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Show SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1952 Pftfa THE JOURNAL THE READER'S DATE BOOK- - STAR DUST Numerous Special Occasions Scheduled for April and May Doris Day Autographs Baseballs To Be Used At Ballpark Openers By INEZ GERHARD During early spring the months of April and May there will be numerous special days and weeks. Many of them will be promotions of benefit to the communitys merchants. Others will promote noise abatement, religion and religious holidays, recreation, music, sports, and others of general interest to the home town community. As a roundup of the next months, home towners can look for many of the following: In April last year the National Noise Abatement Council sponsored ilts 12th annual observance of Noise Abatement Week. The week was highlight ed by a nation-wid- e campaign to reduce unnecessary din in factories, streets, homes and offices. Many communities, especially the larger ones, have 'anti-nois- e ordinances and year round campaigns for noise abatement. 'Here is an opportunity to launch a noise abatement promotion in the home town. The National Noise Abatement Councils address is 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N.Y. Na-tion- al , Month in home towns in every section of the country. In late April merchants put out their rods and reel, lines and lures which Americans can not resist. Fishing attracts millions, old and young, men, women and children. The idea of fishing as a sport to be sponsored on the local level is finding Increasing popularity because it fosters health and productive activity linked with enjoyment. And it is finding increasing popularity as a means of bringing parents and children together in an atmosphere of clean, uninhibited fun In many communities local civic and service clubs have sponsored May as Lets Go Fishing Month for children as one of the ways to curb juveu delinquency. WHEN THE Scheduled May 4-- 1 ... NEW VEST In Washington, D.C., marine P.F.C. Mary Kennedy DORIS DAY the picture. The players will turn them over for hurling by President Truman, governors, etc., who tradi- tionally throw the seasons pitch. 4-1- 1, -- ... In Detroit, e, tina Cortesa. 20th also make one. Rural Life Sunday is observed annually on the fifth Sunday after Easter to emphasize the meaning What Mothers Day can mean to the home town is just what the home town wishes to make it. But it is the one national observance every home town will want to plan for and cele- brate. will Century-Fo- x of Ted Granik, founder-moderatAmerican Forum of the NBTs Air, has another keen interest, Youth Wants to Know, Sundays on NBT. It is built around topical questioning of a top figure in national life by a group of high school and parochial school boys and girls. Noted guests frequently squirm while trying to answer their pointed, intelligent questions. or w 1914. strange hobby; when not playing foil for his gags she is a carpenter; makes most of her own furniture. She also designs the jewelry she wears on the show. sinister dealer in narcotics and kingpin of U.S. heroin racket, Guiseppe Catalanotte, 51, known as Old and the Cockeyed Joe offiwas This year the 150th anniversary of arrested by federal Man, cials and Detroit police narcotic Victor Hugos birth is celebrated agents recently after a long bunt with two films of Les Miserables.' in EngLus Films is Italian-madfor tbe ringleader. lish, starring Gino Cervl and Valen- ms Rural Life Sunday Is Scheduled for May 18 first Lovely Lucy Knoch, seen with Red Skelton on his TV program, has a THE OLD MAN CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY Julie Bennett, heard on NBCs Life Can Be Beautiful, makes money from her hobby dialects of all kinds. Radio producers call for Julie whenever a difficult or rare accent is needed, and she never fails to deliver. Asked to explain how she does it, she says she thinks GENERAL NAMED . . . Brig. Gen. It is because she studies accents Frank Howley, former military carefully, and maybe her keen governor and U.S. commandant in musical ear helps. Berlin, , has been appointed vice chancellor for university developCome the first week In May, proment at New York University. He ducer Edward Wolf is giving a sixth was graduated from NYU in 1925. Bank the Break anniversary and Bert honor of Parks in party Bud Collyer. In 1946, soon after the show took to the air, Collyer sold Wolf on giving Parks, just out of the army, a chance; he has been the star of the Sunday night CBS-Tshow ever since. When Parks was offered the emcee chores on the daily morning ABC version of the program, he, in turn, sold Wolf on the idea of giving it to Bud; now both are top quizmasters. of Christianity in rural life. The event is closely linked with Roga- Children's Day Is tion Days, celebrated for centuries in the Christian Church. Growing Promotion first observed were Rogation Days In the months ahead, probably by St. Mamertiis, Bishop of Vienna, June, the home towner can look in Gaul, sometime prior to A.D. 475. for a national promotion called It is far more ancient, however. In Childrens Day which is fast growthe earliest days of Egypt, the cere- ing in popularity. Last year the day mony of blessing the land and the was observed on June 9. seed at the time of planting was The day receives special promowidely observed. tion efforts from department stores, The first official observance toy stores, infants and childrens by American churches was in specialty shops and gift shops, and 1929. It is the day of invoking chain and drugs stores. Gods blessing upon the seed, The day is a fitting occasion for vthe sower and the soil. gatherings to Rural Life Sunday is an oppor- civic and community to the basic educacall attention tunity .for rural and home town tional, health, recreational and wel- FACES TRAIL . . In Poitiers, ' churches to exchange services and Marie . Besnard. 56, a town under- fare needs of children and to dis- France, sa promote rural-hpm- e in tbe arsenic cuss better ways of meeting these widow, whose trial standing. 