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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C
GOLDEN AGE OF MUSIC
United States Is Most Musical
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LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER ^
Nation in History of the World
America is beginning a Golden
ft.ge of Music.
This is now the most musical na
tion in the history of the world;
and the trend is typically Amer
ican, growing out of the people
themselves instead of patronage by
an upper class.
Some of the signs of our musical
renascence are obvious and per
vading. More than 96 per cent of
our families own radios that pour
lorth music of various sorts at the
flick of a switch. More than 15,000,-
000 homes have phonographs and
records. Every motion picture has
music as a backdrop, with the
musical film the most popular of
all types. In the theater, plays like
“Oklahoma,” “South Pacific” and
“Guys and Dolls” are the record-
breakers. In restaurants, offices
and hotel lobbies music is piped in
to entertain and to relieve
monotony.
But the more significant signs
that music is coming to have a
basic place in our way of life are
in the private lives of the people.
There are today more adults learn
ing to play instruments, taking part
in community orchestras and chor
uses, joining in music festivals and
events than there have been for
many years. The number of children
who are learning to play instru
ments in our schools is at an all-
time high. Musical colleges report
that the number of students pre
paring to teach music surpasses
the proportionate increase in en-
By INEZ GERHARD
C HARLOTTE MANSON is one of
the daytime radio’s foremost
actresses, but at night she’s a sales
lady, though not for hire. Best
known as leading lady in the CBS
“King’s Row” series, in private life
she is Mrs. Dick Brown, wife of the
popular radio and television singer,
and her self-appointed job is in his
behalf. At least three nights a week
she visits several of New York’s top
CHARLOTTE MANSON
disc jockeys with some of his rec
ords, to plug them. And the "King’s
Row” star has made such a hit with
her witty ad-libbing that she’s been
offered a regular night-time show of
her own on a metropolitan station,
which she will accept in the falL
Tim Holt is forsaking cowboy roles
temporarily; he was so good in “His
Kind of Woman” that Howard
Hughes has asked the RKO staff to
find a good dramatic vehicle for
him. Holt has won critical acclaim
in all his straight assignments.
rollment in other subjects. Attend
ance at concerts and other musical
performances is breaking all rec
ords, particularly in the smaller
cities and the small towns where
such fare was scarce indeed just a
few years ago. According to the
American Music Conference, there
are more than 700 community sym
phony orchestras in cities of all
sizes, including one in Mountain
Lakes, N. J.—population 2,500.
In adult recreation, music is
playing an ever-increasing part.
YMCA’s and YWCA’s in many
cities are offering class instruction
on various instruments, and service
clubs and other groups put on
periodic sings, musical events and
eoncert series. Music appreciation
is rising toward the top of the list
of things many adult organizations
are offering their memberships.
The bright fact is that the Amer
ican people are making music for
themselves—a bright fact because
throughout history music has been
one of the greatest forces for happi
ness, stability, and harmony among
men.
This trend is putting the piano,
the organ and the harp back into
the home, and the instrument case
back into the hands of our children.
* * •
THE MUSIC CLUBS and their
unifying organization, the National
Federation of Music Clubs, have
brought music into the lives of
thousands of committees and have
encouraged young musicians to fol
low the art seriously. Service clubs
like Kiwanis International, Rotary
and Lions have helped bands and
orchestras, provided scholarships,
put on music festivals, added sing
ing to their own programs and
otherwise helped make us music
conscious. The National Congress
of Parents and Teachers’ music
committees have been behind much
of the sharp increase in opportunity
for music offered in the schools
and for growth of music in com
munity affairs.
In rural areas, the 4-H, extension
departments of state universities
and other groups have been influ
ential, and in the adult field the
YMCA and YWCA have made music
prominent in their activities and
offered classes on various instru
ments.
Though it is less than four years
old, the American Music Conference
has had an important part in the
current boom. Financed by various
branches of the music industry as
a public service, AMC is devoted
entirely to helping more people get
the benefits of music. Much of the
tremendous increase in material
about music appearing in news
papers, magazines and radio is
AMC inspired. Its films and litera
ture are helping to keep the trend
moving. Its small field staff is
carrying know-how on organization,
techniques and materials to cities
and towns in all parts of the coun
try. Contributing its services to
organizations, school systems and
anyone else who wants help to ad
vance music, AMC has increased
the effectiveness of many other
agencies and has given the total
movement a new spark and accel
eration.
