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LUBES WINTER VISITORS . . . MUml relief on Its sandy beaches and buarloas hotels as the main Inducements (or winter visitors. MW attractions are planned this season In connection with the resort's Mth anniversary year. ?FM IM THE SUN' * Miami Prepares Gala Fete For 50th Anniversary Year i. WNU FEATURES MIAMI, FLA.?"Fun in the Sun" will be the general keynote as Miami, famed winter resort of the South, celebrates its 50th anniversary year this season. With all wartime restrictions relaxed, the anniversary year will present Miami in all of its prewar brilliance with many added attractions. There are increased beach and park at tractions, improved transportation facilities, more overseas trips available by air and sea to the Caribbean countries, Cen tral and South America, and thee w guuig auivau u J vai once the Key West-Havana ferry opens. Although the influx of visitors starts in the early fall months, the anniversary fete will not open of dcinUy until November 24. Arrante Exhibition. Special festivities have been ar ranged lor the first 10 days, high lighted by an exhibition in Bayfront park showing all the Inventions and innovations science can provide to make the Miami of the future an even finer place for wholesome liv ing. Focal point for visitors will be the neon-lighted sundial in Bayfront park, which will contain a billboard ef attractions. I Miami's mala lure for winter visiters is its luxurious hotels and endless miles of sandy beaches. Warm waters of the gulf stream and moderate tem peratures permit bathing Ihraagbont the winter months. Hotels of Miami and Miami Beach, now released by the army and navy after their wartime needs, will be available for guests. Num bering 160, the hotels have about 12,19) rooms available, v Sports Are Stressed. ' 'Catering to a carefree crowd, Mi ami will stress sports events on its fall and winter calendar. High school, college and professional gridiron contests lure the fall crowd. Culminating the football season will be the Orange Bowl game on New Year's Day. Demand for seats al ready exceeds the supply, the bowl accommodating only 38,000 specta tors. The game itself, however, will be only one of the many attrac tions of the Orange Bowl festival. Dates for horse and dog racing already have been set. The 120-day horse racing season will open at Tropical park December 2, contin uing until January it. Dates for Hialeah park are January 17 to March 4 while Gulfstream park will curse Uie season, March 5 to April ia. A novel attraction will bo Jai Alai (Hi-LI), the Basque sport, which will be seen in the Unit ed States only at the Biseayne Fronton from December 25 to April ?. Dog racing will be in progress from November 15 to May 20, dates rotating between Biscayne, West Flagler, Miami Beach and Holly wood kennel clubs. Golf Tourney Set. Highlight of the golfing season will be the 23rd $10,000 Miami open golf tournament, scheduled the first week of December on the municipal ly owned and newly renovated Mi ami Spring Country club course. The city's 10 golf courses have been put in top condition for visiting golfers. Hunters will find Miami a conven ient center, providing easy access to game in the Florida Everglades. Doves, duck, quail, deer and turkey offer game for sportsmen. Number of Veterans Hits 17 Million Mark WASHINGTON. ? War veter ans In the United States now number 17,499,000, it is revealed in a Veterans Administration survey. Veterans of World War II oat number all other veterans by a ratio of almost four to one. Fig ures now show 13,538,000 veter ans of the last war. Policemen Find Lion Of Stuffed Variety SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. ? A call to the police dispatcher report ed: "There's a lion at large in the 1300 block on Broadway. Send an officer. Hurry" The dispatcher himself. Officer Charles Weibacker, rushed to the scene. He found the lion. It was stuffed and was dis played on the lawn of a taxider mist. RAGS TO RICHES . . . Hard-pressed for cash, Audrey Diet (left) ud Bennett Rathbonr, former WACi and now atadenta at a Phila delphia school snder the G.I. bUI of rights, started making yarn dsla. The Idea clicked and now they are in business, making l.Mt Mk a week. Woaen Not Bocognlzed as Veterans WASHINGTON?Former service-1 wcynen complain that the old-fash loSed public fails to regard them as war veterans. Failure to gain recognition as vet eraos in competition for jobs is a major problem for women, a Vet erans' administration survey dis "Nobody knows anything about ?amm veterans," one woman told tfca FA inquiry unit "All they rsc ognizc is women, period." The VA survey of 1,800 former servicewomen showed two out of five found work employing skills ac quired in service. Least successful were women with technical train ing. such as radio operators and aerographers. Hall of the women had applied for unemployment allowances and M per cent had drawn the allowance for mora than IS weeks. ft - . j. . - TARGET FOR TODAY . . . What they are to shoot at is graphically pointed oat to visiting deer banters by this sign posted in downtown Bend, Ore., where thousands of deer hunters pass on their way to the famed Male deer banting grounds of the Deschutes and Ochoeo