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Show ' THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH FAMOUS LITTLE TOWN Askov, Minnesota, Known as Rutabaga Capital of U.S. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By E. L. KIRKPATRICK WNU By VIRGINIA VALE Feature. There are numerous capitols of America, including National at Washington, Swiss Cheese at Monroe, Wis., and Rutabaga at Askov, Minn. Last named is smallest of these three but its work in the field it represents is plenty heavy on per capita population & basis. Picture a town of 300 people around which is grown and through which is marketed 400 carloads of rutabagas per year. Most farmers in the community grow at least a half acre; some as many as 40 acres, depending on the prospective market. Eight tons per acre is a good yield. Price sometimes goes to $40 a ton, but is more likely to be around $20. Rutabagas fit well in the communitys dairy farming rotation, soil variations and family unit farming. OLDEST HOUSE . . . This adobe structure, said to be the oldest They thrive in soil too heavy for house in the United States, is a popular tourist attraction in Santa potatoes, and farmers who are Fe, New Mexico. A part of the house has been restored in recent them say, you cant beat growing years. bagas for a cash crop. So well is the crop liked that before the war, Askov staged annual rutabaga fesIn These United . tivals, which likely will be resumed this year. p Also a Capitol. In addition to rutabagas Askov p makes a strong bid for U. S. Capitol. Among the active local groups are Creamery SALT LAKE CITY. On July 24, this year, Pioneer Day will be association, handling whole milk celebrated in every community in Utah to mark the date when, 99 and making Land O Lakes butter; States Utah Has Set 1947 as. Year For Centennial Celebration years ago, Brigham Young and his Salt Lake valley. As on each July 24, the 1946 celebration will be one of the biggest events of the year. Since July 24 is a state holiday, all business will be suspended and covered wagons, Mormon handcarts, and will pass in review in parades all over the intermountain territory. But the big celebration will be held in 1947, which marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Brigham Young and his group. The state legislature in 1939 passed a bill setting apart the year 1947 for the centennial. This Is the Place. One of the features will be a wagon train of pioneers, starting at the site of the winter quarters of 1846 near Omaha and following the original pioneers trail into Salt Lake valley. The train will enter at the spot where Brigham Young looked out over the desert and said: This is the place. That was on July 24, old-time- rs 142 Great Salt Lake Will Dry up Next 300 Years in' If the gen- the Great Salt lake for the past 96 years continues for another 300 years, the lake will be as dry as the famous Bonneville salt flats,, according to Ralf R. Woolley, senior hydraulic engineer, U. S. geological 1847. The centennial commission ap- survey. Supporting this speculation is pointed by Gov. Herbert Maw inthe fact that Great Salt lake is clude John M. Wallace, chairman of a mere remnant anyway all the finance committee ; Ward C. Holis left of a once great fresh that brook, John F. Fitzpatrick, Frederwater lake that, in ages past, ick P. Champ, Judge James A. Howas much area as the covered ell and Gus P. Backman, members. present Lake Michigan. EviBackman was also selected as didences of this lake are numerrector of the centennial celebration. ous in the geology of the reAlbert J. Southwick, Salt Lake City gion, noticed by practically everyone living here. The recording of Great Salt lake elevations started in 1850, three years after the arrival of the Mormon pioneers. Since that time, although there have been ups and downs, the general trend t)f the lake has been a loss of one foot of depth every 15 years. Found a Cure for Devoted Lifetime to Making World Clean - The sub-statio- z, Mr. VALENTINE, NEBR. and Mrs. Wm. Roe parked their pickup on Main street one evening recently, and shortly afterward Buck Junod, who was standing near by, heard roost- -' ers erowing. But we dont have any roosters in the pickup, protested the Roes. the fact that its airport is suit3. ... ns Co-O- N co-o- Planes for Harvesting I fly ahead, spot fields of ripening wheat, land and make deals with farmers, fly back, see how the work is coming along, take repair parts to distant towns where I learn by long distance that spare parts can be had. My plane has saved a lot of bread, recently declared Gene McGill of Avard, Okla., president of the National Flying Farmers asso- de- Roosters Motored to Town for Night Life