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Light Source No Bigger Than Match Mimics Sun In New Cancer Research

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—A light source no bigger than a match, which has a surface brightness equal to one fifth of the sun’s and a name as long as a battleship, is one of the newest weapons in the war against cancer. The research instrument, developed at the Univrsity of Kansas Medical Center, is called an ultramicrospectrophotometer. Its tiny but powerful 1000-watt mercury arc is comparable to the light of a battleship floodlight and produces so much heat that it must be cooled with 45 gallons of water a minute. Along with the light, the instrument has a monochromator to separate light rays, a special microscope and equipment to record light intensity. * # * It is being used to determine the ultra-violet light absorption characteristics of parts of body cells. From this, researchers can tell the amounts of certain chemi-

87-Million Pounds Of Food Given Midwest Schools

CHICAGO,- -The Chicago area office of the Production and Marketing Administration said today that more than 87,000,000 pounds of government-owned food was distributed free to schools and public institutions in 11 Midwestern states during the last six months of 1949. The PMA, an office of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, said the food was distributed in schools which have more than 3,250,000 pupils, and to public institutions which have 335,000 residents or patients.

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cal components in volumes of cells tumors of man and animals which

as small as one-trillionth of a cubic inch. The probe at present will concentrate on disturbances of nucleic acids, important elements of body cells. Previous research by Dr. Robert E. Stowell, cancer research director at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and by other scientists indicates that the nucleic acids may hold the key to the cancer problem. Most

Frigid Lake Water Heats Home Well MINNEAPOLIS — An electrical engineer is using the icy waters of Lake Minnetorika to heat his home. Robert Fillmore, a University of Minnesota engineering instructor, decided to demonstrate some of the theories he teaches by experimenting with his home on the lake. He built a pump from materials bought from a retail store. The pump draws in 38-degree cold water from the lake and circulates it through a chemical agent which lowers the temperature to 36 degrees, like a freezing unit. The pump extracts some 25 British thermal units of heat from each gallon of water. The three degrees of heat generated as the water temperature is dropped is pumped in the form of warm water through a network of small pipes located in the ceiling of his home. The operation maintains the home’s temperature between 74 and 76 dgrees, and the system gives a constant temperature from floor to ceiling. Fillmore says he pays a $150 electric bill for the pump in a normal winter season. That’s about what it would cost to heat his home wth oil.

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have been studied have had such disturbances, Dr. Stowell says. The ultramicrospectrophotometer is the only one of its specific type in the U. S., and is similar to equipment at the Institute for Cell Research in Sweden. Before the machine could be built, Dr. Stowell worked in Sweden for a year studying ultra-violet research techniques. After he came bac}c and obtained a research grant from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, it took Dr. Stowell and three other specialists 18 months to design and build the highly sensitive instrument.

Hollywood Film Shop

HOLLYWOOD —Instead of the well-stocked bar which decorates most Hollywood homes, Ginger Rogers has a soda fountain. As a child clutching a dime she’d wheedled from her mother, Miss Rogers used to dream of the day she’d have all the ice cream she could eat. Today Miss Rogers is the best customer at her own ice cream parlor. “I feel so smug,” she said, “that after finishing a soda I don’t have to march up to the cashier and pay for it.” Miss Rogers is an expert concocter of sodas, sundaes, malted milks and banana splits. So are the friends who get back of the counter and toss together a rare combination. “We’re al lexhibitionists at the fountain,” she said, “you should see some of the weird blends of ice cream and syrups that get together. I keep at least four kinds of ice cream flavors, loads of chocolate syrup, some crushed 'pineapplei, chopped pecans and cherries.”

