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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1944-12-14, Page 6PAGE 1 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, ~der -Inflation, Heavy Load, Wear on Tires Tire wear is increased by under- inflation and by loading beyond rat- ed capacity. The average car own- er, will find it to his advantage to inflate tires to pressures two to four pounds higher than; the recommend- ed values. A pressure of 30 to 32 pounds "cold will produce the greatest tire mileage for 6.00 by 16 tires. Tires usually lose three to four pounds pressure each week in the ,summer and two to three pounds a week in winter. A rise or fall of 20 degrees in air temperature will cause ,a change in tire pressure of about one pound. This .should be remembered particularly now that carsare,, not used frequently. Overloading causes the same ef- fect as under -inflation. The stand- ard 4 -ply,, : 6.00'^ by. 16 passenger car, tire is designed for a maximum load of 915 pounds' at a tire pressure of 28 pounds. Letting air out of tires . in urder not to exceed, the recommended pressure while driving on a hot day is, not favored. This, practice causes higher tire temperatures 'which will contribute to more rapid tread wear on 'certain road surfaces and may be a factor in causingheat blow- outs on any surface. Monte Carlo Picturesque Mediterranean Playground Seen fro mthe sea, Monte Carlo, in the •days before the war, made a; memorable picture of gaily tinted buildings, set' in . green gardens. Gleaming yachts rode lazily at an- chor in the Port of Hercules, big tourist -steamers waited outside the harbor for passengers goggling at the sights ashore. Upward, the eye ranged over the, white terraces shimmering in the sun, the palatial hotels dotting the slopes of Mount Beausoleil, the rail- way climbing the hill to La Turbie, the snowy summits'of the Maritime Alps. In this plush -and -gold setting, rainbow chasing became a fine art. Monte Carlo was beautiful, clean, quiet. Streets were silent by nine o'clock. Once the crowds had en- tered the garish portals ofthe com- bination theater and casino, the town was stilled until the flurry of traffic at the end of the performance. Chance was ' king in the casino that flourished in the domain of a prince. The grant for the gaming concession in the prosperous pre- war year of 1937 was about half a million dollars, half the Princi- pality's public expenditures in a recent year. Citrus Wastes Arizona citrus growers have found a way to solve the problem of dis- posing of grapefruit hulls from the state's three largest juice canneries and at the same time show a neat profit on the transaction. These hulls amount to 60 per cent of the fresh fruit weight and it has cost from $3,000 to $4,000 a season to have them hauled , away. From now on, however,,the procedure will be different, The cannery has ar- ranged to sell this . waste material lo'r $7.40 a ton, dry weight, which will average about $1 per ton wet. Thus, instead of being a liability, the hulls become, another asset. ' H. E. Tedlock, a Californian, has been working with peels for some time and is responsible for the pres- ent arrangements. He found that by; spreading the hulls out on the Arizona sands and letting the sun 'do the work; a very palatable stock feed resulted. His method is much cheaper than mechanical dehydra- lion and tests made at the U,S,D.A. .laboratory at Albany, Alameda County, Calif., indicate that the sun- dried product is a better, more nu- tritious feed. • After the hulls are thoroughly dry they are :put through a'hammermill .to •.reduce the volume and 'also to make them more .palatable. Insect Destroyer Methyl bromide was discovered as an insect destroyer, in France in 1936. It is odorless,noninflammable, nonexplosive and has been used as a fire extinguisher. Its use as a 'fumigant in this country was Bevel- -toped by the California state depart- .rent of agriculture and is carried on by the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine, U. S. depart- ment of agriculture, for the fumi- gation of nursery plants and trees moving through quarantine, flour, dried foods, and other produce. It has killed every species of insect on which it has been tried, It was developed as a delousing agent by the bureau of entomology at the regtest of the surgeon general's of- fice, and the bureau coirsiders if by far the best yet tried, because of its rapid action and penetrating pow- ers,' and because it leaves no de- posit in fumigated garments. Baby Pigs Need Sugar In Blood to Live Newly born pigs require a definite amount of sugar in the blood to maintain life, experiments by the department ' of animal pathology and hygiene of the University of Illinois have disclosed. Starvation of newborn pigs causes a rapidly fatal hypoglycemia, or low content of sugar in the blood. Pigs afflicted with "baby pig disease" also develop severe hypo- glycemia. •If healthy newborn pigs are taken from the sow immediately after birth and given no milk or other food, except