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Illinois Valley News. Thursday. May, 13. 1948
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Utah Judge of 90 Hopes
To Tie Holmes' Record
T riplets!
SALT LAKE CITY. — O bserving
his 90th birthday a n n iv ersary , T ill
m an D. Johnson, U. S. d istric t
judge, e xpressed the hope th at he
would break the longevity record of
the late Ju stic e O liver W endell
Holm es.
Ju d g e Johnson now is the oldest
federal judge in active service.
H olm es w as serving as a ju stic e on
the U nited S tates S uprem e ^ c o u rt
bench wbeu he re tired a t 91.
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STAGE SCREEN RADIO
By INEZ GERHARD
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P J IC K HAYMES likes working on
U his T hursday night CBS radio
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show ("W e all so rt of lend a hand
in w riting it" ) and in m ovies, but his
re a l enthusiasm com es out w hen he
talk s about his plane and the palo
m ino horses he ra ise s on his ranch.
He has tau g h t his children to ride
the full-grown h orses; doesn’t be
lieve in sta rtin g them on ponies. And
he flew his plane to New York r e
cently ( ‘‘Saw m ore of this w onder
ful country th an e v er b e fo re ") when
he, M artha Tilton and the m u sical
d irec to r felt they h a d to see the new
shows and talk business a t the foun
tain head; th a t w as why the whole
show moved e ast for two weeks.
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Don McNeill finds it hard to be
lieve, but his "B re a k fa st Club" has
New Strain of Corn
Withstands Drouth
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Guatem ala Crossbreed
Also Resists Root Rot
REASON IT OUT ANO YOU'lL
PREFER THIS
Possibility of producing corn th a t
would w ithstand root ro t and other
diseases as well as prolonged dry
spells appealed to E a rl E. May and
Iowa State college officials.
Knowing th a t G u atem ala h a d been
producing corn for m ore th an 2,000
y ears in an isolated region, which
had resulted in a highly inbred stra in
which could w ithstand d ry spells as
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'ONE-FAMILY TOWN' NOW . . . Millican, Ore., had an astound
ing population gain of 400 per cent when Mr. and Mrs. William
A. Mellin and their two daughters, shown above, ‘‘bought’’ the
town, which for years had a "one-man town” tag Inset shows
one of the three buildings comprising the town.
DOS’ M iN E II.l
a 15th a n n iv ersary com ing up in
June. The show sta rte d in 1933 as
"T he P epper P o t,” w ithout an a u
dience; nobody d re am ed th a t it
would assum e its p re sen t form .
IN THESE UNITED STATES
Oregon Town Loses ‘One-man’
Jag; Now ‘One-family’ Affair
MILLICAN, Ore.—When the census taker comes to Millican, he's
due for a surprise because he’ll discover that the population of this
little town has increased by 400 per cent.
On the census taker’s last visit, this was a “one-man town” with
Billy Kahn as the sole resident. Now that Mr. and Mrs. William A.
Mellin have bought the town, it’s a “one-family town.’’ The Mellins
and their two daughters, Michela r---- ■------------------------------
Ix‘e, 3 1, j, and Tina Ann, 6 months, I lin admits that he leaves gas in
make the population total four. ! the tank when he goes to bed at
Millican's chief claim to fame 1 night "just in case anybody com-
for years lay in the fact that it ing down the road is short.” In
was a “one-man town.” That the morning, he adds, he always
was in the days of Kahn, who was finds the money shoved under the
postmaster and everything else door. "We haven't lost a gallon'
connected with the town. But re yet,” he says.
tirement age for postmasters
As evidence of his enthusiasm
forced Kalin's retirement in 1942, for building up his town, Mellin
and the postoftice died with his has petitioned to have the post-
departure.
| office restored. The postoffice,
he explains, would benefit ranch-
'Buys’ Entire Town
Now the "one-man town" tag ers in the area who occasionally
on Millican has been lost, prob- stop at the Mellin store,
ably for good, with the advent of i
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the Meiiins.
M' lbn.
navy veteran, now owns—lock
stock and barrel the entire
town, a desert community located
26 miles east of Bend. He bought
the town from George T. Petry,
successor to Kahn. "Buying” the
town consisted solely of the pur
chase of the three buildings lo
cated here.
The Mellins operate the town
grocery store, gas pump, tourist
camp two small cabins handle
repairs on tourists' cars and Mrs.
Mellin furnishes hot lunches upon
request.
“There's nothing like owning
your own town to boost your
faith in human nature," the Mel
lins insist on the basis of their
venture.
