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«UNPAY, JULY 13, 1952.
Fand Leader Says
1V Boosts Music
By JACK QUIGG
For Bob Thomas
HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Law
rence Welk, a North Dakota farm
boy who became a bandleader,
n had so tour for 25 years to
make it pay, has settled down at
] because of television.
'V was once regarded as a
threat to the band business, the
thcory being that it kept folks at
home and oue of dance halls.
Wwelk maintains the opposite.
On The Rocks
In May, 1951, Welk started a
pries engagement at the Aragon
ballroom, a vast ocean front es- |
tablishmerlt that was then virtual- |
lv on the financial rocks. l
At the same time television sta
tion KTLA was seeking a band
for a halt hour show once a week.
After hearing Welk, station man
ager Klaus Landsberg signed him
for four weeks.
The response to the 49-year-old
baton waver’'s “champagne music”
left both Landsberg and Welk
somewhat awed.
The ballroom, which before'
Welk was attracting as few as a
score of patrons on week nights,l
began drawing hundreds. Week
¢ 1d crowds now exceed 8,000. The
Aragon has signed him to a con
tract that has another year to |
run. .
Welk’s Friday night telecast
from the Aragon pulls fan mail
that would make many a movie
star envious. After the program
became tops in its time spot,
KTLA gave him a two-year con
tract, and is now laying plans to
kinescope his programs and dis
tribute them nationally.
It takes more than music, Welk
s, to put a band across on TV,
Showmanship is equally import
ant.
Welk doesn’t use acts. Instead
he has trained all but two of his
17 musiecians to do specialty solos.
The two holdouts claim modes&y
put Welk hopes to change that.
In ancient times burning glasses
eonsisting of glass spheres filled
with water were used. |
Friday, July 18, 1952, 12 O’clock Noon
at the
FRANK LANE DAIRY FARM
Bostwick, Georgia
' l(Between Madison & Monroe, Hwy. 83), (Follow Signs).
We will sell
the entire herds & dairy equipment of
) J. E. Brown and Frank Lane
Cattle Consists of: :
GUERNSEY - JERSEY - HOLSTEIN
50 FRESH COWS, MILKING, SOME WITH CALVES BY SIDE.
60 HEAD (Approx.) CONSISTING OF HEIFERS & COWS BRED
TO FRESHEN FROM NOW UNTIL FALL.
35 OPEN HOLSTEIN & JERSEY HEIFERS
1 REGISTERED ANGUS BULL.
40 of these cattle are vaccinated. The balance will be bang tested
and papers will be furnished.
We know these herds to be among the best in the South. We in
vite you to see them at any time before the sale. Absolutely no
private sales! All these cattle will be sold only at Auction!
The dairy equipment of both farms will be sold. All of it is in very
good condition. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Lane have modern, up-to
date equipment. We feel sure you can find any and everything
you need at this sale! Be sure and be with us!
For Information Call R. A. Seals, Sales Manager. -
Day Phone, Atlanta, Ga., Elgin 8858-9.
Night Phone, Marietta, Ga., 88847.
Lunch will be served from 11-12 o’clock
by the Methodist Church.
George Farrar, auctioneer.
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WHELLED WORKERS jam all highways leading private cars swarm in and out of the preject,
from the plant as shifts change. Each day 11,000 requiring 150 traific officers to handle them.
Important Savannah River H-Bomb
Project Races Right On Schedule
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
AUGUSTA, Ga.—(NEA)Ameri
ca’s most vital defense project, the
Savannah River hydrogen bomb
plant, is one of history's largest
and most fabulous single construc
tion jobs.
When this fantastically large
and complicated plant is complet
ed it should give America a new
commanding lead in the race with
Russia to produce nuclear wea
pons.
And despite Congressional har
assement, and weak support
from government production offi
cials, it is going up on schedule.
That's the claim of Trumble
Blake, engineer and spokesman
for the E. I. duPont de Nemours
Co., which is building the plant
and will run it.
