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About Port Orford post. (Port Orford, Oregon) 1937-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1937)
PORT ORFORD. OREGON. POST IT’S TIME FOR YOUR RED FLANNELS! With Ohl Man Winter Wetting His Chilly Whistle, Americans Minding Your Business. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.- A society is forming in England for the defense of the former Edward VIII, now the duke of Windsor and hon orary citizen of all places in this country named for the Simpson family. S Keeping warm in winter has its problems for the poor fellow in the cartoon, who, like 12.000 other Amer icans. wears red flannels in the winter. The airlines have their warmth problem licked, for the same mo bile unit (left) which pumps cold air into the planes in summer fills them with warm air in winter; after thev take off, a steam heating unit goes into operation. Some scientists predict that one day most of - the - solar - our heat will come from the sun via machine, such as Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, is demonstrating (right). By WILLIAM C. UTLEY HOUTS may come and un dershirts may go, but with the first twinge of frosty weather there are still 12,000 men in the United States who are walking up to store count ers and demanding red flan nel underwear, adding one hundred thousand dollars to the $2,000,000,000 fund which this country spends every year in the business of keep ing warm. S Gone, however, are the days when digging ear-muffi out of a trunk in the attic and chopping enough stove wood to Oil the back yard con stituted the average man's D^epa- JM. Then Unas fbt the I,»' trouble^ lui knowl- > to light nas flow mat the .edteal irei of the human body can not drop more than five degrees without causing death in most cases, “Getting hot”—-1937 style—in volves not only coal miners and wood choppers, but scientists delv ing into the mysteries of new kinds of heat, architects poring over blue prints for automatically heated homes, and engineers supervising the operation of huge machines that work with machine gun rapidity, stamping out the parts for boilers, burners and eleetric stoves. In the first place, there is the matter of supplying enough fuel to heat the 12.000,000 homes and 2,- 000.000 commercial structures that when the require artificial mercury slides down towards the freezing point. $100,000,000 for Coal. All during the summer and fall. more than 600.000 men have been working with pick and shovel in mines throughout the country, piling up mountains of coal for protection against the arctic blasts to come. Coal dealers estimate that be tween 50 and 60 per cent of the coal bought for heating purposes is shov eled into furnaces during the win ter months, bringing the United States' coal bill for this season of the year alone to about $400.000.000. In the oil and gas fields of Okla homa. Texas, California and Penn sylvania, an army of 100,000 labor ers is kept busy extracting gas and fuel oil to aid in the business of keeping warm. So rapidly has the heating of houses and buildings with fuel oil and gas increased in the past few years, that It is estimated 35.000.000 barrels of fuel oil will be needei this winter to keep modern furnac :s roaring, and the bill will reach'the staggering total of more than $150.000,000 Shivering house owners will dig down into their pockets for another $350,006.000 for gas. and additional thousands of dollars for electricity to run the most modern of all heat ing equipment. • Such tremendous expenditures for fuel were unheard of a generation or two ago. and in fact the mod ern trend towards automatic heat ing which Is now sweeping the coun try. and piling up huge fuel and equipment bills, did not begin in earnest until after the World war. The Two Kinda of Heat. Almost all the modern improve ments in heating equipment which make life not only possible but com fortable in the temperate zone, stem from experiments conducted not by isolated research experts, but by scientists working in the labora tories of one of the country's largest electrical companies that present day Americans are indebted tor improvements that have come from the amazing discovery that there ■re essentially two kinds of heat: radiant and convected Convected heat the kind given off hy open fires and hot air furnaces —produces warmth by heating the air. On the other hand, it was found that radiant heat consists of rays which warm the body without nec essarily having much effect on the surrounding air. As the result of this research, and investigations by scientists connect ed with other industrial concerns, engineers have found the answer to widely-varying problems in heating brought about by changed condi tions of modern living. They have conquered the difficulties of install ing 65 miles of steam conduits be neath the swarming arteries of traf fic in New York to pipe warmth from central hea^g plants to 2.000 buildings. On office ana i he scale is the opposil i of a sep- the succi . a bird arate h« house. j rd house. The im probably *!