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POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1947

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For Beauty Divide Face Into Parts Chicago, 111. — A plastic surgeon said today that a girl is beautiful if she divide her face into three equal parts. Dr. Oscar J. Becker of the University of Illinois College of Medicine describe^ his rule of three for pretty faces before the Illinois State Medical Society. “You measure the nose, the forehead from the hairline to the bridge of the nose, and the lower face from the upper lip to the chin,” he said. “If they’re all three the same length she’s a humdinger.” Becker said straightening and shortening a long hooked nose only makes matters worse if the patient also has a receding chin. “Remodeling the nose only emphasizes the lack of proportion in the profile line,” he said. “If you’re going to reshape the nose you’ve also got to build out the chin.” The surgeon described an operation for remodeling noses and chins simultaneously. The “hump” of cartilege removed from the nose is slipped into the tip of the chin through a small incision. People with protruding jaws are a simpler problem, Becker said. The surgeon simply shortens the nose because firm jaws look better with shorter noses. Becker said he frequently gives patients a preview of their remodeled faces by sketching the proposed changes on profile photographs. While the patient watches, he blocks out a bit of nose here, draws in some more chin there. “We can try various combinations of put-and-take on such a sketch,” he said, “and form a fairily accurate picture of the end result.” Mostly, he said, the patients are delighted. o On Okinawa, the village of Ichuma was the first place in all the Orient where women were given equal rights with men.

Heart Recorded On Loud Speaker Chicago, 111. — The doctor I stopped my heart for a few seconds, but it still cut up a lot of

fancy capers.

In fact, the old ticker—recorded on a loud speaker—sounded like the racket that comes out of Gene Krupa’s snare drum when he’s giving it his best licks. However, the doctor said I’ll probably, be around for a long time. Nor-

mal.

With electrodes tied to the left leg and both forearms, I played guinea pig to the “visualization of the electrocardiogram” and broadcasting of heart sounds. Stopping of the heart was an added starter, with the medico shutting off the blood by pressing on the vessels in the neck. The demonstration was by the doctor of the Chicago Heart association, currently engaged in a “save a heart campign.” Their goal is to raise a research fund for the study of rheumatic fgver, hypertension and cardio-vacular diseases. While undergoing the test, three delicate instruments are “wired” to the body. The idea is to record the electrical currents of the heart, the sound of the heart, beat and to display the best by television. Gut of one machine comes a wide strip of ticker tape, which records the beat of the heart in writing, lines up and down. The machinery has been in use for some time but this was the first public demonstration. The advantage of the advance in science, of course, is that lives can be saved. And it is possible to add to the backlog of research in the study of heart ailments. For example, a man is taken to a hospital with a heart attack. The . doctors quickly attach the machines and give him a test. Perhaps a weakness which can be arrested immediately will be detected. Watching the heart beat televised and hearing it at the same time is somewhat of a shock, though. A man doesn’t realize what a full time job his ticker

has.

o To Remove Bodies From Ft. Harrison Indianapolis, Ind. — Bids were to be received this week for the removal of 148 bodies from the Fort Benjamin Harrison military cemetery. Officials said the bodies will be transferred to a cemetery at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., because the fort is beipg abandoned. However, relatives may bury the bodies elsewhere if they pay the cost, they added. The announcement drew protests from relatives of persons buried at the fort, but officials said the cost of maintaining the cemetery would be too great. o RED CROSS AIDS VETS

Washington. — The American Red Cross during the last six months of 1946 helped 2,002,000 veterans and their families get loans or file for government benefits, Red Cross headquarters reports. STORK MAKES°DOCTOR STEP.

Mount Vernon, Mo.—Dr. Kenneth Glover found it necessary to step lively to keep pace with the stork. On one day he delivered three babies in three towns. All were boys and all weighed exactly 7 pounds 11 ounces. o More than a thousand different welding operations are required in the manufacture of a single motor car.

