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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 19411
THE COTULLA RECORD
COTULLA, TEXAS
Remember How
We Talked?
It went like this at the Hooper’s
the other night. Hap’s eighteen-
year-old daughter is talking about
“a real gone guy—solid—out of this
world, but def.”
“Now what kind of language is
that?” Hap barks.“Can’t she speak
English?”
“I’ll translate it for you.” Ma
Hooper says, “in the language of
the twenties, when you were about
twenty years old. She simply means
this fellow is the ‘cat’s whiskers.’
Remember how we used to talk
sonutimes?” Hap went back to
reading his newspaper.
From where I sit, it’s easy tc
criticize the other person when we
don’t take a good long look at our-
selves. Sure, there’ll always be
some differences. I’m fond of a
temperate glass of beer and maybe
you would prefer ginger ale—but
let’s just live and let live. Because
when we go out of our way to find
things to find fault with in others,
chances are they can find a few in
us, too.
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Fishing
Cost of Lake Mead
LAS VEGAS, NEV.-Five hun-
dred feel up near-by desert
mountainsides where goats and
jackrabbits once struggled for ex-
istence is to be found today some
of the best fresh-water fishing in
the world.
While most of the country’s
fishing sites are snowed in or
closed for the season. Lake
Mead, the man-made body of
water stretching 115 miles from
Hoover (Boulder) dam to Grand
Canyon, continues to produce
bass, blue gill, perch and catfish
in fabulous numbers. They are so
plentiful that the season is open
day and night the year around.
For 13 years now, since the
reservior started filling in 1935,
fishermen have come to take
daily limits of 10 bass, some
weighing 12 to 15 pounds; 25 cat-
fish, and 20 crappie, perch and
blue gill.
Models Must Have
More Than Beauty,
Grace for Success
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Eileen Ford,
who operates a $250,000-a-year
model agency, said a successful
cover girl must have “ego satisfac-
tion.” She also needs “individuality
analysis” and “quality control.”
But the girls couldn’t make the
grade on shapely legs, or other
physical accoutrements, alone.
“They must be well adjusted
mentally,” she said.
That’s where Mrs. Ford comes
in. Only 23 and pretty enough to
be a model, Mrs. Ford said she was
well trained in psychology while
attending Barnard college.
“When I started the agency,”
she said, “I was quick to learn
that models who ruined costly
poses did so mainly because of
their mental attitudes.”
She said she immediately put a
stop to the undy ad and leg art
business.
“I insisted on stimulating ‘qual-
ity control’ by elevating modeling
to a profession of which any mod-
el’s mother would be proud,” she
said. “ ‘Ego satisfaction,’ I found
was just as important and I gave
every effort to building up the
confidence of our girls. We give
them every attention and try to
keep their minds free from
worry.”
Mrs. Ford said she uses psychol-
ogy on her customers, too. “I have
long talks with them on the tele-
phone,” she said, “and I try to
analyze their moods. If the client
is upset and disgruntled about
something, it’s easy to detect it.
The problem then is to send him
a girl who is chic and lefreshir.g.
A blonde, perhaps, tall and slen-
der, with a sympathetic smile.”
Ore-Year Term Marines
To Gei Special Training
NEW Y O R K.— Approximately
three of every four one-year enlis-
tees in the Marine Corps will re-
ceive specialist schooling after
“boot” camp, under a r.ew program
approved by Gen. Clifton B. Cates,
commandant of the marine corps.
Decision to concentrate on spe-
cialist training for 18-year-olds was
prompted in part by results of
aptitude studies. Average general
classification test scores reported
for one-year enlistees now at Marine
corps recruit depots are: San Diego,
Calif., 115; Parris Island, S. C., 109.
Average wartime score for the
Marine Corps was 104.
Men selected for formal tech-
nical training will commence
study in one of the following
schools: clerical, engineer, ord-
nance repair, automotive repair,
supply-clerical, photographic, elec-
tronics and cooking and baking,
aviation students, after a basic
technical school, will be further as-
signed for schooling as aviation
electricians, machinists, structural
machinists and electronics spe-
cialists.
OIL SOURCES
Men Drilling
Below Water
CHICAGO,-(U.P.)-For more than
a year, about 500 men have been liv-
ing on islands of steel ir the Gulf
of Mexico, drilling for oil below the
i surface of the water.
I Two oil men attending the an-
nual convention of the American
Petroleum institute said the opera-
tion, known as offshore drilling, is
being carried on by 15 oil com-
panies. Their operations cover a
2,500,000-acre area from six to 20
miles off the shores of Texas and
Louisiana.
