The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week Jesse ADLER Looks at the NEWS | HEY Walter winchell--how about referirng to all of John L. Lewis’ speeches as "Lewisite Gas Attacks.” lewisite you know, Is one of the deadliest war gases! POTATOES were so scarce in New York last week one of the swank East Side clubs got ritzy by putting a boiled potato Instead of an olive in its martinis CONGRESS and the Senate have spent so many months getting paid | to debate the Ruml plan, they've] drawn more money from the Treas- ury for their time than the country'd save win, lose or drav THE BOMBING of Ruhr dams was very thoughtful of the RAF. It gives Hitler something in which to drown his sorrows! FIRST THING the U 8 Army after capturing those Heinle als was to feed them broiled In Japan in burning for a prisoner tl burn the er to a stake ANYWAY chance to sav the a beef coming FIVE MONTHS ago an army pilot crashed in Kansas but his injuries were reported trivial. Nevertheless they just proved fatal--he marr the gal who gave him first aid COL. Harold Hoffraan says Lt Seaman Jacobs, who recently mar- ried strip teaser Margie Hart, is a very lucky guy-he's t only man who's ever seen her fully dressed ETIQUETTE NOTE: walnuts with vour teeth one of your sl and use TALKING about ter use No. 17 coupon 15th—for aft that good for a pound of sugar! DIFFERENCE between She-Ma- rines and He-Marines is that while the former powder their faces the latter face the powder THE WPB has prohibited new wall paper patterns. Giving those bath- room artists and mustache-painters a chance to make a few dollars out of a hobby A ST. LCUIS Department Store solved its labor problem by inserting a help-wanted ad In statements to charge account stomers and hiring those interested. They didn't add whether their customers got paid in cash worked accounts THE PEEKSKIL Military emy has a staff officer named tain Kidd.” A MONTANA cowboy wanted to have his wife's fur coat insured but she said no—she had a man watch- | ing it. The cowboy opened a closet, saw the man in question and got a divoree without the fur flying FAVORITE story of Week: Ward- en (to convict about to be electro- cuted "Have You any last request before we give you the julce?” Con- vict-——“Yes sir make {tt orange juice!” I GOT S80 MAD when I saw ‘he headline “Japs Sink U. 8. Hospital Ship" 1 went right out and bought another Bond. Why not make that a habit? Everytime you burn at a headline buy a bom’ and heip make the headline burn the enemy! - CIVILIAN DEFENSE MOVIES AVAILABLE those two did gener- steaks a Steak prison - tead of oy CGioehbels Generals hi Ves Nazi a wd this giv ied he Never crack Take off 10€5 the heel shoes, you'd bet- Jine | be only before tl er itu cu eh iorme; or out overdue Arcad- ‘Cap- institutions in which OCD the Pennsyl- regional As one of cight Pennsylvania through films may be obtained, vania State College is the clearing house for eounties: Blair, Huntingdon, Clearfield, ing. Sullivan, Potter, Tioga, ford. and Susquehanna Responsible individuals and groups who wish to obtain films for a nom- inal charge should contact I. C Bierlin, supervisor of audio-visual alls in the College's extension ser- vices and chairman vania Civilian Defense Committee The latest of OCD films is “Target Lights” Center,” “Air Raid Warden" Bomb,” and “Rescue Unit” tion, 44 OWI movies are avaliable - Mifflin, the The business of education is being taken over the Army by { which | into Clinton the following, Centre, Clinton, Lyecom- | Brad- | | with R {off would cost $250.000 including the of the Pennsyl-! Others are “Control | “Fire | In addi-| !search, and shot when it was impos- SECOND SECTION Lk Cenire Democrat NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 62. BELLEFONTE, PA. /THU RSDAY, MAY 27, 1943. NUMBER Random Items State College Alleged To Man’s Auto Have Fatally The Supreme Sacrifice red 16-Year-Old Gurl Victim and Companion Believed to Have Been Crossing Highway Near Mifflintown When Knocked Down by Car girl was killed and another injured when ‘hey a