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i 1 I 'I I i i j- THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE SEPTEMBER 28, 1958 BOSTON STORE OPEN MONDAY 9:15 A.M. TO 8:30 P.M.- 'Around Us Boll Weevil Hates Cold By LYNN M. ATKINS As far as size and appearance is concerned, the individual boll weevil doesn't amount to much. His ancestors came up from Mexico about 50 years ago. tie was just a little guy, but he was an nut- i --i 1 1 I it law.

and hp still is. Ask any southern Come See a World of Exciting Decorating Ideas in Our Seventh Floor Fashion Center (September 29 thru October 8) cotton grower. has earned the reputation of being the arch-villian of the South. His dep redations have become almost Iff a classic. he and all his little friends have done to 4he sharecropper is graphically told in an old song of the Our brilliant collection South, entitled "The Ballad of the Boll-Weevil." This simple song, crooned to simple, plaintive music, tells how the farmer, "froze the boll-weevil in ice; cooked him in hot sand, but the weevil lived just the of 2100 color shades lame.

Even after 50 years, however, the boll weevil still re mains a semi-tropical insect; he cannot survive too severe a Winter. It is estimated that nearly 90 percent of these insects are killed each year 650 new patterns by the cold. Imagine what would happen If the tremen dous rate of reproduction was not curtailed by freezing weather. will be a The farmer has fooled the beetle by growing cotton faster, and gathering the crop be fore the weevil have multi plied. Every cotton patch is the scene of a mad race every '4 -vf year, between the farmer and the weevils.

Actually the boll weevil is one of the so-called snout dazzling temptation to A. vj 11 beetles, of which there are many varieties. With the long snout, often longer than, the actual length of the insect body, a hole is made in the or cotton-boll, and an egg is laid. Then the beetle, again using the snout, pushes the egg still further into the tissues of the your fruit. With a beak such as this it's little wonder that this in III feet has accomplished the wholesale depredations of vast areas.

7 good taste Chess Notebook By LYMAN BURGESS 7 www George Nute has set Oct. 8 as the day for chess captains to come to the aid of the Metropolitan League; 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Y. Clubs, chess groups, organi-rations of all kinds, including industrial, are urged to send representatives for the purpose of entering teams on time. The big drive for money to coordinated send the American team to the Munich Chess Oympiad next month went over the top.

Thus Messrs. Reshevsky. Evans, Bis 1 Pv guier, Lombardy, Kashdan and Rossolimo will not have- to fabrics 11:1 I i I 1 -il thumb back from Germany. Paul Leith in the Sept. issue of "Chess Life" reviewed past United States successes and failures in chess Olympics competition.

MM -VM 111 i I The U.S.A. won at Prague in 1931, at Folkstone in 1933, at Warsaw in 1935 and at Stock 3 Ji holm in 1937. We didn't send a team to Buenos Aires in 1939 and in "our" absence Germany MM if won. World War II ended interna fcs xn 96 1 tional team tournaments until 1950. Leith says: "The results of Via rnmnptition at Dubrovnik.

Yugoslavia, in 1950 when we "r' a-- 'txxXo were represented by Keshev skv. Horowitz. Kramer. Shain wit Stpinpr and Evans, must be confusing to historians and students of statistics, lne u.a vunn 11 matrhps drew four it nnH wa iVi onlv undefeated v. Vxi team in the event; Reshevsky took 8 points from 11 games on board Evans 9 points from 10 games on board Shainswit 7 out of 12 on board a- while Hnrowitz.

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