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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
Dehydration Presents
Complicated Problems
Special Technique, Equipment Necessary For Salts
factory Results; N. E. Council Gives Expert Data

In all, probably about 500 cars Of
New England potatoes were deny
drafted in New England, but con-
siderable number in addition were
used by dehydrators situated outside
the region.
1.-The record is not as bad as it
sounds as dehydration was then an
infant industry and many unforesee-
able difficulties get in the way Of
plant construction and large scale
operation.
New Facilities
1.-TWO more plants have now been
approved. These effectually COM
plete the potato dehydration pro-
gram. These new plants, together
with increased production which will
result from improvements in the
old plants, should result in produc-
ton of at least 10000 900 TBS in New
England in the 1894 season. This
would necessitate the use of about
$500 cars of potatoes.
Next in Importance to potatoes
in the New England food dehydra-
ton field are cranberries. These
have been dehydrated successfully
and in considerable volume for the
Army and Navy. All this production
has come out of Massachusetts,.
New England does not produce
sufficiently large amounts of onions,
cabbage, sweet potatoes, beets, car
rots or turnipS to warrant the estab-
lishment of facilities to dehydrate
those vegetables. The possibilities of
dehydrating our apples are, however,
being explored.
Eggs have been successfully de-
hydrated in New England but
largely from raw stock produced out
side the region. 1t is hoped that ar
rangements can be made to employ
available facilities more fully in the
future than they have been en-
ployed in the past.
"Dehydration of milk, both spray
dried and roller dried, has been sue
cessfully carried on in the past and
just at present is bling done in con-
siderable volume. No overall figures
are available but one professor, for
example, Is currently processing
about 100000 Tbs of raw material a
day. AS surplus milk is available in
New England only in the flush sea-
son, milk dehydration is definitely
a seasonal rather than a year-round
activity.
1.-THE potatoes and cranberries de-
hydrated this year were of such
quality that it seems as if they may
have a reasonably promising COM
mercial future after the war. Many
other dehydrated products are prob
ably purely war necessities, while
some, such as milk, eggs and meat,
will probably be used in greater or
less volume for particular purposes,
or as constituents of other products,
as in cooking"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
AUTOISTS ADVISED
ON SELLING CARS
Notify State Motor Vehicle
Department to Avoid
Tax Assessment

Connecticut residents disposing
Of their automobiles are advised by
Commissioner John T. Mccarthy
Of the Department of Motor Vehi-
cles to notify his department
promptly in order to avoid having
their names continued on the tax
lists which the state furnishes tax
collectors of communities.
Such car owners are reminded also
that they must return the markers
or number plates which are the
property of the state and which the
law requires to be returned upon
sale Of the vehicle for which they
were originally issued.
According to the commissioner, a
state law requires prompt notifica-
ton to the department upon sale OF
motor vehicle but, in many in
stances, dealers delay and, conse-
quently. the department continues
to notify local tax authorities that
certain citizens are still car own
ers when this is no longer true.
When the local tax collector at
tempts to collect the assessment, he
Is met with the explanation that
the car has been sold. He refuses
to accept this explanation unless the
department sends him official notice
To accomplish this requires a visit
to the Motor Vehicle Department by
the former car owner and the furn-
ishing of a sworn statement concern
ing alleged sale in order to correct
the automobile tax list.
Much unnecessary annoyance car
be saved the citizen, the taxcollec-
tor and the Motor Vehicle Depart
ment if notice of disposal of cal
is made promptly by the seller as
we'll as the buyer, the commissioner
pointed out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
Cadets Picked From Fighting Fronts Find
West Point Training Tougher Than Combat

