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\ Growing Roses In Romania Happily, the man with (he? graying hair, brushed tidily back | and the sun-tanned cheeks, look- ed at the rose in his hands. They, too, with long, gentle fingers which- caressed the bloom rather than held. it, were browned by the sun, "This rose," he said, "is my life's work." The man who said this is fisher. man and hunter) horticulturist and -- above all -- grower of roses. And insofar as he is a local member of Communist Roman- fa's National Assembly, a politi- cian, What, we asked, were his poli- tics? "My politics are expressed in my flowers," he said. "In the beauty of nature and a belief that in helping to create beautiful things one is contributing to the creation of a beautiful life for al) mankind." We were visiting the Roman- ian State Experimental Horticul- tural Station, just outside this capital city of Transylvania. We were met by the director, Rudolf Palocsay, a reposeful, sympathe- tic'man, looking remarkably like the present Lord Attlee looked 20 years ago. We had planned to stay for half an hour. We stayed for three as Mr, Palocsay escorted us through' his gardens of blooming roses, naming them, noting the characteristics of. each, and paus- ing now and then gently to cor- rect a girl employee's use of a pruning knife or. other garden tool. "My father intended me to be a painter," he told us. "I liked painting -- TI think I had some little talent -- but I was always interested in trees and flowers. I-learned much, thanks to a pro- fessor of biology .who invited us pupils to help him: in his re- search in plant breeding." Despite 'all of father's protests he "gave everything 'else up at the age of 23 to study gardening." He began research work an a small plot of land and sold the first results with profits which enabled him lo enlarge it to about four acres. : Those four acres are today the source of much knowledge which finds its way over the wire fence to the 440 acres which comprise the' institute's experimental area TLLUSION -- "Venice" Is what <omes to, mind when one sees gondolas and bridge arches pic- tured. Not so, above, The au- thentic gondola Is shown In Utrecht, The Netherlands, dur- ing an Malian-style fair. for vegetables, flowers, frult, and other- cultures, ~ Mr. Palocsay has expert lieu- tenants for strawberries, for -apples -- which in July, - and though called only by a number despite Californian parenthood, tasted and looked as fresh as when they were taken from the tree -- for grapes and so on, He supervises 'it all. But his own great passion is, as it has been for more than two decades, roses, roses and roses, writes Erie Bourne in The Christian Science Monitor. He showed us those which he produced in 1936 and which were named by King Carol. There was the beautiful red Daniliu. Zam- firescu, named after a Romanian poet, and "Aug, 23," named for the new Romania's National Day, and grown for parks and public gardens -- "but not good under glass." But his greatest pride and joy is the bloom now bearing his own name which he first pro- duced in 1936 and ever since then has been tending to bring to the perfection of the specimens held now in his hands. At the recent great Paris Floral Show, the rose was ex- hibited and much admired, but it could .not compete because Ro-" mania did not belong to the In- ternational Society for Horticul- ture. Since then, Romania has joined and been accepted and Mr, Palocscay will not only in due course be showing his own rose In Rome and Paris but will be licensed also to sell its plant for production anywhere in the world under its own registered name, : The "Rudolf Palocsay" is an exquisite orange-colored rose. It is a cross, which, beside its beau- ty, has this to commend it that it blooms two weeks earlier than the normal season. It blooms nine times a year, Mr. Palocsay said, and gives three times the blooms of most other roses. The grower has other hybrids but none so lovely as this bloom with its depth up to three inches, its compact form and color, He produces magnificent gladioli -- 24 new varieties and shades -- and antirrhinums, In our conversation he return-. ed always to the subject of yoses and the beauty of natural things. "Nature is wonderful," Mr. Palo- csay said. "You cannot - perhaps improve on it but you can help it to even more beautiful re- sults. When there is more beauty in all people's lives , . ." Just Who Said Radio Is Dead? Question: What do 'television viewers do in the summer? Answer: They listen to the radio, "This surprising bit of intellig- ence comes from Sindlinger and Co.,, business analysts, whose surveys show that last month for the first time in two years more people listened to the radio than looked at TV. Sindlinger attri- butes the shift to increased use of car radios (30 per cent of the total) and portables (12.5 per cent -- seasonal factors that should preserve radio's lead well into August. In addition, said Sindlinger, the industry had run out of the pre-1948 movies that supported TV through last sum- mer's doldrums. polijely unmen- tioned was television's usual summertime programming pros- tration: There just wasn't much "worth looking at. In Manila, P.I, after police re- ported four killings in a month by primitive weapons, Mayor Arsenio Lacson proposed an ord- inance requiring licenses for possession of bows and arrows, blowpipes and darts. 