The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 21, 1952, Image 3
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
SHOPPER'S
CORNER
By DOROTHY BARCLAY
$FEATURE
SO YOU’RE SEWING
S O YOU’RE ready to ttart on your
spring sewing. Good for you!
But are you really ready? Are your
shears in good shape? Have you the
best needles and thread your money
can buy at your store? How’s the
old sewing machine working? Is it
as ready to go to work as you are?
Better look it over before you start
cutting.
R you’ve been
using your machine
regularly, you’ve
kept it oiled and
cleaned periodical
ly, as you should
every two or three
weeks. But if you
haven’t touched it
in months, you’d better try it out
on a sample, and find out what
ails it. Once you know what the
trouble is, you can often apply the
remedy yourself.
Upper thread breaking? That
simply means that the tension is
uneven, and the top tension needs
loosening. The same thing goes in
reverse if the lower thread is
stretched to the breaking point. If
both threads break, or neither, the
tension is perfectly balanced, and
the stitch a success.
Puckers in the material? In that
case, one or both threads are too
tight, and need careful adjustment.
Make this test: Thread the bobbin
and needle, double a piece of sam
ple material, and stitch across on
the bias. Get a good grip on the
ends of the stitching, between
thumb and forefinger of each hand,
and pull evenly, and strongly
enough *to break both threads. If
it’s working properly, the threads
lock in the center midway between
the two layers of cloth.
! Then, if your upper thread still
breaks, look over the needle to
see If it’s bent, set wrong side out,
or too high or too low. This same
thing can be the cause of skipped
stitches, too. So look over the
needle situation, be sure it’s proper
ly threaded, and sharp enough for
the purpose.
You’ll find, however, that most
of your difficulties stem from the
need of a thorough cleaning. Dirt,
thread or plain lint in the shuttle
cavity is the cause of most of your
sewing machine ills, so take it
apart, bit by bit, arranging the
parts in the order of their return
to the mechanism, clean what
needs cleaning, and oil according
to the directions your salesman
gave you when he sold you the ma
chine
NEW FOR OLD
If, after all this, you decide your
machine has had its day, consider
carefully before you buy a new one.
If you exchange one kind for an
other, be sure that the uses of the
old one are more limited than the
one you’re looking at, at the store.
Try out all the attachments, and
compare them with the prospective
ones.
With so many sewing machines
now on the market, you want to be
absolutely sure you’re getting the
best there is for all your purposes.
So, why not rent—or borrow—a ma
chine of the make you’ve set your
heart on, and try it out at home a
few times before signing on the
dotted line. Or that favorite clerk
at your store will welcome a try
out on location, and an opportunity
to give you guidance and advice at
each step.
Make sure, not only that you can
have that new machine serviced
where you buft it, but that there
will be replacement parts for yedrs
to come. For your sewing-machine,
like your mother’s before you, is
likely to be a long-time treasure.
Safe Guarantee
In London this advertisement ap
peared in the newspapers: “Watch
es guaranteed not to lose a minute
—only 4 shillings.” People kept
sending the money and receiving toy
watches by return mail until the
police stepped into the picture.
Gold Rush Days Held
At Shakopee, Minn.
SHAKOPEE, Minn.-Shakopee and
its neighbors celebrated Gold Rush
Days on February 14, 15 and 16.
Sponsored by merchants and busi
ness establishments of the com
munity, the festival featured skat
ing shows, a Saturday evening
dance, and other free entertain
ment. The event opened with a
special salute by the local radio
station. Merchants distributed over
$1,000 in gifts during the event
Good Management
Can Build Pastures
Renovation Program
Should Be Well Planned
These ‘‘before and after” photos
taken on the John Fleischenreim
farm near Watkins, Minn., show
how good soil management methods
can build productive, high yielding
pasture on wornout, undernourished
fields.
• Buck brush and June grass were
about all that would grow on the
field in the upper photo. Fleischer-
iem says he got only one month’s
grazing a year out of this pasture.
The lower field shows what hap
pens on such land when a renova
tion program is undertaken, sup
ported by the use of plenty of fer
tilizer.
Fleischenriem plowed and disced
this field in the fall. As soon as frost
was out of the ground in the spring,
he seeded a mixture containing
mostly brome and some alta-fescue
with a fertilizer spreader. He didn’t
seed a nurse crop.
He added fertilizer at the rate of
250 pounds per acre of 0-20-20, then
followed with 100 pounds of ammo
nium nitrate.
