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Show Page THE Six U. 5. Population Nils 160,000,000 WASHINGTON In August the population of the United States passed the 160,000.000 mark. The figure was registered on an automatic census calculator in the Commerce Department with a clang of bells and flash of lights. The calculator is a map of the nation standing 10 feet high, topped gadget that regby an isters population the way an automobile speedometer registers mileage. It records a new resident every twelve seconds as the net result of a series of complicated calculations: a birth every eight seconds, death every 21 seconds, an immigrant every two minutes and an exit by someone leaving the coun- try every 17 minutes. The machine's speed is changed frequently. Two months ago the department stepped, up the birth calculation from one every nine seconds to one every eight. The nation's population has been growing at a rate of more than 2,500,000 a year since 1927. Between the April, 1950, census, when the official count was and July 1, 1952, there was an increase of population in 38 states and the nation's capital. Nine states, mostly southern, showed decreases and Montana registered virtually no change. over-size- d j ' Will Be Used Shoot at 'Thinq' NEW YORK Plans are underway to use the abandoned slate quarries in northeastern Pennsylvania as underground reservoirs for the seasonal storage of heating oil along the East Coast. A spokesman for the oil company that will use the pits exmines plained that abandoned have been used in other countries, but this is the first time it will have been tried in this country. Only suitable protective roofing and pumping facilities are needed, the company said, to convert the pits into large storage reservoirs. The stored oil would float on the water at the bottom of the pit. The level of the oil would be controlled by pumping water in or out of the pit. The cost of converting the slate quarries into oil storage facilities has been estimated at 25 cents to barrel of capacity, compared barrel for erecting steel storage tanks and connecting pipe with $2 a lines. The company has taken an option on eleven abandoned quarries with a potential capacity for the storage of 13,000,000 barrels of heating oil. The oil would be stored in the quarries until such time as it would be needed to heat homes along the eastern coast. Eventually pipe lines will be constructed to the pits from the refinery some 60 miles away. The oil will then be pumped back and forth as it is needed. Boy Stays in Bed For Three Years GLOUCESTER, Eng. Neighbors began to wonder what had happened to Kenneth Wherrat who disappeared when ha was 15 years old. They called police, who investigated and found he had just been in bed for the past three years. His mother said there didn't seem to be anything wrong with her son, now 18. Ha just would not get out of bed. "Every morning after breakfast I would call to him, 'Are you going to get up? And he would shout back, 'Leave me alone.' "Kenneth was lazy from the day he was born. Until he was 2 years old he wouldn't even walk. Couldn't budge him out of his high chair. "I took him to a children's hospital, but they told me, 'Nothing wrong with him. Just lazy.' " Ohio County Installs Mrs. Wherrat had a bright outhowever. look, Unique Siren System "Well, he's due to be called up COLUMBUS If enemy bombers for the in a few months. ever penetrate as far as Ohio's I hope Army make a man of they'll Franklin County, they will find him. Surely he'll have to get up one the sheriff's office jump ahead when blow the morning of them. One touch of a push but- bugle." they ton will sound the alert on 56 sirens throughout the county, inAccident Rate Can cluding the state's capital, Columbus. The new air raid warning net- Be Cut by Parents NEW YORK Insurance comwork, was made possible by special electronic tone and radio panies report a great majority of equipment. An electronic tone, the 5,500 fatal accidents to young broadcast by the sheriff's radio children yearly in the United transmitter near Columbus starts States and Canada could be averted if parents and others in charge the sirens. The network is of children were more vigilant used because it ties in with radio In watching over them. Fatal accidents currently actelephones on fire and emergency count for of all deaths vehicles. An operator Is on duty round the among ohildren at ages one to clock. When the raid is on, he four in the two countries. Motor vehicle accidents are the pushes one button; when the danger is past, another button leading cause of fatal Injury, acr. sounds the counting for more than a third of the total. In many instances the fatal accidents happened while the Denver Grows Wheat children where playing in their own driveways or yards. On 1,100-Acr- e Airport and burns by othDENVER As its share of a er Conflagrations means ranked second in frerewheat crop, Denver recently quency as a cause of fatal acciceived $5,600. The crop dents. Drownings, falls, and the was harvested from the municipal swallowing of poisons each acairport. counted for a significant proporThe unlikely merger of comtion of