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Wirth Park's Wild Flowers Explode Into Bloom STAR The Minneapolis WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1963 1C 0 REPORTING AT LARGE 4s -i inli 1 "hot" S'-'V. iYEBROWS UP Rain drowned out part of the county fair at Perham, the Perham Enterprise Bulletin reports, and Herman Hinz, standing guard 1 at the main exhibition building, thought (I himself all soul alone. After a while he heard sounds outside foreign to the patter of raindrops and had to hoist himself up sit to a high window to look out. There he saw three women, completely au naturel, ducking out from under the eaves to 0 catch natural showers. Herman didn't chase them but did report the incident to members of the fair board.

One of them ribbed him: "You should be fired for not reporting i this incident to us immediately!" Roosevelt High School 0 graduated its last January class in 1949. Now its members are planning a reunion Oct. 4 at Richfield Legion hall and -if eligibles may call Bev Bell Weber at WA. 2-1619 to sign up. Because the date doesn't match up closely with the gradua tion date, they're calling it their 14 years reunion.

5tr 4 ANOTHER RAIN NOTE: Rain insurance was written on the last three days of the Aqua Follies by J. Leonard Larson of Anderson Insurance Agency, with the same company as last year. The policy provided for payment of $7,500 if five-hundredths of an Inch of rain fell at the pool site between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. On Saturday night, July 1, 1962, there was .54 Inch of rain between those hours and the company paid off. This year on the corresponding Saturday night, July 27 the Aquatennlal was later this yearrainfall totaled .083 Inch between the same hours and the Follies collected.

Rainfall was: measured in an official gauge atop the north diving tower. Nothing could splash that high but rain. The windfall (or should It be will permit the Aquatennlal to break even on Its share of Aqua Follies Costs. 4 4 5 3 ,4 A NUTTY IDEA was dreamed up by Gordon Daline, merchandising manager for Hartlage Gellerman Scott, ad agency here. He started a nut-of-the-month club, to ship out small packets of various kinds of nuts sealed to a card that includes a nut-o-scope, a humorous horoscope.

Look magazine picked up a mention of the thing and since hundreds have applied for membership. The membership card is emblazoned "Sigma Phi Nothing." And one of the applications was for a Pennsylvania woman who wanted it for her father, Robert L. Nutt of Wrightstown, Wis. Nutt's hobby is picking and selling hickory nuts for the Christmas season. Another wrote that the membership is an ideal gift for friends of hers who have everything Today's Daffiest Definition: Monumental error: A misspelling on a i Minneapolis Star photos by Gerald Brimacombe These are the blazing stars, or gayfeathers, also known as button snake roots because of their globular basal tubers and the fact that herb doctors once considered them useful in the treatment of snake bites.

They appear in dry soil from Maine to Florida and west to Manitoba and Texas. Naturalists report there are 40 varieties of blazing stars, some attaining a height of six feet. Heads are 15 to 45-flowered, one-half to one inch broad, usually on stalks up to two inches long. In the Wirth Park prairie garden there are three varieties of goldenrod and nine types that resemble daisies or sunflowers. Outstanding among them is the prairie dock, which grows as high as seven feet.

Other wild flowers there include the white and purple prairie clover, Culver's root, wild bergamont, evening primrose and partridge pea. Some 80 varieties of wild flowers are drawing nature lovers to Eloise Butler woodland and prairie gardens in Wirth Park. Above, you see the brilliant standing cypress, or Spanish larkspur. The first year after germination the plant forms only a large, basal rosette of leaves that are cut into numerous threadlike segments. The second year a stout stem rises to 34 feet, producing masses of inch-long trumpet-shaped flowers.

They are usually brilliant scarlet outside and yellow streaked with red inside. The plant prefers fields and the margins of woods, usually in sandy soil and over most of the United States. Other wild flowers in the gardens include the obedient plant, marsh grass of Parnassus, cardinal flower, first of the large-leaf swamp asters and two species prized by early Indian medicine men: the boneset and the Joe-pye weed. THE NEWLY-FORMED Pioneer Players at New Ulm, Saturday and Sunday night at 9:15 will stage Euripides' "The Trojan Women," dating from the 5th century B.C. And the better to match the Greek style of production of those days, It will be staged In the amphitheater of Fort Ridgley State Park, with authentic costumes and masks.

It'll be in English, though. Indian Graves Uncovered MRS. MABEL HAGENSTAD reports that a calendar of Kampus Cleaners in southeast Dinky Town nearly threw her. She flipped a page for August and got February. Checking through it, she found both August and December labeled February, and the two current months not mentioned at all Twin Cities Buddhist Association will sponsor a Don O-Dori, a summer festival of Japanese folk dances, Saturday at 8 in pavilion square of Minnehaha Park.

The last one two years ago drew a lot of people. And it for free Lee Johnson in the S. T. building cuts puzzles that consist of five pieces of quarter-inch wood. With all five, you're supposed to be able to make a square; with just four another square, and with three a triangle.

Moving the things around I managed the four-piece square but not the others. My kids found the combination for making the triangle; the five-piece square is still a mystery and we're waiting for a solution From the Naval Academy Log: He only drinks to calm himself His steadiness to improve Last night he got so steady He couldn't even move! The Sunday Tribune Also Publinhes Murphy's Column. Advertisement Advertisement i v1 ty 0 yj You'll love the flavor from Hawaii in SMCGARVEY COFFEE blend so rare for you Roasted fresh for you! pj, i 1 GARVE COFFEE it COLOR Black-eyed Susans prefer open, sunny places and dry fields, and are seen from Ontario and Northwest Territory south to Colorado and the gulf states. The bloom consists of 10 to 20 orange-yellow neutral rays around a conical, dark purplish-brown disk of florets containing both stamens and pistil. The stem is one to three feet tall, hairy, rough, usually unbranched, often tufted.

The leaves are oblong to lance-shaped, thick, sparingly notched and rough. Animal and bird life in the Wirth gardens include muskrats, chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers. i Science Museum of the St. Paul Institute, it's not possible at the moment to deter- i mine their age. Helmen is shown examin- A bulldozer at work on a grading job in Burnsville uncovered bones believed from an Indian burial ground.

Fourteen skele- tons were uncovered and according to Vernon Helm, an archaelogist from the 3 (f ing the tina on tne site or Kiver nius nous- f. ing development VSf" PU JmM ONF Di'.