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Show A SPECIAL MASS was said February 3 at the Pitchforth home, it being the Feast of St. Blaze. After Mass, all throats were blessed. A waffle breakfast was served by Mr. and Mrs. Pitchforth, with Father Valine, Mrs. De Wolfe and Mrs. Owen R. Smith present. James Grant Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd' B. Wood of Min-ersville, Min-ersville, enlisted in the navy on Dec. 23, according to word from the Richfield naval recruiting office. By LYN CONNELLY NWNS Radio-Screen Editor AMERICA'S modern farmer has come Into his own on the Mutual Mu-tual network's new quiz program, "R. F. D. America" . . . Each wek two farmers and a farm wife arc selected se-lected by advance eliminations from a state to match JT wits with the win- 1 j ner of the previous I week's contest . . . I j I As guests of Louis I Cowan, program m producer, they are y (j?! entertained for f thiee days in Chi-IhflWjSl Chi-IhflWjSl J cago prior to their Joe Kelly broadcast on Thursday Thurs-day . . . And then emcee Joe Kelly of "Quiz Kids" fame bombards them with questions selected se-lected from listeners' mall that pours In from the entire country. Farm subjects predominate but there are enough general questions to make contestants prove their versatility. ver-satility. John V. Hansen, Kansas state graduate, 'for example, proved 1 himself not only an authority on animal husbandry and crops, but also showed sufficient knowledge of history, fables and the Bible to win two programs and was runner-up on , a third show. Modern Prizes Prizes awarded to the participants also reflect modern times In such Implements as electric milkers, automatic au-tomatic washers and ironers. Lewis Johnson, Van Wert County, Ohio, who won the first program, also took home a tractor-drawn fertilizer spreader among his first prizes. Kelly, despite his years of hobnobbing hob-nobbing with experts, both juvenile and agricultural, makes no claims to being a farm authority . . . One night he told four astonished Kansas Kan-sas farmers and a network of listeners listen-ers that an ox was the offspring of a cow and a steer . . . The following week Joe apologized for giving his audience a "bum steer." . . . But he has not as yet apologized for having given the folks a bum pun. |