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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. JUST LIKE MOTHER’S New Red Cross Class Designed To Appease Cake-hangry Vets WNU Features. JAMAICA, N. Y.—It will be luscious home-baked cakes for returned G.I.s in this suburban area of New York City from now on, thanks to the nutrition service of the central chapter of Queens Red Cross. The new epicurean slant is the result of the recent poll conducted by the local Red Cross among its hundreds of G.I. brides, all graduates of the chap ter’s two-year-old “School for G.I. War Brides,” originally in itiated to indoctrinate young wives and sweethearts of G.I.s with the rudiments of housekeeping. The poll was intended to gauge opinion among these women as to reaction of their husbands to the tutored domesticity of their wives, and to discover the "inner yearn ings’’ of returned and discharged G.I.s along domestic culinary lines. Signed returns to the widely dis tributed poll amazed Red Cross nu trition officials. A majority of the polices re ported that their husbands were elated with their “homebody” wives, and that the former sol diers craved most their moth er’s old - fashioned "h o m e • baked” cakes. The result was a determination to refashion the Red Cross school, changing it to the "Red Cross School for Cake- Hungry Vets.” Amid a great deal of fanfare, Red Cross officials formally opened the school. The first wave of "students” overwhelmed Red Cross executives. Not only war brides but also grand mothers, mothers and sisters at- EAT IT, TOO . . . War brides, mothers, sisters and even grand mothers flock to the Red Cross school to learn how to bake old- fashioned cake. tended. It indicated, in the opinion of the school supervisors, a “defi nite trend back to home baking and cooking as the best way to a man’s heart.” Baking experts were pressed into service at the school as “profes sors.” Topping this list were Miss Dorothy Wettemann, nutrition di rector for the Red Cross, and Grace Lohmann, heralded as the nation’s top "amateur baker.” Miss Loh mann baked thousands of delicacies for G.I.s during the war. The school, according to Miss Wettemann, will continue indefi nitely, and classes will be arranged in groups of 25. Horseback Trek To Follow Trails Into Adventure BELLE FOUBCHE, S. D. — Un surpassed mountain scenery, west ern companionship and a well- stocked chuck wagon combine to make the horseback caravan from Belle Fourche to Devils Tower, offered for the first time this sum mer as a tourist attraction, an in teresting diversion from the run-of- the-mill vacation. Nine trips are planned during the months of June, July and August, departure dates being the 1st, 11th and 21st. Each caravan, it is ex pected, will be comprised of 25 to 30 riders. The rides are sponsored by Western Trails, Inc., an organi zation of Belle Fourche business men. Traversing Black Hills National forest, the trail passes through mile after mile of virgin Ponderosa pine, up and over the Bear Lodge moun tains, along sparkling creeks and through grassy lowland meadows. Western terminus of the eight-day trip is the unique and awesome up thrust of rock known as Devils Tower in eastern Wyoming. The first monument to be incorporated in the national park system. Devils Tower is a majestic sheaf of rock columns that rises 875 feet above its base. For the benefit of “dude” guests on the adventuresome ride, cow boys wrangle and saddle the string of range-wise western ponies, a trail boss guides the caravan and a crew travels ahead in chuck and duffel wagons to set up each night’s camp. * l AIRPORT CHATTER Sixty-eight youngsters competed in a model aircraft contest in Kan sas City, Kas., under auspices of Model Aircraft Institute and sanc tioned by Academy of Model Aero nautics in Washington. ... A civic campaign has been launched in Du Quoin, 111., to raise $10,000 for pur chase of a 93-acre site and develop ment of an airport. Backing the project, the Lions club has arranged temporary financing for purchase of the site, which had been used as an airport until early 1946. The club voted $1,000 toward the campaign. . . . Expansion of civil air patrol activities is contemplated during the coming year, wing commanders of the group were told at their an nual meeting in Washington. High light of the three-day session was the second annual congressional dinner, when reports were made to congressmen on activities of nearly 1,500 