11 acquaintances and of deaths on a level. needs Also, community . it is an appropriate opportunity for members of her family comes up May Is Designated parents and those others who love soon, is pictured after a prelim-Jnar- y trial In which she was found to evidence their love in Let's Go Fishing Month children guilty of forgery of some family tangible ways. papers. May is known as Lets Go Fishing (Released by WNU Restores.) - YOURE ready to ttart on your spring sewing. Good for you! But are you really ready? Are your shears in good shape? Have you the best needles and thread your money can buy at your store? Hows the old sewing machine working? Is it as ready to go to work as you are? Better look it over before you start cutting. If youve been using your machine youve regularly, and oiled it kept cleaned periodically, as you should every two or three weeks. But if you havent touched it in months, youd better try it out on a sample, and find out what ails it. Once you know what the trouble is, you can often apply the remedy yourself. Upper thread breaking? That simply means that the tension is uneven, and the top tension needs loosening. The same thing goes in reverse if the lower thread is stretched to the breaking point. If both threads break, or neither, the tension is perfectly balanced, and the stitch a success. Puckers in the material? In that case, one or both threads are too tight, and need careful adjustment. Make this test: Thread the bobbin and needle, double a piece of sample material, and stitch across on the bias. Get a good grip on the ends of the stitching, between thumb and forefinger of each hand, and pull evenly, and strongly enough to break both threads. If its working properly, the threads lock in the center midway between the two layers of cloth. Then, if your upper thread still breaks, look over the needle to see if its bent, set wrong side out, or too high or too low. This same thing can be the cause of skipped stitches, too. So look over the needle situation, be sure its properly threaded, and sharp enough torj the purpose. Youll find, however, that most of your difficulties stem from the need of a thorough cleaning. Dirt, thread or plain lint in the shuttle cavity is the cause of most of your sewing machine ills, so take it apart, bit by bit, arranging the parts in the order of their return to the mechanism, clean what needs cleaning, and oil according to the directions your salesman gave you when he sold you the machine. SO models the bulletproof vest that is saving lives in Korea. Tbe vest, weighing about eight pounds, drapes over a mans shoulders, front and back. 1 ! SHOPPER'S SO YOURE SEWIHG J Since 1924 when the first synchronized observance of National Music Week was held, this project to stimulate musical interest and progress has made its way into more than 4,000 communities J1 over the country. In the large majority of these, it has become an annual event, to which people look forward eagerly, and which has a year-roun- d influence for good. The 29th annual observance, to be held is expected to top all May previous records. It is effective use of the occasion in the home community which counts during National Music Week. Its aim is to spread more widely the enjoyHome Demonstration ment of muslo and activity In Week Early Spring Event Its making. Home town schools, P.T.As. One of the widest observed weeks music clubs and womens churches, in early spring every year is Home Music Week the ideal will clubs find Week. Last year Demonstration to time plan activities for local jsome 50,000 communities held pro-gra- musical talent and telling the story highlighting the role of the of pleasure through murc. home in preserving American ideals, supporting defense programs on the home front, and sharing their Mother's Day Is and leader-shi- p jhomemaking know-ho1 1 experience with other home-.make- rs Sunday, May that all American homes Millions of Americans In every be stronger. may section of the country, millions of Homemakers clubs are sponsored men, women and children, will give by the Extension Service of the expressions of love and honor to United States Department of Agri- mother on her day, Sunday, May culture. There are about 57,500 clubs 11th. which hold regular meetings to Qf all the national celebrahome-makin- g in skill to and Mothers Day is the one tions, acquire study United the in States, reaches that deep into the hearts today Rico. and Puerto Americans. of It was made all Hawaii, Alaska, official by the 63rd congress in Another of the promotions the home towners can look forward to la. World Health Day, held April 7 last year, and sponsored by the World lHealth Organization. The objective of the organization and the observance is to stress the obvious health and the attainment of all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Seventy-fiv- e 'countries belong to the organization which was founded September 1, 1948. It operates as the directing and coordinating authority on all international health work. 1952 big league season officially opens, the first ball thrown out in opening games at many ball parks will include a message from Doris Day Now busy portraying the wife of famous pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander In Warner Bros.' Alexander, the Big Leaguer, Miss Day has autographed a number of baseballs for the big leaguers working in National Music Week World Health Day Is World-Wid- e Promotion 7 V Addle Richton and Lyn Stone, authors of the daily CBS adio serial Hilltop House, thi- - life is being made too simple for our children today, because parents fr- - the things that they did not have in childhood. over-corn-pens- ate Warner Bros, welcomed Jane Wyman back home with a redecorated dressing room; the new quarters have pink walls, white lace curtains, green satin upholsteries anc matching draperies. Shes back to star in "Tbe Story of Will Rogers. HEW FOR OLD If, after all this, you decide your machine has had its day, consider carefully before you buy a new one. If you exchange one kind for another, be sure that the uses of the old one are more limited than the one you're looking at, at the store. Try out all the attachments, and compare them with the prospective ' ones. With so many sewing machines now on the market, you want to be absolutely sure youre getting the best there is for all your purposes. So, why not rent or borrow a machine of the make youve set your heart on, and try it out at home a few times before signing on the dotted line. Or that favorite clerk at your store will welcome a tryout on location, and an opportunity to give you guidance and advice at each step. (Bdeuti by WNU DMinM |