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Show mmm Pwe M WA. .rV!A!3J!W:W 1 ' '! J - " J' X$wf 1 52, -- S , '-St . V .a.,- - j ' V-- -. ' V ;4 j' tf i, ' , 'V V-- i ''-- ' 7 iiarAv''IU-- , v;?; receives gift . . 19. o( Grimm FFA Douglass B. A.t: , '.si- - 'V, . s , - 7i- J,.-- , .vjpr - Liadiuic . W. Jr V., president of Fi-U- rc of America, look as John E. Kraft, president of trait i iHid company, signs $5,009 rkrrk for the FFA foundation. The termer (Mud-ilio- a sponsor vsrious ssards and prises throufhout the a (inn. Foresters Speed Lumber To Fill National Shortage SWISS CRASH IIERO . . . Brit. Gen. Ralph Tate Sr., Is shown with .'.is son, Capt. Ralph Tate Jr., after the Utter had been brought to Meiringer, SwitierUnd, by one of the Swiss rescue planes. Captain Tale was pilot of the plane that crashed on the rugged glacier. His mother wss one of the passengers. Airmen say that the capUlns feat g of the plane on the rugged glacier without loss of life v j ' ' ' i JOINS 'BIG FOUR . . . M. de taint Hardouin, French ambassador to the V. S., who recently arrived in Washington. m ff&ar ... XILROY WON STREETCAR Winner sf a contest sponsored by American Transit sssociaUon with letter on subject, "Kilroy Wss Here, James Kilroy, Halifax, Mass., his wife and nine children take over their prixe s streetcar. The car will be moved from the Boston elevated yards to Halifax, where the Kilroys will remodel and use it for on addition to their present home. The youngsters cUim it will make nn ideal pUy room. I ' ' MUsek, Fal- center, is not the only that has been surprised this year. As the elusive ball bounces m it merry way the Detroit player looks with a forlorn expression at New York player. cons' bas-kete- er NIC ' sorclv-neede- sometimes seems likq a century tod hordes of hungry house hunieri especially those relegated to living with "Today the product of standing trees can be unloaded at a lumber yard hundreds of miles from the forest in a matter of two or three weeks. foresters report. Dryisg Expedited. Buck in the old days when most of the work of lumbering was done hand, many months were to produce finished lumber from growing trees. One of the longest delays was in drying or curing the rough boards before they were sent to the planing mill. In drying yards after the wind and sun and rain had done an unpre-th- e dictable Jb boards curin. piles one by one and inspected, all the work done by hand. Today the most commonly accepted method of drying lumber is kiln drying where cross ventilation takes out the excess moisture. Other lumber. Today the time lapse has been shortened from months todays, which should encourago those who still are waiting for lumber for that new house. The cutting of trees Is a operation, even when the snows come. During the war, Idaho timber worker cut trees In snow from 9 to 11 feet deep. Ordinarily, however, they hold their winter operations to areas where snowfall is lighter. Staid Boston Has Psychology Lauded s. . . . Stan PROGRESS OF COAL STRIKE Stanley Jarsabeks am lie turned to a mars scrims expression as the coal strike continued. As seen la these two views sf the New Krssingtoa miner, the first, left, token as he left the llsrmar mine at llarmarville, Ps. At right, after he had hem snt an strike for several daya and things didnt took ss brighl. Many sf the miners have been spending their "vacation gathering weed. BOISE, IDAHO. Idaho's towering forests are playing an effort to alleviate the nation's important role in the all-olumber shortage. Speed is the keynote in the lumber indus- try, modern production methods expediting the process of d houses. converting virgin timber into Actually a tree in the forest can be cut, sawed, cured and ready for a house in a matter of wee ks, Idaho foresters and lumber company officials insist, although the elapsed time ut crash-landin- was remarksble. SURPRISE! ... VSU F vat ure i Novel High School BOSTON. In traditionally staid Boston, a high school where students may leave the building, smoke or occasionally call up their wives now flourishes. Perhaps the only institution of its kind, the Boston School for Veterans has one academic year under its Sam Browne belt and now is embarking on the second. Germinating from an idea by members of the Boston school comthis novel veterans-onl- y mittee, high school opened Its doors December 3, 1945, under the headmas-tershl- p of former Navy LL Comdr. Henry Mclnemey. All faculty members are veterans. Students' ages have ranged from 19 to 50. Applicants must live In Boston and have a wartime record. Thus far the student body has been divided equally between those ing diplomat and those taking re fresher courses for college. Mclnemey, who taught at other Boston public schools before enter- lng the navy, has high praise tor j hia pupils. battle-hardene- d fwwgfss? ,";V';3" - methods sometimes used are chemical dr.iiug and high frequency electrical drying. In kilns, drying tiin will range (rum 72 knurs for Idaho to 432 hours for pine Drives Eliminated. have supplanted to s large extent the big timber drives and water transportation of the post in Idaho's forests, and other methods and machines have speeded up Trucks the "stiimp-to-hous- journey of' e year-arou- ... For Aiding Parolees RICHMOND, VA. Modern psychology and case methods are credited by William Shands Meacham, chairman of the