the fatalities. mercial aviation and wheat farming in Denver dates back to six Train years ago when the city leased 1,100 acres between runways of Good Still Are Tickets Stapleton Airfield to a grain comVa.W. This" ELM 815 acres of the -It season GROVE, pays pany. to save old train tickets, Mrs, lay fallow. In August the lessor planted Jesse Baird, 89, will tell you. Reabout 550 acres in winter wheat cently she took her two grandchoo-choand the rest of the land in winter children on a barley. The city gets 40 per cent ride with a couple of train tickets more than 50 years old. Meanwhile, of the cast yield. Before she used the ticket Mrs. grain farming tends to hold down dust,' to cut the danger of weed Baird wrote the Baltimore & Ohio fires and to serve as a weed conRailroad headquarters in Baltimore explaining she had the antrol measure in itself. cient tickets and she would like to give her grandchildren their Fish Resources Are first train ride with them. The B. & O. said it was all right Starvation Barrier there wasn't any date of since WASHINGTON People all over So Mrs. Baird and the the world are finding that fish once expiration. children took a trip food useless are important thought from Elm Grove to Wheeling. items. For instance, until 1934 commerDog Watches Buggy cial fishermen thought of roscfish as marine trash and threw them COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa Rusback. Now they are being marty, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stage-man'- s keted in many sections of the dog, believes In obeying. country. Recently Mrs. Stagoman took David on a shopping Similarly, swordfish was all but unknown outside of New England tour and left the boy's buggy outuntil after World War I. Fisherside a grocery. Rusty camped men cursed it as a smasher of nearby. nets and a destroyer of marketWhen Mrs. Stageman and her able varieties of fish. son left the store, she forgot the In the absence of prejudice, buggy and didn't remember it unmost things from the water are til the next morning when the delicious. It is. after all, a matter grocer called to tell her that the of education. buggy and Rusty were still there. i one-fourt- h 285-acr- e 50-Year-- five-mil- e o John Q. CREEK, Cal. Black and John Van Allen, described by friends as sober and hard - working miners, recently asked the Butte County sheriff's office for permission to shoot at a midget - manned "flying saucer" that keeps invading their mounBUSH tain diggings. The miners operate a small gold mine in the remote Marble Creek area a few miles north of Bush Creek. They report that each time the "saucer" lands, a little man "resembling a midget" gets out of the contraption, scoops up a bucket of water in a shiny pall, and hands it to someone inside. The miners wanted to know if it was all right to shoot at thm if they came back again. The sheriff reported he told the two men he could not give them permission to shoot at anything, but that "they'd better grab It next time it came back, so they would have something to back up their story." The men said the "saucer" used a tripod for a landing gear. It retracts when the "saucer" takes to the air. It left marks on the sand like elephants tracks and was about 7 feet in diameter and about 4 feet thick. The little man, they said, wore something like a heavy knee-lengt- h parka, and his legs and arms seemed covered with a heavy tweed material. Mrs. Vi Belcher, owner of the Bush Creek store, said the miners have a good reputation and are not drinking men. Modern Poet Pens Poem to Save Ship Donald F. Steward, year old Baltimore historian, has opened a campaign to save the Constellation, the Navy's oldest warship, from rotting to the Boston Naval Shipyard. He said, after viewing the famed "Yankee race horse" he would start a campaign to recondition and return her to Baltimore.. The Constellation lies berthed next to the Constitution, which was restored to her original glory in 1930 on contributions of $400,000 from school children in the United States inspired by the poem "Old Ironsides," written 100 years BOSTON penned that the Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Check vnnr answprs scorinrr vnnrsplf 10 noints for each is poor; A score of average: very superior. superior; Mrs. Gilbert Bailey were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Jorgensen, Mr. and Mrs. rrank bmith, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Anderson of Salt Lake City. correct choice. 