Much of the credit, too, must go
to the music industry. It has found
that in this country the way to
progress is through service. Both
through their contributions to AMC
and music educators and by intro
ducing improved products, the man
ufacturers, distributors and mer
chants have been instrumental in
making music more at home in
millions of homes. '
GRASSROOTS
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4 Music note
6 Newt
9 Aromatic
evergreen
shrub
11 Coin
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12 Covered
with salt
13 Covenant
14 A loan
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15 Fidgety
16 Part of
“to be”
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22 Buries
26 Literary
composition
28 Satan
29 Barrel parts
31 Mature
32 Certainly
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of skill
38 A hamlet
41 Solemn vow
42 Constitution
43 Fastener
44 Girl's name
45 Guido s
highest note
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3. Places
4. Guided
5. Mulberry
6. God of love
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12 Shows
mercy
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product
15 Discover
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20 King of
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name
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bank
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THE
FICTION
CORNER
BENNY'S COW
By Eunice Thomas
I F you ever saw Mama look at
Benny you might know why she
wanted a cow so bad. Benny was
our second brother, twelve years
old, and he looked like he might
have been cut out of a scarecrow
pattern. Mama
blamed it on not
having milk.
But Daddy was
always getting
mad because Benny was afraid Or
wouldn’t fight like the other boys.
He said you couldn’t blame it on
milk. Then Mama’s face got sort of
tight and she said Benny needed it
more than the others.
So, at last we got a cow. Uncle
Hal brought her home in his truck.
Uncle Hal maneuvered his bay
window irom under the steering
wheel apd waddled to the back «f
the truck. Daddy stalked around
from the other side. Next to Uncle
Hal he looked nearly as underfed
as Benny.
“We gotta be careful,” Daddy
said. “She ain’t taking to us
strangers too well.”
“She looks crazy in her eyes.”
Uncle Hal poked a finger through
a crack and the cow let out a low
bellow. “She’s scared silly. No tell
ing what she’ll do when we turn
her loose. Might as well find out,
though.”
He let down the tail gate and un
tied the rope from her horns.
“You young’uns get out of the
lot!” Daddy yelled at us. “She’s
upset enough to try to fight.”
She came out snorting and pawing
and went over the fence to the pea
nut patch just like it hadn’t been
there. Uncle Hal climbed the. fence
with considerable speed, consider-
Desplte his bulk. Uncle Hal
ran. He plowed a path straight
to the back field fence.
ing his blubber, and took off tt>
drive her back. Daddy ran to head
her off the other way. They circled
around her, intending to drive her
back to the lot. But she was too up
set and scared. She lowered her
head and pointed her long sharp
horns straight toward Uncle HaL
Despite his bulk. Uncle Hal ran.
With his head back and his elbows
punishing the spare tire around his
middle, he plowed a path straight
to the back field fence. He beat the
cow there by several yards, but
he didn’t bother to climb. He fell
over, leaving a good sized patch of
his overalls on the barb wire.
Old Bessie turned her attention to
Daddy. He made it to the fence
and grabbed a post and swung for
safety just as Bessie's horns tangled
in the wire below him.
T HE COW was tangled In the wire
and bucking. Uncle Hal was
peeping from behind a nearby oak.
The rest of us were atop fence
posts.
3 -Minufs
Fiction
Congress As Prodigal With Tax Money As Truman
By Wright A. Patterson
Daddy was mad enough to shoot
Bessie then and there, but she was
a summer’s profit. He couldn’t af
ford to harm her or let her hurt
herself. He hollered for Mama to
send the wire pliers.
F ollowing the close of four
years of civil war our national
debt amounted to two billion, two
hundred million. That had been re
duced to one billion at the start of
World War I. At the close of World
War I, our debt was 25 billion, 200
million. We had reduced that to 19
billion, 600 million by 1929. That
total of 1929 represented $571 for
each American family. By 1939,
with no war, but the New Deal to
finance, our national debt had in
creased to where it represented
$1,165 for each family. In 1950, our
national debt amounted to 257 bil
lion, 400 million, a total for each
family of $6,786.
With such a financial condi
tion facing ns, with a debt bur
den and taxes higher than at
any time in our national history,
congress continues to spend
money “like a drunken sailor.”
