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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. \ ASK ME O 1 ; ANOTHER [ \ j A General Quiz \ r^-rv. o-c^-o-o-c^- The Quettion* 1. What was Michelangelo’s com ment about trifles? 2. In aviation ceiling zero means what? 3. Who was the only bachelor President of the United States? , 4. What word is used to describe the use of many words when the use of a few would suffice? 5. What was the planned height of the Tower of Babel? 6. Were Lincoln and Lee names of generals in the American Revo lutionary war? 7. Where did the modem circus originate? 8. What character in the Bible died twice? The Answer* 1. “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.” 2. The fog is down to the ground. 3. James Buchanan. 4. Circumlocution. 5. High enough to reach heaven. 6. Yes, Benjamin Lincoln and Henry Lee. 7. In the English fairs of the 17th century. 8. Lazarus. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Ovarlooding ho* b*«n r«- sponsibla for much lost tiro miloogo on commordol and farm motor trucks. Loading of a truck or trailar so tho woight is ovonly distributed to all load-carrying whools will prove an important rub ber conservation measure. It pays to chock loads. If the average rubber consump tion in China, Russia and India were brought up to American rubber con sumption standards, they would re quire 4,500,000 tons of rubber a year, nearly twice as much as the anticipated world supply of natural and synthetic rubber after the war, B. F. Goodrich officials declare. Ik urn oz peace BEGoodrich I pirst in rubber f?EALLY FitSE T EA"\ CARITKn , swano , ORANJGE PEKOE & PEKOE J V T-€ fl SATE TOUR BATTERY Works like matfe. Simply pour In this pow der—once. Prolongs life of yonr new or old aato battery by many months, eren years, depending on condition. Testing Labora tories. Users, Automotlre Bngineers say* "It’s karmUsa y«t doe* all you clatm.” Not need by mfgs of new batteries—makes ’em test too long. Guaranteed. Send 9LQQ, we Will mall postpaid. Agent* wanted. JOlLrS BATTERY A», 1204S. RUt, LssAsfrissIS.CaL ATTENTION: £?cheVs/ The ideal bookkeeping system, designed especially for you by former Govt, tax ex pert. Experience unnecessary. Order yours H0WI Complete year system S5.00postpaid. SIMMONS SALES SYSTEM ■dward Simmons, Agent 3-Aa Ook town - Mobile »0, Ala. Cottle Increase The average annual increase for the .last five years in numbers of beef cows and heifers over two years of age has been 734,000 head, of year ling heifers 330,000 head, of calves 586,000 bead, and of steers 453,000 head. The January X, 1944, inven tory shows a 28.9 per cent increase for beef cows and heifers over two years over the 1935-39 average, for yearling heifers 47.7 per cent in crease, calves 28.7 per cent increase and steers 38 per cent increase. Greatest Flaxseed Crop in History Asked From farms to foundries, factories and the fighting fronts, and back to farms—that’s the cycle of millions of bushels of flaxseed to be produced in the United States this year. After the farmer in the npper left-hand picture has harvested his flaxseed, it becomes linseed oil and acts as a binder in the cores of the molds for metal castings shown at lower left. Much of this metal goes into machines of war. Linseed oil is an essential ingredient of paint and varnish, and the meal left after the oil is pressed out returns to farms as high-protein feed for cattle. Five million acres ol flaxseed are sought in 1945. T HOSE mighty mites from America’s farms—flaxseed —are in the news again. Linseed oil is the reason. About three-quarters of a billion pounds will be needed to answer minimum national requirements in 1945, and the only source of that essential oil is the tiny flax seed. Chief use for linseed oil is in paint and varnish. It accounted for approximately 85 per cent of all the fats and oils used by the drying in dustries last year, and may be ex pected to carry on in the same way in 1945. It is also a valuable ingre dient of linoleum and oilcoth, print ing inks, adhesives and soap, and for processing leather and textiles. One of the little-known, but im portant, uses of linseed oil is in the manufacture of metal castings for many types of military, industrial and agricultural machinery. It acts as a binder for the fine sands of cores for the molds. Nothing is wasted in the process ing of flaxseed, says the War Food adminstration. The meal remaining after the oil has been pressed out or extracted from the seeds goes back to farms as high-protein live stock feed. In fact, the tonnage vol ume of the meal is a bigger busi ness than the oil! Last year, for ex ample, about a million tons of lin seed meal were sold. Five Million Acres Needed. It will take 5,000,000 acres of flax for seed, plus a small amount of imported seed if it can be obtained, to produce the necessary 775,000,000 pounds of linseed oil, according to the WFA. Military requirements for the oil are increasing at a time when domestic reserves are short