The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 26, 1942, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
:i Grandma Tests
Great Highway
Adventurous Motorist Finds
Pan-American Road
Ii Practical.
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L'_. LIMA, PERU*- Mrs. A S Henley,
68-year-old grandmother from
Glendole, Calif., has proved to the
world at large that the l'an-Amer- I
lean highway, connecting the Unit- |
ed States and Argentina, is something
more than charts in government
offices, or mule trails through
Jungles and over mountains.
Nearly a year ago Mrs. Henley
started driving from Kio de Janeiro
on a pleasure trip. Today, "Her
having explored much of Brazil,
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile. Bolivia
and Peru, she figures she still has
ahead of her four months of driving
through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela,
purts of Central America, and
Mexico before reaching home.
The adventurous Cnlifornian, who
learned how to drive when she was
43, and who never lias been east
of the Mississippi in her own eoun- (
try, has become quite a booster for
the highway. The idea of using
her trip to advertise the highway
was first put to her by United States ^
Ambassador Claude G. Bowers in j
Chile. Since that time she has J
spoken in public and over the rudio, ,
written for newspapers, and, in general,
become one of the hemispheric j
road's leading promoters.
Highway Practical.
"Current opinion maligns the
highway," she says with some heat, i
"The general impression is that it
is very difficult. We ore finding
that it is not difficult, but very practical,
especially if you stick to
the highway."
Mrs. Henley can proudly .claim
that she knows South America better
Chan most South Americans do.
She has "rounded the Horn by
automobile, taking a side trip to
the world's southernmost settlement
of Aushuaia, Argentina, far
below the Straits of Magellan. She
has crossed the 15,806-foot summit
of the world's highest highway near
Ticlio, Peru, on the way to Lima.
She has motored through the flowering
Brazilian tropics, across the
rolling cattle plains of Uruguay,
through the heart of the Chilean
lake country, and over the wild BoV
livian Andes."
No Flat Tires.
So far, Mrs. Henley estimates
that her 1940 American station
wagon has covered about 20,000
' miles of South American roads, in
all that distance she has had no
punctured tires, although she had
two punctures driving from her
home in Glendale to Ne\v Orleans
where she boarded u ship for Rio.
. She has had no motor trouble and
M no accidents. She had a new set of
M larger tires put on her car to raise
W it higher off the road, and had the
brakes relined twice.
\ Since Santiago she has done all
the driving. The only time her
nerves fail her is when she reaches
a large city. She then moves over
and lets Hector Burr, her traveling
companion, take the wheel.
She said the trip so far has been
neither unduly expensive, nor dangerous,
Gasoline, in njost places,
costs no more than in the United
States; frequently it was cheaper.
Hotel accommodation and garage
space expenses proved extremely
reasonable.
Freshman Coeds Storm
Citadel of Engineering I
SEATTLE. ? Only four women j
have been graduated from the Uni- j
versity of Washington's college of '
engineering in the last five years? !
but that doesn't discourage Alice
Johnson and Peggy De Merchant,
two optimistic freshmen co-eds.
Miss Johnson enrolled in electrical
engineering and Miss De Merchant
m .ieronautical engineering.
If they get any encouragement, it
will be from their freshmen engi- :
neering advisor, E. R.'Wilcox. His i
daughter was graduated from the
engineering school and now is a I
junior engineer in the army.
Childless Monkey Wins
Fight to Keep Kitten !
MACON, GA. ? Fannie Simpson, a 1
childless but maternal tfonkey, !
came down to earth but woulJh't give
up the gray and white kitten she's
adopted.
L. H. Colquitt, garagem.an, gave 1
Fannie to a friend, but two days
ago she returned, carrying the kit- '
ten, climbed high into the rafters
and refused to come down.
Then she played around the garage
with the kitten but fought off
all human moves toward her foster
child. The kitten seems perfectly
happy, so Colquitt has decided to
give up the rescue efforts.
Seeding From Airplane
Is Latest Farm Wrinkle
OMA-.A.-Sow mg wheat from an
airpiar.o is the com ir.g thing for
large scale grain farmers, Wilbcr
White bcl.eves.
