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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C
LIFE’S * ‘SONS*
Strange Town of Vetyille
Planned for Disabled G.l.s
WNU Features.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Life should be “a song” for hun
dreds of disabled war veterans if plans of Harry Revel, popii-
lar song writer, materialize.
His plan, which has received the enthusiastic backing of ex-
servicemen, civic officials and business leaders, embraces the
founding of a town of Vetville solely
for disabled veterans.
It would be a strange town,
judged by the ordinary concepts of
city planning:
A town of houses with extra
wide doorways to accommodate
wheel chairs, of sidewalks and
ramps instead of curbs, of one
story buildings with no stepups.
A town with modern factories
providing jobs that crippled
fighting men can do; with back
yard workshops; with land for
farming; with its own civic cen
ter, hospital, open air theater,
motion picture house, swim
ming pool, schools and church
es.
A town in which a thousand
handicapped ex-G.I.s for $5,000
each can have their own homes
and raise their families, living
their lives under the most fa
vorable circumstances.
The inspiration for the unique
town crme to Revel while he was
entertaining servicemen during and
since the war. With a 10 by 15 foot
scale model, he has been able to
give others an accurate picture of
the proposed city.
The model shows eight houses to
the block. Back yards open into a
central recreation area. Public
buildings are on a wide main street
running through the center of the
town.
Revel will endeavor to raise
money for the project through pub
lic gifts and benefit shows. Both
fund raising enterprises and actual
construction of the village will be in
the hands of a committee com
prised of civic, religious and screen
personalities.
Hearty endorsement of the proj
ect has come from Veterans’ Ad
ministrator Omar Bradley and
from veterans themselves.
Typical of the reaction of handi
capped veterans was that of Ed
Sweeney, an ex-marine paralyzed
from the waist down, who is a pa
tient in Birmingham Veterans’ hos
pital in Van Nuys:
“The boys in the hospital feel that
Vetville is a wonderful thing. We
can be together there and work for
our living.”
A national bank has promised to
finance veteran loans. Several cor
porations, including a spark plug
manufacturer and a nail polish
maker, have agreed to locate fac
tories in Vetville.
Home Fires Impel
Cat To Complete
600 Mile Jaunt
RACINE, WIS.—Although it took
two years and a 600-mile hike to do
it. Boots, a wandering tom cat, fi
nally has returned to the home of
his owner, Mrs. Raymond McCul
lough.
Two years ago Mrs. McCullough
shipped Boots, a gray maltese, to
the home of her mother, Mrs. E. J.
Mosher, at Albion, Pa. Boots ar
rived there all right, but remained
only one month and then dis
appeared.
The McCulloughs long ago gave
up hope of ever seeing the cat
again. But one night Mrs. McCul
lough looked out the window and
saw Boots sitting on the sill. When
Mrs. McCullough raised the win
dow, the cat leaped into the house
and made for his favorite spot back
of the sofa. A saucer of milk com
pleted the homecoming festivities.
Report Cards Poor;
She'll Pass Anyway
NATICK, MASS.—She’s deficient
in reading, writing, spelling, arith
metic and geography, but her
chances of promotion from the sixth
grade are good.
The “she” in this case is Lady, a
dog that attends classes daily at
Nathan Rice school here. Like all
her classmates. Lady gets report
cards regularly from Miss Helen
Murphy, the teacher.
Despite her I. Q. troubles, Lady
may get out of the sixth grade be
cause her young master, William
Genova 11, is doing considerably
better at his studies. The one re
deeming feature of Lady’s report
cards is that she had a straight A
in conduct for 32 weeks.
Stand Back, Ladies!
CHEYENNE, WYO. — A bill re
quiring women to stand five feet
away from bars when drinking in
public was introduced at the pres
ent session of the state legislature.
Retired Railroad Man
To Run Model Train
PHILADELPHIA.—After 45 years
as a railroad man, Allen R. Wilson
has decided to retire so he can de
vote more time to his hobby. From
now on he will operate his minia
ture railroad, including 400 feet
of track, several locomotives and
plenty of cars. He even has a rail
road bridge, a reminder of the
years he spent designing them for
the Pennsylvania railroad.
yVVIATION N0TE5
DUAL EVENTS
Bozeman, Mont., will rank as a
hub of aviation June 20-22, with
planes coming in from every por
tion of the state, surrounding states
and Canada to attend two big air
events.
Montana Flying Farmers and
Ranchers 1 association will hold its
annual convention at Montana State
college June 20-21. On the following
day Northwest Airlines will inau
gurate flight service to Gallatin
field with special ceremonies.