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Shafts of 0 | i eathers * ' $1. Poeme 8-6 \on this page 1 Sw TWO'S COMPANY -- D left, a goat, ipping into" lunch together are Susie, and her constant companion, Honick Rainbow, right, three-year-old pacing filly. THEFARM FRONT How some United States grain-growers are doing some- thing about the wheat surplus is interestingly set out in the following dispatch from the State of Washington. It was written by Harlan Trott and ap- Remol in the Christian Science onitor, J * J Marie Antoinette's classic po- litical faux pas, "Let them eat cake," isn't such a bad idea after all. "In fact, it seems to sum up a policy Northwest wheat grow- ers are successfully pursuing to expand their Far Eastern mar- ket. Growers in Oregon and Washington have been working for some time to persuade Ja- pan and India to augment if not supplant their rice-eating habits . with a big helping of bread, macaroni, cakes and pies. * J * __Now they are intensifying their efforts to expand these markets through closer regional cooperation. And the drive to substitute wheat for rice in the diet of their trans-Pacific neigh- bours is being accelerated by the newly formed Western Wheat Associates, U.S.A., Inc. Its 12-man board of directors includes two representatives from each of the wheat grow- ers' associations in Oregon, Wa- shington, and Idaho. * * * Montana is not included even though it is a Northwest state. This has an economic explana- tion. The 100 million bushels of premium wheat Montana dumps into the nation's breadbasket every year grows on the eastern side of the Contin 1 Divide. Therefore, it is ,s4id, Montana wheat growers are not in the same tough railroad-rate bind as their three western neigh- bours. * * LE The traditionally unfavour- able railroad-rate situation long ago turned Northwest wheat growers to the Far East market, to which cheap ocean freighters can carry surplus wheat. * * * All the programs which the growers' groups and the state wheat commissions of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho 'have been working on separately are now being turned over to the new regional association. Al- ready they have accomplished a great deal in the way of self- help. In fact, Dr. D. D. Hill, head of the Farm Crops De- partment at Oregon State Col- lege, thinks that perhaps in some ways, "the modern wheat growers have outdone their predecessors of 50 or 100 years ago." This is lofty praise for the much-maligned beneficiaries of today's government farm subsi- dies, . . . ' Before the acreage allotment program was put in' eifect, the Pacific Northwest produced about 150 million bushels of wheat a year on its high eastern plains. Under the aiistment pro- gram, its production now is only about 120 million bushels, Sinca World War II, exports have averaged nearly 70 per cent of the Northwest's output, as com. pared< $6.34 per: cent for the rest of the nation. As far back ~ wheat accepted ay a supple- " Oregon became a 'wheat - handling 'phone in the storm, Scout Dick _ phone line, as 1949, Oregon State Wheat Commission sent a team on a fast boat to the Far East to study ways to expand this mar- ket. ) * * * The first step in this direction was to increase consumption of wheat foods in rice-eating areas in Asia. The Oregon commission and the Millers' National Federation teamed up on a project at the Women's Christian College at Madras, India, in. 1952 to teach the nutritional values of wheat foods to people: #ho had stradi- tionally eatenfRe instead of cake. In fact, they had eaten so little else than rice, they were said to be affected by malnutri- tion. With the aid of funds supplied by the Millers' Federation and the State of Oregon, the Direc tor of Agriculture in the State of Madras succeeded in having mental food to rice. * . LJ Then, with the enactment of the 1954 farm bil, Richard K. Baum, now executive vice-presi- dent of the Northwest Wheat Associates; Earl Pollack, grain marketing specialist of the United States Foreign Agricul. | tural Service; and Gordon Boals of the Millers' Federation toured the Orient to widen their search for markets. This