IN THESE UNITED STATES
Badger Is Known as the
'Co-Op' Town of Iowa
By E. L. KIRKPATRICK
WNU Feature*.
It’s as easy to say as “Buster has the mumps.” In fact
“Co-operative” should be either the first or last name of the
little town of Badger, Iowa, (population of less than 400 in
1940). The first co-operative program in this center of
Lutheran background was the stock and grain association,
started almost 40 years ago.
Although this organization metl
with difficulties and opposition dur
ing the first few years, it survived
by realizing its advantages of co
operation as a community builder.
By 1914, the association had been
reorganized as a Farmers Grain
Elevator company which has oper
ated efficiently and successfully
ever since.
Another venture of long standing
is the Co-Operative Telephone com
pany which has been going for more
than a quarter century, and then a
petroleum co-operative organization
in 1930 with a capital of $6,000. The
latter firm does hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of business
annually, since It deals in farm ma
chinery as well as petroleum prod
ucts.
A Co-Operative Bank.
Another similar development Is
the co-op credit union started in
1939 “out of necessity, to provide
the Badger community with needed
banking services.” Although op
posed by the banking interests of
Iowa at the outset, this group per
sisted wisely, although slowly, until
the bank which it operates is one of
the safest and most stable in Iowa,
according to the state bank exam
iner.
Finally, there is the co-operative
food store handling meats, groceries
and electrical appliances. Its car
rying ABC co-op labeled goods as
sures patrons of quality and safety
according to government grading
standards. Folks know they aren’t
likely to get gypped in this or other
co-op trade and relations that char
acterize Badger.
Other co-operative possibilities
are being considered by Badger
ites. Entertaiifinent for the teen
agers and a playhouse for young
people are being talked about.
That's the way it seems to be done.
A few people get the idea, throw
It out to others, and all get to
gether and discuss it as a possible
development of, by and for the com
munity. In this way, the people
meet their major needs to the ex
tent that problems and difficulties
that spotlight most rural communi
ties are seldom beard of in Badger.
When wanting a hunch on how
a producer or cousurui-c co-op
oan be made to work in a rural
center, write or go to Badger.
EVERY WOMAN . . . Likes to
paint furniture — Just like Esther
Williams, screen star, shown
above at her Santa Monica.
Calif., home. Esther also enjoys
trying her hand at interior dec
orating now and then.
Cop Is Shocked
By Autoist Who
Asked for Fine
GREELEY, COLO.—The tele
phone on the police desk rang. It
was a Greeley woman who
wanted to tell the police that she
had just run through a red light
at a downtown intersection. She
explained that she had driven
into the Intersection before she
noticed the light had changed
and “had to go on through”
even in violation of the law.
“I’m sorry,” she explained.
“I’ll come right down and pay
my line.”
l>esk Sergeant Irl Timken got
the shock of his life by such a
call. He excused her from the
tine and commented that “if all
drivers were that conscientious
we wouldn’t have a trafllc prob
lem.”
Man Remembers
Dentist After
Decade Passes
SUMNER, WASH. —Most
toothaches are forgotten In 10
years, but Dr. C. L. Tolefson, a
local dentist, recently received
a check from a man he had
treated a decade ago.
The dentist had forgotten all
about it, when a letter with a
money order came. A search
into the office records disclosed
the name of the g*atient and the
forgotten date.
The letter explained that the
man had bought a money
order several years ago and
was going to send it to the den
tist. At that time the packing
plant where he worked closed
and he lost his job. He cashed
the money order in order to
live. But after several years,
and attendant prosperity, he
had the money to spare, and
"hoped the doctor would for
give him for the delay."
Boy, IS, Operates
A Farm and Dairy
AUBURN, WASH.—Jimmy Mar
shall, age 15, operates a 60-acre
farm here without help and in
tends to build up a good herd of
purebred Jerseys. In addition, he’s
a good athlete and a good scholar
in school.
Last January an accident brought
death to B. L. Marshall, Jimmy's
father. There were 12 cows to be
milked night and morning and
spring work had to be started. Jim
my, though just a curly-haired
youngster with an engaging grin,
took over the farming, the dairying
and raising hogs.
Yes, he intends to keep right on
farming. He likes it. And he is
well on his way to success.
