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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C * SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY FOOD FUTURE HE SUN shines bright on the old home larder for the food future looks better than it has in fifteen years. This is the word of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, taking spring inventory of present food stocks and the year’s production prospects. There’s going to be more than enough to eat for every body! Sure, we’ve been developing the hab it over the years of eating more fruit, vegetables and dairy products. In fact, we're eating 10 per cent more meat, poultry and fish, 42 per cent more eggs, 11 per cent more fruit and vegetables and 20 per cent more dairy products, except butter, than we did fifteen years ago, says the Department of Agriculture. And, better still, we'll have that supply and more, for some time to come. Perhaps most important, certain ly most appetizing, is the almost all-time record supply of meat on hand these spring months. Over a billion pounds of meat was ac counted for in February. Of this generous billion, 235 million pounds of it was beef; another 700 million pounds was pork. - As for the price of meat—you’re going to find pork, veal, and yes, lamb, lower-priced at your meat market with the oncoming of spring, for farmers are marketing more and more of these choice animals. And do you know of a more tender, succulent Eastertime meal than roast spring lamb? Looking ahead, the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics estimates an increase of 10 per cent in cattle slaughter in 1952, with a corre sponding 15 per cent rise in calf slaughter—so that beef and veal supplies will be plentiful at your butcher shop. Looking still farther into the future, the bureau antici pates a steadily rising beef popu lation, with the prospect in 1955 of 71 pounds of beef, and 12 pounds of veal per person. FRUITS, VEGETABLES The future is just as bright in the fruit and vegetable line, as you will see by your store freezer. Stocks of frozen vegetables on hand in one sample month totaled about 445 million pounds, much more than it used to be at this time of the year. You’ll notice a cut-down on prices for many of these vege tables, too, anticipating the influx of the fresh stock. Of the fresh vegetables lettuce is queen of the season. A bumper crop in California, and high produc tion in Arizona, Texas and Florida, have resulted in a pouring-in in such volume, that the price of let tuce has tobogganed to within any body’s budget. Lettuce has long been a national favorite. The average American uses 17 pounds of lettuce a year, as accompaniment and dressing-up of other favorite vegetables and fruits. Crisp iceberg lettuce has super appetite appeal, and com bined with fruit, vegetables^ fish, meat or spaghetti, and flavored with different dressing, it always makes a tempting dish to set be fore the king of your household. Cabbage, too, is on the rise. You’ll be seeing more and more of this economical and adaptable vegetable at your store from now on, and cheap at half the price. As for fruit—pity the poor Florida orange-grower, with more fruit than he knows what to do with. You’ll know what to do with it, all right. Buy fresh oranges for a pittance, for your breakfast fruit, or your midday salad, and stock up on canned and frozen juice. For now’s the time! Tennessee Town Gangs Up on Bank Robber MIDDLETOWN, Tenn.—The citi zens of Middletown have a way of taking care of bank robbers. Re cently when a gunman, Robert H. Bondurant, held up the Middletown bank, one of the customers escaped to spread the alarm. Within min, utes angry citizens had their guns and were waiting for him. When he left the bank a furious gun battle resulted. The would-be robber is now in jail. NARROW ESCAPE ... An hour before this picture was taken, a mortar shell burst a few feet from this soldier. One piece of shrapnel nicked his ear. With a hot canteen cup of coffee in his hand to steady his nerves, he sat down in the medical aid station to think it over. MIRROR ^ U Should You Tell Of Your Child What's Good? MIND By Lawrence Gould Should you tell a child, “This is good for you”? Answer: Not unless you have been more successful than most parents in keeping your child from feeling that what is good for him and what he likes are the opposite of each other. If there is a new dish you want to add to his diet, do not “over sell” it, because this will make him suspicious, but don’t say it is “good for him,” either. The best way will be to let.him see that you eat and enjoy it, for seeing you enjoy some thing will dispose him favorably to ward it more than anything you can say. This applies, of course, not only to food but to anything you want a