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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
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BABY? AND THERE ARE FIFTY
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By Arthur Pointer
AND THEYRE ALLY
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HELP BREAKfcM IN.
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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. She thinks I’m listening.”
Wing Sleeves Set Off
Play Dress for Child
I* yrs.
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A LL she needs to wear for
out of doors. An adorabl
dress for the younger girls
family, with pert wing
ruffle trim. Bonnet to match.
**'*
Pattern No. IMS is a sew-rite
S ted pattern in sizes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
te 2, sundress, 2Vfc yards of
bonnet, M yard.
The Spring and Summer
filled with ideas for a smart,
summer wardrobe; special feat
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Little Craklings
Washington Memo:
Truman makes an appoint
from the East, he picks a
from St. Louis. Whenever
makes one from the West,
picks one from Kansas City.
Definition of a Glutton: A
who puts glue on his moi
to his kisses will last longer.
Family Saving
Teacher — “Tommy, If
father could saye a dollar a
for four weeks what. would
haye?” , . .
Tommy—“A radio, a new
«nd a set of tunjiture.'*
Grandma’s
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“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.
Horae Meat
Diner—“I’m hungry enough to
eat a horse!”
Waitress—“You certainly came
to the right place.”
Self-Service
Too many of use conduct our lives
on the cafeteria plan—$elf service
only.
OH, BABY!
A fisherman got snch a reputa
tion for stretching the troth that
he bought a pair of scales and in
sisted on weighing every fish he
caught, in the presence of a wit
ness.
One day a doctor borrowed the
fisherman’s scales to weigh a
new • born • baby. The baby
weighed ferty-seven pounds.
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in’ the rest of our lives there.
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