregation: You know what a substitute is, of course. Suppose a big pane of glass was broken and a piece of cardbdard was Inserted In the vacant place to keep out the draft. That piece of cardboard would be a sub . 26 42 149 18 43 57 66 21 25 25 21 , In politics as you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or Independent? Some of the highlights of this analysis: In only two major groups in the population professional and business people and e-trained persons do GOP adherents presently outnumber Democratic Party adherents. of today, do colleg- Its Paneful 1 NO NEED TO WORRY WITH YOUR TflF3"' era teen-ager- s Both stores had closed their lunch counters when the Negro students arrived The accompanying, t a b'le gives the breakdown n party affiliation at present among major groups in the population (excluding a small proportion of Other party and Undeeided to amounting about 2 per cent of the total). Thalhimers, the pitys largest department store, closed its four lunch and snack bars about 2 p.m. when groups of Negro students began . arriving. The store remained open. frUAIANTII He fua rattle reurate prwta ratio f etery tax retart IIIIf make any arrefa that coat o any penalty r Inter! pay IP penalty r Interest if your return t audited e ill appear HMvut (Ml t u at lfc audit it hi thl iUlftct y tullr Itonm f a.m.-- 9 p.m. tea ASPCINTMINT SICHSAM V IN Tiny Lillian Faces DUBUQUE, IOWA Sad-eye- d Lillian Kieffer doesn't know it, but she has Ftal AaaotIaie4 Freaa Wiraphotd Blood Disease an Incurable blood disease, which is similar to leukemia. There's no known cure. Confers Jury Bares Wife Spears As Finch i Racket , Payoffs Tells Faith Associated Press fey LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 (UPI) The fate of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his mistress, Carole Tregoff, probabl- DALLAS, TEX., Feb. 2- 0- The wife of Robert Vernon Spears said Saturday night in a radio interview that Spears was involved in a large-scalabortion racket in Los Angeles. She said payoffs were made to police. e y.-won't be known dlio.n.intW I If with N HIM ll.ttiv ere net III was listed as a passenThe heavily insured ger but the FBI located him alive and well in Phoenix, Ariz , last month. , In the recorded interview Saturday night, Mrs. Frances Los Angeles criminal attorney Spears said that a served as middle man between abortionists and police m the California city, well-know- She sald her husband told her the police officers involved were one of the officials and those that worked under him. In Los Angeles, Chief of Police William H. Parker said nothing along this line had been communicated to him, adding: I think we ought to know exactly who it is we're talking about. We have 6,000 employes in the department 4,600 officers alone and Im not in a position to just pick names out of the air. WE HAVE ALWAYS vigorously investigated anything with relation to the conduct of our employes, Parker continued. If the people at the Dallas radio station have information, they should be specific. Spears faced abortion charges In Los Angeles at the time he became the central figure in the airline crash investigation. In Los Angeles, Blodgett told the Associated Press: We have developed no evidence to substantiate the allegations at this time. Spears recently was convicted in Proemx of interstate r term. transportation of a stolen car. He is serving a five-yea- Circus Animals AND BETTER BECAUSE from our "In Stort" Ink tritt FRESHER Th ty'rt Bv Associated Pres N.Y., Feb. 20 -Two tractor-trailerloaded with circus animals were among the hundreds of vehicles stranded Saturday on the d state throughway by a snowstorm. ANGOLA, s wind-whippe- OFFICIALS AT the service area near this Erie County viBage were trying to locate a supply of hay for three hungry elephants. Meat for the two bears, leopard, mountain lion and tiger was available, a spokesman said. The trucks were en route to Rochester for a Shrine circus. t'A i eew"' Tender, flaky crust with delicious filling made with fresh frozen cherries. 1 k I Albertson's Own Richer, Creamier, LEROY B. PYPER let If eutherired la refund, HAM lekereleriet. lea. I U I A. ami Cee-ed- o latent SUilDAY him show you how yoWan wipe out retirement -worries by guarsnteemg take it easy" income through at Arv-i- lor Life Insurance I STATES INSURANCE COMPANY 04--7 10 AM. TO RapfMftftttftf CALIFORNIA-WESTER- N : :'; UFE tfbW 7 P.M. All 10 Food Centers Continental lank llttj.. Salt lokn City, Utah Shanat IMpIre - - et an- other week. ' But the handsome surgeon predicted confidently Saturday that both would be acquitted. Finch held an interview Saturday in the county jail and said: Were not guilty and thats the truth. HE ANn CAROLE are accused! murdering his wife, Barbara, Ion love and money. Both oould go to the gas chamber. Finch, whose eyes were bloodshot, said he had slept little in the past few days. The