child to cultivate a taste for. Don’t just tell him—show him! Does realism exclude faith? Answer: By no means. There are aspects of reality which are unpleas ant, especially from a childish stand point, but it is no more “realistic” to expect the worst than to hope for the best. If there is something you want to accomplish, you will be wise to recognize the obstacles that stand in your way, but it is not as a rule unrealistic to believe that you can find how to surmount them, and “faith” of this kind will both re lease your energies and inspire you to go on trying. The fellow who “doesn’t know when he is licked” may be just stubborn, but quite often the reality is that, in spite of appearance, he is not licked at all. Do your friends try to “standardize” you? Answer: Yes, say Dr. Leon Fes- tinger and John Thibault, University of Michigan psychologists. In any small, face-to-face group there is a “pressure toward uniformity,” with the bulk of members tending to “gang up on” the individuals whose opinions are most different from the average. The stronger the feeling of group solidarity (as in a fraternity) the more insistent will be the de mand that everyone be pretty much like everyone else. One of the main reasons for belonging to a group is to protect yourself from the sense of dangerous isolation created by do ing your own thinking, so that you tend to feel safest in a group whose members are “like-minded.” | KEEPING HEALTHY } Heart Patients Form Defense Units By Dr. James W. Barton ft S MOST OF US think of any form of heart disease as pracically a death sentence, it will come as a surprise to learn that the United States is forming a task force made up of patients with heart disease, to be organized by the U.S. office of defense mobilization under the med ical direction of the American heart association. It is estimated that the grotp will number one million and a half. In a news release from the Amer ican heart association, Dr. Theodore G. Clump, chairman of the task force of the handicapped, states that, to meet the nation’s production goals, it will become vitally neces sary to bring into defense work many with various forms of heart disease. The above organization of effort is operated under the work classification unit. This new devel opment is restoring handicapped workers to productive employment. Heart associations and other groups in several cities throughout the country have developed these units within the past year as part of a cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels) clinic or community reha bilitation center and plans are un der way for the establishment of similar units in other areas. A work classification unit is con cerned with finding out the work capacity of its patients, based on medical diagnosis, and matching these abilities to types of job ac tivities for which they are best suited by their physical condition. After all, the country needs these handicapped individuals and it is certainly true that the handicapped want to do useful work. Nothing is more important than the maximum use of our human resources. It is a well-known fact that persons with heart impairments can make an important contribution toward meet ing these man power needs if their work abilities are carefully esti mated The American heart association has prepared a guide for the cardi- ac-in-industry commission. ★ HEALTH NOTES ★ The life span has been lengthened to an average of 66 years. • • • Foods rich in Vitamin A are fish liver oils, carrots, yellow squash, sweet potatoes, spinach and cab bage. • • • Circulation of the blood is timed by injecting a substance in the vein and timing its arrival at some point in the system. Scaly, dry skin is often due to lack of Vitamin A. • • • Symptoms of Vitamin B deficiency include constipation, muscles pains, poor appetite, nervousness and red tongue. • • • Lack of Vitamin C may cause spongy, swollen or bleeding gums and bleeding under the skin from slight injuries. ^/During past veek there has been noticeable easing off of controls on scarce materials on part of National Production Authority, and reports from throughout country show, too, that both wholesale and jpetall prices are shoving moderate reductions. 0 NPA has relaxed its tight controls of lead, particularly for manufacture of storage batteries ; has turned natural rubber back to private enter prise and divorced government from any part in importation of rubber after fixing a resale price of 50& cents which compared to a world price of about 80 cents a yearVago. Government also has relaxed regulations on construction and is permitting building of about 126 commercial buildings and more than 600 schools, churches and other institu tional buildings totaling more than $300.000.000 in costs. NPA also noti fied canners that it has allotted some 68,000 tons of secondary tin plate for manufac ture of cans for second quarter of 1952. 