Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERKT SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Lizard Has the Record For Speedy Acceleration Acceleration from a standing start is highly developed in some wild animals. The cheetah, for in stance, can reach 45 miles per hour in two seconds, while a leop ard can cover 15 yards in the first second. An athlete can only touch 16 miles per hour in the first two seconds. The record for the speediest ac celeration from a standing start must go to the lizard. Next time you surprise a lizard sleeping, clap your hands loudly just above it. It will move so fast that as far as your eyes are concerned it will just have vanished. You will rarely be able to follow its flight. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER On* government synthetic rubber plant, operated by The B. F. Goodrich Co., in 14 months produced in synthetic rubber the equivalent to tb* rubber yield of approximate ly 14 millian rubber trees during tb* same period. Fourlumber companies subscribed to the cost of building a 50-mile private road for hauling logs from an Oregon forest. The road Is en tirely on private ground and free from all state and I oca I regulations, and trucks can be operated there on license-free. Shoes mad* with new non- marking synthetic rubber sales are among the new items in the rubber footwear Held. In mi peace B.EGoodrich *- R£Al.i_t F’hfE #»« 1"“ i 1 : 1 , ...IF SO WATCH OUT Th« medical profession knows that though a person may be cured of com mon malaria they may have it coma back on them. So, if you are once more 'reeling tired, run down, have pains in back and legs, feel weak and billious, no appetite and nervous—though chills and fever haven’t struck you yet, and you have common malaria—it doesn’t pay to take any chances. Try a bottle of Oxi dise. Oxidine is made to combat malaria, give you iron to help creation of red blood cells. If Hie first bottle doesn’t satisfy you your money will be returned. Oxidine has been used for over SO years. Get a bottle today at your drug store. KISSING WONT MAKE IT WEUf Watch out for those cuts and bruises I Even apparently minor onee may lead to more serious conditions if neglected. The wise way is to keep time-tested Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Oil on hand in tha medicine chest al ways. Formula of a long-ex perienced railroad surgeon .. . \ It soothes, eases, and tends to promote natural healing proc esses. Good for minor cuts, bruises, burns, sunburn, non- K isonous Insect bites, chafing. e only as directed. In 3 dif ferent sizes at your drugstore. The GROVE LABORATORIES/INC. ST. LOUIS 3, MISSOURJ ^ Makers of GROVE S COLD &blETS cRRmfin, \ ORANGE PEKOE & ^EKOt j -REA orPORTERs ANTISEPTIC OIL High Pressure Spray Forces Out, Kills Cattle Grubs New Treatment Promises To Conquer Ranching Industry’s Worst Pest ■ft Cattle grubs, those ugly parasites that cause a loss of leather, meat and milk valued at 100 million dol lars annually, can now be controlled by spraying. The insecticide, mixed with water, is blown into the hair on the backs of the infested ani mals. At a pressure of between 250 and 400 pounds the solution pene trates the holes that the grubs have burrowed in the skin. The grubs come out and die soon afterwards. A portable pumping unit provides the pressure for spraying the insecti cide. At a recent demonstration on a ranch near Fresno, Calif., a group of agricultural experts and farm journal editors watched while a herd of Hereford cattle was treated with the spray. The animals were driven into a chute, and as each one passed the operator, he played the nozzle over its back, washing off dirt, grease and scabs as well as killing the grubs. The cattle grub and heel fly are different forms of the same insect. Starting in the spring, when it is in the fly form, the heel fly lays eggs on the heel and belly hairs of the animals. These eggs hatch into maggots which work their way through the hide and enter the muscle tissues. During the next nine months these maggots migrate through the internal organs of the cattle and come out along the back. Cysts are formed and the mag gots then turn into grubs about an inch long. In the spring they work their way out of the holes in the liide and fall to the ground. Within a few weeks they turn into heel flies and the yearly cycle repeats it self. The U. S. department of agricul