Show BOON ABROAD Cracker Cans Widely Used Empty American cracker and biscuit biscuit bis his cult cans are proving a boon to housewives In tropical countries an investment for interior decorators in Central America a religious prop for priests in Tibet and beacons for lor explorers In the Gobi desert The cousin of ot that empty tin can which Mrs American housewife threw In the waste basket ket this morning has found a thousand and andone andone andone one unique uses in foreign nations all aU over the globe according to a survey made by the export departments departments departments depart depart- ments of Sunshine Biscuits Inc Tens of ot thousands of tins of crackers crack crack- ers and cookies are sent out annually annual annual- ly and many weird tales are told of the uses made of the containers after after after aft aft- er the biscuits have been consumed For example says Fernando R R. R del head of the thc firms firm's export department tin Un cans are used for road building in some Central American islands Used For Water In certain areas of Haiti and In South America specific orders come for crackers and cookies packed only in five pound cans The reason the reason the large cans are badly needed by commercial water carriers carriers carriers car car- and sell for as much as 50 cents to a dollar apiece for that purpose Throughout South and Central America made American tin cans are used for cooking utensils by many native families One South Seas island is named Tin Can Island because ships deliver deliver deliver de de- liver the mail In empty tin cans which are arc thrown over the thc side and allowed to dr drift t Into shore on the tide Sharp coral reefs prevent delivery delivery delivery de de- livery by any other means In Tibet tin cans are used by priests as prayer wheels A hole is bored through an empty American- American made tin can a stick inserted a prayer pasted on the sides and then rapidly spun the can becomes a prayer wheeL Serve As Roofs A roof made from empty American Ameri Amen can tin cans serves as a shining beacon for travelers and explorers in the Gobi desert The roof is on a monastery buried deep in the sands of the Gobi but visible for miles on ona a sunny day Housewives in the Bahama Is Islands Islands Islands Is- Is lands Puerto Rico and Haiti send in special orders for brightly colored colored colored col col- col- col ored export cans of cookies and crackers When empty they make colorful balustrades containing bou- bou or poinsettia plants In some Central American and tropical countries natives use tin cans for decorating the walls of homes bomes Some builders in the tropics tropics tropics trop trop- ics use them for re Contractors Contractors Contractors Con Con- tractors in South America have built entire highways of tin cans The cans are arc said to oxidize in less than six months to form a solid roadbed One such roadway has even been constructed in Palm Beach Florida |