Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 November 1938 — Page 2

ILLINOIS BOOM IN OIL GROWS

Springfield, 111. — Booming oil production in southern Illinois has sent the state’s output from 400.000 barrels to nearly 2,500,000 barrels a month over a 16-month period and has flooded the southern half of the state with a speculative fever. Discovery of new fields early in 1937 disclosed great untapped reserves of oil in the state and the completion of many producing wells touched off the boom. In the first nine months of the year, 1,264 wells were completed according to data compiled by the state geological survey. Of that total, 967 produced oil. First available production figures for the new fields were for June, 1937, when the output was 53.000 barrels compared with 463,000 barrels for the whole state. An increase in production was reported each succeeding month. By September, production in the new fields was estimated at 2,055,000 barrels and for both new and old fields, the figures were fixed at 2,455,000 barrels. Output for the first nine months of this year was approximately 14.015.000 barrels, enough to supply the nation’s needs for four and four-tenths days. The figure was nearly twice the production for the year, 1937, when the 7,426 barrel total included 2,884 barrels from new fields. x The boom centers around Centralia in Marion county, about 80 miles east of St. Louis. Hundreds of producing wells have been completed in that area.

Winter Pears Are Fine For Quick Breakfasts

Strange Names Given To Babes By Louisianans 1 New Orleans.—Parents who are undecided what name to give their children might find an appropriate one listed in records at the Louisiana state board of health office. An examination of the records shows that hundreds of children * in the state have unusual names, ^ranging from Alphabet to Finis. Almost all states are represented by babies named Alabama, California, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Kentucky and innumerable Virginias rmd Carolinas. A few cities such as Boston, Providence, Chicago, Orleans and Dallas have been so honored. Southern Negro slang was called upon to provide such names as Two-Bits, Cottonrider, Big Boss and Buck Shot, while the more religiously-minded parents attacher such names as Arch Angel, Gift of God and Holy Moses to their children. Parents who tagged their children with names of Pat, Trouble, Ape, Rascal, Loveless, Evil and Coot are balanced by families who brought forth titles of Delight, Especial, Happy, Glorious, Lovely, Wonderful and Please. One anxious father decided to call his son Relief, and another ' thought Enough was a fitting name. Cusses, Turnip, Sausage, Day- - "Brakin', Rice, Elevator, Fraidy, ^Gee Whiz, Hardtimes, Lemon, Jelfo, Mayonnaice, Me. Pickle, Polite, Pill and Greedy are still others * listed on the records.

Grazing Lands May Be Aided By Experiment Washington — Interior Department officials see in a conservative ’ experiment in an isolated Utah ■ grazing district a possible means of rehabilitating 120,000,000 acres of federal range land in 10 west- * ern states. A three-year plan is under way 100 miles from the nearest railroad in the Utah Grazing District * No. 8, near the Uintah Mountains, ' with headquarters at Vernal. The district is the first of 50 to undertake the comprehensive pro- * gram, which requires the co-oper- ' ation of county officials, government experts and livestock raisers. - A CCC camp is providing new watering places, corrals and trails. A feature of the plan is corn . production on surrounding farms and ranches for stock feeding. Lands badly depleted by years of hard use are being reseeded, and at least a ton of sweet clover will be planted at selected spots. Plots have been set aside to ascertain the effect of controlled management on the forage crop. The immediate benefit is better feeding and handling facilities for 7,000 cattle and 200,000 sheep in the area. Pens have been con- * structed so that herders may easily select their own animals when large bands of sheep move down ; from the summer grazing lands to . winter feeding areas in the valleys.

By BETTY BARCLAY

No coaxing sonny to eat when the dish Is new and yummy! Try peeled, sliced Bose or Anjou variety pears, covered with orange juice, and you v ll know what I mean! Serve them in a sherbet glass, or small cereal dish and spoon. If the pears are permitted to stand until they are ripe and juicy, they are elegant served fresh (peeled, first), eaten with a spoon. Pears with Cereal Or simply serve the sliced pears with cream — no sugar needed. Another suggestion is to add sliced fresh pears to a cereal — either a crisp, dry cereal, or mixed into a cooked hot cereal — a few chopped nutmeats may be added — serve with sugar and cream. This is positively de luxe. Baked Pearai For breakfast fruit or as dinner dessert, baked pears are excellent. For economy, buy big pears, and bake a panful, keeping in cool place and using as needed; they will last up to 10 days. Baked pears can be varied by basting with different kinds of syrup, such as maple, lemon-flavored, and marshmallow (16 marshmallows and 1% cups water.) A favorite way is as follows: Baked Peara with Raisins Pare and core nicely-shaped fresh pears; fill the centers with brown sugar, raisins and nuts which do not need to be well mixed, but put in by pinches. Sprinkle over all sugar and cinnamon. Cover the bottom of the baking pan with water and put In the pears. Keep cover on for 45 minutes. Bake until tender — about one hour at 850 degrees. Excellent served with whipped cream.

