PALMER HEADS
NATIONAL ASSO.
OF FIRE CHIEFS
SPOKANE, WASH., Aug. 12.
Lle legates to the 68th annual conven
tion of the International Association
of Fire Chiefs approved a resolution
at the closing session yesterday, call
ing upon the Government to aid in ex
panding equipment, manpower and
training facilities to bring participat
ing departments to maximum strength
to meet possible war problems, espe
cially sabotage and air raids with in
cendiary ana chemical bombs.
A debate on the resolution devel
oped when Chief Samuel J. Pope of
Boston as chairman of of the Reso
lutions Committee, opposed bringing
it out of committee. A demand that
it be brought out swept the convention
and he was forced to yield.
The convention instructed Chief
Ralph J. Scott, New York City, man
aging director of the association, to
carry the request direct to Washing
ton for action.
in the election of officers at the
closing session, Chief W. Hendrick
Palmer, Charlotte, N. C., first vice
president, was advanced to the pres
idency succeeding Chief Ray Tiller
of Waterloo, Iowa.
Boston was chosen convention city
for 1941.
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CHARTER MEMBERS
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Ape. 10.—Em
ployes of Biltmore Sayles Bleacheries
organized a local union here last week
with 245 charter members, and applied
for a charter in the United Textile
Workers of America. The plant of the
Sayles company is located at Bilt
more, near tnis city and the employees
are citizens of this immediate section.
Plans are being made to present the
charter andl institute the local union
Friday evening, Aug. 16. Delegations
from the big Enka Rayon local, the
Central Labor Union and affiliated
crafts, are expected to attend the
ceremonies and take part in the pro
gram when the charter is installed.
Weather Forecasts
. A Week in Advance
Long-Range Service for V. S
Will Start Soon.
WASHINGTON.—The U. S. weath
er bureau is all set to start forecast
ing weather a week in advance un
der a system developed by Ameri
can meteorologists.
The start of long-range forecasts
on a nation-wide scale is scheduled |
to be made within a few weeks, in
collaboration with the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology at
Cambridge, Mass. {
Weather data from all parts of the
nation will be gathered by the j
weather bureau and charted for Dr. |
H. C. Willette of M. I. T. He will
prepare the forecasts in collabora
tion with weather bureau meteor
ologists.
These forecasts will be sent twice
a week—each for seven days in ad
vance—to weather bureau stations
throughout the country. Local fore
casters will check the forecasts and
make any necessary changes for lo
cal conditions before issuing them.
"The value of such long-range
forecasts to agriculture, aviation
and other industries will be tremen
dous, probably running into millions
of dollars a year,” F. W. Reich
elderfer, chief of the weather bu
reau, said.
Preparations for the forecast
service began six years ago at the
urging of Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace. Larry Gage of
the weather bureau was sent to
Germany to study advanced meth
ods there, and Dr. Carl G. Rossby,
an outstanding Norwegian author
ity, was brought here to direct the
work.
President Roosevelt detailed
Reichelderfer to his present post
from the navy, where he had an
. outstanding record as a meteorolo
gist. At the time, Mr. Roosevelt
1 requested that long-range forecasts
be developed as raDidly as possible.
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Kiser Re-Elected
Head Of State
Bldg. Trades
At a monthly meeting of the State
Building Trades Council held in
Durham Sunday, the annual election
of officers took place, which was well
attended. L. Kiser, Charlotte, was
re-elected president; P. M. Taylor
of Durham was named vice-president;
T. L. Conder of Charlotte, Secretary
Treasurer, and J. G. Bullock of
Greensboro was elected sergeant-at
arms. The next meeting of the or
ganisation was set for Wilmington
September 8.
Census Reveals Indian
, Population Is Growing
PHOENIX, ARI.—If the 1940 em
eus shows nothing else, it’ll prove
beyond a doubt that the American
Indian is not a vanishing race.
Preliminary returns of census
workers on Arizona’s various Indian
reservations show that there are
some 51,730 Indians living in the
state—an increase of 12,233 over the
1930 count.
The greatest gain, according to D.
Kelley Turner, census enumerator,
was registered on the huge Navajo
and Hopi reservations in the north
eastern corner of the state. The In
dian population on those two reser
vations was 32,900, Turner said, rep
resenting an increase of more than
8,500 during the last 10 years.
