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100 Year TOP Jute
If, in a few hundred years'
time, a -geologist takes it into his
head to rummage around the
foundation ,stone, of a college
recently , comPleted, in. Chico,
go, he'll get a surprise. Buried
under the stone he will find a
twentieth-century record, player
ar e y , ldareepoolrcis leet!onso.o ii .of
ofts
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college placed these items there
as being' representative of mo,
dein lifpf s,„i7
If the gurgling -guitar of the
Pelvis-d-besiiT rip,terik frOM
further research ipto history
and he'dretiiies dedperieto the
past, ,hell find other ; pbjects
typical' pr It's'-amaz-
ing the ,Ande jVarbity: ol,z things
thatYario.,4,, people ,h,a,v,e elect-
ed to store away' for Some ftl-
ture historian to stumble, upon.
Cleaning out the cellar, of his
farmhouse in Abercarn, South
Wales, farmer Tom Bradwick
came across a sealed square
box. Inside he found a bundle
of letters and a loaf of bread!
The letters revealed that the
loaf had been baked by a pre-
vious member of the family over
150 years before. It was still
in as good condition as the day
it had left the oven.
The letters gave the finder
the recipe for baking another
and also gave a detailed account
of the lives and affairs of the
Bradwicks of that time. Toni
merely added a sheet of paper
giving news from the twenti-
eth century and returned the
box to its resting place. "It's
nice to know I'll be thought of
when some future Tinder reads
it," he said.
Workmen engaged in cleaning
up the tower that houses Big,
Ben came across a relic from the
past when they started work on
the belfry. Tucked away in the
rafter's, they found a box cov-
ered with layers of dust and se-
cured with a rather dated-look-
ing padlock.
Their curiosity aroused, they
pried it open. Inside they found
several coins and scrawled sig-
natures on a piece of rotting
paper. Later,- when the box was
studied by experts, 'they dis-
covered that it had been- left
there by workmen who had
helped construct Big Ben many
years before.
When a former women's pri-
son was being demolished in one
Of the English Home Counties
last year, in what had once
been a cell was found a tattered
and aged letter: paled 1850 and
written in, a spidery hand, it
was the confession to robbery
of a former inmate. The woman
described how she had corn-
risitai her crimes and , stated
that she was writing- tirie. letter:,
.
- "so that in the event of
my being found guilty in the
forthcoming trial I cannot be
accused of duplicity."
A descendant of one of the
current, residents of Tulsa, Okla-
homa, will receive a. handsome
legacy from the past in the year
2008: During recent 'festivities
in the town a 1958 model car
was, buried in a vault in the
local courthouse lawn.
It will be removed in forty-
!line years' time and presented
to the person - or his descend-
ants - who came nearest to
guessing the population of the
town in that year.
tailor. But for a Sicilian it was
a new Roman Empire at hand.
Litrico finished the suit, made
up a few samples, packed and
went to Russia.
He was back within weeks-
with an order from Nikita
Khrushchev, for 4 suits, 2 coats,
4 pairs of shoes, 4 hats and 50
ties. Total cost to the Soviet
tax payers: one million lire.
It was outrageous success,
And if it -worked in the east,
it should work in the wset. Li-
trico made a few more samples
and left for Washington.
The best he could do, how-
ever, was one overcoat for Pre-
sident Eisenhower (which turn-
ed out to be a gift). But well
worth the expense. For there
followed bona fide orders from:
Prime Minister Harold Mac-
in tailor shops since I was seven.
I charge $140 for a suit. I can-
not afford to have any com-
plaints.
"And nobody has complain-
ed. Not Nasser. Not Macmillan,
And Klumshchev wrote me a
letter of praise.
"Of course I knoiso what I'm
doing when I fashion men's
clothes,"
And so it is not surprising LI-
trico said,' that embassies are
following home polity and jour-
nalists are following their news
sources. The shop has begun to
fit so many diplomats and news-
men that there is hardly any
time left for the movie stars.
