Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. IN THESE UNITED STATES Holiday Rush Descends On Santa Claus, Indiana WNU Features SANTA CLAUS, IND.—Advent of the Christmas season brings a rush to every community in the land, but especially so to this tiny Indiana village where Santa Claus makes his head quarters. The jolly old gentleman already is swamped under the biggest avalanche of mail and tourists in history. Thousands of letters and gift packages with the famous “Santa Claus” postmark are being dispatched to eager youngsters throughout the nation. Postmaster Oscar Phillips estimates that he handled more than a million pieces of mail last year, with present totals indicating that the record will be exceeded this year. Letters to Santa Claus, which pour in from every state in the union, are answered by the Santa Claus American Legion post, com manded by James Yellig, the “Santa Claus” of Santa Claus Land. Open Children’s Park. No. content with its rushing mail business, Santa Claus this year launched a chUdren’s park and toy center as an added tourist attrac tion. Located in a landscaped 40- acre wooded area, the park is open throughout the year. Of major interest to the children is the Enchanted Trail, a path ex tending for a third of a mile, on which wide-eyed youngsters gaze in awe at sculptured Mother Goose characters set in lifelike dioramas. Little Boy Blue is depicted asleep under a haystack. Humpty Dumpty is shown in a precarious position just before tumbling off the wall. Jack is climbing the beanstalk and many other characters are por trayed in their storybook settings. Ride on Trains. Tiny children are taken on free rides on a miniature train, about 18 inches high and 15 feet long. Plans are under way for opening a larger “Santa Claus railroad,” with a train 4 feet high and 50 feet long which will take 30 tots at a time on a “trip around the world.” Miniature replicas of Grand Can yon, the Swiss Alps and the pyra mids of Egypt will line the road bed while the train will pass through a tunnel and cross a bridge across the “Atlantic ocean.” On a visit to the toy center, chil dren are enraptured by the toy and gift shop, where leading toy manu facturers display their wares. Spe cial interest is centered on a dis play of antique toys from both the United States and foreign lands. Childhood’s more earthly needs are met in a restaurant and soda foun tain. Dolls In Distress Overtax Facilities Of Novel ‘Hospital’ BOSTON. — Lack of space, shortage of help and an influx of patients plague all hospitals — and that goes for Boston’s 43-year-old Doll Hospital, Inc., too. Mrs. Fred Hockaday, proprietor of the novel establishment, scans the hospital’s facilities and laments: “We have 400 cases right now, four times as many as before the war. We’re closing two days a week in an effort to catch up with the work.” The shortage of help poses an other problem. Even the hospital receptionist, a 42-inch bisque blonde, currently is on the ailing list. The reason: A little boy poked her eye out while he was waiting for a wig for his sister’s doll to be fitted. ‘Surgeon’ Does Repairs. For expert help in the doll-heal ing business, however, Mrs. Hocka day has five assistants, including a "surgeon” whose fracture treat ments are renewed throughout doll- dom. The current crop of patients ranges from a 135-year-old wooden doll with a shattered leg to scores of so-called “un breakable” babies. The clut tered workroom is never shown to doll owners as a guarantee against shattering childhood’s cherished idea that the “hos pital” is a glorified ward pre sided over by nurses in white linen. One little girl recently showed up with her governess and a small bunch of flowers, requesting: “Please put this by my doll’s bed.” Old Age Not Incurable. Mrs. Hockaday and her staff reg ularly restore old-time Parisian wax complexions, round-out dented papier mache skulls and restring limbs of last century bisque beauties. Her hospital does not con sider old age an incurable malady. Many of the patients, she admits, “cost more to repair than they did in the beginning, but we do our best because children love them so.” An avid collector of antique dolls, Mrs. Hockaday has some 75 of her uncounted collection on display at the hospital. “But not my swimming doll, which goes right across the tank with a beautiful breast stroke, because if I kept her around, my little visitors never would go home.” Free Copies of Best Seller Are Unwanted PHILADELPHIA.—Although the Bible is the world’s best seller, War Assets administration is unable to dispose of nearly one million pock et-sized Bibles even by giving them away. Two weeks after the WAA had an nounced the small Bibles would be given free to religious and chari table groups which applied for them, only four organizations had submitted requests and their com bined orders did not exceed 1,000 copies. The Bibles, of the King James and Douay versions as well as some printed for members of the Jewish faith, were left over from 11 mil lion copies bought for the armed forces. ^AVIATION notes CP IN THE AIR With advent of the "Air Age,” when you may want to take your infant daughter or your pet dog or cat along on a plane trip or you may decide to ship some baby chicks, lobsters or even flowers to some distant point, you’ll probably be in terested in the effects of altitude. At behest of Western Air Lines, Air Transport association made a study of the subject. In