THURSDAY, DEC. 15. 1949
ITKRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PAGE TWENTY-ONS
U.S., Canada Wool
Production Down
Tlili year alirep rinclirri and
farmers In tfie Ui.ltrd allien and
Canada liave Irwrr elieep and liavt
produred about 200 million pounds
Iraa wool than In lue'J.
In tills part nt Ilia world, rattlr
raiting and cah iralna liava paid
better In m-snl yeara than alirrp
rallng. Tlirn, too, (at lamba liava
brought morj fuvorable returns
than wool, ao sheepmen have aold
mora lamba than initial (or slaugh
trr and krpt (rwar (or (lock re
placements. Nil rrodurrra
But Ilia United Hialas la Just ona
l( the ainallrr of the big alx wool
countries. Foreign rrlatwms offtriala
( the U. S. rrimrt the other
(Iva principal wool producing conn
Irlra, Auatralla, New Zealand, Un-
Chinese Reds Begin
Education Reforms
BAN KRANCIHCO. ) The Chi
no Recti liava begun to remold
Uirir higher adurallonal system, but
obviously are going slow. In a
broadcast heard here by the As.
sotlaled Press, the Peking radio
laid curricula (or colleges and aru
and aclencra hsd bran revised.
v' "This mark! the beginning of the
I reformation of Uia old educational
system in universities and colleges
In China," declared the broadcast
. Dialectical materialism, historical
materialism and what the Itrdt
rail "new democracy" are required
subjects. Russian la required aa
(orelin Untune course "whenever
possible."
nlon of South Africa, Argentina, and
Uruguay, together produced a big
ger share of the wurld's wool this
year than before the war, Uruguay
more. Argentina not quite as much.
Production In the Union of Houth
Africa, the chief wool country of
Africa, Is atlll below pre-war.
riral
But the total wool clip In
Australia and New Zealand the
first and second wool producing
countries of the world la somewhat
larger thla year than before the
war.
The officials note that the output
of merino wool has Increased pro
portlonately more linn the Increax
In the world clip. Prices of merino
compared with crossbred wool
prices have favored the Increase.
Officials Itch
For DDT
BAN rRANCIBCO W When City
Health Director Dr. J. C. Oelger
ordered the Janitor at the city
health canter to sprsy the balconies
every month with DDT, he posted
Uils explanation:
"We have pigeons. The pigeons
sometimes carry pslttacosla. They
also carry mites, and, I regret to
aay, lire. Once In a while I have
an Itch. Then I have to scratch.
The apray, therefore, la (or every
body's protection around here, but
mostly (or my own."
Any celebration of Christmas was
crime In the Puritan England of
Oliver Cromwell.
9th and fin
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CAUGHT IN WINTER'S CRIP Symbolic of the new Icy grip winter hag on a large part of th.
oiiin ins irrignier tueorge r. nana, grounded while bucking Ice In Saginaw Bay, Lake
Huron. An ever-thickening field of Ice close In on the 532-foot ship, loaded with 1000 tone of coal;
threatening to Imprison it for the winter. .
OREGON JUNIOR VEGETABLE GROWERS
WIN THREE NATIONAL CONTEST AWARDS
IF.
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Oregon junior vegetable growers
were named winner of three
atateawards in the 1J4 Production
Marketing contest of the National
Junior Vegetable Growers Associa
lion today aa the organization con
cluded Its fifteenth annual four-day
convention at Washington, I). C.
State-wide honors went to Violet
Kay Klobaa, M-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mr.
Pete Klobaa;
Halter Haley
Pritchard, Jr.,
14-year-old eon
of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter H. Prit
chard, and Don
ald Kenneth
Sorensen, 17-year-old
son of
tf u U..k...
Wslier Pmchsrd j of' bt na. They'
Were awarded cash prises from the
I'iOOO in seholarahipe provided each
year by A A P Kood Stores to en
courage better production and mar
keting of vegtablea by farm youth.
Other results announced by Prof.
Crant B. Snyder of the University
of Massachusetts, adult advisor to
the association, included the award
ing of the national championship
along with the top $S00 scholarship
to Russell L. Sears, Jr, 20-year-old
grower of Cummington, Mass.