"You might say," Litrico said
in flawless Sicilian, "that I have
become a sort of little ambas-
sador myself."
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NDAY SC11001
LESSON
• tree•tment, however, Researell
workers used Vie venom of the
tiger snake in an experiment de,
signed to spread a rapid infection
of . "Golden .Staph" through the.
bodies of mice. But Pir from
spreading the .disesse, the venom
had the opposite .elfeet.
leased agents in the blood which
knocked out the deadly .staph
bacteria.
Now this piece of luck is be-
ing exploited, Soon, pathOlogists
hope, it will lead.•to.ranid method
of countering the danger of •staph
infection in hospitals,
13y Rey it, liArvit4 Warren
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Australia's scientist, area wag.
ing A war against "Golden
S./14)h"" a dot-like .mieroseopie
orange-yellow body known. to
doctors as Staphyloeeccus Attu,-
Us, which is the cause of many
Skin infeetiOnS such. as barber's
rash and impetigo,
New-born babies are especial-
lY Prone to its bacteria, Original,
ly penicillin Was en effeetive
remedy but now '`Golden Staph"
has become .penicillin-resistant,
A chance discovery recently
Made in the serum laboratories
at Melbourne may lead to a new
• Strengthening, New Churches
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direct your ,bearts. into the toy*
of ,God, And, Into the patlent Wait,
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DRIVE CAREFULLY -- The
life you save may be your own.
on the farm today when indus-
try offers him so much? It is the
freedom he has there, He is still
able to make his own decisions."
*
When you make .a wrong deci-
sionz economic law catches YOU
up fast, Ife told of a time when
he bought cattle mainly because
his neighbors were buying, He
paid too much., When prices fell
and left him with costly cattle,
be stopped buying. "I didn't
have to have a law to control me.
I was told at the market place
I had no business to buy,"
Mr. Rozzoni admitted that a
solution of the farm problem
based on return to free markets
would not be pleasant. He fa-
vored helping farmers make the
adjustment in extreme cases.
In an open meeting of the
resolutions committee the pros
and cons of government control
were freely argued. One young
man, James Boyd, went so far
ea to quote Patrick Henry re-
garding liberty, and he got a
hand.
Other farmers who spoke and
looked like city businessmen in-
sisted that production control is
necessary because production in-
creases faster than population
and new uses. They contended
that other segments of the econ- "
omy - labor and business - re-
strict output and held that agri-
culture alone cannot move along
the path of no control and remain
prosperous.
He Makes Suits For Famous Men
By WARD CANNEL
NEA Staff Correspondent
This is the case of a Sicilian
tailor named Angelo Litrico,
why he left Sicily to come to
Rome and what happened to
him there.
"You must understand," he
said. "I love my home in Sicily.
But I was 26 years old and had
24 younger brothers and sisters.
And besides being crowded, it
was quite nervewracking to re-
member everybody's name.
"So I packed my scissors and
needles and tape measure and
came to Rome to look for fame,
fortune and a job. That was five
.'ears ago."
Now, as everybody knows, the
city of Rome is owned by a
number of Italians who have
sublet it to American movie
producers, writers and stars. So
it was not long before young
Litrico got an order for a suit
from Marlon Brand°.
It was heady success for any
millan of EnglAnd t-7. one suit,
one waistcoat.
President Nasser• of- the Unit-
ed Arab Republic - one suit,
two shirts, 10 ties, one foulard,
two overcoats.
King 1-lussein of Jordan-two
suits, 10 ties,
President Tito of Yugoslavia..-.!
one suit, two shirts.
President Kmbischek of Brazil
-,four suits,
Now actually, Litrico has
never seen any of his clientele.
"I am only a tailor," he said,
"while they are busy wtih much
more important things.
"Consequently, their ambas-
sadors giVe me the measure-
ments and perhaps a photo-
graph. Then I build a manne-
quin and make the suit on that."
And so accurately that even a
causual observer in Litrico's
workshop on the Via Siciliana
can pick Khrushchev's torso out
of the crowd.
