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PACE 2 FACTS-BE-TIEWFreeport, Friday, August 14, SKELETON -r Appearance Not of Petroleum Industry That Important Awaited Paltry $526 In Job Hunting By ERICH BRANDEIS "How to nfct a is the hcacl- ttiR of an advertisement by a New York men's wear store, and in -the text 10 hints from book "The Secretary at Work" arc quoted. "A picture -of the young man who is thinking of his future includes the following points," the mtvcrtlsewrtit quotw. Then it goes on to say that a young man looking for a job should always wear a suit with tnatcnlng coat and trousers, and that sport jackets don't belong in the average office. His shirt' should be clean; he should wear a "reasonably conservative" tie. His hands and nails must foe cleon.

His hair is cut and chiimpooecl frequently. There should be 'no telltale evidence' on collar or shoulders. He should' shave daily and use a deodorant dally. His shoes are polished; heels straight. He wears garters or socks with clasticlzed tops.

He should always wear a hat and one that Is becoming to him. In brackets, the advertisement philosophizes that many young men don't wear hats nowadays, but that it is surprising how many business executives comment on this and soy they like to sec ambitious young men wear hats. I 'had lunch with a few executives, successful editors and writers in New York last week. Not one of them apparently had read the or followed the book's One of them wore a shirt that was frnyed at the cuffs. Practically all of them wore sport jackets with non-matching pants.

Two didn't wear any tics at all, one wore one that was so non- conservative that it screamed to hoavcn. The hands -and nails of three of the men were only moderately clean, Two needed a shave. The socks of three hung down over their non-polished shoes and it was plain to see that none of them wore any garters. Not one of thorn 'wore a hat. I cannot vouch the "daily except that, the.

'deodorant' had come straight from Kentucky. Dress is, of course, rather important, particularly with the young who KO after their first job. II may help you io GET a job; lljwill never aid you In HOLD- IttQ it or in getting ahead. The best dressed men arc those whose dress you don't remember, The fellow with the screaming" necktie of whom spoke above, was probably the least successful of the lot. He had to call attention to himself by announcing through his necktie, "Look who I am!" Edison was a sloppy dresser.

Foul wasn't much of a one. Einstein is a living example of "what the well dressed man won't wear." I'd wngcr you that if a bright young follow came into the average office and impressed tho boss with his alertness, his personality, his character, his honesty ho would have a much better chance to got the job than the duUe who obeys every rule of surtorial elegance but has little else to recommend him. 1 don't suggest that young men old men should neglect their appearance. They should look neut and attractive. They should show respect for their women when they tuke them out, and for the offices in which they work.

But a clothes horse is not a rnce horse. And clothcti do not the man, they only HIDE him. Nebraskans Try Out Redwoods For Shade NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (in Future generations may know North Platte as the City of the Redwoods in a couple of thousand ye a rs. Two residents have received seedlings of a variety of redwood tree which has proved hardy in any of the 40 states and as fur north as Alaska.

They plun to grow them in their yurds. It's strange but true thai the establishment of the petroleum industry was delayed in the spring of 1855 until hard-pressed promoters could produce the wherewithal to pay a bill amounting to This was the fee charged for the first thorough scientific analysis of "rock oil." The favorable report was the decisive factor in building the confidence of investors so that stock could be sold and money obtained to drill the first oil well at Titusville, Pa. Now 100 years later the courage and vision of these early oil pioneers, who because tjhere was chance for profit risked everything they had in the development of a new and almost unknown substance, can be fully appreciated. Oil has become so much a part of our modern way of.life,that country's living standards can be accurately judged by the amount of petroleum products which its citizens use. Americans use more oil than any other people in the world.

To keep ahead of the demand placed upon it, the U. S. oil industry in the aeven-year period, 1946-52, has made capital expenditures for production facilities, pipelines, tankers, well drilling, exploration, chemical plants, amounting to some $15,000,000,000. The chemist who first analyzed the Titusville "rock oil" made the understatement of the century when he cautiously said that there was "much ground for encouragement" that "rock oil" was a raw material from which valuable products could be manufactured. Key to Modern farming The Evening Times of Beverly, Massachusetts, recently ran a little item under the heading "Pathways To The Past." It read: "120 years ago, at the Hamilton County Agricultural Society in New York, Qbed Hussey, of Maryland, exhibited a strange new device called a reaping machine.

