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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-08-06, Page 6PAGE 6 TIE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THUMM., AUG. 6, 1942 EFFECTIVE 1 AND N NOW Q 1 11 1 are rationed b : coupon Y h The ration is one ounce of tea or four ounces of coffee -per person, per week • Coupons A, B, C, D, and E, on the Temporary War Ration Card, now in the hands of the public, are to be used, and are NOW valid for the purchase of tea *and coffee. Each coupon will entitle the purchaser to one ounce of tea or four ounces of coffee - a supply for one week. • If desired, purchasers may use any or all of these five coupons simultaneously, and buy up to 5 weeks supply at one time, on the surrender of the appropriate number of coupons. Numbered coupons are good only for the purchase of sugar and may not be used to buy tea or coffee. Similarly, lettered coupons may not be used to buy sugar. , COFFEE CONCENTRATES AND SUBSTITUTES CONTAINING COFFEE Ovte coupon must be surrendered for each quantity of coffee concentrate or substitute containing coffee, suf- ficient to make 12 cups of beverage. Ciikl. REN UNDER 12 TEA BAGS REQUIRE COUPONS When purchasing tea bags, the fol- lowing coupon values shall be used: 2 coupons for a carton of 18 or 20 tea bags 4 coupons for a carton 4, 40 or 45 tea bags 8 coupons for carton of 80 tea bags YEARS or AGE ARE NOT ' ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A1'JY R TION OF TEA OR COFFEE. SPEC)/ L NOTICE TO RET t ILERS On and after August 3rd, retailers must establish their right to purchase :'sew supplies of tea or coffee from their suppliers by turning over to the ssapphier currently valid ration coupons, equivalent to the poundage of tea or coffee ordered. from the supplier i rgT �r 3t � O s w iteroranwsormsracomon Ottawa, August 3rd, 1942 "YOUR HOME STAT1017" C.HNS' 920.kcs. WINGIIAM 326 meters WEEKLY' PROGRAM EIGHLIGUT8 FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH: 9.15 a.m. Lawrence Welk Orch. 7.30 p.m:. Luara at the Piano 7.45 p.m. Hanover Review SATURDAY, AUGUST 8TII: 9.30 a.m. Kiddies' Studio Party' 12.45 pm. Agrie. Rep. Talk, G. Gear • t 7.30 p.m. Gracie Fields All English Rev. 8 p.m. CXNX Baan Dance SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH: 11 a.m. Church Service 1.15 pen. Gene Auitry, songs' • 4 p.m. Tommy Dorsey Orch, 5'p.m: Troise and His Mandoliers• MONDAY, AUGUST 10TH: 9.30 a.m.. Polka Music and Kenny Baker 11 a.m. "At Home, with the Ladies" e.18 pm. Parade of Bands 8.30 p.m. Jean Harold and Jack TUESDAY, AUGUST' 11TH: 10.20 a.m. Charlie Kunz, piano 12 noon Farm and Home Hour 5.45 p.m. London Arena Highlights 7.45 p.m. Old Time and Mod. Dance WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12T11: 8.30 a.m. The Easly Birds ° 11.30 am. Wednesday Morning Varieties 5 p.m. Organ Moods, H. V. Pym 8 p.m. Luara at the Piano THURSDAY, AUGUST 13TH:. . 7.30 a.m. CI{NX Breakfast . Club 1.1g p.m. Alvino• -Rey Orch. 5:45 p.m,, The Book Review 8.30 p.m. OKNX Ranch Boys. V Privilege Applies ()lily To Canadians In Service National Defence Headquarters Friday issued a warning that only Canadians who . are 'serving overseas sae allowed to receive, duty free, gifts and .other parcels sent from this country. "There have been an ever -increase ing number of parcels arriving over- seas for civilians and other persons not entitled to receive the - above ,moo,.,. privileges," a .statement said. • Men who are serving in England and other parts of the British Isles cannot receive parcels duty free un- less they arebona fide Canadian citi- zens. 1 SCHOOL OPENING DELAYED An order in council has been peel- ed by the Ontario cabinet which will close all secondary schools from September 8 to September 21 inclu- sive, in order to aid harvesting. Nor - many the seeondary'.schools, now ori vacation would re -open early in Sl- tember. The cabinet discussed an acute shortageof farm labor throughou the province at meetings during the weekend, when decision to postpor, school openings' was made. Provi- sion was also saidto have been read to postpone opening ofschools up to. October 8 if the help of pupils is re- quired. yr WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS, CAN ACCOMPLISIi $5 will let a soldier fight for vo. with • 100 rounds of rifle amrnunrt'.or.; 6 -Hatchery Production Is Billion and a Half Fish Back in 1875 Wisconsin sportsmen and conservationists figured that if you caught two: fish where one grew beforeyouhad better help that one grow into two. And so that year Wisconsin's first fish hatchery *as opened. at Madison. Fish were spawned, reared, and "planted" for 60 years until, in 