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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
By DOWN SUTTON Editor of NEA Service)

With the American Army in Northern Ireland, July 22-Irish eyes are smiling -at khaki-clad Garner lads from Americas great corn belt, at "d"-for"th" boys from either end of Brooklyn Bridge, at feathery-voiced Southerners and at wild and wholly westerners.
 Every American boy can't be a Clark Gable to the girls and a Jimmy Doolittle to the other fellows back home, but he can be ard is both to the Northern Irish-with a little bit of Douglas Macarthur, Joe DtMaggioo, Lieut.. Comdr. O'Hare, and General Marshall thrown in for good measure.
 IRISH LIKE DOUGHBOYS' FREE-AND-EASY WAYS
 Hello, Yank!" are smiling words on Irish lips. welcome, Tanks" are heartfelt words uttered on the thersholds of Irish homes in seaport towns and mountain villages. "Hiya, Big Boyl" is the U. s. A. slang re- cently and proudly acquired by hopeful colleens.
 The American doughboy, after weeks and months of living among the people of Ulster, has won his way into their affections. They like his 1ree-and-easy ways even though they frankly do not understand them.
 They are mystif1ed, in fact, by his un-class- conscious, calm as- sumption of equality with all man. kind. But the Yankee soldier was not long in eradicating from Irish minds the fear, spread by Nazi ra- dio broadcasts prior to his arrival over there, that he was "gangster in uniform"
 SOUVENIR HUNTERS
 STRIP UNIFORMS
 Freckled school kids make signs of thumbs up" or W for victory" as D. s. jeeps and peeps and huge Detroit trucks whirl along wind Ing roads amid the blue-green mountains. Friendly country folk invite American officers and enlist ed men into their homes for tea or dinner despite the strict food ra- tioning which circumscribes their hospitality.
 Deep in the Heart of Texas" is sung everywhere with zestful inac- curacy in Irish broque and played everywhere by earnest musicians more familiar with folk songs and jigs. Once suspicious of giving di- rections to unfamiliarly uniformed strangers who just might be Nazis dressed up like somebody else, the local folk now go out of their way to show Yankee truck-drivers the way to distant villages which they
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
ST. MCHAELS TO
 PLAY uTCHFIELD
Sewing Meeting Tonight Auxiliary Closes Books < Friday Night
WATERVILLE Correspondent: Mrs. William E. Rooney, 1S0 Dwight St.
 Telephone 3-8475

Waterville, July 22-St. Michael's c. r. O. baseball team will play the Litchfield Townies in the rub Der game of their series this eve- hing at 6:15 at Waterville Park.
 Rev. Gibson Winter, curate of St.. Johns Episcopal church will give holy communion Saturday, St.. James Day, at 9 o'clock at St. Paul's church.
 A sewing meeting of the women of Grace Methodist church will be held this evenng at 7:30 o'clock at the church parlorS.
 At the business meeting and elec- ton of officers of Casper Davis Post Auxiliary to be held Friday evening at 8 o'clock, at Fraternity Hall. Members are remined to have all money owed the unit paid in so that the books can be closed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

With the signing of 6 cortract between the War Department and the state board of education, Com necticut has become one of the first states in the country selected to provide facilities at it's trade schools for the training of army air corps engine machiniSts.
 Announcement was made by A., S. Boynton, director of the Bureau of Vocational Education, State De- partment of Education, that select- ed army personnel from Chartute Field, Rantoul, H., will arrive at the Hartford and New Britain Trade schools on Wednesday, July 29, for training in the 100-day course.
 Col. R. E. O'Neill, Chanute Field commanding officer, has notified MT. Boynton that 10 army men will be assigned to Hartford Trade school and 26 to New Britain Trade school on that date.
 Army field officers recently in- Spected Connecticut trade school training conditions. The setup was as being of the type to fit the needs of the army for an ex- banded engine machinists training The course will be in the usual machine shop units, sudh as lathe, milling machine, grinder, shaper and planer.
 MT. Boynton said today that the cor1ses will be operated on the TO- tating system. When a group has six weeks or one unit of the course, another group of equal number will replace it.
 This means that total of 30 men will be trained at one time at Hart ord Trade school and 8 total of '8 at New Britain.
 Plans are at present under con- alteration for making similar ar- for training engine ma hinists at the remaining nine state rade schools, MT. Boynton dis losed. |
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