water, severe hypoglycemia and death usually occur in 48 to 72 hours. When pigs are about dne week old before being taken from the sow, a much longer time passes ,beforethere is a dan- gerous decrease in the content of sugar in the blood. Sows whose litters develop baby pig disease often look and act healthy at farrowing time, and the pigs ordinarily show no symptoms until they are about 24 to 36 hours old. Nearly all of the affected pigs die in 24 to 36 hours after symptoms are osberved. Producers should watch each litter carefully during the first week after farrowing for signs of rough hair, lack of desire to nurse, listlessness and lowered vitality, the department warns. Improvement often follows' the feeding or injecting of sugar solu- tion. Best results can be expected when the sugar solution is injected into the abdominal cavity. Veteri- narians inject glucose in small doses three of four times daily. New Paint Protects Quarters of Fishermen Prior to the present war, British fishing boats generally had leaky decks through whichicy salt water could pour upon the crew, whose only living quarters are described as having been little better than swimming baths, with practically no protection against extremes of heat or cold, says S. P. Kernahan, B. Sc. In Canadian Paint and Var- nish Magazine. The problem be- came so serious that it was present- ed to paint technicians, ,,w�vith a re- quest that they try and &A a speedy solution. The protective coating required had to conform to a complicated specification, says Mr. Kernahan. It had to provide a water -tight cover- ing for wooden decks, and at the same time, give insulation against heat and cold. It had to be strong enough to withstand extremely heavy wear; it had to be non -inflam- mable, and yet sufficiently, pliable to "give" to the violent pitching and rolling for which trawlers are notorious. Itis stated that a bitumi- nous composition was eventually produced which filled the bill so well that it is now used on new construc- tion as well as on the older fishing vessels. Control Chick Disease A strict sanitation program should be followed in controlling disease in chicks. The maintenance of the proper temperature is important, 'but the house should be web ventil- ated at all times. Fresh air is necessary but itis impossible to furnish, plenty of fresh air if. the `brooder house is overcrowded. Poul• trymen Shouldallow' one square foot of floor space ' for each two: ,chicks.. Fresh clean feed should be provided and the feed and water containers cleaned 'daily. This pro- gram should.be ,followed closely for every chick represents feed, labor Clean. Bandanas On many industry, jobs girls are required, for safety's sake, to keep their hair tied in a bandana or wrap-around scarf. They are per- mitted to choose - these themselves, and naturally girls select: colors and modes of wrapping that are most becoming. But regardless of their taste in colors :they, are urged for this purpose to use washable fab- rics and to see that the head scarves are kept clean. Hair -protectors become soiled quickly, and in that condition they may cause itchiness and other scalp discomfort. A spic-and-span ban- dana can keep up .a girl's morale even when she knows her work uni- form is „none too becoming. Keeping the scarves clean has still another value. It lengthens their life and the same is true of •caps, ban- danas, and any other head cover- ings. Even a bandana, though it may not represent a lot of precious, cloth, nevertheless is ;a small part of our stock of textiles,. and should be made to last as long as possible. Chill Carcasses Warm, freshly slaughtered meat carcasses may spoil within 12 to 18 hours if not properly handled. They should be chilled to temperatures around 34 to 36 degrees F'., as soon after dressing as possible. In warm weather, the fresh 'carcasses must be hurried to a chillroom. Delay in chilling pork fat is believed to cause changes that speed up the development of rancidity after the pork is frozen:. Warm carcasses should be hang so that they do not touch. Hog carcasses will chill' more rapidly if the heads are removed, the carcasses split, and the heavy blanket of leaf fat pulled out. The need for prompt andthorough chill- ing,: of warm carcasses cannot be over -emphasized, Hard to Clean Chile. Raced France for Right to Magellan Straits The storm -swept Straits of Magel- lan, only maritime link between At- lantic and Pacific until the Panama canal was built, might now- be French' had it not been for a tiny, two -gun Chilean corvette of only 43 tons displacement. The year. 1843 found Chile with nominal control to the straits by, virtue of old Spanish'.colonial grants, but without actual jurisdiction over them. International usage required a nation to establish a settlement, no matter how small, on unoccupied territories in order to claim them, and Chile/had failed to meet that re- quirement. First to attempt td establish claim to the southern tip of South Amer- ica and dominate :the straits was France. In the summer of 1843 the