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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. ‘miHMAKING’ 5 Small Towns To Experiment With Rainfall • SIDNEY, Mont.—Scientific “rain making’’ is creating considerable interest in many dry sections of the west. Five small communities in Mon tana recently formed the Northwest Montana Rain Increasing associa tion and employed a firm of preci pitation engineers to increase the amount of rainfall in their areas. The towns are Sidney, Savage, Glendive, Circle and Vida. . In past operations, rainfall has been increased from a minimum of 50 per cent to 500 per cent over normal in southeastern Oregon, southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Ranchers Form Association A somewhat similar organization was formed at Golden, Colorado, recently. The group was formed by ranchers and business men from Jefferson, Adams, Arapahoe and parts of Weld counties. The area is composed of 3,000,000 acres which are favorable to rain and snow making. The cost <Jf “rainmaking” is re latively small—around 10 cents per acre foot in the area. Ranchers and farmers agreed they would gladly pay more of excellent results. Meanwhile, other “rainmaking” news was on the front pages of newspapers in the east. Ulster coun ty, New York, filed a claim for $387,000 against the city of New York alledging that artificial “rain- making” operations in the Esopus creek watershed on or about No vember 25 and 26, 1950, had caused the waters to reach flood propor tions thereby damaging bridges and highways. The town of Shandaken also filed a $167,000 claim against New York City charging that Dr. Wallace Howell, the Manhattan rainmaker, precipitated the devastating flood which caused much havoc in the area in November, 1950. Small Towns Sue New York City authorities, while admitting having done some ground Seeding at Fahnestock at that time, would not comment on the damage claims. Shandaken charged in its claim that roads and bridges were dam aged in the extent of $167,000 and that the interference by the city with natural conditions was in the nature of a trespass. The usual method of “rainmak ing” today consists of shooting silver iodide into cloud formations. One miligram of silver iodide will SCfed a cubic mile of aafft-Om "Which will fall two or three times as much moisture as would normally. The towns of Longmont, and Ft. Collins, Colorado, have joined in experiments in that area in the “rainmaking” experiment. Rural Church Ministers To Attend Training Rally GREEN LAKE, Wis.—Rural min isters of Wisconsin and other mid west states will attend -the unique in-service Protestant training school at Green Lake from April 4 through April 19. The school is sponsored by the Wisconsin council of churches in co-operation with the national town and country committee of the home missions council and the rural church center of Green Lake. Courses will be offered in rural ministry and rural preaching by nationally known professors and clergymen. The purpose of the school is to acquaint those attending with re cent developments in the rural church movement, rural evangelism programs and in Christian educa tion, church administration and the use of the Bible .in rural teaching and preaching. Among the courses offered are “Preaching to Rural People” which will be discussed by the Rev. Alan Darling, pastor of the Oswego, 111., Presbyterian church, and lectures on rural life by Dr. Mark Daw- ber. Long Island, N.Y., former na tional director of town and country work for the Methodist church. Dr rf Dawber is the author of “Rebuild ing Rural America.” Dr. Mark Rich, secretary of town and country for the American Bap tist home mission society, will di rect the school. In addition to lectures, the school \.ill feature special handicraft class es, a radio workshop and a work shop in visual aids. Clarion Dedicates New Wing to Public School CLARION, Iowa — Citizens of Clarion (population 2,900) turned out in force recently to inspect the new addition to the Clarion public school. The addition was built at a cost of $86,634.00, the lowest cost of any school construction in that part of the state during 1950. The addition provides accommo dations for the high school band, woodworking and metal working de partments, and an art department. Tlie metal working and woodwork ing departments are equipped with the latest machinery and tools, in cluding drill presses, electric weld ers, planers, power saws and num erous hand tools. School officials described the new addition as one of the finest in that part of Iowa and a model of school plant planning. VIRGIL By Len Kleii SUNNYSIDE by Go* 1 Hoot THE OLD GAFFER By Clay Hunter BESSIE FOR BAKING THIS CAKE I'LL NEED 2. COPS OF FLOOR—I COP SUGAR* H COP MILK—CUP I -OH YES, I ALMOST By NICK PENN -AMP A PINCH SALT- MUTT AND JEFF ^ COME ON -% JEFF, VJALK UP TOTHE ^ - D qG/ SEVEN/1 CORNER AND SEE IF 1 __ By Bud Fuher CORNER AND SEE IF ^ N0lSV " 1 WI5H ^ THERESA COP AROUND/Jl SNAKFC' j E p F yVOULD HURRV ^ r i" BACK! THIS GAME IS TOO J ( MUTT. I COULDWY RHD Af COMEALONG, NOISV-- I WISH <1=1 COP. SO I WENT TO THE ^ BOVS' STATION AN’ ""I/A GOT THE .SERGEANT./ JITTER AH - NOT SO FAST BROTHER?