NO INDIANS . . . But here la where aome 25,000 Indian clay pipea can be made every day. The factory ia at I’amplin City, Va. In These United States Indian Stone Pipes Are Big Industry in Virginia Town By E. L. KIRKPATRICK WNU Features. Pamplin City, Virginia, town of 300, has the world’s larg est plant making Indian stone clay pipes. The factory has a capacity of 25,000 “smokers” per day, using a kiln that will handle 200,000 at a single burning. It uses four regular em ployees and as many as 70 on a part-time basis. Most prized product of the plant is patterned after the "Powhatan" Indian pipe. This is held to have been invented by Virginia Indians many generations ago, in the Vir ginia county whose name it bears. It had a long stem, gracefully curved at the upper end so that the smoker once seated in his easy chair could pull away knowing that "all the nicotine would be gone after the long Journey through it and the smoke well cooled." Clay for the pipe was soft and soapy — some what like meerschaum—believed to have been found in some cave where water had deposited an unusual sediment without grit. Clay in the Pamplin City area meets requirements for the original "Powhatan” as well as other pipes including “Ole Virginny,” "Pow wow" and "Wigwam.” It has served this purpose adequately for more than 200 years, according to authentic records, having "gone through” the present plant for almost 50 years. Pamplin City has a sense of se curity so long as the buying trend Is toward Indian stone and clay pipes. In addition to this unique fac tory which draws many workers from nearby farms and villages, it has 20 business establishments and a lumber mill. Tourists and visitors from everywhere frequent it for pipes for personal use, gifts or souvenirs since every American smoker appreciates a genuine In dian pipe. CATHEDRAL ROOM . . . Lewis and Clark cavern In Montana, third greatest in the United States, la open this year to tourists on a large scale for the first time. It was discovered early in this cen tury by a prospector, Dan Mor rison, who saw an eagle fly into “a hole in the hill.” Arkansas Grows Some Whoppers LITTLE ROCK. ARK. — Califor nla and Florida people who boast about productivity will now hear from Arkansas. Recent newspaper clippings call attention to these Arkansas "whoppers”: A stalk of cotton with 85 bolls; a 91 pound pumpkin; a 594 pound sweet potato; a 19 ounce apple measuring 14 inches in circumference, and two bass weighing more than 5 pounds caught at the same time on one hook. He’s Caught Up MOBILE, ALA. — Bom in 1943, Ronald Regan was only 11 inches long and weighed 2 pounds and 11 ounces. Battling for two and a half years, he has caught up with nor mal growth and weighs over 25 pounds. Prefab Houses Built in 1850 HAMILTON, MO. — Prefabri cated houses are nearly 100 years old in Missouri, for this town of 1,600 population built them back in the 1850s. There were no carpenters In Hamilton, so A. G. Ilavls sent plans for a two-story house to a St. Louis firm. He received the lumber, windows and doors with holes already bored for wooden pegs — since there were no nails available. Complete Instructions for assembling the house were furnished. A few years later, Otis Richardson did likewise. The Richardson house Is still In good shape. It has been re modeled and is in use. Half of Topsoil Has Washed Away BECKLEY, W. VA.—More than 50 per cent of the original top soil on West Virginia land has been washed away, according to Walter C. Grum bel, a soil conservationist. “Where soil conservation methods have been practiced,” Gumbel said, “crop yields have Increased any where from 10 to 25 per cent." He said an Intelligent conserva tion program would protect and sta bilize the land and water supply, restore plant food. Increase farm income, prevent floods and restore forests and wild life. Man Really Builds ‘Better Mouse Trap’ BAMBEKG, S. C. - S. D. Bishop has finally built that “better" mousetrap and may have a path beaten to his door. But it was en tirely accidental. What Bishop was really making was a fish trap. He left it overnight at the feed store where he is em ployed, baited and ready for a try out. Next morning he found five rats in the trap—and within a few days he caught 19 more. Ex-GI Gives Anti-Snorer To ihe Army BEAVERTON, ORE. — T. M. Weed, local lawyer, who used to be a G.I. and knows what snor ing sounds like in a barracks, has submitted his “no-snore kit” to the U. 8. quartermaster corps. He claims snoring can be stopped or greatly reduced by a specially constructed device designed to prevent the flut tering action of the soft palate and uvula that causes the j coarse, low - pitched irritating noise made by a sleeping per son. Wreed admits that it was the complaints of his barracks mates in 1942 and 1943 that spurred him to devise an anti snore device. He used it for the other two years he was in the army—and made friends! More Crop Dusting Peanuts may be dusted from air planes in the near future. Tests car ried on at the Omega plant farms at Omega, Ga., first of the kind in that section, proved that plant dust ing from the air not only costs about one-half as much as dusting or spraying from tractors but is much more efficient, since a single plane can dust 1,000 acres per day. Why Allegany Never Became Great City ALLEGANY. N. Y. — Allegany (1940 