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By EVERETT R. IRWIN
United Press Correspondent
Chicago (U.RJ Spring is well
along today and there's a sort
of relaxed, familiar look to the
lower levels of the jet-furrowed
skies.
Kites, thousands of the gaudy
things, each- attaching a little
chunk of sky to a small boy or a
small girl, are floating in the
winds blowing up from the
South. .
And, toy jobbers, parents and
kids agree, these kites sort of
represent a setback to all this
talk about the jet age being here.
Most of them, and the biggest
sellers this year, are just the
plain old two crossed sticks and
paper type. They sell for 10 to
35 cents and nearly any piggy
bank can produce what's need
ed. Shaped Like Parachute
Of course, there are newer
ones, too, like the rhumba kite.
An ultra-modern job of vinyl
plastic and shaped like a para
chute, it cost more and rhum
bas, naturally according to my
well-informed source. That's my
nine-year-old, Linda. She wants
a rhumba.
"It's amazing," said Ira Sing
er, owner of the United Notion
Supply Company. "The demand
for kites is just as big today
at it was when my father start
ed selling them 35 years ago.
Millions are sold every year in
Chicago alone."
Is That So?
Tokyo, with Japan Air Lines
This is Japan.
Roaming about shrines and
temples in Nara Park are some
150 tame deer. They go about
unmolested, revered as divine
messengers. If ever animals beg
ged for food, these creatures
with their soft eyes seem, to im
plore handouts. For a rare treat,
time yourself to be in the park
towards sundown. A trumpeter
comes out then to sumrrfon
them and when he plays they
hurry to the pens in groups.
Every year, come the middle
of October, the antlers of these
deer are cut, the occasion being
something of a festival. To the
animal, of course, there is no
pain any more than getting
your hair or your fingernails
trimmed.
One of the thousand kinds of
silk producing moths exudes a
natural green-tinted silk. This
silk is prized and used mainly
for embroidery.
Among the climatic disasters
to which Japan is prey typhoons
are the No. 1 killer. During
1954's two-month season, Aug
ust and September five typhoons
in a, row smashed into the Jap
anese Islands. They left behind
1,508 persons killed, 506 injur
ed; 2,221 houses destroyed and
more than 1,000 vessels either
sunk or washed away. The great
est single loss of life was sus
tained when a ferry boat cap
sized with a loss of over 1,000.
Differ from Real Pearls
. The cultured pearls of Japan
differ from real pearls in only
one way the center. In real
pearls some irritant, perhaps a
grain of sand;" is the nucleus: in
artificial pearls, tiny pearl-like
irritants are introduced by man
and upon this the oyster depos
its layer upon layer of nacre
or pearl, f
What every Boy Scout should
know: rice, when cooked, ex
pands about 300 per cent.
Among toe first trees of the
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Kite flying is no Johnny-come-lately.
Tradition has it that
Archytas of Tarentum invented
the pastime four centuries be
fore Christ.
Koreans attribute the first kite
to a general who sent up a crude
"dragon" with a lantern attach
ed. His soldiers, thinking the
flickering light was a heavenly
omen, charged the enemy and
won the battle, 'tis said.
Kites Flown in Asia
Most Asiatic peoples have
flown kites since time immem
orial. Maoris attached religious
significance to them. Some Asi
atics still keep whining, "mus
ical" kites flying over their
homes nightlong to frighten
away evil spirits.
In 1752 Ben Franklin experi
mented and . . . but every school
boy knows what Ben found out.
Capt. B.F.S. Baden-Powell of
the Scots Guards successfully
lifted a man with a 36-foot kite
in 1894.
Over West Virginia in 1910, a
train of ten kites climbed to a
height of four and a half miles.
And in 1929 kites turned loose in
Chicago pulled heavy logs across
Lake Micigan to Saugatuck,
Mich., in 12 days.