Largest of the three prise-winning
project In Oregon waa that of
young Pritchard who tilled seven
tenths of an acre on his parent' 40
acre Deachutea County farm, rais
ing a diversified crop of 18 different
vegetable which he aold for f 421.
Total coat of th project was less
than $100. His outstanding crop
Violet Klobss
poi
chutes Netted Gem Potatoes valued
at 1247. Active for aix year in 4-H
Club work, this ninth-grade school
boy during the past year has won
numerous awards for his garden
produce, including a blue ribbon for
his potatoes at the state fair.
Not to be out-
dnife by the boys,
Violet converted
her garden pro
ject into an NJ
VGA prise-winner
this year
through careful
planning and
close observa
tion of her 3000
square-foot plot
on her parents'
go-acre farm. A high school sopho
more, she haa been active In 4-H
Club work for the past six year
and participate in many school
and civic affair. Her diversified
crop of IS vegetablea also won for
her a place In the county fair judg
ing thia year. Her garden exhibit
have placed in fair competition for
the past six years, taking first place
In both 1946 and 1947. Sale of her
produce grossed better than 42 an
hour for Violet. , , .
Young Sorenaen, a high school
Junior, has been a member of the
4-H Club for seven years, but
started k garden project this sum
mer for the first time, winning on
of the three Oregon date awards
from NJVGA. Winner of garden
Judging at the county fair, Donald
grossed 1215 on his crop of 20 diff
erent vegetables.
Inspections
Kelp Halt
Crop Insects
Quarantine officials report that
during the past year they found
prohibited plant material on about
a fourth of 43.000 ships coming
Into U. B. porta. They actually dis
covered destructive insects and dls
easee on much of that material.
Even more serious Is the danger
of plant pes' slipping Into this
country by airplane. To prevent
that, they Inspected more than 60.-
000 airplanes at M porta of entry.
Including Inspections and treatment
with an aerosol containing DDT of
planes about to take off rom Ha
waii for the continental United
State.
They Intercepted In a number of
thofe plane living adults of th
oriental fruit fly. a destructive In
sect which attacks more thsn on
hundred kinds of fruit, a well as
cotton. Thia year the quarantine of
ficials also Inaugurated pre-flight In
spection of plane heading toward
our mainland from Puerto Rico.
They Inspected 3300 pullman and
passenger coaches from Mexico, a
well as T-'v million trucks and au
tomobile to prevent pests, particu
larly the citrus blackfly, from get
ting Into this country.
Youth Does
4-Year Stint
In 30 Hours
CHICAGO, Dee. 1 tJFt J. Ed
ward Nelson, 17, haa Just whlsied
through four year of college In 10
hours.
It's always been theoretically
possible," according to amazed of
ficials of th college of the Unlver.
alty of Chicago.
Edward la th first student to
demonstrate by 14 placement teats
that he possesses the equivalent to
a general education. Bo Instead of
working on credit for a bachelor's
degree, ha will begin Immediately
to work on his master's degree In
mathematics.
Th testa. Introduced at the col
lege In 142, recognise a student
(or what be knows and not for
the number of courses he has taken.
All students are given th tests
during a five-day period to deter
mine their academic standing.
Brans, Rene
Edward, son of a YMCA secretary
In Rome, Italy, attended the Bronx
High School of Science in New
York City and completed his Junior
and senior years at tne Inatltlto
Giovanni Verga when his family
moved to Rome.
He brushed aside suggestions that
he la a genius.
"It s all what you learn and where
you learn It," he aald. "I (Irmly
believe, however, that teaching
Daethod and courses are more com
prehensive in European schools."
In Rome he attended school about
(our hours a day but always apent
at least another three hours on his
homework. Nelson told newsmen.
The federal gcvernment tele
phone bill (or calls In the city of
Waaiiington alone amount to more
than 3 ,500 .000 a year.
WEI.L-OILED HIGHWAY
HAMBURG lV-A Danish truck
driver lost bis cognae laden trailer
on th highway near here. He only
noticed hi loss when he tried to
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BREMEN. JPy Alter a drinking
party, seven German policemen
drove through the city singing Nasi
songs. They were discharged from
the force, police headquarters reported.
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