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Show The Cache American, Lojran. Cache County, Utah Page Si THE 38,000 ACHE Ml THAT KIEiiT TO SEA Men Who Go Down to In Ships What It Takes in Farm Acreage to Put a Cruiser In Uncle Sams Service for Victory Food In quaint fishing towns o ft Americas mny coasts men are following their forefathers on the sea find fishing a booming industry. The armed forces consume more than half of all the frozen fish in the United States. An even greater amount, 80 per cent, of the mackerel and sardine pack Is consumed by the armed forces. In addition, , V 1 civilian requirements have inf. creased as housewives, faced with a meat shortage, have turned to fish as a main course who II ton crul'cr stalwart member of Unci Sam's great Cret look a ( (arming Uforo she f rolled oft tli ways bound for ocean j duiy. Ten thousand men spent a solid year building her, Food from 33.000 j acres about 10,000 tons helped them maintain bp speed and efr r,- i ficiency. Over 250 000 pounds of cotton and 25,000 pounds of wool went Into clothes fur those workers say f 1,200 acres of cotton, and taool from .f S.0J0 sheep. Another 250 acres tobacco for 3 'a million packs cigarettes. On the Ji b, the shipbuilders laid some 207 arret of so beans on that cruiser In the form of od for paint to make her shipshape. Before the started on her first shift x-j- i of ocean duty, more farm acres did 4 JI their share in outfltUig ship and crew. Now the' carrying about 12S Av tons of food, a yeari production from some 423 acres. Almost 1,004 sheep are represented in the blankets under which the S.- , k crew sleep. Many acres of cotton went into the making of mati ' X' f--j tress (liking, bunting and can7 t T vas, and more cotton helped out4 . fit the rrew. So did lots of wool ; e from lots of sheep. Ropes and hawsers so essential to i her efficient operation were woven That ton swift loch whose 10,000 will speak so loudly for victory takes a heap of cruiser aleck, eight guns from American-growhemp. farming to put It on the high seas. Story st left gives Interesting details. When her guns fire their thundcr-ousalvos they draw on her stores of some 120 tons of explosive powder. That powder required 170,000 pounds of cotton linters and alcohol made from 530 acres of wheat, or instead, perhaps, from 70 acres of By PHYLLIS BELMONT sugar cane. Yes, it took a lot of farming heart (beets) for you and my By MISS ABBIE COXDIT My and a lot of farmers along with the love is soft as a (squash). I am for National RccraatUa Anaaeiatlaa. welders and riveters and carpenters Such timely suggestions are of- you strong as an (onion). You are and engineers. fered in a bulletin entitled Games a (peach) with your (radish) hair Today she's one of Uncle Sam's and Songs in Wartime Issued by and (turnip) nose. You are the watchdogs of the ocean lanes, that (apple) of my eye, so If we (cantalthe New York State Extension serv 10,000 ton cruiser. She's 38,000 acres ice that we can do no better than oupe) then (lettuce) be married, of might and fight. share them with you. The bulletin for I know we will make a happy She's the farm that went to sea. points out that as work hours in (pear). Hidden Hats. Give each of the and summer become longer spring Kleberg Gets Old Shoes there will be fewer times when players pencil and paper, and tell He Gave Away Years Ago people can play together, and It is them to write as many words conincreasingly important that these oc taining the word hat" ss they can WASHINGTON. Representative casions be planned better. There think of in five minutes' time. A of Democrat Texas, part Kleberg. should be a period of recreation tiny bonnet may be given to the owner of King ranch, was astonished while folks gather for Home one who produces the longest list when he opened a box and recogand to the one who thinks of the Bureau or between other meetings, nized a pair of shoes which he had business and longest word. Examples of words work or after periods, worn nearly six years and had given What Is the proper signature for the meetings. Singing, folk dancing, which may be used are: hatchet, away four years ago to one of his a woman to use? games any of these are good group chatter, etc. Mexican ranch hands. It all grew Answer The only time a woman activities. Have something always Spring Hat Parade. Take the col out of the shoe rationing order. call herself, or signs her name and plan social evenings to ored hats displayed in magazines ready, Penciled in Spanish, a note acMrs. is