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ite-aU. Fourteen •M v'%S : •*h s£;>* #,• * 1THE McHEwRY jiI| By W. H. Tammeu* : ITie University of Illinois has _ja new wrinkle in handling leaves on the campus. A machine pul- ,ied by a tractor sweeps them up, >uns them through a grinder and spreads th^ flakes back on the |?rass. As diV as it is they sift down througn. the grass_ out of sight. No burning • ther A modern home, thffy say, is ja home where everything is run fcy switches t)ut the kids. The diamrtjsr of the world is fcitill the sarae but the circumference seems to be getting smaller. Just heard about my iname being mentioned in England. Dr. Richard Vycital, whose car I drove to New York last spring to ship to 'him in France, jecently met a Dr. Thomas in England who was here last August in the tour of 115 foreign economists we entertained cn Aug. 24. Had lunch last week one day "with Paul^ Serdar, Wadsworth, 111., president cf the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders association, and learned some things about the race horse business. He says Kentucky has everyone believing a horse has to be raised in Kentucky, on the limestone bluegrass, to be any good. He, an animal nutritionist, by trade, who taught the mink industry how to feed mink for fine furs, says there isn't a thing to it. Down there, he says, they • spread limestone on the land the? same as they do anywhere else. Have to get a stand of legume*. He says horses do better by far on alfalfa than they do on timothy 'hay or pasture. Have you analyzed many of your beliefs to see whether they can be proven scientifically? It is .interesting to unearth propaganda for what it is. * corn crop will* pull many" out of the squeeze eveil though they msy find the market loaded and prices depressed fcfhen thgjr go to sell the surplus. The hog price lag is on us a jnonth early this year. This was indicated months ago at the fall outlook meetings which some of you heard. It is chiefly b<»oause antibiotics have spea up the growth of hegs. Now we sell them at five months instead of si* months. Reminds me, I recently" found a gold medal I won in 1925, my first year in high school, for the third heaviest ton litter of hogs in Illinois that year. My eleven hogs weighed 2,550 pounds or an average of 231 pounds each at six months of age. I sold them for $13.25 per hundred weight and cleared, a clean $110. This was invested in a five tube squawkio. ' ' . The hogs were raised on corn tankage and red clover pasture. There are three guys I have no use for. The one who charges things with no intention of' paying for them; the one who will lie to you and the fellow who knows it all--the intellectual snob, so to speak. Outside' of technical facts I learn the most from kids because they are so frank. That is why 4-H club work is so fascinating. For instance, kids observe new things much more rapidly than older people because they do not have that scum of predjudice from past experience obscuring their vision. / 1" mm Traffic Accidents In Stat* Showed Decrease This Yea! It's about like the saying that a man is like a steamship--toots the loudest when in a fog or an empty wagon rumbles the loudest. .• Hogan will be the name* of five 4-H membersij^one club next year, Begorra. John Hogan has quite a family over west of Ringwood and the Mrs. told me five of them will be enrolled in the Busy Three club this year. Charlotte,' who is now at the University of Illinois on a 4-H wori scholarship,- is setting the pace and what a pace. She wins. Her sister, Mary, is having some interesting experiences paying bills for the county 4-H Federation of which she is treasurer. MIDWESTERN SCENE PAINTINGS SHOWN THROUGH NOVEMBER Saw pictures last week of soybeans in Fayette county sprayed with Dinitro at the rate of 6 pounds of 60 percent stuff per acre. The spray was put on right after planting. The future plan is to have a sprayer mount- j d on the planter with a nozzle I The public will be admitted right behind each planter run- ^ree- Hours are to be 9 a.m. to ner. Complete control of weeds 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, was had with this stuff while and 9 am- to 4 Pm- Saturdays where none was put on tnb, The galleries will be closed on weeds were is tall as the beans, i Sundays „ The fifty paintings of midwestern scenes which were chosen for prizes and honorable mentions from among the 3,400 whidh the Chicago Tribune Art Competition of 1952 attracted will be on display at the Chicago Galleries association; 215 N. Michigan ave.. frcm Nov. 3 through Nov. 22. This Is the