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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

DO Il nd sacks, sturdy country men spre d golden gra in g. il d threshed out the rations with & flail. The rains kept the rock clean, the su night
 bleached the s urface an d
 dried. the dew. You were sure of xc client
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Bernice RielIy of South Street will be 1S years old Monday. Superstitions don't mean thing to her either Next June she'll be among the St. Francis School graduates receiving diplomas. Beatrice Larrvee Lakevew Avenue has been given her release papers from St. Marys Hospital She went home Thursday of this week, her natal day. .. Johnny Mullga1 now stationed at Fort Bragg, N G. is post carding friends that Army life is the real life for real fellows Marjorie Lucian went to New York recently and caught "Hellza- -Poppin"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Aaron Gorham was typical of the race of people who inhabited the Shepaug Country. He raised 8 little tobacco and a patch of corn and potatoes. He kept en0ugh stock to assure . meat ration wher the deer ran thin. He trapped a little, fished a lot, and hunted whenever the spirit moved. Some- times, when black berries were ripe, Gorham would shoulder crate and go up on the Purchase to gather little spending money. He picked all day and at evening carried the crate back d0wnhill to catch the evening train for New York. People In Gotham had black berries and cream for break fast. Aaron had some extra cask for new pair of overalls. Those old timers never paid any income tax but they enjoyed life and they added a lot to the color of the Shepaug Country. Steve Rant is about the only resident left down there now, and Steve isn't really 8 genuine native. He sort of roved in, but he is . whaling fine farm or.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

The U. s. War Department re- gently announced a single airplane contract to Douglas for $l4l ,32i.- 900, which exceeds the total ex- penditure on aircraft during the 10 years from 1928 to 1885.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29
THE TOCsIN

Morning and midday, twilight and night Again have taken their noiseess flight But the bells of Britain muted stiH Bow to the and its iron will, For a old as human breath Threatens the isle with hendish death. With eager, palsied gory hand It claws and strikes at the British strand, And the bells that called the souls to prayer Now watchful tightlipped silence From tlrret and belfry, roof and tower, They await to knell the crucial hour When the man made curse in frenzed reach Plants it's feet on the British beach. Then upon the air they'll spring And over the isle the tidings ring. At that perous fateful hour Britain will loose her wrath and power. And the will wane, the curse will swell go drench the world with the woes of hell
 -DANIET. B. STRALEY.
 4858 Drexel Blvd, Chicago. III
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29
LIBERTY BELL TO KEEP CRACK

Philadelphia (UP)-Mayor Robert F. Iamberton has decided that "the Liberty Bell without a crack wouldn't be the Liberty Bell" % Philadelphia officials have declined proposal to restore the ben by means of a new process.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29
BANKERS MEET APRIL 10

BANKERS MEET APRIL 10
 Pullman, Wash. (UP)-The fifth annual Pacific Northwest banking conference will be held on the Washington State college campus here April 10 to 12. More than 200 bankers are expected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29
President

6keSAuCns .4-F
 Assisting Mrs. Hayden on the arrangements committee for the anniversary banquet are the fol- lowing: '.
 Miss Elizabeth. Smith, Miss Lucy Minahan, Miss Rosemary Smith, Miss Kay Mariner, Mrs. Margaret Frageau, Miss Margaret Bowling, Miss Kathleen Bowling, Mrs. Wil- liam Keavney, Mrs. John Shea, Mrs. Charles Teller, Mrs. Raymond Conlon, Miss Catherine Burns, Mrs. Edward Mcdonald, Mrs. Richard Scadden, Mrs. George Corcoran and Mrs. John. Delaney.
 The progra miwl include not only dinner and several speeches, but also music and entertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

A new method to train pilots consists of manipulating the con- trols In a cockpit of a dummy trairl- ing plane. For the first lessons, the stick and foot controls are locked together, forcing the student to CO., ordinate hands and feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29
BY BILL GARRIGUs

