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THE NEWBKgRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C
Arkansas Fanners
May Grow Drugs
New Plants to Produce
Narcotics, Digitalis
A drug-farming program which
may free the United States from
reliance on foreign sources for
many vital medicinal compounds
has been launched in Arkansas by
a transplanted Rumanian chemist,
reports the magazine "Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry."
Dr. O. K. Cosla, a biochemist
who instituted the first successful
cultivation of drug-bearing plants
in Rumania, is in charge of the
Arkansas program at the College
of the Ozarks, Clarksville, where a
20-acre tract has been set aside for
his experiments.
Dr. Cosla, who has an M. D. de
gree as well as a Ph. D. in bio
chemistry, used to export to the
United States part of its drug sup
ply, and during World War II he
furnished southeastern Europe with
medicinal materials.
If Dr. Cosla's plans mature, Ar
kansas farmers will soon begin sup
plying the nation with such drugs
as belladonna, a narcotic; stra
monium, a drug processed from
dried Jimson weed which gives re
lief to asthma sufferers, and ergot,
used to control blood hemorrhages
and as an anesthetic. Foxglove, the
dotted white and purple tubular
flower whose leaves bear the pow
erful heart stimulant digitalis, will
also soon be blooming in Dr. Cos-
la's medical garden.
Some of the drug-bearing plants
which Dr. Cosla is planning to culti
vate already grow wild in the Ar
kansas backwoods. To determine
the best conditions for growing each
plant as a domestic crop, the Ru
manian chemist will test them in
hydroponic installations, in which
their roots will be immersed in a
watery solution containing mineral
nutrients, instead of in soil.
Hie active drugs will be extracted
from the plants in a four-room
laboratory which Dr. Cosla brought
with him to this country to aid his
research in biochemistry and ex
perimental pharmacology.
Dr. Cosla believes, according to
“Industrial and Engineering Chem
istry,” that the South can even
tually become one of the nation’s
principal drug farming and manu
facturing centers, thus diverting to
the area millions of dollars now
spent annually on imports.
J Handy Cart I
Elgar Schroeder, Morrison-
ville, Wisconsin, believes a
handy farm gadget can have an
attractive appearance while
saving work for its owner.
Bis poll-push cart carries a
good-size load of tools, suppUes
or produce easily. The cart was
made from a child’s discarded
coaster wagon, using the box
and wheels. The original wagon
axle was kept, and the cart was
built of H inch pipe. Time re
quired to build the cart was two
and one-half hours at a cost
of $1 for materials. Arc weld
ing played an important part in
the cart’s construction.
Com in Silage Form
Answer to Extra Crop
Com in the form of silage is the
solution for the extra crop— and a
trench silo is the cheapest and easi
est way to provide for making and
storing of silage.
The trench silo is especially
recommended for those who need
to provide storage space hurriedly.
However, areas having extremely
high water tables or soil that Is
smdy or loose are not suitable, ac
cording to a dairy specialist
PERSONS WHO WEAR GLASS SLIPPERS
Cinderella Is Wooed by a Devaluated Prince
SHOULD NEVER THROW THEIR SHOES
By H. I. PHILLIPS
O NCE UPON A TIME there was
a man who married for his sec
ond wife one of the haughtiest wom
en in the world. She had two
daughters of her own who were a
pair of fine meanies. She had a
stepdaughter of unparalleled good
ness and beauty. She was called
Cinderella. Her stepsisters kept
her at the meanest work. They
mcleen in an old aban
doned thirty-room showplace which
nobody wanted while they had
things easy in a $25,000 four-room
ranch house, with no garage.
The king gave a great ball to
which he invited everybody of
prominence, including the two
sourpuss sisters. They got
themselves up like Mrs. As
ter’s pet ponies and paraded
before Cinderella, who, after
CHRISTLIKE
'HIS is a ChriStlike thing: to bear a grief
Unspoken and unshared, yet go one’s
way
Not feverishly seeking for relief.
But day by day
Doing the tasks at hand to cheer and bless.
That others may find greater happiness.
