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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
No Sure Cure
‘‘Flinching’* is one of the most
aggravating afflictions that can be
set the hunter and skeet shooter,
and is an unconscious reaction that
might be called “shooting paraly
sis.”
Hie “flinch” causes the shooter
to react in several different ways.
Sometimes he “freezes” just be
fore he intends to pull the trigger,
causing a slow shot or making it
necessary for him to get on the tar
get again. At other times he closes
his eyes or raises his head to get
his face away from the gun stock.
The most common fault, however,
is to jerk the shoulder away from
the butt of the gun in an effort to
avoid the recoil. Sometimes the
confirmed flincher combines all
these reactions. Then he might as
Well shoot up in the air . . . and
some do just that. .
“Perhaps the predominant cause
of flinching is fear of the gun’s re
coil,” says Gail Evans, manager of
advertising and shooting promo
tion, Remington Arms Company,
Inc. “This is not true in all cases,
however, and in many instances a
flinch is inexplainable. Experi
enced trap-shooters may go along
for years shooting thousands of
rounds each year and then all of a
sudden develop the habit of flinch
ing without knowing why. And when
flinching enters the target shoot
er’s bailiwick, good scores fly out
of the window.
“It is sometimes hard to deter
mine the cause of flinching. It may
be that the comb of the stock is too
high, causing the shooter to take
considerable of the recoil on his
cheek. This can be remedied by
scraping the comb down to the
proper height. At any rate, the first
tiling the flincher should do is to
check his gun and find out if it
fits him properly.
“The stock may be too long or
too short These are matters of
easy correction. It may be that the
grip of the gun does not fit the hand
properly, thereby cramping the
hand. If it is too large, it can easily
be sanded down a bit. If too small,
^ it can be built up.
“Fear of recoil is by no means
the only caus^ of flinching. Disor
dered nerves may easily bring
about the trouble. Once the shooter
starts flinching he is prone to build
up his trouble into a mental hazard
that may prove a great stumbling
block in his path to good marks
manship.
“No sure cure for flinching has
been discovered. So-called anti
flinch triggers have been developed,
some of which are released by a
* push of the thumb. Fore-end trig
gers have also been made, and
while they may work for some peo
ple, they are still not a cure-all for
flinching.
“Perhaps the best treatment is to
stop shooting for a while ... a
month or even two. Don’t touch a
shotgun in that period. Forget, for
a time, if you can, the sport of
shooting. Then try ‘dry shooting*,
1 i.e.« swinging an unloaded gun on
a moving target and pulling the
trigger at what would have been
the right time. After several ^ses
sions of this practice and when
your nerves have returned to nor
mal, resume shooting, but use light
loads. If there is no recurrence of
the trouble, try shooting with the
standard loads, but shoot only a
few rounds in a single practice pe
riod. Concentrate on the target and
not on the gun. Try to forget you
ever flinched and start anew.”
AAA
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Disease Hits Deer
A serious disease of cattle and
sheep has been implicated for the
first time as a killer of wild deer,
according to a report in the Jour
nal of the American Veterinary
Medical Association.
Known as blackleg, the malady
is fatal to young cattle, and some
times attacks sheep and other live
stock.
Lt. Col. H. L. Armstrong and
Major J. K. MacNamee, army vet
erinarians, tell of the disease’s
first known outbreak in deer in an
issue of the JournaL
The outbreak occurred on the
army’s proving grounds at Aber
deen, Md., populated by about 2,-
800 wild deer. More than 400 of the
animals are known to have died of
the disease.
Investigating veterinarians were
hampered in making a diagnosis of
the trouble because, although a
number of dead deer were found,
it was difficult to find sick animals.
Two infected animals finally were
obtained, and laboratory examina
tions revealed that both were in-
^ fected with the blackleg germ.
Dry Fly "Tops"
Of the two kinds of artificial flies,
wet and dry, the dry fly takes top
place because, with all its limita
tions, it is the highest development
of fly fishing. The dry fly is fished
on the surface to lure a surface
feeding trout Its chances of pro
ducing a strike on every cast are
greater because evidence of sur
face-feeding trout is easily seen, and
therefore the cast can be designed
' with a degree of confidence not
tiie wet fly.
Pasture Renovation
Pays Big Dividends
Better Grass, Legumes
Build Production Power
“Punch-drunk” pastures can be
put back on their feet by a renovat
ing program that will build up their
milk and beef producing power.
