Southern Oregon miner., April 29, 1948, Image 8

Easily Tlnilt Children’s
Giraffe's Neck Slide
Immunity From Law Listed
As hnglish King’s Privilege
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W A S H IN G T O N S D IT C H . . . Great Dismal swamp canal, first sur-
veyed by George Washington, here goes through the forbidding
swamp which has piqued the curiosity of men for generations.
Army To Restore Canal
Through Famous Swamp
By W NU Feature«
Oldest man-made waterway in the United States again will carry
pleasure and business traffic through one of the mogt fascinating
areas in the world with restoration of the Great Dismal swamp canal,
olten referred to as “George Washington’s ditch,” to its gtandard
n.ne-foot channel depth. Work will be done under direction of
army engineers.
The canal, connecting the Eliz­
abeth river in Virginia with Al-
bermarle sound in North Carolina,
is in use today but lack of engi­
neering attention in recent years
has prevented full use of its
facilities.
It the king of England choae to shoot one of his ministers, he
could not even be brought to trial, since no court lawfully mri ’ sit in
Judgment on the monarch. Although modern day kings iobably
would not resort to such tactics, immunity from the law it among
Three Diseases Take
the wide privileges enjoyed by a reigning monarch of Britain, a study
or the statutes reveals.
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High Toll of Turkeys
His majesty can. If he so de-
sires, refuse to sign any bill sub to do so would be considered ■
Heaviest Loss Occurs
i niitted by any minister, e v e n fall from majestic grace.
During Growing Period
though it has been passed by Ixith
One privilege accorded nearly
i
houses
of
parliament.
all
citizens of the United States is
K-'arly a third of all turkey»
Throws Seals Away
denied England's king in that h«
hatched are lost during the growing
In his Hight to France. King cannot record a vote at an
period. This statement Is based on
fin.tings of Utah Agricultural col­ James II threw the great and election.
| privy seals into the Thames, thus
Oddly enough, the king cannot
lege survey.
Of considerable Importance to a susjiending the government of ignore the playing of the national
control program is the fact that the England liecause the seal is re­ anthem. His value as a king is
tlirce diseases known to be the quired to stamp legality on orders. considered to be an impersonal
Among his major privileges, thing, hut as an individual he
greatest killers of poults —paraty
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phoid infection, -•
pullorum
disease and King George VI has power to put shows his respect for the state like
Infectious sinusitis, which may be an end to participation in wars; other individuals.
In return for this assortment |
transmitted through the egg from he can sell all his country's war­
parent to the offspring cause 51 ships; put all fighting men out of of privileges, the king receives an
Building this slide from the pat­
uaiiortn, and disband every male income of '110,000 pounds i ap­ tern isn't nt all difficult. All you do
per cent of the brooder loss.
If a grower starts with • healthy, and female unit of the armed proximately >1,640,000) a year.
Is cut each port according to the
forces.
Out of this, however, he must pay pattern. Then fasten each piece to­
vigorous poult, the job of keeping
Apart from these tremendous 13,200 pounds for charity, 131.000 gether exactly In position Indicated
the bird healthy is relatively simple
Thus the first problem for a pros- powers, he has several smaller, pounds for household salaries and
on the printed paper pattern. No
everyday privileges. For example, 132,000 pounds for runnkig ex« special tools or skill are required.
he ean send his letters without penses of the household, C
The pattern specifies material« to
stamps and claim priority for his
buy and where to use each piece.
telegrams. He ean drive about
zx
All lumber Is stock size and readily
with no number plate on his ear
obtainable at lumber yards every-
and ignore police regulations re­
where.
garding traffic.
Cannot Rent House
Offsetting the fact that the
king has the power to requisition
A V IA T IO N NOTTS
any property is the fact that he
DEM
O
NSTRATE AIR M IG HT
cannot rent a subject’s house, us
Designed as all-embracing pub­
lic demonstrations of America's
Birth of poult at Timmerman
air might, two National Aircraft
Religious Names
farm, Jefferson county, N. Y.
Shows will be staged annually,
Photo shows baby turkey off to a
commencing at Cleveland in No­
Lead
to
Trouble
good start.
vember, under auspices of the
aircraft
industry in conjunction
pective turkey producer is to buy In Latin America
with military and naval services,
poults from hatcheries that have a
Ludicrous misunderstandings air lines, recognized aviation or­
reputation for producing healthy frequently have arisen as a result
ganizations and foreign manufac­
poults. As it may be impossible for of the practice of Latin-Ameri- turers. West coast edition of the
a single grower to know the poult cans of giving their children show will lie presented in Los An­
source, cooperative effort may be religious names in honor of Chris­ geles next April.
helpful in investigating the breeder tian saints and martyrs.