TIME UPHOLDS TEST OF LOVE

Seattle, Wash. — After seven years of happy married life, Seattle’s “love exiles” held a birthday party for their 5-year-old son and said they’re glad they passed the “love test.” In 1931 James Tully and Dorothy Polet went to the courehouse for a marriage license—the bride-to-be’s father, Louis Polet, was waiting there. “Nothing doing,” Polet said firmly. “Dorothy cannot get married.” After much pleading by Tully and Dorothy, Polet decided on the “love test.” He placed his daughter on an island where Tully couldn’t find her and told the couple, “Wait a month. If you still want to get married, I will give the wedding myself.” When Dorothy returned, she said, "I still love James.” Tully replied, “I still love Dorothy.” True to his promise, Dorothy’s father gave the wedding. The young couple now have one son, Louis James Tully — named after his mother’s father and his own father. Tully says he’s on fine terms with his father-in-law. The answer to getting along with your father-in-law, he jokingly says, is to name your first son after him. And after seven wears Tully and his wife are agreed that there’s nothing like marriage.

’ NEW GRANDCHILD IN HERBERT HOOVER FAMILY ‘ Palo Alto, Cal., Nov. 17.—There was a new grandchild in the Herbert Hoover family today. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. • Allan Hoover, the fourth grandchild of the former president and Mrs. Hoover. The other three grandchildren are children of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr.

Apple pie is the most popular dessert in the Unitfed States as evidenced by the choice at 25,000,000 dining car meals.

Canadian Gets 2-Year Term; ‘Happiest Man’ Montreal—Romeo Perron, 33, declared he was the “happiest man in the world” when he was sentenced to two years in prison here. Perron walked into police headquarters one night and demanded that he be arrested and sent to prison because he had family troubles and wanted to learn a trade. Police refused. Person, after sitting around the station for several hours arguing with police, walked out and smashed the window of the nearest store, crawled in and sat on the floor to await police. “You should have arrested me when I asked you,” he told them when they arrived. o BRITISH STOCKMAN TO JUDGE

TESTS CENTER ON AIR SAFETY IN INDIANAPOLIS

Federal Government And City Pool Fund Of Million

Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 18.—The Federal Bureau of Air Commerce has started a vast program to make the Indianapolis airport the center of aviation experimentation. More than $1,000,000, advanced by the Federal government and the city of Indianapolis, will he used to build runways from 5,000 to 6,000 feet long—the longest in the country; to construct a blind landing system that will be the only type of its kind in the country, and to experiment with nonglaring lighting systems. Already several of the long runways have been completed by WPA workers who are laboring in three eight-hour shifts to complete all extensions before winter arrives. Probably the major test to be made here will be the blind landing system. To Co-Ordinate Systems. The air bureau will spend $200,000 to install an experimental station which will use the bes + parts of blind landing systems and will be the only one of its type in the country. When the 25 experimenters— radio operators who will be sent here by the air bureau when the station is ready—perfect a blind landing system, it will be installed a.t all major airports throughout the country. Tests are under way at, the municipal airport in striving to eliminate static in the ultro-high frequency telephone communication between airport and pilot, and in non-glaring lighting. Already, experimenters have improved equipment which eliminates the necessity of using high broadcasting towers. The new station is only a six-foot square “shanty” with a one-foot antenna. At present, airport employes are testing the Bartow non-glaring lighting system. The problem to be overcome is to provide sufficient light to allow the pilot of- an incoming ship to clear view 4 of the runway but not so strong that it blinds him. Addition of the new radio station and hangar and cost of the extended runways will raise the valuation of the airport to more than $4,000,000. Location Called Ideal Air commerce orfioials and Mayor Walter C. Boetcher are enthusiastic in their plans for the improvements. “Within the next year Indianapolis should become the air center of the United States,” Mayor Boetcher said. “We have facilities at the airport that cannot be matched anywhere and the location of the experimental unit here will do much to throw the spotlight on Indianapolis as the aviation center.” “No one can approach the Indianapolis airport without becoming convinced it is one of the very best in the United States. The transfer of one of the important research and development divisions of the Civil Aeronautical Authority from Washington to the Indianapolis airport will make it the center of aeronautical radio research and development upon which so much depends for the future of American aviation.” o A coal mine at Straitsvilie, Ohio, was set on fire in 1884 by the striking workers. It has been burning ever since and has destroyed about 120,000,000 tons of coal.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938. Holiday Foods—They’re Wonderful! So feast and grow merry and let nothing deter you Says Dorothy Greig

