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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
ulated residential district.

The first alarm from Chincoteague
came last Sunday, and it is believed
the fire started in woods near the
road which leads to Pony Pines. The
fire spread quickly and for week the
Chincoteague firemen have been stand
ing watch, with occasional outside
aid. At times the fire was believed
to have been subdued, but it occasion
ally flared up again until Wednesday
it had reached such proportions that
the following fire companies were
called and helped fight the blaze:
Snow Hill, Marion Station, Pocomoke,
Stockton, Crisfield, Tasley, Onancock,
Parksley, in addition to Chincoteague's
own fire company which has had lit
tie rest for week. All together the
Chincoteague company has had %
calls in seven days. Constantly eight
or ten men have remained on watch.
1t was reported that much valuable
timber has been destroyed.
The Deep Hole area suffered most
it was said, from the blaze. AS the
fire swept across the town it was I'M
derstood the families of Rufus Bur-
CESS and Albert Martin removed fur
niture from their homes, so threaten
ing was the outlook at one time.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
ARMY RECRUITS
SHOW HIGH TYPE
OF MENTALITY

The high type of intelligence a.
mong the men being recruited for the
armed forces by the Selective Ser
vice System, 1t. Col. Henry G.. Stan
wood, State Director of Selective Ser
vice, asserted today, is impressively
revealed by recent War Department
analysis which shows that SO percent
of the trainees indicted into the Ar
my by last July 1, have high school
education or better.
Army standards the Director point
ed out, require education equivalent
to the fourth grade in grammar
school. In this connection he cited
that examinations of trainees at Ar
my reception centers have shown that
81 percent of the men recruited by
Selective Service have had gram
mar school education or better, and
that more than one-third have COM
pleted high school or college courses.
This, he declared, presents an encour-
aging picture of the educational at
tainments of American youth in gen.
eral. He said:
Statistics compiled at National Sc
lective Service Headquarters, and re-
Gently announced by President Roose-
welt, show that about percent of the
Selective Service registrants who
have been examined for induction in
to the Army have been disqualified
for lack of sufficient education. Even
that percent revealed as lacking the
equivalent of a fourth grade gram
mar school education is a condition
repugnant to American ideals. New
ertheless, the general picture is much
frightened by these Army statistics
concerning the 693,94s selectees who
had been indicted by last July l."
"These data show that 629, 293, or
about 81 percent, had a grammar
school education or better"
Results of examinations of the ap-
proximately 100000 selectees Undue
ted by last July /, Colonel Stanwood
said, showed that 80 percent had COM
pleted grammar school, percent first
year high school, 9 percent second
year high school, percent third year
high school and % percent were high
school graduates. Among those who
had received higher education, a per-
cent had attended college for 1 year,
percent for two years, 1 percent for
three years, and percent were col
lege graduates. In addition 1 percent
were college post graduates. Only 9
percent had less than complete
grammar school education.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
Acconnac News

Miss Nancy r. Vessels spent the
weekend in Pocomoke City with her
aunt, Miss Pearl VESSELS.
Mrs. Wilson S. Grant spent the
weekend in Suffolk with Mr.. Grant.
Miss Jacquelyn o. Lilliston of New
port News spent several days this
week at her home here.
Mrs. June Fitchett Lilliston, widow
of the late Henry Lee Lilliston, of Ac-
comac, passed away on Monday, Octo-
Der goth, aged 70 years, in the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Mamie L. Mar
shall at Accomac, after an illness of
several weeks. Funeral services were
held on Wednesday afternoon, at the
home of Mrs. Lilliston's son, Mr.. AL
fred j. Lilliston, conducted by the
Rev. j. H. Binsted, pastor of Drum
hometown Baptist Church. Inter-
ment was in Edgehill Cemetery.
Mrs. Lilliston is survived by the
following children: Mr.. L. Len Lillis-
ton of Washington, D. c., Mrs. Roy
w. Dudley of Norfolk, Mrs. Mamie
L. Marshall and Mr.. Alfred j. Lillis-
ton of Accomac; and the following
grandchildren survive her: Miss Mar
tia Lilliston, Mr.. Herbert Dalton Lii
liston, Mrs. Louis DeCamp, Miss
Mary L. Marshall, Miss Jacquelyn O.
Lilliston and Mr.. Roy Lee Dudley.
Those from away, here for the fun
eral, were: Mr.. and Mrs. Roy w. Dud-
ley and son, Roy Lee of Norfolk, Mrs.
Victor Howell and Miss Mary l.. Mar
shall of Norfolk, Mrs. Myrtle O. Lii
liston and Miss Jacquelyn o. Lilliston
and Mrs. George Underhill of New
port News.
Miss Dorothy Davis of Tasley spent
several days this week with Miss
Kathyrn Milliner.
Miss Marian Jean Vessels of Po-
comoke City, Nd, spent the weekend
with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Vessels near Accomac.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Lewis of
Portsmouth spent the weekend with
her aunt, Mrs. William P. Bell.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24

