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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH ittle White House rine Famed Short Grass Country Of Kansas Outgrows Name of Summer Sanctums Of U. S. Presidents Traced Famed since covered wagon GARDEN CITY, KAN. the great high plains area country, short grass days as the Kansas to the Colorado footextending roughly from central this . name year. hills is outgrowing its as common a Thats question short the grass? Wheres By BAUKIIAGE Sews Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. This summer the Warm Springs Infanhouse tile Paralysis foundation turned over a little on the mountainside to the state of Georgia, which will run it as a museum and national shrine. And so another of the Little White Houses goes back to the people. It is the only one in which a president spent his last days. In one of its three bedrooms President Roosevelt died. In its living room he spoke his last words. five-roo- m The Warm Springs house was different from other summer hideaways of presidents because it was really a home. The late President Roosevelt himself built it in 1932 at a cost of $8,700. He willed it to the infantile paralysis foundation. It was a very simple structure in which the architecture of the locality and a few Rooseveltian ideas are blended. There are the two bedrooms, a third guest room, a living room, a kitchen and that's all. But there is a view that would make a Park avenue penthouse owner Jealous. Like all of the houses which Pres-- $ ident Roosevelt occupied, this little cottage is crammed with history, much of it still unwritten. Warm Springs was the symbol of Roosevelts victory over disease and pain. Since .Ktywe! then, largely because of his efforts, many hundreds of others have achieved similar victories in the community of which the Little House White was a dollar pool. I have seen the pool. It is less than 20 feet across. Polly-wog- s wiggle in it, rocks green with years of moss, surround it. It has been there a long time and I doubt if anyone ever had the temerity to bathe in it, although Shangri-la- " was a deserted boys camp when it was taken over. It sits high on a mountain top beside a splashing trout stream surrounded by thick TILLS SOIL WITH GADGET . . . For a total outlay of $75 for welding farmer near Hillsdale, 111., and parts, James van Hyfte, built this highly efficient, light weight tractor. A 1828 car engine is the heart of the tractor. A double transmission gives the machine six speeds forward and three reverse, making it adaptable to any kind of load, speed, field or road condition. REVIEW AT? ITS New Dust Bowl Feared; Corn Outlook Improves Thinking men experienced ranchers, grain men and bankers in the West are looking worriedly ahead to a revival Today there is one overstuffed of the dreaded dust bowl because transient farmers are plowchair in the corner of the solarium thousands of acres of virgin range to plant wheat which that somehow always seems to get ing up will bring them two dollars a bushel. turned around at a certain woods. angle. Turned that way, a side table is within easy reach, a push button and a hand telephone with an extension number on it. Lift it and the answer comes, White House. It connects directly with the switchboard at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. Under the stimulus of the two-dollar wheat, buffalo grass is being simple turned over at an unprecedented cottage was also rate, and the prediction is that the scene of his when it quits raining the dust bowl He was death. will stage a savage comeback. posing for a portrait when the The West again has become a terrible headache came. He had paradise far speculators who are It gives me a rather strange signed his letters for the day and in buying up land for $15 to $25 an feeling ta look at that chair-em-pty his last signature, which I have acre and planting It in wheat. One and realize what messeen, there is evidence that death good crop will pay for the land and sages went over the telephone leave them a good profit besides. already was plucking at his beside It, what words were dicsleeve. Suitable primarily for grazing, the while the long cigarette tated diffiland normally is priced at from $2 Late in the war, when it was holder moved nervously to the to $10 an acre. cult to go far from Washington, anash tray on the table at its arm. other "summer White House m Suitcase farmers roll in with President Truman has not used their tractors, plows and drills, put Maryland was established. It was The "Shangri-l- a given the name "Shangri-la- . very often but when in a wheat crop and then leave until President himself named it Jokingly he goes there next he and Mrs. it Is time to harvest the grain. No when, because of security reasons Truman will find a retreat which one stays to check the inevitable during the war, its location had to gives them more privacy than prob- wind erosion. be concealed. It was discovered, ably any other spot on earth. The current world food shortage thanks to a slip of the tongue on the Tucked away in the deep woods is offers some justification for expandpart of Mrs. Roosevelt, and because a new, little cabin. Just big enough ing the wheat crop, but it would be absurd stories were written about for two. No guest room, no parlor. difficult to maintain that rational the tremendous amount of money Just a cozy cottage with a neat, outlook if resulting dust storms which had been expended on it as modern kitchen, a dining roomcaused a recurrence of the mass a matter of fact it cost very little to sitting room with a fireplace. There ruin and exodus from the dust bowl convert it was thrown open to the