doctor praised his attorney, Grant Cooper, and counsel for Carole. Weve got the best lawyers in the country, he said. But he was sharply critical of the way the prosecution handled its case and said the state's attorneys had been yakking about the case. As for the extensive public attention the trial received, Finch said the whole thing is ridiculous. The jury, meanwhile, has already been locked up at a downtown hotel. Spears is the Dallas naturopath who has been questioned about the possible bombing of the National Ah Lines plane which crashed Nov. 15 in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 42 persons. and .it's Albartion's flavor of th month. .w. kl veer -- V-- " Ym HIM O 44L Truckloads of i imfclMt S If yew - 49 N. 2nd West N.Y. Snow Bogs SKIN IRRITATIONS It M 103 Offices Across the United States THIS ADDS buoyancy to the mountains which consequently rise up again to wear away anew and so it continues. Light rock lost at the top is magically replaced at the foundation. George Kennedy has reported the evidence and arguments for the growing and shrinking bergs of rock in the American Scientist. In the new theory, changing pressures play a central role.- - Change in heating does also. Next problem Why does the earth at times put some of its crust on the front burner? fumi is his career; y tt Monday thru Saturday 9 rouR What a Surprise lift9riftf Mild Block-prepare- AT THIS RATE, all the continents should be reduced to sea level in a short 10 to 25 million years. Such has not been the case. Fossil evidence indicates that animals and plants have lived high and dry for more than 300 million years. Sedimentary evidence places the existence of land masses on the earth's face no less than two billion years ago. THE MOUNTAINS must re- juvenate themselves in some way. They must continually upbuild to compensate for the surface wear and tear. According to the new ideas, this is a simple trick. As mountain tops wear away, the pressure of the mountains on their lower extremities is reduced. Reduced pressure, in turn, converts dense rock into the less dense form. at NEW YORK; Feb. 20 (UPI) Firemen put out a minor fire in A residence in Brooklyn Saturday, then disn covered in the basement a stiU, fermenting equipment, filters and 1,000 pounds of sugar. Federal agents are looking for the owner. Let our ? specialists take your income tax worries off your hands. They are thoroughly familiar with the allowable and items. For peace of mind, yon cant heat a d return. f TWO OF THE storps closed a few hours after the demonstration began to avoid trouble with a group of white teenagers who showed up waving Confederate flags and wearing replicas of Civil War battle caps. About 200 Negro students from Virginia ...Union. University, a Negro college here, descended on the F. W. Wool-worts G. C. Murphy and stores on Broad Street at staggered Intervals. A GROUP of 10 or 15 Negroes entered the W. T. Grant Drug Store in the same area but left when they found the lunch counter closed. Murphys and Woolworths closed when the group of about 30 white showed up waving flags and began marching up and down the aisles in a counter demonstration. HUNDREDS OF shoppers milled in the stores watching the Negro boys and girls seated at the counters, reading textbooks and talking quietly. A student who indentifled himself as Charles Sherrod of Petersburg, Va said the group was planning to "sit aU day" in protest of the lunch counters whites only" policy. Another Negro student said the group intended to return to the downtown area again Monday to resume the protest 1952 ELECTION which spread out of North Elsenhower Stevenson Carolina Into Virginia and 92 8 other Southern cities. Reps 77 23 Denis. Inds. 65 85 two-stor- 9th East Scores of Negro col(UPI) lege students staged passive sitdown protests of segregated lunch counters in three downtown Richmond stores jammed with Saturday shoppers Saturday. su-po- 22 S. VA., Feb. 20 Thai-himer- THE IMPORTANCE of the Independent vote to the Republican cause shows up clearly in this analysis. In a number of the population groups, substiam as a even I stitute, a heavy Independent vote for tute here.1 - After the service Chaplain the GOP ticker could swing Simpson said a little old lady that group into the Republican . told him fondly: eamp. I would In the 1952 election, and Chaplain Simpson, never regard you as a substi- again in 1956, the majority tute. I wiB always look on you Elsenhower had from the as a big pane. Independents was crucial in his victories. This Was the vote by party affiliation In both elecTornado Funnels . V. . tions: ' OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 20 1956 ELECTION (UPI) Tornado funnels were Elsenhower Stevenson westtwo In in reported places flfl 4 ern Oklahoma Saturday as Reps. 15 85 thunderstorms with hail and Dems. 79 80 lain moved across the state. Inds. 3 2112 RICHMOND, y |