pop., 1,436) was planned as Allegany City, "the intellectual, cul tural, industrial and mercantile hub of the East." But through freak accidents its dream was never realized. The proposed city had been com pleted and surveyed on paper and the company started to build a pa latial hotel (the Park hotel recently dismantled) according to plans. Work was interrupted on the Erie for a short time and when it was resumed In 1848, a new survey lo cated the route a half mile north of the •‘paper" city. Because of this and also because of the fact that the Genesee valley canal termi nated at Millgrove instead of Olean, the project was forced to be aban doned. Thus Allegany never became the hub of "communication, transporta tion and industry" for the East. But it nearly became a reality. Organization Plans 1,000 Movie Circuits for Farmers By WALTER A. SHEAD WNC Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Under sponsorship of the Founda tion for American Agriculture, from which it received a sub stantial grant of money, the Farm Film Foundation has been incorporated here under the presidency of Walter D. Fuller, president of the Curtis Publishing company. The newly organized nlm foun-< dation has a major objective of creating a minimum of 1,000 16-mm. sound moving picture circuits throughout rural America; mainte nance of a national film library from which any responsible group can secure desirable pictures, and the setting up of an advisory commit tee on farm film production which will be available to any acceptable organization desiring to produce and circulate pictures through the foun dation facilities. The creation of this film founda tion was among the announced ob jectives of the Foundation for Amer ican Agriculture upon its organiza tion several months ago. Other offi cers of the film foundation include Paul Armstrong, general manager, California Fruit Growers Exchange; Herbert Voorhees, director Ameri can Farm Bureau federation; Ken Geyer, executive committee. Na tional Co-operative Milk Produc ers association, Hartford, Conn.; E. A. Eckert, chairman, executive committee, National Grange, Mon mouth, 111., vice president; J. Cam eron Thomson, president, North west Bancorporation, Minneapolis, treasurer; and Earl W. Benjamin, eastern director, Washington Co-op erative Farm association, Seattle. Leaders of major farm groups and key industrial figures are named to a board of trustees and a na tional advisory board composed of presidents of State Farm bureaus, Masters of Granges and managers and officers of Co-operatives. SERGEANT RETIRES » . . Sgt. Martin (Marty) Maher, who is as much a part of West Point tradi tion as Generals Grant, Pershing and Eisenhower, retired May 23. Now 70 years old, Maher went to West Point 50 years ago as a civil ian waiter, but soon enlisted in the army. Assigned to the gym, he won fame as a swimming instruc tor—although he never could swim a stroke! He retired from the army in 1928, but was immediate ly hired as a civil service em ploye. AIRPORT CHATTER Jimmy Hays, one of Oklahoma’s veteran pilots, and Walt Cham bers taught army boys how to fly in 1943. Hays recently visited the Alva, Okla., airport. . . . Edgar Bergen has opened an airport at Montebello, Calif., and hopes to make it popular with radio and movie stars. . . . The Oceana, Mich., supervisors have approved a fund of $4,000 toward the purchase of an airport site. . . . Sites are being considered for an airport at Delphi, Ind. . , . The Independent, Elkhorn, Wis., recently published the story of a pilot who flew up from Har vard, 111., to do some shopping. . . . The G.I. Airlines, with headquar ters in Milwaukee, is making ar rangements with cities to pick up and deliver mail on the wing; that is, without landing. . . . Under Asa Rountree Jr., state director of aero nautics, Alabama has worked out a program for veterans taking flight training under the G.I. bill of rights. * * • CAA NOTES Approximately $100,000 has been add^d to the bill sponsored by the CAA for an air marking program. . . . Again: July 1 is the deadline for annual inspection of aircraft. . . . CAA’s first consolidated "Air man's Guide," a publication for cer tified airmen actively engaged in flying, is off the presses for distribu tion. ... A new edition of "Statis tical Handbook of Civil Aviation” has been published by CAA and is on sale at the superintendent of documents, government printing of fice, Washington, D. C., for 25 cents. • • • QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Ontario airport enthusiasts who have worked for 15 years to attain the development of a modern air port that could be used for indus trial purposes are coming to realize their plans."—Eastern Oregon Ob server, Ontario, Ore. LIST OF CONTROL TOWERS Private flyers with very high fre quency radio equipment can now be assured of widespread airport con trol tower service. Towers in the following cities are now standing by on 131.9 me.: Little Rock, Ark.; Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Washington, D. C.; Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa, Fla.; Atlanta and Savannah, Ga.; Boise, Idaho; Chicago, 111.; Des Moines and Sioux City, Iowa; Kan sas City and Wichita, Kroih; Louis ville, Ky.; Shreveport, La.; Bangor, Me.; Boston, Mass.; Jackson, Miss.; Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.; Omaha, Neb.