The first year, Fleischenriem got
two crops of brome. The second
year he didn’t need it, because he
had 80 tons of hay in reserve, in
case of trouble.
Fleischenriem pastures 33 head
of dairy cows—mostly Holsteins for
most of the summer on this pasture.
Food Supply Appears
Plentiful for 1952
The food outlook indicates that
larger supplies will be available at
somewhat higher prices in 195?.
Incomes are expected to be higher
also, so consumers will have more
money to spend for food, according
to the Department of Agriculture’s
bureau of agricultural economics.
An increased output of beef and
veal is expected to more than offset
military requirements. Just how
much more meat will be available
to consumers will depend upon pro
ducer’s decisions about marketing
their livestock.
Fish supplies will be about the
same as in 1951, except there will
be less canned and more fresh and
frozen fish available.
Eggs, chicken and turkey are ex
pected in larger supply than last
year.
Among the dairy products more
fluid milk and ice cream will be
available, but less butter. Other
dairy supplies about the same as
1951.
Fresh vegetables may continue in
short supply, but high 1951 prices
should encourage big spring plant
ings.
Shade for Swine
Every swine producer knows
that hogs need shade. How to
provide it, however, is some
times a problem. An upright
frame, constructed on skids so
it can be moved easily, may be
the answer some producers are
seeking. The top is covered with
old wire fence and straw, weeds,
etc., piled on top of that. It is
inexpensive and can be made
to dimensions to fill individual
needs.
Well Managed Acre
Will Support a Cow
An acre and a quarter of well-
managed, well-fertilized pasture will
provide good ‘‘board and room” for
a dairy cow during the summer
grazing season and keep that cow
sleek and well-fed with high-protein
grass silage through the winter, J. L.
Haynes, agronomist at Ohio Expe
riment Station, says. To build high
yielding pasture, he recommends
seeding a legume grass mixture and
adding plant nutrients to the soil
TELEVISION DISCOVERS MAIN STREET
Technical Limitations Restrict TV Range
(This is the second of a series of three
articles on the coming of a nationwide
television service.)
The expansion of video into non-
TV areas is based on the Federal
Communications Commission’s plan
to open up a new section of the
radio spectrum, known as the Ultra
High Frequency Range, for com
mercial and educational television.
This will permh '.*> new channels
for TV broadcasts, -as compared to
the 12 channels now in use in the
limited Very High Frequency
Range. By opening UHF and ex
panding VHF, the FCC will offer
licenses for nearly 2,000 new sta
tions, divided among every state
in the union.
The FCC has indicated that it
will put it up to private enterprise
in the towns and cities concerned.
If they want television they can ap
ply for it, and, following final allo
cations expected soon, licenses
will be granted to applicants found
acceptable. On the basis of tenta
tive allocations and provided each
state fulfills its license quota under
the expansion program, the nation
will have this number of TV sta
tions:
Alabama, 45; Arizona, 30; Arkan
sas, 38; California, 80; Colorado,
36; Connecticut, 14; Deleware, 4;
District of Columbia, 6; Florida,
56; Georgia, 53; Idaho, 28; Illinois,
56; Indiana, 45; Iowa, 58; Kansas,
49; Kentucky, 32; Louisiana, 42;
Maine, 29; Maryland, 12; Massa
chusetts, 23; Michigan, 65; Minne
sota, 48; Mississippi, 39; Missouri,
53; Montana, 39; Nebraska, 34; Ne
vada, 22; and New Hampshire, 12.
Also, New Jersey, 9; New Mexi
co, 35; N^w York, 55; North Caro
lina, 51; North Dakota, 33; Ohio,
57; Oklahotna, 54; Oregon, 32;
Pennsylvania, 52; Rhode Island, 4;
South Carolina, 27; South Dakota,
30; Tennessee, 61; Texas, 176;
Utah, 19; Vermont, 10; Virginia,
37; Washington, 41; West Virginia,
23; Wisconsin, 44; and Wyoming,
27.
This expanded service contrasts
dramatically with the present re
gional allocations.
In many one-station cities like
Albuquerque and Seattle, network
programs have been unobtainable
because relay facilities, either
microwave or coaxial cable, do not 1
reach them.
But the cables and the radio re
lay towers are today pushing stead
ily into new areas. In 1951, a chain
of lofty microwave towers which
relay video signals with split-
second precision was completed
from coast-to-coast. Coaxial cables
are spreading through the south—
from Kansas City to Wichita, to
Dallas, San Antonio and Houston.