car operated by Harper, of 526 North Al- State College, while walk- Lewistown-Harrisburg Thompsontown 25 o'clock Sat- One was seriously were struck by George C len street along the between at ing highway and Miftlintown, urday afternoon The Miss Ruth daughter of Mrs. Roy fered a skull fracture, both legs, lacerations head and possible internal She had been walking along 5 Irene Dencan Walton, suf- fractures of ¢ and injuries the girl, of fa Barn Blown Down At McElhattan Several Timbers Are Hurled Through Sides of House 200 Feet Away thus shower Centre counts last Wednesday 5 o'clock, high winds a barn at McElhattan part of a roof of a home ooted trees The large barn on the Robert Mc- Kinney farm about one mile west of McElhattan, was blown down. So strong was the wind that 4 x 8 t'm- bers were blown from the barn through, the sides of the house feet away, one through a downstairs window and another through ‘he second-story wall During the heavy pashed county evening about blew down tore of ore off der over there, and upr One section of across the the barn roof was Carried 500 feet s large inches square and one piece One 15 two 100 utheast of the barn about was in was carried about beam snapped feet Mrs. McKinney was in Lock Hav- at the time Mr. M eRinney . who contempiated a trip to the barn about that time, for some reason changed his mind. None of his stock in the barn was hurt Part of the roof of the McCurdy home a short distance east of Mc. en i Kinney's was also blown off. Mr. and’ ‘Mrs. John Poorman occupy the house A large Ty fork was carried by the wind 20 feet up into a tree, and shingles Fol boards were scattered over the McKinney garden. An ook tree was blown over, and apple trees were uproot eel - LIQUOR WILL BE RATIONED IN STATE A strict liquor rationin ig system to | As re an “equitable distribution to taprooms and individuals during war time will be inaugurated in Pennsyl- vania by the Liquor Control Board The chairman explained that a card system was under consideration to accomplish for more rationing for than 4000000 consumers but re- fused to reveal when the program wotild be started by the 578 siate- operated stores system if such a help to start I estimate that the necessary applicants to Gel- necessary blanks for {fill in prior to receiving a card” der stated ARI I RA Patients Feast on Beefsteak Patients at the State Colony for Epileptics at Selinsgrove enjoyed an unusual feast, after a steer which had escaped from the colony herd was located after a several days sible to capture it alive. Two shots had hit the animal in the neck be- fore the fatal shot in the head. Coffee Rationing Increased The next ration of coffee will be the largest yot, Stamp No. 24, which becomes valid May 31. will be good for one pound of coffee through June 30, a period of thirty days (four weeks), Stamp No. 23. now in use, is good for a pound in the 35 days (five weeks) ending May 31. Since rationing be- gan last November 28, the ration has never exceeded one pound for five weeks and once dropped to a pound for six weeks Price Administrator Prentiss Brown explained that the supply of green coffee in the United States has now reached the level where an | increase in the ration is possible at’ this time.” He gave no assurance, however, that pound-per-month ration can be | maintained on a permanent basis. Sergeant York's Mother Is Dead A long. useful. happy life ended Friday for Mrs. Mary York, 77. mo- ther of World War I hero, Bergeant Alvin C. York. Blind and bedfast for years, Mrs. | York died at York's 1y + Pall Mall, ‘| affectionately throughout her home | She | Tenn., where she resided, and strong will she showed when. in the last World War, she bade her son good-bye with the words, “You! ‘fight them and I'll work and pray! {that you get back.” “Mother” York. as she was known jsection, was of ploneer stock. 