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Show " I M A RCH 1 8,1 9 8 4 Significa By Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace Columbus Fake Log Illegal Kissing 111. , has the being the only town States with a zone. A sign at the entrance to Deerfields railroad station shows a man in a hat puckering up to a woman wearing curlers. A red diagonal slash crosses their profiles. It was erected to ease traffic congestion. The assistant village manager, Marjorie Emery, explains: The sign was designed as a whimsical method of keeping the traffic moving at the drop-of- f place at our station. Wives drive their husbands to the station and stop for a good-by- e kiss thus creating a slowdown. Deerfield, Reaction among commuters has been mixed, but most seem to enjoy breaking the regulation. So far, no one has been arrested. As one man quipped, I'm willing to run the risk of a ar Columbus kept two the distances first voyage to the in the Santa Maria. One was true, he thought, but he deliberately faked the other. Ironically, the fake log turned out to be the more accurate of the two. To alleviate his crews fears that they were getting too far from home on an unknown sea, Columbus gave them a reduced mileage estimate. When, for example, he told them on Sept. 1 , 1492, that they had covered 16 leagues, he recorded 20 leagues in his secret log. Though he didn't know it, Columbus true distance records were overestimated by 99c on the average. His faked distances came out closer to the actual distances traveled. The problem lay in the inaccuracy of navigation. No one at disthat time could measure east-wetance accurately at sea, partly because timepieces (sandglasses) were affected by the motions of a ship upon the waves. Speed had to be guessed at usually by watching things float by. Columbus, like most navigators, was forced to use dead reckoning, which involves laying out a compass course and estimating the distance traveled on a chart. He happened to be very good at it, but there was much room for error. When the crew found out about his Christopher 1 Army Air Corps bombers make second trip to MaunaLoa after 1942 eruption When the US. Army Bombed a Volcano two occasions, the U.S. was asked to bomb a into submission. Rising 13,680 feet above the island of Hawaii, Mauna Loa is one of the worlds largest active volcanoes. When it erupted in 1935, it set an stream of lava on a course for the city of Hilo, 40 miles away. With the lava front just 15 miles from the center of the city. Dr. Thomas Jaggar of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory called on the U.S. Army to divert the flow with aerial bombs. Ten Army Air Corps bombers dropped 20 TNT bombs, each weighing 600 pounds, along a rift in the volcano. Within 24 On de hours, the flow had slowed from 800 feet an hour to 44 feet; six hours later, it had stopped completely. When Mauna Loa blew its top again in 1942, a bombing raid stopped the lava once more. Critics argued that the lava would have halted by itself. It is possible, since eruptions in 1855 and 1899 had stopped short of Hilo. And in 1881 , Princess Ruth Keelikolani had journeyed to the lava front just a mile outside the city and asked Pele, the Hawaiian volcanic goddess, to stifle herself. She apparently agreed, for Hilo was spared once more. Idea submitted by Lee Crawley, Eugene, Ore. 15th-centu- ry st The Only Bank of Its Kind Couple breaks law in zone ride to Leavenworth to kiss my wife." Provisions have been made, however, for kissers: A similar sign, without the red slash, has been placed in the station's parking lot. Idea submitted by Dianne Everett, Camden. Ark. law-abidi- he Bank of North Dakota is the only bank in the nation wholly owned by a state. This people's bank was established in 1919. after the League won control of the North Dakota State Legislature. The league was an outgrowth of the populist movement. Most members were farmers who felt they were being taken advantage of by grain monopolies and private banking interests. Today, the Bank of North Dakota is one of the leading lenders of student loans in the nation, in addition to being Non-Partis- te Recently, E.P. Dutton published as its lead title Significa, a book by Irving Wallace, his son David Wallechinsky and daughter Amy. C 1984 rung Wallace. Oaud Wallechtnsk. Am an important source of credit to the states farmers, ranchers, businesses and local governments. It has earned a profit a portion of which goes into the state treasury every year since 1932. Other states have considered creating state banks, but private banks have blocked enactment. A major objection is the practice in North Dakota of requiring all state funds to be deposited in the state bank. Most states deposit their funds with private banks. Idea submitted by Herb Field, Pa. Dun-canno- Columbus hears men shout, "Land! deception, they threatened to mutiny. Before they did, however, land and a New World appeared. Idea submitted by J.S. Knapp. Ithaca. N.Y. Wallace PAGE 14 MARCH 18, 1984 PARADE MAGAZINE |