MANKATO, MINN. R. G. Bach-ertage 70, has devoted most of his life to making' this a cleaner world. Broom making is my hobby, vocation and recreation, he declares after 58 years in the business and for half a century the owner of the Mankato broom works. Bacheftz makes five kinds of regular brooms, whisk brootns, toy or junior brooms and miss of Co-O- partment of agriculture scientists started out to find a way to battle troublesome tomato plant wilt. They discovered a chemical called tomatin which combats the wilt. But they discovered something else, although they insist it is still in the test tube stage. Tomatin will combat fungus organisms which plague human beings, and may be the source of a new ;drug to fight athletes foot! They have found it powerfully active against the widely prevalent ringworm fungi which often attacks the feet, hands, face and scalp. v Bar-fiel- d, able for planes as big as the DC-. . . Mrs. Mary Longcor, age 85, wrote cards to her friends and took notes for her diary while she flew from her home in South Bend, Ind., to Cleveland, Ohio her first trip The Champion Wright by plang. . flying service, municipal airport, Oxford, Miss., has been approved for veterans flight training. . . . Franklin, N. C., has taken to fly- -' in in a big way, and even the local dentist and the telephone man and a dozen others have learned to At an air show at Easton, solo. Norman Harrington Md., recently, Askov association, sellof flight lessons early a series began p ing flour, feed and seeds; Pine one Satuday morning and was Oil association (centered in Asfor solo flight at three oclock kov with three in neigh- ready that afternoon. It was a stunt, of boring villages) selling gasoline, oil, course, to show how easy it is to hardware and appliances; Askov learn to Orth, Maryland Livestock Shipping association, Airlines fly. Hank was the instructor. pilot, trucking livestock to South St. Paul; p Federated Trucking associaPlane Keeps em on Farm tion, hauling agricultural products The private airplane should help and supplies; and to stop the decline of our farm popMercantile association, operating a believes Harry Woodhead, ulation, grocery store. president of Consolidated Vultee. There are still other groups, such He out, for one thing, that as the Askov Buying club, organ- farmpoints boys are going to have an adized by the high school students to vantage over most city boys in readpurchase supplies for their own use ; ier access to the use of a plane. p the Askov guild, acting as a This fact should keep many young discussion club, and meat rings fur- fellows at home. Their sisters will nishing fresh beef, direct from lo- be able to get an order delivered cal farms to members, weekly. by air express from a catalogue in two days as fast as most city All Community Shares. Both farmers and townsmen are folks can get a delivery from a local department store. That will exshareholders in all of the farm life, too. Equally imhelp cept the creamery, feed store and the plane will put the city trucking groups which deal strictly portant, and distant friends in easy reach with agricultural products and supof every farmers family it will town in retired farmers plies. Many add dimennew an social entirely still hold shares in several of these sion to rural living. , enterprises and take an active part in the meetings. Askov has a CAA NOTES marked interdependency between CAA Administrator -- J. P. Wright townsmen and farmers in business, social activities, family ties, school, has estimated that flying activities and the one church, Danish Luth- are now more than 1,000 per cent above the 1935 status. Air traffic coneran. at city airports has alThis interdependency, as well as gestion reached alarming proporthe habit of dates from ready tions. . . . Registration of aircraft the start of the Askov community by will beup towilldate by July 1, and families from the Danish Peoples fast service be provided for airsociety of America who just 40 years craft purchasers and finance comago looked for and found a home thereafter, says F. M. Lan-te- r. where they might live and prosper. panies . . . But club ownership of an and Together they have airplane introduces new headaches prospered, making their community for all concerned, particularly if the stand out in more ways than one plane is mortgaged. . . . Private as a capitol. enterprise will construct many new airports before the federal funds get into the hands of cities. Plant Wilt and THE SENTINEL . . . Rocky pinnacle in Zion National park, 'Utah. There are many dude ranches in this area. AIRPORT CHATTER The navy has announced that near Foley, Ala., will be closed not later than September 1. . . . Sturgeon