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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Monday, July 5, 1948 Insulation Ineffective MUNCIE, Ind. (U.R) A truck loaded with fireproof insulating material caught fire, resulting in damage estimated at $275. The truck pulled up beside the cen tral fire station, where the firfi was extinguished. Read the Journal Want Ads For Your Picnic MIRACLE WHIP SANDWICH SPREAD Watermelons 31 c lb. Pop All Flavors - $1.00 Case (Plus Deposit) Pickles, Olives, Potato Chips, Lemons, Bananas White Seedless Grapes. n i r" Er& L 'mm-. Modern highway ikhL are best served by a six-rib tread construction. The AUTHORIZED DEALER HERB HlIiEBERG, Ownrr Canal Idea Revived in European Plans I By ROBERT D. GRAFF ) United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS (U.R) The Panama Ca nal would look like an irrigation ditch compared to a canal con necting the Atlantic and Medi terranean currently being con sidered by the French govern ment. The proposed canal would be deep enough to take the biggest battleship or. aircraft carrier from Bordeaux on the Atlantic side 150 miles across the south of France to the Mediterranean port of Sete in 30 hours. Such a shortcut would cut three days steaming off the pres ent round-Gibraltar route. It also would provide an alternate war-time lifeline between the western allies and their eastern bases. Idea Is Old The canal idea is three cen turies old and has been proposed many times before. Current "cold war" talk caused the plans to be hauled out and dusted off once again. The big switch is the time and money required to dredge the ditch and to install its eight locks. French engineers esti mate it would take 30.000 labor ers eight vears to finish the job, at a cost of S00.000,00. Ameri can capital is wanted to finance part of the digging. Actually, a rowboat-sizo canal built by Louis XIV back in the 17th century runs along the pro posed canal route. Engineers figure on widening it to 400 feet and dredging it to 40 feet to take any ship afloat, except perhaps for the Queen Mary. SKILLED HANDS . . . . find out what's wror.g vith your most precious time piece Make the necessary repair expertly. WWW GROVE JEWELRY THE CORNER JEWELER 601 .Main St. Dial 228 011 CREST TIRES Above all other considerations, your personal safety should dictate your choice of tires. And Crest Deluxe offers the dependability which comes of first-quality materials and care ful workmanship. The strong body and deep, sure-tread de sign of Crest Deluxe Tires have now been augmented by a stronger carcass than in pre war tires. This all adds up to safety, dependability and long life. 6.00 x 16 $12.95 PLUS TAX jkmwm mom The Crest Deluxe tread combines center traction and high-speed per formance for an all-around tire ot proven superiority. Off-tho-highway operation calls for a tread having rugged traction qualities. 66 Fnersdly S?or 1 1 riattsmyuth Sobring Stripes 1 i These are the Air Force's new chevrons. They're dark blue with stripes of silver gray, and they are four inches wide. At top is the new insignia for a first-grade enlisted man (master sergeant), and at bottom is the fourth-grade (sergeant) chevron United Nations Reports Warn Of Shortage By GEORGE SALERNO United Press Staff Correspondent ROME (U.R) Even a bumper harvest in 19-48 will leave world production of crcps far below world needs, the Rome office of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization report ed. In a general survey of world food conditions, the FAO regional office warned that world-wide conservation would be needed to maintain supplies of the most es sential scarce food. FAO urged that governments take all measures to reduce food losses due to lack of conserva tion, insect and rodent infesta tion and animal losses, which were estimated to be one-tenth of the total annual world pro duction. The regional office, describing its activities in Italy, announced that it had arranged for semen obtained from American Holstein and brown Swiss bulls to be shipped to the Spallanzani Insti tute in Milan, to enable Italy to start a program of artificial in semination of Italian livestock. The plan is to restore depleted livestock herds. Home Canning Urged Home canning projects and food demonstrations were con ducted regularly all through last winter in Florence, Padua and Naples. Forestry specialists have been here since 1947 helping the min istry of agriculture develop and execute forest programs. Pro jects planned or underway in clude analyzing and testing of forest seed, replacements of windbreaks destroyed by the war and experimental work in exotic forest species. Meanwhile, the urgency of agrarian reform was stressed by Paolo Bonomi, Christian Demo crat member of the Italian na tional assembly. Bonomi said it is necessary to '"increase production to a maxi mum, thereby contributing to the solution of a social problem, es pecially in the south of Italy, where the peasants not infre quently live in primordial con ditions." Oldest Dog Ls 26 NEW YORK (U.R) Vamp, a 20-year-old female Pomeranian, is the oldest dog in the city, ac cording to the SPCA. Next are Buddy, 22. a male poodle; Petro, 21, a female Irish terrier; Prince, 19, a male fox terrier, and Ling Toy Lee, 15, a male chow. Use Journal Want Ads Walter II. Harold R. Smith & Lebetts Attorney s-at-Law Donat Bldg. - Plattsmouth MORE IMPORTANT . BANKS DEMAND fire in surance to cover all their mortgages. If it is important for them, it is much more necessary for you to protect your own equity INSURE, NOW, with Stephen M. Davis Second Floor Plattsmouth State Bank Bids. Phone 6111 Food Pill Devised To Allay Hunger In Emergencies By ROB ROY BUCKINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent : LONDON (U.R Dr. Hellmuth Edhardt Heitz, one of the world's j leading authorities on concen-1 trated foods, says future genera- ' tions need not fear the advent ' of capsuled beefsteaks or pillbox strawberry short cake. Heitz, who began experiment- ing