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Soaring Prices Hit By Truman New York. — President Truman warned Monday that fiiq much-predicted economic depression might well become a reality unless labor and industry take “prompt” steps to halt the “sharp and rapid rise in prices.” In a major address here on both domestic and foreign issues,' the President asked business to lower prices where profits are excessive, urged labor to use rnoderation in wage demands and appealed to farmers to make an all-out effort to produce more goods. Mr. Truman, speaking before the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, said America was shattering all records for peacetime production but that soar ing prices were forming the “one cloud” that is “shadowing our economic future. “Some say this cloud is certain to burst,” the President said. They are sure of a recession or depression. I do not share their belief that either of these is inevitable. “I believe that we, as a nation, can prevent this economic cloudburst. But it requires prompt, preventive steps.” Mr. Truman told the assembled editors that it was a responsibility of the press to make clear to the American people the problems faced in maintaining prosperity. This, he said, affects not only our own immediate welfare but our efforts to pursue the policy of aiding other freedom loving peoples whose war-born impoverishment has made them “easy targets for external pressures and alien ideologies.” “Many of these peoples are confronted with the choice between totalitarianism and democracy,” he said. “By providing economic assistance . . . we can enable these countries to withstand the forces whiqh so directly threaten their way of life and ultimately, our own well-being.” In an address, which was broadcast nationally, the President also: 1. Called for extension of rent control, now scheduled to die June 30, until construction costs are lowered and the present acute housing shortage is eased. 2. Reiterated his opposition to income tax reductions in this period of “great inflationary pressures.” 3. He said credit controls cannot be relaxed so long as prices are high. 4. Warned that recent increases in wholesale prices carried the “inevitable” promise of still higher prices at retail stores. 5. Urged maintenance of export controls to avoid additional pressure on domestic prices from foreign purchases. 6. Rejected charges that the government’s farm price support program was a large factor in current high food prices. Without it, he said production would be discouraged and resultant shortages would themselves force prices up. Mr. Truman said there was “one sure formula” for briging on a recession or a depression. “That is to maintain excessive high prices,” he said. Buying stops; production drops; unemployment sets in; prices collapse; profits vanish; businessmen fail. “That formula was tried after the first World War. And we paid for it,” he said. “We must not choose that formula again. “If we are to avoid a recession we must act before it starts. Prices must be brought down.” The President cautioned that the success or failure of American efforts to cope with inflaiton will effect peoples of the world confronted with the choice between totalitarianism and democracy.” “Only if we maintain and increase our prosperity can we effect other countries to recognize the merits of a free economy,” Mr. Truman said. “Economic trouble in the United States would provide agitators with the opportunity they seek.” The President said present business conditions actually permit and even require lower prices in many important fields. “Profits in the aggregate are breaking all record although profit margins vary greatly in individual cases,” Mr. Truman said. He hit out at those who say prices are not too high so long as buying stays at high levels. He said this argument failed to take into account the teachers, widows and civil servants who must live on fixed incomes. “Lower prices will sustain and further increase the present high volume of sales and stimulate greater production,” Mr. Truman

said.

He cited as examples of the retail price situation: Household furnishings, up to 23 per cent over the 1945 average; clothing, up 24 per cent; food up 31 per-

cent.

The economic picture outlined by the President was not all gloomy. He said the physical volume if industrial production is now 71 pfcr cent greater than it was in 1929 and agricultural production is 32 per cent, greater. Mr. Truman said that within less than one generation, there has been a 32 per cent Increase in the power to buy goods of every individual in America. The President said that labor in 1947 had generally heeded his plea of “moderation” in wage demands. “To wage earners and their leaders,” he said- “I repeat my : counsel of moderation. “But it does not. require much foresight to see that, if the cost