It was not the first; men have experimented with reapers since the days of Pliny. But Hussey's machine worked It was he who made possible the great grain fields of the West." No doubt the Hussey reaper, remarkable as it was for its time, would seem absurdly primitive today. So would the first examples of all other early farm machines machines whose history goes back but little more than a long lifetime. But these machines have revolutionized agriculture as completely as the internal combustion engine revolutionized industry. It is literally true that the modern' farmer cannot afford to do without mechanical aids.

The machine makes possible more production, better production, and cheaper production. It is the answer to high labor costs that make the use of human muscle prohibitively expensive. Going farther, it is the machine that not only saves and conserves but improves the land for future generations. Seen in this light, agricultural machinery is the solution to the great problem of with a given amount of agricultural land, we shall meet the needs of the vastly larger population we will have 50 or 100 years, from now. In other words, the machine, properly used prevent famine and near-famine.

TODAY'S GRAB BAG THf ANSWEK, QUICK! 1. What is the capital of Yugoslavia? 2. Which two teeth does a baby normally cut flrst 3. What office was held by the late William Mackenzie King? 4. Can you distinguish between Millet and Millay? 5.

What is a FOLKS OP FAME-OUf SS THf NAME Demon on a plane Published every afternoon, Monday through Friday, at Freenort. Texii-s by Review Publishers, Inc. The 39-year-old Freeport Facts was merged with The Dally Review Murch 31, 1952. Entered us second cluss matter March 31, 1852, ut the post oifice in Freeport, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CRAIG F.

CULLINAN, Publisher J. F. DONAHUE, Adv. Director UNITED PRESS WIUE SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION HATES: Delivered by currier daily, 20c per 0eek, 7Sc per momh, pw year. By wail in Brawrla County: One fear, six months, three months, $2.15.

Outside Brazoria County: One year, $10; six months, three months, overseas, $1 per month. 'All mall subscriptions payable in advance. BrMospOrt railing to re- their copy should call l-Ull before Angteton reau- sfcould call 3211 before 6 p.m. National Advertislm Hej Texas Daily Press Texas EW animals around the country, which at flrst might a delicate venture, isn't too tough at all, if you ask Bob Havenstein, who is the man you should ask. You feed pythons heavily and then, whep they get good and dopey, coll them into barrel and put the lid on.

You don't hear a peep from them the whole journey. you have to do Is weight the trunk down. Horses, you fasten securely In aluminum stalls with crosstles. Dogs sit patiently In their portable Kennels. If it only weren't for the hanged monkeys.

"You tie up monkeys." Bob says glumly, "and they untie the ropes. You lock them so help me, they pick the locks. You carry them In the same cargo plane with they Jiowl and carry on HO much that they get the horses sHIt- llsh. And sooner or later, the door to the pilots' compartment opens slowly, and presto, you've got a monkey, full of anti in his pants, bouncing around on your lap." Young, dark, good-looking, Bob no longer wet-nurses around the country in planes. An ambitious soul, Manhattan-born, he's now on the ground as cargo sales manager for National Airlines, here In New in that capacity, still oversees the shipping of more.

Hum a thousand monkeys a month, at times. Naturally, he's known as the Monkey Man of National. Our simian friends, he hints darkly, should all drop dead. 1 BUOKR IWEAU the other day with Bob at the Park Lane, and lie told me he got into cargo flying commercially after doing the same thing for the Army Air Force down in the Solomons during World War No. '2.

The C-4(i's that National Uses for cargo arc just like the ones he llcw between Guadalcanal and Vella la Vella on a routine run which, he said, contained no thrills at all. "Race can take handicap liorse from a Long Island track and have him in Chicago in a matter of hours, At and ready to knock over a big purse there." Every now and then you hear of an animal breaking remember one French horse almost kicking a plane to those are rare exceptions, Bob said. Horses are rigged so comfortably and securely that they usually just stand and meditate pensively. "Biggest trouble with them." he added, "is when they're foreign and can't understand English. We ship lots of horses from here to South America, after they've come from if you don't have an Italian to yell directions at them, they just put their feet down and cefuse to go up the ramp to the plane nohow." ANIMALS ARK ONLY part of the cargo story, of course; National caria-s cars, drugs, furniture virtually anything that can moved.