BY HENRY FREE In many areas of the country, it is still too early for much garden activity. But because of the lack of frost, preparation of the soil in the vegetable garden can be considered. However, no digging should be attempted unless a lump of soil breaks up easily when squeezed in the hand. Soil which sticks in a ball when squeezed is too wet to be spaded. The wise gardener plans his garden before he does any digging. Planning not only insures a maximum of fresh vegetables over a long season, but it also tells you the amount of seed and the number of plants to purchase. Requirement number one is to plan a garden just large enough to meet the family needs and which can be maintained at a minimum of effort. It will take approximately eight hours a week to care for a graden of 1000 square feet. A plot of 50x25 feet contain about 25 tons of soil. Proper spading would take about eight hours of the gardener’s time and another hour or two of raking before it is ready for planting. * * * Tho home gardener usually has little choice of location and soil for his garden. However, if the location is sunny and away from roots of trees and shrubs he can improve his soil so that a satisfactory garden will result. Since perfect drainage is necessary for success, all low spots should be filled in. Level or slightly sloping ground is preferred, but gardens can be grown on hillsides by following the contour of the ground. The size of the garden depends on how much land you have available and how much care you can give it. Once you know the size, you can make your plan on paper to scale. But do not guess at it. Take as accurate measurements as you can. The next step is to decide on the vegetables, chosing only those which appeal to your family, yield the most for the space they take up, and which grow best in your neighborhood. Generally speaking, the annual

vegetables are easier to grow and require less attention than the peprennials, such as asparagus and rhubarb. Gardening is fun if you do not make it a chore. Start with a small plot which you know you can keep in good condition. Then increase it later if you find you can handle a larger area. QUIZZING THE GARDENER Q—How well will plants grow in vermiculite? A—It’s okay to start plants in vermiculite. However, it is completely lacking: in plant food, so be sure to feed the seedlings after the first leaves appear. Watef the flats twice a month with a mixture of one level teaspoonful of complete plant food in one quart of water, thoroughly shaken up. * * * Q—Many of my house plants, especially the coleus and gardenia, are infested with little white lice resembling mildew, what must I do? A—The pests undoubtedly are mea’y hugs, which multiply rapidly. Eliminate them by placing the plants in the sink and spraying the insects with a solution of Vi teasppoon of Black Leaf 40 to a pint of slightly soapy lukewarm water. Repeat every two weeks to insure positive controL

School Coal Shortage Solved With Ease DELPH* Dnd. <U.R)-^It didn’t bother the able-bodied men of Rockfield when they learned their public school building was out of coal during the shortage. They heard Arthur Hildebrand, the trustee, was considering closing the building because the coal was gone. So they met at the school with axes and power saws, scouted around and found .some timber, and cut up a whole basement full of wood. It was enough to last the rest of th e winter. Thirty-five men did the work in one day ana n women prepared a big dinner in a church basement to feed them at the noon hour.

A basement playroom in warm yttvid colors displays the ^oda fountain at its most inviting. All Love Ice Cream “But nobody sits anywhere but at the fountain,” she said. “It’s a magnet. Most adults are children at heart, and they all love ice cream, no matter how old they are.” The unluckiest soda fountain customer so far was actress Margaret Sullavan. Miss Sullavan yielded to a long-repressed urge and whipped up a container full of every kind of ice cream, syrup and fruit. Ginger’s mother got her a bottle of milk from upstairs to add the finishing dash before it churned. “It’s going to be pure nectar,” Miss Sullavan. sighed happily as she poured the thick drink into a glass. She took a deep swallow— and promptly poured the rest down the drain. That “milk” she had tossed in turned out to be buttermilk. The soda fountain does its best business during the summer, ten-nis-playing season. And it’s rather idle now while Miss Rogers works in Warner Bros.” “Storm Warning.” “Even so,” she said, “I manage to grab my soda a day.”

Leather Care Leather-covered furniture lends a handsome touch to your rooms, but it must receive proper care to stay that way. It has to be protected from heat and extreme drying or dampness. At Good Housekeeping magazine’s institute leather-covered pieces are cleaned frequently with a special leather cleaner and preserver (sold in luggag e shops) to keep it from drying out and cracking. Occasionally, it is washed with neat’s-foot oil soap or saddle soap to prevent soil from being ground into the leather. A well-rung-out soft cloth or sponge is used to apply the soap, and care is taken not to get the leather really wet. It is then dried immediately with a soft cloth, and the leather preserver applied.

