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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C Ultraviolet Light Hikes Egg Laying Hens exposed to ultraviolet light showed a marked increase in egg production during a series of ex periments conducted by U. S. de partment of agriculture scientists. The exact properties of the ultra violet radiation causing the in crease have not yet been identi fied, but production was raised by as much as 19 percent through its influence. The experiments were started in 1945 by the agricultural research administration as the result of a discovery made while scientists were working with so-called bac tericidal ultraviolet light (the very short rays of invisible light, fre quently used to eliminate bac teria). A source of bactericidal light was being tested for its abil ity to reduce the number of air borne bacteria in a poultry house when it was found that hens under the ultraviolet radiation laid more eggs than those held under similar conditions but without the light. The scientists then decided to gath er more scientific facts about this phenomenon. For five consecutive years, hens were tested in a specially con structed underground poultry house from which all natural light could be excluded. Visible light was provided for certain periods each day by regular fluorescent lamps. The flocks were held in the house at all times during the ex periment so that complete control of the visible lighting could be maintained. Recommended laying diets were provided including nor mal supplies of vitamin D. Each year the hens held under bactericidal light produced from 10 to 19 percent more eggs per bird than hens maintained under the same conditions and diet, but with out bactericidal radiation. It was demonstrated* conclusively that neither the number of bacteria in the poultry house nor the vita min D content of the light rays was involved in the beneficial ef fect. Further tests showed that the addition of vitamin D to poultry rations beyond normal amounts did not increase the rate of egg production. Exposure of hens to longer rays of ultraviolet light, which have previously been found to supply vitamin D requirements for laying hens, gave none of the beneficial results of bactericidal light. Keep Posted on Values By Reading the Ads Grandma’s Sayings AIN’T IT STRANGE how the more happiness we pass along to other folks, the more we seem to have left fer ourselves? • - N S5 oald Betty Crew. Aooalachla. Vm.* TALKIN’ ABOUT the “new look* brings to mind the new package for Nu-Maid margarine. It’s modern in every way . , . seals in Nu-Maid’a sweet,, churned-fresh flavor. Yes- siree! I prefer "Table-Grade” Nu- Maid, the modern margarine, for my pookin’ and bakin'. our JEST THINK how much wider the “straight and narrow path” would be, if more and more folks traveled it- S5 Raid Ur*. C. a Anderson. Lou Ur lilt. Ky.* FROM SUNNY California comes this bright idea—margarine molded In modern table style hi pound prints that fit any servin’ dish. And Wouldn’t you know you’d find yel low “Table-Grade” Nu-Maid shaped this modern way, ’cause Nu- Maid is a trvhr modern margarine! _ will be paid upon publication to the first contributor of each saying or idea. Address 109 East Pearl Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio. accepted “Grandma” iiipkaa miMm mm ALWAYS LOOK FOR SWEET, wholesome Miss Nu-Maid on tbs when you buy margarine. Nu-Maid is your assurance of the finest modern margarine in the finest modern package. How Old? Age Figures Don't Tell ATHENS, Ga.—Dr. A. S. Ed wards, head of the University of Georgia psychology department, reports a gadget that measures a finger’s tremors up, down and sideways (his own invention), has proved that a man is not obso lete just because he is old. He reasoned that a steady hand and an erect frame have more to do with fitness for skilled work than age figures. He set out to measure them with the tronom- eter with hundreds of subjects. He listed them as of coUege age (16 to 35); senescents (60 to 85, in good health), and seniles (54 to 90, in fll health). He found that senescents had little more finger tremor than the younger group, and in many cases were steadier. But among seniles finger tremor increased an average of 300 per cent. Cows Prance Home As Retired Music Teacher Blows Horn FENNVILLE, Mich. — A former bandmaster turned farmer brings his cows home with a bugle call. Ami Miller, 72, says he believes his cows have a better ear for music than most people. *T don’t know why anyone thinks It is unusual for me to bring my herd home with a bugle call,” he added. “In fact, one old milk cow is music-happy. When I blow the