for purposes of Identificawhich folks can walk. and cut every bat into Bn equal companying the shoes said the tion. Spring Showers. Teams stand in number of pieces. Then mix up the sender had noticed in the newspaShe signs her letters to friends lined up behind a start- pieces. Seat the guests around the pers that Mr. Kleberg was wearing or If she has just single file, Mary Smith the same shoes he had bought married and Is afraid she wont be ing line. Stretched across the op- table or around the room and let four years ago, at the time he gave recognized, she signs Mary Jones posite end of the room is a length of everyone draw one piece. Then give cord, the clothesline. In front of them an equal number of other up the enclosed pair. Smith. If whomever she is writing the line, opposite each team, is a pieces. Everyone is to pass a piece Unable to write, Willie Flores, would not recognize Mary Smith box of clothespins and an improvised to the right until she has succeeded cook, dictated to another she may add in parenthesis under In collecting all the pieces that bewash basket in which are sevranch hand, and signed with an X, her signature Mrs. John Smith. eral articles reminiscent of the week- long to her hat. The first one done this message: Her cards are engraved Mrs. ly wash. Upon a signal, the first may be the prize winner. I see where you dont have but John J. Smith. in each team runs up to his Ring the Bunnys Ears. Cut the one pair of shoes, so I am sending A single woman signs her name person wash basket, takes out silhouette of a large rabbit from a respective friend the which you my good to clarify her the (Miss) Mary Jones pair articles, hangs them on the line sheet of heavy white cardboard and gave me a few years back. Identity, but she signs "Mary Jones with the and runs back tack it against a box so that it can Sorry, but we are short of shoe where she is known. Her cards to the clothespins, starting point If an article stand upright Tie a big bow of Miss Mary falls strings here at the ranch. Hope these would be engraved down, he must go back and pink crepe paper around its neck will help the situation and that you Jones." fasten it securely. The second per- and place It in the center of the t are wetL" Ledger Syndicate WNU Features. son runs up, takes down the wash, room. Let each guest try his luck puts it in the basket and places at ringing the bunnys ears. Use the clothespins in their box. The ordinary jar rubbers for rings. See game continues until the winning who can ring the most ears in team finishes first five trials. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Seed Identification. Players should to and a be write given pencil paper I down as many different kinds of PHYSICAL, TRAINING obstacle courses which help develop seeds as they are able to identify muscular speed, endurance, from numbered saucers on a table. Minute Muke-lj- ai New trails are being blazed to and aggresThere should be about 15 varieties reach the army air forces technical strength, siveness. By GABRIELLB available. training commands goal of physiThe obstacle course Is laid out A Farmers Love Letter. Read the cal fitness for every man. over a stretch of terrain 175 yards The physical training program has letter aloud, saying following 50 yards wide. Fifteen men blank at the appropriate places. been worked out with the knowledge long by compete at one time. The Divide the may that each station has its special standard obstacle course consists of: group into teams and see which can call aloud or write down problems and special facilities. brush hurdle, wall, the most correct vegetable or fruit However, the over-aprogram is trench, rope climb, low bars for My darling Sweet (Pouniform, and the schedule as out- going under and over, and inclined answers. lined by Lieut Col. C. L. Brownell, ladder and tato). Do you (carrot) all for me? jump. director of the technical training Emphasis is placed on rough and command's physical training pro- tumble sports among the younger Hate the Russians More, follows: gram, men and those physically fit to stand 25 conof hour (1) First minutes Nazi Leader Tells People up to the rigors of combat actividitioning exercises; and 35 minutes ties. For example, at Chanute Field, YORK. A call upon the NEW of road work, running and obstacle 111., Heck Kenney, former wres- German people for hate and more course activities. tling coach at the University of Illi- hate against the Russians and the (2) Second hour 10 minutes of nois, instructs classes in