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Drive Opens for Better Fishing Chicago, 111. — Better Fishing, incorporated, opened a campaign for better fishing today — incorporated or otherwise. There’s no such a business as a “fished out” lake, Better Fishing said. The trouble is, most fish are smarter than most fishermen. That’s from Fred Maly, executive director of the B.F.I., who used to be a fisherman himself. Fish are a hardy lot, he said, and it’s almost impossible to kill ’em off. Besides they multiply—faster than anything. “Take a mother striped bass, for instance,” Maly said. “She’ll sit down and lay herself a quarter of a millipn eggs a year. They won’t all grow up to be suckers for a worm on a hook, but the law of averages will keep the lakes full.” Maly warmed up to his subject with a devil-take-the-hindmost abandon. “I can’t understand,” he said, “why people in Texas think they have to go to Minnesota to fish. Or why people from Illinois go all the way to Canada. Or why Georgians spend the money to go to Michigan. There is a fishing paradise in every part of the eountrv.” Junior Chamber of Commerce will grow up to hate Mr. Maly. While he was making enemies, he said he might as well go all the way. “Anyone who ever dropped a fine iptp a ripple thinks he is an expert fisherman,” he ventured. “Well, the plain facts are you can count the real experts in the United States on the fingers of your two hands.” Maly hastened to add that he didn’t mean it isn’t fun to fish. All right, so once in awhile you come back with the sack empty. It happens to everyone. In fact, it happened to Mr. Maly

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o Six Railroads Win Contest Chicago, 111. — The National Safety Council today named six class one railroads as group winners in its railroad employes* National Safety Contest. The Council said the six railroads had a combined rate of only 3.32 employes killed and injured per 1,000,000 man hours worked in 1946. All other class one railroads those whose operating revenues exceed $1,000,000 annually—had an average accident rate of 1©.7. The six winners and their rates follow: Illinois Central Railroad—first place among railroad whose employes worked 50,000,000 or more man hours. Its total accident rate was 2.18 compared with an average rate of 9.65 for other railroads in the group. Michigan Central Railroad— first place in the 20,000,000 to 50.000. 000 man hours group. Its rate was 6.18 compared with 9.85 for other railroads in the group. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company—First place in the 8,000,000 to 20,000,000 man hours group. Its rate was 1.66 compared with 15.82 for others in the group. Colorado and Southern Railway Company—First place in the 3.000. 000 to 8,000,000 man hours

group. Its rate with 7.39 compared with 16.15 for others in

the group.

Texas Mexican Railway Company—First place in the 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 man hours group. Its rate was 1.66 compared with 18.30 for others in the group. New York Connecting Railroad Company—first place in -the group whose employes worked less than 1,000,000 man hours. It had no reportable injuries during 1946. The average rate for its group was . 15.59. The Council also cited the Atlanta zone of the Pullman Company as the company’s zone with the best employe safety record. St. Louis was the winner among the company’s shop units. Among switching and terminal railroads, the Alton and Southern Railroad ranked first in the group whose employes worked more than 1,500,000 man hours. Birmingham Southern Railroad Company had the best record among railroads whose employes worked less than that amount. o School Sponsored For Beer Salesmen Sponsored bv the Indiana Brewers Association in the interests of law observance and orderly marketing procedure a beer salesman’s “school” will be held at the Indianapolis Athletic club on Wednesday, June 11. The purpose is to discuss the origin of control laws, Indiana’s policy with regard to regulation, apd to study the fair trade practice sections of the statutes. Headed by Dr. Burrell Diefendorf, chairman of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the commissioners and the heads of the various departments will take an active pact in the program. The luncheon will be fea-

tured by a talk by Clarence Jackson, executive vice-president of the Indiana State Cnamber of Commerce. “I have long felt,” said Harold C. Feightner, executive director of the Indiana Brewers Assocaition, who is arranging the program, “that while the main purpose of a beer salesman is to sell beer, sufficent stress has not been placed on the underlying features of post-repeal laws. These laws are complex and they are difficult for the layman to understand, or even find, because of successive legislative enactments. Therefore the discussion topics will range from a study of “The Basis of Alcoholic Beverage Control,” to an analysis of the causes and cures of prohibition. We feel that salesmen in calling upon the retail trade can, if properly acquainted with the requirements of society, help to bolster the constant law observance program under which the whole industry operates.” One of the features of the conference will be the distribution to the salesmen of a pamphlet containing the Indiana statutes and regulations dealing with fair trade practices which has been compiled by the Association. o NATURE PLAYS PRANKS.

