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UiiUty Luncheon Set Can Be Used Many Way Luncheon Stand and Tray THIS utility set has many uses both indoors and out. It is easy for the amateur to make. The pat tern gives actual-size cutting dia grams for the irregular shaped parts with detailed directions to assemble and finish. Ask for pat tern 268 and enclose 25c with order. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hills. New York When you get paint on the win- dowpanes, or when somebody else does and you have to get it off, soak the glass with hot vinegar. Give the vinegar a few minutes to work, and then rub or scrape the paint off. A penny makes a safe, effective scraper. If you use a razor blade or something else that is sharp, be careful around the edges. A careless thrust may jab under the putty and eventually cause it to fall out. CONSTIPATION GONE- FEELS WONDERFUL “I was constipated for years with no relief in sight. Then I began eat* ing ALL-BRAN every day. 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Used successfully by millions for over 60 years. While often otherwise caused, IPs amsstng how many times Doan’s give happy reiiM from these discomforts—help the 16 miles of kidney tubes and filters flush out waste. Get Doan’s Pills today! Doan s Pills Yodora checks perspiration odor THE WAY Made with a face cream bass. Yodora la actually soothmy to normal skins. No harsh chemicals or irritating nits. Won't harm akin or clothing. Stays soft and creamy, never gets grainy. gentle Yodora—feel the wonderful seel My pal SMOKEY says: Be careful -ALWAYS -Onli you can wmm Lack of Nitrogen Retards Com Growth Deep-Rooted Legumes Add Nitrogen to Soil (First of Two Articles) A soil-building, deep-rooted sweet clover crop grown regularly in the rotation made the difference be tween these (below) two corn fields. Both cr^ps were grown at the Uni versity of Missouri's experimental farm at Columbia, Mo. Both had the same fertilizer treatment, including 3 tons of limestone and 150 pounds per acre of 0-20-20 fertilizer in the row at corn planting time. The crop in the upper photo was grown on land that had a rotation of com, small grains and shallow- ip^lPI mm vix? rooted lespedeza. Even late in the season the growth is stunted and scarcely head high. The lower crop was on land that had a rotation of corn, small grains and sweet clover. Over a 14-year test period, the corn crop having the benefit of sweet clover in the rotation yielded 10.7 more bushels per acre than the other field. The average yields were 67.7 and 57 bushels per acre, re spectively. The sweet clover crop added extra organic matter to the soil, improved tilth and drainage and helped the corn crop make better use of the fertility in the soil. The taproots of legumes such as sweet clover and alfalfa probe down several feet into the subsoil. They drill out passage ways for water and air. They con dition the soil from the surface on down through the root zone. D.S. Wheat Crop Makes Strong Comeback, Report The latest agriculture deartment report on wheat prospects indicates a crop of about 1,054,000,000 bushels this year, or nearly 72,000,000 more than forecast a month earlier. Such a production would exceed last year’s crop of 1,026,000,000 bushels and would be only about 96,000,000 short of the government’s production goal—a goal which would exceed prospective needs and add some grain to reserves for future emergencies. Unfavorable weather, particularly drought in the southwestern great plains, and insects in the same area, coupled with cool, wet spring weath er, had put the^crop prospects un der a cloud. The indicated production—plus re serves from past crops—would sup ply plenty of wheat to meet any needs seen now. The department made no estimate on corn production, but said pro ducers were optimistic. Portable Hog House An example of a good portable hog house, which is large enough for four sows and can double as a farrowing house, is illustrated above. Any lumber? dealer can furnish the lumber for the flooring and framework and the Masonite quarter-inch hardboard used for siding and roof. Note the double, full-length doors, divided midway hori zontally, which provide easy access for both farmer and ani mal. Plans are available from Farm Service Bureau, Suite 2037, 111 West Washington St., Chicago 2. Plan AFB-197. Poisons Recommended For Tomato Pinworms Farmers and home gardeners stxxrld -watcl* their tomatoes closely from the trctM the fruit first sets until it ripens. During this period fruit worms arrl pinworms may at tack the fruit. For control of these pests entomol ogists