The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 28, 1945, Image 7
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Lobster Ousting
Potato as Maine’s
Greatest Pride
Popularity of Epicurean
Seafood Gaining Apace
During Meat Rationing
When you think of Maine, you
think of potatoes or politics—pota
toes because the Maine spud is
known throughout the length and
breadth of the land, and politics be
cause the political prognosticators
have an axiom that as Maine goes
in politics, so goes the nation. Dur
ing recent years, however, particu
larly since meat rationing, the pota
to is being seriously challenged in
the Pine Tree state as its most
prideful product. The challenger is
the lobster.
Epicures have long been aware of
the excellence of Maine lobsters. It
is only now that hoi polloi is becom
ing aware that this crustacean
has no peer as a sea food. Seven
and a half million pounds of lobster
are taken in Maine every year. This
is a lot of lobster, and such a de
pletion in the lobster population
might have disastrous results were
it not for the loving care with which
the state authorities handle the situ
ation. They have set up r state
hatchery in which baby lobsters are
cared for through the critical
part of their lives, which means the
first four or five weeks.
Every female lobster produces up
to 15,000 eggs in a year. But the
great majority of those would per
ish were it not for the state nur
sery. The eggs are collected and in
cubated in tanks of sea water. The
This huge lobster Is a female about to be put into the hatchery tank.
The shiny black masses on her underside are eggs. When the young
lobsters are old enough to take care of themselves, they are dumped
Into the sea and left to mature.
By NANCY PEPPER
TRINKETS FOR TWO
Are they co-starring? You ean tell
fcy the jewelry they’re wearing,
once you’re on to the latest “steady”
stuff.
Barrette Business—He clasps her
barrette over his belt these days to
show they’re
Swinging on a
Star. If he’s a
good mixer he
usually has more
than one barrette
on his belt.
Hand Shakes—
They buy little
pins in the shape
of hands. She
wears one on her
sweater or headbanJ^he wears the
other on his jacket. They re Hand or
T shirt. Holding but definitely!
Occupied Territory — They buy
those little heart pins with “tak
en” inscribed on them. (They’re
the latest dime store delight.) He
wears one; she wears the other. No
need to ask, “Hi, Heart throb—
what's fluttering?” You’ll know!
Finger Prints—^They’re wearing
twin I.D. rings—those new minia
ture versions of your precious Iden
tification bracelets. Of course, his
initials are engraved on her ring—
and vice versa.
WIT PARADE
Here are some new expressive ex
pressions that are being bandied
around the corner soda fountain.
They’re much easier to memorize
than irregular French verbs—but
they probably won’t do you as much
good!
They’re a Victory Garden ro
mance. She’s a Sad Tomato and
he’s a Dead Beet.
*
No conceit in your family. You’ve
got it all!
•
Make like a Hoop and Roll Along.
*
Bring in the Lima Beans, we have
enough Corn for Succotash.
*
Bring me a rain barrel; there’s
a Drip in the house.
Ramie, New Fiber Grown
In Florida, Now Woven
Into Amazing Fabric
WIT PARADE
Johnny asked—Mary refused.
Johnny begged—Mary blushed.
Johnny argued—Mary hesitated.
Johnny insisted—Mary resisted.
Johnny tried—Mary surrendered.
Now Johnny carries Mary’s books
home from school!
TRIXIE TEEN SAYS—
You’re annoyed at your family for criti
cizing that new Wolf First Class who’s been
on the prowl for you lately—aren’t you?
You can’t understand how they can object
to a boy who dances like a dream, bowls
like a champion and always has so much
to spend. You're old enough to form your
own opinions, you think. Of course, you
always hove to do some Defense Work
when you date him; some of the other
kids say he’s on the fast side; you DID see
him take a drink the other night. Look,
junior, your Wolf First Class may be a
Second Class Male after all It’s better to
take your folks’ word for it than to find it
out for yourself the hard way.
Out of the steaming Everglades of
Florida comes an amazingly versa
tile new fabric — ramie, destined to
open a new world to American con
sumers. It means iron-strong shirts,
shorts and slacks; socks that won’t
rub holes; non-shrinking; non-fading
dresses with a higher sheen than
silk; life-wearing fish nets; paper so
strong you can’t rip it; freedom from
shrinkage and resistance to mildew
and rot.
Ramie is seven times stronger
than wool and eight times stronger
than cotton or silk. Its tensile
strength is equal to that of mild
steel. A fiber no thicker than an or
dinary pin cannot be broken by
hand when ripped from the natural
stalk. Commissioner of agriculture
for the Everglades, Nathan Mayo,
says: “It sounds almost too good to
be true. I am always expecting the
‘catch’ to develop, but so far it
hasn’t.”
Rich, Moist Soil Needed.
