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IW INDIANS . . . M here b where seme ?MM Indian eUj pipe* can he made every day. The factory b at PampUa City, Va. !? Thcie United States Indian Stone Pipes Are Big Indastry in Virginia Town Br E. L. KIRKPATRICK ?mc FHIUM. Pamplin City, Virginia, town of 300, has the world's largest plant making Indian stone clay pipes. The factory has a capacity of 25,000 "smokers" per day, using a kiln that will handle 200,000 at a single burning. It uses four regular employees and as many as 70 on a part-time basis. ? Most prized product of the plant is patterned after the "Powhatan" Indian pipe. This is held to have been invented by Virginia Indians many generations ago. in the Vir ginia county whose name it bears. It bad a long stem, gracefully curved at the upper end so that the smoker once seated in his easy chair could pull away knowing that "all the nicotine would be gone after the loqg journey through it and the smoke -wen cooled." Clay for the pipe was soft and soapy ? some what like meerschaum?believed to have been found in some cave where water had deposited an unusual sediment without grit. Clay in the Pamplin City area meets requirements for the original "Powhatan" as well as other pipes including "Ole Virginny," "Pow wow" and "Wigwam." It has nerved this purpose adequately for more than KM years, according to authentic records, having "gone through" the present plant for almost 90.years. PampUn City has a sense of se curity ao long as the buying trend is toward Indian stone and clay pipes. In addition to this unique fac tory which draws many workers from nearby farms and villages, it has 20 business establishments and a lumber milL Tourists and visitors from everywhere frequent it for pipes for personal use, gifts or souvenirs since every American smoker appreciates a genuine In dian pipe. CATHEDRAL ROOM . . . Lewti and Clark cavern in Montana, IkM greatest in the tailed States, in epea this year to tourists on a targe scale (or the first time. It eras discovered early in this cen tary by a prospector, Dan Mor ilssa. wtm saw an eagle fiy into -a bote in the bill." Arkansas Grows Some Whoppers LITTLE ROCK, ARK. ? Califor nia and Florida people who boast about productivity will now hear (ram Arkansas. Recent newspaper clippings call attention to these Arkansas "whoppers": A stalk ml cotton with ? bells; ? fit pound pumpkin: a SK pound sweet potato; a 1> ounce ante aaeasuring It inches la circumference, and two bass weighing mare than S pounds caught at the same time on one He's Caught Up MOBILE. ALA. -Born in 1943, Ronald Regan was only 11 inches long and weighed 2 pounds and 11 ounces. Battling for two and a hall years, he has caught up with nor mal growth and weighs over 25 Prefab Houses Built in 1850 HAMILTON, MO. ? Prefabri cated booses are nearly 106 years old in Missouri, for this town of 1,600 population built tbem back in the 1850s. There were no carpenters in Hamilton, so A. G. Davis sent plans for a two-story house to a St. Louis firm. He received the lumber, windows and doors with holes already bored for wooden pets ? since there were no nails available. Complete instructions for assemblinr the house were furnished. A few years later, Otis Richardson did likewise. The Richardson bouse is still in food shape. It has been re modeled and is in use. Half of Topsoil Has Washed Away BECKLEY, W. VA.-More than 50 per cent of the original top soil on West Virginia land has been washed away, according to Walter C. Grum bel, a soil conservationist. "Where soil conservation methods have been practiced," Gumbel said, "crop yields have increased any where from 10 to 25 per cent." He said an intelligent conserva tion program would protect and sta bilize the land and water supply, restore plant food, increase farm income, prevent floods and restore forests and wild life. Man Realty Builds 'Better Mouse Trap' BAMBERG, S. C. ? S. D. Bishop has finally built that "better" mousetrap and may have a path beaten to his door. But it was en tirely accidental. What Bishop was realy making was a fish trap. He left it overnight at the feed store where he is em ployed, baited and ready for a try out. Next morning he found five rats he caught 19 more. Ex-Gl Gives Anti-Snorer To the Army BEAVERTON. ORE. ? T. M. Weed, local lawyer, who used to be a G.I. and knows what snor ing sounds like In a barracks, has submitted his "no-snore kit" to the <J. 8. quartermaster corps. He claims snoring can be stopped or greatly reduced by a specially constructed device designed to prevent the ?ut tering action of the soft palate and uvula that causes the coarse, low-pttched Irritating noise made by a sleeping per Weed admits that it was the complaints of his barracks mates in 1M2 and 1M1 that spurred him to devise an anti snore device. He used It for the other tare years he eras in the army?and made friends! More Crop Dusting Peanuts may be dusted from air planes in the near future. Tests car ried on at the Omega plant farms at Omega, Ga., first of the kind in that section, proved that plant dust ing from the air not only costs about one-half as much as dusting or spraying from tractors hut is much more efficient, since a single plane can dust 1,000 acres per day. Why Allegany Never Become Great City AI J JTJ I A fJ V M V AIU-... . 