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'Cockeyed' Turkey? Set ^ ' Dizzy Pace before 'Kill Nowhere else on earth is the ritua) of killing and preparing a turkey observed in such a strange manner us in Ecuador, South America. As in North America, the bird is penned and fattened several days in advance of its Waterloo. On the appointed day. early in the morning. the Quichuu or Cholo servants approach tin- turkey p?;n with a hot tie of Aguardiente. It If ? cheap but powerful brew of native rum. One of the servants holds the turkey in a firm grasp, while the other pours o little Aguardiente down its throat Then the bottle is passed | around among the household staff. This process is repeated over and over again until the turkey is well stewed without having seen the stove. Next, a long cord is fastened to the turkey's neck, not too tight, just a comfortable fit. The elected servant then pulls the staggering bird out into the patio or courtyard and urges it into a lumbering trot at the end of its tether. Hound and round the turkey goes in a dizzy circle. If it stops or hcsltutes, the bystanders toss pebbles and the chap at the other end of the rope runs around, towing the turkey at an increased speed until the unfortunate bird, drunk and exhausted, fulls to the ground in n stupor. Claim Bacteriophage Cured 34% of Patients Dr. Ward J. MacNeal of Columbia university told how he had used bacteriophage in treuting osteomyelitis (an infection of bone often caused by the staphylococcus), had saved not only limbs, but lives. Dr. MacNeal said that in the last 10 years he had given bacteriophage to 500 patients with severe infections, had cured 34 per cent?n high proportion. Bacteriophage is almost as elusive as (titrable viruses; it can scarcely be seen under a high-powered microscope, npd? must be cultured on a special. nitrogen compound called asparaginc. For every patient, said Dr. MacNeal, he must send a sample of blood or pus containing the bacteria to special laboratories, have the bacteriophage made to order. It is injected into the veins, as much as a quart in eight hours. Since it is difficult to culture, doctors seldom think of using It until the "extreme stage" of illness. According to Dr. MacNeal, | bacteriophage first weakens bac- i teria with special enzymes, then most probably joins forces with the j white blood cells which eat the invaders. - Courageous Pontiac In 1763, when the war between France and England for the possession of Canada ended in victory for the British, n certain great war chief wrathfully declined to abide by the defeat of the French, with whom he had been allied. His name was Pontine, courageous, crafty leader of the powerful Ottawas, Ojibwas and Potawatomis. Believing that English control of the continent meant the doom of his race, the "red Napoleon" conspired with other tribes to destroy all the British forts, sweep I away the frontier settlements, and ] drive the enemy into the sen. The I Redskins furiously attacked all the | English posts on the Great Lakes j und in most cases massacred the \ entire garrison. The uprising failed j in its final purpose, for the two 1 main points. Detroit and Fort Pitt. . were successfully defended and the Indians were forced to lice. Pontine died n.s violently as he lived: In I7ti!> he was tomahawked by a K.iskakia Indian in Illinois. Plankton as Food Pr< f A. (*. Hardy of I'niversity college. England, who is an expert on plankton, i as found that it ;s \erv nutritious; full of important proteins, fats, cnrboh.N drates and probably some very necessary vitamins. Many minerals vital to man's health are found in. ocean water and probably exist :n all the ocean-bathed plankton, too. These minerals would be passed on to any human consumer. But any nation planning to feed its people on the contents of the ocean's great "vegetable meat" soup will first need to devise a good way to skim out the plankton in large enough quantities. A British, scientific committee has been suggested to vvoik on this pr b lem. investigating spots where the most plankton can be found and how it can be removed without having Hitler's submarines join the fishing party ununited No Such Food? Thero .s .> certain weigh.t at which , you look your best, feel your best and act vuur best. Perhaps you don't make the effort to keep your figure trim because you think it is t<-o unpleasant a job There is r.o such thing as a "reducing food" or a "gaining food." j There is no magic <=hort cut to a slender waistline Any successful reducing d.et will make it necessary for you to derjy yourself some of the good things you like, until vour waistline has reached a point where ' you van agau. eat all cf them. ir. 1 moderation. The secret is a diet containing all the essential food elements to maintain health hut low enough in calories to compel your body to consume its own fat for energy purposes. * * * Scientists 'Hunting' For Four-Leaf Clovers Hunting four-leaf clovers