SEPTEMBER 19,
THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
luilds Ueu Bomber
'Speed Of 400 MPH
Credited With
Jent Improve
fer The
Jb-29
Q BROCK
fag Correspondent
ijx tUP) The air
Ldard, long-range
i50-is expectea ai
Ifield this fall, ac
lals of the air base
fto the giant B-29s,
,bal striking force.
tthe pride of Gen.
ling, ch'ef of tne
command. Gen.
ie best position to
cunur.hnmber.
lew jur11 '
its improvements
cent of the design
r . i r en
eatures 01 ine d-ju
lesman's catalog of
speed approaches
tour, cruising speed
. , iL.l -i
iaster man inai m
50 miles per hour
king speed of any
of flying as lar.
jd, 3,500 horsepower
Itney Wasp major
59 per cent more
B-29, and are the
lypc power plants
plane put in pro-
is I'nchanged
inements have left
B-29's overall di
for five feet added
tail fin. Constant
fe pitch, electrically
ttded propellers are
h of the 28-cylin-
L features retained
Is the central gun
hich permits a
turret, except the
rol of turrets other
o concentrate fire
Iget which may be
him.
icy for the guns of
stems from a com
lechanically allows
gravity, air den
angle fire. A B-29
id off 70 Japanese
looting down seven
of the crew mem-
enter their bomber
a pressure cabin.
nditions like alti-
r than the plane's
blngteveh'-JtH
necessary much of
the strategic air
lenence with the
Cost Of Raising Child
Put At $10,000
DETROIT (UP) The home eco
nomics department of Wayne uni
versity has come up with a dis
quieting statistic that it costs
$10,000 to raise a child to the age
of 18.
After surveys, the department
found that to be the cost of rais
ing a boy or girl in a family of five
with an income of $2,500 a year.
The outlay starts with birth ex
penses of $250. From then on the
major items are $2,755 for clothing,
for 18 years, $3,333 for clothing,
$1,150 for education, $570 for in
cidentals and $413 for health and
recreation.
Clothes for a teen-age boy cost
less than for a girl, but on the
other hand, he eats more.
The department doesn't include
the value of the mother's services,
which it admits are considerable.
PAGE ONE (Second Section?
HOIST 200-POUNDER TO SAFETY
Rabbits Eat Tomatoes?
Apparently Not
HARRISBURG, Pa. (UP) The
question was, do rabbits eat toma
toes or don't they?"
C. W. Jarrett, Tower City, said
30 of his tomato stalks underwent
a systematic snipping and sympa
thetic neighbors blamed it on the
rabbits.
Other residents in. the Tower
City area, however, rushed to the
bunnies' defense. They said they
have yet to see a rabbit put his
smackers into a tomato.
Robert McDowell, research chief
for the Pennsylvania Game Com
mission, experimented. He placed
some rabbits in a pen with an as
sortment of vegetables. The rab
bits, he said, didn't seem to care
for tomatoes.
WASHED FROM THI ROCKS while fishing near San Pedro, Calif., Walter
Stockwell, 24, who weighs 200 pounds, is shown after he had been
hoisted by rescuers up a 200-foot cliff. Firemen shown attending him
dropped ropes to Stockwell, who was struggling desperately in the
water, having suffered a broken leg. (International Soundphofo)
Colonel's Notebooks Reveal Story
Of Tragic Days In Prison Camps
iTOR'S NOTICE
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ased, late of Hay-
rth Carolina, this
11 persons having
he estate of sain
iiibit them to the
jWaynesville, North
before the 2nd Hav
948, or this notice
in bar of their re-
Ins indebted to said
e make immediate
lay of September,
III.
D.B.N. of tlm Fc.
BXLEN JUSTICE,
-'9-26 Oct. 3-10
Pitcher, 60, Maintains
It Keeps You Young
L-VKEVIEW, Wis. (UP) Char
lie Beyer, who'll be 60 next Febru
ary, has pitched baseball and soft
ball for more than 40 years and is
still going strong.
Beyer now pitches for the .Lake
view softball team.