CAP units throughout the United States. CAP is an auxiliary of army air forces. . . . Airplanes were utilized to inspect land de voted to summer fallow in western Kansas. Glenn H. Johnson, state director of the Kansas Production and Marketing administration in Manhattan announced that summer fallow practice was performed by about 18,000 farmers on 2.500.000 acres of land. Use of airplanes ex pedited checking to determine that farmers complied with all require ments. * » • Once again the airplane has come to the aid of law enforce ment officials. An Arizona high way patrolman, from whom three youths in a stolen car managed to escape, got his men recently by rushing to an air port and taking a Cub plane aloft for a survey of the desert into which they had disap peared. He spotted the youths hiding beneath a desert bush, made note of the spot and in a few minutes had landed and apprehended them. * * * MODERN PROSPECTORS The old “pick and burro” prospec tors soon will be giving way to men with helicopters, believes Dr. Francis A. Thompson, president of Montana School of Mines at Butte. Dr. Thompson explains that devices now being perfected will allow pros pectors to use helicopters and en able them to locate mineral deposits hidden under lava flows and al luvial deposits in the Northwest. * * * GOOD PRESCRIPTION Serving as staff physician for hos pitals in three different cities. Dr. Frank A. Brewster of Holdridge, Nebr., finds that time is valuable. Consequently, he resorts to a plane for rapid transportation between Holdridge and Lexington, Nebr., and Oberlin, Kas., the other cities in which he serves on hospital staffs. Each is more than 100 miles from Holdridge. Dr. Brewster, 73, bought his first plane, an old Jenny, in 1919. Now he pilots a Fairchild F-24 Ranger four- place personal plane. This permits his wife and nurse assistant to ac company him on many of the flights. In addition to his regular professional trips, he has made flights to Chicago, El Paso and points in Kentucky. FLYING DOCTOR Abreast of Times Overtime Parkers Get Opportunity To Repent CHILLICOTHE, MO. — One lone parking meter has been installed at the local police station to give a second chance to overtime parkers who repent in haste. When a motor ist gets a ticket, he can gain forgive ness by going to the station within bne hour and depositing his nickel in the parking meter there. But if he waits 61 minutes, he must pay a dollar. * * * ‘WEST POINT OF AIR’ Hundreds of young Americans soon will be taking advantage of the opportunity to attend pilot training classes at the “West Point of the Air.” Army air forces is recpening its aviation cadet training program to qualified young men. The first postwar cadet class of 500 students, for which civilians now may apply, will begin training July 1 at Ran dolph Field. San Antonio, Tex. The course of flying instruction for avia tion cadets will extend for 52 weeks. RETURN ... Back in Germany after a wartime stay in Mexico, authoress Anna Seghers speaks on “Free Book Day” from same spot where her own book, "The Seventh Cross,” was burned by Nazis 14 years ago. HOSPITALITY . , . Lewis Doug las, new United States ambassa dor to England, received warm welcome from Mrs. Elizabeth Griffin, a miner’s wife, when he visited the Denaby main colliery at South Yorkshire. SENTENCED . . . Kenneth Rom ney, former house sergeant-at- arms, was found guilty of a charge that he made false reports to the government to cover loss of house bank funds in personal real estate speculation. IMMIGRANT ... An Australian kangaroo, “Bluey” arrived at the Oakland, Calif., airport and im mediately claimed the distinction of being the first of his kind to cross the Pacific in four hops. Helping to take care of “Bluey” on the journey was Mary Sim mons of Sydney, pictured here. NEW AMBASSADOR . . . Emmet O’Neal, former Democratic con gressman from Kentucky, has been nominated by President Tru man as ambassador to the Philip pine republic. He succeeds Paul V. McNutt In that post. REUNITED AFTER 26 YEARS . . . James Gombarick (right) ended a 26-year search for his daughter, Mrs. Bernice Potter (left) when he greeted her in a Milwaukee railroad station and found he had a grand son, Robert. Gombarick lost track of his daughter following a divorce from his first wife in which no provision was made for custody of Bernice, then 20 months old. SOURDOUGHS, 1947 STYLE . . . Everything is an adventure to the young in heart, so