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Feel The Weather In Their Bones For generations, arthritis suf- ferers have been insisting that when their joints brought pain, the skies would bring rain. This method of weather prediction has always been generally received with considerable skepticism by relatives and friends. But as the AAAS meeting, the arthritics' A traditional claim unexpectedly received the blessing of a sci- entist. In a unique, two-year study of the effects of climate on diseases, tonducted by Dr. Joseph Hol- ander of the University of Pen- asylvania School of Medicine, 30 irthritic patients were paired off ind sealed into a room-size cli- nate chamber for periods of two o four weeks. At first, Holland- rand his assistants, using a ystéem of air pumps and valves, raried only a single climatic fac- or, such as temperature or rate if air movement; none of the ubjects felt any ill effects. Then he investigators simulated con- litions that might precede a itorm: They made the barometric sressure in the room fall rapidly 'rom 31.5 to 28.5 inches; at the tame time, the humidity was in- creased from 25 to 80 per cent. [n eight out of ten cases, the arthritics experienced a stiffen- Ing and swelling in their joints. Some felt pain within minutes of the change. "Now," Dr. Hollander conclud- ed, "we have to find out why this bappens and how we can prevent it." Potato Growing A In Modern Style A brisk, winter wind blew across the long, flat fields of gi some of the richest farmland in "the State of Rhode Island. A large white building at the edge dominated this almost mid- western farm scene. The land.is part of one of the most successful potato operations £93) in the northeast -- Tuckahoe Farms, . In many ways the farm, own- ed and operated by Winfield Tucker, could be called a farm of the future. The large build- Ing houses the most modern storehouse facilities in the region. <TR 'Owning some 800 acres and ] leasing as many as 200 more, Mr. Tucker is a completely mechan- . ized potato farmer. By operating i two harvesters requiring two men - harvesters requiring two men each, he is able to cover as much as 21 acres an hour. His labor ~ costs have been cut in half with 2 complete mechanization, and he A : feels the machines have more 21 than paid for themselves. ol After the potatoes leave the EE E . field, conveyor belts place them SX : . 7 In the large storehouse. All 4 : storage is under controlled con- ditions of heat and humidity. © Since Mr, Tucker's potatoes are sold for potato chips all year long, it is very. important that they stay fresh. Although grown by contract with chip companies, a load of potatoes can be rejected if they don't meet freshness re- quirements. As evidence of the importance of freshness, Mr. Tucker has in- stalled a temperature scanning device which instantly reports 5 conditions in most of his 20 po- tato bins. . With recording cables in each Ps bin, the device can show tem- perature changes which indicate spoilage. If the bin is quickly unloaded a good many potatoes > can be saved, When potatoes are ready for shipping, most of them headed to Miami, Fla. by truck, samples LL from each load are sliced and fried for texture checks. Mr. Tucker and his employees don't eat the chips, they feel them and ISSUE 3 -- 1963 LAST MONTH ~ IN HISTORY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY ACCIDENT DEATHS | Sie NEW YEAR'S Over 600 37 miners die in mine explosion in Carmichaels, Pa, Nine New York newspapers close down in printers' strike. 844 Py ny | gb Mariner Il space probe | -- MN passes 22,000 miles from Venus. SRR poral EER ; <r Britain alrlitty 75,000 dockworkers strike] ast and Gulf coasts. J J on E 7 ST £8 Russia begins removal of jet bombers from Cuba, 1,113 Cuba invasion milli in qodds 1,000 relatives allowed to leave Cuba as "bonus." \ troops to Brunei, Born<o, to iW quell nationalist uprising, PN -- ~ holds first free elections is new president, Midwest hit by severe cold and snowstorms. | ~~ prisoners are released for $53 |-- Dominican Republic erst alnce 1924; libaral Juan Bosch A dailies goes into second week. Strike ogainst two Cleveland fay AR LLISREN 100 die in four-day London "Killer smo g. 1 Phe Wg Winter storm kills hundreds in Europe. ar DEC 29 President REISE] U.N. lounches new offensive against Kennedy addresses prisoners freed | U.S. sends military mission to nyestigate situation in the Congo. 