NEVIS HOUSE . . . Seated, Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Murray,
Wauaau. Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred K. Stitselberger, New York;
standing. Mrs. Dorothy Walker and her husband, Charles L., San
Jose, Calif. While husbands attend Columbia university, the wives
the colonial mansion at Irvington-on-the-Hudson.
?ETS ARE LUCKY
Colonial Mansion Used by
Gl Couples at University
NEW YORK CITY.?Three couples from Midwestern and
Western communities who planned to live in New York City
while doing graduate study at Columbia university are beating
the critical housing shortage by sharing an old colonial mansion
on a country estate an hour's drive from the school.
ajmi tney readily admit they en
Joy their leisurely country living
much more than city dwelling "be
cause it'a ao much like home."
The couples are Mr. and Mrs.
Hons Id Murray of Wausau, Wis.;
Mr. and Mrs. John McDonough of
Seattle, Wash., and Green Bay, Wis.,
aar. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Brem
eeth of Leeds, N. D.
They and 11 other married vet
erans and their wives live the part
at country squires in Nevis, a 20
room mansion built in 1835 on an
oak-studded 75-acre tract which
gently slopes down to the Hudson
river. The mansion, located at Irv
Jngton-oo-Hudson, New York, was
converted into single room apart*
ments by Columbia university to
help solve the student veteran's
bousing difficulty. The estate was
acquired by the university from
Mrs. T. Coleman Du Pont In 1935
and had been used as a botanical
oaperiraent station before Its pres
et! tenants moved in.
Mrs. McDonough, the former
Marie Mornard, who was brought
op on her father's farm near Green
Bay, summed up the attitude of
the couples from west of the Mis
lis^ppi.
"Country life is the life I'm used
to and although I wanted to live in
New York City while my husband
was studying, I far prefer Nevis,"
she said. "Just to feel more at
borne, I'm raising vegetables on a
small plot of land. It helps the shop
ping problem."
Cagfcft Soae Whoppers
hi Coterieri River
JAMESTOWN, KY. - When John
S. Osborne, his wife and his twin
brother went fishing near Lock 21 in
the Cumberland river recently, they
caught ll fish weighing a total of
more than 600 pounds.
They were sturgeons, John said,
. and it ia only once in a blue moon
that the condition of the river and
the (pawning period of these fish
coincide so that they may be caught
in such quantities. The trio used ?
single large hook on a drag line,
and for the line they used a No. 14
electric light wire It took four men
to land ode of these fish ? one on
top of the lock to throw the hook
and anag the Ash. one to hold the
Aaherman to . keep the fish from
dragging him off, and two down in
toe water to get the fish into a boat.
Once a Hobby, Rugs
Now His Business
LARGO. FLA. ? Several years
ago S. M. Rife started making ruga
from rags cut and torn by his wife,
ft arms just a hobby which he en
joyed after his hours at the post
office. He enjoyed working out new
patterns so kept it up.
Today Mr. Rife is in the rug busi
ness. Church organizations and in
dividuals began buying his product,
and the demand grew steadily.
Soon he purchased a loom, bought
carpet warp and started in earnest
to supply his customers. Recently
he bought a house and has turned a
shop in the rear into a utility bouse
devoted to his former hobby, which
la mam a profitable business.
fwoi lor Diaacr'
PASADENA. CALIF. ? Sunday
dhawr walked into Carson G. Bell's
pasmd opossum came in to sample
the grapevines.
Bell roundad up sweet potatoes
called k> Van Williams, famed
Negro fha*, ahd invited hie friends.
wartad tosir bear its eating tm
wm!
OWIATION NOTES
STILL FLYING HIGH
Capt. Warren B. Smith, a mem
ber of the Gates flying circus back
in the '20s and a veteran Panagra
pilot, recently crossed the Andes for
the 1,500th time, from Santiago, .
Chile, to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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HOW TO GET BUSINESS '
Harold Briney, implement dealer
near Bluff City, 111., completed a
landing strip next to his place of
business. Just for the convenience
of flyers. The first plane to land was
flown by Bud Flowers of Canton,
who got acquainted with Briney and
ordered a couple of trailers for his
trucking business. The deal ran into
hundreds of dollars.
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AIR TRIPS FOR HUNTERS
Guests from the east will be flown
to Cleveland to board the United's
"hunters' special" plane to the
pheasant country in South Dakota.
Braniff is to operate weekly round
trip flights to Aberdeen, S. D.. from
Houston and Dallas. This new serv
ice will start in late September.
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AIR CHATTER
Billy Heher, age 16. of Franklin,
Pa., won a Piper cub in a contest
and within a week had logged four
hours of instruction. . . Arthur W.
Grant, Medina, N. Y., insurance
agent, lands his light plane in
the back yards of farm homes and
then talks business. . . Arthur C.
Jackson, St. Petersburg, age 80, is
taking flying lessons. . . . Frank L.
Brandish, age 71, Are chief of East
port, Me., recently soloed. . . . C. J.