bugle for the herd to come home, she gambols along the path in a prance that Is right in time to the beat.” Miller taught band music in schools in Seattle and Spokane, and at Casco, Mich., during early life. “We have a radio in the bam for animals, and one of the herd had a better appreciation for the classics and band music than the others. She stomps and moos her protests when we switch on a jazz orches tra,” he said. He explained that with the short age of help he was hard pushed to farm his 80 acres. So he taught the cows to answer to bugle calls so he wouldn’t have to walk down to the pasture after them.” He first started several years ago. At first the cows didn’t re spond, but then he took the bugle out in the field and blew it close to their ears and led them to the bam with music like the Pied Piper. Finally they caught on and often return home from as far as a mile away when he blows the chow call. “Sometimes I’m almost convinced that it’s easier to teach music to cows than it is to people,” he said. New lype Operation Saves Rheumatic Fever Victim PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A new type heart operation has been per formed on a 22-year-old girl rheu matic fever victim. The heart of Lorene Bean of Hazleton, Pa., was damaged nine years ago by rheumatic fever. For two years after she was stricken she was bedfast. Then she became well enough to finish grade school and later took a clerk’s job in a store. Three years ago she was forced to return to her bed. Surgeons said she had mitral re gurgitation. The mitral valve, they explained, was damaged and re mained open, alowing the blood to regurgitate, or leak back, into the left auricle and into the lungs. In a two hour operation, one sur geon cut from Miss Bean’s heart a piece of pericardium, the membra nous sac which covers the heart. The tissue, about the size of the palm of a man’s hand, was rolled up like a cigaret and threaded into a wire probe. Then the probe was forced through the wall of the heart and out the other side, leaving a flap of tissue in the left ventricle beneath the mitral valve. The tissue, working like a check valve, prevents the blood from leak ing back into the left auricle, while blood flowing in the proper direc tion pushes the flap away. Prisoner Saves $600 While Serving Long Prison Term NASHVILLE, Tenn. — During a 14-year stretch in prison A. A. Wynn served as keeper of the prison’s bees, and in turn, the bees served as keepers of Wynn’s bank roll. The bank roll was accumulated during 12 years in prison from shows he put on with a miniature carnival he built. He charged his prison audience whatever they could pay for the shows. After each performance, he stuffed the “take” into a jar. When the jar was full, he stashed it away in a beehive. The prisoner was released re cently. He made a bee-line for the bank with his savings which he esti mated at about $600. Climbing Party Seales 24,780-Foof Tibet Peak ZURICH, Switzerland—Two Eng lish university professors and three Swiss mountaineers have made the first ascent of one of the world’s highest peaks, Abi Gaman in Tibet. The party battled their way up the ice-locked Himalayan peak to gather Information, for the Swiss alpine research foundation. Abi Gaman is 24,780 feet high. DEAN OF OPERETTA Romberg Has Composed Over Seventy Operettas and Musicals Sigmund Romberg, whose life story soon will be shown on the world’s movie screens, is the kind of man who makes “highbrows” unhappy. He insists he is a “middle brow” composer and that he is happy be ing just that. For a man who bears the impressive label of Dean of American operetta, it is a startling admission. “Most Americans have middle brow tastes in music. What’s wrong with that?” he says in support of his statement that he’d rather write melodies with a sentiment and a tune that people can remember and whistle than heroic arias that al most no one can sing without weeks of hectic practice. Since Romberg exiled himself to America 43 years ago to escape his parents’ determination to make a bridge builder out of him, he is quite content to have the same tastes as most of the rest of the people in the United States. “Besides,” he asks, “what high brow achieves enough importance during his own life to merit a Hol- By INEZ GERHARD Irene Dunne handled the difficult impersonation of Queen Victoria in “The Mudlark” so satisfactorily that the picture was chosen for a command performance in London. But wait till you see what happens to her in RKO’s “Never a Dull Moment”. She falls into a haystack, sets a stove on fire and tries to cook a cougar, all incidents gleaned IRENE DUNNE from the life of Kay