Only recently, the senate voted
an authorisation for an Arizona
irrigation project, the total cost
of which will amount to consid
erably more than two billion
dollars. That irrigation will
benefit less than 30,000 farm
ers, for which all the people of
all states will be taxed to an
extent of nearly $3,000, to be
added to the $6,786 each family
it now slated to pay.
That is not the kind of economy
candidates for both the senate and
house promised the voters before
the last election, when economy
was an issue in the campaign, but
it represents the kind we are get
ting. The senators who voted for
authorization for such a project
should not be allowed to go back to
Washington. A two-billion-dollar
project that would benefit 30,000
Arizona farmers, but would serious
ly endanger the water supply of
close to 5,000,000 people in southern
California, who have at tremendous
expense to themselves carried the
water of the Colorado river through
the mountains and over the deserts
that they might live, should be voted
down. Now the senate proposes to
give away that water to 30,000 Ari
zona farmers at a cost to the fami
lies of all states of $3,000 per family.
That is spending on a scale
that neither the New Deal or the
Fair Deal have suggested, and
it came directly from the sen
ate without a recommendation
from the President. It was not
a partisan measure. It was
voted for by both Democrats
and Republicans.
Fortunately that was only an au
thorization. The Senate cannot in
augurate appropriation legislation
as that must start in the house.
And it is not believed that such an
appropriation has any chance of
passage in the house. Such an in
cident, futile though it may be, dem
onstrates that the spending pro
clivities cannot all be laid to the
President. Some of it must be at
tributed to congress, and there both
parties must assume a portion of
the blame.
That would-be Arizona expendi
ture is but a large sized sample of
the utterly unexplainable and need
less expenditures made by Wash
ington. A careful check of the voting
in both senate and house will dem
onstrate that those who are loudest
in their demands for economy will,
at times, be found supporting appro
priations for things we could get
along without. Among such things
is the central California Valley
reclamation project of no value to
any one other than the people of
California, but being paid for by the
tax payers of all states. Senator
Knowland’s denunciation of that
Arizona project was but a case of
“the pot calling the kettle black.”
Can we not have an end to all such
needless federal government spend
ings?
*
While under the set-up of the legis
lative branch of the government,
it is not possible for the senate to
inaugurate either tax or appropria
tion legislation, the senate can,
when it will, stop such legislation,
when passed by the house. Senator
George (D., Georgia), as chairman
of the tax committee of the senate,
has refused consideration of the
house tax bill, until the house has
cut from its appropriation not less
than six billions of peace time ex
penditures.
*
At the end of a year the “little”
war in Korea had resulted in more
casualties, than the first year of the
“big war” with Japan. The “war
wolf’ cry no longer gives us the
shivers..
Before she could speak to one of
the other boys Benny was half way
to the house. And he took the pliers
to Daddy.
“Watch that cow!” Daddy
yelled at him. “She could make
hash of you in no time!”
Benny went on. The cow had
calmed down some and he got pretty
close to her.
“Git Back!” Uuncle Hal yelled.
“When a cow is that crazy—”
“She ain’t skeered o’ me, Daddy!”
Benny reached out a hand and ca
ressed the cow’s quivering side. You
could see her relaxing. He rubbed
her back a minute and worked up
to hqr shoulders. The restless hoof
quit pawing and she stood there
trembling while Benny tied a rope
around her horns. Daddy started to
cut the wire and she reared up
again. So he went and leaned on
Uncle Hal’s oak and tossed the
pliers back to Benny.
“All right, son. Cut her loose.
She’s all yours.”
Benny roped her—by himself—
and led her into the lot.
“Sure. Now can you stop thinking
of your son as a coward and ad
mit he has—ah—” Mama stopped
and started turning pink. She was
always mighty careful of what she
said.
Daddy laughed at her. “Okay,
Suzie. We’ll call it intestinal forti
tude.”
Chicken-of-Tomorrow
Contests Concluded
Program Increased Fowl
Production in Country
The economics of chickens may
offer a quick solution to the prob
lem of the current quest of most
Americans to keep their dinner
plates well filled.
No matter what happens to other
foods, there will still be plenty of
chickens coming to market, accord
ing to estimates of production pos
sibilities of the nation’s top breed
ers at the windup of the national
chicken-of-tomorrow finals.