Textile Mill's Front Lawn Is Scene Of Southern Livestock Feed Test

PENDLETON, S. C.A Pendleton textile mill and a herd of 160/ white-faced Hereford steers have come to an understanding. The mill is to provide them with grazing the year around on its 157-acre front lawn, and, in return, the steers are going to keep the lawn neatly mowed. Actually, the mill—an ultramodern, windowless, air-condi-tioned structure—has a little more at stake in the steers than just chopping the grass. Grazing cattle on the mill property is part of an experiment with a new grass mixture, designed to make the South a great livestock region. The lawn is seeded with a grassgreen all the year. And it reseeds itself. Many agriculture experts throughout Vhe South are attempting to find other crops for the once exclusively cotton plantations. Southern farmers have learned to produce as much cot-

ton on about half the former acreage, leaving many thousands of acres for other uses. H: * # Raising livestock is a fast-grow-ing substitute, but there is one great drawback. Corn, the midwest’s great fodder, doesn’t grow prolifically or economically in the South, because of certain climatic factors. So Southern agronomists are working to find a high protein feed that will grow well. As part of this agricultural experimentation, the lawn around the Gerrish Miliken rayon twisting and weaving plant here is planted with a mixture of alta fescue grass and Ladino clover. The fescue provides grazing over a 12-month period, and the Ladino clover gives grazing plus legumes. Clemson College, South Carolina’s state agricultural school, is working closely with E. W. Simpson, the mill’s resident farm manager in the development. The fescue-clover combination

was developed under the leader ship of the Department of Agriculture, and has been tried out on Oregon, Pennsylvania and other areas. But Simpson and his co-workers think the ^mixture thrives better in the rolling hills of the Carolina Piedmont than anywhere else it has been grown. * * * Many of the mill’s workers, who have land of their own, have noted the growth of the grass and the year-round grazing of the 160 steers. They have been putting in requests for some of the seed, which is still scarce. Next June, the crop :will be harvested and these and other requests filled. The textile mill’s experiment, Southern agriculturists hope, will help boost the South’s livestock industry,Resulting in more and cheaper cattle. Such a result would increase the region’s per capita consumption of beef, still below the national average.

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How To See Europe On A Slim Budget

NEW YORK—i Stevenne O’ Connell is a sort of Horatio Alger with skirts. Not that she’s a big success in life—not yet anyway—but she’s a spunky girl who’s parlayed a glib tongue, an idea and a large portion of spirit into a trip to Europe. Stevie, as she likes to be called was orphaned at two and reared by relatives in Boston, Denver, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Paul and Milwaukee. To go to high school and college she ran elevators and waited on tables and even baby-sat for three pedigreed dogs. After three years at Marquette University, Milwaukee, she then switched over to Quincy College, Quincy, 111., where she majored in art and got a diploma last spring. But she couldn’t find a

job.

She decided she needed more art training. Where else but Paris? OK, to Paris she would go. But there was no money in Stevie’s purse, no prospect of any angel financing her way—nothing but a silly idea that finally eight months later, paid off. * * * The idea was a simple one. She’d ask people in Milwaukee, where she was living, to give her a dollar bill. In return, she’d agree to make a sketch for them in Europe—a sketch of anything, anywhere. And she’d deliver the sketch when se returned, a year after she left. She planned to sail last October, but she hadn’t made nearly enough sales by then. So she cancelled her reservation, and made another one for March. She contacted well over a thousand persons in Milwaukee, and she got more than 700 commissions for the “Travel Dollar Fund,” as

she named her idea. Her only samples were two sketches she copied of Europe out of the tiny illustrations in a dictionary. More of her “clients” wanted scenes, of Ireland, incidentally than any other county And the most often requested subject was either a street urchin or a sidewalk cafe. .One lady asked for a sketch of a rolling surf in midocean, so Stevie bought some seasick pills and said OK. Another client, probably a man, asked for a sketch of the sweepstakes drawing in Ireland. Stevie, during the eight months between the idea’s birth and her sailing on the Queen Elizabeth, carefully planned her trip. She’s going first to Paris, for Paris in

