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I f Mystery Solved Solved at last has been the mys tery ot the famous jumbo 70-150 Winchester Express cartridge which has baffled gun experts for the past half century. This largest sporting cartridge ever made by the New Haven sporting arms and ammuni tion company, has baffled the ex perts since it was first discovered on the 1888 cartridge boards which were common sights in sporting goods stores in the latter part of the last century. The 70-150 was an experimental cartridge developed for the obsolete Model 1887 lever action shotgun equipped with a special rifled bar rel, according to Paul Foster, Win chester ammunition expert in a copyrighted exclusive article in the new edition of the Gun Digest. This most controversial of all Winchester cartridges* was seven- tenths of an inch in diameter. The Model 87 shotgun was the first shot gun Winchester made. Philip Jay Medicus, leading deal er in obsolete ammunition, esti- . mates that only between 25 and 35 of these rare cartridges are still In existence. One is pictured in his new catalogue, and another in “Cartridges” by Herschel C. Logan, a standard reference work on car tridges. The H. P. White Company of Cleveland has several of these rare cartridges in its reference col lection. The most recent sale of a 70-150 Winchester was for $20 for a single cartridge. The Gun Digest article on “For gotten Winchester” cartridges also describes 64 other rare and obso lete Winchester cartridges which will be news to the growing army of cartridge collectors. AAA Curbs Backlash , Ocean City Manufacturing Com pany has announced something new in blacklash controls, the EZ-CAST. It's a small, compact, detachable unit which can be quickly installed on any Ocean City Salt Water Reel having a left side-plate oil cap. It fits all such reels made since 1940 and many earlier models. The EZ-CAST is completely self- contained, requires no oil or other fluid for operation. It is unaffected by temperature or climatic condi tions; will not cut or wear the spool spindle. Once locked in, it will not back off accidentally . . . yet is readily interchangeable for use on other Ocean City reels if desired. Jts plastic container may be used tor a hook, fly or swivel box. AAA Butterflies can tell differences in the sweetness of liquids that taste alike to human beings. A A A Record Mu skies For the first time, a resort and fishing region is making an effort to keep track of all legal muskies caught. It’s being done through a season- long musky marathon conducted in Vilas county by Wisconsin head waters country, the region’s new promotion organization. And the number of fish being re ported is astounding everyone—old- time fishermen, guides, resort op erators. Near the end of the sea son’s sixth week a total of 842 muskies had been reported. At that rate—an average of 140 a week—the 22-week season may pro duce as many as 3,000 of the big game fish reported from Vilas coun ty lakes. “Naturally, we’re not hearing about all the muskies caught,” says Merv Clough, executive secretary of the organization. “It’s a big job educating everyone up here to the importance of reporting. But more and more are beginning to coop erate, and the count is mounting. “We will have some mighty im portant figures and data to analyze by the end of the season.” At his office in Sayner where rec ords are kept on the marthon, Clough reports that charts are be ing compiled on the lakes producing muskies, lengths and weights of the fish reported, and where possible, the type of lure used on each fish. Biggest musky reported so far is the 50-pound, 56-inch tiger specimen caught in Lac Vieux Desert by Mrs. Dolores Ott Lapp, wife of Guide Jack Lapp in the Land OXekes area. Other big ones have been reported in the marathon. There have been two weighing 43 pounds, one each at 41 and 40% pounds, two at 36, and 35 and 34-pounders. A check on the first 500 reported showed an aver age weight* of 12 pounds, and an average length of 36% inches. AAA Kentucky Reel For the first time since modem bait-casting began, a generation of fishermen are growing up who may never have a chance to fish an old Kentucky reel—a genuine B. F. Meek. These were the first mulply- ing reels ever made, and they were responsible for bait-casting as we know it today. For more than 100 years. Meek reels were known and used around the world. Many old- time fishermen still regard them as the greatest reels ever produced. THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. MAJOR ECONOMIC EVENT Installment Buying Was Started 40 Years Ago in Auto Industry . Although there has been no fan fare to mark it, 1951 is the fortieth anniversary of a major economic event—one that has been of espe cial importance to people who live in small towns. For it was in 1911 that the first automobiles were sold on installments and the greatest period of industrial and social de velopment in history began. The time payment system we take for granted has brought an “orderly revolution” in our whole way of life. Because it has been a major factor in the development of American industrial capacity, it has had a great influence on world •vents. It