200 | PRR tracks about ! | Hospital M 1 She kept the strength of character | ispent her entire Iifs on a farm. 1,000 Laying Hens Burned with Beulah Foltz, of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mexico, when the accident The Foltz girl also was in- highway daughter Foltz, of occurred jured Harpe: from his 10, a who was on his way home position in Harrisburg, was released by State Police post ing $1,000 bond for inquest in Mifflin county Suffering from a broken back an a fractured bone Foltz girl was reported to be in serious condition in the hospital State Po- iceman George W. Finnan, of the Lewistown substation investigated ident. The girls were believed been attempting to cross the road when were struck. T ac cident occurred near Haubert’ age. They were taken to the in an ambulance In addition Duncan girl is sur ters, Mrs. Ray M William D. Walt town, R. D. 1 of Haws. one can, at home Funeral] services wel held Wed- nesday afterncon at 2 o'clock in the Brown funeral home, Mifflintown with the Rev. J. F. Bingman, pastor Mexico Evangelical church, of- ficlating. Burial made in the Presbyterian cemetery. Mifflintown Rev. Lekman Gets Divinity Degree Former Centre County Pastor is Prominent in Church Activities The Rev. Rowland R. Lehman, former popular pastor of the Meth- odist church at Milesburg., had the degree of doctor of divinity confer red upon him by Dickinson College at the commencement exercises held in Williamsport on Sunday. The oc- casion also marked the 20th anniver. sary of his graduation from Dickin- son College The Rex. and educated in Williamsport, Upon his graduation from the Seminary in 1918. he enlisted in the United States Army and served for a year during World War 1 Following nfter un d pelvi the "n Lhe ac to have they he RAr- hospital her mother the vived by Binger both of anid Mrs. Ro; brother, Charles to three sis and Mrs Mifflin. Helsor Dun- On. " of Was his graduation from Dickinson College in 1923 and from Drew in 1925, he was appointed to the Methodist charge in Milesburg where he served four years At Rev. Mr, Lehman is perintendent of the Harrisburg district of the Methodist church. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist Home for Children and the Methodist Train. ing Camp. both of which positions he has held for 12 years — ODD AND CURIOUS LONESOME IN JAIL One lone prisoner in the Brad. ford County Jail finds he is en- joying even more quiet than on a “fishing trip” he says. Even for the congregation of ene, the us. ual religious service was held last week. Mealtimes he finds lonesome, but enjoys the oppor. tunity of reading without in- terruption. Friends are planning to pay his costs which will leave the jail empty for the first time since it was put into use. present APPLE EATER Anthony Delaurentis, of Nor. ristown, who claimed to be the world's champion apple eater, died Sunday in Norristown State His physician said | uremia and high blood pressure | were immediate causes of death but that “there is no doubt that overeating brought about the complications.” A Hatboro bar- ber, DelLaurentis ate 366 apples on August 18, 1936, | HIT-AND-RUN HOUSE | C. F. Sikes, of Duncan, Okla. | was knocked down and run ever | by his own house. He was stand- ing near his home on the bank of a flooded creek when a sud. | den wall of water swept it off its foundation. “I was knocked into the creek and the house | passed over me,” he related. His only injury was a scrape on the head WANTS "EM ALL Private John Pehanick of near Scranton wrote his mother that a German prisoner he captured in North Africa turned out to be a cousin, Andrew Petach. Hot Damage estimated at more than with 100 bushels of corn, 100 bushels | $4,000 was caused to the farm own- of wheat, and bales of straw. Nearly | ed by Darvin Dreibelbis on the Dal- 1,000 laving hens were also destroy-| matia-Maita road about two miles ed in the fire which spread to the from Dalmatia, Northumberland chicken house. A pig stable and wag- county, when lightning struck the on shed were saved by the Dalmatia} barn. The barn was destroyed along 'Pire Company. i Circus at Williamsport Williamsport will have its first cir- adi Te moon when Cole Broth. ers Circus REAL. efeygn Mon- idny, Jane 1. [A Mr. Lehmag