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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C REVEL IN MOISTURE Famed Short Grass Country Of Kansas ‘Outgrows’ Name GARDEN CITY, KAN. — Famed since covered wagon days as the short grass country, the great high plains area extending roughly from central Kansas to the Colorado foot hills is “outgrowing” its name this year. “Where’s the short grass?” That’s a common question as mystified visitors in this western re-< gion look around this season. The short grass has become long grass, the often short wheat is tall wheat and the country itself just doesn’t look the same. Nature is running riot. Moisture penetrates the ground to a depth of 8 to 12 feet. In May, sometimes a dry month, 5.28 inches of rain fell here. During the wheat growing season since September fields have been soaked by 23.29 inches of rain. From the days when there was little bat buffalo to see the plains and fatten on them, the grass, known as buffalo grass or short grass, has been famous for its succulence despite the fact that it lies close to the ground, never growing tall like bluegrass. But this year even that type of grass—what little the plows have left as virgin sod —is taller and more luxuriant than ever before. In the sandhills, along the Arkan sas river pastures are growing so fast that an extraordinarily large number of cattle can be grazed. Even the sagebrush and cactus are reveling in the moisture. It is the wheat itself, however, which shows the most marked bene fit from the soaking. Mothers are getting afraid to let children play around the fields—if they venture far among the stalks they may be hard to find. Many fields have wheat up to men’s shoulders. Where fields have been sowed right up to narrow roads, motorists enjoy reaching out of car windows to pluck the large, perfectly filled heads. Some fields are so large that a person cannot see across them from a car. Combines in some cases make • three-mile drive without turning. Truly it is a record-breaking year for western Kansas. QffWm >LVIXnON NOTES Airport Chatter Lurin Duemeland of Bismarck was elected president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranch ers association at concluding ses sions of the annual convention. The Dakota Flyer, an aviation paper ed ited by Geneva Show, youthful Mott, N. D., aviatrix, was named of ficial association publication In the first annual air tour spon sored by the aviation committee of the Illinois State Chamber of Com merce. 32 planes visited 16 commu nities on a , 731-mile flight. Most of the 16 communities will vote on establishment of a local airport authority this year, and purpose of the tour was to acquaint citizens with the need for careful and ade quate air planning. . . . “It is no more unusual to have a plane than it is to have a car. In fact, this airplane is much less trouble than some of the cars we used to have.” That is the assertion of Harmon Cranz, a pilot-farmer of Ira, a Sum mit county, Ohio, village northwest of Akron. Cranz, who uses his plane chiefly for pleasure flights, has converted part of the bam into a hangar. . . . For the first time in its history. Parks College of Aero nautical Technology at East St. Louis, 111., is inviting its 2,000 grad uates from each of the 48 states and a dozen foreign countries to re turn to the campus August 1-2 for a reunion and homecoming. * * • Mark Twain once said every one talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. But he didn’t know Davy Crock ett Jt., who has helped save an $80,000 apple crop by "warm ing up” the weather with a cou ple of personal planes. Taking off from the Hagerstown, Md., airport at 3:30 a. m., Crockett and a fellow pilot flew their Aeroncas to the 70-acre orchard threatened by frost. Cruising back and forth 50 feet above the trees, the two planes raised the temperature two degrees in 10 minutes. The pilots, warm ing the air by keeping it circu lating, patrolled the area for 3H hours, after which the danger of frost was past. Precautions Listed For Polio Outbreak Observance of six simple precau tions may help you avoid infantile paralysis should outbreaks occur in your community this summer, ac cording to Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of National Foun dation for Infantile Parlysis. These common sense rules are: 1. Wash hands thoroughly be fore eating. 2. Keep flies away from food. 3. Do not swim in polluted waters. 4. Avoid over-tiring. 5. Be guided by your physi cian’s advice concerning tonsil and adenoid operations. 