"Baseball keeps a man young,"
he says. "I feel just like the kid I
waaears back.. Never-get stiff at
next day after a game like
some of these 40-year-old striplings."
Farmer Has Come Far
In Last 125 Years
CHICAGO (UP) The farmer
has made wide strides forward to
ward efficiency during the last cen
tury and a quarter.
In 1787, the surplus food pro
duced by 19 farmers was needed to
feed one city dweller. But today,
according to the World Book En
cpclopedia, 19 farmers can feed 56
city folks in this country and ex
port enough to feed 10 people in
other countries.
f-HOW TO
PNE HOUR
""' 'm" 3,',r back
th' sntosc, fungicide.
alcohol. It
a"'l kills MODE
" Smith's Drug Htore.
frlii
"Body" Is Flour Sack
NEW YORK (UP) A police
alarm reporting a human torso
floating in the East River brought
out two radio cars, a earful of de
tectives and a police launch. It
turned out to be a sack of flour that
apparently had fallen off a ship.
far-striking B-29, the new B-50
stands as the greatest of the heavy
bombers, air forces officials say.
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smart and
Nothing to us. Our laundry is equipped to
mSt dlff'cult wash with maximum efficiency
fn cost.
CALL 205
ynesville Laundry
(Incorporated)
J' W. KILLIAN. Owner
f ALL AND DELIVER
Boyd Avenue
By ANN SHEPARD
United Press Staff Correspondent
MADIGAN ARMY HOSPITAL,
Wash. UP It took a middle
aged army colonel seven small
cardboard-covered notebooks to
describe the ways in which several
thousand men died.
The dirty, closely-written pages
were completed during 40 months
in five Japanese prison camps
from O'Donnell in the Philippines
to Mukden in Manchuria.
Notebook one it's the same kind
of notebook given to second grade
pupils for practicing penmanship
has an entry written in a warehouse
shortly after the Bataan death
march.
"We are sleeping in shifts, since
there isn't room for everyone to
lie down at the same time. This
morning the Japs got mad because
of the dirt on the floor and made
some of our soldiers get down on
their Itaee andnt thelth.'tr.
Col. Harry Skeery of the Army
Engineers turned the page and
looked up.
Day by Day Story
"There's really not much in here
just the day by day story of how
we lived, and the names of the men
I knew in Walnwright's army. When
word reached me that someone had
died, I jotted it down for the rec
ord." The colonel was at Madigan Hos
pital for a final check by army doc
tors before reporting to an army
retirement board.
I'm going through the note
books again just to see if there's
anything written down that I've
forgotten that should have been re
ported to the War Department,"
he said.
"There's one part ia the late.
notebook I'll never forget. It was
two years ago thil month at Muk
den. They sent paratroopers into
the camp. We thought maybe they
were Dutch soldiers, because we'd
never seen paratroopers before.
When the Japs let them walk out
of the camp alive, we knew some
thing was up.
Two Cups of Rice
"That night we got two cups of
rice apiece the most we'd had
since we were captured. Then they
let us have some Red Cross boxc
the first we'd seen."
Official notice of the end of I he
war came from a Russian colonel
The diary describes it:
"The Russian officer raised lib
right arm and shouted something
Ihe interpreter translated it. lie
saiu, rroin mis moment you arc
free.
"Then he said, '1 bid you a good
night the first you have enjoyed
in many years.'
"What a day this has been .
Good night, my dear family, and
goon nigin. my departed com
rades," the page ended.
I lie colonel has been awarded
the distinguished service cross, the
silvar star, bronze star and legion
ot merit.
Still a Little Tired
"I'm stil la little tired, I guess.
the colonel said. His skin is still
marked from beri bed.
"The thing that has tired aH
the most was the senseless things
they did just to make us act like
animals. So many things, just to
degrade us. But you can't degrade
Americans, you know." The colonel
settled his gold-rimmed glass more
(irmly.
Iheres just one thing that
bothers me about being back. Now
all my civilian friends think I'm a
military expert. The other day, a
man in Portland said, Harry, when
do you think we'll drop the next
atomic bomb?'
