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I THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. « WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Bumper Crops Due This Year, May Crack High Cost Living; Spy Probe Confusion Mounts By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer [EDITOR'S NOTE: When eplniona are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.! SIDETRACKS . . . Two potential witnesses who were expected to add some information to the Washington Red spy hnnt were Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina (left) and Alexander Koral. Neither did, however. Mrs. Kosenkina, who taught children of Russian U. N. officials in New York, made headlines by leaping from a third-story window in the Soviet consulate where she allegedly was being held against her will. Koral, billed as a “mystery witness’* and accused of being a paid courier for the wartime Communist espionage ring, refused to tell anything he might know on the grounds that he would be incriminating himself. CROP REPORT: Momentous There was momentous news from the nation’s farms: In the cards for 1948 was a record-setting com crop, the second largest wheat crop and substantial increases over last year in oats, barley and rye. Government estimates, as of August 1, of this year’s grain pro duction read like a statistical fan tasy of the promised land. Bureau of agricultural economics reported that a com crop of 3,506,- 363,000 bushels is indicated this year, far above 1947’s small, weath er-plagued crop of 2.4 billion bushels. An approximate 1,284,323,000 bushels of wheat will be forthcom ing this year. Other crop estimates were: Oats, 1,470,444,000 bushels; barley, 313.139,000 bushels, and rye, 26,664,000 bushels. Trouble grew out of the fact that, although the huge crops are wel come this year, they may set the scene for huge postwar surpluses, mostly of com and wheat. Officials contend that there sim ply aren’t enough animals left on the nation’s farms to take care of the kind of production being achieved this year, particularly the com outturn. Immediate result of this sudden condition of oversupply probably will be the government’s starting to support com prices as soon as the crop starts moving. Other grain supports are likely to be evoked later. Grain exports will be pushed, of course, but the export market Is almost certain to fall off in a year or so because other nations also are intensifying their farm produc tion with considerable success. Deflation? Brighter side of the crop situation is the fact that it promises the consumer almost certain relief from inflated food prices sooner or later, since grain supplies and prices are basic in determining cost of living at the household level. Prices of most grains, as a mat ter of fact, already have broken. Com was down to $2.02 a bushel from its postwar peak of $2.80. Wheat was down from $3.13 to $2.09, oats from $1.47 to 74 cents. Further decreases are inevitable when this year’s great yield makes itself felt. Generally, cheaper grain means cheaper feed for livestock. Cheap er feed means less expensive meat in the butcher shop. This apparently certain relief from the high cost of living is not just around the comer, however. It lies somewhere in the middle future. Prices probably will con tinue to rise somewhat for the rest of this year, after which the im pact of the 1948 crop should be felt, causing them to come down. Despite the optimistic outlook, there is another problem to com plicate the picture. This year’s great crops could lay the ground- Everybody works. Everybody makes money. That is the theme song of the American people who are, nevertheless, twisting and turning in the clutches of an in tolerable condition of inflation. But the money keeps on rolling in. Personal income hit a historic high rate of 211.9 billion dollars in June, the commerce department feas reported. That figure is 2.5 work for farm gluts that would be followed by costly subsidies in the form of farm price supports. Should another year of heavy crop yields follow this one, and. should there be a recovery of agri culture abroad, tremendous sur pluses in grains would result. Thus, U. S. taxpayers would stand to lose in the cost of price supports a good deal of what they might save in food prices. CONFUSION: And Spies America’s current top thriller, the Russian spy sensation, had devel oped more facets than a cylindrical lens in a lighthouse and each one was blinding 'to the eye of the be holder. The motley group of persons called to testify before congressional in vestigating committees was grow ing and growing. It was getting to the point where even the witnesses had witnesses. A sensational offshoot of the orig inal spy investigation temporarily stole the spotlight from the main event. This was the battle of the schoolteachers—Mikhail I. Samarin and Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Ko senkina, both U. N. personnel. The goings on over this pair of Russian pedagogues seemed to be fairly complicated, but they could be boiled down to a sophisticated international game of run sheep run. Both Samarin and Mrs. Kosenk ina had appeared on the scene as potential witnesses in the congres sional investigation. Then things started to happen. First Mrs. Kosenkina disappeared for a few days. According to the official Soviet version, she had been “captured’’ by a group of anti communist White Russians and held prisoner. Then she was "res cued’’ by loyal U. S. S. R. sub jects. A few days later she leaped from a window in the third story of the Soviet consulate in New York where, she said, she had been held captive. Driven to desperation by fear, she was seriously injured when she took the only way out. On top of all this the other school teacher, Samarin, also disappeared. He, too, was supposed to be in cus tody of anti-Commie White Rus sians. However, information leaked out from the Samarin camp: He wanted to testify; he liked the U. S. and revolted against going back to Russia. » ACCIDENTS: 100,000 Deaths Possibly the most shocking set of statistics compiled year in and year out in the U. S. is that dealing with the nation’s accidental death rate. In 1947, National Safety council has disclosed, about 100,000 persons died accidentally. The full accident toll was approximately 2,000 deaths higher than in 1946. Accidents in the home accounted for a majority of all the deaths list ed by the council. There were 34.500 such fatalities. The total also in cluded 32,300 traffic and 17,000 oc cupational deaths. Some of the other facts released in the annual report: More people died in disasters last year than in 1946—550 in the stu pendous Texas City explosion, 167 in a Texas-Oklahoma tornado. 111 in the Centralia, 111., mine blast, and 198 in airplane crashes. Total of 20,900 deaths resulted from rural traffic accidents, while city traffic accidents accounted for 11,400 fatalities. billion dollars above the total per sonal income for May. Responsible for the large May- to-June increase were the absence of major strikes, impact of third- round wage boosts in durable goods industries and higher prices re ceived by farmers for livestock, the department of commerce said. Wage and salary payments jumped 2.3 billion dollars in June YOUTH MONTH: Awareness If the day should ever dawn when every family in the nation becomes fully aware that all juvenile delin quency has its beginning in the home, then U. S. society will have reached its Elysian fields. Once families become endowed with this awareness they will tend to bring pressure to bear to elimi nate the secondary factors that con tribute to delinquency in young peo ple: School failure, church failure, bad housing and the inevitable shift in ethical values from one genera tion to the next which are some times confusing and frightening to immature minds. To that end. and because a healthy store of young minds and bodies is the best overall insurance any nation can have, September has been proclaimed Youth Month. The Theater Owners of America, who feel they have a big stake in the welfare of U. S. youth, have undertaken to organize the princi pal media of information—newspa pers, magazines, radio and motion pictures—to publicize the month. Aside from the publicity to be ac corded the problem of juvenile de linquency, which is the immediate purpose of Youth Month, the observ ance is more deeply significant in that it provides some evidence that Americans are becoming actively conscious that at least a partial remedy must be found. Springboard for Youth Month and any other concerted group action that might obtain is a probing and thoughtful report on juvenile delin quency by the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Ju venile Delinquency, Washington, D. C. A digest bf this report, or series of panel reports, covering basic causes and possible solutions of the problem, is well worth a few hours’ study on the part of every parent who is aware of his inevitable falli bilities as a guide and leader of his children. NEW LOW: Bitterness While American, British and French ambassadors in Moscow were grimly making peace talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Molo tov in the Kremlin, general relations between the East and West were sliding to new depths of mutual re crimination. This state of affairs was not eased any by unsubstantiated reports that the Moscow talks had degenerated into a deadlock and that no progress was being made. For the most part, however, the animosity was being spread through raucous propaganda by Berlin newspapers, with the publications sponsored by the Russians and the western powers waging a pitched battle of words. The British-licensed paper Tele- graaf reported that the