Not too long ago, it Hew two plane loads of gold from Nesv York to Miami, vu loute to Peru, for the New York Federal Reserve, '''he gold was 16 million bucks it was laid out carefully the floor of each plane in bars, totaling 15,000 per plane. 'ilot of one of the planes walked in and saw the practically empty irgo compartment. "Hey," he said plaintively, "where's the cargo?" grinned. "You're stepping on it," he said, "and you better stop 0 -fore you kick a few thousand dollars away." Every now and then an unimal will break loose in the LaGuardia 1 'ield hanger where the cargo is stored temporarily, and it up into the steam pipes and raises the devil generally. You know what tid of animals those are.

"Monkeys," mutters Bob. You can em tad seven points." You won't get Bob Huvenstein to commit himself, but gome pilots, a Captain J. C. McDonald with National, (he won't fly humuiis) infinitely prefers the animals to the more usual two-footed HAW BIRTHPAY Today is the birthday of tic- trrsses Ethel and Wriuty Hillcr; author Edna Fcr- brr; baseball pitcher Joe ski. and pro football player Joe, Spencer.

Tomorrow (SuHilay) these persons will observe birthdays: loot- ball'couch Amos A.lomo Stayy, and baseball playery IV. E. Head) Jones and Gene Wood- liny. WATCH PREEMINENT (pre-EM-i, eminent above oUMtij: prominent; iH r. in excellence.

Origin; Praceminians, present par- ticjple of Pracemiiiere, to be prominent, surpass. YOUR FUTURE Business should make excellent profrew during the It Today's child may be clever and original, and successful beyond the average. Sunday, 10: Favorable InfltiNiccii govern love and nodal affairs, and business activities are also well Indicated. Look for origtealllf, tadmtry and cap- in today's child. LILIAN CAMPBELL Ccnlral Frcis Wriltt late John Garfleld in Force of Evil.

Since then she has played in such movies as Hurricane Island, Little Big Horn and The Sniper. Who is she? at bottom of column) son of a former United States ambassador to Britain, he is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. In 1946 he was chosen one of the nation's outstanding young men. He was elected to Congress that year and became a senator in 1952. A graduate df Harvard university, he served in Navy PT boats in the PVJfflc during 1 World War II and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal.

He is the author of the book, Eny- Jatirf Slept. In 1945, he was a correspondent for International News Service at the San Francisco conference, the British election of 1945 and the Potsdam conference. Who is he? was born in Marysvalc, in 1924 and her real name is Marie Bertelsen. She was graduated from Brigham Young university. Her marriage to Ted Stcele was annulled in 1946.

Her first screen role was one with the IT'S BEEN SAID The houses that lie makes last' till doomsday. Hamlet. IT HAPPENED TODAY Napoleon Bonaparte bom. 1771 NoveHst- poet Sir Walter Scott born. 1914 Panama cwml officially opeaed to commerce.

Actor-humorist WMI and W.iley Post killed ta plane crash in Alaska. 1944 AlUea landed In southern In World War II. On Sunday, Aug. 16: 1777 Battle of Bennlngton, fought in Revolutionary war. 1945 Henry I'hlllippc Petaln, French collaborator with Germans In World War II, found guilty of treason and committed to Hfe'lrn- pruonment.

Bate Herman) Ruth, baseball Immortal, died. HOW'O YOU MAKE OUTf 1. Belgrade. 2. The lower central incisors.

3. Prime minister of Canada. 4. Jean Francois Millet was French painter of rural scenes; Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet.

5. A stick, split and separated so that it will make a loud noise when struck against a victim. Behind The Scenes In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD Just 48 hours to surprise Ann. after she was named junior presi- A tearful Jane Withers tells me rent of the National Council for Bil1 Moss wants her to file suit for Child Safety, Gigi Perreau Holly- Divorce and that, apparently, that's Yvonne and H. D.

Hover have By BILL LATHAM beth finishes "Rhapsody." ELEANOR PARKER'S parents have moved in with her. wood film moppet, fell and broke her ankle in two places. The break is so bad she is in a cast up to her hip. She'll have to wear it for a month. But Gigi needn't feel embarrassed about accepting her honors.

She was hurt trying to save a younger child from injury. She saw her 3-year- old cousin, Steven, climb on a cement block and start to fall. She leaped to grab him and tripped. They had to give her an anesthetic to set the ankle. Like a true actress, on coming out of it, her first words were, "Call my press agent." IF R-K-O wants John Wayne to do "The Silver Horde," they'll have to notify him fast.