0 According to economists. Main Street mer chants are assured continued high volume of retail business which will be sustained by more reason able price trend. According to these economists only probable increases which may come in few months ahead are Increases in costs on fuel, rent, gas and electricity. In retail trade, reports continue to come in of more bargain sales which will continue sectionally all over country through summer months. CLEAN-UP DRIVES BOON TO COMMUNITIES 0 Annual boon to retail merchants in enter prising towns is yearly spring clean-up paint-up fix-up drive. This drive usually comes in last two weeks of April or first two weeks in May. Reports are many more towns and cities than usual are taking part in this community enterprise from which every one in community gains and nobody loses. 0 Of particular interest to many Main Street stores is fact Federal Reserve Board is contem plating early revision of Rgulation W to free from regulation commodities selling for $100 or less. Present maximum is $50 or less. 0 Bureau of Labor gtatistics reports consumer price index for goods and services were unchanged, on average between December and January. Apparel index declined 1.1 per cent and house furnishings group declined 0.5 per cent. Fuel, electricity and refrigeration group rose 0.1 pet cent and residential rents averaged 0.4 per cent higher. 0 Sales of all retail stores in January were $11,300,000,000, 8 per cent below peak month of January. 1951, but 2 per cent over December. Only drugs and general merchandise stores showed de clines, about 3 per cent under December. 0 Bureau of Census reports 1,093 incorporated towns with populations between 5,000 and 10,000; 1,557 towns with populations-between 2500 and 5,000; 3,408 towns with populations between 1,000 and 2500 and 9,827 incorporated towns under 1,000 population. Also there are 1,029 unincorporated towns with populations between 1,000 and 2500. Prepared by the Washington Bnrean of WNU Features. QUESTION BOX Beware Poor Land Experience has taught the veteran quail hunter, regardless of the lack of thought he may have given the matter, to go along with Louis Bromfield’s observation, “Poor land produces poor crops, poor stock, and poor people,” might well be amended to include “poor game.” Given the opportunity he will, al most instinctively, select as his hunt ing territory a fertile farm, offering ample food and a diversity of game habitat. j We believe it was Dr. R. W. Esch- meyer, the noted fish biologist, who Jokingly said the way to spot a farm pond that is full of fish is to notice how well the farm-houses and barns are painted. The better the paint job, the better the fishing. His rea soning was that if the buildings are well maintained, it is because the farmer is prosperous. If the farmer is prosperous, it is because his land is fertile. If theT land is fertfle, the pond also will be fertile, and the fertile pond will support the most fish. We can’t report on how his theory works out in practice, but it sounds logical. Weeds Not Enough It is self-evident that non-fertile land cannot produce the luxuriant growths and abundant food supply requisite for carrying a large quan tity of game through the critical winter and breeding seasons. Poor land, especially if it has been over- grazed, is highly productive of weeds, but weeds alone are not enough to satisfy fully the needs of game birds and animals. They are fine for mice, but who wants to go mouse hunting? Less self-evident is the fact that fobds grown on neglected worn-out land are deficient in minerals and vitamins that are as important to animals as they are to man. Their degree of importance is indicated by the fact that some animals can detect their presence, or note their absence, in the food they eat. For instance, a hog given free choice will eat from a pile of -orn raised from good soil in preference to an equally sized pile raised on a poor farm. Of further importance is the possibility that living in poor habi tat and under general adverse con ditions alters breeding habits and reduces the reproductive capacity of animals. Leopold suspected this; later observations lend credence to his suspicions. Quite possibly the two phenomena are related. AAA About Predators Predator control may help to pro tect our small game but if we con centrate our attention on killing the predators we should not overlook the fact that our quail or grouse may be suffering most from lack of proper food or cover—the biologist might say that the habitat is inade quate. Such measures as bounties, artifi cial propagation, closed seasons, game sanctuaries have not provided the answers to