It is common knowledge that
and hatcher.
Maria is a popular favorite for aircraft have all but eliminated
Proper housing and proper use girls while Jose and Jesus (pro­
the land-geared symbols of time
of brooding equipment are essential nounced Heh-SOOS) are favored
and space and the mountain-
to health of the poults. Basis of for boys. To foreigners, however, ocean-desert definition of security
sanitary procedures is to prevent these mortal Jesuses can cause
b e h i n d geographical barriers.
healthy individuals from coming in serious grief since the Spanish
Air-borne action of war years has
contact with the infectious agents pronunciation suggests to the
demonstrated
the destructive and
of disease. All weak-looking poults ztmer.can ear neituer the correct
s o m e w h a t negntlve side of
should be kept separate from the spelling nor meaning.
aviation.
u healthy
c u iu ij
l fowls
u m a
t and
iu u
a strict
u itv
s sanitary
d iit k d x j
n A ovum
South American ranener
rancher in
Purpose of National Aircraft
practices must be maintained during Mexico who was entertaining a
Shows
is to demonstrate in peace
U.
nu/ntr nn
the brooding period.
U. S.
S. friend
friend UZllQ
was Pilllnrl
called away
un years the positive force of avia­
expectedly overnight. He left a tion and to interpret those forces
note for his sleeping guest ex­ in constructive d ra m a tiz a tio n s
Early Spraying Advised
plaining his absence and ending, portraying air commerce and air
For Black Cherry Aphid
“If you need anything while I industry at peace as a means to
Sprays applied before the buds am away, ask Jesus." The guest air power in time of war.
break, say insect specialists, are left in a huff nt what he consid­
more consistent in controlling the ered an inhospitable joke. Jesus,
EYES BY PLA N E
black cherry aphid than sprays of course, was the host’s mozo,
For the first time in history
or houseboy.
made after the buds are open.
of the eye bank, a pair of
Another yanqui, wholly ignor­
Feeding of the black cherry aphid,
eyes removed from a patient
if present in large numbers, affects ant of Spanish, had a Mexican
who died in a Shreveport, La.,
the size and flavor of the fruit. Also, friend whom he knew as “Don
hospital were flown to New
a secretion known as “honeydew” Haysoos.’’ After accepting an
York for use by the Eye Bank
produces a sticky and unattractive invitation to visit his friend's
for Sight Restoration, Inc.
appearance of the fruit, especially sugar plantation, he was non­
The eye«, offered by an un­
if it is to be sold as fresh fruit. De­ plussed to get a note reading: “Be
identified donor prior to his
velopment of a sooty fungus in the ready. I come for you tomorrow
death to restore the sight of
honeydew may contribute further morning. Jesus." •
a blind person, were used in
The nickname, “George
Washington's ditch,” stems
from the fact that Washing­
ton himself surveyed the
canal in 1763 and later in­
vested in a company which
proposed to drain the Great
Dismal in an ambitious land
development scheme.
The canal, dug by slave labor,
was not navigable, however, until
1822.
Drainage Cuts Area
The canal originally cut through
one of the most famous swamps
in the world—one which has
piqued the curiosity of men ever
since they first came to its green
edge and were repelled by its
One w of i
,
,
desolate defenses. But now drain­ CANAL LOCKS
age has shrunk the area from the two locks on Great Dismal
2,200 to 750 miles and the canal swamp canal, which take care of
itself leads through considerable a nine-foot drop in the terrain.
cultivated land.
The canal is fed by the “feeder
ditch,” a straight canal which
brings water from gloomy Lake
Drummond in the very heart of
CITY, Colo.—Because
the swamp. Navigable for small he CANON
“just
got
a bug on owning a
boats, the feeder ditch is the ghost town,” Cecil
R. Miller. Cin­
usual entry for explorers and curi­ cinnati
electrician,
bought one at
osity seekers.
a delinquent tax sale here.
George Moore, the poet, was
Miller, chief electrician for a
among literary lights who have C'ncinnati
newspaper, saw the
been fascinated by the Great Dis­ former mining town of White-
mal. He visited the lake in 1804 horn, 60 miles northwest of Canon
and while there wrote his “Lady City,
during his summer vacation.
of the Dismal Swamp.”