time, their hands were strengthened by the 1954 act which removed the ob- |= a shortage of dollars. y SOSH "NEE SN Thus, when Japan came into the market, the "let-them-eat- wheat" program took on a big, new dimension. Spokane's Joa Spiruta, then of the Oregon Wheat League, got a grain ex- hibit set up at Osaka's 1958 World Trade Fair. He had three Japanese bakers working as hard as they could every day, baking -- cake! * * » Next to the Emperor, Betty Crocker was on her way to being Japan's national hero, That is to say, they started out with American cake mixes. Then they got fancy. They started - doing culinary handsprings with scones, jelly rolls, and you- name-it -- so long as it has wheat, stacle to increased trade, namely + * * A training center for wheat- flour bakers is now located at the Japan Institute of Baking in Tokyo. To encourage the pur- chase of United States wheat, sponsor of Japan's annual golf tournament by putting up the American Wheat Cup. Out of these self-help con- tacts came visits by Japanese officials to study American and baking methods, They are still coming. In Rhinelander, Wis, while calling other scouts in the camp to warn them against using the La Certe was stunned by a light- ning" bolt that struck his tele- In Noblestown, Pa, Philip Mager, suspected of stealing $73 from a post office, was discover ed in the posse that was hunting him, fr Bali y. : EHLERS 2 'Of Black Beetles ln ; . -- ) : : : come pests themselves + were Strange Harvest Sore posta About Srahgrass The Baden beetles are one of | And Other Pests : the most recent Canadian. dig- Late 4 or and carly 'au Deep in the dark "forests of Baden, Germany, intently solemn ot men, boys, and women gathered in circles around the towering fir trees. At the base of the trees, they spread cotton sheets, Then they "carefully stroked the trunks ang branches with long-handled, soft brushes, Down on the sheets tumbled a strange harvest: Small, shiny, black beetles called Laricobius erichsonii. Only a few weeks after they were caught, 20,000 of the Baden beetles, shipped by air in screened boxes, were re- leased in the woods" north of Bangor, Maine. To the participants in the strange rites at Baden last spring each of the beetles was woth 10 cents. To the U.S. For- est Service which was footing the bill, the insects seemed worth every penny. If they do their job well, the Forest Serv- ice explained recently, they may save the United States more than a billion dollars, the value of the nation's fir stands which are now threatened by some woolly little aphids no bigger than a sharpened pencil point, A hungry colony of the aphids, sucking on a fir tree's resinous sap, can kill it in two years. One of the few ways to stop this costly destruction is the Baden beetle, as voracious a feeder on aphids as the aphids are feeders on trees. What the Forest Service hopes to do is to restore the balance of nature--for the woolly bal- sam aphid is not a native Amer- ican, Accidentally brought to this continent from Europe at the turn of the century, it was quick- ly spread by the wind through pulpwood stands in New England and Eastern Canada. In 1954, it was found in 600,000 acres of lumber-producing forests in Ore- gon and Washington, where by now it has sucked ta death trees worth $21 million. And, because the aphid snuggles deep under the heavy fir branches, aerial spraying has proved useless. Canadian forestry experts get the credit for finding a weapon against the aphids. Told by Eu- ropean entomologists a few years ago that the aphids are harmless at home because other insects keep them in check, the Canadian Forest Biology Division started importing various' preda- tors for experimental study. Only insects which dine solely on aphids--and so cannot be- * yo HOLD IT -- 'Watch the birdie" is mora than a photographer's catchword when lensman Joe Campiglia aims his camera. Pet baby mockingbird strings along. coveries, and look especially good to the U.S, Forest Service because of the ease with which they can be collected, shipped, and released. "All you have to do," explained Dr. W. V. Bene- dict, the service's top entomolog- Ist, "is put a hundred or so of the adults in a box, fasten it to a tree in the springtime, let the beetles crawl out, and hope they find the environment suitable, "In this big test with 20,000 beetles in Maine, we hope to find out just how effective they are against the aphids, If they are successful, we'll try larger colon- fes in the Western States, "So far, the beetles have cost us only $6,000--imostly, to pay for collecting the insects in Eu- rope," Dr. Benedict added. "And remember, this kind of 'aphid control is self-perpetuating. Once the predators are established, we will have no further costs." Canadian forestry experts, who started it all, are cautious but equally optimistic. "I can't say that we've succeeded in era- dicating the woolly aphid," Dr. Malcolm. L. Prebble, director of the Canadian Forest Biology Di- vision, summed up last month, "but their populations have de- finitely been reduced. We feel the program of importing insect predators offers our best hope of someday eliminating the woolly aphid from our forests."