- THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. JUNE 4, 1936 pAGE THREB
A Newsy Trip
Around The World
By Elizabeth Saunders
Armand W. Milestone, 21, did a
"Steve Brodie" at Tacoma, Wash.,
to collect a dollar bet. He dived off
a 90-foot bridge and was picked up
suffering from shock and exposure.
His hospital bill was much more than
the dollar he won.
A resident of Galice, Ore., carries
along a couple of spare eyes on his
person just in case. His wife shat
tered his glass eye recently while
washing it, and he had to travel 90
miles to get another. Now he buys
them in wholesale lots and carries a
couple of spares for emergency.
Four hundred and fifty shares of
Ewa Hawaiian sugar stock have
been drawing interest regularly for
the past 35 years despite the fact
that they are lying at the bottom
of San Francisco's Golden Gate.
They were sunk on an ill-fated steam
er in 1901. Owners cf the stock
have brought suit asking replacement.
All on account of a rat, Justice of
the Peace John C. Loucks, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., had to take four days
off to find out what to do in this
case. A rat jumped into an automo
bile and attacked Ira Duckett, who
threw an automobile crank at it miss
ed the rat and crashed thru a plate
glass window. The owner sued for
$67. Duckett said he threw in self-defense.
Forster To Discuss
Tax On Farm Land
A sound sleeper is James McKee,
of Jersey City, iN. J. He slept so well
in his parked automobile early the
other morning that thieves jacked up
his machine and removed three
wheels without disturbing him.
The twin sons of Mi. and Mrs.
Royal Broadway of Malone, N. Y.,
have 12 fingers apiece instead of the
usual ten.' The boys were born each
with one extra perfectly formed dig
it en each hand.
Charging that his heart was per
manently displaced when he swallow
ed one of his teeth while they were
being extracted, William Julian
Jonse has brought suit against Hen
ry Perry, a dentist of Chester, England.
After reporting to police that her
car had been stolen, Mrs. Helen
Conway, of Cleveland, 0., thumbed
a ride home. Then she called a po
liceman and had the driver arrested.
She had been picked up ia her own
automobile.
While running for a street car in
Chicago, Edward Skoroz landed in a
heap of splintered glass and warm
doughnuts. Confused by blurred vis
ion, he tried to board the trolley's
renection in the window of a dough
nut shop.
Arthur Collins, 13, climbed to the
top of a 60-foot power pole in. Hali
fax, N S., and was within two inch
es of death carrying wires when res
cued by Jollimore. It was the fifth
time Jolimore had faced death to
stage a rescue.
There was crackling explosion and
James Thompson's pipe, which he
had just lighted preparatory to a
quiet smoke, was shattered. A .22
caliber cartridge which he had been
carrying in the some pocket had
lodged in the pipe bowl and had
burst when the pipe was lighted .
Chad wick Will Umpire
Coastal League Games
W. W. "Cooch" Chadwick left
'here Monday for New Bern where he
has been employed to umpire Coast
al League base-ball games. He is
well adapted for this work having
served in the capacity for numbers
of years. Ha is also an ex-big
league player and is widely known
. in baseball circles.
Pests On Birds Do
Not Affect Humans
It took a sheet of paper seven
feet long and filled with closely
written longhand sentences for the
late Mary W. Stone Tern pieman, of I
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xncHDurg-, mass., 10 write ner win
leaving all her property to relatives.
RALEIGH, June 3 The idea that
swallows, bats, flying sqiurrels and
other wild animals and birds carry
on their bodies such pests as bed
bugs and lice cf various kinds and
that these birds actually bring them
into human hamitations, to the det
riment of the human race, is nothing
but superstition, according to George
B. Lay, Junior Biologist at State
College.
RALEIGH, May 26 The second
in k series of radio talks on farm
taxation in North Carolina will be
given by Dr. G. W. Forster, agricul
tural economist of the North Caroli
na Experiment Station, Wednesday,
June 3.
