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OAKY DOAKS
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Michigan Prison
Has Six Bands
Jackson, Mich. (AP) ? When
they play "If I Had the Wings of
an Angel" at Southern Michigan ,
Prison, it's liable to come out in ,
any of six arrangements.
The prison has six bands? a 40
piece concert orchestra, a 16
piece dance band, a dixieland band
and a progressive jazz band of 10
pieces, an eight-piece hillbilly
group and a seven-man polka band.
Prison officials say it helps to
ease tension for players and listen
ers alike. The bands include pro
fessional musicians and even one '
man who taught music in public
schools for 18 years.
The prison also offers music for
beginners. Each fall two groups of
35 men each enroll in classes
where they learn to play the in
strument of their choice. Prison *!
officials say it teaches the men to
work together.
Tar Heel Ranger
To Receive Plaque
Raleigh A North Carolina for
est ranger, who almost lost his life
in a woods fire that was deliberate
ly set, has been selected from
among Southern forest fire fight
ers to receive a plaque typifying
work they do. f
Paul Holland, who suffered loss e
of all his fingers on both hands 1
in a forest fire near Asheville in 1
October 1952, is the ranger chosen
to receive the award during the n
Southern Forest Fire Prevention v
Conference at New Orleans, La., F
April 1314, State Forester Fred 1
H. Claridge announces. a
Now foreman of workers at the *
' Little River Nursery owned and c
operated by the Department of
Conservation and Development's s
forestry division near Goldsboro, s
Mr. Holland's expenses will be I
paid by the conference. s
Mr. Holland, for two weeks was e
in a coma in an Asheville hospital, c
after having suffered severe burns a
on his hands and body in the fire
in which he was trapped in a ^
mountain area.
The New Orleans conference, v
sponsored by numerous organiza- 8
tions seeking to curb and control P
wildfires in southern and border 0
states, is anticipating an attend
ance of approximately 1,000 law 0
enforcement, public officials, and s
private citizens.
Austria was freed in 1955 from
17 years of foreign occupation, I
first by the Germans and then by I 2
the four Allied powers. |e
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Do's and Don'ts of Home Repair
By ANDREW C LANG
Removing Wallpaper
DO . . wet the old paper with
warm water, using a wide brush
or a sponge; then scrape off the
paper with a putty knife.
DO . . . work in vertical strips
rrom top to bottom, resoaking the
paper when it does not come off
with only moderate scraping pres
lure.
DO ... on heavy or varnished
vallpaper where the water does
not soak through easily? sand- 1
piper the surface before applying
water.
DO . . . for especially tough jobs,
consider the use of a commercial
wallpaper remover (usually a pow
der to be mixed with water) or a
rented steaming machine.
DONT . , . forget that if you add
washing soda to the water, it will
aid in softening the wallpaper
paste but will mar adjoining wood
work if you are not extra careful.
DON'T . . . make the two moat
common mistake*? failing.to allow
the softening agent time to pene
trate and failing to resoak the pa
per when it doesn't scrape off
eaaily.
DONT . . . fail, after the paper
has been removed, to wash the
walls with clear warm water to re>
move any remaining traces ol
paste and paper.
DON'T . . . forget to apply glue
sizing to the walls before putting ,
on new wallpaper.
Authority Warns of Danger
From Radioactive Farmland
Farmers who are concerned with
he task of producing crops from
;oil contaminated by radioactive
allout if the nation ever suffered
i nuclear attack, received support
ecently from a veteran of the
(Vorld War II Manhattan Project
vhich developed the atomic bomb.
Dr. Stafford L. Warren, dean of
he UCLA Medical School and an
>utstanding authority on radiation,
?ailed for an intensive research
>rogram to develop a plan to en
ible the nation to feed itself if
lecessary with produce from ra
liation-contaminated soil.
Food grown on soil covered by
allout could convey a poisonous
element called radioactive stron
ium, giving off beta radiation to
hose who consumed it.
No enemy attack, even a mass
issault with nuclear weapons,
vould produce fallout that would
toison all of this nation's farm
and. Nevertheless, thousands of
.cres of fertile land, lying in the
allout path of strikes on major
ities, could be contaminated.
Scientists have determined that
ufficient rainfall would cut down
ome of the radioactive punch.
)eep plowing would further re
trict its capacity to harm. How
ver, there still would be risk in
onsuming produce of the fallout
ffected soil.
In an interview at Federal Civil
>efense Administration headquar
ers at Battle Creek, Mich., Dr.
barren called for a research pro
ram, designed to conquer this
roblem as "the long-haul phase
f radiological defense."
He sees it as an essential part
f the great plan to "reconstitute
ociety" following an atomic at
ick. It would be, said the war-'
iine adviser to the commanding
California's population increased
,666,000 from April 1950 to the
nd of 1955.
general of the Manhattan Project,
just as important to the survival
of the nation as the task of coping
with radioactive fallout in the first
hours or days after an enemy at
tack.
Killer Name Rejected
New Delhi (AP) ? The moun
tains which separate Afghanistan
from Soviet Russia have been re
named by the Afghan government,
according to a report reaching
here. The mountains, 'known as the
Hindukush, should be called the
Hindkoh. the report *ays. In Per
sian, Hindukush means killer of
Hindus, and Hindkoh means Hindi
Mountains.
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