NO BARE CUPBOARDS Scientists Study 15-Year Food Program for World By WNU Features ‘ISLAND IN THE SKY’ . . . A man-made planet, or “island in the sky,’’ is envisioned by Donald J. Ritchie, ex-serviceman, as a terminal for rocket ships soaring to the moon and between planets. IN THESE UNITED STATES Ex-G. I. Scientist Envisions Future Island in the Sky9 DETROIT, MICH. — T h e y ---------------------* rabulous Carpet Used as Model for 1,000 Years Can you imagine a carpet worth fjoo m illion dollars? There once was such a carpet, ,snys Encyclopaedia Britannica. It ,furnished the model and Inspiration for Oriental rugs for moie than 1,000 ,years, and Oriental rugs of today niay be patterned after It. This fabulous carpet was made more than 14 centuries ago for the vast audience hall of the Persian palace at Ctestphon. II was called 'the spring ur winter carpet of Khus- Filling Mother Hubbard's cupboards all over the world is the ob­ jective of the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization, now engaged in a study designed to formulate a 15-year program aimed at increasing world diets. Intent on assuring “freedom from want"—second of the "four freedoms '—for peoples all over the world, the group of scientists L argetnoulh B lack Baas comprising F AO are attempting to devise methods by which nt leust . The general color o f the lurge- muuth black baas Is dark green 2,600 calories a day will be provided for everyone. above, aides and below greenish sil­ The plan involves no charity. Rather, it's a boot strap lifting item ver, three oblique dark stripes across the check, belly la white. whereby it is hoped the national— , ... , of the world can lift themselves! - Cervals 21 - nx,t8 27 •' »»S»r 12; The head is large and the mouth fats 34; peas and beans 80; fruits very wide, the corner of which ex­ to decent diets. and vegetables 163; meats 46; tends beyond tho rye. The large- Same Areas Affected milk 100. mouth bass will spawn on a murky FAO has found that practically bottom or construct tta nest In vege­ The plan by no means sees the same areas that are the un­ everyone eating alike. It takes tation or stumps. happy footballs of the world's account of India’s love of rice, politicians also are the areas Latin American preferences for M ishaps M ost C osily which are among the most poorly beans, and so on. , New York state workmen's com- fed : India, Java, Korea, Iran It only hopes to raise the cal­ Tcnsatlon board survey showed that Iraq, Transjordan and China. ory intake of the poorer coun­ accidents In the construction Indus­ Peace scholars feel that if tries (and 2,600 calorics would be tr y ore more severe and costly than those underfed areas had en­ 1,000 more than some are get­ In any other industry. The average joyed good living for at least ting). It makes no attempt to cost of compensation to disabled two generations there never get the best balance between ce­ construction wqrkera was twice the amount of payments to other dis­ would have been any more like­ reals, meats and vegetables. abled workers. Falls account for the lihood of using China’s 400,000,- For the richer countries, such 000 as a political pawn than as the United States, it does pro­ gnost accidents. there is of using pugnacious pose a better balance. SUU lias Not Melted Australia with its mere 7.000,- , The Tower of Butter, built In the Nations Lead 000. FAO found that in only 11 na­ 12th century, la in Rouen, Francs. FAO has been at work for a tions out of the 70 surveyed do I t was erected with money contrib­ year in Washington headquar­ the people normally average at uted to the priests by the peasants ters. It has 42 member nations, least 3,000 calorics a day. These ;who so prized butter as a food that including all the major powers _ were the Canada. Jthey paid for Uie privilege of eaUng O VOArVT Russia. lcllantn . — United _ States, _ except Eire, the United Kingdom, Den­ |4t during Lent. Early this year FAO experts mark, Norway, Sweden, Switzer­ took the first world food survey land, Argentina, New Zealand and to get a basis for a UN program. Australia. The program sets 1960 as a In 11 other nations the people “target date" and says that to get normally average 2,000 or fewer a minimum diet of 2.600 calories a day: Korea, India, Java, the by then, the world must increase Philippines, Iran, Iraq, Transjor­ its food production by the follow­ dan, Costa Rica, El Salvador, | ing percentages: Mexico and Colombia. raw, and exceeded In coat and mag nlllcence any created pr Imagined