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o' a Ssnanas Don'l— Grow On Trees —*— Bananas don’t grow on trees. 'This statement contradicts ap penranees, but it is a fact. The banana plant is not a tree despite its size (from 15 to 30 feet) be etiU:se there is no wood in it. . Thp.^trunk nr main stem is eom 13. -sed"s ttgntly togelner lays ns. .overlapping Each plant bears only a single . :. _T tiaaanas' alter* a gidvvT'Tg **mm4i^* io 15 months in- the ^lo1, TtiOisi tropical plantations. However, several plants sprout from the same mother root, so that a bunch of bananas is ready for harvesting every few months over a long period. Average annual banana pro motion an acre is from 125 to 250 u riches—varying according to ssoil. climate. and cultivation methods. _rcihe of 10 months after plant mg the pi a it blossoms. The stem that is to bear the bunch grows up, through the center of the stalk and out at its top. Then it bends over and down. J the flower but at its end looking like a big ear of corn in its husk. When the husks drop off. the young bunch can be seen, with all its tiny bananas pointing down ward. As they grow they gradu ally point outward and upward, j i The bgoicbes as hung in fru t and ! V. e.CUitabJ/ . v‘, down.... ..._ _ ’ * . I When matured, it is made up o; j clusters called “hands”, with from j 1 i- to ill) bananas’ or '"'TingeiV'^i’ Bunches wmstty fufvefrbm 8~td~f \2 hands. The fruit—even when eaten in ! the tropics—is never allowed to I I ripen on the plant because it is likely to burst open and attract insects. The finest flavor is de veloped when it is cut green and ripened afterward. Bananas get luxury treatment on their voyage to markets in the United States. They travel in re frigerated ships, with fans blow Will always have a licit! lathe window fery oa th# heat friends we've known IMS M<*Liiwh«rn Ftirniltirr Company Mc Lawliom Lullaby llousr r»! It Bohiine^fcglc^iigrf'M o oitt-thatl oar with - 0 for our town o° $1932% 4 i HEILIG - MEYERS FURNITURE CO. POLAR BEAR. SWIMMER STIfiUAT IT wniLE others SCURRY INDOORS to beat the co!d wave, Mrs. Charles M« Shriver goes about the business (top) of preparing for her regular swlai* She uses a hatchet to crack the ice on her pool in Pikesville, Md. At brt tom, the human polar bear takes another of her dips, a daily routine ahe has never failed to follow since 1935. (International Soundphoto) Big Increase In Married Couples -—<*>— Married couples increased in lumber in the United States from 18,500,000 in 1940 to 30,000,000 m 051, according to figures just undo public by the Bureau of Idnsus. Tlie number of families Iso increased from 32,200,000 in 940 to 39,800.000 in 1951. The lureau defined a family as “a ;roup of two or more poisons re nt; air to keep them in good con lition. When it arrives at wholesalers he fruit, slill green, is hung for learly a week in ripening rooms 1 temperatures ol 02 to G0 de rees. Then ripe “hands” are cut ft the bunches, carefully packed t crates or boxes, and sent to re ail outlets. Central or Middle America is fie principal “bananaland.’’ WHO'S COLD? »• uo » MorriPu about Mimty win* Iff Mint her! f\ut filutuoroiut Vir ginia Mayo, ..1.0 is *-njoying sunny Noiitlii-1'II Culil'o. uia - .1 :i i- 1,1 aa e* r .rntrhing ' I, ,'ar’. ml i h'lr r uiinti'il in’to. i sun ,i. «. 'i; r .jo ,* \t arner llros. ai-Ur-.* l.ij s lli;> I a'lrr I limlire »illi a imtliliing <.i:to.s ! • | It’in at times **heu a ru\er-up is in order. l. teci bv blood, man <• or adi.p Lion and liv in.; to id!, r." The av ! era; e i. i I the- American family i .s i si.mat'd by tin bureau as 3.5 I pci sons. I The agency reported that as of | last April there were 110,774,000 I persons fourteen years old and over. Gf the total 23,930,000 or I 21.7 percent, were single, and 75, i 473,000, or 08.2 percent, were rnar j ried. The remainder were in the I widowed and divorced categories. This percentage of single persons, the bureau reported, was the low est on record The figures show that last April J-j fourteen years of age and older, and 57,354,000 females. Of the males, 12,984,000, or 24 3 percent weit single, and of the females, 10,94(1,000, or 19.1 percent, were single. Hootch Humor An American visiting England decided it would be fun to go for a walking tour in Scotland at Christmas » For once winter was living upjj to its name. The snow was coming down hard, and the American was struggling along what had once been a village lane. 11 was not long before he was complete ly lost. Fortunately, however, he came up with ari old, Scot. “Say, friend,” began the Amer ican, “I guess I’m lost.” , “It thcer a reward oot for ye-’” asked the Scot cautiously. “Nope,” said the . American shortly. “What does that matter?” “Weel,” came the slow reply, “ye’re still lost.” Highway Deaths To Outpace War Next Few Weeks (Continued from Page One) fie fatalities dropped about one third compared with the previous year. While the most intensive in. hiijtor-V-yiid. traffic safety ’rV-- • • ... *pi even t drive X .rc i.»5i, it probably delay.-,: it and also has provided the foun dation for a bigger. stronger cam n■ ■ " rfv ■.]