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Show Pa ire Seven The Cache American. I)tran. Cache County. Utah A Bit of Earth .wvwsvwv.sy'. By LILLIAN AUSTIN McClure Rilrtwd by W iirrn Ntwiyiiwr Union, Beverly Simmons motion picture career couldnt be more of a surprise to anybody than it is to her. She was getting on fine in first grade in public school when her mother saw an ad in a Los Angeles paD per Universal wanted a child ac- tress to play Yvonne da Carlos daughter in their technicolor Frontier GaL" Beverly Sue looks lot like Yvonne. But her mother boy, a house to manage, Alice will have her hands JulL ter, and Miss Simmons won out over 30 contestants, though she'd never acted in her life. She used a fountain pen for the first time when she wrote her name on her contract and all of a sudden she was in the movies. By KATHLEEN NORRIS YOU have not been saving kitchen fats and taking them in tin cans to your butcher, do it from today on. If you havent been setting aside superfluous warm, plain clothing for the next clothing drive, do it from today on. IF If you haven't been investing evNowadays the 'teen age girl ery spare penny, and some that comes in for so much comment-- bo you cannot spare in this great war th from people who are qualified to free all peoples and settle all to comment and those who just boundaries, then commence to do it criticize that everybody ought to from today on. see the March of Time's latest, If you should not be dieting, or Teen-Ag- e Girls. It shows what balancing your domestic budget, or they're doing, wearing, reading; writing regularly to your soldier, or how they talk, how they behave, taking on a part time jeb as assistwhat they rave over and what they ant nurse, then begin to do It from bate. It also shows their serious today on. One great trouble with us Amerside, portraying them as the woman of tomorrow. ican women, who have known so many years of security and plenty, At last! All of ns whove com- Is that we are apt to think about all plained for years because movie these things and a thousand others, stars look too much like movie stars I wish I'd begun that years ago. when theyre shown in Saving dimes. Studying Spanish. scenes are going to get Having the childrens friends in for what weve asked for. In Janie simple hospitalities. Walking two Joan Leslie wakes miles a day. Look at all the time Gets Married uncombed, without make-uIve lost! If Id had any idea how useful it was going to be to me or In response to a request from the how happy it would have made Tom or what help I could have given Canadian army, Lassie, the collie or how welcome star, made a personal appearance that poor child tour during his recent location trip that extra money would be now in Vancouver for Metros Son of Chance for Fresh Start. Some lives are spent in this sort Lassie." Many sequences were made in the beautiful Banff region of useless regretting. But the smart woman eventually learns that whatof the Canadian Rockies. ever the mistakes and omissions of Vincent Sherman temporarily re- the past, there is always today. linquished direction of Janie Gets Today may be the beginning of the Clare Foley new time the time of quiet accomMarried to about to appear in a scene with plishment, friendship, study, savDonald Meek. The sequence re- ing, building. I dont write him half often quired Meek to play with a yo-ySherman had forgotten how to do it, enough! says the busy woman in the market. She is deciding between and Meek never had known. frankfurters, salmon, or curried "Crime Doctor begins its sixth eggs for dinner, the place is full of year on the air August 12, but after bustle and gossip and morning writing the first four scripts Max light; her heart goes for a moment Marcin decided he was written out, to the man overseas, then she forand wanted to quit. His sponsor gets him again. To son or husband urged him to try once more, and he she is apt to write often, but this did, in fact, hes written 256 more, man is her nephew, or a friends or will have, by the 12th of August. son, or the casual Christmas guest Its like eating salted peanuts, the who begged so wistfully for an ocmore times he sets up a crime for casional letter. So she doesnt write, and perhaps House Jameson to solve, the more learns that the chance presently he thinks up. as far as that particular sailor is Thanks to Merrill Mueller, NBC concerned, id gone. What we ought to remember is correspondent in the Philippines, soldiers there have a new slang ex- that today is as powerful, as filled NBC leave. It means a with opportunity, as any yesterday pression a few months conthree-da- y pass to Manila and began was, and that when Mueller arranged for soldiers centration on the saving, the diet, to come from jungle fighting lines to the child, the foreign language, is the capital city for broadcasts to still in our power. In a letter yesterday I received the U. S. This NBC leave usually illustration of this and can only an lasted three days, and built, up advise Alice M., who wrote the letMuellers popularity considerably. ter, to start all over again from