may not be u silly occupation, after all. It is now revealed that.scientists with us many as three college degrees have been hunting them und experimenting with them for some time. If the four-leaf trait in white clover can he "tied up" with greater resistance uguinst prolonged dry spells or with higher clover tonnage per acre, then the farmers they are trying to benefit will be lucky indeed. The four leuves can be seen, while these more practical traits can not, and if these characteristics or other valuable ones can be associated andthe plant persuaded to breed true, then the plant geneticists will score another triumph over thin soil. Up to date, planting seed from such plants has been no guarantee of four-leafed progeny. On the oth-? er hand, you can get large numbers of plants of the coveted form if you maK? stem cuttings in the way you ?inake rose cuttings. First, choose a plant having large numbers of four-leaflet leaves (some have more than others). You may take a piece of the creeping stem having one node (or buried nitrogen storage-plant), but it is best to take a cutting with two nodes. Plant it in fertile soil with the proper amount of moisture and these conditions probably will yield more luckynumbered leaves. Commercial use is already being made of this information. Crippled Children Are Aided by Modern Surgery Mugic, in the guise of modern surgery and the ancient craft of brace making, is reality to Iowa's crippled and deformed children who have been patients at the University of Iowa Children's hospital. Here, under the genius of Dr. Arthur Steindler, regarded as prominent in this work, a laboratory has been built that ranks with the nation's best in orthopedic work. Here children who were hopelessly destined to go through life with crippled arms or legs, or a deformed foot, are walking and playing just the same as their more fortunate playmates. For those who ure not, and cannot be completely cured, there is relief or permanent help of a nature that lessens the burden of a physical drawback that might have kept them away from society as a whole. Dr. Steindler began orthopedic work here even before the children's hospital was built. He commuted to Iowa City from Des Moihes twice weekly to see patients and perform operations. The department was established hero in 19.19 when the children's hospital?one of four state operated hospitals at the university?was constructed. V Facts About Vinegar Vinegar has a long and ancient history as a staple condiment in cookery and pickling. And at this time, it assumes prime importance, when pickles and spice, and everything nice, are being canned and packed, and when the directions "bottle and seal" are daily passwords in the kitchen. In countries of older civilization, where the mild climate favored grape-raising and hence wine-making, vinegar was most easily secured by allowing a natural souring process to wine, with resulting internationally common "wine vinegar." Hut m more northern countries. where nt 11hi r grapes nor apples grew in abundance, vinegar was brewed from hurley malt, or, f'oin the malt of other cereals, and t is gave the eook a duiker, more Leer-flavored "malt vinegar." ie. Ansel h'a today cider vinegar ru.nie from cider or apple juice has I ? v <>i;ie a standard household prodla t. Identify New Stars Comparison of photographs has brought out of hiding 24 faint little stars, now identified as members of the Pleiades constellation, Dr. Adrian Van Maanen of Mount Wilson observatory, California, announced recently. Although the Greeks, who named the constellation, called it the Seven Sisters after the legend of the seven Pleiades sisters and their mother, who escaped the pursuit of Orion by 'wcoming stars, the group contains at least 211 known stars, the astronomer said. The most brilliant. Alcyone, is about 1,000 times as bright as the sun and some of the newly added are 1,000 times as faint. Dr. Van Maanen compared recent photographs of the Pleiades with plates taken 15 to 19 years ago and identified as Pleiadesians those stars which had changed position in the interval. Blue Eyes Straightest A soldier with blue eyes can shoot straighter than his brown-eyed comrades, on the average, according to officers of the United States marine corps. If this is so it might give this nation at least one important advantage in any shooting war with Japan or Italy. A survey shows that some two-thirds of our marines are blue-eyed. A brown-eyed marks man, it is said, is likely to he both cred by shifting lights and shadow." or drifting clouds. He may make f. fine score under the most favorable conditions, but his aim tends u waver when heat waves make thf target dance. New Method for Tetting * Heart, Told by Doctors How the heart is made to reveal its pathological secrets by the use of saccharin and ether was related to western area doctors by Dr. Horace B. Cates of Los Angeles. The test, he suid, is made to as certain if there is heart failure, which to the medical man means improper blood pumping rather than, as laymen use it, heart stop page. Saccharin, or a sugar solution, is injected into a -vein of the arm, j under this method, he said, and u stop watch held on the patient. The sweet substance must then, in the normal course of functional activity, pass through both sides of the heart and the lungs to emerge on the tongue, where the patient can taste it. 