Show - ''i ' - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING NOYEMBER 27 :kete 938 s i a S ' ered 4 tidsfo-She:Afi7-01etilt'- SoOlict ' M4asnics ::::- :: L Mayan and Toltec Civilizations Solved the Perplexing Mystery of the Avocado's I invintion s hundred botanical guinea now thriving in the orchards University of California at Los Angeles may point the way to supe- Irior varieties of an ancient Aztec fruit one which already thrives abundantly on the hillsides of southern California exonce the joy hibiting strange habits of science and the dismay of 1200 )e EIGHT '':::1:- ::: :::: it - '''''::::'' - '" :::‘":::: 1 '3 i:-- r-- :: : ' 6 :''::::::::::::: - $ k‘0'''' '' :: ::::!::::- 4 :::'''A ''':'':::4:::q:t':::'i':': ::!:k:!:::?::: : ' ' :?::::: :::::: !::::A::ii: o'k:: ":':::::: ::'0::::':'''-':e'- ' ' :'':-":- :::':''-i- :::i iiiki1 ' ''''''les"- -- '' : t '' I :k:::::::'::''''':Y''''- t ge ' ' ' ::::::::::":::::::::::':"7:::: dr ::::i::1f::(L 'I : '''::J:::'F'::':':' :” ' " '': s ' f ' New ' : 7 ' ' Iti '''' - - '"'' ':::'::':'''l ''' s:::''': 1''!'i:i'''''f:'":': :l'i :":":: ?4'::::1:::i: ''r--- r :::!:::':::: ':1::s: ''''''' 1:11r11111 IL1 E11 I:1 1':i' '' t '"' :' l' 0 110111 I S' I :::: 1 1 ' '': - use has been found for steel housis They float and can be towed up or down the river like houseboats in the event that the resident owner wants to move from one town to another and doesn't want the trouble of packing and hauling his household goods to a new house One of the new steel houses was recently lifted bodily from its foundations at Peoria Illinois conveyed to the river bank launched and towed across the river without disturbing a single stick of the furniture inside the house The doors had to be sealed to a height of 28 inches by irneans of steel plates and rub- bet flanges When that had been done the house proved absolutely water-tigIn crossing the river the house "drew" approximately one foot ANEW k 1 I "::::::: ht ' -- 14 ::: :::::::::::::::::4:::: 7 7r—c--- '::1:::::' ' 1 1 : ::' I ) ''t' i 1 i i :fii' ' ) )i' 't' t : A x cise ::- ti r - 3 ' : - - P :' is - i ' t t eA I t '' i ' '''''' 'Aiiiii6 Nsi:':- - :s r i 111 1' ' ' - - :4-7- it itor"' 0 ift--1':- 1il ' ski:) I ' ' - t rosowtk'S : t'j rto CO-O- " :::t ) A ""'" ' -- P -i ' aaat00000lexmootiaZ2ronk-os"- Itz) l'! I '0 j I') 1 s - kiting a ton Di C frg ' 16 of Agriculture for testing the amount of wear a silk stocking a chair cushion a tarpet or automobile upholstery should be capable of withstanding without a "run" a tear or a sign of wear The machine called a precision meter has been installed in the Bureau of Home Economics an important branch of the Department of Agriculture at Washing- L Or( ' to( it ' - in Czechoslovaida where things have are being put on wheels The an innovation that may revolutionize rural mail deliveries in seems almost like the irony of fate that ITbeen moving fast of late even the post offices is rid 111 0 motorized post office the little republic t rti so id kin 1 ort I esti te In mi Th If ye sh sr )lr It IC CC 'c tr :a el us - le ic 5 The accompanying photograph shows one of the new post offices on wheels making one of its visits to the Czechoslovakian rural areas This particular car the first of its kind to be placed on the road Is designed to speed up mails in rural districts aftermakinz a tour at the country as an experiments ri ' i ' 4 6 $500 FOR-75- 4 if your cold is not relieved after taking 1 bottle of Liquocold a tp WI don't say you'll feel like giving e gong recital BUT—if constipation's taken T the joy out of life— try the delicious chewing gum way to relief What I difference it makes! And it's so easy to take You simply elicit it to get all its famous benefits No wonder folks ex- seems just like claim: "FEEN-A-MIN- T magic I" Try it yourself — today FEENAstlir A prescription in liquid form for quick effect at 75c for large family size ft 11 001111W1 Ell 1 ATFESytolititifTt CHEWINS Gar 1 c0 111A1l'oillit IMMO' o I 'A Me lot r' Soo Money tack Guarantee on Package 1 le:Zi le3 t Hospital p The Farmers union at Ames Okla has 'voted to work toward establishment of a cooperative hospital guarfamilies hospitalization for and for any length of time in exchange for a flat monthly fee it I fri:' ‘ V HE D S bepartment rrt has machine an air mAtio FACTOR ER N 1 real activities of C (Bill) Fleet have made him ft popul lar bus driver In Houston Texas He wakes early risers with horn blasts so they can catch his bus going back to town takes care of aildren for busy mothers brings (ice from town buys groceries and tip housewives to shopping bargains "Extra-curricula- the paper or et JL ' ' : -- S (de( boinynto ' ? i tkil 47 - against the teeth and turn on the switch model 8 similar to the typewriter upon which Mark Twain wrote the first typed manuscript ever submitted to an editor was displayed at Holdenville Okla Developed in the latter part of the 10th century its letters and characters were arranged drum and were inked a crevolving cloth before they came 1 : ' ' :: F Y4 ::: -- : J'-- irt mt 'Service Man' t :7'77--------7- 1- fi 4 :4!"' !" 