and cadets now are scheduled fol
only about 80 days rest during the
course of their four years work in
three. Glasses have swelled about
so per cent. The Academy of COM
missioned officers about 80 per cent
Because upperclassmen coul d
not be pulled out of training,
Plebes performed the formal re-
view for General Henri Giraud
10 days after they first reached
West Point. In August, they 60 to
camp with the corps, to fight dur
ing the day, sleep in the field. and
eat when food can be gotten up to
them.
Officers wouldn't be surprised
to see few more than usual drop
out during Beast Barracks. The
new cadets, being younger, mea-
sure about two points under last
years Plebes in physical efficiency
tests.
Soon a new central training
point will be established at an
eastern college, to provide about
two months training for qualified
candidates. The draft of 10 year.
Odds is sweeping so many young men
into the fighting ranks that it's ex-
pected that the majority of Plebes
must come from active duty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Boston, July 23-(SpeciaD-De-
MIGRATING food at home is likely to
have disappointing results since 1t
is much more complicated and diff
cult than home canning and has not
yet been fully developed as to tech
nique and equipment even in the
commercial field, according to John
L. Baxter of H. c. Baxter and Bro.
Brunswick, Me-, in statement is
sued through the New England
Councils committee on agriculture
and forestry.
Food dehydration falls roughly
into five classifications: vegetables,
fruits, dairy products under which
eggs are included, meats, and man.
ufactured products such as soups.
Each class has its particular prob
lens, those of one type of product
being usually very dissimilar from
those of another. The facility with
which dehydrated foods can be
transported and stored makes them
particularly suitable for naval, mill
tary and lend lease use. That con-
sideration and their economy in the
use of critical metals for pacakaging
have called for tremendous expan-
sion in the production of dehydrat-
ed foods in all the classiflcations
enumerated.
Government Aide
where food dehydra ton facilities
already existed it has been the policy
of the government to employ them
and if raw material existed in suffi-
Gent supply to expand the produc-
ton of those plants. Where it was
necessary to encourage the building
of new plants, approval has gen.
orally been restricted to those which
would be built in regions having an
abundant capacity to grow the nee
essary raw materials and which
would be financed by private capital
and operated by management ex-
perienced in food production.
New England's major opportunity
in food dehydration lay in the
abundant supply of potatoes pro-
duced in Aroostook and in four or
live I'LL OllCll IL COu1lUlCo
This was recognized by the approval
during the summer and fall of 1912
of eight potato dehydration plants
from which production of approx
mately ten million pounds of dried
POTATOES was expected. Seven OF
these plants were in Maine and one
in Massachusetts,. That production
would have required between five
and six million bushels of raw po-
tatoes or about 1000 cars of $4,000
Tbs each. Priority, technical and op-
Grating difficulties delayed and re-
duced production. One plant started
in November, two in December. sew
eral others late in the winter anc
some did not get into any real pro-
duction during the season just
ended. Total production figures are
not available, but are estimated al
under 2,50000O lbs. of which one
plant produced about so per cent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

other Plebe knowledge to be recit-
ed with straight face on demand of
an upperclassman. The definition
goes:
"If the fresh skin of an ami
NAL, cleaned and Invested of all
hair, fat, and other extraneous
matter, be immersed in a dilute
solution of tannic acid, a chemi-
cal combination ensues; the
gelatinous tissue of the skin is
converted into non-putre-
scible substance, impervious to
and insoluble in water; this, sir,
is leather.
"BRACING" is TOUGH
Should he stumble, he may be
"braced," during meals as well as
during his half-dozen daily for
nations. The excellence of his
brace, or posture at rigid atten-
ton, is measured by the number
of wrinkles his jerked- back chin
makes and the concavity of his
sucked-in belly. Normally, he eats
sitting stiffly at attention on the
outer three-quarters of his chair,
his gaze directed below the far edge
of the table. He studies fully dress
ed, with shoes, belt, necktie. He asks
the upper-class-man's permission to
pass on stairs, does not smoke, adj
dresses upperclasmen only officially
at all times, and talks to fellow
Plebes only in their barracks.
"It is neither harsh nor cruel, bu:
it is hard" said 1t. Col. c. F. Fritz
sche, commanding officer of new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
GOV. M'CRATH TO
ADDRESS CLASS
Providence College Hold
ing Commencement Exer=
ment Exercises Aug. 2

