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Show Essential Travel . . . A second cousin's baby has a new tooth; we must swarm the trains to welcome that great event. Gasoline is being rationed closer and closer; but the purchases, not one's own ration book, but on given giv-en or bought coupons, goes merrily mer-rily on. Under-cover men quietly worked the town last week and gathered much information. Some travel is essential. Some of ?' It is purely the opposite. -'-' The freight trains are heavily 1 loaded with needed equipment. The passenger trains and buses are carrying a large soldier and tailor movement why crowd that eeeen-tial eeeen-tial use with a non-essential travel jaunt? Breaks the March Record The official U. S. government report re-port on the temperature of last week gives five degrees below zero ze-ro for the 16th. On the three days of the 12th, 13th and 14th, the total precipitation precipi-tation (moisture content) was 1.27; with .71 on the 13th. Both the cold and the precipitation precipita-tion breaks any March record of our knowledge. We thank Mlaa Western for the Information. Town and Farm in Wartime . . Price Control During Grow More Greens in '44 Revolutionary War , Home gardeners should plan to Although it is not widely known, Fw more 'rJsn greens over a our country operated for manv lonK season an can less, food spe-years spe-years under a form of price con- clallsls r U. S. Department of trol during the Revolutionary war. Agriculture suggest. The house-George house-George Washington wrote to the wlfe wh0 Puts UP a bl8 batch of President of the Congress, October greens in the Spring for year-round 18, 1778, urging stronger methods use vnen sne could nave fresn of control. He said terselv: "Unless ereens from the garden makes her-that her-that most infamous of practice of self extra wrk and serves less aP" raising prices of the necessaries of Petlzln8 food, life can be stopped, it will be im- . . possible for any funds to subsist Civilian Food Supply the Army " Very Favorable Facts on Sugar . . . The civilian food supply for the next few months appears to be If you aren't too tired of figures more abundant than for the same after the income tax sessions, here period last year, the Department of are a few facts on sugar which Agriculture reports. Potatoes and should be ofinterest to all consum- cabbage head the list of really a- ers. Each six months consumers bundant foods over most of the are allowed 2,088,000,000 pounds of country. Other products include, sugar. During the world war I this carrots, beets, spinach, peanut but- would have cost the housewife ter, shell eggs, grapefruit and $542,880,000 every three months, small oranges, frozen baked beans, Today with sugar held at seven citrus marmalade, lard, canned cents a pound, the cost to the green and waxed beans, frozen housewife is only $146,160,000 a vegetables, and canned peas and quarter; a saving of $1,586,880,000 tomatoes. a year, or ten times the cost of the operation of OPA for one year. ROUND-UP Remember, this is on one Item " " " tZl 'Zt l at 16881 3' Salad " Pread on the surface more grocery items. of farmcured' nam wiu deIay de. velopment of surface mold for eev- Longer Periods eral weeks, the Department of Ag- p r- i oi riculture says . . . WFA has re- rorroOO fltamps quisitioned 6 million pounds of black pepper from importers and Under the ration token plan, holders to supply U. S. require-three require-three red (Meats-Fats) 10-point ments and commitments until a-stamps a-stamps become good every two bout 1946 . . . Power production in weeks, on Sundays, and five blue 30 Bureau of Reclamation power (Processed Fruits-Vegetables) 10- plants has increased 275 per cent point stamps become good on the since Pearl Harbor, according to first day of each month. To re- the Department of the Interior . . . duce last minute rush buying just The War Manpower Commission before stamps run out, the Office predicts that before the end of the of Price Administration increased summer, 700,000 men and women the period for which stamps may will need to be recruited to work be used. Thus, the 60 red points in canneries and food processing and 50 blue points which become plants . . . Only when present rear-good rear-good each month may be used at wheel tractor tires are worn beany be-any time during a period of from yond the recapping stage may ra-10 ra-10 to 12 weeks. tion certificates be' obtained for new replacements, OPA says . . . Changes in Gas Rules WPB sas that Barbed wire and woven wire fencing may now be Beginning April 1, the five-gal- made in heavier gauges such as are Ion "R gasoline coupon for non- nedetd 4 cnfme and cattle, highway users will be good for pur- and st.andard weights of zinc coat-chases coat-chases at "authorized filling sta- !ng w',n be Permitted . . . Productions," Produc-tions," as well as for gasoline pur- tl.on ois omet . canning jars and chased at bulk plants or delivered closures' has trip ed in the past 3 to private storage tanks, OPA an- ?eaTS and " now keeping pace with nounces. The "A" ratioA for mo- '"creased demand . . . Permission torists is now two gallons weekly has ben P1 manufacturers in all parts of the country. On the 1 ake more and better quality Pacific Coast, the "B" ration has IbTedsprlng and box sp""gs been cut from 460 to 400 mile a U'S- monthiy war expenditures hit month a new hieh of $7,808,000,000 in February. Evacuees on Leave Willing fo Die For What? More than 19,000 of the 112,000 7 , . , people of Japanese ancestry eva- K A relea fr0 P,earl Har" cuated to relocation centers from bor ell'n? , "V16 k n e the west coast two years ago have MarshaU Islands, said: The been granted indefinite llave to troops must make landings through establish homes outside the cen- machine 6U" and ar''llery fire-ters, fire-ters, the War Relocation Authority muslt ec"re the beachheads and announced. Between 2,000 and 3,000 P"sh forward, often yard by yard others are on seasonal leave, main- ' .' "'ft111 bf ; wUbngn"s ly as farm workers. Fully two- d!f whltb wlU caPture the Marsh-thirds Marsh-thirds of the evacuees on leave a ? - , . . .. . were born in America, and 72 per A news lea? from Detm. ot cent have never seen Japan. Both approximately the same dateline citizens and aliens are carefully port?d hat: A sltdown of more screened before permission is giv- tban work1eXs m support of en to relocate demands for a 10 - cent an hour wage increase . . .threatened pro- r - j o , duction In the Ford Willow Run r arm-vjarden bpeakers bomber plant." A news release from Edgewater Town and city groups victory Beach, New Jersey, also of the garden clubs, farm labor commit- same approximate date, gave an tees, schools, and other groups account of how two union men desiring farm or garden speakers had been expelled from the union at their meetings should give their for conduct "unbecoming to union requests to the county agricultural men." Their offense was testing agent, the War Food Administra- 22 to 24 trucks a day instead of tion advises. The best time for such the union decreed average of 10 meetings is during "grow more in to 12. '44" week, scheduled in most sec- How long can we expect our men tions for April 2-8, before farmers in the armed forces to be willing get busy with the start of plant- to die for the nation, if these criming crim-ing season, he suggested. inal abuses of freedom are con- tinued? Industrial News. |
