Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1952 — Page 12

Merry-go-round Idea Urged In Food Stores

HELENA, MONT., UP — There xnay be a revolution in .the grocery •tore business one of these days. Ken Thompson of Helena hopes it will be a seven-and-a-half minute revolution. That’s how long it will take one of Thompson’s merry -go - roundstyle grocery shelves to bring the stores content? around to the shopper, who stands by, picking out what she wants. Thompson’s idea is to give |the smaller grocer a better chance to compete with the chain-store supermarket. .'n "Eve spent my life trying to make the independent merchant capable of competing with chain stores,” he explained. “That's why I Invented the wheel?’ Thompson, Who has been instTU? mental in formipg at least one organization of grocers in this area, said his newest idea*my cut operating costs about two percent, (in a business where the mark-up is often low, that little two percent could be important. \- > The Giant Wheel Fixture Corp, will make a 48-foot wheel as a standard size, when it gets going; The company also will, make wheels, in larger or smaller sizes, depending on the size of the customer’s store. The wheel, with up to six shelves.\will sit in the middle of the store; making one complete turn every seven and half minutes. Shoppers can take up a post at one spot Arid wait for the store’s coptents to come by; if they’re in a hurry, they can scoot around to meet the beens or ketchup half way. 1 ' -. J ■ The mofive power of the contraption would be a small motor,

Fish Smell, Sure, But People Also Smell To Fish OTTAWA UP —People “smell” as far as Pacific coast salmon are concerned. The Canadian fisheries research board, said that human skin odors have an adverse effect on migrating salmon. If there’s a human being within smelling distance of the salmon, the fish won’t swim uj?to spawn. Scientists attached to the research board proved the aversion of salmon to humatv beings during experiments at Stamp River, Vancouver Island, B. C. The department built a concrete fish ladder on the Stamp river to courit and : observe adult salmon during the period when they go upstream to spawn. Scientists first noted that the salmon disliked human odor when a man waded barefoot into tl)e river about 20 feet upstream from the ladder to retrieve a tagged coho salmon. ~ - “It was noticed at the counting point, three steps below the top of the ladder, that there was an immediate and noticeable drop in the upstream ’ migration,” the board said. < ; I • 4 “The location of the disturbance was out of sight of the fish, and it was unlikely, with the noise of falling water in each step of thje ladder that the sound of the disturbance could be heard. “Therefore it Seemed that an 1 odor frorii .human skin had repelled the fish. Further tests bore this out. An observer placed his hand in the flow of water passing over the sill \into the step immediatelyl above that in \ which counts were being made, f . V “A minimum amount of idisturhance and movement accompanied this act,” the board. Said. “After one minute of immersion the hand was removed. A quite; sudden and striking reduction in the rate of stream migration occurred. From a mean rate of 34 cpho each 10 minutes the number 'dropped to four one hour later a repetition of the test resulted in a similar decrease in the migratory rate,” |g| JK. ywv W i J FAINT FIT weather for man nor beast, ice-pack wearing Jiggs told his master in Pittsburgh, Pa., as he panted to beat the heat. In weather like this, growls Jiggs, he just leads a human’s life—uncomfortable. (international)

wheel under one side of the affair. The, big whepl would revolve on rollers or wheels. If Thompson’s ideas work out ‘in actual practice, there would be nd center shaft to take up room that could otherwise be used for grocery stocks. Thompson thinks the wheel may cut shopping time at least in half. Not only that but it’s efficient in other ways, he argues. “The standard wheel will be able to hold about 600 cases of grocery items,” he explained. “That’ more than you’ll find on the shelves of many stores.” ’ Furthermore, it’s the answer to the display problem, he said. A merchant won’t ;have to worry about giving seasonal \items better display at certain times of the year. Any spot bn the wheel is the best spot.; a \ Fresh produce and meats might be.-, handled in more conventional cases or display shelves. There's also a place for the children in the kind of store Thompson has In mind. He’s build a sort of play pen for them just inside thevdoor, leaving mother Or dad freir to do the shopping. Thompson is one of these natural born grocers, who can almost sense if everything is going* as it should in a store. He can tell if the customers are peeved over something and if all is not as it should be. || t . ;/ ' . ■ I “I can’t explain it.” he said, “but I know when I walk into a siore if it’s efficient or not.” Efficiency, he believes, is what the small store owner needs to keep in business. As Thompson says: “If you can’t. beat your competition, jump over them.” As, a result Os the experiments, spectators watching the i“nigra|ion of salmon have been asked nbt to interfere with the fish; or create a disturbance in the water with ttyeir hands. Scientists made other tests to see whether any other odors, such as those from various'organic substances, disturbed the fish. The fish paid no attention to these odors but were iibmediately repelled when a human hand was placed in the water.