After
the county to
Probably the first white man offer it persuading
for
sale,
he
returned here
to penetrate the swamp was Wil­ by plane to purchase
the 332
liam Byrd, who named it. In his acres for 51,550,
to the unsightly appearance of the
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Dividing Line History, Byrd re­
cherries. Sweet cherries are more Army Man’s Pliqht
lates that his party often could
commonly infested than sour chet» i
«i
.
_
, ,
ries.
I h Housing Problem
progress at the rate of only one Vefs Seek Entry
mile a day. He adds that he “liked Into Poor House
Brings New Orders
no part of it.”
CHAMPAIGN, III. — Even the
Neglected
Farm
Forest
M
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,
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Subsequent expeditions have re
tr'
ditionally hard-boiled army
House-hunting
World
War
vealed the swamp rich in flora and
Termed Valuable Asset
takes
cognizance of the dire plight
II
veterans
here
are
trying
fauna. Owned mostly by lum­
The farm woodland is paying off. oi
— it.; .......
..w iv u uy
men „ affected
by the nation-
to get into the poor house.
bering interests, the swamp has
That long neglected group of trees wide housing shortage
Long a b a n d o n e d , the
yielded large harvests of gum,
that
stands on
the back “forty”
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Capt,
Addison W. McLintock,
county farm and poor house
cypress and other timber. It now
which once was eyed with a resent- who was assigned to University
Is proposed to preserve it as
recently was sold for >10,-
ful attitude because it occupied land ; of Illinois in 1920 when the Re-
national forest.
000 and the new owners plan
that could far better be devoted to serve Officers Training Corps was
Deer and bear still abound in
to use it for veterans’
grazing, now becomes a definite and activated here, recently decided
housing.
•ome portions although not in as
valuable asset.
his location might be permanent
large numbers as previously. At
It is one that can be quickly con- and bought a house. A few days
one time a hunter killed 30 bears Irritated by Tickets,
verted into cash. To the owner has later the army ordered him trans-
in a single year. Birds which nest
come the realization that the farm 1 ferred overseas.
on the ground are scarce but Motorist Sends Bill
Awn o
r -. . , Wi". produce «°™ thing more than
Publicity given his plight re-
Lake Drummond and tributaries , P o p t t ANDf
~re' — Irritated grain, root crops, pasture or dairy suited in the army rescinding his
are considered g o o d fishing with the way traffic
officers gave products. Trees also are a crop, and orders, for six months at least
waters. Copperhead snakes also him parking tickets, Carl A. Pe- • paying crop, even on the poorer The army officer was elated—but
are prevalent and are reported to terson decided to do something types of soil where intensive agricul- j not so were the dozens of people
have fallen into boats from over­ about it. So he mailed Citv
City ture is an impossibility.
who had been trying to rent or
hanging boughs.
Auditor W. E. Gibson a bill for
J buy the McLintock house.
Juniper water flowing out
$6.80 to cover repairs on his
of Lake Drummond is a deep
windshield wiper, which he con- !
Modern Stock Barn
Last Wild Buffalo
red and is considered by most
tended had been broken three
“ swampers” to have tonic
times by patrolmen attaching the
On Oregon Ranges
tickets.
values. A t one time it was
Easterner’s Yen
Realized at Saie
taken aboard ships for drink­
ing water, since it reputedly
would not grow stale.
In
fact, one enterprising man
bottled it in Baltimore for
• a le
as a health-giving
beverage.
Curiously, Lake Drummond oc­
cupies a depression which is on a
ridge higher than the rest of the
ew;-.mp. For this reason it is
ronsdered likely that the swamp
cow’d be reclaimed entirely but
r proposal to do this several years
rgo brought protests from near­
by farriers, who claimed the
swamp had a beneficial effect on
iocrl wer'her.
LONDON—Claim of a “dead”
rajah to a vast Indian domain that
had been contested in Indian
courts for a quarter of a century
w
a s upheld
u n h r ld h
h a privy
n r iv ’V / council,
" •m in p il
was
by v f the
highest judicial authority in the
British empire.
Victor in the protracted legal
battle was Ramendra Narayan
Roy, second son of the rajah of
Bhowal, who claimed he was re­
vived by a rainstorm and res­
cued from a funeral pyre in 1909.
two "cornea - g ra ft” opera­
tions at a New York hospital.
