' SITTING FOR PORTRAITS . . . One of the most popular activities
•f the USO hospital program Is sketching of patients’ portraits. USO
| camp show artists are touring army, navy and veterans’ hospitals
both In this country and abroad. Here Norma Humphries of Louis
ville, Ky.t sketches patients at Lawson General hospital.
NO DISCHARGE YET
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"Do 't Let Them Down/
USO Pleads in Fund Drive
WNU Features.
: NEW YORK. — Behind the rauy'
cry of "Keep It Up — Don’t Let
Them Down," USO is launching a
nationwide campaign this fall for
funds to carry through its services
until the end of 1947. Intent on ful
filling its responsibilities to the
young Americans who won the war
and those who are winning the
peace, USO has set a goal of 19
million dollars in the current drive.
Although the battle-clouds have
cleared, thousands of American
servicemen still will be overseas
throughout 1947. In addition to occu
pation forces, military and naval
personnel will be stationed in
such far-off places as the Philip
pines, Panama, Alaska, Hawaii,
Newfoundland and the Antilles.
Thousands in Hospitals.
On the home front, Uncle Sam’s
‘military and naval uniforms still dot
the American scene while thousands
of veterans, maimed by war, still
are confined in hospitals.
Foreseeing the continued need
for USO services, both the army
and navy requested the organ
1 Isation to continue Its program
for 1947. President Truman has
given his unqualified endorse
| ment to the drive, urging that
the appeal "should have
prompt, generous and universal
, support."
Major undertakings during the
.forthcoming year will be mainte
nance of USO clubs near camps and
:hospitals in the United States, sta
tion lounges and travelers' aid serv
ices, USO clubs overseas and USO
camp shows in hospitals.
Veterans to Assist.
Reporting that the American
people have indicated their support
of USO in its final campaign by
volunteering to assist in the fund
raising work, the headquarters
! campaign committee added that in
many communities men who have
taken the campaign leadership are
1 veterans of the war “who know
■ USO, are grateful and are deter
mined that it shall finish its job.”
Although USO activities and
j objectives have changed with
the altering needs of the armed
forces, the basic ideal re
mains the same — that of pro
viding Insofar as possible the
values of home to men called
upon to renounce home for the
sake of country.
During early stages of the war
when vast numbers were in train
ing USO clubs flourished through
out the country. As troops went
overseas, USO extended its work
through camp shows which toured
the Atlantic and Pacific war areas.
Lean to Teen-Agers.
Further flexibility was required of
USO after the war with drafting
and enlistment of 18-year-olds. Em
phasis In the USO program shifted
from more mature activities to
those popular with teen-agers.
When veterans' hospitals began
filling up with war casualties. USO
altered its program to include rec
reational and other services for
those confined to hospital wards.
With the changing scene, many
USO clubs have been eliminated in
cities which no longer have serv
icemen stationed nearby. Native
sons of those cities, however, still
are In uniform and they are among
those whom USO is serving in re
mote locales.
There's still a big morale job to
do for the one and a half million
men who will be in service through
out 1947, USO directors insist, and
the organization proposes to fulfill
its obligations until the end of 1947,
when It too will seek its "honor
able discharge.”
Wild Life at Capitol?
Only in Rat Population
WASHINGTON. - Rats to the
number of 2,000,000 are harbored in
the senate and house office build
ings, the capitol itself and the con
necting tunnels, an expert from the
fish and wild life service determined
in a census of wild animals on
Capitol Hill.
The census taker was John Jones,
rodent control technician. He im
mediately called a council of war.
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AVJAi I UN NOTES
BOOST AIRPORT REVENUES
Soaring air traffic figures at pas
senger-jammed terminals through
out the United States are Spurring
municipal efTorts to pull airports out
of debt by development of non
aviation concessions as well as in
creased charges to airlines, accord
ing to a report of the American
Municipal association.
Example of current action aimed
at making airports self-sustaining
community centers instead of mere
air depots is the agreement made
between the city of Chicago and op
erators of a new municipal air ter
minal restaurant now under con
struction. The restaurant conces
sionaire will pay Chicago 5 per cent
of gross sales plus 40 per cent of
net receipts as well as regular cafe
permits and license fees.
Such non-aviation concessions
are the subject of increased inter
est to municipal airport authorities
who expect postwar air traffic
growth to boost airport operating
expenses to $200,000,000 annually
within the next decade. Increased
revenues from concessions and in
creased landing fee revenues are
suggested as the principal means
available to balance airport bud
gets.
EXIT THE PILOT
An automatic flight controller—
a “push button” system assisted by
secondary control devices — is en
abling Douglas C-54 Skymasters to
make blind take-olTs and landings.
The new development differs from
the robot plane since the full auto
matic flight is performed in a plane
without a "mother ship." It is pos
sible with the automatic flight con
troller for a plane to take off by
“pushbutton” and reach a destina
tion without further manipulation of
any controls.
The device regulates the plane's
altitude, sends the plane into glider
range and operates the landing
gear. When the plane touches the
runway, the throttle automatically
cuts back and the brakes are ap
plied automatically.