Kile Flying Record
That was the year that John
Garmon and Trueman Diem,
who didn't believe in flagpole
sitting, set a new world's record
by keeping their kite "Old
Glory" in the sky over New Hoi-
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
year to blossom are the single
white and pink cherry trees. Af
ter the single blossoms, the
doubles bloom the blossoms
lasting about two weeks. Japan
ese cherry trees, incidentally, do
not bear fruit. Their single mis
sion in life is to be beautiful and
that's ample.
When a person dies the body
is always laid out with the head
toward the north. Therefore,
people when sleeping avoid get
ting into that head-to-the-north
position presumably for fear
that they may die in their sleep.
In summer men as well as wo
men carry fans and use 'em.
A spider appearing in the
house in the morning is a good
luck omen.
Instead of "hurrah," Japan
ese say, "banzai." "Ban" means
10,000 and "sai" or "zai" means
years. Hence 10,000 years!" If
you really want to make it
stick, say: "Ban-bazai." That's
good for ten times 10,000!
A big bamboo cage full of
birds is often carried behind
the coffin. These birds are set
free after the burial presumably
in the belief that the kind act
of freeing the birds may release
the departed soul from an etern
ity in hell.
At a wedding dinner, sea
bream, a red fish, must be serv
ed each guest whole to cut
the fish is ominous of inconv
pleteness, separation.
In posing for. a picture in the
U.S., a person usually smiles;
in Japan he looks dead serious.
Since olden times hawks have
been trained to retrieve birds
for their trainer even such
large ones as cranes, the symbol,
incidentally, of Japan Air Lines.
(Copyright, 1956, by
Eugene Burns)
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By Jimmy Hatlo
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minutes.
Only last year, X 0-year-old
Dave Keddie of Chicago made
kite history. A police squad
made him pull in his kite.
"It's a menace to aviation,"
they chided. "Planes are flying
under it."
Davy reeled in 16,000 feet of
twine.
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Citizens Who Suffered
World II Property Loss
Must File Claim Soon
Washington U.R) Unless 1
thousands of American citizens
who suffered World War .II
property losses act soon, they
stand to lose some $41,000,000.
But apparently few of the legiti
mate claimants care.
The Foreign Settlement Com
mission says claims for war los
ses against Bulgaria, Hungary,
Rumania and Italy must be filed
with it before Sept. 30, 1956.
Claims against the Soviet Union
for losses before Nov. 16, 1933,
must be filed before March 31,
1956.
Congress authorized the filing
of these claims with Public Law
285, approved on Aug. 9, 1955.
The five countries involved have
set money aside to settle their
old debts. The commission said,
however, that Americans "have
been slow in asserting their
claims" and "unless they do so
before the scheduled filing dead
lines, the efforts of Congress to
provide them some measure of
compensation will be wasted."
Commission Chairman Whit
ney Gillilland said the commis
sion has sent out more than
8,000 notices to the people who
previously queried the State de
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Vatican City Pop Pius XII in his annual Easter message on
the atomic arms race:
"Every day is a melancholy step forward in this tragic road,
is a hastening on to arrive alone, first, with greater advantage. And
the human race almost loses hope of being able to stop this homi
cidal, this suicidal madness."
Vatican City Pope Pius XII in a first public reference to Rus
sia's new anti-Stalin campaign:
"The enemy of peace . . . today exalts his myths, tomorrow de
rides them . . . today announces a new system, to return tomor
row to the old."
Washington Sen. Olin D. Johnson (D.-S.C.) on President Eisen
hower and the compromise omnibus farm bill:
". . . If I were in his position, I'd want to do something for the
farmers who are in such a desperate situation. I'd take that into
consideration before, I vetoed anything."
Springfield, 111. John Asher, Illinois Democratic state com
mitteeman, on Adlai Stevenson running for president:
". . . If we ran him again we would be making the same mis
lake the Republicans made in running Dewey twice."
