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Use of Electricity On Farms Increases Report on Rural Systems Cruises ( ) per at i on. WASHINGTON ?An Increase of 82 per cent over the previous year in the amount of electricity delivered Air Consumers is shown in a United States department of agriculture statistical report of REAfinanced power systems for the fiscal, yeur ending June 30, 1041. Consumers of these systems used 508,190,394 kilowatt-hours of electricity during the fiscal year 1941, compared to only 311,479,005 kilowatthours during the previous fiscal year. Other figures similarly demonstrate substantial development during the past fiscal year, said Harry Slattery, rural electrification administrator, in the.report, the most detailed yet prepared by REA for generul distribution, The report covers every phase of operations, including allotments, construction and financial statistics, of each of the 823 systems with allotments as of June 30, 1941. On thut date, the report shows, REA co-operative systems were serving 780,482 consumer members, compared to 549,004 on June 30, 1940, ?an Increase of 42 per cent. Gross revenues of the systems in operation increased 08.8 per cent during the' fiscal year, from $17,370,016 in 1940 to $29,350,402 in fiscal 1941. The number of miles of line actually in operation grew from 232,978 on June 30, 1940, to 307,590 on June 30, 1941, an increase of 32 per cent. REA systems are power distribution companies, most of them owned by the consumers who use the power. Their construction is made possible by loans from REA, but those loans must be repaid with interest over a period of 25 years. Finds Sun Is 93,005,000 Miles from the Earth NEW YORK.?The sun's distance from earth has been remeasured and is found to be 93,005,000 miles. This is between 100,000 and 200,000 miles farther than previous measurements, which were the result of centuries of careful work. The announcement is from Dr. H. Spencer Jones, astronomer royal of England, made in Monthly Science News, a new British publication. The added gap between sun and earth is about as much as would be caused by moving the moon three to five times farther away. The moon would look only about half as big as now. The new distance to sun is the most accurate yet obtained^.^It is considered uncertain by a marginof not more than 10,000 miles. The former estimate, 92,850,000 miles, was uncertain by a 50,000-mile margin. Astronomers would like to get rid of that last 10,000-mile error, for the sun's distance is the foot-rule of celestial measurement. As long as it continues uncertain, other measurements are affected. Rock Collecting Fever Costs Woman Fur Coat SALT LAKE CITY.?Mrs. Grace G. Dearborn of Boston, Mass., ad. mittcd that her "collecting spirit" had gotten the better of her. Mrs. Dearborn, secretary of the Boston Mineral club, visited Utah recently to add a few crystal locks, found in abundance in Utah, to her collection. She had, at the same time, been saving her money to buy a new winter coat But when she saw some of the "rare and superb" specimens of stone, she did a little re-allocating and ended up using her "coat fund" as collection expenses in gathering up seven suitcases full of the formations to take home. Fire Dyes His Chickens, Farmer Is Awarded $235 HOUSTON, TEXAS. ? Farmer Fritz Muesse got $235 because an oil fire dyed his white chickens black and caused his daughter. Mary, 10, to suffer an attack of asthma. A Shell Pipeline company pipe across his farm sprang a leak. Muesse told District Judge Ben Wilson, and the oil caught fire. It shrouded his home and hen house with black smoke. Mary became ill and the chickens practically quit laying, Muesse testified. "And they haven't gotten back on the job yet," he added. Judge Wilson awarded $235 damages. X-Ray Found to Show Up Old Tattoo Marks ALBANY, N Y. ? Invisible tattoo marks may aid in the identification of soldiers killed in future wars, the New York state department of health suggests, thus reducing the danger of error. The markings become visible under X-rays, it is explained. They are made with compounds known as phosphors, which shine with various colors when activated by this means - - l.. Human Feel Not Built For Speed, Says Doctor Anyone who ever has sat in the stunds at a track meet and seen athletes spring a hundred yards in less than 10 seconds, or wutched distance runners step off a mile in a few seconds over four minutes jrtay find it hurd to Believe that the humun foot was not designed for super-fast travel. But no less an authority than Sir Adolphe Abrahams, a doctor who has looked after the health and well being of Englund's crack teams for | many years, thinks that men's feet are not properly built for speed. Sir Adolphe, strange as it seems, got this notion after thinking about the close-fitting shoes that sprinters wear. The British physician says that .such shoes help Yunners hit higher speeds than they could barefooted, or with looser fitting shoes. But, from the point of view pf allowing the foot's natural structure full play, the modern track shoe is an instrument of torture. Sir Adolphe, turning to the legs of the horse?a