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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1933)
SOVIET HALTS BUILDING BOOM Moscow —(UP)— Thousands of Muscovites read with pleasure re cently of official measures to curb a nuisance which has embittered their lives. Over the signature of N. Bulga nin. mayor here, the local Soviet ordered the arrest of seven offi cials of building organizations and a cessation of indiscriminate spoilage of houses by the process of adding -stories to thorn. Early this year the Moscow So viet gave its approval to a scheme for relieving the housing shortage bv building over existing struc tures. The idea was a sound one and solved the housing problem for thousands. But like so many Soviet ideas, it was carried so far that t. did al most as much harm as good. Ev ery fairly substantial looking house became fair prey for the builders. Construction was begun on houses without much consider ation for the inhabitants already there, the convenience of neigh bors, or the appearance of the houses themselves after the addi tions would be. made. Worst of all. hundreds of these construction jobs were undertaken and then stopped owing to lack of material and funds. Meanwhile the houses affected remained with leaky roofs, without staircases, without kitchens encumbered by scaffolding and refuse. Punishment for those responsi ble and steps to correct the situa tion have been ordered. Dodgers to Cards A star member of the Brooklyn Dodgers since 1922, Dazzy Vance, •whose pitching has longTlominated the National League, will open the 1933 season wearing the uniform of the St. Louis Cardinals. Dazzy was traded to the Red Birds in exchange for Ownie Carroll, pitcher, and Jake Flowers, infielder. Gordon Slade, Dodger shortstop, goes with Vance to St. Louis. ■-♦«—---— Scrapbook Contains File of 13,000 Ships Detroit —(UP)— Drawings, pho tographs and histories of 18,000 ships which have plied the Great Lakes are contained in a scrap book owned by John E. Poole, an unemployed construction engi neer, of Dearborn. Filed away on cards which bear the history of each ship, is an ac count of the boat’s maiden trip, where it was built and what was its glorious or tragic end. Poole first began his hobby in 1898, when he was 15. Poole bewails the fact that he has the histories of only 9,000 of the ships committed to memory. Sisters Became Mothers On the Same Day Iantha, Mo. —(UP)— Two sisters who were married at a double wedding became mothers here the same day. A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Arville Snow at 4:30 a. m. At 11 p, m. the same night a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rec tor. Both babies were born at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Mammen. Mrs. Rector was In the room with Mrs. Snow when the latter’s baby was born. Railroad to Lay 1,000,000 New Ties Missoula, Mont. — (UP) — One million ties will ba laid on the roadbed of the Northern Pacific route between Milling. Mont., and Yakima. Wash., according to pres ent plans of the company for 1933. The Missoula plant of the com pany will manufacture 100,000 ties and 350,000 board feet measure of switching ties; another 200.000 will be turned out at the Brainerd, Minn., plant; and 175.000 ties will be treated at Seattle, Wash. The company has 500.000 tics in stor« age from 1932 operations. Rancher Killed Hawk Who Killed Snake Conon City, Colo. — (UP) — A large hawk, holding in its beak a partly devoured five-foot bull snake was killed recently by A. E. Harper, Wetmora rancher. The hawk had tom away the head of the snake and was pre paring to eat the body when Har per put an end to the feast. Harper believes the snake had come out of its winter hiberna tion to sun itself when the hawk swooped down and captured it. 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Just let yourself accumulate, a neat spare tire about your diaphram and see how squat you look in a trim spring suit. Take off that spare, is the first and soundest advice. Eat less food is tho only sane way to do it. Go cn liquids for breakfast and lunch and then eat sparingly of dinner. Nothing between meals. No fudge sundaes or chocolate eclairs either! The second best thin<r to do is to get the right foundation garments, body gloves, if you please, as the de luxe nev; corset-brassiere com binations are called. Particularly interesting to wo men with a little fat is the new brassiere, manufactured by several companies now, that is made of material that gives in both direc tions so you aren’t uncomfortable, yet designed to do the trick of sup porting you in handsome manner. If women only realized it, the right brassiere can work wonders. A good one does a lot for the stout diaphram. Wear the right bras siere and you look flatter through the diaphram, which all women want to do. Another aid to beauty is the t good-fitting corset or girdle. Don't make the mistake of thinking you can drag in your hips until you look slander, when you aren't. Yen will smply bulge over the