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Show i ' '-Ml .7-t ' IPJ - V'jfr r A;... V, -Jt 'v 'X, edby On National Garden Jnsti- , i x ' ' ff ,VV, 11 kV. !ll ni tifst AND YOUNGEST . Rp. Joseph J. Mansfield (Dem.i P Vt tut in the "national green , I f " ?K TTSi) 71 ?eLxDfSLyearJd r.r.r 0 consecutive year.' Mrvlc. In the v J fi thumb" conte.t for be.t garden.. - f ? W f .JfWl Ti !,. -f rpnrPPntative. dlscussc. current lcglsUtlon with Rep. t , - ' f (1 W! 1 I G-ge W. Sarbacher (Eep Pa) 27-year-old "b.by" of the 80th ; f ' - I i f ' - Vi . l Ail congress, who la serving hli first tern. " 1 . . i.n.Ti AKIV1 X UUlMlliA flu ltl!.UIlHr.x i all parts of the country are volunteer program. Members of the unit will plan for universal training. Recruits supervision and discipline. BLOWN FROM AIRLINER . .". This . " , .j. , ., .......... r. j 1 J A'5 1TL ; rTr----. - f " y jKAsSf iW,-iKi-' . , MacDonald r"(Awi';:- .?Af" J,, blown from uonsieuaiion airliner on ue w """" Hart was blown Into space when the astrodome plastic bubble, from which for navigation, broke when airliner was 500 miles from Newfoundland, MOTHER'S HELPER . . . Because she expects a blessed event In the near future, "Gretchen," intelligent dachshund owned by Mrs. Karl Kaesmeier, Leetsdale, Pa., is rushing the Job of preparing tiny garments. "Gretchen" can't handle the needles very well, but she does a swell job of holding the skein. r is 1 o . .i ... :. ;. . . .' 1 ' ."(.;;..,-. : . .' ; . . . . ::).-':" : . ' ' .. , NEW BREAD LINE . . . When route salesmen went out on strike In Milwaukee recently the Omar bakery gave away $15,800 worth of bakery goods rather than see it spoil. Pickets, policemen, housewives house-wives and children fell in line to receive their free share of the bakery bak-ery goods. By late morning more than 1,800 persons bad lined up for the free handout nniM irurtv M fiH Knira nnilor 10 mora nf in. from tn . v ' - . at Fort Knox, Ky., in an experimental universal military training be trained for one year along lines of the war department's proposed will receive a course which couples military training with civilian photodiagram shows how George 1.1-t. - - A 41.. .--n. W. Hart, Sag Harbor, N. T., was Ulian 1Q AOO IaoI amv AilantiA. --- ' the navigator takes star sightings bound from New York to Paris. OH RICHARD . . . Richard in this case is Donald L. Robinson Jr., 11, and his sister Sandra Jean, 8, Lincoln, Nebr. Pidge lets out with "open the door Richard." OH HUM! . . . Gov. Ingram M. Stalnback of Hawaii told congress that the Island territory Is subject sub-ject to taxation without representation. represen-tation. The Hawaiian governor appeared before the bouse public lands committee. y y- v - xi - ?;Arjf J, A -s . ".J ON THE UPGRADE Marked Expansion Predicted In Farm-to-Market Highways By AL JEDLICKA WNH SUB Writer. Farmers can look for a substantial improvement in the huge federal-state secondary road program in 1947 . Thomas H MacDonald, U. S. public roads commissioner, told a WJNU reporter at the 28th annual convention of the Associated General Gen-eral Contractors in Chicago. . In framing the federal nigmvay act in iatt, uuua' c" need for better secondary, sec-ondary, or farm-to-market roads In rural regions. Because Be-cause most farmers farm-ers are individual operators who haul their own crops to market, and comparatively com-paratively great distances separate the farms from trade centers, 78 per cent of farm-r farm-r rnuol tifls heen found essential. In 1944, 34 per cent of all trucks were used on farms. Must Match Funds The highway act provided for an annual federal contribution of 150 million dollars for secondary roads ,.u n tha tViroK nnstwar years, 1UI VIA w.w " C - with the states putting up an equal m nut of their own or comny funds. Because of high construction costs, shortages of material and equipment, and a reduction In contractors, the secondary road program fell about 50 