much faster animal than man ? thinks that Nature showed her hand in the simpler design of these limbs. In tho course of evolution the legs of the horse got rid of most of its smaller muscles and joints. The horse runs on the nail of the one toe it has left. And there seems to be no question that the modern horse can hit a much faster pace than the prehistoric species from which it developed. Dr. Abrahams concludes human feet were intended to wrap themselves around tree trunks, or tocreep soundlessly over uneven ground. He doesn't think they were intended to travel at high speed. Special 'Soaps' May Aid Synthetic Materials Development of new synthetic materials of great civil and military use may be considerably aided by a chemical discovery. The production of artificial silk, wool and other textile fibers, of rubbcrlike substances and many varieties of general plastics, will be easier than ever before, and will also follow new lines of development by the application of newly found method, according to the discoverer of the method, Dr. Harold P. Lundgrcn, scientist of the Western Research laboratory of the United States department of agriculture at Albany, Calif. Dr. Lundgren has found how to give special "soap" treatments to proteins, "the raw materials of all life," which are used as the source of countless plastics and synthetic fibers such as "nylon." Certain newly prepared and tested chemicals are known as "detergents," meaning "washing agents" or "soaps"?they are not like the ordinary soaps of daily use. Dr. Lundgren has employed 39 of these . j2?h?f?i?als for the transformation of proteins. Under his treatment, using only a very little of the "detergent," the molecules of the protein become "unfolded," as a bud opens into a flower. But the important thing is that such "unfolding" can be regulated in any desired way. Kodiak Once Cannibal Isle Some of the earliset settlers on the North American continent?cannibalistic migrants from Siberia who scttlod Kodiak island?used the skulls of vanquished enemies as drinking cups, according to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution. These early-day Americans, Dr. Hrdlicka said, used the skulls of valorous enemies in the belief that some virtues of the deceased might bo transferred to them. He said a study of the skeletons of the islanders showed they apparently were remarkably free from diseuse. Even fractures were infrequent, Dr. Hrdlicka reported, and evidences of dental decay were missing. Proteinlike Substance From Roger Williams' laboratory at the University of Texas has come the announcement in the Journal of Biological Chemistry of August, 1941, that the injury-producing proteinlike substance in raw egg white has been separated. The name of the sub-" stance is "avidin." It is not harmful, that is, does not produce fatal injury to experimental animals if the egg white is heated before being eaten. The reason given for the cause of raw-egg white injury is that the avidin combines with vitamin H also called biotm, making this vitamin unavailable to the animal organism. When biotin is lacking to the animal organism, the animal dies. Air Mostly Nitrogen, Oxygen Ordinary air consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen, and a few rare gases such as carbon dioxide, neon, argon, traces of helium and hydrogen. Under much higher pressures than that of the ordinary atmosphere even these gases become harmful to human beings. In submerged submarines the atmospheric pressure is necessarily very high. When it is about seven times as great as ordinary atmospheric pressure, then oxygen becomes ooisonous'for man. Breathing oxygen under such pressure may produce sudden and violent convulsions of the body. THE POCKETBOOKl of KNOWLEDGE | A 5NAKW MAS tort* ,v^ It MAS t> ^ SWAtlCM/ .V iisroop VAIOtC A 33T -A icS^u OACWMRVtf / rr i? eeri^m* nut X ooo. ooo I ' GALLONS Of PAINT AUK Otftf / EACH yVAK TO KMPMOX>?ifrrff / ON -TMe UJ6HT 4IPH of TWE U?MU / Automobile tires' oontainins GLASS avav se peveiowp in 1he wot too distant future *?.. eyptrmtnts akb alreapy b6in6 mapb a10n6 ftlls unu One oov ccut cm prodocb a poor SO ' QUITS' or CLOTHES A yf^R, NOW TMAT , FABRICS' CJ*i Be MAP? FRCVSA MILK r I ccwevrr PiAwe penvi?HiH? iw TWE last QtMKTWR OP" 1941 WfW INCWfASSP "lOOMHCW ovssfWe si?sr Qownr* AT OlM AVlAtlOJ _ PLAMT In Peanut Culture Beware of Erosion Clemson. March 16?With the tremendous expansion in peanut acreage this year to meet war needs, peanuts will be planted on many arfas where they have not been grown before, says E. G. Turner, soil conservation specialist of the Clemson Extension Service, suggesting that where the crop is grown on sloping land contour planting will be an important factor in controlling erosion. Peanuts, like cotton and corn and other clean-tilled row crops, afford little protection to the soil. Turner points out. Hut heretofore the acreage of peanuts has been relatively small, except in the rather level Coastal Plains area, and the crop has not presented a large scale erosion problem. A special study of conservation measures for peanuts is beiug made by the Soil Conservation Service, which will include practices farmers can use to conserve the soil on peanut land following tills year's crop and before the 1943 crop is planted, according to Ernest Carnes, state co-1 ordlnator of the SCS. In making this study, the assistance of the experiment stations and other agencies will be sought, he said. The most effective practice farmers can use in getting the crop established. Carnes and Turner think, is to plant the peanuts on the contour; that is, with the rows running crosswise of the slopes. Each row will thus serve to retard run-off water and reduce (lie loss of soil. Jack McCaskill Dies In Lee County t>n Sunday morning. March 1. 