In his discussions on the Carolina
Farm Features program, Dr. Forster
is endeavoring to answer the ques
tion, "are farmers paying more or
less than a fair share of the total
taxes levied and collected by the
State?"
The economist will also attemnt
to point out whether or not taxes on j
farm land have been greater than
taxes on other classes of property.
Preliminary estimates for 1935
show that the tax on farm land haj
been to increase, say3 Dr. Forester,
from the low level of $6,827,000, the
taxes levied on farm land in 1934,
to $8,341,000 in 1935, or an increase
of 22.2 percent.
The important characteristic of
this data, he says, is that taxes tend
to rise and fall with farm incomes.
When incomes are advancing, taxes
advance; when incomes decline, tax
es decline. But, he adds, there is a
lag in the rate at which taxation
keeps pace with income.
Ine full schedule for the week of
May 25-30 follows: Monday, Dr.
Frank Sherwood, "Vitamin A in Cot
tonseed Meal;" Tuesday, Dr. D. B.
Anderson, "Plants in Relation' to
Water;" Wednesday, Zoology De
partment; Thursday, Miss Pauline
Gordon, "Rural Electrification;" Fri
day, C J. Maupin, "Summer Egg Pro
duction;" and Saturday, L. G. Willis,
The general productivity of each
farm will be based upon the average
past yields of soil-depleting crops
other than cotton, tobacco, and pea
nuts. For tobacco and cotton the rate of
payment has been fixed at five cents
a pound on the average tobacco and
cotton yields of the farm The rate
lor peanuts is 1 1-4 cents a pound.
The soilconserving payment will
be made for shifting land from soil
depleting into soil-conserving crops
this year.
A farmer who takes high produc
tive land out of cash crops and puts
it into soil-conserving crops is mak
ing a bigger sacrifice than the farm
er whose land is low in producticity.
For this reason, the dean explain
ed, tne rate of payment have been
based on the productivity of the
land.
The average rates per acre for
general soil-depleting crops in near
by counties are as follows: Craven,
$8.20; Onslow, $7; Pamlico and
Jones $7.20.
Cows Need Vitamin A
To Maintain Health
but a bright green, leafy hay.
Too often owners feed their cows
almost nothing but cottonseed meal
and hulls during the fall and winter
months when there is little or no
green feed available. Cows fed this
almost exclusively often contract a
condition which some call "cotton
seed meal poisoning."
Dr. Sherwood points out that such
a condition might occur to dairy cat
tle which have been given feeds oth
er than cottonseed meal and hulls,
such as peanut meal, linseed oil meal,
or soybean meal with a poor rough
age. When, afflicted with this condition,
cows become gaunt and phlematic,
hair coat is rough and unkempt, the
eyes are cloudy, the milk yield falls
off, and that which the cow does give
has none of the creamy color of
good rich milk. Unless supplied with
green feed or some other source of
Vitamin A in a short time, the ani
mal gets steadily worse, and may fin
ally contract fits and die.
Given cod liver oil or a good qual
ty of alfalfa hay, cows pick op won
derfully, states Dr. Sherwood. Both
cod liver oil and a good hay having
a bright green, color are rich in Vit
amin A while cottonseed meal con
tains practically none.
RALEIGH, June 4 Cows, like
humans, need green leaves in their
ration to SUPDlv vitamin A anrl nther
essentials which are necessary for
good health, says Dr. Frank Sher
wood, animal nutritionist at the
North Carolina Experiment Station.
Vitamin A can be supplied best
and most economically by a pasture
or a good quality hay. Not a bleach
ed, pale-colored one containing a lot
of woody stems, says Dr. Sherwood,
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TENNIS STAR. Miss Jane
Shirp(iW),ays:"Smoking
Camels helps my digestion
makes my food taste better."
KELLY PETILLO(tfWe),SpeedKing,
says: "Camels stimulate my diges
tion." Camels encourage the flow of
digestive fluids... increase alkalinity.
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Celery is being grown as a dem
onstration in Washington County.