The flying farmer program will
include a tour of the college to in
spect agricultural work now being
done, a display of army planes and
of light airplanes suitable for farm
and ranch work, and a speaking
program covering planes, hangars
and the many uses being made of
planes.
• • •
Launching an aerial war
against coyotes after the ani
mals had made heavy inroads
on farm livestock, Loren Mc
Donald, H. F. Baker and Frank
Tarter of Fredonia, Kas., have
bagged 70 coyotes as a spare
time project. Baker, a veteran
hunter, recalls his first shot
from a plane, when he “missed
at 10 feet.” Now his marksman
ship is as accurate from a plane
as from the ground.
AVIATION ADVANCES
Flying hamade rapid strides in
northern Middlesex county, N. J.,
since its inception only a quarter
century ago. Four new commercial
airports and a sea base have been
opened, most of them as a result of
the postwar interest in aviation.
The new fields are North Bruns
wick, Woodbridge, Ziegfield and
Forsgate airpark while the sea
plane base is at Perth Amboy. Had
ley airport, established in 1935, now
ranks as one of the busiest in the
state.
With aviation drawing many new
cohorts, more than 650 persons in
the county now are flying. The list
includes instructors, commercial,
private and student pilots. Figures
show that there are approximately
130 ships at the various air bases.
• * •
An increasing number of
small towns are providing air
port facilities for benefit of local
flying enthusiasts and visiting
pilots. The need for this service
is pointed out forcefully by the
Slayton, Minn., Herald, in an
editorial, which says in part;
“The town will fall far behind
the procession if it doesn’t look
out. A bond issue or a govern
ment grant isn’t needed to fill
the bill. About all required is
a little initiative and organiza-
tion.”
• • •
STILL GETTING AROUND
American pilots got around during
the war and they’re still going places
overseas. A check of foreign air
lines has disclosed that flying rosters
in many lands are dotted with names
of former American military air
men.
Air France has 20 American pilots,
co-pilots and navigators while Scan
dinavian Airlines system recently
added 15 ex-army airmen to its ros
ter. Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
has eight American pilots and engi
neers. Chinese National Aviation
corporation and Panagra use mixed
American and foreign personnel.
• • •
•FLYING BOXCAR' . . . Nick
named the “flying boxcar,” the
Fairchild Packet cargo plane ia
designed to transport heavy mili
tary cargo or airborne infantry.
Scheduled for long over-ocean
hops in the Pacific, the twin-
engined plane has a range of 4,000
miles, cruising speed of more
than 200 miles per hour and maxi
mum cargo payload of nine tons.
• • •
RESCUE MISSION
A delayed report from the inte
rior of northern Canada has in
formed army air forces headquar
ters of the dramatic flight of an
AAF Douglas C-54 Skymaster sev
eral thousand miles over the north
ern wastes to drop food supplies to
a group of starving Eskimos dis
covered by a Royal Canadian
mounted policeman. Constable An
drew Wilvert returned from a 30-
day tour of northern Canada to re
port a small colony of Eskimos
marooned at Petersen bay.
LITTLE FLOWER . . . Fiorello
H. LaGuardia who, among other
things, is head of the national
fair rents committee, campaigned
in congress against what he
termed the “blackjacking” senate
rent control bill.
CALL HIM TOM . . . The auster
ity of ofifice is pushed aside as
Attorney-General Tom Clark dons
prison jacket, high hat and plac
ard to clown for a few minutes at
the luncheon of the circus saints
and sinners.
READY TO BLOW . . . Sen. Alex
ander Wiley (Rep., Wis.) inhales
mightily and prepares to blow out
candles on birthday cheesecake
presented to him by his senate col
leagues on his 63rd birthday.
BIG SHOT . . . Top politician in
Jamaica is William A. Busta-
mente, leader of the Jamaica La
bor party. He refers to himself
prematurely as “prime minister.”
PLAUDITS FOR THE CHAMP . . . Mauri Rose, winner of the 31st
annual 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis motor speedway,
receives greetings from movie star Carole Landis and a few thousand
other fans as he steps from the sleek racer in which he hurtled to
victory. His average speed over the 500-mile course was 116.338
miles an hour, and his share of the prize money totaled $20,000.
BACK TO THE LAND . . • Wearing the costumes of Russian peas
ants, these three persons are typical of the “Doukhobor” religious
group of 70 which has purchased 140 acres of land amid the wilder
ness of Vancouver island, British Columbia. Following a doctrine
of “utter love,” they are attempting to found a colony managed on
a communal, share-all basis with simple peasant austerity.