6. Avoid sudden chilling, such as plunging into cold water on a very hot day. “June through September,” Dr. Van Riper said, “is the time when infantile paralysis cases are on the increase in the north temperate zone. Consequently they are months in which these precautions should be especially observed.” Last year was the worst polio year in three decades, with more than 25,000 infantile paralysis cases reported. By June 7 this year. Dr. Van Riper said, 1,000 cases had been reported to the U. S. Public Health service. This figure is 192 cases less than the number reported for the comparable period last j year, he explained. It is estimated that of infantile paralysis victims in this country 50 per cent recover completely. 25 to 30 per cent show slight residual paralysis, 15 to 20 per cent show marked after-effects and 5 to 10 per cent die. Never Off Duty LYNCHBURG, VA.—Although he was off duty, Randall Hudson, city fireman, pitched right in and helped extinguish a fire at 215 Lansing ave- enue. It was his own home. Shoplifter Is Original, But It’s Same Ending HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA. — Al though his shop lifting scheme had the merit of originality, it still wasn’t good enough, James M. But ler learned. He entered two stores and lifted a luncheon set, electric iron and sweater valued at $20. Later he returned and asked for re funds. The ruse worked the first time but at the second store sus picious clerks called police. Air Museum Providing a comprehensive, per manent exhibit of the air weapons used in World War II, a national air museum will be established in the mall adjacent to Smithsonian insti tution in Washington, according to tentative plans approved at a con ference of aviation men and army air forces officers. It is planned that historic aircraft and items of aeronautical equip ment, both foreign and domestic, which already have attracted wide spread public interest in temporary displays and air shows will be turned over by army air forces to the museum. A total of more than 100 aircraft and several thou sand items of aeronautical equip ment will be made available to the museum. Airplanes earmarked for the mu seum include the Enola Gay, the B-29 which dropped the first atomic bomb; Flak Bait, historic veteran of the European theater, and the Memphis Belle. • • • AID IN TEACHING ... A former reconnaissance pilot, Lee A. Har per of Logan, Ohio, uses his flying experience as ?.n aid in teaching Ohio farm veterans. Harper, now a vocational agriculture instruc tor, uses his own plane to fly di rectly to his students’ farms and to his classroom at Laurelville, Ohio. • * • Show Postponed • Postponement of the 1947 Na tional Aircraft show, tentatively scheduled to be held in Chicago No vember 1-9, has been announced by Aircraft Industries association. Since personal aircraft were to con stitute the major portion of the air planes to be displayed at this year’s show, council members felt that a postponement to next spring would provide more opportunity to plan a showing of new models not now in readiness for public display. TWO U. S. BATTLESHIPS RETIRED ... A certain amount of pomp and circumstance must accompany even the decommissioning of a naval vessel. Here, Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the Atlantic reserve fleet, is piped aboard U.S.S. North Carolina. TOWNSENDITES BACK AGAIN . . . Four thousand advocates of the Townsend national prosperity plan, in Washington for the seventh an nual Townsend plan national convention, converged on Capitol Hill to urge congress (for the 13th successive year) to pass their bill. Photo . shows, left to right, Sen. Claude Pepper (Dem., Fla.); Dr. Francis E. Townsend, creator of the plan; R. C. Townsend, his son, and Rep. Homer D. Angell (Rep., Ore.). EMPTY BARGES IN THE OLD CANAL . . . Coal barges lie desolate and empty along the Allegheny river at Harmarville, Pa., a mining community near Pittsburgh. In background of photo is the tipple (that’s a coal screening plant where cars are unloaded) of Wheeling Steel’s Harmar mine. ELEANC R EXPRESSES HER OPINION . . . Members of the press clusteret around Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for a news conference before she addressed 2,500 delegates to the 56th annual convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in New York. Mrs. Roosevelt confided to reporters that the Taft-Hartley labor act “will undoubtedly create disunity in the country instead of unity—and women are vitally concerned.” HE WAS RIGHT . . . Jack Ladin- ski, food corporation head, went all the way in court to prove that bis sauerkraut had been mishan dled on railroad and that it had not fermented and exploded by itself. OUTMODES ATOM BOMB . . . Prof. T. D. J. Leech Is leading figure in development of an Amer- ican-British weapon of which he says, “by comparison the atom bomb is a clumsy method of at tack.” He is a New Zealander. SPOON-FED ORPHAN . • . Too young to feed itself and having no mama or papa to take care of it in a nice, comfortable nest, this little wood thrush is fed by hand from a spoon. It was deserted by its parents in Philadelphia. GERMAN PARTY BOSS . . . Frau Maria Von Bredow became Ger many’s first woman party leader when tbe military government li censed her “equal political right- for women” party. She is a countess in her own right. WARNS OF COLLAPSE . . . Pre dicting a “collapse of our econ omy” unless immediate steps are taken, Emil Rieve, chairman of CIO’s full employment committee, says rising living costs have not been checked. Nazi War Yield Easily Figured Markings on Equipment Taken From Foe Aid To Statisticians. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Why they had to spend so much time and effort recording carefully the serial numbers and other markings on captured enemy equipment, report ing the data to headquarters, was one of the mysteries of the war to most G.I.s and many of their offi cers. The mystery is now cleared up. From these field reports, gathered together at a centralized intelli gence agency, the economic war fare division of the American em bassy in London, analysts lent by the office of strategic services, the foreign economic administration and the state department were able to estimate German production of tires, vehicles, tanks, guns, flying bombs, rockets and other equip ment. Since end of the war, Richard Ruggles of Harvard university and Henry Brodie of the state depart ment have been comparing the eco nomic intelligence reports of the economic warfare division with of ficial statistics on German produc tion captured In the victory. They have found that a markings analysis based on objective scien tific statistical techniques esti mated German war production with what, relatively, was uncanny ac curacy and gavfe Allied intelligence officers “a wealth of information about German industry.” Tire Production. By breaking two tire - marking codes, the analysts were able to establish that five manufacturers produced 70 per cent of the total German tire output. Systematic col lection of tire markings was or dered and by July, 1944, 11,000 ob servations were obtained, raising monthly serial number analysis to 98 per cent coverage of the indus try. When one of the plants was bombed, the economic intelligence unit could provide data on the monthly output before and after the bombing, furnishing a valuable check on the results of the bomb damage. Ruggles and Brodie have re ported a statistical evaluation of the estimates, compared with the actual figures, in the Journal of the American Statistical association. They have found that in 1943, for example, when Allied intelligence agencies using other methods were estimating German production of tires at between 900,000 and 1,200,- 000 tires a month, the markings analysts set the total at 175,500 tires. The analysts’ estimate was only 6 per cent under the actual average monthly production of 186,- 100. Similar results were obtained for individual producers. Extreme Accuracy. For truck production, the ana lysts estimated the output of indi vidual German plants with “ex treme accuracy,” the statisticians discovered. When other Allied in telligence agencies were putting the German yearly output of trucks at 200,000 vehicles, the division esti mated it to be 97,300. This was 22 per cent higher than the Speer mili tary statistics which put the figure at 79,827, but the latter may have included trucks only for direct mili tary use. Over four years the EWD estimated half - track production with only a 7 per cent error. Serious errors were made by the markings analysts in estimating production of the V-2 rocket be cause the component parts pro gram apparently got into full swing in Germany before a sheet metal bottleneck developed. After Septem ber 15, 1944, however, the error in estimating was reduced to a maxi mum of 17 per cent. And by No vember 24, 1944, the error was re duced to zero and for two periods thereafter the estimates were com pletely accurate. Markings analysis was under taken, it was explained, because “during the early phases of the war Allied economic intelligence proved inadequate for the many needs it had to serve.” His Frozen Gravity Seizes Liars’ Contest by Odd Yarn YAKIMA, WASH — Frank W. Bennett of Wapato, Wash., won the liars’ contest at the 12th annual dinner of the Yakima Valley an glers and hunters club. His story: “Dan MacDonald was telling me about a hunting trip to Canada, when it was almost too cold to sur vive. One bitter day he spotted a fine, 12-point deer. He shot and scored a direct hit, but the deer leaped over a cliff and disappeared. When Dan looked over the cliff he ■aw tike (leer frozen in the air half way down. It was so darn cold the law of gravity froze, too.” Eats Potato Chips in Bed; Wife Is Granted Divorce SAN FRANCISCO. — Mrs. Sonia Adelson, 26, an Australian war bride, received a Superior court di vorce from Morris Adelson, ware house employee, on grounds her husband ate such things as potato chips and smoked salmon in bed. She said she would return to Aus tralia