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Show r ,1 f- PAGE -10 "teSfS SUNDAY HERAID f . Re We Coddling Prisoners Of War? n- Eaoter Ham Dinner Caused Revision Nazi Prisoner Menus at Ft. Devens MM By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Cerreipondent . FORT DEVENS, i Mass., April 88 ' Some army .officers concede con-cede candidly, but not for quotation, quota-tion, that it was a mistake to feed ham to the German prisoners-of-war here for Easter, at a time when civilians could not get it for their own table, Prisoners of war are fed in modified accordance with a master mas-ter menu promulgated by the Quartermaster General in Washington. Wash-ington. The master menu for April was distributed in December, Decem-ber, and purchasing officers began be-gan at once buying the necessary foodstuffs to comply with it This master menu, for troops and prisoners, pris-oners, provided ham for Easter Sunday dinner. For our soldiers the menu called for a half a pound for each man. The prisoners modification here called for 'a third of a pound for each German. The bam,' one officer said, was 6f the quick-cured quick-cured variety, and had to be used up at once. Another officer, granting this, thought that good public relations would have suggested sug-gested using it on some day other than Easter, when civilians were particularly conscious of their in ability to obtain the- traditional meat for their own tables, No Fancy Fare As a result of the publicity that followed that dinner, the menus for the period from April 8 through 30 were revised to eliminate elimi-nate ham scheduled again for the 22nd and 30th, chicken listed for dinner the 8th, 15th and 29th, and meat loaf planned for supper tne utn, 18th and Z4tn. With these changes, the menus lor tne first 13 days of April showed this general picture: American garrison troops had beet 12 meals out of 30 (exclud ing breakfasts), including broiled steak and Swiss steak once each roast beef twice, stew and meat loaf twice each- They had ham twice, roast pork twice, pork chops twice, veal once, chicken once. Prisoners had ham once (on Easter), meat loaf once (before the revision), fish and frankfurters frankfur-ters six times each, bologna five times, salt pork and cervelat (a type of sausage) three times each, macaroni or spaghetti three times, cold cuts and chili con came once each.. Our garrison troops had-butter every meal but two, when peanut pea-nut butter was substituted. No butter was on the prisoner menu; they got oleo. Each 100 Americans Ameri-cans get seven pounds of butter a day, each 100 Germans, three pounds of oleo. The allowance of lard and other fats is twice as large for each garrison soldier as for each prisoner. Not Too Sweet For each American the menu provides 3.38 pounds of sugar for the first half of April, for each German, 1.13 pounds. For breakfast, the prisoners had eggs every day but one. while American soldiers had eggs only nine of the 15 days. The other days the carrison had french toast, hot cakes or mush, usually with bacon and always with syrup. Three days the Americans Am-ericans also had bacon with their egas. The Germans had no bacon. Every morning the Americans had orange, grapefruit or some other fruit. The Germans had none. The prisoners sometimes get this fruit at dinner an orange or an apple each of eight days. For dessert the Americans have had ice cream four days, with a variety of puddings, pies and cakes. The Germans have had rr- y.;: 1 Though not planned for finicky palates, the German war prisoner's food Is equal in quantity and nutriment- to garrison soldier's -fare. Army Program Sets Deafened GIs On the Road to Civilian Life Again By BEN COOK United Press Staff Correspondent SANTA, BARBARA, Call., (U.fi) The "icebox" at Hoff General hospital isn t worth much to a hungry man at midnight, but it's worth plenty to hundreds of battle-deafened soldiers who thought they would never hear again. The "icebox" is what old-timers at Hoff call a soundproofed room that contains nothing but a loudspeaker, loud-speaker, a microphone- and at almost any time of day a soldier learning to use his ears again. It is where a hard-of -hearing soldier goes to get a mechanical aid so he can start the hospital's rehabilitation program. Object: Earn Tour Own Way Eight weeks later his doctors and eachers are prepared to guarantee guar-antee that he can make his way in the world and earn a living with no more trouble than if he had to wear spectacles. If his family and friends give' him an