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Show FIB Hi 4 i "3 ;CA T, -UK 1 . ... .. i 4 " f Aft 4 ; "... ; , il 1 ,"T ' 4 "l j s : - fvnv , 7 j CMS!. ' js Bonds. loo t I e.1 ouAnr, jHfat DoJllM -! 1 50- i RECEIVES GIFT . . . Giis Douglass Jr.. 19. of Grimms "Ziat, W. Va., president of Fu-i Fu-i Farmers of America, looks u John E. Kraft, president of , Foods company, signs $5,000 rt or the FFA foundation. The jjdsUon sponsors various ,rds and prizes throughout the 1 1 1 ilpfifi ' V. V fOINS 'BIG FOUR' ...Bf.de .list Hardouin, French ambas-sior ambas-sior to the U. S., who recently uived in Washington. sTBPRISE! . . . Stan Miasek, Fal-ttns' Fal-ttns' center, is not the only bas-blcer bas-blcer that has been surprised this ?ear. As the elusive ball bounces 'ts merry way the Detroit play- looks with a forlorn expression 4 New York player. INVESTIGATE FEDERAL WRRERS ... A. Devitt Vanech, Wai assistant to Attorney Gen-"H Gen-"H Clark, who wiU head the f'nident's commission to purge (be government of disloyal or sub-,erslve sub-,erslve employees. 'EADLINEB . . . John L. Lewis, ,ridCDt of United Mini. Wnrkpra. trn as be arrived in Wasbing-" Wasbing-" to accept service of federal 'rt order on recent contempt or-r. or-r. Most labor leaders backed Uls stand daring trial. - if-,- V ' , i 1 ' " SWISS CRASH HERO . . . Brig. Gen. Ralph Tate Sr., Is shown with his son, Capt. Ralph Tate Jr., after the latter had been brought to Meiringer, Switzerland, by one of the Swiss rescue planes. Captain Tate was pilot of the plane that crashed on the rugged glacier. His mother was one of the passengers. Airmen say that the captain's feat of crash-landing the plane on the rugged glacier without loss of life was remarkable. - mr Mm II mm . ,-. ,v- :,... :: St Hi itJH KILROT WON STREETCAR . . . Winner of s contest sponsored by American Transit association with letter on subject, "Kilroy Wat Here," James Kilroy, Halifax, Mass., his wife and nine children take over their prize a streetcar. The car will be moved from the Boston elevated yards to Halifax, where the Kilroys will remodel and use It for an addition to their present home. The youngsters claim it will make an ideal play room. nmwiiumttHitm- iiMr-iltf'-""-r--- .... OUTPLAYING TRUMAN . . . Tommy may lack the experience of President Truman as a piano player, and his twin sister, Kathy, may not be a Helen Morgan,, but they demonstrate their technique, Their father is Eeid W. McGibbeny, industrial arts teacher in Crafton. Pa., high school. When the twins were born they were not expected to live, but now the husky pair provides their 85-pound mother, Mrs. Dorothy McGibbeny, 21, with plenty of excitement, including their piano duet. I im mm i i ,..,,., ,.n,..-,.ml BUSINESS BY TELEVISION ... A legally binding contract was signed simultaneously by executives of Dumont television laboratory, New York City, and motor company in Washington, D. C, as both contracting contract-ing parties saw and heard each other by means of television. It was the first time that this newest medium of communicative baa been used to consummate a business agreement s , pi n mil : www in ! v it h '! ;. il. i fir.- r STUMP-TO-HOUSE' JOUBNET . forests is speeded up on Its way Modern methods have cut the transit time materially. HUNTING A HOUSE? Foresters Speed Lumber To Fill National Shortage VPNUFeature$ BOISE, IDAHO. Idaho's towering forests are playing an important role in the all-out effort to alleviate the nation's lumber shortage. Speed is the keynote in the lumber industry, indus-try, modern production methods expediting the process of converting virgin timber into sorely-needed houses. Actually a tree in the forest can be cut, sawed, cured and ready for a house in a matter of weeks, Idaho foresters and lumber company officials insist, although the elapsed time sometimes seems like a century loir hordes of hungry house hunters especially those relegated to living with in-laws. . "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. Drying Expedited. Back in the old days when most of the work of lumbering was done by hand, many months were required re-quired to produce finished lumber from growing trees. One of the longest long-est delays was in drying or curing of the rough boards before they were sent to the planing mill. In drying yards after the wind and sun and rain had done an unpredictable unpre-dictable job of curing, the boards were taken from the piles one by one and inspected, all the work done by hand. Today the most commonly accepted accept-ed method of drying lumber Is kiln drying where cross ventilation takes out the excess moisture. Other Staid Boston Has Novel High School BOSTON. In traditionally staid Boston, a high school where students stu-dents may leave the building, smoke or occasionally call up their wives now flourishes. Perhaps the only institution in-stitution of its kind, the Boston School for Veterans has one academic aca-demic year under its Sam Browne belt and now is embarking on the second. Germinating from an idea by members of the Boston school committee, com-mittee, this novel veterans-only high school opened its doors December De-cember 3, 1945, under the headmas-tership headmas-tership of former Navy Lt. Comdr. Henry Melnerney. All faculty members mem-bers are veterans. Students' ages have ranged from 19 to SO. Applicants must live in Boston and have a wartime record. Thus far the student body has been divided equally between those earning earn-ing diplomas and those taking refresher re-fresher courses for college. Melnerney, who taught at other Boston public schools before entering enter-ing the navy, has high praise for his battle-hardened pupils. t i V If tJ X", I TOR TKP U7frl I. nRFBECni fi f are included in the new Arctic fighting garb for Uncle Sam's winter soldiers. The new outfit was displayed at the army ground forces' ! "Task Force Frost" at Camp McCoy, Wis. Shown examining the clothes and equipment, a total of 70 items, are Capt. David E. Clcary oi ueirou ana no wuuam u. nreuzer oi riusourgn. 