The nation’s first air milk de
livery service will be Inaug
urated soon by the Ilawthorn
Mellody dairy farm of Chicago.
The dairy hopes to use refrig
erated planes to carry milk
from Wisconsin farms to Its
dairy at Llbertyvllle, 111.,
where it is constructing a “milk
landing Held.’’
• • •
NEW AIRMAIL STAMP . . .
This is the new flve-cent airmail
stamp struck to meet the de
crease in airmail postage rates
from eight to live cents an ounce.
It becomes effective October 1.
Central design of the stamp Is a
modern four-motored transport
plane In flight.
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NEW SAFETY DEVICE
Heralded as a new safety device,
the “fault detector’’ has been de
veloped in Sweden and installed on
Swedish commercial airliners. Ex
haustively tested, the new invention
quickly indicates imperfections in
the engine even before ordinary in
struments show any reaction. The
device consists of a small steel pin
placed in a metal cylinder attached
to the battery of the plane and con
nected with a warning bulb on the
instrument panel.
i
IN THESE UNITED STATES
Party Line Disappears but
Neighbors Still ‘Listen In’
CHEYENNE WELLS, COLO. —
Another signpost in rural American
living was threatened here when
the party line gave way to a radio
telephone hookup.
One consolation, however, is that
the time-honored rural practice ot
"listening in” will survive the
changeover to modern communica
tion methods. It is still possible to
pick up the receiver when a neigh
bor’s ring sounds and "listen in”
on the conversation, a habit which
has brought relief from boredom
and monotony to lonely farm wom
en for generations.
An eight-party circuit, utilizing
both short wave radio - telephone
and standard wire, was turned over
to eight ranchers in the eastern
Colorado plains surrounding this lit
tle town for the first actual opera
tion of the new equipment.
Officials of Mountain States Tele
phone and Telegraph company em
phasized that the service still was
experimental although under actual
commercial conditions. It was In
stalled here because company offi
cials decided this is a typical plains
community.
The new equipment is one of the
plans by which the Bell system,
with which the local company is af
filiated, is seeking to extend serv
ice to one million more homes with
in the next few years.
The eight ranches using the new
equipment vary in distance from
11 to 21 miles from the central of
fice and are in a region without
previous telephone or power lines.
Equipment at each ranch in
cludes a receiver, 10-watt trans
mitter, telephone, two antennae and
home power plant. Only the tele
phone is in view.
Ma, Pa and Baby Bush Tail
Pose Acute Housing Problem
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—Latest
victim of the housing shortage is
the bushy-tailed squirrel.
Growth in squirrel families and
heavy lumbering operations in the
state’s forests have combined to re
sult in an acute situation for man’s
bushy-tailed friends, Missouri con
servationists report.
The tree-housing shortage is made
even more desperate by the papa
squirrel’s insistence on continuing
one of his age-old customs. It seems
that when the female gives birth
to young, the father is ousted from
the tree to pace the ground and is
allowed to return only when the
youngsters have found homes of
their own.
That means that every couple
really needs three trees — one for
Hoboes Again Heed
Call of Open Road
As Regulations Ease
BLOOMINGTON. ILL. — Hoboes
are hitting the road again, and in
this one phase of the rush of peace
time traffic the travelers find little
trouble securing accommodations.
As Bloomington is a division point
for several railroads, local police
and charity agencies consider this
city a fairly accurate gauge of the
activities of knights of the road.
Now. as before the war, hoboes
make Bloomington an important
stop.
To care for the itinerants, two
charity agencies, the Salvation
Army and Home Mission, maintain
facilities for quartering nearly 200
men.
Increased hobo traffic results
from closing of war plants and dis
charge of many hoboes from the
army, believes O. K. Torgen
son. Salvation Army rfdjutant.
Billy Shelper of the Home Mis
sion attributes the increase to eas
ing of wartime travel restrictions
that kept tramps ofT trains to pre
vent sabotage. The 'boes can get a
ride in comparative safety now, he
adds.
the home, one for papa’s bachelor
apartment and one for the young
to use when they are partially
grown.
Lumbering operations to provide
material for man's housing take
only the older trees, leaving the |
young and cavity-less trees which
are most unsuitable for squirrels.
Only solution advanced by con- i
servationists is that nature groups
plant “temporary” housing in areas
where the tree-housing situation is
most acute.
Camp Fire Girls
Open Nationwide
Membership Drive
NEW YORK. — With 360,000 mem
bers participating, the annual mem
bership march of camp fire girls is
underway throughout the country.
The campaign will extend through j
November 30.
“America always has used the;
past to build for the future; it is a ;
nation that looks to tomorrow,” Dr. |
Bernice Baxter, national president,
said in a statement urging local
units to extend the benefits of the
camp fire program to larger num
bers of girls in the community. j
“The youth of today, who will
carry on the spirit of our nation,
must be grounded and trained In
those principles which make for
better living, for it is youth who
will decide whether we continue to
build or whether we fall back to the
past,” Dr. Baxter continued.
In connection with the national
campaign, local Camp Fire Girls
units will hold special activities de
signed to interest non-members in
aims of the organization. Special
emphasis will be placed on events
showing the program in action.