top and be fatter than you really are right where you need it. least. However, a well-built founda tion garment, fitted perfectly, docs give you a far better line than an ordinary one. If you yearn for a svelt figger, remember the corset or girdle is a first essential. Fowl Watched to '^Find Location of Gold Pinley, Cal. — (UP) — A gold Military Mode Pa.ricia Ellis, serpen player, you ng «•••;! o/ the baby slnrs, introduces this nru- note in the trend for masculine feminine fashions. The trouser suit shown hero, looks like n boy's mili tary school uniform, brass buttons, high roller and all. It is of prey 4ianncl. The beret is broten. and the shoes are ic/tile oxfords. hunt, with chickens and turkeys doing the actual searching, was on here today following the dis covery of several good-sized nug gets in a turkey's gizzard. The turkey, according to its owner, George Smith, a poultry man, was raised locally. Where it found the gold was a mystery, as hd gold was known to exist near here. Several clucks sent from here to the Los Angelra market also were reported to have had grains of gold and small nuggets In their gizzards. Poultrymen of the district were keeping close watch on their fowls’ feeding grounds as a result ♦ ♦ % Old Ore Dumps Are Reworked for Living Hillsboro, N. M. ~(UP)— Claim holders and prospectors are mak ing a living reworking old ore dumps while continuing their search for hidden Spanish treas ure and lost mines which legend says are secreted In the hills. Jobless men. spurred by reports cf rich veins waiting to be un covered. have poured into the re gion. The hills are spotted with tents of small scale mine opera tors. Modern machinery is helping the prospectors secure "grub stakes” from the low grade ore and the old dumps of abandoned mines. A custom mill being erect ed here will eliminate freight charges that have made the poor ore unprofitable. Oetogenariar Is Still Active Blacksmith Valparaiso, Ind. — (UP) — still f.n active blacksmith after more than GO years in the same voca tion, John J. McCaffcrty, who lives near here hopes to celebrate his 102nd birthday in October. According to War department records McCafferty was killed in the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil war, when his father, J. M. McCafferty was slain. The son said he placed his coat under his father's head when he fell in battle. The burial record read J. J. McCafferty. thus depriving the son of a pension. McCafferty also was one of Col. Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Rid ers during the Spanish-American war. At the age of 14 he shod oxen in Sauck county, Wisconsin, where he worked at Beatrice, near here. Shakespeare never made a con tinuous journey so far as a round trip from New York to Boston. Fighting Fire i Sub-Zero Temperature Intense heat and bitter cold conspired to make life miserable for firemen who battled an apartment house blaze in Chicago during the coldest weather of the Winter. The water froze almost as fast as it left the hoselines, and men, apparatus, and even the burn ing building were coated with a thick sheeting of ice. Tusiiegee Choir Booms Negro Spirituals New York —lUP)— A new im petus was given Negro spirituals as a result oi' the recent debut c£ the Tuskegce Institute choir. The hundred students from the institution provided for New York ers the strange, hypnotic rhythms which gave Negro music its uni versal appeal. They introduced a group of new spirituals, which brought offers from music pub lishers to William L. Dawson, conductor and composer. Dawson discovered and arranged them for concert presentation. The students, of many trades, ranging from agriculture to do mestic science, introduced among other spirituals. "Oh! What a Beautiful City,’’ “Study Yor Prayer,” “I’m in His Care,’ and "Good News.” Dawson explained that in iso lated communities in the south, songs are taught to each succeed ing generation, but newer are written down. For instance he first heard and old Negro sing “Good News" as she bent over her v.ash tub. He said another source of ma terial is the students themselves, many of whom come from distant plantations. In this way he heard a boy humming. “Lawd, I would n’t mind dyin’ if dyin’ was all." Q. Where does Shakecpeare re fer to rats leaving a sinking ship? W. P. A. The Tempest. Art 1, Scene 2, contains the following: “A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged, nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rata , instinctively have quit it.” OF INTEREST TO FARMERS STRIVE FOR BETTER EGGS A poultryman’s revenue can be increased without extra expense if he will give more attention to breed ing and selection for size of eggs.. And now is the time to put an egg- ; breeding procram into effect. Trap- ; nest the eggs from a limited num ber of carefully selected breeders — first, to find those hens which lay normally large-sized eggs; and sec ond, to make passible a system of pedigree incubation and brooding so i that chicks from the large-f gif hens j can be bnnded