Pittsburgh Businessman T. J. O'Malley, who survived a TWA
plane crash at Greater Pittsburgh airport which killed 21, on his
experience:
"I had the feeling right after our wheels left the ground that
something was wrong."
WHO'S Q
Who makes or takes,
A driving dare
Is a chicken for sure
And a "cluck" for fair.
He has feathers for brains
And he's ready to pluck
His friends should tell him
He's crowding his luck!
rCoreless driving
is deadly
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To Popular TV
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) If you're
planning a trip here this spring,
you can just about give up any
notions of seeing Ed Sullivan,
Perry Como or the Arthur God
frey morning show. Tickets can't
be had.
However, a letter to the net
works right now will get you
free seats to see Phil Silvers, Sid
Caesar, Steve Allen, Garry
Moore and both evening shows
of Arthur Godfrey. In fact, TV
tickets are available for just
about everything except the few
really "hot" shows and Charlie
Chan movies.
CBS says Sullivan and God
frey in the morning are booked
up for the next six months. NBC
isn't even accepting requests any
more for the Como show this
season.
Skipping around the networks,
the ticket situation here breaks
down like this:
Silvers' Available
CBS (485 Madison Ave.) God
frey tickets are available for his
"Talent Scouts" and "Friends"
shows. Talent Scouts is the easier
ticket to get. Jackie Gleason is
no longer shootfng his "Honey
mooners" films, but Phil Silvers
will continue shooting until the
end of April. Some tickets are
available for Silvers.
"What's My Line," "Beat the
Clock," "I've Got a Secret" and
"Two for the Money" are next
most in demand, but can be had
if you apply about one month
in advance.
"The $64,000 ' Question" . is
booked solidly four or five weeks
ahead. This is the only show for
which you must send a self-addressed
envelope if you want
partment about their losses. The
response consisted of "only a
handfull of claims."
Under Public Law 285, U. S
citizens or corporations or
ganized in accordance with Am
erican laws in which U. S. citi
zens held more than 50 per cent
of the stock at the time of the
loss may file claims in three
general categories:
1. Against the governments of
Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania
for war damage, nationalization
and pre-war governmental debt
(bond).
2. Against the government of
Italy for losses arising out of
World War II and not otherwise
provided for in the Italian peace
treaty.
3. Against the Soviet govern
ment for losses before Nov. 16,
1933, and claims against Russian
nations secured by liens on cer
tain assets before the transfer
of these assets to the United
States on the same date.
Paris (U.R) A government
spokesman said Saturday reports
that France is flying jet-fighter
planes to Israel are untrue.
W I llff
Shows Are Hard To Obtain
tickets.
NBC (30 Rockefeller Plaza)
after Como, Sid Caesar is most
difficult. Five weeks wait for
this one. There is also a long list
of customers for Steve Allen's
Friday night show. The other
four "Tonight" shows are not
difficult. About the only other
difficult ticket here is "The Big
Surprise," but a month's notice
should suffice.
Hit Parade Out
There are no tickets avail
able for "Your Hit Parade" be
cause the show has no audience.
(The applause and whistles are
faked.) There are rarely any
tickets to be had for spectacu
lars either.
ABC (7 West 66th St.) There
are no more tickets for "Super
Circus" this season. Other tough
tickets here are "Dollar a
Washington Residents Are
Subject to Double Taxes
Salem (U.R) Claims that
several thousand persons living
in Washington but working full
time in Oregon were subject to
double taxation" were made at
a meeting of the Legislative In
terim Tax Study Committee here
Saturday.
Dean Ratzman, an Interior De
partment employee who lives in
Vancouver, Wash., and works in
Portland, appealed to the tax
group to consider an offset to
Washington residents for esti
mated sales tax paid in that
state on their Oregon personal
income tax returns.
Ratzman also declared that
under terms of the 1953 Oregon
tax law, standard deductions al
lowed Oregon income tax payers
were not allowed citizens who
live in Washington and work in
Oregon. The effect, Ratzman
said, was that the out-of-state
residents paid nearly twice as
much state taxes.