'secessionist Katanga. Brazilion airliner crashes in jungle, killing all 50 aboard. LLISBEN President Kennedy, Prime Minister Mocmillan meet in k Bahamas, in midst of crisis over Skybolt missile; Britain agrees to accept Polaris missiles in its place. assau, PIGGYBIKE -- John Tobin and wife Jean go cycling with the baby snug in his wind- shield-equipped rumble seat on John's tricycle, in Kent, England. look at them, writes Mike Born in the Christian Science Monitor. Experts say that chips sold in New England can be much dark- er than those sold in the South. Some of Mr. Tucker's crop goes to plants in Rhode Island. Unlike producers of table-use potatoes, chip growers have been doing well financially, Mr, Tucker, a modern business- man and a graduate in agricul- tural engineering from the Uni- versity of Rhode Island, is repre- sentative of the "new breed" of New England farmer. With the help of his engineer- ing background, he always tries to meet problems in his operation with new devices. He has engineered most of the technical operations in his up-to- date storehouse. Many of these have been used by other pro- ducers. } As a farmer, Mr. Tucker has been quick to try new ideas and methods, On some of his fields he has produced over 400 bags of potatoes an acre through use of scientific soil preparation and planting methods. He also applies pesticides by plane and helicoper for efficien- cy and to keep soil from becom- ing packed by too much machine usage. : The golden age never leaves the world; it exists still, and shall exist, till love, health and poetry are no more--but only for the young. --Bulwer-Lytton. 7. Venerable 81. Winglike CROSSWORD : yori, non "pisifre a 9. Three-sided 32. Withstood figure 34. Revolve i P Z 10. Color 85. Weep 11. Affirmative 3 ens ' ACROSS 63. Convey 17. Afternoon Spy 1. Box property party 38. Social 6. Deer track DOWN 19. Mineral division 2 9. Pronoun 1. Headliner 22, Droop 40. Unaspirated { 12.1 : hig 23. Short visit 41. 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THEFARM FRONT For those who treasure a mem- ory of simple Christmas festivi- ties on the farm, here is a reas- suring report: Modern life presses in, but neither mechanization of the farm plant nor encroachment of subdivisions has urbanized Christmas observances on the farm. They are stil homey, still simple. This week we looked in on the Fred Proctors here in Walworth County, a prosperous dairy sec- tion in the southern part of Wis- consin. We wanted to sce how a farm family with children gets ready for the holidays. Do they rush to the shopping centers to do their gift buying as so many city folk do? Do they stock up at the supermarket and city bakery, now that they find it so easy to drive to town? Do they look to the city for holiday entertain- ment? LJ * LJ The answer to all these ques- tions' is mostly no, to judge by the Proctors. (We chose this family 'because folks here consider their home fairly typical -- a good 181-acre working farm with mod- ern equipment and a family that stands for what is good in com- munity life.) We also visited the Earl Brays who will have five married child- ren, 18 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren with them for the holiday, to see how older folk adjust to today's ways. We found that they, too, find holiday joy in the reunion of loved ones and in simple entertainment in home and church. LJ * LJ On a cold bright morning the week before Christmas we drove into the Proctors' barnyard, re- turned the inquiring stare of two Guernsey cows looking over a fence, and knocked on the back door. A smiling woman with sparkling black eyes invited us in. Her farm kitchen looked disap- pointingly modern to one looking for old-time atmosphere. It was equipped with cabinets, electric appliances, two electric ranges. But the baking fragrances that permeated the air were the deli- cious kind that used to come from the oven of the old black coal- stoked stove, Bread was getting crusty-brown in one oven, cook- ies in the other. Florence Proctor pulled out a pan of dainty, pale-green butter cookies and explained the two stoves. "I won this one three years 'ago in a Grange baking contest. The other we had." * LJ] LJ Mts. Proctor will bake four or five more batches of cookies of other kinds before she's through, The four children at home -- Bob, Ed, Bonnie, and Dale -- will he wanting to take cookies to part- ies, and the two girls at the state university, due home the end of the week will surely enjoy moth- er's baking. As for bread, it won't last long, - She will bake again several times before Christmas, Now the cookies had cooled and we tasted them, "You used real butter," I said, "Yes, home-made butter," Mrs, Proctor replied. "Our Guernsey milk is so rich I take off some of the cream and churn it. It's not hard work. I use my big electric mixer to whip the . cream, the one I use for mixing bread." LJ LJ LJ Mrs. Proctor went from the 'cookies to cranberry salad, some- thing she was stirring up for the home-makers* club which was having a Christmas party the next day, This is an extension-service activity for both farm and town | | Each member women. something to eat for the party and a little inexpensive gift. Mrs. brings Proctor is taking a towel she made. There will be school concerts and church programs, and these cannot be missed because the Proctor children will participate. Saturday night will be an espec- ially full evening. After two hours of milking (even with machinery