would be a much differ ent and probably much worse [World to live in if American mer- chandising genius had not invented (the system of letting people buy cars out of income. ! In the 15 years between 1895, (When car production really started, and the end of 1910, a total of only 521,000 cars were made. The aver age model cost three years’ pay of the average skilled worker. Many people said the industry had about reached its peak. There weren’t many more families who could afford a car! Since then, there have been about 03,000,000 cars produced in this country. There are nearly 40,000,- 000 in use today by the nation’s 42,- 800,000 family units. What happened is pointed out by the American Finance Conference, the association of independent sales credit companies, in a report on the effects of 40 years of installment selling. Enabling people to buy cars out of income, like homes or Insurance, immediately broadened the market. This made possible mass production and sharp reduc tions in cost, which in turn brought cars within reach of more people. This stimulated employment and our whole economy. People could buy more and more goods, and with the installment system spreading to other lines of merchandise, mod ern, efficient goods went into mil lions of modest homes. Putting the nation on wheels has changed our cities from dark and dirty areas around our factories to industrial centers surrounded by clean, light residential suburbs. Factories are now being built in outlying areas, where space is not prohibitively costly, and are spread out and pleasant. Recreation has been revolutionized—people go far away on vacations, take week-ends in the country, play golf, make the whole area for miles around a play ground. Farmer and city dweller enjoy the same recreation, cul tural facilities and shopping cen ters. M LAST WEEK'S ANSWER By INEZ GERHARD *pHOMAS GARRISON M O R FIT, born in Baltimore, certainly believes in his public. He changed his name to Gary Moore as the re sult of a listener contest, in 1939. He. was a continuity writer at a Baltimore radio station when one day the star of the comedy show he was writing failed to appear; Gary was rushed in as a last min ute substitute. The radio audience liked him so much that he never went back to writing. Even his GARY MOORE crew haircut is due to public opin ion; when he decided to let it grow, CBS was practically swamped with protests, so ex-barber Perry Como appeared on Garry’s television show and supervised a haircut that should be permanent. - THE INFLUENCE on the whole economy 'of bringing the car within reach of nearly everyone is shown by these figures: the nearly 6,000,- 000 cars produced in 1950 used up the agricultural products of nearly 3,000,000 acres. This includes about 410,000,000 pounds of cotton, 3,000,- 000 bushels of com, 14,250,000 gal lons of molasses, 190,000,000 pounds of wool, 12,000,000 pounds of turpen tine and large quantities of other farm products. About 80 per cent of U. S. rubber consumption goes into automotive uses, as well as 75 per cent of all plate glass, 68 per cent of all leather upholstery, 55 per cent of alloy steel and 51 per cent of malleable iron. THE i FICTION A BETTER MOUSETRAP CORNER By John Bulling Much of the technological and chemical progress of the past 40 years has been stimulated by the urge of the auto makers to find bet ter ways of making cars, so the public would buy more of them— on installments. One of every seven employed persons in the United States owes his job to the automo bile. The industrial plant that won World War II and is now our great est check on Russian aggression was developed to meet the public’s demand for goods it bought on time payments. These are some of the reasons Dr. A. Anton Friedrich, noted economist of New York .University, has called the mass installment credit system along with the mass production methods it stimulated “the two pillars of American pros perity.” And they are the reasons Isaac F. Marcosson, former presi dent of Studebaker Corporation, said: “Installment buying now emerges as the builder of America’s stand ard of living. It is a revolution which has lifted the average man to the level of living once reserved for the few. It is one of the great est economic forward steps that has been devised in modern times.” In only 40 years, the installment system has become the mainspring of the American economy. Any thing that tampers with it threatens to bring the wheels of American economy and society to a halt. Meeting the public’s needs as they see fit, it promises to help make the next 40 years even more pro gressive than the years have been since that first car was sold on installments. ACROSS 1. Tautog 5. Head cook 9. River (Fr.) 10. Cavity 11. Narrow roadway 12. Ancient • 14. Sick 15. Cook in fat 16. Perform 17. Per. to laughter 20. Animal enclosure 21. Compass point (abbr.) 22. Coquettish 23. Discharge 24. Network 25. Club 26. Dry 28. Coin (Peru) 29. Advertise ment 31. Indehiscent fruit 32. A seal hunting station 34. Part of ’to be” 35. Hint 36. Wine receptacle 37. Quiet 39. The earth 41. See 42. 