Have you O Threshing Rock In your town? Most towns have. There, before oats came in dinky little packages and flour in five
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Dr. Oscar Klein East Main Street chropodist is year older today. Hazeruth Durner will lead the worship service and Betty Allen will be in charge of the music at the First Baptist B. Y F. Lenten vesper service tomorrow evening. Charles A. Root is quite eated being elected district director of the Con- necticut Society of Civil Engineers. Julian Norton is seriously thinking about opening his Lake CompOunce ballroom Easter Sunday night with Harry James and his orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29
South Britain Briefs

fired just once, he would sue for peace tomorrow and we could keep our Navy and Air Force at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Walter Levan Metropolitan Furniture executive, and Dr. Sidney Weiss, of the Torrington Wesses are back we'll with this likeable pair. Elmer Baxter has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Colby College. Ann Foster is president and Edwin Alexander vicepresden of the Baptist Student Organization at the nstu ton of learning Johnny OConnor, popular presi- dent of the American Brass Foremens Association tells me plans are underway to lay floor at approx mate cost of $500 at the Bank Street clubrooms The members have certainly done swell job there, only recently installing brand new golf driving range
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Edith Hastings has said yes to Harold Hurlburt so expect plenty of rice and old shoes to fly the morning of April 19. Doris Vancelette and Ernest Marggraff have set the same date for their wedding. Maud Din
 mick was very pleasantly surprised at birthday party the other evening. Members of Naugatuck's Thirty of their seats when Patrick Began oldest member is called upon to speak Although well TO- Pat is one of the most eloquent speakers in the club and always talks sincerely clearly and convincngly Club members know they in for real treat when Pat gets up to speak.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Congratulations are in order for Bertha Paoloni who elected president of the Sweet Brar Sorority for the sixth consecutive term and Mrs Rae Datalle elected secretary treasurer for the number of times at recent meeting of the members. The Sorority also wishes to best wishes to Tina Caparasso member, who will be married on April 26. The other members joining in this expression are s. Dolores Paoloni, Marie Leon, Ida Yannatta, Connie Morea, Anna Polonics, and Jennie Morea.
 Look pleasant please Cameramen probably said something like this the other day when they snapped the Old Man of the Mountains from every conceivable angle that would show up his noble profile up in the White was on hand last week to take pictures of the Francona Notch and of the outstanding feature of this region is the famous Old Man of the Mountains The same cameramen also remaining in New Hampshire for the gala Bette Davis birthday ball and world premiere of her latest picture 'The Great Lie-schedued for Lttleton, N H. April g. It will be the first time that such event held in New Hampshire and to say the state is shaking with excitement is putting it very mildly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-29

Anthony Nardozzi of Vermont Street, formerly of the United States Marines has resumed work in Town Plot again after long siege of illness which confined him to the Veterans Hospital in Newington Rev. John CullitOn former assistant at St. Thomas Church and now with the 18th Medical Regiment chaplain at Camp Blanding, Florida, drops line to tell me Banding isn't the Florida of postcards The camp is
 regular Sahara of sand but does have fine acc0mmO- dations At night his freeze and during the day
 his pees It's big job, but he loves it, for it has its rewards and cOnsOlatiOns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
HOMES PROVIDED
 DEFENSE WORKERS
Uncle Sam Erects l7,56l Dwellings ,454 Con1-
 pleted Early in August

A total of 17,561 homes have been completed under the national EVA defense housing program of which the local project is a part, it was learned today through David T. McGrath, federal housing manager here. During the first week of this month 1,454 new homes for the families of defense workers were completed all over the country, and 1,181 of these were actually occu- pied.
 In addition to the homes which have already been rented or made available for occupancy, a total of 61 ,085 are at present under contract. The local project calls for the erec- tion of 300 housing units at the site on Long Hill road, and an addi- tional 250 at the Hamilton avenue location.
 The houses here will be let in groups as soon as construction, and the installation of all utilities, is complete. MT. McGrath expects that the first tenants will be able tomove into their new homes by mid-Sep- tember.
 Similar pogress is being made all over the country, in 182 different projects. Work is already in prog ress on 49,756 separate housing units, on which more than 60,000 men are employed. The cumulative weekly payrolls of all the men en- gagged in the national project amounts to $2,054, ,453. Other homes have been approved for construction although work has not yet started on them.
 About 200 applications for tene- ments in the. two Waterbury sites have been filed at the office of MT. McGrath in the past week, and he expects to receive as many more. He requests all defense workers who want to be considered as prospective tenants for the housing units to fill out their applications as soon as possible. Blanks and information may be obtained at his present headquarters, Room 203, in the local post office building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
(. U. A. THESPIANS
 IN REUNION PLAY

