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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Fanner Finds Blower Effective Hay Dryer Mounted on Cart, It's to Move About Easy . Wet springs and early frosts aren’t the headaches they once were to a growing number of farm ers. For they have discovered that , immature grain can be cured just »s effectively in storage buildings as in the field. The average farmer will find that mechanical drying of hay and grain Is not as expensive as it would ap pear. Hay and grain saved will soon pay for equipment. Equipment for mechanical dry ing of grain is simple, and present farm structures can be converted •asily, quickly and inexpensively to handle this newest of farm pro duction chores. Farmers, who have hay curing equipment, will ^Ind that the same fan and motor k*, Hy[.% PSC’': . ' 1 I' ! Mounted on wheels, this mo tor and blower takes the head aches out of curing immature grain for farmers. Here the equipment Is shown being used for hay drying. can be used for both drying grain and finishing forage crops. The accompanying illustration shows what can be done in the way of Inter-changing hay curing and grain drying equipment. When the hay curing season is over, this farmer mounts his fan and motor <m a cart and hauls them to a crib where they are put to use blowing moisture out of his immature corn. An outlet, into which he plugs his five-horsepower motor, is located in an adjacent building. When double cribs are used, as In the case shown, the air blast enters through one end of the driveway. The opposite end is sealed up, and heavy paper placed on walls of the crib from the peak of the roof to the top of the corn layer. Openings around the fan and in the floor also are closed. In single cribs, wooden ducts or “A” frames are layed down the center of the floor and the air blown di rectly into them. Drying is successful without sup plementary heat when the temper ature is 60 or above and the rela tive humidity 65 per cent or be low. If heat is used, buildings should be insulated and properly ventilated. Warm air is blown into storage sheds by motor driven fans. Thermostats and other con trols automatically keep the tem perature and the flow of air at efficient drying levels. E*? Don’t Strain . Btefr V: ft? Here’s a right smart idea for a feed and grain scoop that eliminates the wrist strain of scoops with the usual project ing handles. For a large scoop, one that can be used in sacking grain, 20-gauge galvanized ma terial is about right. The scrap Iron brace to which the front end of the handle is bolted helps hold light metal in shape. fear's Fruit Prospects Sit by Widespread Damage Explosive April caused consider able damage to budding fruit and a great drop in the year’s prospects Is Indicated* South Carolina, Virginia and Geor gia suffered damaged peaches. Washington, Idaho and Oregon show a 100 percent bud loss and many trees killed. Damage in southern Il linois ranged from 00 to 100 per cent, according to some reports by farm BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET , Ghosts Haven't Ghost of a Chance in Manhattan But This Haunting Story Gave New Yorkers Pause By BILLY ROSE We men of Manhattan are an undaunted and unhaunted lot— or at least think we are—and so ghost stories seldom stand a ghost of a chance in this town. The other night, however, a real estate man buttonholed me coming out of “21” and told me a chiller about a deserted house in the Flushing section of Queens, and on the off-chance that your scalp can use a tingle or two, I’d like to pass it along .... On the night of the big snow three Billy Bose winters ago, a doctor in Queens an swered his doorbell and found a smallish man in a faded mackinaw standing on the stoop. “My wife is very sick,” he said. *T hate to ask you to come out on a night like this, but it’s only a few blocks.” The doctor fol lowed him to a large wooden house near the intersec tion of Vine street and Broadway, and when the man unlocked the door the physician could see by the glare of an unshaded droplight that the lower floor was empty except for a few kitchen chairs and a length of carpet. “THIS IS NO PLACE for a sick woman,” he said. “You ought to have some heat in the house.” The man led him up a creaky set of ttairs to the second floor, and in the front room an emac iated woman was lying in an old four-poster bed. She kept cough ing into a blood-flecked handker chief, and though the doctor went through the motions of an ex amination he knew at once it was an advanced case of tuberculosis. “I can give her something to re lieve the congestion,” he told her husband, “but she’ll have to be moved to a hospital first thing in the morning.” He then wrote out a prescription. “I’ll get it filled right away,” said the man, and showed the doctor to the door. Next morning, wondering how the woman was getting along, the physician stopped by the wooden house, but there was no answer when he rang the bell. Moreover, there were rio tracks in the snow to indicate that an ambulance or any other vehicle had pulled lip in front of the place. Puzzled, he went to the office of a real estate agent on the next street and asked if he could get some information about the resi dents of the house. 