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Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-08-01

Wyoming climatic conditions. A..
heavy gumbo or clay soil will not
produce equally well the same crops
a light sandy soil will produce. All
types of crops are not equally adapt
Abe to an alkaline soil.
The soil factor, therefore, must be
considered in your farming plans.
The distance from market should
determine your cropping practices
to some extent. You can't make
a 50-mile trip each day to deliver
whole milk to market. A bulky low
priced crop cannot be economically
transported very far to market. A
crop that is perishable or that re-
quires daily marketing should be
produced close to market if it is not
a high-priced commodity.
Time Wasting Situation
There are so many time-wasting
situations and conditions overlooked
on the average farm - and time
wasted costs the operator money.
These are some of the things a smart
thinking operator looks for and cor
reefs:
l. Eliminating distance and time
in doing chores or farm work. It
takes money for you or your hired
help to walk extra steps, open gates,
pump water, drive livestock to pas
ture and water or use time CONSUME
ing, obsolete machinery or machin-
cry needing major repairs.
To travel short distance each
day mounts up in year and you're
paying for it and getting nothing in
return, so eliminate extra steps
wherever possible.
2. Guard against fires and acct
dents, they cost money. See that
your machinery, equipment, build
ing arrangement are so arranged,
constructed and repaired to elimi-
nate these costs or waste whenever
and wherever possible.
Think - plan - then work. This
would be a good sign for every farm
to have where the operator would
see it several times a day. I'm
planned work, without a goal or OBJ
jective, is usually unremunerative.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-08-01
What's the Key TO-.
Success on a farm
By A. W. WILLS Economist
Wyoming Extension Service

WHAT MAKES FOR success on a
farm?
Is it just hard work and money
saving, or is the answer to be found
in intelligent management? Many
non-paying rundown farms have be-
come a profitable enterprise or in
vestment under the intelligent ham
ding or management of an operator
who, because of poor health or other
physical handicaps, could not do
hard manual labor.
The key to success is not hard
work, but intelligent management.
A good farm manager will take
time to evaluate such things on his
farm as size, soil, climate, markets,
roads, distance to markets, available
and needed equipment, farm build
ings and their arrangement, etc.
For example, the size Of the unit
will determine to a great extent the
type of farming that will most likely
succeed. For instance, a 40-acre farm
cannot be a successful beef-produc-
ing farm. It may, however, be sue
cessful if set up for dairying on a
whole milk market basis. The 40
acres could be used as pasture and
the hay and concentrates purchased.
It may, if markets, climate and
soil are suitable, be successful as a
truck crop or poultry farm.
Production Per Acre
A larger unit, say $50 acres or
more of Wyoming irrigated land,
may be organized into profitable
beef or sheep .tset-up." The size of
a farm is determined by its produc-
ton per acre, not just number OF
acres. It's the production from the
soil that you put on the market,
either as crops or livestock or live
stock products. Ten tons of hay OF
grass or 800 bushels of grain are
worth the same amount, whether
they are grown on one acre, five
acres or fifty acres. The cost of pro
duction, however, will not be the
same per ton or bushel.
Climate and soil type will deter
mine, to a great extent; the type o
crops that can be grown. You can
] successfully produce oranges unde
Evening star., 1951-11-02

Celebrate with Lacys >. treat yourself to this
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it . take 18 months for balance! This COM
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rectangular picture tube; all the latest cleo
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detail; one dial for tuning! See it at Lacy's
gala College Park opening!
Evening star., 1951-12-10

two children down. The fairies
gazed at them. What are they?'
cried the creatures. Are they
fairies or are they children? Die
you find them under a pillow?"
"ShuSh!" said Frank. They are
children on their way to see Santa
Claus and it's up to us to see they
get their"
Then Frank and Fanny told the
fairies the story of the children's
troubles.
THE question is how to get you
there" said Frank.
Couldn't we borrow your little
white mouse?" asked Tommy
shyly.
Through the Snow Lands.
"The way is hard because it is
through the snow lands" explained
Frank. 1T would take white mouse
two days to make the trip"
And what of that?" asked Be-
linda.
Just remember" said Frank
This very night you will be hi,
children again and little whit
mouse could not carry you at all.
oh" said Tommy. Il forgot,
said Belinda.
Just at this moment another
white mouse dashed into the fairy
city. He carried on his back tive
fairies whose pockets bulged with
teeth they had collected through
the night.
Here's Buster and Barbara" said
Fanny. How excited they are!"
The two new fairies ran forward
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Uncle Rays Corner

