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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C
Plywood Economical
In Many Faim Uses
Brooder Houses Prove
Utility of Material
Farmers are finding that the
high strength and light weight of
plywood makes it an economical
and efficient material to use in
portable farm buildings such as
brooder houses, hog shelters, and
range sheds.
A brooder house, a building mag
azine reports, should be of ade
quate size, warm and dry, and
properly lighted and ventilated. To
Here Is a “turkey feeder’*
that is easily and economically
made from exterior plywood—
weather can’t harm it and it’s
easy portability appeals to
farmers.
be economical, it should be rela
tively low in first cost, and yet be'
strongly built to give long life with
out expensive and troublesome up
keep. For convenience, it must be
easy to clean and move.
Portability, of course, is of prime
importance. Some portable build
ings, built by conventional meth
ods, weigh as much as 2 to 3 thous
and pounds. Farmers naturally hes
itate to move a heavy structure fre
quently, and so invite exposure to
disease. If moved often, particular
ly over rough ground, heavy build
ings soon are loosened at the joints.
Ends Poultry Chore
Another poultry chore has been
electrified and placed on an auto
matic basis as shown above. This
time it is a feeding job which nor
mally requires considerable time
and personal attention.
It is being accomplished on an
increasing number of electrified
£arms by mechanical feeders op
erated by small motors. The device
Illustrated here is fairly common
in a number of larger poultry
houses. Feed and supplements are
placed in the top of the metal
cylinder and then mixed by the ro
tating central shaft which has
email paddles attached at the low-
•er end. The shaft is lowered as the
leed is ejected from the bottom of
the cylinder by the spinning pad>
-dies.
. Chemical Caponization
Held of Limited Value
The question of whether chemi
cal caponization is practical is one
which poultry raisers ask most fre
quently. Many county extension
services also receive numerous
questions on the subject.
In experimental work, the treat
ment stopped fighting and crowing
among the cockerels.
“All things considered, it would
appear that chemical caponization
has very limited value at present.”
Massachusetts Collegian
Is Agricultural Winner
A 20-year-old Massachusetts col
lege student whose two and one-
half acre plot of potatoes grossed
him $1-300, has been named cham-
|||pion farmer-businessman of the
country In competition with thou
sands of farm youths from more
than 40 states.
He is Russell L. Sears, Jr., of
J| Cummington. Mass., who was de
clared winner of the ninth annual
production-marketing contest.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
Nazis / "Process of Selectivity"
Outsmarted by Polish Scientist
L- By BILLY ROSE
Whenever I’m in the mood for gargantuan gab, I hie myself over
to a Russian tea room near Carnegie hall where refugees of a dozen
nations sit around and give out with tall talk about the old days be
hind them and the new days coming up.
To give you a fitting for-instance, the other midnight I heard a maca
bre yarn from a gent who used to teach science in Warsaw, and while I
don’t know whether it’s history or hokum, it strikes me as being worth my
allotment of white space today. . . .
During the last year of the war,
there was a small concentration
camp in east Ger
many which had
been set up for
two purposes:
(a) to build an
underground ma
chine shop, and
(b) to make avail
able the required
number of human
guinea pigs for
certain expert- BU] ^
ments being con
ducted by distinguished Nazi scien
tists.
• • •
By SS STANDARDS, the method
of selecting these guinea pigs was
scrupulously fair. Each morning
before breakfast, the 50 men in
each of the wooden barracks would
stand at attention until the com
mandant appeared with a list of
their names. He would read off
the top name on the list and the
prisoner whose name was called
would step forward.
The commandant would then
hand two small leather disks, one
marked with a white circle and
the other with a black, to the
“trustee” of the barrack for ex
amination. Then the commandant
would drop the disks into his hat,
and the prisoner would draw one
of them.
If he inched the one with the
white circle he was safe until his
name came up again 50 days
later; if he drew the black one, he
would be shipped out that Satur
day night.
In December of 1944, my tea
room friend—the scientist from
Warsaw—was cattle-carred to this
concentration camp and assigned
to a barrack occupied aWhost ex
clusively by captured Russian sol
diers. He was asked the usual ques
tions, and wljpen the Russians found
the newcomer was a Pole, they
quickly let him know that the fra
ternity of races as preached by
Moscow was confined to Kremlin
publicity handouts.