recommend dusting tomatoes once a week and following heavy rainfall with a dust containing 5 per cent rothane and 5 to 6 per cent xineb. THE RURAL SCHOOL Holcomb's Consolidated School A Model for Rural Communities Adequate educational opportu nity is a major desire of all Amer ican parents for their children. The American system of public schools was designed because of that de sire, and, it remains a dominant factor in the continued maintenance and improvement of the system. Because of sparse population that STAGESCRE By INEZ GERHARD ■pICHARD BENEDICT hung around the old Paramount studios in Astoria, N.Y., when he was a child and lived nearby—never dreaming that one day he would have the best role of his motion pic ture ?career in that same studio’s “Ace in the Hole’’. In the meantime he was a promising young welter weight fighter, went on the stage, : v; : : : : j#:*:*** lilifeipi* RICHARD BENEDICT went to war, returned to the stage and then into pictures. In “Ace in the Hole’’ his work was cut out for him; Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling bead an excellent cast. And Bene dict’s role is so important that he simply had to be good in it. He’s more than good—he’s excellent. Clifton Webb seems slated to go on playing fathers forever and ever. The papa of twelve in “Cheaper by the Dozen’’ is set for 20th Century- Fox’s “Elopfement”, a comedy about the two families of an eloping couple. Red Skelton, son of a circus clown, practically grew up un der the big tents. Now M-G-M is looking for a good story based on a clown’s life for him. Red is tired of just making faces and wants a chance really to * act. Reports are that his two recent pictures, “Texas Carni val’’ and “Lovely to Look At.” have given him the sort of parts he wants to do. Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy made such a wonderful team in “Adam’s Rib’’ that M-G-M ob viously had to find another film for them. The new one is “Pat and Mike’’, a romantic comedy with the two cast as rival managers of soft ball teams. It is an original written by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, two experts who could make even the alphabet sound amusing. Eight of Hollywood’s prettiest girls have been signed by RKO Ra dio for featured spots as drive-in car hops in “A Girl in Every Port’’, starring Groucho Marx, Mafie Wil son and William Bendix. It’s a nau tical comedy. often entails special difficulties in providing financing, of housing teachers and transportation of pupils, the rural school system has been the slowest to develop. * A model of what the rural com munity can do to meet its prob lems is the Holcomb community in Finney county in southwestern Kan sas. For 30 years the community has been building an exceptional rural consolidated schooL The village of Holcomb is situated eight miles west of Garden City, the county seat. It has a population of 200. Transcontinental highway 50 and the main line of the Santa Fe railroad pass through it. The consolidated school is the dominant institution. There are an alfalfa- dehydration plant, a post office, and two filling stations, one of which carries a small stock of groceries. There is no church, no bank, no general store. For the services of these institutions, the people go to Garden City. On January 6, 1960, three dis tricts voted for consolidation of a school at Holcomb. On July 23, 1921, another district petitioned to be admitted to the union district. At various times since 1921 addi tional districts have joined, the latest additions occurred in 1946. These additions brought to nine the total number of districts to come in and brought the area of the con solidated district to 210 square miles. During the past 30 years the Hol comb school has developed a full curriculum, including instruction in the elementary grades, from the kindergarten up, and in the high school full courses on every sub ject, including vocational agricul ture and vocational homemaking. By 1950 the school owned 12 buildings and 20 acres of land. The buildings included the main school structure, a grade school, a voca tional agriculture building, a teacherage, a bus garage, and seven teachers’ cottages. T HE VISITOR to the Holcomb community soon senses an at titude of community pride in the school and a marked popular solici tude for the school’s welfare. The solicitude extends not only Ip ath letics and other extracdnicular activities but also to courses offered and to the maintenance of good academic standards. The visitor gains the impression that the com munity, for all its enthusiasm for athletics, would feel much less dis turbed by a “disastrous” basket