The smallest reservation in the
state, that inhabited by the Yava
pai Indians, had a population of 100.
The most inaccessible reservation
was the Havasupai, in Havasu can
yon, an offshoot of the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado.
There were only 164 Indians on
the Havasupai reservation, but be
cause of their shyness it took the
enumerator four days to complete
the count.
Here’s the Way They Play
Hide-Seek in Carlsbad, N. M.
CARLSBAD, N. M.—Deputy Sher
iff Bill High has a game he plays
with a Carlsbad Negro named Jim
mie, who has a weakness for strong
drink.
“Hella, Mistah High,” says a
voice on the telephone to Bill. “This
is Jimmie and I’s drunk again. Will
you come get me and put me to
jail?”
“Sure will Jimmie,” says Deputy
Bill. “Be right over. Where are
you?”
While Bill is en route, Jimmie
changes his mind. He tries to hide.
But his condition makes it an easy
game of fox-and-geese.
"Ready to go, Jimmie?” asks Bill
when he catches up.
“Yessuh, Mistah High, yessuh.
But you all sure got here in a pow’>
ful hurry.”
Grave Digger Missing,
So Vicar Takes Spade
CHELMARSH, ENGLAND—There
is at least one vicar in the country
who appreciates that the grave dig
ger has a tough job.
He is the Rev. J. Basil Gowcr
Jones who, with » funeral service
to conduct in three hours and no
grave or grave digger, took off his
coat and did the job himself. He
then went home, changed and re
turned to conduct the ceremony.
. “I never worked so hard in my
! life,” said the vicar. “The last foot
was a bed of clay as hard as a rock
and I had to use my pick and then
shovel it out. It was back-breaking
work.”
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PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS
CO. SIGNS AGREEMENT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 10.
—The long controversy between the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company of
Jacksonville and the Brothernood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang
ers of America, Local Union No. 164,
representing the glasiers came to an
end recently when the representative
of the union and the management of
the Pittsburg Plate Glass company
signed a union working agreement.
MACHINISTS WIN AGREEMENT
DAVIDSON KENNEDY CO.
ATLANTA, Ga.. Aug. 10—Busi
ness Agent F. H. King of Lodge No.
1, International Association of Ma
chinists, reports ihis week having
renewed their agreement with the
Davidson-Kennedy Co., manufacturers
of oil mill maefaitnerjr, providing for
five cents per hour increase in pay
and reduction of hours to forty per
week.
An Unfinished Salad Syuphouy
When Grandfather succumbed to'
spring fever, Grandmother prescrib
ed plenty of sulphur and molasses.
How much more palatable are the
fresh fruits and greens which con
stitute today's prescription for that
seasonal complaint!
Combining fruits and greens such
as lettuce, chicory or watercress to
make a salad is distinctly twentieth
century American. At the top of
the list of salad fruits is the orange.
Oranges are available the year
around from California groves,
where the Navel variety ripens
during the winter and Valencia
oranges are picked all summer.
This season the fruit is unexcelled.
In addition to the healthful min
erals and vitamins in which orangee
abound, making them among the
most potent as well as the most
palatable of spring tonics, they are
marvelous mixers with seasonal
fruits. Navel oranges are easiest
to divide into sections; when using
the summer Valencias it is usually
better to slice them. In any case
the entire outer skin and membrane
should be peeled away from the
fruit, down to the juicy meat, as
shown in the photograi *
By BETTY BARCLAY
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a simple salad of orange slices on
a bed of greens may be completed
that this one was left unfinished for
you to center as desired. Here are
some suggestions for topping the '
salad In the making.
Any berries In season.
Mc-lon and cantaloupe balls.
Tablespoon each minced celery
and green pepper.
Tablespoon each minced celery »
and sweet onion.
* Prunes lor dates stuffed with
cream cheese.
Walnut-cheese bonbons.
Avocado balls or slices.
Fresh cherries.
Banana slices.
Floated grapes (grapes dipped
in egg white and sugar).
Mayonnaise and pimlento strips.
Tablespoon cottage cheese.
Sherbet of any variety.