Swift, on whose book the picture is based. However, she needed no elaborate make-up. For “Hie Mudlark” she said, “They covered my face with strips of plastic lastex so I doubt whether my own daughter would recognize me”. And made her a heavy-set woman with several dou ble chins! Samuel Goldwyn will come up with a re-make of “The Winning of Barbara Worth”, remembered as the picture which launched Gary Cooper’s career, in 1926. This time Dana Andrews gets the starring role. And it will be produced in semi-documentary style, since it deals with the trials of desert re clamation in the west. But the love story won’t be ignored. Gov. Dan E. Garvey of Arizona has agreed to appear in a walk-on role in Pine and Thomas’ “The Last Outpost”, being filmed near Tucson. It has not yet been decided whether the governor will portray a Yankee or a Confederate soldier. In either case, he will be given the grade of« corporal. Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming and Noah Beery, Jr., head the cast. Slfmaad Romberg' deaa of Ameri can operetta, who has composed more than 70 state and aereen op erettas and masleals. His most pop ular include ‘•Mayttme,'’ ‘‘Student Prince’* and the “Desert Song.’ lywood movie treatment of his career while he is still around to see it?” Romberg will be able to see It as soon as Hollywood finishes the moxie it is now making. o o * SIGMUND ROMBERG really might have built some beautiful bridges if his parents had their way and he had become a construc tion engineer. But instead, he has turned out more than 70 stage and screen operettas and musicals, among them standards like “May time,” “Student Prince” and the “Desert Song,” one or the other of which is still touring somewhere at almost any time. He has writ ten a magnificent total of 2,000 songs like “Lover, Come Back to Me.” And he isn’t finished yet! “There is lots more music to be written—lots of it in me—and I am writing it,’’ he explains. Right now, he is composing an other musical which he expects to have on Broadway this winter. Some composers compose their songs on a piano, some in their head. Romberg composes most of his music on 9 Hammond organ, so that he can &et the effect of the entire orchestra as he tests a mel ody on the Hammond. He used to do it on a pipe organ, sitting in sol itary majesty before the gigantic instrument^ When the Hammond organ was 'invented, he got one of the first made. Since then he has been using it to turn out the kind of music that fits in frith Ameri ca’s heart beat. IT WAS IN VIENNA that he got his first formal music education. Finishing his schooling in Vienna, he had to serve his term in the army. When that was finished, the crisis came. His father, though very musical himself, was deter mined his son was going to be an engineer and build bridges. The peace maker in the dispute that arose was his mother who sug gested that he spend a year in America before making a decision. America had a lot of fine bridges, she figured, and maybe her son would learn to love bridges over rivers more than musical bridges. It didn’t work. Romberg came to the United States, went to work packing pencils in a pencil factory for a brief period and then got a job as a pianist in a restaurant he had stopped at to satisfy his craving for Hungarian goulash. That was the beginning. The next steps in his career came in rapid succession. He organized his own orchestra, played at a fashionable New York restaurant and began composing in earnest. He never got around to thinking of the bridges again. Let the high brows build the bridges, he decided. Instead, he wrote enough music to make him probably the most pro lific of the big-time composers in the theater. 1 pciAin DR Dll771C tAST WEEKS J jjWU nil r IIllLl answe * 9 4. Narrates 5. Music note 6. Acknowl edged 7. Extend across 8. Light boat 11. Fool 12. Presently 14. Conclude ACROSS 1. Outer garment 5. Refuse of grapes 9. Capable 10. 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Wilkinson 3 Minutt Fiction T HE Whitney’s living room faced on a court. Across the court were the windows of another apart ment. Occasionally Paul Whitney, relaxed on his couch, could see people moving around there. After a day or two he decided that the occupants were a young, childless couple who spent a good deal of time at home. •T’d like to get to know them,” Paul confided to his wife. Mrs. Whitney sighed. “I would, too. We’ve been hcx;e a month now and haven't met a soul. Do you sup pose I ought to go over and call?” Paul shook his head doubtfully. "I wouldn’t—not without some good excuse.' You know how apartment dwellers are. They might think we were imposing.” He glanced