Some statistics reveal its al
most unbelievable size. The site,
on the East bank of the Savannah
River in South Carolina, occupies
315 square mils. This is five
times the size of the District of
Columbia and about one-third the
size of the whole state of Rhode
Island.
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More than 36,000 construction
workers draw about $4 million a
week. In the Fall a peak of 45,000
workers is expected. The per
manent employment at the plant
is estimated at 7000.
The 32 million cubie yards of
earth being moved for the vari
ous plants and roadways would
fil a hole one-quarter of a mile
square, more than 500 feet deep.
Each day 11,000 private cars
swarm in and out of the project,
requiring 150 traific officers on the
site. A crew of 25 men works on
nothing but pest and insect con
trol. The project has a complete
weather station.
The $1.2 billioh estimated cost
makes it -about one-third larger
than the Hanford, Wash., atomic
plant, which had been the world’s
biggest single construction job.
That comparison includes in
creaseg in costs.
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Today all but 15 families have
been moved off of the site. At a
cost of S2O million, about 1500
(O } LY E I ) boh il
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
persons with their homes and
businesses, plus 4500 graves, will
have been completely transplant
ed to small cities of Ellenton and
Dunbarton are included.
Exact progress of construction
of the plant and the date it will
get into full operation are secret.
Some of the 250 permanent build
ings, scattered all over the site
in individual areas, are completed.
The rest, consisting of huge,
strange-looking concrete and steel
structures, factories resembling
huge petroleum refineries, and gi
gantic power plantg are in vari
ous stages of construction.
Trumble Blake, the key du Pont
engineer, says:
“We are right now on the time
schedule we promised the AEC
at the start ot. co:xstx“uction."
However, he admits that if pro
duction officials in Washington
had given the plant to top priority
for materials it would mow be
ahead of that schedule. Insead,
the plant has had to compete for
materials with far less important
defense projects.
All the Atomic Energy Commis
sion hag said is that the plant will
produce materials for both hydro
gen and atomic bombs. It is as
sumed that this means the hy
drogen substance known as trit
ium, basic ingredient in the
H - bomb, and plutonim for
A-bombs.
The project has been harassed
by nine separate congressional in
vestigations, probing such things
as alleged loafing, discrimination
and improper housing. Not one of
them has resulted in a suggestion
to the AEC or du.POl.lt for changes.
*
Any person who is familiar with
construction jobs can see evidence
of good coordination. There ig a
minimum of loafing, plenty of
signs of economy-minded manage
ment. All superintendents and key
project men are in constant touch
through an efficient communica
tions system which includes eight
short-wave channels,
Housing for workers has been a
major headache. Based on previ
ous experience, AEC and du Pont
signed a contract with private
firms to build barracks and set
up trailer cm, and fi\:lranteed
to pay the erence rent if
they were not filled.
Approximately 3000 of the 4500
barracks Tooms are empty. The
trailers are full. However, a fed
eral rent board ordered trailer
rent cut from $82.50 per menth to
S6O, and rent per week for double
sb‘mlo cks roomg cut from slfi'to|
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An appeal has shown compa
rable housing in the area to be
more expensive. The average
worker gets more than SIOO a
week. If the appeal is denied and
the barracks sta{' as empty as
they are, the total bill for subsi
dizing the workers’ rent will be
$6,112,000.
However, the barracks, which
are far better than the average
Annfil:macks, are slowly filling
op. jamming in nearby Au
gusta and Aiken could soon help
fill the barracks completely.
Former citizens of Ellenton are
now adjusting to their new envi
romments and the citizens of ad
joining towng are enjoying new
prosperity.
The site was selected for the
ample, mineral-free water supply
of the Savannah River and be
cause there was lot of land with
few people on it, located near
muth larger centers of population.
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consiruction workers in hundreds of parks, like this one at Au
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construction workers, but only 1,560 of the 4,500 reoms are rented.
Contractor subsidizes reats for the empty barracss.