before or since. The carpet represented a formal garden with paths, (tower beds, bios sumlng shrubs and fruit trees The body of the rug was silk, tha yellow gravel was represented by gold, the blossoms, fruit and birds were worked with pearls and every kind of Jewel The wide outer bor­ der representing a green meadow was solid with emeralds Nhcars for Everyone Businesa In scissors adds up to 10 million dollars In sales u year and uses 2.500 tons of steel, accord- lng to Steclways. Night Watchman for Bees The trum peter, the night watch­ man of the humble bee, awakes the others in the morning. • First Wheel Cultivator The first wheel cultivator was pat­ ented by Nathan Ids, Shelby N Y In 1848. ' '* Fucker-Up Crop Pickles are the fourth largest vegetable crop In the United States Celton Harvester First patent on a cotton-harvest big device was issued In 1850. T h e F e r n D o ily laughed at Jules Verne and later laughed some more at H. G. Wells —but many of the “impossible” things that these men foresaw in j their fiction now are fact So don't laugh too loud nor too 'AVIATION ™ NOTES long at the dream of Donald J. C Ritchie, 25-year-old Detroit ex- NEW JOBS FOR PLANES ex G. I. who envisions a man-made Ingenuity of American fliers, planet, or “island in the sky,” especially flying farmers, con- which will be a stop-off point on tinues to produce new uses for future journeys to the moon. the small airplane. Ritchie, currently a student at Rural use of the airplane, par- Lawrence Institute of Technology ticularly in areas where farms or in Detroit, didn't pick hia dream ranches are of large size, is grow- out of thin air. Before his dis- ' “ g, according to a roundup of in- charge from the army air forces, formation on airplane uses com- he was draftsman and designer piled by personal flying repre3en- for the air technical command at tatives of Civil Aeronautics ad- Wright Field, Ohio. ministration. — Sun-scorch­ I clear that heat exhaustion was He d;dn t get overseas, but Commercial dusting and spray- ed WASHINGTON after a day’s w’ork under a a tactical factor. Cochrane said, overseas came to him in the form ing of crops and mosquito-breed- blazing sun, weary men ' adding, however, that since Jap- of German plans and models for ing spots still ranks as the major some day summer in the near future may I anese ships weren’t air condi- strange war weapons captured or rural use of airplanes, but this walk past a postoffice to be greet­ j tioned either, “we fought on equal otherwise acquired by our forces, work is done mostly by com- ed by a navy recruiting poster terms in that regard." Many of them were sent to panies organized for the purpose. with the message, “20 degrees The navy'8 decision followed Wright Field for study. On large ranches, , ___ such as cooler aboard ship.” That will be , extensive experiments conducted Among the war loot were those in the West, an airplane particularly true in Midwest j at the naval medical research in­ plans and models of the nazis’ can replace many a rider on a states, long a fertile field for stitute at Bethesda, Md„ and most highly-developed rock­ pony. Planes are used for ob­ navy enlistments. aboard the carrier Franklin on ets. Most important, however, servation and maintenance of her Caribbean shakedown cruise. The navy is planning to air- were some recorded fragments windmills as well as for pa­ . condition its fleet and toward this Test Two Types of the German dream to estab­ trolling miles of fences and ir­ goal two heavy cruisers now Two types of air conditioning lish a “base” in outer space rigation ditches. building, the Salem and the New­ are being tested on the two D A F F Y N IT IO N ! A traffic light la from which they could bom­ The airplanes take a more ag­ port News, are being used as cruisers. Steam jet equipment '• little green light that turns red y o u CAN bring all the delicate bard the earth. These frag­ gressive part in operation and guinea pigs to determine the best will be aboard the Salem when as your car approaches. charm of the lovely fern leaf right ments formed the basis for Rit­ protection of large ranches. Hunt­ she is completed in late 1947. The Into your home by making one or chie’s dream of an “island in ing down and shooting coyotes type of equipment. Newport News will have equip­ Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane, the sky.” more of those handsome doilies for * DENTAL PLATES from the air now is a favorite chief of the bureau of ships, em­ ment utilizing high speed