LO YA L TO HOME TOWN
A Kansas boy who drifted into
the glamorous aviation business
20 years ago has returned to his
home town, bringing a new indus­
trial plant into the community
with him. Harry M. McKay claims
two home towns, having been
born in Arkansas City, Kans., and
being raised in nearby WinfiekL
Now, as general manager of per­
sonal plans division of Fairchild
Engine and Airplane corporation,
he was charged with finding per­
manent quarters for his division.
What did he select as best spot in
the U. S. for an aircraft plant?
Strother Field, site of a former
army plant, which is between
Arkansas City and Winfield.
Old Way of Milking
Works, Police Insist
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The old-
fashioned way of milking cows
m a / not be as fast but it gets the
same results, Milwaukee police
insist.
During a power failure a woman
called police headquarters to com­
plain she was unable to milk 24
head of cattle because there was
no power to operate her milking
machine and asked what to do.
“Lady,” said the desk man, "I
guess you’ll have to do what you
did before you had that machine.”
,
War-born quonsets have been
adapted to many farm uses. Above
photo shows how a Brighton,
Mich., farmer utilized a quonset.
Note the improved window ar-
rangements.
ASHWOOD, Ore. — Although
the deer and the antelope still
play in Oregon, the wild buffalo
no longer will roam this great
western state.
The last wild buffalo in central
Oregon was killed recently by
members of the Sisters Rodeo as­
sociation at request of Roland
Gridley, rancher, who reported
the old animal had been damaging
ranch property. The animal was
shot from horseback by George
Wakefield and Vernon Peek, who
used 30-30 rifles.
The buffalo was brought into
Oregon 15 years ago after original
species had been exterminated.
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I He 3aid he had lived with beggars Prom pt A ction R equired
Gefs Divorce after
for 12 years.
P »nl
di
a
Explaining ‘Cruelty’
The council’s ruling dismissed 1 ° H e lie v e W ttle B loat
Removal of the gases from the
' the appeal of Ranee Bibhabati
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Hearing a di­
I« rT l/-v C iriiz-il
w .c »
A l»
_ f .1
A
rumen is the primary object In vorce action on a charge of physi­
who
said she e was
the _ widow
of
in cattle. ii
If Diuai-
bloat- cai
the
She insisted
insisted her
me claimant.
claim ant, one
ner hus-
nus- treatment of bloat ™
cal cruelty, judge
Judge Dudley W
W.
band died at Darjeeling in 1909 lng hag ^ugt 8tarted, the animal Windes asked the plaintiff for
and
eremntorl
«hould be forcibly exercised and the
th« ' dotnila
details.
and was cremated
The privy council decision was
w S dZ en 1
?r ' “Five timea 8he Wt me on the
¿ he.v ”
° head with an ax>” the man re-
against a majority decision of the £i„Jd dK„ J k , t
about belching of the gases
i _
high court of Calcutta granting bring tv.»
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plied. If that keeps up
someone
the stomach. A wooden gag F- „ „ ¡no. vn „»t
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title to the estates, which yield from
can be placed in, and «crow, to . ' ’ g
8 tO get hUFt’
$400,000 a year.
The man waa granted a decree.
mouth of the bloated animal.
Send 50 rents for Slide Pattern
No. 03 to Kasi-HIld Put tern -Com­
pany, I)epl. W, Pleasantville, N. Y.
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0re /V0rnecessary
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The juice of n lemon in a glass of
water, when taken first thing on a n t­
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insure prompt, normal elimination
N o m o r e b e r t h l a s a l i v a t t h a t irritate
the digestive tract and impair nutri­
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G e n e r a tio n s o f A m e r ls o n i have taken
lemons for health —and generations
of doctors have recommended them.
They are rich in vitamin C: aupply
valuable amounts of Hi and P. They
alkHlinize, aid digestion.
N o t fo e th o r p o r t o u r , lemon in water
has a refreshing tang —clears the
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Killed by Horsemen
R?5jah Returned from ‘Dead’ Wins Domain
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ni 'ompllshliig
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vorth while.
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Read the Ads
N E W TR A N SPO R T . . . Pro­
pellers whirling, the huge new
four-engined transport produced
at Montreal for the Canadian gov­
ernment starts down the runway
on its test flight. It is developed
from the famous wartime Douglas
transport.
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N EW ‘D R O N E’ P LA N E FIRM
Actor Reginald Denny, who
helped develop d r o n e target
planes for the army and navy dur­
ing the war, has incorporated a
new company to adapt radio con­
trol of aircraft to civilian uses.
Landing of planes by remote con­
trol from an airport tower with­
out help of the pilot is one of th«
main principles of the new plan.
This would enable blind landing
of passenger planes In thict
weather.
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