| Show Interesting I News From Here There ThereAt At least one out of every four persons will probably spend be be- beyond beyond beyond yond his income this year the Fed Fed- Federal Federal eral Reserve board predicts Signs of the trend according to the board are Last year about families cashed out completely their government savings bonds Out of persons buying furniture refrigerators radios washing machines ranges and other appliances did so on the installment plan This was wasa a 50 per cent increase over 1946 Sixty five species of African vio vio- violets violets lets are arc to be found in the collection collection tion of Mrs Gustof Anderson of Upland Park Pennsylvania Among them are varieties of white pink orchid baby blue maroon and purple shades Like other mem bets bers of the African Violet Society Mrs Anderson continually exper exper- experiments experiments with cross in the effort cHort to produce new and more beautiful varieties A vertical strawberry bed bcd has been designed by Henry Hayward of San Fernando California Hay- Hay Hayward Hayward Hayward ward laid up two walls of cement blocks a foot or so apart The space between the walls is fill lill filled filled ed with soil The strawberry plants were set in the holes in Me cement blocks The papering of his room with used postage posta e stamps has just been completed by E. E F. F Miller of Memphis Mem Mem- Memphis Memphis Tennessee It required stamps to paper the ceiling It re required re- re required a year ear and a half hall to cover er the ceiling and one wall The stamps were put on one at a time A new postage stamp has been authorized honoring the chaplains who during the recent war died at sea The stamp bears the likeness of four chaplains who lost their lives on th troop transport Dorchester that other might live They are arc John P. P Washington a Catholic priest Alexander D. D Goods a Jewish rabbi George Fox and Clark V. V Poling Protestant ministers The stamp is a 3 cent commemorative printed in several tones of gray It shows the heads of the four chaplains above the sinking vessel The story is that one cold night nl ht in February 1943 as the Dorchester plowed through the North Atlantic toward Green Green- Greenland Greenland Greenland land a Nazi boat U-boat torpedo struck the ship Panic gripped the soldiers and crewmen The chap chap- chaplains chaplains lains taking their stations passed out the life belts as the ship went down When the last belt was hand handed handed ed cd out the chaplains stripped off of their own life belts and handed them out to the four remaining men who had received none nonee As the passengers swam away from the rapidly sinking ship the last glimpse showed the four chaplains standing at the bow with linked finked arms |