toon. Irene. Dunne, vacationing in the day Alice is the wife of a young naval East, visited the James Meltons in officer, she has a child of three. She Connecticut facing the prospect of writes that she adores her husband, having Melton carry out his promise adores her child. She has a comto drive her around the countryside fortable home, and is busy with the in the most ancient automobile in usual activities of housework and his collection. Incidentally, the Conbaby care. Red Cross and eanteen. necticut legislature has approved a Archie has been away for 15 bill providing $150,000 for a museum months. to house historical exhibits and the Last fall Alice met aa army man Melton collection of old cars. who is married and has grown children; on neither side was there any Jack Benny reports that after his pretense of great Jove, or any sugthird USO tour of army camps gestion of divorce. They were lovers abroad this summer, his entire for a brief space; Alice does not exgroup will be intact for the return cuse or defend this, she merely tells to the air in the fall. So Mary Liv- me that for a few weeks of what ingstone has all summer to get now seems to her insanity she and ready for the broadcasting ordeaL the major met at various times and p. o; 20th Century-FoODDS AND ENDS announces that Jack Londons Call Clark Gable of the Wild,'' ... and Loretta Young, will be Merle Travers and his Bronco Busters, western musical troupe, have been signed by Columbia to do specialty acts Charles in Powder River, Starrett and Smiley Burnette . . . George Jessel has completed his first picture as a producer, The Dolly Sisters , and hod his contract extended . . . The Victor Borge Show now replaces Fibber McGee and Molly . . . The war in Europe, as broadcast by CBS, is related in From Through Victory in Europe , just published by CBS. checked the he counted out a fat roll of bills and placed them before her, watching as she wrapped the bundle carefully in a clean handkerchief. Arent you going to count it? he asked. No, sir. You is credit us for a year and trus us to stay till the crops made. But you don't realize how much you have there. Yes, sir, I knows it's a heap of money but wes got ten chlllun and and twicet as many eight grandbabies and some of 'em need it fore nex year. Why should you give It to them? Mr. Davis asked. They didnt help make the crop. Theyre grown men and women, and if they cant make a living for themselves, whatll they do when you and Sam need help? How would you and Sam like to own your own home? "You mean us could have a shack and a bit of ground that really belong to us? You've been here a year now and we'll make you the same proposition we do others we want to keep on the place. We'll sell you the land and you can make annual payments with your surplus and each season your share of the crop will Increase according to the amount paid up. I aint onderstan all them words, Mr. Davis, but if it gonna get us somethin for our old days, us is do it. But Is sho in for some lvXv-.v- . in-la- was working, so she sent the young lady to the studio with her own sis- - BEVERLY SUE SIMMONS ClgCWS.s. Mr. while LILY BELL waited books. Then SIX-YEAR-OL- ,s muszaoi Nrwiiuwr Syndicate. WNU Keaturea. ' By VIRGINIA VALE w E x A secret affair with a major. . . . START NOW Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow may never come. Today is the time to begin. If you have been delaying and excusing yourself for a long time about doing something you should buying bonds, or rolling bandages, or saving fats right now is the time to start. Dont bother with regrets over the past. Don't make grandiose plans for the distant future. Act today. This is Miss Norris advice to women on the home front. Even in a seriously complicated domestic situation, as in the case outlined in this article, the only sensible thing to do is to start over as well as possible. A young wife of a naval officer has been carrying on an affair with a middle-age- d ma jor. There was never any real love in this liaison, and it is now ended. Alice now wants to forget it, but she is afraid this unsavory episode will cloud the future. She has just heard that her husband, Archie, is returning from service, almost blind. He is bringing his widowed mother with him, and her adopted son, an English boy. This will mean two children in Alices household, as she and Archie have a Of course we cant make a deal unless Sam Is willing. 