0 0 0 “THAT’S A FUNNY sort of ques tion,” said the agent. “There aren’t any residents and there aren’t like ly to be any. The house hasn’t been occupied in 15 years, and though it’s always been on my list, no body’s ever wanted it.” “Do you think squatters might be living in it on account of the hous ing shortage?” asked the doctor. “Could be., but I doubt it,” said the agent. “There’s been a lot of queer talk about that house, and the last family that moved in during the depression could only stand it for a few weeks. The husband and wife slept in the front room on the second floor, and to hear them tell it they were kept awake night after night by the sound of a woman coughing. It finally got so bad they packed and left.” “I know its sounds absurd,” said the doctor, “but I examined a sick woman there last night, and if you’ve got a key I’ll walk over with you and prove it.” • When they got to the bouse, it took the agent quite a while to get the rusty loch open, and when they entered there wasn’t a stick of furniture in sight. "I could have sworn I saw some chairs and a carpet down here Ukst night,” said the doctor, “Maybe you've got this house mixed up with another one,” the agent suggested. “I still think it’s the same place.. Let’s look upstairs.” On the second floor they went into the front room. It was also empty. Empty, that is, except for' a piece of paper on the window sill—the prescription the doctor had written the night before. ^ f'i E'CSCREI By INEZ GERHARD W ILLIAM HOLDEN made quite a record in 1949—he did five pictures at four studios; this year promises to be equally busy. His role in “Sunset Boulevard” is one of his favorites, though he had to figure a bit over just what to do after Gloria Swanson shot him. That very effective bit of acting came after long stud^ of the WILLIAM HOLDEN tharacter he was playing. His per formance is really tops. In private life his severest critic is his daugh ter Virginia, who reads all his scripts; of this one she said, “Why do you play such heels?” His young sons walked out on a recent picture of his to look at an old Western on television. Gloria Swanson, after her sensa- tibnal come-back in “Sunset Boule vard,” plans to star in another picture, which she will co-produce with William Dieterle. She has plans to make it in Istanbul, with partial Turkish financing. *The story sounds perfect for her—it’s about a’woman who is in love with a man younger than she, who can not save her from death. Rhonda Fleming, star of “The Eagle and the Hawk,” is fea tured in the June issue of Holi day magazine in a color por trait shot at Malibu; she was chosen as “being typical of the 1950 feminine figure in a bath ing suit.” Walt Disney studied the appear ances and careers of notorious pir ates of history before camera work started on “Treasure Island.” The famous Blackbeard, the ruthless Israel Hands and dthers appear as Stevenson characters. Fred Uttal, anouncer on “Mr. District Attorney,” has two boys, Bro and Lyn, aged 2 and 1 re spectively. He says that if he and his wife has a third one he’ll call it Ook—“Put them all together and they spell Brooklyn.” Lew Ayres began his career as a dance band singer, but in his years in pictures he’s done everything but sing. At last, in RKO’s “The Capture,” he’s a singing cowboy— has bne scene where he plucks a guitar and sings “Git Along Little Dogie.” But Ayres ran into diffi culty; he has a true ear, and had to practise bard to learn to sing off-key. Melville Cooper and Elsa Lan- chester were a vaudeville team 25 years ago in London, appearing in a miniature theater owned by Elsa and Charles Laughton. Together now in “The Petty Girl,” they did their act for the cast. / THE radtc npricimj FICTION DAKI 3 I/CU3IUN CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson T>ART HODGES had lived in the city for two years and was getting tired of it. Countrj^bred, he longed for the smell of sweet, fresh air, the sound of roosters crowing and cows lowing. H e wanted to go to bed to the tune of crickets cheeping and bullfrogs jug-a-rumming. It wasn’t as if the city hadn’t been kind to Bert. It had. It had taken him to its bosom, and he had prospered. Nor had he been un happy. He loved the lights, the noise, the hustle and bustle. And most of all he loved a girl. Tonight, lying on the divan In the living room of his apartment, Bart was troubled with an annoy ing thought. He wondered, strange ly, which he wanted most: Sabina’s love or the country. It was at this particular moijaent in Bart’s speculation that the tele phone rang. A strangely familiar feminine voice answered. “Hello, there. Bar t,” the voice said. “This is Sadie Blake, fresh in from the old home town. Come down and talk to one of your forgotten friends.” Bart’s pulse leaped. Sadie! His boyhood pal! Sadie, whom one day he expected to marry! Sadie, in the city. Here! Now! Fresh from Centerville, with news and notes of the old home town galore. ‘ At that moment Sabina Good- now was forgotten. There was just one girl in the world for Bart. And that girl was Sadie Blake. He felt suddenly ashamed he had neglect ed to write, to remember her at Christmas . . . Sadie, pink