The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 30, 1948, Image 2
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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
Meat-Rationing Program
WASHINGTON. — The agriculture
department is ready with a detailed
meat-rationing program which Sec
retary Anderson will present pri
vately to Sen. Ralph Flanders (Rep.,
Vt.), who is preparing a bill to re
vive meat controls.
Department experts have worked
•ut a tentative, program, based upon
the old OPA point system but de-
(igned to create a greater de
mand for cheaper meat cuts. It
would be administered and enforced
by the agriculture department, with
the FBI on th^ prowl for serious
violations and black marketing. The
planners have taken special pains
to weed out irritations which crept
into OPA and left a bad taste with
the public.
The agriculture plan is to ra
tion meat alone, not fats and
oils. Coupon books would be is
sued by voluntary ration boards,
bnt tbe central directors would
be handpicked by Secretary An
derson for their ability to get
along with the public.
The decision to use the point sys
tem was reached after close study
of the British rationing system,
which regulates the money that can
be spent rather than the amount of
meat that can be purchased. The
plan finally adopted would cost heav
ily in coupons for the tenderloin
steaks but charge fewer points for
the less tender cuts.
Third Party
Like little boys who whistle
passing a graveyard. Democratic
chiefs still pretend they have
nothing to fear from Henry Wal
lace’s third-party movement,
thongh the defection is bound to
hurt the party in such key states
as New York and California.
Taking their cue from the
President, who refused to dignify
Wallace’s bolt broadcast by lis
tening to it, White House aides
affect yawns when interviewed
on the subject. Privately, they
comfort each other with the hope
that the Democrats will pick up
enough new middle-of-the-road
support as a result of the Wal
lace break to offset the leftist
vote they will lose in the next
election.
Three Famous Sons
The sons of three famous men
called on President Truman the oth
er day with a plan to do something
1 “on their own” about the housing
shortage. The callers were Frank
lin D. Roosevelt Jr., Rep. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts, son of
the former ambassador to Great
Britain, and Robert Wagner Jr., son
of New York’s veteran senator.
Their plan: A nation-wide cam
paign to force congress to take a
long-delayed vote on low-cost hous
ing. The drive, they said, will be
launched at a Washington meeting
of war-vet leaders beginning
March 1.
They explained that our whole
economy is threatened by high hous
ing costs, and that a housing pro
gram for the relief of low-income
groups goes hand-in-hand with the
government's battle against inflation.
The President emphasized that
one of the most serious problems of
the current housing situation in addi-
tion to high prices was the low
quality of new housing.
Miami Racket
Fabulous Miami has come up
with a brand new racket — plant
ing islands in Biscayne bay. Al
ready 15 man-made islands have
been dredged off the bay bottom
and pushed above the water line.
Green grass and swaying palms
are blossoming where fish for
merly swam. The result is valu
able real estate near the exclu
sive Miami Beach area and new
source of cash for shrewd pro
moters.
The new racket will be brought
under congressional fire this ses
sion by Florida’s Rep. George
Smathers, who is interested in
keeping the bay from being
clogged with new islands.
Oil Reserves Depleted
The American oil industry now is
spending the huge sum of $1,800,000
in a powerful counter-sales cam
paign to persuade people not to buy
oil.
The amazing fact is that it was
only just recently that the oil in
dustry was willing to face the facts
regarding the oil shortage. Before
that it was blandly asserting that
oil would flow freely as soon as there
was sufficient transportation.
The inescapable truth is that
our basic oil reserves are dry
ing up. And the strong likeli
hood is that many American
homes will go without heat for
prolonged periods this winter
while farmers will run short of
motor fuel to harvest their crops
next fall — unless a stiff coin
servation program is adopted at
once.
Boiled down to the cold facta fur
nished the government by oil men,
here is the oil outlook today: Amer
ica’s petroleum reserves are esti
mated at about 22 billion barr-i-
Medical Detectives
Check Polio Causes
Tests Show That Throat Vims
Is Source oi Infection.
CHICAGO. — Four medical inves
tigators who made hundreds of
tests on children — both sick and
well — during a Chicago epidemic
of infantile paralysis announced that
important new evidence that polio
virus from throat regions was a
“common source of infection.”
The researchers disclosed they
had established the presence of polio
virus in the thraats of three chil
dren before they became ill — a test
which they said had been reported
only once before in medical litera
ture.