general, animals can endure higher altitudes than man while babies of every species have a greater “altitude tolerance” than their elders, the study revealed. Dogs in good health suffer no ill effects at 25,000 feet and cats can stand 24,000 feet. Naturally, birds are extremely resistant to altitude but chickens of any age have an average tolerance of about 17,000 feet. Live lobsters and crabs, wrapped in wet burlap, can stand no more than 17,000 feet. Fish, on the other hand, can go to 20,000 feet without harm if they have plenty of water. Cut flowers and fruits, if care fully packed, can travel up to 25,- 000 feet. Above that level the petals of sweet peas collapse and ripe plums split their skins. • • • La Guardia airport, New ' York’s international plane ter minal built on filled in land, is sinking at the rate of six inches a year and may “all be awash” in two years. Frederick G. Rein- icke, New York commissioner of marine and aviation, said the field would have to be closed within nine months to two years for reconstruction. • • • BUILDS AIRPLANES Poland is starting to manufac ture her own airplanes. The minis try of transport reportedly intends to order the first 10 Polish aircraft of the so-called “Szpak 4” type, which are to be built at the state aircraft works at Mielec. • • • LARGEST PLANE ... The world’s largest transport plane is the Con stitution, developed by Lockheed for navy transport of personnel and priority cargo. The Constitu tion will carry 180 people, provide long-range, high speed flight to points around the world. ^Iteetfome ^own Hepasitesi in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspondfii WNU Washington Bureau 1616 Eye St.. N. W, Rural Areas Most Affected By Shortage of Teachers ED” SKELTON, radio come- dian, recently remarked that ne now knows that the reason his grade school teacher looked that way was because she was just hun gry. While this may not be literally true, the recent report of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement ol Teaching bears out the statement of the radio entertainer in that it describes the school teachers of the country as generally “the forgot ten” people whose ability to carry on irrespective of work load, liv ing costs and other worrisome factors is taken for granted. The report asserts that one of the serious defects in the public education system is the apparent country-wide neglect of "the central figure in the educational process—the teach er.” There is no denying that the seri ous shortage of school teachers in the nation today is hampering and lowering educational standards in pur public school system. Accord ing to Dr. Frank Hubbard, director sf research of National Educational association in Washington, there was a shortage of approximately 109,000 qualified school teachers last year and the shortage for the ensuing year will be approximate ly the same number. This shortage is revealed by the number of emergency certificates for teaching which have been grant ed. Such temporary paper means that the bearer is not qualified for a regular certificate, measured by the standards of the state. Shifts of Population Shortages of school teachers are worst in those states where influx of wartime population and extremely high birth rates have brought about tremendous population increases. According to Dr. Hubbard, this mi gration of population has moved toward the “rim” of the country to the west and east coasts, to Loui siana and the Great Lakes regions, and hence the school teacher short age is worse in these sections, par ticularly in California. California educators declare they need 4,000 new teachers each year for the next 10 years to meet their educational needs. Dr. Hubbard declares the causes underlying this shortage in quali fied teachers are cumulative over the years and conditions are worse in small towns and rural areas than in the larger cities. Teachers migrate from the small er schools and smaller communities to larger schools and larger com munities, drawn by more attractive salaries and better living condi tions and more economic opportuni ties. And so rural schools draw ing upon unqualified teachers to fill the gaps, have considerably low er standards today than in prewar years. Higher Pay, More Prestige Immediate and necessary rem edies to cure the shortage and to prevent a further breakdown in edu cational standards, according to Dr, Hubbard, include: 1. Immediate steps to make salaries attractive enough to prevent further losses of com petent teachers. This is coming gradually with about a 30 per cent increase in school teach ers’ salaries since 1941; 2. Make salaries decent enough to attract young people into the teaching profession and to prevent them from going into other lines of work to earn a de cent living; 3. Streamlining of teacher educational institutions to make life and study in these institu tions more attractive to stu dents ; 4. A program of recruitment in high schools and colleges to prove to newcomers there are real opportunities in the teach ing profession; 5. A broad and long-range program of raising the general prestige of the teaching profes sion, particularly in the matter of public thinking toward school teachers. 