Phaeton, one of the fastest ships in the French navy, was outfitted for, an unusually long voyage and., set sail. News of the 'French warship's journey across- the Atlantic filtered into Chile, and as further' reports were received, its destination and purpose became clear. President Bullies ordered the two -gun corvette Ancud from the seaport of the same name to take possession of the strait for this country- - The Ancud, commanded by Capt. John Williams, 'an English sailor serving 'in this country's navy at the time, set sail with a crew of 23 and a month later—on September 21, 1843—dropped anchor off the site of present-day Magellanes.. A small group of convicts from the Ancud penitentiary was landed, and with a 21 -gun salute the Ancud claimed the southern extremity of the continent for Chile by establishing a penal colony on the spot. It is not true, we are told, that one soiled garment can be cleaned os ' easily as another and that, there- fore, we' ^tright as well "get -our money's worth"' out of every 'trip. a {garment iisakes to Abe cleaner's. 'Excessive Soil is often difficult and 'sometimes innpossible• to remove completely. Much of it becomes -ground •in and' 'the many different types of spots require different types of 'treatments, , It ;is one thing to remove a small food stain ;or paint spot froxxi a garment and quite •an itlfer of it tan -be-''done" sit •ail—to ceniove large spotted areas of such diverse origin as paint, engine grease, • perspiration, mud, rust and ftitchen .'stains. 0 Date Production in U. S. Has Trebled,Since 1933 Production of dates in the . United Stateshas increased to an annual harvest of approximately 15 million pounds, three times the pack of tett years ago. • Dates are raised commercially in the Southwest where the annual yield now approaches a third of the normal impart figure, says the Na- tional Geographic society. Califor- nia has more than 3,500 acres plant- ed to dates, mostly in the Coachella and Imperial valleys. Arizona's 700 acres are in the vicinity of Phoenix and Yuma. Texas grows dates in the lower Rio Grande valley, and between Laredo and San Antonio. ' Early inthe present century gov- ernment scientists surveyed world sources to find the date palm best adapted to various U. S. climates and soils, going to North African oases, to the Valley of the Nile, to Iraq, and even to Baluchistan. Thou- sands of date 'palm offshoots were brought back for domestication in California and Arizona. Foods dry out rapidly at the humidities usually prevailing at high temperatures, as is evidenced by the ready , wilting of many vege- tables and fruits. Drying is ordin- arily slower at the chillroom tem- peratures of 33 to 40, degrees, but even within that range, stored foods will . shrink unless the surrounding air is kept relatively moist. The evaporation if ice from foods stored in freezers is slower then that of water from unfrozen products but the drying continues even at zero or below. The dried, pithy, outer layers of some stored frozen lean meat and other, foods is called "freezer burn." Uniform tempera- tures in properly designed freezers will decrease the rate at which frozen products lose moisture, but only by wrapping or packaging foods in moisture and moisture -vapor - proof coverings can the relatively dry freezer air be prevented from robbing stored foods of water. Press Seams Success or failure in making a garment often depends on the way itis pressed during the making as well as after completion. Always test temperature of iron on scrap of fabric before pressing. Press seams immediately after stitching. Do not wait until dress is completed. Never rest iron on fabric. Keep it moving, constantly to avoid marking fabrics. Press all seams up from bottom or in towards center of garment. Press darts on light fabricsto one side, either up or towards center. On heavy fabrics slash darts and press open. Lift gathers while work- ing orking point, of iron into them. While pressing, always smooth garment into correct shape so that fabric is not stretched. Continue smoothing fabric before passing iron over it to avoid pressing creases into it.: Care of Honey To liquefy honey that has granu- lated or solidified place the contain- er in a bowl of warm water—not warmer than the hand can bear— tuitil,•all crystals are melted. To store honey; keep liquid honey in a warm dry place where the temperature'is 75 degrees F or over, or ina cold place where the temper- ature is below 55 'degrees F. `'Freez- .ing does ndt injure the color or fla- vor 'but may hasten granulation. Avoid damp places for storage be- cause 'honey has the property of absorbing and retaining moisture. ,Do 'not put comb honey in the re- frigerator. Itis better keptat'room Brain Combines Double tpatchwork Increases Life Images, Forms Only One -- Of Heavy Duty Clothes Because your eyes are set ap• Underwear and heavy duty clothes proximately two and one hall inehes are the articles that need mending apart, this gives a slightly different most frequently. 