> -t o\7''''.yy' !11f > 1 h ; e::: i-7 a ;s more fully conscious ot the men ace of traffic accidents than ever before. The encouraging drop in I traffic fatalities which followed the death of the millionth auto mobile victim must be continued throughout 1952.” Automobile deaths climbed rapidly to the million mark in the 52 years, three months and one wok after the first known traffic fatality occurred in New York City in September, 1899, just before the present century dawned War deaths in the same period totaled about 474,000, the Association, said. In the first decade of the pre sent century, 1900 through 1909, automobiles killed about 5.000 men, women and children, the As sociation has estimated. From 1900 to the end of 1906, deaths from the ned horseless carriages averaged about 820 a year, it said. In 1907, according to the best records available, the motor vehicle death toll was 666, The following year 834 fatalities occurred and by 1909 there were 1,254 persons killed m a single year. In this first decade motor vehicle registrations had climbed from 8,000 in 1900 to 312,000 at the end of 1909. By 1913, when registrations for the first time exceeded the mil lion mark and stood at 1,258,000 passenger cars and trucks, the | | 1907 motor vehicle fatality rate of! 0.8 deaths per 100,000 population was more than five times greater It reached 4 4 deaths per 100,000 Americans in 1913. For the first , six months of last year it was 24.8 i deaths per 100,000 persons in the ! nation. This compares with 30.8 in 1937, highest point of motor ve , hide deaths computed on a popu : lation basis. In that year 39,643 , traffic deaths occurred, the second i highest toll in history and only ! several hundred below the peak i of 39,969 fatalities in 1941, when till- motor vehicle death rate was 2,58 ' ravel ears i of the second • •li 49 if 30 0 per 100,000 population. In the second decade, 1910-19. there were 62,969 automobile fa tulities They climbed to 209,894 i.i the twenties, and in the follow in': years, 1930 39, reached the re ik of any decade to date, with . i iths 'ccorded. : s of the war 308,127 the .oil lecade, but as the the century start ■sc 3,500 and i t :: 7,500 i 1950 !1 s have i the sec VvAli ,r "abilities Ii.m slid. This ilecede's fa'aliti!-.-: -■ far total , bout 72,500 for the In ,I two years. Compared with 86 600 for the first two years of the "ierrible ihirtie: il ml, 1 .->40 half eti, fatalities in 1950 i over the previous year 1951 were estimated some 2 500 higher II a These big inereas s i i'-en an ominei s shut * t >) i’t ■ n.ij «™r i , ; -'■'•l t m {• r vehicle the A i Cli Our deepest 'j thanks to all of you for your help and V, Patronage 1952 BULLIJCK’S \Jpntly of Fbfo Cot Dims Hoh i ne Dimes are reany marcning Tor this family. Five of the nine chil dren of the Henry F. Smith family were stricken with polio at the LaCourt Oreilles Reservation in northern Wisconsin. Shown in a Duluth, Minn,, hospital (I. to r.) are Donald, 7; Robert, 5; Doris, 10, and Selma. 14, all entertaining their baby brother, Billy, 19 months. The March of Dimes, currently underway, heloed underwrite care. or some (5,000 higher. American war casualties during the first 18 months of fighting in Korea averaged 33 deaths per day, the same toll that prevailed in the first year of the war to last June 25. On U. S. highways the auto mobile fatality toll for the identi cal 18 months since the start of the Korean war has ben computed by the Association at 103 deaths per day, four higher than the daily avt rage for traffic deaths during the first year of the war The Defense Department total of 17,800 American fatalities in Korea in HI months excludes any of the 10,050 currently listed as missing, 3,200 of whom have been listed by Communist negotiators at Panmunjom as prisoners of the Hed forces The Association’s study showed that while U. S. military do dtis ■limbed from 986,247 at th ■ i jf the Korean war to approxi natiely 1.004,000 us of Christmas Day, in the same 18-month period traffic fatalities rose at a three times swifter pace, from 944,000 to the 1,000,000 mark reached on December 22. During January of last year 2,840 deaths occurred on the high ways, a 20 percent increase over 11 it- previous January, and 2.260 persons died in accidents in Feb t'i v. If these tolls are exceeded 'Area Must Grow Its Own Beet —»— If the people in the South and ! East are to get the beef they want, fanners in these areas have got to produce It This was one of the points em phasized in a two day Beef Cat tle Conference held at State Col lege recently. The event attract i'd more than BOO beef brooders, county agents, and other persons The population of Western' states is rising so rapidly that an increasing portion ot the beef produced west of the Mississippi Kiver is being consumed in that same region, speakers told the group. The East and South Vivo no choice but to produce , ir I own beef. Beef cuttle will fit into any ! j larm program, il was pointed out. j | A farmer can start with fwo or three animals and work into the 1 I business with inexpensive build ■' ingp and equipment. C)ne nation d authority who ap-1 | m the weeks just ahead, the As j sociation said, by mid-February! or soon afterwards the all-time | total of automobile deaths will ex j need the aggregate of the nation's.! I military deaths for the first time. I Handy *r ,f * r jfal ^Vrr Hundreds Of Golf Balls -<* Wooster, Ohio.—Mrs. Robert Ebert collects lost golf balls as a hobby. Livmg just outside the Wooster College golf course, shs finds it right handy. So far she ! has collected 1,44!) lust balls, most of them found in the off-course rough. I vd. •-!v Ha..aid • h** — »» ■-“t;ii'- •’ > vVitii tfiii SoUth- * | < rn h. el brt • ST has been failure to adapt his animals to the cli mate. j the future appear.: bright tor the Southern producer who will study his problems and make an earnest effort to solve them. Dr. D. W Colvard was in charge of arrangements for the conference, which was sponsored by the Animal Industry Depart ment and the Division of Colic, e Extension. uh4.Il t-<ut, a o&ut f cM&f'ny Aen.i %fza> •ff- ,*• PEKLK’S ■ JEWELERS B. S. COURTNEY & SON _ ''A
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