the spring. * # *

Then to Switzerland and then Easter in Rome; a month‘s bicyling trip through Holland; back to Paris for summer art school; to England, Wales, Scotland (Edinburgh is the best sketching place in Europe, she was told); Christmas in Brussels (the Milwaukee of Europe); New Years in Vienna; winter sports in Sweden and Norway; and Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day, 1951. That, says Irish Miss O’Connell, will be the high spot of her trip. She’s budgeted herself for her trip. She figures it’ll take $125 a month to live in Europe. She was still about $700 short when she left, but Stevie’s not worried. She pl^ns to write some travel articles and “if worst comes to worst, I’ll go to work as a public. stenographer over there.” And she’s a smart girl—she already has her return ticket.

r No need to envy the carnival queen who stays so pretty a’top her cake of ice. Snow and windy weather can be taken in stride by ■ following just a few grooming hints. For day-long comfort and prettiness, take a tip from snow For skiing, they say that several layers of thin clothing give more warmth than a single pulky. layer. So use two thin 'pairs of mittens rathei- than one heavy pair. In all winter activities, it’s smart to put your best foot forward in a triple sheath. Make the first layer a pair of silk or nylon stockings, the second a pair of thin wool ones and, finally your usual skating sox. Professional skiiers can ski all day that way without getting _chilly .ioetufm ''

Wise snow fans winter-proof their faces, too. Nothing steals away the natural oils of skin so quickly as cold, sleet and wind. * 1 * To offset this, baby your skin with a lubricating baby lotion. Right after washing your face, moisten finger-tips with a few drops of the lotion and work it well into the skin. This fragrant white emulsion ,o4 bland oil and water with lanolin and,, an antiseptic added softens and soothes the skin and acts as a wonderful powder base. 1 Out-of-door enthusiasts know that an extra bit of baby lotion rubbed in around nose and lips and all over hands and wrists is good protection against reddening chap and windburn. Short skating skirts call for the same protecting treaty mentforlegs,too.< *

Super-Highway Network For 1955 From New York To Indiana Line

NEW YORK, N. Y. — By 1955 you’ll be able to drive from New York to within 165 miles of Chicago on super-highways largely free of intersections, stop lights and other obstacles to smooth, speedy travel. Back in the 1930’s there was a lot of talk about nationwide networks of super-roads, but highway experts dismissed it as impractical dreaming. Now, however, the eastern third of that network is nearly a reality. Incredible increases in motor traffic have compelled it. The original and still most important link in the east-west route is the famed Pennsylvania Turnpike, stretching 160 miles from the outskirts of Pittsburgh to a point near Harrisburg. This spectacular highway slicing through the stubborn Allegheny Mountains proved such a whopping success that it gave a big boost to the super-highway trend. At the moment a TOO-mile eastward extension of this road is being built from Harrisburg to the suburbs of Philadelphia. It’s due for completion in 1951. Also in the works is a westward addition by-passing Pittsburgh and arching 60 miles to the Ohio border below Youngstown. Scheduled opening in 1953. * # H: Just getting under way is the 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike. It will run from the George Washington Bridge, opposite Manhattan, south to the Delaware River at Deepwater, N. J. There it will link up with a new bridge that will carry traffic into Delaware. Motorists should be using this road by November next year. While this is the turnpike’s main course, it will send an offshoot westward over the Delaware farther upstate to connect with the regular Pennsylvania Turnpike in the Philadelphia outskirts. It is this link that will bear the heavy transcontinental traffic. A little farther in the future is the proposed Ohio Turnpike which will join the Pennsylvania super-highway at the border near Petersburg, O. Plans are being drafted, but no construction has started, for a road that probably will swing fox' a road that probably will swing up between Akron and Cleveland and thence eastward below the shores of Lake Erie, past Toledo to the Indiana border. Indiana has no present plans for a turnpike to complete the system to Chicago. But traffic funneling into Indiana’s existing routes from the rest of the network may exert so much pressure that the state will be forced to add the final 165-mile section. * * # Extensions westward from Chicago appear far less likely, at least for a long time. Highway experts doubt that such roads would be practical across the plains and the western mountains, even with a continuing rise in traffic volume. They figure travel still wouldn’t be heavy enough to make the super-highway idea pay

off.