The medical detective work was
done here during the summers of
1945 and 1946. Results were report
ed by Drs. F. B. Gordon. Frank M.
Schabel Jr. and William I. Fishbein
of Chicago and Albert E. Casey of
Birmingham, Ala., in the Journal
of the American Medical associ
ation.
During the epidemic, hundreds of
apparently healthy children in af
flicted neighborhoods were visited,
among then, a number who had had
contact with the sick children be
fore their illness.
Throat and mouth swabs were
taken daily from both children
Known to have had contact with sick
persons and children having no
known contact.
As expected, poliomyelitis even
tually developed in five of the chil
dren who had contact with polio
cases, the physicians related. Speci
mens from three of them produced
polio in monkeys.
The physicians said that recovery
of polio virus from throats during
and shortly after illness has been
reported many times, but the tests
showing it was in the children’s
throats — from one to six days be
fore onset of the disease — “make
a strong case for virus from the
pharynx as a common source of in
fection.”
Famed Sea Serpent Dies;
Still Stumps Scientists
VANCOUVER, B. C.—Cadboro-
saurus, better known as "Cad
dy,” the famous sea serpent, is
dead. Fishermen discovered his
remains wedged between rocks
at the water’s edge between Ef
fingham and Useless inlet, on the
west coast of Vancouver island.
The body is more than 45 feet
long with a 12-inch skull and 145
vertebrae, the largest almost six
inches in diameter and held to
gether by a rubber-like sub
stance.
R. E. Foerster, director of the
Pacific biological station at Na
naimo, and Dr. A. L. Pester,
biologist, are investigating the
serpent. So far, they report, they
are “completely stumped." The
ories advanced by the scientists
range from a shark through a
ribbon fish to an oar fish.
Girl’s Menagerie Dismays
Mother; House Is Overflown
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Joan Har-
rieder, 11, has a heart bigger than
her house.
Her heart was big enough to take
in a goat and a dog she met playing
together on the street, but her
.■nother, Mrs. Anna Harrieder, said
that their house wasn't. She relent-
sd somewhat, however, and the pals
bunked together in the chicken
bouse—but only temporarily, Mrs.
Harrieder insisted.
The mother felt she had gone far
enough in taking in Joan’s pets.
There have been three cats, six
turtles, three dogs, three goldfish
and a flock of pet chickens. These
have been reduced to one dog, the
goldfish and the chickens, plus the
goat and his pal, a huge shepherd.
Mrs. Harrieder wished that some
one would claim the goat.
“If the goat leaves, I think the
dog will go home.” she said hope
fully.
Finochle in Park Moves to
Court on Gambling Charge
LOS ANGELES. — Three elderly
men who for six years have been
playing pinochle in the sun in Hol
lenbeck park were hauled into mu
nicipal court on gambling charges.
“We played a nickel for 300
points,” said Noah Simon, 68, speak
ing also for Abe Levin, 76, and Hu
man Mittelman, 65. “Judge, you
can take my word for it, in the pot
was only 20 cents.”
The three pleaded guilty.
“This,” said Judge Louis W.
Kaufman, “is the most ridiculous
charge I have ever had brought into
court. The sentence, $10 fine—sus
pended.”
Image Taken From Peak
Shown at Religious Fete
MANILA, P. I.—The famed image
of Our Lady of Peace and Good
Voyage was brought down from the
battle-scarred mountain town of An
tipolo, 15 miles southeast of Manila,
to occupy a shrine during a Catholic
festivaL
Thousands of Catholics lined Ma
nila’s Quezon boulevard to watch
the procession.
The festival commemorates the
golden sacerdotal jubilee of Manila
Archbishop Michael J. O’Doherty
and the tenth anniversary of the In
ternational Eucharistic congress
FAVORS UMT . . . John Thomu
Taylor (left), national legislative
director of the American Legion,
predicted almost immediate house
passage of the universal military
training bill as he presented Rep.
Walter G. Andrews (Rep., N. Y.)
with 10,000 petitions favoring
UMT,
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN . . . Although the hands of this
little French girl are covered with sores resulting from malnutrition,
they hold her cherished doU as tenderly as might any normal child.
She is one of the suffering youngsters overseas who will benefit through
the American Overseas Aid-United Nations Appeal for Children, a
world-wide group supported by the gifts of people from some 30
nations. The drive will be conducted during February.