it takes time to milk 50 cows) the family will divide and go off in two directions. The children will attend a 4-11 Club party, given in honor of a girl member who is about to take off for Australia in an American field-service project. The older | members of the family will drive to Waukesha, Wis., for the an- nual party of the milk-marketing cooperative to which they belong. The Golden Guernsey Christ- mas Party is always a gala occa- sion. All the milk shippers who are members and their families Proctor will probably just look at television a while and retire early. . . LJ This Christmas morning is go- ng to be a special one, for the parents decided to give the fam- ily an unusual present -- an elec- tronic organ. Mrs. Prdetor said they really needed another silo --- they have only one -- but they figured that can wait while the time for the organ is now when the children are around to enjoy it. Both Virginia and Edith, the college girls are good musicians, and Bonnie, the high- school freshman, has had seven years of lessons, writes Dorothea Kahn Jaffe in the Christian Science Monitor, Ll] * . Christmas dinner at the Proc- tors" will be a jolly time, because all eight of the family will be to- gether. "We won't have turkey ba- cause we have a lot of hens in our freezer," Mrs. Proctor said. "We'll probably just have old- fashioned chicken stew and some vegetables I've frozen, and ice cream and cookies." The house will be gay with greens and a Christmas tree which the child- ren trim. with Christmas night. The following Saturday the Grange has its party --- a pot-luck supper and a Activities won't end rogram by the children. The and all the employees of the co- br > e ° tae Te operative and their families are | Taco on i fective Urange Invited. Some 1,200 persons at- family. One o the girls 15 a tend. The auditorium of the Wau- | member of the national Grange kesha High School is rented for | Youth Committee. , the occasion, a speaker Is engag- ¢ t ¢ ed, and a Santa Claus Is commis- | How do the older farm families gioned to distribute presents -- | spend Christmas? Mrs. Proctor cheese, ice cream, or some other | went to the phone and called Mrs, product of the cooperative. At Bray, whose husband has lived the same time the annual dis- on the same farm for 73 years bursement of proceeds (divi- (she came there as a bride many dends) of the cooperative takes ears ago) and told her we would place. * . LJ] ("It's nice at this time when you have Christmas bills coming up," says Fred Proctor.) On Sunday the Proctor fam- | ily will go to a brother's home for dinner, then, after coming home for milking, they will drive to church. Christmas Eve the children go caroling at the county home in a young folks group from the Bap- tist Church. Fred and Florence Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking a/3[3[aM 33d [A] JO[ LI IBM LIN| | Jv AVS LIL vw O[8|V|1 M.-L 12 (*]}) Os] |a]d in) 9 L|0jo (e) Ec] (o] I jo) vid S t=1{e) (*] e over. A short drive took us to a relatively modern house on the old farm. "Our family has outgrown our house," said Mrs. Bray cheer- fully. "We now have to go to our daughter's farm when we all want to get together. Our house just won't hold everybody." The Brays have 5 married children, 18 grandchildren, and 3 great- grandchildren, making a total of 36 people at a gathering, if all come as they usually do at Christ- mas. - LJ . Mrs. Bray gives each one a present. It is her joy to do it. She showed us all of them, each wrapped in fancy ribbon ties ex- cept those for the little boys, which she did up in what she called "a tailored style." On Christmas Eve Mr. Bray will take all the packages over to the home of the married daughter who has a big recreation room. Every- body will be there, and. it will ba a jolly time with Santa giving out the presents. "Our boy 'Butch' ig always Santa," Mrs. Bray said. "He's done it for years, has five child- ren of his own now. I made his first Santa suit. His wife made the one he wears now. There'll be a little lunch after the pre- sents -- sandwiches, jello, Christ- mas cookies » . . "Christmas Day? No, we won't be together. The families will divide up and go to their in-laws. I want them to do that. I don't believe in being selfish." As we turned our car back to Chicago we passed a rural mall- box covered with greens and tled with an enormous red bow. One by one the wreaths were being hung on doors. There seems very little strain and much joy in the holiday that centers in the farm home. Don't Throw Out That Kitchen Range Can separate automatic appli- ances such as frypans, portable ovens, and so on, replace the klt- chen range? The housing research division of the U.S. Department of Agri- culture has conducted an experi- ment to find out. The answer: Could be, but not likely. } It 1s indeed possible to substi- tute portable electric appliances for the ordinary electric range and come up with an entire meal. [t takes more time, but