6. Eliminate many subordi nate problems such ^s horsing, poor school construction, inade quate school equipment and facilities and oversize classes. Woman's World Reclaim Khakis and Navy Blues For Making Wearing Apparel £!rttoi '^’OW that many boys have ^ marched home from overseas service, many a homemaker has be gun to wonder about the possibility of using those wonderful khaki and navy blue clothes for something useful. It’s very true that the fab ric in these clothes is much too good to be shut up in mothproof bags or closets. They can be converted into excellent civilian wearing ap parel. The main problem in using cloth ing of this type is to really change the appearance, and experience proves that it can be done. Sad- colored olive drab can actually be dyed so you won’t know the origin. And as for navy blue, it’s a good substantial color which you prob ably won’t change, especially if you change the style of the garment sufficiently. If you’ve had a WAVE in the family, then you’ll be surprised how beautifully her navy blue suit al ters into something very attractive. If the girl herself is using the suit, it probably won’t need much alter ation in fitting. Remove the in signia, and add some bright red braid around the shoulders and sleeves, or run the braiding all around the bustline in several rows, and you’ll be surprised at how nicely the garment reconverts. It’s only natural that you might hesitate at dyeing the heavy olive drab garments but it really can be done. Wool Dyeing Requires Simmering Temperature The important points to remem ber when dyeing woolens can be summarized in five steps. These are particularly applicable when you are dyeing such things as ex-serv ice clothing. 1. Measure the garment before dyeing or draw its outline on a large sheet of paper for measur ing purposes. 2. Make sure you have enough dye for the quantity of fabric you are dyeing. Because of their heavy weight woolens require more dye per yard than cottons or rayons. 3. Use a simmering temperature all during the dyeing period. Use a large enough vessel for the pur pose so that you can stir the gar ment gently in its dye bath. Avoid rough treatment as this makes the garment shrink. 4. Remember that wools appear much darker when wet than when dry. Test a small strip of fabric by ironing dry to make sure you have the shade desired. 5. When you are satisfied with the color, rinse the garment thor oughly. Then stretch it to its origi nal proportions, using the pencilled figure or measurements mentioned above. Iron the woolens while they are just barely damp. Of course you understand this has to be done with a pressing cloth or the wool will develop an ugly shine. If the gar ment has not stretched to its prop er shape, it can be stretched even more while you are pressing the fabric. • Lace combined with cream-col ored satin is made by a New York designer for a winter bridal gown. This gown features a low neckline and closely fitted bodice. While dyeing will cause some shrinkage, the most shrinkage you can expect of a properly treated gar ment should not exceed three-quar ters of an inch. It can certainly be a lot less if you give the garment your most gentle treatment. If you’ve been following fashion news lately, you know that the hip length boxy jacket is one of the very smartest things to own. The wonderful quality of service over coats is excellent material to use for them. Reclaim Those Overcoats For Smart, Boxy Jackets Incidentally, you won’t want the coat an olive drab. Dye it one of the following beautiful colors: navy blue, dark green, jade green, scar let, cardinal red, dark brown or black. Dyeing will be much easier if the coat is first ripped at the seams. This makes it less bulky to handle in the dye bath. And incidentally, once the ripping is done, a big job is out of the way and you can begin sewing so much sooner. Use a pattern for cutting the coat down to your measurements and have it just as square and boxy as possible with trim shoulder lines. A double breasted model with large pearl buttons will look very up-to- the'-minute. If you don’t want a collar on the coat, then have i* collarless, button ing up high. Make slit or diag onal pockets, and plan to wear it with a gay scarf and a snappy little hat. The cost for an outfit of this type is under five dollars, and you’ll have both warmth and wear from the outfit. Braided Rugs You can do a lot to make your home more attractive with braid ed rugs, provided you use gay colors and good patterns. There’s a definite place in the bedroom, den, dressing room and chil dren’s' play room for charming braided rugs. Nothing is too small cr too large to use for rug making. Here is a list of some worn-out things that are often'used: worn draperies, bedspreads, blankets, tablecloths, coats, trousers, for- mals, pleated and gathered skirts. You can even use towels, napkins, aprons, blouses and stockings. Don’t forget to shop for inexpensive remnants at bar gain prices, too! For a rug that will please you when finished, work out a plan ahead of time and shape it with crayons. Then select material, dye it, if necessary, in accord ance with the plan. Before you cut the fabric, write down the number of rows you will need of each color. Colors in a braided rug should give a feeling of unity. Keep large areas quiet in their effect, and keep colors balanced by re peating them with discrimina tion. Braids may be made of any where from three to eight strips, but the number of strips does not complicate the braiding proc ess. Fashion Flashes Shadow of Mountain Prompts Time Change PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. — Be cause lofty Mt. San Jacinto, 11,000 feet above sea level, casts an