4 - -? ? 4: _ .. (1MB pop., 1,436) was planned aa Allegany Oil;, "the intellectual, cul tural, industrial and mercantile hub of the East " But through freak ac cident* Its dream was never realised * The proposed city had been com pleted and surveyed on paper and the company started to build a pa recently ? resumed in 1848, a nev survey kv . ] cited the route ? half mile north of 1 the "paper" city. Because of this and also because of the fact that the Genesee valley canal termi- i nated at MUlxrove instead of Olean, the project was forced to be a ban -a a oooea. Thus Allegany never became the hub of "communication, transporta tion and industry" for the East. But it nearly became a reality. YOUNG PATTON RECEIVES COMMISSION FROM MOTHER ... At graduation exercises in tbe V. S. military academy, Mrs. George S. Patton, widow of famed C. S. 3rd army commander, presented a regular army commission to her son, George S. Patton Jr. Young Patton was one of 21 sons of generals graduated in largest class in history of the academy. Others included the sons of Lt. Gen. James II. Doolittle and Lt. Gen. Wedermeyer. NEW BRITISH ENVOY VISITS BYRNES . . . Lord Inverchapel, left, new British ambassador ot the United States, photographed with Secretary ol State James F. Byrnes, center, when he made his first official call at the department of state. John Falfonr, right, British minister, accompanied the new envoy, who relieved the Earl of Halifax, now enjoying a rest after the hectic war years. ?????? BANANAS FOB AMERICAN TABLES . . . Choc* Indian boy with ?Over bracelets, silver mad bead meeklaee mad painted (ace. The two paiats used. Mack aad red, come (rem the berries of native trees. The dngoets are carved from mahogany. The Chocs Indians of Panama are believed to be the Western Hemisphere's wildest living tribe. Each dageat will hold half a tea sf bananas. IN FATHEB'S FOOTSTEPS ... A lUf sergeant with his own "private army" takes a stroll through Pt7month. He Is Frank Cooler, niasiai hue, Halifax, whs Is trailed by Allan. 1; twins. Baaald and Derek. I; and Mileslns, 4. all barn In New BiM while carrying least ef their worry, nsiag battle sella ler aB ascspt the baby. AUSTIN TO UNO . . . Sen. War ren R. Austin, 68, Vermont repub lican, who has been named by President Truman as U. S. repre sentative of the United Nation se curity council to succeed Edward R. Stettinius Jr. BABE IN MEXICO . . . Bake Ruth, Saltan of swat, is shown here zooming one across daring an exhibition game between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. An over flow of Mexican fans turned oat to see Babe. Reports are that he will Join organized baseball in Mexico as the "Jadge Landis" of baseball in the southern republic. ??????????Ha SOVIET AMBASSADOR ... The need (or maintaining close rela tions between the United States and Russia was stressed by Niko lai Novokov, when be presented his papers to President Truman as Soviet ambassador. UNITED STATES MACE . . . Kenneth Romney, serjeant-at arms of the boose of representa tives. is shown holding the U. S. Mace. It is 4S-inehes high, and con sists of 13 ebony rods, represent ing the 13 original states. VOTED OCT .. ? W I ? berto " h'*"* *?* ?***"? , I > t!rt n. ?? lu,y- w*TJ!Si ; ^J-y wtis ^yj?y \ Kathleen Norris Says: Old Age May Mean Freedom Bell Syndicate.?WNU features. 1 1 "While tee can make ourselves necessary to those tee love, we are never old." By KATHLEEN NORMS THERE is no more reason to be unhappy as an old woman than as a young one. This sounds ridiculous, but it is a poor heart that doesn't discover the truth of it, along the road of the fifties and six ties. Young women are acutely un happy. So are young men. So are old women and old men, and middle-aged ones of both sexes. It's an unhappy world. Too many little things can go wrong. Our lives are too compli cated. Nothing is perfect. The new baby arrives yelling himself purple in the face. His mother has a few weeks of complacency, albeit it is a scared and nervous sort of pride, then croup and measles threaten. Just the dear yet exhausting respon sibility of him wears her down. She isn't as pretty as she was. No more dances, no more flirting. Didies and sitters give place to bad marks on his school cards and scarlet fever and lost rubbers. Then come girls and night clubs and the car out nights. The bliss of a radiantly happy en gagement soon clouds over. Wed dings cause more mental agonies than almost any other form of so :ial gathering. Feelings are hurt. Dresses are disappointing. Honey noons are altogether too strange and brief to be much fun. House keeping has its phases of inexperi mced cooking, troublesome old riends, family criticism. Only one hing is worse, and that's not narrying, not having a house and lusband and babies to worry about. 