'They get it, too, view of an object with each eye, because every stitch of clothing 'in tho,•must be made to last as long as it The higher visual centers brain, combine these slightly differ- will'. hold together with- thread. So ing images inthe garment will give "just another to one, thus producing "fusion" and a much ' improved wearing' is not sufficient. Real sensation of reality by virtue of the patching and darning is required. impression of r stereopsis. This Except for very soiled garments, faculty of depth perception is a mending before laundering is ' driving usually preferable. The patch be - vital factor in automobile and in hundreds of acts of our daily comes less noticeable that way, and lives. Sometimes when the two it often saves a re -washing and re- eyes do not learn teamwork, to avoid pressing to blend the new fabric seeing double (diplopia) the, brain with the old. Whenever possible, suppresses one of the visual images. the patches should really match the As this habit grows, although both original fabric, and many women eyes are wide open and appear all have discovered that it pays to save right, one of them is doing practical- good areas of discarded 'clothing lyall of the work and depth percep• because they can be used to patch tion becomes a thing of the past, clothes made of the same material. Without meaning to, many people These patching pieces should be washed and pressed before being are suppressing important facts put away for future' use. about the object at which they are Careful laundering willhelp pro - should. looking - seeing less than they, Long the usefulness of garments as swell as careful wear, Washing a This reduction of the vision in one garment before it is badly soiled eye is called amblyopia. It is not not only reduces the amount of soap uncommon to find one ey,e enjoying needed to cleanse it, but also les - andlittle better sight than the other sens the amount of friction, by hand anddthis is usually evenedupwith or machine, needed to do a good job, the properly prescribed lenses, but and thus in turn cuts down the vision than the other, visuall train, one eye much poorer amount of mending due to rough r ing is now used with considerable handling, success and usually good sight is restored to the dimmed eye. This tendency of one eye to become Quick Freezing Essential amblyopic, is just one of the con- cessions on To Preserve Poultry cessions made by the visual mech- anism when maintained visual tasks. Poultry . is usually starved long are required of a person and no out- enough, before killing, to empty the side help is secured. Most such crop, then dressed carefully, chilled, concessions can be ' overcome and wrapped and frozen. Cold well wa- balanced seeing restored. , ter (preferably ice water) can be used to chill the birds if no other method is available. Good Spray Aid to Often chilled poultry are drawn before freezing and these `over - Economizing on Material ready" birds are much appreciated W. C. Krueger, extension agricul when cooking time arrives. Prompt rap- ture' engineer at Rutgers university, freezing after drawing is essential reminds fruit growers that the best as bacteria and molds develop rap - way to economize on spray materi- idly in the moist body cavity. als is to have your equipment in Prying and stewing chickens ars • such condition that you don't waste often chilled, cut-up, and the cold any. parts packed in cans, cartons or "Leaky valves and pistons in- packages for freezing. Sometimes crease pumping costs and prevent the cut-up chicken is packed in a high pressures necessary for perfect shallow pan, covered with water and application," Krueger said. "Worn frozen as a block of ice. This is a and enlarged nozzle disks are a corn- variation of glazing in which the mon cause of poor coverage and ice coating serves as further pro - waste. tection against drying and oxidation. "Pump valves Val uld be given To glaze a bird it Js first frozen special attention. Valve seats which and then dipped into water chilled to do not show a continuous bright about 34 degrees F. or just above contact surface should be re -faced freezing. The zero temperature of and tested with a new bail valve, the on bird fn yer The seat contact should be narrow. of icefronzeit. Repeatreezesed dippia thingsl lawill Wide contact favors lodging of for- bund up any desired ice coating. eign materials and subsequent leak Wrapping the bird to delay the evap- agr: Ball valves showing any signs oration of the glaze is customary. of_- scoring or ridging must be re - Test pressure control valves. If they need reconditioning, this is a job for your dealer mechanic, Check and recondition • your hose. With the pressure that goes through the spray hose, it's dangerous to tol- erate a weak one. Glass Jewels Tiny glass ring jewels, no bigger than the head, of a pin, developed for,certain aircraft instrument bear- ings, are now available for other applications. The jewels are listed in five sizes for use in precision measuring equipment, and other shapes and sizes are possible for such applications as