Soviets were getting ready to move great num bers of new troops into Germany and that Russia was pressing to ward “sole rule over all of Berlin.” Soviet propaganda instruments, meantime, renewed their overall attacks on the West, demanding that the Berlin city council be oust ed and that the whole city be made part of the Soviet zonal administra tion. Regardless of any truth implicit in the Berlin newspaper fight it was obvious that the vindictive battle would do much more harm than good to relations between the two power spheres. It was equally obvious that there was more bitterness and fear at work in Berlin than there was a rational understanding of how to cope with the crisis. Headliners IN LONDON. . . . Mrs. Fannie Blankers-Koen. stupendous Dutch woman athlete who won four gold medals in Olympic track and field competition, subsided into house wifely bliss (above) after her en deavors as she received an un- Olympian kiss from her husband. IN OAKLAND, CALIF. . . . Edwin G. Chester dejectedly told a judge that the price of meat was pretty high, pleaded guilty to a charge that he wrestled and killed an 850- pound heifer. IN CHICAGO. . . . Diane Janakos charged her husband with cruelty in a divorce action, displayed as proof a pocketbook full of hair which she said he had yanked out of her head. DRAFT: Questions This may come as a shock to young future draftees who want the world to know that they are loyal Americans, but just about the only question draft boards will not ask the potential inductee is whether or not he is a Communist and if he is loyal to the U. S. All the queries in an eight-page questionnaire for draftees deal with the subject’s social, economic, phys ical and marital status. 211.9 BILLION U. S. Personal Income Still on Elevator Women's World Professional Cutting Tricks Permit Ultimate in Sewing £rtta y T AKE a critical look at some of the clothing or other items you have sewed in the past. Do they look as though they had been bought or does something label them as homemade? True, clothing made at home fre quently has better sewing in it, but if it does not have styling or flair or effect, as some people call it, it hasn’t achieved the ultimate in sew ing. It’s a real art to cut properly be fore you actually embark on the sewing itself, and much can be achieved when a garment is cut properly and marked explicitly. Al terations on a pattern must be made before cutting or the gar ment will not have the styling which your figure problem may dictate. Before buying a pattern, study your figure type and select the lines most becoming to you. Buy the fab ric to fit the pattern as well as to fit yourself. Even though you buy a pattern closest to your size, there may be a few adjustments necessary before it really fits well. Taking measure ments will help, pinning the pattern together and trying it on is also m _ Cut fabrics on a floor good. However, if you are using a very expensive fabric, stitch the pattern in cheesecloth or muslin first, then rip and use it for cutting and making the dress or blouse it self. A pattern is really a recipe or guide, and it pays to study the de tailed instructions that go with it so that you will have a complete pic ture of just what is done to make the finished garment Assemble Equipment; Cut on Table or Floor Everything needed for the sewing project should be assembled, to pre vent running off for basting thread or needles, and thus interrupting your train of thought. Thread nee- Mark them with chalk. dies before cutting so that any bast ing or markers that you need will be right at hand. Sharp cutting shears, either with plain or pinked edges, are essential. You also m?y like to have a small pair of nicely sharpened scissors for cutting notches. Have plenty of pii.s, threaded needles, chalk, tape measure and ruler at hand. Unless you have a large table which can be padded, it’s best to use the floor. A surface that allows plenty of room, as well as one from which pieces of pattern and materi al won’t slip off, is essential to good cutting. Never try to cut fabric that is wrinkled or torn at an angle. Some materials will need pressing to smooth them before cutting is done. If the uncut edge is not smooth. Be Smart! The combination of exquisite handiwork and exceptional design is setting a new trend in costume blouses that can be a major part of a costume for virtually any oc casion. In the typical interpreta tion sketched, the Victorian yoke is adapted in a flattering shape and depth. Then it again is re flected in the cuffs. Note the re straint in treatment that makes for true smartness. Bold Look Men’s shoes are featuring the bold look, as shown here in Win- throp’s variation on the wingtip lace oxford. A conventional wing- tip design extends from the inside over the tip of the shoe, flowing then into a curved tip line on the outside. The shoes shown here are