and identified when they reach maturity. One of the most important pieces of equipment i in this work is a good egg scale. ; Try to get one which has a bar or weight-recording mechanism that ( shows not the. individual weight of the single egg but Its weight in ounces per dozen. Wo think of 23, 2t or 25 ounce eggs as the number oi ounces per dozen the eggs will weigh. This automatically grades the eggs into comparative weight-s I per dozen. Most manufacturers of ! egg scales already provide equip- ■ ment with scale baren so graduated. The great advantage in starting i egg-breeding work now is that we ; can secure from such mating pedi gree-hatched and brooded male j birds of known female parentage, which, when used in succeeding generations k* sires will transmit i the desired egg quality to the pro- j gtny. Egg weight Is inherited and it can be definitely improved through j selection and breeding for egg slza. j CROWING BEST BIROS We have found the following scheme helpful In choosing breeder turkeys with the so-much-d'.slred long bodies and relatively short legs, says a poultrymar. Measure the length of the breastbone and then the upper lag, or drumstick. Keep the birds having these two parts as nearly as posrble the same length. Seven indies is a good minimum length for these two measurements , in breeding turkeys. Keep In mind | that broad, well-fleshrd breasts and backs as just as important as a long body and relatively short legs If one wishes the best market florl:. j At what age will a well-fed turkey start, to lay?? Birds that simply run j on range usually begin to lay at 11 months, but several breeders who trap-nest and feed their turkeys properly are reporting that their turkeys start to lay at e'ght and nine months. It has also been shown that February r.nd March hatched turkey pullats will lay more eggs than two-ycar-o!d hens. Young tur key hens that have laid some eggs this fall should be kept for breeders next season, for they are. early ma turing and should give you a flock that will be ready to market early in 1834. A NEW RASPBERRY Black Beauty is the name given to a promising new black raspberry. This new variety originated as a chanca seedling on the farm of a small fruit grower. In 1919 his rasp berry patch, consisting of such standard varieties as Gregg, Kansas and Cumberland, was so badly dis eased that he plowed the land and planted it to orchard. A few ycais later he discovered a vigorous rasp berry seedling in his orchard. Prom this seedling plant sufficient stock was soon developed to give an op portunity to observe its behavior. The ability of the new variety to resist the dreaded virus disease was scon noted by the state plant in spector assigned to that section. On the advice of the inspector and others, it was decided to name the seedling and make it available to the trade. Black Beauty ripens in season with the. well-known Cum berland, being rated a midseason variety. It is later than New Logan, another relatively new variety which is also highly resistant to the virus diseases. The berries are large and the quality good. Ie seems to be productive. Like all varieties of fruit, the full value of Black Beauty will not be known until it has been more widely tested. At least the variety should commend itself to growers who have had trouble n maintain ing raspberry plantations on ac count of disease. MARKETING FRUIT Popularity is never a permanent thing with fruit varieties and the favorites of a few years ago may be going into the discard today. Com mercial fruit growers need to study the trends carefully. Looking at it from the market angle only, a suc cessful commercial variety must have at least two qualities. It must be attractive in appearance and be a good shipper. If it has good flavor so much the better. The apple list seems to be narrowing instead of widening. Some of the old favor ites are holding their own but others are slipping. Rhode Island Green ings are. still In high favor as cook ing apples in some markets and York Imperials are holding their own both here ar.d abroad. The Eon Davis is still popular with the export trade. Baldwins have lost ground during the last thre.e or four seasons and Thompkins King is no longer in favor. The Stayman is popular in many markets, particu larly for cooking, and seems likely to hold its own. Rome Beauty is a HOW SOIL USES LIMESTONE Tests recently completed indicate j that the reaction between finely ground limestone and soil acids j proceeds with surprising speed. Un der practical conditions, however the ; rate of decomposition is not so great because commercial ground lime stone is not so uniformly fine and can not. be mixed with soil as per fectly. The moisture content of the soil is important: limestone is not decomjKJsed in dry soil. Although the limestone as such has disap peared by reaction with the soil, it j has not been lost. The lime content j Iras simply combined with soil acids j good all-round apple that Li well liked In most domestic markets and the same is true of the Winesnp. The Jonathan and Spitzenburg have lost slightly in popularity despite their good qualities. Delicious and McIntosh are still increasing in pop. ularity. ■■■■■■ M——n — FOR BATTERY BIRDS Every yen more and mors chicks are brooded in batteries. The intent may be to hold them there for only two or three weeks, but sometimes through necessity they remain much longer. For some reason, after the first few vreku tha cnlcks iail k> continue .'vj-mul growth *nd de velop symptoms of malnutrition. Ex periments apjwr to 'how that there is a definite requirement of vitamin A in 'hicks a- tl.cy approach ma turity. The results further tended to chow that health;/ chicks appar ent v do not need vitamin .