Washington. D. C., Aug. 16 - Among the features of this years reunion of the Catholic University of America Alumni-to be held in the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City, November 9th-will be the production of "The Contrast" with members of the Speech and Drama Department of the University making up the cast supporting a professional actor, yet unnamed, who will have the leading role. James J. Bowe, Associate Profes- sor of Mechanical Engineering on the University's faculty and Ma tional Secretary of the Alumni As- sociation, has arranged with the Rev. Gilbert F. Hartke, O.P., head of the dramatic department of the University, to cast the play : two performances of which will be given on Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
SURVEY SHOWS DIARIES SUPPLY
 RISING DEMAND
Big Exports to Britain Not to Cut Down Home
 Supply
BY ROBERT HEFTY

Limited Press Staff correspondent
 Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 16- (UP)-A survey by 8 University of Minnesota marketing specialist dis closes that the dairy industry can handle with ease additional pro- duction for export while meeting increased demand at home.
 pr. William H. Bankers disclosed that his survey shows the nation need not fear a shortage of milk or cheese because of heavy exports to Britain.
 ..Dairy farmers are obviously re- sponding to the call of the govern ment for increased production of dairy products under the food-for- defense program" Bankers said.
 His survey revealed that produc- tion of dairy products increased substantially in the first five months of 1941. Total production already has bested last years mark by 9 per cent, with butter up 2 per cent and cheese and evaporated milk ahead il per cent.
 Diaries Meet DemaDL
 The figures show American dairy farmers are proceeding according to plan" At the beginning of ths year, the government asked farm' CTS to step up cheese production by one-third- and evaporated milk output by one fourth. The stress was put on these products because they are more easily condensed and transported than are milk and butter.
 "If one half the expected in- crease for the year is directed to products for Britain" Dankers said, "that country's full demand will be met"
 Bankers figures Show that dur ing May production of dairy prod ucts shattered all revious records with IA per cent increase ove1 the same month last year. One product = evaporated milk was ahead 23 per cent.
 Greatest Rise in June
 June saw even greater strides Bankers said. At the end of that month, butter stocks were 48 per cent greater than year ago and cheese was up 25 per cent. On July 1, milk production was up only 2 per cent, but the increase was enough to record a new all-tims high for the product.
 Meanwhile, Dankers is attempt ing to find the answer to another and possibly even more important question-how will the Switch-ovsI from butter to cheese affect the Northwest's dairy farmers? Dank- CTS has found that during the first part of July the ratio of cheese prices to butter prices became ia- creasingly favorable for cheess production.
 with an apparent sufficiencS of plant capacity" Dankers said, there is every reason to believe the shift to increased cheese pro. duction can be effected through g favorable price relationship fol cheese"
 Prices for both products in Juns of this year, he said, were the high est for the month since 1929.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16

nationwide photography contest for Girl Scouts was announced today by the Girl Scout national head quarters in New York City, One hundred prizes will be awarded Pictures will be judged the basis of their excellence in recording Girl Scout outofdoor activities The contest will close October l. Judges in the contest are T. J. Maoney editor and publisher of U. s. Camera nationally known photography magazine; Alan Fisher staff photographer of the New York newspaper PM and winner of pictorial awards of the New York Press Pho tographers Association in 1940 and 1941; Paul Parker New York photographer who has made hundreds of pie lures of Girl Scouts; Anne Stoddard, editor of The American Girl and Halleck Brodhead executive Secre tary of the Girl Scout National Equipment Service The contest is sponsored by the Girl Scout Public Relations Division.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16

Back in the mess hall, men again resumed eating. The pilot on my right said this happened nearly every day. After lunch, outside, you could well believe him. The field was pocked with small craterS and several hits had been scored on two buildings. The number of aircraft destroyed however, had been negligible and only 8 few men had been posted as injured or killed.
 But these raids don't stop this airdrone from functioning. The me- chanics continue overhauling the planes and the pilots continue to take them Up in the now much-pub- licized sweeps over German terri
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
Clipped and pasted.