1935, hatchery -,production and distribution reached a figure of 523,245,145 an- nually. Next year the figure' crept up 49,023,978 more to reach 572,269,- 123. Then, in 1937, a good many people looked twice and accused their re- porter of adding too many ciphers, when Wisconsin was reported as producing nearly twice as many young fish that year—a record- breaking total of 1,096,739,759. Sincethat time it has taken 10 digits annually to announce Wis- consin's hatchery fish crop. In 1938 it was 1,124,884,750. In 1939 it was 1,1331472,849. Now the figure for 1940 Vas lust been received: an increase over 1939 of 395,736,155, or a new year's total of 1,1529,208M/4. , • etrA The increase in 1940 Over 1939 is a figure larger than that for all the fish planted in many previous years, and the difference between these two years alone is a larger figure than the total fish -plant figure for most other states. Crown Chicken Champ., Egg Layer of World A Corvalis, Ore., white leghorn; owned by 3. A. Hanson, has been crowned the champion egg layer of the world. The leghorn, known as 97-5, was one of a team of 13 which made a world record during the 51 -week In- ternational Egg Laying contest, con- ducted by the University of Con- necticut. . The champion biddy, competing against 1,299 other hens, ran up a total of 369 individual points.. In team competition, the Hanson leg - horns Iaid 4,041eggs in the 51 weeks, for a total of 4,283 points. Another team entered by Hanson took sec ond place with 3,658 eggs, and 3,893 points° Judges announced that the winning team's "astonishingly high perform- ance was made in spite of a 1,300 - mile journey across the continent." There were 100 teams of 13 hens each in the competition. In all, they laid 277,832 eggs. It was announced that "all com- putations were based on the origi- nal 1,300 hens entered, with no lee- way or allowance for losses during the laying year. In other words, this system put it squarely up to the breeder. to enter pullets that could both lay and live." Tulips of Netherlands The tulips of The Netherlands, - world famous for almost four cen- turies, are being crushed by Ger- man invasion The bulbs which Doctors Find Easier Way Of Mending Torn Nerves One of the hardest tricks in sur- gery is the repair of torn nerves, Every human being has a fixed number of nerve • cells, at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not mul- tiply.';Torn nerve fibers heal only by sending forth tendrilstoward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged nerve ends, a surgeon must be careful not to pull the nerve taut, must draw the silk through the petal -thin nerve sheath, not through its body. Zoologists 3. Z. Young and P. B. Medawar of Oxford university sug- gested an easier means :of mending torn nerves: a -biological "glue." To prepare a glue, the scientists withdrew bloqd from an artery of aoun cock, spun it in 'a centri- fugeg fuge The heavy red blood cells were thrown away and the clear plasma "packed on ice where it stayed fresh for six weeks. Into the .. plasmathe experimenters poured a few drops of chicken em- bryo extract, a "powerful clotting agent," ....r,.,«s. ss .>.: .. ;... ... That they cut the large nerves in the legs ` of several rabbits and dogs, held the stumps close with forceps, dribbled the plasma over them from a pipette. Within two minutes, the plasma -thickened to a firm jelly which stuck to the nerves and united the stumps. The jelly held for several days, long enough for the growing nerves to twine themselves on to the cut ends, like vines on a trellis. Healing took about ten days. Next step: use of the blood glue on torn human nerves. Treatment for Broken, ,y Leg Always the Same There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way `from a "green -stick" fracture, where the bone is cracked,' half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treat- ment is always the same: first set- ting, and immobilization, then prop- er exercise. Recently Southern newspapers hailed the fracture treatment of Dr. Rettig Arnold Griswold of the City hospital in Louisville, Ky. Dr. Griswold's treatment,' called "double pin skeletal fixation;" is painless, but it looks bad. First a patient's leg is anesthetized. Then two long steel pins, one-eighth of an inch thick, are hammered through the leg, above and below the frac- ture. A small steel mallet is used, and the pins are driven directly through flesh and bone, protruding abut an inch on either side. Next, the leg is set in a "Gris- wold machine"—a Twentieth-cen tury model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched 'until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assist- ant