across the court. “They have a much bet ter apartment than ours.” “Better?” “Why, it’s obviously their living room we can look into and, if you’ll notice, there are windows on both sides.” Mrs. Whitney followed her husband's gaze. Without effort she could look Into their neigh bors’ living room and see the window on the waD opposite. “That’s so,” she admitted. Mrs. Whitney went into the kitch en and Paul rose and strolled idly toward the window of his own liv ing room. On the chance of being observed, he pretended to examine a potted plant on the sill. Surreptitiously he glanced across the court, and was shocked to see the head and shoulders of a man framed in the window on the far side of their neighbors’ living room. He called his wife, and, standing well back so as not to be observed, they peered across the court. But BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Wise Boys learn Impossible Sometimes Can Happen By BILLY ROSE Last night at Lindy’s a bunch of us were discussing what, for want of a better term, I’ll call the inevitability of the impossible. “The most improbable yarn I ever heard,” said Deems Taylor, “is the one about a missionary named Renault who was captured in 1948 by a tribe of cannibals in French Equatorial Africa. “According to a report in the files out at the U.N., just as they were about to roast him over a fire, shish-kebob style, the mis sionary fell to his knees and asked the Lord to have mercy on his ser vant, Renault. And when the canni bal chief heard the name, he un tied him and told him to go about his business. “No, it wasn't the prayer that did the trick—it seems that six months before, they had cooked and eaten another gent named Renault and he had turned out to be tough and tasteless.” “I KNOW AN equally implausible story,” I piped up. “The one about the clerk in Tacoma, Washington, who was handed five thousand dol lars to buy insurance for a bridge that was under construction. The fellow had never stolen a nickel in his life, but this was one tempta tion he couldn’t stand off—what in the name of the five Ringling Broth- Billy Rose ers could happer to a bridge? "Suiting misdeed to thought, the clerk went to Reno and blew in the whole five grand on a couple of gals, and then, the night before he was due to start hack, the Mayor of Tacoma phoned and wanted to know about the insurance. It seemed that the bridge—the famous Galloping Gertie of the news reels—bad come apart at the seams and fallen into the gorge." • • • “THE BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT that tops them all is the one about Charles Coghlan,” said Eugene Burr who writes the theatre pieces for Playbill. “Charles who?” I asked. “Coghlan,” said Burr, “the actor who used to play opposite Lily Langtry back in tht; last century. When he was 50, he bought himself a farm on Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and quit the stage for what he thought was good. A few years later, however, Forbes-Robertson made him a very attractive offer to play Mercutio in a touring production of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and while Coghlan hated to leave the island, he couldn’t afford to turn the offer down. In one season he’d earn enough to be able to live comfortably the rest of his life. “When his neighbors came down to the boat to see him off, the actor assured them that, come heaven or high water, he’d return when his tour was ended. And he did—but it took both heaven and high water, and in that order, to arrange it. "Heaven got into the act shortly after the tour started— in Galveston he suffered a heart attack and died, and was buried in a cemetery not' far from the sea. The high water came a yea* later, September 8, 1900, when a tidal wave hit Galveston, droumed six thousand people and washed away a gcpod part of the waterfront, ' including most of the coffins in the ceme tery. “Some months after the disaster, a fisherman on Prince Edward Is land went down to the beach one morning to inspect his nets, and found a coffin which had washed up on the sands. “On it was a brass plate with the name ‘Charles Coghlan’—the actor, with an assist from the Gulf Stream, had made good his promise to re turn.” “You’re positive you saw someone?” Mrs. Whitney asked. the figure in the window on the fax side and vanished. “You’re positive you saw some one?” Mrs. Whitney asked. “Positive!” Paul affirmed. “Ought we to notify the police?” “I wouldn’t. Whoever it Is is gone, and perhaps the police wouldn’t believe us. We’d appeal ridiculous.” T WO evenings later Paul again saw the peeping Tom. He was standing in the same position, and sight of the man at the window of