per cent short of Its goal In 1946, Mac- 1W.MM M.M. ' ' " Tndipations that costs have reached their peak and will level off, that materials and erjulpment will be- Wreslntrlv available, and that mrtre. and more contractors who left the construction game during the war are returning justify the belief be-lief that the sepondary road pro gram will pick up substantially uui vear. MacDonald declared. The nubile roads commissioner analyzed the mounting co9t of the whole federal-state highway pro- oram in his address to the Assocl ated General Contractors. In the last quarter of 1946, construction posts were 188 oer cent above the comparable period In 1940, and 16 per npnt ahnvn the orevious three months. Costs Skyrocket. Tn breaking down these costs, the public roads commission found that common drv excavation Increased 110 per cent; concrete substructures, 101 ner cent, and concrete super structures. 94 per cent. Bituminous surface treatment showed the small st lnrrpas at 15 ter cent. MacDonald stressed the marKea shortage of contractors available for construction work by pointing out that while there were a total of 5,614 road builders In the 1935-46 period, this number dropped to 3,057 in 1940-46. 1940-46. Now that large-scale construction construc-tion has been resumed and materials and equipment should become Increasingly In-creasingly obtainable, a large percentage per-centage of these former contractors are expected to get back In the business busi-ness this year. The expectation of increased supplies of materials provides a base of optimism for the overall 1947 highway program, MacDonald MacDon-ald said. MacDonald echoed the feeling of other construction leaders at the meeting that a sound long-range building program should be developed devel-oped In the U. S. Quoting from the recent economic report drawn up for the President, MacDonald decried the tendency to consider public wnrir hHmarllv as the means to relieve unemployment in times depression. of Historic Oak Tree Has Legal Title to Ground HOUSTON, TEX. A mammoth nalr tree which sinks Its roots deep into Houston's soil and history has the distinction of being the owner of the historic site It shelters. A legal Wnwiment filed In Harris county courthouse stipulates the great oak cannot be cut down as long as it lives. Provision also Is made that the tree's branches must be permitted permit-ted to grow In their natural way. "Aviation notes NO AGE LIMITS They're never too young nor too old to become air-minded. Only one and one-half years old, Little Kim Weed of Denver, who already had traveled more than 5,000 mues oy air, boarded an airliner for Anchor age, Alaska. There she ana ner mother, Mrs. Harold V. Weed, will Join Lieutenant Weed, who Is sta tioned with army air forces. . . . Born more than a half century before be-fore the Wright brothers flew an air plane. Mrs. Susan Holifleld. 95, made her first air trip on a flight from Pitts burgh. Pa., to Los Angeles, "it was just dandy," exclaimed one of the oldest women passengers ever car ried by a commercial airline. . . . It was a far cry from the boat and wacron in which she came to Iowa 91 years ago when Mrs. Llda David son, 94, stepped aboard an airliner at Des Moines for Bight to uau- fornla. ' Mrs. Davldsen had wanted to fly ever since she saw her first plane nearly 40 years ago at a Van Buren. Iowa, county fair, "But tney wouldn't let me." Satisfying this customer probably prob-ably started a family quarrel. Impressed by the hostess service on a TWA plane, a passenger wrote: "It would be swell if I could send my wife to your hostess host-ess school so she would always be as pleasant as the two ladies servicing this flight." FLYING FARMERS IN EAST Interest !n the use of airplanes on farms no longer Is restricted to the Midwest and West. Chapters of Na. tional Flying Farmers association recently have been formed in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Lauding