'it---' 1 i 7 - A 31ickenderffer 1 f The bristles of the new toothbrush revolve in much the same manner as the brushes used In an electric shoe shining parlor It will no longer be necessary to scrub‘ your teeth up and down or across You simply hold the electric brush '"- ': :i ' 1 ''' ' '' Quaint Typewriter c- Relieves Pain Quick 6A4vocUsemout1 0: I ) ttl WI NEW method of seeing through miles of the thickest fog or clouds by means of radio lights has been an- nounced at Perdue University Lafayette Ind The lights are planned to enable a pilot to "see" the runwty 0 a field miles away—and to land on that strip no matter how completely the ground is obscured They are under development for aeronautics by R H George and H J Heim of the engineering experiment station The lights are short-wav- e transmit- tem The plan is to set a row of them along each side of a runway Each is a miniature radio station sending out a signal along a path toward the incoming plane In the airplane is a receiver able to do termine the direction from which these radio waves are coming Special equipment converts the signals into spots of light on a round glass screen on the in- strument board This screen is much like a television screen Upon it the distant' little radiosending stations appear in the same relative positions as if they were lights on the landing field Czechoslo'valda's Post Office 3: Rhtumatic Happy I - tte!: " ' VA t 't'7:::'t---1 I ''''' ' which it works The principle which governs the manipulation of the electric razor has now been applied to the tooth brush and it may n6t be long before everybody will be plugging in an automatic toothbrush for the morning tooth scrubbing exer- - ! 4 $ Get Wedding Gifts S '':: '4 t n lf So many sufferers have found such quick relief from the torturing pain of neuralgia neuritis Kiatica lumbago and rheumatism through Nuritothat it is now sold at your drug store Ths formula which speedily relieves muscular aches and pains was developed by a physician and is now availahle to the general public everywhere Nurito' is dependable—contains no opiates or narcotics E you want to feel again the joy of relief from cam and avpid needless agony that prevents sound sleep ask your druggist now for Nurito under this 'iron-cla- d guarantee If the verr first three doses of Nurito do tot relieve that cruel pain to your satisfaction your money will be refunded ':::1' 'i :' Stocking "Runs" 4 rr 1 HE electric raior is in old story and most men who shave regularly are familiar with the way in ':' I:?:: Machine Tests The six grandchildren of Mrs Anna Potts Hobart Harthorne of Philadel- phia were bequeathed $100 each in her will the money to be "kept for a wed- ding present for each if possible" i: :44 i''"'1?' Above the Welded Steel House Before It Was Lifted from Its Foundations at Peoria Illinois and at Right the Same House Being Towed Acrossihe Peoria River Without Disturbing a Stick of the Furniture A ton-en- d model of the Brit- Ish superliner Queen Mary has been built at Toronto Ont by Oscar Pletch- er at a cost of about $5000 The model Is 22 feet long powered with a gasoline engine and holds two passengers besides its skipper' for A by Electricity :::::'!:i:V::: " ''' ('--' ::::!:Y:::":::":::frlsrtLi— Tiny Liner Built Like Queen Mary hey beet Fighting Fogs with Radio Lights CleaningTeeth f ' : y !our ma ': a Steel House suspect carbohy drates or possible growth hormones are missing From our tests may come the answer" :-' at ' '::::!:::'!:'::'::::::::::::':::::::'::':':'::::::':::!:::: :':::i 4 4'sb ': i:"::::::i ::i:'1'k:4'::::! :: " widely as the delicioua apple of the United States and the wild apples of the Himalayas That same difference may be noted among the- groves of California Varieties which thrive on one hillside ranch may not reproduce successfully on a similar hillside 20 miles distant Science can offer no reason for this display of temperament yet it explains why grow era must resort to hybrids or crosses of roots and scions to attain the popular learn the varieties by name you will fun' them running into the Voyage in We 61124111 i lf 1 ' th pear-shap- irregular bearing —:::'--:74:'''si"- i tilde bottle-necke- converting the carbohydrate into oil This may be related to ':::'::: ''k'"' ' s' i: carbohydrate then :::i::::::::i31::::::: '":::'''':!''''''Hi-- e d ishi pe Variety one-ha- ":"::'''' ::::'?:: i '''''' ' Lc Pick A Laboratory Technician Grinds a Small Quantity of the Flesh Boils It Dry Mixes the Dehydrated Flesh with a Small Quantity of Refracting Agent 1 and Examines It Through a Microscope I ':::":::'::'::i"'' '4':':e:::: sadc mid-cla- two and times more energy i s required to manufacture oil than carbohydrates Avocados carry a double load first manufacturing fiti4'::::!:!''':'" :5:': " ro ) -- ProbablyI Worthless '' :::::iii:: --- - - Splits and the Small Plant Pushes Toward the Sun Until Budded However he Plant Is Useless a rid Will Produce a Science Protects the Consumer in the Laboratory The Avocados Must Now Be 8 Per Cent by Weight in Oil for Legal Sale in California The "Calm" Standard Is Mont Twice as High 1 'Arv:i cadso isnBe7rinthse 40 ::::::::?:::k: : -- - ? ::::::::Si:: - ' :' :"iii: - ::s :: wi The Refractometer Test Reveals Whether the Fruit Is Ripe Enough to s is's::':::4:: i :: :t:'::i' Ci ::::::::::i :': 4:i'i'-- 7: k :::"1:':' a t) ' ::::': ''' 7:::'::::::':' ::i'':''e:: irk:: '::gil-W:- i tt :: ie 40 1 hundreds with 27000 nameless seedlings in California alone (:''''''1'!:: ': After spending a year in a i'':'''': ' grove you will learn never to ': plant an avocado seed and expect :::::: — a fine fruiting tree for each seed f::::i::!:7 which may be round conical or :: :::::::::4siolt"!777:5 ' ): slender produces a new and un- :i:: 00 ::: predictable offspring most of which are ::: 1 1 :' " ' wholly unfit for commercial production :: $ Budding and grafting must be resorted varieties ::::-:':2 Unlike apples and peaches while avoto in the quest for bearing 'trees :: cados become horticulturally mature on No more romantic story of American "'" the tree they cannot be eaten when N ''s agriculture can be told than the search :::: ::::: ' :::: 00"'""'17"77w777:::-::ii- : :: picked Oddly only a laboratory test reof Central American and Mexican Junveals whether one of these quixotic fruit gles for avocado plants It started short'::::::"::": ::: :':::':::::::::::::::' is ripe Specimens are taken from each the turn after of when the century ly Dr : f::: :' ?:" Wilson Popenoe backed his way through grove to a laboratory where they are — almost impenetrable forests and over a sliced open and some of the meat macerated and dried It then is mixed with a period of 10 years sent back a number of To Make Sure Fruit of a Desired Variety Is Produced a Bud from a Known refracting agent and viewed through a which basis the for cuttings provided Made in the Tender Outer Bark of the Seedling Parent Is Inserted in a refractometer Unless the oil content FolCalifornia's avocado groves today Trunk Bud Was Clipped from Small Branch at Right reached fixed standards the crop must decade-lon- g Dr search lowing Popenoe's remain on the trees another few days Were you to visit an avocado groved quently a tree will yield 35000 fruit In growers in California undertook to im- Once the crop begins to roll it is hanprove upon the Several varieties and dled like from time to time you would learn other so many eggs First the fruit fact some trees have been known to gave their better fruit the name "Calstrange facts about this unusual fruit are cut by hand clippers which do not tremendous weight the under avo" which combines "California" and collapse Its' flowers ' for instance change sex at injure the akin or taken by top pickers As for the flowers the female organ "avocado" y being female in the morning knives set on the consisting of Throughout his wanderings Dr Pope-flo- e side-o-f metal cups attached to andI male after the sun passes its zenith develops first and finally closes follow long poles The fruit may be round oval sought to learn how the ancierits These top fruit slide down canvas chutes ing five changes of sex as a mal which the ahuacatls d or or propagated Mayans light green In the packing house to halt the natural vided it has been pollinated meanwhile knew as "Ons" and the Incas as "Paldark green skin smooth as silk or rough ripening avocados are chilled for a day will set it fruit tas" Yet think were And as an alligator hide explorers it requires two they and night at a temperature of 42 degrees e domesticated of jungle-likbefore the thousands Further trees would calendar years to mature years F after which they start their long Columbus discovered America Mayan On each tree millions of blossoMs appush their boughs 70 feet above the to distant markets in journeya and Toltec civilizations disintegrated ten crated railroad cars and truck's reirigpear between November and May yet earyi if Unchecked carrying the fruit which may weigh only three ounces or centuries ago yet among their ruins may relatively few will bear fruit Infrof avocado tip the scales at four pounds beyond the be found even now varieties reach of ground pickers If you want to growing side by side -- hich differ as eBon i --' 1:'':'::': ' ' ' ' 496070--41- ' :::ii::'?--- '5 :' ::::::::::::::: - r t ' ' ' ioeor I 007:77"s"'-'- I 1:i1:1:::':- - :::' ':' o- ' ? 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