for ests of central Oregon. Gunning for the object?man?at left, is strictly forbidden. Target for the season is the deer at right. Accidents have been high in previous years, hence the sign. CAMP FIRE GIRLS HONOR BEADS . . . One Camp Fire girl explains the honor beads awarded for participation in service projects to two Blue Birds, members of the organization's junior division. These three members are among the thousands who are participating in the annual membership drive which will end November 30. FIGHT TO PAT TAXES . . . One would normally see such a crowd rushing to get an item of scarce food?a steak or roast?or to pro cure tickets to a sold-out performance, or trying to crash a crowd ed train. This mob Is pushing to?of all things?pay income taxes. The scene Is Rome. Italy, where the mob waited until deadline to die their income tax returns?just as many do in America. TWOS-BY-FOURS . . . Student, and professors at Boston nniversity am literally going aroand la circles tryia* to identify these foor sets of Massachnsetts' twins. Left to H*W: Harold and Bernard Potit, Dorchester; Ana aai Alma Baker, Fraaslacham; Greaith and Patricia Bead, Hyaaais, aad Alan aad Philip Tarner, Attleboro The fear beys are ?eteraas. They are al carolled at the Back Bay school aad, to eeaapUeata nutters, al drew alike. "VINEGAR JOE" DEAD . . . Probably the last photo made of Gen. Joseph W. StilweU, taken a tew days before he entered Letter man General hospital, San Fran cisco, where he died a few days later, following operation for ean eer of the liver. MEXICAN AMBASSADOR . . . The ambassador of Mexico, Senor Don Antonio Espinosa de Los Mon teras, shown as he called at the White House to disenss proposed shipments of Mexican cattle to United States' stockyards. NEW SWEDISH PRIME MINIS TER . . . Tate Erlander, aew prime minister of Sweden, is pic tured at his desk as he took over his new duties, succeeding Per Al fa in Hansson, head of the Social Democrat party, who died of a heart attack. C.N. IS SAFE . . . Former secre tary ol state, Edward R. Stet tinius, told students at University of Virfinia convocation exercises that none of the great powers will take any step to destroy the United Nations. TWO BBIDES ? ONE BRIDAL ' GOWN . . Marilyn and Margaret Ryan, ?}-year-etd twins were mar ried at Elmhnrst, Qoeens, N. Y. ; They solved their dress problem by bayinf one bridal (own and one bridesmaid's dress sad exchang ing rales aad dresses, eaeb set lag as the ether's bridesmaid. IN THESE UNITED STATES Best Future Is at Home, Rural County Tells Youth NEW HOLSTEIN, WIS.?To prove to its youth that {heir best future lies at home, business, industry, private citizens and farmers of Calumet county have banded into a co-operative effort known as Interlakes Opportunities, Unlimited. The tendency of rural areas to bewail the trek of young peo ple to the cities but to offer no concrete steps designed to in I dnpa ikam trt rnmnin in tKnlr hfllTM* A communities led to organization of the new group. Cite Local Opportunities. As its main objective, the group intends to prove to the young peo ple that Calumet county is just as good a place to liye as the big city, that it offers as many or more op portunities in business and industry and for professional advancement, that it provides more opportunities for relaxation and pleasure. "It is our duty to encourage our young people to get an education and return here to live and work," declares E. A. Longenecker of New Holstein, chairman of the new or ganization. Stress will be placed on agricul tural advantages, according to Longenecker, who added, "We must point out the advantages of farming in this area, particularly to those youngsters already living on farms, to encourage them to enjoy the ben efits of farm life." Plan Organized Trips. To carry out its program, the or ganization will sponsor visits to out standing farms, organized trips through industrial plants, talks by University of Wisconsin speakers in high schools of the county and vari ous mass rallies. Directing the organization's activ ities is an executive committee headed by Longenecker and contain ing representatives of all Calumet county communities. Subcommit tees also have been recruited from all sections of the county. Stubborn Indian Squaw Acquires $500,000 Estate WASHINGTON. ? Stubbornness pays?at least it did in the case of Con-hei-sen-ney, Oklahoma Indian grandmother, the Bureau of Indian Affairs admits. Before she died 17 months ago at the age of 88, Con-hei-sen-ney had netted $500,000 as a result of her stubbornness. When she was young er, Con-hei-sen-ney, called "Grand ma Tiger" by her friends, refused to take an allotment from the gov ernment. Officials finally became impatient and gave her four 40 acre tracts which did not have even an outlet to the highway. Later oil was found on three of the tracts. The aged Indian squaw left her fortune to four descendants. Fed eral inheritance taxes will take about $125,000 of the $500,000 legacy. 