less electricity. The department worked out two menus and com- puted the cost. One meal used $2.83 worth of electricity to pre- pare on the range, compared to $1.94 on portable appliances. These appliances were an elec- tric frypan, one three-quart and one five - quart saucepan, and one portable electric oven. On a 30-inch electric range, the department experimenters used a regular frypan, one three- quart. and one six-quart sauce- pan. Total cost of the portable equipment: $116.14. Cost of the range plus regular utensils: $164.91 or up to $274.91, depend- ing on type of range). But don't throw out that range. Portable appliances are fine, but, when liquid has to be drained off, there is a cord to be discon- nected and looped over the hand. "A very awkward procedure," commented the testers. Controls on some pans are not always easily visible. Foods have a tendency to scorch unless tem- perature is carefully regulated. French-frying potatoes "proved to be a problem" and took al- most twice as long as in a non- electric appliance, test cooks re- ported. Two employees were discuss- Ing their boss. "You can't help Hking the blighter," said ope. "If you don't, he fires you." RU By Rev. R. B. Warren, B.A., B.D, Jesus Begins His Work Mark 1: 14-28, 32-39 Memory Scripture: The Spirid of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenheart- od, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of gighg to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:18-19. Jesus followed the pattern of the prophets and of John in preaching repentance. His mes- sage was "Repent ye, and believa the gospel." There has never been an adequate substitute for this message. We must repent before we can have faith. We must face up to our sins and be sorry enough for them to forsake them before we can obtain forgiveness. The old-fashioned message of re- pentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is just what this world needs today. Joining the church doesn't change the inner man. We are sinful and can only be saved from our sins in the way which Jesus himself prescribed. It isn't simply making a new re- solution. It is a new birth. The first four of the men whom Jesus called to be with him were fishermen. These men had soma qualities which they were able to put to good use in fishing for men The most important work which Jesus did was in freeing people from the oppression of the devil. We incline to avoid the word 'sin'. Instead we speak of personality problems, environ- ment and heredity. People prefer the psychiatrist's couch to the mourners' bench. Selfishness and pride lie at the basis of man's need today. Many say there is no devil but many people act liko the devil. Jesus Christ who over- came the devil in the temptation in the wilderness, ousted him from the place of dominion in many lives during his ministry. On the cross and in his resurrec- tion he proclaimed his authority over death, man's last enemy. His ministry of healing was an ex- pression of his compassion for man in all that has come upon him through the fall. It was an unmistakable sign of his powey When men saw the lame wali and the blind sce, they could not believe that when he forgave sins, sométhing really happened to them. In his life Jesus showed us the way of salvation; in his death and resurrection, he opened tha door for us to enter. Let us en- ter. SUSPENSEFUL RIDE -- A cabl on an aerial tramway that ca of Stone Mountain. The "airlin e car descends at a sharp angle rries passengers to the summit e" was built by Swiss engineers, 1962--IN F 3 APRIL ISTORY Rule tonchtrin = Into orbit. nani Gina] ; ndia, iF U.S. resumes nuclear tests in Pacific, ET -- Dutch, Indonesian | agreement on West New Record off-year vote gives Democrats sweep In Congress, GOP captures state houses, Kennedy backs down Big Steel on rice increase, Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, L i Marilyn Monroe dies of sleeping pill overds-s, / / / Kennedy asks record L$92.5-billion peacetime budget. | -- i 1 Federal troops go to U. of Mississippi in wake of integration violence. \ ) Col, John H, Glenn Jr, is erican to go into space mm Stock market | Fh v2 fot Ga tokes worst dive newspapers closed down "Powers SEL Cay since 1929, in strike, "f{Rwavian spy Rudolf Abal, or 0 pl aE (244 ATI goptanseaey Snow, § 0 Kennedy, |. bi Xe fo er a n, gales lash / Macmilla a 21st deumenicol ast Coast. |/--- J | I {council of Roman Catholic [ISN Prasident reveals Russion missiles in | Cubo, orders blockade; Reds pull them out. || -- apse LJ ---- Telstar communications satellite orbited. * \ "AUN U.S. launches Marinet Il to Venus. Dominican Re first fos ahectioms eee Ion --~-- \ inea ends fighting, 4,000 parsons, 12 villages buried. in Peruvian avalanche, | TS ~ \ Tr 1,113 Cuba invasion prisoners 7 released for $53 million, olgn coon. rr - sro Illy roi oo C urch opens, on "hs ds Adolf | Eichmann hanged, re to ond Agra, Frons TVa-year war, Bn he Maal, a0 i