Faith in Humanity
As evidence of that faith Mel-
Boys Find Dynamite
Cache, Sell at Penny
Jim Moore, KMA, and E nrique
Salas inspecting G u atem ala corn
field.
1,200 v arieties of corn from C entral
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Am erica.
One of the bright spots on the
New G uatem ala-U .S.
crossbred
a ir last su m m er w as th a t of Tex
corn has been tested a t Ames, Iowa.
and Jin k s, replacing "D u ffy 's T av
The new corn outyielded th ree com
e rn ." So it’s good news th a t the
m ost en tertain in g m arrie d couple * monly used U S . hybrids as m uch as
25 bushels to the a cre. While the
oil the a ir will re p la ce "D u ffy 's"
Midwest v a rie tie s w ithered and died
ag ain this su m m er.
during hot w eather, the G uatem ala-
P e rh a p s we had to w ait too long U.S. crossbreed re m a in in full ears.
for "A rch of T riu m p h "; p erhaps e x College officials believe th at e arly
tensive cutting w as too m uch for it. results give prom ise of a new stra in
M aybe we expected too m uch of that will w ithstand long dry and hot
Ingrid B ergm an. C harles B oyer and spells in any p a rt of the U nited
the re st of the distinguished cast. States. J a m e s Moore, K.M.A. station,
The picture is good; it will m ake reports th a t w ork in G uatem ala has
m oney. B oyer’s perform ance is ex proven entirely successful and he
cellent, as a re C harles L aughton's believes th a t the new corn soon will
and Louis C alhern's. Go to see it— be grown on m any fa rm s in the
United States.
W om en and Rat Provide L ively T ro lley Dram a
ment a rat ran at Woodishec. A
timely kick sent the rat sailing
through the air nnd through the
trolley 's front window.
I he rodent and d esule a
w man in the Front of the car.
She promptly look off for tlie
tear of the car. So did the r a t
Terror-stricken women screamed,
jammed the ais e nnd in-rfornied
trapeze acts on the straps.
Williams cam back on stag«
with a broom. Exit the raL
Ohio. D anny, aged 11, toe
a vigorous little five-year-old who
since has m ade a n am e for hirnself
—M ickey Rooney, s ta r of the iw□vies
and the radio series , “Shorty E
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The hom e of Bette Davis at
Wood's Cove. Lagun a Beach. C
d irectly faces the sitretch of beach
w here L ana T urner fro lick td in that
fam ous w hite bathinjg suit for sc
in
‘The P ostm an Always F
T w ice.”
Speaking of Bette. ’t'S
nice news th a t she will be tea ,m d
with R obert M ontgr
B rid e.”
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Odds and I n d s . . . P roducer Je r-
ry Wald d idn't get off the set fast
enough when a m an- m ade hurr,i i ane
w aa turned on in "K ey L argo" and
he w as blown into a sizable nuid
puddle . . . It took two se am stresses
two w eeks to sew 411.004 sequins onto
a p a rty dre ss E velyn Keyes w ears
for two m inutes in "T he M ating of
M illie" , , . B urgess M eredith gave
P a u lette
G oddard M eredith two
m onkeys when she finished “ Has-
a r d " ; she nam ed them Bing and
Bob . . . Ray M illand has had hun
dreds of requests for the e a rrin g s he
wore In "G oldrn E a rrin g s," which
he unfortunately lost in the Colum
bia riv er on the last day before the
c am era s.
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Ja c k P a a r, who probably will be
acclaim ed som e day a s one of the
best of radio com edians, (Ja ck Ben
ny firm ly believes he will» will m ake
l debut in a feat
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POR THEIR FAMILIES THAM AMY
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Crew m em bers of "M y D ream Is
Doris Day by
stopping work
work suddenly the other
day, then surprised h e r again by
producing a huge w hite cake topped
by 24 red candles to celebrate her
24th b irthday a n n iv ersary .
Their
gift topped it all—a gold slave b race
let. "M y D re am " is h e r second pic
ture for M ichael C urtiz productions
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VVOTKOt c O ll B a c t e r i a
A single ounce of soil contains 50
m illion living b a cteria, according to
R. C. T hom as of the Ohio a g ric u l
tu ra l experim ent station.
These b a cteria can help or harm
the crops, depending on the kind of
b a cteria . The good kind rot the or
ganic m a tte r, release p lant nutrients
and help build soil stru ctu re. The
harm fu l kind cause plant diseases.
The good kind can be aided and
the harm ful kind elim inated by add- !
ing organic m a tte r to the soil. To
get this org an ic m atter, according
to Middle West Soil Im provem ent
com m ittee, re tu rn all possible ani- I
m a l m an u res to the soil; put back
all crop residues and grow deep-
rooted legum es reg u larly in the ro
tation and feed them generously
w ith fertilizer carry in g phosphate
and potash.
