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s.rwv —Hr The Barnwell People-S—ilaet BamwelL S. C- Thursday, August 8, W85 Modern Alaskan Town Has Climate Like Virginia \ ■' ■ m JU& -r, itiajR; 4 3 ■ ... Temperature Seldom Falls Much Below Freezing. — Washington.—Ketchikan, Alaska, Is going Into the public utility business. The city has Arranged to buy up local electric light, power, water and tele phone properties. “This Is only another indication tt\at Ketchikan is a strictly modern city, with very few of the characteristics popularly attributed to Alaskan towns,” sayfc the National Geographic society. “Its population of 3.800 would scarcely rate U a metropolitan standing in the states, but In Alaska it is second only to the capital, Juneau. More Rain Than in Panama. “Situated at the very southernmost tip of the long, Alaskan panhandle that reaches down the coast of British Columbia, Ketchikan Is first port of call for all steamers entering Alaska through the inland passage. It is perched j>n a rocky hiMside that .falls abruptly into the waters of TongassT Narrows. Around It rise steep, wooded hills, green the year around, for win ters in Ketchikan are as mild as in Richmond, Va. The temperature sel dom drops much below freezing, and there Is practically no snow. The winding sea channels arid swift, moun tain streams never freeze. But there Is rain, plenty of It; over 13 feet a year, which is worse than tropical Panama. Yellow oilskins are the pre vailing fashion In all seasons. “The bare, rock foundations of the city provide neither soil nor level space for roads, so the streets are built of wooden planks. /The business dis trict is set on piles, close to the long line of wharfs. Stairs and„ winding board roads lend up to the residential part of town. There almost every home, has a bit of lawn or garden, probably planted on imported earth, la Busy Place. “Business is good in Ketchikan. It is shipping center, and supply base for a large district. {The shops and stores are stocked with foods and merchan dise fresh from the states. After all, Seattle Is only 000 miles away, with regular, stearrfb? service winter-and summer. Huge salmon canneries are frantically busy during the short sea son when salmon are running. Often the little river that rushes through Ketchikan. Incidentally- supplying .It with electric power, Is packed solid with pWrand silver fish. The chinook, or king salmon. Is the principal vari ety of the Ketchikan district. Hali but fishing Is another big Industry, and there are great cold storage plants where the fish are'frozen before they ate" snip pea south. “Although there are several saw mills, lumbering has not been devel oped on a >ery large acnte.—But Ketch * al- Ikan has all the ' potential resources for 4 great fiulpwood Industry—unlim ited, year round water power 'and most inexhaustible timber. The for ests, whidh are mostly spruce and hem lock, mixed with some elder, willow, and cottonwood, are controlled by the United States forest service.” Missouri Towns Boast Odd Names, Guide Shows Jefferson City, Mo.—Using names of towns as a standard, Missouri Is well equipped for almost everything, a state pristal directory shows. A “Sentinel” * to watch over It, “Speed” and “Swift” at Its command, Missouri has little to retard its prog ress. Even “Success" Is within the state. Trick names are plerjftlful. For the boaster there’s “Brag'City," and for the peace-Seeker, “Amity." An “Annapolis” Is boasted by the state, but the best that can be dope rowjrrd Ington county hamlet. The state has a “Bachelor,” but no spinster; a “Day," but no night, a —~ ^ Chain System Used * ^ to Circulate Books Hadlaon, Wlfc—A chain Idea start ed more than 15 years ago by John L. Meyer, secretary of the Inland Press association, is perpetuated monthly when he purchases a new book and starts one traveling from his library. With each book he sends a .note wylng: “Please accept this with my compliments. Some time please pass It along to someone else you think will be Interested In it” He sends hie 4>ookft to friende and acquaintances who are In newspa per work, but does not specify that they must be relayed to persons similarly occupied. “Bendavls,” but no apple; “Joy,” but no sorrow; and a “Shamrock." but no St Patrick. Seventeen other varieties of “saints” are listed. For the traveler, an extensive tour is provided within the bounds of the state. He may Jump from “Mexico” to “California," then to “Delaware." Then he has his choice of the "Klondike,” “Louisiana" and “Nevada.” “Alley** way-remembered—with a “Rat,”' but “Pochahontas” In Cape Girardeau county, was not given a John Smith.. ODD AVERSIONS NOT UNCOMMON Strange Fears Baffle Skill of 'b > Doctors. Hitler’s Double Strolls in Nice A strange character bearing a striking resemblance td Adolf Hitler, German chancellor, is shown here strolling along the ptomenade at Nice with the escorts who always accompany him when he ventures outdoors. Millions Are Lost to Bondholder • Ring Receiverships. Said to Huge Returns. Bring A ' X Washington. — Evidence disclosing the. exlfttence