Charles Vantress, Live Oak,
Calif., twice winner of the contest,
haS| estimated that his flocks alone
The whole chicken industry—
breeders, growers, scientists
and others—cooperated in the
chicken-of-tomorrow program.
Above a gronp interested in the
industry examine products of
the program.
Will be responsible for production of
more than 100,000,000 meat-type
chickens in 1951.
This kihd of production is due in
great part to the six year chicken-
of-tomorrow program when breed
ers and producers set out to im
prove the meat qualities of chick
ens. The program was also responsi
ble to some degree in development
of great “broiler areas” in Georgia,
Delaware, Texas, Maine, Kansas,
Indiana, Arkansas and other states.
Newer feeding efficiencies, better
growing facilities, more knowledge
of genetics developed on the farms
of the nation were tested in the
state, regional, and nation chicken-
of-tomorrow contests.
The program was financied by
A & P grocery chain.
Company Seeds 800 Mile
Pipe Line Right-of-Way
How to maintain a farm that is
50 feet wide and over 800 miles
long?
That problem recently faced one
of the nation’s largest natural gas
companies when it wanted to prop
erly care for the soil bordering its
long, thin, pipeline stretching from
Texas to Ohio.
To carry out its program, the com
pany set up a soil conservation de
partment and endowed it with near
ly a quarter-million dollars for la
bor, seed, fertilizer and equipment.
Eight crews went into the field and
seeded an average of a mile a day.
The crews used carefully pre
pared seed mixtures to provide
temporary cover crops according to
the individual farmer’s wishes.
Plants chosen for seeding were se
lected to suit each locality, after
consultation with local and national
agricultural authorities on the best
methods of soil conservation.
Hand Scoop
The above scoop may save
considerable time for a number
of farmers. It can be made from
two-foot piece of sheet metal
nailed to a wooden square. Bail
is off center for easy tipping.
Radio Telephone Tests
Set for Rural Areas
Use of radio instead of poles and
wires for some parts of rural tele
phone systems is soon to be tested
on an experimental basis by the
rural electrification administration,
it was announced recently.
This test, the U.S. department of
agriculture says, is being made to
find out whether radio link is more
economic and efficient than usual
installations in certain circum-
■tances.
THE READER'S DATE BOOK
First Aid Kits Would Reduce
Number of Fatal Farm Injuries
This is National Farm Safety Week. For several weeks home
demonstration agents, county agricultural agents and others inter
ested in agriculture have been working closely with farm groups
and 4-H clubs in campaigns to emphasize the week and in planning
ways to cut farm losses. These programs have been conducted in
home towns throughout the nation.
All this has been
with the purpose of
ending needless suf
fering and loss of
life from farm acci
dents. Preventable
accidents continue
to kill thousands
and injure hundreds
of thousands of farm residents each
year. Such accidents deprive the
nation of needed manpower and
destroy property vital to national
defense.
The 1950 report on farm accidents
revealed five frightening facts:
1. Total farm accidents were 15,-
500 in 1950. Injuries totaled about
1,300,000.
2. Farm home deaths totaled
3,900, with approximately 550,000
nonfatal accidents.
3. Motor vehicle^ killed 6,300 farm
residents in 1950 and injured 220,-
000 more.
4. The total of farm work deaths
was 4,300, which accounted for
more than 25 per cent of the na
tion’s occupational death toll for
1950.
5. Public non-motor vehicle
deaths, such as drownings, took
the lives of about 1,600 farm resi
dents. :
to keep on hand in case of emer
gency.
Packed in a suitable container
for protection against dust and
moisture, they could be kept handy
in the farm home in case of any
emergency. By having the kit
packed and ready, it can be taken to
the scene of an accident on the
farm on short notice. Time wasted
looking for proper first aid material
is thus eliminated.
The following items are suggest
ed for the “disaster kit”:
1. One 3 to 6-ounce bottle of anti
septic solution, such as benzal-
konium chloride aqueous solution
1:1,000, to be used on open wounds,
but not burns.
•2. One 1 to 2-ounce bottle of aro
matic spirits of ammonia to be used
either internally or by innalation
for fainting or near collapse.
3. One 8 to 10-ounce can of so
dium bicarbonate, USP (baking
soda) which is a protection against
nerve gas. Add four level teaspoons
to one quart of water and use to
wash parts of body exposed to
nerve gas, or saturate a cloth with
this solution and use as a face
mask for protection against in
halation.