Bay, Wis., is proud Co-O- eral downward trend in the level of WASHINGTON, D. C. "AVIATION NOTES ZACHARY Co-O- musician, is chairman of the Days of 47 pageant committee. The rich Salt Lake valley of today was a bleak desert when the pioneers arrived. Only one tree was to be seen on the site of what is now Salt Lake City. The pioneers built dams in the mountains to store water and dug ditches to carry it to their crops. Athlete's Foot 9 as Co-O- travelers entered Great SALT LAKE CITY. ' s SCOTTs thrifty early-Texsettler, save not only the first silver dollar he earned, but the first two, and they brought him luck. Scott, who inherited the lucky silver dollars and had them converted into cuff links, eivdently didnt have them on ZACHARY Junod made an investigation, however, and found three roosters. They were perched on the drive shaft beneath the car where they had gone to roost and ridden to town with the brooms, and estimates that he has ' Roes. turned out over a million of them. ciation. SCOTT the day he was riding an old mare for a scene in Cheyenne and pretending that he knew nothing about riding. Or maybe the luck brought by the dollars has worn out. Anyway, he acquired a dislocated Grandpa didnt even know he had one! Scott is taking no chances now; if you look sharp, youll see that hes wearing those silver dollars in Warner Bros sac-roilli- ac. Stallion Road. Lou Costello has a hobby, followed between broadcasts of the Tuesday NBC Abbott and Costello show Its collecting historic and unusual sheriffs badges. Recently he received one of his best, sent him by the High Sheriff oi Nottingham, England. That brings the collection up to 100, and hes on the lookout for at least that many more. Nita Hunter, a singes who was born in St. Louis, Mo., has been set by Buddy Rogers and Ralph Cohn to play the title role in Comets musical, Miss Television. David Bruce and Cleatus Caldwell are the pictures ro- mantic leads. Nita plays a singer. Then, when Director Reginald LeBorg finishes, she marches off to the schoolroom! twice-divorc- ed Paramount Jerry Fairbanks, shorts producer, is lining up the shooting of Elliott Murphys Mr. in Technicolor, Winkles Holiday just as its being presented. Its ar Aquaretta a combination of musical comedy, revue, water show anc operetta appearing where Billy Rose staged his Aquacade during the New York Worlds fair. June Earing, the swimming star, is being eyed by- the movies talent scouts, who consider her a rival oil Esther Williams ; shes a former national and metropolitan AAU backstroke champign. - 100-yard- s Bill Slater, master of ceremonies-oRight Down Your Alley, is get- f ting letters from bowling clubs all over the country offering to pay their own way to New York if hell get them on the program. Unfortunately, Bill picks his contestants from those who are relaxing at a New York bowling alley on Sundays; like the other quiz shows, this one is strictly on the level. , Farms in Two States FLIGHT ENGINEER Cpl. Mary Torchy years old, from Gary, assigned to the west . . . WAC West, 23 Okla., is coast air transport command and claims the distinction of being the only woman checked out as a flight engineer on transoceanic trips. She has made five round trips to Ha- John Hueske farms 2,200 acres in Washington county, Colo., and owns an interest in an implement business there. He lives in Adams county, Nebr., . 225 miles away, where he owns 400 acres of land and operates an airport. He makes a round-tri- p flight each week to Colorado to look after his interests there. Aunt Cissie Bartholomew felt about Freddies marriage; after all, she brought him up and promoted his movie career made him, what he is today. Well, now Aunt Cissie is promoting a career of her own; shes signed for a supporting career in Paramounts er the Big Town. I Cov- Professor Quiz is still sorting; questions listeners have sent him; during his first seven years on the air, he requested questions from his listeners so his hotel room is filled with files, and in his spare moments Quiz digs around in them for the queries we hear on the air. His staff checks the authenticity of every question before he uses it. waii. As Win, 162 to 11 The PhilPHILADELPHIA. adelphia Athletics defeated Williamsburg 100 to 8 in a morning game, and that afternoon beat the Danville, Pa team 162 to 11. A1 Reach scored 34 runs. The date was October 20, 1865. Theres been a lot of talk about how football player Tom. Harmon has been signed for a role-iGentleman Joe Palooka, now before Monograms cameras. This is Harmons first picture since he starred in Harmon of Michigan.' His wife, Elyse Knox, has the feminine lead. an THE BEE . . 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