of so-tal’ed “chain com- mltlpes" of bondholders centered in Chicago and New York and controlling millions of dollars’ worth'of defaulted realty bonds was made public by Con gressman A. J. Sabath. chairman of the house committee Investigating re ceiverships. Evidence concerning the operations of the^oommlttees and their affiliates is continuing to be uncovered, with the result that prosecution may be request ed for violation of a number of federal and state taws, Sabath declared. The chain committees, he declared, control from a few issues up to as many as 400 Issues of realty bonds aggregating. In par amount from a few million upward of $200,000,000. The chain committees, the congress- an said, form but one aspect of a “national racket’’ through which 20,- 000,000 citizens have been affected. Nearly $8,000,000,000 of outstanding realty bonds are In default, he re ported. Control or administration of the Jm REDUCES THE K. P. Dr. James B. West, chief scoot executive of the Boy Scoots, has ban ished dishwashing for the 80,000 boys who #111 attend the first National Boy Scout Jamboree In Washington Au gust 21 30. They will ose paper plates and conserve valuable time for sight seeing and other fun. All scouts plan ning. to attend should apply to their local scout headquarter*. chain committees is nationwide, the congressman reported. Sabath said he had found Instances where the so-called ‘‘protective” com mittees destroyed the value and In come of- the- property involved to en able the honse of issue to purchase hack the bonds “for a song.r He added: .“We have discovered instances where co'mmlttees have taken bonds sent In to them and posted them as collateral for loans to pay expenses and big.fees —5 per cent to the protective commit tee. 5 per cent to a management com mittee, 5 per cent to the lawyers and so on down the line. “They are resourceful and deter- mined—to——away with ^vprything they can.” Istanbul Sets Up Code for Its Grave Diggers Istanbul.—In Istanbul Turkish mourn- erti have staged a revo^ against the grave diggers. They say that they charge more than the due fees for burying the dead and bargain speculatively over the corpses. So many complaints have reached the municipality from the mourning population >that the police have been sent a schedule of grave digging charges which kll grave diggers must follow. It will cost $3.75 to bury any one over five years old, and $1.80 for persons under five. But for burials In graves which are already open, the charge will be only a dollar. Exchange Plan Brings Vermont Rare Relics Burlington, Vt—By an exchange plan with natural history and ethnology mnseums In Britain and France; an ^lent Roman relics and other valuables soon are to come to the Fleming, mu seum of the University of Vermout Rettcr ojf oto Roman rule tn Brltaln and France are the chief exhibits. In exchange, the museum will send to Europe Implements and other objects of the American IndlSns. * Get Cheap Electricity by Capturing Sun Rays French Lick Spring*, — Ind.—Dirt cheap electrical power, derived from the aan, will make the utility holding company Issue obsolete within the next few yeara, Albert G. Burnt, president of the Congress of National Inventora. said bare. that utility holding companies will die of uselessness, according to Burns. Experiments now being made by the New York Society of Electrical Engi neers to harness the sun’s power soon will place 200,000,000,000 volts of electrical energy at man’s disposal dally. Burns asserted. Outlining an alluring future. Burns continued: “Transmission of these huge vol- utftes of power without the use of transmission lines Is being perfected and will be In common use within a few years Already great electrical charges have been thrown for 26 miles.” TELEVISION TESTER A version, amounting almost to terror, of cats Is not uncommon, par ticularly among women. Snakes, too, hare a repellent effect on many peo ple. Less frequent is terror of the house-fly. A doctor recently stated, however, that among his patients were two men in whom the buzzing of a fly Inspired profound fear. At the sight of a fly crawllri^ on the window panes One of these men lin mediately starts to tremble, violent ly, and as soon as the fly begins to buzz beads of perspiration break out otf his forehead and he has to be led from the room. This man was an officer decorated for bravery dur ing the World war. Many famous people have been similarly affected, although normal In other respects. The Roman emperor Domitlan could not bear the distant hunuof & moving fly. Marechal d’Albret, re- tated to the French king, Henry IV a man of exceptional bravery, Is said to have been stricken with terror If he saw a pig. The duke of Epernon fainted at the sight of a hare, while a mouse sufficed to make the dlstln guished Italian ’’Writer’ Caraeriolli ill for several days. That Inoffensive creatures shoulc Inspire such fear- in normally brave men is strange. Still more remark able Is the horror some people have for the sound of a certain worif or the sight of some inanimate object. -A chevalier of