Wan born | Tyrone Man Dies of Electric Shock John Ohriman Electrocuted While Working in Mif. flin County John D. Ohrtman, 53, Ty Pennsylvania Edison, Company man for 17 , was killed Monday the McVeytown road, 10 miles of Lewistown, Deputy Coroner Booth of Mifflin county, he was accidentally electro- cuted while changing a power line pole rone fn Iine- years on west Ross nortine POTLANE re Booth sald a telephone line be. came entangled with two power wires ing 2300 volts, and that when Ohrtman reached up to disengage it. he was killed instantly B—— Officers of Drama Section Re-Elected Officers of the Drama the Beliefonte Woman's Club were re-elected at the annual organiza - tion meeting of the unit last Wed- nesday night at the home of Mrs W Leslie Thomas, on South Thomas street The ofiests retained for another? term are Mrs. Alexander Brown, chalrman: Miss Eleanor Wion, on.’ chairman: Mrs. W. Leslie Thomas, secretary-treasurer and publicity chairman: Mrs. Paul Eberhart, hous- ing chairman Eighteen members attended session, the evening's program luding a buffet supper and cards Those were Mrs. Paul Eberhart, Fred Lucas, Mrs John Rutter Mrs. Wallace Ward, Mrs. Henry Kahimus, Mrs. Edward R. Miller, Mrs. Alexander Brown, Mrs. Paul Carner, Mrs. C, Y, Wag- ner. Mrs. Edward Taylor, Mrs. C Nevin Stamm, Mrs. Philip Wion Mrs. Harry F. Jones, Miss Eleanor Wion, Miss Ariynne Demmy, and, Miss Christine Smith Mrs. Paul Carner reported that the section's records for the year have been audited and were found in satisfactory condition Carry Section of the in- present Mrs - RETAIL SALES AT NEW HIGH IN PENNSYLVANIA Retail sales in Pennsylvania have | reached the highest point in the last 15 years, the Bureau of Business Re- search at the Pennsylvania State i College reports Total statewide retail sales in 1942 amounted to $4.060.000.000 compared to 1020 sales of $3.748.000000, shaw. ‘ing a gain of 9 per cent over the banner year of 1929 Businesses which have prospered during the period are foods, drug stores, general merchandise groups, apparel, eating and drinking places, and filling stations. Fhose which fell below the 1920 level in volume of sales are general stores (with foods), florists, automotive groups,’ furniture - household - radio group. ! and the lumber-bullding-harde=s businesses >. Held for Stoning Trains Five Sunbury boys, hone of them over 12 years of age, have Deen placed in the custody of their par- ents to await a hearing In juvenile [court on charge of malicious mis- chief, for allegedly throwing stones’ at passenger trains going through! the city. In one case, when a train’ iwag pelted with stones, a woman | passenger from Williamsport was) struck by a stone and by flying glass from a window and so badly injured | that she was taken from the train at| i Harrisburg and treated by a physic- | jan. Charles E. Kunes, Blanchard, Dies worth Building Dies in Bed harles E. Kunes, who had walked five<inch beams 762 feet above street | level as a wtural fron worker and had risked his life many times work- ng on high bulldings in high winds, died at his home In Blanchard, Sun- day This Blanchard native, who from | 1888 until nine years ago resided in ( wt sir { Homestead and was employed bv a construction company ed his “toughest job" the rivets on top of building in the world, building, The there, finksh- when he drove the highest! the Woolrich in New York City skill and daring involved in that task brought him considerable fame. It was in March, 1012, that he stood, a lone figure, 52 stories and 782 feel above New York streets and drove 32 %-inch rivets, white hot, into their place on the dome of the bullding. With a north wind whipping at his trouser legs, he had to crook his leg around a steel mast! to keep from being blown into space, as he stooped and drove the gad ei iness of some months, and he had! iboen a patient at Geisinger Hospital, Danville, last year Surviving are his wife and two, sisters, Mrs. Busan Bitner, of Ash. land, O., and Mrs filiam Bennett, of DuBois. He was a member of the Blanchard