This is a Chriftlike thing: through wearing pain
To keep quite Still, that watching, none may see
The weariness, the harrowing Stress and Strain,
The agony.
But wearing always something of Christ’s grace
And infinite patience written on one’s face.
For the Master bore His agony alone.
And bore it well.
And the greatest grief a heart has ever known.
they flounced off, said, “I wish
I could go to a great bail.”
Instantly ber fairy godmother
appeared.
“These great balls are not what
they used to be,” she said. "Be
fore you get in you will have to
take chances on a couple of
automobiles and maybe a
dream house. And there will be
be-bop music. Still, if you wish
to go . .
“Oh, I do,” said Cinderella.
“Fetch me a pumpkin, then,”
said the fairy godmother.
Pumpkins were pretty high, as
the government had under
written them, or something, but
she got one.
“Get me a mousetrap, a rat
and six lizards,” said the fairy
godmother.
“I wanna go to a ball, not an
animal show,” warned Cinder
ella.
The fairy godmother had a wand,
a book on economics by Sir Staf
ford Cripps and several speeches
by government experts, so she was
able to convert the pumpkin, mice,
etc., into a coach with white horses,
a coachman and six attendants.
Whisk! And Cinderella was off to
the ball before anybody could ar
rive to demand that she pay luxury
taxes on the whole business.
• • •
She was the most ravishing dish
at the ball. The king’s son went
for her in a big way at once, much
to Cinderella’s discomfiture. She
was a smart cookie. (This could
get serious. A prince would have
loads of money, and she knew what
that meant these days. He would
have to spend all his days figuring
out how he stood and all his nights
checking to see if there had been
anything new from Sir Stafford
Cripps.)
Suddenly the great clock struck.
"Twelve," said Cinderella.
"Eleven,” said the prince.
“Ten,” said the king.
“My goodness, one can’t figure
anything these days,” said Cinder
ella, taking it on the lam. (She
had to take a taxi. The coachman,
the big rat, had struck for more
money and all the lizards had
walked out in sympathy.)
• • •
Well, to make a long story
worse, she was not through
with the prince and the prob
lems of having everything. She
had left a glass slipper.
• • •
The prince searched the whole
land until he found that the slipper
fitted Cinderella, and was he glad
when he discovered she was really
a working girl and hadn’t a thin
dime! It meant less bookkeeping.
He proposed and Cinderella ac
cepted, saying, “I suppose I could
have done worse. Look at all those
girls who win givaway programs!”
• • •
So she married the prince, who
got back to the palace just in time
to find the pound had been deval
ued again and he wasn’t worth
very much which meant, after all,
a life of comparative tranquillity.
• • •
"The outer burlap covering of the
Peruvian mummy was swipped
away by Dr. Carrion and Dr. Bird
while 60 scientists watched."—
News item.
Carrion and Bird didja say, or
is somebody snooting?
• • •
Gov. Dewey has come out with
d letter indorsing vaudeville.
“I remember it fondly as a
popular form of entertainmeut,”
he says. Come, come, Thomas,
you can’t top Harry’s vaudeville
statement with anything as cool
and general as (hat. What knock
about acts do you recall? Did
you ever usher in a theater?
• • •
YE GOTHAM BUGLE
AND BANNER
You can’t tell Ben Whitaker,
whose My Request and Mits Request
won two big handicaps in succession,
that Deis an unlucky number. . . . He
bought one of the parents, Requested,
for tDOO on the Dth of the month
and on Saturday Miss Requestt
weight was ID pounds .... He’s
gonna name the next colt Thirteen
and hope that the unlucky number
happens to pay off.
The
Fiction * THE □
iPTIIRE * By
11 1 W,XIL Richard H. Wilkinson
Corner
•
BE INEZ GERHARD
I EANNE CRAIN and her husband,
Paul Brinkman, (handsomer than
many movie stars,) visited New
York to help promote "Pinky,”
her new picture, a 20th Century-
Fox production. Michael, aged
eight months, and Paul, two,
stayed home. Darryl Zanuck did a
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JEANNE CRAIN
daring thing in making “Pinky,”
thf story of a colored girl who
passed for white; equally daring
was his choice of Miss Crain for
the sort of role usually reserved
for actresses like Bette Davis. But
Jeanne Crain’s talent has been ob
vious ever since she and June Hav
er made their debuts in “Back
Home in Indiana”; as usual, Zan
uck knew exactly what he was do
ing.
