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Show THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943 4 ' I, ' I ' ::vx;:-. :-. Fire Control State Fair Suggested Premium By Warden List Now Out With vast areas of grain, cheat grass and other vegetation throughout Utah county now dry and inflammable, farmers should take precautionary measures meas-ures to prevent fires during the present hot dry season, declares Theron S. Hall, county fire warden. Mr. Hall recommends that Utah farmers take time now to construct fireguards around farm buildings, field crops, hay and grain stacks to prevent fires crossing into these areas once they have started. Fireguards are strips cleared of grass, weeds and other ln-flamable ln-flamable material wide enough to prevent fires crossing. Good tools for constructing fireguards are discs, plows, spring tooth harrows, road graders, or any other instrument which will remove re-move inflammable brush, weeds and grass. "Every summer some Utah farmers lose buildings and hay and grain stacks because fires move unobstructed," states Mr, Hall. He adds that the danger is especially critical now since the relatively low humidity subjects sub-jects many areas to dry winds which will sweep a blaze along with devastating speed. Mr. Hall reminds Utah farmers farm-ers that the entire county is a closed fire district from May through October. No fire may be built which will expose grass, brush, forest or cropland without a permit from the county fire warden. Fire prevention and precautions precau-tions are especially important this year since we need all the food and fiber we can produce and since there is a shortage of manpower to fight fires, Mr. Hall concludes. Utah Mines Combine Efforts To Bring In New Producers . s t A'" i&Xi A "" ft 3 7 0 j3 East Tintic scene Determined efforts are being made to find a new producer for the Tintic mining district surrounding sur-rounding Eureka. Utah, which during dur-ing recent years has fallen back in its rank as a metal producer. The Tintic Standard Mining company com-pany and the North Lily Mining company hare joined hands in an extensive deep exploration program In the eastern end of the district. From the Tintic Sfandard No. 2 shaft the two companies are extending ex-tending a drift to the north east to explore a Tast acreage of unde-Teloped unde-Teloped mineral ground. The tun- . . 1 ,. ' t The New Telephone Directory Closes Soon If you desire a change In your present listing, additional addi-tional listings, or directory advertising... just call the Telephone Business Office. ' : i The 1943 Utah State Fair premium list, flaunting a new "Victory" cover, is now off the press and is available to any prospective exhibitor, it has Just been announced by Sheldon R. Brewster, Secretary - Manager. The new list indicates that every department of the exposition, September 4 to 9, will be represented repre-sented with profuse exhibits of the products of factory, farm and handicraft. Directors of the Association who will superintend the various departments of the fair are as follows: Manufacture, David H. Thomas, Tho-mas, president; Home-making, Pearl Hunsaker, vice-president; Art and Education, Maud R. Hardman; Dairy Cattle, Merrill N. Warnick; Beet. Cattle, Clyde Ritchie; Music and Floriculture, Lisle Bradford; Mining, Harold Bowman; Horse and Poultry, H. Grant Ivins; Swine, Burke Mc-Arthur; Mc-Arthur; Sheep, Nels L. Petersen; Agriculture and Horticulture, George Stalllngs; Junior Department, Depart-ment, R. Truman Hillyard. Preparations to house livestock, farm produce and factory products pro-ducts are being rushed to completion. com-pletion. Though the United States Army is using several of the exposition buildings and a part of the fair grounds, provision pro-vision will be made to accommodate accommo-date adequately all exhibits, said Mr. Brewster. Temporary structures struc-tures and tents will be used to augment the permanent facilities. facili-ties. Several sections of the fair such as home-making, art, music, and the dog show will be housed in several downtown Salt Lake City ' locations. One gate fee, however, will admit the visitor to all exhibits, as well as to the grandstand entertain- jment. 1 r v. " , C 4 M .l 1- ... of new work. ncl is being driven on the 1200-foot 1200-foot level. Together the two companies will expend in th nighborhood of $500.-000 $500.-000 in an effort to bring In another producer for the camp. . While geological conditions in the area are regarded as favorable for the development of ore, no one knows what the quantity or grade will be. Mining is becoming more and more hazardous. The miner must bore deeper and farther into the earth in order to find what his objective is. The rich surface deposits de-posits have been mined, and low grade ores remain. . :l- ' ' ffl I I m-LJ I I 11,1 II Lights of New York by L. L STEVENSON S. L. E. Mabry, who has Just completed com-pleted 42 years and six months of active service, is the oldest red cap at the Pennsylvania station. Mabry, In whose mustache there are a few gray hairs but who is still able to master even heavy bags, was born in Ceorgia in November, 1874. He came to New York 50 years ago and took whatever jobs he could find. January 1, 1901, he became a porter at the Pennsylvania station which in those days, was at the foot of Twenty-third street. Pennsylvania trains didn't run into New York then, passengers crossing the Hudson Hud-son by ferry. When the tunnels were completed and the new station was opened at 33rd street in 1910, Mabry moved uptown. He has no idea as to how many bags be has carried in all those years or of how many miles he has walked to and from trains. But he is proud of