her home with 'neighborhood break
fast on Tuesday.
Mr.. ]. Hanson Chopper is the newly
elected president of the P. T. A. of
Marion School. A representative num-
Der attended the county P. T. A. meet
ing in Princess Anne on Tuesday eve
ming at which time Mrs. Norman
Wilmington and Mrs. VIM. Hall, Jr..
participated in the Quiz program.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Turner of
Baltimore spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Ward.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ward will
move on the Hardy Allen farm re-
Gently purchased by Mr.. Guy Chel-
ton.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
Marion News

Davis Chelton, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Chelton, has been assigned to
Fort Knox, Kentucky in the armored
force.
Mr.. Edward Lee Miles is working
in Laurel, Nd, with his brother, Rob-
ert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Lewis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leslie Headley spent Saturday and
Sunday in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hardy B. Cullen and
family have moved into the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Townsend in
Marion.
Mrs. George A. Green is at the
bedside of her sister, Mrs. Ted Gober,
who was seriously injured in recent
automobile accident in Vermont.
Mrs. Ida Landlord entertained in
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
TENANTERS ARE
ON THEIR WAY
TO OWNERSHIP

Two hundred sixty-six tenant and
share-renter families in the IL north
eastern states are on their way to-
ward owning their own farms as re-
suit of the past years tenant pur-
chase program of the Farm Security
Administration, Marion L. Wheatley,
county supervisor for the FSA, said
today.
Loans totaling more than $1,500,OO0
have been approved to make this pos
sible and thus counterfeit increases
in farm tenancy, he added.
Thirty-four tenant purchase loans
have been approved in Maryland. Of
the loans approved in the state, twen-
ty-four have already been closed.
Tenant purchase loans are made to
farm tenants, renters, share-renters,
and farm laborers who are unable to
borrow at reasonable rates from 9TH
er sources for purchase of farms. The
loans may be repaid over a 4O-year
period and cover the complete pur-
chase price of the farm and costs of
necessary repairs and improvements.
Interest is at three percent annually.
"This menas that a tenant pur-
chase borrower who uses the maxi
mum period of forty years to repay
the loan can carry the whole thing
principle payments and intrest char
ges-on an annual payment of 4.326
percent of the loan," Wheatley said.
"a $4,000 loan, including $1,000 for
repairs, for example, can be carried
and paid off with monthly payment
Of $21.63," the supervisor said, add
ing that applications were being re-
ceived at the Farm Security Admins
tration office for Somerset County in
the Phillips Building, Princess Anne,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
EXTENSIVE FOREST FIRES
RAGING IN CHINCOTEAGUE

Eight Shore fire companies fought
a raging woods fire at Chincoteague,
on Wednesday afternoon, when the
flames spread across wide area of
the Islands wood and marsh land to
the rear of the main business district
Of Chincoteague and the heavily pop
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24
HOT OFF THE CREDIBLE

Very handsome dishes should be
stored with circles of paper between
each plate.
Save good china by using suitable
dishes for the refrigerator. They
should be compact and economical in
shape. Have several with covers for
strong smelling foods.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-24

Maryland and for Worcester County
in the Post Office Building, Salisbury,
Maryland, for loans under the 1941-
1912 program.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Wood Exterior Popular

