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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C
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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.
Things like automatic poultry
feeders, crop-drying equipment,
automatic barn cleaners, silo un
loaders, wagon unloaders, and
feed handling equipment are all a
part of the American farmer’s
future.
Funny Tale
I can’t eat this ox-tail soup.
The tail is still wagging.
Of course, our tails come from
contented oxen.
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