Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1952 — Page 4

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SUNDAY, AUG. 10, 1952

- Farmer's Hobby Is

By BARTON REES POGU

HUNTINGTON, Aug. 9— " Some people collect stamps, flimsy bits of expensive paper that have to be pasted in costly books, which may _ be cached away under the to-be-darned socks in a bureau drawer. Others of the human race go in for antique machinery that must be sheltered in huge appendages that hang heavily on the shoulders of the old barn. Some daddies roll around on

the floor at Christmas ‘ime, teaching thelr underprivileged sons “how to master the new

electric trains.” Other papas buy the kids an assortment of fullblown traction engines and separators, and the father-son combinations set about making the things huff and puff and whistle. Eiffel G. Plasterer of Rural Route 5, Huntington, Ind. 1s of the latter breed. Eiffel 1s not “tetched in the head” to any greater degree than the people who collect rusty guns; wobbly furniture, wheezy books or magazinés, and covered china of the under-the-bed variety.

o n o HE 1S ‘a modern farmer of this * tractor and rubber-tire-wagon era, but his great love is

’ a - ka for old machinery, the sort his YOU examined those pet-coc lately?” BIlll told him they had a used © the ste: , J Panby used n_the homestead checked. “Have you tried

where he lives. He and Bill, the "¢¢D a son, have a 1919, 18 h, p. Huber YOUr safety valve?” Bill sald yes. engine, a 1917 Avery, 8.18 It's a good thing to build up a tractor, a 1920 Frick, 12-25 gas Bood head of steam now and tractor, a 1916 Nichols-8hepherd | 28ain, Just to see If the thing will separator, a trembling corn |Pop-off. Bill lowed that had been shredder, a hay tedder of ancient done. vintage, a corn shocker (perhaps) “Right here is where a Huber the only piece of machinery of its/rusts out,” the guest advised, breed in the state of Indiana), a|pointing to the under belly of the clover huller, a bright yellow wa- engine, in a forward part. “You ter tank on red running gears, Ought to blow that out quite and a sorghum mill. frequently.” Bill sald they were What do the guys do with all taking care of the Huber eccenthis stuff? Just build sheds and tricities, store it away? Not on your gamsi-!| When the visitor said he had doodle. some whistles in his car, that he They play with it, |would sell, Bill dropped his reThey get the pleces to work (serve and became actively interagain, and use them on their ested. He left his iron monster, farm. They put new “Intestines” hurrying around the barn to view in the old Huber engine, added|the whistles. When he had been a few whistles, built a fire in 'er One some minutes the cry went

and let 'er chuff and puff. They UP. “Where's Bill? Let's go!” Bill

moved some new furniture into CAMe running back, mounted the

the old Nichols-Shepherd sepa: ®Ngine platform and blew the *

rator, married her to Huber of | Whistles (three of them). But by Marion, O. — sing-ring ceremony! th® time the visitor had contacted —with the long power belt for |Fiffel. at Maun! wnethe deny,

the wedding band, and the atr|2nd Inez, started life together, (What the '!M® in the house for sacking Plasterers put together let no| STAID, got anxious. She yelled a man separate ) i |“let’'s go,” and the crew was once . again collected, Eiffel returning What sort of life together? with his guest. Threshing. In this day of com- . : bines? Right. 4 9 9 84 uo a THAT visitor, who was not an THE PLASTERER family or- unwelcome one, for Eiffel says ganizes its own threshing ring. [you can always learn something Inez, the wife, mother, meal-/from these old-timers, began tellmaker, Insurance-office-clerk ing Bill how to start his engine, (part time), with the assistance so there would be just the right of Bill's lady friend, Carol Shide- moves made at the controls to ler, sacks the grain. Bill runs the get the equipment in motion engine. Eiffel checks the sepa-|Smoothly. rator, and, occasionally aided by] When the wedded pair started some visitor, feeds the maw of*functioning without a single hitch the ravenous beaters and sifters./it was quite a satisfaction to hear When a load of grain is/the guest exclaim, “That's right. threshed out the family, pls Good boy. You know how it's Miss Shideler hop on the wagon done.” Sheaves went into the] and hie themselves away to the choppers of the separator, the field to load another mouthful Farmer's Friend Stacker began

“ . blowing quality oats straw into| for the hung le . ® hungry red devourer the hay-mow, and grain started]

As the tractor and wagon y weave in and out, up and down, punning site sacks that Inez and over the rolling acres of the po led, homestead, much laughter and! Eiffel says they thresh this way

chatter comes echoing back to for the fun of it, and to maintain, the barnlot, where many visitors In this modern age, some of the wait to hear the whistles blow traditions out of the past. Farmand see the outfit ‘work. ers may not go back to threshing Threshing at the Plasterer farm engines again, but in southern 18 such‘'a darned novelty that|&nd northern Indiana, in southern hundreds of people “drap in ter | Michigan most grains are shocked a spell” In fact, there are so |in the field, to be threshed later many of the curious, with so | With separatcrs and tractors. many questions to ask, that Combined grain 1s getting Plasterer and Company find it docked so severely for moisture quite a chore to get their work content, unless processed at exdone. actly the right time, that farm The visiting children all want Ptople are returning, to soma defo hear the whistles (three of EI¢® at least, to the methods of them) blow. The women all ©'den times. ; yearn to climb up on the engine! I Want to go lack to the Plasplatform. The men are eager to terer farm this fall, when they know “how old is she?” “how Make sorghum molasses. much did you pay for ’er?” “what iss dia it cost to fix 'er up?” etc. ’ : Right when the wagon was go- Ike $ Ex-Guard Dies ing through the gate to the oats| MIAMI, Fla. Aug. 9 (UP)—Col. field some guests arrived. Eiffel Baldwin B. Smith, who was in had the outfit they stood, while Eiffel, sitting on "hower's “personal safety during the edge of the ladders, explained (World War II, dled at his home in

and answered many questions. Miami Shores yesterday. He was The crew got anxious. Bill said: 52 ’

“Let's go!” and Inez, the wife and driver, threw the tractor into gear, and away they went. Eiffel's last words were: “Walt around about 20 minutes, and you can see ‘er work.”