the progresslveness of the 75 flying farmers who attended the organization meeting of the New Jersey Jer-sey group, W. S. Allen, state secre-tarv secre-tarv of asriculture. said. "There is greater use for a plane on the farm than In any other business with the exception of transportation." . . UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN . . . The new Douglas five-place Cleudster Is marked by unconventional unconven-tional placing of engines and propeller pro-peller behind the passenger compartment, com-partment, Increasing efficiency of the wings, eliminating propeller turbulence and reduolng noise to negligible level. DUBIOUS DISTINCTION ' Olmsted field, home of ths Mid-dletown, Mid-dletown, Pa., air materiel area, claims the doubtful honor of having hav-ing Its name misspelled more often than anv ether army air field In the TTit.j ctstea V.vm thmieh it is I Pennsylvania's largest military In- j stallation, Olmsted has been reierrea to as Almsted, Ohmsted, Homestead, Olmstead and other variations. Mitchel field, N. Y., and Eglin field, Fla., may rise to challenge Olm atari's claim. (It refuses to com. pete with Apalachicola field, Fla.) KING AND QUEEN OF THE WEST . . . Beautiful Margaret Wooten and "Husky" Wright Bomford, who were chosen by fellow students of j,.- iti ii T..u ntiinhnma. tn rnli as "Klnr and Oucen of the tuc uuircmJiJ u . , , - West," for the next 12 months. They are shown joining the ranks of western royalty by getting friendly with Question Mark, undefeated grand champion Palomino stallion, owned by Tom Cates, Tulsa. This Is the first year that sucn a cnoice a1 nmnioa imircrifg Tvn ... ..hihwinn in Rtnnithnim . . Y I I 'iA : , 'A ' A ; 7" "XV- y .M . a - - . the Swedish hairdressers. Norwegians, Danes and Finns took part In am. j., iA haj.i aimwa an vntnff nnlffure. At rlfht. an- uie uiHpiuy. ici ' ' - other evening coiffure of swirls and " ..... any of them Is anybody's prowem, In the evening in stocknoim. V:Ki to. i I '?' A , .n,iTnmi rvTs ma vttamixa . "ti . hit. nf Finrirlo. the 24th annual citrus exposition selected from a group of Zl gins for a year. The annual exposition jj, '(.:'.'f,-iL,.,i.-j.-1il.-,-A ! ' ' JUNIOR ARCHITECT . . . Miniature stone buildings go up under the creative fingers of 7-year-old Dannlng Greening, New To City youngster young-ster when he paid a visit to the 4th American oy fair at the Hotel McAIpin where he found the stone blocks of architectural Interest. New toys that are meeting with most favor are those which encourage the children to construct or build. i nas oeen maue m uwauuiiw, Vv - f . " A Slfe--- .- ...... 7ft VAA r v nf thn nutstandlnr coiffures shown marking the 40th anniversary of - - - - a high bun. How to get a hat over .. 4. ... -S - A xk kaiai or pernaps wey oo nut " -.y . . fiov. Millard Caldwell (Dem.. nranra from Nance Stilley, queen of held at Winter Haven. She was w reign over me u. attracts mwum v -U'AA A 1 ; "" WMiry i Hi- t J Ail CONGRESSMEN WARNED . . . Ren. Carrol Kearns (Ren.. Pa.), told the house labor committee that he had been warned to chance his views about labor, after he dined with George P. McNear Jr., murdered railroad president, WINS TITLE .". . Pauline Bets, fj anrplM. vim defeated Doris Hart' to win the women's single title In the national Indoor tennis championship, held at New York City. Miss Bets also holds the national outdoor tennis title. FRANKLIN WINNER , . . The 1947 Franklin medal, highest hon- . or of the Franklin Institute, has been awarded to Dr. Enrico ter-ml, ter-ml, 46, physicist at Nuclear Research Re-search Institute, Chicago, for out standing work in the field of atom lo energy and physics of neutron. I V A- I . i I : j y $Q,Qoo mil f jr, A -a 7M:f ll v " ' " ,,f ' I ; ' "J SUN SPOTS . . . Pnoto made at Griffith Park observatory, Los Angeles, An-geles, shows the main group f sun spots which are Interfering with radios throughout the world. i a r - - A i 7 |