He tells me the picture must start by the middle of the month so he can finish in time for JO days with his attorney, Frank Belcher, before the start of the divorce trial. Ami latest court setback hasn't changed her mind abiujt fighting. "I'm beine sued ull over the place," she tells me. "I now owe between $16,000 and $18,000 in bills." John's answer is that she has received $40,000 tax free money in the last year. ZSA 2SA GABOR may be cavorting around France with For- firio Rubirosa, but hasn't George Sanders been having some quiet dates with Use Bey? THE DOORBELL RANG at Ann Miller's house and, when she answered, there stood her father, Jane says Bill moved out of the house as soon as she returned from the hospital.

One of my spies reports the sexy voice comin gout of Lili St. Cyr in "Son if Sinbacl" will be that of Jean Rousseau, radio's "Lonesome Gal." Twentieth Century Fox will team Janet Leigh and Bob Wagner again in a sequel to "Prince Valiant." JOE D1MAGGIO walked into the Mocambo to attend the Walter Winohcll party, spotted former wife Dorothy Arnold with singer Michael Rayhill, and walked right out again. THE NEW STORK rumors are emphatically denied by Elizabeth Taylor. "Not true," she says. "Mike and I don't plan any new additions to the family for some time." The Wildings still are hoping to get away to England when Eliza- WSMMGTOH VfcRRY-00-ROUND H1W HAitOH WASHINGTON One week after Premier Malenkov's surprise announcement that Russia has the Hydrogen Bomb, U.

S. scientists and Intelligence experts have come to the flat conclusion that this is not the case. Russia, they conclude, simply does not have the H-Bomb. Nor is there a scintilla of evidence to prove that an explosion faintly resembling a hydrogen blast has been touched off. Reason for such a positive- conclusion is that it is impossible to set off either a hydrogen or an atomic blast without filling the air with radiation.

These particles drift great distances. Regardless of distance, however, Allied planes, policing the atmosphere around the Soviet Union, scoop up samples of the air which tell the complete story of how big an explosion is, when it took place, and its general location. The height of the radiation tells the size of the explosion. The wind drift gives its location. The texture of the particles tells what kind of explosion it accidental, an A-Bomb, or a hydrogen blast.

FOUR RUSSIANS EXPLOSIONS As it now stands, we have conclusive evidence that four atomic explosions have taken place inside the Soviet Union. And we know pretty well their nature. On the other hand, and drawing a line between the explosion of an H-Bomb and possession 'of a hydrogen device, our scientific agencies pretty well accept the fact that Russia probably has some kind of a hydrogen device which could be exploded. However, we are equally convinced that the Russians do not have a Hydrogen Bomb which could be put in a plane and carried to an enemy country. Reason for this conclusion is that the hydrogen explosion which we touched oft in the Mid-Pacific last year and which blew up an entire island, was not a bomb.

It was called a hydrogen house, and though it contained all the ingredients of a bomb, it was exploded from the land, not the air. So far we have never dropped a Hydrogen Bomb, and probably wont' even put one together until shortly before it is to be dropped. Even if the Russians have been able to squeeze the right ingredients into the actual H-Bomb, however, they ''don't' ha'Vc pftnes' to carry it. Boifaiv when-finally completed, will be- so large it will require certain changes even on our biggest range bombers; and the Red Air Force has no planes, so far as we know, big as our B-36. AWARD TO ITALIAN The assumption that Russia is almost certain to have a hydrogen device is based on the fact that Bruno Pontccorvo, an Italian expert on the H-Bomb, disappeared behind the Iron Curtain three years ago and undoubtedly is working for the Russians.

Pontecorvo was one of seven Italian scientists who were so much in the lead of other scientists in splitting the atom that the Atomic Energy Commission hag just awarded them for patent infringement. And though Pontecorvo is now in Russia, his share, one-eighth, is being set aside for him in the U. S. Treasury under U. S.

Patent law. He has assigned one-half his interest to Eugene Ghiron-F'ublni of Glen Head, Long Island. Leader of the Italian group Dr. Enrico Fermi, now at Columbia, who was one of, the chief contributors to the Atom Bomb in this country during the war. However, he actually began work on splitting the atom in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin many years ago.