two is a company, three a crowd. of the 1930s. A sanctuary press. any president deOne article described its million serves. FAIR OUTLOOK: part. The tube. Although the United States army began being hot weather host to chief executives in Buchanans time and continued to do se into the regime of the dashing Arthur, it was because Lincoln lived at the Just within the Eagle cottage Gate of the Soldiers Home (now well within the city of Washington proper but ence a distant suburb) that this summer White House became famous as the Lincoln Cot- nesota and South Dakota is about equal to that of last year, but heavy losses have been incurred as a result of excessive rain. Most observers agree that while the growing corn crop is two to three weeks behind last year it still has time to stage a comeback, given favorable weather. Such a shortened growing period, however, may result In reduced yields. Also, growers in the two states are reported to have turned, in the past year, to planting corn requiring a shorter growing period than formerly. Therefore, while the corn may mature relatively earlier than formerly, it will do so at the expense of a smaller yield an acre. DISCORD: Paris Clash Latest attempt to bring the opposing areas of the world into closer harmony by means of an international conference has resulted, as have all the others, in a complete, discordant, unharmonlous cacoph' ony. It was the Paris conference of Corn Prospect British, French and Russian repreAs July entered the Midwests sentatives on Secretary of State scene with a gush of Marshalls save - Europe proposal agricultural by Lynn where the offices were warm and air sunshine, prospects located. In 1926 he chose an Adirondack appeared reasonably good for a MARSHALL ANGERED crop of corn In Minnesota "camp, near Paul Smiths. One of Angered at Soviet criticism of Dakota this and South year. those primitive places millionaires his European recovery plan. However, in those states, as In the build in the wilderness equipped of State George MarSecretary a of corn rest the long belt, period with all the comforts of a modern shall as a malicious rejected Is conditions of favorable weather hotel. Kirkwood Camp, owned by distortion of the truth the RusIrvin Kirkwood, a newspaper pub- most essential. The frequent, heavy sian claim that American offers rains must stop in order that satulisher, was such a place. to help put Europe on its feet The next year Coolidge repaired rated fields can return to normal are inspired by Imperialist moPlanted acreage of corn in Min- to the Black Hills of South Dakota tives. He drew a stinging comwhere he lived in a spacious lodge between United States parison trout the streams, guarded among for iyrld aid and Soviet efforts by a troop of cavalry and making a aggrandizement in Europe. long, Journey to Rapid to to affairs attend of state and City interview the press. which went on the rocks this time, i A - iis The next year he again went to deepening the rift between Russia ' Wisconsin and on an island in a lake ' ?A t and the western powers. V. 28 miles southeast of Superior, lived V Conflict arose over two main Isin Cedar Lodge, making necessary sS ? sues: a a three times week. trip 1. Soviet Foreign Minister V. President Hoover, when he took M. Molotov opposed any plan i Vs went office, almost immediately V by which the great powers down into his own jeans could impose an economic proand for $15,000 bought Rapidan," another mountain stronghold in the gram on the smaller nations of Blue Ridges. When he left office he Europe, while British Foreign Ernest Bcvln, backed Secretary promptly deeded the tract to the A-Ai I!.'' commonwealth of Virginia, hoping by French Foreign Minister !, I, 4 lid Georges Bidault, wanted to perhaps, other presidential campdraft a bread scheme for fires would burn there. But his sucifi ! of all Europe. cessor chose otherwise. 2. Molotov placed his entire Warm Springs belongs to the W I ; 4 emphasis on the American aid s state of Georgia, countless aspect of the Marshall plan, but will visit it, as they do Hyde Britain and France primarily Park and other local monuments. ka Ii ""'ii p stressed a program for is now a part of the Shangri-lEurope. national park system. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Dr. Mar Ivanious, archThe next president, whoever he Result is that Great Britain and France probably will go ahead withbishop of Trivandrum, India, enmay be, may have it if he wishes, out Russia on a western European without extra expense to the taxjoys visit with baby Claude, four-yea- r reconstruction program payer. But who knows? He may youngest of the prolific Dionne , of at the same time hophave a dream-house- , realization of family which also includes quinwhich we need hardly begrudge tuplets, The two met in Ottawa, ing for American credits and suphim. Canada. plies. tage. When Grover Cleveland became and shortly president, however, thereafter took a bride, he felt that it was improper to live on the army in the summer months. So he bought a place of his own called Red Oak on a high hill in the capital now known, in honor of his short domicile there, as Cleveland Park. It was a plain farm house when he bought it but it soon blossomed Into a comfortable home. Then Washington was a town of some 175,000 people (1816) and Cleveland had an unobstructed view over the whole panorama down to itself. When he was defeated he sold the place. When reelected he bought an- other. That effectually ended the Soldiers Home tradition and it was really not until the time of President Taft that a working summer headquarters was set up. Other Theopresidents took vacations dore Roosevelt went