"If anyone asks me that again I
think I'll punch his nose in."
Little Linda Has
Eleven Grandparents
MT. VERNON, 111 ( AP) Little
Linda Jane Page, born recently at
nearby Ewing, has a surprise in
store when she begins to sit up and
take notice of eleven grandpar
ents. The grandparents include a 39-year-old
grandmother, Mrs. Lena
Page of Ewing. Altogether there
are four grandparents and seven
great grandparents.
Her parents are Mr. and Mrs
Russell Roe Page, both 21.
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LAFF-A-DAY
Ope. 194'. Kin( Ttttum Syiklktit. he , WhII ojttt tcicretJ.
Making Artificial Snow
Or Rain Almost Fad Now
As Dry Ice Idea Spreads
By PAUL F. ELLIS
United Press Science Writer
NEW YORK (UP) Vincent J.
Schaefer started something when
he made a super-cooled cloud pro
duce snow last November.
Since then, "everybody" has
been trying to make snow or rain.
Some have succeeded and others
have failed.
Cchaefer, who worked his way
up through the ranks at General
Electric to become one of the com
pany's top scientists, has rev.iH
that since his November experi
ment, there has been snow-making
and rain-makinc pinirii,w,ni.
in Louisiana, Washington, Oregon,
Arizona and California, and in
Chile, Mexico, Cuba, South Africa
nusirana ana Hawaii.
Schaefer in his orimmil i,viu,ri.
ment loaded a supply of drv ice
Pellets into an ariplane. He had
the pilot fly over a super-cooled
cloud. The pellets were dropped.
Snow fell. The same technique is
used to produce rain in warm
weather.
To those who would try to make
snow or rain, Schaefer offers this
advice: .
1. The super-cooled portion of a
cloud should be at least 500 feet
thick to initiate any appreciable
change in the cloud. Such a cloud
two miles thick can produce only
about .14 of an inch of rain, or l.S
inches of snow.
2. Dry-ice pellets used for seed
ing a super-cooled cloud should be
no larger than necessary to drop
through the super-cooled region.
Pellets the size of a pea will fall
several thousand feet before eva
porating. 3. Seeding of a super-cooled
cloud is most effective when dry-
ice is dispensed meagerly. A grad
ual distribution of one-and-one-half
pounds per square mile proves
most effective.
4. Amount of humidity or mois
ture in atmosphere beneath the
cloud should be determined. If
this atmosphere is too dry, any
precipitation caused may evapo
rate before it reaches the ground.
Schaefer believes thit the "tre
mendous interest shown through
out the world is certainly a boon
to quick further development,"
but that it is "highly important
that the techniques be followed
correctly."
Scientists at the Smithsonian
Institution are studying the life
cycle of earth's most ancient
known animals the trilobites.
Fossils of such animals have
been collected in the rocks of Vir
ginia's Shenandoah Valley.
These animals were shelled,
crab-like creatures, more closclv
resembling the king crabs of Noi 1'u
America's Atlantic Coast than any
thing else living but only remote
ly, if at all, related to those long
tailed sea animals
It is believed Ihe trilobites first
appeared on earth about 50.000,
000 years ago, in the Cambrian
geological period. They were
City Treasurer lightens
Taxpayers' Burden
BUFFALO, N. YUP) Treas
urer Radcllffe Dann has thrown
new light on the problem of skep
tical taxpayers xv'.io claimed thy
were being short-chauged hi c.ty
hall.
"Actually no one was is error,'
Dann said. "The taxpayers just
didn't have enough light to count
their change.
Dann, who last year removed
from the office walls all funeral
directors' advertising calendars to
give the customers "more cheerful
surroundings," has installed a new
lighting system costing $3,200
Scooter Speeded In Court
NEWTON, Mass. (UP) A motor
scooter operator was charged with
speeding here in the first case of
its kind in Massachusetts.
among the first animals that left
any fossil remains.
From their studies, "the Smith
sonian scientists hope to put to
gether a fairly complete life story
time it acquired a shell to the time
of the individual trilobite from the
it died an dsank in the soil of the
earth.
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