Mother Knows a Best!
PORTLAND, Ore.—Dynamite,
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stolen from a cache at a rock
The Andrews siste rs have sung
quarry, was being sold for a som e rapid tongue tw isters in their
penny a stick by a local juvenile tim e, but P a tty Andrews says
ring, police reported in warning "S ab re D ance" is the hard est yet.
Portland parents that some of it M
erely hum m ing it Is a task be
may have been stored in homes. ' cause of the tem po and melodic
The police broke up the ring)
after Patrolman Earl Shinn had ran g e. The vocal velocity is seven
found a 17-year-old boy with six sy llables a second and the breath
stick# of dynamite, for which he ing in terv als a re especially hard
had paid six cents. The boy led to m a s te r; hours of reh earsal are
police to a rock quarry where the needed. But "Club 15" listeners
teen-agers had broken into a love it.
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cache and scattered the explo-1
Clifton
Webb
m ay be getting a lot
sives about the area.
Some of the dynamite, the boy of publicity as a baby sitl
Early Growth Stressed
told police, had been thrown screen, but Danny Thom,
against rocks in hopes of an ex th a t one of his e a rlie st ca
In Raising Baby Pigs
jobs w as as a baby sitte r,
plosion.
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE . . . This it a daily brother and sister
act at the Israel Orphan home at Far Rockaway. L. I., N Y.
The seven children from the same family, ranging from 3 to 8 'j
years of age, help each other to dress in a hurry in their own
vers on of the assembly line.
DETROIT, Mich. The combi
nation of women and a rat al
ways makes news. This little
drama was played against a met-
ropolitan backdrop, with a Detroit
trolley ear as the setting.
1 he <’haracters were Motorman
Walter Williams, his near-capac-
1 of fern lale passengers,
Tum W(xxlishev i and an untden-
tiffed rn •
Willis ms stoppe tits tr o lle y to
At th at m
pick up Woodishe
! A LL GOOD things come in threes,
so they say. This threesom e of
’ good - looking crocheted potholders
! will add a zippy note of color to any
tow n or country sum m er kitchen, j
I Potholders at top of illustration a re
of double thickness, crocheted in tw o
colors of silky-looking cotton thread.
T he w hopper-sized holder a t bottom
: is m ade of thick cotton rug y a rn in
two colors.
While the a v era g e w eight of eight-
week-old pigs is probably less than
30 pounds, a lot of pigs w eigh 40
pounds or m ore a t this age. On the
c ontrary, m any w eigh as low as 20
pounds. These v a ria tio n s in w ean
ing w eights h ave a m ark ed effect
on the grow th-rate of pigs up to the
tim e they a re baconers. The bigger
pigs a t eight w eeks old a re the first
to reach 200 pounds livew eight.
Hog Self-Feeder
How fo help your sick child
GET WEU. FASTER
. a s r e c o m m e n d e d in t h e i n t e r e s t
o f c h il d w e l f a r e b y
ROSE G. ANDERSON, Ph.D.
Director of The Psychological Service Center, New
K ai
1. The after-effects of
your child s illness are
often more important
than the illness itself.
Pampering, catering to
w him s, o versolicitude
teaches a child to dom
inate through weakness.
Such well-meant kind
ness may prolong his
convalescence.
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2. You’ll be smart to help
him amuse himitlt. Give
him something which
■iocsn’t require an adult's
constant attention. Give
him your “Eveready”
flashlight. . . or get him
one of his own. If he
tires of flashing the
beam, or flicking out
imaginary signals, then.-
3. Show him bow to cut
design, or figures from
stiff paper and how to
throw their shadows on
the ceiling or wall. Mov
ing the figures will make
them dance. Watch his
pride in what he', done.
Watch him get well fast
er became he , happier!
ad
A portable hog feeder is a piece
of labor saving equipm ent which
has a place on every fa rm w here
hogs a re being raised. The ca
pacity of this feeder is 55 bushels,
but it m ay be m ade of any size
desired. If it Is kept well painted
It will re m a in w ater tight.
Culling Pays Dividends
To Poultry Producers
R eg u lar culling pays dividends,
but m any poultry fa rm e rs a re unable
to c a rry out the procedure because
of p re ssu re of o ther duties. How
ever, as the m oulting season a p
proaches. it will be seen th a t a p e r
centage of the flock com m ences to
m oult e arlie r than others, and it Is
these e arly m oulters th at should be
segregated and sent ff to m a rk e t at
first opportunity.
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