Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, May 6, 1949
Outlaying a Fas
A businessman ean.n home one
night looking very weary.
“ You look tired, dear.” sal if his
wlfa sympathetically. “ Have you
bad a very busy dav at the office?"
“ Well, not exactly; but you ace,
the office boy earne In with the old
story <>f going to bis grandmother's
funeral, an 1 decided to tench him
a lesson and accompany him.”
“ Of course, you found It was a
football match?”
“ N'o aueli lurk,” lie said with a
rueful grin. “ It was h it grand-
mother’s funeral!*
SEVEN FAT YEARS
High Agricultural Production
Reverses Egyptian Chronicle
the seven previous years the
“lean” production was 15.4 bil
lion bushels.
For wheat, the figures show al
most 7 billion bushels in the seven
fat years and 4.8 billions in the
lean period. For oatB, the record
stands at more than 9 billion
preceded th e seven " l e n t '' y e a rs bushels compared with 6.5 billion.
Two Equals Three
(1933-39).
However, as a result of the
The record reveals that for
change in demand—both national these crops, production in two
and world-wide—the farm situa “fat” years has been nearly equal
tion in the "lean” years was char to three of the "lean” years. And
acterized by a threatening and the United States has experienced
persistent "surplus” problem. In seven successive fat years of good
the “fat” years, the parade of crops.
record-breaking crops has not
Crop experts agree that the
been able to match the war-creat weather is a principal item. They
ed requirements, and “shortages” mention as other elements in the
have accompanied bumper crops. picture: Hard work and planning
Production Increases
by farmers, improved machinery
These contrasts appear in de and better cultural practices that
partment of agriculture tabula include such items as use of fer
tions of crop production. By using tilizer. hybrid corn nnd improved
crop report figures for the seven varieties of other crops, and con
fa' years and official estimates for trol of-erosion. From the stand
previous years, simple addition point of human nutrition, substi
shows a production of more than tution of machines for horses as
21 billion bushels of corn for the farm power has released much
seven vears of 1910 to 19-16. For acreage for food growing.
Experience in the United States
has run just contrary to the
Egyptian chronicle of the seven
lean years following the seven fat
years of the Pharaoh's dream
which Joseph interpreted. Here
the seven "fat” years of high pro
duction have followed instead of
DEAN OF WATCHMAKERS . . . William H. Samelius, watch-
maker for more than half a century, is shown inspecting a
“Lighthouse” clock, one of the novelties designed by his stu
dents. In the background can be seen his personal collection of
ancient timepieces.
IN THESE UNITED STATES
Means Everything
To Dean of Watchmakers Leg,ess c iv ilia n
ELGIN, 111.—Somewhere in the United States there may exist an
untutored and unknown genius of Joblike patience who, after months
of painstaking effort, could put together a watch that would run.
But the odds are just about one-million-to-one that it would fall
far short of the performance demanded of fine watches today, in the
opinion of William H. Same,in,, director of Eigin Watchmaker, col-
Cover Crops Reduce
Soil Erosion Losses
Research Tests Show
Four M ain Advantages
How cover crop» seeded In corn
nnd other row crops could help
furmers fight erosion, build up the
»oil's orgunic matter und add to the
nitrogen supply. 1» Indicated In
studies by research men of Iowa
agricultural experiment station.
Four major advantage» are cited:
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HELENA, Mont.—Battle-clouds
AVIATION NOTES
of w orjd War II have cleared but
SUPPORT
AIR SUPREMACY
one battle—the fight to rehabili-
The day when farm folk shaded
X S g ffie ^ T irih m X "
their eyes and looked up when
lege.
gle is Joe M. Miller, 21, himself they heard a plane flying over and
Samelius ought to know. The dean of American fine watchmakers legless, who never wore a uni- then went back to their hoeing is
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- form, but who is using his own gone forever. Aviation no longer
came by his know »
clocks while completing their col- bitter experiences as the basis for is a luxury business; on the con
His father was the royal watch-
yeterang tQ over. trary. it’s really "down to earth.”
maker of Sweden, his mo
Unique Clocks
come their war-received handi-
Evidence of that fact comes in
a t ^ l J S t iJelaid He
A nine-dialed clock which caps,
the report that three of the larg
was ^ r n at Belfa .
shines ]ike & lighthouse waa con.
Taking cognizance of Millers est farm organizations in the na
TnH aJhA ft life member of ei-ht structed by Student William Geo- work among amputees, the war tion have gone on record urging
Today he s a life ™£mbe
t hagpn Driven by an electric mo- department awarded him a com- the government to "spread avia
♦ r H^fnrtin^nnqtantdemand as a tor,the dials indicate correct time mendation of exceptional civilian tion all over” and to see to it that
tions and in const
simultaneously in Bombay, Lon- service in a ceremony at Washing- some of the taxpayers’ money
lecturer.
don Hawaii San Francisco, Yoko- ton. In the citation, presented by goes into advancement of avia
Graduates 2,500 Jewelers
hama, Shanghaii New York. Mos- Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, sur- tion.