jujitsu hypocrites was iswarm-udrills; and 50 minutes of as well as wrestling. sued by Dr. Robert Ley, chief of the and athletics (comgames, sports, One of the latest features of the Nazi labor front, writing in the pulsory). Where aquatic facilities physical training program Is the newspaper Angriff. are available, these are used to supregular measurement test by which The article, reported by the OWI, plement games, sports and athletics. instructors can gauge the benefits Your serviceman home on an unsaid the fate of the German soldiers When a soldier qualifies for study of solto the individual conditioning furlough? Quick, no matexpected still hurts us lost at Stalingrad In one of the technical training comdier. Improvement in was no al- ter how tired you are! A minute there but much, mands schools and leaves the basic very endurance, muscular strength mask of vanishing cream. Remove training center, his physical training and endurance, power, agility, speed ternative but to make the stand it with tissues. Make up. The skin there. continues but is reduced program are systeand body Cream be soft and fragrant will to one hour, six days a week. In an earlier article Ley asserted checked. Special classes matically on, brushed Powder; rouge. patted The program at the technical are the harder the fight in the organized for soldiers who do that off. A scarlet mouth for beauty and training commands schools calls not make satisfactory progress in East becomes and the more difficult smile for welcome. And have a for tmore strenuous games and more the the we war, must grateful regular games and exercises. good time! be to the fuehrer. sports. Most of the schools have Released by Western Newspaper Union. WNU Feature. That Sea 10 000 r , lt ' J r ?j'J&rr pj A f . V ';L i t st 1 ; v t !' I J i difficulties resulting from ma-- 1 ferial shortages. However, fishermen continue operations despite new perils, striving to equal former records. John Ribrria, captain of the i, wm '' t -- ' r 1 J alternate. The fishermans job is not an easy one. Added to the nor-- , mal hazards of the sea are the submarine menace and the (tilting trait lor, OUl Glory, hi act hit uife before leaving for the fnhing grountls off the Massachusetts coast. Fishing trips usually extend from four days to a week. j 1 . f i t I v Certain varieties of fish are appearing on the markets for the first time, and New England fishermen are hauling in large quantities of roseft-h- , a variety considered useless five years ago. Picture at right shows heavy sliding down Old Glory m here rosefish are being sought. ' L s What fo Vy i y. i - v - ,V Muscles strain as husky fishermen of Portuguese descent pull nets on board the Old Glory. Their haul is rosefish, once, called goldfish because of the brilliant color. America In Acfiion ll Shown above is a typical pier hand on the docks at Gloucester, Mass. This port has been a famous fishing center for centuries. Immediately after being caught rosefish are shoveled into the hold for packing in ice. The crew members are up at dawn and put in their trawl for the morning catch. .wmxvsww ;ai wwwiyiie Anglo-Americ- p I - I i 4 cardio-respira-to- Ledger Syndicate Wooden Tires Help Nation Solve Rubber Problem When the Japs took Malaya and the Dutch East Indies shortly after Pearl Harbor, cornering almost all of the worlds rubber supply in a omy. Already synthetic rubber plants are springing up throughout the country, and many of these plants are producing rubber. Many and ingenious are the stunts swoop, they scored heavily, especially against America, the worlds tried by Americans to tide over the greatest automobile nation. But in rubber shortage crisis. One of the the long run it may prove that the best tried so far is the wooden tire. Japs really did America a favor. For There are many versions of the never again will this country be en- wooden tire, and one of the best is tirely dependent on an outside that developed by Dugan Brothers, source for anything vital to Its econ baking firm of New Jersey. The wooden tire developed In their shop is made in four sections of five layers of wood. It has a tread of tough, g brake lining that makes the going smooth enough on concrete roads. When it comes to travel over cobbles or rutted roads, however, there is plenty of jolting. picture at right shows procedure. The craftsman marks inside and outside diameters. Auto wheel goes inside the inner circle. tH wear-resistin- i . -- I At sunset fishermen mend nets i,sk ys torn by rocks on the ocean floor. |