And when he further admitted he
had never joined the Party—not
for any big ideological reason, but
simply because he was a scientist
and had no interest in politics—
the Red army men decided he was
an enemy of the state and began
to plot against him.
THE POLE, however, was more
worried about the disks in the haft
than the whisperings going on
about him. Under the lottery sys
tem, it would be almost two
months before his name was
called, and since news had fil
tered into camp that the Russian
forces were only a few weeks away,
he kept telling himself that libera
tion might come before the date
for the drawing. But as the days
turned into weeks, and still no
sound of far-away cannon, he re
signed himself to taking his 50-50
chances with the hat.
The night before the fateful
morning, the scientist was lying
Strange
Alchemy
I AM amazed to find that pain and grief
By some Grange alchemy, if bravely borne.
Become a power, vital beyond belief,
To bless and comfort other hearts that mourn.
I did not dream through those far lonely days.
Those bitter hours when pleading for release.
That God would move in His mysterious ways
To make those hours a means to others’ peace.
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That one’s own darkness may become a light
For hurt, bewildered ones— : ’tis Strange to me;
Yet out of pain is often bom a white
Undying flame of love and sympathy;
The power that comes to dry another’s tears
Was generated through long bitter years.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
awake in his bunk when he felt
a tug at his blanket. It was a young
Czech who had been badly mis
treated by the “trustee,” and who
had often mumbled about getting
even.
According to the kid, the com
rades had figured out a plot to
make certain the Pole would be
shipped off to the Nazi experi
menters. The “trustee” had cut a
leather disk from his shoe and
made a black circle on It, and
when the commandant asked him
to examine the disk, his plan was
to palm the one with the white cir
cle and substitute his own, so that
either would mean death to the
non-Party man.
For a long moment, the scien-
1 tist looked *p at the slat ceiling
'bf the bunk above him. "Thanh
you," he finally said to his friend.
"I think VU be able to manage."
The
Fiction
Corner
KNOLTON S CASE
By
Richard H. Wilkinson
K NOLTON’S ACT was the result
of two year’s of planning.
TJiere was little chance that any
thing would go wrong. He had
served as clerk at the lumber
camp for two long years. • And
from the moment he first saw the
payroll left unguarded in the of
fice while the bank guard went out
and a camp paymaster came in—
from that moment Knolton knew
that some day he’d steal that pay
roll and make a get-away.
The day that Knolton had chosen
for the robbery was not unlike a
thousand others. At exactly noon
the payroll car
drove up. A guard
stepped into the
office and depos
ited the heavy
bag by Knolton’s
chair. Knolton greeted him care
lessly, nodded at the bag and bent
to his work. The guard went out.
The moment the door closed
Knolton’s. head came up. He lis
tened intently. Outside he could
hear the bank guard in conversa
tion with Raymond, the camp pay
master. There wasn’t a moment to
lose.
Quickly Knolton lifted up the
coyer of his desk, removed from
inside a bag almost identical to the
one on the floor and equally as
heavy. He made the transfer deft
ly, unhurriedly.
The door opened and Ray
mond came inside. He nodded
briefly to Knolton, picked np
the decoy bag and went out
again.
Knolton stepped outside and
walked leisurely toward the river.
Unobserved he climbed into the
By now he had grown a
beard.
canoe which was hidden there, and
pushed off.
By mid-a fternoon Knolton
regched a tributary and turned off
the main stream. He paddled up
thlf smaller waterway for more
than a mile.
He set the canoe adrift and
headed inland, swinging southward.
By dusk he had come to a virgin
stand of timber, mighty monarchs
of the forest as yet unscathed by the
lumberman’s axe. His steps led
him to a huge pine, larger than the
rest with thick undergrowth at
the base. He parted the growth,
pulled at a tyft ot dirt. The tuft
came away, revealing a shallow
hole. Knolton had dug the hole
months before, allowed the under
growth to grow over it so that no
trace of his recent visit would be
in evidence.
He deposited the bag in the hole
and carefully replaced the dirt.
T WAS A MONTH before Knolton
reached his destination; a tiny
village hundreds of miles south of
the lumber camp. Here he paused
to rest with a friend. By now he
had grown a beard. The friend pro
vided dye, and Knolton changed
the color of his hair from light
brown to black.
