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“DAMAGES OR NO
LICENCE” NEW LAW
IN TENNESSEE
Tennessee motorists will lose
their drivers’ licenses if they can’t
pay for accident damages.
’’The state’s new motor vehicle
safety-responsibility law, now in ef
fect, applies only to accidents in
which a person is killed or in which
property damage to any one person
exceeds SSO.
’’Owners of automobiles involved
in such accidents must show finan
cial responsibility to cover all claims
up to $11,000,” so stated a July 2
news item.
There are entirely too many acci
dents occurring every day in
Gainesville and on the highways
of Georgia in which one of the in
volved parties has no insurance or
money with which to pay damages
to his own, much less the other car.
It is a deplorable situation, which
the above law would correct.
The Tennessee law has been ap
proved and adopted by 23 states,
and The News cannot see any rea
son why it should not be in effect
in Georgia.—Gainesvlile News.
John Adams, 2nd president of the
U.S., was the lawyer for the defense
of the British soldiers arrested after
the Boston Massacre.
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COUNTERFEITING
BOOMS BOGUS U.S.
MONEY ABROAD
The age-old business of counter
feiting U. S. money, once a domes
tic problem, has become internat
ional since the war’s end, states
Frederic Sondern, Jr., in The Read
er’s Digest for July. The dollar is
the favorite security abroad; Euro
pean businessmen and refugees, wil
ling to pay premium prices for our
greenbacks in the black market, are
perfect targets for Continental fake
money men. One big counterfeiting
gang whose trail led U. S. Secret
Service agents through the under
worlds of Paris and Marseilles, had
two million dollars in high-grade
American counterfeits when finally
apprehended.
Domestic counterfeiters, too, have
gone back into business in a big
way, says Sondern’s article, con
densed from The American Mer
cury. In 1948 the Secret Service
seized more than three million dol
lars in counterfeit bills—the largest
haul of recent times.
In New York and Chicago—tradi
tional U. S. headquarters of the
bogus money makers—are under
world syndicates which will supply
a “reputable” counterfeiter with pa
per, ink, and presses, and furnish
outlets for his product, on q per
centage basis. The syndicate pays
the counterfeiter $7 to sls for SIOO
of avers ge grade fake bills, and
charges its “dealers” two or three
times as much. The dealers in turn
make a profit from the “passers.”
Counterfeiters are usually track
ed down o#ly after patient and ar
duous sleuthing by Secret Service
men who work within the counter
feiting gang itself. These agents
must know underworld talk and
criminal psychology, and be able to
assume any role “embezzling bank
clerk to murderous longshoreman.”
Despite the hazards of the profes
sion, no Secret Service man has
been killed in line of duty in the
past 25 years, Sondern notes.
Counterfeiters have tried every
method of imitating the work of the
U. S. Bureau of Printing and En
graving without success, the author
says. Our currency paper is made
according to a secret formula by a
mill whose product has never been
duplicated. Printing plates are com
posites of the work of a dozen high
ly skilled specialists, and only a few
exceptional craftsmen can engrave
correctly the portraits of the Presi
dents. Nevertheless some counter
feit notes are so cleverly made that
they fool even experienced bank
tellers.
To help wipe out counterfeiting,
the article urges that everyone read
the Treasury Department’s booklet,
“Know Your Money,” obtainable at
any bank, and examine bills care
fully.
At the department store’s per
fume counter the clerk was apply
ing her sales pressure. “This one
has a delightful fragrance,” she said
to the customer. “Believe me, you
can’t go wrong with it.”
“That’s funny,” murmured the
young lady. “Most perfumes adver
tise that you can.”
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Uncle Sam Says
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“Put more Opportunity in your Fu
ture” during the Spring Opportunity
Drive for the sale of U. S. Savings
Bonds. When a representative calls at
your home and asks you to sign up—
don’t miss this opportunity to say
“yes.” If any of the millions of volun
teers —workers who are proud to help
their country—shoidd miss you—don’t
wait. Enroll- for the Payroll Savings
Plan where you work or the Hond-a-
Month Plan where you bank.
Swine Erysipelas
In areas where there are out
breaks of swine erysipelas, it may
be necessary to take immediate
steps to protect newly farrowed
pigs, according to livestock health
authorities. In suph cases, pigs
often are vaccinated against this
disease on the day of birth, so as
to prevent losses. Owners are
cautioned that it is easy to confuse
swine erysipelas with other dis
eases, particularly navel ill, hog
cholera, allergic conditions, and nu
tritional deficiencies. Because of
the rapid spread and deadly nature
of erysipelas, and the danger of
its transmission to other animals
and human beings, swine growers
art urged to place suspected cases
immediately under the care of a
veterinarian.