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Steal, Sure Enough CLEVELAND, 0., UP — Ralph Stewart, a car dealer, a snappy model as; “a steal” at $1,150. The next morning he informed police someone had taken his advertisement literally. Too Big To Handle EAST CHICAGO. Ind UP — Intruders, whp apparently like to operate in a big way, were stopped from stealing a mammoth steam shovel here because a tire blew out and the machine bogged down. Growa And Crows JACKSON, Miss. UP — J. E. Richardson has a white! Leghorn chick which he says began crowing at the age of three weeks. Normally it takes a rooster 15 to 16 weeks to reach the crowing stage. AnVFJRTISEMKXT FOR RIDS FOR THE REMODRLING OF TOK -DKCATIR JCMOK-SEMOH HIGH SCHOOL lil lI.UING ■_ Notice is hereby given that the Board of School Trustees \of the Decatur School City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana will receive at the office \of the Superintendent of said School City, sealed bids until the hour of 6:30 P.M. Central Standard Time oh the 29th day of July, 1952 for the remodeling of the Decatur Junior-Senior High School Building, at l which time the said School Trustees will open and examine said bids. # s Said bids shall be in accordance with the detailed plans and specifications prepared by A. M. Strauss, Inc., \ Architects - Engineers; Fort W ayne, Indiana, which plans and specifications are on file in'the office of the said Superintendent of said >.School City and which may also be obtained from |he said A. M. Strauss, line., Sixth Floor Strauss Building, Fort Wayrie, Indiana. All bidders will Eie presumed to and will be required to acquaint themselves with the scope of the vvork, the time Os performance thereof, the provisions for partial payment therefor, and all other provlsions\ thereof, all of which are fully set out in said plans and specifications and to which reference is hereby made. All bids shall be filed upon State Board of Accounts Form 96 with Non-Collusion Affidavit on said form properly signed and acknowledged. . . . ' Each bid in excess of five thousand dollars (>5000.00) shall be accompanied by State Board of Accounts Form 9GA, properly filled out and executed. All bids shall be accompanied with a Bond or certified check in an amount equal to ten per cent (10%) of the bid, payable to the said School Board. Said School Board does reserve the right to reject any and all bids. BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF THE DECATUR SCHOOL CITY, OF DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. \ By: HARRY H. HEBBLE, Secretary VOGLEWEDE & ANDERSON. . „ Lawyers JULY 17—24

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Halifax told the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association. . 1 \ ! — Extensive burns of the skin which do not heal in a reasonable length of time are often treated by grafting skin from aiiother part of the body over the affected area. i i —( — It takes about 5 hours, 28 minutes for light from the suh to reach the (planet Pluto 3,666,000,000 miles away. M ■ \ In the early 18th century, the bulk of the world’s paper was made wholly or partially jfrom rags. , y ; Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

There is evidence that there was commerce between Egypt and Crete more than 6,000 years ago. \ A ■ • The shells of the eggs of most reptiles are soft and parchmentlike. The Seminole Indians were formed in the 18th century jvhen the Creek tribe was split. William Jennings Bryan, \at 36, was the youngest man to run for President of the United States. Doctors do not consider sinusitus to be hereditary. Major league pitchers average 125 throws a game.

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952

Canada's area is 30 times greater than the area of the British Isles. Among the li|tle-known casualties of World War II were the race course and cricket fields at Gibraltar The British eliminated them to make way for a modern airfield, says the Rational Geographic Society. d -— Besides aiding motor travel, one of the main purposes of early automobile dubs was to overcome the antagonism of livery stable operators who frequently barred “horseless carriages” from their premises. Calves lose their first teeth like humans and develop another set.