same thing we used to use to stop chinch bugs in southern Illinois. Organic matter is the storehouse for water, 'minerals, air, nitrogen and everything else that goes to miue plant food. Are you keeping yours in good repair? Remember that the keystone for success in farming yj high yields. How is your warehouse? There are many farms with this warehouse in a horrible state of repair in McHenry county, we are finding as we pick up soil samples around the county. No wonder we find mineral tests low when the storehouse has been neglected. Most barns can be repaired, however, even thcugh the horse got out and has fled down the road to the elevator, milk plant or stockyards. If you plan to get a new horse, better plan a rotatisuB that will repair the barn. . Among Chicago scenes on dis play will be "'Street of Bargains." the painting of the Maxwell street area on Chicago's west side which won the $500 first prize for Frank J. Forstncger, 6606 S. Paulina st. The $250 prize painting of the horse show at the South Shore Country club by Ann McGuiness, a Michigan City, Ind., artist who now lives at 2506 E. 74th st.; #an interpretation of the Wacker drive area near the Opera house by George W. Mally, 7216 Coyle ave.; a painting of the railroad switching yards near 70th st. and Cicero ave., by Una Hollands, 107 Robsart rd„ Kenilworth, and several additional pictures of street and park scenes. Paintings inspired by Lake Michigan include $100 prize "Great Lakes Boats," by Wallace E. Brodeur, a native of Midland, Ontario, who now lives in Mt. Prospect, 111., and a sailing picture by George E. Moyer, of 710 In all recent annual and semiannual periods, increases have been shown in the number of traffic accidents reported in Illinois. It - appears that this succession of increases has now been broken, as the number of accidents reported in the first half of this year was 59,359 compared with 69,828 in the first half of 1951. This amounts to a reduction of 15 per cent. During the first ..half of this year, the number of accidents varied little from month to month, averaging close to 10,000 monthly-. In 1951, the aumber of accidents was abnormally high in the first three months due 'to weather conditions and this is believed to account for the major portion of the difference in acci? dent totals in the two years. In urban accidents, the decline this year was 17 percent compared with 6 per cent for rural area accidents. Decreases in accidents were registered for cities of all population classes. The smallest decline was 3 per cent for cities of 2,500 to 5,000 population and the greatest reduction of 21 per cent, was made in cities having more than 50,000 population. The only location category to show an increase in the number of accidents this year was county and local roads. The 2473 accidents dh these roads this year were 1 per cent more than the 2447 accidents in the similar period last year. Fatalities There were 928 traffic accident fatalities in the first naif of this year compared with 864 in the first half of 1951. The increase of 7 per cent this year is not particularly encouraging inasmuch as it exceeds the increase in the amount of travel, which was only 3 per cent. This caused the travel-death rate to rise from 6.6 to 6.9 deaths per hundred million vehicle-miles. Deaths due to rural traffic accidents increased ,16 per cent but urban traffic deaths were 3 per cent lower. All but two population classes of cities shofwed fatality reductions and one of these had the same number as in the first half of last year. In cities of 5 to 10 thousand population, there were 34 deaths this year compared with 22 last year, am increase of 55 per cent. In cities, pedestrian deaths de-" clined 8 per cent, from 204 to 187. Deaths due to collisions with fixed objects were 14 per cent l o w e r a n d i n r a i l r o a d t r a i n c o - lisions the decline was 19 per cent. injur** In the first half of this year, j injuries to 32,967 persons were reported, compared with 36,209 last year. This is a reduction of 9 per cent. Injuries due to urban accidents were 10 per cent lower and those due to rural accidents were 6 per cent lower. Half of the accidents on rural state highways were due to six apparent principal causes in both 1952 and in 1951. These were: 1. Too fast for conditions. 2. Reckless driving. 3. Disregarded signal. 4. Did not have right Of way. 5. Driver confused. 