No Shortage Of
Holiday Turkeys
1,796,000 Raised In
‘54, Second Only To "52
Turkeys for Thanksgiving dinners
will be in good supply, along with
all the other foods that make up
the traditional American menu for
the day, according to the State De-
partment of ‘Agriculture.
Not since 1952 have so many tur-
keys been raised on Pennsylvania
farms as this year, the records show.
Latest estimates are for a total of
1,796,000 birds most of them to be
marketed during the holidays and
later. This total compares with 1,-
744,000 raised last year and the all-
time record of 2,180,000 in 1952.
In line with a trend that started
last year a smaller number of big
turkeys but more medium to small
sizes will be offered consumers. For
the entire United States the turkey
crop is a record 61,000,000.
For this year’s turkey crop in
Pennsylvania the growers have in-
creased the number of lighter birds
by 31 per cent over a year ago. The
smaller varieties now make up 51
per cent of the total output. Heavy
breed numbers are estimated at
880,000—down 16 per cent from
1953.
Growers, retail stores and butch-
er shops will have turkeys in ail
popular sizes for the Thanksgiving
and Christmas season, observers
said. They will range up to 20 and
25 pounds, available frozen and
fresh dressed, ready for cooking.
Other items to round out the
Thanksgiving dinner are in good
supply, including cranberries, cel-
ery, onions, corn, pears, potatoes—
and pumpkin for pies.
William Muldoon was known as
the father of American wrestling.
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Advertise For Bids On
16th Turnpike Project
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Com-
mission today advertised for bids on
the 16th project in construction of
the Northeastern Extension of the
Turnpike. This section is located in
Bear Creek and Dennison Town-
ships, Luzerne County and is 6.62
miles in length. This project brings
tc 66.5 miles of the 110-mile North-
eastern Extension either under con-
tract, awaiting awards or under in-
vitation for bids.
One tiny leak in your home can
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Checkerboard News
by Jim Huston Jr.
Almost Missed It!
When Bob Bachman of The
Dallas Post stopped in to talk
with us the other day about the
weekly column he said, ‘Jim,
you're missing a bet if you don’t
tell people about this Buckwheat
Pancake Flour that you have.”
Of course Bob is right. It’s
easy to overlook something like
that when you're concentrating
on telling people about the re-
sults folks are getting with
Purina Chows.
The fact is we have this old
fashion pancake flour in stock
each year at this time, and we've
just let folks kind of find out
for themselves how good it is.
Each year those who tried it the
previous season look for it again.
The flour is made in Laceyville
by Vandervort Mills and it’s
name is “Buckwheat, Wheat and
Corn Pancake Mix.” It comes in
both the Old Fashioned Pure
Buckwheat form which you must
prepare, and in the Self-Rising
little milk or water.
In talking with those who are
already using this flour, we find
that the men seem to be the
pancake makers in a good many
homes.
If you've already tried this
mix then you'll know what I
mean when I say it makes a
real pancake. If you haven't,
then you won’t be sorry if you
stop in and pick up a bag or
two.
How much does it cost?
4 lb. Self-Rising Mix — 50¢
5 1b. Pure Buckwheat — 55¢
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Farm Fresh Turkeys
Thanks for your response to
this column last week asking you
to place your order for Thanks-
giving Turkeys with local turkey
growers. They tell us that orders
have been coming in fine.
Again this week we'll list the
names of our customers who can
supply your Thanksgiving Tur-
key.
Mrs. Stanley Wilson, Dallas RD 3
Giles Wilson, Dallas RD 8
Russell Race & Sons, Dallas RD 3
Steven Haradem, Dallas RD 8
C. Wayne Gordon, Dallas RD 2
Harold Bertram, Trucksville RD 1
Fred Hoover, Shavertown
137 Years Of Life
Claimed
Henry W. Shoemaker, Pennsyl-
vania Folklore Chief, today said the
longest lived veteran of Braddock’s
War in western Pennsylvania, in
1755, died at Whitehall, near Al-
bany, New York, in 1823, at the
reputed age of 137 years.
‘He was
Henry Francisco, or Franciscus,
who was born in Bordeaux of An-
dorran parents, in 1686, while his
family was waiting transportation
to Spain, the year after the Re-
vocation of the Edict of Nantes,”
Shoemaker asserted.
“With his parents he was taken
to England, by a sympathetic Brit-
ish sea captain.
“Young Harry Franciscus grew a
tall, strong, auburn haired boy, and
enlisting in the army served with
the Duke of Marlborough, fought in
North Africa, with the British mar-
ines, eventually becoming a mem-
ber of General Edward Braddock’s
expedition in the war with France
by the French victors, and taken to
Canada, where he was drafted into
the irregular Cavalry, and returned
to Pennsylvania in the French War
“When the fort's name was
changed to Fort Pitt, after the
victory of General Forbes and
in the Royal Americans, but was
rejected for being over age; being
72 years old at the time, but de-
scribed as ‘otherwise fit physically.’
“He married into a Huguenot
family, and produced seven sons to
bear the name of Franciscus in
Pennsylvania annals, and one
daughter who also married a Hug-
uenot, Charles Jacques, a native
of Freeport, Armstrong County.