>«•_, i .. in existence, Is the property ofN elifornia worn- In training canaries to sing. she found it most effective to keep them shut up in large outdoor houses, completely insulated against outside noises so that the birds would hear nothing but the sound of phono graph records being played. This brought on the problem of air-condi tioning the bird house, and a com plete ventilating and steam heating system was installed, with steam heat pipes enclosed in the walls. Managers of the nation's trans continental airways, faced with the difficulties of passenger comfort on winter flights, took their problem to heating engineers, who have devel oped a unique system for warming the huge passenger planes that now roar across the sky trails. As the result of scientific research and experiments. cross-country planes this winter will be warmed by "living steam heat." designed to maintain a temperature in the cab ins of at least 70 degrees even dur ing the coldest weather. The flying heaters, which weigh only 140 pounds, produce enough steam to five-room house on the ground Using only eight quarts of the miniature boilers are heated by exhaust gases from the engines, and the temperature is reg ulated either by thermostats, or by controls in the pilot's compartment. Provision is made for a complete change of air in the transport planes every tour minutes, so that the at mosphere does not become "stuf fy." Thawing Out Iron Ore. Before the take-off of each flight, and before the exhaust from the en gines has had a chance to start the steam heater in operation, the inte riors of the huge planes are warmed by special mobile heating units, maintained at the airports. These units, mounted on small trucks, pump warmed air into the cabins, thus bringing the temperature to the desired level before passengers enter the ship. Not only is human comfort In the wintertime dependent on scientific developments, but the business life of the nation as well, for industrial schedules must be maintained de Here spite weather conditions. again, research experts in one in- dustry came to the rescue of an- other when engineers of the B F Goodrich company solved a stub born problem at the root of all in dustry by making it possible to ship iron ore in zero weather from the Great Lakes district On the shores of Lake Superior. where snow and ice clc e in while are s 1 running. the big ere bi carloads of wet iron ore freeze into solid chunks before they can be un loaded. To meet this emergency, the engineers devised a hose of spe cially compounded rubber through super-heated steam is which pumped into the cars, effectively thawing out the ore so that it can be handled quickly and efficiently and shipped to the steel mills as the "food” to keep industry hum- ming. While the ravenous demands of the steel mills arc being satisfied, heating engineers have also had the problem of keeping food for the din ner tables moving to the markets in winter. Tropical fruits, for instance, are brought into this country green, and then ripened in specially construct ed heating rooms. Bananas are put in rooms to ripen, with the temper ature carefully regulated between 56 and 70 degrees. By controlling the temperature of the ripening rooms, marketers can delay or hasten the ripening process and so adjust the supply of bananas to-reach c u ers’w a steady stream. Grap- is ripened in specially-heated ro at a temperature of 75 degrees "air-conditioned lemons” are kept at a temperature of from 54 to 59 degrees until they are ready to be sold to the public. Despite the emphasis on heat for food, industries and homes, the busi ness of keeping warm has as one of the most troublesome problems the difficulty of keeping a nation com fortable during the winter, while re ducing lire hazards to the lowest possible point. The extent to which Uns is being accomplished can be easily seen from the fact that while the volume of business increased 34 per cent in the automatic heat ing industry from 1935 to 1936, tire losses increased only 11.9 per cent. Fire Losses Decrease. According to statistics compiled by the authoritative Heating and Ventilating magazine, the volume of business in Uie automatic heating industry has jumped more than 2D per cent in the past live years. In ¡932. it is estimated that the sale of automatic heating equipment amounted to only S4l.711.OUO. By 1936 this figure had increased to $108.930.000. Meanwhile, tire losses m the Unit ed states in 1936 totaled $263,259,746, according to estimates of the Na tional Board of Fire Underwriters, showing a decrease of 34 per cent from the 1932 figure of $400.859,000, Nevertheless, there are still enough defective chimneys and flues left in the country so that it is estimated that about $10,000,000 worth of property will go up in smoke this coming winter, and a similar amount will be lost because of imperfect stoves, furnaces and boilers. As scientists attack this problem, as well as others, there is a hint Uiat the future might see great changes not only in Uie type of heat ers used, but in the kind of fuel, for recent experiments point to a time when we may get all or most ol our heat from the sun. Abbot, head of the Dr. C Smithsonian Institution, has recent ly developed a solar heater that is the most efficient yet produced. Uti lizing the hot rays of the sun. re flected by a bright metal sheet, he has succeeded in heating a black liquid called arodor to a tempera ture at which it can be used for turning water into steam. Experts declare that solar rays available for heat are at least 1,000 times as powerful as all the coal, oil and hydro electric power now u«*»* Ai- though the conversion of «un rays into heat is still too costly to com- pete with the cheap« r and better known fuels, scientist: i say the day may come when thes e are all ex- hausted. and when w, the sun for heat and power, and the business of keepii rally be done with mirrors This society does not hope to re store the duke to the throne. That would not only an noy the archbishop of Canterbury, he al ready having things to annoy him, such as Americans, but would seriously up set Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who upsets so easily that it seems strange the British never have thought of