proper-management of our game and fish, though they may continue to be useful tools of the wildlife manager for special situations. Any useful tool for land or wildlife management should not be overlooked, nor should the hunt ing and trapping of foxes and other predators by farmers and others be discouraged where overpopulations exist. The problem is a big one and all interested people can do their part. x Nearly everyone who enjoys get ting out-of-doors has the urge to do something for the wildlife. Some feed songbirds, some attend conser vation classes or help with projects, others belong to sportsmen’s clubs, while many find their biggest thrills in listening to barbership stories. Nevertheless, the interest is there. When we are interested and en thused we want action and it is hu man nature to act upon the obvious first. Too often, we tackle the symp toms rather than the disease, and in our haste, we are too humnn to realize, or admit, that man himself is often responsible for his own mis* fortune on this earth. AAA Spoon Hooks When using a spoon hook as a casting lure it is well to srlect one not too large as the-air and water resistance hampers accurate and easy casting, and retrieving is dif ficult. Spoons size 3 to 5 are general ly fine for pickerel and northern pike, or large wall-eyed pike. The spoon for muskellunge should be 7 or 8. Larger sizes are better adapted for trolling. A line that is too light will cause additional twisting, so it is well to employ a line of from 18 pound to 20 pound test when casting. AAA Changing Plugs This tip is particularly for bass fishermen who like to angle for these wary fellows after dark. Make A double loop in the end of your line •bout six inches long and then tie enother knot in the end of the loop so as to leave a small loop about a quarter inch long. To attach the plug, pass the small loop through the eye of the plug, then lift the large loop over the plug and pull tight. To remove the plug merely pull the small loop. (Send your questions about the armed forces or any aspect of miU iliary service to: Walter Sbead, Armed Services Question Box, 1057 National Press Building, Washington 4, D.C. Answers will be given in this column.) W ORLD War H veterans have re paid in full approximately $1,500,000,000 in GI loans for homes, farms and businesses out of a total of $16,800,000,000 made over eight years, as of January 25, 1952, Vet erans Administration announced. Only .8 of a per cent of all loans closed have been defaulted to the point where VA had to pay claims on the government gaurantee. Num ber of such claims paid is 23.270 in the amount of $23,016,933. • * • Q. Can you tell me if there are any charges a bank can make to a veteran in obtaining a GI home loan? AS.P., Ulboum, Mo. A. Any lender who makes GI loans is authorized to charge rea sonable closing costs usually paid by any borrower in making a real estate loan. He also may make a reasonable flat charge as provided in schedules issued by the VA to cover the cost of originating the loan. But no commission or broker age fees may be charged to a vet eran for securing a GI loan. Q. I know of a World War II veteran who does not have an honor able discharge, but does have a bad conduct discharge. Would be be elig ible for any GI bill benefits? J. H„ Davenport, Iowa. The Army has adopted a new, cheaper sleeping bag developed by the Quartermaster Corps. The new bag is lined with chicken feathers and its outer cotton covering is wind resistant and water repellant. It af fords twice the warmth of wool and will replace the present wool sleep ing bag. • • • According to the Department of Defense, soldiers stationed in the jo&tinental USA during 1951 were A. It would depend on the circum stances of the individual case. The law requires the veteran must have a discharge “under conditions other than dishonorable.” VA would nec essarily have to determine whether the “bad conduct” discharge was given under conditions other than dishonorable. If this were so, the veteran might be eligible for GI bill benefits, subject to all the other conditions that apply. Q. Must you get on a priority list, or is there a priority system for en tering a veterans hospital? GJP.T., Winamac, Ind. A. Yes, there is a priority system in that veterans who need treatment for service-connected disabilities have priority over those who require hospitalization for non-service con nected injuries. Veterans in this latter category, if they are not emergency cases, must wait for a bed to become available and must swear they are unable to afford private treatment elsewhere. Q. I have just returned to the states and expect to be discharged from serv ice soon. Can you tell me what I have to do to get the new kind of term in surance for Korean veterans? I have never