ARMY'S FOOTBALL GREATS . . . The backfield stars of Army’s
great 1946 football team are shown as they paraded at the United
States Military Academy at West Point to receive top athletic awards.
Left to right are Glenn Davis, Felix (“Doc”) Blanchard and Arnold
Tucker—halfback, fullback and quarterback, respectively. They are
now ready for duty as second lieutenants.
CAREER MAN ... In line with
the current drive for volunteers,
Lt. CoL North Callahan, AUS, has
written s book entitled “The
Armed Forces as a Career,” list
ing advantages of army, navy,
marines and coast guard. Book
points eat opportunities for ca
reers in the various services.
SERENADE TO AN ALLIGATOR . . . Robert BuUerman, keeper at
the Brookfield, HI., soo, blows a, B-flat two octaves below middle C
on his French horn in the forlorn hope that it will incite this bashful
male alligator to give with a mating bellow. BuUerman faUed, but
a quartet of French horn masters did the trick.
Search Rockies
For Oil Fields
Quest of Geologists Is Long
And Tedious, but Not
Devoid of Romance.
NEW YORK. — Although leaders
of the oil industry have given assur
ance that this country’s petroleum
reserves wiU last many years,
search for the liquid treasure hid
den deep in the earth goes on at an
ever increasing pace. The Rocky
Mountain region is being intensively
explored by geologists for clues that
•might lead to opening of new fields.
The Rocky Mountain area is a
geologist’s heaven for the pursuit of
clues, for at no other place on this
continent are the geological .struc
tures so plainly visible. Despite
that, however, the work of the oil
geologist is long, tedious and hard,
■yet climaxed with romance and re
ward when his scientific “guesses”
prove right. These men caU them
selves “rock hounds,” for they can
read in the shape and pattern of
rock formations the story of what
lies below.
Nature Furnishes Clues.
The story of their work is told by
the Lamp, magazine of Standard
Oil company, as follows:
"By the nature of his occupation,
the rock hound is a man set apart
among men. He deals in hundreds
of square miles as another man
looks at a city block and thus to
him vast space is not overly awe
some. He distinguishes between
rocks that are 200 million years old
as against, say, more youthful stone
of a mere 50 million years, and so
his time unwinds on a vastly differ
ent calendar.”
The most common type of oil
structure for which the geologist
looks, the magazine explains, is
composed of folded layers of rock
that resemble somewhat an upside-
down set of kitchen mixing bowls,
one inside the other. The constant
play of erosion on the top of the
"bowls” has worn into the layers,
exposing to view what rock hounds
call outcrops. These are his clues to
formations below.
The field work is done in the
warm months and then the geolo
gists “hibernate” to the city for
the winter to study the data they
collected. From aerial photographs,
inspected through three-dimensional
viewers, they get their prime hints
of rock exposures that might sug
gest oil structures. They also sketch
roughly the outcroppings revealed
in their summer search. Then, with
a thorough knowledge of the ter
rain, they set out in the spring for
more minute studies.
"To a rock hound,” the Lamp
says, "and to the apprentice who
is normally his only companion,
home on the range is likely to be a
trailer hauled painfully over a
sheep track 50 miles or so from a
highway. With their trailer parked
near a sheepherder’s water hole,
the two geologists have a base from
which they explore lands even more
remote.
Trailer a Social Center.
“From June to October, except
for week-end trips to a town for sup
plies, that trailer is dwelling, office
and social center for the rock
hounds and their acquaintances of
the field, the itinerant and laconic
sheepherders. When canned foods
pall, a rifle is a handy bolsterer of
the meat supply in this land of wild
game.
“The rock hound in the North
west may pass an entire summer
trailing a vast and obscure struc
ture, and still have to leave some
work for next summer. He may,
with exceptional luck, stumble on a
structure in a few weeks. He may
turn up a potential reservoir as
small as a garden or as large as a
town. He may call on the instru
ments of geophysics for a further
check on his findings, but he never
can be finally sure of his under
ground structure until the drill bit
chews into the earth to produce
either an oil well or a dry hole.
“If his work yields no more than
a dry hole he merely scores up a
bad guess and moves on to new
fields. Should this potential struc
ture, however, turn into a major
producing field, the rock hound
calmly accepts the tribute due to
one who has wrested from nature a
secret hidden through untold mil
lions of years.”
Prolific Source of Uranium
Discovered in Swedish Slate
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. — The
Swedish atomic commission de
clared Sweden soon would be able
to produce large quantities of urani
um from slate.
