Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1950)

ART IINKIETTER'S HOHSEHSE an d Art Linkletter emcees House Party, Mon.-Fri. at 3:30 P.M. EST over CBS (sponsored by Pillsbury Mills). Art's Nonsense and Some-Sense is a regular feature in Radio Mirror. IF YOU'RE A RABID DOUGHNUT FAN— don't attempt to fry more than one hundred of those luscious sinkers in one day in Oak Park, Illinois — there's a law against it! QUICKIE QUIZ— What is a scarab? (a) a South American butterfly (b) a stone carved in the shape of a beetle (c) a protective covering which forms over a wound. Whose picture appears on a ten-dollar bill? (a) Alexander Hamilton (b) Thomas Jefferson (c) Benjamin Franklin. A group of geese is called? (a) litter (b) herd (c) gaggle. A LITTLE LEARNING— Gold — the unit of weight for gold is the troy ounce; there are twelve troy ounces to the troy pound, in contrast to sixteen avoirdupois ounces (the unit of weight in most common use in the U. S. for such items as food, etc.} to the avoirdupois pound. The word "fine," when used in reference to gold, means "pure." On Jan. 31, 1934, the United States Gold Dollar was proclaimed to be 15 5/21 grains of gold, nine-tenths fine — which equals $35.00 per fine troy ounce. The previous value of gold had been $20.67 per fine ounce. Jewelers' terms for gold weight are penny-weight and grain. Finally — although you'll probably never get to see one, and certainly will never get to lift one — a 14.1 inch cube of gold weighs — or would weigh, if you happened to have one lying around — one ton exactly. 52 LITTLE WILLIE DEPARTMENT Willie fell down the elevator — Wasn't found till six days later. Then the neighbors sniffed, "Gee Whiz! What a spoiled child Willie is!" YOUR HOME STATEDARIZONA — called the Baby State, the Valentine State, the Copper State; State flower: Saguaro Cactus; State motto: Ditat Deus (God Enriches); rank in area, fifth; rank in population, forty-fourth; there are vast reaches of arid and semi-arid lands in the state, useless before irrigation but now made fertile and productive; topography is broken, with mountains in portions of every section; principal crop is long-staple cotton, others being wheat, com, barley, oats, hay, potatoes and quantities of sub-tropicial fruit; the state's copper mines are among the greatest in the world, and zinc, lead and gold are also mined in quantity; the petrified forests, covering many thousands of acres, are a tourist attraction — they consist of pine and cedar trees that in past ages were turned to stone by action of mineral-laden water; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, in Arizona, is one of the scenic wonders of the world. HERE'S APRIL— which, says the Old Farmer's Almanac, will be rainy (and even snowy) as per tradition — and adds an old proverbial April warning, to wit: "Look to your fences and your daughters — Spring's here!'' Here are some April dates to remember: 1, April Fools' Day; 2, First day of Passover; 6, Army Day; 7, Good Friday; 10, Easter Sunday; 12, Halifax Day, North Carolina; 13, Jefferson Day, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia; 14, Pan American Day; 19, Patriots' Day, Maine, Massachusetts; 21, San Jacinto Day, Texas; 24, Arbor and Bird Day, Massachusetts, and Fast Day, New Hampshire; 26, Memorial Day, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. IF, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU SNORE— don't do it loudly enough in Dunn, North Carolina, so that you disturb your neighbors — there's a law against it! * # * VOLTAIRE SAID IT— "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."