THE NEBRASKA SCENE (Continued from page 7.) ies caring for dependent children. Deliquent and handicapped cases in child welfare will be allotted i $34,493. Medicai care for crippled child ren will be distributed to the ex tent of $59,549. A dependent child is described by law as "under the age of 15 who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental disability of a parent, and who is living with a relative.” A child in an institution cannot be eligible, because it is the belief of the bureau that a child is better off in a home than in an institution. The aid to dependent children idea is actually an extension of the mothers’ pension plan now in effect in Nebraska counties. Payments are limited to $18 a month for the first child and $12 for each addit ional child. Already on file are reports of 1,979 crippled children for whom assistance is sought, and conser vative estimates put the figure be tween 6,500 and 7,000 children in need of surgical or medical treat ment. It is hoped to make available the services of a state psychiartric consultant who would make mental and physical examinations in cases where it is needed. After more than four months in perfecting the child welfare organ ization, Mrs. Nuquist hopes the program will result in “a finer population for Nebraska, correct ing the defects in the child when he is so young that he will become a productive citizen rather than a social misfit.” At the present time 739 children in 35 counties are receiving $7,518 monthly of state-federal aid, ac cording to Mrs. Nuquist. The re cipients represent 889 families, with an average grant of $26 per family. An additional $100,000 annual allotment to Nebraska for aid to dependent children, representing partial matching by the govern ment of county mothers pensions, may be made by the federal secur ity board. Nebraska counties paid mothers’ pensions totaling about $2,121,000 in 1934, latest figures available indicate. The last legislature appropri ated a half-million dollars for aid to dependent children from state social security funds, the govern ment matching on the basis of $1 for $2 paid by state or county. While poltical candidates, gen erally are enjoying a breathing spell in preparation for the gener al election campaign, the chosen few have not been entirely idle. For example, Richard O. John Conoco Chemist Wins Renown For Oil Researches ONE of the most far reaching of recent scientific discoveries— the '‘alloying” of oil to extend the life of automobile engines — is credited in large part by engineers to L L Davis, unassuming young chemist in the laboratories of the Continental Oil Company at Ponca City. Oklahoma.. With Bert H. Lincoln, the com pany's chief chemist. Davis pa tiently tested a thousand obscure chemical compounds to find one that, mixed with oif at the refinery, would establish an independent and permanent protective film on motor metal and thus permit the oil to do Its work satisfactorily, even under the higher stress of modern lubri cating conditions. no such chemical substance ex isted. 80 Lincoln and Davis synthe sized a quasi magnetic chlorinated ester which they called methyldl chlorostearate X-ray diffraction tests conducted by Professor O. L. Clark of the University of Illinois showed Its behavior . 'Lincoln and Daviqfput together this compound with a bow to Sir William Bragg, an English physi cist who ten years earlier, while blowing soap bubbles, made obser vations indicating that the presence of an ester might bring about a desirable regimentation of oil par ticles. First revealed to the scientific world at the last meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, the Davls-Lincoln process was a tea L. L. Davis, Continental Oil Com pany chemist, whose recent discov eries in the field of friction and lubrication have attracted nation wide attention. lured topic of discussion before tho American Chemical Society mem bership in its annual meeting at Kansas City last week. son, Lincoln attorney, nominee for attorney general on the republican ticket, is making an intensive 3tudy of the unicameral legislature which will go into effect next year. Mr. Johnson, a former legislator and former Lincoln law official, expects to be elected and wants to he pre pared for the next legislative ses sion which will require an unpre cedented amount of advice from the attorney general. Incidently, the political prognos ticators say that if the democrat is majority indicated in the pri mary prevails next fall, only three republicans are reasonably sure of election. These include Johnson Johnson for attorney general, Bass for state treasurer, who runs against a democrat by the name of Jensen whom the democrats are generally ignoring as a candidate; and George Marsh who ha3 as op ponent a youthful democrat by the name of William Price who admit tedly got in as a fluke, running on the reputation of the dead William Price’s name. The least understood of the pres ent candidates is “Terrible Terry” Carpenter of Scottsbluffs, demo cratic nominee for U. S. senate. Terry went to congress in 1933 with the Roosevelt landslide. He takes politics almost as light ly as the average voter does, and, declares that “it is good business for me to fight even if I lose in politics. It still help3 me in busi ness,” he says. Briefly, Carpenter j is the “Zioncheck" of Nebraska politics. STATE HOUSE SHORTS: There are 212 teachers in the state normal schools, averaging $159.81 per month on a 12 month basis. . . Students number 4,590, The aver age cost of educating students per year is $263.92. A state-wide organization of “observers" is being formed by the state game, forestation and parks commission, as a means of exposing violators of game and fish laws. The observers will receive no re numeration for their trouble, and instead of identifying violators they will merely inform the state officers as to the localities where violations are prevalent. Instead of a sale of assets of Ne braska’s failed banks to the RFC as had been intended by Governor Cochran and state banking offi’ialr., the Reconstruction Finance cor. poration ha3 agreed to loan money to the state for the immediate liquidation of the state’s approx imately 120 remaining bank re ceiverships. It appears the RFC is strictly a lending agency and is not allowed to make an outright purchase. TIKE PRICES REDUCED! Again Gambles reduce Tire Prices, when others are raising. May Sale Prices—30x3, $1.19— 4.40-21, $4.69-4.75-19, $5.69 for Tire and Tube—Starts Fri.—Adv. Safety Demands Careful Driving and a Properly Conditioned Car By J. C. HARMON N "IT’S OLD—but the wit who origi * nated the Joke about the most dangerous part of a car being the "nut" on the steering wheel, was not far wrong. The modern car is «o built that it is not daugerous un less it is in daugoroua hands. To stretch the point & bit farther. It is not likely to be inefficient unless placed in inefficient hands. The good car is usually the car that la well cared for, according to a sate dliving bulletin issued today. i'ovr drivers are physically in capable of driving properly. Safe driving is largely a matter of put ting into the Job at hand all the care and attention of which the driver is capable, in a sense, the same principle holds for the opera tion of the car Itself, Iho bulletin points out. Proper Care Important “Whether or not you will got sat isfactory and efficient results in the operation of your car is apt to de pend in no small part on what you put into it’,” the bulletin says. “And by that is meant good fuel, good lubricants, enough air in the tires, the solution in the batteries and the ! water or anti-freeie in the radiator. Modern cars are built to operate efficiently. The rest Is up to the owner of the car.” So much has been done la recent years oy the manufacturers of standard brands of gasolines to im prove their products that today the car owner experiences little difficul ty in getting a good grade of fuel for his car, the bulletin declares. High standards have been estab lished and are being maintained. The car owner is not apt to be care less about buying fas, because ex perience has taught Mat that his car just won’t run without it. Going to the service station after gas is part ur telephone service is a nation-wide service. It fiiust be nation-wide to meet the needs of all telephone users. 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