Other interesting facts were re-
vealed in connection with materi-
ais. Wood was used as the mate
rial for exterior construction in
45.1 per cent OF the new houses
securing mortgages accepted for
FILA Insurance in 1910 Wood was
followed by brick with 26.8 per
cent and stucco with 1877 per cent.
All other materials comprised "a
per cent Of the total.
Lower-income bracke en-
braced an increasing proportion Of
new-home buyers wit he FHA-in-
sured mortgages. In 1910 some
2S5 per cent OF the new-home
buyers earned less than $1,000.
and 56.8 per cent earned less than
$500. The comparable figures
for 1896 are 204 and 422 per cent.
respectively.
That home ownership has been
placed within the reach Of families
Of moderate incomes is further
supported by the fact that in 1910
only IS per cent Of the new-home
buyers had incomes in excess OF
$1,000. whereas in 1926 some 146
per cent earned s. 600 or more.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
y 1S. 60: M0DERNIZE BUILD . REPAIR :$ -!
FLA Report
Indicates Trend
In Building

Some interesting trends In
American home building are re-
Elected in the seventh annual re-
port of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration.
In some cases characteristics OF
modern building show continual
tons Of trends established earlier
in the FILA program, while others
Indicate reversals or entire new
trends.
Three of every four new homes
securing mortgages accepted for
FILA insurance during 1910 had
garages, the report indicated.
. More thanronS in every five had
a garage with twosor-more-c car
capacity. ~
The proportion of houses being
built without garage facilities has
Increased yearly, the report con-
tinued. The proportion built with
multi-car garages has declined
yearly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
PAINTING Wisdom

Only one-tourth OF The entire
cost OF an exterior painting job
goes into materials. The other 10
per cent is spent for labor. In
ferior paint is one Of the most
short-sighted forms of economy.
Such products do not cover as
much surface and do not last as
long as a paint Of proven quality
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
At Lowest Prices

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Built-in bathtubs, SIS so up 22x42 apron
sinks, STATS; sink and cabinet, <24.75;
3-piece bathroom outfit, complete, S46.95:
gas heaters s3s. So; Oh hot water heaters.
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plete stock septic tanks, electric water sys-
TENS pipe fittings, steam and hot water
boilers; electric fixtures and supplies. Visit
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First payment October 1.
ADVANCE PLUMBING AND
HEATING SUPPLY COMPANY
2eo6 Cd. River, at 6th St. Temple 17770
Open Ewes. TO o'clock: Sat. 10 Q. O'Clock
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Many 5-Roonl Homes

Almost half OF the new homes
contained five rooms. while oil
per cent had four rooms. The
sharp trend toward smaller homes
is highlighted by the fact that in
1886 only "a per cent contained
four rooms.
- For existing homes, the Six-room
! |lse was most numerous. repre-
STnting $50 per cent of the total
in 1910. The five-room house was
second. with 32.4 per cent. Exist
ing homes OF eight or more rooms
made up l0.4 per cent OF the total,
as against only IL per cent for
new homes Of the same size.
Seven-room houses are also rela-
lively much more numerous among
existing than among new homes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Thrift Institutions
Register Gains

Thrift institutions whose in
SstorS' accounts are federally in
sured against loss registered a
substantial upward movement IN
May. according 10 reports complied
bv the Federal Savings and Loan
Insurance Corporation from almost
all of its 1900 insured savings and
loan associations. Measuring the
activity of these protected institu-
tions by two applicable yardsticks.
the insurance corporation reported
that they gain $50 $50, 900. or ]
per cent. during the month In
investments from the public and
sac. 500 900, or II per cent. IN
outstanding home mortgage loans.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03

umber Building Materials Lumber Building Materials
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
Blame Weeds Too Much

II is increasingly difficult to think
straight about our problems. An ex-
ample is furnished by the agitation
against ragweed for the control of
hay fever, Notwithstanding that the
weed is only one of the many ex-
chants OF the disease.
The emphasis placed on destruc-
ton of weeds almost hides the real
problem which is to solve the nature
of the allergic constitution.
And this problem will be solved.
Already science has pointed toward
blood colloids as containing the
secret. 1t is reported that in aller-
gic individuals the blood colloids are
enlarged and sensitive. The en-
trance of noxious dusts into the vic
tins body causes precipitation Of
the sensitive colloids in capillaries
Of affected membranes and the hay
fever attack begins.
BY straight thinking it can be seen
that hay fever is a problem to be
solved by science and not by legis-
lation against weeds.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
New Motor Oil
Given Severe T est