watches the bone through a flu- oroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine a day, or two. As soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of • fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron" -a narrow, U-shaped Census Bureau Reports strip of iron about one and a half U. S. Area Expanding feet long. The base slips under the p, the two lon The census bureau has applied arms arreinsteeboundarruwi more a topographical tape measure to Uncle Sam's waistline and found it A person with a bad 'compound had expanded by some 3,352 square fracture can usually walk on the miles during the past 60 years. iron, with a crutch, about ten days Completing the first measurement after his accident. of continental United States since 1880, the bureau reported that the land area of the nation had in- creased by this amount. There are two reasons. One is that the water area of the country has shrunk somewhat through drain- age of swamps and other projects. The second is that the bureau had better maps to work with in com- puting the land area in 1941 than it did back in the eighties. Counting both land and water area, the■latest official totalis given as 3,022,387 square miles. The state of Texas, which didn't need it, is now 1,246 square miles larger. Tiny Rhode Island, which really could have used a chunk of new land, lost nine square miles. The bureau also put.a stop to the practice of some coastal states in bragging about how much water surface comes within their bound- aries. Some of these states extend- ed their boundaries as much as 20 miles into coastal waters to make themselves look bigger in the maps. The bureau- simply refused to rec- ognize such claims. have been Holland's pride are, going into Nazi ersatz food substitutes and livestock fodder. There's little room in Hitler's "new order" for flowers, .Nether- lands tulip growers report. Tulip bulbs are processed to make a coffee substitute, .with• real coffee costing $2.50 a pound. Hyacinths have be- come cattle feed; narcissus bulbs yield starch. An ersatz flour is be- ing made from various other bulbs. Before the invasion The Nether- lands' tulip acreages were reduced about 50' per cent by defense prep- arations. The tulip isnot a native : of Hol- land. The first bulbs were brought from Persia in the Sixteenth cen- tury. Dutch growers have devel- oped nearly 2,000 varieties.' Export of bulbs has been a major item of trade with United, States. Gaur Bulls Water buffaloes -belong to the cattle family, They were :given their name because they like to lie in the water of marshes, pools and streams during hot hours of the day. Many water buffaloes run wild in India. Others have been tamed and are used in plowing and for other purposes on farms: Water buffaloes are seldom more than five feet high at the shoulders. They are not such big animals as other cattle—the gaur—which also are found wild in India. Gaur bulls are among the giants of the cattle world. Often they have a height of six feet at the shoulders, The horns of a gaur bull are large and strong._ They are six or seven inches thick at the base, anda pair of them may spread out three feet. Efforts to tame the gaur have met little success.. The big animals like their freedom, and it is dangerous for men to try to keep them at they would common. cattle. Classify Foods Properly Count salt pork, fatback ,and ba- con as fat, not as meat. -Use but- ter or vitamin -rich fat every day. Count spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, grits and white rice along with white bread. and cereals -not as vegeta- bles: Count 1 pint of undiluted evap- orated milk (a little more than 1' tall can),'or '/4 pound of dry milk, or 2 pound of cheese as having about the same food value as 1 quart of milk. In economical diets use dried beans or peas as the main dish several times a week. Use liv- er, kidney and such salt -water., fish as salmon, herring and mackerel oc- casionally. Plain Nourishing Food Young men of high school age and their active sisters can well follow the diet of Giles Steadman, commander of the new American passenger ship, America, to their British Chemist Invented Synthetic Rubber in 1882 Many people know that most of Germany's army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time, synthetic rubbers_expensive but Highly re- sistant to oil, acid, sunlight, water— have been doing many small jobs better than natural rubber can do them. In 1860 a British chemist named Greville Williams broke down nat- ural rubber by distillation, obtained a hydrocarbon compound called iso- prene. In 1882 William Tilden, also of Britain, made isoprene by