The champion steer will be picked this year by William J. Cumber, prominent British stockman, of Theale, Berkshire, who is coming from England to judge the fat cattle classes at the Chicago show. He has served as a cattle judge at the famous Smithfield Fat Stock Show in London. A new feature of the exposition this year will be a sheep shearing contest in which state champion shearers will compete for a national title. The country’s largest wool show, sheep dog trials, and exhibitions of the eleven breeds of sheep that supply the country’s needs for lamb and wool, make the International sheep show the counj try’s largest and most complete j exhibition of its kind.

w Manuel Mujica Carassa After a long, 4,765-mile flight from Lima, Peru, to Rochester, Minn., where he will undergo a life-death operation for an intestinal ailment, Manuel Mujica Carassa, millionaire Peruvian mine owner, is shown, in Rochester at the hospital. The Peruvian made the long flight in 52 hours by air.

f|\HE days from now until after JL the New Year are the feast days of the year. Calories and dieting! Perish the very thought of them! We are going to eat and enjoy ourselves. Proud turkeys plump chested with savory stuffing, heartening soups that lift the spirit, spicy pies with tender crumbly crusts, rich fruit cakes, plum puddings and all the rest of the delectable foods bequeathed to us by generations of cooks who cooked with enthusiaam, unhampered by inhibitions. Grandpa may have conquered the wilderness - but grandma made the country worth living in. And besides, fortified with grandma’s cooking, grandpa could conquer anything. So let’s feast to our heart’s content and in our turn pass on to grateful (we hope) generations our own creations in foods. A turkey stuffing like this, for instance, achieves fine flavor through the use of a modern canned food: byster-Gumbo Stuffing ( cups grated bread dozen oysters, chopped finely

chicken-gumbo

2 cans condensed

soup

4 tablespoons butter Grate or chop 2-3 day old bread. Chop oysters very fine and mix with the bread. Then add 2 cans condensed chicken-gumbo soup and the melted butter. A delicate mousse on this order is a truly gala dish for a buffet supper:

Thl.s Holiday Mousse made with cold turkey and vegetables makes a festive dish for a party.

Holiday Mousse 2 cans condensed chicken soup 2 eggs, separated 1^ tablespoon gelatine (softened in cup water) 1% cups turkey x /z, cup whipping cream 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 cup cooked carrots, diced 1 cup cooked green peas 1 cup celery, diced Sprinkle the gelatine on the cold water and let it soften. Strain the chicken soup 'and heat the consommd in the upper part of the double boiler. Put the turkey and the rice, chicken and celery from

the soup through the food chopper, asing the small blade. Beat the egg yolks and add the hot consommd to them, then cook 3-4 minutes in the double boiler. Pour this hot mixture over the softened gelatine and stir until the gelatine is dissolved Cool and when the mixture begins to thicken add the ground turkey and rice, lemon juice, diced cooked carrots, cooked green peas and diced celery. Then fold in the beaten egg whites, and whipped cream. Pour into mold and put in the refrigerator until firm. Turn out on a garnish of lettuce, watercress or chickory. Makes 10-12 portions.

Technique On Typewriter Translated Into Guide for Character Reading

Paris—JFhe line of a hand, the set of a jaw, the way of a walk or even the size of an ear all have been used to denote and define character. Now the French have a new one—the way one turns out words on a typewriter. Like handwriting, say the French, different styles of typing denote in their way different characteristics. Whether it is a wide margin or a narrow one, pounding on the keys or hitting some letters harder than others, each peculiarity in typing marks some particular trait which can be interpreted if the different signs are understood. According to authorities who have compiled the rudiments of “reading typewritlii>^* the general characteristics are as follows: A person who uses an overly wide margin and especially a wide margin for the beginning of a paragraph is highly sensitive. A very small margin or no mar-

paragraph means the person is lacking in good taste, is inclined to be miserly and overly frugal concerning small things. The average margin means the writer does things in an orderly and methodical way, is intelligent and has clear ideas. A letter which has been typed at a continuous speed and the letters are all struck with virtually the same force indicates that the writer is generally good in several fields but not necessarily specialized in any way. The “pounder” who makes deep imprints in the paper is easily distracted and is generally not a good concentrator. Those who type words where the letters are not all struck with equal force are sensitive and usually possess a great deal of personality. Lastly, where this irregularity is more marked the person is overly sensitive and possesses a sketchy mind with instincts dominating

gin at all at the beginning of a reason.