The sudden appearance of ramie
on the American scene is due to
two long-awaited developments—
the location of ground rich enough
9nd wet enough to support its
growth, and more important the in
vention of a satisfactory decorticat
ing machine, as important to the
widespread use of ramie as the cot
ton gin was to cotton. A decorti-
cator is more simple than its
name would indicate — just a table
on which to lay the ramie stalks
and two rapidly revolving drums be
tween which the stalks themselves
are revolved to strip off long
strands of fiber, according to Coro
net magazine.
Aside from clothing, the uses for
ramie Lave long been recognized by
textile experts everywhere. Braided
fibers are wrapped around propeller
shafts and other ship machinery to
seal out water. For twine and rope
it is without peer. Heavy textiles
such as upholstery, draperies, and
seat covers—are virtually perma
nent when made of ramie. And it is
the best known material for towels
and bandages because of its absorb
ing properties and the fact that it is
lintless.
Three Crops a Year.
Ramie grows the year around. It
takes three years for the first
harvestable crop, but aftkr that the
only cultivation problem is to cut
the stalks about three times a year.
About every dozen years, the fields
have to be replanted. Growing, it
looks like oversized cotton.
The first ramie products have been
manufactured and are now on the
experimental market. An official of.
one company cautions, “Please
don’t make too many claims about
this stuff. Already we are swamped
by department stores in every large
city asking us for exclusive dis
plays.” He fears that the product
may suffer from over-advertising be
fore it can be produced in quantity.
The garments are no more expen
sive than a good grade of cotton or
silk. A man’s shirt made of ramie
will cost about $6.00 and will wear
three times as long as any ordinary
shirt. A woman’s dress will cost
about $20 and slacks around $10. But
aside from the consumer benefits,
one of ramie’s greatest contribu
tions to the nation undoubtedly
is the part it has played in helping
to conquer the Florida Everglades.
Fall Storms Uncover
Strange Wreckage Off
Coast of N. Carolina
A curious box trap, made of slats, is used to catch lobsters. They
are sunk along the coast attached to buoys. Pieces of fish entice the
lobsters into the trap.
youngsters, when they arrive, are
fed ground liver (beef) every two
hours around the clock. Since the
meat shortage, some mussel meat,
finely ground, has been used to
augment the liver. When able to
fend for themselves, the young lob
sters are put into the sea and left to
mature. Lobsters caught for com
mercial consumption are four to
five years old. There are certain
size requirements, too.
British Frigates, Spanish
Galleons of 16th Century
Among Romantic Relics
By BILL SHARP
Once more September storms have
lifted the curtain on hundreds of
tragedies which were played out on
the lonely beaches of N. Carolina’s
outer banks in the last three cen
turies—but as usual, it is a fleet
ing show. Sand swept away by tides
of the 1944 hurricane already is
drifting back with mild southwest
winds, and before long most of the
exposed wrecks will be hidden
again.
Some of the derelicts now on view
all the way from Nag’s Head to
Ocracoke inlet are familiar, and
some are beyond the ken of the old
est coastguardsmen or their rec
ords — so violently did last year’s
hurricane erode the banks.
The Ghost Ship.
One of the most interesting is the
ghost ship, the Carroll A. Deering,
out of Bath, Me. She was found on
Diamond Shoals in 1921, undam
aged, with sails set, with uneaten
food on the table and on the stove,
but with only a cat to greet the
coastguard crew.
The Deering had passed Diamond
lightship the day before, but that
was the last seen of any of her
crew, and the cat kept her own
counsel. Later she drifted onto Ocra
coke island, sanded up and was lost
to sight and almost to memory un
til the hurricane scoured out her
hull.
Up near Nag’s Head was uncov
ered again the tired ribs of the
quaint warship believed by many to
be a Crumpster of Elizabethan
days. She was first revealed by a
storm in 1939, and her primitive con
struction and fittings aroused much
local speculation. Within a few
days, the sand had claimed her until
last September. There is some justi
fication for the romantic identifica
tion, for shipwrecks antedated col
onization of these shores. The chron
iclers of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roan
oke island colony (1587) found the
aborigines using crude iron tools,
which were believed fashioned
from spikes taken from a ship
wreck. There is record of a Spanish
shipwreck at Hatteras in 1558 and
some of its crew were preserved by
the Indians.
No ‘Shipwreckers.’
While it is probably true that
for many years shipwrecks were the
“principal importation” of the
banks, there appears no evidence to
support the charge that long ago
the bankers practiced shipwrecking
and looting. However, some homes
are partly fashioned from the timber
of old ships, and many a house con
tains articles salvaged from doomed
ships or bought at the “vendue.”
In this connection is recalled the
most popular legend of the village of
Straits, in Carteret county, concern
ing a preacher for whom Starr
Methodist church there is named.
During the severe winter of 1813 —
so the story goes — the citizens of
Straits were starving, after a crop
killing drouth the previous summer.
Frozen sounds prevented fishing,
and the Napoleonic wars and a Brit
ish blockade made commerce im-
ppssible. Parson Starr thus resorted
to prayer: "If it is predestined there
be a wreck on the Atlantic coast,”
he pleaded, “please let it be Thy
will that it happen here!” In a few
days a flourladen ship wrecked on
Core banks, and famine was pre
vented.