But a chain of super-roads is shaping up along a north-south axis on the Atlantic seaboard. Already in use is the Maine Turnpike from Portland south to the

necting bridge over the Salmon Falls River. The short segment of New Hampshire lying between Maine and Massachusetts also will soon be spanned by a parkway. Massachusetts is in about the same spot as is Indiana on the western route. It has no positive plans to join the seaboard network, but traffic realities may drive it into the pattern. Other pressure will be felt from below as Connecticut extends the existing Wilbur Cross Parkway from the vicinity of Hartford in mid-state to the Massachusetts border. The heavy New York Boston traffic is a big argument for completing the system. * * * South from Hartford the Wilbur Cross Parkway joins the Merritt Parkway which in turn ties i^to the Hutchinson River Parkway in the New York area. The New Jersey turnpike will carry the north-south motorist over the Delaware, not far from Wilmington, where he will connect with a well-engineered, divided four-lane route to Baltimore. This section is not, how-

ever, a super-highway. It has no parkway features or limited access from side roads. A proposed new bridge over the Patapsco River at Baltimore is intended to carry interstate travelers on a by-pass course east of the city and to a link with the Balti-more-Washington Parkway, a sixlane thoroughfare now under constructiton. From Washington south fourlane roads take the motorist almost to the North Carolina border. But little of this route now meets the stiff engineering standards for high speed super-high-ways.

Elecetric Men Suggest Way To Clean Silver SCHENECTADY, N. Y. An easy electrolytic method of cleaning silver is suggested by scientists of the General Electric research laboratory. Fill an enamelware pan with boiling water to which you have added a teaspoon full each baking soda and salt for every quart. Lower into the pan an iluminum plate or pot cover. Then submerge the silver so that it touches the aluminum and leave it for several minutes. An electrical process is set up which removes the tarnish. After you take the silverware out, rinse it well in hot water, dry it and rub with a soft cloth.

Angry Walker Perches Atop Offending Car DETROIT, —4 -Ben Stone didn’t like it when James D. Preston cut in front of him at a red light. Stone walked over to Preston’s car to protest, but Preston rolled up the windows and locked the doors. So Stone hopped on the hood, and when the light changed, Preston rolled away with Stone perched firmly on the car. A policeman stopped the proceedings after about 12 blocks and charged Preston with reckless driving. f Traffic Judge George T. Murphy scolded Stone for his performance and remarked that “in 14 years'on the bench, I’ve never heard of anything like it.” v -.

Made Him an Actor 1 : . Thomas A. Watson was the first man to hear words spoken over a telephone. To be more clearly understood when he spoke over the phone, he took up the study of elocution and became so interested that he became an actor at the age of 56. . / v .

Mr. Fix How To Refinish Wood

If there is a room in your home that has( battered, dingy woodwork, why not do something about it? You can freshen up an entire room, even restyle it, by giving its woodworks a new fin-

ish.

No matter what finish is now on the woodwork, it must first be cleaned thorouhly. Old varnished surfaces generally require the use of varnish remover to clean. Apply with an old brush, let it soak a few minutes, then scrape off the sludge with a putty knffe. After the last traces have been removed, wipe the surface with a cloth saturated with denatured alcohol. Old enameled or painted surfaces should be sanded with No. 0 sandpaper, brushed clean, then washed with a water solution of sal soda. Varnish remover may also be used to take off the paint. When the old finish is removed fill all cracks, nail holes and other blemishes with putty if woodwork is to be painted