Killing out the old grass and grow
ing alfalfa-ladino-brome grass mix
tures doubled yields of forage in
Wisconsin tests, the middle west soil
improvement committee said. The
old grass yielded 1,800 pounds of
forage per acre, carrying some 200
CHRISTMAS SEALS
Tuberculosis Is Nation's Most
Costly Communicable Disease
In its never-ending battle against
tuberculosis, the National Tubercu
losis Association again this year
continues its sale of Christmas seals
for funds with which to carry on
its program of education, medical
research and rehabilitation against
the nation’s most costly communi
cable disease.
The story of Christmas seals in
this countr: is the story of the
battle against a disease that takes
more than 40,000 lives a year in the
United States.
E^SCREENSRADIO
By INEZ GERHARD
Calhoun might never have
Al broken into movies if he had
not gone to visit his 90-year-old
great-grandmother. She lived ill
Culver City, Calif. One day, while
riding horseback, he met Alan
Ladd, who spotted him as movie
material; soon afterward, Rory
A renovating program for
“punch-drunk” pastures will
pay off in their milk and beef
producing power.
pounds protein. The new alfalfa-
ladino-brome grass seeding yielded
close to two tons and 800 pounds of
protein per acre. To get these better
grasses and legumes, lime and ferti
lizers carrying phosphate and potash
were needed to build the soil’s
mineral nutrient content.
Completely killing the old grass
Involves thorough fall working of
the field. On heavy sod, criss-cross
the field with disc to cut the sod into
chunks. Then dig the field twice
with the field cultivator, working
around the slope the second time.
Just before freezing, dig the field to
leave it rough. Lime and plant food
can be broadcast before the field
is worked or can be put on at seed
ing time.
Tben, next spring, seed the high
er producing deep-rooted legumes
and grasses. A field cultivator and
spike tooth harrow in tandem will
leave a good seed bed.
Beef Demand to Remain
Ri High Level, Report
The demand for beef as one of the
best preferred foods in the house
hold shopping list will probably re
main strong for some time, as full
employment at good wage seems
to be in the picture for this country.
Breeders of foundation stock,
growers of feeder cattle and finish
ers of feed-lot beef are directly
concerned with the expansion of the
beef industry to pieet this growing
demand, says Charles A. Burmeis-
ter of the U. S. agriculture depart
ment.
Burmeister says that statistics of
the cattle industry show that prod
ucers have been and are now build
ing up their breeding herds.
“The present beef breeding herd
of the country is the largest on rec
ord, while the 1950 crop is apt to ex
ceed that of 1949 by 800,000 head.
Much of this gain if numbers will
be in beef type calves,” he said.
Market Trends
RORY CALHOUN
was under the management of the
Sue Carol Talent Agency. (Alan
‘Ladd’s wife.) Now under contract
to 20th Century-Fox for the second
time, with a stretch in the Coast
Guard and a Selznick contract in
between, he recently finished
“Rogue River”, for Ventura Pic
tures. He plays a lumberjack,
which was right up his alley; he
worked for a while as a forest fire
fighter.
Peggy Dow, Universal-Interna
tional’s rising starlet, was told she
must gain 10 pounds before shoot
ing started with Jimmy Stewart
on the “Harvey” set. The studio
physician and two fashion design
ers said fashion stylists’ passion for
slimness was undermining the
health of our screen stars! So Peggy
went home to Athens, Tenn., and
fattened up on mama’s cooking.
Virginia Huston, who recently
finished a year’s stay in a hospital
as the result of a back injury, was
chosen from 150 candidates to por
tray “Jane” in “Tarzan's Peril”.
She is the 15th “Jane” in the long
series.
Frances (Mrs. Samuel) Goldwyn s
open letter to her husband will ap
pear in the December Woman’s
Home Companion; don’t miss it.
Among other reminiscences, she
tells how Danny Kaye, after being
signed for “Goldwyn Girl,” without
a screen test, looked wrong. Sets
had been built, a script finished, at
great expense. So—Goldwyn had
Danny bleach his hair. Success!
Christmas seals have been sold
in this country since 1907. In that
year, the late Miss Emily P. Bissell
jjut on a seal sale in her home town
of Wilmington, DeL, to raise funds
to help a group of doctors continue
the treatment of a small number of
tuberculosis patients. When a Phila
delphia newspaper threw its sup
port behind the sale, success was
assured and $3,000 was realized.
Miss BisselTs goal had been $300.
