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Show January The Eureka Reporter Page Four PUZZLES GAMES STORIES PICTURES Coin Tricks Are Always Good (MOW watch me closely. 1 Ive plelcly inside the ciiculur rim of nothing up my sleeves and nothing In my head. I'm going to make some coins do some fancy tricks for you." With this introduction you can start right o' with your bag oi Pass your coins around tricks. Introduce the for Inspection. nickel with the remark: "Do you know that this little coin gives you the key to the metric system? Its exactly two centimeters in diameter and it weighs just five grams. And for the penny you can have a little Introductory trick as shown in Figure 1. Stand the copper on Its side and ask your audience to guess how many pieces stacked In a pile like flapjacks on a plate will reach the same height The usual answers to your question are five, six or seven. But the correct answer is 12. Try tt the larger coin (Figure 2). FTER this spicy Introduction to your act, tell your amazed audience you are now going to make them see double. To do this, piece in the bottom drop a of a drinking glass and then (111 the glass about one-thifull of A rd water. Hold a small plate over the top of the glass and then invert it. Shake the coin to the center of the plate and then let each member of the audience view the coin from water level. Wonder of wonders! There la a coin floating on the surface of the water. This, of course, is actually a reflection of the coin at the bottom of the water (Figure 3). After that, it la a good Idea to make a coin disappear. To do this, you introduce a small empty match box and. Just to give your dime a chance to get into the act, put one in the box, close the drawer, and shake the box sideways to prove the coin Is really Next ask your audience to guess how many pieces you can a on silver dollar without place allowing any of them to extend over the edge. As a matter of there. Place the box on the table and feet tall one copper will fit eooe ent r By coins so thst they are all in line and at right angles to the weave of the table cloth. Then you must coax the copper out from under the glass by scratching the cloth with your Anger nail (Figure 5). The final trick of the evening is likely to carry on the fun for another half hour at least. .Four silver coins and four coppers are placed on a piece of paper on which 10 letters have been marked A, B, C, D, E, F, G, II, I, and J. This will leave two letters vacant. The silver and copper coins are alternated so that no two alike are together. The idea is to move the coins TWO AT A TIME to other positions so that all the silver coins and all the coppers are together. However, you must always move two coins that are next to each other. The diagram (Figure 6) shows you how to do this trick in four simple moves: B and C to I and J E and F to B and C tell your friends you have decided II and I to E and F to knock the dime out of the box A and B to H and I by sheer force. Urge them to watch a carefully to see if they can detect the dime as it flies out when you 1 1 Puzzle Answers smash the box with your (1st. Then exhibit the pieces which will be MAZY MAZE: You can, if you minus the coin. try. Go left for the shortest route. The secret of this little trick is SAFE LOCK PUZZLE: Bit. that you had previously prepared the box by cutting a slit in one REMOVAL: Far(m)ers. end of the drawer at the bottom TRIANGLE: (Figure 4). Also before you place P the box on the table you must tilt SA it up so that the coin slides out SIR into the palm of your hand. Then MILE as you place the box on the table SIREIJ the coin is slipped into a pocket. SILENT The smashing of the box is Just PARENTS a gag to tear the box to pieces so that no one can examine it and CROSSWORD: discover the opening in the end. e to back the nickels and go JOW cents. Place the base of a tumbler of water on two nickels. Push a copper under the glass until it is midway between the two nickels. Then ask someone to remove the copper without touching either the glass or the nickels. This sounds very difficult. And for much of this improvement Nintey percent of the 1949 Area were d and 10 percent Smokers led with 35 lightning. per cent of the fires. Debris and range burning followed with 23 percent. State fire control is by county units. Sheriffs or special fire chiefs handle the Area. The State, aided by federal Ainda, make partial reimbursements to the counties for Are expenditures on state and private watershed lands. In 1849 Utah county hnd 20 watershed Ares and spent 36,135. on fire control. The county 31.185.00 reimbursement from the State. man-cause- More TtfepAoiiei the end of the year we were serving 179,200 telephones in Utah 13,000 more than a year ago, an increase of about By 8. Mora Volte Highway $ year we added 14,000 miles of aerial wire and wire in cable in communities During the we serve in the state. This does not include many miles of additional long distance circuits. More Building Spate Adding equipment required new buildings or building additions where growth was greatest. More Dollars Spent We spent more than $4,000,000 on construction of telephone facilities in Utah in 1949. This does not include the $10,000,000 of operating expenses such as wages, taxes,, etc. 1950 will be ar.;! er busy year as the 2500 telephone men and women in Utah continue to provide a steadily improving service. