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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Indian Medicine Men
Charge Doctors Fee

Western Americas Paiute Indian
medicine men of California, or sha-
mans, as they are called in their
native language, have now become
SO modernized that they charge reg
ular doctors fees for casting out
evil spirits and other native medi-
cal treatment.
Furthermore, SO strictly modern
are these shamans in this respect,
that their fee is SIS, where formerly
they were glad to accept a few
seeds.
This fact was established by DR..
Isabel T. Kelly of the anthropologi-
cal department of the University of
California, who has completed an
extensive study of the few remain
ing tribes of the Paiute Indians in
Nevada and southern California.
The bulk of her information was
gathered from the tribes that still
exist in the vicinity of Las Vegas,
New.
The shaman actitioners who
have become modernized to the ex-
tent of SIS fees for treatment were
those of the Kaibab group in the
high plateaus and the Grand canyon |
region Of Utah.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
returns to Idaho
After Months !,

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tn ned. on N Wednesday To- s1S Sat i
at at Post ts Falls, Idaho after to asr b
home. 'iie Car r,
Mr., and Mrs. Joe Ely =,
Were s CUES at the H. s. s T T.
nome Owe he Fourth O. Hug,
M. Mr.. ana Mrs. Virgil RIM,
family OF Centralia ana tumble 10 \
MRS. Bob Mccoy Of n r,-u M. 4
the Fourth with their fssS Rs
Mccoy AS'her, Css
Bud Mcintyre, who !,
al the p.y~ood mill in = amp eaplN
was home over the Fourth 'a''T
James Harper of P a~
house guest at the Harry 'q -. vas !
nome over the weekend aaapS
Miss Ruth Mass Of D.,
Oregon cene Monday n r ,E,
grandfather, c. J. DahIin ~. ,sst !. b
lily. and tla.I
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Tactic Acid Into Rubber

Many forward strides in the utili-
cation of waste products include
some Of promise to the lacquer and
varnish industry. One in particu-
lar deals with converting the Tactic
acid in dairy products into a SUBJ
stance known as polymethylacryI-
ate, rubberlike material, which,
in addition to being very tough and
elastic-is not subject to disco1ora-
ton by sunlight or violet rays.
This method will probably prove of
significance in the formulation of
lacquers, varnishes and impregnat-
ing compounds. If it proves COM
mercially practicable, a source of
low-cost lacquer and varnish ingre-
dients will have been found.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Locating Cause of Puncture

Here is quick and safe method
OF locating a tack, nail or piece of
glass that has caused a fiat tire.
After the tube has been removed
from the tire, take rag and run it
around the inside of the tire. No
matter how slightly the tack point
protrudes, it will catch on the
threads of the cloth. Closer exam
ination Of the spot will remove the
object, he says. This method Will
prevent cut hands, the result of try.
ing to locate the tack with the fin
gers. It also saves time spent in
searching the tire by the slow proc
ess of spreading and examining each
section.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
In Kansas Don't Eat
Snake Meat in Public

TOPEKA, KAN.-It is legal to
banquet on snakes, lizards, cent?
pedes, scorpions, and other rep
tiles at home, but it's against the
law to eat 'em in public in Kan
SaS.
The oddly was discovered bv
Franklin Corrick while revising
state statutes. The law provides
a penalty of from 80 DAYS to nine
months in Jail or a S25 fine.
until 1875 a law authorized
mayors and township trustees to
conscrlpt "al able-bodied male
persons between the ages of IL
and IS for the purpose of DESTROY
ing locusts or migratory grass.
hoppers. The law was enacted
in 1877.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
New Scientific Device
Records Heat of Sun