--From NEWSWEEK. Wild Creatures Come To The Call The art of calling wild crea- tures is almost as old as hunt- ing itself, but it has developed greatly through the years. Beckoning to high-flying ducks and geese with a call has been popular sport through countless generations. Crow hunting long has been spiced with the flavor of enticing the wary black crit- ters within gunshot range through use of a call. What would moose hunting be with- out the time-honored bark- bugle? Even calling predators is noth- ing new. Martin Burnham of Marble Falls, Texas, was suc- cessfully calling foxes and wolves more than fifty years ago, sucking wind through compress- ed lips to imitate the high-pitch- ed squeal of a crippled rabbit. Today animal callers are learning new things about the sport. Murry Burnham, one of the famous Burnham brothers, claims just about any wild ani- mal can be called if its habits are studied thoroughly, Different animals react in dif- ferent ways to various calls. Some are lured with the promise of an easy meal; others imagine they are courting a female. At times it seems that some animals come looking more out of curi- osity than anything else. The basle call for predators is the dying rabbit cry. It will at- tract any meat-hungry predator, from hawks and owls to foxes and coyotes. In Mexico last year the Burnham brothers, Murry and Winston, actually got a mountain lion to answer a call, Imitating the cluck of a love- sick turkey hen to attract super- sly gobblers is a cherished game of chance in Southern states where the wild turkey hunting comes during the spring mating season. I once knew an old-timer who could call quail by pushing his tongue agalnst his palate and cooing like a bobwhite. The Burnhams had a black bear answer a call in Canada last spring, probably out of curiosity, Jackrabbits frequently will come bounding to investigate when they hear the rabbit-squeal call. ting rid of crabgrass and o lawn weeds. In the case of cra grass, which deposits thousands of seeds for next year per plant, the seeds need to be destroyed, also. One plant has been known to produce 250,000 seeds. Spraying with selective weed killers Is therefore the first For the ordinary lawn wi one weed killer will usually clear the lawn. But for crab- grass : special crabgrass killew est. tumn lawn care begins wi X. Some firms even offer 'differ ent crabgrass sprays for differ ent seasons of the year, the late. summer one quite strong an the early spring one focused on killing last fall's seeds. Follow the directions on the contalpe. of whichever one is used. Feeding is the next importang step. Autumn feeding will give the grass plants a chance te grow strong before the winteg sets in, Soak the lawn fooi Im well, Where dead weeds have b -n raked off you may have ba. spots. These should be spaded scratched up, the soil prepa as for a new lawn, and reseeded. Lightly tamp the seed into the soil, the water often enough te keep the soil moist for the young seedlings. Dally watering on these pla or on new lawns will be nee for three or four weeks after seeding, unless rains take care of it. After that, water as need- ed to keep the lawn from drying out. = % ' Seeding of the entire lawn in among established grasses is alse good practice in late summes and early fall. It can be done sparingly, for each seed has a better chance of germinating than in the spring. With the feeding and the cool nights and prevalent moisture the new grass plants coming up will thicken the turf and make a good root base for next year. Keep on mowing the estab- lished lawn, and at not more than 13% inches in height, This Is so the young grass coming up will not be smothered by tall grass or by heavy clippings. THE GUN-TOTIN' PARSON The Rev. Kurt von Hertzner, who became the- famous gun- toting minister of the-Rackles, was journeying "westward - In 1882 and doing his best to learn the English language before ar- riving at his destination. An obliging fellow passenger, he recalls, taught him over a period of days the key phrases he would need. Von Hertzner prag- ticed steadily s0 that as he descended from the train and met the mayor of Exton, Colo, where a church was walting foe him, he was able to say heartl- ly, "Hello, you black-shirted old sidewinder! Is it true you rustle cattle for a living?" 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