crack- ing turpentine vapor in a red-hot tube. The Germans, blockaded from the natural rubbers of Malaya and Ceylon, made some solid tires of synthetic rubber in World War I. Polymerization (the process of linking molecules together in long chains) is the key to successful arti- ficial rubber. In natural rubber such molecular chains hold the substance together when it stretches. When chemists stopped trying to duplicate natural rubber's chemical composi- tion, and set out to duplicate its structure and mechanical action, re- sults followed. profit. Although the commander can have his choice of caviar and every kind of elaborate hors d'oeuvres, food cooked in rich sauces, fattening entrees and, regal desserts from frozen puddings to crepes Suzette, he limits himself to clear soups, broiled or roasted meats, plain vegetables, salads, and stewed or fresh fruits in large quan- tities. Great quantities of fruit are important. For economy's sake, some of the weekly fruit allowance should be dried and stewed. Ba- nanas are a good and inexpensive standby. There should be some cit- rus fruit in the diet every day. Tomatoes are an excellent source of vitamin C. Canned grapefruit juice is equally good for vitamin C. At least two vegetables a day should be included in your foods, The vita- min content of canned vegetables is usually very high. Blondes Are Worst Speakers Blondes are more careless in their speech than brunettes. Women make fewer grammatical mistakes than men. Bad English is spoken more .com- monly in the East than in the West. The author of these statements is Edwin Maxwell, veteran . _stage actor and director and foremost Hollywood dialogue director. Max- well made these observations after interviewing more than 1,000 players for a recent picture, during which chore he made copious notes, round- ing out material for a forthcoming book. "Blondes—blonde`O,omen es- pecially—are more slovenly in their speech :than brunettes because they are conscious of their eye ap- peal and therefore expect a listener, particularly a male listener, to over- look their bad grammar because of the ameliorating effect their ap- pearance has on the listener," he says. More Females—Perhaps For the first time in -its history, the U. S. may presentlyrhave more females than males in its population —due to not receiving foreign immi- grants who were predominantly males and also to aging of the popu- lation, in which women are favored in survival, In most countries, fe- males predominate, due principally to wars which decimate the males, 'Real McCoy' "The real McCoy," meaning something definitely established, be- yond doubt, is itself the subject of dispute. According to Alfred E. Smith, former .governor of New York state and presidential candi- date, the phrase had its origin in a certain wise man in New York. "The' oracle . of the Bowery many years ago," says Mr. Smith, "was a man by the name of McCoy, so that when any matter came up for discussion the expression, 'It's the real McCoy,' came into being and usually in this ,manner: 'Well, I will give you the low down on that; I will give you the inside story, the real McCoy.' " Another explanation finds its origin in the name of Kid McCoy, middleweight boxing "champion," who fought lustily, made and lost a fortune, married nine times, served a prison term for killing a sweetheart and died a suicide last year in protest against the "world's madness." Decades ago (legend states), while fighting in New York, Kid McCoy (Norman Selby) heard a boxer in San Fran- cisco was using the same ring name. He rushed to the Pacific coast and had himself introduced as "the real McCoy." _ Everything but Squeak • Of Animal Is Valuable -One need only follow the progress, of a carcass through a ,packing. house to, realize the complexity of production and the multifariousness: of the uses to which ,an animal can: be put. After butchering, the hide is re- moved by experts who accomplish. their task with the -least possible . damage to the skin. The hide in then cured in brine for 30 days be- fore being sold for the manufacture of shoes, harness; saddlery, belting; and related goods. The tail hair is preserved for ern- ploy in upholstering, in the mane- facture of brushes and like prod- ucts. The body hair, removed in the process of tanning, is sold for felting or for mixing with plaster. ' Ear hair makes the best-known art- ists' brushes. Whatever hide trim-. mings remain are turned to account in the manufacturing of glue or as. tankage, which is an excellent fer-- tilizer. Even the fat, scraped from, the hides, joins the other fats in giant tallow tanks from where it is removed to be rendered into. soap. Most of the body fats are generally found immediately under the hide. These are divided into two groups— - the edible oleo fats and the inedible, tallow. From oleo fats is derived. the oil for the bakery trade and for oleomargarine. Cremol from the. same source is extensively used in, the confectionery industry, while- oleo stearine and residue tallow are destined for lard compounds and,. oleomargarine. From tankage, remaining after• the removal of other edible prod- ucts, animal and poultry feeds and. fertilizers are manufactured. 