The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-01
MR.. fIxIT
He Fixes Things

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Mr.. Fixit: VIII Won please
give me the approximate cost
per cCC enroIlee per month:
Also would Hike ia know how
many 1882 Washington quarters
were mintrds A READER.
Cost OF each cCC boy. includ-
ing expense of constructing and
maintaining camps. food and
clothing, and the S30-per-month
pay. is estimated at about $40
or 500 per month. depending
upon the system of cost sc-
counting TO which you adhere.
Those two-bit pieces were
minted TO the number OF $685.
900.
Mr.. Fixit: II a person h pay
Ing q fine In monthly payments
ON n game law violation. II there
a record kept of II outside Of the
Judge who imposed the fine?
II 20, where.
MRS. J.. NJ. {.
A record Of each payment
would be kept by the clerk of
the court which imposed the
fine.
Mr.. Fixit: Can YOU tell me
when the states Of South Dakota,
Minnesota, Missouri, began to
keep birth records And where
and 10 whom does one write:
Docs n person have TO show \
birth certificate TO Join the
navy? MRS. {.
South Dakota began keeping
birth records In 1908. Minnesota
In 1000 and Missouri in 1910.
Write to the Bureau of Vital
Statistics at the capital OF the
state IN which you are inter-
ested. You must be able To prove
your birth date to join the navy.
Birth certificates are preferred,
though the family Bible OF sim
liar records will be accepted.
Anyone young enough to join
the navy was born since those
dates.
MIR. Fixit: 4 small decorated
box was brought 10 me from
Mexico. After n while, l noticed
a small pinlsish powder ON the
table cover. A short time since.
I looked In the box and there
were some powder In n notice
able quantity, swect-smclling
like face powder. Burned that.
shaking the box vigorously. Set
the box In another place aud
near II again are several tiny
heaps on the cellophanc book
cover On which II rests. Where
can I take this box In Tacoma
to have determined what l s,is-
pect II has, and that Is ter
mites: SUBSCRIBER.
Maybe IL has face powder IN
Il. We must doubt the tcrmite
theory since they almost invari-
ably enter the wood of houses
from colonies in the ground out
doors. Where they do enter wood
directly they leave holes about
the size of BIB shot; you couldn't
miss anything that size. il you
must know more. try one of the
city's commercial laboratories.
You'll find several in the direc-
tory.
MIR. Fixit: What has become
of the old-timc Mcrriwell. Algcr,
Ted strong paper covered books
such rs I purchased few years
hack: I'd like to get some Of
them for my nephew. Tel, me
where 1 can obtain them, II YOU
eau. Il. a. H.
Those masterpieces of a GER
tain brand of literature have
given way largely TO new KIND
based on comic strips and movie
stars. Tho dime stores have an
abundance of the new kind and
Tacoma's numerous second hand
book and magazine stores can
find you all you want OF the
originais, If you feel your
nephew's literary consciousness
would be improved by them.
Mr.. Fixit: win you please tell
me the list of seattle Rainiers'
players that were with them
last year and are no longer with
them. and the team they Will he
playing for this season:
RICHARD r.
Best known of them are Fred
Hutchinson. now with the De
troit Tigers; Hal Spindcl. st.
Louis Browns; Len Gabrielson,
Newark international league,
Fred Mueller. with Toledo Amer
lean associationl. and Lew Nc
Cormick, with Spokane, in the
Western International.
Mr., Ffxit: I understand that
my father. Edward Moody, has
an aunt. Mrs. George Moody,
living In or near Tacoma. and
another aunt. Mrs. Solomon
Moody, In seattle. l wonder II
amy of Your readers know them
and their present addresses
MRS. V. l.. THOMAS,
e5i6 so. Eye ST.. Tacoma.
II none of this Mr.. FiNit's
readers can help you. YOU might
try also Mr.. FiNit Of The Seattle
Star.
Mr.. FiNit: Could YOU tell