equal break, that is. Hoff is one of three Army hospitals hos-pitals specializing in treatment of deafened soldiers. Others are at Butler, Pa., and Chickasha, Okla. Each center tries to turn out men who can earn their way in civilian civil-ian life. Mai. Norvil A. Martin, who ! used to be an ear, nose and throat doctor, developed the Hoff hard-of-hearing program. When he came to the hospital a year, agp he bad a staff of half a dozen. Today, 60 doctors, technicians techni-cians and teachers work under him, .When a deaf soldier arrives they fit him with the best hearing aid they can get and put him through an eight-week educational education-al and athletic program. Then they turn him loose so he can fin'd a job and start being a civilian. civil-ian. The "icebox" is no place for a soft-hearted man. Many a GI who hasn't heard a sound for Shrock of Portales,- N. M., was typical. He arrived at Hoff three and a half months after he lost his hearing ' in the fighting at Duren, in Germany, in the acous tics laboratory he underwent tests, sat in the "icebox" and told a WAC technician what he could hear over the powerful loud speaker. When he came out, he was ready to put on a hearing aid. He was so nearly totally deaf that his hearing loss could not even be shown on standard charts. But the day after he ar rived he was heering and taking part in normal conversations by using his mechanical aid The husky blond boy had .been in combat just a month when he became deaf. He'd been in the army 16 months and had not been home for a year. He was going to take a f urlough and go home be fore starting the eight weeks of classes, When he returned from his fur lough, he started on the educa tional program. He was quartered at Hoff Reconditioning Center, former elementary school made into permanent quarters for the hospital's 200 or more deaf pa tients. There he spent half a day in athletics, occupational therapy if he wanted it, and work on the 15-acre hospital farm.- The other half day he spent in classes learning learn-ing to read lips and to get the most out of his mechanical hear ing aid. If necessary i he could have frequent fre-quent interviews with the hospital's hospi-tal's psychologist, who would help him get used to going back into civilian life. MPs Get Suspicious-Lip-reading has some advan tages to the soldiers besides helping help-ing them get along. They get no little amusement from eavesdropping eaves-dropping on any conversation they can see. In the city of Santa Barbara, no ice cream and little nnHHinc or pie: their dessert usually is a! tears when the delicate acoustical stewed fruit, cake, cinnamon roll i gadgets nelp him h?ar for tne ovuuu m ,w f IL. J M 11 i three months or more breaks into; 7 "VI. "It V? "t. I' .... Iuf Bciiu wccA-enu leaves, meir uui tery-powered hearing aids some or something of the sort. Less Variety The variety of vegetables served" to the garrison troops is so wide it would be difficult r summarize briefly; the Germans have much less Variety. The pris- first time Typical GI's Treatment-Nine Treatment-Nine teen - year - old Pvt. Von comply with Ihe provisions ' of Geneva 1 that basic American law, the oner's potatoes are cooked in the! Geneva Convention. simpler fashions baked, boiled. At the outset our Army inter-occasionally inter-occasionally mashed: but for our preted the Convention to require soldiers' mess there is much that the prisoners be fed identi-gr identi-gr eater variety than most civil- cally with our base troops. As ians can get in good restaurants shortages developed and the pub- french field, pan fried, au-jlic became restive, this interpre-grctin. interpre-grctin. escalloped, oven browned, itation has been made more real- nasn- Drown, lyonnaise. candied' istlc. until now it is the pro-:r sweet, parsley, creamed potato salad with the cold cuts. In calory count and vitamin content the prisoners' menu is claimed intention to give the prisoners as much, as nutritious and as healthful food, but not to worry so much about whether carefully calculated not only to i their menu is equally appealing to maintain their health but also to the jaded palate. FUNNY BUSINESS file's not so sure he's going to get contributions in coin . ... 