Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 April 1947 — Page 3

POST-DEMOCRAT, PRffiAY, APRIL 18, 1947.

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findings made last year in a group of fishing experiments at Tri-Lakes State Fish Hatchery. Concensus of the survey was

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Fishing Season Is Extended

servation today proposed to lengthen by 20 days the open season on fishing, except for bass, in Hoosier lakes and streams. John H. Nigh, Conservation director, said the department has prepared a discretionary order reducing the closed season, which normally would run from May 1 through June 15, to three weeks, May 2;1 through June 15. Extension of the open season on pan fish was described by Mr. Nigh as “experimental.” The Conservation department, he said, has long realized many lakes are greatly over-stocked with bluegills, perch, crappies and other types of pan fish. Curtailment of the closed season is seen as an aid in reducing populations and improving fishing. The move was recommended by Dr. William E. Ricker, director of the Indiana Lake and Stream Survey, who has conducted a series of fisheries’ tests over a period of several years in Indiana. Donald R. Hughes, director of the Fish and Game Division of the Conservation department, formally endorsed Ricker’s recommendation last week and urged that such action be taken, Nigh

said.

Hughes said bass will remain protected for the entire six-week period “because we need all the bass we have for spawning.” Bass normally spawn several days

ahead of pan fish.

Outdoor Indiana, official Conservation magazine, currently is publishing a series of articles by

Dr. Ricker and members of his State Department of Public Wei reseach staff concerning scientific fare, the Board of Industrial Aid

fish. “Most fish,” Dr. Ricker states in an Outdoor Indiana article, “die of old age or from other natural causes.” Harry Young, fish hatcheries superintendent for the Fish »and Game Division, recently announced a shift in artificial propagation policy whereby the state will de-emphasize release of fingerlings fish and concentrate on releasing adult fishes in waters which contain necessary food

stocks.

Young maintains many lakes, which have been stocked year after year, are now so heavily populated that fisI^ have no opportunity to attain normal size. Director Nigh said the department will observe closely results of this spring’s three-week extension to determine whether yeararound fishing should be permitted next year. There will no change in the trout season which is from May 1 through August 31.

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State Merit Exams Offered At Muncie State merit examinations will be given in seven cities in the I state on April 19 to fill typist and stenographic positions in various state institutions and departments. The eligible lists resulting from these examinations will be used also to fill vacancies in county welfare departments, the State Board of Health, the Indiana Employment Security Division, the

State Department

for the Blind, the State Library, the Historical Bureau and the State Personnel Division. According to an announcement made by Dawson Price, of the Muncie office of the Indiana Employment Security Division, merit tests will be given in Muncie, Vincennes, New Albany, Gary, Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Indianapolis. He said that persons desiring to qualify for career jobs in state service may take the coming examination at any of the

seven locations.

Mr. Price explained that Muncie area applicants may take the examination at the Central High School. The time will be announced on the entrance card to be mailed to every applicant by the Indiana State Personnel Division. Applications to take the test may be obtained at any of the Employment Security offices throughout the state. The Muncie office at 301 East NIain Street has a supply of the application blanks and staff members there will aid in filling them out, according to Mr. Price. He added that completed applications should be mailed as quickly as passible to the State Personnel Division, 141 South Mexidian Street, Indianap-

olis, Indiana.

An applicaht vtfith two years of clerical experience or four years of high school education may qualify to take the examination. Beginning salary for these positions is $130 a month.

Hotbeds, Coldframes Help Gardeners^J

Hotbeds are frames or boxes with a transparent glass covering and some type of heat source. A bottom bed of manure is a favorite heating element.

Electrically Heated Hotbed

A simple artificial heating element is an electric cable and thermostat control box. Some hotbeds are built against a basement window and use heat from the cellar. (See sketches.) Delicate seeds and plants can be grown as'much as two months before planting is possible outdoors. Coldframes Helpful In the North, a coldframe, is usually employed for hardening off plants that have been started in hotbeds or in the house. In the South, coldframes are used for growing early plants.

Hotbed Built Into Window The coldframe is just like the

hotbed, except that it contains no artificial heat. Use of the right type of glass is important in making either a hotbed or coldframe. One of the best types is Pennvernon Glass. This transmits sunlight evenly, abundantly and directly thus making the hotbed or coldframe more efficient. Hotbeds and coldframes should face the South, and should be located on the South side of the building, a tight board fence, or protecting wall. They are best near the house where they can be given proper attention easily. \ W V.3 '• ■■■ Pennvernon Used on Coldfrartle Watering and ventilation are important to the success of framegrown plants. Double-Glazed Top Increased efficiency from the hotbed or coldframe can be had by using a double-glazed top. This can be made in the same manner as storm windows, and is really two tops in one with double insulation value. Crops that can be started with fine results in frames include: lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, egg plants, muskmelons, summer squashes, celery and cucumbers.