I. O. O. F. lodge and the Christian church at Homestead Funeral services were held Wed. | nesday at 2:30 p. m. at the home, I the Rev. M. 8 Rogers officiat- ng. Interment was made in the Aristian cemetery a. WORKERS NEEDED BY SURGICAL DRESSING UNIT nt nis During the months of April and May the attendance at the surgical dressing rooms on the second floor of the Masonic Temple has fallen off considerably This we know is due to the fact that the women are busy housecleaning and gardening, both important jobs Bul our boys are going to the front by the thou- sands every day and the need for these dressings is great We have 22.500 8 x 10 cotton pads! and 9000 4 x 4 sponges to be made and we are asking the women of our community to make a special effort to come to the rooms as often as possible After all, our homes can be clean- od after we have won the war, but sur wounded boys cannot wait long for medical aid | MRS. CHARLES MENSCH, | Chairman | Train Kills Two of Pamily Mrs. Julia McGrath, 26, of Mount Carmel, formerly of Shamokin, and her daughter. Naomi, 2, were in- stantly killed, and Kathleen, 4, an- other daughter, is a patient in Sha- mokin Hospital in a serious condi- | [tion with injuries sustained when | ithe three were struck by a Pennsyl- | 'vania freight train near Paxinos. | Mrs. McGrath and her two children were walking on the track and ap- | parently failed to hear the wamning| blast of the locomotive CHANGE OF OFFICE HOURS | Lee V. Alexander, manager of the | United States Employment Servige! of the War Manpower Commission! reports that the office hours at the | Undine Fire Company Hall in Belle- | fonte will be’ from 1 p. m. fo 5 Pp m. Tuesday of each week, This! i change is effective May 25, 1943, ! Potato C eilings Farmers May C harge ! | Potatoes that local farmers have; held over the winter may cost heuse- | wives as much as 60°cents a peck, but | rectly to consumers from door-to- door at a price of $3.75 per hundred pounds or $2.25 per bushel and gen- | the Man Who Riveled Atop Wool-| | kindergarten supervisor at Father, Home on Furlough, From Navy, Injured; "A Daughter Is Fatally Burned Tyrone R. D. Man in Hospital Suffering From ‘Burns Received While Attempting To Kindle Fire With Kerosene Bara Margaret Fryer, old daughter of Edward Fryer, R. D 2. Tyrone, residing on the Reigh farm just west of Bellwood, died at , the Altoona Hospital Monday night at 10:20 o'clock from burns suffered earlier in the day. The father is a patient in the hospital result ‘of being burned at time His condition was hos- pital attendants as late Monday night Mr. Fryer was home on leave from the navy to see his moth- er, who is a patient in the Altoona hospital As nearly as could be ascertained, the father was attempting to bulld ‘a fire or hurry the fire along by us- ing kerosene and in some manner fire inflicted severe burns to i both the father and daughter, which proved fatal to the Spughter. AE A same reported by fal: the a 24-hour Woman Educator Dies Miss Margaret McCloskey, 76, au- thor of the widely-used ya. textbook, The McCloskey Primer, died Wednesday of last week at Newark, N. J. after two months’ {ll- ness. Born in Lock Haven, Miss Mc- Closkey went to Newark in 1900 as vice principal] of the old Newark Normal: School and later served as the Ar- g¥le Academy and Nursery Schools Home Burns; New One In 27 Days Howard R. D. Man Proves “Where There's a Will There's a Way” Raymond Lentz, whose home at (Howard, R. D. burned to the ground Apri] 15, while he was working in Phoenix, Ariz. last week took pos- session of his new home which was erected in jess than a month dem. onstrating the old adage that « there's a will, there's a way.” learning in Phoenix that his home, occupied by his aged father, fire the middle of April Raymond M | came back 10 see what could be done. | {On April 24 construction of the two- room cottage 12 by 24 feet was be- gun. with seven carpenters working the first day. Then his brother-in- law, Ed Rickard and Dean Kunes helped, as well as others, and the home was completed Mr. Lentz and