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linesemanding freedom from foreign rule. Disorders caused resignation of deputy resi
dent general. French troops are moving against rebel tribesmen. (International)
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Blue Cheese Gives
Life To Aging Cats
Chicago (U.R) A veterinarian
recommends feeding your cat
blue cheese.
This will make his ninth life
as eventful as his first, said Dr.
Robert J. Cyrog.
Cyrog said blue cheese is es
pecially beneficial to elderly
felines who have forsaken the
back alleys for nightly naps un
der the kitchen stove.
"When a cat loses his stalking
Interests, it's usually because old
age has hit him right in the
stomach," said Cyrog.
"In that respect a cat is some
thing like a human being he's
as old as his stomach feels.". -
Cyrog blamed bacteriological
disorders in the stomach for Old
Tom's declining vigor.
"Blue cheese corrects these
common disorders," Cyrog said,
"ancr a healthy cat well, he
just naturally starts acting like
a healthy cat." -' '
Fire Alarm Prefered
To Dial Telephones
Hammonton, N. J. U.R)
This township prefers fire pro
tection to a dial telephone sys
tem. . ...
The dialesystem, scheduled to
be installed soon, would elimi
nate the local telephone oper
ator, and she Js ihe key person'
In the chain alarm system which
alerts 50 firemen. - ,
Councilmen recently appeared
before the New Jersey Public
Utilities Commission and ex
jalned. At present, when a fire
breaks out, the operator touches
off the town's two sirens and
rings a bell in the fire chiefs
home. The chief throws a switch
which rings a bell in each of
the firemen's homes.
Officials asked the PUC to
force the company, the New
Jersey Bell Telephone Co., to
continue the present service
which was granted in 1905.
Schoolhouse Changed To Comfortable Home
New port, N. Y. (U.R) Jack
Franklin, a state highway en
gineer, is determined that a
man's home is his "castle"
even if it's only an Old school-
house.
With prices soaring at the end
of World Wv II, Franklin set
tled for an old stone schoolhouse
near this Herkimer County vil
lage, and since 1949 he has work
ed evenings, Saturdays and holi
days to make it into a home for
his wife and three children.
The building, more than 100
Dollar Devaluation
Was Ancient Problem
Columbus, O. U.R) An
Ohio State Uniiversity chemistry
professor believes that the kings
of ancient Parthia in the Middle
East , had their money problems
too. '
A study by. Prof. Earle R.
Caley shows how silver money
was debased some 2,000 years
ago in that western Asiatic coun
try. A number of the coins studied
were from a hoard unearthed in
1923 near Tabriz, Iran. Among
themvwere several types of silver
drachmas issued by Orodes I, the
only Parthian king whom Caley
believes was guilty of serious
coin debasement.
Under Orodes, the silver con
tent of coins dropped as low as
40 per cent, well under that Of
coins before and after his reign.
Caley thinks this was the, re
sult of a struggle for power be
tween Orodes and his brother
Mithradates II, who alternated
on the throne until the latter
died in 54 B.C.
Military campaigns against the
Roman Empire and Syria also
were thought to be contributing
factors. '
"It may well have been that
the available supply of pure sil
ver could not keep pace- with the
increased demand for coins dur
ing the reign of Orodes," Caley
said.
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Opportunity
eto head Medford General Agency
of old established Pacific Coast
life insurance company.
Local man with excellent
references, successful life insurance
experience, and sincere desire
for permanent management career.
Age 2840, college educated,
'married. ;
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Write, giving qualifications,
to "Medford General Agency,"
care of this paper.
Correspondence confidential.
years old, had not been used as
a school since 1877 and didn't
even have a roof when Franklin
bought it.
Today, it has an upstairs and
downstairs, a cellar, automatic
heat, electric lights and other
modern improvements, along
with a two-stall garage which
Franklin built.
Motorists Ignorant
Of Accident Causes
Boston (U.R) More than 50
per cent of all American motor
ists appear to be ignorant of the
real causes of auto accidents
that kill more than 35,000 and
injure 1,250,000 on the nation's
highways each year.
The Institute For Safer Living
so reported after a survey cover
ing a typical group of more than
500 motorists. Each motorist was
asked:
"What, in your opinion, is the
biggest single cause of highway
accidents?"
More than 53 per cent blamed
highway mishaps on "road hogs,"
"impatience," "teenagers," "pok
ey drivers," "modern cars,"
"women drivers" and "wrong
laws." .
Only 47 per cent gave the
causes which have been estab
lished by safety authorities as
fundamental causes of highway
destruction. Chief among these
are speeding, passing in the
wrong place and wrong way,
pulling in and out of traffic,
mechanical failure of cars, and
failure to heed traffic signs and
signals.
Old Wall Etching
Proves Valuable Art
Otisco, N. Y. (U.R) An ar
tist poking around the ruins of
an old home uncovered a rare
art treasure on the walls. Not a
portrait or a landscape, but the
walls themselves.
