Evening star., 1941-10-26

The modern marimba, which uses
a 12-tone scale, was perfected from
an instrument of sounding boards
and resonant gourds originating in
the region around the present Mex
ico-G Guatemala border. The manu-
facture of these "echoing pianos" in
Mexico centers at Chiapas.
The eighth annual Orange Bowl
festival, high lighted by the gridiron
classic between a Northern and a
Southern team on the afternoon of
New Years Day. will open a four
Gay run on the evening Of Tuesday,
December 80. Events this year in
clude fashion show, preyiewing
feminine styles for next spring and
summer: the King Orange jamboree
parade on New Years eve, racing
at Tropical Park the morning OF
January / and a marine circus the
night of January 2, climaxed by a
fireworks display being arranged by
the company which staged the
famed pyrotechnics at the New York
Worlds Fair.
The deer season Of Maine opened
October 81 in six countieS-Aroo-
stock. Penobscot, Somerset, Piscata-
quis, Franklin and Oxford. The other
counties open November l. Accord
ing to the Maine Development Com
mission, there is one important
change in the hunting law. For
merly 1t was compulsory" reports
the commission, "for a nimrod to
take his own deer to be registered,
but as a result of a change in the
regulations it is now permissible to
employ an agent to do the heavy
work. All one has to do is to affix
a tag bearing his name and address
to the kill and send 1t along. The
registration station will hold the
deer at the owners risk until he calls
for it. incidentally, there are ap-
proximately 510registration stations
in strategic locations all over the
State" Maine this year will have
for the first time Statewide
pheasant season, running from No.
vember l to Ia.
Florida has a coast line on the
Atlantic and the Gulf Of Mexico
totaling 1,l46 miles.
The exact geographical center OF
the United States has been marked
by the United States Geological
Survey on a farm near Labanon, In
Kansas Smith County, about IL
miles south of the Nebraska line.
SAYS the legend on the marker:
Latitude 80 degrees so minutes and
longitude 90 degrees IS minutes"
Pierre, S. Oak, claims to be the CEN
ter of the North American Conti-
nent. The exact center is marked
by monument standing in the mid
die of highway a few miles north
of the capital.
Ocracoke Island. on the Outer
Banks of North Carolina boaSted for
years that it had neither a police
officer or a newspaper Now it has
both, but there are still no Jail, no
mayor of the town. no paved roads,
no sidewalks, no automobile license
tags. The newspaper is a semi
monthly, the diversion of Aycock
Brown, who went to the unhurried
island for vacation 20 years ago,
liked it and stayed. The officer is
a deputy sheriff. stationed there so
islanders could pay their taxes
without making trip to the main
land.
Founded in October. 1548. LaPaz,
Bolivia, was dedicated a LA Ciu-
dad de Nuestra Sonora de La Paz"
(the city Of Our Lady Of Peace.
Fair Grounds, the race track that
has a steam-heated, glass-inclosed
grandstand. will open 40-day race
card at New Orleans Christmas Day.
Taking look at the moon and
the stars through the worlds larg-
est telescope is a treat for the as
tronomy minded tourist in Cali
fornia. A mile above the valleys
atop Mount Wilson is the Mount
Wilson Observatory. Public lectures
are given there every Friday night,
after which the visitors are per-
mitted to do some star gazing. Look
ing down, one can see the lights of
so cities