1942. the many relatives and friends of Mr. Jack McCaskill were grieved to learn of his passing away during the night. He was 44 years of age and lived iu Hie Mizpali section of Lee county. He was the son of the late Mr. Finn McCaskill and Mrs. Susie Cook McCaskill. He was twlco marriod, first to Miss llell Price (who preceded him to the grave), and afterwards to Miss Mary Branham. I Besides his second wife he is survived by four sons by his first marriage: Alvin. Wilburn, Billy and Harry Lee McCaskill; also two daughters. Margie McCaskill and Mrs. James Rhineliardt. By his second marriage, ono son, Bobby; and one daughter, Betty Jo. Also surviving are one sister. Mrs. Farrell Parker: and three brothers, T. P. McCaskill. Eulis McCaskill and Cook McCaskill. Funeral services were at Ant loch Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 6:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev. J. T. Ltttlejohn of Bishopville. A large attendance and many beautiful flowers attested to the love the community held him. ? Bishopville Messenger. Products of the canning Industry are valued at $850,000,000 annually? an eight-fold Increase in the last 40 years, according to Census Bureau records. YOU WORK TOO HARD but there'* no way around that if you wan* to hold a job. If you do not get enough Vitamin B1 and Iron in your regular diet, and your appetite need* en. couragrment, try VINOL.. Your drtiffi~.it ha* thi* pieaaant tatting tonic. * DoKALB PHARMACY NEW8 NOTES FROM CA88ATT Cassatt, March 18?There will be preaching services at the l'ine Orove Presbyterian church Sunday morning, March 22, at 11:15, by a student from the Decatur Seminary. Ail inembera are urged to be present as there will be a congregational meeting immediately after the service. Mrs. J. It. West ami daughter, Miss Margaret West, of Wlnthrop college, spent the week end In Marion with Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie CJresham. Mrs. Sumpter Crolley aud children, who have been on an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. L. L. West, moved to Spartanburg lust week. Norwood llali spent tlie week end with ids family here, returning to Augusta Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James West and son, Arthur, and Miss Charlotte ^IcCasHill, spent Sunday in Marlon, S. C. Miss Laurie West and Troy West, of Columbia, and "Buck" West, of Fort Jackson, visited their mother during the week end. Mrs. Frank Lee, of Hethuno, is teaching this week in-the ^Midway school filling the vacancy there for Miss Sophie Creed who was married Sunday in the First Baptist church in Camden to Richard Denny, of 1 Iilshopvlilo and Fort Rlanding, Fla. Mrs. Denny's friends hero are ao glad she will b$ back soon to resume her work in the school. Roddy .Rozier. a senior of Clemson college, spent the week end with liis parents here. Mrs. Bryant Brannon and Mrs. L. I ' L. West gave a miscellaneous shower for their sister. Miss Dolly Stokes, who will be married sooiv to Herman McCurry, of Lake City. After playing several games of bingo the hostesses served block cream and cake, carrying out the color kcheme of green and white, in recognition of St. Patrick's day. Carol Crolley, at tractive niece of the bride-elect rolled In a ,cart loaded with gifts for the honoree. Honor Roll Pupils Bethune Schools Grade 1A?Henrietta Joyuer, n0b. 1 by Parker, Eunice Bull Ivan. Grade 1-B-?Betty Lee Hunter, nar. bara McDonald, Travle Stevens. Grade 2-A?Glenn Cobb, Betty (}rfty '!j McCaskill, Both Thomas, Gilbert Wa- ? tere, Ada Katherlue Williams. Grade 2-13?Ruby Lee Joyner, Ma*. ey McLaughlin, Pauline Small. Grade 2-A?Van Catoe, L. o. Jones, Betty Catoe, Evelyn Farmer. Grade 2-B-Sarah Galney, Jonsle i Leo Hilton. Grade 3-A?Zuldue Sullivan, Hetty \ Outen. ? Grade 3-B?Mickey Gardner, Caro-? lyn Bryan, Carrie Mae Norris, Esther 1 Squires. Grade 4-A?Gerry Fowler, Mary \ Baker, Sarah Lee Newman, BlUy Muu- 1 go. Grade 6-A?Jimmie Braswell, Mary 1 Ruth Rozier, Katherine Williams. Grade fi-B?Iris La Rue Grantham. A Grade 6-A?Kathleen Brannon, Rita Davis, Elizabeth Jones, Doris John- '] sou. Grade 7-A?Beth Ralley, Hebron Mao Stokes, Doris Galney, Willie \ Esthor Ratcliff. Grade 8-A ? Margaret Braswell, } ^Toyce Fowler. Grade 8-B?Mildred *-v,McCasklU, Lawrence Campbell. Grade 9-A?Bunny Hammond, ltoss 1 Horton. Grade 9-B?Oren Fletcher, Hazel ] McGee. Grade .10-A ? Wayne Blackmon, > Myrtle Corbitt, Eva Jo Ratcliff. Grade 10-B? Cornelia Copeland. Post Graduate?Mary Nancy Mc- ' Laurin. 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