calling him Reversible Stan. Irvin S. Cobb Besides, the throne would be quite crowded if the duke tried to snuggle in there along with the present occupants. What some of us over here think— and that goes for many Canadians, too—is that England has a crying need for a society dedicated to the broad general principle of minding its own business and suffering the duke and his wife to mind theirs. We have a rough idea that both of them can better endure long-dis tance snubs than officious meddling in their private affairs. Just being an ex-king is a hard enough job— even if you can get it to do. Political Afterthoughts. ASTER ROLLO, aged seven, and city raised, was visiting relatives in the country. On his first morning he came in wearing a worried cast of countenance. “Mother,” he said, "I've been out under the mulberry trees." “Yes.” "Mother, do mulberries have hard backs and six legs and crawl around on the ground?" “Why, certainly not.” “Then, Mother,” said Rollo in stricken tones, "I feel I have made a dreadfial mistake." t^e point? Oh nothing, only fining what. the. brood- ;i et# of some mvmtters of mg -um " Mion and a majority of the . of the senate must be the me Tib ■call the alacrity with when they which th* y moved to fill a certain ncy in a certain very recent high ci t—in fact, the highest one 1—Dictator Adolf Hitler (right) of Germany and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy riding together in Munichthe Kalian leader's visit to Germany recently. J-WeUerweight Champion Barney R<^ shoots a hard left to Cerefino Garcia’s jaw during their title bout in New York in winch Ross retained crow . 3__One of China's “women of valor” who have answered their nation’s caff to arms. ____ _ TO COUNT JOBLESS They’re Telling Tall Fish Stories M Hirsute Virility. PARISIAN boulevardiers believe a * dense arboreal effect of whiskers is proof that the wearer is indeed a man, without, in all cases, being absolutely convincing .-'bout it. We haven't gone that far yet, but I would like to know whence comes this Wotton of appraising masculine vigor by the amount of hair along the breast-bone? Morbid, I calls it. Two distinguished authors battle when one intimates the other is scantily adorned in that regard, for getting that, in the immature sum mer peltage of his kind, an author has but a scanty growth as com pared with the richer winter coat. And then prying reporters ask the new glamor prince of the movies whether he has any fleece at all upon his chest, their tone indicating they rather expected to find trailing arbutus there, or at least some shy anemone. Years ago in the hospital, when I was being shorn for an operation. I remember remarking to myself that here was the only barber who'd ever worked on me without trying to sell me a bottle of hair tonic. Jolin D. Biggers of Toledo, Ohio, administrator of the unemployment census, who announced that regis tration blanks will be distributed to the nation's 31,0< »«0 families on NoFemèer 16 ai>i 1- The blanks will be passed out by postmen. Per sons out of work or in part-time jobs will be asked to till them out and mail them to W ishington by [ November 20. -Jack Itempaey, former worldM heavyweight champion, and winner ol the Country. Home/Magazine's Annual award fc^- tkt est rural newspaper correspondence, met recently, they discovered a mutual interest in fishing. Fin, who comes from Opal, Wyo., has just asked Jack to join him on an expedition through the Jackson Hole coun- try. The ex-champ is saying, “Okay.” w America’s Youngest Freshman o Joanna Xenos, thirteen, daughter of a Chicago cook, is America's youngest college freshman this fall. She matriculated at Mundelein col lege. Miss Xenos. shown above. Is working in the chemistry laboratory. She has been famous as a prodigy ever since she was seven years old. LEGION AID Mrs. Malcolm Douglas of Seattle, Wash., who was elected president of the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion at its recent con vention in New Y'ork. She succeeded Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln, Neb., as head of the organization. Miss America—1S37. T LAST some rational excuse- in moral values, anyhow—has been found for a so-called national beauty contest. The seventeen-year-old New Jer sey girl chosen as "Miss America of 1937” is not going into vaudeville, is not going to make any personal appearances is not coming to Holly wood for a screen test, is not going to accept a radio contract, is not even going to write her life story for publication. She will return to school and to the normal home life of a well-raised normal girl—that is. unless she changes her mind about it all. If she shouldn't change her mind, she stands out as probably the san est young person of her age at pres ent residing on this continent or, should we say. this planet. If she should change her mind- well. the American populace has been fooled many a time and oft be fore. Our grandfathers didn’t be lieve human beuigs ever could fly. Our fathei s didn't believe anybody would eve r lick John L. Sullivan Only the ol her day our United Stated senators d idn't believe their fellow- statesman, Mr. Black of Alabama, could be a Klansman. They thought that low but persistent sound of “Ku-Klux. Ku-Klux” was but the voice of s modest hen. IRVIN S. COBB. A Gridders Register a Rig Kick for Harvard A few of the members of Harvard's 1937 football squid pictured during a recent workout at Camb_ Mass., as they registered a mighty kick in nnison for their alma mater. Left to right are: Francis f. Francis A. Harding. Robert M. Burnett. Torbert H. MacDon .ld. WiUiam J. Clothier, 5 ern« Strnc Charles Houghton. < .