after noon shadow over this desert com munity, the city council passed an ordinance establishing daylight sav ing time for 120 days this winter. The sun goes down about 3 p. m. during the winter months as a re sult of the shadow, but the ordinance saves an hour’s sunlight. PLANE REGISTRATION Sweeping changes in licensing procedure to simplify registration of aircraft have been placed in ef fect by Civil Aeronautics adminis tration. Under the new system, de signed to make airplane registra tion “easier than registering an automobile,” the airplane pur chaser is permitted to write his own 60-day temporary registration certificate and to use “dealer’s tags” on new planes until he re ceives his permanent registration. The system aids dealers and pilots. The teacher shortage in rural schools is alarming to educators and an attempt was made during the 79th congress to provide foi federal appropriations to assist local communities to provide better sal aries. The measure failed pas sage, however, largely due to op position to “federal control” which might follow use of federal money, City schools are feeling the short age only in specialized lines and en rollment in city schools likely will be smaller the coming year with population moving to the suburbs and rural areas. Soft gray wool is another fashion favorite and is a wonderful neutral that you can use with gay accents of color. Green of course is very pop ular and so is magenta. Want to give gloves a lift? Sew bands of contrasting colored materi al on the cuffs or make them glit ter with sequins that highlight the colors of your costume. Skirts seem somewhat shorter, but knees are still being kept cov ered. Probably this trend has reached its limit. Femininity and gayness of mood are apparent in informal clothes. Raglan sleeves and dropped shoul der lines are still very popular, and bits of velvet or fur add a long ab sent luxury note to many clothes. SEWING CIRCLE PAHERNS a m arm brm Button-Front Frock TPHIS charming casual frock has that smooth, uncluttered air every woman admires. Buttons to the hem with neat set-in belt and crisp yoke treatment. Try a soft woolen in jewel tones or a colorful plaid. Pattern No. 8062 is for sizes 34. 36 . 38. 40. 42, 44, 46. 48 and 50. Size 36. short sleeve. W. yards of 36-inch fabric. Octobass, 13 Feet High, I 34-4** Warm Nightie YOU’LL be as warm as toast ini * this quaint yoked nightdress that’s so popular this season. Usa a pretty flowered flannelette and edge the neck with narrow ruffling or lace. Short sleeves are provid ed, and you can tie with a belt if you like. Pattern No. 8086 comes In sizes 34, St. 38. 40. 42 . 44. 46 and 48. Size 36. long sleeves. SV, yards of 35 or 39-inch fabric; 1 yard machine made ruffling. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South WeUs St. Chicago 7, 111. Enclose 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Size -■ Name Address- Failure Because of Size The octobass, a three-stringed musical instrument invented in Paris in 1849, was 13 feet in height and thus required its player to stand on a box to bow it and press its strings with artificial fingers which he moved by levers, says Collier’s. Owing to its unwieldiness, this giant instrument was a failure and only four were made, three of which are preserved today in mu seums in Vienna, Paris and Lon don. Buy wisely for this Christmas . . . buy practical, useful gifts that are sure to please. For example, local dealers are featuring two timely items you can give to the smokers on your Christmas list— Camel Cigarettes and Prince Al bert Smoking Tobacco. These pop- .ular brands are all dressed up in special holiday suits, ready to give. Camel comes in a hand some ten-package carton — con tains 200 mild, mellow cigarettes. And for the pipe-smoker, mellow Prince Albert is available in gay, colorful one-pound tins. All are so attractively packaged that no ad ditional wrapping is necessary. Even space is provided for the giver’s “Merry Christmas” mes sage. It will take only a few min utes of your time to pick up these popular Christmas items at your nearest dealer.—Adv. This Home-Mixed Cough Relief Is Hard To Beat So Easy. No Cooking. Saves Dollars. i No matter what you’ve been using for coughs due to colds, you'll be the first to admit that this surprising relief, mixed in your own kitchen, is hard to beat, for real results. Make a syrup by stirring 2 cups of granulated sugar and 1 cup of water a few moments, until dissolved. No cooking is needed—a child could do it. Or you can use corn syrup or liquid honey, instead cf sugar syrup. Then put 2% ounces of Pinex (ob tained from any druggist) into a pint bottle, and fill up with your syrup. This gives you a full pint of really splendid cough relief — about four t imes as much for your money. Tastes fine—children love it It never spoils. You can feel this home mixture taking right hold of a cough. It loosens the phlegm, soothes the irri tated membranes, and helps clear tho air passages. Eases soreness and difficult breathing, and lets you sleep. Pinex is a special compound of proven - ingredients, in concentrated form, a most reliable soothing agent for throat and bronchial irritations. Just try it, and if not satisfied, your money will be refunded. STOP FALLING HAIR Why be bald when this old Hawaiian Home Remedy is guaranteed or money back. Nothing more to buy. Send $1.00 to— HAWAIIAN REMEDIES, Dept. A Box 765, CHA-3 Honolulu, T. H. W/c/e... 'Ben-Gay