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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1950
Page
7
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Valenta of Corpus Christi spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. R. Valenta. Mrs. William Lee Young and children spent Friday and Saturday in Elgin with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Greenhaw.
Yale University researcher Dr. Leonald C. Strong reports that mice born to older mothers survive longer after malignant tumor development. In eight litters from the same dam, first litter mice averaged 52.4 days survival, rising to 130 days by the eighth litter, suggesting heredity and maternal age influence tumor resistance.
A UC study by Theodore H Bullock and Lillian R Berkowitz shows that a first nerve impulse can speed subsequent impulses up to 20 percent. Experiments on sea worms, earthworms, and frog nerves suggest a conditioning impulse accelerates conduction briefly, challenging prior beliefs. The work was funded by a US public health grant.
For bee feed, heavy syrup made from white sugar and water is best when feeding bees. Use two parts sugar to one part water for winter stores, and in cold weather raise to two and a half parts sugar with one part water, adding tartaric acid to prevent granulation and using boiling water to dissolve sugar. Fermented syrup, especially in metal containers, can be poisonous to bees.
Purchases of Series E savings bonds show a stable pattern where the $500 and $1,000 denominations contribute most to annual totals. The $1,000 bond averages about 42 percent and the $500 about 14 percent, together around 56 percent of E-Bond sales since 1947.
We thank the Moulton Fire Department for quickly extinguishing the grass fire at our place last week. Their rapid response is deeply appreciated by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Jaeggli.
Texans who lost political races may join the Defeated Candidates Club formed in Hearne Texas The club welcomes anyone who has run for any Texas office and been defeated At reunions there are veterans and new members and a winner who finally wins is admitted after a vote but a defeated candidate who wins is not easily admitted to the club's exclusive humor reinforced in Hearne Texas
The Texas Economy Commission adopts eight objectives to streamline government. It calls for examining current organization to remove duplication and waste, seeking legislative support for corrective bills, ensuring an efficient executive branch, and pursuing thrift. The TEC pledges education campaigns to gain public cooperation and keeps watchwords save eliminate combine.
Prospectors explore Baraga county in Michigan's upper peninsula near L Anse where new uranium pitchblende deposits lie along the Huron River. The rugged area, remote forests, and historic ties to Father Baraga mark a frontier scene with bears and occasional manhunts as explorers seek the No 1 atomic age metal.
A U S Department of Agriculture survey shows few farmers own both a truck and a trailer. About 40 percent of trucks are half ton or less. Wagons account for only about 2.5 percent of farm product tonnage hauled to markets with buyers and hired equipment handling significant shares.
Air minded Franklin attended balloon experiments in France where d Arlandes and Rozier rose about 500 feet in a free balloon from Le Chateau de la Muette, crossing the Seine and landing safely in Paris. That evening Franklin met Mongolfier and discussed the neglect of the experiment in England in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks.
Purchases of new life insurance by British companies last year pushed total ownership to a fresh high at the start of this year. Despite a drop in national savings, life policy holdings rose to 5.35 billion pounds by end of 1948, up 400 million in the year and 50 percent higher than a decade earlier. The 1949 new life insurance purchases around 550 million pounds exceeded the prior year by about 4 percent and doubled ten years ago.
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