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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Rural America Has Major Role In Annual Red Cross Campaign FRIENDLY FLAVOR . . . Typi cal of the variety of Red Cross services that makes hospital ron- tine take on the flavor of life out side are the various duties per formed by Red Cross Gray Ladies at McGuire Veterans’ hospital, Richmond, Va. Farm Leaders Laud Red Cross in Urging Support in Campaign Paying tribute to the Red Cross as a “good neighbor,’’ Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, has urged rural America to support the 1947 fund campaign. . “It is a neighbor who works for a better local community and. at the same time, for a better world community,” Anderson declared. “Rural people are grateful to the Red Cross. Rural America knows the value of good neighbors and gets real satisfaction from coopera ting with them." Two other farm leaders, A. S. Goss, master of National Grange, and Edward A. O’Neal, president of American Farm Bureau federa tion, also endorsed the current drive. Goss characterized the Red Cross service as “indispensable,” point ing out that “throughout a large part of the world the suffering and need arising from war pre almost as great as during the days of con flict.” “The great work of the American Red Cross, whose principal objec tive is the alleviation of human misery, has become legendary," O’Neal asserted in his tribute. “No matter how great the need,” he con tinued, "it has always been able to accomplish its mission of mercy be cause of the generosity of the Amer ican public.” * Agency to Stress Four Main Fields Of Service in 1947 WNV Features. Rural America—the provi sion stockpile of the nation— has an especially important share in the current fund cam- | paign of the American Red Cross, officials at the Wash ington, D. C., national head quarters emphasize. With a 1947 campaign goal of 60 million dollars, the Red Cross again is relying upon the rural areas and the small towns which center the farming communities for substan tial support in attaining its quota. Because 1947 will be in the nature of a “shakedown cruise” for a na tion newly returned to peacetime, and because in the uncertainty of the postwar existence many Ameri cans are inclined to question the need to support even the most de serving -of organizations, Red Cross officials have related the answers to some of the "whys” of the fund campaign. Major Red Cross responsibili ties will be four-fold in 1947-48. They include service to veter ans and their families; to men in army and navy hospitals; to men serving with the armed forces overseas or in this coun try, and to the community. During the war period of 1941-48, Red Cross was supported by contri butions in the amount of $784,151,000 in five fund campaigns. In numbers, rural community chapters—2,908 of them—account for more than three- quarters of all the Red Cross chap ters in America. With the over whelming majority of their work ers unpaid volunteers the Red Cross said, these smaller chapters were the backbone of the ARC during the war and will continue to be so in peace. Expand Services. In the coming year, on a greatly reduced budget, the Red Cross will conduct a program exceeding any previous peacetime operation in its entire history. J Services for veterans and the armed forces and their families will be the major concern of the Red Cross. The increasing need for assistance to veterans will continue for years. Approximately 1,100,000 veterans and their families were assisted by Red Cross last year through its workers in chapters alone. Thousands more were aided by Red Cross workers in hospitals. Under authorization of Veterans' administration, there are 155 Red Cross field directors and assistant field directors in 105 VA hospitals. Nearly 350 Red Cross claims ex perts are stationed in VA offices throughout the nation, in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. On army posts and naval stations HELPING HAND . . . Red Cross Gray Lady Mrs. John W. Johnson has a long shopping list. She is shown adding Items wanted by a patient at Bay Pines Veterans’ hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla. She’ll buy them at the canteen and downtown. in this country and overseas, Red Cross field directors are serving, giving emergency assistance, coun seling and helping keep the men in communication with their families at home. In the field of community service, Red Cross disaster work is a round-the-clock opera tion the country over. National, state and local governments ex pect the Red Cross to assume leadership in disaster prepared ness and relief, and rural areas know well the work of Red Cross following tornadoes, floods and fires. Red Cross first aid, water safety and accident - prevention services have been carried on in all com munities of this country. First aid instruction for young people and adults, swimming classes for chil dren of the community, and spread ing the gospel of safety from