"Of course ,,I am accurate,"
Litrico snapped. "I have been
TREAT .FOR AN "EXTRA" - One of hundreds of horses used
in the spectacular lond-rOsh scene of "Cimarron" gets a sugar
treat from actress. Maria Schell, on location in Arizona. Anne
Baxter, left, is dance hall, queen Pixie Lee. Maria plays heroine
Sabra. Cravat in the new film version of the Edna Ferber
story. Glenn Ford, shown with the ladies, has the role of
Yancey Cravat.
THEFARM 'FRONT . •
California Farm Bureau he turn-
ed over to his sons the' manage-
ment of 3500 acres of vegetable
cropland, along with. a herd of
livestock.
Blond, broad-shouldered Mr.
Rozzoni, speaking wth a trace of
Italian accent, made an effective
plea-fo'r" less government regula-
tion:- -
"Why does a man want to stay
Hangover Cure
--Walk Into River!
Does Friday the Thirteenth -
hold terrors for you? For hun-
dreds of years thirteen has been
regarded, as an unlucky number
by millions of people. But not
the Japanese.
It is not that they aren't super-
stitious - far from it - but for
some reason thirteen has no
sinister significance for them.
Their unlucky number is four,
"Four" in Japanese is shi, and
this word also means "death."
The Japanese don't worry
about walking under ladders,
opening umbrellas indoors or
spilling salt. Black cats mean
nothing to them. But ask a Japa-
nese to be photographed stand-
ing between two other people
and there's a pretty good chance
that he'll decline. It's unlucky.
So is spending too much of one
day facing the north-east, or ly-
ing in a bed which runs from
east to west instead of north' to
south.
In Japan it's unlucky to drink
hot tea poured on top of cold -
condemned murderers used to do
this in olden times; it's unlucky
to see,asnake unless you hastily
mumble aburawakasu kasasabu-
rendo. What does it mean? Noth-
ing. But it is supposed to save
you from disaster!
If a Japanese has a hangover.
or is prone to headaches, there
is an excellent superstition which
is deemed to bring relief. He
simply puts on a straw hat, cov-
ered With'Japandsetymbols, and
wades into the nearest river.
When he is in deep enough for
the hat to float away, he emerges
and his headache, should have
disappeared. The secret is in the
symbols, 'which mean, "Head-
ache, go-away!"
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With a leader like Paul, it is
no wonder that the Gospel spread
throughout Asia Minor. Here
was a-man who 'counted not his
life dear unto himself. He la-
boured in faith. To present Jesus
Christ Was the great passion of
his life. Those who became dis-
ciples he counted as his spirit-
ual children. He loved them. His
spirit toward them is described
in 1 Thessalonians 2:7.8: "We
were gentle among `376u, even ai
a nurse cherisheth her children;
so being affectionately desirous
of you, we were willing to have
imparted unto you, not the gos-
pel of God only, but also our
own souls, because ye were dear
unto us."
We need more men and women
today who are committed to
Christ as Paul was.
The real testing of a soldier is
not on the parade grounds but
in the heat of the battle. There
his worth shows up, Paul and
Barnabas were persecuted to
Antioch of Pisidia and nally ex-
pelled. At Iconium many be-
lieved in Jesus Christ but some
Gentiles and Jews plotted to
stone them. So Paul and Barna-
bas went on to. Lystra. After the
healing of the cripple there, the
people wanted to treat them as
gods. But Jews of Antioch and
Iconium who had opposed ihem
came and persuaded the People
to stone• Paul. Then they dragged
him out of the city believing him
to be dead. But after a time,
while the disciples stood around
-him, he revived and got to his
feet.
One might expect that Paul
would probably keep going east
to his home in. Tarsus. Hadn't he
had enough of this treatment!