because of the small 1944 flaxseed crop. In addition, possible imports are uncertain. The acreage sought is 64 per cent greater than last year, which reached only 3,052,000 acres. Total use of linseed oil in 1944 hit an all- time high of 1,025,000,000 pounds, far exceeding U. S. production. This brought a serious drain on reserve supplies. WFA points out that with con sumption levels, inventories of lin seed oil will be as low as they can safely go by next fall when oil from the 1945 crop becomes avail able. With normal yields, the acre age goal would produce about 36,- 800,000 bushels of flaxseed, to which would be added an expected import of 6,300,00 bushels, for a total of 43,- 100,000 bushels. The minimum oil re quirements would take about 40,400,- 000 bushels of seed and another 2,700,000 bushels are estimated as <5 the seed requirements for plantings during the following year. So vital is the need for linseed oil that congress has authorized the expenditure of $30,000,000 in spe cial payments to farmers to help assure a sufficient supply. This is in addition to the regular price sup port program for flaxseed, and will be administerd by the Agricultural Adjustment agency. Farmers who plant flax for seed will receive pay ments at the rate of $5.00 an acre, up to the limit of the individ- ual farm goals worked out by the farmer and his AAA committeemen. The flax must be on suitable soil and the crop properly handled, to be eligible under the payment plan. Price supports for flaxseed in 1945, as announced by the War Food ad ministration, are designed to bring the farm price to not less than 90 per cent of the parity price. Crop Can Be Insured. Further protection for growers is available through the Federal Crop Insurance corporation. Insurance on this crop is being offered this year for the first time, and will assure production returns up to 75 per cent of average yields. Contracts are for one year, and will be available through county AAA offices or other authorized agents. Closing date for submitting applications will be the beginning of seeding or March 31, whichever is earlier for all areas except North Dakota and Montana and parts of Minnesota, where the FCIC closing date is April 10. Average yield of flaxseed is 8 bushels per acre. That means it takes some 31,360,000 of the seeds to produce 152 pounds of linseed oil, since they average 70,000 to a pound. Although all seeds contain oil, some, like flaxseed, are a rich source of that valuable product. By weight, just over one-third of a flax seed is linseed oil. MOPSY By GLADYS PARKER I Federal Housing Agency Asks for 190 Millions To Build 56,000 Homes By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Staff Correspondent. Action of Federal Housing admin istration officials asking the con gress for an additional appropriation of 190 million dollars for public and private housing, and reopening of the Taft committee hearings in vestigating housing problems has brought speculation as to the fu ture of the federal housing program. Under the appropriation asked by FHA, $90,000,000 is sought for 36,000 units of public war housing and $100,000,000 is being asked to construct 20,000 privately financed units unter title VI of the FHA. During the war emergency most of the separate housing organiza tions have been operating under the general framework of the National Housing agency. It seems to be the consensus of opinion among organi zations such as the National Associ ation of Real Estate boards, the States Savings and Loan league, the National Association c.’ Home Builders, and others, that the Na tional Housing agency should not be projected into the postwar era. Most of these organizations be lieve, according to private sources here, that the Federal Housing ad ministration and the Federal Home Loan Bank board should be inde pendent or be reestablished as rela tively independent agencies. Treasury May Take Over. Instead of liquidation of war hous ing projects by the National Hous ing agency, the general opinion seems to prefer that the disposal of permanent and temporary war housing should be the function of the treasury department. The treas ury also is regarded as the likely liquidator of the assets of such agen cies as the U. S. Housing corpora tion, the Home Owners Loan cor poration, the Defense Homes cor poration and all assets of agencies owning defense and war public housing, including the defense hous ing of the Federal Works agency and the non-farm public housing of the Farm Security administration. It is presumed that the United States Housing authority will be re turned to its prewar status in the Federal Works agency. There seems to be a wide diversity of opinion, however, as to the activities which should be permitted the USHA. Some realtors and home builders believe it should be liqui dated as rapidly as contracts be tween the USHA and local public housing authorities will permit. French Losses, Excluding Prisoners, Total 130,000 PARIS, FRANCE. — The news paper L’Ordre