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By GABRIELLE
If you have overstayed your time
in the Sun and your skin has be
come Sunburned, apply vinegar.
This will cause the skin to turn a
nice brown. To cool itchy, red skin,
use a solution of bicarbonate of
soda. A cold compress on the fore
head and at the back of the neck is
soothing. But remember—I told you
to be careful!
Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Features.
Old Hay Ride Not at
All What It Used to Be
WHITE HALL, ILL.—Even the
old-fashioned hay ride party has
gone modern—of necessity.
After the men’s class of the First
Baptist church Sunday school had
planned a hay ride for their wives,
they discovered there weren’t
enough horses available in the com
munity to pull the wagons. So they
hitched them up to tractors—and
went bouncing along faster than Dob
bin ever dreamed of.
TELEFACT
TEACHERS
MORE THAN ONE MIIUON
PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERS 245,000
LAWYERS
178,000
SOCIAL WORKERS
70,000
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SOCIAL WORK
THE SMALLEST PROFESSION
Makes a Profit by
Closing Food Store
FREEPORT, ILL.—When Leo
Fagan closed his food store for
the V-J holidays he knew people
would want bread, so he placed
several baskets outside with a
sign telling patrons to serve
themselves. They did, and left
$33.20, or 20 cents more than the
bread would have brought if sold
over the counter.
i The poultry world is oui to pro-
! duce the Chicken of Tomorrow. It
is working on a postwar kluck-
kluck that will give a greater per
centage of white and dark meat, a
fowl that will even have meat on the
neck and wings.
The Baby Chick Association of
Ameri a and outstanding poultry
experts are to convene to set stand
ards for the Postwar Bird. If they,
by any chance, get an order of
chicken on a train or in a restaurant
on the way to the meeting, their
zeal for thj achievement of their
goal should be warmed 90 per cent.
*
Our experience with chicken late
ly leads to the conclusion that there
is a crying need for a chicken that
will have any meat whatsoever
on it.
I . —
We don’t know about the Chicken
of Tomorrow, but the Chicken of To
day belongs among the war crimes.
| *
There is not enough meat on most
restaurant chicken to hold the feath
ers on. They must have been feed
ing these birds plastic cracked corn.
I
i Or is it the fault of the chefs,
whose practice it seems to be to
cook a chicken only in some form
that will magnify its faults?
!
i There may be chickens in Amer
ica with meat on them, but the res
taurants have been getting the other
kind. A good many chefs seek to
cover up the faults of these birds
by serving them in the style called
. “Southern Fried.”
Now, the real Southern fried
chicken is a delicacy, but too many
cooks in the East, West and North
have been merely demonstrating
that they don’t know their compass
points.
♦
We don’t know what the stuff is
that they have been frying the chick
ens in, but it could be a combination
of sawdust, putty and discarded
chewing gum.
•
We got a Southern fried chicken
the other night that must have had
a wrapper made from the sweep
ings of a porch where the painter had
been burning off the paint with a
blowtorch.
•
There was some excuse for the
Southern fried “wrapper,” as the
chef didn’t have much to work on in
: the first place. Our dining compan
ion swore that his order was a wood
pecker wrapped in fire-hose and
dipped in hot tar.
.
The ehicken a la king hasn’t been
running good, either. It has been
strictly a libel on royalty.
And have you ordered any chick
en salad recently? Now we know
; what becomes of those old ends of
! lead pencils.
• * •
FALL REVERIE
A haze on the far horizon.
The infinite tender sky—
The ripe rich tint of the cornfield
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
Hot brakes and the smell of
gas. . . .
Some of us call it autumn,
But others just let it pass.
SO SHE’S NERVOUS!
A California judge, granting Bar
bara Hutton a quickie divorce, was
told by Barbara that her husband,
Cary Grant, sometimes had queer
moods and showed indifference to
ward her guests which made her
nervous. From the court records:
Jndge—How did this affect you?
Barbara—It made me nervous.
Jndge—Did you require the serv
ices of a doctor?
Barbara—Yes.
Judge—Decree granted.
•
Curious fellows, these jurists. If
all the women in America who were
made nervous by their husbands got
divorces there wouldn’t be a handful
of homes left in the land. Amer
ica is what she is because the wives
and mothers bore a lot with the
old man and managed to take a lit
tle nervousness in stride. There are
thousands of husbands whose be
havior toward the wife’s friends is
at times pretty bad. But even if
the average husband started heav
ing crockery the wife would over
look it. Only when he hit a guest
would she call a doctor.
MUSINGS
It is a fairly safe bet that the year 1945
will go down in history as the twelve
months that saw nobody putting in any
claims to be a superman.
It is going to seem nice to phone the
fuel-oil man without beginning the conver
sation with a supplication, an apology, a
character testimonial and a claim that you
know his cousin well.
Overheard at a gas station: Just keep
cranking until she begins to resist.
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degree that the war-bom synthetic
rubber Industry will probably con
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