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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WAS ABOUT to doze off into an
after dinner coma, when the ad
, first caught my
eye ’ T 11616 waS n0
-MMUTe fancy display
Fiction about it. 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.
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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. I made a mistake yer
honors.”
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A man in North Carolina, ac
cused of horse-stealing, was saved
from conviction by the powerful
plea of his lawyer. After his ac
quittal by the jury, the lawyer
took him aside, and asked smil
ingly, “Honor bright, now. Bill,
you did steal that horse, didn’t
you?”
“Now, look a-here, Judge,” was
the reply, “I allers did think I
stole that horse. But since I hearn
yore speech to the jury. I’ll be
doggoned if I ain’t got my doubts
about it.”
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