'at this placet? times get them in trouble. One pair of soldiers narrowly missed arrest when MPs thought they were fooling with shortwave transmitters in a downtown res taurant. They got off by explaining explain-ing they were only comparing batteries in their hearing aids The army does what it can to prepare the patients for civilian life, but success of the program depends upon employers and families of the patients. "We send a man out of here perfectly equipped to handle a , job and get along in normal civil lian life. We get rid of any com plexes or other psychological troubles. But that can all be wrecked if every time' he goes after a job he is turned down be cause 'we can't use any deaf men here,' or if his family won't help him get started," Maj. Martin said. And if they are not handled properly, deaf veterans can be come a, real problem. There already, al-ready, have been nearly 100,000 American soldiers deafened, and experts estimate they will num ber a quarter of a million by the end of the war. IIOOSIER EGGS STAND, TOO VALPARAISO. Ind. (U.R An other egg-standing story comes from Mrs. Clayton' Reif Kouts, who says that her Hoosler , hens are no clucks when it comes to egg-standing. Her hens' eggs not only stand on the rounded end. but also on the pointed end. One stood on the rounded end on a window sill all night. RUGS & UPHOLSTERY Shampooed and Mothproofed Sight in your own home. NO FUSS - NO MESS Latest machine method. Avoid the rush-PHONE rush-PHONE 1487 5eo A Jack BiaybenT' Today's Spotlight is Centered Upon the CENTRAL UTAH VOCATIONAL SCHOOL An Institution that is meeting a long felt need in Provo and the surrounding area' and is de-. de-. serving of a permanent place in our community and the utmosij support of its citizens. r I iff Pa :t;r--;it VK!- jK v y f s, v 1 4 r S v I . - isrz . , y' Y' X 25 I"fl , Ji, 1 try in iim 1 fe'" 'waNfc i i ,yy' A .... v. i t 4 ( 1 . - , 1 - v u v Zi7 'fe. v t 'Vil -)iasw.w M.j 0 isaiJ , i s - - 0 4 iV BRIEF HISTORY OF CENTRAL UTAH VOCATIONAL SCHOOL Vocational education was begun In Utah County by Mr. Ernest Clayton working as coordinator In the Alpine District and Mr. T. W. Dyches, coordinator in the Provo district. The first classes were opened in November of 1937. They were auto mechanics and carpentry car-pentry in the Alpine District and arc welding and carpentry, in the Provo district On February 5, 1938, Mr. H. E. Johnson was appointed to supervise the vocational work for Utah County. This area has since grown to also include Summit, Wasatch, Juab and Millard Counties. In April, 1941 the first classes were started under the National Defense program, and during the summer, classes were set up as foUows: V Radio In the Lehi grade school attic . Arc Welding at the Lincoln High School shop. Electricity in the Lehi grade school heating plant Sheet metal and aircraft -sheet metal in the Provo high Machine Shop in the American Fork high school shop school shop - Pattern Making in the Pleasant Grove high school shop Sewing canvas and leather at the C. C. C. camp in Provo On September 8, 1941 we moved the first classes to the present site at the fair grounds and by October 1 the entire school had been located to the new site and Auto Mechanics had been added to the list of courses taught. By the end of 1941 the following classes were in operation at the school: - Radio, Electricity, Cabinet Making, Carpentry, Machine Shop, Auto Mechanics, Sheet Metal, Aircraft Sheet Metal, Body and Fender, Drafting and Blueprint Reading, Foundry Practice, Arc Welding, Actylene Welding, Blacksmith, Plumbing and Pipe Fitting, Aircraft Sewing and Upholstering, Stenography and Secretarial Trainng. In 1942 Aircraft Engine Mechanics and general Aircraft Repair we re added to the school courses In 1943 Mining and Supervisory Training were added to. our list, and early in 1944 Power Sewing and Dressmaking, and Refrigeration - Air Conditioning were added. In 1945 classes were started in Steel Plant Operation and Safety Training. The enrollment and fiscal report, shows a steady .growth The enrollment and expenditures were as follows: Year Enrollment Expenditures 1938- 1939 771 $ 5,788.67 1939- 1940 653 6,542.61 1940- 1941 630 26,755.83 1941- 1942 1725 189,616.97 1942- 1943 1911 299,656.54 1943- 1944 1776 318,738.78 1944- 1945 2128 154,052.00 Total value of Equipment and Facilities on hand is $318,000.00. The number of students actually in attendance at this time is 639. According to the 1940 Census, this scshool should maintain a registration of 900 to fill the needs of Industry.. The school has served a definite need up to the present time in se nding 6,000 trainees into Industry. WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THIS SCHOOL MAY 'IT KEEP ON OPERATING THE BOOTERIE The Home of These Nationally Advertised Shoes . ) P t ' ... 0 |