Jackson, Miss., a southern termi
nal, is being tied to New Orleans,
a northern branch is headed for
Montreal; and cables are being
laid from Los Angeles through Ari
zona, Texas and New Mexico to
cover the southwest.
This vast Expansion of video re
lay facilities means that scores of
new television towns, with either
UHF or VHF stations, will be able
to tap into the terminals along the
route and relay the major network
programs through remote rural
areas.
Main Street's Role
It is difficult to forecast accurate
ly today how quickly Main Street,
U.S.A., will erect the nearly 2,000
new stations for which licenses
might be available and how quick
ly extensive home coverage will be
obtained. There is the question of
material shortages in a defense
economy, of local financing of new
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SKYLINE OF THE FUTURE—Here are the various types of an
tenna developed by RCA technicians to receive UHF television
broadcasts. Some of them might soon become familiar landmarks on
the rooftops of farms, ranches and city homes in every section of tho
United States. They bear such colorful names as ”Bow Tie” and
“YAgi” and “Double V” and “Corner Reflector.” With the coming
of a countrywide television service, the names of the new video an
tennas promise to become a part of the national lexicon.
stations and of the speed with
which the FCC processes license
applications.
Yet, there is g regional pattern
established since 1946 when the Na
tional Broadcasting Company in
troduced regular commercial tel
evision in the United States. This
was the first era of expansion; in
many ways the second era might
rival it.
For example,/ set sales in the
present television regions have
maintained a fairly uniform pace.
In 1951, there were 27,412,700 fam
ilies residing in TV areas—that is,
areas where some type of video
signal, however faint, could be
picked up on home receivers. Of
this total, 15,166,000 had purchased
television receivers.
Since 62,914,200 people reside in
these areas, the ratio of TV set
sales to individuals is about one
/to six. In terms of families it is a
little better than one set for each
two families.
And the pattern is fairly con
sistent between different size cities.
New York, for example, has 4,152,-
100 families and they own 2,720,000
home receivers. Omaha, Neb., has
210,500 families and they own 104,-
000 TV sets.
Using the same yardstick, the
scores of towns which look forward
to their own transmitting stations
can expect an audience of one out
of every two families in their mu
nicipal and suburban regions. They
can anticipate thi® audience with
in perhaps three or four years
after their first video signal is
broadcast. •
The number of listeners, of
course, is dependent on the number
of stations erected. Recent history
indicates that they will go up fast.
In 1948, when th^ freeze on sta
tion construction was imposed by
the FCC for fear of over-extending
the VHF channels and thus creat
ing interference between stations,
scores of small-town business men.
industrialists, radio station owners
and newspaper publishers had ap
plications for station licenses on
file.
A new technical phrase is being
projected into the national vocabu
lary. It is ‘‘Ultra-High Frequency”
and it is the operative phrase in a
government plan to extend tele-
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vision beyond major population cen
ters into the farms, ranches and
small towns of America.
To the scientist, Ultra-High Fre
quency (UHF) means a section of
the radio spectrum. Another name
for the spectrum is radio air waves.
The air waves, of course, belong
to the people, and it is the job of a
government agency to divide
among various private and govern
ment services wireless channels in
which to transmit information elec
tronically.
The services to which the gov
ernment entrusts the public’s air
waves include police radio, tele
vision (in the Very High Frequen
cies), FM broadcasts, civil radio,
amateur radio, government wire
less, maritime wireless, ship sta
tions, . coastal statioins, maritime
navigation, general navigation,
radar, air navigation, airport con
trol, industrial, scientific and medi
cal wireless devices.
Fixed iChannels
Each of the services has fixed
“channels” in the air waves and
cannot intrude upon its sister serv
ices. With television, the number of
channels used today is not suffi
cient to carry video signals to every
part of the nation.
Since the inception of commer
cial TV, telecasts have been
beamed over 12 channels in the rel
atively limited Very High Fre
quency section of the air waves, but
with new stations mushrooming
around the country, the Federal
Comjnunicaticns Commission de
cided it had better call a halt be
fore TV signals began bumping into
each other. Its decision was prompt
ed by the realization that two tele
vision signals transmitted over the
sar.v channel within range of one
another will collide and thus “hash
up” the home viewing- screen.
The one untapped section of the
spectrum which promised plenty of
room was UHF. This was the area
in which scientists and engineers of
the Radio Corporation of America
began looking for new television
channels.
“Up until RCA engineers began
looking into it”, according to O.B.
