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.
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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,
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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. Many
to areas where they can head off
with troubles.
ture 70% waterl
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Then, too, there are the tired forest fires soon may be supple
washing machine, the broken- mented by dropping of extin
GRO-PUP
backed davenport, the sagging guishing chemicals from air
CONTAINS ABOUT
planes.
bedspring and the limping vac
AS MUCH F000
uum cleaner — all household
AS FIVE
musts that need replacements.
The know how” of budgeting
and managing a home is a sci
ence, Miss Park insists. “It is not
merely worrying before rather
i
T ir
Mode by Kellego'l
than after you spend all your
W/WHto
c’~1
money—it is making money buy
most to meet all a family needs,
not just food, shelter and cloth
ing,” she adds.
No matter how you try, there
W9KeeS3&iù!ii.
is always a limit to that dollar.
ATTENTION ALL CATTLE OWNERS
MISSIONARY
. . . Franklin Waliick of Dayton
If a family needs $30 a week and
LARGEST HELICOPTER . . . 1 Ohio,
Le AGRICULTURAL
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LOOSE BOWELS (The Scour.)
pictured on his tractor, is one of a group of "agricultural mis
has an income of $20, no budget World's largest and first twin-en- !
we have the answer to your problem.
ing or stretching will make up gine helicopter, known as the 1 sionaries” who will work in China as part of a 50-man unit sponsored
the difference, the counselor navy’s XHJD-1, was built primari- 1 by UNNRA and Ccurch of the Brethern, historic peace church with
iOr Ca“ 8cour’ is 8old <* 8 money-back guarantee
headquarters in Elgin, III. They will plant wheat in the Yellow river
points out.
ly as a research vehicle.
iectioM Srn CUre1i" ona to two days If u..d according to di
area flooded during the war.
hours deDfndPy app lcd ln 8
••conda every three or four
'Coolest' City Gets
TAILWINDS SPEED FLIGHTS Weathers Three Wars, Will Sit Out Next One
? 8 UP°n th# condltio" of the calf.
™t»or£’ bv / " I r ? , haS b’en U“ d Wlth proven
«•"-
Clipper planes to Europe have | STOCKTON, Calif. — After
Ice from 'Hottest'
Consequently he inserted an
cut flying time 10 per cent by 1 living
with 7 d d i
d ymCn- H U now avall"bl8 1" thb country
through three wars, Karl advertisement in a Stockton
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—Although riding strong North A tlantic'
X fii
h reiLen7 ’ hlgh ln mlneral content <or
L.
Horst
is
ready
to
go
under
newspaper:
Flagstaff claims to be the coolest winds. Until lately, airliners fol- 1
oenent to the health of your calves.
"If interested in creating a safe
city in Arizona and boasts vast lowed a Great Circle route—the ground and sit out the next one.
Wan-anted_to_b«_ab^lutely_freejrom
any harmful drugs.
Horst,
59,
has
weathered
the
shelter of refuge from atomic
ice caves as a tourist attraction, shortest distance to Ireland. Now,
Spanish-American
war,
World
'bombs for yourself and family
the city now is importing ice. The say officials of Pan American
TO SURE-CURE DISTRIBUTORS
**
~
write at once.”
ice comes in carload lots from World Airways, navigators use War I and World War H.
rortUM’q fS ? ;* 0- ’ tr*“
But
when
an
atom
bomb
level
Horst has a superbomb shelter
Phoenix, which doesn’t claim to weather forecasts to chart cour
Ploane send me , t o t t l . of y. n, SU RB-C UR « for CeUf gooure.
be one of the hottest cities in ses hundreds of miles off the ed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in mind, located at some secret
I
am
anointing | l »0 chook
then
snapped
the
seams
on
the
spot in the High Sierras. Perhaps
Arizona, but admits i t It’s all Great Circle by which planes can
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Saratoga,
the
Arkansas
and
a
Name.
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an old gold mine could be con
because Flagstaff has grown too travel with one wind after «n-
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few
other
assorted
craft
at
Bikini
RV <* Box No...,
verted or a new hole tunneled, he
fast.
other.
CTty..
atoll, he figured he’d had enough. says.
State..
Cuckoo Quiz
/Vary Launches Test for
Air-conditioning of Fleet
va a vw a jt
vji
PILES TROUBLE?
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