The east of “Pinky” is star-
studded. Ethel Barrymore, Ethel
Waters and William Lundigan
share honors with Miss Crain, and
Elia Kazan, one of the best di
rectors of stage and screen, di
rected this one.
Johnny Weismuller weighed
199 pounds when he reported
for his new “Jungle Jim” pic
ture, thereby saving some $38,-
000. Weighing 238 when the deal
was signed, he said he’d pay
$1000 for every pound he didn’t
lose by starting time.
Lauren Bacall made no money
by losing the five pounds she gained
after Stephen Humphrey Bogart
was born, but at 118 she looked bet
ter when she went to work in
“Young Man with a Horn,” with
Kirk Douglas and Doris Day.
Nancy Olson, who stepped from
undergraduate status at UCLA into
the leads of two top pictures, will
be Bing Crosby’s romantic interest
in Paramount’s “Mr. Music.” In
her first film, “Canadian Pacific,”
she appeared with Randolph Scott;
she recently completed a featured
role in “Sunset Boulevard,” with
William Holden and Gloria Swan-
•on.
S HERIFF Sol Rock cautiously ap
proached the cabin and knocked
three times. A bolt slid back into
its socket. The door swung open
and a voice came out into the night.
“That you, Sol?”
Sol sighed in relief.
“Hello, Baldy,” he said, stepping
inside. “What luck?”
“None.” Sol heard Baldy fishing
for a match, and he said. “Wait
a minute, Baldy. I got a scheme I
want to work out.”
“They've seen me,” Sol went on.
“Joe and Slim. They’ve been trail
ing me all day. I just kept far
enough to avoid trouble.”
“Avoid trouble? You?” Baldy’s
voice sounded incredulous. And Sol
chuckled. “Lis-
I ten, Baldy, we’ve
3 -Minute been chasing these
g- »• _ two bad men for
Fietien more than a week
now. I’m sick of
it. And now that we’ve found them,
I don’t aim to let ’em get away.”
“So that’s why you ran away
from them?” sarcastically.
“Don’t be a fool. I wanted ’em
to follow me. They’ll be along any
time now. I made sure they saw
me ride down in here by silhouet
ting myself against the skyline 15
minutes ago. Now here’s the point:
They don’t know about you, yet.
They think there’s only me to con
tend with. And unless I miss my
guess, they aim to get me out of the
way tonight.”
“Unless I stop ’em,” said Baldy.
“Right. Now get this; I’m
leaving you here alone, see?
Cover the windows and then
light up. They’ll think it’s me
inside here, aU unsuspecting.”
“Fine,” said Baldy. “But what’s
wrong with me being on the outside
and you on the inside?”
Sol laughed shortly. “A lot, you
little squirt. Now pipe down and
obey orders. I’m going.”
Instantly he grew tense. Every
muscle and nerve and fibre became
alert. He half crouched, half stood
in his hiding place. And as he
watched the cabin a dim figure took
shape and became a man. Another
appeared beside the first
They lingered only a moment,
then began stealthily to approach
the door. Sol stepped silently from
his hiding place. At the very in
stant that one of the figures
crouched to thrust his weight
against the door, he spoke out of
the darkness.
“Reach toward the sky, boys!
Drop those guns, and turn around.
The jig’s up. We got the drop on
you!”
S OL QUICKENED his footsteps. In
the darkness he stumbled, re
gained his feet and came on. At the
moment he went down an orange
lance of flame streamed out of the
blackness near the cabin. It was
followed by another.
But before the two bandits could
shoot again, the two six-guns in
Sol's hands thundered.
Answering shots came from
the cabin. Sol felt a searing
pain in his left shoulder. His
senses began to reel. And sud
denly he realized that the rene
gades had accomplished what
he had been unable to do be
cause of his stumble. They had
fired at the flash from his guns
—high—hoping for a kill.