the fact that there isn't even one black mark on his record. Mabry has carried and still carries car-ries the bags of many prominent people. They are merely a part of his every day existence. He gives well knowns the best possible service, serv-ice, the same as he does anyone else. Remains in memory a prominent prom-inent visitor of many years ago "Queen Victoria's son." The prince of Wales, who was to become king of England after the death of his mother, had plenty of baggage. New York has a hotel room black market, racketeers being quick to capitalize on the lack of accommodations accommo-dations for hordes of travelers. It works like this: The racketeer waits, until he sees a hotel guest check out Then he hurriedly registers for the room Just vacated. In the evening eve-ning when would-be guests find there are no accommodations, the racketeer racket-eer comes up with the statement that he has a desirable room which he will be glad to turn over for a consideration. Nine times out of ten, the traveler, rather than seek farther, is willing to pay double or more for a place to lay his head. House detectives, managers and others keep a sharp lookout for the racketeers but they shift from hotel to hotel and there is a demand for rooms at all hours of the day.' During a recent hot spell, a young mother up at Pleasantville noticed that her baby was suffering from a rash. Thinking the trouble was prickly heat, the mother carefully dusted the infant with powder. The treatment seemed to bring, relief at least the baby became quiet and remained that way. The mother went about her household chores but now and then gave her child a glance. Finally, she discovered that instead of sleeping, it was wide awake and was making attempts to lick its hands. Investigation dis-1 dis-1 closed the fact that she had dusted the infant with powdered sugar. The other morning, Assistant District Dis-trict Attorney Julius Helfand was examining prospective jurors for a murder trial. A number had been excused because of their convictions in regard to the death penalty when Abram M. Morrell was called. "Have you any prejudice against capital punishment?" Helfand asked. "No," was the answer in a tone of absolute sincerity. "What is your business?" continued contin-ued the assistant district attorney. "Salesman of tombstones and mausoleums," replied Morrell. P.S. He was excused. 1 Isabel Hewson Manning and "Dickie" King were discussing strange wedding customs at the Stork Club the other afternoon. It is Miss Manning's belief that oddest prevails among the Bugis tribesmen of the Celebes in the D"utch East Indies. For three days before her wedding, the feet of the bride-to-be must not come in contact with the ground. So during this period, she is under the influence of drugs administered ad-ministered to her as she is carried about on the shoulders of members of her family. Manhattan librarians have developed devel-oped an odd sideline translating unintelligible letters received by relatives rel-atives from loved ones on fighting fronts. These missives contain jargon, jar-gon, foreign phrases and even pidgin English. Prize of the lot was a letter let-ter declaring the writer had won a "Sancho Pedro" ... Turned out to be a card game, not an award . . , Before departing for "over there," many a married service man buys a wedding ring for himself. It's a symbol of what he's fighting for for his home ... So eager is Dinah Shore to entertain the service men abroad she signed for only five weeks on the new summer program replacing Edgar Bergen Charlie McCarthy. . Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. Veteran of Seven Raids Hurt in Fall Off Cycle AN AMERICAN BOMBER STATION STA-TION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. ENG-LAND. Flight Officer Charles J. Harpool, of Rogers, Ark., co-pilot of the Flying Fortress Nora, returned from seven raids on targets in Nazi Europe without a scratch. Then he fell off his bicycle a few seconds after he took off from his quarters here. It required three stitches to close Jhe wound in his! 1 a ' BCBU. TIIE LEIII SUN, LEm, UTAH ii a r- ee i. PRINTING ORDER You'll Get the Same GOOD QUALITY as if you made a personal visit to our shop. We will select our best type faces suitable to your order and print it on PAPERS Middle America When you went to school you probably prob-ably thought of the regions between the United States and South America Amer-ica as being composed of Mexico and a group of countries referred to as "Central America." Now a new grouping, Middle America, is being used to represent the 10 nearby near-by tropical countries. The region referred to as Middle America includes in-cludes Mexico as well as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, . Panama, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Rubber From Corn A recent report says one ton of rubber can be made from 10 tons of corn. A barrel of industrial alcohol al-cohol can be made from 750 pounds of corn, and the alcohol can be turned into enough high explosive to propel one 12-inch shelL ; , ; Whitens Dirty Clothes Two or three tablespoonfuls of turpentine tur-pentine or kerosene in a boilerful of water will help whiten very dirty clothes. The clothes must be thoroughly thor-oughly rinsed to remove the odor. Tetrasodium pyrophosphate helps whiten clothing that must be washed in hard water. . Fort Hard to Crack Old Fort Scott in San Francisco was designed after Fort Sumter, with 36-foot thick walls. It controlled the Golden Gate. . Fats for Glycerine If every housewife in the United States saved four ounces of waste cooking fat in a week, it wbuld produce pro-duce enough glycerine for the requirements re-quirements of 13 million