in imported gorse, with a long vamp circling the entire quarter. The tip is medallion with a special medallion added to the quarter at the lace row. The shoe also feat ures white sole stitching. draw out a cross thread and cut along this line so the fabric will be straight. If you cannot draw out a thread, mark the fabric with chalk and ruler, then cut along the line. If the fabric is a second or has flaws and imperfections in it, mark these with pins, basting or chalk, so you'll notice them during cutting and can piece the pattern properly to avoid them. Check the fabric for right and wrong side, marking the right side with pins so that it can be seen easily when you lay the pattern on it. Study Fabrics Before Cutting When you plan to cut napped fab rics, lay the pattern pieces on it so that all pieces point the same way. This is done so that the nap will all run the same way when the garment is finished. Velveteen, corduroy and velvet are some of the more com mon naped fabrics, and they should be studied so that you will know how to cut them. If you are in doubt as to whether the fabric is napped, feel it. If it has the feeling of fur, you will know it is napped. Sheen fabrics also must be stud ied before cutting, and here again, it is important to place all pieces of the pattern running the same way before cutting. Sheen fabrics, such as satin, catch the light in dif ferent ways, and cutting this way is a necessity or it will look as though you had used different pieces of material. , Both sheen and napped fabrics are best cut on a rough $urface such as the floor so they won’t slip. If you are using a table, lay a sheet or other piece of material on it so that the materials do not slip as you cut. Take care to fold the material on the straight of the goods or along the lengthwise threads if you want the garment to hang properly. If you do not check this little matter of the fold, you are apt to have a crooked dress. The fold is particularly important when you cut sleeves, for if the pat tern is not placed on the grain of the fabric, the sleeve always will twist no matter how much you try to remedy the fault in sewing. Follow the Guide In Cutting Patterns A guide usually is given with a pattern which you purchase. It’s wise to study this and lay the fabric with the pieces as directed because, as you study, you will see there’s always a reason, and a good one for doing it a certain way. The pieces should be pinned be fore you cut. Insert the pins from the top, without slipping your hand underneath the fabric. Wherever the pieces are curved, use a lot of pins so there is no chance of slip ping. A good seam allowance is made in most patterns, but it’s a good idea to allow more of a seam if you are using material that ravels eas ily. It’s especially important to make an extra seam allowance on the underarm seams of such ma terial. Cut with a long steady motion, slid ing the scissors along in a gliding motion so that the cut will not be uneven or ragged. The thick blade of the shears is placed above the material and the pointed one under neath. Use the middle of the blades for cutting as this will give the smoothest edge. If the pattern advises the sleeves to be cut double, this /means that they are reversed. As you remove the pins from the pieces, fold one sleeve one way, and the other in another way. When the sleeve is cut single, place on fabric and cut. To cut the second sleeve, the pattern must be turned and reversed as it is placed on the materiaL Mark with chalk all notches and other notations after cutting to help guide your sewing. Simple Enough for Youngsters to Moke (See recipes below) For Amateurs Only ARE YOUR CHILDREN shy and awkward in the kitchen or can they don an apron and turn in a credit able performance as a cook? Mothers who give their children the run of the kitchen occasionally deserve a bouquet of orchids be cause they are helping to turn out well b al- anced, healthy children. And it ° does mother good, too, if son or daughter occasionally can whip up a batch of good cookies or cake, or prepare a tasty salad. There are days when youngsters just simply are bored with their usual pursuits and then they tend to wander around the house without anything to do. Perhaps it’s too stormy to play outside or maybe all their, friends are on vacation. This is the psychological moment to suggest they try their hand at being an amateur chef. Give them a few pointers before hand if they need it so food will not be wasted, and help only if it’s re quested once they start their cul inary adventure so you won’t spoil it by being the “extra cook in the broth.” Have it understood, too, that the kitchen is to be cleaned after they finish. • • • I’VE OFTEN SAID that anyone who can read, can cook. But here are simple recipes that involve no complicated procedures. Let the children try these recipes so espe cially designed for them that they will really have a wonderful adven ture on their day in the kitchen. Boys and girls alike will enjoy making these hamburgers, and they are so easy, you simply won’t have ■ny failures: 'Hamburgers De Luxe (Serves 6) 1 pound ground beef t eggs, unbeaten * 1 tablespoon flour % onion, grated 1 teaspoon salt hi cup catsup Bacon Fried onions Mix the meat with eggs, flour, onion, salt and catsup. Beat the mix ture thoroughly with a large fork or spoon. The longer the mixture is beaten the better. Form into thin cakes.