DR.. John D. Strong, California In
stltute OF Technology physicist, has
utilized a newly invented optical
pyrometer to record accurately the
temperature or the face of the sun.
According to him that temperature
is approximately 300 degrees
Fahrenheit
The pyrometer, Dr. Strong ex-
planned, measures the heat thrown
OF from the sur by recording the
intensity of its light waves. Hereto
fore this was impossible until the
physicist introduced the principle of
the irfra-red ray in his pyrometer.
With the aid of these invisible rays,
it is possible to gauge accurately
the intensity of the light rays given
off by the sun.
'Once we have captured the in
tensity of light of the SUMS rays it is
quite simple to measure-by COM
pairing with previously proved for
mulas-the degree of heat existing
at its source" DR.. Strong said.
The optical pyrometer used in the
experiments is similar to that used
to measure the heat of molten steel.
In the steel industry the variously
colored heat waves record the tenn
perature of the molten steel when
viewed with an optical pyrometer.
DIR. Strong made his measurements
OF the suns heat by gauging the in
tenslty of infra-red rays emitting
from the sun.
Dr. Strong found several other
interesting facts concerning ozone |
heat that are much closer to home.
Experiments with the new pyrom-
eter revealed that the official wealth
er bureau temperature is not uni
versal throughout the area in which
the temperature is taken.
For instance, the physicist found
that when the official Fahrenheit
reading was 72.5 degrees, it was 87.8
degrees on the ground, 1915 degrees
On the surface of oak trees and 97.2
degrees on the south walls of build
ngs.
The sun temperature test regis
cred a heat 1900 degrees hotter
nan that recorded by a thermo-
couple attached to the 1OO-inch
dount Wilson observatory telescope.
IS the first time that scientists
ave been able to check accurately
his intense heat.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Slums of Smaller Cities
Face 'Clean-Up' PROGRAM

Awakening of smaller communi-
ties to realization that slums exist
In their midst as well as in the
larger cities is evidenced by their
increasing participation in the USHA
low-rent housing program, accord
ling to Nathan Straus, administrator
of the United States Housing author
iity.
Twenty-eight cities and towns with
populations of approximately 10000
or less already have organized local
housing authorities for cooperation
with the USHA, Straus has an
tnounced. Seven of these communi-
ties have obtained commitments for
IUSHA loans to finance 10 proposed
projects. Two, including one with
less than $500 population, have
started construction of their prof.
ects, while three others have had
tUSHA loan contracts approved by
President Roosevelt.
when the United States housing
act was before congress two years
ago." said Straus, cit was general
|ly believed that the large cities
would be the principal benefciaries.
Few small cities and towns had be-
gun seriously to look into their hous-
i ing problem.
To-day the picture is quite diff
fferent. A large and growing num-
Der OF smaller cities and even towns
and villages and strictly rural COM
munitles have organized active hous-
ing authorities. In most cases, also,
these local authorities have the ar
dent support of their local govern
ments and of local business, trades,
civic and social groups-from bank
ers and other business men to labor
unions and welfare workers."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Arkansas 'Dugout' Canoes
Vanish From SwampIand

The homemade Arkansas dugout
descendant of the Indians crude
boat that is fashioned from a solid
log-has almost vanished from the
cypress-studded swamps of eastern
Arkansas.
There was time when fishermen
from one end of the swamps to the
other pulled from the far South
and as far north as the Missouri line
to get one-armed Bill Jones to make
them new dugout.
Today Bill Jones is long dead and
the hundred or so dugouts he made
have almost disappeared. His pat
tern, light wood frame, gathers
dust in the loft of Uncle John"
Harvey's barn on Big island, near
Lake City, Ark. Jim Fall, who can
turn out pretty smooth boat him.
self when he can get suitable logs,
has Bill Jones' adze and other tools.
Like fine violin. Bill Jones dug
out can't be bought for less than
small fortune. Neat, light, perfectly
streamlined, they are the best of all
boats for travel among the cypress
knees and fallen timber in the green
glades of the lowlands.
Bill used to spend all his time fish
Ing and 'digging" boats He would
hunt the sloughs over for likely
log Of solid cypress. Sassafras
makes better dugout, but sassa-
fras rarely grows big enough.
Bill would cut the log and snake
1t out of the bottoms with a bor-
rowed team of mules. Then he'd !
cut from it 17-foot section, using
only the best part of the log, and
split it.
Then the real work began. Dig
ging big hunks out of the heart of
the haf-log, he would work more
slowly and carefully as he ap-
preached the outer edge The soft
layers would be planed down, leav-
ing the best and hardest wood to
form the hull of the craft.
A dugout is poled standing up, and
the person in it had better know
what he's doing. Trimmer and
sleeker than the Louisiana pirogue,
the dugout is the fastest means of
ocomotion in the vast glades of
shallow water, interspersed by
'lumps of willow and low flats COW
cred with flag and smartweed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11