Nature playsd tricks on two Kansas farms at about the same time. A new-born chick and a calf arrived in the wbrld with three legs each. Refrigerated as well as pressurized cabins will be necessary for supersonic commercial flying, since without cooling, passengers would be heated to 300 degrees F. at 1400 mph, and 850 degrees at 2000 mph. # 0 I The female praying mantis eats her mate while on the honey-

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Shaves In the Making

Aluminum Association reports are being made with aluminum, as revealed in the first industry survey since before the war when 2,000 uses were recorded. Here the tubes are being prepared for labeling. The conveyor is moving them, left to r-ight in front of the girl in. the rear, into the oven shown in the far background where annealing takes place. Emerging from the oven, they are brought to the machine in the foreground to receive a base coating just before the label is printed on them. x ,

Notre Dame Reveals Building Program

Non-Skid Unit For Bass Drums

South Bend.. Ind. — Notre Dame university officials to-

Chicago, 111. — Bandleader Sam Cassato, a clarinet man him-

day announced a $12,000,000 building program which will include erection of at least seven new buildings on the rolling campus here. The Rev. John I. (javanaugh, C.S.C., president of the university, said the school’s increased enrollment made necessary the construction of a new student union building and a graduate residence hall this year. He said the other buildings would be completed within the next 10 years. There are some 4,600 students at Notre Dame although many campus buildings were designed to accommodate the original enrollment of 1,500, Cavanaugh said. Other buildings included in the program were a Liberal and Fine Arts building, a new library, a chemistry and physics building, a new gymnasium, and a War Memorial Chapel. Cavanaugh said additional residence halls would be constructed if the enrollment increased. The Chapel will be dedicated to the memory of former students who died in the nation’s wars since Notre Dame was founded in

1842.

Cavanaugh said the board of lay trustees of the school approved the plan. He said the new gymnasium will accommodate much larger crowds for basketball and other indoor sports. Ex-Gi’s Operate Storklines, Inc. Chicago, 111. — The stork got a lift today from Chicago’s newest business — a special delivery outfit. It’s called Storklines, Inc., and is run by six former Cl’s, who pooled their mustering out pay when they couldn’t find other

jobs.

The boys have two news cars in seryice around the cl©ck to cart expectant mothers and fathers to hospitals — on an appointment basis. Or in an emergency just pickup the telephone. It’s a new business, but already the firm is getting a number of “orders” each day and will go any place in the city for a flat fee. The youngest member of the firm is Harold Swan, 21, vice president in charge of public information. He didn’t lose any time letting word get around that Storklines was in business. He had some literature printed up and some calling cards with the firm’s slogan up in the corner: “We are experts you can see “We learned it in the infan-

try.”

Meaning that when Storklines, Inc., sets out to get a job done, it does it thoroughly and quickly. Swan sent pamphlets to all the hospitals and doctors in town. Everybody in the firm, natur-

ally, is an officer.

Alden Horwitz, 22, is president because he had a little more money to invest. Warren Schabinger, 25, is the V. P., Dave Tigeni, 23, sec. and treas., Casimir Augustyn, 22, traffic chief; Ralph Schroeder, 24, dispatcher, and

Swan, the press agent.

All drive, from captain down. So far, the Cl’s haven’t taken a cent out of the treasury and don’t intepd to until they have tp. Most of them are living with their families until things get rplling. The first call was rather inter-

esting.

President Horwitz answered. “Storylines, Incorporated — at

your service.”