'Divide Game Hunts JACKSONVILLE, N. C. "Di-vide-the-game" hunts have lured many sportsmen to nearby Hof-mann Hof-mann forest this season. The novel bunts, which opened in November, are continuing at specified dates in December and will wind up on New Year's Day. In the novel bunting procedure, each participant is given a "hunter's "hunt-er's share" of the kill. In the case of a deer kill, the successful marks uAi',,i,,iVit:M- U T. if . . Virgin Umber from Idaho's to help aid the lumber shortage. methods sometimes used are chenv ical drying and high frequency elec trical drying. In kilns, drying time will range from 72 hours for Idaho pine "4-by-4s" to 432 hours for "to by-4s." Drives Eliminated. Trucks have supplanted to a large extent the big Umber drives and water transportation of the past in Idaho's forests, and other meth. ods and machines have speeded up the "stump-to-house" journey of lumber. Today the time lapse has been shortened from months to days, which should encourage those who still are waiting for lumber for that new house. The cutting of trees is a year-around year-around operation, even when the snows come. During the war, Idaho timber workers cut trees in snow from 9 to 11 feet deep. Ordinarily, however, they hold their winter operations op-erations to areas where snowfall is lighter. Psychology Lauded For Aiding Parolees RICHMOND, VA. Modern psy-chology psy-chology and case methods are credited cred-ited by William Shands Meacham, chairman of the Virginia state parole pa-role board, with satisfactory restoration re-storation to society of more than 90 per cent of Virginia parolees. Speaking before a convention of trial justices here. Commissioner Meacham described the average man entering prison as between 19 and 25 years of age, not a hardened hard-ened criminal, who has had seven years or less of schooling and faces a sentence of from three to five years. He has had on an average of four contacts with the law prior to imprisonment. Modern penological methods used in Virginia penitentiaries, which Include service of full-time psychologists psy-chologists and medical psychologists, psycholo-gists, immediately diagnose the character of the man and a plan for his paroled condiUon goes forward for-ward while he still is in prison, Meacham explained. Results of psychological psy-chological tests are used as basis tor assignment to prison duties. 5 I SK'. t. Esl.nl. Uamm nntln tl AA Popular in South man also gets the bead and hide. Heavy kills have been reported of deer, bear, quail, squirrel, fox, rabbit, turkey, raccoon and opossum. opos-sum. Use of rifles is discouraged because be-cause of the large number of hunters hunt-ers in the field, shotguns being recommended. rec-ommended. The Hofmann forest is part of the extensive North Carolina state college col-lege forest area. Hunting is barred where catUe range. - I t 1 (I 4- ' .' i v . - 1 .".i.rf,,, ., i :- . X v, -MSf . . .. : J i- 1 Inrrm-T r - n --r' 'nnlmmi i ! ? n.'.n In inn n i I PROGRESS OF COAL STRIKE . . . Stanley Jan a be It's amile turned to ft more serious expression as the coal strike continued. As seen In these two views of the New Kensington miner, the first, left, taken as be left the Harmar mine at Harmarvllle, Pa. At right, after he had been out on strike for several days and things didn't look so bright. Many of the miners have been spending their "vacation" gathering wood. . CAVE MASSACRE TRIAL . . . In the second row are Col. Gen. Eberhart von Mackensen, left, and Lt. Gen. Kurt Meltzer, right, flanking an Interpreter as their trial for responsibility for the Ardeatine cave massacre mas-sacre of 335 Italian hostages, many of whom were picked up at random from people walking on the street, got under way. In front of them are members of the German defense council. Mackensen was commander command-er of the Nasi 14th army and Meltser, occupation chief In Rome. The trial Is being condu&ed at Rome. 1 1 Sv ' ' I 1 sk f . v. - -J w C 1 - r ' - I :l j I y L ; I f f I : X'X i 1 : I x j : k ' i 1 i , i II -"-. '" ' II .I', VV : I Hi fa ANCIENT MACHINE WINS ... A contest between the ancient "abacus," "aba-cus," operated by a Japanese, and the latest present-day calculating machine, staged at Ernie Pyie theatre, Tokyo, proved the old-time machine the fastest. The "abacus" averaged about 30 seconds faster fast-er on alt problems. Left panel pictures Pvt. Thomas N. Wood, Dear-ing, Dear-ing, Mo., as he operates calculator, while on the right is shown Klyoshi Matsuzakl working his "abacus." 1 ----- . . - - if tAm ilriilftr ,'nfir.; ' 'ir,.ii iiiaifml II lilllliMnAi m li i l.n n, r BLOCKING PRACTICE . . . These four University of Washington Huskies work out their blocking practice by pushing this huge snowball snow-ball down the football field. It was the first time in many years that snow covered the Seattle field during the football season. The Huskies are, left to right, Marshall Dallas, Bruce Relin, Jim Foster and Harold Har-old Loyd. The day after this photo was taken University ef Washington Wash-ington defeated Montana university, 21 to 0. Even with this practice the Huskies falle te make Rose Bowl game. V r Li L t y 4 ' " 1 1; 11 HWIMWW'W'S, St ti v ( 1 ft ') J n iV- CHRISTMAS IN ARIZONA . . . Decorating giant Sabuaro cacti in the famed "Valley ef the Son," these cowgirls make the cacti do Christmas tree duty. 1 r ) 1 TWINS IN GERMANY . . . Peter Harvey Cyphers, left, and his brother, Michael Lee, are believed to be the first Identical twin sons born to the wire of a U. S. soldier In Germany. They are shown with their parents TSgt, and Mr. G. W. Cypher 1 |