Pleasant Grove Review | 1942-12-11 | Page 7 | Junior's Military Toys Made Largely of Wood

Junior's Military Toys Made Largely of Wood Santa Claus' helpers anticipate a boom in military toys. You have noticed some of the advertisements and window displays already. During the past four or five months the busy men at the North Pole have been making Springfield and Garand rifles entirely of wood, wooden machine guns which sound with an uncanny rat-a-tat-tat. There will be few, very few lead soldiers. Most of them will be made of cardboard and plastics. Instead of the following toys being made from metal, wood will be used Instead: In-stead: Parade guns, cannons, antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns, forts, planes, jeeps, tanks, field ambulances, battleships, submarines and barges for Commandos. Com-mandos. Junior will be in civilian defense, too, when he gets his presents at Christmas time. There will be doctors' doc-tors' and nurses' outfits, air raid warden war-den kits and blackout sets all made of non-essential materials.