Providence, R. l., July 23-J. How
ard McGrath, governor of Rhode
Island, will be the speaker at the
tWenty-second commencement exer-
clses at Providence College, on Aug
ust 2, Very Rev. DR.. John j. Dillon.
0. p, president, announced today.
The first alumnus to be so honored
Governor McGrath was graduated
from Providence college in 1926 and
received an honorary doctor of laws
degree from his alma mater in 194l.
The usual commencement activi-
ties have been curtailed again this
year, DR.. Dillon stated, with the bac-
calaureate Mass and reception to
parents occurring on Sunday and
the comforting of degrees by Most
Rev. Francis P. Keough, D. D., bish-
op OF Providence, being held Monday
morning.
Rev. William r. Clark, o. p, Phi
ID, professor of sociology and SEN
Tor class moderator, will celebrate
the baccalaureate Mass. Rev. Dan
lei M. Galliher, o. p, j. C. D.. reg
strar, will deliver the baccalaureate
sermon.
Traditional cap and gown day ex-
ercises, usually the first commence
ment ceremony, have been omitted
this year, for the first time. The
graduating class will wear academic
garb during commencement exer-
cises only instead of attending their
last month Of classes in caps and
gowns as formerly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
FIVE OFFICERS ARE AMONG PLEBEs
UNDERGOING STERNEST DISCIPLINE
IN ACADEMY'S "BEAST BARRACKS"
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
NEA Staff Correspondent

west Point July ga thousand
the
soldering here Grant and Macarthur
hover learned i-but
Many in blue coveras before the 1s-
hour day ended qunt the
con of personal experience anything
like this!" ~ ~ ~ ''e
These come by way of Casabnca Iceland
donors competitive
number OF them their appointments About
this
stoned officers of the INC " ~
Now they the hard system of
discipline to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
COP COMMITTEE
MEETING MONDAY

The Republican town convention
will reconvene Monday in the Y.
M. C. A. at p. m. to decide on the
report of a committee it selected
two weeks ago to consider the re-
quest of the Young Republican club
that the primary filing fee of $25
a district be eradicated.
The SIS fee per district will be
recommended by the committee, and
it is likely that the convention will
adopt this proposal.
Edward UdeloWitz and his organi-
cation will reiterate it's request that
the fee be eradicated altogether, and
that the expenses of any primary
come from the party treasury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Private Anthony Henry Faiia, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Vncenzo Faia of Sc Fairfield Avenue has been assigned
y Army Specialized Training Unit at Washington
end Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania. He
one of four hundred student soldiers studying at his
toric W. and j. "odest college west of the Aleghenes
for specialized training in such fields as engineering
medicine, dentistry veterinary surgery chemistry psy
have mastered the techniques of profession which will
make him highly skilled and weeducated soldier. He
must undergo rigid routine of military training, mill
tary discipline and physical instruction in addition to
carrying heavy of academic work in several college
grade courses
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

poise and personality of a cadet"
there is no one of status lower than
Plebe.
HE'LL LIKE IT-LATER
I'm going to like it here very
much - later on" said E. ".
Pfauth Beast Barracks, the in
tensive period wherein new
cadet learns humility, respect for
authority, and "all basic qualities
of soldier" by executing with
minute precision the commands
of upperclassmen, lasts but a
month.
Once an Army corporal Pfauth
is 20, two years more than the aver
age age of this years new cadets.
He's the son of the city assessor of
Paramount, MINI. He got to Aus
tralia IS months ago. He had want
ed to be flyer, but was too young,
SO he enlisted. Half through basic
training, he was shipped off in one
of many units thrown together to
replace men who did not get out of
the Philippines. Pfauth took two
preliminary exams in which the
Army screened candidates for vac
ancies among its 100 West Point ap-
pointments. Seven others took
whirl at the final qualifying exam
with Pfauth. Two passed.
"Out there we had TWO alerts, but
no bombs dropped on us. Rather
mild" He grinned, Here, it's quite
rugged"
He might have been thinking of
the Academy definition of leather,
which he has mastered along with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