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In fact, _it was in the want I only noticed it. ad columns and because it had been set in heavy type. It went somehow like this: HERE IT IS AT LAST! ! 1 BEAT A PATH TO OUR DOOR, FOLKS! ‘KILLIT’ IS GUARANTEED TO KILL RATS AN MICE. DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU FAIL TO KILL RODENTS AFTER FOLLOWING THE SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS! There followed a name and ad dress, and a request to send one dol lar for a genuine ‘Killit’. The thing was guaranteed. What could I lose? I took the paper to the kitchen and showed the ad to Mary. She in sisted that we didn’t have any mice or rats, but I said maybe not, but it would be nice to have a guaran teed mousetrap anyhow. I wadded up a dollar bill and stuck it in an envelope and addressed it to the Killit people and made a special trip to the post office to mail it. Later 1 got to thinking about it. I hoped that Killit would not be a cat—we already had one cat, and there just isn’t room for another one in our two by four apartment. But then, they couldn’t send you a cat by mail, could they? I thought of a buddy of mine, Bill Stout. He was a chronic smoker— you know the type. The world is his ashtray. He had already started several expensive fires by laying down cigarettes and forgetting where he’d put them. He had seen an ad in the paper for an ashtray guaranteed to snuff forgotten ciga- GRASSROOTS This Iowa Farmer Practiced Frugality, Thrift By Wright A. Patterson T hroughout ail of our history ours has been and still is a land of opportunity for those who have initiative, energy and who apply the principles of frugality and thrift when needed. Those who are willing to work for success rather than expect others to provide for them get along. As I thought of those who have exemplified that recipe for success, I recalled an Iowa farmer who provides an excellent illustra tion. He had nothing with which to start. His father had been a town carpenter, whose efforts had provided the essentials for his family, until his death, when the son was in his late teens. He left nothing of world ly goods. To the son fell the task of provid ing for his widowed mother and himself. To do that, he must have a job, and the first one that was offered was that of a farm hand. The pay was $25 a month, during the planting, cultivating and har vesting seasons of each year. For what would be approximately three other months of each year, the pay would be $20 for each month. Instead of the room and board that was usually a part of a farm hand’s compensation, the boy was offered a small house, five rooms, that had at one time been the farm family home, and with it approxi mately an acre of ground he could cultivate as a garden, on which he could have room for chickens, two or three hogs, and a cow. The garden, the chickens, the hogs and the cow would provide most of their food, the house a home for the widowed mother. Excess production from the chickens, the garden, the hogs and the cow were exchanged for such things as must be pur chased at the local store. Each month the earnings of the son went to the fund that was to provide a farm for him. At the end of 10 years, he had saved through the exercise of fru gality and thrift the amount needed to make the down payment on 160 acres of the best of Iowa cornland. As an Iowa farmer he continued to practice his system of frugality and thrift, though he was not nig gardly. He provided his mother during the years of her lifetime with as well an equipped farm home as could be found in all Iowa, but he did not waste. His farm machinery was never left to rust in the fields where they had been last used. When I last saw that farmer he owned, all paid for, 460 acres of that Iowa farmland. He had acquired it all through his own effort, through the practice of frugality and thrift, through im proving the opportunity with which this land of ours had provided him. There are millions pt such suc cess stories for which America is responsible. % They are not confined to farms only, but include merchants, small factories, and every line of en deavor. In this land of ours, op portunity knocks at the door of most of us. But there are many who refuse to answer the knock, who prefer to wait for some one to do for them rather than apply the energy, the frugality, the thrift for themselves. They have been promised something for nothing, and prefer to wait for that promise to be fulfilled, but success will not be achieved in that way. Ours is a land of opportunity for those who will work, for those who will practice frugality and thrift. * Automobiles, not war, are the great American killer. In all our American history deaths in battle or from wounds, from the Revolu tion down, to the latest available reports from Korea, were respon sible for the death of 439,151 of our fighting forces. As against that the munber of those killed, or fa tally injured by automobiles during only the past 14 years, down to late November, 1950. totaled 442,970. The non-fatal casualty lists for all wars, to late November, 1950, totaled 1,195,885. The non-fatal auto accident injuries since Jan. 1, 1937, totaled 15,503,950. We dread war, but we take for granted the automobile killings. Something