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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-05-11, Page 6Page <5 By ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist MIXING BOWL THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1944 large kettle. Cover and a low heat until the ahd water collects in of the pan. Then re­ pack into a place over greens wilt the bottom move the cover, turn up the heat and cook quickly, five to eight min­ utes, no longer. Season with salt during the last five minutes of cook­ ing, one-half teaspoon salt is suffi­ cient for onp pound of greens. Stu it into the vegetables well. Drain the greens by lifting them up with a fork, letting them drip in the kettle a second, then transfer at once to a hot vegetable dish. Serve immediately, plain, or garnished with wedge-shaped pieces of lemon. Letters to the Wartime Board From Boys Overseas Owing to' cup of water. Add salt,, pepper and ____ __ , such as‘any other seasoning such as onion, over-taxed transportation facilities,' watercress or celery tops. This is labor shortage and other wartime enough dressing for four cups of difficulties, green vegetables might!potatoes. Drain potatoes and pour well be high-priced. In fact we over the dressing. Mix lightly and could expect these summer vegeta­ bles to be scarce the possibilities of budget. However there nutritive greens within the reach We all know dandelions and water­ cress. They are good obtain them free of ing them your self. The favorite hot potato salad greens. Cheap this way: Peel Cook in a small amount of water. Meanwhile fry a cup of diced salt pork. Carefully pour in one-quar­ ter cup of vinegar and one-quarter Hello Homemakers! the present conditions, and also beyond the average food are plenty of available now— of many of us. potato salad and cooked are delicious with weiners chops. A good milk pudding serve, Hot greens I or veal will top this easy to prepare dinner, •you’ll agree. and you can charge—pick-! day dish isbusy to serve with these too. You make it and cube potatoes.peas for filling, the rice and drain. onion and celery leaves a food chopper, using the Put TUNE IN Old Fashioned Revival Houi 7-8 p.m., E.D.S.T. PILGRIMS’ HOUR 2-3 p.m. E.D.S.T. Mutual Network SUNDAYS Local Station CKIAV WINDSOR CARROT LOAF 2 cups cooked rice, 2 cups sliced young raw carrots, 1 small dry onion, % cup celery leaves, 3 eggs, 1 cup evapor­ ated milk (undiluted), 2 tea­ spoons salt, few grains of pep­ per, 1/16 teaspoon chili powder, Green Cook carrots, through fine knife. Beat the eggs well and mix all ingredients except peas. Fold in the rice, and pour into a greased, mold. Bake until mixture is set at 350 degrees F. for about forty minutes. Loosen gently and turn onto a heated platter. Fill the ring with peas or diced brown pota­ toes. dandelion greens Wash greens swishing each water and looking for dirt. Cut off tough stem ends, really the most in the preparation. To cook, drain the greens care­ fully from the last wash-water, in several -waters, stalk through tlie it over carefully and discard the The washing lb time-taking step SPINACH TIMBALES cups cooked spinach or reens, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter, U ’ cup grated cheese, B teaspoon salt- Drain spinach well and chop fine Separate eggs. Beat yolks, add. milk, melted butter, grated cheese pud salt and mix well. Stir in spinach. Beat egg whites stiff, fold into first mixture. Turn into greased mold. Set mold in a pan containing hot water to a depth of one inch. Bake in a degrees until firm. To ness, insert a clean centre of a mold. If clean, the custard is Take a Tip: 1. Use the heavy frying pan to bake top-stove scones. 2. If you can spare a little frun juice—pour over spare-ribs, cover and bake in electric oven for IB hours. 3. Make a thin creamed sauce for scalloped potatoes. 4. Make commercial mayonnaise go further by using some condensed tomato soup or a relish or cream cheese with it * * * The Question Box Mr, W. A, asks: How do you store maple syrup?—Ours has a mould on already. Answer: Sterilize small pars with rubber rings, thoroughly. Heat some syrup in a large kettle, stir­ ring frequently. Poui- into the jars just before it comes to a boil. Seal tightly and store in cool, dark place. (We recommend heating about a quart at one time to prevent “sugar- ing-off’.) Mrs. S. G. asks: I plan to steam a couple of puddings when I boil up soup bones. The batter is put into two greased tins, covered with tied on securely, the stock mixture. * » Anne Allan invites you to write to her %The Exeter Times-Advocate. Send in your suggestions on home­ making problems and watch this column for replies. moderate electric oven, 350 test for done- knife in it comes baked, the out Received your most welcome par-1 further we get away from home due cel, and I really appreciate your kind [to the fact that they are impossible gesture—all contents in first class pe get out here. It’s grand to clean ------- ... ,--------good Canadian products and it gives a person that feeling we’ve got some­ thing to fight for to get back to. Everything is looking good and all for the best and all pur eyes are fixed on one thing and I’m sure it shan't be too long now in this part but then again we must not be top sure or get ever anxious either. Time and patience fights a better battle and in the end we’ll have something achieved, I’m getting on quite well after my misfortune eyen