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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH MODERN BUILDING ''.'WJW SMART AS A FOX Farm Yoath Snares 135 Foxes To lYin Championship Laurels A partly-finishe- v WNU Features. ITHACA, N. Y. among the ranks of trappers may well take a cue from Huck Spaulding, 18, of South Westerlo, Albany County. Despite his age, Spaulding has snared 135 foxes during the past winter to rank as champion fox trapper of New York for 1946. Second place was taken by Robert H. Hark, 18, of Dalton, with 51 foxes, and third by George Rathbun, also of Dalton, with 28. Both are 4-- club members. Hark also received first Old-time- rs move in. H prize for the best prepared pelt. Winners receive cash awards and medals in the contest for farm youth sponsored by the State Farm bureau federation and the American Agriculturist, farm magazine. Purpose of the contest Is not just to kill wild game but to teach farm boys and girls how to control surplus wildlife in areas where damage is being done to poultry and livestock. Another aim is to encourage practices among rural youth . that recognize wildlife as a farm crop which may add income to the farm business. D. B. Fales, assistant state club leader, reports that an estimated 2,300 foxes were taken in the state by the youthful trappers during the contest year. Second and third places for the pelt were won by Edward Bartlett of rural Lockport and Francis Simpson of rural Port rnMm AVIATION NOTES . AIRPORT CHATTER When the temperature dropped to 26 degrees, J. J. McDonald, Cash-merWash., apple grower, called in a pilot and his dusting plane to blow the frost away from the orchard. The pilot flew just over the treetops for several hours until the sun rose. The propeller, stirring the air, sent the temperature up to 30 to 31 degrees. . . . Dedication of the new Iowa Falls, Iowa, municipal airport and an air show are scheduled for May 30. A flight breakfast at 7 a. m. will open the days activities, which are expected to attract pilots from all parts of the state. . . . J. J. Schecter, rancher near Alamosa, Colo., utilized a plane to sow a section of land. Crested wheat Jervis. This, the second year of the con- grass, clover and brome grass were flown by Norman test, far surpassed last years when sown from. a. plane . With recent acquisiKramer. tion of a $16,000 war surplus link trainer, Augustana college at Sioux Falls, S. D., is planning to offer a course in civil aeronautics. . . . Five Holstein heifers, all expectant mothers and valued at $11,000, have been shipped to Uruguay breeders. They were sent from Seattle to Milwaukee by train and from there by plane. Breeders in Uruguay bought the cows with the stipulation that they arrive before giving birth to their calves. ed two-semest- er Dodge City, Kas., fabled cattle town of the early days and site of Boot Hill cemetery, stressed modernity at its recent 75th anniversary celebration. An air show, featuring everything from stunt flying to dummy bombing, CHAMPION TRAPPER Outfoxes Foxes , an estimated 1,500 foxes were caught, Fales. reports. All three state winners also trapped more than the previous high winner, who ac. counted for 21 animals. Spaulding, Hark and Rathbun will be guests at special activities on the Cornell campus. School Constructs Houses To Assure Getting Teachers . ' - CRAWFORDSVILLE, ARK. Plagued by a shortage of school teachers resulting from a lack of housing accommodations, Crawfords-ville- s school board finally solved the problem by building a seven- -, family apartment. The board received several no housing-n- o job responses to its offers of employment; other teachers resigned because they couldnt find a place to live. If housing was the trouble, board members decided, ' then they would build houses. Now, the seven-famil- y apartment, conveniently located across the street from the school, has been opened for inspection of teachers. The apartments are new and modem and, best of all, rentals are as low as $25 a month. The new apartment is a school board job from start to finish. When contractors refused to handle the basis, project except on a cost-plu-s the board Aired its own building supervisor, carpenters, bricklayers, masons and other laborers. The board bought all materials through the school. The finished building cost about $50,000, which board members figure is a saving of about $8,000 to $10,000 over a contractors cost. The school board rejected barracks and boarding-hous- e type buildings because congeniality does not seem to exist where a large group of adults is forced to live together. Money for the project came partly from the revolving loan fund of the Arkansas department of education, partly from the school board cash. Even with low rentals, the board figures the building will pay for itself in 20 to 25 years. GEM OF BEAUTY ... . Once a fiery volcano, Crater lake in Oregon new ranks as one of the beauty spots in national parks of the Wst. The lake, which gives the park its name, is the deepest on the North American continent; its color is a mysterious blue. Sheer