Boyd of_Santa Fe, N. M., hunts
antelope by plane. . . . Mr. and
Mrs. Wbeaton Miees of Winthrop,
Mass., newly-weds, flew more than
3,000 miles in a light plane on their
honeymoon. . . . The Boston Store,
Milwaukee, has regular airplane
delivery service as far north as
Sturgeon Bay.
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Tests of airplane dnsting of
pecans for control of scab and
pecan not ease bearer will be re
peated this summer. Tests
made in IMS were Inconclusive.
SPEEDY ROCKET . . . THE
Rocket 18*. built at Furt Worth,
act a world speed record for per
sonal planes so January 8 when
It Sew from Savannah. Qa., to
Roosevelt Sold. N. Y.. at an av
erage speed e( !IU miles per
hour.
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AIRPORT EXPENDITURES
The airport bill, lately debated by
congress, provides a billion-dollar
program for seven years, with em
phasis on private flying facilities. If
the bill becomes law, *21,140.003 will
be available for New York. *14.
478,073 for Texas. *18,744.978 tor .
California, and $18,131,730 for Penn
sylvania. New Jersey and Con
necticut will get *8,118,174 and **,?
118,118 respectively. These sums
most be matched by the states or
APPLAUSE FOB LEWIS . . . Regardless of how the rest of the
nation may feel abont John L. Lewis and the soft coal strike, he is
still popular with his own forces. Photograph shows the coal cxar,
leader of United Mine workers, drawing applause as he arrives at a
meeting of his 250-man policy committee, in Washington, D. C.
WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS QUINTS . . . Above is Dr. L. J. Smith with
the Fairbury (Neb.) Cornhnsker quints. They have been named after
the Bif Five. Left to right, England, Russia, China, United States and
France. All but France are bulls. Although less than half the weight
of average beef calves at birth, at 5H months they are fully as big and .
as weighty as beef calves of the same age born singly. They will tour
leading fairs this summer. Chamber of Commerce at Fairbury has
built them a modern home. Wayne Photo.
CHINA'S FAMINE CORRIDOR . . . Chinese lad is shown earrytnc
his starving mother from their Honan farm into the Tillafe of Kung
Pins, in the heart of Hanan's famine corridor. Hunan sustained creat
or losses of men and material than any other province. Estimates
are that S77JM persons were killed, 1JN.IN wounded, MS buildings
destroyed and MZ animals killed. Starvation is even worse today.
USO SERVING G.I.8 IN BRAZIL ...h Bruil. bone of the eoBee
he*a, O.I i patreaise the ISO cafeteria laricqil Aaeericaa Java
It accompaaies tbe steak smothered la K|i which Is the neat popo
lar dish wRh orrrlccmca at thoNatal USO.Thc USO itifl carries ca
foaad. M?he( tZZ'iZk iTHST teUtad '
PIONEER TO TEACH ... Dr. Lee
De Forest, 73, known as the "fa
ther of broadcasting," has accept
ed the position of director of the
veterans training program in Chi
cago television laboratories. He
will have 3.IOO veteran students. De
Forest is a veteran of the Spanish
American war. He developed the
three-element (audion) tube.
FOR OPA . . . Secretary of tbe
Treasury Fred M. Vinson, as be
appeared before tbe senate bank
ing and currency committee, con
ducting bearings on bill to extend
life of OPA. He urged that the
office of price administration bo
retained for tbe common good.
GETS NEW PAL . . . Life was
meaningless for six-year-old John
ny Conklin when his dog, Rex, was
killed by an anto, but things bright
ened when he acquired a new pal,
six-weeks-old Lady, given to him
by a sympathetic reader who saw
his picture in the paper.
MARINES IN DANGER . . . Says
Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, In
senate naval affairs committee at
hearing on proposed merger of the
armed services. Be stated that the
unification legislation will in all
probability spell extinction for the
marine corps.
PROSECUTES JAPS . . . Joseph
B. beams, rfprpsfntinj the Unit
ed States, am chief proseeater at
Japaaese war .evince trials, as ha
presented the U-ceant indict
ment arainst the eriaiaals to ha
Wad.
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!? These United States
National Parks Ready
For '46 Travel Rush
(By WNU Featuret)
America is hitting the vacation trail this spring and summer
and the crowds in the national parks are expected to be the great
est in their history. Some of the parks are already open, and all of
them will be operating at full schedule by June, says Newton B.
Drury, director of the National Park Service.
I Lodees and hotels which have ?
been closed for three years are be
ing reconditioned. New staffs are
being recruited and trained for the
summer season.
Few of the sightseeing busses
used in the national parks were suit
able for war use, so most of the
fleets are still intact.
Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand
Canyon and Glacier national parks
will have complete sightseeing serv
ices.
It is expected that enough man
power will be available to restore
full service in the other parks of
the system.
Some reconditioning work may
take more than six months.