Welcome, Yanks," are heartfelt
 words uttered on the threshold of
 Irish hOmes-like that above,
 where an American tank crew is
 offered refreshments by an Irish
 housewife outside her thatched
 cottage.
 feminity, in Johnny Doughboy's eyes. But absence makes the heart grow fonder of the girl who's close at hand, so Miss Ireland is doing very well as an ersatz Miss America
 Doughboys take her to the Hicks" !" Woo her with candy bars, apples and oranges. Teach her American dance steps and songs.
 Particularly do the khaki-uni- formed ATS" (Auxiliary Terri torial Service), the powder blue "Wrens" (WRNS, Women's' Royal Naval Service) get a big play from the Yankees. But they're service girls living under military discipline so they must return to their bar. racks by 10 o'clock each evening" which is 8 handicap to romance during the summer time weeks when daylight doesn't end until past mid- night.
 TANKS WONDER
 IF IT CAN LAST
 Amazed at their popularity with the feminine portion of this island, some of the American soldiers are almost afraid it's too good to last.
 We're tops with the Irish girls now" gloomed tall, lean, dark haired Sergeant R. T. Wingert of Cedar Rapids, Ia., 'but so, I hear, were the English soldiers who were stationed here ahead of us. Then their novelty wore of. I hope these gals don't get Drowned of (dough- boy slang for fed upD with us"
 The doughboy finds the girls in the towns little easier to meet than the girls in the villages. '"The boys complain to me that the Irish home e-loving type, if you get what country girls too often are the [ mean," commented Staff Ser geant Forrest Abel of Mason City. Ia. And they think they all could stand visit to the cosmetics of any Main Street, U. s. l A., drug store"
 But just so the girls back home | won't get the idea that there has ,een a wholesale rush to feminine arms in Ulster, it should be re- ported that there are many like l blond, Ohio-born Private Vernon <ohler, former pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, who said: T ,ot a girl in the States Qrene Dal- on of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., please lote) and I don't go fooling around"
 However, as round-faced, grim ling Corporal Vaughn Kelly of De-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

troit put 1t at mess one day, Most of the guys aren't pining away for the girl back hoEne.' She's too many hundreds of miles away. It's the Irish girl that we talk about and compare notes on"
 But the American girl back home is being avenged-by the American girl over here. Navy-blue-uniformed Q. s. Army nurses with the North ern Ireland Forces are giving "datel priority" to British officers!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
NEWS WRITER
 TRIES OUT HIKE
Called Upon to GO Through One Days Test of
 Army Life

Editors NOte-The longest walk taken by Robert MuseI, United Press stan correspondent, for years was from g taxicab at the curb to a ringside night club table. Hence, when the Army last week sent a full day's supply of its new ration TX" with . suR- geStiOn that a stafH man try it out, the assignment fell to MuseI the theory being that if MuseI could hike IS miles in one day on 1t, a soldier could do 20, the last five double time. Musel chose the historic Revolutionary War road from Hartman to Newburgh, N. Y, along which Washington's soldiers hiked with only parched corn and cold water for ratiOns. MuSeIs adventures follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
Irish Eyes Start Smiling As Johnny DOughbOy Passes By

ULSTER FOLK LIKE HIM AND HIS FREE-AND EASY WAYS EVEN WHEN SOME OF THE LATTER PUZZLE THEM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
By ROBERT MUsEL

Newburgh, N. Y, July 22-UP)- If an army really marches on its stomach the new field ration TX" is the dietary answer to a generals prayer. I know because I ate it un- der marching conditions and 1t stuck with me all the way.
 Night-clubbing is no preparation for 18 miles of blistering road. Nor is fondness for filet of sole Marguery au win blanc any warmup for three little paraffin-sealed boxes marked breakfast" dinner" and Supper.
 Yet, when I sagged into this ter- minus, banners trailing, it wasn't my tummy that ached. That felt fine. only wish I could say the same about my feet.
 In this experiment. went on the assumption that I had sud- denly been drafted, that I had had some training and that I was now engaged in maneuvers. To offset the fact that had really had no actual training, did not carry a pack.
 All I had with me was the ration, a return ticket on the bus (oh, wei come Sight) and plenty of curi- osity.
 A couple of miles after leaving Hartman I paused and began to whittle into the breakfast" box, both because I was hungry and be- cause, if you must know, I needed a rest. The box is four inches wide. two inches deep and weighs 10 ounces. It is treated to withstand heat of 1855 degrees and cold to 20 below.
 I was aghast at the amount of food that poured out.
 I am ordinarily an orange juice toast-coffee for breakfast man but in compact formation I found two packs of biscuits, one can of pork loaf, a package of matted milk tab lets, two packages of soluble coffee, three Jumps of sugar and a stick of chewing gum.
 This seemed to me to be 8 lot of eating and my regard for army de- signers and dieticians mounted. It's no sissy meal, nor is it exactly for epicures. The so-called defense biscuits" for instance, I thought were little sawdusty and the cof- fee had a rather nondescript taste
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