sides rise 500 to 2,000 feet to the rim from the lake surface. Liao rock, on the rim of tiie lake, is shown id this picture, with Mount Thielson in the Reaching the first house, the contractor stationed his foreman on the other side of a wall, and then called out, Can you hear me? Yes, I can, rejoined the foreman. Can you see me? the contractor n'ext called out. No, replied the foreman. That, commented the contractor, is what I call a good wall! HOPELESS HANDICAP background. NATURES HANDIWORK e, 4-- H best-prepar- The other day we accompanied a contractor friend of ours when he d went to inspect a row of cottages he was building. He explained that this was a hurry-u- p job that had .to be completed by the first of the month. The eager prospective owners had paid down their money and were anxious to provided a modern touch to the colorful old - time celebration. Pilots from Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas gathered for the event. STANDARD RISKS Of 100 life insurance companies surveyed by Institute of Life Insur- ance for current practices in connection with aviation risk, accept as standard risks without limitations applicants who contemplate air travel on U. S. scheduled transports in the western hemisphere. two-thir- ds M. Harding James of Binghamton, N. Y., likes to fly but he also believes in keeping a promise to his wife. When he flew from Binghamton to Toronto, he kept one foot on the earth all the way. The earth was in a small box. BETTER TRAVELERS Babies ' are better air travelers than grown-upaccording to Pan American World Airways stewardesses. Babies, they claim, seldom get airsick or restless. They sleep peacefully or play near their seats. Stocks of baby foods and a baby kit with comic books, rattles and games keep them busy. Some toddlers even have crossed the Atlantic unaccompanied. Difficulties do arise occasionally, the stewardesses admit. On a recent trip emergencies exceeded the emergency supply of diapers. One small iraveler debarked wearing the planes fanciest dish towel. s, PRODUCTION MASS . . . Dra- matic new aviation assembly line methods, patterhed after the Detroit type which once before changed the nations form of transportation, have resulted in peak production at the Stinson division of Consolidated Aircraft Vultee corporation in Wayne, Mich. A new production record of 316 personal airplanes, like tiie craft shown above, was set during April. multi-purpo- se Pacific Coast Parks Show Results of Volcanic Action WNU Features. -- Volcanoes have been a dominant factor in shaping the American landscape, especially in many parts of the West. Three of the major volcanic exhibits of California, Oregon and Washington have been incorporated into the national park system. It was 40 years ago that Theodore Roosevelt, using the authority granted by congress the preceding year, established Lassen peak and nearby Cinder Cone as national monuments. Nine years later these two attrac--tion- s of nature were incorporated into Lassen Volcanic National park, seen in all his wanderings throughout the mountains of the West. The most extensive and colorful discontaining 103,269 acres. Greatest single distinction of the plays are found in the mountain park is the fact that it contains the parks which lie between the long only recently rivers of ice and above the dense active volca-n- o forests which clothe the lower elevain the tions of the park. The forests themUnited States. selves, virgin stands of gigantic Starting May Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock, are a distin30, 1914, a series of erup- guished feature, (particularly attions contin- tractive to eastern and midwest-er- n visitors. ued until February, 1921. Most . g in the spectacular 1915 which series were the eruptions, ALL THREE of these parks are were accompanied by extensive as popular during the winalmost flows of hot lava. These created in as ter summer. All of them have the devastated area, which still snowfall and all have very heavy ranks as one of the parks points of principal interest to tourists. open slopes that offer the skier every of skiing experience, which The great cone of Lassen peak variety into late spring and even extends rises 10,543 feet above sea level. As summer. Roads are kept open early in the devastated area, the Cin- in each to permit winter sports park der Cone, which was last active enthusiasts to reach them, although about lQp years ago, and its imme- the of plowing out the roads diate surroundings are almost whol- afterexpensesnowstorm is rather high. every ly devoid of vegetation. Underground fires have been acIN LASSEN Volcanic National tive in this region for a long time and they have exerted their power park there are public accommodain a variety of ways. This Is sug- tions near Manzanita lake, close to gested by Bumpas Hell, a colorful the northwest entrance of the park. hot springs area; Boiling Springs At Crater lake, similar accommodalake; Red Cinder "Cone; Crater tions are situated within a short butte, and the privately owned sul- distance of the rim. At Mount Rainphur