Show Uncle Ray's Corner THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINESATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 4 1948 R A Burgess Bedtime Stories The New Home ki the Corn Shock thatnew home But he had had A home there was and it was other things to do too It had been for him to find the easiest way news from the ground up to their new Over where the cornstalks grew home and just where every ear of fall to summer in the Through in that shock was located and Silken leaves and straight and corn best the way of getting to each tall 'Till the harvest came and bound Then of course Danny felt that he something about the Them In chocks and Danny must know other corn shock nearest to their found own Supposing something should In the heart of one of these happen to force them to leave their Promise of a life of ease There was a home and it was home in a hurry He couldn't imagine anything that could happen new: I wonder whose it was don't you? but supposing something did They must have a to run to No It was a very nice home It was Meadow Mouseplace in his senses would In fact the finest home Danny and be content to have no place of Nanny Meadow Mouse ever had safety save his own home So Danny visited the nearest finer than they ever had expected shocks and made little paths from to have The home they had left one to another Of course he had been very comfortable but sampled the corn in each If there very modest It had been made of was any better corn than that in own shock he wanted to know grass and down on the ground But itlis He wanted the best to be had this new home was right up in the Then Danny did a lot of studying k That sounds like school doesn't very middle of the where there would be no dampness It? Well Danny's studying was a lo worry about The outside was different kind He studied to find out what dangers they were likely made of strong clean outer husks to face and must watch out for in stripped from ears of corn and the their new surroundings He had inside was made from the softer hoped there were none You see that cornfield was a inner husks The bed was made of he felt that of his own or at least shreds of tMese same soft wrappings discovery of Bobby Coon's You remember it from the corn together with some was Bobby Coon who had shown brown corn silk and soft sweet Danny the way there But he wasn't grasses It was quite waterproof long in discovering that there were and windproof very snug cosy and just as many dangers to be watched out for as there had been in the comfortable In the building of it Nanny had old home on the Green Meadows quite forgotten to be homesick You In fact there were the very same know there is nothing like keeping dangers busy to make you forget It isn't Reddy and Granny Fox seemed exactly forgetting either It is sim- to knew all about that cornfield and ply that if you put your heart and visited it quite reguarly So did Old thought into the work you are Man Coyote Not a night passed doing and do it with all your that Hooty the Owl didn't sail over might there is no time to think of it on noiseless wings at least once your troubles So while Nanny had In the daytime Roughleg the Hawk been so busy planning and building seemed to think it worth while to fhis new home she had not had time fc long for the old home And hen at last the new home was nished it was such a splendid ome that Nanny would have been very silly little meadow mouse deed not to have been happy and ntented SPOKANE Wash Dec 4 AP Of course Danny had helped build Frank Lilly president of the American Hard Money association predicted today that the price of gold will rise to $79 an ounce in the United States The Spokane mining statistician made the prediction in a leaflet distributed to delegates registering for the Northwest Mining association convention here Lilly said the gold price will jump from $35 to $79 as a result' of congressional revamping of the monetary system The country's total money supply now is backed by only 14 per cent gold reserves he said In the past a gold backing of 40 per cent has been considered the minimum necessary for safetv J j I corn-choc- Gold Price Rise Seen by Expert i t I 'M Little Saturday Talk: Origin of Meteors For the past three days we have with the motion of the ocean liner As the solar system goes through had stories about meteors but still there are some questions left to space if is believed to pick up bits of material When the earth strikes answer Where do they come from? Are such material the bits are warmed What by rubbing against the air making they the same as "fireballs?" them blaze through our sky about Meteor Crater in Arizona? Other meteors seem to be parts as meteors are known Bright of broken comets There is strong which Those "fireballs" explode that several former comets proof have the special name of "bolides nave provided thousands of the Our whole solar system moves meteors which have struck the through space and this may nelp earth come some meteors where explain We have two main kinds of mefrom teors those of metal and those of The earth and the other planets stone It may be that one type go around the sun but the sun it- comes trom broKen comets the otn-e- r self is moving carrying the planets from material picked up during along with it in rthe general direc- the great journey the solar system tion of the bright-stais making Vega How can those motions take place meteor crater in Arizona was at the same time? It is as if we formed in ages past It must have were on board an ocean liner play- been hollowed out by a huge rre-teon one of ing or by the head of a small com- the decks Let us say that the cap- et tain takes the part of the sun and ine greatest meteor explosion in the passengers the pai of he planets tne present century took place in While the captain stands in place Siberia Striking 700 miles the passengers dance around him of Lake Baikal 40 years ago north this very much as the planets circle the meteor blew down trees In an area sunw Yet he captain and all the of many square miles passengers the part of the planets —UNCLE RAY Danny would fly in a rage at the sight of her black coat But there was one which Danny was quick toadvantage appreciate From his new home he could peep out and watch his enemies He could see when the way was clear In his old home he had had to depend almost wholly on his ears because he couldn't see over the grass Then too he didn't have to leave that shock unless he wanted to So altogether he felt that the new home was a great success even more of a success than he had hoped it would be Next story: A Strange and Terrible Thing Happens (Released by The Associated Newspapers) — R to show gratitude They felt loyal and toted their part of the load and that was all a body could ask i Side Glances —— —— —w mc 0arcPAMflElHE'5 X rTHE HRs it TT COUNT we IVNfcW A J IHlb p— It AN UGtY TM&RE GOING AROUND THAt' SHE'LL MAKE 1 AfUlL AND SPEED RECOVERY! 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