Life Tobies Show
Older Americans
May Live Longer
MINNEAPOLIS (U.P.)— The
next generation may witness
sensational advances in medical
work dealing with human longe
vity.
Although life expectancy of the
average male child at birth has
increased from only 28 years in
American Revolutionary times to
more than 64 years today, a man
of 40 can expect to live only four
years longer than he could 170
years ago.
But medical science is swing
ing away from study of infant
and child maladies to more in
tense work on geriatrics—the
•tudy of ailments in older age
groups. That is shown in an an
alysis of mortality tables by
Northwestern National Life In
surance Company.
Goes Up Slowly
vital statistics in giving today's
average man of 40 an additional
29-30 years of life expectancy.
Future Brighter
That, the Northwestern study
points out, represents an im
provement of only three to four
years for the older age bracket
in the last century and a half.
However, recent discoveries
and developments in the next 25
years will provide the next major
improvement in health and mor
tality to the middle and older age
brackets, the local study pre
dicts.
Current scientifc discoveries
may take a considerable period
before affecting actual mortality
statistics, the study said.
As an example, it said that al
though insulin was discovered
nearly 25 years ago, mortality
statistics of diabetics only now
are beginning to show substan
tial effects from use of the drug,
Dinner Costs
Men $652.40
Plus Two Guns
Residents of the Columbus
County Home were treated to a
venison dinner recently when a
whitetailed doe was contributed
by four unwilling Columbus
County residents. John Barefoot,
Clyde Moore. Robert Granger,
and Stacy Blackburn, all o1
Whiteville, were convicted ol
killing a doe out of season, at
night, and with the use of artifi
cial light.
Recorder Judge R. E. Harrel
son fined each of the men $150.0(
and $13.10 court costs, confiscat
ed two shotguns, and gave each
a nine months suspended sen
tence. The deer was confiscated
and turned over to the Count}
Home.
All in all, the County Home
venison dinner cost the four er
rant deer hunters $652.40 and twc
Pitcairn Island Youths
Offered Education
WELLINGTON. N. . (U.P.)
Descendants of the mutineers
of the Bounty are to be given
their first official school teacher
and school on Pitcairn Island.
The teacher is A. W. Mover
ley of New Zealand. The school
is' a pre-fab being sent from
the United Kingdom.
Moverley will be accompanied
by his wife and 19-year-old dau
ghter.
John Aaams, one of the origi
nal mutineers, was the island's
first school teacher. Since then
education has been an intermit
tent affair.
The Wigglesworth life tables,
published in 1789, estimated that
the average 40-year-old man of
George Washington's time would
live another 26 years.
The American experience
table, issued in 1868 but covering
mortality rates of 1843-1858, in
creased a 40-vear-old man's ex
pectancy by two years and two
months.
Dated nearly a century later,
the insurance commissioners'
standard ordinary mortality ta
ble covers 1931-40. The table be
came legal for insurance use in
most states last Jan. 1.
The commissioners' table
agrees with the U. S. office of
So Many Descendants
He Can't Count Them
HAZELHURST, Ga. (U.P.) -
Every body admits that there
are complications living to b«
90-years old and that hold:
doubly true for Michael McNeal
membering names. He sa'
down on his 90th birthday anc
delved into higher mathematics
knows how many six feet under
ren, 96 grnadchildren. 176 great
grandchildren and four great·
great-grandchildren.
When Your Child Is Stricken By These
DREAD DISEASES
SCARLET FEVER "POLIO- DIPTHERIA
SPINAL MENINGITIS . TETANUS - LEUKEMIA
SMALL POX - ENCEPHALITIS
This New Plan
Child
PAYS UP TO $5,000.00
(Aggregate)
FOR
Doctor Bille Transportation .\mbulanee
Hospital Bills Blood Transfusions Iron Lung
Special Nurse Drugs & Medicines X-Ray
J5.00 £, $10.00 v'.V,
ONE CHILD For Two or More
Dependent Children
MARY P. PIPPEN, Rep.
UNITED BENEFIT LIFE INS. CO
PHONE 310-1 LITTLETON, N. C.
NO Τ ICE!
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ANNOUNCE
THE PURCHASE OF
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~ 15 EAST 10th STREET
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Carrying At All Times A Complete Line Of Staple and Fancy
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Roanoke Rapids and Weldon
T. R. MYRICK, Manager
Phone R-696-6
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Grocery.