Samelius says he has made cow and Elgin.
geon general, Miller was com-
Typical is the comment of Ed
watches for “50 years plus. Ana Geohagen’s design remained at mended for “his untiring activity ward A. O’Neal, Farm Bureau
for 26 of those years he has di-
college to take its place along- on behalf of amputee patients, his president: "The United States
rected the study courses of Elgin g-de a ceiestial clock, which ex- kindly assistance and continuous farmer has a deep interest in aero
Watchmakers college, which has
a rising sun or moon at the demonstration of courage and nautical .research and he wants it
graduated more than 2,500 men prOper hours; a program clock, skill.”
continued at a high level, first be
cause he realizes that this country
and women now engaged in the wbich sjgnaig automatically the
Lo*es Leas at 12
must maintain its leadership in
jewelry business in all 43 state beginning and end of watchmak-
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19 vonro nf w
and in foreign countries. Many
| classeg and many other un- ,^ hen 5, J
Mrs fM SJ aerial technology for security rea
iU inci, son
ovii of
vra. Mr. and Mrs. M. »»
own their own watch repair and ugual timepieceg>
Miller,
J. • sons, and second because he will
. Ship
Miller of Helena, lost both legs in use air transport increasingly for
j e " c £ s S e n ts learn that the
»^¡"9
Repair
Flying Repair Ship
a ^rajn accident. Hospitalized for travel and shipping certain com
There
have
been
few
students
yearg> he continued his stud- modities."
best watches must be within a
nited tolerance
tolerance of
of time,
time, fast
• • •
limited
fast or or who ha^'e e9ual-!5d the unusual ieg and recejved his grammar
ow before they are released record of
Clemans, a young school diploma whiie still confined
Rural
areas
are expected to
♦___ " Samelius oovo
man ear]y
from Alaska
in the hospital,
hn^nitnl
om ’ -u
the e factory.
says. ated
jn 1946 who was
He gradu-
hig in
account for more than 60 per
rhev
---- r ' , a flying boat i„»„.
~
hey learn to maintain toier-
toler- wife ____n
Painfully mastering the use
cent of future sales of small
nccs * of ': -0001 of e an inch to fit
fit - e n Q purchased
u f o r the in^ ation large
of% of artificial limbs after grueling
aircraft, it is disclosed in a re
cent national survey. Basis for
art3
Preci
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watchmaker’s
bench shop’
io provide a hours of practice, Miller finally
S2J
(ng watch repair
returned home. In high school
the prediction is the wide util
was able to dance, ride horse
ity of aircraft in the agricul
Clemans planned to make his he
ecessary to restore a watch to
back,
swim,
drive
automobiles
tural industry.
business territory the group of
« • »
:s timekeeping ability.”
and
ski.
settlements that are within a
These are no more than sta
A leader in school, he served as SLOW PARACHUTE SPEED
50-mile air radius of isolated
tistics until it is known that
class president, school cheerleader
New devices introduced by army
Naknek
on
Bristol
Bay.
They
one ten-thousandth of an inch
and chairman of the school’s first air forces include a “sand bullet,”
are
identified
by
such
names
as
is the size of a human hair
designed to slow the fall of para
Dillingham, Ekegig, Ugashik scrap drive.
after it has been split the long
chuting troops and supplies and
Kogguing,
Snag
Point,
Clark’;
Takes
Hospital
Job
way 30 times—that a watch
to eliminate landing hazards.
Point,
and
Kinknik.
All
ar
ticks five times per second, or
After graduation in 1943, Joe
The “bullet” consists of a U-
fishing villages with seasons
432,000 times a day, so that if it
worked
announcer
financial
downs.
manciai ups and
ana aowns.
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a . and shaped tube with an explosive
loses or gains a second it has
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later enrolled at Montana State charge in the center and a charge
At last reports the Clemans duo co„
at Bozeman. There he de-
added or dropped only five ticks
sand in each end. It is set off
was deeply engaged in the flying cided a 4_F draft classification of
in i 432,000.
432,000
just
the equipment lands.