Add Tomatoes to Meat
Tomatoes hold a large share of
their vitamins and fine flavor
when canned. Adding them to
meat dishes is a popular way to
get then into family meals. Miss
Grace Armstrong, nutritionist,
University of Illinois college of Ag
riculture, suggests pouring the
canned tomatoes over a pot roast
about an hour before the end of the
cooking period. The tomatoes seem
to help tenderize the meat, and
they add flavor to the gravy. For
extra flavor, add a very small
amount of garlic and just a trace
of thyme along with the tomatoes.
Average American Level
Of Living Seen Rising
WASHINGTON.—The President’s
council of economic advisers thinks
the average American’s level of
living should rise 27 per cent by
1958.
The council believes that he
should be able to buy more and
better goods and services, to save
more money and have more leisure
time—all making him 27 per cent
better off.
The council doesn’t think this
will materialize by 1958 if there
is a depression before then—there
would have to be a gradual, steady
increase in production with no seri
ous setbacks.
But it can be achieved, the coun
cil says, if government and busi
ness continually make a variety of
delicate and complex economic ad
justments and don’t miss any
guesses on what adjustments to
make. •
This is all part of the theory of
a dynamic, ever-growing economy
that became part of the law of the
land in the Employment Act of
1948. This theory holds that the
causes of depressions can be de
tected and eliminated so that as
fast as the labor force grows more
jobs can be provided.
Argentina ‘Fire Ant’ Seen
Threat to Big Part of U.S.
MOBlLE.—There’s nothing so re
markable about Solenopsis Saevis
sima variety Richteri.
He’s just a little fire ant from
Argentina. He likes the Gulf coast
climate and hasn’t run across any
serious natural enemies since stow
ing away to this country over 25
years ago.
Asa result he hss spread across
a 10,000-square-mile area in Ala
bama, Florida, and Mississippi,
attacking crops, seedlings, barn
yard animals, and young game.
The damage credited to him is
placed in the millions of dollars,
and finally both State and federal
conservation and agricultural offi
cials are on his trail.
Gulf coast residents live with
ants all their lives. There are over
80 species in the Mobile area,
where this invader from South
America established his beach
head. There are three other species
of fire ants native to the Gulf
coast.
This troublemaker and the three
other species won their names be
cause they “sting like fire.” The
Argentina fire ant is a little larger
than other varieties.
It attacks plants and food, but
unlike another so-called Argentine
ant which has become • household
pest, shung sweets. > — -
Insects Look for Quality
In Food, Entomologist Says
The effects cf insect injury may
be considerably more serious on
corn to be used for seed than on
corn to be used for feed, U. S. de
partment of agriculture entomolo
gists observe in their investigations
on the protection of both seed and
feed corn. This, says Dr. R. T.
Cotton of the bureau of entomology
and plant quarantine is because
“the germ of the seed, with its
high food value, is particularly at
tractive to insects. Thus species
that are not of great importance,
if we consider the' mere quantity
of the grain they destroy, are of
concern to the seedmen because
they feed almost exclusively on the
germ.”
What is probably instinctive in
the jnsects is very much in line
with recent scientific research in
human nutrition which has em
phasized the high food, vitamin and
mineral values in grain germs,
much of which is milled out in
manufacture of the “finer” grades
of flours and meals.
The flat grain beetle, cadello, al
mond moth, and Indian meal moth
are some of the insects particularly
destructive to seed corn, Dr. Cot
ton finds, because they make their
first attack on the germ.
Research and practical tests
show that a three-to-one mixture of
ethylene dichloride and carbon
tetrachloride is the safest fumigant
to use in protecting seed corn from
insect damage.
Garden Insecticide
“Rotenone is the most valuable
single garden insecticide,” say
Clemson extension service special
ists. “Five per cent DDT dust
alone or in combination with fungi
cides is valuable on potatoes and
cabbage, but it should never be ap
plied within a month of harvest to
any leafy vegetable or to tomatoes.
“Don’t handle moist plants—it
spreads diseases,” they caution.
“This is especially true of the mem
bers of the melon family, tomatoes,
and beans, but it may apply to
other crops as well. Drops of mois
ture are easily transferred from
one plant to another, and, if
disease : producing organisms are
present, they are widely spread.”
Television-Eyetis
Among the by-products of tele
vision are complaints of eye troub
les by those who watch programs.
Some of these troubles are imagi
nary, but sorfie may be actual, ac
cording to the Better Vision insti
tute. Persons with normal vision
can get eye fatigue if they watch
an object from too nearby or with
the head in an uncomfortable posi
tion, and the same may apply to
video-viewers. One theory is that
pebple who report eye difficulties
after watching a video screen real
ly have been suffering all along
from some visual error such as
nearsightedness or astigmatism.
