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Show Standard Oil Win Victory Garden Award For the second successive year. Standard OH Company of California Califor-nia has won the National Victory Garden Institute's highest award for leadership in the victory garden movement. Acting on behalf of the institute, Major Richard I. Bong, the Army's "ace of aces" presented a bronze plaque to C. T. Furrer. president of Standard Stations, Inc., at ceremonies cere-monies at the Santa Monica Army Air Force Redistribution Center, where J3ong Is currently stationed. In making the award as a feature of National Victory Oarden Week, Bong declared: "I am happy that the National Victory Garden Institute asked me to present this plaque for leadership In the victory garden program. Service Ser-vice men stationed In many a Pacific Paci-fic outpost have cultivated gardens as a pastime and, more Importantly, have added to their menus . fresh vegetables which they otherwise would not have had. "Folks at home, too, have these same good reasons for victory gardening gar-dening and I think any effort made, to encourage this activity is to be commended." As part of its 1945 program, Standurd is supplying seeds and fertilizer to military hospitals and rehabilitation centers in the Pacific area, as well as to wesern school-sponsored school-sponsored war gardens. |