70-8- 0, said that by rotational tree planting and felling, a forest Miss Maida Foote spent a few of twenty kilometers square would last week in Salt Lake City days enable a power j Mr. and Mrs. Afton Young and station to provide 10,000 kilowatts son Clark of Layton, Utah spent of power. The Ricardo engine has been de- Uhe week end with Mr. and Mrs. signed for lighter tasks, such as Henry Svedin. pumping and machine driving. It Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Garrett, Mrs is hoped that it will have an engine Geo. V. Jones and Roscoe Garrett llrf tli,iLefficiency of about 10 per cent, ' omv.. uanc rSfir uaLL Tlrrt HLIC ir, ill Cr,H ycli. vitj iaai which on a vegetable - consuming Mr. and Mrs R. E. Winn, Mr. basis is twice as efficient as native Mrs Robert Winn attended a and rusource standard the of bullock, golden wedding reception in Provo ral power in India. Sunday honoring Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Gee. Mrs. Gee is a sister- - ' of Robert Winn. New 30-6- 0-- i g WHEN THE GOING'S yy vi"iJ Uoo in-la- Capital City Mrs. Clifton Cazier and two children of Salt Lake City have been visiting with her parents, Mr. WASHINGTON The National and Mrs. Claude Tolley and with Geographic Society reports a new Mr. and Mrs. Henry Svedin. on a fertile capital city rising Miss Corrine Garrett, a student plain beneath the foothills of the at the U S A C at Logan, was snow-claHimalayas is the pride home for the week end visiting of India's Punjab state. 77 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. for Chandi, R. P. Garrett. Chandigarh, named goddess of power, is to be a symbol of new India. Where only a Mr. and Mrs. Devoe Lambert stirred (Afton Garrett) were in Salt Lake village tiny, mud-buidrowsily three years ago, a mod- City Monday attending funeral ern metropolis of concrete, steel services of Mrs. Clarence Lambert, and brick will utimately house half mother of Devoe Lambert. a million Indians. Mr. and Mrs. Don F. Gadd and Punjab was split when India was their family were in Provo MonGET THERE WITH THE partitioned in 1947. The ancient day to attend funeral services of Mrs. Maria to went Allred, grandmother Punjab capital, Lahore, Pakistan. Punjab statesmen de- of Mrs. Gadd. cided to erect an entirely new city f Funeral services for Navy Lt. for its capital. v fa f 1 is J Lewis Shelton were held in Long J t U Eastern tradition and Western Beach, California last week. Lt innovation are being blended in Shelton was a nephew of John Chandigarh. It is a city of super-block- E. Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. Robthree quarters of a mile ertson attended the services. When you must get through long and half a mile wide, each get a 'Jeep', Mr. and Mrs. Dewayne Garrett The Universal housing 10,000 to 20,000 people. and two 'Jeep' will take you through spots you of Richfield daughters Each neighborhood unit has its own were in Nephi during the deer would call impassable wiihout the power and traction schools, playground, park, club, of jhunt, Drive. movie theater and bazaar. Mrs. Gertrude Foote has been in the Now new 1953 UNIVERSAL 'JEEP' powered by On a city-wid- e scale, there will LasVegas, Nevada to visit with a the Hurricane be a central marketplace where a sister and niece and to meet a Engine, has 20 greater h cm modern department stores will brother from Los Angeles. While See it today at stalls of together they held a reunion and a compete with the open-ai- r private merchants. Other planned Thanksgiving dinner at the Sahara civic institutions include a hospi- Hotel followed by wonderful enThey also made a 44 WEST CENTER STREET tal, museum, library, university tertainment. PHONE 444 NEPHI, UTAH . and four colleges, open-ai- r thea trip to Boulder Dam. ter, stadium and six swimming pools. , , , Rising in Punjab ,f N MOTOR persons were enrolled in or college at the beginning school year that ended in : 1953. t S t Two-third- year. s due to the dren WW7 - of the increase was number of chil- larger enrolled in elementary 't.. about 1,000,000 more boys and girls than the year before. elemenThe estimated schools, 1952-5- ....v.AAi 3 tary school enrollment was 22,800,-00high school 7,200,000 and col- 0; i lege 2,000,000. Miss House Operates - o Unusual Museum MANTEO, N. C.-Virginia House of Washington, D. C, has an unusual hobby. She collects model houses. She recently opened a museum near Manteo to exhibit her collection of 500 model houses from all parts of the world. Britain is represented by a model of Shakespeare's home, France by a villa of blue porcelain, India by a Taj Mahal carved from bone, and China by a temple that serves as a jewel box. Her largest house is a prefabricated bungalow given to her by a builder. The smallest is a tiny Blarney Castle that dangles from a charm bracelet. Her museum is located near Fort Raleigh, where the first English-buil- t house in America was erected of wattle and daub nearly four Centuries ago. f ivv 94 Miss Helicopter j collapsible which can fly one and a' half hours on gasoline, kerosene' or dicsel fuel oil without refueling,' is powered by two pulse-je- t engines) mounted on the tips of two rotor, blades. The tiny helicopter can be droDDed from larffer nlanes. un-- 1 packed by two men, and put in the! hell-copt- minutes. It stands less than six feet high and will carry a load of more than its own toD SDeed jl 0, ! previous holt In a welaht at .. miles an hour, Howard. I was, the bureau reported, 1,400,000 more than enrolled the Dented a parked automobile. result the police asked the 20 , of fuel. He has school of the June, This city attorney to issue a complaint for illegal use of explosives against Sherman. As for the tree stump, it is a little the worse for wear, but still firmly embedded in Shuman's front lawn. 80 one-quart- er 32,000,000 As a about Week end guests at the McPher son home were Mrs. Ruby Bigler, Mrs. Mac Bigler and son Kent of Eureka, and Mrs. Joe Fennell of jLas Vegas, Nevada. They also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice A timated that approximately roof. in (Baltic) Sea. phrenetic is a (speech expert) (madman). 