Clipped and pasted Poppyseed so essential to the baking industry will shortly be obtainable in large quantities from California where experimental paintings ported from eastern European countries now warbeset .. Mrs Don L. Harwell of New Orleans can use diff feent set of salt and pepper shakers for every meal of the day for two three months drumming. She has collection of 271 different sets It's her hobby and the only trouble is her cupboards can't hold many other dishes with the shakers Fall River Mass, has real woman gave 22inch rubber plant to the Oak Grove cemetery conservatory She said that it 20 years old and wouldn't grow much more. Now the glass roofed conservatory is getting too small for the gift plant. It's 50 years old, 25 feet high, and has branch spread of 25 feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
Baltimore, Md.

East Northf1eld, Mass, Aug. 16 - The three leading speakers for Sum- day, August IT at the Northfield General Conference are Dr. Na- thaniel Micklem of Mansfield Col lege, Oxford, England; Dean Will lard L Sperry of Harvard college; and pr. Harris E. Kirk of the Franklin Street Presbyterian church in Baltimore. Sunday is the final day of the 62d General Conference which has been in session here since August 2.
 Dean Sperry will speak at the Il a. m. Auditorium service and Dr. Micklem will occupy the pulpit in the evening at 7:45 o'clock. Dr. Kirk will lead a service of Communion in Sage Chapel at 9:30 a. m. During the time of the morning Auditorium service, a junior church will be held in Sage Chapel for children under Is years of age.
 More than 1000 ministers and church workers have attended the various meetings here during the past two weeks. Speakers included besides the above: President Will liam E. Park of the Nortfield schools, chairman of the confer ence; President Paul D. Moody of Middlebury College, son of Dwight L Moody who founded the confer ence; Dr. Paul Scherer of the Holy Trinity Lutheran church in New York; and Dr. Gaius Glenn Atkins of Auburn Theological Seminary. :.
 Other principal speakers were: Dr. E. G. Homrighausen of Prince ton Theological Seminary; Dean Lynn Harold Hough of Drew Theo- logical Seminary; Dr. Joseph Fort Newton of Philadelphia; pr. Carl Heath Kopf of Boston; Professor Reinhold Niebur of Union Theologi- cal Seminary; Dean Austin Pardue
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16

Unique. :. How'd you like to live in log. If you're so sceptica as to say cant be one listen to the saga of MT. and Mrs S.JArnold of Kelso Washington, who something they wanted and proceeded to get it. Theirs is trailer home, consisting of 25tOn spruce log which has been completely followed out and mounted wheels. MT. Arnold worked steadily for two years it and is quite proud of the finished It's named the Squirrels Nest" and right its a tour of the United States during which they hope to the signatures of every of fortyeght governors of these days you may the Squirrels Nest" rolling through Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
NEW SERIES ON
 "CATHOLIC HOUR"
Rev. John F. Cronin to Talk on Freedom De-
 tended"

The Rev. John F. Cronin, profess sor of economics at St. Mary's sem- inaryt Baltimore, Md, will conduct a series of three addresses, Free dom Defended during the nation wide Catholic Hour, beginning Sum- day, Aug. IT.
 The program, produced in CO., operation with the National Coua- cil of Catholic Men, will originate in Baltimore and will be heard each week from 500 to 6:30 p. m., E. D. s. T., over the NBC-Red net work.
 In his first broadcast, Aug. r., Father Cronin will discuss 'The Price of Survival" Subsequent top- icS in the series will be August A, Justice and the Labor Problems" !" and Aug. 31, Builders of theh Flu ture."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16

The Wolcott Volunteer Fire Department Band is all excited about the uniforms the members going to for the first time at the state convention in West Haven next Saturday. Leader Dan Hatfield, the extor- pedoman has the band in tptop shape for the event fact that he just received his selectve service ques tionnare for they will miss Joe he goes into service although admitting their loss is Uncle SamS gain. Joe plays "hot and "sweet" accordion night-tmes and in the daytime is an expert meat-cutter Mrs. Fred Rochon and her daughter Catherine of Baldwin Street have returned from cruise to Virginia Beach. They were registered at the Cavalier Hotel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
TOdWYs Answers s@
 oARaBUM CRACKERS
Questions on Comic Page