6 UIcer Death Rate Cut With New Treatment A dramatic new method of treat ing bleeding stomach ulcers, which - has cut the death rate to a third of its usual figures, and a better un- derstanding of how certain cancers spread through the body were sig- nificant medical advances report- ed at a session of the American Col- lege of Physicians in Boston. The new treatment for ulcers, re- ported by Dr. T. Grier Miller of the University of Pennsylvania school of medicine, is the direct opposite of previously accepted methods of treatment. Heretofore, physicians have treat- ed ulcers almost invariably by starving the patient. Dr. Miller told the 2,500 leading physicians attend- ing the congress that he had achieved "dramatic improvement in results" through adequate feeding of patients. This feeding treatment, combined with a reasonable amount of fluid, is begun as soon as the patient comes under observation, even if still in the midst of hemorrhage, Dr. -Miller said. "The reduction in the death rate," he declared, "on the average from 9 to 3 per cent, is comparable to that in pneumonia from the sulfona- mides, though it has not been brought about by the elaboration Of a new drug, by the discovery of the cause of ulcer or by the use of any special diet." Ryegrass Helps New Lawn New lawns that are seeded during the summer will please the home owner If domestic ryegrass is used at the rate of 5 pounds per 1,000 square feet, according to the Penn State College Agricultural Exten- sion service, Demonstrations conducted by Fred V. Grau and Charles K. Hal- lowell of the Penh State office, show that results in establishing good lawn grasses are satisfactory if the following program is followed; Work at least 50 pounds of lime and 25 pounds of a complete fer- tilizer, such as a 4-12-4 or 4-16-4, into each 1,000 square feet, Rake the soil until it is fine and firm, then seed the domestic ryegrass. Mow, when grass is more than 3 inches. high; at a height of 11 inches. Sep- tember 1 cut grass at 7/s inch; ap- ply 25 pounds of organic nitrogen fertilizer, such as cottonseed meal, to each 1,000 square feet; seed with a mixture of two pounds of Kentucky bluegrass and one pound of Chew- ing's fescue to each 1,000 square - feet. After that continue cutting at 11/2 inches. Island `of St. John The island of St. John in the Vir- gin island group, has an area of Earthworm in Tuberculosis War Citing the case of the earthworms as.. the one tiny gleam of hope in the'fight,to find some curative drug for tuberculosis, Dr. Kendall Einer son, managing director of the Na- tional Tuberculosis association, out- lined the many years of research that have gone before and are yet to come before a tuberculosis cure isdiscovered. - "In the' cranberry bogs in New Jersey," Dr. Emerson said, "we have discovered a substance which can be isolated. It is something about which we have still to learn a good deal. But we do know that it is a substance, almost unknown, which has a powerful action on germs. - "Our next step was td put earth- worms into this soil after the soil had been infected liberally with tu- berculosis germs. After living in the infected soil, we found the earth- worms alive and cheerful and fully without tuberculosis." about 21 square miles and lies about four miles east of St. Thomas. Al- though it is the least important in size of the major islands, St. John possesses a harbor at Coral bay, which, according to engineers, re- quires only development to make a rival of the better known harbor at Charlotte Amalie. Sugarcane is. grown on a very small acreage, but the chief industry is the growing of- bay fbay leaves and the distillation of the - bay oil from which bay rum is made. The inhabitants, about 765, are col Dred or of mixed blood, with few - exceptions. Cloudiness in Jellies Cloudiness- in jellies usually is., caused by improper straining. Pour - the juice into a jelly bag and let drip dry. One end of the bag can• be tipped to allow more flow of the. juice, but never squeeze the bag. Straining the juice twice will pro- duce a very clear jelly, but of course• will reduce the quantity. ••• - ,