Staffs may not be as complete and
skilled as they were before 1941, but
the concessionaires stated their
plans are being rushed and they
have high hopes of giving good serv
ice by June.
More than $500,000 for recondi
tioning the cabins, lodges and cafe
terias in Grand Canyon, Bryce and
Zion national parks and at Cedar
Breaks national monument is be
ing spent by the Union Pacific rail
road, which operates the facilities
in these parks.
The renovation program also in
cludes purchase of 22 new 29-pas
senger busses and a fleet of 9-pas
senger sedans for charter service.
The prewar five-day all-expense
tours through all the parks and
HALF DOME ... At Big Oak
Flat entrance to Yosemite Valley.
Oregon Caves
Are Opened
GRANTS PASS, ORE.?The Ore
gon caves recreational area near
here, whioh were closed during the
war years, will reopen late in May
under the national park service.
Harold B. Say has been appointed
general manager of the resort.
The caverns were discovered in
1874 when Elijah Davidson, an early
settler, shot at a bear. The wound
ed bear disappeared into a hole in
the mountainside, and Davidson fol
lowed with a pitch torch to find a
great underground world.
Before the war, increasing thou
sands each year were taking the 19
mile drive to the caves up through
the timbered Siskiyou mountains
from the Redwood highway.
The weird and beautiful under
ground chambers and the Swiss
chalet lodge, in a canyon at the
mouth .of the caves, are expected
to break all attendance records as
the travel season opens for 1948.
shorter tours In Zion, Bryce and
Grand Canyon will be re8,Vn^'th
Ranger crews maintained by the
national park system during toe
war years for vital conservation
work will have their ranks
ed to protect the parks natura
beauties and resources.
They'll also protect the crowds,
who often take chances in the un
familiar wilds. ? ,
An intensive road-building and
road - improvement Pro*'a? ,'f
planned by the department of the
interior, continuing through 1946 and
1947 to meet the influx of auto
mobile tourists who will follow in
the wake of new car production.
While the national parks are al
ways free and open, the usual tour
ist facilities were suspended aur
ine the war. Park attendance
dropped from a high of 21,050,426
visitors in 1941 to a new low of
6,908,749 in 1943.
That the 1946 total will surpass
the attendance of 1941 is indicated
by the rush of late fall and wtnier
visitors which started immediately
after V-J Day.
Shenandoah national park, in Vir
ginia's Blue Ridge mountains, was
virtually isolated during gas ration
ing. but on the Sunday following
the surrender of Japan four cars
a minute were checked in at the
park.
Eastern Parks
Offer Variety
To The Tourist
The Shenandoah and Smoky
mountains national parks offer an
unsurpassed beauty treat to mid
westerners whose previous vaca
tions have shown them the wonders
of the Rockies.
Great Smoky mountains national
park embraces 460,000 acres, of
which 200,000 are still covered by
primeval forests. The peaks and
ridges of the range, rising above
6 000 feet, and almost always veiled
in mist, are the starting point of
some 600 miles of trout streams.
The north entrance to the park is
30 miles southeast of KnoxviUe,
Tenn., making it easily accessible
by all types of transportation.
Busses make two round trips from
Knoxville through the park daily.
There are two camp grounds in the
park, and hotel and tourist camp
facilities are available in nearby
cities and towns and at Knox
ville and Asheville.
Blue Ridga national parkway, a
485-mile strip of parkland connect
ing the Great Smoky mountains and
Shenandoah national parks, will
eventually have a modern highway
running its entire length. U. S.
route 11 provides an almost direct
connection between the two parks
at present.
A more scenic approach to Shen
andoah from north of Roanoke, Va.,
is along the completed portion of
the parkway, which connects with
Skyline drive running the entire
length of the park along the crest
of the Blue Ridge.
The Skyline drive is 107 miles
long, with parking areas, picnic
grounds and a camping area along
its length. Visitors may enjoy the
magnificent scenery of the Shenan
doah valley's fertile farmlands on
the west and the rolling hills of
Piedmont plateau on the east.
ANGEL LANDING . . . Zion national park, rises 1,425 feet
abort the Boor of the eaayoa. There is a foot trail to the top.
Seven Rocky Mountain Parks Are Open
The vacation possibilities offered
by Glacier, Grand Teton, Mesa
Verde, Yellowstone. Wind cave.
Rocky mountain and Bryce Canyon
national parks are almost limitless.
All of them are in the Rocky moun
tain-plains area and cover approxi
mately four million acres.
They ranee from the historic
wonders of Mesa Verde, with their
Story of an ages-old Indian civilisa
tion; the geysers and waterfalls of
Yellowstone; the mountain trails
and hidden lakes st Glacier; to the
thrills of mountain climbing on
Grand Teton's snowy peaks.
One of the most interesting of
America's prehistoric sites and a
major archeological preserve is
Mesa Verde national park in south
western Colorado.
Excavations on the mesa have
revealed an amazing story of the
pre-ttstorlc Indians