Students are taught, too, to
f S ^ n ’ shouldn,t keeP him from helPinS Recoil before
of the explosion almost
,rk with roller jewels so small “ ,s”°uld b ^ ^ e _ ^ CX
Zl
the war effort. He wrote a letter stops the heaviest loads, the AAF
ork
a f i n c e d d;„
, feels
lat 4,666,000 of them weigh a d^ ed t0 MrS' ^ h 13113 for the to President Roosevelt,, which re
re- said, adding that the rest of the
aund; to use screws so tiny that h an
•• * • in an * interview
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suited
at the drop is like “falling off a chair.”
army's Bushnell General hospital
),000 of them no more than fill tti
Another new device for slowing
Brigham City, Utah, where he ac descent of a parachute is tho
. ordinary sewing thimble. Yet
cepted a civil Service job in March "bare charge” unit, which has
ich screw has a perfect screw
1944 as an orthopedic mechanic. been tested successfully at Wright
iread and the head of it is per-
He helped design artificial limbs Field. It consists of a small ex
:ctly slotted.
and soon expanded his activities plosive charge placed between
Course Extends Year
to the introduction of swimming, heavy falling loads and their
Learning to be a watchmaker
horseback riding, skiing and au parachutes. The charge is set off
¡quires from 11 to 14 months, |
tomobile driving to programs for several feet from the ground, the
imelius says, depending entirely ;
legless veterans.
i the adaptability of the student, i
resultant shock wave of the blast
Like all the classes since 1920,’
exerting a tremendous upward
lis year’s group came chieflyj
against the underside of
Expecting Guests? pressure
•om small cities and towns. On f
the inflated chute, thus working
egistrar Schmidt’s books a re '
like a brake.
Just Blow Up Bed
ome community addresses such
s Rochester, N. H.; La Porte,
Novel solution of the guest
id.; Northwood, la.; Waldo, Fla.;
problem in this day of crowded
le atomic bomb town of Oak j
housing conditions is the new
idge, Tenn.; Ellensburg, Wash.,;
mattress-bed, which is inflated for
nd Artesia, N. M.
sleeping and can be stowed away
Extending a feminine influence, |
on a closet shelf.
irst evidenced in 1938, were five
The mattress, which is made of
'omen grads in 1946. One of
cotton
coated with neoprene, is
iem, according to Samelius,
laid
on
the floor and blown up
jrned in work that was unsur-
(With a vacuum cleaner blower at
assed by any student.
tachment. It also can be blown
“A woman expert on watches,”
up with a hand pump or—in case
Samelius added in his distinc
of emergency—by mouth.
tive style, “ is apt to become so
z-:4
.
Although the 11-pound mat
solidly established in a grow
ing business that she can afford CHINESE WAY OF WEIGHING tress and pillow are one piece,
. . . A male student nurse, re they are inflated separately to
a husband.”
MODEL . . . The Bendix
As adept a3 women students ceiving training from the Chi permit adjustment of each section TEST
helicopter,
Model K, has been
to
the
desire
of
the
sleeper.
nese
Relief
and
Rehabilitation
ave proved, they have failed so
If the mattress-bed becomes .ying for more than a year,
ar to invade one field open to administration, weighs a husky
gathering data for the larger
hem for it is male students rather Chinese youngster at a welfare soiled from an outdoor trip, it four-passenger
machines now
han women who have designed station. Not long ago this baby can be cleaned with the garden under construction.
hose
or
washed
in
the
bathtub.
was
undernourished.
nd constructed watches and hall
PHILADELPHIA— Attendance
fit prizefights and other sport
events was suggested by Dr. Greg
ory Zilboorg, psychiatrist, as a
release for war-bom aggressive
ness.
The psychiatrist maintains that
aggressiveness and a tendency
toward violence has resulted from
the war, not only among comba
tants but also among those on the
home front.
Maintaining that psychiatrists
are "too prone to treat all these
conditions of aggressiveness as
outright accidents of mental ill
ness, whereas in many cases there
is no mental illness involved," Dr.
Zilboorg insists it is necessary to
devise methods for “harnessing
the aggression in the right direo-
tion.”
He maintained that the Lind
bergh baby kidnaping and rise of
gangsterism in the 20s were direct
results of the first World War.
Old Refrigerator Car
Converted into House
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.—Home
is where you find it, contends Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Hanson, and they
have found theirs in an abandoned
railroad refrigerator car. The car,
with trucks removed, has been in
stalled over a previously dug base
ment. Finished with shingles, it
has a living room built on in front
and is a complete two-bedroom
residence.
COVM
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p r o te c t
tin -
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1.
H d p S V d S G g £
'B a c k O il F e e t '
Attending Prizefights Urged as Crime Deterrent
CUCKOO IN REVERSE
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CHINA SEEKS PLANES
In an effort to expand its op
erations to Tokyo and Manila,
China Air Transport corporation
is attempting to purchase surplus
American airplanes and equip
ment being sold in the Philippines.
The company's main objective is
to secure the 150 American trans
port planes which operated over
the "Hump” during the war. The
transports now are grounded in
Shanghai, with 70 of them in fly
ing condition.
from August to May.