home to his beloved Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay with a secretary or two. President Taft went to Beverly, Mass. When President Wilsen went to Cornish, N. H., it was fr rest and recuperation. In 1816 he (hose the imposing Shadow Lawn in New and by that time war was impending and his staff went with him. Jersey President Harding didnt want to get away. He wanted people, lots of them, around him also 52 cards. President Coolidge, too, it was said, didnt know what to do with a vacation but he made as geographically varied a selection of summer White House sites as any president. First it was Swampscott where, as one dispatch put it. he was "tethered to a telegraph wire. As a matter of fact no telegraph wires actually enteied White Court, the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of New England's roast, but the telephone did and he made regular trips to near rock-bmi- fair-size- d Just Friends twice-weekl- y "t & J 3 v: well-line- d w' h -, y thou-sana- re-- 3 mystified visitors in this western The season. this around look gion short grass has become long grass, the often short wheat Is tall wheat and the country itself just doesnt look the same. Nature is running riot. Moisture penetrates the ground to a depth of 8 to 12 feet. In May, sometimes a dry month, 5.28 Inches of rain fell here. During the wheat growing season since September fields have been soaked by 23.29 inches of rain. From the days when there was little but buffalo to see the plains and fatten on them, the grass, known as buffalo grass or short grass, has been famous for its succulence despite the fact that it lies close to the ground, never growing tall like bluegrass. But this year even that type of grass what little the plows have left as virgin sod is taller and more luxuriant than ever before. In the sandhills, along the Arkansas river pastures are growing so fast that an extraordinarily large number of cattle can be grazed. Even the sagebrush and cactus are reveling in the moisture. It is the wheat itself, however, which shows the most marked benefit from the soaking. Mothers are S Havens of Ollier Presidents Ever since the days of Buchanan almost every President has seen fit to flee the banks of the Potomac when Washington weather begins to lure the mercury to the top of the ' y Ills I n self-hel- a self-help- 3 &' aviation notes Airport Chatter Lorin Duemeland of Bismarck was elected president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranchers association at concluding sessions of the annual convention. The Dakota Flyer, an aviation paper edited by Geneva Show, youthful Mott, N. D., aviatrix, was named official association publication. . . . In the first annual air tour sponsored by the aviation committee of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, 32 planes visited 16 commuMost flight. nities on a of the 16 communities will vote on establishment of a local airport authority this year, and purpose of the tour was to acquaint citizens with the need for careful and adequate air planning. . . . "It is no more unusual to have a plane than It is to have a car. In fact, this airplane is much less trouble than some of the cars we used to have. That is the assertion of Harmon of Ira, a SumCranz, a pilot-farmmit county, Ohio, village northwest of Akron. Cranz, who uses his plane chiefly for pleasure flights, has converted part of the bam into a hangar. . . . For the first time in its history, Parks College of Aeronautical Technology at East St. Louis, 111., is inviting its 2,000 graduates from each of the 48 states and a dozen foreign countries to return to the campus August 2 fo-- a reunion and homecoming. The bank warned, however, that in farm prices does not appear iminflationary price rise apparently a combination of contingencies such minent in the near future, it said. nearing an end, the probabilities as bad weather and a substantial Food prices, although below recent seem to favor a downward move- deterioration of domestic crop pros- highs, are supported by a high level ment of the price index in the next pects could upset its forecast. of employment and national In12 months, it is predicted in a reAfter examining the factors income. Trices of many manufacport on The Price Level released volved in the present rise as com- tured goods have risen only modby Bankers Trust company. pared with those in the price jump estly despite greatly increased The report, prepared by Roy L. following World War I, the bank costs of labor and materials. since the all - commodity Reierson of the bank's economic de- said, Furthermore, it is pointed- out, partment, added that the prices of wholesale price index has not in- the greatly increased supply oi some manufactured goods may creased as much this time as in savings and liquid assets may proWorld War I, it is likely that the deshow a further modest, and probvide some support for the pries ably temporary, rise, but it is be- cline in the price level wall not be level. The business inventory situa-tion- , lieved that any such movement will as severe during this correction moreover, does not appear be more than offset by declines in period as it was in comparable to the excessive nioneThe bank cited a number of fac- t tlf prices of farm and food try speculation following World tors to support its view. A collapse War I. and other materials. With the postwar " itself. OUTMODES ATOM BOMB . , ( Prof. T. D. I. Leech J is leadi; figure in development of an Am weapon of which e I tion; vcom ican-Briti- by comparison the ate jbut bomb is a clumsy method of i fwoir tack. He is a New Zealander Jpeoi says, pari getting afraid to let children play around