‘Adventure’ Vacation Is Best o -
For Complete Family Pleasure ™ 1
NEA Woman's Editor
NEW YORK —(NEA)— Par
ents who feel a bit nervous about
taking a long summer, vacation
with car and children need have
no worry if they plan ahead, in
the opinion of one travel expert,
As travel director for a large
oil company, Carol Lane has ex
perimented with just such trips
and therefore knows, from ex
perience ,what she's talking about.
“Moument-gazing bores chil~
dren even though it may be fas
cinating to an adult,” she explains.
“Children defest being consciously
educated, but if you take them
hehind the scenes in a laboratory
or an industry, if you make it pos
sible for them to talk to experts
or craftsmen—they'll learn and}
love it.” |
In covering some 50,000 miles a
year to find new ways to make the |
family wvacation more enjoyable,i
Miss Lane has found that every
trip is loaded with educational
possibilities.
“Only you must not say ‘educa
tional’ to children,” she adds.
“Just say ‘adventure’ instead. Be
cause that’s what it really is.”
On one such trig. she took along
three grade and high school stu
dents. They donned miners’ hel
mets 500 feet underground, found
out about the life of a fish,
swooped over a stone quarry in
buckets, watched a cartoonist at
work and learned about the diffi
cult life on an early religious sect.
Blended into these highly edu
cational excursions were Dpicnics,
horseback riding, rowing, swim
ming and just plain fun.
To make the various school
studies more vivid, Miss Lane di
vided them into five general
groups: people today, people Inlthe
News From The
Veteran Corner
Here are zuthoritative answers
fromr the Veterans Administration
to four questions of interest to for
mer servicemen:
Q. I have a permanent GI in
surance policy which lapsed and‘
which VA has been continuing in
force as “extended term insur-|
ance.” Is there any way I can re
instate my permanent podlicy? If
80, is there any time limit?
A. Your permanent insurance
may be reinstated at any time
upon application. You will be re
quired to pay all back premiums
with interest. If you apply within
five years fromr the time your ex
tended insurance would expire,
you won’t need either a compara
tive health statement or a medical
examination.
Q. I soon expect to finish high
school under the GI Bill, and I
have some entitlement left. Could
I go to college, even though the
.L\ély. 1951, cut-off date has pass
?
A, Yes. VA considers that mov
ing from high school to college is
'a “nermal progression,” and is
‘;&llowed under its post-cut-off
date regulations.
- Q. I applied at a lending institu
tion for a GI home loan, and was
turned down. What should I do?
A. See another lender. The fact
that one lender is not interested
in making the particular type of
loan that you want does not pre
clude the possibility that another
may be. |
Q. I am a World War I veteran
drawing Civil Service retirement
pay. Must I include this money in
figuring out whether my total
yvearly income is below the ceiling
for getting a pension for a total
nonservice-connected disability?
A. Civil Service retirement pay
ments do not count as income un
tii you have’ received the full
amount you have contributed un
der the program. After that, the
retirement payments are consid
ered, in computing income for
pension purposes.
(Veterans living in this area
who wish further information
concerning their benefits should, ‘
contact local VA Office, at
Roomr 306, New Post Office
Building, Athens.) |
past,nttho land wild and tame ani
nal life, and industries.
To learn about people and the
way they think and act, she sug
gests visiting universities, govern
ment centers (large or small), or
an unnusual soclal group, such as
the Amish.
For a new light on history, she
advises a trip to one of the his
torical towns that have been re
created on original sites. New
Salem, 111.,, where Abraham Lin
coln lived as a young man, is one
of these. The entire village has
been rebuilt, on the original foun
dations, on the banks of the Sang~ |
amon River,
Another such town is Stur
bridge, Mass., and a third is the‘
famed Williamsburg. By seeing
such towns, children can visualize
another way of life far better than
they could from pictures.
To lend new interest to geology
and geography, take the children
to a mine or quarry, a fishing or
agricultural community.
For sidelights on plants and ani
mals, try visits to wild animal
‘farms, to botanical exhibits, to a
‘museum of natural history.
If you want to arrange for a
’visit' to an industry, just write
ahead to say you're coming. Pick
one in which the children show a
particular interest, Then, if they
show signs of tiring before the
tour of the plant is over, don't
force them to finish. There should
be no feeling that this is a “rust.”