Hanson, Vice President and Chief
engineer of the National Broadcast
ing Company, ‘‘the UHF was the
Antarctic of the air waves. Every
body knew where it was on the map
of the radio spectrum, but nobody
had much practical knowledge
about it.”
This plunge into the upper fre
quencies was doubly necessary be
cause television is a great space
grabber. A television picture re
quires much more “information”
to be transmitted electronically
than a radio broadcast. As a matter
of fact, a TV station requires 600
times as much room in ether as a
radio broadcast station; it uses a
band width of 6,000,000 cycles (6
megacycles) compared to 10,000
cycles for standard radio broad
cast.
Equipment Developed
Out of years of expensive re
search and field tests, equipment
was developed which made UHF
practical.
It was found that UHF station,
properly situated and properly op
erated could furnish home viewers
a picture that equaUed in clarity
and definition the standard VHF
picture.
It was found that present home
television sets could receive UHF
telecasts through the addition of a
simple “tuner” and that receivers
could be built to receive both UHF
and VHF telecasts.
It was found tha^t the enlistment
of 70 new UHF channels for tele
vision would permit an orderly ex
pansion of VHF service without
fear of station conflict.
These findings provided the basis
of the FCC’s plans to license near
ly 2,000 new stations throughout
America.
A
Man’s Duty
By Anna E. Wilson
U NCLE JONAS always held that
it was a man’s duty to look after
his women folks, but that was before
he got caught out in his dory in a
storm and was brought home with
. a twisted leg.
He sat, now, on
3 -Minute a discarded saw-
Fiction horse in Timothy
Donovan’s back
yard and whittled.
Yet not later than this morning,
his sister Abbie had said, “It does
seem to me, Jonas, as if you could
get something to do; ever since you
lost that dory, you’ve done nothing
but sit around and whittle. It don’t
seem right for a man your age to be
a burden—not that I’m complain
ing,” said Abbie righteously,
“though it’s hard on a woman my
age keeping boarders, without,”
she finished plaintively, “cleaning
up a mess of chips.”
j Jonas had promptly moved his
I whittling out of Abbie’s kitchen and
j over into Timothy’s backyard which
he shared with a moth-eaten old
goat, Nicodemus.
His gnarled hands handled the
knife skillfully, and his fingers
caressed the tiny craft his skill had
produced. He rescued a piece of
calico, purloined from Abbie’s work
basket and fashioned tiny sails to
billow out from the miniature mast
Increased Birth
Each morning the United States
has an additional 7,000 persons to
feed and clothe, a rate of increase
that has been going on for several
years. Per capita consumption of
food is 13 per cent higher than the
prewar average.
He sat, now, on a discarded
sawhorse In Timothy Donovan’s
backyard and whittled^
and spars, and set her asail in
Donovan’s pond, a full rigged fish
ing schooner.
He had just finished and looke
up to see Abbe bearing down oi
him full sail.
“Now, Jonas, there’s no call
for you to sit out here in the sun
with that old goat. Folks’ll be
saying I drove you out of the
house.”
“E’olks’ll be right,” said Jonas
stoutly.
Abbie’s face broke up, she was
close to tears. “Now, Jonas, you
don’t need to take what a person
says to heart.”
“Thirty years,” said Jonas Stub
bornly, “I kept the house fed and
respectable. Don’t seem any call for
you to go fretting now.
“I know, Jonas,” said Abbie, wip
ing her eyes with her apron, ‘‘But
it does seem—”
Nicodemus had finished chewing
the label from a tomato can. he
bleated, his vindictive little eyes
swinging around in Abbie’s direc
tion. Abbie left in a hurry and Jonas
patted the goat.
W HITTLING could be hard work,
he thought, when you did it
eight hours a day. He counted his
little fleet carefully, they were all
there; stout, water tight, in full sail
He looked up to see Abbie coming
down the street with a man.
Abbie’s voice was uncertain. "Mr
Golstein came all the way down
from the city to see you, Jonas. Mr.
Golstein keeps a curio shop—” but
Mr. Golstein was shaking hands with
Jonas, showing all his teeth.
“Well, well, I see you’ve got them
finished. Are they all there? He
started counting them into his bag.”
Jonas nodded, he was unaccount
ably tired, a man got that way work
ing under strain; his shoulders
ached, his fingers were blistered,
and his bones cried out against the
hardness of the sawhorse.
Mr. Goldstein finished packing
the ships, took oat his wallet.
“$250,” he said cheerfully count
ing it out. “And say, Jonas, that
figure of the little goat is going
over big. Can let you have an
order for a hundred of them.