works, which lies within the ier they are found at . Longmire, about 2,750 feet above sea level; at park. Paradise valley, 5,557 feet elevation, , AT CRATER LAKE National park, and at Ohanapecosh hot springs in in southern Oregon, on the crest of the southeast comer of tiie park. the Cascade range, is presented the Public campgrounds, for which no spectacle of a lake of deepest blue fee is charged, are to be found at a in the crater of Mount Mazama, an number of points in each of these extinct volcano. Many geologists parks. As in most of the other national have concluded that the basin pied by the lake, which has neither parks, National Park service proinlet or outlet, resulted from col- vides staffs of lapse of the volcanic cone of the an- whose job it is to help the visitor cient peak. gain a better understanding of the The lake is supplied with water by plant and animal life of the parks , rainfall and snowfall as well as by and of the geological phenomena snow which is blown into it from found in them. the rim. Collapse of the mountains summit did not mean the end of its volcanic activity; Wizard island, a cinder cone, was symmetrical formed later and rises 780 feet above surface of the lake. Covering an area of 20 square miles, Crater lake is 6 miles across; it has a shore line d of 20 miles and the cliffs of the craters rim rise 500 to 2,000 feet above it. The park contains 160,290 acres. seven-year-lon- . ranger-naturalis- ts multi-colore- civilian saw a dejeqted sailor slumped on a park bench. He asked: Anything wrong, son? Im listless, sighed the sailor. Lost your pep? No, my list of phone numbers for this town. A Harmless judge had given his decision on a case, and counsel for plaintiff rose and questioned it. I cannot allow you to reopen this case after Ive given my decision, said his honor. Then, judge, I may as well sit returned the lawyer. Its down, no use knocking my head against a A stone wall. Returned the judged I know no other who could perform the operation with less personal injury than yourself. Direct Action Two countrymen at a fair approached a stall where little balls bobbed about on top of water jets. One tried his skill with the rifle but could not pot the bobbing balls. Lets have a shot, said his friend, and, taking the rifle, fired. Every ball dropped. As they walked away, the unsuccessful one said: That was good. How did ye manage it. Will? Easy, replied Will. I shot the man who was working the pump! Easy Solution Young mother (to neighbor) My son always has his shirt-tail- s flapping, and your four sons are always dressed so neatly with their shirts neatly tucked in. How do you manage it? Oh, its really very Neighbor simple. I just take all their shirts and sew an edging of lace around the bottom. Gurgle, Gurgle The tired business man arrived home. The cook had left that morning without notice. The market had been depressed all day, causing him great financial loss and to climax the evil day he found a farewell note from his wife. He knew a shot would end it all. So he opened a bottle and took one. Reason to Rise Why dont you get up earlier, son? father complained. Dont you see the flowers spring out of their beds at early dawn. Yes, father, rejoined the diplo-natyoungster, I see they do. I rould do the same if my bed was ic s dirty as theirs. WELL WORN HIGHEST OF ALL volcanic peaks of the western United States is Mount Rainier, 14,408 feet in elevation, which is the central and dominant feature of Mount Rainier National park. Although it has long been dormant, steam still issues from vents on its summit, and several hot springs are found nearby at picturesquely ' named Ohanapecosh hot springs. From the lofty central cone radiates the greatest single-pea- k glacier system in the United States, with 26 active rivers of ice. One of these, the Emmons, which starts from the summit of ice and snow fields, is 514 miles in length, the longest glacier in the United States. Most of them extend far below the timberline. John Muir, who perhaps did as much as any one person to further the spread of the national park idea, considered the wildflower fields of Mount Rainier the finest he had ever RIVER OF. ICE . . . Nisqually glacier flows down the south side of Mount Rainier, focal point in Mount Rainier National park in Washington. Realistic Acting La Moine Wall, was rehearsing for a school play, the script calling for him to be knocked out in a fight. He didnt get up when the rehearsal ended. He had bumped his head a little too hard when he fell to the floor. First aid treatment brought him --around. OGDEN, UTAH. 15, Junior Dad, when you were young, what was your great ambition? To wear long trousers, Father and I got my wish. If theres anybody in this country wears his trousers longer than I do, Id like to see him. Long-Ter- m Approach A shy lad 'wanted to marry the girl, but he felt he would choke if he tried to mention the words, marry or marriage to. her. So, after giving much thought to the problem, he asked her in a whisper one evening, Julia, how would you like to be buried with my people? |