-Spread a layer of fried onions between two cakes and press the edges of the meat together. Place a strip of bacon around the ham burger, fasten with a toothpick and fry in hot fat or place in the broiler. If using broiler allow cakes to brown six to eight minutes on each side. If frying, allow a little more time for hamburgers to cook. • • * . BOYS AND GIRLS alike wifi en joy making a salad and tossing it together with a fork and spoon the way real chefs do: 'Tossed Green Salad (Serves 6) 1 head of lettuce, cut in quarters 4 tomatoes, quartered 1 bunch watercress, if desired 1 cucumber, peeled and diced 1 bunch green onions, cleaned 1 green pepper, sliced thin 1 bunch celery, diced 1 bunch radishes, sliced Lettuce cups French dressing Chill the vegetables thoroughly after preparing. Place all in a large bowl. Add French dressing and toss LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU 'Hamburgers De Luxe Potatoes Au Gratin Corn on the Cob 'Tossed Salad White Bread or Buns Butter Plum Pie Beverage 'Recipe Given. lightly with fork and spoon. Serve in lettuce cups or from a bowL * • • YOUNGSTERS LIKE to make cooling beverages. Let them do these simple things on hot afternoons: Chocolate Milk Shake (Serves 2) 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 tablespoons chocolate syrup 2 ice cubes Place all ingredients in a quart sized glass jar or shaker with cov er. Shake until fluffy. If desired, 2 tablespoons of chocolate or va nilla ice cream may be added be fore shaking. Root Beer Shake (Serves 2) 2 scoops vanilla ice cream 2 cups root beer Place together in a glass and stir. Serve at once. Lemonade 6 lemons 1 quart water 1 cup sugar syrup K cup maraschino cherry juice Squeeze lemons and strain juice. Mix with sugar syrup and water. Add cherry juice. Chill thoroughly. • • • SIMPLE TYPES of cookies may be made by the youngsters. Neith er of these types requires tedious creaming of ingredients. Brownies H cup flour ii teaspoon salt % cup lard H cup chopped nuts 2 squares chocolate 2 eggs » 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour, then measure. Add salt and sift again. Melt lard with choco late in saucepan. Beat the eggs un til fluffy, then add sugar and beat again. Mix eggs and sugar with chocolate and lard. Add flour, nuts and vanilla. Bake in a shallow pan which is greased, in a moderate (350 degree) oven for 25 to 30 minutes. CooL Cut into squares. Drop Cookies 1 cup brown sugar % cup white sugar K cup lard, melted 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon H teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon soda in 1 tablespoon hot water H cup raisins H cup nuts 3 cups flour or enough to hold shape when dropped Combine ingredients in order giv en. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased baking sheet. Bake in a moderate (350 degree) oven for 10 to 15 min utes. Released by WNU Features. LYNN SAYS: Use Proper Methods When You Cook Do you use neat methods when you cook or is everything a jumble when you get into the kitchen? First check the recipes you use and see if you have all ingredients on hand. While the food cooks, wash all the dishes you have soiled. In this way, you never will have an ac cumulation of dishes in the sink when you get ready to eat. Most dishes are easy to wash aft er they have been soaked. Have a pan of suds ready so that dishes, cups, measuring spoons and other utensils can be placed in the wa ter to soak as soon as you finish using them. Paper toweling should be used to wipe greasy pots and pans be fore washing so that grease does not accumulate in the drain pipe. Never let silverware which has egg on it stand without rinsing. Egg tarnishes silverware. — * Ain’t It So « It’s a race now, whether wo or prices will break first. A lot of people care more about who Writes their songs than their laws. Strange as It may seem, con ditions in Europe will never seem rosy as long as they are predominantly red. New Way to Construct An Old-Fashioned Swing D O YOU want to bring back happy moments you’ve long: since forgotten? For fun in the) sun or a pleasant place to spent ai quiet period of relaxation under; the stars, we recommend this’ modernized version of an old fashioned lawn swing. It’s a hit with grownups as well as children. 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