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Med ford and Portland, Ore.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Spartanburg, S. C.; Knox ville, Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Amarillo, Austin, Big Spring, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth and Houston, Tex.; Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond, Va.; Seattle, Wash.; and Cheyenne, Wyo. • • • AVIATION OFFICIALS MEET A meeting of the National Asso ciation of State Aviation officials was held recently in Washington, D. C., to study effects of the pas sage of the federal airport bill and other matters. Those present at the meeting included William L. Ander son, president, Pennsylvania; Leo G. Devaney, vice president, Ore gon; Edward F. Knapp, secretary treasurer, Vermont; Clarence E. Cornish, Indiana; David Ciltinan, West Virginia; Dexter C. Martin, South Carolina; A. W. Meadows, Texas; Philip E. Tukey, Maine; Russell Hilliard, New Hampshire; Floyd E. Evans, Michigan; E. A. Nasset, North Dakota; C. E. A. Brown, Ohio; Crocker Snow, Mas sachusetts; E. R. Fenimore, Mary land; L. L. Schroeder, Minnesota; Charles L. Payton, New Jersey; A. W. Hays, Oklahoma; William B. Catchings, New Mexico. SCHOLARSHIP WINNER . . . Robert Ovelman, age 16, left, a cadet in the CAP squadron of Hagerstown, Md., was recently awarded a flight training scholarship by Fairchild for his proficiency in CAP activities. He will receive his instructions fn the Aeronca at left, not in the C-82 Packet cargo plane. FLYING MISSIONARIES A thorough aeronautics training program for prospective foreign missionaries is the latest innovation of Moody Bible institute, Chicago. Two light training planes will be used in the course, which will in clude such standard studies as theory of flight, meteorology, navi gation and aircraft maintenance. There will also be instruction in civil regulations in foreign coun tries, local weather conditions in in dividual mission fields, and mainte nance problems in various climates. Traiii Tennessee Vets. The Milan, Tenn., flying service has been approved by the veterans’ administration to accept applica tions for flight training under the G.I. bill of rights. Courses offered to veterans include private flying course, commercial pilot course and single-engine rating course. • • • Maj. Arthur Wermuth, the “one-man” army, has visited many of the larger towns re cently as field director for the Flying Tigers air circus. Production of H?ns Can Be Controlled All Factors Must Be Operated Efficiently The hen has long shared honors with the cow as being the world’s most efficient machine. This mod el of the mechanics of the hen will give some idea of the egg factory. When eggs are laid on consecu tive days, the yolk of one egg Is ■ . discharged from the ovary about 30 minutes after the laying of the previous eggs. Hens must be bred with the inter nal capacity to produce eggs if they are to be profitable. But the best bred hen in the world will not be profitable unless well housed, well fed and well treated. No other farm animal will respond as rapidly to proper—or unproper—management. In order that eggs complete the cycle every 24 hours, all working parts of the hen must be properly functioning. This takes a well-bal anced ration along with ideal condi tions. Protect Farm Trees There are several methods that have proven satisfactory in protect ing young trees against rabbits and other animals. Tar paper may be wrapped around the tree, or chicken wire may be stretched to circle the tree. An effective guard may be made from discard ed garden hose, which may then be wrapped around the young trees. This guard may be used year after year, re quires no fastening as the hose will al ways retain its cy lindrical shape. The use of paper is not generally recommended as it will not last long and some animals will find little difficulty in chewing through the tar paper. Improved Safer Hitch For Power Machines NOW 1 CAM USE MY TRACTOR WITH ANY STANDARDIZED MACHINE / MASTEI SHIELD AND PTO CONVERSION PACKAGE If a farmer purchases a new trac tor or standardizes the power take off of his old tractor with conver sion packages, furnished by all manufacturers of farm imple ments, greater convenience, econ omy and safety will result. These A.S.A E. hook-ups are available at all dealers for any make of tractor Rabbits Prove Big Forage Consumers Young jack habbits consume some dry feed as early as five days after birth, according to -_ Arizona station studies. Following ; weaning, at three weeks or age a rab bit consumes an average daily ra tion equal to 2 to 4 per cent of its body weight. From 5 to 14 weeks of age, the food consump- - tion averages 6 per cent of the light weight of the animal. They reach their maximum food consumption between 14 and 26 weeks of age On this basis, it would not take many rabbits to clean up an acre of growing crops. Harvesting Asparagus By Improved Method In the past asparagus spears were cut by using specially designed knives. The spear was cut from to Ihi inches below the surface. Spe cialists at Michigan State college say that this is all wrong. By hold ing the new growth of asparagus just below the tips between the thumb and finger it can be broken oft down to the tough part. Grow er will get a premium for aspara gus so harvested.