freon your best table. You w ill be thrilled A M P ALL IS A N C N S S OS and u---------------------------------------------- profitable sport—or U business compressors. The theory is io that L l ld L r rockets, ULAC LS, -------- U S lIie S a phasized that the navy “is not to watch the fern fronds grow right DENTISTRY on reaching a final speed of 16,700 ~ of “ any ranchers owning their trying to mollycoddle its person­ Although the Salem and New­ out of very attractive nlneteen-lnch CREDIT TERMS miles an hour outside the earth’s own Planes. The coyote usually nel.” Rather, its aim is to im­ port New3 will be the first com­ r - * » », 10, I» A U -H u Bo 0 » , center piece while you crochet atmosphere, would balance that tries to into the shadows of prove efficiency on the theory bat ships to have living quarters of gravity with their own centri- the speeding plane, where he be- that men can work and fight bet­ completely air-conditioned, cool­ D r . H arry S e m u r . L)e*xb±t To obtain complete crocheting Inttrucllona fugal force. The rockets then co“ es easy prey to the buckshot ter if they don’t have to waste ing systems aboard navy ships AttSKY 81 PC: 1»» 4 MORRISON • FORKING OU lor Iho Tarn DoUy (Pattern No H ill tend >0 canta In coin. Your Name, Ad dr eta ana are not new. would revolve around the earth °7 tbe rancher sitting behind or energy lambasting the heat. Pattern Number. without further need of power. ' beside the pilot. About 40 years ago, tempera­ Duo to an unuauatly largo demand nd au» Advantage in Action aurtont condition«, «lightly more tima tlmo h They actually would become ture control was introduced in Some ranchers herd w ild required In Alling orders for a few of the As Cochrane, put it, "there can satellites of the earth powder magazines. About 20 horses by means of low-flying meet popular pattarna. planes; locate lost cattle on re­ be no question but that the crew years ago mechanical cooling Solid your ordtr to: For Quick Relief mote sections of huge ranges, and in an air conditioned warship systems were installed in plotting DON'T DELAY ANT LONGER! N o* S M o n e y Ills L e a d assist cowboys in cattle roundups will have a distinct and perhaps and control rooms. doctor's formula you can u « at home* to •EWING CIRCLR NEEOI.BWOSJ Also beginning in 1942, aircraft f* by utilizing the plane as cow a decisive advantage in action <’l«troaalns dlaeomfort of pain— SM South »outh Well« WoUi »V SV CUcago », Itch—Irritation duo to pilot. Tend« („ oof. with an enemy fatigued and of carriers have had mechanically *»n ahrlnk owalllnr. pony. F a m ily T r o u b le s Enclose 10 coats tor Patio:in». Vao thia proVan No. lowered alertness from living in cooled rooms for aviators togged . • formula. You'll ba amaxad at Ita More unusual uses of the air­ A** your drurifl MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Money plane in rural areas include a ship that is not air condi­ out in their heavy equipment and e^?*1’» Name- today for Thornton » Mlnor't «octal Olc leads the list of family troubles, spreading of fertilizer, spraying tioned.” niont or 8uppo«ltorlaa. label I standing by on alert. All ships •tructlona. f or aale at Follow A ddress. all drug Mori records of the Family Service in­ of soil with oil solutions and Early reports from the south later were equipped with air-con­ stitute here disclose. stocking of streams and lakes Pacific fighting fronts made it ditioned hospital space. During an 11-month period 625 with fish. requests for help in money Ingenuity of young Ameri­ troubles and home management cans returned from the global Assure Your Own. Personal Security— were received by the service, an air war is accounting for many increase of 60 per cent over the new uses of the airplane in Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! previous year. and industrial life. The increase, according to Miss commercial Margaret Park, family counselor In additional to the standard a t Family Service, is attributed business of pilot instruction, to high cost of living, fewer charter operation, aerial pho­ women working, men working tography and aerial advertis­ Super-tatty Oro-Pup, the only ing, planes are being used in Ribbon-tyire dog food, Is nourith - less overtime, strikes and work many diverse fields. ing/ It's 92% food/ . . . about as stoppages. All these conditions much food, dry weight, u In /tea Transportation of fire-fighters increase the number of families 1-lb. cans of dog food. 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