This was Sol’s last thought.
When Sol returned to conscious
ness he found himself lying on a
bunk in the cabin. Baldy, grinning
broadly, was standing over him.
“What the hell did you blow out
that light for?” Sol wanted to know.
“It spoiled my aim, made me stum
ble and nearly got me killed.
"Thought it would,” Baldy
grinned. "Wanted it to. You didn’t
think I was going to be fool enough
to open the door and stand in the
light so those birds could take pot
shots at me?”
“Well what happened, anyway?"
For answer Baldy pointed across
the room. Sol looked and saw two
men lying there, both bound secure
ly.
“Wing ’em?" Sol asked.
“Winged nothing. I whacked ’em
over the head from the doorway
while they were shooting at you. By
the way, you almost hit me with
your own wild shooting.”
“Wish I had,” Sol grinned. "Say,
squirt, you ain’t so dumb as you
look!"
“And I ain't so much of a squirt,
either,” Baldy replied indignantly.
“Fact is I blew out that light just
so’s I could show you what a big
feller I was.”
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PUZZLE NO. 21
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Would It Help?
Agitation is beginning to mount
for state laws making it a special
offense when one hunter accidental
ly wounds or kills another while in
field or forest.
Supporters of this “special legis
lation” idea claim that with the an
nual loss of life in hunting acci
dents showing little, if any, de
crease, something should be done
by the states to impress upon all
hunters the need for safety and
safety practices.
Each year the warnings are re
peated, each year the death toll
is recorded just the same.
Under common law, a man kill
ing another hunter may be prose
cuted under the manslaughter sta
tutes in most states; but the record
shows that the accidental factor is
Be sure before you shoot.
usually sufficient for acquittal—
and all the careless gunner who
has killed a man has to worry
about is his own conscience.
The problem is a big one and a
broad one, and it would be ex
tremely difficult to enact special
laws to protect hunters from them
selves and at the same time con
tinue to cloak these same hunters
with all the privileges and presump
tions of pre-accident innocence now
provided generally by the law.
However/ there is no denying
that a legislative approach to the
problem of protecting hunters, with
carelessness and the old “I didn’t
know it was loaded,” or “I thought
it was a deer” excuses banned as
exemptions from punishment,
might have a salutary effect.
There is little doubt, too, if the
annual slaughter of humans afield
continues, the steps already being
talked about will certainly be at
tempted.
AAA
Never shoot at signs no matter
what kind. In many cases it is against
the law. Its always against the law of
common decency. Always restrain the
ignorant acts of another.
AAA
A Word for Reynard
The hunter or trapper who oc
casionally finds a pheasant wing,
fawn remains, or grouse feathers
in a fox den, interprets his finding
as a sample of widespread preda
tion on game, and foresees declin
ing game numbers as the result, is
not reckoning with the fact that
mice and other rodents are Rey
nard’s basic diet.
Food studies over the past 20
years, by D. F. Switzenberg, Wis
consin conservation department
game biologist, have shown that
food items found in fox dens do not
constitute a too reliable index to
the animal's feeding habits. Dens
do not show all the animal and
vegetable matter gathered by the
HERO OR VILLA !H
fox, especially small items such as
mice, insects and fruits which
usually are swallowed whole.
Neither can the hunter or trapper
be positive that the pheasant, for
example, was killed by the fox and
not by something else, but dragged
into the den by Reynard.
In a North Dakota survey of fox
eating habits last year, Switzen
berg points out, an examination of
72 fox stomachs revealed the fol
lowing diet: 47 per cent mice. 23
per cent carrion, 14 per cent rab
bits, 9 per cent vegetation, 4 per
cent game birds, 2 per cent insects
and 1 per cent non-game birds.
AAA
Wasps for Trout
This is only for the more courag
eous, of course, but the grubs from
wasps’ nests makes good trout bait.
These nests usually may be found
clustered under the eaves of
houses, garages or other buildings.
The nests can be knocked down
with a broom—but the knocker-
downer had better run.
After the wasps have settled
down again, the nests can be picked
up and sections carried in pocket
or creek
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