Backing the campaign, Tom C.
Clark, attorney general, declared
that Camp Fire Girls and other
youth-serving agencies foster health
and character-building programs
which are “the first line of attack”
in combating juvenile delinquency.
WORLD’S OTHER QUINTS . . . Not quite as famous nor publicized as
Canada's Dionne quints are the Diligenti quintuplets of Buenos Aires,
three girls and two boys, who recently celebrated their third birthday
anniversary. Wearing sailor uniforms, they appear almost like a midget
ship's crew. They are children of Mr. and Mrs. Franco Diligenti.
War Searches Recalled as Derelict Drydock Hunted
NEW YORK.—In the most inten
sive sea search in the Atlantic since
the end of the war, the coast guard
launched a hunt for a partially sub
merged derelict floating drydock
capable of sinking a ship the size
of the Queen Mary.
The navy drydock originally
slipped from a navy tug in heavy
seas about 330 miles off Norfolk,
Va.. and broke in two parts.
After one section was sighted.
carrier based planes dropped 500
pound bombs on the target, scor
ing two direct hits but failing to
sink the derelict drydock. A coast
guard cutter armed with TNT dem
olition mines then launched a new
search.
Coast guard planes and vessels
and a navy tug were searching in
another sector for the second
section of the drydock.
Peach Tree Borer
PDB Control Urged
Pest Biggest Peach
Problem in America
By W. J. DRYDEN
Fall is the time to forestall the
1946 peach borer. Material increase
in the average productive life of
peach trees can be brought about
by the effective con
trol of peach tree
borers.
Masses of gum
mixed with sawdust
like refuse at or near
the base of the trees
reveal the presence
of infestations. The
injury may extend
about a foot above or
below the ground
n line.
Best control is obtained by apply
ing powdered crystalline paradi
chloro-benzene (PDB) to the ground
in a ring around the tree as shown
in the illustration. The ring should
be mounded with three to five
spadefuls of earth.
The amount of PDB to be used
will depend upon the age of the
tree. For trees 1 year old, use Vt
ounce; 2 years old, hi ounce; 3
to 5 years old, % ounce, and for old
er trees, from 1 to 2 ounces.
Know Your Breed
Jerseys
Originating in the Island of Jer
sey, the Jersey breed of dairy cattle
first was imported into the United
States about 1850.
Jerseys are said to be more even
ly distributed in the United States
than any other breed. They pos
sess to a great degree those quali
ties ideal for dairy types. Alert,
clean-cut, angular and refined in
conformation they still have large
barrels.
Their milk test is right and cost
of butterfat production is low. Aver
age butterfat content is 5.35 per
cent, highest of all breeds.
Fall Versus Spring
Fertilized Pastures
It is becoming increasingly evi
dent from tests at New Jersey sta
tion and other states that except on
very sandy soils fertilizers contain
ing nitrogen for grassland and pas
ture sods, may be applied in late
summer or early fall.
Fertilizers containing phosphoric
acid and potash only, such as the
mixtures usually recommended for
alfalfa and Ladino clover fields, can
be even more efficiently applied in
the fall than in the spring.
Mineral Hopper for Hens
Laying hens and growing chicks
need a constant supply of calcium
in form of oyster shell or limestone.
This hopper may be hung on the
wall of the chicken house.
Conquering Flax Wilt
By Resistant Strains
During the early 20th century the
flax industry was faced with a seri
ous problem. “Flax-sickness" was
making the industry unprofitable.
It was found that “flax-sickness”
was the result of a flax disease
called wilt. This wilt fungus was
Introduced into the new soil when
cropped to flax, where it lived and
multiplied ready to attack later
flax crops. The remedy was the
introduction of new wilt-resistant va
rieties of flax.
—
Double-Cross Corn Is
Unfit for Reproduction
All plants in a field of corn plant
ed with hybrid seed of a given
strain are related—first cousins. The
seed coming from such a field is
definitely inbred and should not be
saved for seed, points out the
USDA. Reduction in vigor and
grain yield is always the result of
inbreeding in corn. The alternative
is to plant each year the freshly
j crossed seed of tested strains of hy
brid corn.
An Old Iron Cot and Some Spare
Cushions Turned Into a Smart Sofa
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over to fit the back and the ends
of the cot. Three were covered
with plain green. The cot cover
has a number of features that re
quire a little more material than
the type that is always pulled un
tidily this way and that but it is
worth it.
• • •
The whole Job, cushions and all, used
3 yards of 36-inch chintz and three yards
of plain sateen the same width.
The methods used for making this at
tractive corner—even the wall and floor
finishes are fully described in BOOK 6
which also contains more than 30 other
illustrated ideas for things you will enjoy
200-Pound Firework of
40,000 Candle Power
The largest device ever made
containing fireworks was the
round “bomb” that was exploded
over London on Saturday night,
June 8, 1946, as a part of the vic
tory celebration, says Collier’s.
Weighing nearly 200 pounds and
fired from a special mortar, this
firework burst at a height of 750
feet and produced a pyrotechnic
display whose illumination exceed
ed 40,000 candle power.
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