these three World War II veterans started out on the royal road to romance which they hope will lead them from Scran ton, Pa., to Alaska. And, after all, they might strike gold. Making the trip in a 17-year-old panel truck are (left to right) Bill Spencer, Joseph J. O’Brien and A1 Drack. Every one of them is a confirmed optimist. NEW DAR PRESIDENT INSTALLED . . . Mrs. Roscoe C. O’Byrne (right) of Brookville, Ind., has been elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She succeeds Mrs. J. Y. Tal- madge (left) of Athens, Ga., who drapes the president general’s sash about Mrs. O’Byrne’s shoulders during installation ceremonies held at the 56th annual DAR convention at Constitution hall. UNITED NATIONS’ HOME TOWN . . . Architects representing nine nations gathered in Radio City, New York, to take a look at a model of the general architectural scheme for the United Nations’ permanent headquarters. To be constructed on an 18-acre site along the East river In Manhattan, the project includes a 40-story skyscraper (left) to house the secretariat, and another 30-story structure for general purposes. Problems for Doctors Listed Prospects for Solving Them ‘Good/ fi.M.A. Told as Second Century Starts. CHICAGO. — A spokesman for American Medical association, on its lOOtb- anniversary, listed seven major problems that medical sci ence still must solve. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A.M.A. Journal, listed these seven problems as the most important ones facing the medical profession: 1. Heart disease—more people die from it than from any other single disease. 2. Cancer—one in every eight per sons is likely to become a cancer victim. 3. Virus diseases — including in fantile paralysis and the common cold. 4. Atomic radiations and their effect on human beings and human tissue. 5. High altitude and speed effects on pilots. 6. Degenerative diseases of the nervous system. 7. Neuropsychiatric problems raised "by our high-speed, high- tension environment.” Prospects Are Good. Fishbein said the prospects for solving the problems were "good.” He said the progress of medical science in the last 50 years was “greater than in all of the previous history of man.” “Because of the increasing speed of the acquisition of medical knowl edge it is possible that we will make more progress in the next 50 years than the last,” he predicted. Fishbein said the A.M.A. did not claim credit for much of the medi cal advancement in the last 100 years, but that many achievements were wholly creditable to the asso ciation. Celebrate Centennial. He cited the A.M.A.’s war on pat ent medicines, quackery, frauds and low standards of professional ethics as powerful factors in pro ducing a high quality of medical service. Its service to members of the pro fession through its publications and maintenance of professional stand ards is equal in importance to its service to the public, Fishbein de clared. The A.M.A. was founded May 5, 1847, by a handful of delegates to the national medical convention in Philadelphia. Today it has a mem bership of more than 130,000. The association will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its found ing at its annual convention in At lantic City. It is a non-profit group with headquarters in Chicago. Mellon Trust Upsets Policy In $140,000 Gift to Hospital WASHINGTON. — A good turn paid off for George Washington uni versity in the form of a $140,000 gift for its hospital from the A. W. Mellon educational and charitable trust. The Mellon trustees broke away from policy in making the gift, ex plaining it was due to the univer sity’s helpfulness on the National Gallery of Art here, which the late Andrew W. Mellon gave the nation, and his friendliness toward the school. The university helped Mel lon obtain the site. The Mellon trust policy is to use its funds to further educational and charitable projects only in and around Pittsburgh, where Mellon lived. Curb on German Liquor Club Is Tightened by U. S. Army FRANKFURT, GERMANY.