The commission proposed estab
lishment of an atomic energy cor
poration owned by the state and pri
vate interests.
The report said Sweden now was
able to produce limited amounts of
uranium from materials here.
Dean Requests Coeds to
Avoid Petting on Lawn
PITTSBURGH. — In spring a
young man’s fancy may turn to
thoughts of love—but not on Univer
sity of Pittsburgh campus.
Coeds have received a personal
letter from Dean of Women Helen
Rush asking their cooperation in
keeping petting off the lawn.
The dean said some students have
a tendency “to embarrass others by
too personal a relationship with
men in public.”
Increase Noted in
Business Failures
Growth in Insolvencies Shows
Competition's Toll.
NEW YORK.—Business failures,
which were at a record low rate
just a year ago, now show a steady
increase—the plainest evidence that
competitive markets are back in
many fields.
Principal casualties thus far have
been manufacturing enterprises.
Statisticians of Dun and Brad-
street, whose records on failures ex
tend back to 1857, say that insol
vencies in retail trade always lag
somewhat behind those in the manu
facturing field.
Manufacturing failures outnum
bered wholesaling and retailing fail
ures in 1946 for the first time in
American business history, and the
trend has continued into 1947. For
the first two months this year there
were J59 insolvenices in the manu
facturing division reported, with lia
bilities totaling $18,674,000.
These failures have accounted
largely for an upturn in average lia
bility per insolvency from only
$11,000 in 1942 to around $70,000 thus
far in 1947.
The current high total of all busi
nesses in the nation, observers say,
would exaggerate the effect of any
business recession on the upswing
in failures.
Listings in the Dun and Bradstreet
reference book, which include all
types of business which are seekers
of commercial credit, have rtlore
than recovered from the falling-off
that accompanied war mobilization.
The current total of approximately
2,500,000 is some 300,000 above the
previous peak of 1942.
The reference book total is around
a million less than department of
commerce figures, since the latter
include many small service enter
prises which are not. primarily en
gaged in distribution on merchan
dise. Also, in the book, chain
store units are not counted individu
ally.
First Fireman on Scene
Saves Invalid Mother
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.—As
sistant Fire Chief Leon Doherty
always listens in on the police
radio circuit when driving his
auto off duty.
He was driving home early one
morning when he heard a fire
alarm report. Doherty speeded
up and was just in time—the first
fireman on the scene—to carry
his invalid mother from his blaz
ing apartment.
Then he went back in to help
his sister, Mrs. Helen Clark, also
an invalid, hunt for her Peking
ese.
Doherty found the dog and
helped his sister outside.
Navy Develops a Rocket
To Be Fired From Ships
WASHINGTON.—The navy is de
veloping a 45-foot, load-carrying
rocket that can be fired from ship
board and reach an altitude of 235
miles—twice the height attained by
the German V-2.
The navy said the rocket, named
the Neptune, could carry a 100-
pound load to the 235-mile height
or lift a ton upward 84 miles. No
figures could be obtained on how
far it could travel horizontally if
used as a rocket weapon.
A small model will be tested this
summer, a navy official said, but a
full-scale Neptune will not be com
pleted until next February.
“The Neptune is the largest rocket
that could conveniently be fired
from a ship,” the navy research lab
oratory explained.
Ten of the new rockets have been
ordered from the Glenn L. Martin
company, Baltimore, at a cost of
$1,850,000.
Hungry Sea Gulls Raiding
Diamond Back Terrapins
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.—Hun
gry sea gulls with a fancy appetite
for only the male of the species are
playing havoc with a state-spon
sored colony of diamond back terra
pins at the North Carolina fish and
wildlife station on Fivers island.
The gulls, says Dr. H. F. Pryth-
erch, laboratory director, are un
usually hungry at this season of the
year and they swoop down over the
stations breeding pens, taking off
with the male terrapins — which
come in smaller sizes than the fe
males.
The sea gulls break open the ter
rapins’ shells by dropping them o»
paved highways.
Ohio Indian Mound Closed
—For ‘Military Security’
MIAMISBURG, OHIO. — The
mound builder Indians, who lived in
this region before the white man
came, has become entangled
with modem science and military
security.
The mound builders left a huge
cone of dirt here which has been
visited by throngs of sightseers. Now
it is closed off by request of
the federal government.
From its top, a view can be had
of the area in which the army is
building a huge new plant for Mon
santo Chemical company. Photog
raphers have been forbidden to
take pictures of the plant area.
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