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Mazy Maze unit of length," the fifth an alarm device," and the sixth is "noise- E P l.Cut2psttems for hurts from a Sin. square anda2in.squaig less." of 2. Iit patterns on PAPER PAPER. RED CONSIRUCUON and cut out hearts as shown. tni N I1 PARENTP Crossword CUT SMALL sum 1 MOM 3. Print words on Here's a maze you should be able to work out in two minutes. hurts... Cut slits 'I, throoqhUfKl Can you go from A to E by visiting C, B and D? Do you go right or left from A to get to E the shortest possible way? and back of large hea tVfajfim? 4. Past! small hurl to Safe Lock Puzzle a paper spring and paste spring to inside of liras heart... roioSMSUNWONM ACROSS Poem 4 Be seated 1 7' Harvest 8 Interpret 10 Otherwise 11 Famous English 12 Everlasting 14 Narrow inlet 15 Pruned 18 Observed The owner of a store had a safe opened by setting three dials at certain letters. But one day he forgot the combination. He remembered, however, that the combination was a word and two of the letters appeared on each dial. What is the word? which Removal Remove the middle of a word meaning "agriculturists," and have "wanderers. Triangle PARENTS form a base for our triangle. The second word is "a symbol for samarium," the third "a courtesy title," the fourth "a 20 22 23 24 25 school (Fasten fan and God of love Chinese dynasty back of hurt . together wkh Eat Skill Ever (contraction) 'piper arrow Sraughal.ts. DOWN 1 Native iretal 2 Remove 3 Direction 4 5 6 8 8 13 15 18 17 18 18 21 X Caterpillar hair False god Number Prying Titled anew Pronounce It The longest word in the index of Rand & McNally's new Cosmopolitan World Atlas Is Lake Edge Drop of eye flub Lease Great Lake Completed nagungamaugg, in Massachusetts. It is thought to mean, loosely, "You fish on your side; Ill fish on my side; nobody fish in middle." Station (ab.) Weight of ) India &3f materials used. Combinations Suggested 9 Pan American Airways offleiaal "A method which has proved Interesting color combinations ran be obtained in the kitchen extremely popular is the use of took unusual security precautions through the use of several differ- tiles or wall panels on the cabinet with the plane that carried Madam ent wall materials. American walls with a highly decorative Chang Ki Shek to Formosa. It was Builder adds. This method has paper on walls without fixtures. kept under guard all day ond no a tendency to reduce the cost, de- This makes a kitchen a gay and last minute packages were taken aboard. Gay colorful decorating schemes pending of course, on the types delightful place." for the kitchens are being widely acrepted in place of the cheerless hospital whiteness common during the last few decades, says American Builder, home building Industry magazine. The trend in kitchen decoration is toward colon which reflect the personality of the housewife, the magazine explains. Selection of a color scheme thus becomes a matter of individual taste. Types of modern floor coverings range from inlaid linoleum to asphalt and rubber tile and laminated-vinyl flooring. All these ma teriala, the magazine says, are available in both solid colors and varigatrd patterns. Colon Permanent The colors are permanent Kit chon floor materials also are resistant to chemicals and strong cleaning solutions. American Builder says approV' rd kitchen wall materials vary from paint or wallpaper on plaster walls to ceramic tile. Others are panels and tiles with metal mouldings at the joints, interlocking tiles chromite zinc panels wall-flemura-te- x and asbestos-cemeboards with metal mouldO Colored Wins man-cause- Improving and extending service made 1949 a busy year for us. Here are a few highlights (patch A R E Kitchens Gaily The Utah State Foresters 1849 records of fires on state and privately owned watershed lands show improvement Eighty - six fires burned 3.802 acres. In contrast 100 fires covered 84,799 acres In 1942 and 169 fires burned 26,849 acres in 1949. The 1949 decrease was made in spite of the high fire hazard season. Tho increasing care by citizens in handling fire la credited EQoglhDfivjIhQs (pJU$zk it is hard to do until you know the secret You must set up the Forest Fires Less During Past Year 7eBeiplhiiiie Walter King 27, 1950 d ed More than 8.000 patents have been issued for improving the manufacture of leather soles and shoes since the U. S. Tatent Offire was established in 1836. Public Opinion Nm on Display. ..See itToday NEW... BIGGEN VALUE x, nt ings Tiles and panels arc adaptable to modernization as well as new "It's a tough Job. but you can't ronst ruction, the magazine says, materials simplify the job beat tho hours." Umpire in Na- These of making a kitchen a more pies tional baseball league. ant room in which to work. Rom 'where I sit hy Joe Marsh Give Us Back Our Sidewalks, Slim! I wrots thst over sn srtlcls In ths Clarion last week, but I didn't libs doing it. After nil, the man it wan Is n aimed at Slim Henderson good friend of mine. Slim rnmt Into quits a windfall last month, and bought ths old Clarks place. Ths deed gsvs him title to all the land right down to tho street Then Slim started to tako up the sidewalk to make hla lawn look better. I felt It wasn't fair to tho town and salJ so In my article. Next morning Slim comes around and wants to know what I mean get ting folks riled against 1 ini. I ' ornery myself, and we ! , .I; .. set-t- o over tho whole hu in . From where I sit, lint v ; Ish. Onre we'd euoled off lunch and s battle of beer tt Amiv V. Tsrern).Slim decided the aider, a ' should stay for the rommiin g.ul and I promised next time I'd take n good look at the olhrr fellows point of view before writing any articles about him! h.-..- 1 ' Coronet your dollars go farther, puts you milet and money ahead. 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