7. Elephants (are) (are not) clannish. 8. (Oil) (coal) powers Diesel engines. 9. A "casus belli" is a cause justifying (beauty marks) (war). 10.v The famous Hope Diamond is (yellow) (dark blue). 6. WASHINGTON The U. S. School census is growing by leaps and bounds. The Census Bureau recently es- SAN PEDRO, Cal. A tree stump in Robert Shuman's front lawn has caused him mote than enough trouble. He decided to remove It by burying a stick of dynamite among the roots. He touehed it off and neighbors reported flying chunks of adobe soil had: 1. Knocked down a TV aerial. air Harry Ricardo. Sir Edward has calculated that quick - growing Indian eucalyptus trees have a yield of nine and tons of wood an acre a year. As the wood contains 0.8 per cent of the solar energy reaching the ground in the tropics in the form of heat, he has suggested that in theory eucalyptus forests could provide a perpetual source fame. 5. The Leeward Islands are in the (Carribean) U. S. School Census Totals 32,000,000 Stump Blast Causes Man Lots of Trouble One-Ma- n Mr. and Mrs. Joel Taylor recently visited in Barstow, California with Dr. and Mrs. Carl Taylor, their son and daughter in law. y the Arctic current collide one-ma- the ladder. 3. There are (13) (20) items in a score. 4. Cy Young (is) (is not) in baseball's hall of WILSN with warm Gulf Stream waters to create a fierce swirling sea. The rugged coastal scenery and its abundant wildlife will be preserved in the new national park. A 1. A bicameral legislature has (2) (1) Houses. 2. In the Bible, Jacob ;:nv (angels) (workmen) on I WASHINGTON America's first national seashore park is being developed from some 30,000 acres of the Atlantic seaboard's most extensive stretch of undeveloped shoreline North Carolina's Outer Banks. An stretch of the chain of islands shielding the coast will be known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreation Area 'when the National Park 8ervlce completes its development project. Angling seaward from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, the Banks at Cape Hatteras are nearly 30 miles offshore and a scant 12 miles from the Gulf Stream. Here cold rem- 3. Check correct word. and Mrs Glen Burton and their families of Ogden have been guests at the home of Mr and Mrs. Geo. W. Duckworth. The Burtons also visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Tolley. LONDON The British have developed a new light steam engine for use in tropics which will burn low - grade fuel, including green wood. They expect it to be an important power source in undeveloped but heavily forested regions of the tropics. The engine was developed by Sir ... Carolina's Outer Banks Will Be Seashore Park Punched a Mr. and Mrs. Warren Jackman, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Pack and Mr. s, partment had informed him it would cost an estimated $4,525,000 to recondition the 36 gun frigate launched at Baltimore Sept. 7, 1797. The ship originally cost $314,000. "Old Ironsides" took to the sea Sept. 20, 1797, at Boston. 2. Miss Lula McPherson and Mrs. Sylvia Peters were in Salt lake City a few days last week. Jungle Trees As Power Source iinncDQM vll Constitution and the Constellation were headed for the junkpile. Mr. Steward said the Navy De- of News Items lt sea-goin- g nants 1953 29, d 25 before. Oliver Wendell Holmes the verse when he heard October Thursday. British to Use Invading Diggings Store Oil $1 a Friendly Octopus Scares Navy Diver OTTAWA Chief Petty Officer Robert Wigmore, a naval diver, recently found a friendly octopus, but Wigmore did not return the friendship. He was working near piling 30 feet below the surface in Esquimau harbor when he felt a gentle tap- ping on his shoulder. He turned, looked and yelled, What he yelled indicated he wanted to be back aboard the diving tender in a hurry. Clinging to a piling with five of Its eight tentacles was an octo-pu- s. Its three other tentacles were groping through the murky water in the Chief's direction. Back aboard the tender, the chief was assured that the octopus would not have harmed him. But Chief Wigmore said the shipmates did not offer to don the diving suit to prove their point, Perhaps a great friendship has been ruined, the Chief said, but he isn't interested enough to find out. Miners To Mark in August Vant to Abandoned Pits NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- of fi Costs $18 Million insecticide which costs $18 million a pound was developed by an oil company to use in studying how insects are killed by household sprays. A tiny sample of this expensive insecticide was made by a forcing flowers to "breathe" radioactive gas. Result of the study might be development of low-cochemicals to "step up" effects of the pyrethins, derivatives of the pyrethrum flower, which now cost from $00 to $00 a pound. 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