Six months later Knolton,
now known as Carl Hedman,
with no trace of the one-time
clerk showing beneath his per
fect disguise, rode leisurely
back toward the scene of his
crime.
The lumbermen gave him no
more than a passing glance.
Satisfied that he had not been
recognized, Knolton followed the
river to the mouth of the tributary.
With pounding heart h« mounted
the ridge and paused to look. It was
as if a hand had suddenly reached
out and was squeezing him in a
powerful grip. He stood rooted,
mouth ajar, staring in stupifitd
incredulity at the country below.
With a sense of horror he realized
what had happened. The entire
-area had been logged by the lum
ber company, swept bare of every
standing tree and piece of timber.
Every tree stump looked alike;
none was larger or different from
its neighbor. He surmounted great
piles of slash, tearing at them fran
tically, hunting for the stump, the
stump of the great pine tree.
Thus unmindful of his direction
he came agdin to the river bank.
And when at length he reached the
top of another hill he paused to
rest, overcome by fatigue. Too
late he felt the slash pile beneath
him slipping away. Too late he
realized that the sl^h had been
thrown on the brink of a precipice
overhanging the river.
Knolton, with a pitiful cry on his
lips, went over the brink. Far, far
below he lay, a broken human
body on the jagged rocks.
CraRD PUHLE
LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER
ACROSS
1. Mast
5. On top
9. Coin
(Turk.)
10. A young
salmon
11. Ravine
12. Employs
for
wages
14. An indenta
tion of the
sea
15. Double
(Bot.)
16. Began
19. Type
measure
20. Roman
money
21. A sum of
money
23. Biting
26. Poets
27. A color of
a horse
28. Breeze
29. Music
note
30. Province
(Can.)
34. A covered
way
37. In what
manner
38. Reprove
39. Very
large
nail
41. Girl’s name
42. The glass
of a window
43. River of
underworld
44. Settlement,
SW Arabia
DOWN
1. Gush out
2. One of
Canary
Islands
3. Portion of a
curved line
4. A cheer
5. Plant insect
6. Thin tin
plate
7. Odd (Scot.)
8. Make
believe
11. Fuel
13. Dispatches
15. God of
pleasure
(Egypt.)
17. Shower
18. Man’s
nickname
21. Price
of
passage
22. Biblical
city
23. Tapestry
24. Forces
25. Radium
(sym)
26. Apron
top
28. Malt
beverage
30. Antelope
(Afr.)
31. River
(Eur.)
32. Memento
33. Solemn
wonder
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horse
36. A con
federate
39. Resort
40. Cushion
N«. AX
Next morning when hi* name
was called, he saw the ‘Iruitee”
palm the white-circled disk and
substitute another. But he pre
tended not to notice, and when the
commandant held out his hat he
smiled and selected a disk. “White
or black,” he said, “I’m going to
have one good meal in this mis
erable camp.” And before the of
ficer could stop him, he popped the
bit of leather into his mouth and
swallowed.
The SS man frowned. “Crazy
Pole,” he said, “what good \&ill
that do? There is still a disk left
in the hat. If it is black, you picked
the white; if it is white, you picked
the black.”
“That is quite correct. Sir,”
said the scientist.
By INEZ GERHARD
I DA LUPINO, currently seen in
“Woman in Hiding”, is the first
motion picture actress to shatter
the calm of James Hilton, English
author associated with Hallmark
Playhouse. Recently she was to
play an Italian role on a Playhouse
broadcast. A perfectionist in the
pictures she produces as well as
those she acts in, she hired a voice
coach and worked so hard that her
doctor told her to let up. Finally,
less than 24 hours before air time,
she threw over the wheie idea—
said she couldn’t master those
Italian intonations. A new script
was hastily prepared for her, and
Hilton was a candidate for the
Shangri-La which he invented years
ago.
Ralph Edwards has a large staff
for getting details of the lives of
people used on his NBC “This Is
Your Life”, but anyone may sug
gest a candidate. Need not be a
well-known name, either. To be a
talent scout for the program, you
need only write a note to Ralph
Edwards in Hollywood, outlining
the reasons why your friend or
neighbor’s life would make an in
teresting story.