his father are again settled in their home, a little more than a month since their former house was burned County Schools Receive Payment ————— Fourth Class Districts Get Balance Due For Annual State Support State Treasurer G. Harold Wagner announced last week that checks had been malled to fourth class school districts in Centre county on their February payments from the Commonwealth for the support of the public school system. Checks for 81 per cent of the amount due the district were paid in February Following are the districts in Cen. tre county to receive payments: Benner Twp. Boggs Twp Burnside Twp. ..... Centre Hall Boro College TWP. oo. Curtin TWP. cn Ferguson Twp. Halhes TWP, comm Half Moon Twp. .... Harris TWD. ..... Howard Boro .... : Howard TWD. occ Huston Twp. - Liberty 3p. ih ——— Marion Twp. . Miles Twp. . Milesburg Boro . 20-month- | wh | "tre Hail. R. D. Pvt. Horner enlisted ae 7 death Sunday followed an ili-| Philip Lents, rg been: destroyed by jb any charge higher than this amount erally be within Pe OPA ceiling price violates OPA ceiling price regula- | regulations, If a farmer gells to a re-| Poy tions, according to the Perinsylvania taller, he is allowed cost of transpor- Twp. office of the United States Depart- tation, plus 25 cents per hundred- Snow Shoe ment of Agriculture's Agricultural weight, and his selling price to the | Adjustment Agency, Harrisburg, {retailer is about $3 per hundred, or | The ceiling price is determined | $1.80 per bushel. The transportation | from a basic farm price of $2.55 per. 100-potind sack U. 8. No. | grade | hundredweight. This base price was wR by | When the retailer sells such Penn- Maximum Price % Reguintion No. 271 | eylvania potatoes to a consumer, he approved by Secretary Wickard on November 7, 1942. . 71.50; The body was turned over to Fouss undertaking establishment Bellwood to prepare for burial the in ss can— A —————— Storm Causes Slides Landslides caused by heavy rains are keeping State Highway Depart. ment employes at Sunbury busy shoveling mud from the highway; keep them open to traffic {lly traveled Susquehanna Trail was obstructed in many places. Victory gardens were washed out siderable damage was lines tn The heav- ang oon- done 0 pon ver Boalsburg Man Receives Award Pfc. John E. Horner Cited for Meritorious Service in Africa John E. Homer has been cited by ment and awarded a Purple Heart decoration for action North rica, according to word received his wife recently Operating a J~caliber machine Run from a jeep, Pvt Horner ceived eight shrapnel wound |& North African battle on March 28 Pfc r of Boals bt 2 the War Depart- ir all Al- by 1 > during | He is NOW recovering in a convales- joent hospital and report that all of his wounds have healed except one in his right hand He received the award two weeks after he was wounded The Purple Heart medal is for “any singularly me vice or act of extraordinary and wounds received in battle requiring treatment by a medical of - ficer.” The citation giving details of the award and circumstances Plc Horner's heroism has not been received A son of Harry 8. Horner of Cen- ritorious 1 ale TILE fidelity for of yet the Army July 8, 1942, took his Uraising a Fors Brags. N. C. a ro aa. tie 38 JP George G. Md. and Camp Pickett, Va, [ana went overseas in December Hig wife is the daughter and Mrs. of Mr Guy Couch of Boalsburg Air Mail Sack Found A missing sack of mail, dropped from an east-bound mail plane Apri] 5, after a pickup at the Dun- cansville station, was found Mon- day night of last week about rwo miles east of Royer, on land owned by J. Edgar Ake. The sack accident- ally dropped from an All-American Aviation plane was found by Homer N. Ake. After six weeks’ exposure {the contents were in good condition and were gent to their destinations after the sack had been turned over to Postmaster J. K Morrison at Wil- liamsburg Bolt Damages Church Lightning struck the belfry/of St Mark's Catholic church, Emporium, | Tuesday evening of last week and damaged approximately ten square feet of slate shingles. A