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Show 2 II The Sail Lake Tribune, Wednesday, August 2, Moon M m 1378 n gi i By STCPC-e.A- NG C iM ATME,10B? p. V' TV'1 HC P li-- Ai BAtL .OTA'r L J5T cl iJcm A33JT TnE SAVE AS VOJK fATT.No AtcsAoE iKC A WNPKc?! K3 J TO P.Pv'T KAE 5AVTHAT! Jim Da B (ar!ull --v A : i IL "YEPE'S An lWPiTTEM Charles M. Schulz B I YailllU 11 i (f'.- -l OCR varriaqe Certificate - TnAT SAVS A WIFE CAN K 1 CRITICIZE y BJY AnDSAV WWTVOI) 1 tk:nic . y)r Dooloe H F orld Roger Bradfield PLIERS ftfeRSOM? Bv RXU4D YXIR DEUTlSTS AO IN THE YELLOOJ FA&TS. .. FI IFRS PFTERSOM-TtET- H FULLED '.vHHf SOU W'AIT ' WHiLC VfcU WAIT? It VI Ph ionic (lie B VS Frank King By Vr ana world Rot to amt Stom. 11 PmHurgn. tor aueman twr Pd. AnO Ba Wbat is the worlds largest river? There are many remarkable things about the Amazon River of South America. More than 200 separate rivers flow into it An unusually high ocean tide occasionally overpowers the current at the Amazon's )) Gasoline Aliev Afrk AnJv Amazon Fed by Over 200 Rivers rW Ahead c--o 1 y Ferd and Tom Johneon alt Disney jzr V mouth. This action creates a wall of water called a bore that can measure up to 15 feet high as it rushes upstream. If you ask which is the worlds longest river, it would be a matter of definition for you to pick the Nile River in Africa or the Amazon River in South America. The Nile is 4,145 miles long. Many say the Amazon is 4,007 miles long, but if you count the waterway through the straits of Dick T racy Blondie Dean Young and Jim Raymond Bv ' WOULD OUST REMIND ME OF TME UIGM COST OP LAMB CHOPS- - By vou havenT TANGLED with the FOR several vears- apparatus NOT SINCE O.C.U. WAS FORMED. WKV WOC tD THE APPARATUS RISK ITS MODERN, LOW PROFILE I (km Vi Chester iUT INDIVIDUAL apparatus rs REVENGE?" SUPPOSE. TRACY SAVS, AN member-seek- ing you? IMAGE BY HrTTING 5aAw-ZE- oocv Urr- - A SAAT rue pfr. yvrrwf Breves and Boicui into the Para, the total length is 4,195. When you ask which river is the largest," the Amazon would have to win the honors. Largest River Basin The largest river basin in the world is the one drained by the Amazon. It covers about 2.72 million square miles of land All together, the Amazon has about 1 tributaries and Bv B.C. 11 agar the Horrible By Dik Browne I iVkkTk p0p-- A C y&P 0JT TOLD YOJ TO DIG Mole e? 13 ErADiJGk Foe Th2EEAEtM & vyo y I Johnny Hart 'CU7 TOLUNCM ii ar HPVMfi y irc p ftmV pip 7 Arriola By Gus Beetle Bailey Walker By Mort 5,000 sub- tributanes, four of which are more than 1,000 miles long. The Amazon also wins honors for the greatest flow of water. An average of 4 2 million cubic feet of water per second is delivered into the Atlantic Ocean by the Amazon. During periods of full flood, this total goes up to more than 7 million cubic feet of water per second. The lower 900 miles of the river averages 300 feet in depth. At many points it is impossible for a person to see from one bank of the Amazon to the opposite shore. In many places it is more than six miles wide. Rain Forest The Amazon River basin forms the world's largest tropical rain forest. The area is about as large as the area of the entire United States. Average temperature is about 85 degrees F aiirenheit with very little variation throughout the year. Rainfall ranges from 50 inches each year g in areas to more than 120 inches annually near the Andes Moun tarns. Headwaters for the Amazon are high in the Andes Mountains of Peru in a small stream called two-thir- T umblew eeds GOTTA VO RESEARCH GET THAT WAGON UNLOADED PRONTO.' I'LL pe pack latefj By Alex Fred Basset ON THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS . (GENERAL STOKE By ? HEARD ANY NEW CUSS WORDS MULE SKINNING... IN Graham Tom K. 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Apurimac which lies 17,200 feet above sea level. It falls about 16,400 feet during the first 690 miles &uJ only 800 feet during the rest of its trip to the Atlantic. The river flows at the rate of about 1.5 miles per hour during the dry season and increases to about 3 miles per hour Amazon iKHWSj Broom-Hild- a the RODEO! ALUMINUM 1;C . - - Nine Camo B DKiVfK,TAK ME TO THE eneAKERS I hot:. SLICE A MISS THE POTfET ENTERS THE tYRlC C4K, SECOND MAN RISES FROM HIS HIDING PLACE ON THE FLOOR OF THE REAR SEA T....! SPECIAL SERVICE, v lAoy Milton Caniff TRAVEL AND ROMANCE, ALL IN -C j 5yv vd y Tucker By Joe ne; fM- -j lw-'0Ltvl- S Sti to xtflt-Ui:-: !;! l ife ! - 8e .. a MAs TufWtSS a ) J 4 ' "'Tr ' Til Martin ON B PACKAGE ,ai f" THERE 'S s y be a mv GOT TO pern C? Ht I a L little TMIS STIP IS bittm? ond UCTINSICN ; LADDERS Call U Far MKT RCI la Tawa O Taar Ua 'H KETCHUMS U'r 'Nrn MklAW. UMOt |