ture arrives at its $100,000,000 loss in meat, milk and leather in the fol lowing ways: (1) Every hide with five or more grub holes is classed as No. 2 grade, at a discount of one cent a pound. Hides with very many grub holes must be used for by-products, as they are not worth tanning. It is esti mated that enough leather was lost this way during 1941 to provide shoes for a million marching men for an entire year. (2) Millions of pounds of the best beef are trimmed away from grubby carcasses every year by packers, and this loss is reflected in the price paid for cattle on the hoof and meat in the retail markets. (3) Milk production has been shown to suffer as much as 25 pep cent from the presence of grubs in a cow. Heel fly attacks can cause an equal loss in production. (4) The migration of cattle grubs in cattle makes them sluggish and unthrifty. They lose weight or do not put on weight. They require more feed, and in some cases in fection resulting in death has oc curred from a crushed cattle grub in an animal’s back. (5) The attacks of the heel fly cause running, stampeding, and MOPSY By GLADYS PARKER Salt grass, coated with a thin mixture of molasses and water, becomes quite attractive to cattle that scorned it before. The sweetened grass proved quite noorishing in tests. Old hay, treated with molasses, also was eaten with relish. — by the farmer to spray his hog pens, his dairy bam and his out buildings. By using diesel oil, or other weed killer, the farmer can economically kill weeds and then, after emptying the machine and re filling with the proper disinfectant, he can attack and destroy fruit or vegetable pests. During the dry season when cat tle do not easily graze, he can whet their appetites and consequently in crease their weight or their milk production by spraying the dry material w'ih a mixture of water (33% by volume) and cane molas ses. Range cattle on the Fresno ranch, which had refused salt grass and old hay, were found to relish the same material after it was cov ered with the molasses spray. It was a question of teaching old dogies new tricks. Scarce as feed is, they’d better learn them, too. The great Rhineland city, Cologne, captured by American forces in early March, has been famous for 2,000 years. Its aluminum and syn thetic rubber factories have made it the target for devastating bomber raids in this war. Power plants and bridges have also been blasted, but the beautiful and immense cathedral has suffered little damage. Situated on the Rhine, about 70 air miles upstream from the Nether lands frontier, Cologne sprawls over both banks of the river, the old town lying on the left, says the National Geographic society. On the right bank are the annexed suburbs of Deutz, Mulheim, Kalk, and Vingst, the fair grounds, and several amuse ment parks. The countryside is low and flat. A boom period in the 19th century expanded the city. Fortifications were pulled down to make way for new streets and housing. Blocks of modern dwellings soon spread in a thick, crescent growth west of the so-called “ring streets”—boulevards paved on the curving line of the ancient ramparts. In some places the “rings” expand into spaces laid out with flower beds and edged with trees. Ancient city gates were made into museums. Fragments of Roman ruins remind citizens of their civic origin. In the heyday of the Hanse towns, Cologne had a brisk trade in silk, spices and other products of east ern lands, goods transported over Alpine passes from the Mediter ranean and floated down the Rhine to be distributed throughout west ern Europe. Wines from up the river were transshipped at Cologne to seagoing vessels. So large was the export trade that Cologne mer chants had their own docks in Lon don. Weights and measures stand ard in Cologne were used in almost every town of the Rhine area, West phalia and the Netherlands. Its Easter fair drew visitors from far places in Europe and from abroad. Like other Hanse towns, Cologne rapidly lost commercial leadership after the 16th century. New trade routes had opened; strong rivals sprang up. When the French took over the old free city in 1794 they found only 40,000 inhabitants, most of them destitute. Develop ment of the Ruhr valley, steamships and railroads revived commerce, made Cologne once more a thriving export center. Cologne’s name dates from A. D. 50 when the Roman Emperor Claudius established a colony