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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1963
Page
5
A reader explains a simple water demonstration using a glass covered by a cloth. Invert the glass with the cloth pressed down, then a finger applied pressure can cause the water to bail if the answer is yes. Air bubbles rising through the cloth give the illusion of boiling.
Approximately six million GI insurance policies are held by veterans with a face value near $40 billion. WWII veterans hold about five million policies, Korean veterans 700,000, and WWII veterans hold about 300,000. Converting term to permanent insurance avoids rising premiums and stabilizes costs. Veterans benefits are tax free and details are available from the Veterans Administration Regional Office in San Francisco at 49 Fourth Street.
Marine historian Merton T. Akers revisits the March 17 1844 engagement at Kelly's Ford Va a crossing of the Rapidan near Fredericksburg. The piece debates whether it was a skirmish or an engagement and notes Maj John Pelham the only named casualty in many histories as The Gallant Pelham.
Major Pelham, a West Point graduate and Confederate artillery leader under J E B Stuart, earned the nickname The Gallant at Fredericksburg. He died at Culpeper after being wounded at Kellys Ford while rallying his men. General Lee mourned the loss of a brave, promising officer.
A New York report describes a steel locking device installed in a Queens parking stall. A swing arm locks the space when a tenant leaves his car, blocking entry for others. The three and a half foot steel arm raises, rests in a locked position, and reopens with a key when the space is claimed again.
Stars above Mars share a solar orbit relation with Earth and Venus. Mars reaches opposition every 780 days, placing it opposite the sun and bright in the evening sky. Look for a reddish bright star south of the observer at nine in the evening, four fifths up from the southern horizon. Mars takes 687 days to orbit the sun, while Earth overtakes it every 26 months. Some line markings on Mars fueled speculation of intelligent life in past observations.
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