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Show Timely Advice Giver By County Group More and Hotter Gardens Urged; Prepare to Can Food; Disease Control Outlined u . , Unty Wh have mailable facilities should cany out a home food production .program." So recommends the county health planning committee which met at the court house last week to make plans for 1942. More and better gardens were urged as a means of providing food for our own people and to release commercial supplies for the armed forces and our allies. An intensified preservation program pro-gram was also recommended as well as more careful preparation prepara-tion of food to conserve food values. The committee further recommended recom-mended that nutrition be taught at all school levels from kindergarten kinder-garten to college and to adults. The continuation and extension of school lunch cente.s is supported sup-ported by the committee who urge volunteer effort to carry on the project when paid labor is short. Homemakers are advised to take careful stock o canning equipment including pressure cookers, jars, lids, rubbers, rings, etc., and to conserve everything every-thing which can be successfully used to preserve food for the coming season. Tin cans may be reflanged and used a second time if they are not rough or corroded. cor-roded. With a labor shortage facing us, younger boys, girls and women will have to do more and more of the work in the fields, the committee felt. The committee recommends continuation con-tinuation of health and dental examinations among school children, child-ren, 4-H clubs, scouts and other groups as well as adults. Communicable disease control, child health conferences, prenatal conferences, first aid and home nursing classes were among other things considered vital to the well being of the people of this county. Mention was made of the toll of lives taken each year by farm and home accidents and families were urged to remove accident and fire hazards. The committee recognized the necessity for more careful selection selec-tion of new clothing, and better care and utilization of that which is now on hand as a defense measure. Cooperative effort of parents, schools, and stores was suggested as a ' necessary measure meas-ure in seeing that children are adequately clothed during extreme ex-treme cold weather. Frozen legs and chilblains were cited as examples ex-amples of the results of girls wearing anklets or knee hose during dur-ing the past two months. Members of the planning group include representatives from schools, Relief Society, Farm Bureau, 4-H clubs, county health council, public health nurses, WPA, school lunch centers, cent-ers, Farm Security administration, administra-tion, adult leaders, young married mar-ried groups, FTA, Logan Garden club, and Extension service. Mrs. D. R. Clarke of Newton is chairman of the committee. |