While in Pennsylvania he lived
near Pittsburgh with his family.
broke out, Henry Franciscus en-
listed in Captain Michael Cresap’s
Corps, and engaged in the famous
march to Boston in 1775, when the
riflemen marched 22 miles per day,
and later performed valiant services
at Bunker Hill, which would make
Franciscus age at 89 at the time of
his heroic march. Age was against
him and while he gave his age as 64
at enlistment, he semed to go to
pieces after Lexington, was hospit-
alized, and finally discharged in
1777 as physically unskilled.
“Meanwhile his wife had died,
and he joined his in-laws, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacques at Whitehall, near
Albany, where he resided in New
York until his death in 1823. De-
spite his age, he did not ‘sit
around,” but took care of the family
kitchen, garden, and chicken farm.
He went up a ladder to pick apples
off the trees in the orchard, the
year before his passing.
“He was a storehouse of historic
lore, and would sit up until day-
break, reciting his war adventures
on three continents, if he could find
a listener. His favorite commanders
he always said were Malbruck,
(Marlborough), General Braddock,
and Captain Michael Cresap.”
Governor Endorses Truck
Transportation Week
Asserting that the trucking indus-
try contributes a great deal to the
economy of the State Governor
John S. Fine today endorsed Truck
Transportation Week, being nation-
ally observed November 14 through
31.
“There are more than $500,000
trucks registered in Pennsylvania
and they provide a very flexible
form of transportation, especially to
communities that are not reached
by any other means,” the Governor
said. “Our mines, farms, factories,
and stores are helped by truck trans-
portation. The number of persons
employed in the trucking industry
is large and the wages paid annual-
ly contribute greatly to our welfare
and prosperity.”
Commission Grateful
The Game Commission is grateful
to waterfowl hunters who have re-
turned information found on leg
bands on ducks they bagged. The
authorities will appreciate reports
on bands taken from ducks by other
persons but not yet turned in. Facts
so gathered provide important in-
formation on migration routes, re-
production figures, and kill percent-
ages. Such information is very use-
ful to game authorities in planning
waterfowl management programs
for the future.
Farmers’ Night
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Pierce St., Kingston
Order Your
Thanksgiving Turkeys
Now
Tomatoes Turnips
Apples Cauliflower
Eggs Broccoli
Chickens Celery
Potatoes Brussels Sprouts
Pumpkins Mangoes
Flowers Cider
Capons Cabbage
Carrots Beets
Squash Jellies
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Good Broakiast
Overweight Men
‘Often Skip It
The old saying “early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy
. ..” can only be true in the long
run if you get up early enough to
eat a good breakfast.
A recent two-year governmental
survey of 600 men working in indus-
trial plants revealed that many are
not getting their daily three square
meals. Other research has shown
this is also true of teen-age girls,
working women, and women wor-
ried about their weight.
The meal most often neglected is
breakfast. :
“Start the day out right, means
eat a nutritionally balanced break-
fast, one that will fuel your body
fcr the activities ahead,” according
to Milton Hult, President of the Na-
tional Dairy Council.
The survey of 600 industrial work-
ers was conducted by the New Jer-
sey Experiment Station. Figures
from the study issued by the U. S.
Department of | Agriculture indicat-
ed:
1. A fourth of the men were low
in calcium.
2. A fourth of the men were low
in vitamin C.
3. Diet records and medical
exams revealed shortages of the im-
portant B vitamins (riboflavin and
thiamine).
4. Yet 44 per cent of the men
were overweight.
Conclusions included:
1. The men with shortages drank
too little milk and ate too few citrus
fruits, tomatoes and green leafy
vegetables.
2. Diet records showed the over-
weight men were slighting break-
fast and then easing mid-morning
hunger with high calorie snacks sold
at the plant.
The report cited this latter kind
of eating as leading to overweight
and causing a lack of appetite fer
food rich in minerals and vitamins.
“Part of the trouble with Ameri-
can eating habits,” Hult says, “is
so many people think all you have
to do is count calories. They think
if you consume too many, too little,
or a specified amount of calories
each day, you'll be accordingly fat,
thin, or just right.”
The really important thing, the
dairy organization president says, is
to get about one-third of the nu-
trients you need at each meal—
breakfast, lunch, and dinner—with
portions geared to your energy
needs.
The easiest way of doing this, he
says, is to choose the protective
foods (dairy foods, meats, eggs,
fruits, vegetables, cereals and
bread). These foods give a high pro-
portion of nutrients to’ the number
of calories they contain. According
to Hult, “these are the foods which
give you health while they give
you energy.”
The National Dairy Council,
founded in 1915, is a non-profit or-
ganization devoted to nutrition re-
search and education,
Endorsed By President
Asserting that President Eisen-
hower has officially declared the
week beginning November 14th as
National Retarded Children’s Week,
Governor John §S. Fine said
that during this week “we should
call particular attention to the need
for an expanded program of help
and assistance for retarded chil-
dren.”
“We pledge our best efforts to
bring about not only a better un-
derstanding of their needs,” he said.
“We should proceed with vigor’ to
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accomplish many more things for
the benefit of those boys and girls
who need the kind of help that can
be provided under the sponsorship
of The Pennsylvania Association for
Retarded Children. I call upon all
our citizens to give every possible
aid.”
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