Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 24 November 1950 — Page 3

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOV. 24, 1950.

BURNS LIKE MATCHWOOD—Flames lick up from the embers of the burning lumber yard of a match company in Stamford, Conn. The Long Island Sound waterfront fire threatened a one-million-iollar distillery and another lumber yard, and forced the closing of the Boston Post Road before it was brought under control. The fire, of undetermined origin, caused $250,000 damage.

OWNER-ENGINEER—One of the smallest railroads in the country is located at Elgin, 111. The owner, Robert DeYoung, is shown giving a ride in the engine to his daughter and one of her small playmates. The railroad serves a packing company, a florist and a lumber yard, and hauls coal and supplies to a state hospital.

A VISIT FROM THE BOSS—Generalissimo Francisco Franco, center foreground, the Spanish dio tator, is greeted by crowds during a visit to Cadiz. With Franco is his wife. Carmen, left, and stat< officials who accompanied him on the tour.

TRIBUTE. TO SWEDISH KING—Delegates from the United Nations join with members of the Swedish community in New York in a memorial service for the late King Gustav V of Sweden at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The service was one of many held throughout the world as the Swedish monarch was buried.

IT’S A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM—Based on the theory that every child is afraid of a new situation, the American Association of Dentistry for Children is making an experiment in Chicago, 111. Dentist Anthony J. Malone works on a youngster while other tots look on. Since they are permitted to watch, it is hoped their future fear of dentistry may he relieved.

DIFFERENT—Marjorie Hathaway models this black nylon lastex swim suit in New York. And with Marjorie in it, the suit is an almost guaranteed eye-popper that will create a lot of interest on the beaches.

USE GUINEA PIGS TO STUDY SOUND—Wearing special ear protectors and workiftg i!i a sound-proof room, Dr. H. E. von Gierke, Aero-Medical L'bcrr.tory scientist in Dayton, O'., holds a sleeping guinea pig near an instrument designed to produce highfrequency sound. This is one of the tests being conducted at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to determine the effects of noise,

- HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU!—Here are three new pets of the employes of an office building in New York. After they were born md during the night when things were quiet, their mother brought them, one by one, to the main floor to show them off to the nighl workers. She had no snapshots, so she had to brina them in person

SMART—This white imported radium silk shirt by Prestige Sportswear is just the thing for a winter vacation in warm climates. The self-brocaded patterns lend an unusual touch for the well-dressed man.

WOMAN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE—A Korean mother, her infant strapped to her back, saws up the frame of her demolished home in Wonsan to be used in rebuilding. She and her family fled to the hills when UN air raids began on the city. But people must live and reconstruction has begun.]