cheeked, blooming with good health and freshness. Her name was Sabina Good- now, and she adored him. met him in the lobby of her hotel. “Hello, pal," she cried. “Look ing just the same. Thinner, may be. But otherwise old Bart him self.” “Sadie!” Bob stared in open admiration. “Sadie! How good it is to see yon. Tell me, how are things in Centerville? How are the folks? Tell me every thing.” “Same old town, Bart. Your folks are fine. Your dad owns a new tractor. Polly, the horse, died, you know. But I suppose they \frrote you that. The voters decided to run town water up to William’s Hill at the last town meeting. Not s* much danger if fire breaks out now. Ed Salmon ran off with Bob Evans’ wife. She came back two weeks ago, and Bob took her in. Shame. Poor kid . . T HEY TALKED for hours. By evening Bart was fully ap praised of all the events and hap penings in Centerville during the past two years, and assured that his folks were welL He took Sadie out to dinner, and delighted in showing her around. She seemed a little awed by it all, and more awed by Barfs indiffer ence to the many wonders. “You get used to it after a while,” he said indifferently, and stood gazing thoughtfully at the many lights along Broadway. He felt enlightened and no longer homesick. Strangely enough the noise and bustle associated them selves in his mind with Sabina. He was glad to be a part of it alL He gazed furtively at the comely Sadie and pictured her in the rural setting of Centerville. They attended a theater and dined afterward at an exclusive night club. Sadie would have liked to go back to her hotel, but she wanted to please Bart. “Bart,” she said, when at last they stood outside the door to her room. “When are yon coming home? When are yon going to give up all this and come back where yon belong?” Bart looked down into her eyes and saw something that two years ago he had longed to witness. He sighed deeply. “Sadie, it’s been just great see ing you. Just what I needed. A sort of tonic.” He smiled at her gently.' “I’m not going back just yet, Sa die. There’s something keeping me here, something that before I never knew existed. I know now that it’s something greater than— anything. Some time I’m coming back, and when I do there’ll be two of us.”' SYLPH-CONTROL . . .Thomas Tiny Tim) of Pittsburgh hopes that an apple a day will keep extra pounds away. This Is Your Paper Those 'Changed' News Items By William R. Nelson **tI?HENEVER I bring in a news item, why do you always change it all around?” That questibn is one of the most frequently asked in every home town newspaper office in the coun try. Sometimes it is asked in con siderable exasperatioft. The_ answer is, of course, that news stories are easier to read, better understood, take less space, when they are written to conform to aseomewhat flexible pattern. That style, developed over the years, is fairly uniform in all newspapers because it was designed to evaluate the, facts for their news value and tell them quickly and clearly. A well writ- 'Lead* ten, straight Is news story pre- Inclusive sents its out standing infor mation in the opening paragraph, or lead. What follows after that is amplification, additional details. There are excellent reasons why news story style is best, among them: (1) The reader can quickly read the lead, and quit there if the story fails to interest him or her. (2) It permits cutting or reducing the length of a story, to get it into a particular place in the paper, by eliminating from the bottom. As these bottom paragraphs contain less important details, their re moval will not seriously reduce the information the story is conveying. The editor tries to pack his pa per with as much news as he can get, written in clear, readable style, and arranged to give the paper a< varied and attractive appearance. Yet he cannot prepare the entire content of an issue in an hour or a day. Because writ- Written I n g,, editing, to Fit setting type. The Space putting the type in the page forms, and printing, addressing and delivering take time, they must start early enough to conclude at a specified time each issue. If news stories are not written so they can be made to fit the space assigned to them, much time will be lost and the paper will contain fewer stories and be less interesting. The editor is a specialist whose stock-in-trade is an understanding of what interests people. He wel comes news and does his best to present it in accurate, readable, in teresting form. Next time you bring in a news item, and it is “changed all around”, remember that it was re written into news style to help you make it of ^interest to the greatest possible number of readers. SSWORO PUZZLE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ ACROSS 50. 1. Consume 51. 4. Total 7. River 1. (Russ.) 9. Scorch 2. 10. Frighten 11. 