6. On wrong side of road. In 1952, percentage increases were shown in all of these causes with the exception of Driver confused, and On wrong side cf road. TINY TRANSITOR STEP FORWARD IN COMMUNICATIONS Dick Tracy's wrist radio took a step forward last week. Manager G. L. Wilburn, of the Illinois Bell Telephone company revealed that the transistor--a revolutionary tiny device abQUt the length of a thumb nail designed to take the place of a vacuum tube--went to work two weeks ago. It was the first time since its development several years ago by the Bell Laboratories that the transistor has been *sed in the nation's telephone network. .. Called by many the first serious rival of the vacuum tube, the transistor can do most of the things vacuum tubes can do . . and many other things besides. Compared to vacuum tubes the transistor is extremely small, more rugged, and requires less power. It also necessitates less maintenance. Eventually, said the manager, transistors, or similar devices, could be used in tiny electronic devices where size is essential, such as the Dick Tracy wrist radio . . . still in the realm of comic strip fantasy. The revolutionary new device is being ysed in a trial installation in dial switching equipment in Englewood, N. J. It is part of the customer long distance dialing service introduced by the Bell system there last year. Englewood customers can dial direct telephones in distant 6ities such as Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco. Wilburn said that the new transistor units at Englewood generate the electrical signals in which the numbers of the called telephone are sent from one central office to another. Instead of having the signaling equipment centrally located, as must be done when vacuum tubes are used, the new transistor equipment can be placed where it is needed. The transistor operates only when needed, unlike its vacuum tube counterpart, and uses very little power. Wilburn said that one unit can be operated o A less than half the power needed by an ordinary electric clock. On a single calE the unit is called into use for not more than two seconds. According to Wilburn, the new units are being used on a trial in Englewood. It is planthat transistors, besides use in oscillators, will be in other telephone equipwithin the next few basis tied their used ment Laurel ave., Wilmette, which There is every indication that I won one of the two $75 fourth farmers have less ready cash | prizes. Moyer is from Salem, Va. now than they have had in a long time, but the extra large Read the Want Ads BOLGER'S D R U G S T O R E FRESH (AXUY HEAUtyUAKTERS! months, »4r Dotdi Wm Diseaie Dutch elm disease is transmitted from diseased to healthy trees by elm bark beetles. Spraying to prevent the beetles from attacking your elms is paramount, a first order of business so to speak. ' BUSIEST CHEAPEST WORKERS IN TOWN! • FL^INDEALER WANT ADS USED RUGS For Sale TIDY RUG CLEANERS These Rags are Trade-ins on .New Rugs and Carpets by Uses for sale a|t 094 WASHINGTON 8T. WOODSTOCK, ILL. NAME COORDINATOR ' FOR CIVIL DEFENSE IN STATE SCHOOLS Vernon L. Nickell, state _ superintendent of public instruction, has announced the appointment of Merle G. Moore, director of education, and research and legal advisor to the Illinois Veteran's Commission since 19l^S, as coordinator for civil defense in Illinois schools. Moore, a native of Illinois, holds degrees from the . University of Illinois in physical education and educational administration, and in law from the Lincoln College of Law in Springfield. He served in various capacities in Illinois schools from 1926 to 1942, when he joined the United States army. He rose to the rank of captain and was given a disability discharge in 1945. As a member of the staff of the Illinois Veterans' Commission, he was an accredited representative of the Veteran's Administration for the presentation and expediting of claims on behalf of Illinois veterans. In commenting upon the creation of the new position and the appointment of Moore t - his staff, Mr. Nickell maae ?T»e following statement: " "Since the creation of, the federal civil defehse agency and the state civil defense organization it has become increasingly apparent that the office of public instruction should provide a trained educator who can work cooperatively with the state and federal agencies in the development of those policies and programs which affect all the schools, their* teachers, boards cf education, parent-teacher groups, local civil defense officials aijd the lay public. The long range requirements of an adequate civil defense program entail the dissemination of information, training- of skills, development of training aids, resource material, and the like. Obviously, the schools must assume their share of the