—An official U. S. army order will limit soldiers to three bottles of hard li quor a month, including drinks bought across a bar, it was an nounced. The directive established a cou pon system to cover bar drinks, which previously were not included in the monthly ration of three bot tles. It also provided for tightened border controls against smuggling of liquor into zones where U. S. troops are stationed. Father Given Life Sentence For Death of 14-Month Baby HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA. — Her bert A. Miller, 38, of Altoona, was sentenced by Blair County Judge George C. Patterson to life “at sep arate and solitary confinement at hard labor” in Western penitentiary after he was adjudged guilty of first degree murder in the death of his son, Robert, 14 months old. Miller admitted striking the child a fatal blow with his fist. He plead ed guilty and the court fixed the degree in a two-day trial. Question of Milking a Cow Trips Him; Fined as Tipsy PORTLAND, ORE. — Matt Matt son, sparring away from a jail sen tence for drunkenness after admit ting he was guilty, told Judge John B. Seabrook: "I got a job milking cows in a dairy.” "On which side do you milk a cow?” asked the skeptical judge. “Do you know?” the judge per sisted. “Underneath!” said Mattson. The judge fined him $20. To Build Battleship Run by Atom Power British Admiralty Announces It May Experiment. LONDON.—The British admiralty hinted that it may try to develop an atom - propelled battleship. In a statement saying it planned re search to maintain the navy’s effi ciency it said: "Many lines of inquiry present themselves. On the defensive side, the navy has to apply the lessons learned by its observers of the Bi kini tests of the atomic bomb, but the implications of atomic energy are by no means limited to defen sive aspects and may, contrary to initial reactions, lead to enhance ment of naval power in a highly modified form and with wide offen sive and defensive commitments. “The atomically propelled battle ship, for instance, would have no immediate refueling problems, and the period for which it could stay at sea would be. limited only by other and generally less urgent supply problems, a vital factor if the ship proved less vulnerable than the harbor.” The statement said 24 million dol lars would be spent in all forms of navy research this year. The ministry of supply announced that a school to train youths past 14 for atom work would be opened at what it called "the government atomic energy factory” at Spring- fields in northern England. The plant, previously known as a re search center, “will be used for the manufacture of uranium metal,” the announcement said. Students will be paid while study ing and will get jobs in the factory after completing chemistry courses. “Both in the factory operations and in chemical analytical work the most stringent medical precautions will be taken to avoid any hazard to the health of the workers,” the min istry said. The British chemical workers’ union through its acting secretary- general, Bob Edwards, said several workers at an atomic research cen ter in the north had become sexu ally impotent. It described as in adequate a current government in vestigation of its complaint. 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GENS CO TOOL DIVISION 1 830 N. Kostner, Chicago 39 Surgery Finds Recovery Is Speeded by Short Bed Stay CHICAGO.—Patients who get out of bed shortly after an operation definitely recover more rapidly than those who are confined there for long periods, Dr. Nathaniel O. Cal loway told the Tri-State Hospital assembly here. Dr. Calloway, now on the staff of the University of Illinois research and educational hospitals, headed the navy’s study of convalescence during the war. It is strange that so simple a dis covery was so long in coming. Dr. Calloway said, since it can be seen that “animals, post-operatively, are never quiet. Children climb up the side of the bed as soon as the anesthesia wears off. And yet, in both groups, there are fewer than average complications.” Now that prolonged bedrest has been established as harmful by exhaustive studies, appendectomy cases need stay in bed for only a few days instead of several weeks, and those’ suffering major opera tions for perhaps one week instead of three, he said. Mothers May Park Babies In Church While Shopping RICHMOND, VA.—Mothers con cerned with what to do about baby while shopping get their answer from the Second Baptist church here. Officials of the church nursery in vited mothers to leave the tots with them and have the assurance that baby is "getting that vital growth in Christian group experience so necessary to the child’s develop ment before he becomes of school age.” The nursery is conducted on an interdenominational basis. Man Sentenced to 20 Years For Strangling His Wife JERSEY CITY. N. 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