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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1955
Page
3
A collage of household care guidance on kitchen sanitation and storage alongside curious statistics. It mentions saving drippings by lining the broiler area, storing spices, and drying towels, then shifts to rapid facts about electricity use, water waste, eyewear prevalence, bird wings, Okinawa dams, radio ownership, and Liechtenstein's sovereignty since 1342.
Toris Day, long regarded as the all American girl next door, appears in Teve Me or Leave Me on Columbia Records and is photographed for an album cover. NBC Tonight show and Mary Ford with Les Paul are noted as TV talents facing tough competition. Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes cited as another real life pair.
Doris Day shows her usual high standard in Two Hearts Two Kisses with Foolishly Yours as a strong flip. Johnny Ray shines on Thine Eyes Are a Dove while Flip Flop and Fly backs the reverse. Luna Simms heads toward motherhood amid her show success with La La La and The Siamese Cat Song.
Missouri agronomists report that fertilized corn develops a deep root system reaching three to six feet to tap subsoil moisture. Unfertilized plants stay shallow, yielding far less water and grain. Contour plowing and leaving land rough help conserve moisture so fertilizer can boost yields.
A luncheon dish idea features whole tomatoes baked with lobster rice and peas. The recipe serves 6 medium tomatoes, lobster, cooked rice, onion, butter, peas, salt and pepper, baked 15 to 20 minutes at 375 F. Prepare in advance and reheat before serving.
Lambs fed corn silage as their only roughage for 70 days in Minnesota gained at a similar rate and cost per pound of gain as those fed alfalfa. Corn silage fatteners averaged higher intake, about 2.3 lb daily, versus 1.5 lb for alfalfa. Despite equal gain, carcass quality favored alfalfa fed lambs, and corn silage cost 25 cents less per 100 pounds. Both groups received comparable concentrates including shelled corn and soybean meal.
Normal operation of an electric stock fence can be quickly determined from any field point with a simple testing device. A 10 inch dry wood piece holds a neon bulb centered, connected to a brass strip on the end and a brass chain that trails to ground. When the chain touches the ground and the strip touches the fence the bulb lights to indicate normal operation.
Wrinkles appear on the chin and neck around thirty five. Corrective posture and simple exercises help firm contours for years. Sleep posture matters. use a small pillow. Chin and neck exercises involve head turns and a forward thrust. Gentle massage with cream aids relaxation and astringent water finish tightens the jaw line.
A New York report cites insurance data indicating American workers suffer fewer on the job accidents than off duty. Off the job deaths vary by occupation with many groups, including mills and furniture workers, showing all or most fatalities off duty. White collar and service workers also report few job fatalities.
In Ann Arbor Dean Willard C Olson of the University of Michigan School of Education argues that adjusting education to individual differences among children is a major contemporary challenge. He says variability in motivation and future goals adds to measurable physical and intellectual differences, and that current college admissions methods miss many talented youths needing longer training.
The Smithsonian’s newest entry to the biological collection is a balanoglossus discovered at Grand Isle, Louisiana. Dr. Harry J. Bennett and six helpers spent half a day carefully extracting the fossil-like worm from beach sand to avoid damaging it. Similar specimens have been found only as fragments, with some reports of six feet in length.
In a humorous incident San Antonio Ranger Zono Smith recounts a wealthy rancher who was picked up drunk in Fort Worth. To verify his identity the man asked police to call his home county sheriff who had him bray on the line. The sheriff certified the cry as genuine.
In Latham New York Edward Onyon reported his hen laid a monster egg measuring about four inches long and six inches in circumference. The bird died beside the oversized egg and the owner described the discovery as remarkable.
General Electric executive Karl H. Runkle told a farm electrification conference that by 1965 the average American dairy farmer will use 400 percent more electric power, about 32 000 kilowatt hours annually for roughly $60 a month. He urged farmers to streamline operations and raise efficiency with electric labor-saving devices to survive upcoming years, predicting even greater use by 1956 and noting eggs and poultry automation developments ahead.
U S Department of Agriculture scientists produced a new grade of direct consumption sugar from sugar cane. The process uses ion exchange resins to purify cane juice, yielding sugar suitable without refining for candy and confections. Under Louisiana conditions the yield could rise 12 to 15 pounds per ton of cane. Similar gains likely in Florida Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The candy industry seeks high quality sugar at low cost and turbinado sugar already supplied such needs for caramels and coatings.
Dr. Stephen Raleigh, Penn State agronomist, demonstrates Amizol herbicide at the boundary between treated and untreated corn rows. Rank growth of quack grass in the left section is halted after application to the right side.
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