bad a national service life in surance policy and l am not disabled. L.L.R., Palatka, Fla. A. You simply apply in writing to the VA, Washington 25, D.C., giving all praticulars of your service, se rial number etc., within 120 days after your release from active duty and pay the required first premium. three times safer than their civilian counterparts. Only one out of every 44 men in the services received ac cidental injuries, as compared to one out of every 17 in the civilian population and one out of every 13 engaged in industry. • • • Under amended regulations maxi mum term of a GI business loan for purchase of a new automobile cannot exceed 3 months and for a used car 24 months. Army Adopts New, Cheaper Sleeping Bag Poultry Industry May Set New Record Output in 1952 May Hit Fourfold of Decade Ago The poultry industry may break all production records during 1952. Production of broiling chickens, for instance, which makes up over half the chicken population, is ex pected to jump this year to more than 850 million birds. Last year’s production was 784 million. Just a decade ago, fewer than 200 million broilers were raised in a year. Turkey productions is forecast at 11 per cent higher than the record 53 million of last year, about 80 per cent above the pre-war 1941 output. Egg production is expected to stay about the same as last year when some 60 billion were produced. That was 40 per cent above the produc tion of 1941. Poultry production gains have far outdistanced the U.S. population increase. That means some huge jumps in per-capita consumption. More and more flocks like the one above win be seen on the nation's farms this year. Last year, the average American downed over 400 eggs, against less than 300 yearly in the 1935-39 period. Chicken eating per person was near ly 30 pounds in 1951, against a 1935- 39 average of under 19 pounds. Tur key consumption more than doubled in the same period. Spreading Manure Aids Wildlife, Specialists Sfy Farmers who spread manure on their fields in late winter and early spring are helping wildlife as well as crops, extension specialists re port. Value of manure spreading for plant food is recognized, but few people realize that good farming practice also is a wildlife conserva tion help. Most manure contains weed and crop seeds that make good winter feed for pheasants, quail and other birds. February, March, and sometimes April, are lean months in many northern states for the wildlife pop ulation. Pheasants and quail are weakened by lack of cover during earlier winter months. Since much of their winter food supply has been exhausted^ many birds will not survive lean pickings and rough weather during the last months of winter. Agronomists always have em phasized that prompt spreading of manure saves plant food that might otherwise be lost through leaching. From'now until full spring, manure should be spread when field condi tions permit Spreading now will put nutrients in fields instead of down barnyard drains, extension specialists say. Corn Crib To solve a building problem, one farmer came up with this Idea of using two railroad stock cars in the construction of a double corn crib and overhead granary. The cars were set on a concrete base for use as corn cribs and the space under the roof served as a granary. U.S. Fauns Have Fewer Phones in *50 Than 1920 According to the 1950 census only 38.3 of America's farms have tele phones as compared to 38.7 per cent in 1920. Twenty-eight states reported fewer farm telephones. Those showing declines contain 80 per cent of the country's farms. Among the states suffering sharpest declines were Texas, Missouri, and Illinois. Connecticut leads in per centage of farms with telephones. Iowa is second. American Farmer Big User of Electricity A startling ten-year rise in ftM’m electrification has made the Amer ican farmer one of the nation’s biggest users of electric power. The farmer is now receiving more than twice as much farm high-line service as in 1940. More over, the amount of electricity used by farmers has increased nearly five times, and the average use per farmer has more than doubled. American farms are now using in excess of 15 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year, while in 1940 they consumed only 3\4 billion. In addition, the number of farms serviced by electric power—about two million in 1940—- has leaped to approximately five million. The average kilowatt hours of power used per farm, ex clusive of irrigation projects in the West, has increased frem about 1000 ten years ago to 2300 today. .The farmer Is Just beginning on the road toward complete rural •electrification. Many new electric devices will be aiding the farmer in his struggle for higher output. 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