'Crying Room' Ends Youngsters' Wails ASHLAND, WIS. ? Even crying can be handled scientifically, con tends Mrs. Dave Mackie, who has installed a "crying room" in her home especially for the young chil dren of her two married sons. The crying room, she explains, is for the exclusive use of a small child who weeps, perhaps long and loud, for little or no reason. Babies, of course, are excepted. When a child wails, Mrs. Mackie tells him: "It's all right for you to cry as long as you wish, but you must do so in the crying room. There you will be all by yourself and can stay as long as you wish. I will close the door and no one will disturb you. It will be lots of fun to cry all by yourself. Want to try it now?" As a general rule, the walling ceases immediately. Streamliner Speeds Into City, Leaving $20 Bills in Wake MADISONVILLE, TENN. ? Hun dreds of $20 bills fluttering from a speeding streamliner of the Louis ville & Nashville railroad caused a mild sensation here. About 50 high school boys and girls, who had joined regular hang ers-on-to watch the train speed by, led in the quest for the bills. Most of the bills blew along the track although some were found clinging to bushes. The money, according to Postal Inspector R. C. Hornsby, was be ing sent from a Knoxville bank to a Madisonville bank. Suction from the speeding train drew the mail sack beneath car wheels and the currency packet burst open. Although declining to give the ex act amount in the package, the post al inspector said 70 per cent of the bills were recovered. Justice Too Slow, Cows Can't Wait COLUMBUS, OHIO.?Law or no law, milking time still is the most important time in the dairy farm er's life. In Morgan county, Ohio, the wheels of Justice slowed down because a member of the grand jury went home to milk his cows. The Jury had to be reconvened because the anxious farmer had left before the Jurors could sign official court records of actions taken. mm >WlXTION NOTES SCENIC FLIGHT An outstanding event in aviation history of the Rocky Mountain em pire was the sportsman's scenic flight over the Colorado Rockies held October 12 to 18'under sponsorship of the Colorado ring of the Civil Air patrol. The flight, led by 20 experi enced mountain pilots, covered spec tacular mountain scenery, including 13,000-foot Corona pass, the 10,000 lakes atop Grand Mesa, Cumbres pass and the Sangre de Cristo range at La Veta pass. Among high lights of the trip was a barbecue dinner served by the CAP at Grand Junction. ? ? ? Ten gallon hats may give way to long-visored caps and six shooters may be replaced by time-speed-distance computers if a feat recently reported in the Denver country becomes commonplace in the Old West. There, an aerial cowboy ronnd ed np a herd of horses and drove them 30 miles. ? ? * AIRPORT PROGRAM Plans for getting the S00 million dollar federal airport aid program under way this month are being pushed by Civil Aeronautics ad ministration. This will not conflict with presi dential orders to hold construction other than housing to a minimum, CAA officials explained, since no actual work can be undertaken be fore next spring. If material short ages continue in the spring, work nevertheless can be undertaken on projects requiring few materials. Except for hangars, most airport work, particularly airport improve ment projects, requires chiefly la bor and earth-moving equipment. Of the three principal materials used in airport construction, piping alone is in very short supply. Use of substitutes for steel pipe may eliminate this shortage. The two other materials are asphalt and con crete. The national airport survey, called for in the airport act ap proved by congress last May, is ex pected to be completed early this month. ? ? ? This may appear to be rush ing the season a bit, bat for United Air Lines' chefs early fall is time for baking and stor ing away the fruit cakes which traditionally are served on Mainliners each Christmas. The 10 flight kitchens will bake ap proximately four and one-half tuns oi me noiiaa; oeiicsey, enough for more than 17,500 In dividual gift cakes. ? ? ? FARM FLIERS RALLY First convention of flying farm ers in the northwest was held at Spokane, Wash., September 23-24 with an attendance of several hun dred. Ranchers and farmers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho met at Felts field, Spokane's mu nicipal airport, mainly for the pur pose of discussing proposed organ ization of flying farmer associations in the three states. Featured speak ers included Tex Rankin, stunt flier and aviation leader, and Elliott Merrill, test pilot for Boeing Air craft company. Aviation movies, tour of the air material area re pair depot, flight demonstrations and a banquet were other attrac tions. ? ? ? NEW SILVAIBE . . . The new 1947 Luscombe Silvaire, a deluxe 85 horsepower light plane equipped with all-metal stressed skin wine and with a maximum speed tl I more than 125 miles an boor. It has passed all CAA tests and la in limited production. ? ? ? HELPS IN PLANNING State aid to local airport planning. Is helping California cities toward full participation in the billion dol lar federal airport construction plan. The state airport planning staff serves as nerve-center for exchanga of information on the planning phase, airport standards, construc tion and regulations. Special allo cations on a federal-state matching basis are expected to boost Califor nia airport construction another 10 to 11 million dollars within seven, years.
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