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% I Thursday, December 15, 1949 THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Ph** Seven Milady’s Fan, Old as Tims Still Used in Many Lands Of what avail milady’s fan—now that there is electricity? For stirring up a cooling zephyr few people would prefer the dainty folding fans of 17th-century Europe to the automatic, motor-driven ap pliances of 20th-century America. Yet the fluttering hand fan, which cates back more than 4,000 years, is far from antiquated. In many lards it is still important to dress end custom, the dance and drama, end even business and cookery. In Italy and North Africa peasant housewives use fans to drive air ito .crude charcoal stoves, thereby etimulating the flame to boil coffee ' r fry potatoes. The vigor of the fanning regulates the heat. Aristocratic Puerto Rican ladies '•ften carry fans as an accessory to their attire. These fans are inlaid, carved, and sometimes jeweled. On the Pacific isle of Bali, east of Java, dancing girls use fans to ornament their dress and accent their movement. The Chinese, who hove long been prolific in the designing and manu facturing of fans, have special ones for spring, summer, and autumn Many a Chinese community has its own distinctive fan. which differs »n color and ornamentation from those of its neighbors. Chinese fans are believed to be the oldest known to civilization. Among other things, the people em ploy them to blow up fires, dust furniture, cool food and tea-,' and v hade their e>es from the sun. Nanking, Soochow, Hangchow, Huchow, and Shanghai have all been important fan-making centers. Com Cribs Ease Storage Problem Temporary Types Serve In Many Farm Areas Much of the 1948 com crop is still on the farm, filling many of the storage buildings which should be used for the 1949 crop. Temporary or sami-permanent storage buildings are the answer if you lack space or money to build permanent cribs. These temporary- type cribs in some cases are good enough to meet requirements for government loans. Here are some tips on building good, strong temporary cribs, as | suggested by Successful Farming i magazine: 1. Locate the crib on a well- drained site with exposure to pre- \ ciling winds. 2. Put a floor under the com to Carbon Black May Prolong Growing Season for Crops Built->in heating for the soil, which would extend the growing season and help farmers raise more crops to feed a hungry world, can be provided through the use of carbon black, the sooty chemical which toughens automobile tires. Black materials absorb heat, and research conducted at the Massa chusetts state experiment station in Amherst has indicated that car bon black mixed into soil’ to a two- inch depth raises the average soil temperature, both at the surface and two inches down, according to the report, prep- '-ed by Professor John Everson of the University of Vassachusetts rnd James B. Weaver, assistar* to the director of research of Godfrey L. Cabot, Ir.c., Boston. The results obtained in this In vestigation have aroused wide in terest, and the effect of the carbon Mack treatment on crop develop ment is now undergoing further tests at several agricultural schools throughout the country. If an eco nomically feasible process can be worked out, it is believed, farmers rrnv be able to defrost their land ard start planting earlier in the spring and, by the same token, to oostpor.e the first fall frost and thus give late crops more time to mature. Hame Rule for Senutsi, Hew Twist in Cirenaiea Cirenaica, where the British have recognized a new self-govern ing regime by the native Senussi, is a small slice of North Africa involving a large package of world history and present-day in ternational interests. The region forms the eastern wing of Italy’s former ‘‘desert col ony” of Libia, notes the National Geographic Society. This colony is now governed by three military administrations. Two of the areas, Cirenaica and western Tripolitania, have been under British rule since wartime occupation. The third, southwest Fezzan, is under war- born French control. Cirenaica covers about 200,000 square miles, much of it rocky, sandy waste. Nearly all of its es timated 290,000 inhabitants are tribesmen of the Senussi faith. Their spiritual and temporal lead er, Emir Sayed Mohammed Idris el Senussi, heads the new more-or- less autonomous government, which is to be responsible for internal affairs. Away from the towns, and the capital city of Bengasi, the Senussi are largely tent-dwelling nomads. They lead a simple pastoral life, dependent on the oases and a few other moisture-blessed regions to maintain _tpeir flocks and a few subsistence crops, such as grains, olives and dates. The Senussi belong to a special Moslem sect which was started about a century ago by a traveling Arab missionary preaching a strict and puritanical form of Moham medanism. The current leader of this poLt.co-religious organization is a descendant of its founder. Warrant Issued In Sunday Movies Case «.