Climbs 273 Steps
Each Day—to Knit
ERRATA, MISS. — Mrs. Merle
Lucille McDaniel has to climb 273
steps to get up on top of the world,
but the quiet she gets for her knit
ting makes it worth the long pull.
Mrs. McDaniel is a Are watcher
for the forestry department. Her of
flee is a cabin perched atop a 120
foot tower.
The tower originally was built at
the start of the war as a lookout
post, a lookout for enemy planes.
Her husband got the job of spotter.
However, it wasn't long before the
war department deemed a Japanese
invasion of southern Mississippi as
unlikely. So Mr. McDaniel went
back to railroading and Mrs. Mc
Daniel took over the post for the
forestry department.
She keeps regular office hours
atop the tower, from 9 a. m. to 5
p. m. daily. Most of the time she
just knits and reads. But a few
minutes every hour she scans her
20 mile territory with binoculars.
Bicycling Cat
Returns with
Four Kittens
ROYALTON, VT.-Abbie. Royal
ton’s bicycling cat, is back home
again after a year’s absence—and
she brought with her four beautiful
kittens.
Nearly a year ago Abbie, who
was accompanying Mrs. Homer
Russell and children on a bicycling
tour, disappeared near the Rus
sell’s summer home in Maine.
Through a newspaper story Abbie
was located about two miles from
where she disappeared.
No Wedding Honking
MONESSEN, PA. — No more
"wedding honkings’’ or other exces
sive tooting of automobile horns will
be allowed in Monessen. It’s against
tin law. a new ordinance pro
vides. Excessive tooting of automo
bile horns henceforth will draw po
lice punishment under the new law,
which also requests that newlyweds
"And a quieter way to display their
joy.”
ATOMIC SOLON’S . . . W. Stuart Symington, assist
ant secretary of war; Senator Millard E. Tvdings,
Maryland; Postmaster-General Robert E. tlannegan,
and Gael E. Sullivan, assistant postmaster-general,
are shown en route to Bikini.
NO JOKE, SON . ., It’s really Kenny Delmar, the “Senator Claghorn”
of radio, who is waving $100 In Confederate money to get more Smoky
Mountain music out of Sen. Claude Pepper, Florida, with a harmonica;
Rep. J. Percy Priest, Tennessee, with a ukulele, and Sen. Glen Taylor,
Idaho, with a guitar.
THE TOY BULLDOG
Mickey Walker, 45, Sure
He’ll Faint ‘Real Stuff’
WNU Features.
NEW YORK CITY.—Although he is 45 years old, he thinks
that in about four years he’ll be “doing the kind of painting
called the real stuff.” That’s the way Mickey Walker, former
welterweight and middleweight boxing champion of the
world, looks at his art career.
It was five years ago that Mickey<
decided to take up the easel and
start mixing the paints. He saw a
movie based on the life of Gauguin
in which a man in middle age left
fame and fortune to become a
painter in the south seas. Mickey
decided to become a painter in the
United States where he is known as
"a tough little guy."
And what about his 45 years?
Well, in Mickey's opinion age is the
best thing that can happen to a
man. It gives him some sense. He
no longer wants to sit around in a
night club, or think oriy of blondes
and champagne. Age helps a man
know what he can do — and ought
to do.
Painting Not Like Writing.
Mickey spends a lot of time now
in the quiet atmosphere of his ram
BOXER? . . . Well, he used to
be. Mickey Walker, former wel
terweight champion of the world,
is shown here working on a can
vas, "Off to School," in New
York. The large painting in the
background is "Main Street."
bling Elizabeth, N. J., home, sur
rounded by canvases and shelves
stocked with books. He paints and
occasionally writes. But then he
worries about his grammar—and
remembers that he was kicked out
of school for fighting when he was
in the eighth grade.
Painting is different from writing,
and Mickey is considered by critics
as one of the outstanding contrib
utors of primitives at the American
contemporary artists' gallery, where
he has had two exhibitions. One of
his best collections were painted on
his 50,000 mile USO tour through
South America, Africa and India
where he served as a master of
ceremonies for a sports show.
Got a Scare Once.
One day he was painting on Vic
toria beach in Central Africa dur
ing that tour. He had set up his
easel on the sand and started paint
ing when all was quiet. He painted
for a while, when he sensed some
thing and heard a twig snap. When
he turned around there were about
2,000 natives standing there watch
ing him, not saying a word. They
turned out to be friendly but curious.