Questions on Comic Page
 '. Great Smokies are in North Carolina and Tennessee; Glacier is in Montana; Yosemite is in California; Bryce Canyon is in Utah.
 2. Michigan has shores on all but one of the Great Lakes, touch- ing Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie.
 3. Black Hills are in South Da- kota; Green Mountains are in Vermont; ,Redwoods are big trees in California: Kentucky is famed for its blue grass.
 4. The Hermitage. Andrew Jack. sons home, is in Nashville; Ply" mouth Rock Is in Plymouth. Mass; Lincoln's home is in Springfield Ill; and an earlier home Is repro. duced at New Salem, Ill.
 5. Grand Coulee is on the Co. lumbia river in Washington; Nor. ris is on the Tennessee river in Tennessee; Boulder is on the Colo. rado river between Arizona and Nevada; Bonneville is on the co. lumhia river between Washington and Oregon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
Na1i Bomber Makes ''Perfect'' Score Misses Everything But The Ground
BUT HIS WAS FREAK HAPPENING
BY PAUL MANNING NEA Service Stan Correspondent


 A FRONT LINE AIRDROME. SOUTHEAST ENGLAND.-This is England's most bombed airdrome, and seldom day passes without some Messerschmitt dropping down out of the clouds on what the air. men here call a hit-and-run raid.
 They come in at night, when the "bomber's moon" becomes a baleful airport beacon for them.
 They ccme in with the sun at their back and before anyone has 8 chance to climb into a Spitfire a stick of high explosives has been laid across the field and the ME has disappeared back up into the clouds in the direction of France, about five minutes away.
 The first raid I saw was from the mess hall. It was during lunch and everyone was eating, except the handful of men sitting around outside on "alert" duty. There wasn't cloud in the sky and the sun, beating down on the baked runways, sent up the heat waves you see shimmering above any Sun-drenched expanse in south west America.
 Then out of the sun an ME no darted. On the first explosion everyone dived to the floor to escape flying glass and on the second the airmen,. and girls of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who had been serving the food, were looking out the windows watching that German pilot lay the rest of his heavy bombs.
 TECHNIQUE
 TOO GOOD
 Every forty feet a bomb exploded, and lying tner watching that fight CT, bomber whizz across the field in split seconds, the pilots who them selves had just recently returned from thei:: own bombing expedition over German air fields couldn't help but admire the technique of that lone Nazi. There was no faltering but just straight swoop and 8 re- lease of the bombs across the drome in precise line.
 But his technique was too good this time. Nothing was hit. Every bomb dropped in 8 line and by some miracle they struck between every building and hangar. The mess hall was straddled by two, as were the buildings ahead and behind, and then the raider was back up in the sun and streaking for home. It all happened in sec onds, so the men who had been waiting outside on t he alert for just such 8 raid were, still on the ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
ST. PAUL's METHODIST

Keeping Our Bearing" will be the sermon subject of Rev. Louis E. Hig- gins, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist church on East Farm street, tomor- row morning at '10:45 o'clock.
 A weenie roast and outdoor sup per- sponsored by the Woman's So- ciety of Christian Service, will be held Wednesday, August 25, at 5:30 o'clock at the home of MT. and Mrs. Louis Sage, Lakeview, Cheshire road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
ROSE BUSH CLIMBS s5 FEET

Willows. Cal. -. (UP) - This city believes it has the largest climbing rose bush in the world. It Is a Lady Banksmere and was planted 58 years ago. It has now climbed 65 feet up a tree and along the house of Mrs. Leonora Neate, its owner. siMM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
FIRST BAPTIST

On Sunday morning at 10:30 the First Baptist and the First Metho- dist churches will meet in union service in the First Baptist church edifice on Central avenue. Dr. John J. Snavely, minister of the First Methodist church, will be in charge of the service, and will preach on 'The Sea" The quartet of the First Methodist church will render the music for the service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-16
BETHLEHEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
E.. Einar Kron, Pastor.

F. ENlar hrOl, FaSJ0r, Sunday, August IT Tenth Sunday After Trinity.
 At 800 a. m. services will be held in the church and the pastor will preach on the subject "The Re- jected Christ" All are welcome to attend.
 Thursday, August 21
 Monthly meeting of the Luther League will be held in the church basement at 500 p. m.