ball season than by a reduction of the school’s rating by the state de partment of education from Class A to Class B. The public created the school and the public has stood behind it. The Holcomb community was one of the first in the state to place a program of rural school consolida tion into effect and it has proven to be an experiment of note to the entire country. In the school’s 30 years, there have been 715 gradu ates of the eighth grade and 361 graduates of the high schooL Faced thirty years ago with con ditions that might well discourage a rural community regarding school facilities for its children, the people of the Holcomb district, through the exercise of courage, ingenuity, enterprise, and group loyalty, have met their situation successfully and in a way that may well be an ex ample to many other rural com munities. osmo mm LAST WEEK'S ANSWER 1. 6 ACROSS Leads Places 10 A ship's deck 11 Secret plan 12 A first reader 13 Musical instrument I Anc.) 14 Scope 15 Inborn 17 Measure iChin.) 18 Male deer 19 Music note 20 Fit to be eaten 23 Onion-like plant 25 Coquettish 26. Medieval boat 27 Skin 29 Kind of crayon 32 Farm animal 33 Coarse nap on cloth 35 Nickel isym.) 36 Horny plates (Zool ) 3& Unable to speak 40 Piece of baked clay 41 Plagued 43 Assyrian god ivar.) 44 Command 45. Minus 46. Bamboo-like grasses DOWN I. Dreadful 2 A canal in N Y state 3 Egyptian dancing girl 4 Female deer 5 Goblin 6. Small, glittering ornaments 7 Heroine in ••Lohengrin” 8 Toot lightly on a flute 9 Line of color 12 Wan 16 Sodium (sym ) 13 21 22 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 34 Foxy Frozen water Long pillows Newt Scold per sistently Per to mail service A tax Minister Comes in Spoke falsehoods Masculine pronoun N-30 37 Eskimo tools 38 Manufac tured 39 Employed 42 Before % l 5 . 5” i 6 7 8 9 I O i 1 12 /s/j 5 14 5 16 17 m i id 19 20 21 22 I 23 24 1 i 25 d 26 i I 27 28 29 50 31 52 i 55 34 1 i & 26 57 i 58 39 40 I 4! 42 45 i 44- 45 s I 46 1 THE FICTION CORNER NO APOLOGIES By Georgia C. Nicholas **Y 0U ’ RE LATE, Neil Horner!” * Taffy handed Neil her jacket to hold for her. ‘1 know it,” Neil said, “And what’s more I forgot to bring back that book that my mother bor- ■ ■ ■ rowed from your 3 -Minute m f. t . h ' r -; And you re Fiction not even sorry?” ■ . ■—I Taffy prodded. Neil opened the door for her. “I’m only ten minutes late and your mother said she was in no hurry for the book.” Taffy didn’t answer until they were in the car and on their way to the Horner residence for dinner. “Just how late do you have to be to say you’re sorry?” “What good would it do to say Tm sorry?" Taffy didn’t answer. She didn’t want to start a quarrel now. She didn’t know Neil’s parents very well and she did hope they’d like her. Taffy's mother and Neil’s mother belonged to the same club and that’s how they became acquainted. “When are you going to say you’ll marry me?” Neil asked as if he didn’t know Taffy was peeved. *T’m not. You haven’t any man ners.” “I haven’t had any complaints before. Don’t I always open doors for you and all the other things a guy is supposed to do? “Oh, yes, the manners that can be seen. But just between us two sometimes I think you're downright rude. You never apol- ogize.” “When are you going to say you'll marry me?” GRASSROOTS California Highways Followed by Spanish Padres By Wright A. Patterson T HE VISITOR to Boston wonders at and comments on the narrow, winding, crooked streets of the business section of the city. The natives, to whom he comments, tell him those streets were the cow- paths blazed by the cattle of the early pioneers, and the people of Boston cherish them for that rea son. Far to the. west, on the shores of the Pacific, from San Diego north to the Oregon border, from the beaches of the ocean eastward through the high Sier ras, the San Bernardino and others of the several mountain ranges, stretch the magnificent California highways. They were not blazed by wandering cattle, but by a devoted band of Span ish padres in their efforts to carry civilization and Christi anity to the Indians. To those weary, disheartened, Spanish, and their following of na tive Indians, they were traversing El Camino Real. Today the tourist follows the same route when his car glides over the concrete marked as Highway 101. That was the first of many trails that were blazed. Along it, starting at San Diego, and north to Monterey, the padres, led by Father Junipero Serra, built mis sions, from which to lead the Indi an natives from the ways of bar barism to civilization and a Chris tian life. The tourist of today as he travels over Highway 101, passes