Since even one serious acci
dent in a family can be expen
sive in money, time, and loss of
labor, farm families as well as
others may well give special
attention to safety rules. Here
are nine that have been pub
licized widely in recent weeks,
possibly through local adver
tising by merchants who realize
the importance of farm safety
to the local community:
1. Keep passage ways and stairs
in good repair, unobstructed and
well lighted.
2. Keep ladders in good repair
and easy to get at in emergencies.
3. Don’t wear loose or floppy
clothes around machinery, or when
doing cooking or housework.
4. Keep your back straight and
lift heavy loads with leg muscles.
Don’t try to lift anything that is
too heavy for you.
5. Use the right tools for the job.
Keep them in good condition. Keep
them in a safe place.
6. Don’t use kerosene to start
fires.
7. Always stop a machine before
starting to repair it. Disconnect
electrical appliances or equipment
oefore working on them. , .
8. Give prompt attention to even
small injuries.
9. Never swim alone. Never dive
into water without first determining
the depth. Be careful around any
boat. Never stand up in small
boats.
Studies of accidents each year
show how often these rules are
overlooked.
Despite increased emphasis on
safety by local newspapers and
in advertising campaigns by
Main Street merchants In the
interest of their community and
rural neighbors, there probably
will be a substantial number of
fatal farm accidents this year
that would not result in death
if adequate first-aid measures
were taken. The same is true of
disabilities resulting from acci
dents.
With this in mind, it would seem
that the recently devised civil de
fense kit, designed by the federal
civil defense administration for
homes in critical target areas,
would be ideal for the farm wife
4. Four triangular, compressed^
muslin bandages (37x37x52 inches)
folded with two safety pins each.
These may be used as slings, or
bandage coverings.
5. Two large and two small bath
towels and one bed sheet. Bath
towels and bed sheets may be used
as improvised bandages and dress
ings. They should be relaundered
every three months and packaged
in heavy paper. Old, soft towels
are preferable. When towels are
used for burn dressings, place
dressing and fasten down with tri
angular bandage or strip of sheet.
6. Two packages each of medium
(8x7% inches) and small (4x7
inches) first-aid dressings.
7. Package of twenty-five to fifty
paper envelope drinking cups.
8. Half to one-oz. bottle of castor
oil, USP, for emergency eye drops.
Other bland eye drops suitable for
painful irritations of the eye may
be used.
9. A flashlight with extra bat
teries.
10. Ten to fifteen medium (1%-
inch long) safety pins.
11. Two or three single-edge .razor
blades.
12. Bottle of 100 to 200 salt and
soda tablets. Salt and soda tablets
in these sizes may be used as an
aid in reducing shock after burns or
injuries by adding six tablets to
one quart of water and having the
victim drink as much of the solu
tion as possible. A teaspoonful of
common table salt and a half tea
spoonful of baking soda in one
quart cl water will serve the
same purpose.
13. One or two cakes of toilet
soap.
14. Two or three splints one-
eighth to one-quarter inch thick by
3% inches wide by 12 to 15 inches
long.
15. Twelve to fifteen wooden
tongue blades.
16. Bottle of 100 water purifica
tion tablets (halazone or iodine
compound.)
The ready availability within the
home of the above list of suggested
first-aid supplies is *a wise precau
tionary move not only for civil de
fense, but in the event of an acci
dent or a catastrophe within the
home.
THE CHILD CITY
Mooseheart Educational Flan
Is 50 Years Ahead of Times
The Mooseheart, Illinois, educa
tional program is 50 years ahead
of the times, according to one of
the nation’s most prominent edu
cators and school administrators.
Dr. Herold C. Hunt, superintendent
of the Chicago public schools.
Dr. Hunt recently stated that in
all probability children will start
to school when they ate three years
old—by the year 2000. For the past
decade, the residents of the Loyal
Order of Moose “Child City” have
been enrolling in the community’s
nursery school at that age.
After two years in nursery school,
the Moose wards “graduate” to
kindergarten with all the frill and
furbelows, scholastic ratings and
achievement tests of a high school
or college commencement.
The nearly 1,000 residents of this
unusual “Child City” are dependent
sons and daughters of Moose mem
bers. The community is a city
complete in every detail, having
its own postoffice, bank, depart
ment stores, barber shop, beaut?
shop, fire department, theater, a
“children’s cathedral”, grocery,
meat store, garage, filling station,
and farm. Mooseheart even has its
own railroad, a $5,000 scale model
which serves to teach the seniors
railroading, electronics and allied
subjects.