* in the hed fsi the fiisL two Piob old/ the a mo m: stored up in :ho c!u. i. .1 body anrt absorb'd by tlva yolk is sufficient to lost for n short time only, cent rued deficiency of v.iainin A as the chicks arc kept In the batter.;.; tlnvl :p.v kicir.cv uijury watte ry eyes, rufffled fcatlirrs, poor growth and a high mortality. ILjicc, if the chicks aie kept in batteries for longer than two or time weeks, they should fcs fed regularly cod Iher oil, which supplies both vita mins A and D, with liberal quanti ties of yellow corn, either cracked or ground into meal. The mors freshly ground this can bo, the bet*' ter. PREVENTING HOG "FLU" A few precautions will prevent much of the "flu.” Accumulations of dust and manure should bo cleaned out of the winter sleeping quarto’s. The house should bo made free of drafts or cold winds. Cracks and doors on the north and w:st should be closed, but the south side may be left open until cold weather comes. After that, cara should be take.n that the ventilation system works properly without floor drafts. The houses may bo bedded with clean, dry' material such os straw hay or corn fodder. Corn fodder is excellent beridlm* us it is clean, wears well and absorbs munli moisture without becoming v.-et. Putting the corn fodder In me houses with the corn cn il and al lowing th" pigs to do the ■'■ding will bring the pigs into the shelter and get th;,m accustomed to ••’ecp inp there. Cate should bo tak n that pips arc in the house on cold, rainy, nights. Since feeding has morn in—i fluence cn the ease wh'eh a pig TO-, sists the "fin” the coni ration! should be balanced with pie ,l.y ofi protein feed, pasture or lo-vge. ns' long as it lack, and a o <1 mineral mixture. RABBIT INJURY TO TliTiJTl Weather conditions have been lav-! crable for rabbits to do consider-, able injury to young- apple trees, if i they are not prot.-eb d. With tho, ground covered with anew, food for, rabbits is greatly d " ’•eased, Kvep with r.o sr.cw. they may do eon.-id-i crable damn"". as they are fond of apple bark. Mien may a ho damage young trees by girdling th> hark at| or just below the surface cf tho gTCund. There are various methods, of eon<rol. Galvanized hardware cloth, three meshes to the inch, is generally used. Copper bronze screen w;re also is used, ns It is ef fective in keeping out Ur: round headed opp’e borer if it is tightly wrapped around the tree. Heavy wrapping paper may also It used. Tar papex has been known b> dam age the trunks of the trees. Repel lent dressings o- lliiukl bme sulphur Is .sometimes used. HEN AMONG LKADKHJJ An insurance company's* farm loan agent has recently pointed out that the farmer practicing the ”iv cow, a sew, and n little ml hen" propram are better risks and, tliere forc receive greater consideration. This recognition of livestock farm ing and particularly of the "httlo red hen” is important to the gnat poultry industry symbolized by th® “little red hen” titles. That title, however, is net altogether true to day. The “little red hen" has grown up from the status of a backyard fowl end has became an eeoiwmio unit, a corn crop, of prime lm pertanre to the farmer. V/ith al! due respects to the value of the eour and the sew, tho "little red hen” represented by purebred flocks of Lepbomr. Rock,*' Reds, Buffs, and many others need not. take a bark seat. She leads them all as an effi cient converter ol grains into meat and eggs and as an exce.’lent rev enue producer. NOT AL WAVS LUCKY When my wile’s fat sister, Kitty, come to visit, ficm the city, all she talked about was Fate—B.ul luck signs r.nd rood luck omens —Porta mode me unh iu JThen—she found a four-leaf < clover; thought slic’d pluck it. and stooped over. Fata stepped in. Our gout named Blatter made n pc>wcrfui lunge right at, 'rr, Kitty yelled and kissed the d«w; Lost her balance ami her temper end her rut partitions, too! neutraliza/ig ur«t being held by them, 'This active inn* is gradually r<* moved by cropr ami lost by solut.io* in drainage wat*i ami by surface wash. --0-« THINK IT OVER If you haven't lost faith In Am erica. if you still believe In the soundness of American agriculture and animal husbandry Invest now in as many brad sows as you can possibly handle. Do it even though your faith may be shaken, for they will make you iuouey in spito ol yourself,