based on an increase of eight cents an hour for the period from March l to June 25, will range from $50 to over $100 for individuals.
 Other contract clauses call for the voluntary, non-revocable check off of union dues, overtime pay, seniority preference in promotions and transfers, Minimum pay rates will be 66 cents an hour for women and 76 cents an hour for men.
 The pay increase and the check- off were ordered by the War Labor Board, which received the case for action after months of negotiation had resulted in no settlement.
 Drafts of the contract are now being drawn up and will be signed soon. The pay scales will be in eff feet until Jan. 31, 1943.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
State Trade Schools
 To Train Army Crews
Air Corps Engine Machinists to Be Taught at Hart=
 ford, New Britaitn- Contract Official Approved

Housing and recreational facilities are under the direction of Edward A. Kraus, housing supervisor. Army personnel will be housed in private homes and arrangements are being made to provide meals at the two trade school cafeterias Persons, who wish to make housing facilities available to army men were asked today by MT. Kraus to contact the trade school in their vicinity.
 Courses will run six days week from II p. m. to ' a. m. MT. Boyn- ton said that for the additional in- structors needed, arrangements have been made with Chanute Field au- thorities for enlisted expert ma chinists to be assigned to tfA trade schools.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
AUGUST q CHOSEN
 OFFICIAL DAY
l1,OOO American Brass Workers to Receive Back
 Pay Increases

Terms of new contract between the American Brass Go. and the Waterbury, Torrington and Ansonia Brass Workers unions were agreed to 8 conference yesterday Taking part were company officials and negotiating committees for the three CIO locals.
 Announcement was made by the company that an estimated $77O, 900 in back pay increases for 11,OOO workers in the three plants will be distributed Aug. 21. The amounts,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

Pvt. Vernon KOhler, of Cleveland,
 Ohio, has 8 girl back i'm the
 states-and wants it known that
 he doesn't Ego fooling around"
 with the cOIleens.
 themselves have never visited.
 Souvenir hunters display great passion for American coins, ciga- rettes, match-boxes, etc. Officers who end their shirts and their uniforms to Irish laundries and pressers haven't yet been able to make sure that their clothing will be returned to them without gilt button or piece of insignia shipped of. 'IF SINGLE, DROP
 A LINE-ETHEL"
 One young lieutenant, on open ing his laundry box, found pinned to one of his shirts this note, in feminine writing: If single, drop a line; if married, never mind. (SigneO Ethel" Irish "so- ciety" girls and bar-maids alike frequently appear in public with U. A. Army insignia mysteriously or namenting their waists, despite stern measures taken to stop the practice.
 As for these Irish girls: Gener- ally unrouged, unlipsticked and stockingless, they don't have the smartness of Fifth Avenue, Michi- gan Boulevard or Market street
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Sturgeon Lake
Village Official
Dies Saturday
NJ. M. Barnes, II, Leaves
Widow and Four Chill
dren; Services Yesterday.

M. M. Barnes, prominent Sturgeon
Lake businessman and treasurer of
the village, died unexpectedly shortly
after II o'clock Saturday morning.
Funeral services were held yesterday
afternoon from the Sturgeon Lake
town hall with Rev. j. 0. Johanson
of Moose Lake officiating, the pail
bearers being Charles Olson, Albert
Upgren, Phillip Anderson, Frank
Strum, George Phares and S. S. Wal
lin Music was provided by Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Lindor.
The deceased was born at Ida
Grove, Iowa, on November 6, 1870,
living there several years. He later
moved with his parents to Sibley,
Iowa. Taking up the teaching pro-
fession he taught school at Sibley
eight years, and on moving to Pine
City in 1896, continued in that work
at the county seat until 1900.
Operated Sawmill in 1900.
On April 80, 1900, he was united
in marriage to Miss Bertha Blank, the
couple coming directly to Sturgeon
Lake where the groom engaged in the
sawmill business with A. E. Webber
and Silas Lonchs. Two years later
he accepted position with the Cum
ningham Mercantile company, re-
manning with that firm 26 years, be-
fore going into the restaurant busi-
ness.
Mr.. Barnes was held in high esteem
by all who knew him, serving in
various capacities of trust in the viii
lage, He was member of the school
board % years, clerk on the village
council 20 years and was treasurer
of the village at the time of his pass
ing. He will be greatly missed by
the associates and friends he made
in his many years at Sturgeon Lake.
He is survived by his widow and
four children, Bruce and Howard OF
Sturgeon Lake, Roger and Bernice
Mrs. Axel Carlson, of California.
One daughter preceded him in death
Other survivors are five grandchil-
dren and a nephew, Rodrich Pro-
texter, the latter from Little Rock,
Iowa.
Sincere sympathy is extended to
the family by neighbors and friends
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Close Trout Waters
In Northern Areas