Nursery Has Graduation Exercises
The children have their class
play, prom, baccalaureate services,
valedictorian, salutatorian, com
mencement speaker, and presen
tation of diplomas.
It is always a thrilling sight to
see these five-year-olds, attired in
their traditional white caps and
gowns, seriously going about the
business of graduating into kinder
garten. The little boys even have
the privilege of selecting their fa
vorite little girl to whom they will
present their “bids” for the
miniature prom.
Specially engraved diplomas are
treasured by the tots’ mothers, if
they are also residents of Moose
heart, and by the Moose lodges
from whose jurisdiction they enter
the home and school if they are
double orphans.
The 1,000 residents of this com
munity are supported through the
efforts of the Loyal Order of Moose ,
organization.
Color Query
One of the most devastating
arguments in favor of fishes* ability
to recognize colors came out of tests
conducted by the scientists Kottgeni
and Abelsdorf. In all eyes—human,
fish, and other animal—the only
identified substance which permits
color perception is a chemical
known as rhodopsin; by compara
tive tests of rhodopsin from human
and fish eyes, these scientists found
that each had virtually the same
qualities.
The fishing tackle business has
reacted te the color argument with
enthusiasm. Anglers can buy hires
in practically any color of tha
spectrum for the purpose of at
tracting fish. A whole lot less at
tention has been paid to another
Important color angle, however—the
use of color in lines to hide their
presence in the water.
Many dry-fly fishermen will use
only light colors in their lines. They
believe that since a fish normally
sees a dry-fly line as ft lies on top
of the water—silhouetted against
the sky—light colors are less no
ticeable and thus less likely to
spook the quarry.
Balt-casting lines are, of course,
s different story. They have no float
ing qualities and they are much
more finely calibrated than fly
lines. Therefore, the possibility of
their casting a shadow in the water
is considerably lessened. However,
the color of a bait-casting line may
very well be of far greater impor
tance than that of a fly line. This is
because a sunken bait-line comes di
rectly into a fish’s view.
By far the most commonly
color in baitrlines is, at
black. There is no apparent
tion for this; black is certainly not a
shade calculated to blend in with
all types of water. Nor is it a shada
which fish can’t see. If bass, for
example, were totally oblivious to
black, there would be small
indeed to fishing for them
black plugs—which actually
notable bass killers under some con
ditions.
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Lotta Tana!
LL James Lynch, Seath
Orange, N. J. (the gentleman
with the fed) took this 682-Ib.
tuna at Bimini on Jane 5. Tim
tuna was the largest taken at
Cat Bay er Bimini this season.
Lynch was using a Cortland 39-
thread Supercuty linen line, a
line which, in varying thread
strengths took many record fish
daring the season.
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More About Carp
Contrary to popular opinion carp
are not vegetarians. Tom Moen,
fisheries biologist for the Iowa
Conservation Commission, in the ex
amination of 739 carp stomachs
during 1946 through 1949, found that
carp of all sizes and ages feed prin
cipally on animal material. Tha
food falls into three groups, insect
larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Game fish egg predation is. In
tiie popular mind, one of the prin
cipal objections to carp. Moen found
that carp do take walleye eggs dur-
inn the spawning period. From 37
carp collected in April in Spirit
Lake, one contained three walleye
eggs. On analysis of 51 stomachs no
eggs were found in Spirit Lake,
while of two carp from Okoboji, 9
walleye eggs were found in one
stomach.
Winter food studies on 167 carp
from four Iowa lakes reveals that
there is considerable feeding dur
ing winter months, with animal
organisms making up 100 per cent
of the diet, with only traces of plant
material found. During winter, both
the volume of food and the pei
cent of stomachs containing food
was found to be considerably less
than during the summer.
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Hook Disgorging
The job of extracting a deeply-
swallowed hook from the throat of
a fish isn’t the tough job it used
to be. Many alert manufacturers
have taken pains to provide anglers
with a means for making this for
merly messy job more desirable.
They have made a simple and ef
fective hook remover of a metal
tube with a slot down one side. Tha
line is slipped in the slot and the
tube is did on down the hook. Only
a slight twisting frees the hook.