'Tain't Sam gonna give me trouble. He be proud as a banty rooster, does us own ary foot of earth. Lily Bell planned as she walked home. No more moving for them; she and Sam were landowners! She thought of her pretty white curtains she could use now when they fixed that broken window, and the best bedspread and that old linoleum rug Mrs. Davis had given her. It could be fitted to the kitchen floor and left there till it wore out Thered be flower beds and red roses blooming most of the year and a winter garden of hardy vegetables they wouldnt have to leave for the next tenant. When Sam came up from the barn she turned to watch his face. "Howd you like to own this place? she Us can buy on time, she asked. went on. "And Mr. Davis is gonna stop by in the mornin for us to sign the papers, does you want it. Sam got out the new glass Mr. Davis had sent weeks ago for the window. Caint you take time to eat you supper she grumbled, secretly pleased at Sams impatience. Here come Sally, she told him. I guess she done hear us is settle up and she want to know how long her man can look for a job this wind ter 'fore he fin one to suit. daughter. She laid plates for Sally and her Miss Norris tells Alice to Go on, set up, gal, little ones. start today, determined to hold she urged, and quit you studyin her marriage together, and to somethin dont cem you. Us is try to make everyone as happy get the money and spend it aready. as she can. There will be much Mama, Sally didnt believe it. for everyone to forgive and you aint buy nothin but a cotton dress for yousef and a box of bacforget after this tragic war cy for Papa. ends. period Us is buy propty, Lily Bell informed her importantly. We owns places and carried on a secret afthis house and every stick and stone fair. He has now gone to Africa, and of the land wes been croppin. her hope is that she will never see How you gonna pay it off? Sally or hear from him again. Her shame asked. Papas a old man aready. over this episode is equalled only by Aint it the truf. Lily Bell her fear that Archie will end their agreed. He too old to sport his marriage, always so happy and har- young 'uns and from now on us Is monious, and take her child away look out for oursefs. Mr. Davis is from her. got the money and tomorrow us is Archie is Coming Home. sign up. Now comes the news that Archie You give up Papas d is on his way home, almost blind, money and you aint got a writin or and that his mother, recently widnothin to show for it? Sally asked owed, is about to join the family scathingly. with her young adopted English son, Now, Sally, Davis word is good one of the babies who was evacunuff for anybody, and ated six years ago. Alice writes me Taint for me Sally interruptin complete distress; must she tell ed angrily, Is gonna tell Bill and Archie, and how to handle the long Annie and us go see Mr. Davis, and deception if she doesnt Sam jerked his chair back and Well, my advice would be to pick up this complicated problem and stood up. "Get out! he told the work it out as if there was no secret girl, till you is member you manto hide from today on. Were all ners and talk spectful to you Mama. And the hull lot of you keep going to have to forget a lot of everything if this world is to be re- out of our business, and if you aint built. With an almost-blln- d husband, like what us do, stay out of our house probably studying for an entirely till you is like it! a new profession, a mother-in-laSally was gone and the supper unsmall daughter, an English boy, a touched and Lily Bell sat stunned by house to manage, Alice will have Sams sudden show of temper. Eat her hands full. If she will go straight you supper, honey, and dont worahead, trying to make them all hapry, Sam coaxed. "Them chillun aint turn gin us jes cause they' py, trying to make each day perHe grinned at her. fect in service and love, she need caint boss us. never tell Archie anything at all, exI werent mad at Sally. Is jes cept that she Is the wife who loves scared theys gonna git that money fore us sign the paper. him, and who is determined to help him to blot out the cruel years that They caint git it offen Mr. Dahave so scarred him, and create vis, Lily Bell said, " cause he aint a perfect life together from today got it But I aint tellin the chillun on. that. Taint good business to hand it over till the deals made. "Doggone, I didnt know that! Sources of Vitamin C Tomatoes and oranges both rath- Sam exclaimed, looking at her with er scarce at present are not the new respect Lily Bell smiled happily. Why only source of vitamin C. Fresh raiy cabbage and turnips have been should she admit she hadn't known found to be just as rich as citrous it either until Mr. Davis told her? fruits and tomatoes. The buffalo Cholera Outbreaks berry of North Dakota is outstanding in content of this vitamin, while Cholera outbreaks have shown a good guava powder is phenomenalgradual increase over the United ly rich, with 3 per cent. The Rus- States during the last five years, sians and British have made a jam and over 5.200 outbreaks'of the disfrom rose hips. A Russ'an nut con- ease were officially reported last taining 3 per cent is being utilized year, not counting numerous smaller also. local outbreaks. three-year-ol- hard-earne- Handy Chart Helps You Can Vegetables (See Recipes Below) Vegetable Canning Tips The surprise point values on vegetables when stocks were beginning to dwindle this year made many a woman vow not to get caught d this following winter. Though it may mean a few hours short-hande- Lynn Chambers Point-EasBlenns y Broiled Sausages with Corn Jellied Tomato Salad Biscuits with Honey Lemonade Gingerbread with Apple Sauce nicks and cracks. Have plenty of covers, etc., on hand. Then, when of solid work, canning starts, place jars in