Bing Crosby, who has no love for
appearing at big shindigs, will at
tend the dedication of a new ath
letic field, “Bing Crosby stadium”,
at Front Royal, Va., this spring. A
poll of the 7,000 citizens chose him
as “The Most Popular Entertainer
of the Half Century” and he ac
cepted. Crosby will appear for
good causes, not for mere advertis
ing or publicity.
Louis Calhern is growing
younger. In “Nancy Goes to
Rio” he appears as Jane Pow
ell’s grandfather, but in “The
Tender Honrs” he will be seen
as her father. Ann Harding re
turns to the screen as Jane’s
mother.
Bob Hope fought to record his
shows, but lost out. Then Charles
Luckman, his sponsor’s president,
resigned. So Hope, hoping again,
tried again, and again lost out with
the new executives. His show will
bo taped only when necessary.
It Worked
A burglar was one night engaged
n stowing a good haul of plunder
n his bag when he was startled by
i touch on the shoulder, and, turn-,
ng his head, he beheld a venerable,
mld-eyed clergyman gazing sadly
it him.
“Oh, my brother,” groaned the
reverend gentleman, “wouldst thou
rob me? Turn, I beseech thee—
urn from thy evil ways. Return
iiose stolen goods and depart in
jeace, for I am merciful and for-
jive. Begone!”
And the burglar, only too thank
ful at not being given into custody
)f the police, obeyed and slunk
iwiftly off.
Then the good old man carefully
ind quietly packed the plunder
nto another bag and walked softly
Iso as not to disturb the slumber
>f the inmates) out of the house
md away into the silent night.
DON’T WASTE ANYTHING
Said the mountain guide: “Don’t
go too near the edge of that preci
pice; it’s dangerous. But if you do
fall, remember to look to the left;
fou’ll get a wonderful view!”
Did Him Up Fine
“Is this a healthy place?” asked
a stranger of a native of a certain
region of the West.
“It sure is,” replied the native.
'‘When I came here I couldn’t utter
a word. I had scarcely a hair on my
aead. I hadn’t the strength to walk
across the room, and I had to be
lifted from my bed.”
“That is wonderful,” exclaimed
the stranger.' “How long have you
peen here?”
“I was born here.”
Low Inventory
An advertising salesman boarded
the train and took a roomette. He
carried with him only a small grip,
and the porter inquired of his other
luggage.
“I have none,” said the man.
“Why, I understood you were a
salesman,” said the porter.
“That’s right, I am. But I don’t
aeed a lot of luggage, I sell brains.”
The porter scratched his head
and finally said, “Well, you are ths
first traveling salesman that rod#
this train without samples.”
One Way to Put It>
“Do you know why I am going to
punish you, Arthur?”
“No, dad?' why?”
“Because you hit a boy smaller
than yourself.”
“Oh, I thought perhaps it was b&
cause I’m smaller than you.”
Exactly!
“So you run a duck farm. Busi
ness picking up?”
“No; picking down.”
Costly Refuge
“I’m worried—it’s raining and my
wife is down-town.”
“Oh, smrll probably step inside
some store.”
“That’s just it.”
COMMENDABLE RESTRAINT
A grocer leaned over the counter
and yelled at a boy who stood close
to an apple barrel:
“Are you tryin’ to steal them
apples, boy?”
“No—no, sir,” the boy faltered
“I’m tryin’ not to!”
HARD AT WORK
“What is your occupation?”
asked the magistrate.
“I’m a locksmith, sir,” replied
the prisoner.
“Then what were you doing in
that gambling house when the
police raided it?”
“I was making a bolt for the
door.”
Big Income
During an intense love scene is
the movies, when the hero was do
ing the Charles Boyer stuff, wifes
nudged hubby and whispered, “Whj
is it that you never make love tc
me like that?”
“Say,” he replied, "do you hap
pen to know that guy gets $10,00(
a week for doing that?”
Never C*n Tell
“Now,” said the teacher, impres
sively, “why should we endeavor tc
rise by our own efforts?”