The oil man said their com-
panies have achieved “fairly
good” results so far, compared
with land operations which cost
much less than offshore drilling.
Before underwater drilling can
begin, gangs must construct their
1,500-tcn steel islands by driving
pilings 100 feet below the ocean
bed, and extending them 50 feet
in the water and 40 feet above the
water’s surface. Construction of the
pilings costs an oil firm about $1,-
000,000 before drilling can start.
Crews Change Work
Offshore drilling camps then
are set up on the pilings over an
approximate 190-by-80-foot area.
Besides the drilling platforms,
each ' camp includes a bunkhouse
and cookhouse and enough sup-
plies to provision a 15-man crew
for three weeks.
However, crews usually work for
several days only and then are
transplanted to shore for as many
days off. Shifts of workers alternate
around the clock all year.
The oil men said their principal
headaches are the tropical storms
which sweep the gulf area from
May through November. However,
the pilings are considered as safe
as the ground on shore and the men
seldom are called in from their
camps atop the pilings. The pilings
are built to withstand 165-mile
winds and 35-foot waves.
Underwater drilling was start-
ed after geologists reported what
they termed a “continental shelf”
in the gulf waters. The “shelf”
is composed of land which ex-
tends many miles into the water
before dropping to oceanic depths.
Use Gravity Meter
American oil men in Venezuela
were the first to employ offshore
drilling methods and succeeded in
recovering oil fiom depths of 100
feet below the surface of Lake
Maracaibo.
Geologists use a gravity meter
to outline areas which should be
tested for drilling. The instru-
ment reveals disturbed areas
which show where oil may be
present, but the oil men said the
only sure way to test the ground
is to start digging operations.
The oil men said that offshore
drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
was started by oil firms in an
eflort to augment America’s crude
oil supply and reserves.
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Vatican Engineers Making
St. Peter’s Basilica Safe
ROME.—Vatican engineers are
working to make St. Peter’s Basil-
ica, Christendom’s largest church,
completely safe for the thousands of
visitors expected during the 1950
holy year.
The task is complicated by two
factors peculiar to the great basil-
ica, he said:
Part of St. Peter’s is built on a
shaky foundation and the struc-
ture, made mostly of porous lime-
stone, sops up underground mois-
ture. This moisture rusts the iron
clamps which, along with mortar
bind together the limestone, marble
and clay blocks.
The structure holds an enormous
throng. When 50,000 persons are
in it, they may raise the tempera-
ture as much as 10 degrees. This
causes a peculiar reaction on the
mortar. Two huge chunks, one
weighing nearly 200 pounds and
another 600 pounds, crashed into
chapels in 1947.
Engineers were replacing the iron
clamps -with bronze and reinforcing
the mortar as well as the basil-
ica’s foundation.
The first basilica on the site was
built by Constantine in 326. It
was torn down in the 16th century.
War Trials Jiidgs Suggests
Trying War-Makers Early
LOS ANGELES.—The presiding
judge of the Nuernberg war crime
trials has said that future wars may
be prevented by trying international
criminals before hostilities break
out.
Judge Michael A. Musmanno of
Pittsburgh urged establishment
through the Unuited Nations of a
peacetime international court to
try criminals responsible for in-
citing war.
A former Navy captain, Mus-
manno presided over history’s
biggest murder trial — that of
Nazi generals accused of slaying
one million persons. He is here to
confer on a forthcoming movie
based on a 20-volume research work
he compiled to prove Hitler is dead.
“Throughout history the man who
burned one house and killed one
innocent person would be hanged
for arson and murder, but if he
destroyed a whole civilization he
was given a comfortable niche in
history,” the judge said. “The great
newsness which comes from World
War II is the creation of a tribunal
able to judge international crim-
inals.
“The hell with this idea that any
one nation is responsible for inter-
national crime. Was Germany re-
sponsible for what happened in
Europe — or was Hitler?”
Musmanno called Hitler “the
most monumental figure of all
history, able by his strange, over-
whelming magnetism and person-
ality to dominate the men around
him.”
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Antique Denier Uncovers
Ancient “Shocking Machine"
NEW LEBANON, N. Y.— An
antique dealer's search of a New
Lebanon barn turned up an elec-
tric “shocking machine” used by
the Shakers more than 100 years
ago to treat coughs and colds.
The strange therapeutic device
consists of a glass cylinder that
generates static electricity by
turning against a chamois pad.
It is considered the most complete
example of its kind. The only
other known specimen, incom-
plete, is in the New York State
museum in Albany. /
References to the “shocking
machine" were found in an 1827
journal of the Shakers, a religious
sect.
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1949, newspaper, April 1, 1949; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1161183/m1/4/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.