IF We want to find the biggest
land animal in the world, the place
to look for it is Africa. In that
continent are the largest elephants
The average height of full-grown
African bull elephant is about 10
feet. Some of these beasts reach a
height of IL feet, and a few get up
to liz feet! Think of a bulky
animal which could thrust it's trunk
through second-story window of
one of our homes, if it happened to
be wandering around!
1t is hardly likely that an African
elephant would be seen wandering
Evening star., 1951-12-10

West Virginia: My employer in
sists upon: Your dues to this club
is S." can't find any one else who
uses "is" with dues. Please help me
with this, and also with the pro-
Inunciation of the word dues.-K. P
Answer: Dues is a plural noun
and as such, it takes a plural verb:
The dues are SIS. Incidentally, the
American always speaks of the
quarterly, monthly or annual fee
required by his club, or any other
organization of which he is a
member, as his dues: Club dues
are $12. payable quarterly.
AS to the pronunciation: Either
dyooz, or, less frequently, dooz
While checking this word I was
startled by the following quotation
from Don't Say It" (Funk & Wag-
nails Coz: Don't pronounce due
as if it were do. 1t rhymes with sue
and cue" Why, Mr.. Opdycke! Never
no, never in a month Of Sundays
would an American rhyme sue
with cue!
1t is not possible to lay down an
iron-clad rule for the pronunciation
of the long-u words; however, after
checking these words in the speech
of both lay and professional spe,k-
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Take Ny Word for 1t B, ,F'o"t Cobb,

ers I find that the words more or
less fall into these patterns:
The "yoo" sound prevails after
d, n and t. as in; dew, dues, duke.
new, knew, news, nude, numerous.
tube, tune, attitude, solitude, etc.
The 100" sound generally prevails
after l, r, and the sound of S, as in:
absolute, allude, allusion, rude, rule,
Isuit, super, supreme, lieutenant,
lubricate, etc.
AS to words spelled with double-o,
such as noon, afternoon, too, cool,
soon, the affectation is preposterous
trying tyoo pronounce them with
a "yoo" sound is a very fyoolish
thing tyoo dyoo, and dyoo mean
"yoo."
After the sound Of z, and st, the
"yoo" and 100" sounds are about
equally divided among the best
speakers: enthusiasm, enthuse, pre-
sumo, student, studio, etc.
Evening star., 1951-12-10

looked on in astonishment, the
shapless thing grew round and fat
and beautiful.
Help me~ cried Belinda. ut is
pulling away"
The balloon, now full blown, was
about to lift Belinda from the
ground when, just in time. the
fairies came to the rescue They
threw ropes of dental floss around
the balloon mouth and anchored it
to a stone.
ut nerly few away with mel"
said Belinda.
We'll. then" said Frank, why
not fly with it to Santa Land?"
do you think we could get there
in timer" asked Belinda. II mean
before we get big again?'
Surely" said Frank. 1T is not
far as the birds fly. Come, let's gel
to work"
He ran into a nearby tooth house
and returned with a fairy waste
basket which was about as big as
your mothers thimble. The other
fairies made a tiny rudder out ol
a slender front tooth and fitted il
to the basket. Then they tied the
basket to the balloon and all wa;
ready for the flight.
Tommy and Belinda climbed into
the basket. Only their heads peepec
over the top.
The fairies pushed away the stone
and slowly the balloon rose from
the ground
Tommy and Belinda we're or
their way.
(NeTt: The Trip to Santa Land J
GAP NeWSfeatureS
Evening star., 1951-12-10

dragging a strange shapeless red
thing about as long as your finger.
Whatever is that?" cried the
fairies. Where did you get it?"
I'VE don't know what it is" said
Buster. "A little boy wrapped his
tooth in it and left it as a present
for U.S."
What a night" exclaimed the
fairies. First we get children look
ing for Santa and now we get a
Strange what-is-it!"
Perhaps it is tent" suggested
Fanny, poking at the thing with her
foot. "Or a broken sling shot," said
Frank.
1t Was a Balloon.
All this while Belinda had been
examining the queer thing. At first
she wasn't sure what it was because
it loked so large and different When
she was so tiny.
Finally she laughed. "Its a toy
balloonw she exclaimed. "Watch!"
She picked up the open end and
blew into it. She had to put her
whole face in the hole and blow and
blow and blow. Slowly, as the fairies
Evening star., 1951-12-10
By Rumon Coffmon