responsibility in this important task. The very nature of such a program indicates that there must be a continuous long range approach to the educational problems involved. "Illinois, with its large population, and several cities in critical target areas, should take immediate steps to provide consultant services in the area of civil defense. This step has been taken with the appointment of Merle G. Moore as civil defense coordinator for the scftiools. His duties, as I envision them, will be as follows: «T bUMtttlhitidn df itif6rm*i tion to pupils, and tft turn to parents, ao as to allay fears, and to create an int iligent approach to Any emergent/. b. Such a program should provide for knowledge and understanding fof intelligent action in case of fire, flood, explosion or war, or other emergencies. c. Cooperation with federal, state, county and local civil defense officials. •d. Coopepration with teachers, boards of education. and parentteacher groups. e. Preparation of resource materials, training aids, bibliographies, etc. f. Assistance in the development of training courses with institutions of higher learning, special institutes for the lay public. g. Integration of civil defense in the existing curriculum program. ^ "The world situation demands that schools critically assay their total program so as to assure the safety and security of their children and to use their facilities and unique position to provide for the national strength and well-being of the nation. HANDICAPPED CHILDREN BENEFIT FROM $10,938 AID Special education claims under the Illinois program for the education of exceptional children have been certified to the state auditor for payment, Vernon L. Nickell, superintendent of public instruction, announced this week.' These pprograms extend all the way from classes in the home for physically handicapped children to the programs of public school districts in some counties which give complete coverage in the way of tutors, therapists, psychologists, specialized equipment, classes and schools. Under the law, school districts may establish special classes and services for handicapped children of the following types: physically handicapped, including deaf and hard of hearing, blind and defective vision, speech defective, cardiac, crippled, epileptic, children with lowered vitality, home-bound children, and those in hospitals and sanitariums. In addition, there are classes for the educable mentally handicapped and for socially and emotionally maladjusted children. Certified to McHenry county was $10,938.09. Subscribe To The Plaladealer 10 Our Whitman's refrigerator gives you kitchen candy all year ». get sent lay!. CHOCOLATES 1 •»>*. < * i !;> jH •***«• <«.?. WINTER BRINQS ADDED DANOER OF WOODLAN0 FIRES Danger of Are in the woods starts with the first frost. L. B. Culver, extension forester at the Illinois College of Agriculture, says that's when grass, weeds and leaves lose their summer's supply of moisture. Dead grass, weeds and leaves bring a fire hazard to the woods that lasts until' greenup time next spring. \ Culver points out that preventing fires from starting is much more effective and also cheaper than putting a fire out after it starts. It is especially important that you tell your friends, neighbors and hunters to be extra-careful with -fires and smoking in your timberlands when conditions have been as dry as they have been this fall in rrtost areas of Illinois. Fire can be disastrous to your evergreen plantation or windbreak if it gets started there, even though the trees are still green. The pitch in evergreens makes them burn readily. Other young, thin-barked trees m,ay be killed outright or permanently scarred by „ fire. Grass fires may not hurt older, thick-barked trees so much, but may still slow their growth considerably by scorching the shallow feeding roots and destroying the mulch that covers and protects them. It's easy to give your pine plantation protection, the forester says, by plowing and disking a cleared strip of land - around the area pf trees. Ai creek with water in % or a roadway also makes a good firebreak. It is sometimes a little more difficult to' protect your farm woodlands with firebreaks, but the principles are the same,., Burn trash only when the a^r* is qalm, and plow a firebreak around your fire as extra insuiv ance that the flames won*® spread. Be sure all cigarettes, cigars and other fires are completely out before you leave them. Best thing to do is grind cigarette and cigar butts int<* bare Remember, with a fir^ everybody loses. 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