TORCH APPLIED TO PEST-RIDDEN COTTON LANDS

Firing Of Stalks After Picking Eradicates Pink Bollworm

McAllen, Tex.—The pink bollworm has become the terror of South Texas cotton fields and has become a serious threat to cotton growing throughout the South. But the pest has one weakness, one which federal and state eradication experts have found particularly difficult to attack effectively —its life cycle. To eradicate the pink bollworm, its breeding place must be destroyed. The worm feeds only on cotton bolls, destroying the lint and cutting the staple. It breeds only on cotton stalks. The bureau of entomology and plant quarantine of the Department of Agriculture has under way a vast program to destroy all cotton stalks immediately after the growing season. R. E. McDonald of San Antonio has direct supervision of eradication on work throughout the nation’s infested areas—now confined to a smalt section in Arizona and in the Rio Grande Valley and Big Bend areas of Texas. Stalks Must Be Burned A compulsory program has been under way since the pink bollworm was discovered in the Big Bend country several years ago. Farmers are required to burn all cotton stalk immediately after the picking season. Most serious infestation in Texas is in the Big Bend. When the worm appeared there several years ago, Presidia, Brewster and Jeff Davis counties produced from 5,000 to 6,000 bales of cotton annually from a small valley about St) miles long and 200 yards to two miles wide. In 1938, this yield had been reduced from 30 per cent in some areas to 100 per cent in others. The life cycle and habits of the pink bollworm make it a most difficult pest to eradicate, but provides the only method thus far known for its control. The moth is less than a half inch long and has a half inch wingspread. It is a night flyer. It serves only to propagate the species, having no mouth and no

means of feeding. The moth lays its eggs in old cotton stalks and dies immediately. When the eggs hatch, the pink bollworm enters the cotton boll where it remains three weeks, shedding its skin three times and growing larger at each shedding. The worm meanwhile eats the cottonseed and lint, ruining both.

CYCLIST OF’90S HAIL NEW ERA

New Orleans—More comfortable clothes, better balanced bicycles and improvements in roads have made cycling in the United States more pupular today than during the 1890s, two old-time cyclists here agree. The shorts-and-sweater outfits worn by girl cyclists today hardly can he compared with th^ “three or four petticoats, starched stiff shirtwaists and usually equipped with bustles” worn 40 years ago, acording to Gus Betat who has been an ardent cyclist since the days of the “high-boys.” “The entire ensemble was quite impressive and the damsel of the 90s did indeed look sweet, but she assuredly was in no position for acrobatics,” Betat said. Ginder Abbott, who also has watched the bicycle develop from an awkward, ungainly contrivance into the streamlined model of today, expressed amazement at how easily the modern cyclist “learns the ropes.” He recalled how beginners in the 90s learned to ride with a leather belt around their waist, the belt being attached to a pole held by an instructor who kept them from falling. The spectators, he said, would get more fun out of watching the beginner than an accomplished cyclist. Abbott said that where almost every schoolboy can ride a bicycle today, the cyclists of the gay 90s were mostly “those of an adventurous spirit.” The two oldtimers recalled a “great cross-country” race of 16 miles from Bay St. Louis to Pearlington, Miss. “We stopped at a farmhouse and a couple of youngsters in the yard ran into the house yelling like Comanche Indians,” Abbott said. “They had never seen a bicycle before. “They were comforted by an

older sister who assured them that the contrivances were harmless, she herself having been to town some months before and observed a townsman astride one with no ill effects to himself or the populace.”