Three northern Minnesota coun-
ties, Cook, Lake and st. Louis, will
remained closed the first two weeks
of the season when trout angling
opens May because of the unusually
high fire hazard in the north woods
this spring.
The Department of Conservation,
in making the announcement, stated
that the order may be revoked if
weather conditions lessen the hazard
during that period.
Fishermen will invade rou
streams elsewhere in the state begin
ming tomorrow morning, with sun
time determining hours during which
the fish may be taken. The law reads
that trout may not be taken between
the hours of 9 p. m. and one hour
before sunrise. This would mean
that, based on sun time, the fisher
man could continue angling until 10
p. m, but that he must start an hour
later by his clock in the morning.
The daily limit remains at Is, and
all trout taken may be retained.
The possession limit is 25, or a total
of 20 pounds.
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Construction OF
New Addition To
Double Capacity
Minnesota Power & Light
Co. to Begin Work on
33,5OO h. p. Unit.

Construction of 33, ,500-horsepow-
er addition, which will double the
capacity of the Duluth steam-electric
station of Minnesota Power & Light
Company, will be started by May l,
M. L. Hibbard, president, announced
this week. The company last July
announced its intent to build an addi-
ton to the Duluth power plant and
since that time has been placing or
ders and obtaining as high priority
ratings as possible on the necessary
items of equipment and material.
The new generator to be installed
will be duplicate of the first unit
installed in the Duluth plant in 1881
and when completed in 1943 will
bring the total capacity of the plant
to $1,000 horsepower. The addition,
including a new outdoor sub-station,
switching equipment and connecting
lines, will cost an estimated $2,700,000.
To be Ready in 1943.
The new unit is expected to be
ready for operation by mid-1943 and
will play vital part in the company's
system in supplying power to the
rapidly expanding war industries in
the region served. The original Du-
luth plant was built with a view
to expansion and the addition will
utilize the same stack and intake tun-
nels. However, the building itself
will be enlarged to care for the new
boiler and turbo-generator.
1t is expected that the new boiler
will be erected and completely in
stalled by December of this year and
delivery of the turbine has been
promised for February 1943.
First phase of the construction will
be excavation, pile driving and erec-
ton of the foundation, after which
construction of the super-structure
will be started. No additional fill
will be needed At the peak of con-
struction, 200 to 800 men will be
employed. The work will be done
by contract.
600 Tons of Coal Daily.
With installation of the new unit,
the plant will double its consumption
of fuel, using over 600 tons of coal
daily when it is in full operation.
The coal is first pulverized to the
fineness of powder and then blown
into the furnace where it burns in
suspension. To condense the steam
in the boilers, intake tunnels from
st. Louis river will deliver in ex-
cess of lis million gallons of water
daily-about 10 times as much as
Continued on Page 81
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Pine City Plans
Asparagus Crops
Preliminary Steps Taken
to Establish New Project;
May Can Crop There.

Preliminary steps have been taken
at Pine City for the establishing of
an asparagus raising project with a
view of producing the plant in large
enough quantities to interest can
ming company in establishing branch
station in the community, and pos
sibly a factory later on to can this
product and others.
A committee of businessmen and
farmers interviewed horticultural au-
thorities at the State Agricultural
college last Monday, taking with them
samples of soils, results of growing
experiments and general information
on conditions and amount of land
available for the proposed project.
Seed will be secured and seeded this
year, with view of establishing beds
next year and years following, it
being the plan of the group to ex-
pand gradually in the cultivation of
the asparagus, and not rush in on
too large a scale. 1t takes about
three years to develop roots that
will raise satisfactory shoots for can
ming.
Certain Soils Necessary.
At the University it was learned
that only one or two communities
have thus far gone into the raising
of asparagus on a large scale, one
Continued on Page a.
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Cleanup Week Is
Set For May 80
Civic Groups Asked to Co.
operate With State Board
of Health.

