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By ETU AN GRANT
A lot of , persona seem to want
the mar to end to-they can buy a
Jeep. Personally, if all the people
who want a Jeep get one, I think
I'd Just as.. leave own a General
Sherman, tank. IVe been looking
into the possibilities of acquiring
a tank, but so far have met with
ment. ' :v-V; e . v y
i IVe also been investigating the
Chances of acquiring a dirigible.
The world will be so full of jeeps
that some of us at least will have
to take to the skies. Dirigibles, or
blimps, or as some call them, sau-
alttwMierih th( ripithpr TP.
gemble nor smell like sausage)
have many advantages. My inves
tigation disclosed some interesting
facts, vy
f It takes a lot of people to build
a blimp. Also -a lot of geometry.
This is because a blimp must have
a shape which isn't alike in any
two spots. The same as the shapes
of 1 some people. The Germans
were the first to build blimps, but
their jobs were dismal flops. Not
being sure of their ground, the
Germans kept trying and trying to
get into the air, but finally took
the things under water and started
ahooting torpedoes with them.
;The Americans - have : done
very well with blimps, - and,
come the war's end, maybe
fbereH be seme -attractive bar-
gains auctioned off. I've been
' unable to get any .reliable quo
tations, but I've an Idea yon
eurM to pick a pretty good
used Job for areand a million
jor so, on -the easy payment
.Plan. -' ; 7
I These modern blimps have metal
skins, guaranteed against shed
ding. In fact, you'd find it' pretty
hard to skin " one of our blimps.
Even scalding wouldn't help much.
Although I'd never recommend a
blimp skin for use as a liivng room
rug. if you happen to acquire one.
and want : to raise poultry, it
might make a "pretty satisfactory
chicken house.
One of the first things I no-
- ticed about our blimps was that
they 4 have eight fins, which is
more" thaw most, fish have. The
extra fins give the blimp greater
maneuverability than a fish, par
ticularly in the matter of altitude.
Fish are notably inept when it
comes to attaining high altitudes.
- r Our blimps have very stiff nos
es, but they are not at all snob
bish.' They only seem so, -because
they are always under pressure.
The pressure increases in direct
ratio to the increase of speed. Like
water boy, for example.
Our blimps have a number
. of features which should ap
peal to you. A feature that at-
tracted my eye was-'their ex
i eellent air scoops. If yon nnder-
stand . them, these new air
scoops are nearly as easy to p-
crate as a trans-Atlantic wire
: less telegraph station. Or a
, printing press. ,
. And when it comes to maneuv
ering the blimp in and out of its
" hangar, youll practically fall in
. i love with the new type of hand
i blower The remarkable thing
; 'about this modern deviceHs that
; ! you can get your blimp out of its
'- hangar without taking the hangar
; . with? you. As you know, sailing
, the skies with a-hangar in tow
impedes progress. Not to mention
:what it does to your dignity.
; A remarkable feature is the
-fuel system, an amazingly novel
arrangement whereby you merely
--fill the tank : with gasoline and
forget it. Tubes running direct to
the engines do the rest. Of course,
' jlf j the tanks run dry and there
' are no filling stations handy, you
run into - the same , old trouble.
An4 -win - tftttn nauar folamflft- tH
;"i tabes for that.' V:.-:
; I took particular note of - the
new suspension cables, which
seemed to have no vibration . at
all. - Nothing can be more dlscon-
certing to a blimp man than sus-
. pension cables which shake his
i teeth all out. Especially on a ro-
mantle moon-lit niffht.
I 2 And t new departure In design
r ii incorporated in" the thrust-point
fittings, which are so well fitted
: you scarcely notice them.
1 Al first, I didn't see them at
all, and was beginning to worry a
. little. But then there they "were,
right Vwheral'they should : have
t been, tucked in as snugly as hid-
' den earnings In your incoma tax
report. One thing you never over
..look when you're thinking of buy
i lng a blimp is the thrust-point fit-
J- tings.'
V - An outstanding characteristic
t. of these new blimps is their low
; rata or neuum loss, x or a Dump
whose initial inflation requires 2,-
.540,000 cubic feet of helium, ' for
. example, you can expect a loss of
only 96,520 cubic feet during the
first month, and not mora than a
I 3 per cent per month loss there-
after. a, :' :? '.. : 'r
.1 The total cost for a helium re-
fill is only 589.080, with spara
: parts (such as tables, binoculars,
knobs and other loose gadgets
your guests may hava tossed ay
; erboard) thrown in.
Barring the necessity of a com
; plete overhaul, you should bo abla
to operate a blimp for something
less than a few million dollars a
! year. Not counting depreciation,
i slippage and head winds. When
; not in use, the big- metal bubble
could bo .rented for advertising
i purposes. -V-'
. Parked outside a vegetable mar
' ket, I've an idea you couldnt find
i anything more suitable than a
; blimp for advertising cucumbers
and water melons.