pans or kettles and pour boiling water over vegetable canning them. is certain to be worth the time Filling the Jar. and effort put into it. To fill the jars quickly, since speed Women who have canned In years is important to prevent bacteria past find it is just as easy to put up from developing, lay the jars on n vegetables as any other kind of prod- large utility pan, and place it right uce. It is simply a matter of carry- next to the kettle In which vegetaing out a few simple rules to the bles have been cooked. Ladle in letter. vegetables as quickly as possible. In most cases, add liquid to within one-ha- lf Selection and Preparation. inch of the top. For starchy Young, tender, freshly gathered like corn and peas, leave vegetables a must. are Any delay vegetables from garden to canning kettle gives one inch space at top. Adjust the bacteria a chance to develop and cover according to manufacturers makes processing more difficult. directions. How to Process. , Tough, overripe vegetables give poor results because canning improves no As soon as the jars are ready, vegetable. If you want prime qual- they should be speeded into pressure ity, then can that kind of vegetable. cooker or boiling water bath. If you Preserve the sweet flavor of peas can possibly get a pressure cooker and com, for example, by picking use it as it will save time, give bet- -, them yourself, if possible and put- ter results. It is the method recomting them in the canning assembly mended by the United States departline as soon as possible. Two hours ment of agriculture. All pressure from garden to kettle is a rule, not cookers vary in some way as to the closing of the cover, and its best just something that sounds nice. to follow directions that come with To achieve best results grade vegetables for size and ripeness. Wash it These, however, are points well them thoroughly in large containers with plenty of running water. worth remembering with a pressure Clean vegetables are freed of much cooker: have 1 to bacteria which the soil itself can 2 inches of hot water at the bottom; carry. place jars on the Hot Pack or Cold Pack? rack; make sure If you have the time, take it to cover is fastened k vegetables as this saves securely; permit food and color values and gives a steam to escape from petcock for k better product in the can. By is meant packing the vegetable 7 to 10 minutes hot. This consists of cooking the before closing. Do vegetable a few minutes to shrink not count procesing it (so that it doesnt shrink too much meter registers the in the jar during processing) and us- sure. The best way to prevent liquid ing that same liquid in which it was from escaping from the jars is to cooked for the jar. the temperature even. It should Many women who can hundreds of keep not fluctuate as this causes the conto not do time quarts always have hot pack their vegetables, and in tents of the jar to boil over and overthat case, they simply prepare the cooks the vegetable. vegetable for the jar and process Cooling Jars according to directions. After the jars have processed acPreparing the Jars. cording to the table given above, set Round up the children to help with them on several thicknesses of cloth the canning as best results are or newspaper and allow to cool when away from a draft Test for seal achieved everything moves when cool and store in cool, dark like clockwork. place. Some jars need tightening after The day before actual canning processing, others do not. Study the starts lay out the directions which come with the covketers, as the manufacturer knows what equipment tles, utility pans treatment is necessary in the case of for holding the his particular brand. Jars while they are filled, knives, Common Queries. pans for washing, etc. 1. Is it necessary to boil vegetaA big job to get out of the way is bles before using? the jars. All these should be washed Home-canne- d vegetables should in large pans of soapy suds and always be boiled before tasting or rinsed thoroughly, made ready for using, for 10 to 15 minutes. 2. What is meant by non-aci- d sterilizing the following day. Be vegsure that jars are checked for etables? Non-aci- d vegetables include all vegetables except tomatoes, ripe pi- mientoes or sauerLynn Says kraut. Since most Canning Memos: Dont cheat on are vegetables non - acid, they processing time by trying to hurry vegetables or fruits along in might contain the water bath or pressure cooka type o er. Time can be saved by having bacteria which could be harmful produce or equipment in eadi-nes- s so that all work goes along and they require a steam pressure on a production line schedule. cooker to destroy it during process- After the jar has been packed, ing. 3. Should salt be added to vegetapress a clean, silver knife all the bles in canning? way around on the inside of the Salt is usually added in the projar to destroy bacteria and air bubbles. portion of 1 teaspoon per quart for Dont forget to wipe the rim of purposes of seasoning. It may be the jar after packing it with food. omitted. hot-pac- hot-pac- bot-ulin- Released be Weatern Newspaper Union. |