'Life a Delusion.' Why not face it? Life is a de lusion at all ages. We have a fight for the bright spots and pray for the serenity of spirit that rises above the pricks and disappointments and , carries us into a really happy old l age. I Yes. here we are back at old age, . and I believe it can be the hap piest time of life. I don't mean re I signed, or patiently enduring, or downtrodden and saintly and long suffering. I mean that with good health, something to do, and confi dence in God's strange and per plexing ways, the SOs can be hap pier than the 40s, and the 60s better than either. Further than that I am not qualified to go at present, but I have no fear of the years to come. Health in age is real health, de pending on a time-seasoned body, restraint in eating, drinking, amuse ments, fatigues. Something to do is absolutely essential to good old age. There are one million neglected jobs waiting for old women, and a lot of the old women are idly stagnat ing in little warm parlors, playing occasional bridge, eating too much, and suffering from headaches, colds, blues. These are the old wom en who have given old age a bad name. They think it is simply dread ful. The independence of age, its free dom, its relief from the long years of having to do things she didn't want to do, its right to do the things she does want to do, escape the notice of these narrow little cotton wool useless old ladies. In the 60s one may give up boring dinners; one's acute maternal obligations are over. One's nights can be pref aced by good reading and filled with deep sleep. Help with Chores. And for work? Well, I wish I had a dollar for every one of the tired young mothers who talk to me of the difficulty of trying to get some QUIET HAPPINESS Most people dread the coming of old age. Women especially hate to think of the later years. But, as Miss Norris points out, the years after sixty may be peaceful and happy. With rea sonable security and fair health, it is possible for a woman to en joy life more than she ever did. There is at last an opportunity for reading, and for any hob bies that she may want to fol low. The chance to study the wonders of nature has now come. Most important, says Miss Nor ris, is for the older woman to have a real purpose. She must feel useful. Some sort of work, such as helping her daughter or daughter-in-law with the house work or the babies, or some charity or social service?any thing really worthwhile ? will give the elderly woman a sense of real importance. There are even some opportunities to earn a good bit at part-time employ ment, such <M clerking in a little store. The freedom of old age is a great compensation for the loss of pleasures that belong to youth and middle age. The realization comes that a lot of the scurrying around doesn't matter, that a lot of the social obligations are just a nuisance, and can well be for gotten. Old age can be happier, all things considered, than any other time of life. one to sit with the baby, do an hour's ironing, clean out the vegeta ble cooler, sit and chat and finish up that mending basket. Scores of elderly women will actually go to see a beloved daughter or niece and lament with her over the lack of in telligent household help. They will sit in the young mother's parlor, looking about sadly; "no one to help you with dusting dear." They will tut-tut-tut over the heaped washing, all the while interrupting the house hold routine and adding cigarette stubs to the trays. "Nancy can't get anyone," they complain, themselves perfectly fit ted'to step into that little household three times a week and go straight for the dish towel or the clean pillow slips. Three times a week to Nancy, three times a week to George's wife, quiet, unquestioning, cheerfully gos sipful, what a blessing these idle, well-manicured, 60-year-old hands could be! n messing not only to Nancy. It is a blessing to oneself to be busy, useful, beloved. It makes an idle Sunday a treat. It warms one's heart with the disproportionate gratitude of the younger crowd. It makes the days fly and all thoughts of age fly with them. While we can make ourselves nec essary to those we love, we are never old. Wearing what you like, reading, eating, seeing the plays or pictures you like. What more could youth offer you? Youth, with its vagaries, doubts, fears, ignorances, chances, heartaches, offers you much less. If helplessness, illness, incapabil ity come upon you, you need new heroism, new philosophy, new faith. But until they do?and they may never come! ? don't cheat your self out of the deep happiness and security of old age. Mittens from Scraps Each of 1,000 snow suits and BOO capes made for European relief by the Kalamazoo, Mich., chapter of the American Red Cross was ac companied by a pair of mittens, thanks to Mrs. Fred W. Sellers. She is an employee of the commercial firm that cut out the entire quota of several hundred snow suits. The . trimmings provided material for 1,000 pairs of mittens in three sizes, made of warm tweed. Mrs. Sellers used her extension patterns and knowledge in designing the mittens, J Tkt Strmmm ymn ... ^
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