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Show shopperI! CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY IN A JAM Now's the time for all good homemakers to get in a jam a good one! From the grocer's shelf to your pantry shell from summer's sum-mer's plenty to winter's sweet-tooth sweet-tooth hungerl Get in that jam, lady either buy it from your grocer, or better still, make it yourself! Just look what your grocer has to offer today plums, early peaches, peach-es, late strawberries, limes, lemons, oranges and that answer to a summer sum-mer thirst the toothy watermelon! Jams, marmalades and pickles all for the asking, while you wait for the berries and later peaches all for present eating fresh, and future eating in preserve form! While all melons are good, watermelon water-melon is still King crowned around the Fourth of July, and ruling the American appetite long thereafter. The price of watermelon you'll find in plenty at your grocer's is moderate and thrifty manager that you are you will waste nothing! Even the seeds dried out and salted make delicious appetizers. Enjoy the fruit itself, straight with the teeth in that typical watermelon grin; or as the center of a salad of other melons and fruits. Then save the rinds for those watermelon pickles like Mother used to makal However you're using 'em you'll be smart to buy only half a melon at a time, to insure its maturity. But if you buy a whole one, look for a firm, symmetrical melon, colored bright shiny green on top, and creamy yellow on the underside. under-side. PULL OF A PLUM Good news for plum-lovers! This year's crop is expected to reach 92,000 tons, which will lower the price of plums at your grocer's steadily as they flood the market. You'll have plenty! Like 'em in fruit salad, combined with other fruits? You can buy 'em, eat 'em, and like 'em. Or do you like upside down cake? Plums add a delicious flavor to this favorite dessert! As for plum jam you can carry that haunting flavor into the winter, by preserving as many extra plums as you can hide from your family. They'll thank you, come winter! Friends Will Build Vet Complete Farm in One Day WAUSAU, WIS. Because of the efforts of state and federal agencies, agen-cies, and the friendliness of neighbors, neigh-bors, a disabled World War II veteran vet-eran will soon have a modern farm. Frank Flees, 27 year' old ex-marine ex-marine was wounded on Guam and then lost his right eye in a farm accident last September. The agencies agen-cies plan to use Frank's undeveloped unde-veloped land for a demonstration of good methods. His neighbors and fellow veterans will pitch in because be-cause they want to help Flees. The result is that Frank will have a complete modern farm, including a house, barn, 65 fenced acres and plowed land, a water reservoir, and wood lots. Plans call for his friends and neighbors to build, plant and till the whole works in one day. That day, an important one in the life of Frank Flees, will be September Sep-tember 12. All of the materials and labor for the project have been promised. prom-ised. Industry joined with contractors, con-tractors, businessmen, and farm groups to contribute materials. About 200 have offered to donate labor and equipment. The idea was the brainchild of Dr. B. J. Przedpelski, a Polish displaced dis-placed Person, who now is ' a special spe-cial farm agent for 10 towns in the Marathon and ' Portage counties areas where Flees' 200 acre tract is situated. He made the suggestion; sugges-tion; town leaders were quick to fall into line with the program. William Wil-liam Weis, town of Spencer, chairman chair-man of the Marathon county board's agricultural committee now heads the project. For Flees, it all sounds like a dream come true. |