At the other end of the line was Warren Schabinger, the vicepresident and general manager. His wife was about to have a

baby.

self, moved tody to improve the lot of the bass drummer. Cassato is listed in the “Pigpst of New Inventions” published by the National Foundation for Science and Industry as the inventor of a non-skid unit for bass drums. “Night after night,” Cassato said, “the poor guy is chasing the bass drum around the floor. “He gives it a good whack and it creeps. So he edges his chair up and whacks it again. It creeps again. “By the time he has finished a couple of choruses he is half way into the brass section and in a good spot to get clipped by a slide trombone.” Drummers thus afflicted develop phobias, Cassato said. “They hesitate to give out with good whacks,” he said, “for fear of bouncing the drum into sorpebody’s beer.” Cassato’s first attempt to make drummers happy was a harnesslike arrangement. He tied a rope around the bottom of the drum and hitched it to the back legs of the drummers’ chair. “This helped matters somewhat,” he said, “but the drummer kept getting caught in the rope. By the time he worked himself loose he missed the beat and threw the whole band off.” Next Cassato tried nailing a strip of wood to the floor in front of the drum. “The drum stayed put,” he said, “but the band went on tour. You couldn’t keep nailing down pieces of wood and yanking them up again. “So I invented what I call the drummer’s friend.” The drummer’s friend, its inventor explained, is two strips of metal, plastic or light-weight wood. One end of each strip is bolted to the drum. Holes are bored into the other end. Into these the drummer sets the front legs of his chair. “This works fine,” he said. “The drummer is happy and the bqnd keep time. “Then I get a booking in a small night club. They’ve only got room for a trio. Accordion, clarinet and string bass—no drums.” More Gas Used By Cars Last Year Washington, D. C. — Motpr vehicles in the United States burned up 25,868,000,000 gallons of gasoline last year to set an alltime record, the public roads adI ministration reported today. It was a 33 per cent increase j over 1945 consumption. California led all states in volI ume of gasoline consumption with a total of 2,436,430,000 gallons ip 1946—an increase qf 34.6 pgr cent over 1945. The biggest percentage increase was recorded in Nevada where gasoline consumption jumped 48.6 per cent oyer 1945. Other states that were big consumers included New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. State motor fuel taif collections, including inspection fees, license fees, fines and penalties alsp increased materially in 1946. Total receipts jn 1946 amounted to $1,064,681,000, as compared with $783,691,000 in 1945. The average gasoline tax in the country, the report said, was 4.16 eents a gallon last year. Rates ranged from two cents a gallon ip Missopri to seven and a half cents in Oklahoma. o EARNED A REST.

Will Issue No More “Blue” Discharges

W a s h i n g t o n, D. C. — The Army will issue no more of its controversial “blue” discharges

after July 1.

Men released from uniform thereafter will get one of four types of discharges:

1. Honorable.

2. General — To bp given those found unsuitable or inept but who otherwise meet all qualifications for an honorable discharge. 3. Undesirable — Giyen for unfitness qr miscopduct which cl oes not involve separation by

martial.

4. Dishonorable — Imposed by sentence of a general court mar-

tial.

The “blue” discharges have been the target of heavy criticism in Congress because they do not state whether the man has a good or bad record.

Millbury, Mass. — Masop H. Snaw, janitor of tjip Town HalJ, has bpen granted his fiyst vacatipn in 20 years. Selectmen vp^ed unanimously to give hipi a rpst with pay. Activities in the town hall will be suspended while Shaw takes it easy. o— : RPMPUS ROOM FOR BIRDS

Seattle—Mrs. Albert Q. Bepedict‘s 100 canaries, 30 fjarakeeis, six finches and other miscellaneous birds rule the roost in jicy home. Mrs. Benedict has turned over a whole ippm for the' bircl’s play room, where they can fly at will when they are out of their cages. She alsp finds time tp look

court i after a couple of pet squirrels,

two dogs and a collection of tropi-

cal fish.

PATRONIZE ADyERTISERS

DEACON SPRY AT 98

Bric|gton, Me.—Deacon George W. Rounds, Bridgetop’s oldest resident, observed his 98th birthday by overhauling a spraying machine he uses tp prptect his 200 apple trees.

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