Consider Proposals
Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, chairman
of the Tax Study Committee,
said the group would give care
ful consideration to Ratzman's
proposals.
He said he was not too opti
mistic about working out a re
ciprocal agreement to offset the
Washington sales tax, but said he
thought out-of-state residents
might be granted standard deduc
EARLY THUGS SURPRISED
Davenport, la. (U.R) Two
thieves tried to steal a march on
police by robbing the safe of a
store two days before its sched
uled opening. Police also paid
a surprise visit to the store and
arrested the men who were
working on the safe by candlelight.
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Second" and "The Original Ama
teur Hour." Three weeks notice,
however, should be enough.
Other tickets offered by ABC
are "Break the Bank," "Mas
querade Party," "Down You Go"
and "Ethel and Albert." There
are a limited number of tickets
for the "Voice of Firestone" tele
casts and three weeks notice is
necessary here, too.
And perhaps one final note
should be added on a telecast for
which it is quite impossible to
get tickets. It's NBC's "Howdy
Doody" which reports a waiting
period of from one-and-a-half to
two years.
In fact, says NBC, the situa
tion is so bad that women, who
used to ask to be put on the wait
ing list when they gave birth,
now write in as soon as they be
come pregnant.
tions accorded to Oregon resi
dents. The group also studied com
parative figures showing indi
vidual taxes in Oregon, Wash
ington and California.
Wilhelm said a second series
of letters to Chambers of Com
merce had been dispatched re
questing information as to wheth
er Oregon's income tax was re
sponsible for keeping business
out of the state. He said only 20
replies had been received from
102 letters sent out last October.
MISSING Mrs. Gretta June
Dicus, 20 (above), is object
of search since discovery of
body X)f her daughter,
Shirley Ann, 3, in rockpile
near Kansas City, Mo. Miss
ing with the mother is an
other baby daughter, one-year-old
Mozelle. The
father, Lloyd A. Dicus, 31,
former Texas convict, is be
ing sought on first degree'
murder charge.
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Wisconsin Primary
Washington (U.R) Republi
cans and Democrats are' set to
watch Tuesday's Wisconsin pri
mary as a test of Sen. Estes
Kefauver's vote-pulling power
against President Eisenhower
and of farm sentiment toward
the administration.
When the votes have been
counted, both sides can argue
about their meaning because of
the currents and cross-currents
involved.
On the Democratic side, Ke
fauver will pick up 28 national
convention delegate votes with
out a contest. Mr. Eisenhower's
slate of 30 state organization
delegates is considered certain
to win over one pledged to John
B. Chappie, Ashland, Wis.,
editor.
4-H Club News
Gold Hall Sewing Club
The Flashing Seamstresses
met March 30 in the Hanby
School sewing room in Gold
Hill. The meeting was called to
order by president Dianne Jore.
Flag salute was led by Jan
Newland and the 4-H pledge by
Bonnie Knapp. Roll call was an
swered by members naming
their favorite ilower.
The members voted that each
member should bring a dime or
needles, pines, measuring tapes
or something for the 4-H work
box. Refreshments were served by
Vervia Beman. The meeting was
then turned over to the leaders,
Mrs. Al Beman and Mrs. John
Jore.
Mrs. Ferd Jones was a Visitor.
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Stalin Picture Sent
For 'Spring Cleaning'
London (U.R) Recent Brit
ish visitors to the Soviet embas
sy here said Saturday the big
picture of Josef Stalin that for
merly hung in its main reception
room has been replaced by a pic
ture of V. I. Lenin.
The Lenin picture is not big
enough to cover the faded patch
left on the embassy's wallpaper
by the picture of his successor as
dictator of all the Russians, the
Britons said.
When they asked what had be
come of the Stalin picture, em
bassy officials told them it had
been sent out for "spring cleaning."
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