HEY, MOM. I'M HIHGRT, TOO—As Docca, a Bengal tiger,
Is hand-fed by a keeper at the Brons Zoo, New York, her
offspring, Duke, two and one-hall months, opens his mouth
and growls lor some meat. The young tiger is Just at the
stage where he is getting interested in meat, so the keeper
had better watch where he places his fingers.
Nebraska Has
Man-Made Lake;
Seek Tourists
OGALLALA, Neb. (U.P.)—No
one has been trying to keep it j
a secret, but there is a lake a !
few miles from this cow town ;
that many people, including Ne- j
braskans, don't know about.
The situation may be changed j
one of these days. There are peo- ;
pie who think the lake can be- ;
come the "playground of the ;
Middlewest," thereby enabling
the Cornhusker state to cash in |
on some of the tourist crop. !
Lake McConaughy, which ι
measures 55 square miles, was
i built for work. Its purpose is to j
I irrigate farm land. Now some ;
people think there is no reason ,
! why gay-shirted vacationers !
i should not frolic on its sandy
beaches.
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Prominent among those who
think so is Mrs. Marcella Allen
of Lincoln. As secretary of the
Nebraska Reclamation Associa
tion, her first love is irrigation,
but she also plugs for anything
else she thinks might devedop
the state.
She, therefore, does not hesi
tate to spread the word about
Lake McConaughy. She doesn't
care how many people get in on
the ground floor of what may be
a new Nebraska industry.
Construction on the dam that
holds back waters of McConaug
hy was started in 1936. It was
completed in 1941. The lake grew
up during the war when people
had other things to think about.
As a result. Mrs. Allen says, not
enough people are aware of Big
McConaughy s recreational po
tential.
Word Gets Around
The word has got around to
some, however. One Sunday not
long ago 10.000 cars were count
ed around the lake. The state
fish and game commission re
ports that four tons of crappies
were fished out of the clear, blue
water in a single day.
"All this happened without ad
vertising." Mrs. Allen points out.
"And with practically no ac
commodations for tourists."
One eating place is located on
the lake, Mrs. Allen says. It
seats 11. The day the 10,000 cars
were counted, a man who sells
bait had 2,000 customers. Mrs.
Allen says things like that cause
her to feel there is room for busi
ness expansion.
Model Prison Inmates
Distill Their Own
CARACAS, Venezuela (U.P.) —
Jailers in the Caracas model
prison discovered that prisoners
were operating a home-made li
quor still in their coll.
I A search was started for ths
still when officials noted many
of the prisoners were frequently
drunk. The main still was mada
out of tin cans, and the men
used pineapple syrup plus chew
ing tobacco as the base for the
liquor. Dr. Guillermo Rasquin,
prison analyst, said many of the
steady customers had stomach
ulcers.
32 Exiles Escape Spain
In Home-Made Vessel
CARACAS, Venezuela (U.P.)—
A party of 32 Spanish exiles, in
cluding one woman, arrived at
La Quaira aboard a sailing ves
sel which they had built them
selves to escape from Francc
and Spain.
The little schooner left Sants
Cruz in Teneriffe and made the
crossing to Venezuela in 37 days
Leaders of the party said there
was no sickness, and the sup·
plies of rice, corn, meat, sar
dines and water held out or
the 3,500-mile voyage. Thej
eked out their diet by fishing
The exiles arrived here with
out papers and were admitte(
by immigration . authorities a
voluntary immigrants.
In December, 1947, the aver
age payment for general assist
ance in North Carolina wa
national average of $42.78.
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Plan Shrine
To Magician
PHOENIX. Ariz. (U.P.) —
shrine is planned here to mark
the grave of Paul Valadon, "fa
ther of modern magic" and one
of the greatest vaudeville p*~
formers of his day.
Valadon's exit from the shew
world at the peak of his career
35 years ago was a mystery as
puzzling as his theatrical stunts.
A few days ago, his unmarked
grave was discovered here by
the Magicians Guild of the
United States in a storybook cli
max.
According to Julian J. Pros
kauer. New York, past presi
dent of the guild, "Valadon was
the Houdidi of his day—a greac
sleight-of-hand man."
Plis grave was located oy a
study of yellowed vital statistics.
The story of his tragic eod
then was supplied by his son,
Paul Valadon, now a Phoenix
city employe.
