Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1939 — Page 24

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1500 MORE JOBS AVAILABLE FOR STATE'S YOUTH

NYA Assignments Are Made Possible Under Increase In Appropriation.

Assignment of an additional 1500] £

young men and women to National Youth Administration projects will be made within the next few weeks. State Administrator Robert 8. Richey said the dssignment has been made possible by an increased appropriation for work for out-of-school youth and by opening projects in 11 counties where there previously was none. :

Assignment of the 1500 is expected |

to be expedited by the simplification of procedure for applications.

May Apply in County

Under the new rules is will be possible for youths to make application directly to the NYA supervisor in the county, who in turn will refer the applications to the certifying office of the State Welfare Department for investigation. To be eligible for NYA employment, boys and girls must be between 18 and 24, inclusive, unemployed and out of school. They must /be from families receiving some form of public assistance. When - accepted, they work 60 hours a month on projects sponsored by local civic or governmental units, and are paid from $14.40 to $21 a month, depending on their classification and the wage rate in their county.

5000 Now Employed

At present, there are about 5000 youths employed on NYA projects in Indiana, 775 of them in Marion County. : Marion County boys and girls may apply at the Unemployment Divi- - sion of the Welfare Department, or at the NYA area supervisor’s office, 237 N. Pennsylvania St., or at Room 272 Century Building.

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When the fire gongs are silent,

operates the Gamewell switchboard, some hundreds of miles away to the “Crying Bertha Mine” midway up

“Four-Mile Hill” in Colorado. For every summer Mr. Leonard board, packs his camping outfit and

BORER DAMAGE REPORTED HIGH

Purdue Expert Advises Control Measures Now for Next Season.

Times Special 1 LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. 11.—

Pee Wee Leonard . . . visits “Crying Bertha.” City Fireman Has Proof Theres Gold in Hills

Mosquito Bites

ASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Some of these evenings when you sit on the lawn and slap mosquitoes, it may be some consolation to remember that the Government pays three men in the Agriculture Department to get bitten. W. V. King, G. H. Bradley and T. E. McNeel, entomologists, go to the woods, roll up their pants legs and let the mosquitoes have their fill. In that way they learn about the feeding habits of the different species, and plan for their eradication. As many as a thousand mosquitoes have bitten each of them in a single evening. They've written a book about it. “The mosquitoes are placed in a bottle after they have had their fill of blood,” Mr. King said. As many as 600 mosquitoes have been collected in an hour on two bare legs. The scientists reported that some of the mosquitoes came as far as 40 miles for a bite.

NEW AIRPORT SIGN

IS DEDICATED TODAY

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and

Nish Dienhart, Municipal Airpor

superintendent, were to be guests of the Exchange Club today at the

Severin Hotel. Following luncheon, the club wa

Damage to Indiana corn by the European corn borer is expected to reach a new high this year with thousands of dollars loss anticipated, according to G. A. Ficht, of the Purdue agricultural experiment station. Borer infestatigns and populations are higher than” ever before and will continue to increase for several weeks, Prof. Ficht said. The development of a second brood of borers, Prof. Ficht said, is continuing and now is overlapping the first brood, so that moths have been in continuous flight and have been laying eggs cn corn since June 12. They will continue, he said, if favorable weather prevails, until early September.

Control. Measures Urged

Control measures must be inaugurated as soon as possible to prevent damage next season, he stated. It is too late to save the crop already infested, he said. Early burning, ensiling or clean plowing of sweet corn fields will be helpful because early sweet corn produces a high percentage of second brood moths which begin to fly in late July and will continue into September, Prof. Ficht stated.. : Researchers are conducting an experiment on the farm of George Eager in Allen County to seek means of control. More than 3500 borer t moths have been removed from a 10-acre field by 10 light traps. Laboratory work to find the kind of light most attractive to the moths

Sis in progress.

‘profitably at $5 a ton.

to motor to Ben Davis, where the new airport sign erected by the club will be formally dedicated and presented to the City by Roy Coats,

Early Borers Worst The avoidance of early planting

club president. The Mayor will put

the sign in operation.

has, until -last year, been a sure method of escape from heavy borer damage, Prof. Ficht stated, but with

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the abundant second brood, corn planted on any date is liable to be infested. : This method of control still is strongly recommended for field corn, as the late corn borers do not do as much damage as the early ones which already are full grown, he said. Sweet corn damage may be anticipated, he explained, when planted on any date, but corn planted during the middle of the planting season is likely to be most free of borers.

