OCR Text |
Show Peete ss ’ BEN CASEY Tell Me Why ° cee How Did System of Counting Start? - I WOULD NOT LIKE EE | “WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1964 e A By A. LEOKUM man wanted to tell how many, stroke! — fats Win the 15-Volume Britan- |animals he owned, he had no Send your original crosueeail soy nica Junior Encyclopedia for |S¥Stem of numbers to use.! , hid Bs puzzle to “Cross: Word Puzzle,” pick: pid you hear what;Tell Me Why, with your name, What he did was put a stone or school and home. Send your ,.bble into a bag for each ani-|"*PPened to Bob? He stepped age, and address. “questions, name, age, address |mal. The more: animals, the eeeee moving train. aa F EGYDEMEONE,onRy:Ps | : : HE LIES! CHARLES ES! BUT mene to “Tell Me Why.” care. of |more stones he had. Z d Which ACROSS: .1, Piece of furnit Dike 2 pos fe hurt? \ture we eat on 5. Contest of esa (abbr.) 8. Myself 9 Animal’s coat 10. . Girl’s name 11. i Tell this:paper. In case of dupli- ‘May explain why our word)un) N®‘he train was back-|oa 6 Goritia’ 7. South Bast (Cg cate questions, the author will | ‘calculate’” comes from the decide Today’s } Latin word “calculus” which a =the winner. «6, ” : T winner is: Ed Troy, 11, Chat- means “stone”! ham, N. J... Later on, man used tally | CROSS WORD PUZZLE {pene so;count, «He would just z Pa toi It seems very natural to you, Sc@tch @ ie or baad —_ for, . that if you have two pennies each object he wanted to count, and ‘you ‘add two .pemiles. to —a no word to tell the is them you have four pennies. es : + _ Butdid you know it may have| «meatcftheumbersystem te taken millions of years to was probably the use of fingers be ableman to think this way? In ag a ch have a word that # fact, one of the most difficult goes back to this. 2 | a 10 " In ancient times, The word Today paper for ——— In 1917, soldiers of the First LI TTLE PEO PLE 'S PUZZLE a finger.” And’ since we have ten fingers, this led to. the) general use of “‘ten” in -sys- In zs tomorrow's ithe Answers. ‘War I. word ‘“digitus,” which means! when Slanted walks 7. Free from | doubt 9. Overweight 10. Mother. Division became the first U8. troops to see action in World things to teach children is the ‘digit” comes from the Latin| concept of numbers. DOWN: 1. Adhesive ;... 2.-‘A playing card’3. Exist 4. All 5. | 5 tems of numbers. But in ancient times. there : Key : MONEY 2 : RODEARS ATL iT ° _ a single hye oe iOW used all over the world.. Some) TO Sara JoeNyBUDGET History number systems were based| F YOU DONT COOPERATE2 }, on 12, others were. based on 60, Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21,;others on 20, and still others \|the 295th day of 1964 with 71 tojon 2, 5, and 8. The system infollow. vented by the Romans about/ The moon:is approaching its| 2,000 years ago was widely| last quarter. used by the people of Europe seine,momningstars are Jupi|tnfact,wesiluseit onclocks _ Th 7 : za \ 1S Sd T MUST KEEP THIS FROM MY\--.| HE'D WANT ME TO GIVE UP MY JOB---AND/ ]|French and Spanish fleets off|A™@? traders. 1] 3, 4814 th n I++» CONTINUE WORKING---AS ve ue personal “ibrary!7, 8,9 to show how many, and| | |the the Library of Congress -burned| \|by British. 5 pase ten. PEUICIE/ | ES I'M IN. LOS DADOS WITH A---AN OLD FRIEND.“ BUT WE HAD A YOUR FRIEND BIG BUST-UP TODAY++SOIM BE|STAYING CATCHING THE NEXT PLANE_& ONHERE = EAST! . AH OVERGARD KERRY DRAKE ae By ALFRED ANDRIOLA MY FRIENDS AND\FELLOW CITIZENS!.. MY PLATFORM IN THIS CAMPAIGN IS IF YOU FIGURE TO ASK HIM TO PLAY FOR YOU, FORGET IT, HONEY/ «WE ~UH-+- SORTA WORK AS A TEAM JAND ILL LAY ODDS HE. PULLS OUT TOpAY, TOO/ SIMPLE, BUT SOLIDV.. AND I THINK) ITS RINGO HIMSEL' A poan COMMITTIN’ SHORE IS A ee | FAMILY. | ac| seu a4 : ‘| WELL SETTLE | | Se FUN TIME —2/ vented a workable electric ‘inThe Chuckle Box 44 BY ONTED FLATURESYND candescent lamp after. 14) Customer: What’s that fly i ns . ||months of experimentation at|doing in my soup? | TAWV9 “6 “GUVOLSOd “Ss “8IVH “F Menlo Park, N.J. Waiter: Looks like the back-| , "alaWOW43HL ‘% AVG “L—umod “WHOM “OL “AHO “8 : vas “£4 ‘OUJYEWOS “9 ‘ANOHdI1SL “E—S8021y *SaaMSNY (teeta eetniine haasieemchaabuhiir etal By SAUNDER AND UR DOUGH-:-AND It is a decimal sys-| by the government to replaceltem, that is, it is built on the| \ Y 1 CAME TO RETURN | In this system| ‘the nine digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,| In 1879, Thomas Edison in- \ to alt numbers are written with| 1 lib of ThomasJefferson was bought the zero. LONG AS I CAN! -~= di DOWN Hindus in oie — ot In 1805, the English Fleet un-| Y°4"S 480 and was brought |-/|the Cape of Trafalgar. 15 TERRIBLY “IMPORTANT TO ME THAT E and to show chapters in books. .~—|der Lord Nelson defeated the Europe about the hats 900 by | HUSBAND---FOR THE PRESENT ---DOCTOR! ON DAYS THAT I'M IN MR. VALERY'S OFFICE! 4 On this day in history: By KEN ALLEN] ee z @ evening stars are Saturn) But it was a very complicated| and Jupiter. system. | Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel} The number system we use| was born on “this day in 1833. |today . was. invented by the! 10-2! © 1964 by NEA, Inc, T.M. og.US. Pot. OFF, THEM CRIMES.” X MYSTERIOUS x 2 = HE WOULDN'T KISS NO GAL, NOR SMOKE NO SEEGARIT HE. WOULD OF LOST INTEREST!! By ERNIE BUSHMILLER By AL VERMEER I'M_IN_ TRAINING FOR FOOTBALL J IN FOOTBALL SEASON ISN'T HE LUCKY IT. WORKER SUT, THAT HE LIKES FOOTBALL HO-48 SA Boy WL 21 “VIN M4 1961 isee, PalateSerer es in weMio” Pron €3 8S FRECKLES AND HIS FRIEND; "HE DID!ButWHEN HIS PARENTS" HAD HAD ENOUGH~<~ om sy LESLE TURNER OH HE'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE... IF HE'LL A Bt YERSELF UP FOR TO DAKICK ‘DEN aN BREATH:TIa WE OF Sump) DAY: SON! YER DOIN FINE, POP! NOW KICK JYERSELF A WM ; ~ [L..2 FINALLY PONE IT; SON! BUT I'M WORE DOWN TO A REST— : NuB! NEED A FEW DAYS PUH-H. Diy AlN DRIVE DA! ’ | |