though it has taken some time and will be awhile yet till I am perfect but I hope to be going back to Italy again soon. They tell me I haven’t missed since I have come back There’s nothing more to say so I’ll have to close once again I send my thanks to those who make such gifts possible and for now I'll say Cheers and So Long. Pte. Pfaff, H. C. condition when it arrived. It is nice {J'.ee^1 or shay® ’'Vitli those . •.Onniinimi nvnrhintc- find it on * baking powder wax paper and Then placed in * CHARLES E. FULLER P.O. Box 123 — Los Angeles Zone 53, California Dashwood Grand Bend coat, let the first coat before putting on the Outside Painting Be sure the surface is dry; let the sun or wind dry it out after a rain. Remove dirt from corners, putty up any cracks and holes. Don’t lay the paint on too thickly—you’ll get a better job if you brush it on sparingly. If you apply more than one dry thoroughly second one. SO YOU’RE , TO paint! FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE RULES:- Inside Painting Make certain your surface is clean. 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He will gladly give you. ■valuable assistance and advice and will supply you with the right Sherwin-Williams Paints for each purpose-the utmost your money. LOCAL SHERWIN-WILLIAMS DEALER ttcar 1 'to feel that you folks back home I still remember us. Mail from home is one of the most looked for things by all of u§ over here. There are none of the boys from home in this outfit but I have met several of them in different units that we have been associated with, There are several of the boys that 1 did. not see but hope sooner or later. There are lots of things which i would like tp tell you but censor’s 1 regulations do hoc permit me to do so. I have been with the Eighth Army for almost a year now. I have had some very good times and some hectic times. I’ve driven a tank all through Sicily and Italy. I thought some of the back roads around home were terrible, but the} are like nice to. some of the drove over. I’ve* learned amount of enough to here really you want really charge you paid as high as dozen for eggs. The money here doesn’t go by dollars and centv It goes by lire. There are approxi­ mately twenty-five lire to a quarter, but it is not always like that, I mean the prices of things. When the army officials take over the prices soon go down, which of course, does not please the local population. Of course we don’t blame the people. After being under Mussolini’s rule for so long they are quick to take advantage of us. The popular wage for the working man was twenty-five lire a day, which in our money is about twenty- five cents, and were lucky to get that. Of course, here the women do most of the work. They are very far behind times. They still use oxen and wooden plows for farming. If they were .good Fascists they have good equipment tractors and so on. I’ve only a very few of these through countries. If you see a hay stack coming down the road and a man walking beside is underneath head, because heavy articles this country, carrying barrels of water on their heads that took two men to lift up there, believe it or not. I guess I’ve told you enough to ture of the country. For our amusements stage shows and films, muse ourselves a lot of Of course there is ’always a musi­ cian in the crowd who can play a violin or guitar or and always there is have a couple in our an example of one were all talking one night about one of the boys being quite supple when Mac spoke up and said, “That’s nothing. I had an aunt who was 103 when she died and she didn’t die of natural causes. She was do­ ing back flips in the kitchen and some one left the cellar door open, but that wasn’t what death. No, when she herself and being an her life, all she had in hei’ veins and of highways 'mountain to meet censor’s compared trails we * * * * a small to say people , When to speak ; Italian, that is oil, Tlie for a ride, something they for it. We have three dollars a then like seen both it you know his wife carrying it on her that is the way all are .transported in I’ve seen women get a pic- we have but we a- the times. mouth organ a joker. We troop. Here is of them: We caused her fell she cut alcoholic all was alcohol course she couldn’t stand the sight of all that booze running down the drain so she died of a broken heart.” It may sound terrible to you, but any hum­ or is refreshing to us.. The other chap is very dry. I upset the tank I was driving. It came to rest up­ side down. This chap looks around and very calmly said, “Things look a bit upset, don’t they”. I will say good-bye for now. H. F. Loree..