Dear Editor:
Since when did baby pink, white
and baby blue become our national
colors? Most of the flags on display
this week would indicate such a
change had occurred. Many of the
flags were also badly torn-one out
on Kennewick Avenue being about
one-fourth gone.
Furthermore, I stood at the pa
rade and watched a parade official
take down a flag and drag it across
the street to leave it in a heap on
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Adult Education Advocate

Charlotte Carr is woman who
believes in doing something about
her faith in democracy, declares
the American Magazine. She is
head of the famous Hull-House set.
Element in Chicago. And one of her
pet programs is adult education
the teaching Of 1ow-paid workers
how to understand their problems.
Charlotte Carr believes everyone's
job is to keep democracy working,
harder than ever.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Diamond in Safe-Keepine

According to the American Maya
zine, the late Will Rogers gave a
tWo-carat diamond to Chief White
Eagle Of Trenton, Ill. Since that
time there have been several efforts
to steal the diamond. But finally,
the chief has solved the problem by
having his dentist set the stone in
one of his upper teeth.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
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Communicated


| (Note-John Neuman, local boa
enthusiast, long ago promised tn
editor a boat trip thru Umatill:
Rapids, which the editor still eX
poets to make. However, John ant
Mrs. Neuman had adventure in thei
souls, and made the trip all the wa!
to Portland in the 16-foot oltboarc
powered runabout. While recover.
ing from sunburn in Portland Ho.
| tel, John wrote the following inter
esting account of his trip
June Is, 1910.
Dear Ralph:
Since ycu are interested in boat
ing, more or less, perhaps you would
like to know what luck we had on
our trip to Portland, even if you
and haven't taken the trip to UNI
atilla.
We made Portland in eight hours
running time, however, since we
stopped at so many of the beauti-
full places along the way, we did
not get to Portland until Monday
afternoon.
I tell you, Ralph, its a thrill of
lifetime outguessing "Old Man Riv-
er" at the several rapids and white
waters. Since we did not carry
charts, we had to feel our way thru,
but at no time were we in any SER
ious difficulty. Our motor never
and we had full control at all
times.
I have been all over this United
States of America, from end to end,
but I have never had more thrill
ing or interesting experience than
this trip N a small runabout from
kenneWick to Portland. From The
Oalles to Vancouver the scenery is
as your view is from
angles never seen from a car. Then,
too, going thru the Cello locks, and
the massive Bonneville
ockS is a great experience.
Maybe, Ralph, sometime we can
arrange to take you down the river
or a similar trip. I am sure that |
'ou would not forget the experience |
or long time. You do not realize
he immensely of power of the Col
mbia River until you are actually
n its grip in a small boat. But
till, I say it was just as safe as in
car.
Both Leona and I are quite bad
burned from wind and sun, but
his is a part of the fun. We will
e home Thursday and Friday, and
we still have a date for
he Umatilla trip.
Cordially,
JOHN NEUMAN.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
First House of Correction

The Bridewell, established in Lon.
don in 1855, was the first house of
correction. according to study is
sued by the Columbia university
press. 1t was the earliest institu-
ton created for the specific purpose
OF Kidding the towns Of vagabonds
and hegRars
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11
Blind Doctor
IsCarryingOn
Continues Rural Practice
For Is Years; Wife
Acts as e yes