• • •
THE IDEA was imported from
Denmark. In that country, Christ
mas seals had been sold in 1904,
the year the NTA was organized,
because an obscure postal clerk,
Einar Holboell, thought people
should help needy children at
Christmas time. He conceived the
idea of a Christmas seal on letters
as a way to raise money. The first
seal funds in Denmark were used
to build a sanatorium for tuber
culous children.
Jacob A. Riis, an American citi
zen of Danish birth, proved the
bridge over which the seal traveled
from Denmark ' to America. He
wrote an article about the Danish
seal which was published m this
country, and suggested that the
idea be adopted^ Miss Bissell re
membered the article when she
was looking for a means of raising
funds and acted on his suggestions.
• • •
THE AMERICAN Christmas seals
are sold by local tuberculosis asso
ciation which retain approximately
75 per cent of the proceeds. The
balance is forwarded' to the state
association which, in turn, allocated
six per cent to the national. Thu?,
94 per cent of seal funds are used
to support tuberculosis control pro
grams within the state where the
money was contributed.
The national and local associa
tions are fighting tuberculosis on
four broad fronts;
1. Education—getting true facts
about tuberculosis and its preven
tion to large groups of people.
2. Case finding—searching eut
tuberculosis wherever it is and see
ing that treatment is provided for
persons with active disease.
3. Rehabilitation — helping the
tuberculosis patient adjust to his
changed condition and prepare for
useful living when his disease is
arrested.
4. Medical research—aiding quali
fied investigators, through annual
grants, in their continuous search
for more knowledge about tuber
culosis.
This is the broad program of NTA
that benefits when Americans buy
Christmas seals.
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I F IT had happened back in West
chester or most anywhere in the
world except here on the edge of a
high mesa at the rim of Death
Valley it would have made the
front pages of every newspaper in
the country. The reading public
would have been delighted.
This was explainable, for Joan
Roberts was the third richest girl
in the United
States, and what
ever happened to
her was news. If
the reporters had
been on hand that
day she had her face slapped, the
telegraph wires would have hum
med. If they had known that the
man who slapped her face was a
cowhand, editorial offices would
have been thrown into a shambles.
Joan Roberts and Lanky Andrews,
who was the cowboy, had ridden
away from the Wagon Wheel
ranch that afternoon with the idea
of watching the sunset from the
rim of Howling Coyote Mesa.
This was not the first time they
had ridden off alone together. At
first Joan thought Lanky’s attitude
of deference was a pose, but later
she decided he was acting quite
naturaL The discovery delighted
her.
Casually she had observed.
Lanky Andrews without appear
ing to do so. She registered the
fact that he was a good deal
more handsome than you no
ticed at first glance. Nothing
about his manner or what he
said was affected.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
Know-It-All Louie Comes Up With a Good Suggestion
By BILLY ROSE
Did anyone ever tell you the story of Know-It-All-Louie,
the East Side tough guy who thought he knew everything about
everything? Well, it’s been told, retold and mistold in the coffee
houses of Allen Street for as long as I -can remember, and today,
in the interests of folklore and folderol, I’d like to pass it along...
As old-tuners tell it, Louie had achieved quite a reputation as a
know-it-all by the time he was kicked out of P.S. 20 after spending three
years in the seventh grade. And before he had worn out his first pair of
bellbottoms, this reputation nad carried over into the ^poolrooms of the
section where he
The above graph charts the an
nual trend in hog prices, mohth by
month throughout past years, based
on records over 11 non-war years.
The solid bars indicate hogs fed
to market weight in. six months,
broken bars, hogs fed to same
weight in eight months. It is a clear
Illustration that pigs’ farrowed in
March and fed out in six months
caught the top of the year’s market.
But similar pigs, if fed out in eight
months, reached market in Novem
ber, well below the yearly average.
Dairymen Lose Millions
Because of Low Quality
Every year the dairy farmers of
the United States suffer heavy fi
nancial losses because too large a
proportion of the milk and cream
they market is lower in quality
than it should be. It is estimated
conservatively that they could add
millions of dollars annually to their
income simply by giving attention
to those factors that promote high
quality of product, dairy specialists
report .
Billy Rose
seldom played but
never missed a
chance to criticize
those who did. On
the rare occasions
when he did play,
he always had a
handy excuse for
his ineptness—the
cushions were too
fast the balls
weren’t true, etc.,
and so on.