They may not have noticed it be
fore because they did not employ
the eyes on activities comparable
to focusing for long periods on a
small screen filled with moving
images.
Quarantines in Britain
From the point of view of animal
health, Britain is fortunate in being
an island. Such serious epidemic
diseases as rinderpest, which have
at times devastated the herds of
her continental neighbors, have
long been excluded. But in a coun
try which imports so many animal
products, strict quarantine precau
tions are necessary, and even the
most elaborate do not always suc
ceed. Rare outbreaks of hoof and
mouth disease are promptly
stamped out by drastic slaughter
ing and burning, with government
compensation to the affected farm
er.
Packaged Language Course
Made Available by Yale
A series of "packaged” language
courses based on wartime teach
ing developments is now being
made available to the public by
Yale university.
The courses, which include printed
texts and between 11 and 12 hours of
recorded speech, are being pro
duced at the Institute of Far East
ern Languages under the super
vision of Gerard P. Kok, associate
director of the institute and assist
ant professor of Chinese.
Courses in Chinese and French
already have been “packaged” for
distribution, and plans are under
way for similar courses in Russian,
Korean and other languages. ■
The primary goal of the institute
in sponsoring the series, according
to Professor Kok, is to help raise
the( level of spoken language in
struction in the public secondary
schools and in colleges where the
number of “native” language in
structors is limited. The recorded
lessons are designed to offer the
purest type of pronunciation.
* Professor Kok said that plan* are
being made for experimental use
of the “packaged” courses by
language students in high schools
in the New Haven area. The courses
are already in use by student
groups- at Sarah Lawrence and
Seattle Pacific colleges.
The institute at Yale is the first
non-commercial educational organ
ization to offer such a program to
the public.
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PLAIN VIEW SCHOOL HOUSE
July 30, 1949—8:30 P. M.
A BROKEN STEM Disbrow
SYBIL WATKINS
MIGNONETTE Mozart
STEVIE BLACKSTOCK
MY MAMA’S WALTZ Streabbog
JANICE IRVIN
STEPPING STONES Thompson
SARA NELL AIKEN
iiETT\ AND BILL Thompson
DANCE OF THE GNOMES _ Rogers
SHELBY JEAN LANGFORD
BEAUTIFLL DREAMS Piano Arr. by Wallis
MARTHA ANN LANGFORD
DUET-ALADDIN MARCH Herbert Le Grand
SYBIL WATKINS AND ARTHUR MARLOWE
IN A SAILBOAT _ ....Richter
STEVIE BLACKSTOCK
SONG—LONG, LONG AGO ..Bayly
JANICE IRVIN
THE BUTTERFLY .Thompson
LIGHTLY ROW Rodgers
SHELBY JEAN LANGFORD
A WOODLAND FROLIC Valdemar
ARTHUR MARLOWE
LITTLE SPRING SONG ..Thompson
SARA NELL AIKEN
DUET—’COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN .Thompson
MARTHA AND SHELBY LANGFORD
TROTTING PONY ....Watson
STEVIE BLACKSTOCK
PRELUDE IN A MAJOR „ i Chopin
SYBIL WATKINS
DISTANT BELLS ...'..1...- ...Streabbog
MARTHA ANN LANGFORD
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING ll Thompson
SARA NELL AIKEN
DUET—AT SCHOOL MARCH Streabbog
JANICE IRVIN AND MARTHA LANGFORD
AMERICA Henry Carey
SHELBY JEAN LANGFORD
PEASANT DANCE Folk Dance
JANICE IRVIN
LULLABY _____ Brahms
ARTHUR MARLOWE
The pilots flying “Operation Hay
lift” over the blizzard-bound West
last winter were very, very thor
ough; of this no one of more con
vinced than an old-timer of Natrona
County, Wyoming. Wrapped up in
a huge bearskin coat, he was driv
ing over a remote road when his
engine stalled.
He set out over the snowy wastes
towards the nearest ranch house,
and shortly he headed the roar of
an approaching plane. In a moment
a C-47 swooped low. The pilot had
sighted the lonely fur-clad figure
and dropped one bale of hay.
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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949
Two grizzled “ridge runners” from
the hills stopped on a street in town
to exchange the time of day. “How’s
things to home?” inquired one.
“Wal,” said the other, ’’the ole
Woman ain’t talkin to me this
mornin’ and I ain’t in a mood to
interrupt her.”
Aaron Burr was the first to organ
ize and manipulate the Tammany
Society for political purposes.
At least 60% of Chiang Kai-Shek’s
troops, or about 1,800,000 men, were
lost during 1948.
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