Alcantara is said to have fainted every time he heart! the word “Lana”—Spanish for wool—al though the actual "feel” of woolen clothing, repugnant to many people, did not affect him. The sight of an eclipse of the moon also caused the great Fraud* Bacon to swoon, while the famous Italian doctor, Scallger, shuddered at the sight of cress. Even more astonishing was the case of a squire of Bolston, of whom It trsaid that wheri obllg?d to listen to the twenty-flftb chapter of Isaiah and certain texts from the Book of Kings “he felt an Icy hand upon the top of hls head and a sensation of intense cold around the heart.” Easier to understand, especially by vegetarians, Is the aversion that one of the daughters of Frederik, king of Naples, had for meat. Taxed by her sisters with b^ n R weak-willed she once placed a small piece of cooked meat In her mouth. Where upon, to their great consternation, “she fell Into a fit, remained uncon scious for half an hour, and lay 111 with a fever for many weeks.” These aversions and phobias still baffle doctors, for the victim Is nearly always normal in other re spects. Some doctors believe them to be drie to a slight kink .In the brain aud associate them with a mild forta of Insanity* Others sug gest they are hereditary, while psycho-analysts maintain that they are due to the Influence of the sub- consclons mind Impressed by some apparently Insignificant Incident dur ing the life of th? victim. Sup porters of the theory of reincarna tion believe that all these Inexplica ble dislikes and uncontrollable fears are vestlges>of some happening in a former life. One thing that the .study of these cases has revealed Is the fact that phobias and aversions do not neces sarily indicate a flaw In the intel lect. *As a general rule, only the more Intelligent men are thus af flicted—and the more developed and active their brain the more Intense (s their particular aversion. , The phobias molt commonly en countered are those caused by the smell of flowers or fruits.—London nt-Bits. 'Cracow Honors Memory , pf Heroic Trumpeter The patriotic fervor shown ~by Poles all over, the world at the re cent death of Marshal Pllsudskl s evident In many enstoms wfileb Imprefp the traveler In Poland. No visitor! to Cracow can miss one sotthdvof the trumpet which echoes every hour, day and night, from the slender tower of St Mary’s church. From the streets of Cracow, lined with medieval buildings, the trum peter can be seen as he faces north, then east, south and west, each time playing the opening notes of medieval hymn in honor of the pierced the trumpeter's throat, hid ing, him on “the broken note.* Today tbo trumpet era of 8t Mary’s take the same vow and play the asm* aria, breaking off abrupt ly at that note, In memory of Cra cow’s hero. a JPffIPk Quick. Safe Relief For E /ps Irritat.-d X By Exposure %*&■■■ To Sun, Wind ci n ci Oust — Blessed Virgin. Always at the same note, about three-fourths of the way through, he stops short. The tradition governing this “broken note” goes back to the year 1241, when Tartan invaded Cracow. The whole population fled to the Wawel, the famous fortified castle. The only one to remain was the trumpeter of St. v Mary’s, for he had taken a vow to blow the Hey- nal, the hymn to the Virgin, every hour, no matter how great the dan ger. The trumpeter climbed to the tower, true to hls vow, and blew the opening notes of the aria. Some Tartars feasting In the market place looked up. One of them fitted an arrow to hls bow, took aim and L, ’OINTMENT will aid in removing* that itching* dandruff slsted by shampoo* with uticura SOAP to Kecp^our scalp clean. OnCB you taste Grape-Nut* Flakes, you’ll cheer, too! Crisp, aweet, golden-brown flakes with plenty of real nourishment. One dishful,, with milk or cteam, contains more varied nour ishment than many a hearty meaL Try it— your grocer has it! Product of General Foods. Dr. W. R. G. Baker, vice president and genera] manager of RCA, and a noted electronics authority, who heads a committee of the company’s research and development engineers that will plan and carry out extensive tests of high definition television under actual operating conditions during the next year and a half. He la shown check ing one of the huge Iconoscope tubes which will transmit the television images. . ..V J Minuter Is Tulare, Calif.—J Forest Ranger ,4 A minister In the win ter, Rev. Arthur Rice, of the Tulare Congregational church, will become a forest ringer in Yosemite. He held the same Job in 1933 and 1934 while a pastor ip Salt Lake City. A -7—^ , \ * Geld in Petrified Weed Falkm, Nev.—Black petrified containing gold has been fonnd here. Cye Cox reported that many petrified logs have been ground in mortars and the. said extracted. at Temper the Sunshine^. * SEMI-TROPICAL SAVANNAH IDEAL YEAR-ROUND CLIMATE Enjoy Me at (he historic HOTEL DeSOTO .., Beeches thirty minutes awey over paved high, way, or swimming peel in hotel petlo . . , _ roomy cabanas lor private partiee ... hixuris ©us rooms and suites . . . unexcelled cuisian. 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