these missions. Some of them are now but pic turesque ruins, others are still be ing used as religious ‘centers. In these, the tourist may attend mass if he so desires, and enjoy some thing of the atmosphere of those trail blazing days, of approximate ly 100 years ago. For the continuing historic and scenic panorama as blazed by the Spanish padres, the peo ple of California cherish their highways, as the people of Bos ton cherish their crooked streets, because they were once the cowpaths of pioneers. Ex pert engineering, and vast ex penditures have transformed the hazardous mountain passes traversed by the padres into safe highways over and through the mountain ranges, across the sands of the Colorado desert. Should yon visit California, whether yon travel by train, north or south, by bus or by pri vate car, either of the Rolls- Royce type or the family jalopy, yon will follow the trails blazed by the Franciscan padres. - Where their missions were estab lished now are located a number of the state’s cities. Los Angeles be gan as San Gabriel mission. It was the padres who discovered San Francisco bay, and there they es tablished a town that is today the city of San Francisco. The city of San Diego started as a mission. As the tourist travels up and down the state, and across its mountain ranges and deserts, he is following the El Cameno Real as it was blazed by the padres. On those trails are to be found intensely in teresting history, an abundance of adventure and romance, and beauti ful scenic effects Those devout Franciscans did not realize that they were laying out a great highway system to serve an alien people. Their interest, other than that of civilizing the Indians, was to establish a new colony for their king, that of Spain, and to pro vide routes of travel to and from that colony as they trudged the weary miles of ocean beaches or desert sands, through the dense chaparral and the difficult stony passes of the mountain ranges. They did not realize they were serv ing as the highway engineers of a state in the American republic, but they were. To the trails blazed by the padres were added those of the fur traders, those of the gold seekers, those of the stage coaches and the emigrant wagons, many of them following those of the padres. Today all of these constitute the thousands of miles of hard surfaced highways, or the rails of the railroads that make California and its many places of historic and scenic inter est so easily accessible to the travelers using such transportation as best suits their wishes. The El Camino Real of 100 years ago is Highway 101 of today. * We lost the services of MacArthur but we still have the ambassador to Mexico. “See why I never apologize,** he whispered. “I won’t say it till you say you’re sorry you were late and that you forgot the booh.” This time Neil was the quiet one. The situation was still unsettled when he turned onto a winding driveway. “Oh, Neil, do you think they’ll like me?” Taffy asked. “Does it matter?” T AFFY had no chance to answer that one. A maid opened the door for them. She showed Taffy to a bedroom and while Taffy was taking off her jacket Mrs. Horner entered. “I’m so sorry I wasn’t at the front door,” Mrs. Homer mourned. “I was all upset this afternoon because the butcher didn’t send the kind of meat I ordered. I’m afraid it isn’t going to be a very good dinner.” • Taffy did her best to assure Mrs. Homer that she was quite comfort able without her jacket. It seeded that the oil burner was out of kil ter. “I don’t know how I look in this dress,” Mrs. Homer said. “It’s one I made myself and I just finished it this afternoon.” Taffy laughed her polite iittle laugh and they went downstairs. Mr. Horner was a much more com fortable person to meet. He tried to make conversation at the dinner table and cancel his wife’s depre cation of everything. After dinner he said, “Mother, I think our guest might like to see some of your paintings.” “Yes,” Neil said, “Mother's giv ing Grandma Moses a run for her money.” Mr. Horner led the way into the living room. Mrs. Horner said, “Oh, they really aren’t worth looking at.” “Then let’s not look at them.” Had Taffy said that? Taffy had. She realized it on the word ‘look* and that was too late. She put her hand over her mouth and faced NeiL His mouth was open as if he’d started to say something, changed his mind and forgotten to shut it. But there was a sparkle in his eyes, the same sparkle she had loved for a long time. She wasn’t quite clear about who said what during the next minute. But somehow Mr. Homer led Mrs. Horner out of the room and people said goodnight. She still