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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
... The new Douglas five-place
Cloudster is marked by unconven
tional placing of engines and pro
peller behind the passenger com
partment, Increasing efficiency of
the wings, eliminating propeller
turbulence and reducing noise to
a negligible level.
• * •
DUBIOUS DISTINCTION
Olmsted field, home of the Mid
dletown, Pa., air materiel area,
claims the doubtful honor of hav
ing its name misspelled more often
than any other army air field in the
United States. Even though it is
Pennsylvania’s largest military in
stallation, Olmsted has been referred
to as Almsted, Ohmsted, Homestead,
Olmstead apd other variations.
Mitchel field,' N. Y., and Eglin field,
Fla., may rise to challenge Olm
sted’s claim. (It refuses to com
pete with Apalachicola Held, Fla.)
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Black Death, Greatest of
Epidemics, Took 75 Million
Of the some 250 major epidem
ics of infectious diseases that have
occurred in the past 3,400 years,
the greatest was the* Black Death,
which, between 1333 and 1382,
killed 75,000,000 persons ‘in Europe
and Asia. The second greatest was
the influenza pandemic which
swept throughout the world in 1918-
1919 and carried off 21,000,000 vic
tims.
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1 cup sifted
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IVt teaspoons
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hi teaspoon salt
H cup chopped
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Blend shortening and sugar. Add egg;
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and milk. Let soak until most of
moisture is taken up. Add chopped
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