Historic Fort To Close June 30

Indianapolis, Ind. —Brig. Gen. Clifford Bluemel, commandant, has announced June 30, as the official closing date for Fort Benjamin Harrison, the historic army post twelve miles northeast of Indianapolis. He said orders for the deactivation of the post on that datq/had been received from 2nd Army headquarters. He added, however, that he had no order as to final disposition of the thousands of dollars worth of property, including buildings, at the fort.

Purdue Trainer 24 Years Retires

Lafayette, Ind. — The retirement of Laniard (Lon) Mann, Purdue athletic trainer for 24 years, became effective Tuesday. Larnard started his career in 1897 as assistant trainer at the University of Chicago. He remained there until 1916, except for 1906 when he served as trainer for the Chicago White Sox “Hitless Wonder” baseball team • that won the world championship i that year. He* also worked at I Penn State as head trainer before coming to Purdue in 1923. A dean of his profession, Larnard said today that he was firmly convinced that collegiate athletics of today are vastly superior to those of yesteryear. o DIFFERENCE

Most hemispherical maps give the division of the eastern and western hemispheres at the meridians 20 W. and 160 E., while some give it at 15 W. and 165 E. — o The University of Oklahoma’s library treasure room contains eight books printed before 1500 A. D.

Farmers See High Prices Chicago, 111. — Most midwestern farmers are betting on a continuance of high hog prices, a survey showed today. Farmers still feel that corn on the hoof is a better bet than corn on the cob. So they are feeding their corn to hogs, and marketing the animals at heavy weights. Only in a few sections, the survey showed, are farmers rushing lightweight hogs to market in the belief the bottom soon might drop out of the hog market. Receipts at the major livestock terminals show that hogs marketed recently have been heavier than usual, because farmers still can get a better price for heavyweight hogs than they can for corn sold as grain. Federal marketing analysts at Chicago reported that the cornhog ratio, although declining slowly, still is the best in years. The average weight of hogs marketed here continues at 15 to 20 pounds above last year’s receipts. The average weight at the seven largest markets during the week ending March 22 was 269 pounds, compared with 250 pounds for the same period of 1946. A drop in hog weights is expected soon because of the appearance on the market of fall pigs, but livestock experts said this would be no indication that farmers were nervous about the possibility of a price break. The exception seemed to be Indiana, where farmers were shipping lightweight hogs in substantial quantities instead of holding them for fattening and finishing. County Agriculture Agents in Indiana reported that they had received hundreds of calls from farmers within the last few days inquiring about hog price prospects. Hoosier farmers said they were pushing lightweights to market for these two reasons: 1. They were afraid that prices would drop rapidly at any moment as they did after World War

2. Most farmers were running out of feed and did not relish paying high prices for oats and corn on the chance that hog prices would continue high. Farmers at Mitchell, S. D., also were reported to fear a recess and a break in the hog market. They, too, were sending lightweights to market in considerable quantities. ,

Washington, D. C. — The coal dust explosion which killed 111 miners at Centralia, 111., “forcefully demonstrated” the need for thorough rock-dusting of mines and adequate safety instructions for miners, the U. S. Bureau of Mines said today. Representatives of the Bureau who investigated the disaster said the explosion showed a “need for revaluating the dusty-explosion

hazard.”

The Bureau said yesterday that its investigators had found the disaster was caused by a coal dust blast set off by explosives “in a dangerous and nonpermissable manner.” “It was strictly a coal-dust explosion, which was propagated by coal dust thorughout four working sections of the mine. “The coal dust was raised in the air and ignited by explosives fired in a dangerous and nonpermissable manner.” The explosion occurred in the Centralia Coal Company’s No. 5 mine at 3:26 p. m., March 25. The report said 65 of the victims died from burns and violence, and 46 from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Cancer Research In Caves, Coal Mines