— Sheriff C. W. Wier said yesterday j that he had issued a wirrant against | R. D. Nance, manager of the Midway Drive-In theatre for operat.ng on | Sunday. The warrant was sworn out .before Magistrate Sam McCrary here and the case will be tr>d this ;morning at 9 30 at the magistrate's office, he said. STAPLES — Arrow. Markwell and ’ other standard machines. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. NOTICE We will be open all day Wednesday, December 21, and all day Saturday, De cember 24. TODD GROCERY CO. Phone S James Carson, M. D. Physician - Surgeon Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat ...and... General Practice Fitting Contact Lenses Fi*h Seale or Plastic French Style and the Common Kind We Mold the Frame To Fit the Face—\o Rending dr. James carson, m. d., has done pwt-graduate at Kra- kenkame Clinic at Leipcic and Tulane Ear, Eye. None and Throat Hospital. He is now In the Jacobs Building. Suite 219, * Cllnton.SC. Hours 9 to 3 And by Appointment Phone 463-R (Dr. Carson Will Make Calls) MclNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To l 1 s for Best Materials and Workmanship. Wrinkle Finish Popular What’s known as a wrinkle finish is frequently applied to cash regis ters. typewriters, adding machines, vacuum cleaner components, fur nace jackets, aircraft instrument panels, and electric fans. Coating such objects with wrinkle enamel has become widely established and laccepted among hundreds of prod uct finishers because of its appear ance and serviceability. After be ing properly preoared and sprayed into a surface, the object to which it is applied is baked at high tem perature. Correct attention to proper corn storing methods will help assure the farmer of excellent sow-and-litter results such as are pictured here. keep it off the ground. A heavy, i waterproof paper or roll roofing > might be sufficient on high, well- ; drained soil. A strong, level floor, ; six to 12 inches above the ground, protects the com against soil moisture, permits ventilation and discourages rodents. Masonry blocks laid face down ; form a good foundation for the 1 plank floor of a temporary crib. { Rails, ties, logs or heavy timbers can be used instead of concrete blocks. If two-inch flooring is used, supports should not be more than four feet apart if the com is to be 10 to 12 feet deep. If one-inch floor ing is used, the supports should not be more than 24 inches apart. Floor planks should be placed one inch apart if you want a slatted floor for ventilation or artificial drying. 3. Make the crib sides vertical and build them so they will stay vertical. Be sure the sides are strong enough to withstand the pressure of the com. Use rigid braces for the sidewalls and ends. 4. Make crib sides with at least 20 per cent of the wall area open for ventilation to speed up the com drying process. 5. Put a roof over the corn that will withstand water and wind. Undulant Fever in Man Traced to Brucellosis ‘The identical germ that causes the dread brucellosis or Bang’s disease in animals is responsible for undulant fever in man,” says Dr. Fred E. Allen, University of New Hampshire veterinarian, in answer to one of the most popular questions he is asked about this disease. However, Dr. Allen continues, humans rarely, if ever, transmit the disease to one another. If humans do not carry the disease among them selves, animals obviously are the chief carriers and sources of infec tion. Cattle, swine and goats seem to be the thfree main carriers according to the work carried on by the state- federal eradication agency, and the U.S. department of agriculture. According to these scientists, and Dr. Allen agrees, there is strong evidence that unpasteurized milk is responsible for many cases of un- duiam fever in man. However, al though undulant fever is often caused by the cattle type of brucel losis, numerous cases have been re ported as caused by contact with infected swine and goats. Factual data on the incidence of brucellosis m goats and swine is at present inadequate, but the eradication agencies are working on this piobletr.. At present it is believed that the disease in goats is largely, but not entirely, con fined to the