'In this way we can tell how fast the blood is flowing, with the normal being about 15 seconds from arm to tongue," Pr. Cates said. "This time will go up to 20 or 30 seconds if the heart has failed." But, he continued, the area of disease can be even more isolated *by the subsequent use of an ether injection. Saccharin or sugar, being not easily soluble, passes over the whole route from arm to heart, to lungs and to the tongue. But ether, being highly volatile, or easily converted from liquid to gas, is completely volatized when it gets through the heart to the lung, escaping through the windpipe there so the patient can smell it. Plutonic Stone Quarry Discovered by Chemists Exploitation of a quarry near Corona, Calif., said to contain a very fine-grained plutonic rock of exceptional purity and hardness, will be undertaken by a Los Angeles group, according to a chemist's report. Ground to various sizes-, the rock is adaptable for all purposes where stone, cement or concrete is used, engineers declare. Unlike concrete, it is not a conglomerate of many minerals, the component parts of which may not conform harmoniously to change in temperature, moisture, etc., and break up and crack. Weathering is believed to strengthen its durability. Authority for this analysis is E. A. Bruder, agricultural chemist, Los Angeles. In the survey and laboratory experiments he was aided by other interested geologists and engineers. More than $100,000 is to be spent for mining equipment, trams, crushers. grinders, laboratories and other buildings, Bruder declared. Quarrying, crushing and grinding costs are estimated at 85 cents a ton, and the survey reveals more than 244,000,000 tons positively in sight, he said. The chemist visions use of the rock above and underground for foundations, dikes, wharfs, roads, airport runways and for other construction projects designed to last centuries. Status of Danzig A thousand years ago Danzig was a peaceful Polish fishing village, Gyddanizc, at the mouth of the Vistula river. Pomeranian dukes captured and fortified the city in 1150 it was returned to Polish domination in 1282. Teutonic knights seized the city in 1308, but their rule lasted only until 1460 when the territory was returned to Poland. In 1772, when Poland was partitioned for the first time, Germany absorbed the hinterland but left the city more or less free. But in the second Polish partion in 1703, Germany absorbed the city as well. Napoleon restored Danzig to free city status for the seventh change. In 1814 it was returned to Germany and remained a part of the German empire until World war treaties made it Poland's outlet to the sea. I i Distillation Points Distillation range tests provide on indication of the volatility of a gasoline. Volatility should be such that the engine will start easily, warm up quickly, accelerate satisfactorily, operate without crankcase dilution and be free from vapor lock. The 10 per cent point in the distillation test is the point at which the temperature shown has evaporated 10 per cent of the gasoline. This point is used in determining the ease of starting the engine. Low temperatures at this point indicate quick starting. This 10 per cent point is also used, together with the vapor pressure, to estimate the tendency to vapor lock. A low temperature combined with a high vapor pressure, may cause vapor lock, particularly in warm weather. Savoy Popular Name The popularity of "Savoy" as a name for motion picture houses m the United States traces back to the Duchy of Savoy in France, though it comes indirectly through the theater of that name in London's Strand, k. says a National Geographic society bulletin. England's Henry III in 1236 had married a niece of Peter of Savoy, to whom the English king gave a palace on the banks of the Thames. It later was the site of the Savoy hospital. A theater built in this vicinity was given the name "Savoy," and was long the scene of the Gilbert and Sullivan light oDerac. Pisgah News Notes Rlsgah, June 10.?J. L. Shiver spent (lie week end of May 30. In Fredericksburg, Va., having gone for (he gradual Ion of his daughter. Margie, from Mary Washington College. Ho rutin nod Juno 1, accompanied by hla daughters. Margie and Lillian?Lillian being a fresh man at Mary Washington this year. Mrs. Walter Muggins, with Mrs. ICldredge Mosley. of Camden, spent tho week end of May 30 to June 2, in North Greenville, having gone up for the graduation exercises of North Greenville Junior college of which Miss Alma Leo Muggins was a member. Mrs. W. F. Haker and sou, C. J., Mrs. It. C. McLeod and daughter, Mary, and Carl Maker, Jr., went up to North Greenville on Monday, June 1, to attend the graduation of Llla Maker. At tho class day exercises on Saturday, Llla was historian. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Muker are being congratulated on tho arrivel of a baby girl. Moth mother and baby are doing very nicely. Mrs. Clement Shiver, who has been J very ill In the Camden houpitul, 1b reported to be much Improved. Mrs. Marker Hatfield, who has been a patient at tho Tourmey hospital j bv-Humter for several weeks, was woll enough to come home last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McLeod and son, Kennedy, of Wlnnsboro, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis and relatives at Kembert. Mr. and Mrs. Willie James and Miss Ellen James, spent last Saturday In Columbia with their sister, Mrs. Harry Homanstoln. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Muker on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Baker and children of Rambert; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Campbell and children of Statesburg; Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Levoin and children of Horatio. Visitors in the afternoon wore Mrs. Clyde Eddlngs and children, Misses Ollie and Ida Horton of Camden, Miss Ellen James, and Mr. and Mrs. Willie James. ? Saving Seed Is Vital In Crop Production "Many a farmer cheats himself on one of the few factors In crop production that he can control the seed he sows," says county ugent W. C. McCarley. j "He plows and harrows, limes and fertilizes, and then when ho is ready to p)ant, he rushes the good wife off to town to get whatever seed lis available. It's too late to do anyj thing hut take what's there. Since that Is the case, germination, variety, adaptability, and purity caunot be considered. It's Just seed." Reminding that the weather may be good or bad for crop production this season, the county agent declares that the seed used may make a fair crop under good seasonal conditions or may fall under poor or unfavorable conditions, and adds: "Good seed will do better under either of the conditions. To be good, seed must have vitality and vigor arid the capacity to produce. Such seed will make better use of the fertiliser,) the lime, and the seedbed preparation that has been done prior to sowing the seed. "Winter legume' and small grain seed can ho saved for seeding this fall.. Objectionable weeds should be taken out of the part of the field to be saved for seed. These areas from which seed are to be saved should bo allowed to mature thoroughly before being harvested. "The habit of producing good quality seed that is needed on the farm will pay good divldeudM jn operating costs, increased yleid/J^B cash income from surplus g0o4 "A plentiful supply of Kood grown on the farm insures tha^H* good cropping system may b? talued on the farm." ^^B Old River Bridge *V Is Being R?^H (Continued from first page) es was performed by Klkor and yu 1 general contractors, of North Carolina. The surfuclug a^?| base work was performed by the t.j| highway department with Its forces. Work was started on this protJI on September 7, 1940, and waa qJ pleted and opened to traffic oa gj 1, 1942. The cost of the project 3 approximately $300,000. This is the third highway brlfa^l to be constructed In this vlctijB One bridge was destroyod by fw^l In 1916. Kershaw county built a bridal to take Its place In 1920 and opeagl It as a toll bridge until 1934, at whickl time the bridge was purchased by tJ highway department and freed3 tolls. With the increase In the ygfl ume of traffic, particularly of heenfl trucks, the old bridge became j|B adequate and hence the necessity fcfl the present up to date structure. B FINAL DISCHARGE | Notice Is hereby given that c*fl month from this date, on June U,H 1942, T. B. Clyburn will make to tfcl Probate Court of Kershaw County h|fl final return as Administrator of diH estate of E. F. Rice, deceased, andqB the same date he will apply to tk(9 said Court for a final discharge gfl said Administrator. N. C. ARNETT, ] Judge of Probate ; Camden, S. C., May 15, 1942. j "Here's an Electric Mixer Someone Wants to Sell j Cheap" I The Chronicle Want Ads Carry Messages From Family to Family in Camden and Kershaw County J | Have you ever thought of the Chronicle Want Ads as a sort of clearing-house for the messages of Cami . den and Kershaw county families? Well, in a way, j that's just what they are. Because they tell everybody what everybody else wants to buy or sell or trade or * ' j rent or hire or use or lost or found. That way every seller finds a buyer, every employ- ~ 1 er finds someone to hire, and the Want Ads accomplish these errands quickly, and best of all, economical- - i ly. Get acquainted with the advantages of Chronicle ... j Want Ads today! It Pays to Use the Want Ads j j ? ' j 3 The Camden Chronicle j Telephone 29 z....1- >1 j