has! The ears of a bull sometimes
are three and a half feet wide.
When they are spread out or
cooked" during charge, they
make sight to behold. With the
thick head in the middle, the out
spread ears may measure 9 feet
from tip to tip!
The African elephant also is q
champion for its tusks. The tuSks
are overgrown teeth in the upper
jaw. African elephants have larger
tusks than the elephants Of India
If the tusks of an elephant can be
called "overgrown teeth" we may
speak of their trunks as "over-
grown noses" At the end of each
trunk are the openings of pair
of nostrils. Elephants have keen
sense of smell; it is believed that
they can smell men at distance
of more than three miles, when
the wind is right.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Contract Bridge
By Eosley Biockwood

~ AoSs$y bt0SNWOOO
In defending today's hand Mr..
Dale lost trick, but got that same
trick back later by careful count
ing.
North dealer. Neither side vul-
nerable.
NORTH.
(Mr. Champion)
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WEST. EAST.
(Mrs. Keen) (Mr. Dale)
A9652 AA104
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SOUTH.
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The bidding:
North. East. South. West.
] club Pass 1heart Pass
1spade Pass 2hearts Pass
Shearts All pass
Looking at all the cards, it seems
that Mr.. Abel had to loose two
diamonds, a spade and (by normal
play) two trump tricks.
Mrs. Keen opened the eight of
diamonds, the king was played from
the board and Mr.. Dale won with
the ace. Trying to give a wrong
Impression of his holding, Mr.. Abel
dropped the seven spot.
Mr.. Dale cashed the queen of
diamonds and Mr.. Abel played the
ten. Next Mr.. Dale made the
somewhat questionable lead of al
trump. Mr.. Abel played the nine
and now Mrs. Keen's two trump
tricks were apparently reduced toI
one.
She took the trick with the king
Of hearts and led back heart.
Dummys queen won, as Mr.. Abel
could not afford to overtake with
his ace without setting up the ten
spot.
Mr.. Abels problem now was to
reach his hand to pick up the
trumps still outstanding. He led
O low spade from the board and
here Mr.. Dale redeemed himself.
II he had thoughtlesSly played |
second hand low, Mr.. Abel would
have won with the king, extracted
trumps and run dummys club suit,
making four odd.
But Mr.. Dale stepped right in
with the ace. He led the jack of
diamonds, for he knew Mr.. Abel
had another one in spite of his two
previous false-ca~ds. Remember,
the deuce of diamond had not yet
appeared.
If Mrs. Keen had it. that meant
she had started with a total of
four diamonds and if that had been
the case she would have led her
fourth highest, not the eight spot.
After caShing the jack of dia-
monds, Mr.. Dale simply led a fourth |
round of diamonds and, no matter
how Mr.. Abel played, Mrs. Keen's
ten of trump was again promoted |
to winning status.
(Copyrisht. 1851. General Features Corp
Evening star., 1951-12-10

in our country. An elephant might
escape from a ZOO or circus, but
probably it would be an ASiatic ele-
phant. Most captive elephants are
of that kind.
The majority of elephants in
captivity come from Asia, but some
are of African stock. I saw about
20 African elephants in a single
coup at zoo in Belgium.
What ears an African elephant
Evening star., 1951-12-10
CHAPTER SIX

The white mouse scampered
through the land carrying his four
passengers on his back.
He went SO swiftly and followed
SO twisting path that neither
Tommy nor Belinda could ever
have said where they went, or how
they got there. All they knew was
that suddenly the mouse was
running down a tiny street paved
with enamel and lined with love-
ly shining houses made of teeth in
stead of brick.
Hundreds of fairies ran to greet
them, shouting How many teeth
did you get?" Hope they are good
ones with no holes in themi"
Frank and Fanny jumped from
the white mouse and helped the
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Santa and the Moqic Mirror
By Lucrece Hudoins

SYNOPSIS-Belinda tells the tooth
fairies her troubles. They advise
her to go to Santa Claus for help.
They'll take her halfway to Santa
Land. as far as Tooth City. She asks
permission for Tommy to go with her.
The fairies say some magic words
and both children become as small as
the fairies. Mounting a white mouse,
they scamper off to Tooth City.
Evening star., 1951-12-10