Lnte; Rally
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Raises Grains
7heat Still Down;
Trading Hits
Saturday Slump .
By WILLI All FERRIS
CHICAGO, Nov. 13 -CffV-Gralns
closed slightly on the lower side
today, .although a late rally can
celled a .good part of losses estab
lished in the first few minutes, of
trading; on more reports that an
OPA celling on wheat and oats was
to be expected. Trading was at the
usual smalT Saturday pace. "
Wheat is still below the parity
ieveu
4 At the dose wheat was V lower
to higher,-December- $157,
May S4.. v j -M iil-t,
wneat .- was supportea oy an
announcement from the food dis
tribution administration that it was
in the market for 12,300,000 pounds
of flour. It is estimated that dur
ing the past week the agency took
80,000,000 pounds of enriched
flour. Most buying of wheat con
bracts laeemed to Come from com
mercial interests.
t A board of trade complication
showed total US stocks of wheat
on October 1 "of 1,109,107,000
bushels compared with 1,373,761,-
000 bushels a year ago.
Farm Bureau Asks
Meat Point Cut.
PENDLETON, Nov. 13 HPh A
reduction in meat ration points to
enable t the- Pacific northwest to
dispose of a heavy surplus was
asked by the Oregon Farm Bureau
Federation.
Other recommendations, adopted
at' yesterday's ' conference, called
for a ban against price ceilings on
livestock; dropping subsidy plans;
deferment of essential farm work-'
ers; provision of funds for impor
tation; of Mexican farm laborers
next year; continuance of Govern
ment purchase of the wool clip for
two years after the war.
i Max Hoke, Pendleton, was re-"
elected president for the 11th time.
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Amiable Motorman
Passes Ice Cream
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I MEMPHIS, Tenn. (SVTbe
street ' railway bus rolled to a
stop. I "Want some ice cream?"
the motorman called to the pas
sengers. Several did, so ho took
up a. collection, walked into a
nearby store and came out with
some cones. The bus rolled along
again!; with its passengers cool and
startled.
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By ULUE
What we might almost call a
link between the tree and shrub
is the dogwood or cornus group.
io uu are DOta y
trees and shrubs!
as to form of'
growth. Among
the garden dog-j
woods are many)
ment " for their
A n a va a -m 4 1
o ju v u v m g
fnito. 4..-t. if
wip una.
books group the'
d o g w o o d s ac ¬
cording to th
twig - coloring, LUtta Maa
speaking of the1 red-twigs toe
yellow-twigs and the brown-twig
varieties. The so-called coral dog
wood is the most brilliant as to
twig-coloring. This group does in
clude ; a variety . of J Interesting
shrubsli : ' , :'".. ': "'- :
But when we speak of dogwood
here we most frequently refer to
the flowering dogwood (cornus
florida). This comes in both red
and white varieties. We also have
the Kousa dogwood, a very com
pact tree, running a little to the
busby type. It differs from the
ordinary flowering dogwood in
that the flowers come fully a
month later and the large bracts
of the flower are pointed. .
Soma sorts - of dogwood are
troubled with oyster-shell scale
and must be sprayed with lime.
sulphur. Newly transplanted flow
ering dogwoods must be watched
closely for borer.' Unless - these
pests are dug out they will de
stroy the tree. I ' :
- Dogwoods 'grown for their col
ored twigs must be pruned each
year, 'and heavily, to1; renew the
young, twigs which are the only
ones which are highly colored.
Good drainage is essential. The
trees like a rich loose loam , and
will grow in either partial shade
or full sun. . Perhaps the prettiest
setting j for the white flowering
dogwood is against a background
of evergreen trees. Even in na
ture the dogwoods often grow
against a group of the fir trees.
However, the flowering dogwood
is also good as a specimen tree
or in groups. - ---
The flowering dogwood is also
attractive for its colorful foliage
and fruit in autumn. In favorable
autumns it also blooms again. In
early October this year; I saw
scores of dogwoods in full bloom
for the second time this '. season.
Another group which includes
both shrubs and trees is the "haw
thorn group. I recall that once,
a few years ago, I was in the Shaw
botanical garden in Missouri in
hawthorn blooming time, and un
Shoe Siore
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thm OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon; Sunday Morning, November 14, 1S
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til then I had no idea of the
great . variety of ? hawthorns.: In
many instances the fruit is ' as
decorative a i the flowers. . Some
of the very brilliant red fruit is
as : large and larger than - the fil
bert nuts. : fC-';'i':-t:7'
Hawthorns , grow well in ex
posed positions. They do not like
a shady placei Definitely they do
not like an add soiL They grow
best in a limestone and will even
grow in ta comparatively -: heavy
clay soiL If they must grow in
a sandy soil it should be enriched
with well decayed., stable fertilizer
and should be kept well mulched.