Others in the group include Oscar D'Agostino, Giulia Trabachi, and Dr. Edoardo Amaldi of Rome, with Dr. Emilio Segre of the University of California, and Dr. Franco Rasetti of Johns Hopkins. UNHAPPY HOLLYWOOD The Atomic Energy Commission has now held that the U.

S. Army infringed on their basic patent; all of which indicates how widely the secret of the atom has been known in various parts of the world. President Eisenhower's pocket veto of the Movie-Theatre Tax has made some of his best friends most unhappy. During last year's political campaign, the movie moguls were among the most enthusiastic of the Ike-rooters. Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox sold the charms and assets of Ike at every luncheon "on the lot" in Hollywood.

George Skouras of the Skouras Theatres sported an Ike almost as big as a bafn door. The Warner Brothers all plugged for Ike. In fact, there was hardly one movie executive, except for pore Schary, host to Adlai Stevenson when he came to Los Angeles, who did not contribute dollars, work, or enthusiasm to Ike. Today some of them are disappointed, some sore, some even say Ike is an ingrate. What adds to their disappointment is the way another group of Ike-rooters has -had the carpet out at the White the airline executives.

The airline moguls went down Ike, around $150,000 to his cam- And when it comes to backstage wire pulling, they haven't done badly at all. When Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts introduced a bill to separate airline subsidies from legitimate mail pay, the airline lobby did some neat wire-pulling at the White House as well as on Capitol Hill. So far, the subsidies have not been separated. The "public still has no way of knowing how many millions in gravy the airlines get. DAILY CROSSWORD what she'll eventually have to do.

named their new daughter Ellen Jane. Clcatus Caldwell is back in town. She was at the Luau with Walter Kane. Steve Crane's and Al Mathes" beautiful new restaurant is doing smash business. Pete Lawford was there with Judy Holliday.

And Hal Hayes (the man with the fantistic modern house) with Sybil Merritt. The cute blonde waiting for Steve was Vicki Lake. Frances Faye pounded the key-board so hard for a Capital recording that she fractured her index finger, Fifi a new interest is P.t.r Uwferd jack Nino of TV. were at Billy Snyder's Melody room. ACROSS I.

My lady: title of courtesy 6. ferry (var.) 9. Long narrow pass 10. Affected manners IS. Proverb ,13.

Permit 14. Through 10. Strong de, termination 17. Plural pronoun 18. Cover 19.

Secure 21. Glass water bottle $4. Wager 3. Excavate 4. Fish of the herring family Personal pronoun 6.

Spheres 7. Trouble 8. Zinc electrode in gravity ceil 9. Dip lightly into water 11. Melodiously 13.

Mulberry 16. Fish 18. Youth 20. Incite 21. Covered with wax 22.

River (C Braz.) 23. City (It.) 26. Frying pana 27. Male cat 20. River (Pol.) 31.

Smooth and ahiny 35. Land- measure 36. Smoke 37. Jewish month Ycilerdty'i 38. Affirmative reply 40.

Antelopt (S. Afr.) 42. Cut off the tons 44.R1VM- (Latvia) YOU'RE TELLING ME! HOYT KINO Central Press Writer "Can't suy I tdume Bob concedes "especially In Judge J. A. Collier, of Houston, lAinpy weather.

Even the monkeys don't come up to him and 'Arc wit jjoint to crxjh, captain'?" whom she hadn't seen in over live years. The judge is taking his first vacation from law practice In 19 years and decided BEFORE heading home, Con- provided for a commission to recommend a pay raise for congressmen. Probably our lawmakers feel that people who spend 60 or 70 billions a year ought to get more than $15,000 of it. Congress promised (o consider the commission's recommendations within 60 days after Congress convenes next January. That will be the bill voted most likely to succeed.

Actually, a monty than mott wi. 90! Io maintain two doncoi, and nctdt something him in lam an tUcKon, who wanli to (vvrybody I I to make contributions, too. They merely want to do unto selves as they are expected to do unto others. Incidentally, aloni; with tMt pay hike wove they're putting in. for a raise for federal judges, Congress nay do some peculiar things, but it's not taking chances on having a pay declared unconstitutional.

I 1 cauud Chicago board of hoolth to bar uto of for 9-0 moviot. may oyotoro, but board of itn't going to tho blamo. Miniature autos arc being used on cuff-links by a men's maker. That will lot every one know the trutfc, that the wearer has his car on tho cutf. 26.

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