» ” ” BEFORE their return an oldtime threshing engineer arrived. When the crew rolled into the barn lot he asked a lot of questions, checking Bill on his running of the engine. Bill 1s 20 and looks inexperienced. “Have

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By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — “There is a possibility of a quite appreciable permanent change in the world's climate in the next 25 or 50 years,” Dr. C. E, P. Brooks, British meteorologist told a meeting of U. 8, Weather Bureau experts here.

up to such an extent it will have important economic and political effects. However, he sald, variations in the average temperatures between (#ie year and the next are now sometimes greater than ‘the permanent change which could take place over 25 or 50 years. Dr. Brooks pointed out that the world’s glaciers and the Arctic ice pack have been retreating for 100 years. If this retreat continues, he said, then

will come about.

1000 A. D., Norsemen who colonized Greenland were able to grow crops and to become self-sustain-ing on those crops. While he did not see the ice retreating to quite

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other northern parts of the world.

Those Saucers ' Will Be Meteors Monday Night

By Science Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—There probably ‘will be. more reports about “flying saucers” this month {than ever before. Many bright objects will be seen to flash across the sky, not just in Washlington but throughout the {country. | They will be picked up on radar screens. | But they will be “shooting stars,” not flying saucers,

cause an unusually large number lof falling stars to be seen

If the present trend continues, | he went on, the world will warm |

{the climatic changes he predicts]

Dr. Brooks pointed out that, in|

this extent, he thought the cli-| matic changes would have an ad- |

already booming economy and on

The Perseid meteor shower will

Hoosier Snakes Are Night Owls

Times State Service Istudy along with the perfecting of [from east to west through Indie BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 9—You improved snake-bite serums. lanapolis. don’t have to worry about a snake| He has investigated many re- They Like Rocks in the grass, in Indiana, because ports of poisonous water mocca-| y |chances are you'll spot him before sins in the state and found them| Copperheads are found mostly he will bite you. all to be harmless. He thinks it throughout the southern part of 80 says Dr. Sherman Minton possible However, there aj holm The’ Stale, dai have Deen Jung | {the. southwestern part o n 0 Jr.of the Indiana . University ‘state, a few of the venomous moc- as Turkey Run. They prefer rocks School of Medicine, as he gives caging common to southern Illi- and wooded ridges. some advice to avoid the three pois, | The timber rattlers like the varieties of poisonous snakes com-| ip 10h the snakes range over same kinds of areas, but they mon to Hooslerland. {the entire state, Indiana has had are becoming scarce. Recent The place to look out for the, 1,w nite mortality rate. In the|specimens have been taken in vipers is in corn cribs, on ledges, years 1930 to 1949, Dr. Minton Brown, Morgan, Monroe and Mar\around lumber piles and on, or In, |,13 21 fatalities were reported tin Counties. empty feed sacks. That's the place rom snakes, spiders and insects.]| The real danger period is bethey will surprise and bite you. | At jeast four of these were snake tween 6 and 9 p. m. The snakes Dr. Minton suggests doing a8 pite cases. hide by day and forage by night much work as possible around such places during the winter oriare jn greater danger than adults said. early spring when the snakes are pecause their smaller bodies can | inactive. stand less venom. is important to be certain of the No Moccasins | The swamp rattlesnakes in-kind of snake and to apply imSwamp rattlers, timber rattlers, habit wet prairies and the mar-/mediate first aid. A snake bite {and copperheads are the danger-gins of lakes and marshes, Dr. wound is one of the few where ous snakes of this area, according Minton points out. Their range bleeding is encouraged, to throw {to Dr. Minton. His hobby is snake/is almost entirely north of a lineloff the poison from the system.

The doctor said small children during the summer, Dr. Minton

In the event of snake bite fit

[throughout the entire month. The |shower will reach {ts height {Monday night after dark and| [early Tuesday before dawn. Then | {hundreds of shooting stars will {flash across the sky and end in

a blaze of glory their mad dash

stopped. There charge of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- along the graduated scale on the

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to see the meteors, which will ap-

evening, this constellation will be 'to the right of the North Star and below the constellation of Cassi'opeia, easily spotted because its bright stars form a -“W.” Later iin the evening the region in the heavens from which the meteors {will seem to radiate can be

AT THE CONTROLS—Bill Plasterer is an important cog in _the family threshing ring.

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pear to radiate from the constellation of Perseus. In the early

{spotted higher in the northeast, directly above Capella, one of the brightest stars in the heavens.

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By Science Service BALTIMORE, Aug. 9 -Romans 1900 years ago had weighing Instruments more convenient than our own, and the Roman shopper of that day probably carried his instrument with him to

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[long arm of the lever until it just balanced the object being weighed. The weight. could then be read from the scale.

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