pounds of double-base powder, used as a high explosive. Predicts Eclipse One of the most important events in the history of the development of civilization was the prediction of an eclipse of the Sun, May 28, 585 B. C, by Thales of Miletas. It was important im-portant because to any thinking person per-son such a prediction meant that the great phenomena of nature that had hitherto frightened men were, after all, subject to some kind of rule and order; by searching soberly and carefully man could discover the laws governing the occurren2 of these phenomena, and dispel the terror ter-ror by predicting them. Add 'G' to R's' The three R's of educational fame will have to make way for a "G" after the war. The "G" is for geography which . has already emerged as a key science in this global war. The science is not only necessary for a proper understanding understand-ing of world-wide strategy now being be-ing carried out, he said, but it will also be essential to an intelligent understanding of the problems which will follow the war. Japs Got Castor Oil "Small Fry" in general would probably raise shouts of Joy at learning learn-ing that our greatest sources of castor cas-tor oil are among the lands in the Far East that have been captured by Japan. However, their joy would probably be short-lived if they were told that South America' can be made to supply at least part of the needed castor oil for the United States. The castor plant commonly grows wild in these regions and is collected by local growers. Right Grain Seed According to Cornell plant breeders, breed-ers, northeastern farmers could increase in-crease their grain yield 10 to 25 per cent by planting the right varieties vari-eties of wheat, oats, barley, and corn. Fight Wilds for Natural Rubber Face Huge Task in Amazon Jungles to Gather Precious Juice. WASHINGTON.-To get precious natural rubber by the cupful-and even by the tablespoon for our war needs, men are doing a.litanic face lifting job on a jungle-pocked area of the South American continent conti-nent that is almost as large as the United States. Roads are being built through trackless forests hitherto trod only by jaguars and nimble natives, and railway line are inching their way through the wet, torrid country of the Amazon river basin. Giant flying boats of a new rubber fleet of the air from the United States have blazed air trails over mountains and great expanses of steaming grc th to reach primitive primi-tive moorings in the heart of the rubber country, and plans are under un-der way for construction of airports for land planes deep in the jungle interior. Steamers and launches have been sent from this country to speed transportation of supplies and workers work-ers up the Amazon. Outboard motors mo-tors from American factories are. being used to send native-style canoes chugging up the narrow, winding streams which lace through the jungle. Along roads leading to the Amazon Ama-zon headwaters, groups of migratory migra-tory workers are moving like American Okies to take new jobs as "soldiers of rubber." Activity Renewed. Deep, in the jungles, rubber workers work-ers go about their tasks armed with American shotguns to kill prowling wildcats, and at times, when food is low, to pop wild pigs. Not since before World War I when the Amazon basin, despite its primitive production system, was the world's supply center for crude rubber, has there been such activity in the wild country where natives still use blowguns and poison-tipped arrows. These developments are an outgrowth out-growth of a project in which Brazilian, Brazil-ian, Bolivian, Peruvian and United States governments are co-operating iin an attempt to bleed from the jungles jun-gles this year more than twice as much natural rubber as the 1942 production of approximately 20,000 tons.' The main objective is to give to the United States added stocks of crude rubber to round out our synthetic syn-thetic program because rubber experts ex-perts have found a percentage of natural rubber still must be used with synthetic to give the best performance per-formance on certain products, such as heavy-duty tires. Just a Drop in Bucket. Even if we should realize between 25,000 and 30,000 tons as our share from the trees of the Amazon this year, as some experts believe we will, it will be a drop in the bucket compared with the 609,000 tons of all kinds of rubber which William Jeffers, rubber director, has estimated estimat-ed will be required for 1943. In an air-conditioned office in the heart of Washington, this country's part in the mighty project is being engineered. It is the headquarters of the Rubber Rub-ber Development corporation, a government gov-ernment agency on which Jeffers has placed responsibility of developing devel-oping many wild rubber programs outside this country. The Brazilian government is recruiting re-cruiting the workers. The RDC, which is a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation, is footing most of the bills of labor, supplies and material. ' In return, the 'United States has the rights to purchase all rubber obtained ob-tained from the development over and above 10,000 tons a year which will remain for Brazil's own factories. facto-ries. Needed a Pull Two Ways And Couldn't Get Either . FARMINGTON, UTAH.-Gasoline rationing is prolonging an unidentified unidenti-fied sufferer's toothache. Stating it was impossible to get a dental appointment before April 26 ; in either near-by Ogden or Salt Lake City, he applied for extra easnlin .rations for a trip to Denver to get i tne tootn pulled. . The board denied the application. j Polish Underground Gives j Warsaw the Allied News I LONDON. 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