Continental Oil Company starts
this week one of the largest news
paper campaigns in its history to
introduce the companys newest
product, Conoco Nth Motor Oil.
According TO Will A Morgan. adj
vertising manager. newspapers
States, including The Western News.
will receive the major portion OF
Continental's advertising budget to
present Conoco Nth Motor Oil to
the public More than a million
dollars will be spent by the COM
pany IN newspapers alone during
the next six months.
Continentals claims for its new
oil include low motor wear. Oil
Plating. more miles between quarts.
and decided improvement in the
reduction of lacquer and s1udge, ac-
complished by the discovery in Con-
tinental laboratories of a new syn
thetic. Thialkene Inhibition.
Proof of these claims was dra-
matically illustrated by daring
destruction test carried out in Death
Valley, where the hottest tempera-
lures in the United States have
been registered. Five identical
stock cars, each fabricated with five
quarts of a different well-known
motor oil, and sixth car, identical
with the others and filled with five
quarts Of Conoco Nth. were all run
over course in Death Valley until
each Of the six engines was
wrecked The test was run under
the impartial supervision of Prof
Fl. M Jacklin, who during the ace
demic year is Professor of Automo-
tive Engineering at Purdue Uni
versity
At the end of the test, the car
fabricated with Conoco Nth had run
l3.3988 miles on one crankcase full
of Nth oil-73.67 per cent more
miles than the closest competitor
1917 per cent more miles than the
first car to fail-and l1l.29 per cent
more miles than the average of all
the other five cars.
The entire story of the Death Val
ley test will be told, with many
illustrations, in the series of adj
vertisements which will appear in
this newspaper.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

Commercial Club meets every 3rd
Thursday. James A. Krall, presi-
dent, Harold Hall, secretary.
American Legion Auxiliary Lodge
No. 81 meets LIST and Ord Thurs
days. Mrs. Merle Hampton, presi-
dent Mrs. Natalie Campbell, sec'y.
Lions Club meets every End and
4th Mondays. Paul Church, pres
ident, Don Orr, secretary
Libby Woman's Club meets End
Tuesday at 2.3O p. m. in community
room of court house. Mrs. C. w.
Gildea, president, Mrs Paul Church,
secretary.
American Legion Post No. 81
meets lst and 3rd Thursdays at the
Legion hall. DR.. ]. P. Campbell, COM
mander, H. r. Richards, adjutant.
Libby Farm Woman's Club meets
LIST Wednesday. Mrs. ]. F. Bowen,
president, Mrs. E. A. Rice, secre-
tary.
Libby Junior Woman's Club meets
second Tuesdays at p. m. in the
community room OF the court house.
Mrs. Leonard Sleizer, president and
Mrs. Bradley Phillips, recretary.
Libby Townsend club No. meets
on the first and third Fridays OF
each month in the community hall,
at 8:OD/p. m. VIM. Kammeyer pres
ident, Mrs. Geo. Stout, secretary
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19

dora Rorke, defendant.
The State of Montana sends greet
ings to the above named defendants
and to each Of them:
You are hereby summoned to
answer the Complaint in this action,
which is filed in the office of the
Clerk of this Court, copy of which
is herewith served upon one of you
in each County wherein any of
you reside, and to file your answer
and serve copy thereof upon the
Plaintiffs attorney within twenty
days after the service of this Sum-
mons, exclusive of the day of serv-
ice; and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be
taken against you, by default, for
the relief demanded in the Com
plant Said action is brought to
obtain a decree of divorce upon the
the ground of desertion, in that
said defendant deserted and aban-
doned plaintiff on the 22nd day of
February, 1889, and ever since con-
tinues so to do, without cause and
against his will and consent, and
on the further ground of extreme
cruelty.
Witness my hand and the Seal of
said Court this 9th day OF June,
l941.
(Seal) FRED F. CLARK,
Clerk.
BLACKBOARD & BLACKBOARD
Libby, Montana,
Attorneys for Plaintiff. jl2-j3-4t.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
Insulation Adds Safety
To American Warsh;n.