"BATTLE OF LEXINGTON"
First of series of beautiful re
production! in full color of famous
patriotic pictures masterpieces of
early American art depicting histor
ic events of interest. Your newsdeal
er has your copy.
"Most of our native birds carry at
least one species of louse, sometimes
more than one: and often one nriMv
A fire which destroyed a big lum-1 i
ber mill in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1913,
is still burning and defies all efforts
to extinguish it. Firemen frequently
are called to the site where the big
plant formerly stood to extinguish
flames which break out thru the
ground.
A gossipy neighbor, talking for
277 years, used only as much ener
gy as is produced by the ordinary
electric light bulb burning a single
hour, according to Dr. J. O. Perrine,
associate editor of the Bell System
Technical Journal.
Codl is worth almost its weight in
;',. in the sub-Arctic, and is almost
scarce. Most of the coal suplies
2 taken there by airplane, and
ders and trappers pay "sky high"
k-es for it.
Judges in a Paris divorce court
'.served decision in the case of a
voman who, seeking a divorce but
having no grounds for alimony, sued
her husband for damages because
he had six children. The lawyer for
) er husband pleaded that the hus
Hnd should be congratulated instead
of penalized.
Two months ago Dan Purdue's
wooden leg was taken from him so
he could not escape from a hospital
in Seattle, Wash., while recovering
from a bullet wound. The peg leg
was returned to him recently when
he appeared in court to answer burr
glary charges.
John Miner, janitor, didn't relish
the job of sweeping out an abandon
factory at Cambridge, Mass., but he
decided it wasn't such a bad job af
ter all when he swept out $5,000 in
$50 and. $100 gold-back bills from
under a radiator.
chewing lice and sucking lice. Usu
ally, each species or group of birds
has a particular kind of louse as a
permanent resident or occasional vis
tor; ani such lice, if they try to
get along on a different species or
group of birds, find the food not to
their liking and die," Lay said.
" For this reason, man is not
troubled by the insect pests of wild
birds and animals. Bats do carry such
pests, in at least two orders of in
sects, but such pests cannot get a-
long on a human being. However,
the idea seems to be quite prevalent
and I am asked about this supersti
tion almost every week. Of course,
the reason is not difficult to find.
most lice, to the casual observer, look
alike and the differences between
species is structural or very insigni
ficant and would not be noticed ex
cept with a magnifying glass, due to
the small size of the insects.
Gives Rates Of Soil
Conserving Payments
RALEIGH, June 3 The average
rate of the soil-conserving payment
in Car:rt O under the 1936
farm p: ogram has been fixed at
$8.60 per aero, according to Dean I.
O. ScI :-..-, of Ststa College.
This rate applies to general soil
depleting crops other than cotton,
tobacco, and peanuts, the dean said,
and will vary with individual farms, j
The general rate for each county
has been determined according to
the average productivity of general
soil- depleting crops in that county.
The rate for an individual farm
will be above or below the county
rate in the same proportion that the
productivity of general soil-depletiiig
crops on the farm is above or below
the county average.
Federal Housing Loans
We are pleased to announce that we have a new ar
rrangement for Federal Housing Loans
We can now take your application for a loan for re
modeling your home, as well as for new construction.
LOANS OF $1,000 UP WILL BE CONSIDERED
Graham W. Duncan
REAL ESTATE INSURANCE
B 318-1 Beaufort, N. C.
Edgecombe County will have its
larfest 4-H calf club this year with
the members securing animals from
dairy herds of good breeding.
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GENERAL REPAIR
Willie Davis, of Kingstree, S. C,
had a WPA check for $9.50 coming
to him but he was having trouble
getting it. Somebody told him, "You
will have to go to Washington if youj
want it." Willie took the advice ser-j
iously and hiked to Washington,!
where he collected1 his wages.
Muddy waters of the Mississippi -River
took to within 75 yards of the i
home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Price,;
at Cape Girardeau, Mo., the body of
their son, Charles Price, a fireman,
who was killed 30 miles up the rivev
nearly three months before in boil
er explosion.
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