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Arthur R. (Pee Wee) Leonard, who is apt to find his mind wandering

leaves the Fire Department switchheads for Crooked Creek, one of the biggest ghost towns of the West. “Why, when you can go out there, you don’t have to shave or get a haircut, and there’s gold lying on the ground,” Pee Wee says with eyes sparkling with enthusiasm.

Gold? He Proves It!

To prove his: statement that gold is there for the hiker merely to pick up, he brought back some “bug rock” samples from this year’s jaunt. “Bug rock,” he explained with an air of authority, “looks like wormeaten wood, only it is stone. Geologists. claim it was formed when a huge volcano erupted centuries ago in the section which is now Colorado.” Steam forced its way through the rocks, making thousands of tiny holes in the. rocks, Pee Wee said, and later water flowed through it, depositing gold through the minute tunnels. 2 “These samples I've got assay at $16.50 a ton.” Ore can be mined

Money in Dirt

Residents of Crooked Creek, the few that still remain in the almost deserted town, claim that with modern milling methods, the dirt in the streets could be processed profitably. But, of course, like all things that look too good, there's a joker in the deck, according to Mr. Leonard. After gold is found it must be transported to a mill and the excess ore removed. The “Crying Bertha Mine” is 47 miles from the nearest railroad and the mills will not accept ore that is not delivered by train. They will accept! from trucks if the hauler pays what the freight rate would be if it had come by train. ‘“There’s no sense in wearing out a $5 pairs of shoes to collect a quarter, is there?” Pee Wee demands rather heatedly.

Uncle Sam Promised

“Crying Bertha” is reached by

an old stage coach road and its “really a tough road,” Pee Wee said. “Lots of people out there are hoping that the Government will build a mill out there some day that every one can use. The Government said they would but they haven't yet.” ; If the mill ever came, the “Mountains of Lost Hope”—slag piles left by the old inefficient methods of cleaning gold from ore— could be run through the mills at a nice profit, according to the Hoosier prospector. “I only found a few really good

samples of ore while I was out there this time but I caught some beautiful trout,” he said.

Just See Sam

“But if you really want to know

about the old days you go to see Old Cherry Creek Sam. He’s been a prospector up in the’Colorado hills for more than 50 years and the things he can tell you about the [boom days and the gold that was found and lost overnight will make your hair stand on end. “Someday,” and his eyes light up again,” I'm going to live out there. | I've got my eye on a place.” | And when he says it you can tell somehow that 10 maybe 20 yesars from now he and Old Cherry Creek Sam will be somewhere near “Crying Bertha,” prospecting a little, talking a little and remembering the boom days when Crooked Creek was. as big as Denver and ham and eggs were $5 a plate.

Prefers Mate To Reno Heat

"= SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Reno—“the biggest little city in the world”—hid its civic head in shame under the nearest sagebrush today. It was forced to post for the world to see: “Lloyd vs. Lloyd, postponed account of hot weather.” It wasn't a baseball game but a

divorce suit, that of Mrs. U. E. Lloyd of London. Mrs. Lloyd, it appears, had been sojourning in the comparatively mild climate of Honolulu for eight - months when she decided to file suit for divorce against her husband, a pioneer air surveyor, A fortnight ago she got aboard the Ching Clipper and flew here, then to Reno, where divorces are easy and time-saving. Today she was winging her way back to the comparative codlness of Honolulu, still married. As she climbed aboard a Pan-American clipper last night, she said: “It was too terribly hot. People did nothing but sit in bars. I'll “go back again when the snow flies. After all I'm fond of winter sports,

- but in the meantime I'll forget the

REA FARM OPEN TO VISITORS AUG. 17

NEW BRUNSWICK, Ind., Aug. 11 —The REA Electric Farm Equipment Show will be exhibited with-

{out charge Aug. 17-18 at the farm of

Don Garrison on Road 39 near here. The exhibit demonstrates how electricity may be used in operating feed grinders, motors, water pumps, milk coolers, electric brooders, and electric fences. : REA specialists and State Extension Service lecturers will explain the equipment.

Bridge Players Needed at South Pole

CHICAGO, Aug. 11 (U. P)., — wanted: Three scientists for expedition to South Pole; must know how to play exceptionally good bridge. v If you should see an ad like that in your newspaper, bear in mind that the bridge-playing requirement is just as important a qualification as being a scientist. The authority is Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, director of the research foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology.

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It will be 55 feet long, have balloon tires 10 feet in diameter, carry an airplane on its roof and

13TH WARD CLUB "TO STAGE CARNIVAL

An all-day athletic carnival wad 25-mile bicycle race, sponsored by

be equipped with all the fixtures of {the 13th Ward Democratic Club, a scientific laboratory and a luxury| ow. pe held at Garfield Park, Aug.

trailer. It will have a cruising range

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