• • •
LOUIE’S OMNISCIENCE was, if
anything, even greater when it
came to matters mechanical. Any
time he saw a fellow tinkering with
his car, it was only a matter of
seconds before the know-it-all’s
head was right under the hood with
the owner’s, and if the guy took
his advice he usually wound up with
a face full of soot and a triple re
pair bill.
Understandably, the loud-mouth
got to be known around the East
Side as Know-It-All Louie, and just
as understandably his brassiness
finally attracted the attention of a
local hoodlum known as Nick the
Carp who, at the time, was planning
to burgle a wholesale furrier and
needed a nervy kid to drive the get
away car.
When he outlined the job to Louie
he said, “Remember, no guns. Da
watchman izza ol’ guy and I can
handle him easy. I ain’t lookin’ fer
no more trouble than I hafta.”
Louie, of course, bad bis own
ideas on proper stick-up proce
dure and lost no time in passing
on bis expert opinion to one of
Nick's henchmen. "Betta pack a
rod jus' in case,” be advised.
"Suppose a ol' guy spots ya art
starts blastin'?”
The night of the job Lassie
parked the car down the block
a bit and began thinking abostt
bow be'd spend bis share of the
loot, but within a matter of min
utes there were shots and Nick
and the boys came running back.
“Ya dummox,” said Nick to the
henchmen who had taken Louie’s
advice. “Ya put three slugs in da
ol’ man an* now we’re in plennya
trouble. Drive slow, Louie, in case
any cops is aroun'.”
“Dere ain't no cops aroun’ here
dis time a night,” said the know-it-
all, passing through a red light.
Suddenly a prowl car scooted
around a comer and forced them
to the curb, adn the cops had the
bracelets on the thieves before
Louie even had a chance to criticize
their driving.
' • • •
NICK THE CARP turned State’s
evidence and settled for 20-to-life,
ahd Louie might have done the same
but he insisted he could win an ac
quittal. “I know da law,” he said.
“I wuzzen atta scene a da crime,
I wuzza block away. And when I
get inna witness chair. I’ll tell ’em
a t’ing or two.”
Well, as it turned out, the know-
it-all told ’em so many things that
the judge sentenced him to the elec
tric chair.
“I shoulda been my own
mout’piece,” said Louie. “Dat stupe
offa lawyer couldn* hardly talk no
English.”
It would be nice to chronicle
that Know-It-All-Louis reformed
during the last mostmful mile,
but l wouldn’t be sticking to the
coffeehouse facts. Actually he
lectured the warden on how to
run a prison, complained because
the cook hadn’t rubbed bis last
Steak with garlic, and when bis
bead and calves were being
shaved be even advised the bar
ber on bow to angle the razor.
Finally Louie was led into the
little room with the big chair and
strapped in—but he wasn’t through
yet. When the executioner threw
the switch all that happened was a
cracking flash from the fuse box.
"Da fuse ain’t big enough ta
carry da load,” advised Louie from
under his pelmet. “Ya need a bigga
one.”
A few minutes later he was very
dead. Know-It-All Louie had finally
come tip with a suggestion that
worked.
Lanky Andrews kissed Joan
as effectively as she had ever
been kissed.
Casually, too, she made inquiries
about him and learned, to her
astonishment, that he owned a
Harvard diploma and a small cat
tle ranch down on the Mojave.
Her frequent trips into the des-
2rt with Lanky, coupled with the
knowledge she had acquired
gave Joan, so to speak, a new lease
on life. Up to now her general out
look was bitter. She trusted no
one. She hated people who posed.
Lanky Andrews, without knowing
it, gradually changed all that
S O Joan prolonged her visit and
demanded Lanky’s services
more and more. She tried to be
nice to him, tried to give the im
pression that she appreciated what
he was doing for her.
But Lanky remained the same.
He was a good dude wrangler. He
was dependable, kind, thoughtful,
courteous, but never personal.
That is, he was never personal
until the evening they stood on the
edge of Howling Coyote Mesa and
watched the sun ease down into the
desert. Without turning her head
Joan said: “It’s lovely!” And
Lanky Andrews, unexpectedly and
without warning, turned to her and
said: “That sunset’s a washout
compared to you.” And he kissed
her as effectively as Joan had ever
been kissed.
j^OW LANKY was acting like
A v the men Joan knew and un
derstood. She acted on Impulse.
She slapped his face. “Why
you—** he began—and slapped
her face, a resounding crack.