thread guides, weighing scales, automobile and truck speedometers, and similar in- struments and devices. ' The glass ring jewels are an out- growth utgrowth of the work in developing glass "V" jewels, introduced recent- ly ecently by the company as the answer to the shortage of foreign -made sap- phire bearings. ' The ring jewels, like the "V" jewels, are superior to sapphire in many respects accord- ing to the company and are avail- able at approximately one-third the cost. The ring jewels are supplied ready t' set at`$120 per 1,000. Accident Toll Accidents in 1943 killed approxi- mately 94,500 persons. About 9,700,- 000 were injured, including 320,000 cases in which the injury resulted in some permanent disability—an amputated finger, a stiffened -joint, blindness. Costs amounted to about $5,000,- 000,000, including wage loss and medical expense of $2,250,000,000,. overhead costs of insurance of $500,- 000,000, fire loss of $380,000,000, mo- tor vehicle property damage of $550,000,000, and the so-called "in- direct" costs of occupational acci- dents of $1,300,000,000. The above total represents a de- crease of 11/2 per cent from the 1942 toll of, 95,809. Compared to the 1936 all-time of 110,052, however, 1943 was down 14 per cent. Refinishing Wood To get best results in refinishing wood surfaces, first remove all 'the •old" finish. A sanding machine, a scraper or a solvent isused. Home- made solvents may be used but the ,commercial -ones are safer for both the operator and the furniture. When preparing' for the new'finish, first take + out all dark surface stains and disoolorations with .a bleach. Then smooth' the surface and fill the 'deep holes or .oraoks. '11 'the origin- al filler has -'been removed, -use a Piller to fill the pores df the wood to {.give .a. smooth, even •surface. 'Then 'comes the finishing. Furni- ture may he 'finished -with oil, var 'Wish, seals, shellac, leaintwenamel The Solomons Apparently nobody knows exactly how many islands there are in the Solomon. Many of their names have become war -familiar --Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Bougainville, Florida, Santa Isabel, San Cristobal, Malaita, Savo, Shortland and others—but scattered among 10 large islands are uncount- ed islets, together forming • an area roughly twice that of Massachusetts. They stretch in a heavily forested doublechain, trolley -track fashion, about 600 miles in a northwest- southeast orthwestsoutheast direction between New Hebrides and the Bismarck Archi- pelago, Normally their 160,000 population is composed of fuzzy -haired Mela- nesians of such intensely ebony skin, that the Solomons have been called the "black spot of the Pacific." Dis- covered by the Spanish in 1567, whose representative, a Peruvian conquistadore, hopefully believed he had reached the treasure of King Solomon and so -named the islands, they passed through French, British and German hands. After World War I the islands belonging to Ger- many were mandated to Australia, Their proximity, to Allied supply lines give them great wartime in- portance. Preserve Muffler The life of an auto muffler always can be extended through following a few simple rules. One of these is cutting down unnecessary splash by avoiding puddles and running slowly in flooded areas. In localities where calcium chloride is used on the roads: in winter it is important to wash the muffler and under side of the chassis occasionally. Painting the muffler isanother way to -help extend its life or usefulness, and wrapping themuffler' in asbestos, if 'obtainable, is good practice. Pro- tecting the inside of the muffler isn't so easy, but a well -tuned' engine runs cooler and doesn't exude un- burned gas vapor that may explode in the muffler and tail pipe. • Two Vehicle Collision Even, more outstanding than in previous years is the reduction in the 'two -vehicle collisions in 1943. While other types of accidents, with the exception of animal and animal drawn vehicles, ranged from no dhange to a seduction of 18 per cent, collision between two motor vehicles dropped 33 per cent. This consti- tutes additional evidence of the fact that exposure to this type of acci- dent decreases much more rapidly, 'than the decrease in mileage, ap- proaching the square of the mileage. The small decreases in pedestrian, and railroad -motor vehicle accidents, may, be attributed to increased pedestrian'trafflc in cities, and sub - stadia' increases in railroad mile -'temperature:= nr: wax. age. `rHTJ S., DEG, 141h 194'1 The High Angle: A. The .Ant's irer_ft Tit a o" a les- Picture Shows: The H. A. Director :• ;r ;, er is co .t. o:icd l y tht H'gh An at work, ole Dite.tor. Liberatioll Picture taken on one of the land- Picture Shows: R. A. F. ground' ing strips in France where Allied crews bombing up a Typhoon with. 'planes covering the landings can rocket projectiles on an airstrip itt land for refuelling, repel s, etc. France, The British Battlship Nelson. Ii. M. S. Net s; n. wh'e i; adopted Secondary armament of 6 inch guns. by the city of Manchester, Firing her