their neighbor’s apartment gave him the same unexpected shock. . “I’m going to do something about it. Sooner or later the chap will conjure enough courage to break his way in,” Paul said. “Let’s go over there and wain the people, tell them what we saw and then let them do as they like about it.” She hesitated. “Perhaps we can strike up an acquaintance.” T HEY CROSSED to the neighbor ing apartment and knocked. A pleasant-faced woman opened the door. - “Are you Mrs. Phelps?” Mrs. Whitney asked. The woman nodded and Mrs. Whitney said; “We’re Mr. and Mrs. Whitney from across the court. We—” “Come right in! Frank and I were thiqking of calling on you.” The Whitneys entered and were greeted cordially by Mr. Phelps. “I’m afraid,” said Paul, “that we came on rather an unpleasant mis sion.” And he explained what they had seen. Mr. Phelps looked puzzled. “There’s something wrong here. Would you mind stepping Into the living room?” They fol lowed him In and he pointed toward the far wall. “Yon see we have no windows on that wall. He broke off as Mrs. Whitney gasped. “Why, it wasn’t a window at all! It was that mirror! You see, it hangs where a window might be, and faces our apartment. Paul Whitney, it was your own reflection you saw! Standing near the flower pot, you saw yourself in the mirror, and it appeared that some one else was peering in at the Phelpses!” Paul’s jaw dropped. He swal lowed, grinned and looked sheepirh. But the Phelpses thought it was a grand joke, and urged their new neighbors to spend .the evening. All Iron-House Almost 150 years ago an experi mental all-iron house was built in England ... at last advice, it was still in use. Here’s s way to stretch your Christmas money and please your friends at the same time! The cigarette smokers ul your list will International Show Opens November 25 Cattle Class Prizes Largest Ever Offered The 51st International Live Stock Exposition will be held this year in the International Amphitheatre at the Chicago stock yards from No vember 25 through December 2. Increased prize money for the show should help to encourage the exhibition of top livestock from both the United States and Canada, exposition officials reported. v . Prizes for all cattle classes will be $61,370, the largest total ever An international grand cham pion steer is shown above with owners, Cleo Yoder of Iowa, . Henry W. Marshall, exposition chairman, and Dr. A. D. Weber who Is slated to judge steers -again this year. offered. Many prize increases made in other breeds to mark the occa sion of the golden jubilee show of 1949 are retained this year. Dr. A. D. Weber, of Kansas State college, will judge the steers again this year. He is the only American to judge these classes since the ex position departed from the custom of having foreign judges two years ago. Other features in connection with the international that have, been familiar in the years since 1900 in clude the grain and hay show, rec ognized as the world’s largest com petitive showing of farm crops. Farm Expenses Increased Five Fold in Past Decade • Farm expenses have increased al most five-fold over the past decade and not many farmers would care to return to the “good old days” of low expenses—if they had to accept the level of income that accom panied them. This increase in cost of farm op eration has been accompanied by some phenomenal changes in the composition of expenses. Machinery expense made up only 14 per cent of the total in 1935-39 while, in 1947- 49 it accounted for 21 per cent Also, farmers are spending propor tionately more for seed, fertilizer and crop expense than they spent 15 years ago. These changes have been accom panied by a substantial increase in man labor efficiency on farms. Improved Seed Rat ^ L yt, --Tjg™* welcome a carton of cool, mild Camels. And to the pipe and men who “roll their t give a one pound tin of Prince Al bert Smoking Tobacco. When you give Camels or Prince Albert world’s choicest tobaccos, expert ly blended — a good^reason why more people smoke ~ - Camels than any otner cigarette 1 And mellow Prince Albert is America’s larg est-selling pipe tobacco. Wb more, both Camels and F Albert are already gift-wra _ in gay, red and green packages. All you do is fill-in your perse greeting on the built-in card, fuss. No bother. Save time, energy, save money. Give and Prince Albert — the . Christmas gifts for smokers! An idea that might be useful when growing next. spring’s plants is the seed box with removable sides as shown in the above illus tration. The sides are nailed together and attached to the bottom by means of hooks and screw-eyes. 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