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OLD SOL WILL HEAT YOUR HOME
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toward the absolute zero of the firmament— and it freezes solid!
In the morning the farmers merely break up the ice with long poles, shove it to the side, and haul it into underground coolers.
Cloudy weather doesn't interfere much with the roof coil method of heating houses because the infra red rays or heat waves of the sun penetrate through the cloud layers. If you've ever received a good smarting case of sunburn on a cloudy day, this fact will have already been brought home to you in a rather unpleasant way.
That is why this method is much more feasible than using direct solar rays to heat your home. Tests have proven that such systems — which depend on large glass windows and shutters — must have auxiliary heating systems to take over
when the sun isn't strong enough to do the job. On cloudy or rainy days, when the temperature falls, a thermostat cuts in a furnace, and you're back where you started from. But in a post-war house with a roof coil heating system, a furnace just isn't necessary and you can use the extra space in your basement for another ping-pong table, or perhaps a bar.
But home planners shouldn't get their hopes up too high— anyway not for awhile. The system will have to undergo rigid and extensive experimentation before it is ready to be turned out en masse.
But anyway, we're in for a new deal in house heating in this marvelous postwar era we're hearing so much about. The old-time furnace is on its way out, with its soot and dirt and ashes. Science has found that the best way to heat a house is to harness the sun to do it.
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MANY things have changed on the rivers since that well known spinner of yarns wrote of the dangers of navigating OL' MAN RIVER. Instead of straining his voice the leadsman chants into a microphone the varying depths of the water, and when the riverboat with its precious cargo gets into safe water the leadsman sings out the familiar cry— "twain — mark twain."
Many are the stories of Mississippi nights when a pilot had to fight strong currents through long stretches of inky blackness. In those days the river pilot felt his v;ay alon;; through the darkness with a mixture of intuition and experience. Today the United States Coast Guard has helped solve that part of the pilot's problem by installing sixty-five
hundred floating and fixed lights along the seven-thousand-mile navigable river. Old-timers along OL' MAN RIVER say that the river is now as bright as "THE GREAT 'WHITE "WAY."
River navigation demands great skill. In contrast to the three hundred foot steamboat of the '90's the modern Diesel towboats push and tow strings of heavily loaded barges over a quarter of a mile in length. Locks along the river are only one hundred and thirty feet in width and often a pilot will have a clearance of only two feet on either side. A barge carries from one to three thousand P^j^^^^^la^b tons of cargo and the * lineup of barges in a
single tow may have over fifteen thousand tons of mixed cargo — the equal of three hundred fully-loaded