* * * * I received my pai'cel this evening. Everything was grand and nothing was broken. You will never know how much we, over here, think of this fine service. Once again let me thank you one and all. Walter Davis. * * very much here. more and Somewhere in Muddy your parcel . Italy, Received your parcel yesterday and I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to you of the Exeter District War Time Committee and also to those who are making it possible for we service men to receive your splendid par­ cels, They sure are a treat to us all. Thanks a lot. Be seeing you all soon. ‘'Sunny Italy,” some gag. Pte. Maier, H. L, * * * * Received your most welcome par­ cel today. The eatables will be thor­ oughly enjoyed, and the other ar­ ticles are most useful. I opened the box today and divided the cake with a few of the boys. Everybody gets a piece of something out of nearly every parcel that comes in. I spent Christmas in Africa and had a good time. Quite different from the Christmasses I have been used to but it went over quite well. Christmas eve we had a sing-song, jokes and so on. We had a good dinner the next day. The rest of the day we amused ourselves at reading, games and anything else we could find to do. The most of us had t, good time. I am now stationed in Italy. Well, there isn’t much more news, so just a few lines of the swell parcel. Tpr. Snell, R. G. * * Sherwin-Williams of Canada, Limited « Head Off ice MONTREAL value for COVER THE earth B. W. F. Beavers, - Telephone 86, Exeter Restemayer & Miller - Desjardine’s Store Dear Sir: And to all who make the sending of Christmas parcels possible, my Sincere thank to you. I received the parcel February 18th after it Went to Italy and back here again. I miss­ ed .going with my Unit after figur­ ing in an accident with ihy motot bike. However I am again fit and in the best of health and will soon be back to where I left, off a few months ago. In a couple of Weeks time, I will have been over here three years, a discouragingly long time. However, 1944 may bring us our long awaited happiness, Thanks again for the parcel. Leonard J. Weiri. * * * Many part of which I condition, more and thanks I send from this the world for the parcel have just received in good Those gifts are being more appreciated the Professional Cardsin hearing about another side of service life. You’ve heard about airdromes, air-raids, and lives of hardship in different outposts oi our armies. Here’s a story about I another side of it’—the side that i tries to do its best to lessen the i hardships, so far as the airforce is concerned. It’s the story of at least part of the work that the RAF Wel­ fare Organization are undertaking to do for the boys on “out” stations here in the South-East Asia Com­ mand. The official tile of the branch organization carrying on this work is the RAF Welfare (Cinema Unit). First of all, I’ll try to ex­ plain why it came into being, India, as you know, is a big country, and, for the size of it has a notoriously bad communications system. Aer- dromes are scattered all over the country, and quite often are miles from railroads even. The result of this on troops serving here is (hat if they are stationed very far from a city their mail service is very slow, and it is extremely hard to get to a city for periods of leave. Both of these factors are detriment­ al to the morale of the men, especi­ ally so because the camps them­ selves offered nothing in the way of entertainment, Often the men are couped up for months on a station, seeing no one except their fellow men, doing nothing outside of the normal routine of eating, sleeping and working, On each camp is a “contractor,” an Indian firm who run the canteens, supply barbers, ers, etc. decided camps, because in from the Airforce had undertaken to pro­ vide regular mail planes to fly all the mail from the Base Post Office to the outlying stations. They also carried a certain amount of prior­ ity fj’ieght all of which, of course, had to be airforce necessities. But they couldn’t fly the film in because it was controlled by civilians. To overcome this, RAF Welfare decided to take over the job of providing movies for the men. First- of all, funds for the buying of equipment had to be solicited from charitable civilians. Then the equipment had to be purchased, and theatres built on the camps. The building of the theatres was organized by the sta­ tions themselves, but buying the equipment, and getting things /mi­ ning on a paying basis was another thing. To do this, Welfare secured the aid of a company in Calcutta— Humayan Properties, Ltd. The gen­ eral manager of the firm is a Scots­ man, a Mr. McPherson. His firm owns two of the biggest theatres in Calcutta, and controls a third, a smaller theatre. Mr. McPherson gave part of his time, along with part of the time of all his staff, to­ wards getting things organized. He furnished a large office in one of his theatres, detailed his chief pro­ jectionist to buy equipment, had his manager arrange the booking of films, and all in all, did all the work. When things were finally or­ ganized from the business point of view, the theatres on the camps were ready for use. Then word was sent out to the stations to find if there were any qualified projection­ ists amongst the men to take on the job of running the theatres. I 'happened to be one of the men chos­ en because of the experience I had had in Leavitt’s Theatre in Exeter, and with the Toll Brothers. I was given a few weeks further training in one of the Humayan Theatres, in Calcutta, and to this station to theater here. We are about fifty miles from _ . ______ — city, and the mail plane calls on us twice a week, bringing the film. The theatre is a brick building seating about three hundred persons —on benches! We have three changes of program a week, each program showing for two nights. Our greatest difficulty is that we have only one projector, which takes only two thousand feet of film at a time—enough to last approximate­ ly twenty minutes. So. during thu course of an average program we have four stops of about three min­ utes each. No much, you say. But you know how you all groan at home if there is an unfortunate break­ down during a show—usually at the most interesting part