SAYS STALIN ILL . . . Mario
Pimentel Brandao, Brazilian am
bassador to Moscow for 18 months
before Brazil broke relations with
Russia, says that Prime Minister
Stalin is suffering from paralysis
of his right side.
BACKGROUND FOR ERP ... Lewis Douglas, U. S. ambassador to
Great Britain, came bearing charts to congress to warn the legislators
that timidity and reluctance to face facts on European aid may lead to
“incalculable consequences” for America. Appearing before the senate
foreign relations committee, he gave the group the state department’s
statistical background supporting the four-year European recovery
plan.
AND NO DEPENDENTS . . -Two-
and-a-half-year-old Wendy Rey
Stocking, one of Chicago's young
est models, tolls off the figures as
she counts her earning* in prepa
ration for paying the fr-st install*
ment of her 1947 income tax.
FAMILIAR SIGHT . . . Yon are looking down on a climbing line of
steel-helmeted marines as they ascended the gangway into the attack
transport USS Bexar before the vessel sailed for Mediterranean wa
ters. Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates, marine corps commandant, said the
sending of 1,000 marines to the Mediterranean was strictly “routine."
PLENTY SCARED . .. Brig. Gen.
Wallace Graham, White House
physician accused of speculating
in grain, told the senate food gam
bling committee that he got ont of
the wheat market because he was
“plenty scared” by President Tru
man’s scathing denunciation of
grain speculators.
READY FOR TURKISH NAVY . . . This is the USS Brill, one of four
submarines which the United States will supply to Turkey. This ship
and another one are undergoing repairs at tbe San Francisco naval
ship yard and being readied for their journey into the Mediterranean.
U. S. navy has annonneed that the vessels will be fully loaded and
fully armed, as on a wartime patrol, when they leave this country
for Turkey.
TT'S LIKE THIS’ . . . Chester
Bowles, former OPA chief, dis
patched to Europe to make a sur
vey of conditions among children
of war-torn countries, explains bis
mission to reporters in Paris.
FROM FARM TO FOREST . . . Churches are playing an important
role in the concerted effort to improve rural living. Typical are these
scenes, taken at the Alpine, Tenn., mission of the Presbyterian church,
which operates a forest of 1,500 acres and a farm of 100 acres. The
dairy herd (left) in front of the modern barn show the strides made in
better agriculture while the sawmill (right) helps make the forest a
paying proposition.
SMALL TOWNS, U.S.A.
Revitalized Country Church
Plays Social, Economic Role
By EARLE HITCH
WNU Features.
Long on the road to decline, the country church is being
revived as an integral force for re-energizing small rural com
munities. Acting on the principle that where the community
thrives, the church also thrives, all denominations are back
ing a widespread campaign to revitalize the country church.
Without in any sense departing &
from the Christian aims of saving
souls and preaching redemption, the
churches simply are adding an
awareness of social and economic
responsibility to their mission of sal
vation. The concerns of the entire
community — home, family, farm
ing, health — become the concerns
of the community church.
Particularly valuable and instruc
tive as models or demonstrations
for study are the
community plans
Rural America being carried out
At Stake by missions of
the Presbyterian
and Methodist
No. 4 I churches in the
In a Series mountains of Ken-
_________ tucky and Ten
nessee. The Pres
byterian projects are at Morris
Fork and Wooton, Ky., and at Alpine
and Big Lick, Tenn. The Methodists
have community missions at Frakes,
Ky., and Sevierville, Uenn. A larger
community project at Blue Springs.
Tenn., represents the combined par
ishes of the Methodists, Disciples of
Christ and Presbyterians.
Diverse Projects.
All have much in common, but in
some things each in unique. Blue
Springs is the oldest mission, and
its area is the largest—some 400
miles square. It has seven churches
and four preaching points at neigh
borhood centers, a cooperative
store, an energetic training pro
gram in public health and a con
tinuing series of adult education
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COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE
. . . One of the leading churches in
promoting community develop
ment is Calvary Presbyterian
church (above) at Big Lick, Tenn.
The church was built by people of
the community, which consists of
only about 50 families. Landscap
ing was done by the pastor and
farmers.
classes in current problems, such as
farm machinery repair, soil conser
vation and home decorations.