With the week of May to 9 des-
ignated as annual cleanup week, civic
organizations throughout the state are
requested to cooperate with the State
Board of Health in securing the re-
moval and disposal of all accumula-
tions of refuse and filth and the cor
rection of all other insanitary con-
ditions.
An annual sanitary inspection in
each village and city of Minnesota
is required by state health regulations
some time during the month of May
and written report submitted to the
state health board by the local health
officer. Other inspections shall be
made each year if deemed necessary.
Thorough Cleaning Asked.
In the cleanup campaign citizens
are asked to thoroughly clean all
yards, vaults and cesspools, also all
sheds or barns containing manure.
Wherever sewer connection is posi-
BILE the privy should be abolished.
Regulations state that earth pits used
as privy vaults shall be abandoned
before they are entirely filed. A
new pit shall be dug, over which the
privy building shall be moved, and
the contents of the old privy vault
shall be covered with at least one
foot of earth.
1t is advised that privy vaults
should be emptied and disinfected
with freshly slaked lime. Scrub,
paint, screen and repair privies or
build new sanitary type privies. Ev-
cry privy ventilation pipe should
have a flytrap in it.
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Groningen Woman
Succumbs Sunday

Death came Sunday evening for
Mrs. Charles Lawrence, old-time set
tier in the Groningen community,
following an illness of several years.
She was born in Manitowoc, Wis, on
May S, 1862, coming to this county in
1896.
She was married in 1887 to Charles
Lawrence who survives, together with
an adopted daughter, Mrs. Kurt Holz-
nazel of the Twin Cities.
The funeral was held at the Gron-
ingen Lutheran church yesterday aft
ernoon, Rev. Nels Benson of Hinckley,
officiating, and burial was made in
the Finnish Lutheran cemetery at
Finlayson.
Askov American., 1942-04-30

Opening guns in the Sixth Con-
gressional district campaign were
fired this week with the announce
ment of Fred Hughes, st. Cloud at
torney, that he would file on the
Republican ticket against Harold
Knutson, present incumbent.
Hughes was admitted to the bar
in 1884 upon completion of his edu-
cation at the University of Minnesota
and has made his home in st. Cloud
since that time. He is married, "a
years of age, and has three small
children.
Knutson, publisher of the Wadena
Pioneer Journal, is veteran Con-
gresham, having held that office
since 1916. He succeeded the late
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., of Little
Falls.
Askov American., 1942-04-30
Dies SaturdayAt
Sandstone Home
Services Tuesday for Mrs.
August Hawkinson From
Congregational Church.

Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Con-
gregational church at Sandstone for
Mrs. August Hawkinson who de-
parted this life at her home there
Saturday. She had been ill since
January of this year with heart trou-
BILE but was up and around until
April Is when her condition became
more serious. @,.,- *
Christina Sjolander was born on
July 9, 1869, at Medelpad, Sweden.
She was united in marriage in that
country to B. o. Bjorklund on April
27, 1892, the couple coming to Sand
stone the same year. They moved
in 1904 to Boulder, Colo, where Mr..
Bjorklund died two years later, on
March 28 His widow returned to
Sandstone in 1910 and on April 81,
1912, was married to August Hawkin-
son in Minneapolis.
Husband Survives.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, three children, Mrs. Jennie
Shogren, Sandstone; Mrs. Hilder Bis
set, Minneapolis; and Oscar Bjork-
lund, Sauk Rapids; IL grandchildren
and three cousins.
Rev. Glenn Albro was in charge
of the funeral and John Lundberg,
Oscar Carlson, Efram Johnson, Gust
Gjertson, Chas. Edstrom and Sigfred
Johnson served as pallbearers. Among
those from away who came for
the funeral were Mrs. j. A. Petersen,
Mrs. Hilder Bisset and two sons OF
Minneapolis; and Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Bjorklund and four children and Mrs
Lanz of Sauk Rapids.
Mrs. Hawkinson was member OF
the Royal Neighbor and Vasa lodges
She belonged to the Swedish Mission
at Sandstone until it closed and since
that time had devoted her interest
to the Sandstone Congregational
| church.