^ YOU HAVEN’T SEEN MY WONDER / DIP VOU EVER SEE A PRETTIER BABY? AND THERE ARE FIFTY OTHER STYLES IN MY By Arthur Pointer AND THEYRE ALLY LINED WITH PURE MAPLE SUGAR TO HELP BREAKfcM IN. m SHOW YOU IN A MINUTE / WYLDE AND WOOLY By Bert Thomas "Just think—somewhere at this moment there's a man who someday will be responsible for my clothes bill!" It’s Pretty Plain! In a small New England city the community-fund campaign had just gone over the top. The secretary of the campaign, a prim, gray-haired little lady, was called upon to say a few words about the chairman, a Mr. Smith, at a victory dinner. “Ladies and gentlemen,” ghe said, “in China there is an ancient cus tom that parents must kiss their offspring xm that part of their anat omy through which they hope the children will become famous. If they want their child to be a philos opher, they kiss him on the fore head. If they want him to become an orator, they kiss him on the mouth. If they hope he’ll be a sing er, they kiss him on the throat. Now, I don’t know on what part of his anatomy Mr. Smith’s parents kissed him—” she paused an in stant for effect—“but he certainly makes a wonderful chairman.” Express, No Doubt A Washington executive excused himself from a meeting one after noon with the exp^nation: “My mother-in-law is arriving on the four o’clock broom.” PHOTO FINISH A Saving Nature McTavish.was the proud owner of 1 a new cash register. One day when an old friend came into the shop and.bought a sixpenny cigar, the customer noted that McTavish pocketed the money instead of put ting it into the drawer. “Why not ring it up?” he asked. “You’ll be forgetting it.” “Oh, I’ll no forget it,” replied the Scot. “Ye ken I keep track in my head until I get a dollar, an’ then I ring it up. It saves the wea-r and tea-r on the machine.” Just like a Mai. My husband is wonderful in one respect,” remarked a wife at a luncheon. “He never, never -«ays T told you so.’ ” “But of course,” she added, after a pause, “he reminds me very fre quently that he doesn’t.” MIND READER Stephen Leacock told this story on himself: “Years ago when I first got my Ph.D. degree, I was inordinately fond of it and used to sign myself ‘Doctor’ Leacock. On a trip to the Orient, I signed my name that way on the passenger list and was just getting my things straight in my cabin when a steward knocked and said, “Are you Doctor Leacock?” “I replied that I was. “ ‘Well, the captain’s compli ments, doctor, and will you please come and have a look at the sec ond stewardess* leg?” “Realizing my obligations, I was off like a shot. But no luck! An other fellow got there ahead of me. He was a Doctor of Divinity.” . That’s Different “ “Dear Emily,” he wrota. “Words cannot express how much I regret having broken off our engagement. Will you please come back to me? Your absence leaves a space no one can fill Please forgive me and let us start all over again, I need you so much. Yours forever, Bob. - “P.S.—By the way, congratula tions on winning the sweepstake.” SOUNDS BAD General Smith and Colonel Baker were walking down the main street of the army camp and, of course, met dozens and dozens of enlisted men. Each time the colonel sal uted, he’d mutter under his breath, “And the same to you.” Curious and a little irritated, the general asked, “Colonel, wfll you tell me why you persist in saying that?” And the colonel answered, *T was an enlisted man once myself and I know what .those joes are thinking.” L ows His Stuffy “Farm products,” complained the customer, “cost a good deal more than they used to.” “Sure, they do!” agreed Farmer Jones. “When a "farmer has to know the botanical name of what he is raising and the zoological name of the insect that eats it, and the chemical name of what kills, it, somebody’s go^ to pay.” SMART BUSINESS Junior: “Mamma, Papa wouldn’t murder anybody, would he?’ Mother: “Gracious, no. What made you ask?” Junior: “Well, I heard him down in the basement last night saying. Ijet’s kill the other two, Joe’.” Incognito Under a flossy pen name a young writer named Smith had a best seller published — a romantic book that was gobbled up by the public and the movies. On the strength of his success, the writer married, traveled widely, and was idolized by the ladies who sat on resort- hotel porches. Finally, all this adu lation began to pall on the couple. One evening they entered a swank hotel, and when the novelist picked up the pen to register, his bride said — in a voice that was over heard by the hotel clerk — “Why don’t you just register under the name of Smith this time, darling?” He Made It Lawyer—When I was a boy my ambition was to be a pirate. Client—Congratulations! THAT'S RIGHT George Ade, in his quality of cynical bachelor, said at the Chicago Athletic Clnb: “I was sitting with a little girl of eight one afternoon. She looked up from her Hans Ander sen and said: “ ‘Does m-i-r-a-g-e spell mar riage, Mr. Ade?” “ ‘Yes, my child,’ said I.” 90 Proof Most people have no respect for age unless it’s bottled. Her Mistake “My wife talks to herself.” “So does mine, but she don’t know it. 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Tommy—“A radio, a new «nd a set of tunjiture.'* Grandma’s V ■?. ft ?V\ “Well, Uncle Joe,” the real es tate man said to an old Negro who had just paid the last installment on a small farm. ’Til make you a deed to the farm now it’s been paid for.” “Boss,5’ the Negro replied, “If it’s all de same to you, I wish you’d give be a mo’gage to de place.” The surprised real estate man protested that Uncle Joe didn’t seem to know the difference be tween a deed and a mortgage. “Well, mebbe not,” said the Negro. “But I owned a fahm once an’ I had a deed an’ de Fust Na tional Bank had a mo’gage, an’ de bank got de fahm!” Fragile A woman was mailing the old family Bible to her brother in a distant city. The postal clerk ex amined the heavy package care fully, shook it and inquired if it contained anything breakable. “Nothing but the Ten Command ments,” she replied. 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