The Poplar, Mont., flying farmer
said while here on business he harvested
35 acres of the best wheat he
had grown in 20 years from an airplane-seeded
held. The trick was
done by mourting a small hopper
on his ship, then calculating wind
vcloc.ty and propeller blast.
V.
Heavy Salmon Run
Tames Wild Rears
Bruin Getting Fat and I<azy
Over Unusual Supply.
WHEELER, ORB.?Bear* arc getting
so lazy they wait for the fish
to be tossed ashore; sea-gulls arc
siiUng thf'osclvcs to the point of insensibility,
fishermen arc reaping
fat profits.
And still the churn salmon surge
up the Oregon coastal streams in u
run so heavy hundreds of them are
forced from the water and onto the
river banks.
Mink and otter have gathered at
the banks, too interested in the unexpected
and bountiful feast to fear
human intruders.
Bears, expert fishers, sit by the
streams and wait for dinner to flash
from the water und flat at their
feet.
Seagulls, always enthusiastic eaters,
loll about in a semi-stupor.
Rats have deserted oceanside
wharves and barnyurds for easier
feeding along the streams. Farmers
and fishermen hope they won't
return; old-timers think they will.
Old-timers can't remember anything
like this run of the chum, lowly
und once despised member of the
salmon family. From Tillamook
bay to Alsea river the chum, which
spawns in the comparatively short
coastal streams, Is churning the
waters in unprecedented number.
The ugly, white-meated fish,
averaging 10 pounds, once was considered
not choice enough for human
consumption. In recent years,
it has been canned and smoked, but
always at a price so low the profit,
if any, to the fishermen was
meager.
With prices at 3Vi cents a pound,
fishermen have made qs> high as $80
a day each since the run started.
The run began in early October.
It increased and increased. About
the time it normally would have begun
to thin out?it got heavier thun
ever, and the end is not yet in sight.
Classifies Hoboes From
'Dingbats' to 'Buzzards'
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. ? Salvation
Army Adjutant Giles Barret of
Stanford, Conn., has a hobby of
classifying hoboes. He puts them
in 24 classifications, from tramps
who feel that the world owes them
a living, to "jungle buzzards," which
he said are the lowest form of
parasites.
These "buzzards," he explained,
ure tramps who "bum" things from
hoboes.
Barrett points out that the real
hobo is a contraction of "hoeing
boy," an intinerant willing to work
for his keep. Generally, the real
hobo, called a "dingbat," is accompanied
by a "gaycat," or novice,
who knocks on the door while the
former does the talking.
Find 'Died of Hard Work'
Misleading as Epitaph
EAST ORANGE, N. J.?An inscription
reading "Died of Hard
Work, J. D. Grummon 1895" on a
granite block near a driveway entrance
here puzzled passersby for 46
years. Now a relative disclosed that
Josiah Dodd Grummon, retired business
man now living in New York,
had chiseled the "epitaph" as a boyhood
prank.
Tired Japanese Farmers
Are to Get Free Massage
TOKYO ?As part of the national
labor mobilization designed to prepare
Japan for "total war," the
school for the blind and dumb announced
that it is organizing a corps
of blind experts in massage who will
tour the countryside giving free
massages to tired farmers.
Massage is widely practiced in
Japan and is a virtual monopoly for
the blind.
Maybe Former Sheriff
Knew About Neighbors
HASKELL, OKLA.-Flood waters
swirled around the home of Stacy
Moore, 55, former Haskell county
sheriff, but he spurned rescuars who
rowed out three times. "If the house
goes down, I'll go with it," Moore
shouted. The reason: In Moore's
attic were 90 chickens which he
didn't want to leave alone for fear
some one would steal them.
Even Sure-Footed Cats
Stumble Into This Moat
NEW YORK.?Sure-footed as a
| cat. eh? Well, Bronx park zoo atI
tendants have found out that all
cats aren't so nimble. Five lions
: recently were transferred to a barless
run separated from the spectators
by a moat One of them is so
clumsy he's fallen in six or seven
times, tr.o others at least twice.
t Vitamins and Honey
Build Energy Quick
: DETROIT - T!?-> Michigan
Honey association oas p? rfected
a concentrate of vitamins mixed
with honcv to take rare of that
; "tired feeling."