reported recently that five years of war had cost France 130,554 military and naval personnel killed, wounded or miss ing, of whom 103,233 were killed in France, Afrjaa and Italy. These fig ures excludea prisoners. At the time of France’s fall the Germans said they had captured more than 1,900,- 000 French troops, including 29,000 officers. TELlfACT TOBACCO CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA IN U.S.A. <1*44 or) QGAKTTCS QGAKS MK CHEWING A SNUFF "GAY GADGETS" Aaaoclatod Newspaper*—WNU Features By NANCY PEPPER CUT A FINE FIGURE Whether yon skate on blades or wheels, yon should have one of those glamour outfits that the slick est chicks are gliding around tho rinks in. We’ve snooped around some of the popular rinks around the country and here’s our up-to-the- minute report. Ton’ll have to get ont yonr needles and thimbles, gals, coz none of this finery is for sale. It’s for the making. Velvet and Spangles—The big fa vorite among the gals who really go to town with fig ures in the mid dle of the rink is velveteen trimmed with spangles. They like the short, short princess dresses with square or sweets heart necklines. The swooniest one we saw was pale I Grable’s initials in sequins at one side. Pants to Match—Some girls make themselves swirling plaid wool (white ground patterns preferred) With little matching pants that show on the swirls. , Oh, My Stars!—You paste silver and gold stars all over your white skate shoes and you look like some thing out of another world. You also paste stars all over a colored snood that holds your page boy in place. Hem Hints—Sew your trimming inside the hemline of your skating skirts. Beads, buttons, spangles, ! even Christmas tree tinsel, are more effective when you only see a flash of them around the corners. HEADSTARTS TO GLAMOUR Was it only yesterday you were strewing flowers in yonr high pom padours and tying bows hither and yon among yonr carls? Was it only the day before yesterday that yon were seeing the world throngh one eye with a Veronica Lake hair droop? And—today yon go for vel vet ribbon bands. Well, what about tomorrow? Here are the newest hair-do trends reported by oar soda fountain sleuths. Get set, get ready and go! They’re yonr headstarts to glamour! Band Pins Barrette—No need to put your velvet headbands away in mothballs just because barrettes are in. Snap your barrette over your band at one side. Lots of girls are going in for doubleheaders like this. Barrette Boom—You see those sil ver bar barrettes on all the sleek est, slickest heads. Friends are giv ing them to each other instead of friendship links with names in scribed. Boy friends are giving them to their steadies instead of identification bracelets. Gals are giving them to themselves instead of investing in another silver bangle bracelet. It’s a trend; it’s a Fad- shion! Eye exercises do wonders for your eyes. After a day at your desk try some right and left eye exercises. Then wash the eyes with warm wa ter, followed by a cold compress over the eye with a five minute rest. Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Features. By FRED NEHEI knew come draft kept on taking men.’ Nazis Have Word for It; and What a Word LONDON. — “Raeumingsfami- lienunterhaltsbeitraege,” a 36 let ter word, the longest yet appear ing in the language of German officialdom, is a direct result of the Russian offensive, reports Reuter’s radio listening post here. It means “subsidies toward the maintenance of evacuated fami lies.” SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Becoming Frock for Daytime Protect Dress With This Apron Daytime Frock A SOFT afternoon frock for the more mature figure. A curved yoke with button trim and scal loped closing are distinctive de tails. Designed to take you every where with charm and confidence. * • • Pattern No. 1301 Is designed lor sizes 34. 36. 38. 40, 42. 44, 46 and 48. Size 36. short sleeves, requires 3% yards ol 39- inch material. Apron That Covers. IF YOU like a covered-up feel- A ing while you work this pretty apron will be a welcome addition to your apron wardrobe. Use gay A dash of horseradish mixed with each glassful of tomato juice will add to the flavor. —a— Dipping a dust cloth in hot water to which a little kerosene is added will make it hold dust much better. —a— In home sewing it’s important to know threads. On cottons, use cot ton thread. Rayons sew equally well with silk or cotton thread. —o— If yon have a dress with a skirt that is too narrow, take off the skirt at the waistline. Add a new skirt in contrasting fabric, cutting it over a pattern that fits in with the style of the dress you are re modeling. polkadots or bright checked cot- tops, and for the cherry applique, left-over scraps of material. • • •, Pattern No. 1298 is designed for size* 14. 16, 18, 20; 40, 42 and 44. Size IS re- quires 2% yards of 32 or 35-inch materi al; 7 yards ric rac to trim. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. 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