for nothing, welfare state, socialism, totalitarianism, Communism. Each- one leads to the next * The petty trials of life are but the thorns on the roses. I showed the ad to Mary, but she insisted that we didn’t have any mice or rats. rettes. Just the thing for him. He’d ordered the thing, and when it came in the mail he had found out why it had been guaranteed—it had to be filled with water. How we’d all laughed at Bill for being caught by slick advertising. B UT how could a mousetrap be guaranteed to kill if it didn’t do just that? No, I was safe enough from the hilarity of our crowd. If I bought a lemon and the story hap pened to leak out, I should never hear the end of it, particularly from Bill. I remember how mad he’d been when I laughed at him. But a mousetrap guaranteed to kill —there was no way of getting around it. I tried to figure out what the thing would be like. Basically a mousetrap doesn’t appear capable of much change. I mean to say, the thing we all know as a mousetrap is sound, and seems about the only way to go, about catching mice short of running after them. That same Sunday night I had dreams about mousetraps. I’m one of those guys who can al ways remember his dreams with crystal clarity. The mouse traps I had entertained in my subconscious during the night, while they had seemed pretty good at the time, were complete washouts in the harsh light of day. Most of them were Rube Goldberg affairs, and none of them would have worked. I began to forget the beastly mousetrap though Mary didn’t. Ap parently a workable idea had come to her while she was down at the market, and she had held up the line at the cashier’s counter by de manding a piece of paper and a pencil—neither of which she ever has with her—and sketching out a fairly detailed plan of the thing, deaf to the selfish barracking of the pushing assortment of waiting housewives. She brought it home, indignant at the attitude of the shopping public, and showed it to me. I said it would have been the best mousetrap to hit civilization yet, and where are you going to get the cyclatron to work it? * We weren’t kept in suspense too much longer. A package came in on the mail on the Wednesday or Thursday of the same week. It was very heavy, and had cost twenty- four cents to mail. We ripped it open and out came a flat slab of wood about six inches square and a piece of lead pipe a foot long. And a sheet of printed instructions which started out: Place the mouse or rat to be killed on the wooden block and strike it smartly behind the ears with the pipe. . . . Deep Lakes Lake Tanganyika, East Central Africa, is said to reach a depth at 4,700 ft. Beans Fresh green snap beans can be served alone as a hot vegetable, or in combination with carrots, celery and onions, fried apple slices, sweet red peppers, or even pieces of crisply-fried bacon. * * , * ' Beet Salad To use beets successfully in a raw salad, add the beets just be fore serving—then their color does not mix with the color of the other vegetables. Saving the Flavor Fifteen to twenty-five minutes is usually enough cooking time for fresh green snap beans, because longer cooking usually destroys both flavor and food value. Lemons Lemons are quite valuable household aids. A few drops oi lemon juice will bleach some stains, make sour milk out of sweet, and prevent cut bananas, apples, and avocados from darken ing. After peeling onions, you can easily remove the stain on your hands by rubbing them with a piece of lemon. Gravy Too Salty? After you have made a meat gravy and you realize it is too salty, drop a piece of raw potato in it for a few minutes before serving. Washing Linoleum In washing your linoleum use soap and warm water sparingly. If any water gets under the linole um, it will tend to rot the linoleum. Safety First If you keep your knives, can openers and other sharp kitchen ware in the same drawer, you may discover that it can be dangerous. Partitions in the drawer or a knife rack will help to avoid accidents with sharp tools. Right Vase Choosing the right vase for the right bouquet doesn’t have to be difficult. Just keep in mind the part the container plays—it should never detract from the flowers. J U&I C Play on Words In a certain court case one ot the lawyers caused much amuse ment by referring to opposing counsel as “Mr.—er—shall we say Necessity.” This went on for some time un til the judge interrupted. “Might I ask, Mr. Robinson,” he said, “why you continually re fer to learned counsel as ‘Mr. Ne cessity’?” “Because he knows no law,” was the biting answer. No Argument - After a young lawyer had talked nearly five hours to a jury, who felt like lynching him, his oppon ent, a grizzled old veteran, arose, looked sweetly at the judge, and said: “Your honor, I will follow the example of my young friend who has just finished, and subnet the case without argument.” Error An Irish lawyer once addressed the court as “gentlemen,” instead of “your honors.” After he had concluded, a brother of the bar reminded him of his error. He immediately arose to apologize thus: “May it please the court, in the heat of debate I called yer honors gentlemen. 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