' "We have given it to people
suffering from extreme fatigue
and found it immediately re
stored the-r lost erergv," M S '
! Zia. the president, said
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Find Resources
Lie Idle in West
Public and Private Lands
Cover Material! Now I
In Demand.
WASHINGTON. ? The publicly
and privately owned lands of the
West hold untapped natural resources
sufficient to provide a plentiful
supply of most critical defense
materials now under priorities and
also the normal needs of the civilian
population, a senate public lands
subcommittee reported.
In a lengthy resume of preliminary
studies, Senator O'Mahoney,
chairman of the subcommittee,
urged that prompt development of
these resources be started.
"Announcements from leading
executives in the organization
which has been created to co-ordinate
the industrial defense effort all
indicate that the rationing of raw
materials is just around the corner,"
the report said. "Instead of
concentrating upon the production
of raw materials and the development
of new sources of supply the
defense organization is thinking in
terms of cutting down civilian supply.
Look Far Afield.
"The existence of large segments
of private industry is seriously
threatened because we seem to
lack iron and steel, copper, manganese
and a score of other materials
needed to maintain normal
industrial activity. Not only is the
manufacture of automobiles being
curtailed but the construction industry
likewise.
"The purpose of this report is to
call attention primarily to the fact
that we have neglected our own
resources and have been content
to depend upon the output of other
lands.
"Instead of developing the tungsten
minerals of the intermountain
states, for example, we have sought
tungsten in the remote parts of
China. Instead of developing* manganese,
which is found in numerous
places in the West, we have sought
it in the Caucasus mountains of
Russia.
"For chrome ore we have gone
to Africa instead of the intermountain
states, and for 50 years prior
to 1930 we imported all our potash,
although there are millions of tons
of it all over the West. Sodium
carbonate and sodium bicarbonate
in huge amounts lie undeveloped in
Wyoming. New sources of iron ore
are known to exist in Utah, Wyoming
and elsewhere.
' Plenty of Power Available.
"As for water power and coal to
develop energy there are available
in the West possibilities for the development
of energy which as yet
remain unmeasured."
Development of these resources,
the committee said, would not only
tend to preserve civilian industries
during the crisis but would be a
strong check to inflationary tendencies
caused by materials' shortages.
Looking to remedies, the committee
held that the first step was a
vigorous research program to classify
our known resources and determine
which were most available
to meet our present requirements.
"Monopolistic control of mining
industries," it was added, "has
prevented the exploration and development
of new sources of supply
by centering the fabricating plants
in the East."
Prompt steps looking to development
of these resources, the committee
said, would supply vitally
needed employment to large numbers
of workers in the West.
Pipe Smokers Organize
Club Just to Spin Yarns
NEW ORLEANS. ? The PipeSmokers
and Yarn-Spinners club |
has no altruistic raison d'etre: ,
"We're purely selfish," says one i
member; "we don't do nothin' for
nobody?we just talk."
But the club does have some
ironclad rules:
No member may buy lunch for
another at the Thursday midday
session.
After the luncheon is begun with
a short grace by the pipe-smoking
chaplain, religion and politics
are barred from discussion.
British Postal Office#
Give 113,000 to Services
LONDON?One in every three
post office workers has joined the
navy, army, air force, civil defense
services or home guard?a total of
113.000.
To help fill the vacancies caused
by their enlistment, 44,000 extra
women have been employed.
The number of women now employed
in the post office?96,000?is
the biggest in history.
Cat Watches as Big Rat
Nibbl es Food in Wi ndow J
HALIFAX, N. S.-One of the ,
worst cases of appeasement "in a
war-torn world drew a crowd in i
front of a shop window, attracting '
still more passers-by. until side- I
walk traffic was halted.
In a window n large brown rat '
was contentedly sampling piles of
oranges, apples and bananas, and
beside it, looking on with benevolent
eye and every appearance of friendly
interest was?the store cat.
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