T I note in Ii H. Bafley's "Cyclo
pedia of Horticulture a" list of
25 species which- wouid 'give
good fruit display from August
until .mid-winter. He names Cra
taegus matura, C. praecox, C Ar
noldiana, C. Dayana, C Robeson
iana. C pedicellata, C. Gloriosa,
C EUwangeriana, C. . lauta, C.
submollis, C4 champlamensis, C.
arkansas,' C Dunbari, C. feren
taria, C opulens, C Compta, C.
genmosa, C voniana, C. gene
scensis. C persimilis, C. maln-
eana, C Barryana, C cocciniodes.
C leiphulla, C. durobrivensis, and
C cordata.
None of these are the English
hawthorn of literature. This is the
oxyacanthae and can usually be
found listed- as Paul's Double
Scarlet.
US to;
$200,000,000
NEW YORK, Nov. 13-(ff)-Pa
per Mill News, a trade journal,
reported today a survey indicat
ed the United States pulp and
paper industry would spend $200,-
000,000 for modernization and h
panston in the first year after
the war.
Tha magazino surveyed a cross
section of the industry, it said,
and found that some mills already
had placed orders for machinery
and other equipment to be in
stalled in the postwar period.
"It is expected that several new
mills wUl be buUt in the south
for the manufacture of newsprint,
paperboard ' and insulating board
as well as specialty papers," Paper
Mill News said.
The 600 pulp and paper com
panies in the United States, it
added, will average 3340,000 ex
penditure each if the plans now
under consideration are i carried
out, it added.
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FOOTWEAR
Pinynng!
Spend
Paper
Stocks Qose
Slightly Louver
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 HP- The
stock markeet today emerged from
another unsatisfactory week with
leaders generally tilting slightly
lower. .
- An early tumbel in the recent
liquor climbers, attributed to pro
fit rashing on the lengthy upswinig
of this group and to the congress
ional move for an investigation of
the industry, chilled bullish ardor
elsewhere.
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The Associated Press CO-stock
average was off .1 of a point at 43 j
tor me short session today and
on the week showed a decline of
L2 points against last, week's re
treat of 1.8 points. Transfers to
taled 314,110 shares compared with
337,110 last Saturday. -
PLAIN K VIEW, Tex Nov. v-Wr-A
colt that Police Chief Hoyt
Curry was trying to break kicked
him. on the right arm recently,
tearing some ligaments. r:
U Yesterday, the chief, fully re
covered, tried bronc -b n sting
again. The colt kicked him once
more. Same arm, same torn liga
ments. '
- From tha geatl raried backgrounds of a country j,whose area ts: al
most eqoajto that of thc whole of Europe from the plains of Texas to the
rocky hills 4f Naw England, from homes of luxury and homes of sunplicityr-i
come these yiJonz men' and women who are now scattered far and wide in the
service of their, country,
Yet, just as they are bound together to accomplish one" purposerj-to win
the war, they also share a common dream of the future Each is ) working
and fighting for the day when they can return to the fainiliar, friendly sur
roundings they call home, to pick up the threads of . the life they left behind
and to live it in freedom and security Observers who have had. the oppor
tunity to study the reactions of men in the armed forces 'of many countries
say that of them all, the Americans sire the ones who most want to return
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to what they had because they've had so much more than other peoples.
Their strength and courage are sustained by the thought of returninj
to their own private, peacetime worlds. They are different worlds lij. . indi
vidual worlds. But the "essence of each is a home not! a house with four
walls and a roof, but a living thing, awake with people and the doings j of
people Home to an American Is a place where you and your family and friends
can go about the little incidents of living-freely; comfortably, aided by the
best furnishings, by conveniences thalTmake life - pleasantT And for people
facing the unknown, this familiar, knowable and peaceful" simplicity .1? a shin
ing beacon on a strange horizon,'
Do your part to bring them home again by investing"
every possible cent in Ui S. war bonds - and stamps I
cfriluio iiczn cz a big till
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UIUM Vllie If lull
Leaveo T Hospital
AUMSVILLE T.C Mountain
is at his home again after a week
in r the ; Salem General hospital,
where he went for a general check
up. He is much improved. ' "
Mr. and Mrs. f Jack Corser of
Las Vegas, New Mexico, visited
friends here Sunday His mother,
Mrs. Marjie' Corser, and, sister,
Eva 'Corser, were with them here
on Sunday.' Mrs. Corser is em
ployed at a Salem junior high
school cafeteria and Miss Corser
is teaching at the Park Rose school
in Portland.
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I BUENOS I1111?3 r &i -3"1,a1'C
D. Basnio Ui Pertie, jmayor: of
Buenos Aires; belieyes that any-
coe who pays cash to; attend li
pubUc exhibition has the right to
squawk in Wfiting if he's not sat-
isCed. Accordingly, ihe mayor has i
decreed thai'all places j of enter-
fights, rnghlj;club! V football 4
stadia, provide "complaint books i
in which the customer may enter i
his grievancos. Ij ! ;
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