But, no. He went back into Lys-
tra for the night and the rkext
day he went on to Derbe. After
ministering there, he came back
to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,
the cities where he had estab-
lished churches but from which
he had -later to flee On account of
persecution. He met' with the
new disciples in each place,
strengthening them and "exhort-
ing them to continue in the faith,
and that we must through much
tribulation enter into the king-
dom of God." He ordained -elders
in each church, prayed with_fast-
ing and commended them to the
Lord on whom they had be-
lieved,
ISSUE 2 - 1960
' COAT-AND-SUITER LITRICO: A sort of little ambassador.
Farmers gave themselves a
workout when they came to Chi-
cago for the national convention
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. They tussled with
the problem of finding a way to
control the current crop sur-
pluses which threaten their in-
come- and at the same time re-
tain their freedom. No easy an=-
swer was forthcoming.
* *
How serious they were in their
efforts to find a better farm pro-
gram than the present one could
be read in their faces as they sat
listening to the economists they
had invited to address them. If
you looked over the audience you
Were struck by their expressions
- intent, sometimes critical, but
always absorbed in the learned
papers of such speakers as a Fed-
eral Reserve Bank economist and
a Purdue University- economics
professor.
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Not a few of these commercial
farmers have studied agricultur-
al economics in college. CharleS
B. Shuman, farmer-president of
the_Farm Bureau, has a master's
degree in this field, as have some
other farmers here. Others have
not gone beyond high school in
their studies, but they come here
bent on learning more.
All have ideas of their own
and many are ready to Move to
the microphone and argue with
the experts.
"I'd like to see you folks give
us a simple answer," a young
farmer from Carolina' said
to the panel of speakers at one,
session. "I don't want to go home
by way of Hong Kong."
"I'd gladly go to Hong Kong
if I could find a simple answer;
there is na'na," an economist in
the group replied.
The critical farMer, W. A, Mc-
Farland, of Durham, N,C., said
he figures that the free market
is the best means for controlling
surpluses. His philosophy is that
if you've got "a burning desire to
be a farmer" yoti can make a
go of it without government help
-- and interference.
After the session this corres-
pendent found out how he came
by this philosophy. He started
farming with a four-acre tobacco
allotment, found it wasn't suffi-
cient to make him a living even
if he sold his crop at 100 per
cent, of parity. So be went to a
local banker and told his story.
The banker looked over young
Mr. McFarland's assets and tOld
him cheerfully; "YOU'VE got
about $200 less than nothing."
But he made the fernier a loan,
kriciWint what kind of a man he
WaS dealing with, *
Mr, MbFerfand proved a good
'risk, Today he fern's 700 acres
folaDtbd in a variety of CMOS,.
feeds 50 head Of tattle; Sella
Certified See& He says
goal should not be secutity, but
opportunity, writes- Derothea
Kahn Jaffe in the Christian
Science MOniter..
Moderator of the panel at this
session was dribtlier fernier who
believes reliance upon the
•;free Market, •Lcitiis A. Roiteiiii,
president of the California' Perin
Bureau, came to this country'
from Italy at thea'ge' of 17 With
50 cents in his pocket, When he
recently becatrie Dtesiderit Of the
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was about dieting': `,;Yea," said a
guest, as he tuckid.into a large
meal, "I've eateri;beef all my life
and I'm as strongaS an ox."
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nothing but fish for six months
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covered with frost, photog-
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In 1891, a scientist discovered
in Java bones which were. iden-,
tified as that of the link between
the anthropoids and man, dating
millions of years back in time.
,He called this creature which
walked the earth in the, Pliocene
,period, "Pithecanthropus." "
Between 1911 and 1915,' a man
named Charles Dawson discover-
ed, at Piltdnwn, in. Sussex, Eng-
land, bones. which seemed to be
just as important a 'scientific
discovery.
Dawson's fossilized find • turn-
ed out to be the larger portion
of the left half of a deeply Min-
etalized -human skull, part of
the right half, .teeth, and other
bones
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including a bar of bone
called the "simian shelf," which
was regarded by experts as the
'mark Of an ape.
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mixing fluffy tombiriattotis of duck arid goo sei feather i with d wooden pitchfork.•