Same price.”
He turned to Abbie, “Lucky day
for your brother and me. Miss Ab
bie, when he came into town to have
his leg attended to and saw some
carved figures in my window. Tell
you what. Miss Abbie, not many
people’s got so much foresight these
days.” He went off d uckling.
"Now Abbie,” said Jonas gently,
“there’s no call for you to be cry
ing. It’s a man’s duty to look after
his women folks. I didn’t tell you
before because Mr. Golstein wasn’t
sure. He wanted to see them first
Seems that now it’s getting colder,
we could let the boarders go and
I could sit in the kitchen. It’s more
companionable like—for you ano
me.”
EXTENSION
Town, Rural
Folks Honor
Farm Service
FLEMINGTON, N.Y. — Rural
Hunterdon county folk and their
guests from town, more than 400,
cut a birthday cake recently to
celebrate the 25th anniversary, of
the establishment of the extension
service in the county. The occasion
also served to spotlight the 40th an
niversary of the establishment of
extension in the state of New
Jersey.
Extension, called the largest out-
of-schpol educational agency end
now existing in every state in the
country, came to New Jersey in
1912. But it was an exciting and
dramatic event in Flemington in
1927 because a good many Hunter
don farmers had resisted efforts of
leaders among them to establish
the “new” idea. The subject had
been debated hotly for a half dozen
years before.
■ Book Farming
During those debates—both form
al and cracker barrel style— it
was clear that the educational
services symbolized a yielding of
traditional ways to “book farm
ing.” Several feared they would
be bossed around by an unshaven
youth fresh from college.
The 15 years since have proved
how wrong they were. Today im
partial observers rate Hunterdon
among the most progressive rural
counties in the United States.
Opposition began to fade away
as Edward A. Gauntt, first county
agent, something of a diplomat as
well as a good teacher, established
the pipe lines through which latest
scientific information was taken to
farmers. The reservoir at the other
end of the line was Rutgers Uni
versity, headquarters of the exten
sion service and site of the agri
cultural experiment station, estab
lished many years before.
At present there are 68 agricul
tural, home and club agents at
work In 20 New Jersey counties.
In a typical year these agents speak
at 10,000 meetings with a total at
tendance of well over a half-million.
In a typical year they answer
125,000 telephone calls, receive 50,-
000 visitors, and distribute 270,000
bulletins. They make farm and
home visits, write for newspapers,
and make radio broadcasts.
Progress Is Theme
Dr. William H. Martin, dean of
the College of Agriculture, director
of the Agricultural Experiment
Station and of the Extension Serv
ice, was the main speaker at the
Hunterdon anniversary dinner.
The theme of the evening was
progress. And Flemington and
Hunterdon ’ cotmty folk feel that
they have more than made up in
1" years any time they may have
lost in their seeming indifference
to new ideas back in 1927.
And it is like that in many home
towns across the nation today
where extension service is com*
paratively young.
Grain Elevator Fires
Threat to Community
CHICAGO—The loss of a grain
elevator by fire not only causes a
financial loss but can disrupt the
economic life of a rural area, says
H. C. Less, assistant manager of the
Mill Mutual Fire Prevention bureau.
He pointed out that the threat of
fire from numerous causes is con
stant in elevator and mill opera
tions. Once a lire is underway, it is
virtually impossible to extinguish
because of the nature of the con
tents.
“An average elevator easily is
worth from $75,000 to $100,000 and
even more,” Lee points out. “That
doesn’t include the worth of store
grains, which would more than dou
ble that figure. At today’s inflated
prices and because of material
shortages it might be difficult if not
impossible to replace it.”
The financial loss, while great,
would not begin to show the econom
ic upheaval which loss of such an
elevator might cause. Farmers who
hach been delivering their grain to
that elevator might have to travel
miles to locate another and it might
not be able to take their crops be
cause of previous commitments.
—S —
Maine Community Has
New Memorial Building
HOULTON, Me.—The community
of Houlton has a new memorial
building. Almost 15 months from
the day ground was broken on the
Main Street site, the Gentle Me
morial building was finished at a
cost of $130,000.
The completed building climaxes
a long campaign to erect a gym
nasium-auditorium for “the enjoy
ment of the citizens”, as indicated
in the will of the late Edna B.
Gentle who died in 1935. The me
morial fund provided by the will
amounted to $134,876. By last year
the hind had accumulated to $190,-
000.
Among the activities for which
the building will provide room will
be social and charitable functions,
athletics, fraternal, military, poli
tical and town meetings.