An excellent dressing for trait
salads uses:
3 tablespoons lemon Juics
3 tablespoons orange tulce
4 tablespoons oil
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
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To Mark Discovery
% Of Soil Chemistry
100th Anniversary of First
Advance in Farming.
CHICAGO.—A milestone in agri
cultural history will be observed this
year with the 100th anniversary of
the discovery of modem soil chem
istry and the principles of plant feed
ing by Justus von Liebig, acgcording
to a bulletin issued here by the
Middle West Soil Improvement com
mittee.
"Toiling with crude implements in
his makeshift laboratory at Giessen,
Germany, in 1840," says the bulletin,
"Liebig pioneered the way for an
epochal advancement in farming
methods. His experiments proved
that plants get carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen from the air, while they
must depend on the soil for nitro
gen, phosphoric acid, potash and
other elements.
“He learned that while the supply
of elements from the air is in
exhaustible, the plant food resources
of the soil are limited and must be
replenished if fertility is to be main
tained. He analyzed the ashes of
various crops and discovered what
elements they remove from the soil
in their growth. He prepared ar
tificial manures—the forerunners of
modem, commercial fertilizers—
containing essential mineral sub
stances, and carried out extensive
experiments on a 10-acre plot near
his laboratory.
"Before Liebig’s discovery, the
science of agronomy was still in the
dark ages. On the basis of the facts
he established, the modem fertilizer
industry came into existence. In
this country the production of mixed
fertilizer first began in 1850. Ten
years later, production amounted to
about 20,000 tons. Today farmers
in the United States use nearly
8,000,000 tons of fertilizer annually.
"Knowledge of the soil and its
needs has grown tremendously since
Liebig's time. Today modem facili
ties make it possible for agrono
mists at state agricultural colleges,
or county agents, to make tests of
a farmer’s soil which reveal its re
quirements of nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash. On the basis of
such information he can select the
fertilizer analysis best suited to his
land and the particular crops he in
tends to grow."
License for Contraption
Baffles Highway Bureau
CHARLESTON, W. VA.—The state
road commission will lose no more
sleep over the classification at Rob
ert Duke's “whatchamacallit”—the
contraption he drives daily between
Bakerston and Shepherds town.
Here’s the reason (or reasons) the
commission was baffled:
The frame took shape out of old
iron girders salvaged from the Har
per’s Ferry bridge after it crashed
in a flood in 1936. The springs
were once part of a radio wind
charger, and a cream separator
gave up the drive chain tightener.
The motor was discarded from •
motorcycle, and the exhaust pipe
was an erstwhile integral part of a
vacuum cleaner.
So the commission pondered, the
commission puzzled, and finally the
commission said a motorcycle li
cense would suffice.
Old Time Prospector*
Disappear From Montana
HELENA, MONT.—The thousands
of prospectors who swarmed over
western Montana in the days of Al
der and Last Chance Gulch have
few modern counterparts, according
to the Montana land board.
Like everything else, gold mining
has gone streamlined. With it went
most of the told-timers, experts with
gold pan, pick and shovel.
I Since 1937, only 301 permits good
1 for exploring ground and taking as
say samples, have been issued by
the board. Of the total, 112 were
issued for prospecting in Lewis and
Clark county where Last Chance
Gulch attracted thousands of gold
seekers in the last century.
Although providing only for pros
pecting, the permits give holders
preference in mining leases should
they strike “color.”
Woman a Prison Refused
Permitted to Serve Term
MANILA.—After four vain at
tempts a Filipino woman finally was
permitted to enter Bilibid prison to
begin a two-year sentence after she
properly identified herself to the
satisfaction of prison officials.
Sentenced in Camarines Sur prov
ince, the woman voluntarily came
to Manila and surrendered at the
prison but was four times turned
away because she could not identify
herself as the person described in
the commitment papers she car
ried. Locating a Manilian who
knew her, she induced prison au
thorities to let her begin her sen
tence.
Old Timers of Wyoming
Exercise Fishing Rights
CHEYENNE. WYO.—Wyoming is
a state of pioneer residents who be
lieve hi taking advantage of its fish
ing facilities, the game and fish de
partment has decided.
Officials said they received an av
erage of 90 applications daily for
pioneer hunting and fishing licenses
issued free to persons pa :t 63 who
have lived continuously in the state
for 20 » " i.
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