Still taking it a little easy be
cause of a touch of malaria he con
tracted while on the USO tour,
Mickey is glued to his studio. He’s
serious about his painting. Some
of these days it will make him some
money, he feels.
But he’s glad that he was a box
er and managed to save some
money, he admits.
Kills 820 Rats in 24 Hours
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - Aided
by a dog, two cats, a can of poison
and a club. Adolph Bufe counted 820
dead rats after a hectic day and
night battle. Bufe claimed the rats
invaded his ranch in hordes, gray
droves of them. All day and all
night he fought, aided by the cats
and dog, meeting wave after wave
of rats. He believes the rats were
attracted to his ranch by the amount
of feed he had, since the current
feed shortage has been acute in this
area.
AIRPORT CHATTER
Miss Mayme Smith of Monroe,
age 77, was the first passenger to
alight from a plane at the new Lan
caster, Wis., airport which has been
opened by William Brewer, a pilot.
. . . Eight Omaha men, Lyle De
Moss, Leonard J. Bussey, Don Mus
grove, Henry E. and Walter W.
Wendt, Bennett Davis, Leonard
Fletcher and Bert Robinson, have
organized a hunting lodge some 400
miles from home, on Lake McCon
aughy, near Ogallala, Neb. . . .
The Denver Chamber of Commerce,
with an eye on the younger genera
tion, plans to construct a 40-acre
airfield for model planes only, with
hard-surfaced runways and a con
trol tower. . . . Republic Aviation
has leased for five years, with op
tion to buy, the government-owned
plant facilities and airport at Fram
ingdale, L. I. . Robert and Mil
dred Entriken, husband and wife,
are students of George Smith and
Paul Shirmer at the Mount Holly,
N. J., airfield and will soon be li
censed pilots. . . Harris field, Cape
Girardeau, Mo., has been leased by
the city and operated by an air
port board. . . Wynne, Ark., with
a class two airport, expects to add
further improvements costing $770,
561 under the federal aid airport
act.
• • •
AIR EXPOSITION AT DENVER
The first Denver International air
show will be held at Stapleton air
port August 24 and 25. Homer F.
Torrey is board chairman for the
show. Directors are Donald B.
Robertson, Thomas P. Campbell,
Robert S. Mcllvane, John R. Mc
Phee and Harry Anholt. The air
show is advertised as being under
the direction of Steadham Acker,
who is director of annual air car
nivals at Birmingham, Ala., and
Omaha, Neb., and who directed
air shows at Denver before the war.
All late planes and helicopters will
be on display and the show will fea
ture the usual air thrills.
• • •
Noted Kansas Airport
In a western Kansas town of only
523 residents can be found one ol
the best-known privately operated
ports in the country The town is
Johnson, Kans., and the airport op
erator is Forest Walker. The John
son flying club has 10 members,
most of them farmers, who have
over $30,000 invested in parts, han
gar, etc.
WINGED BOXCAR . Fair
child packet cargo plane, which
carries nine tons of payload at
200 miles an hour. The fuselage
Is 38 feet long and big enough that
* autos and trucks can be driven
inside.
• • •
PARALYZED VET FLIES
At Brigham, Utah, Dean Larsen,
a 25-year-old war vet of Wales,
Utah, has successfully soloed an air
plane after 5V4 hours of instruction,
even though he is paralyzed from
his hips down. The Bushnell gen
eral hospital patient made a 10-min
ute flight in a hand-operated two
passenger plane, John C. Weir and
Bill Rowe, his instructors, said.
Larsen was wounded in Germany in
1945 when a 45-caliber bullet lodged
[ in his spine.
Codling Moth May Be
Controlled by DDT
Drawbacks Present in
Application to Apples
By W. J. DRYDEN
By far the most effective material
tried against codling moth is DDT,
according to Prof. S. W. Harman
of Geneva experiment station.
These findings were backed up as
more effective than arsenate of
lead.
Present drawback seems to be
that in some cases rather severe in
festation of red spider in the apple
Coddling moth In apples.
orchards follow the application of
DDT When DN-111 is used to con
trol red spider, damage to foliage
results. New York found that the
destruction of the natural enemies
of the European red mite by the
DDT spray, resulted in increased
numbers of that pest. Further tests
are under way and care is advocat
ed in spraying for codling moth
until more information is available.
Where heavy spraying with lead
arsenate has not controlled codling
moth, growers are justified in adopt
ing a DDT program.