Within the finished building
are a gymnasium - auditorium,
complete with stage, which can
seat 8 0 0 spectators, a social
lounge, two offices, a dance
lounge, an activities room, a boys’
and girls’ locker room, a boiler
room and toilets.
Rebel Money
Merchants Think Up Stunt
NORBORNE, Mo.—The mer
chants of Norborne used an un
usual promotion and sale stunt
recently in an effort to stimulate
business. Facsmilies of confeder
ate currency were reproduced in
advertising by local merchants
and were redeemable at the
stores for its face value.
The merchants advertised the
promotion with banners and
slogans to the effect that con
federate currency was spendable
in the community for the first
time since 1865.
Pennsylvania Town
Raises Money to Save
Its Communal Factory
RENOVO, Pa.—The 4,000 people
of the little town of Renovo have
until April 7 to save the shirt fac
tory they built themselves. They
are trying to do it by dances, card
parties, spaghetti dinners, bake
sales and bingos.
Their difficulties developed like
this: They put up a communal
factory to attract outside industry.
It achieved its propose and brought
in a manufacturer, but before the
building was completed, construc
tion costs increased from $110,000
to $200,000.
Of the $75,000 owed to several
material supply companies, $10,000
was paid with money pledged by
the shirt factory occupying the
building. But If the remainder is
not paid by April 7, then the com
pany will be forced to close and
lay off its 185 workers.
Through bingo parties,, bake
sales, variety shows, dances, spa
ghetti dinners and contributions
by employees and shopkeepers,
Renovo residents have raised $15,-
000. There is a whopping $45,000
still to go.
When the factory was completed
15 months ago, it ended Renovo’s
almost complete dependence on
one industry—the Pennsylvania
railroad’s shops employing 900.
For many years, lumbering and
soft coal provided the v major
sources of employxhent in the
Renovo area. But they’ve given out
now. The Pennsy has been the big
employer. Recently, however, a
number of gas wells have been
completed in the district.
Mylan Manufacturing agreed to
locate a shirt-making unit In
Renovo, pay a yearly rental of
$3,750, taxes and insurance, if tho
community would erect a factory
at its own expense. The $125,000
was raised by donations to the
Community Trade Association. My- •
lan moved in and its sewing ma
chines have been busy ever since. \
It recently purchased 100 new
sewing machines, and, if all goes
well hopes to raise its work force
to 300 “shortly.”
The single hitch was the Com
munity Trade Association debt.
The creditors filed liens, then re
cently started action in Clinton
County court to foreclose, but after
conversations with the town’s lead
ing citizens the creditors agreed to
withhold foreclosure if the balance
were paid by April 7.
To muke matters worse. Armour
& Co. said it would close perma
nently on March 1 the tannery it
operated for 75 years in North Bend,
3 miles from Renovo.
Minnesota Community
Tames Old Man Winter
SHELLY, Minn.—The community
of Shelly, in the Red River Valley,
has tamed old man winter. Once
plagued by huge snow drifts, up to
30 feet high, that virtually buried
the town during mid-winter bliz
zards, Shelly today can take winter
in stride.
A town shelterbelt, planted in
1948, is already protecting the town
against the worst ravages of winter.
Trees in .the shelterbelt are as much
as 20 feet high and cut down the
force of the wind and blowing snow.
This minor miracle in taming
the climate is the result of the joint
efforts of the townspeople, their
local county agent, and the Univer
sity of Minnesota Agricultural ex
tension service. The university has
helped several other towns plan
similar protection.
Together, these groups worked to
establish a shelterbelt in the shape
of a huge “L” on the west and north
sides of the town. The belt is 150
feet deep and nearly a third of a
mile long.
The project was largely con
ceived by Arthur Wollertson, then
president of ti 3 Shelly Chamber of
Commerce. He was aware that
something had to be done to protect
the village from the fierce, cold
northwest winds and drifting snow.
Wollertson contacted Oswald Dael-
lenbach, who at that time was serv
ing as Norman county agent. To
gether, they worked out an outline
of how the problem could be solved
by a tree windbreak which would
permanently protect the town and
contribute to its beauty.
The idea was discussed at length
at J joint meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce and the village coun
cil. As a result, « referendum was
held, with an almost unanimous
vote to purchase the land north and
west of town.
Wollertsoq appointed a committea
to work with Daellenbach and Ray
Wood and Parker Anderson, Univer
sity extension foresters. Together
hey planned the arrangement and
site of the trees.
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