stood there looking helplessly at NeiL He held out his arms. “See why I never apologize?” he whispered. “Yes, I see. I still think you car ry it to extremes, but if I can ever be forgiven for what I just said I’d like to marry you sometime.” “Forgiven? That was Just what my mother needed. Now let’s take this book back to your mother and tell her we’re engaged.”' Ml JIMRHODJ Ricochet Deadly Frock for Mature Figure Is Cut on Simple Lines Ballet Is hidden by splash as It almost gees under. Science cautions shooters against firing rifles where bullets may rico chet off water or stone, warning that such bouncing bullets lose very little of their velocity and will car ry almost as far as a direct shot. Facts to support the warning were established by scientific testa made at the nation’s foremost bal listics laboratories. The tests were dramatically documented by super high-speed photographs taken Wt 2/1,000,OOOths of a second. The tests conducted in the interest of safe shooting by experts at the research and development labora- Water disturbance subsides as Super-X 22 begins to deflect. tories of Olin Industries’ Western Cartridge Company of East Alton, rIllinois, 1 show that a Super-X 22 caliber long rifle bullet has a veloc ity of 1,240 feet per second at 13 feet from the muzzle. Ricocheting from water at this distance, the bullet still has a velocity, after leaving the witer, of 1,195 feet per second—a loss of only 45 feet per second speed! And bullets will ricochet from water at angles up to 11 degrees, although they will not ricochet at 15 degrees or more, the tests disclosed. Bullets ricocheting from stone With practically no loss of velocity, bullet leaves water on Its deflected coarse. also lost little velocity and were deformed and upset so that they would cause severe wounds. Cubes of gelatin, backed up by blokks of wood, caught the bullets after they ricocheted, and it was noted that penetratihns were almost as deep as those of bullets fired directly into the blocks. The upset bullets yhich ricocheted off stone did not go so deep, but instead plowed wide channels. Rifle experts who have warned of the danger of shooting at water or stone now have the scientific data to back up their warnings. AAA Praise for DU Canada’s prairies, while home to the continent’s waterfowl, has an even larger stake in the democratic nations’ econofny. The prairies pro duce much of the world’s wheat, rivaled only by that produced in Russia’s Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, in our mid-west states. The source of all this economic wealth is inevitably tied to waterfowl, for the same ingredients—water and prairie land—are what produces both. Thus sportsmen of the United States, out to produce waterfowl for hunters, have aided the eco nomic recovery of a nation. Ducks Unlimited has been official ly recognized and praised for the role it has played in nearly every corner where water conservation is of primary interest. The water sta bilization committee of Alberta re cently issued a report showing the work it has done since 1947. Recog nition of DU importance in the work is illustrated by its member ship on the committee, appointed by the provincial government, consist ing of engineers from the govern ment and Ducks Unlimited. The objective of the committee is the conservation of water, the ob jective of DU is the conservation of waterfowl. With their objectives aof closely knit, the two have provided a model of cooperation. When propagation of wild fowl is the main purpose of a project. Ducks Un limited pays two-thirds of the cost and the Province one-third. When the major benefits accrue to the people of Alberta as a whole then the distribution of cost is reversed. On one lake where thousands of waterfowl nest, the Province pro vided $140,000 of the cost as against DU’s $10,000. AAA Use The Reel Although one can successfully land the average fish caught on a fly-rod by using the line, it is both smart and good insurance to use the reel when playing a really good-sized fish. When the slack is taken up, you can let the fish take Uni* directly from the reel, which will mean that the tension is kept uniform and there is no danger of too much snubbing, as might be the case in hand-playing, and thus losing the fish. 0 8720 36-52 Charming Frock n CHARMING frock for the more mature figure, cut on simple ihirtwaist lines with soft .scallops to edge collar, sleeves and front closing. You’D want several ver- tions in different fabrics. • • • v Pattern No. 8720 is a sew-rlte rated pattern In sizes 38. 38, 40, 48. 50. 52. 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