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Tropical tree (var.) 47. Plaything MIRROR Of Your MIND ^^ Movies Failure As Propaganda By Lawrence Gould Do movies affect public opinion? Answer: Very little believes Dr. James E. Hulett, Jr., Univer sity of Illinois psychologist and public opinion expert. Question naires and interviews before, dur ing, and after the run of a propa ganda-entertainment picture in a local theatre showed it was “un expectedly ineffective” in influ encing popular judgments. Apart from the film’s imperfections. Dr. Hulett feels “most people do not attribute accuracy and serious ness of purpose, to films shown commercially.” I suspect that films not meant as propaganda may be more effective. Should you “make yourself at 'aome” with married children? Answer: You may hope to be a velcome guest in their homes, but jnless you live with them, you should never forget that you ARE a guest and not “one of the fapa- ily.” To assume the right to drop in uninvited tor a meal, for in stance, is to show lack of consid eration for a person who is, after all, your hostess, even though sha is your daughter or your son’s wife. It’s the rightful privilege of every married^ couple to be master and mistress 'in their own home, and the more fully you recognize this, the more they’ll enjoy your visits. & Are some “inner conflicts” - unavoidable? ✓ fa ' Answer: In their primary form. Yes. From his first day In school, for example, a child’s wish to have the other children like him conflicts with his wish to have his own way and boss everyone around. And this conflict between “social will” and “self-will” can’t be settled by allowing either one to crush the other since both are imr perishable parts of human nature. The nearest to peace of mind y can come is by compromising, or, through ffndjng where our wishes coincide with those of others, man aging to gratify both urges at once. CORINTH, IN GREECE, THE MOST WICKED AND DEPRAVED CITY OP THAT DAY, WAS DELIBERATELY CHOSEN BY PAUL AS THE SITE FOR ONE OF THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. B KEEPING HEALTHY Brain Stroke and Blood Pressure B ECAUSE so many middle-aged and elderly men and women die of heart stroke (coronary thrombosis), we do not read or hear so much about brain stroke (apoplexy), which, like heart stroke, may cause death on first attack, or may consist of several strokes. The first or following strokes may cause paralysis of limbs or other parts of the body. Both brain and heart strokes are caused in the great majority of cases by high blood pressure and the break ing down or clogging of a blood vessel supplying the part. In “The American Heart Jour nal,” Drs. S. P. Hicks and B. K. Black report their study on the role of the failure of heart and blood vessels to do their work properly, thus causing apoplexy. There were 155 cases of apoplexy confirmed by examination after death in 99 men and 56 women. It was found that high blood pressure (hypertension) was pres ent in nearly 90 per cent of the pa- By Dr. James W. Barton tients. Now having high blood pressure does not mean that you are bound to have a brain stroke or a heart stroke. Thousands of men and women with high blood pressure live and enjoy good health year in and year out. In the care of the family physician, they per haps never think of their Illness. From time to time the physician examines their blood pressure, and aside from some advice as to diet and rest and occasionally a quiet ing drug, no treatment is necessary to prevent a brain or heart stroke. In the study of the 155 cases of apoplexy, Drs. Hicks and Black report that a spasm, probably due to some emotional disturbance, ap peared to be an important factor in most cases, while the high blood pressure, aside from spasm, was responsible for just a few of the deaths. x , The lesson is plain for those with high blood pressure. By keeping the mind at rest, by help of re ligion or philosphy of life, a brain stroke may be prevented. Unfortunately the causes of some forms of heart disease are not known, and it is research on these diseases that requires so much money, if they are to be pre vented and controlled. • « • • • Headache symptoms are sub jective (what the patient tells the doctor), not objective (what the nt*irair»fan aAAal While methods of controlling de cay of teeth, such as brushing and use of flourides are of real value, the most effective method la re moval of decayed enamel and den tine. • • • In most hospitals, a blood an amination for syphilis la made at every patient entering the hosfeitil for any dlMase. Bread Box To insure the fullest protection of bakery products, keep the bread box clean. Wash and scald the container, and air-dry it thorough ly twice a week in winter and 'every other day in summer. Do not stand bread boxes near heat units in the kitchen, such as ranges, radiators, water heaters and clothes dryers. On the other hand a cold pantry will cause the bread to stale faster. Bread boxes should not be too airy unless the products themselves are storeu in moisture-proof wrappers- Horseradish With Bam Horseradish sauce is delicious with cold ham; to make it, whip a half cup of cream and add a quar ter cup of drained, prepared horseradish to it along with a half cup of creamed cottage cheese, a half tablespoon of vinegar and a quartet teaspoon of salt. Delicious Fruit Compote Prunes, apricots, and dried pears make a delicious dried fruit compote. Use part orange juice for the liquid in which the fruit is &§ cooked and add a slice or two of lemon, too. 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