Interesting life stories Of Mozart,
Beethoven. Chopin. Brahms, Strauss
and LisZt are told in the illustrated
ieafiet called Masters of Music" This
will be sent without charge to any
reader who asks for II and incloses a
stamped, elf-addressed envelope.
address your letter to Uncle Ray iHs
care OF The Star. and allow about
10 days for reply.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Word Come
Find 20 or more words in
EVANES see,

meaning. ito disappear gradual
ly." Average is 10; limit, 20 min
utes.
Rules-Words must be of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letter,
by the addition of IS" such as bats,
cats" are not used Only one form of &
word is used. Proper names are not used
A list will be published tomorrow.
Answer to MEDIATE.
made, maid, mate, mead meat, media
Neet, mete. need. mite, edit, emit, dame
oAte. deem, demit, diet dime, idea, item
adit. admit, aide, aimed, amid, tame, teed
TEEN team. tide. tied. timed.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Epilepsy Plagued Genius

NEW YORK.-Julius Caesar,
Peter the Great. the poets Swim
burne and Lord Byron, the writer's
Flaubert and Dostoevski. and tie
violinist Paganini all had epilepo
-
Evening star., 1951-12-18
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 18. - Ralph
Furey of Columbia University tabs
the National Collegiate Athletic
Associations experimental foot
ball television program "a tre-
|mendous success from an opera
tional viewpoint"
Furey is co-chairman of the
|NCAA Television Committee which
ended progress report" meeting
yesterday.
'"The public has no concept of
the ramifications and complica-
tions of such a program" Furey
said. Il would like to point out
that the NCAA program gave the
public a great variety of football
television last fall when most
major conferences had previously
PLANNED to ban television COM
Ipletely."
The committee reviewed opera
tional developments of the con-
trolled program.
1852 Action Up to NCAA.
II can't say what the NCAA will
do about television next year,
Furey said. Our committees jot
was to investigate the televisior
picture. The NCAA membership
will make the final decision.
Furey said his committee will bt
unable to make any recommenda.
tions until it studies a preliminary
report on survey by the Nationa
Opinion Research Center. Th'
center is processing 111,000 ques
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Girl Who Won Is u. S. Titles
Entered in Stars Track Meet

Nancy Phillips, one of the Ma
tons top women track stars since
1910 and winner of 13 national
championships, heads a list of
entries from the German-Amer-
ican A. c. of Brooklyn in The Eve
ming Star Games at the Armory
January IL.
An expert hurdler, with a record
of SO seconds for the 50-yard OBJ
stacle race, Mrs. Phillips will COM
pete in the 75-yard dash and also
anchor her clubs 660-yard relay
team. The women's relay, with
such representative teams as
Tuskegee Institute and the New
York Police Athletic League quar-
tet, last years winner, should be
one of the evenings highlights.
Holds Dash Record.
Mrs. Phillips holds the Metro
politan AAU record for the IS
yard dash at 8.4 seconds, but she
can go a longer distance at a good
pace This years relay will be
run in legs of 220, 110, 110 and
220 yards, and Mrs. Phillips also
is Metropolitan champ at these
distances.
Dolores Dwyer. 107-pound, 49,
year-old starlet. will be the Ger
man-American teams lead-off
runner. Coached by Harry Blaul,
who thinks she has chance to
make the Olympic team. Miss
Dwyer has been clocked in Isl
for the 220, but Blaul believes she
is capable of running it in "a
seconds fiat. Two years ago, she
Evening star., 1951-12-18
PodoIoff Censures
Referees, Schedules
Forfeited Game
BY the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-President
Maurice Podolof of the National
Basketball Association has over
ruled two of his referees and
ordered Saturdays forfeited New
York Milwaukee game resched-
Jled for March.
Referees Chuck Soladare and
Bruce Hale awarded New York a
forfeit victory over Milwaukee
when the Hawk players showed
up late for the game at Moline,
ILL.,, Saturday night. The game
had been scheduled for $50 pm.
(CST). Most of the Milwaukee
players arrived at $40 because
snowy and cold weather had held
up their train.
"The officials acted too hastily
in forfeiting the game" Podoloff
said yesterday. in view of the
nasty weather conditions that held
up the team. the officials should
have taken that into account. 1
have ordered the game resched-
uled for March"
Evening star., 1951-12-18
NCAA's TV Program Praised;
1852 Action Up to Convention