COUNTY FIGHTS WHITE PLAGUE

Vassar, Mich.—A new experiment in tuberculosis control is being conducted in Tuscola county. The program provides for a tuberculin test of every man, woman and child in the county. It is being sponsored by the Tuscola County Medical society, with funds provided by the county board of supervisors. Authorities believe it is one of the largest mass control programs ever attempted. Its results are being watched by national authorities. The first phase of the program provided for test of all children. Ninety-five yer cent of the children in Vassar township have been tested and the campaign is being extended to rural districts. The second phase of the drive is being started. It provides for test of every adult. Tests are given four nights a week by the medical society. Efforts of the press to publicize the campaign have increased hopes that the camp-aign eventually will be 100 per cent. The results will be watched for a period of years. Within a decade,

Glamor Girl

Brenda Frazier;

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Society’s latest “glamor girl," Brenda Frazier of New York, is shown at Miami, Fla., en route home after spending a holiday at Nassau, the Bahamas,

officials hope, the disease will be under control in this area. A survey by the State Tuberculosis Association revealed that in 90 per cent of all cases, the disease was well advanced before the victims were aware of it. By the tests, medical authorities hope to be able to stamp out the disease in its early stages, and eventually to be able to prevent it ever from going beyond the first stages. o HAIL TO THE LEGISLATURE

Congratulations to the senators and representatives chosen to make and amend Indiana’s laws at the eighty-first session beginning next January. You have been elected to membership in the most powerful and important body in the entire American system of government—the state legislature. For it is the legislature which makes the laws for the governor and the local administrative units to administer, ana for the courts to interpret. It is for you to shape the broad outlines of policy within the limits of the Constitution ordained by the sovereign people. You are more important than the federal Congress because you affect the lives of the average Indiana citizen more extensively. You control more taxation than does Congress. To you and to the people are reserved all of the many governmental powers not specifically granted to the federal government. It is common knowledge that our government, being man made and man operated, is not wholly perfect. Neither is it wholly bad or proved a failure. Probably it is like the automobile of twenty years ago, capable of tremendous improvement through refinement of many details without much change in basis tructure.

PARDON FOR MOONEY SOON

Los Angeles, Nov. 18. — Tom Mooney, serving a life sentence in San Quentin prison for the preparedness Day bombing, will be pardoned after a hearing, Culbert Olson, Democratic governor-elect, indicated today. “My convictions on the Mooney case were stated by me and printed in the Senate journal on March 16, 1937,” Olson declared: “I then stated I had studied the Mooney case and was not only convinced he was convicted on perjured testimony and false evidence, but that I did not believe Mooney guilty of this outrageous and revolting crime; that if he was guilty he should nave been hanged. “Therefore, it must be clear to any one that I will approach the consideration of Mooney’s application for pardon with these convictions; giving an opportunity to all and any entitled to a hearing to show cause to me why I, as governor, should not pardon him.” ■ 0 RECORD SHOWING PREDICTED

tions are being made to receive 14,000 head, equally, and possibly surpassing the record showing in 1936. The task of making the awards in the hundreds of contests that will determine the continental champions of the year in competitions featuring 30 breds of farm animals will rest 47 live stock experts from 17 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and England. Most keenly contested and highly prized of all the exposition’s awards is the steer grand champion for which hundreds of the best beeves of the Hereford, AberdeenAngus, and Shirthorn breeds will be in competition, exhibited by the colleges, breeders, leading cattle feeders, and farm boys and girls of the United States and Canada.

THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE

By the entry closing date, November 1, the management predicts that stock will be listed from at least 30 states and four provinces of Canada. Prepara-

Believe it or not—the most dangerous place you can he is at home! According to the National Safety Council, the principal causes of deaths from home accidents last year were divided as follows: falls, 17,500; burns and explosions, 5,600; poisonings, 1,700; firearms, 800; mechanical suffocation, 1,000; poison gases, 1,100. The grand total was 32,500 deaths—ninety out of a hundred of which were necessary, and could have been easily prevented. The Red Cross,, in company with other safety organizations, has been carrying on a drive to awaken the public to the danger of home accidents, and to show how hazards may be easily removed and avoided. 'Take a look around your own home. Is there a lose rug at the top of a staircase? It may easily cause a fall that will result in long agony in the hospital, or death. Can unlocked medicine cabinets be reached*by children? If so, they are in imminent danger of fatal poisoning by such a common first-aid accessory as iodine. Are guns kept unloaded and out of reach of amateur hands? You can think of many more such vital safety questions. When you do, answer them at once—■ and not by guess work, but after, a rigorous investigation of every room in your home. And once you’ve eliminated hazards, keep them eliminated. Remember that a home that is safe today may ha •filled with dangers tomorrow.

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