Joan stared at him, mouth open,
cheeks white. “How dare you!”
“By the same right you dare to
slap me,” Lanky said easily.
“You—you—apparently, Mr. An
drews, you don’t know who I am.
I’m the third richest girl in the
United States!”
“So what? I’m the best dude
wrangler anywhere around. I’m
just as human as you. Just because
you’ve got more dough than I
doesn’t give you any more rights
or make me any less feeling.”
“Why, you—you.”
“Well, what? Can’t you think of
anything to say? Of course you
can’t. Time you learned a few
things.”
This time Joan didn’t say any
thing. She merely gaped at him.
She was conscious of only one
thought, one feeling, one fear: He
might not kiss her again.
But he did, and the newspapers
had to be satisfied with the result.
They were never told about the
faceslapping episode, but the story
of subsequent events was plenty to
make lovely big black headlines
No Saucers
Item la the Racine, Wisconsin,
Journal-Times:
Racine police and deputies af
firmed the story of a Racine man
who reported that a “mammoth
space ship” did not land on his
his farm north of the city ....
In an interview with a reporter,
the eyewitness gave the following
account: “I got out of bed and
raised the window shade. Suddenly,
it dawned on me that I couldn’t
hear or see a thing unusual out
side. There was no ear-splitting
crash nor any blinding flash of
light. Looking toward the north 40
I could see no sign of a circular
shaped space ship about 60 feet
in diameter. It would have been
about 14 feet high, I figure, if I
had seen it.
“Pulling the shade down quick
ly, I climbed back into 'bed. I
could see right off that no <me
would believe me anyhow, so Fm
not going to tell a-living-soul any
thing about it.”
Short Talk
Airplane pioneers Wilbur and
Orville Wright were extremely
taciturn. Above all, they hated to
make speeches. One day at a lunch
eon attended by a group of inven
tors, Wilbur was called on by the
toastmaster.
“There must be some mistake,**
stammered Wilbur. “Orville is the
one who does the talking.” The
toastmaster turned to Orville. The
latter stood up and said, “Wilbur
just made^the speech.”
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TOO DRAFTY!
While touring in England, Wil
liam F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody struck
up a friendship with a British the
atrical producer. Cody constantly
bragged about the wide open spaces,
of the untamed west.
Several years later; the English
man visited the United States and
called on the famous scout. The
morning after his arrival, Cody
todk his guest for a ride on his
buckboard. As they made their way
up a mountain trail, there was a
sudden violent gust of wind, which
lifted the visitor from his seat and
dumped him on the ground.
The startled Englishman wiped
the mud from his face and slowly
got to his feet
‘T say, Cody,** he commented, "I
think you overdo ventilation in this
country.”
Good Idea
Humorist Oliver Hferford was on
a crowded trolley one afternoon
holding his young nephew on his
knees. A pretty young blonde
boarded the car, stepped in front
of them and reached for the strap.
. Herford eyed her appreciatively.
Then, nudging his nephew, he said,
“My boy, why don’t you get up
and give the lady your seat?**
CAN YOU “BLEAT” THAT
Wife (intense with excitement):
‘Well, what happened when you
asked the boss for a raise?”
Hubby: “Why, he was like a
lamb.**
Wife: "What did he say?”
Hubby: “Baa.**
BY TEXAS SCALE
An old Texas, attending an
angler’s banquet in California,
was slightly irked as speaker
after speaker told tall tales of
West Coast fish. Finally, the visi
tor from the Lone Star state was
asked for a few remarks. “Well,
we don’t have any .fish in . Texas
worth bragging about,** he began
humbly, then, holding his hands
about 12 inches apart: “I never
saw any bigger than that.**
He stopped briefly, surveyed
the gathering blandly, and con
cluded: “Of course you have to
remember that we always
measure our fish between the
eyes.’*
The Real Trouble
Two men were having a hot argu
ment. “I want you to know I doft*ft
like being called a bum!” said
one.
“I wish you didn’t like being
one,” replied the other.
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easy mixing i
1 cup All-Bran
;% cup milk
1 cup lifted flour
2 Vi teaspoons
baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
X. Combine All-Bran and milk In
mixing bowl.
,2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt to
gether into same bowl. Add
shortening, gfated cheese.
only until combined.
t. Fill greased muffin pans % fnOL
Bake In preheated, moderately
hot oven (400*F.) about 20 min
utes. Place thin cheese strips on
top of each muffin and <
baking about 5 min. 10
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