the fields if they venture far among the stalks they may be hard to find. Many fields have wheat up to mens shoulders. Where fields have been sowed right up - to narrow roads, motorists enjoy reaching out of car windows to pluck the large, perfectly filled heads. Some fields are so large that a person cannot see across them from a car. Combines in some cases make a three-mil- e drive without turning. g Truly it is a year for western Kansas. record-breakin- Precautions Listed For Polio Outbreak asyst or olog and as ite ta tei bu re Air Museum Providing a comprehensive, permanent exhibit of the air weapons Observance of six simple precau- used in World War II, a national air tions may help you avoid infantile museum will be established in the paralysis should outbreaks occur in mall adjacent to Smithsonian instiyour community this summer, ac- tution in Washington, according to cording to Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, tentative plans approved at a conmedical director of National Foun- ference of aviation men and army dation for Infantile Parlysis. air forces officers. These common sense rules a": It is planned that historic aircraft and items of aeronautical equip1. Wash hands thoroughIs-?-for- e ment, both foreign and domestic, eating. which already have attracted wide2. Keep flies away from food. spread public interest in temporary 3. Do not swim in polluted displays and air shows will be waters. turned over by army air forces 4. Avoid to the museum. A total of more than 100 aircraft and several thou5. Be guided by your physsand items of aeronautical equipicians advice concerning tonsil ment will be made available to the and adenoid operations. museum. 6. Avoid sudden chilling, such Airplanes earmarked for the muas plunging into cold water on seum include the Enola Gay, the a very hot day. which dropped the first atomic "June through September, Dr. Flak Bait, historic veteran bomb; Van Riper said, is the time when infantile paralysis cases are on the of the European theater, and the increase in the north - temperate Memphis Belle. zone. Consequently they are months in which these precautions should be especially observed. Last year was the worst polio year in three decades, with more As than 25,000 infantile paralysis cases reported. By June 7 this year. Dr. Van Riper said, 1.000 cases had .'? I been reported to the U. S. Public YsVa w Health service. This figure Is 192 r cases less than the number reported for the comparable period last year, he explained. It is estimated that of infantile paralysis victims in this country 50 A; per cent recover completely, 25 to 30 per cent show slight residual f li paralysis, 15 to 20 per cent show marked after-effecand 5 to 10 per AID IN TEACHING A former cent die. reconnaissance pilot, Lee A. Harper of Logan, Ohio, uses his flying experience as an aid in teaching Never Ohio farm veterans. Harper, now a vocational agriculture instrucLYNCHBURG, VA. Although he was off duty, Randall Hudson, city tor, uses his own plane to fly difireman, pitched right in and helped rectly to his students farms and to his classroom at extinguish a fire at 215 Lansing Laurelvilie, Ohio. It was his own home. over-tirin- ,to si ithei Mark Twain once said everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. But he didnt know Davy Crockett Jr., who helped save an $80,006 apple crop by warming up the weather with a couple of personal planes. Taking off from the Hagerstown, Md., airport at 3:30 a. m., Crockett and a fellow pilot flew their Aeroncas to the orchard threatened by frost. Cruising back and forth 50 feet above the trees, the two planes raised the temperature two degrees in 19 minutes. The pilots, warming the air by keeping it circulating, patrolled the area for 314 hours, after which the danger of frost was past. ta ur m ha Pr to; ca an ORPHAN . . . t young to feed itself and having mama or papa to take care tl in a nice, comfortable nest, ti little wood thrush is fed by ba from a spoon. It was deserted SPOON-FE- D its parents in Philadelphia. 'w.'.vw; g, vj B-2- 9 s' I ;v GERMAN PARTY BOSS Von Bredow became F manys first woman party leaf, when the military government censed her equal political rig. for women party.- - She is countess in her own right. rung Maria yore Valle no tl Jje vi the ever, i mer ;! qA - late , , ... Off Duty Downward Price Trend Seen NEW YORK. , 731-mi- ts FAVORABLE FORECAST Jack Ls fa- - S' I1E WAS RIGHT ski, food corporation head, hi all the way in court to prove tlu, n: bis sauerkraut had been mish& died on railroad and that it hn VA not fermented and exploded )' - ave-enu- Show Postponed Shoplifter Is Original, Bat Its Same Ending I other e. - AlPA. HOLLIDAYSBURG, though his shop lifting scheme had the merit of originality, it still wasn't good enough, James M. Butler learned. He entered two stores and lifted a luncheon set, electric iron and sweater valued at $20. Later he returned and asked for refunds. The ruse worked the first time but at the second store suspicious clerks called police. Postponement of the 1947 National Aircraft show, tentatively scheduled to be held in Chicago November has been announced by Industries association. Since personal aircraft were to constitute the major portion of the airplanes to be displayed at this years show, council members felt that a postponement to next spring would provide more opportunity to plan a showing of new models not now in readiness for public display. Aircraft 4 I 'i S i ted WARNS OF COLLAPSE ,fc dieting a collapse of our ef,,servi omy unless immediate steps isian(! taken, Emil Ricve, chaimis" CIOs full employment comnn1 sa)s rising living costs have been checked. j ! |