The Ice Age cometh
Discontented winter?
By WILL HARDESTY
Your friendly inquiring reporter was asked by the UDK City Editor to investigate the possibilities that this is going to be the hardest, coldest, most severe winter in 180 years.
Many theories are thrown at this reporter as explanations for the fact of this meteorological phenomenon. The Van Allen belts are falling into the atmosphere causing great and sweeping changes in the weather.
ANOTHER AMATEUR weatherman said the Ice Age is coming again. One person even advanced the possibility that God is taking his vengeance on a wicked world.
A quick check with the KU
weather station revealed that no one is at that meteorological check-point between 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
The Topeka weather bureau, on a day which was marked by cold temperatures, clouds, fog, and rain, described these theories of a cold winter as hogwash.
"The thirty day forecast calls for warm and dry," a weatherman said.
JOE R. EAGLEMAN, assistant professor of geography and meteorology, was very skeptical of the harsh winter theory.
He said the "long range forecasts are based on upper-level circulation in the atmosphere. There wasn't much mixing in this high-altitude layer this summer.
This has led some people to speculate there might be more mixing this winter, which would mean more fronts moving in, which would mean more adverse weather."
Eagleman gave a tip on the Van Allen belts.
"We have no direct evidence that they have had any effect on the weather.
"I CAN SEE NO evidence that the Ice Age is coming again. The temperatures are still getting warmer, and the ice-caps are still receding," he said.
"However, if temperatures continue to rise this will cause more evaporation. This increased level of evaporation would cause an increase in precipitation, which would mean more clouds. More clouds would shield the earth from the sun's rays which would keep the temperatures down, and allow snow to lie. This is the first step towards an ice age." Eagleman said.
Nobel Peace Prize will not be given
OSLO-(UPI)-The Norwegian Peace Prize Committee announced today it will not award the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
The committee gave no reason for its decision. An official announcement issued following a session in the Nobel Foundation Building simply said the committee had decided to defer the 1963 peace prize until next year.
THE DECISION was taken by the five-member committee named by the Norwegian Parliament which is solely responsible for selecting the winner of the $58,000 award, one of the most prestigious in the world.
It marked the third occasion since World War II that the Nobel Committee had made such a decision.
It happened first in 1952 when the prize was reserved for awarding the following year. Then it was given to Albert Schweitzer, the great humanitarian.
Gen. George C. Marshall was awarded the prize for 1953 at the same time.
THE SECOND occasion was in 1960 when the prize was awarded in 1961 to South African nationalist leader Albert Luthuli at the same time U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold received the 1961 prize posthumously.
The prizes for 1948, 1955 and 1956 were not distributed and the prize money for those years went back to the Nobel Foundation.
Although appointed by parliament, the Nobel Peace Committee has an entirely free hand in making its selections and is responsible to no one.
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DALLAS—(UPI)—From 1836 to 1843 Texas had a navy which sailed the Gulf of Mexico.
It never gives any advance information about how many and which candidates have been proposed for consideration and is under no obligation to give any reason for its choice.
However, reliable sources said 33 names had been suggested and were being considered.
The Texas Navy was put up for auction in 1843, but the people of Galveston forcibly prevented submission of bids. Three years later, the navy, four vessels strong, was transferred to the U.S. Navy.
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