Itionnaires on the habits of foot
ball fans and is expected to have
its preliminary report ready be-
fore the MEGA convention at Gin
cinnati January 1912.
Furey repeated the NCAA's stand
that it regarded last falls 20
game network program as COM
pletely legal" Furey said: I'VE
are prepared to say so at the Gin
cinnati convention"
He said the NCAA encountered
some pressure groups. mainly
within the television trade" 2
SO Games Televised.
In addition to the 20 games
contracted for a gross of $67O, 900.
another 16 were televised inde-
pendent of the network.
The nine-member committees
other chairman is Tom Hamilton,
Pittsburgh athletic director. Other
members include: Bob Hall, Yale;
Max harrington, George Washing
ton; Edward Krause, Notre Dame;
ReaveS Peters, Big Seven executive
secretary; Howard Grubbs. South
west Conference executive secre-
tary; E. L. Romney, Mountain
States commissioner, and w. o.
Hunter, Southern California.
u Hunter was unable to attend.
but NCAA President Hugh Willett.
also of Southern California, ap-
peared in his place The NCAA's
attorney, Joseph L. Rauh of
Washington, and television pro-
gram director Edwin Reynolds Of
: New York also attended.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
BY the A.soeioied Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Five
boys from the Washington area
have places on National tennis
ranking lists released yesterday
by the United States Lawn Ten
mis- Association.
Tim Coss and Ted Rogers of
Landon School, Bethesda, Md,
top the interscholastic doubles
rankings and are third in junior
doubles. Coss rates No. 2 in both
junior singles and interscholastic
singles. Rogers is third on the
interscholastic list, followed by
Tom Bradford of Wilson High
School of Washington.
Other Washington boys
rated were Dick Rutledge of
Episcopal High School, Alexan-
dria, fifth In interscholastic
singles. and Donald Dell of
Bethesda, ninth in boys singles.
On the girls singles list, Mary
Slaughter Of Charlottesville. Va,
is eighth.
List Awaits Approval.
The rankings will not be official
until approved at the USLTA
meeting January 10. Generally,
the recommendations of the rank
ing committees are approved with
out change.
There are new leaders in all the
rankings. Robert Perry of Los
Angeles tops the juniors singles
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Gil Bocetti 10 Receive
Norfolk Club S Trophy
BY the Associated Press

NORFOLK. Va, Dec. 18.-The
Norfolk Sports Club has named
Quarterback Gil Bocetti of Wash
ington and Lee as winner of the
Leigh Williams Memorial Trophy
given annually to the most
valuable player in the Southern
Conference area"
The trophy will be presented at
the clubs yearly football JAM
boree here January 7. The prin-
cipal speaker will be Bud Wilkin-
son. athletic director and head
football coach at Oklahoma. The
trophy is given in memory of the
late Leigh Williams, one of the
few athletes ever to win 16
varsity letters at W&L.
Bocetti, a $40. l80-pounder
from McKeesport, Pa, will play
in the Blue-Gray all-star game
December 20 at Montgomery, Ala.
He led W&L to the Southern
Conference championship in 1850
Previous winners include two
All-America performers, Bob
Ward. Maryland guard. and
Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice
North Carolina back.
Evening star., 1951-12-18

won the women's AAU 50-yard
dash crown and now has her eye
on the 60-yard title.
Constance Darnowski. who fin
ished second to Evelyn Lawler of
Tuskegee in the last Star Games
hurdles. will be one of German
Americans workhorses. She will
run the second leg of the relay
and also compete in the 75-yard
dash. She is the junior Metro
politan 80-yard hurdles champion
with a time of 1872 seconds.
COach's Daughter to Run.
The third leg probably will be
handled by Loretta Blaul, the
coach's daughter and national
junior broad Jump champion, with
Dolores AcoSta as alternate.
Tuskegee, which made a strong
bid for the relay crown last winter,
is expected to send another good
team to Washington. although its
personnel has not been selected.
Chief opposition, however, prob
ably will come from the New York
Police League team. Fans still
remember Mae Faggs' tremendous
burst of speed that enabled her to
nose out Tnskegee's anchor runner
in the last few yards of a thrilling
race.
Dorothy Griffith, director Of the
meet, expects some sprinters and
a relay team representing the Dis
trict Recreation Department to
enter. The veteran Catholic Uni
versity track coach also hopes to
come up with surprise dash star
from Brookland.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Kensington Rifle Club
Edges Terrupin No. z

Kensington Rifle and Pistol
Club edged Terrapin No. 2, 1929
Lilo, in Maryland Rifle League
match at the University of Mary
and range last night. Arthur
Sommervell led the winners with
.287x300.
|. In, other matches. Berwyn Rod
and Gun Club beat the Greenbeit
Lions, 1.107-980, and GPO got past
the Greenbelt Bears, 1,085-1 ,074.