Show THI OCDIN (UTAH) Burgess Bedtime Stories STANDARD-EXAMINE- SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 23 1952 Uncle Ray's Corner A Little Saturday Talk: Leap Year's Day Mb other day a this question: gin askeddo me we to make complete trip This is 385 days have leap yean?" "Why With Leap Year's day close at and almost one fourth of a day-e- xtra hand many other persons probably Let us suppose that we forgot are wondering about the same about that extra part of a day and point y The answer in short Is that we always had years In a must have leap years to keep our century that would make a difCalendar from getting out of line ference of about three and a half A year is the time it takes the weeks In eight centuries the difference would amount to more than half a year! People then! would Christmas in July! Utahns Dock From Korea celebrate In ancient times some men knew SEATTLE Feb 23 AF — Two true year has a bit more l'tahiis were among the 499 mil- that the than 385 days They used to coritary personnel arriving in Seattle rect calendars from time to yesterday aboard the transport time their to keep the months! in the Hugh Gaffey They are MSgt proper season Francis E Burns Garland and Pfr Julius Caesar ruler of the anFred Fair bourne 5080 W 35th cient Romans ordered a calendar to South St Salt Lake City be followed with every fourth year having an extra day After that people spoke about the "Julian around the sun 365-da- Poor Pa Calendar' would have gone Everything along fine except for this fact: the true year has just a little less than one fourth of a day extra That small difference added up to 10 days during the 16 cenjturies after Caesar Two Italian scientists — Lilius and Clavius — did a great deal of work to figure out a better calendar and this was adopted The new plan was named the Gregorian Calendar because it was approved and ordered inside a certain area by Pope Gregory XIII The Gregorian Calendar has an extra day once in four years except that it is left out during some of the "century years" When the new calendar was adopted in ltaly people went to sleep in the evening of what they called the fourth day of October and woke up on what was called the fifteenth of October! This may sound as though they slept for 10 and a half days but the truble came from "losing" 10 calendar days UNCLE RAY Use This Coupon to Join the New Scrapbook ClOb! To Uncle Ray Publishers' Syndicate 30 North LaSalle Chicago 111 Dear Uncle Ray: I want to join the 1952 Uncle Ray Scrapbook club and I enclose a stamped envelope carefully addressed to myself Please send me a memberleaflet telling ship certificate how to make a Corner Scrapbook of my own and a printed design to paste on the cover of my scrap-boo- 91 Our daughter Betty's beau talks real loud I guess he Is a little deaf an he wants to be sure he don't miss hearin' everything he says' Aunt Het ' Killy Gets His Supper Rich reward oft in the end Watchful waiting will attend —Killy the Sparrow Hawk Killy the Sparrow Hawk- - aat on the roof of a bird house Farmer Brown's Boy had placed on a pole a little way from the edge of the Green Forest The doorway faced the Green Meadows Killy had not given the doorway so much as a glance when he had flown to that little house it was too early for any of the feathered folk to be Bond Sales Up During January SALT LAKE CITY Feb 23 (AP) Purchases of series E U S defense bonds during January increased 183 per cent over December purchases in Utah sales director Clem S Schramm reported today Purchases during the month amounted to $1002685 Schramm said that cashing in of series E bonds decreased 402 per cent during the month as compared with January 1951 wanted a Mouse nesting yet It didn't enter his head that anyone might be living there now It was late in the afternoon but still light for jolly round Mr Sun had not quite reached the Purple Hills behind which he would go to bed Killy who is the smallest of the Hawk family was hungry Hunting had not been good that afternoon so his crop was almost empty Because of thit he was hunting little later than usual Now Killy way of is to perch high not too hunting high but still high enough to be able to look down on the ground for a considerable distance around Me has keen eyes Yes sir he has keen eyes and they are in a way what might be called telescopic eyes You know when you look through a it makes distant thingstelescope seem near You see things that without the telescope you could not see Killy's eyes like the eyes of others of the feathered folk who must hunt for their food make small things or- - distant things seem big and near From a perch up in a tree he can look down in the grass and see a You or I in his Grasshopper place wouldn't be able to see anything but the grass Of course at this time of year there were no Grasshoppers to be seen Anyway Killy wanted g bigger than a Grasshopper he A fat Meadow Mouse would make him a wonder- f ul supper Then he could go home and to bed and perhaps have On the Green pleasant dreams Meadows lived many Meadow Mice They had made tiny paths all through the grass and along these traveled to and fro From his perch on that little house Killy looked down on a number of these little paths some of them at quite a distance He was watching and hoping for a Mouse to run along one and he was keeping perfectly still Killy knows from long experience that he who would see others who do not want to be seen must keep perfectly still It Is those who move who are most easily seen Now Killy was living In an apartment in the big apartment tree back in the Green Forest they very tree in which Timmy and Mrs Timmy had spent most of the winter Now as he sat watching for YOU WANT A hi supper he little guessed flMtigrass )ust a little way from theirair so to apeak then drop almost under his feet only the roof house They saw him seem to he down in the grass A moment later of sort lUte stand In still the his narrow between him and them were his wings were beating the former neighbors He would have air as he rose out of the grass At liked one of those little Squirrels first they didn't see that he was carfor his dinner if he could have rying anything then as ho rose caught one But not knowing they higher they saw a small gray form were anywhere about he wasn't clutched in his curved claws It watching for them was a heedless young Mouse tvat For what teemed to them a very mm foolishly started to run along long time Timmy and Mrs Timmy f those little paths in the as as aa was still kept quite Killy when he should have waltsd grass had him heard They alight on the until the Black Shadows had come roof of their house but 'had to hide him no way of knowing if he they was still two little watchers In tha there He might have flown from bird house looked at each other there without making any sound and shook their heads sorrowfully They were sitting side by side aaid Mrs Timmy 'fast where they could peep out of their Timmy agreed doorway over the Green Meadows But Killy the Sparrow HawkJM They could see jolly round red not flbtok it was too bad He had Mr Sun almost ready to go to bed hi supper and now be mwwt behind the Purple Hills They had home to bad just about decided that Killy must (Copyright 1952 by Thornton have left without their knowing W Burgess) it when they saw the small feathBat Killy the Sparrow Hawk did The next story Timmy Has an ered hunter flying over the brown not think It was too bad Idea Hi Tbsd Aur CANNON EH? 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