for war veterans, and called it Colonia Agrippina in honor of his wife. Her name was eventually dropped, the I town’s name becoming Cologne in French, Koln in German. From the end of the fifth century the city belonged to the kingdom of the Franks, and was raised by Charlemagne to the rank of an arch bishopric. Citizens contested the power of the churchmen, guilds re sisted nobles, noble families fought Capture of Cologne Revives Interest in Famed City’s Past When sprayed with insecticide that penetrates their borrows, grabs crawl out and die. High pressure is necessary to do the job thoroughly. loitering in the shade and water,' when they should be grazing. The results are poor feeding and loss of weight as well as injury and miring down. Ridding the cattle of grubs, how ever, is only one use for the power sprayer. It has many other uses, such as whitewashing, painting and disinfecting, for fly and mosquito control, killing weeds, and spraying fruits and vegetables. One of the most important and newest uses is for spraying dry grass or hay with molasses to make a food palatable for cattle. The machine also will serve as a fire engine in emergen cies. Because of their war uses, how ever, only a few of the sprayers will be available to farmers for a while. The rancher leads a busy life and usually does not have time to de vote several days to painting a barn by hand. As a consequence the buildings suffer from the ravages of weather. With the paint gun attach ment, he can easily paint a barn of ordinary size in a few hours. Even the farmer’s wife can use the machine, it is so simple, and she can rid the ranch of many of the flies, lice and ticks that invade her chicken house, and the grounds sur rounding her home. She thus pro tects the health of her family and of her flock. The same machine can be used By NANCY PEPPER Jitterbug Joolery ) Definitely, there’s a new trend in jewelry, not so many gadgets—bat more silver stuff than you have arm space for. It’s traditional to wear your silver on your left arm and your I.D. (Identification) bracelets on year rigbt arm. It's practically compulsory to wear short strings of graduated pearls with everything. Lend Us Tour Ears—We want to pnt those metal or plastic hoop ear rings on them. And—how abont the drop style earrings? It’s a rad ical change from the button types that have been weighing yon down. Sentimental Skunk—His name is “Stinky” and he’s made out of fur. He holds a little flower in his paws and a fur tail curls up his back. You see him on sweat ers and lapels ev erywhere, too. He’s a fad! Stone Studded Stunners — The newest in hair bar rettes are leather bars, studded with colored stones to match your belts you’ve gono be- serk about. Look for them at your favorite high school shop. Fob-Fad—Ask dad for watch fob; mount it on a ribbon or on a chain at your waistline, joolery foolery. Coin CoUectors—Girls are collect ing foreign coins from their Fellows on a Furlough and are having them strung together into necklaces and bracelets. It’s the newest form of jingle-jangle. his old piece of and wear it It’s the newest FOLLOW THE FAD-SHIONS It's not always what yon wear that connts, it’s how yon wear it. For instance, last year everybody was bnftoning cardigans down the back. This year it’s sharper to wear yonr cardigans open down the front over a blouse with only the top button Listened. Would yon like to hoar more? Bead on, MacDuff. Streaming Scarfs — Much newer than velvet ribbon bands for your hair are printed scarfs, folded into wide crushed bands and tied around your hair with the ends hanging down at one side. You look like a gypsy sweetheart. Slick Suspenders — The way - to make a plain blouse and skirt look like a real ensemble is to add a pair of suspenders. The fad is for felt suspenders with your name embroid ered on ’em. Hot Feet—Lots of girls are dyeing those heavy white sweat socks in bright colors to go with their sweat ers. Also—lots of girls are wearing boys’ argyle plaid socks—the bright er the better. Ml Minute Make - Up. By GABR1ELLB eumuooo The oldest game in the world is the one played by women—the Game of Make Believe I They are never too .young or too old for that. And why not make believe that you are as lovely as you would like to be? Help along the Make Believe by be lieving in the useful art of Makeup! Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Feature*. among themselves. Torn with con flict and dissension, Cologne pre sented a paradox of prosperity. By the end of the 15th century it had be come one of Germany’s richest cities. After Waterloo it was under Piussian rule. Fifth largest City in the Reich, Cologne was normally credited with a population of 768,426. During th4 present war, it has become a cen ter for production of plane and XJ- boat engines, textiles and leather. Well-developed transportation has assured a flow of the city’s industrial lifeblood—coal and coke from the near-by Ruhr valley, iron from Lor raine. Railways and roads fan out in all directions. The Rhine in peacetime bore 15,000,000 tons of shipping a year, with the city’s share about 2,000,000 tons. TEIEFACT nVE YEARS OF WAR M GREAT BRITAIN (CHANOC M UV* STOCK) Xf MS U. S. Sending Equipment To Bolster Greek Army ATHENS, GREECE.—The U. S. government decided to send to Greece equipment necessary to re organize the Greek army, in ac cordance with decisions reached at the Yalta conference, Undersec- tretary of War Spahis announced. The equipment will be sent on a lend-lease agreement reached when King George and Emmanuel Tsou- deros, then premier, went to Wash ington. Russians Miss Adolf Hitler by Two Days LONDON.—The Moscow radio quoted a Soviet war correspond ent as saying Adolf Hitler had visited a German frontier town only two days before it was cap tured by the Red army. The correspondent did not iden tify the town, but said Hitler had exhorted “young and old to take up arms." SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Start Day Right in This Frock Matching Dress and Hat for Tot 8763 36-52 Pretty House Frock Vf OU’ll look pretty and very * efficient in this smoothly fitting house frock with scalloped front closing. Use gay floral prints, pink and white or blue and white checked ginghams, or crisp polka dots. Trim with bright jumbo ric Pattern No. 8763 is designed for sizes 36. 38. 40. 42. 44. 46. 48. 50 and 52. Size 38 re- quires 4y« yards of 35 or 39-inch material; 3 yards ric rac for trimming. Plant grass in a flower pot for your cat, and set the pot where the cat can help himself, as grass is essential to his health. —o— To protect the ends of a large linoleum rug that has to be stored for a time, place galvanized pails on the ends. Tie the pails together to keep them on. —*— Make sure that all of your soap dishes have drainage holes at the bottom. This will permit your soap to dry when not in use and the soap will last longer. —o— Always use a shoe horn when putting on your shoes. Ease the foot into your shoe and you won’t break the back or strain the seams. They’ll look well longer. Put shoe trees into the shoes the minute you take them off. Wrinkles are ironed out then, while the shoe is still moist and warm. —o— Try making work aprons out of old or used feather ticking. Use a shop apron as a pattern. Make them with plain hems or trim with bias binding or ric rac braid. These aprons need no starch, re quire little ironing and are ideal for wear in the milk house, laun dry room or when canning. The Talk of the Table! For a finer, churned-fresh flavor, always use Nu-Maid margarine. Nu-Maid is the Table Grade Mar garine . .. made especially for use on the table. Grand for cooking and baking, too.—Adv.' Dress and Hat for Tot AN ADORABLE warm weather ensemble for a sweet young miss. She’ll be sure to like the swinging skirt and the bodice lac ing on the dress. The little hat is easy to make—it opens out flat to launder. - * • Pattern No. 8766 is designed for sizes S, 3, 4. 5 and 6 yea'-s. Size 3 dress require* l>i yards of 35 or 39-inch material; pan ties. V* yard; bonnet, including self lining, % yard. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago Enclose 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size...,, Name Address FAST RELIEF From Too Frequent Urination, Backache, Run-Down FeeEug —due to irritation of the bladder caused by excess acidity in die Famous dodoes diseovsry ads on tha kidneys and helps hasp you from getting up nights l Are you suffering unnecessary discom fort and distress from backache, burning urine, frequent desire to pass water? Getting up often at night? These symp toms may be caused by bladder irritation due to excess acid in the urine. Then try that famous doctor’s discovery «— DR. KILMER’S SWAMP ROOT. 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