farm accidents, are several ways these Red Cross safety services function. Aid Rural Areas. Red Cross home-nursing instruc tion in rural communities where hospital facilities are scarce is re ceiving greater emphasis. Commu nity nutrition classes teach the homemaker how better to prepare and preserve foods. The American Junior Red Cross, with its 19 million youngsters, pro vides effective channels through which school children throughout America may put to practice citi zenship responsibilities and good neighbor practices with children of nations overseas. Churches Utilize Chartered Buses To Swell Crowd PHILADELPHIA, PA. — As a means of swelling attendance, 15 Philadelphia churches are engaged in a novel experiment of provid ing “portal-to-pew” transportation services. The program involves buses char tered by churches to make sched uled stops at pre-arranged street comers to pick up parishioners, carrying them to church and then returning them home after serv ices. The 15 churches hire from one to four buses regularly every Sunday. Clergymen admit they are prepared to “cater” to members as a means of maintaining and increasing at tendance. Attendance at Holmesburg Meth odist church has been boosted 80 to 40 per cent in the year the church has used chartered buses. Historic Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Protestant Episcopal church, situ ated in a neighborhood formerly residential but now entirely com mercial, also has resorted to char tered buses. Old Swedes bus riders pay a mini mum of 10 cents a ride, with “the sky the limit.” On a rainy Sunday, one grateful parishioner slipped the driver a $10 bill. Church officials agree that the transportation problem is more pressing now than ever and that it affects all denominations. Many families have moved from the old neighborhood, yet still desire to attend their old church. In other cases, public transportation is not available to residents of outlying areas and new residential districts. Small Town Rates Frequent Mention As ‘Coldest Spot 9 BIG PINEY, WYO. — Although this little cattle-raising community nestled in the Wyoming mountains has only 241 residents, it probably rates mention in the nation’s news papers more often than any othef small town in the country. It’s not at all unusual for stories about weather conditions to include the statement that “the coldest spot in the country was Big Piney, Wyo., with 20 degrees below zero.” The dubious distinction of being the “nation’s ice box” is blamed-by the weather bureau on a “cold air drainage” off the mountains lying to the west of the town, which is situated in a mountain valley of 6,280 feet altitude. "Masses of cold air drain off the mountain range into the valley just like streams of water,” the weather bureau explains. “There is also an elevation to the east. This inclosure prevents the wind from sweeping out cold air and warming up the valley.” Frigid blasts are almost a year- around proposition. Big Piney had only a 61-day growing season last year, compared with 148 growing days at Cheyenne, some 300 miles to the southeast. Street Strays* SANTA FE, N. M.—Camino de las Vacas—Street of the Cows—has been lost or strayed in this ancient city. Notified that the street is 40 feet south of where it was originally established 60 years ago, the city council ordered the street commit tee “to corral the straying street." Sawing Proves Easy as Sewing, Woman Insists JACKSON, MICH.—Although she has made her living for years as a dressmaker, Mrs. Myrtle Ann Dib ble is as adept with a hammer and saw as with a needle and scissors. For proof, she soon will have a seven-room house completed prac tically entirely by her own efforts. Faced with a housing problem, Mrs. Dibble decided that if she could cut and sew dresses she also could "run up” a house for herself and her two young daughters. Work was commenced last May when the basement was dug, the only time Mrs. Dibble called in pro fessional help. She mixed her own cement, the two daughters. Laur etta Lee, 13, and Mona Mae, 12, hauling the blocks while she set them. More than 1,000 blocks were required for the basement. A mason, inspecting the work, de scribed it as a “pretty good job." As the next step, Mrs. Dibble pur chased green oak logs and had them cut into boards at a sawmill. She fitted them herself, displaying blistered palms as evidence that green oak “saws plenty hard." Driving nails into that wood was “the hardest Job I ever took on," she adds. Mrs. Dibble did all the electrical work in the basement and plans to wire the entire house. She also will do her own plumbing. A divorcee, Mrs. Dibble used her life savings to start the house. With expenses running higher than an ticipated, Mrs. Dibble was forced to return to dressmaking to get money to finish the house. Lack of Sleep Termed Harmful as Too Many Cocktails CHICAGO. — Lack of sleep can produce the same symptoms as drinking one too many cocktails, declares J. P. Fanning who, as sec retary and general manager of