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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1951
Page
4
Industry leaders warn annual meat losses exceed 30 million as bruising rises. A Chicago study Of hog carcasses shows 46 percent of bruises occur before shipment and 42 percent from canes and prodders. Training handlers and preventing overloading could cut bruising and losses. A 7 116 head cattle bruise study showed a similar financial impact.
The Agriculture Department urges Americans to plant liberty gardens as part of the Garden and Food Preservation Program. Citizens are asked to continue wartime traditions of victory gardens, boosting homegrown produce to improve diet, morale, and reduce living costs amid national defense efforts.
Carlotta Pretzer of Gar s designs an attractive front yard gate from an old hay rake wheel. She explains the spokes were cut and rewelded into a new frame and the handle crafted from leftover pieces. The simple project, she notes, was not difficult and adds curb appeal.
Michigan farm economists project net earnings to rise about 25 percent in 1951 over 1950. The 1950 average per farm was roughly $2,400, up from $1,800 in 1949, with the 1929-1950 average around $1,350, reflecting better-than-average farming conditions.
Vehicle ownership and highway travel are at all time highs with fuel consumption peaking far above prewar levels, signaling strong demand and expanded mobility. This surge reflects sustained postwar growth in car ownership and longer average travel distances.
Heavy demand for meat and dairy products in 1951 motivates farmers to protect spring pig, calf, and lamb crops. Recommendations include balanced rations with animal proteins and minerals, clean comfortable housing, birthing assistance, naval disinfection, proper nursing, colostrum for calves, clean water for pigs, alert for scours, vaccination around weaning, veterinary diagnosis for illness, and rapid corrective action to save young stock.
Readily forcing branches from pussy willow forsythia and Cornelia cherry indoors can yield blooms much earlier than expected. Lilac can be forced with large branches in a warm cellar, watered deeply in tubs and kept out of direct sun with tops sprayed to prevent drying. Use slanted cuts, lukewarm water, and partial shade as blooms begin.
A report cites gains in maternal and infant survival with mortality near 0.4 per 1000 births in Oregon in 1948 and modestly higher rates in Washington Utah and Connecticut. It notes infant deaths around 110000 before first birthday and puerperal causes claim fewer than 4000 maternal lives annually.
The Bartel Research Foundation and National Geographic Society report evidence that solar caused cosmic rays are produced by a sun based atom smashing process. Arctic aircraft counts showed a 15 percent rise in cosmic ray intensity at 100000 feet after a chromospheric eruption, while ground stations saw nothing. Dr. Martin A Pomerantz called the observation unlikely at about 6000 to 1 odds.
In the Ryukyu Islands a fine burial place for the dead is valued over housing for the living. Elaborate tombs of stone stand in sharp contrast to the huts often occupied by grave owners.
Lee Grabel billed as the world’s greatest living magician appears Saturday night April 21 at City Auditorium under Junior Chamber of Commerce auspices. Grabel’s two hour show starts at eight with Houdini trunk escape and other mysteries, plus comedy sequences, with admission 1.00 for adults and 0.50 for students. The Grabel company has drawn applause from thousands in the past year.
Lodgepole residents visit Sidney and Cozad for gatherings as WSCS meets in Cozad and OES guests attend in Chappell. The community mourns the death of Alta Kreider and extends sympathy. Several locals travel to Lincoln for family visits and to Omaha for other trips.
The Hungry Horse dam site on the South Fork of the Flathead River in Montana uses Pozzuolana, a volcanic dust from Pozzuoli near Naples. Romans used it 2500 years ago. here it is a fly ash sourced from chimneys, cheaper and potentially saving up to 4.5 million dollars on the project.
Instructions on preventing liquid leakage from bottles by sealing with cellophane tape, suitable for carriage in a glove compartment. Discusses methods to keep jet liquids from escaping and staining or damaging items during transport.
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