WADLEY, ALA. - twenty-five
years ago DR.. Thomas Clack, &
country doctor, said to his wife:
1--WE might as well face it. I'm
blind"
what will we do?" she asked.
Keep on practicing medicine.
You'll be my eyes,
Since that time DR.. Clack has
slapped the breath of life into hun
dreds of babies he has never seen,
and never will see. He has minis
tered to hundreds of persons in this
east Alabama community, persons
who are but voices in the dark.
Today he is in his sixties, and
still practicing medicine Mrs.
Clack is his ''eyes."
Wife Constant Companion.
In the rs years he has been blind,
She has been away from his side
for only one 24hour period. That
was when a relative took him to a
medical conference in Montgomery.
She is by his side every hour of
the day and night. When he gets a
call, she go es with him. She sits
by the side of the patients bed,
while he talks to the patient and
gets the case history.
He has a delicate sense of touch
and can diagnose the patients
wounds with his finger tips.
But his 'eyes" takes the temper
allure, tells him the patients color
and how the sick persons eyes look.
Then the doctor comes to a conclu- |
sion regarding the ailment.
If it's an emergency case, reuuir-
ing surgery, he tells her what in
struments to select and how to use
them.
Mrs. Clack's first surgical test
came shortly after her husband lost
MS sight. A four-year-old child had
been playing with an AK and suf-
tered a severe laceration of the
1and.
I'm sorry" DR.. Clack said, feel
ng the wound. ''The finger will
lave to be amputated."
His wife hesitated DR.. Clack be-
ian to tell her what to do.
Give her this anesthetic. e, Boil
water. Battle the hand. Pick I'D
his knife. Be sure the water is
ot enough to kill all germs. Take
ne knife, and -
First Amputation Successful.
Mrs. Clack gritted her teeth,
waved slightly, but she obeyed his
lstructions. The operation was a l
lcceSs.
Determination has been the secret a
DR.. Clack's success. He had to C
ave u even when he entered the t
ledical profession. He did not C
from medical school until +
was 35-an age when most physi- O
ans are well launched on their ca O
erS.
He began practice at Amanda, in r,
1ambers county, and three years rs
ter lost his sight. It came sud- +,
My, after a series of hem -
rhages.
Those were the horse and buggy
US, SO Mrs. Clack hitched up the
rse and drove for him. When the
tomobile came into use she
armed to drive. BY now she was
"eyes" all the time, and she
d to go with him, night and day.
N the evenings, his "eyes" read
him from magazines and medi-
journals, thus enabling him to
ep pace with the latest trends in |
,dicine. !
lie was one of the first doctors
the state to use sulfapyridine
'cessfully in the treatment of
aumonia.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11

the ground with some pastel pen
ants of no national significance.
With some of the money which
the Rodeo Association take in on
this rodeo, suggest they buy some
decent flags and a book on flag
etiquette. In case they buy the flags
and not the book, I should like them
to know that old, tattered, and
torn flags should be burned Or bur-
led, not thrown away with the
trash.
1t seems to me and to others with
whom have talked, that a town of
our standing that invites visitors
to come to us to celebrate a ma
tional holiday, should learn some
thing Of flag etiquette and show
that we are truly patriotic.
Yours truly,
CHARLES E. RIDLEY
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-11

The time is not far off when the
average man in Kennewick will
take great pride in asserting he is
a plain, old-faShioned fellow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04
WVoId Is(ut
 By Airp!ane
 prop5unday
Flying Pioneer Bodtman- : Trader Goes Through 10
 Seattle Specialists

Pete WOld, veteran mariner and trader from the westward, was struck in the face by an airplane pro- peller Sunday at Platinum in Good news Bay and this afternoon should be given expert medical attention in Seattle.
 ... Wold stepped into the whirling propeller of an Anchorage plane al Platinum, it is understood, receiv- ing a slash across the right side of the hea ], severing an ear and the side of his face.
 Flown directly to Fairbanks, Wold was given attention and then flown here on the Electra yesterday, re- maining overnight in St. Ann s Hospital and flying south on the Clipper this morning.
 Wold's wife and son, Mrs. Carrie Wold and Peter Jr., flew north from Seattle on the Clipper to meet him and accompany him south.
 Wold is well known in the Vest ward. He has recently been oper- ating the motorship Fern on the mail line down the Alaska Penin- sula, and has also been operating store at Platinum.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04
Mrs. Jack S(hmitz
 Showered at Party
 GivenLast EveninQ

To honor Mrs. Jack Schmitz, a surprise shower was given last ev- ening by Mrs. John Hermle at her home on E Street, with Mrs. Louis Neiderhelman as co-hostess.
 A tiny pink baby bassinet, filled with garden flowers, was used as a centerpiece for the main table and the individual tables were cen- tered with a mixture of flowers held in baby shoes. Informal games were played for the occasion with prizes going to Mrs. V. |. Hoke, Mrs. Jack Schnlitz, Mrs w. G. HeHan, Mrs. N. J. Bavard and Miss Joyce PreWftt. @ Afa r
 The guest list included Mesdames Henry Messerschmidt, Joe Snow Arthur White, Joe Brown, George Messerschmidt, Herman Porter, George Shaw Harold Fowler, V. l. Hoke, Harry Sturrock, Gus Erickson, Alex Sturrock, J. Jackson, N. J. Ba- yard and Misses Ada Murray, Mary Rhodes, T'ula Jackson, Jean Fowler, and Joyce Prcwitt. !, f
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04