Southwestern states where the bulk of the goat popula tion is found. Earthworm Hilpers Snow sod Icicles Unless steep-pitched roofs are provided with suitable snow guards, the snow is .liable to slide off and injure persons or cause damage to property, especially after a heavy snow. Heavy icicles often form on eaves and other parts of the build ing and overhang building entrances and sidewalks. This is a serious hazard because they mav fall and severely injure and possibly kill a person who may be standing under them. Icicles should be removed be fore they become large enough to endanger a person or persons pass ing underneath them. Use for “Discards” Women of the house will find that shirt boards (those cardboard back ing sheets that come w:th laun dered shirts) are stiff enough to hold sweepings when no dust pnn is- handy. Some housewives keep a supply of them in their basements and garages and reach for one when they are overcome with the cleaning urge. If you’re buildin« or remodeling a home, there’s ad ditional reason fc-r saving those shirt boards. SI art them near the old broom used- for sweeping up wood shavings, faster particles, and the mud and nirt which is daily tracked into the house by work men. Earthworms thrive and prosper under good soil management. They will do a better soil conditioning job when fertilizer is added to the soil. And fertilizer is always more efficient when worms are present. U. S. department of agriculture ] research has demonstrated that in tests made at the Beltsville, Md., experiment station. Those research men found that adding fertilizer boosted hay yields the equivalent of .52 tons per acre on soil con taining worms. Without earth worms, the yield increase due to fertilizer averaged .28 tons. The, research men found other evidence that earthworms prosper ; under good soil management. They | made an earthworm census in ro tation plot experiments. They I counted five times as many earth- | worms per acre in a soil cropped to a three-year rotation of row crops, small grains and hay, as they found in soil under constant row cropping. Estimate Earth’s Temperature Chemists have found a way to take a dinosaur's temperature, Professor Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago’s institute of nuclear studies revealed at a meet ing of the American chemical society. The temperature of the earth during past geologic ages can now be estimated quite accurately by measuring the relative abund ance of isotopic forms in clam shells, rock, and other relics, ac cording to Dr. Lrey, who won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1934. He pointed out that the natural balance of various isotopes of a given element varies with the ther mometer. This phenomenon has actually been used on a practical scale in the atomic energy work at Oak Ridge to separate isotopes by the so-called thermal diffusion process, he said. Auto Center of Canada Five railways connect the city of Windsor with all parts of Canada and the United States and a modem airport provides service. Modern highways and bus lines complete the travel accommodations. Rec ognized as the automobile center of Canada, Windsor has over 325 thriving industries. Products in clude pharmaceuticals, light and heavy chemicals, toys, textiles, pumps, playing and greeting cards, paper products, machinery, cereals, paints, and many other items. Farm products include tobacco, soybeans, corn and fruit. Convert 47.000 in U.S. More than 4? 000 persons in thr United States, converted last year *hrough the efforts of The Salvation Army, have probably returned to ♦h* churches to which they once Vlonged, according to Commis sioner Ernest I. Pugmire. national gommander of th« organization. Heel Flies Ofttimes Cause Much Discomfort to Cattle If your cattle high-tail across the pasture as if they were running for their lives, there’s a good chance that heel flies are causing the trouble. The same is often true when rattle spend their time stand ing in a pond or creek. Dr. N. D. Levine, parasite spe cialist with the University of Illi nois, says the heel fly doesn’t bite. But it doe* acare the cowg, causing them to lose weight. Cold Preventives Cod liver oil and vitamin A pills are worthless as cold preventives for the vast majority of people, ac cording to Dr. Paul A. Day of the University of Arkansas Persons with only a superficial knowledge of nutrition believe that vitamin A should prevent colds, because it has been shown that animals de ficient in the vitamin develop in fections of the upper respiratory tract. 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