after the birth of an expect ed baby. British Doctor Tells About Mercy Killings Confesses to Giving Chloroform To Incurable Patients. LONDON. — According to legal authorilies nothing could be done about Dr. Edwin Alfred Barton, 84, who made a confession that he had mercifully killed patients incurably and painfully ill. They said his statements in support of euthanasia could not be grounds for prosecu tion. Dr. Barton, for 40 years a gen eral practitioner, described his “first” mercy death in the Univer sity and College Hospital magazine. "Because I lived a few doors off I was asked to take over,” he said. “The man was about 50 and his case needed very constant care. How the poor man prayed to die! How he implored me to end it all and help him out of it. His con dition worried me greatly from his eternal entreaty to me to take his life. "At five o’clock on a Sunday morning my night bell rang. I guessed what was wrong . . . just as I was, in pink and white pajamas, I rushed around to the house and raced upstairs. He was . . . aU but dead and ... I poured some chloroform onto a corner of a towel and let him go. “This was my first case of its kind and it made a deep impression on me, and when later I had one or two cases still more horrible I be gan to feel that some means should be legalized by which cases under absolute certainty of death associ ated with constant and unrelievable suffering could be assisted and their yearning for death and relief as sured.” A bill to legalize euthanasia will shortly be presented to the House of Lords where a similar bill died in 1936. Unofficial legal sources said no charge against Dr. Barton was pos sible unless: 1. Death could be proved; 2. It could be shown his action hastened death; 3. The physi cian acted knowingly. Letter 25 Years Late Renews Old Friendship LARNED, KAS. — W. B. Con rad of Lamed received that missing letter from his old friend—finally. For 25 years the letter-en closed envelope, properly ad dressed to the Kansas man, lay in undisturbed papers belonging to Abe Hoss of Seattle, Wash. Not long ago, Hoss found it, traced anew the still correct ad dress on the faded envelope, and dropped it in the mailbox. When Conrad got the quarter- of-a-century-late letter, he sat down immediately and replied in a quarter of an hour. The two friends haven’t seen each other in some 40 years. CLASSIFIED D E P A R T M ENT BUILDING MATERIALS CONCRETE BLOCK MACHINES 200 to 240 blocks hour, others hand or power 45 to 100 hour, brick machines, batch mixer* any size, motors and gas engines. MADI SON EQUIPMENT CO.. Madiaon. Te«a. BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. DEALERS WANTED FOR SERVICYCLE MOTORBIKES Inquire TED EDWARDS. Georgia Dis tributor, 614 Spring St.. N.W., Atlanta, Ga. HE. 5354 HELP WANTED—MEN, WOMEN ? ;EAUTY academy managing Instructor. uly 1 or Oct. 1. New equipment. Excel lent salary, virgin territory. Wire at mice. 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Hates reasonable. 10% discount during June. You Can Be a Partner Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! Sad Day for Venus When She Was Given Bath; Artists Agog ROME. — It was a sad day for Venus of Cyrenaica and Niobe of the Gardens of Sallust when they got a bath. Roman art critics la mented. "Some barbarians,” in the words of one critic, recently washed the ancient Grecian statues with some obnoxious solution which left them clean and white—and according to the critics, doomed to be loved no more for at least 25 centuries. One critic compared the washing of the statues to “the shaking of Martinis, taking the fuzz off the peach—or washing a peeled ba nana.” Venus had lost both arms and her head in the passing centuries. But time had given her an air which admirers venerated as almost life like. Niobe, like Venus mostly naked, had acquired a super-suntan which intrigued back-to-nature art lovers. "They look as if they were fresh off the production line now,” a crit ic mourned. Food and Posture Habits Declared Cause of Ulcers ATLANTIC CITY. — Dr. Donald Cook of Chicago declared ulcers were not caused by worry, smoking or alcoholic beverages, but by food and posture habits. In an address before the National Gastroenterological association. Cook said ulcers result primarily from a pinching of the ulcer-bearing areas of the stomach and the duodenum between the liver and the spine. In discussing ways to prevent oc currence of ulcer. Cook said the stomach should be weighted by food taken at three regular or four small meals a day. Food in the stomach would reduce the chance of pinch ing in the ulcer-bearing areas, he said. ‘Big Names’ Find Jobs, Employment Service Says MONTGOMERY, ALA.—The Ala bama state employment service helps many ’’prominent” persons get work. The claims manager helped Babe Ruth Moore get a job. 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