Virginia state parole board, with satisfactory restoration to society of more than 90 per cent of Virginia parrdeea. Speaking before a convention of trial Justice here. Commissioner Meacham described the average man entering prison as between 19' and 25 years of age. not a hard-- ' cned criminal, who has had seven years or less of schooling and faces a sentence of from three to live years. He has had on an average of four contacts with the law prior to imprisonment. Modem penological methods used In Virginia which penitentiaries, e Include service of psychologists and medical psychologists, Immediately diagnose the character of the man and a plan for hla paroled condition goes forward while he stJU is in prison, Meacham explained. Results of pay chulogical testa ara used as basis for assignment to prison duties. CAVE MASSACRE TRIAL In the second row are Col. Gen. Eberbart van Mack ease a, left, and LL Gen. Kurt Mellxer, right. Banking an interpreter ae their trial for responsibility far the Ardeatine cava massacre sf 135 Italian hostages, many sf wham were picked np at random from people walking on the street, got andrr way. In front of them are members of the German defense council. Markenaen was commander of the Nail 14th army and Meltaer, occupation chief la Rome. The trial la being conducted at WMWISWIW'W SWOS.IW IIW. If .J WHtog - 'i ft . ; vi . ... , full-tim- et - .'W . V) 1- v w 9 ' '..V ?;-f - .p--r INVESTIGATE FEDERAL A. Devitt Vsnrch, special assistant to Attorney General Clark, who will bead the Presidents commission to purge the government of disloyal sr employees. WORKERS 5 M ... sub-tcrxi- ... Ol'TFLATIXG TRl'MAN Tommy may lack the experience si Frrsidrnt Truman as a plane player, and hla twin sister, Kathy, may not be a Helen Morgan, but they demonstrate their technique. Their father is Reid W. MeGibbrny, Industrial arts teacher in Crsfton. Fa., high school. When the twins were bora they were not expected to live, but now the husky pair provides their mother, Mrs. Dorothy McGibbeny, 21, with plenty of excitement. Including Uicir piano duet. ANCIENT MACHINE WINS ... A contest between the ancient ," operated by a Japanese, and the latest presentday calculating machine, staged at Ernie Pyle theatre, Tokyo, prevrd the e machine the fastest. The "abacus averaged shout 30 seconds fast-on all problems. Left panel pictures Fvl. Thomas .V. Wood, Hearing, Mo., aa be operates calculator, while on tlie right la shown Kiyoshi Mstsuxakl working hla "abaeas, aba-ens- old-lim- er . . . Decorating giant Sabuare cacti In the famed Valley ef the Sna, these cowgirls make the cacti do Christmas tree duty. CHRISTMAS IN ARIZONA -'-r- &r 'tmm 9 i C 7 . c" Iviy''' rtj' ... tv ? bri'i" r .V . tTjf I gNVS ...yV , FOR THE 'WELL DRESSED' G.I. Seventy Items costing fl.200 ure Included tn the new Arctic lighting garb for Uncle Sam s winter soldiers. The new outfit was displayed at the army ground runes' Task Force Frost" at Camp McCoy, Wl. Shown esamlning the clothes and equipment, a total of 70 Items, are ('apt. David E. Cleary of Detroit and Ffc William G. Kreuxer of Plllkhurgh. tUsfss? ir J. l HI ' - - V , r L V. 'Vi---.. !n - X ... i . iJ ; 4 I V, J .... w . . Jt ,.t Divide Gome Hunts Popular In South - .. "Di rr.an nlso gets the head and hide. JACKSONVILLE, N. C. hunts lave lur'd Heavy kills have been reported "f deer, bear, q'.tiil, squirrel, fox. many sportsmen to nti.ihy mann forest this sei.'in. Ti e novel rabbit, turkey, rmco'iti and opos- hurts, which opened in 'liber, sum. Use of riilei is discouraged be- sre continuing it tpecified doti-- i in cause of the large number of huntDecerr.bcr and will wind up New ers u the field, shotguns being Year's Day. ndtd. In the novel hunting procedure, Tl.o H'dri-uMforest is part of the ach participant is giten a "hni.t-'er'cxtensA-North Carolina state col- share of the k:ll. In the case lege (Meet area. Hunting is barred of a deer kill, the successful tr.arks- - where car.lc range. H-- f uaUia , : Xt.-i- riA HEADLINES . . . John L. Lewis. President af United Mine Workers, (hown aa he arrived in Washing-to- n to accept service of federal court order on recrnl contempt or-'- r. Most labor leaders backed Lewis' aland daring trial. ... A legally binding rontrart was signed BUSINESS BT TELEVISION simultaneously by executives of Dumont television laboratory. New Tork City, and motor company In Washington, D. C., as both contracting parties saw and heard caeh other by means of television. It was the first lime that this newest medium ef communicating baa been used to consummate a business agreement. - j , rec-orri- i s I I ... PRACTICE These four University ef Washington lluskira work out their blocking prartiee by pushing this huge enow-ba- ll down the football field. It was the first lime In many years that snow covered the Seattle field during the football season. The llnsklrs are, left to right, Marshall Dallas, Brace Helm, Jim Foster and liar old Loyd. The day after this photo was takrn University of Washington defeated Montana nnivrrsily, 21 to 9. Even with this practice the Huskies failed to make Rose Bowl game. BLOCKING TWINS IN GERMANY . . . Peter Harvey Cyphers, left, and Ms brothrr, Michael Lee, are believed to be the first Identical twin am bora to the wife of a U. 8, soldier In Germany. They are shown with their parents TSgL and hire. G. W. Cyphers, r r7 |