New Hampshire line, with a con- wood filler for natural or stained

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As I point out in my answer to a reader’s question, you can never lose by drawing from the stock pile. There’s no sense in trying to dodge your fair turn to draw. Q—I have only one card in my hand. My partner has made a meld on which I can play my card. May I play it and go out, or do I have to draw a card from the stock pile? A—Yes, you must draw a card from the stock pile, but why object to that? If; you cannot use it, discard it. I tmight be a red trey, which would give you an extra 100 points; or it might be a wild card that would complete another canasta for you. * * * Q—Are the individual cards in a canasta counted in addition to the bonus for a canasta? A—Yet. The scoring procedure is, first, to score the basic which is made up of the canasta bonuses, red trey bonuses, and the bonus for gong out. After scoring the basic, put the red treys in the discard pile. If your side does not go out, you pay off for cards held in your hand and your partner’s hand, then score for all of the cards you and your partner have left, including those in canastas. Q—The pack is frozen. I have taken the last card of the stock pile but do not go out When I discard, can the next player take the whole pack if he has a natural pair matching- the card I put on the discard pile? Or can he refuse to take the pack, and if so, what happens? A—The next player has a perfect right to take the discard pile if he has 2 natural cards matching the up-card of the discard pile. However, he is not forced to do so and if he does not take the pack the hand is over. * H: Q—When you pick up a card from the discard pile, can you keep it in your hand and not play it? A—In the first place, you cannot “pick up a card from the discard pile” and put it in your hand. If you are going to use the card on a meld, you must first

put down on the table the 2 cards from your hand that allows you to take the up-card of the discard pile. Then take the up-card and play it with the 2 you have put down on the table. There is actually a penalty for taking the up-card of the discard pile and putting it in your hand. Q—I had a red trey dealt to me which I failed to put on the table. I drew a card from the stock-pile which would give me enough to make an initial meld provided 1 could take the upcard of the discard pile. Could I take the up-card to replace the red trey which I still had in my hand? A—No. You did this backwards. If you had put the red trey on the table and drawn from the stock pile to replace it, as you should have done, you still would have had the option of taking the discard pile or drawing another card from the stock pile.

and varnished finishes. Then smooth with No. 0 sandpaper mounted on a wood block. Dust surface just before applying any finish. . '-.f. If the woodwork is to be left natural color, just apply one or two coats of interior varnish followed by a coat of clear wax. When a stained tone is desired, brush on one coat of oil stain; allow it to soak, then wipe withua cloth to bring out the grain. Early wiping gives a lighter color; later, a darker one. Fallow with a coat of thinned shellac. When dry, sand lightly and apply another coat of shellac or varnish. Waxing finishes the job. * * * For a bleached finish, use oxalic acid crystals or any bleach manufactured for the purpose. Follow this by sponging with clear water to remove the residue of wax. For beauty and long life, painted woodwork should be a three or four coat job. One or two coats of undercoat or primer,, then two coats of desired paint. Sand lightly with No. 0 sandpaper after undercoat has dried. tlse a IVfe-inch brush on narrow strips, such as window bars, or other molded surfaces. For wider surfaces, use a 3-inch brush for faster, and more even work. Load your brush by dipping two or three times about an inch deep, wiping out on a wire stretched across the top of the bucket. Apply the paint or varnish freely in parallel strokes. Then wipe out the brush on the pot wire and cross-brush the surface. This second brushing insures even distribution of paint. The best temperature for any kind of woodwoking decorating is about 70 degrees. FIX-IT FORUM Q—The inside wall below one of our windows is badly waterstained. The house is brick veneer. How can we stop this condition? . ., A—There are openings in the veneer beneath the window frame which allow the water to enter. Calk around the -window frame carefully, using one of the well-known elastic calking compounds, and the trouble will stop.

—Photo Courtesy of Duhixtr’Furniture w New function is incorporated into the upholstered headboard of j space-saving bed. Built-in cases to hold bedside accessories swing out and pivot to within arm's reach, and open shelves below accommodate magazines and books. Pillow covers match the spread and upholstery fabric of th© padded headboard. (Dunbar furniture Company.)