public ad- dress system which was used for chimes was also damaged, it was re- ported. The church was set on fire by lightning in 1914 when the steeple was hit » ~ y THANKS: Friend Bill Bleg, Council president, harking to this corner's complaint about the shortness of shirt tails writes “Try wearing suspenders They really keep shirt tails under control” Or we could do like Robert C. Thompson, of the Bellefonte Trust Company stafl, who has absolutely no confidence in trouser holder-un. pers. He wears both a belt penders. The only th Mr. Bleg's sugges like suspenders $1,000 BILL: This office has currency. 1. O.U change for a SINE copy Democrat but Ollie Milesburg hotelman, set cedent last Thursday ‘| the office Ip and sus. ing wrong with tion is that don't we received Lampe ( ang barter In rx. of The Cer Kohlbecker A New nore afterne tre when he barged into ed for of the paper and t oul a $1000 bill to settle the ny int. We dex nickel to hold minutes PREDICTION: This he cot a CODY BO00 ided It was + corner might of wr Fri : iuson our enemies tng where the will strike F milit Bouthery new second {ror rope. Bom expert vasion writer arv NOrway nredist Paper } Greece columnists Northern F But so far we pick the coast of Jugosiavis 80 we're picking that spot. Maybe its the worst place In Europe for ar but you'll hay right next door to rance haven't the eri Anyone ABION " Inside ht lights The odd thing blacks the Yostoffior the bred % that th government ich runs the postoffice made jie requiring that which nights be the all lights are hep »" equipped with wiring the postoffice NOT SATISFIED: Som Job is n I® PDETSONS aren't quite satisfied with the action taken by The law in regard to the local] man said to have written obscene and suggestive letters to the wife of a servioe man {A fine of $10 for disorderly conduct doesn't do anything to oorrect a mental quirk which must be present. ‘before a man oould write such let. j ters, they say NOMINATION: This corners nomination for the honor of being one of the ablest or- ganization publicity chairmen in Bellefonte is Mrs. W. Leslie Thomas, who is in charge of publicity several units of the Bellefonte Woman's Club. Mrs. Thomas meets requirements al] newspapermen like in reporters—she ‘phones the infor- mation in early: is careful to men- tion names of persons active in club meetings, and keeps her reports brief and to the point. We'd like to see active publicity chairmen in all local organizations. No newspaper staff is large enough to cover all meetings and activities in the town, and an active publicity chairman in each organization is almost positive in- surance the organization will recejve the newspaper space it deserves and is entitled to. We have a suspicion that many organization publicity chairmen have the firm conviction that newspaper offices are places in- habited by dragons, Ogres, and were. wolves. Because we never see them or hear from them EGAD!!! in his broadcast, Monday night, Gabriel Heatter in a matter of sec- {Continted on Pape Siz) ii for } Form Adviser FARM QUESTION BOX ED WwW. hi A @eeral Becirie Station WGY 7 Q With what should potatoes be | sprayed? A ~~They should get a 3-3-50 Bor- deaux spray of an 80-20 lime-copper dust every two weeks from the time | they are four inches high. The seed and feed stores carry the proper preparations ready to use. Add poi- son when bugs first appear Q-—~What peach trees can be grown in a sandy loam soll? A~Elberta. It seems to be the | only variety that can stand north- | ern winters reasonably well and | bring a good, profitable crop. Tis them to suit the taste and artistic | ideas. The drying should be done in 8 cool, shaded place and the gourds turned so they do not get fiat on one side. Q~—May I have a bulletin on the preparation of frozen fruits and veg- (etables? At will get you the bulletin: jt {will be along soon. Q How are apples market? A~The proper procedure is to | pick apples John by hand so they are not bruised. Pour them gently prepared for
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