All this represents the life work of
a great country preacher. He was
Paul A. Doran, who went to Blue
Springs in 1917 as a divinity school
graduate, and died there three years
ago after 28 years spent entirely in
that community’s service.
One of his many lasting serv
ices was his homestead plan. He
made home buying his personal
concern. Thrnngh small loans
from a nominal sum held in
trust by him, the minister made
it possible for 20 families in his
community to become owners of
their own farms. \
The pastor at Big Lick is both
ardent and articulate in behalf of
better rural living. He has known
country life from childhood and he
knows how to farm. He can run a
tractor, plow a contour furrow and
help in the saw mill. He has organ
ized a Big Lick homestead project
to aid young men get established on
the land, and 27 families have been
assisted in buying farms since 1940.
This pastor is Eugene Smathers,
who has written and preached ably
about rural economic problems, and
who has supplied the leadership
which has made Big Lick a better
place to live and work.
Promote Health.
One of Big Lick's finest public
services is its community health
clinic. There is a building specially
constructed for it, in a grove ad
joining the church yard. A graduate
nurse is stationed there to aid in
guarding the health of the people
and to assist in emergencies.
Big Lick also has a soil conserva
tion program, and is carrying on
adult education and demonstrations
in fertilizing, crop rotation, better
livestock breeding, introduction of
new fruits and plants, and good for
estry management. Homemaking
and home decoration, health and
child care are studied by the wom
en. There is also a study of the co
operative movement, and commit
tees are developing plans for future
cooperative undertakings, possibly
in marketing of home crops, proc
essing and a credit union. Big Lick
has its own machinery pool, includ
ing a tractor, a hammer mill and a
saw mill.
Build Own Church.
Wooton community, under the
ministry of Benton Deaton, has a
fine community church and play,
ground, built by the people them
selves. In the recreation center the
children of the neighborhood have a
place to enjoy their games and the
whole community has its picnics
and outdoor religious gatherings.
Wooton owns a cooperative
truck, which provides transpor
tation for the farmers who want
to send things to market, and
have things bought for them in
town. Very few of the people
have cars, and their usual
means of travel is by mule
back.
Wooton also has a circulating li
brary, the beginnings of a demon
stration farm, and a training course
in handicrafts and cottage indus
tries, for both men and women.
Similar work, especially in health,
soil saving and better farming, is
going on at Alpine, Morris Fork,
Frakes and Sevierville. The pro
grams vary according to local needs
and the resources that can be put to
use.
Productive Enterprises.
For example, the parish at Alpine
is the owner of a forest of 1,500
acres and a farm of 100 acres. A
trained forester and an expert
farmer make those enterprises pro
duce earnings, and furnish exam
ples for other farm and woodlot
owners. The Alpine program is in
charge of the head of the mission,
the Rev. Bernard M. Taylor, and
Mr. Taylor has made the mission
responsible for developing the com
munity’s full resources through the
activities of the citizens themselves,
and their labors are being reflected
more and more in better health and
living.
The same can be said of the com
munities at Frakes, Morris Fork
and Sevierville, all of which have
vastly improved their ways of living
because practical economic plans
for conserving the land and finding
more useful employments for sur
plus labor have been made principal
aims in the community plan. The
pastors, of course, have not neg
lected their religious duties. They
simply have added economic con
cerns to their other responsibilities.
TJoe next article will tell of the im
portant community development plan
now being carried on in five counties
centering around Tupelo, Miss. The
Tupelo plan is one of the most ambi
tious that has been undertaken any
where in the unfolding rural life move
ment.
Blind Girl Becomes Expert Knitter
With the help of her sister, Kath
erine, she began looking for mar
kets for her work at Christmas time
The search was unexpectedly sue
cessful, and she sold 200 of her knit
ted pieces to Le Sueur residents
Her specialty is colorful potholders.
Miss Heintz acquired her knitting
skill at the Minnesota Braille and
Sight-Saving school in Faribault,
attending her first classes when aha
was only seven years old.
LE SUEUR, MINN.—Despite the
handicap of being nearly blind, 21-
year-old Elaine Heintz can knit as
fine a sweater, scarf or mitten set
as any seen in exclusive shops. Her
needles click with the speed of a
professional craftsman.
Miss Heintz, whose vision failed
when she was stricken with spinal
meningitis at the age of 5, has made
a modest stall at setting herself up
in busine.ta.
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