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The ration is one ounce of tea or four
ounces of coffee -per person, per week
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ••• - ,