Lee B. Coye, of Syracuse, dis
covered what was described as
an "extremely rare" type of wall
etching the chief method of
home decorating before the in
vention of wallpaper.
Sprinkled with eight-point
stars in red, orange and green
between pillars painted in green
and black the plaster panelling
extended from floor to ceiling.
The paints were made of color
ed dirt mixed with oil.
A well-preserved section of
wall was salvaged for the Om
ondaga County Historical Asso
ciation, Richard . Wright presi
dent, said the specimen prob
ably was painted between 1810
and 1820.
College Fund Raisers
Form Organization
Chicago (U.R) Officials re
sponsible for raising money for
institutions of higher learning
throughout the United States
have banded together for mutual
aid.
More than 75 colleges and uni
versities have representatives in
the new organization, which was
formed at the recent annual ses
sion of the American College
Public Relations Association.
The body will invite as mem
bers directors of development
and fund raising for colleges and
universities throughout this
country and Canada and operate
as a section of the ACPRA.-
, Lumber accounts for 60 per
cent - of the wood used in the
United States.
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Pencil Mightier Than Pen;
U.S. Consumes VA Billion
Washington In these days
of peace the pencil is mightier
than the pen, at least in num
bers. And in two notable in
stances it was not the pen, nor
even the sword, but the pencil
that wrote history in wartime.
Today the same instrument
that set down the first drafts of
"The Star-Spangled Banner" and
the Gettysburg Address sells at
the rate of nine to one over all
other types of writing tools.
Americans now buy a record
breaking 1V4 billion pencils or
8Vfc per person per year.
The standard 7-inch model is
made of 25 or more products
from around the globe. It con
tains wax from Brazil, clay from
England, gum from Iran, zinc
from New Jersey, graphite from
Mexico and Ceylon, and sperm
whale oil from the South Pa
cific. -t
Tennessee supplied most of the
wood until its stands of red cedar
were exhaused.' Now the casings
come from incense cedars in
California and Oregon. Dyed a
rosy pink to simulate red cedar,
incense cedar offers all the ad
vantages of the original Tenn
essee product. Straight-grained,
it whittles easily. It also smells
like pencils.
No Lead in Lead Pencil
The average tree yields about
172,000 pencils. The wood is
cut into 7-inch slats, 6 to 7 pen
cils wide and a half-pencil thick.
The slats are grooved and leaded,
then sandwiched together in
pairs with glue, and finally
sliced lengthwise.
The so-called lead encased
within . actually is graphite.
Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians
used discs of real lead for ruling
lines on -papyrus, and 14th-century
artists made fine line draw
ings with lead. But since. 1564
lead has been associated with
writing in name only.
In that year a graphite de
posit was discovered at Borrow
dale, England, and the ore was
named Plumbago "that which
acts like lead"). So valuable
was it that Parliament put the
mine under armed guard. The
graphite had only to be sawed
into sticks to be used as it was.
When England's supply gave
out, the problem was to find a
way to use powdered graphite.
In 1795, a Frenchman, Nicholas
Jacques Conte, mixed such
graphite with powdered clay and
fired the mixture in a kiln.. Re
sult: the modern pencil.
-Today's school-desk pencil
contains 7 part of clay to 10 of
graphite. Harder pencils have
more clay. Seventeen grades of
hardness are made from soft
est 6B to super-hard 9H for tomb
stone designers.
Pencils for Skin, Steel, Glass
Altogether there are 350 styles
and types of pencils. Some write
on white-hot steel. Others cut
into glass. And still others cam
ouflage furniture nicks and
scratches.
Surgeons map out operation
areas with special skin pencils,
while chemists mark their glass
ware with wax pencils that melt
at 300. Women use one type on
their eyebrows and : various
others for writing on children's
boots, jelly glasses, and freezer
food packages. Butchers can get
a knurled meat pencil that won't
slip out of greasy fingers even j
a kosher model guaranteed free
of pork-derived products.
Heaviest consumers are indus
trial concerns fled by Bell Tele
phone Company), followed by
school children and government
employees.
Since the average yellow pen
cil (yellow is preferred four to
one) can draw a line at least 35
miles long, the year's crop of all
pencils in the United States can
trace the distance to the moon
and back 100,000 times.
Moral Fears Delayed Apartment Housing
New Haven, Conn. (U.R) Jt
took a hundred years for Amer
icans to adopt the European idea
of apartment houses because of
fears that it would lead to a
"breakdown of the family."
Two Yale University city
planners, Christopher Tunnard
and Henry H. Reed, Jr., wrote in
their recent book, "American
Skyline," that when the first
apartment building opened in
New York City 90 years ago It
was difficult to obtain tenants.
The writers explained" that
"the name itself suggested - a
dangerous and racy way of life.
The moral threat in sharing a
building with so many other peo
ple and the promiscuity encour
aged by several families living
on the same floor raised further
objections from many New York
ers." ; .
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