National Association of Bedding Manufacturers, has studied sleeping from every angle. "Tliere ought to be a law against staying awake too long,” he Insists. Persons who think sleep is a waste a? time are as dangerous as those who never want to stop drinking, Fanning warns. Sleeplessness, he adds, slows their reactions and makes it unsafe for them to drive automobiles. "Anyone who feels sleepy ought to try walking a white chalk line,” he says. “They might actually be drunk, even without liquor.” Fanning declares he has scientific proof that sleeplessness is as harm ful as drunkenness. A group of sci entists, he says, got 35 men “roar ing drunk” by keeping them awake four days, after which they were as irresponsible as alcoholics. The sleep advocate says Hitler probably never would have torn the world apart “if he had gone to bed instead of staying up all night arguing in beer parlors.” “Napoleon also was a shunner of sleep, and look what happened to him,” he adds. Twenty Million Acres May Be Unprofitable Sait Proving Ruin to Much Irrigated Land Accumulation of salt is proving a continuing hazard to crop produc tion on much of the 20 million acres of irrigated land in the Western states. Losses from reduction in yield and quality of crops may occur on lands containing some salts but not enough to throw them out of production. It has been estimated by the U. S. re gional salinity laboratory, which is Irrigation always presents a prob lem in removal of salt excess in the soil. working on this problem, that in many cases such losses amount to 10 to 25 per cent of the yield. Many saline and alkali soils are low in available phosphorus and will give better crop yields if phosphate fertilizers are used. Super-phos phate, treble superphosphate and ammonium phosphate are among those generally recommended. During reclamation of saline soil, caused by accumulation of salt due to irrigation, many farmers find it helpful to apply several tons of gyp sum per acre, flood the land inside the levees for a week or more, dry out the soil in the basins and then flood again. When a high water table exists, the upward movement of saline ground water results in a continuing accumulation of salt in the surface soil. Herds and Flocks Teach early pigs to eat grain and protein by providing a feeder in a creep—where they can go and eat while still nursing the sow. This way the pigs won’t quit gaining when weaned from the sow. If you neglected to keep a record of farrowing dates, you can come pretty close to telling when pigs will arrive by examining the sow’s udder. Most sows farrow about 24 hours after milk starts filling the udder. Poultry disease is less of a prob lem when young chicks are kept apart from older birds. Selling off all old hens and raising a new batch of pullets each year is a paying prac tice. An all-pullet laying flock, the poultry experts call it. Trim wool from around the ewe’s udder before lambing time. A new born lamb will sometimes suck a lock of wool instead of a teat. Re sult, starvation. Newborn calves should have the cow’s first milk (colostrum) because it is richer in vitamin A than milk produced some time after freshen ing. Knock on Henhonse Door Pleases ‘Girls’ Ladies are sticklers for etlquett« and hens are no exception, accord ing to Arthur Gannon, poultryman of the Georgia extension service. Etiquette demands a knock on the door before entering an occupied room, he points out, and this is a good point to observe when visiting the poultry house. When the poultry house door is opened suddenly, hens flutter around and scamper for the bacfi of the shed in the excitement As a result «gg production drops. On the other hand, if the poultry- man raps gently on the door of the house and then waits for a moment or two before entering, the hens be come ready for the entrance of the visitor. There is no excitement and no drop in egg production, he says. Filling Up Cracks In Chicken Gizzard Cracks or crater-like holes in the gizzard linings of chickens are caused by too little anti-gizzard- erosion material in the feed. This condition does not seem to slow growth or cause death. How ever it is common in chicks that have been mismanaged, and is, therefore, often blamed for poor growth and death. Good sources of anti-gizzard-erosion are alfalfa prodi ucts, mill run, bran and greens. OLDEST AND YOUNGEST . . . Rep. Joseph J. Mansfield (Dem. t Tex.), 86-year-old veteran of 30 consecutive years’ service in the house of representatives, discusses current legislation with Rep. George W. Sarbacher (Rep., Pa.), 27-year-old “baby” of the 80th congress, who is serving his first term. ON THE UPGRADE Marked Expansion Predicted h Farm-to-Market Highways By AL JEDLICKA • WNU Staff Writer. Farmers can look for a substantial improvement in the huge federal-state secondary road program in 1947, Thomas H. MacDonald, U. S. public roads commissioner, told a WNU reporter at the 28th annual convention of the Associated Gen eral Contractors in Chicago. In framing the