it always seems. But the boys don’t mind that so much. A broken film is better than none at all. Our pictures are old, too. Today I received a copy of the Advocate (the fourth in over a year, incidentally) and in it I see advertised “Commandos Strike at Dawn” and “Random Harvest.” We’ll be showing those two pictures sometime in April, I believe. You had them in Exeter last August! Some of the pictures we show were released as far back as 19 34 and ’35 There is no war propaganda in them, at any rate, and that is one thing the men out here detest. Favorite stars are Greer Garson and Dorothy Lamour—mostly be­ cause most of us can count on the fingers of one hand the number Of even slightly attractive white wo­ men We’ve seen in the course of our service in India, The theatre here is one of nine already in operation. In the near future, Welfare hopes to have nineteen working, in gall and Assam, Aild that is the story of the Welfare (Cinema, Unit)'. As a of interest the RAF Film Unit made an information film work of Welfare in all its branches, and included in it will be one ten minute short oil the Cinema Unit, You may be seeing it there in Exeter one of these days, as I be­ lieve it is being niude for general release to the public. Well, I must close now. Thank you again for the wonderful parcel, and may the war be over soon, that I can thank you In person, Don Winer. somewhere thanks for I received your most appreciated parcel Saturday and wish to express my sincere thanks towards you and your committee for the articles which it contained and for the work you are doing. The articles that come in boxes from home are next to impossible to get outside Canada. We haven’t been able to have what I call a special treat like this for some time and I’m your work is greatly sure you feei appreciated. John Duncan. :|c :Jf $ I am just answering in a line or two to thank you for the wonder­ ful parcel I received from you and your Committee. It was still in the best of condition and everything sure was a treat. I cannot explain how much I appreciated it in words. Cpl. Blair is the only man in this regiment from near Exeter and he is spending a nine-day leave in Glasgow at present. Most of us lads had a swell Christmas this year and that is more than the Germans can say, I’ll bet. We are having damp cool weather here at present and are working hard doing a lot of maneouveres. I think and hope that we will spend our next Christmas in Canada. I thank you again for the parcel and hope to be able to see your faces again in Exeter soon. Leaving me fine and thanks again. Cpl. Noels, $ * * # P. A. Received Christmas parcel today. Many thanks. It sure was swell and just the things we need. I had re­ ceived a few on Christmas day, but since mail has been slow. I do know we sure will enjoy mensely (Thanks to we sure see some sCenerey. Hoping this finds as it leaves me fine. Once again, thanks. the soup im- yoU). In Italy real historical everybody fine Gnr. Eveland, L. C. & # # ifc Yesterday I received a parcel from your Committee, which, of Course, was Up to the usual high standard of quantity and quality. I find it hard to find words that Will express the gratefulness and thanks that I feel. It arrived in perfect condition, despite' the fact that it had been wandering around India, from camp to camp, trying to find me, for the past six weeks. The date stamps were all Worn off , but I presume that it was sent in either September or October, as a Christmas parcel, Christmas didn’t amount to much out here this year, so it seems as much a Christmas gift now as it Would have Hafl it arrived oil Dec. 25th. I-Iow you manage to send such excellent parcels when you must be feeling the pinch of rationing and shortages is quite beyond me. Bin, then, Exeter always has been an amaMng town to those who know It! -Perhaps you would be Interested F. W. GLADMAN BARRISTER SOLICITOR EXETER, ONTARIO at Heimuli, Friday 2 to 5 Ibin. .1 nV. ^-.Ik kJ - J. W. MORLEY SOLICITOR Office, Main Street, EXETER, ONT. Dr, G. F, Roulston, L.p.S,, D.D.S. DENTIST Offices, Morley Block EXETER, ONT, Closed Wednesday Afternoon Dr, H, H. Cowen, L.D.S., D.DJL DENTAL SURGEON Office Next to the Hydro Shop Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 36 j Closed Wednesday Afternoons C. E. ZURBRIGG laundrymen, tailors, *bear- Some of the contractors to open theatres on their but they were handicapped it took so long to get film the cities. In the meantime Optometrist at Exeter Open every week day except Wednesday ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-13 Dashwood R.R. 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GLADMAN Solicitor, Exeter At a meeting of a local council’ there had been some discussion re­ garding the type of milk which should be provided for the school children. To conclude the debate, the chairman rose portentously to his feet. “Gentlemen,” he declared, “what this town needs is a supply of clean, fresh milk, and the council should take the bull by the horns and de­ mand it.” HU.*OMZ«aBW»SDKtaia3mttU Dandruff TO THIS SWORN FOE If you are bothered by dandruff, rtlb Minard’s generously into your’ scalp. It’S greaselesfl, has no unpleasant, odor, and dries quickly.1 It’s the sworn foe of dandruff—As it is of muscular soreness and pain, joint sprain or stiffness, tired feet: Excellent for colds and ordinary sore throat, too. Get a bottle at yotir druggist’s today; keep it bandy. 128 MINARD'S LINIMENT