New York, — Some of America’s deep caves and coal mines may be used this summer as cancer research laboratories. This is because Dr. Frank H. J. Figgee, of the University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, believes they are free of •cosmic radiation.. Yesterday, Dr. Figge published results of an experiment with mice, showing that cosmic rays are a contributing cause of cancer. Today, he disclosed that he wants to repeat the experiment on a wider scale and using caves or coal mines — where cosmic rays don’t penetrate, that is if they are deep enough. In his first experiment, Dr. Figge placed the mice in aluminum cages on two different floors of a six-Story building. Some of the cages had lead coverings. All the mice were first injected with the cancer producing chemical, methlycholanthrene. Those in the lead-covered cages developed tumors much more rapidly than those in cages free of the lead coverings. This was because, according to Dr. Figge, the cosmic rays that come from beyond the earth’s atmosphere are intensified when they strike metal objects, such as the lead coverings. ., ! Now Dr. Figge wants to do the experiment in a laboratory free of cosmic rays. If one were built, it would have to have walls of lead 47 feet thick, or else be under ground by 700 feet. That’s where the caves and coal mines pome into the picture. Dr. Figgie said he already had permission to use three anthracite mines in Pennsylvania. They are the two mines of the Buck Rum Collier and the Primrose mine, all near Pottsville. He said he also wants to run a simultaneous experiment in one or two caves, probably Wyandotte and Mammoth, both near Louisville, Ky. Both of these caves have deep rooms and Wyandotte, in Indiana about 34 miles from Louisville, is an unusually dry cave. Dr. Figge said he intends to start the mine experiment shortly after Easter, and that he hopes to make the arrangements for the cave experiment also by that time. The experiment would continue for five or six months.

Coal Dust Blast Cause of Disaster

Chief Steward At 500 Mile Race

Every living human being on earth today, if brought together, could stand in a single field only 12 miles square.

Two brothers, Mike and Bob Garbark, American league baseball catchers, had identical batting averages in 1944.

Winter Wheat Crop Largest Washington, D. C. — Prospects of the biggest winter wheat crop in history today strengthened this country’s potential ability to pour needed grain into world shortage areas. The Agriculture Department’s latest forecast said the winter wheat crop, constituting about 75 per cent of the total wheat crop, will reach an estimated 973,000,000 bushels, 100,000 bushels more than last year’s record 873,000,000 bushel yield . The Association of American Railroads said it would do everything in its power to move the grain from farm to market. The railroads said they had broken all grain movement records in the last 13 weeks despite a boxcar

shortage.

The nation has already reported 400,000,000 bushels of wheat to war-torn nations this year. American farms were left with the Ipwest stocks.of .wheat since 1938. The Agriculture Department experts estimated the combined winter and spring wheat crops at about 1,212,000,000 bushels or slightly less than last year’s total record crop. The crop prospects were not all good. Progress in farm work was low during March in two-thirds of the country. The western crop conditions were best, varying from normal to early in the mountain states and well advanced in the Pacific northwest. Meadows and pasture were slow to start, providing little feed thus far. Adverse weather conditions and a shortage of nitrogen fertilizer cut down the prospects of a high yield of barley and oats in

the south.

Other crop prospects were: Rye, 88 per cent of normal; pasture, 79 per cent of normal; early Irish potatoes. 77 per cent; flaxseed, 70 per cent larger than last year; soybeans, six per cent increase over last year; spring vegetables, up “considerable;” fruit and nuts, average; peach crop large; cucumbers, eggplant, onions, green peas, green peppers and tomatoes, 75 per cent of last year; cabbage, onions and watermelons, less arceage, .

Indianapolis, Ind. — John H. (Jack) Mehan of Chicago and Park Rapids, Minn., has been selected as chief steward of the annual 500-mile race at the Indian- \ apolis Motor Speedway for the second straight year. His appointment as head of the experienced staff in charge of the 31st International classic here on May 30 was announced today by James H. Lamb, secretary of the AAA Contest Board, following a conference between Wilbur Shaw and Col. Art Herrington, chairman of the Contest Board. “Mr. Mehan’s stewardship was outstanding under difficult circumstances last year,” asserted Shaw, who is president of the Speedway Corporation, “And we are extremely pleased with his reappointment.” Harry F. Bennett of Indianapolis will continue in the role of assistant chief steward and many other veteran officials also were reappointed although four important changes have been made. T. E. Allen of Trenton, N. J., former secretary of the AAA Contest Board, has been ^elected as referee; H. J. Brunnier of San Francisco as steward; Lee Oldfield of Mooresville, Ind., as chairman of the technical committee; and Floyd Kishline of Detroit, Mich., chief engineer of Nash Motors, as associate chairman. Last year Oldfield served as assistant director of the technical commit-

tee.

Other 1946 officials on the list for this year’s race include Seth Klein, starter; Ray P. Johnson, assistant starter; Charles S. Ricker, Director of timing and scoring; Clifford Rigsbee, assistant director of timing and scoring; William S. Powell, timer; Ike Welch, chief observer; Tom David, chief umpire; and Dr. Rogers Smith, chief of medical staff. o * NAMES FOR APPLE PIE.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES , •*- / “Doctrine of Atonement” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, April 20. The Golden Text was: “The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 59:20). Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: “As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me” (Psalms 55:16). “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they Shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:15,16). The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “It is neither Science nor Truth which acts, through blind belief, nor is it the human understanding of the divine healing Principle as manifested in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and conscientious protests of Truth, — of man’s likeness to God and of man’s unity with Truth and Love” (p. 12).

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