One-
fourth of the annual sol! Io»» occur»
during this period.
q Well fertilized le g u m e » and
“
grasses add orffnnlc matter io
the soil that help# resist erosion
during the May und June period.
This is the time when one half of the
annual »oil losses occur.
Cover crops add nitrogen to the
«5 soil, especially when legumes
are a part or all of the mixture.
a The yield of corn w ill be slightly
•• increased in the year following
the seeding of cover crops.
Research workers have developed
a plan that licks the problem of seed
ing the cover crops. Just bejore
Good field of corn secured from
proper plant food.
laying by the corn, they broadens,
the seed with an endgate seeder.
Wceders are attached to the culti
vator to help cover the seed und
better growth results.
Clover and Alfalfa Need
Limed, Fertilized Soil
Sweet clover and alfalfa w ill do a
good Job of increasing the soil's sup
ply of nitrogen nnd vitally needed
organic matter if they are well fed.
Legumes are heavy eaters of phos
phate and potash. They thrive best
in a soil that has been limed to cor
rect acidity and to furnish calcium.
Husband: “ When anything g«ea
wrong around t • house, I Just get
busy and fix It.”
Wife: “ Yeah? Since you fixed the
clock, the curkoo h- ' s out and
nsks: ' W i t . t time is I : ? '”
A REAL DIPLOMAT
", .” said Hector, looking fruits
the book he waa reading, "w h ti 1«
meant by 'diplomatic phraseology’ ?*
“ Well,” replied l*a, " if you t -re
to say t<> a homely girl, 'Your fare
would stop a clock,’ that would ha
stupidity, but if you raid to her,
•When 1 look into your eyes, time
stands still,’ thnt would he diplo
matic phraseology!”
Surprise for Mora!
Miss Smith, young Joey's piano
teacher, was having considerable
trouble trying to get him to practice
his exercises. Finally turning to him
in despair, she said, “ Joey, don’t yon
want to be a great pianist?”
“ Ah, no,” Joey spoke up. “ These
music lessons sre just a waste of
money. I ’m going to be a prize
fighter when I grow up. Rut I ’m
keeping it from Mom as a surprise.”
Marital Rlisa
Wife: “ I looked over the rest of
the men nt the party and I was so
glad thnt I was married to you.”
Husband: “ Thanka, Sweetheart!"
Wife: “ It's such a comfort to
know that you have a husband that^
no other woman w ill try to steal.*
n
When legumes get a full quota
of needed nutrients they w ill pro
duce top results. That was shown
in tests with sweet clover at the
Newton soil experiment field in Il
linois.
The accompanying chart sum
marizes results. Sweet clover grown
on soil that had been limed and fer
tilized with phosphate m d potash
produced 63 pounds more nitrogen
and a ton more organic matter per
acre than that grown on soil that
had received only lime. Another
advantage of well-fed legumes comes
in improved soil tilth.
The sturdy tap roots of well-fed
sweet clover and alfalfa drive
through plow sole compactions and
push mineralized organic matter
deep into the soil. They open tight
soil to air and moisture. The added
organic matter and better tilth 18 to
25 inches deep enable crops follow
ing in the rotation to make more effi
cient use of the plant food available
In the soil.
Doctor: “ Your husband must lave
rest and quiet. Here’a a sleeping
powder.”
Wifey: “ When do I give It to
him?”
Doctor: “ Don’t give it to him.
Take it yourself.”
Why ft’s So Easy To
Kill Many Insects
with
FLIT
5% DDT
Think of it — ono »praying'
lent« for wooki. You don't
havo to »pray ovory few
hour» to kill tho Insects io
your homo. N o bomb type
»pray or other »pray» con-
tainiog lot» than 5 % DDT
can equal thi» for lotting
effect. Flit Surface Spray
with 5 % DDT it to power
ful a »ingle application kills
Iniecti today — tomorrow —
oven next month.
Increased Production
Of Butterlat Required
Dairy farmers whose average an
nual production per cow is only
6,000 pounds are operating on a
bare subsistence figure, it is pointed
out by Howard O. Selby, general
manager of the United Farmers of
New England. It is not unreason
able to suggest that an annual pro-
I ductlon per cow of 7,500 pounds
would be possible and that it would
yield an ecomonic level more nearly
In line with other groups in the na-
j tion, he adds.
Cleanliness Emphasized
In Treating of Wounds
Horses under treatment do much
better at pasture than in stables, If
I the weather is suitable. If sick
horses must be stabled, quarters
should be clean and well-ventilated.
Be gentle in dressing wounds, clip
: closely or shave the hair around the
' wound and make sure that no dis
charge from around the edges Is car
ried into the wound. Proper drainage
1 of the wound must be assured.
BUY LOW COST F L IT TODAY!
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