Tests for the United States navy
that will affect not only the efficien.
cy of Uncle Sans sailors, but also in
some measure the design of new
warships, have been under way a,
the Pennsylvania State college for
nearly two years, il has been re-
vealed.
The tests seek to determine the
best materials and constructions for
insulating the navy's floating for
tresses -fortresses that must with
stand violent temperatures.
The problem has BEEN" said
Prof. F. George Hechler, director of
the colleges engineering experiment
station, Ito determine the amount of
heat transmission for various ship
sections, such as decks and bulk
heads, without insulation and with
insulation of various kinds applied
in different ways and in several
thicknesses."
To do this, it was necessary to in
stall in the colleges heat transmits
sion laboratories number of full
size test panels of as much as 200
pounds weight each, representing
typical decks and bulkheads of de-
stroyers and battleships. These
were built at the Philadelphia navy
yard.
Special equipment OF the guarded
hot box type was developed in the
laboratories to make the tests at
temperatures ranging from zero
Fahrenheit on the cold side OF the
panel to 40 degrees Fahrenheit on
the hot side.
All Of the tests made SO far have
been with fixed temperature differ
ences between the two sides. How
ever, to make allowances for quick
ly varying temperatures Of ship sur
faces exposed to the sun, further
tests are now being undertaken UNI
der a varying temperature cycle
stimulating changes encountered dur
ing 24-hour period.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
Invents Portable Phone;
Transmits by Short Wave

Because his curiosity was too
much for him, Carl Mckee Brain
ard Of Los Angeles may wind up
wealthy before he's 81.
Young Brainard, Mac to his
friends, is Is, senior in high school,
with bent for the scientific which
has been growing steadily since the
Christmas six years ago when his
parents gave him a crystal radio
set. He promptly sat down and took
il apart.
Il couldn't resist trying to find out
Why it worked, he says.
He's been trying ever since to find
out why things work. He's built ev-
cry conceivable type Of radio re-
ceiver, four short-wave sending sta
tons, reflector telescope, phono-
graph and recording machine, in
Guiding his own mechanism for cut
ting records.
He's been through a general tele-
vision course and there will be no
college for him.
But the creation which seems most
likely, at the moment. to bring him
fame and fortune is a portable tele-
phone which can be carried any
where and operated, without wires,
even from moving automobile.
He has sent the device to Wash
ington for patent approval, and If it
is granted he says a hacker is
ready to take care of the financing
1T operates similarly to ship-to-
shore wireless telephones" he ex-
plains. The portable unit is regu-
lar French telephone which fits nice
ly in glove compartment, and
transmits by short wave to the tele-
phone at home.
"Dialing signals on the portable
are picked up on the home phone.
Incoming calls ring both units"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
Beginning OF Chiropractic

About 80 years ago, two men In
the healing arts established theories
OF treatment which have become
standard throughout the world.
In the Midwest Andrew Taylor
Still found that he could relieve the
pains and aches Of the body by
adjusting various bones, muscles
and tissues.
Somewhat later, another man by
the name Of D. d. Palmer made an
accidental discovery. By adjusting
the vertebrae OF the neck he was
able to relieve the symptoms OF
deafness.
The first discoverer was the found
er OF osteopathy; the second, the ia
Their Of chiropractic.
Here was the crude beginning Of
the system of laying on OF hands"
which has since been developed into
accurate ENTHUSIASTICALLY and
chiropractic.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-06-19
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces the follow
ing open competitive examinations:
Power Lincman
distribution LincS)
This examination is for the pur-
pose of filling existing and future
vacancies in the Flathead Project
Power System, U. S. Indian Irriga-
ton Service, with headquarters at
St. Ignatius, Mont.
Applications must be on file with
the Manager, Eleventh U. S. Civil
Service District, Post Office Build
ing. Seattle, Wash, not later than
July 3, l941.
Full information may be obtained
from the Secretary, Board of U. S.
Civil Service Examiners at any
first or second-class post office in
the States of Idaho and Montana; or
from the Manager, Eleventh U. S.
Civil Service District, Post Office
Building, Seattle, Wash.