ton, as a young doctor Cecil Kel- laway as Scotland Yard inspec- tor and Alan Napier as coal miner are other standouts in the cast.
 Second feature is Republics sos. Tidal Wave
 The story concerns the defeat of @ crooked Mayoralty candidate ny Byrd. but only after a succession of thrilling sequences, including one based on Orsen Welles Martian scare broadcast.
 The picture huns with fast en- tertainment, and will please all members of the family. Byrd and Jenks are ably aided by such stall wart Hollywoodians as George Barbier, Kay Sutton. Mare Law renee, Ferris Taylor and Mickey Kuhn. Dorothy Lee. who once sup piled the love interest in Wheeler and Woolsey comedies, makes a screen comeback in a comedy role in this film, and looks good!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04
AMBULANCE MONEY ON
 WAY EAST
Juneau Donation for Use of English Town Goes
 South on Clipper

A bank draft for $395 flew south on the Alaska Clipper today ad- dressed to the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company in New York. The check represents con- tributicns of the people of Juneau o purchase a trailer ambulance for an English town
 The New York bank will for ward the fund to London for the use of the American Trailer Am bulance Committee, which is to purchase the vehicle and assign it to an English town needing it.
 The ambulance will carry on it's side lettering designating it as the gift of the people of Juneau, Al aska, USA.'
 Such an ambulance costs $350 fully equipped The balance of the fund will be used by the Commit- tee as it secs fit.
 Another letter was written di- rectly to the Committees London headquarters, enclosing clippings from The Empire giving the list of contributors and telling how the money was raised.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04
FLYING SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR IS
 BACK AT FIELD
Local AirCIub 10 Have Four Planes Available for
 Student Work

Instruction has been resumed at the Alaska Aeronautics school at Mendenhall Airport with instructor Clarence Walters and his wife hav- ing returned from a trip to Chi cago where they purchased four passenger Loening amphibian.
 Walters left the Looming in Seat tie for complete going over in the shops before bringing it north When that plane joins the fleet on the field here, the local school will have three planes of it's own and one under lease.
 Besides the Loening the school is operating an Aeronca, and a three place Piper Cruiser, while the tWo-seater Davis, owned by Miss Vera Leibel, is under lease to the school ii.
 Walters had planned to bring another flight instructor north, but declared schools over the country are so busy training students un- der the new defense program thai instructors are at premium.
 At one Chicago school alone there was a demand list for 35 in- structors, Walters said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04
ZANE GREY'5 NOVEL WILL OPEN TONIGHT
 AS COLISEUM HIT

Coliseum Theatre audiences to- night and tomorrow will thrill toI the color and vigor of the west as it was captured by Zane Grey in his exciting romance, Heritage of the Desert" as translated to the screen by Harry Sherman for Para mount
 It's all about a tenderfoot from the east who goes west to check up on his landholdings, having be- come suspicious because he no longer derives any revenue from his western real estate. His treacherous representative. on hear ing of his plans, arranges to have him bumped off. But the murder ous attempt is foiled. In times nick the prospective corpse is saved by a God-fearing rancher, who with the aid of his pretty daughter restores the easterner to health. During his convalescence, the patient learns about the tribu lations of his pious host; how he lost several sons; and though he has no proof, he knows that the same scoundred, representing the stranger, is the schemer behind all his troubles.
 The cast includes Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden, Robert Barrat, Sidney Toler, C. Henry Gordon, Paul Guilfoyle, Paul Fix, Willard Robertson, Reginald Barlow and J. (Skins) Miller.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-04

role, The Invisible Man Returns" is the eerie tale Of a man who is condemned to die for the murder Of his brother. He is made invisible, thereby escapes the death cell. and is free to use the power of his i7- visibility to baffle, scare witless and finally trap the criminals ac- tually responsible for the murder
 Prize etches an unforgettable Character even though he is in- visible throughout the story. Sir Cedric Hardwicke shifts to a heavy" role and gives it his cus- tomary polish. Nan Grey is at tractive and behevable as the h. visible Mans fiancee. John Sut-