Young Valadon said his father
was a headliner on the Orpheuni
circuit for many years after he
came to this country from Eng
land. Thurston and Keller, ?lso
great magicians of their day,
were his partners at one time.
But his greatest fame came from
the spectacular illusions he in
vented and staged with the he1?
of eight assistnats.
The famed illusionist's wife
died in 1908. Not long afterward
he slipped away from the glar:
of the footlights.
Miserably ill with tuberculosis,
he came to Phoeniz with his .sot
but was unable to shak^ off the
disease. He died in 1913 at the
age of 46 without fanfare in a
young, bustling town already ac
customed to victims of the n.ala
dv.
Spare Those Spankings,
Psychiatrist Advises
CHICAGO (U.P.)—A pareni
who spanks his child has ε
spanking coming himself, in th·:
opinion of Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs,
a Chicago psychiatrist.
Childhood whippings, the doc
tor said· are undesirable be
cause they leave a life-time
mark upon the victim's char
acter.
If a '"servile, timorous" adult
is at the same time ;."cringing
and crafty," chances are he go1
a paddling now and then as £
child, the doctor explained.
Grain export quotas for June
1948 recently announced by th<
USDA total 833,600 long ton;
(31,499,000 bushels) including
30,262,000 bushels of wheat an<
flour (in wheat equivalent), anc
1,237,000 bushels of oats and bar
ley. The May quotas totaled 1,
203,000 long tons (44,967,000 bush
els).
OLD Mr. BOSTON
BLENOFD WHISKEY
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Invincible Ivan
Plans To Climb
High Mountain
PITTSBURGH (U.P.) — Ivan
Jirak· a Marine veteran, gives
himself a one-to-four chance tc
realize a lofty ambition.
Jirak is preparing to go to tht
Yukon to climb—or try to
Mount Logan, the second high
est peak on the continent.
"Ivan the Invincible" has beer
sharpening his campons (spike
pointed cleats on hiking boots!
since he finished his freshimr
year at Carnegie Tech a fev
weeks ago.
His plans would be complété
if he could persuade a pilot intc
making a parachute drop of sup
plies at the base of 19,350-fool
peak. But so far, there were nc
takers.
Maybe the 33-degree below
zero weather in mid-summer ap
peals to Ivan or it may be that
he wants to conquer his fifth
mountain.
Gets Urg· in Hawaii
Ivan got the climbing urge in
Hawaii during the war. He start
ed off by scaling the 13.784-foot
Mauna Kea in two day*.
After the war he whiled away
his occupation time in Japan by
trudging up Mount Fuvyama. ι
mere 12,435 feet.
The 14,495-foot Mount Whit
ney was next on his list. He ilid
it in two days flat with the aid
of his GI shoes and a pack
of Κ rations.
Jirak's next venture was south
of the border vvhen he poked h:s
head through the Mexican
clouds on Mount Orizaba, 18,6%
feet.
Journey Complicated
The journey was complicate·!
when he did the last leg with
o\it his pack. Λ party uf horse
man stole the precious bap and
the young Marine was forced to
go on without extra provisions.
The Mount Logan venture will
oe the toughest of them all. The
peak is 1,000 feet higher than
any other he has tried. There
are five glaciers to complicate
matters and the added hazard
of avalanches.
But cum" next fall. Jirak ex
pects to deiiver a lec'ara · th?
Explorers Club ab . ι the Mountl
Logna jauni. Hs p!a.«* «ι cutlet
specimens ri rcc.j and plant life
for Carnegie's museum. 1
Aided by atomic energy· sea |
soon may feed all the world.
Razor Blad· Diet Appeal!
CARACAS, Venezuela (U.P.)—
Police said Ines del Carmen Gar
cia was in serious condition after
trying to take her life by chew
ing and swallowing safety razor
blades. It was the 11th time, po
lice said, she tried to take her
life by the same method. She i^,
known as the razor blade queen.
Mr. Herman Not Musical
WAUKESHA, Wis. (U.P.) —
Mr. lienian doesn't like organ
music, and he doesn't like "Clair
de Lune." no matter how it's
played. If he hears organ music,
he climbs under the bed and lets
the world know about his mis
erv. Mr. Herman is a Pekinge·
belonging to Mrs. Flora Weber, %
Waukesha.
Experts prove stinging bees
cannot retrieve weapons.
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