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Show Vol. IX, No. 17, May PROGRESSIVE > 1950 (20th Year) OPINION ttn —— BEL VW I 7 Precious Fluid MARIA Hormone Treatment Although hormone treatment can bring virgin heifers into milk, it is likely to destroy their Hreeding ability. Awe 5. NOSE STUCK: Got TS IN A TINCAN.. Ver TRY To HURT NOT YOU.. Plant Disease Toll Annual toll from the known 20,000 diseases of economic plants in the U.S. is still hundreds of millions .of dollars. Safety Measure Axes and saws should be laid flat on the ground when not in use and never imbedded in the ground or in the side of the tree. A Giant. 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But she had spent seven helping a music ment of Young and Rubicam Ad- crossing when one which are miles high, entitle one letters named National Radio Consultant Eee Aoency, has been named for the U. S. Savings Bonds Divi- National Television consultant for sion. His first Independence Drive the Treasury Savings Bonds Divitask will be the production of a sion. Mr. Levy is aereneiie and will star-filled full hour’s radio network produce a special television pronetworks on comb: program, May 15, from 10:00 to oo 15 to signal the goeniie of the 11:00 P.M. EDST. A new record Indepenttence Drive. The program for radio broadcasts will be set by will be telec ast from New York, this program as more than 2000 10:00 to 11:00 P.M. EDST. A 4-netAM and FM stations will be hacked work radio hook-up will be simulup for the hour period. cast with the television show af David Levy, left above, super- 10:50 P.M. for talks by President Seoretary of te and visor of the radio-television depart- Truman Treasury Joho BW, Saydat She pulls the smoke throttle on the left side of the cockpit in the AT-6. Betty/the skywriter counts off eight seconds, then shuts off the smoke. The first line of the first letter is done. She banks sharply and comes back to finish the letter. If she’s sky. The trim, brown-eyed pilot-secretary is the only skywriter in Indianapolis and, she believes, the years 7-1065 designation ographer. 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She uses the grid pattern cf roads and fields in the open farming country around Indianapolis to line up her sky letters. Writing against a background of fields and rivers, Betty finds the letter ‘‘B’”’ one of the harcert. So s *O;” but “Steisn’t bad. By the time she has finished, she may be on the way across the city, 10 or 12 miles away from where she started. Sometimes she flies a thousand feet up or down to check her spelling. But not until she lands the plane does she know how it looks to people on the ground. By then vagrant winds may have mixed two letters together, and it’s usually all gone in 10 minutes. Old Pecos River Bridge Ends Career After Long Service DALLAS, TEX.—The old Pecos river bridge — once the highest structure of its kind in the United States—is being retired after 52 years of service. ‘in Newark, N. J., before she went overboard for flying One of her two sisters got her a pass on a flight to Montreal. That In 1921, a young army aviator did it. Betty started pilot’s training, got a private license in 1943 swept low over the Pecos river and sent his open cockpit plane roaring and enlisted as a women’s air force service pilot the following under the bridge, the wingtips bareFebruary. After that, she tested ly missing the supporting spans. planes. When the Wasps were disThe aviator was Jimmy Doolittle, banded, she stayed on at Napier who has since done many even Field, Ala., as a Link trainer inmore daring things. structor for a year. The Pecos bridge long has been But the end of the war brought the pride of the Southern Pacific the end of a opportunities for railroad. According to the company, women, she und. She served the span is 321 feet above the river _ stints as ‘an ae co-pilot and at its highest point, and 2,180 feet ferried hostess in New Jersey, long. It was put into service in , small planes for distributors, and March, 1892. Before the war, it : then started to work as a_ pilotwas capable of handling the freight :secretary for a New York «9al loads and the comparatively slow : wholesaler. Then Betty’s boss espeeds of locomotives then used; came too ill to fly. but during the war the increased Answers Ad loads and new high speeds made it * Answering an ad in a flying necessary to build a more modern ' magazine, she came here in Octobridge. ber, 1947, as pilot-secretary to RolThe latter span was completed in lin H. Stewart, an automobile dis1944 and is now in use. The old tributor. Stewart already had a bridge, however, was’ being disman writing the name of his autosembled for removal to Guatemala, mobiles in the sky. When the skywhere it is expected to see further writer decided to be a salesman service as a highway bridge over instead, Betty Pettitt took over. one of the country’s deepest After one demonstration, she was streams. : on her own. “I practiced making little crisserosses and lining up letters,’’ she Mexican Duck Kill said. Now she knows the flight Annual kill of ducks in Mexico is plan, for her usual ‘‘message’”’ by estimated as less than the take on heart. opening day in the United States. “You see, it’s all done backward and upside down,” she exFlying in Idaho plained. ‘I’m always thinking two Largest civilian flying field in deters ahead in order to save Idaho is Gowen field with 7,717 feet time.’ runways. A check with the airport weatherman shows whether the winds at 2,4-D Harmless 10,000 feet are under - miles an shows | All available evidence hour, as they shouldb 2,4-D to, be .harmless to animals It shouldn’t be too en either, be_and humans. ~ cause then the smoke is dissipated. “Sometimes a small change in altiLaboratory Animal tude makes all the difference in the t The golden hamster has been world,’’ Betty said. gradually increasing in favor as a Climbs Two, Miles Climbing two miles, she sights t laboratory animal. along aesefamiliar road_or fence row. Se bad from a game ALFRED —- NEARLY Jeweler 50 YEARS IN SALT ON ONE STREET LAKE, ARE YOU PLANNING TO ENTERTAIN? Tee Useful Tool A broom handle can be a very useful tool! 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