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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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