Know Your Breed
Swiss Jura
By W. J. DRYDEN
This photo shows a Swiss Jura
stallion going through its paces at
a Bernese Jura, Switzerland, fair.
The breed has proven its worth in
many respects, having proper tem
perment, strength and resistance
to disease.
The Jura horse is of exception
ally strong build, is tame and doc
ile, the stallions may even be used
for all types of farm work. The
breed offers excellent possibilities
for certain sections of America.
Protected Water Pail
Drinking fountain protector made
from electric welded wires, permits
poultry putting
their heads through
to drink, but keeps
their feet out. Mary
land station has
found this device, i
an aid in reducing ^
disease and still -
providing a fresh
water supply for the chickens.
Wire Catching Hook
This poultry catching hook is
made from heavy wire, of any
length suitable to the user. In most
cases a four-foot hook will be most
desirable, although if the roosts and
dropping boards are deeper, 5, 6 or
even 8 feet may be advisable.
Litter Pigs May Need
Iron to Cure Anaemia
When litter pigs show anaemia
they may be treated by being given
small doses of iron in the form of
reduced iron or sulphate of iron. By
placing a quantity about the size of
an aspirin tablet, back of the pig's
tongue, when the pigs are a few days
old and repeated in about a week,
improvement will usually be found,
according to Stanley Curtis of Nova
Scotia agricultural department.
Cement Raised Pigs
Show Excellent Gain
It is possible to raise pigs profit
ably on concrete according to find
ings of a Minnesota experiment.
Pigs kept continually on concrete
after they were 10 weeks old, and
during 105 days of fattening, gained
exactly as much as pigs fattened
on pasture. Feed consumption was
about the same, the pastured pigs
eating more corn but less mineral
and protein. Disease control was
easier with concrete raised pigs.
NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS
Lovely Crocket and Embroidery
7498
f UST see what a happy combina
tion of crochet and embroidery!
Notice how the crochet forms bas
kets or borders to set off flowers.
HOUSEHOLD
niriTSM
Tins which are not badly stained
can be polished well with brown
paper that has been moistened in
vinegar.
When washing hollow handled
knives do not allow them to remain
too long in water as this might
loosen them.
—•—
To clean a soured sponge, rub
fresh lemon into it thoroughly.
Rinse several times in lukewarm
water.
—•—
To avoid cloudy iced tea never
pour hot tea over ice or place it
in the refrigerator. Let the tea
cool in room temperature first.
—•—
Sew loose buttons on at once.
Takes only a moment and prevents
your losing the button.
—•—
Use old shower curtains to make
aprons, bibs, place mats, or sash
curtains for the bathroom.
—•—
Colored chenille spreads should
never be washed with other cot
tons even if they are color-fast. It
is important, too, that the machine
or tub be well washed first, for
lint from other cotton clings to the
chenille tufts and gives them a dull
look you won’t like.
—•—
Hang up towels to dry immedi
ately after using them to prevent
mildew. Never put a damp towel
in the laundry bag or leave it in
a heap on the bathroom floor.
National Emblems
See the power of national em
blems. Some stars, lilies, leopards,
a crescent, a lion, an eagle, or
other figure which came into cre
dit God knows how, an old rag of
bunting, blowing in the wind on a
fort at the ends of the earth, shall
make the blood tingle under the
rudest or the most conventional
exterior.—Emerson.
Use the crocheted section singly or re
peat it as shown. Pattern 7498 has trans
fer of 6 motifs 6 by 9 to 5 by 15>,4 Inches;
crochet directions.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current conditions, slightly more time Is
required in filling orders for a few of the
most popular pattern numbers.
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, 111
Enclose 20 cents for Pattern.
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Excessive Fat Seriously
Handicaps Divers, Aviators
Excessive fat is a handicap t«
aviators, divers and others sub
jected to changing air pressure be
cause fat, unlike hard muscle, ab
sorbs and holds nitrogen, thus in
creasing their susceptibility to
“bends,” says Collier’s. As fat is
more buoyant than hard muscle,
a man’s excessive fat may be de
termined scientifically by the re
lationship between his normal
weight and his weight under water.
For example, while a 200-pound
hard-muscled man may weigh 15
pounds under water, a 200-pound
fat man may weigh only six
pounds, the difference between tha
two weights of each man being
the basis of an index to the density
of his body.
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