“Because,” replied Tommy
“there’s no knowing when the
alarm-clock will go wrong.’*
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Termite Invasion Endangers
Vatican’s Valuable Records
NEW YORK.—An Invasion by
white ante at the Vatican not
long ago caused concern for the
safety of the Holy City’s valua
ble archives, according to the
Times of London.
The insects first were noticed
in the apartment of Cardinal Gio
vanni Merest!, librarian and
archivist of the Holy Roman
Church, and In the adjacent
courtyard of the Pappagallo,
near which the archives of the
Vatican secretariat are kept.
The termites evidently had
been doing their constructive
work for a long time, for in the
cardinal’s apartment a ceiling
beam had cracked and threat
ened to collapse.
Mi/fc Concentrates
In Frozen Form May
CHICAGO, ILL. - Frozen milk
concentrate may be available to re
tail customers within two years, ac
cording to John M. Fox, president
of a large dairy corporation.
Fox said that many companies,
encouraged by the boom in frozen
orange juice ice, were working on
methods of putting milk concen
trate in the familiar six-ounce cans.
The concentrate would bd cheaper
than fluid milk, he added.
Although still facing some serious
laboratory difficulties, milk concen
trate is in about the same position
as frozen orange juice concentrate
was in 1944, and the industry has
much more technical knowledge to
apply to existing problems. Fox
said.
Fox said that milk concentrate
was the industry’s “most exciting”
potential product because of the
possibilities of cost reduction in
dairy commodities. One of the econ
omies, he explained, would be in
handling milk at the time of surplus
production. *
Similar in some respects to that
used in orange juice, the milk con
centration process involves taking
the water out at low temperatures
in a high vacuum, he said.
“It does present some serious
technical problems,” he added.
“The proteins in milk are a new
element to work with. So far no one
has solved the complete stabiliza
tion of the end product so that it
will keep well in storage.”
Another frozen food firm execu
tive said that in the future house
wives would be able to keep a
month’s supply of milk in the re
frigerator in six ounce cans. The
six ounce can will make a pint and
’ one-half (24 ounces) of whole milk
when water is added, he reported.
He said that about half a dozen
firms currently were working to
perfect the process.
COLD DEMONS
GOT HIM?
'Suicide Tag'
Gave Engineer
His Worst Days
NEW YORK. — Ernest Evans
pulled his motorrnan’s cap down
tight on his head and turned to th#
photographers.
“If you want to take my picture,**
he said, “you’ll have to do it with
my cap on. Without it I look to Se
100 yeaVs old, but Fm not 70 yet.**
The flashbulbs popped. Evans
grinned, pulled the throttle and
train No. 75 pulled out of the Penn
sylvania station for Philadelphia.
It was Evans* last run after 50
years of service with the railroad
system. He didn’t know it, but his
wife, daughter and grandson were
waiting in Philadelphia to greet
him and hold a big patty. ’
party Kept Secret
The news about the party wee
given by another grandson, Donald,
while Evans wasn’t listening. Don
ald rode along with his grandfather
to celebrate the “old man’s” last
official ride.
Before the train left, Evans, talk
ing about his experiences, said that
if he could start all over again hep
“would do the same thing for an
other 50 years.”
One summer a few years ago
stands out in his memory. That was
when several children of Philadel
phia invented a wild game called
“suicide tag.”
“The kids would stand on the
tracks,” said Evans, “and their
game was to run . off just as the
train was approaching. From what
I gathered the winner was the kid
who came closest to being hit by
the locomotive. I had to stop,
whistle the lungs out of the train,
and crawl until rail yard workers
chased them off the tracks. I sure
was happy when they finally put fcn
end to th&t'game.”
Wee Crew Caller
Evans began-^working for the
Pennsylvania iix Jersey City as a
crew caller. His job was to ride
around on a bicycle calling the
train crews together. A year later
he was made a fireman, and In 1910
he was promoted to engineman. His
route has been the same for the lest
40 years—New York to Philadel
phia and back.
He estimated that since 1910 he
had driven his trains, without an ac
cident, more than 1,800,000 mite#.
Evans expects to ‘loaf, maybe
watch a baseball game now and
thed, end rest,” et home with his
wife Anna in Pitman, N. J.
“Fve only got one hobby,” he
said. “That’ll be playing with my
little grandson wfapn he starts run
ning his electric trains around the
house. I just love those electric
trains/*
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