federal highway act in 1944, congress rec ognized the vital <8>- MscDonald need for better sec ondary, or farm- to-market roads in rural regions. Be cause most farm ers are individual operators who haul their own crops to market, and com paratively great distances separate the farms from trade centers,- 78 per cent of farm ers’ travel has been found essential. In 1944, 34 per cent of all trucks were used on farms. Must Match Funds The highway act provided for an annual federal contribution of 150 million dollars for secondary roads for each of the three postwar years, with the states putting up an equal sum out of their own or county funds. Because of high construction costs, shortages of material and equipment, and a reduction in contractors, the secondary road program fell about 50 per cent short of Its goal in *1946, Mac Donald said. Indications that costs have reached their peak and will level off. that materials and equipment will be come increasingly available, and that more and more contractors who left the construction game during the war are returning justify the be lief that the secondary road pro gram will pick up substantially this year, MacDonald declared. The public roads commissioner analyzed the mounting cost of the whole federal-state highway pro gram in his address to the Associ ated General Contractors. In the last quarter of 1946, construction costs were 186 per cent above the comparable period in 1940, and 16 per cent above the previous three months. Costs Skyrocket. In breaking down these costs, the public roads commission found that common dry excavation increased 110 per cent; concrete substructures, 101 per cent, and concrete super structures, 94 per cent. Bituminous surface treatment showed the small est increase at 15 per cent. MacDonald stressed the marked shortage of contractors available for construction work by pointing out that while there were a total of 5,614 road builders in the 1935-46 period, this number dropped to 3,057 in 1940- 46. Now that large-scale construc tion has been resumed and materials and equipment should become in creasingly obtainable, a large per centage of these former contractors are expected to get back in the busi ness this year. The expectation of increased supplies of materials provides a base of optimism for the overall 1947 highway program, MacDon ald said. MacDonald echoed the feeling of other construction leaders at the meeting that a sound long-range building program should be devel oped in the U. S. Quoting from the recent economic report drawn up for the President, MacDonald decried the tendency to consider public works primarily as the means to relieve unemployment in times of depression. Historic Oak Tree Has Legal Title to Ground HOUSTON, TEX. — A mammoth oak tree which sinks its roots deep into Houston’s soil and history has the distinction of being the owner of the historic site it shelters. A legal document filed in Harris county courthouse stipulates the great oak cannot be cut down as long as it lives. Provision also is made that the tree’s branches must be permit ted to grow in their natural way. AVIATION NOTES NO AGE LIMITS They’re never too young nor too old to become air-minded. Only one and one-half years old, Little Kim Weed of Denver, who already had traveled more than 5,000 miles by air, boarded an airliner for Anchor age, Alaska. There she and her mother, Mrs. Harold V. Weed, will join Lieutenant Weed, who is sta tioned with army air forces. . . . Bom more than a half century be fore the Wright brothers flew an air plane, Mrs. Susan Holifield, 95, made her first air trip on a flight from Pitts burgh, Pa., to Los Angeles. “It was just dandy,” exclaimed one of the oldest women passengers ever car ried by a commercial airline. . . . It was a far cry from the boat and wagon in which she came to Iowa 91 years ago when Mrs. Lida David son, 94, stepped aboard an airliner at Des Moines for a flight to Cali fornia. Mrs. Davidson had wanted to fly ever since she saw her first plane nearly 40 years ago at a Van Buren, Iowa, county fair, “But they wouldn’t let me.” * • • Satisfying this customer prob ably started a family quarrel. Impressed by the hostess service on a TWA plane, a passenger wrote: “It would be swell if I could send my wife to your host ess school so she would always be as pleasant as the two ladies servicing this flight.” * • • FLYING'FARMERS IN EAST Interest in the use of airplanes on farms no longer is restricted to the Midwest and West Chapters of Na tional Flying Farmers association recently have been formed in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Lauding the progressiveness of the 75 flying farmers who attended the organization meeting of the New Jer sey group, W. S. Allen, state secre tary of agriculture, said, “There ll greater use for a plane on the farm than in any other business with the exception of transportation.” UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN ... 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