That's all there is to it, Miss
Lane says. No fuss, no muss, no
broken bones. But she adds one
last word of caution: let the kids
help in planning the trip and in
selecting the places to visit, That
way, there’s no room for com=-
plaints.
Ethel Waters Says
Negro Warblers Of
Blues Among Best
HOLLYWOOD —(AP)— Ethel
Waters, a gal who should know,
says there are only two white
singers who could cross tonsils
in the same league with Negro
blues singers.
And the choice, especially the
male, will surprise many.
Miss Waters picked Ella Mae
Morse and Mel Torme as the two
who come elosest to threatening
the Negro monopoly on the blues,
“T don’t know what it is they've
got,” she added, “but my ear tells
me they’ve got it.”
Poor Imitations
She said that many a white
singer tries to imitate the Negro
treatment of the blues but most
are no better than poor imitations.
“All your girl singers today try
to copy Ella Fitzgerald, but they
can’t do it,” said Ethel. “The
‘Negro feels the blues differently
than the white person.”
Although Ethel is now generally
recognized as one of the top dram
atic actresses on Broadway and in
sths movies, she apparently con~
siders singing her great love.
l “It's my bread and butter,” she
commented.
Currently her non-singing tal
ents are earning her enough Holly
wood money to buy cake. She is
out here for the movie version of
her Broadway hit, “Member of
the Wedding.”
| Introduced “Dinah”
Singing, however, is where she
’mad.e her first fame. She was the
first of her sex to sing “St. Louis
‘Blues,” and she also introduced
the old time hit “Dinah.” Ethel
made her movie debut more than
a quarter of a century ago in the
talkies’ first technicolor musical,
singing a song which has far out
lasted the picture. The song was
“Am I Blue,” and her recording of
it is still a record classic.
'Home-Grown Hay
lCan Cut
.
Winter Feed Cost
Home-grown forages such as
hay and grass silage will cut the
feed bills of farmers throughout
America this Winter, according
to Russell-Daniel, Inc,, local New
| Holland dealer.
Major reasons for this tremen
dous saving are that dairymen
and cattlemen are making better
forage . . . and are feeding more
of it to cut down on higher-priced
igrains. *
Russell-Daniel, Inc, said the U.
S. Department of Agriculture re
ports that good hay and silage can
make up the major part of all of
the ration of dairy cows, depend
ing somewhat on how much milk
the cows can produce, Other for
age experts have sdid that dairy
cattle can produce 75 per cent of
their milk potential on forages
alone.
Better hay is being made by
cutting earlier, windrowing at the
right time to protect the nutri
tious leaves from the weather, and ‘
by faster means of harvesting such
as provided by the automatic
pick-up balers. By protecting the|
hay from the weather, the farm
ers get winter feed with a higher
i nutrient and protein content. As a !
result their cattle need to be fed'|
less of the expensive feed concen- l
trates. |
Agriculiural magazines report |
records of cattlemen producingt
100-Ib. meat gains on pasture, hay I
and silage for as low as 10 to 15!
cents. Livestock raisers are feed- |
ing pasture, hay and silage to the
limit of the animal's appetite. Byl
increasing the amount of inex-'
pensive, home-grown roughages, |
they are cutting down their costs |
in producing meat and milk. {
Helping them obtain better hay
and grass silage are new ma
chines like the automatic pick-up
balers and forage harvesters., Rus
sell Daniel, Inc., recommends that
farmers who had lost some of
their first hay crop, ot part of its
nutritive value, this year, might
consider making grass silage of it. [
Grass silage can be made when |
the weather is not right for haye
making, arrd most of the feeding l
value of the grass is saved.
Hay that is baled quickly and
sently is also more palatable and
a 5 a higher feeding value. And
if it is mow dried, the total di
tible nutrients are even high-‘
3 Down - Up To 24 Months
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1939 CHEVROLET 4.DOOR—New green finish,
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crew—Preparing cars for safe and dependable serv
ice. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE, '
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