with food concentrates nearly 20 years ago after getting the idea during a big game hunt, as- I sorted in an interview that solid , food could never be substituted as a permanent diet. However, he believes capsuled food has its place, and an im portant one. especially in an ! emergency. j The naturalized Briton, who studied medicine at the Univer sity of Vienna, is now the head of Allied Laboratories, Limited, which manufactured emergency rations in tablet form at the rate of 2,000,000 a week. Used During War Heitz's ration is contained in a pill the size of a quarter, called Etagone. It was used during the war by the British merchant ' navy, commandos and ambulance units and is now being converted for peace-time. The stocky, gray-haired doc tor said a large scale test would be conducted shortly in a famine area. He said Etagone also would be a fit luncheon for a harassed office worker. Tt is far healthier to have one of my pills than Ao gobble down a badly made sandwich and suf fer indigestion," he contended. Heitz said Etagone. which will keep a man comfortably for five and a half days without food or water, comes in many flavors. The favorite flavor during the war with the British navy was a banana and caramel mixture. Flavor Important 'This flavor selecting is a deli cate thing." he explained. '"We must be careful to pick one that does not produce thirst." He said that ruled out beefsteak flavor. Etagone will be tailored to taste for various foreign coun tries, he said, although the in gredients arc the same. He said China, for instance, might want a chop suev taste in their Eta gone, while lemon probably would be popular in the United States. Heitz Said he would go to America probably late this year to see about prospects for manu facturing Etagone there. The scientist said he conducted many of the initial tests himself. Two week ago he lived for five and a half days on Etagone. Good for One Week '"I had no thirst at all and slept better than usually," he said. He hopes to store enough energy in Etagone to last a man for one week, he considered the maxi mum. The tablets contain no mo'sture but are designed to prevent any feeling of thirst by helping the body make the best use of its wa ter reserves. Etagone provides the equivalent of nine-elevenths cf an ounce of fresh meat pro- I tein and the same amount of minerals as a day's ordinary diet, with a half ounce of dextrin and ovolecithin. The dose is four tablets a day. READ THE JOURNAL FOP. THE LATEST IN NEWS. TERRY'S REFRIGERATOR AND ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE Dial 3233 or 3233 809 Avenue D IT SEEMS BUT YESTEBST . . . . that the "Talking Machine" was a neigh borhood .sensation and people came for blocks ta hear its music and romic recitations. Boys learned new tunes to ivhistle and the girls sat "moony eyed" listening Lo the love songs. That was a milestone in our country's musical cul ture. Remember? CALDWELL Funeral Home Dial 4111 A Dying Farm 5s Brought Baza - 1 V 700 Men Revive 16 Worn-Out Georgia Acres By NEA Service WINDER, Ga. (NEA) Seven hundred men using a million dollars worth of equipment com pletely rebuilt the worn-out 168 acre , Carlvle-Blakey farm at Winder in one day. While a crowd of more than 50,000 watched and sometimes gjt in the way here are some of the things that were done: The entire farm, half of which had been idle land, was' revitaliz ed and refurbished. Every acre was subjected to one or mere Gf almost 30 different treatments, according to the na ture of the land and the purpose for which it was to be used. A gully as deep as a three-story building was tilled, leveled off and set to sod. Three irrigation waterways were put in, and the land they watered was planted respectively to fescuse grass, Ladino clover and sericea. Seven acres were planted to cotton, eight acres to corn. A good-sized fish pond was cre ated, filled and stocked with fish. A metal utility barn was erected. , All hillside land in danger of erosion was terraced. All trees on the farm were thinned, treated and classified. The making over of this farm, a project sponsored jointly by the Atlanta Journal, the Soil Con servation Service and Winder civic groups", is believed here to be much the biggest job of its kind ever done, and also an out standing example of how to fight the farm-killing- effects' of soil erosion. The Army Signal Corps main tained communications, assisted by soldiers, sailors and Marines". One equipment dealer estimated that his contribution of men and machinery cost him $10,000. An other dealer supplied 80 tons of limestone that was spread during the day. In all 64 major and 254 intermediate types of equipment were used. FAILS TO GET 1RIP BUT . RATES "A" FOR EFFORT ! Springfield, Tenn. (U.R-Eleven-; year-old Bob Curtis and his i cronies won't go to Bedloe's is land after all to help clean up the site of the Statue of Liberty. Red Ryder "TACKLE CO:Ar STAo N, CCACH, FLO.' 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Probably many of the thou sands came to see a spectacle, and none of these was disappoint ed. But many others came to learn the latest methods for treating worn-out farmland. These included experts from Sweden, Chile, Peru and South Africa. Hugh H. Bennett, chitf of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, said: 'What is taking place here is one of the most historic events in this state or the United States. It is a great deal more important to the progress of civilization than was the building of the pyramids of Egypt, which required cen turies." Young Curtis read in his school paper that there were unsightly heaps of rubbish on the island. He wrote President Truman off- , ering to organize a group of : schoolboys to go to New York and clean things up if the gov- 50 WCj-ITT TOUCH CHARACTERS HAS 3 OUT THESE Ri"KOC PLANS, 5J.eorY TiPPP CFF THci 3A3 THAT E'JVf?. CVSE 1 l "0 Trie STASE DEPOT i s Iff. - t 1 -M ' crnment would pay their e::- ! penses. 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