About one in ten of West Points
1000 new plebes was already in
uniform when, as pictured above,
the class marched to the Academy
to begin the strenuous course of
officer training. Shortly after
ward, on maneuvers, they saw
upperclassmen making realistic
use of flame throwers right and
other devices of modern war.
cadets. 1--WE mean to be hard. War
is hard"
That is the informal side of
Plebe education. Formally, un-
der the command of Brig. Gen.
Phillip E. Gallagher, who set up
many Army replacement centers
before becoming commandant of
cadets, the fourth-classman is
completing in six weeks the
standard 12-Weeks' basic training
All West Point is, figuratively, on
the double all the time. The corps
and its officers are working so per
cent harder and longer than before
the war.
Burroughs have been shortened,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Staff Sergeant William F. McGrath son of Mr.. and
Mrs Patrick j. McGrath of 424 Willow Street. has been
transferred to the Army Air Forces Thireth College
cinnat Ohio from Sheppard Field, Texas, where he will
take five months preparatory prefght course of mil
itary and academic training The academic instruction
at Xavier University under the jurisdiction of the Army
Air Gulf Coast Training Center Randolph Field
Texas consists of collegeeve courses in physics mathe
matics English, history and geography The Aviation
flight instruction at the Cincinnati Airport and at
Lunken Field They also receive requisite training in
tary ndoctrnation Upon completion of the course he
will be classified navigator pilot bombardier and
after training Aviation Cadet will be awarded the
silver wings of the United States Army Air Corps. He
is former empoye of the Waterbury Clock Company
and later manager the Republican American
He enlisted December 49, 1e41 and after attending the
assigned to the Troop Carrier Command where he served
Line Chief of the 53rd Tr Cr Wing prior to his trans
FER to Sheppard Field preflight cadet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
AIR RAID WARDENS
TO DISCUSS RULES

A general conference pertaining
to civilian defense problems will be
participated in by chief air raid
wardens of the 15-town Waterbury
warning district tonight at 8 in the
aldermanic chambers here, an
nounced Chief Air Raid Warden
James J. Curtin.
The local district includes Bea-
con Falls, Bethlehem, Bristol,
Cheshire, Meriden, Middlebury,
Naugatuck, Plymouth, Prospect,
Southbury, Southington, Thomas
ton. Watertowr, Woodbury. and
Wolcott.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

PFC. Joseph Caretto, of Mrs. Elizabeth Caretto
of 1913 Baldwin Street, was certainly happy lad on his
recent u1ough here which marked his first trip home
in two years. Now stationed at Haloran General Hos
pita in Staten Island N. Y, undergoing medical obser
Guardsman has been in the South Pacific year.
He has three brothers in the service PFC. Francis
somewhere in Africa, Private Jim with the Air Corps in
Tampa Florida and Private Albert with the Air Corps
Atlantic City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
ODD CLOCKS

Natives of the San Augustin re-
gion of Colombia, South America,
tell the time of day by chewing a
namabeo, which consists of cocoa
leaves mixed with lime cooked in
sugar waterf A mambeo lasts four
hours, so the natives divide their
day into three mambeos, and reckon
time by them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Joseph E. Guzzardi son of MIR. and MIR. Santo Guz
zard Is Pond Street. private first Glass; recently
graduated from the Armament School of the Army
Air Force Technical Training Command at Lowry Field
Colorado. Joe enlisted in the service at New Haven in
December of last year and finished basic training at
Miami Beach, Florida. Later he went to radio school
in Madison Wisconsin. The Maoney grammer school
graduate was craftsman in civilian life employed by
the Naugatuck Rubber Company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

a lecture on baseball at police head
quarters yesterday. The boys we're
among a group playing baseball on
the Division St, playground, when
a mighty homer broke a window of
st. Pauls Methodist church for the
umpteenth time. This time church
authorities decided to keep the ball.
The youths protested Justify until
motor patrolman John Culleton ar
rived to escort three of the lustiest
to headquarters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Harry Frank, veteran city hall messenger, has moth
ing to GO all this week but sit around and relax.
Maurice Hennes, genial manager of the Hadey Furnl-
ture COMPANY is passing out the smokes this week.
It was son born to his lovely Missus at st. Marys
Hospital last Saturday. It's two boys in the Hennes
Stephana Lane domicle now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Mike Blansfield son of the Grand Street barrister,
now at Fort SILL Oklahoma. He recently graduated
from Corners r. o. T. C. =. Helen Pawlick of the
budget directors office in the city hall is enjoying her
annual vacation this week :. Mrs. Helen Tehan Smith
Of the Purchasing Agents personnel returns to work
next Monday morning after two weeks of nothing
Good Night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Charles Doherty of Johnson Street, member OF
the City Water Department, is hospitazed at st.
Mary's. . Rose Cullinan, member of the city con-
troler's personnel, is enjoying two weeks of nothing
to-do Attorney and Mrs. Fred Palomba and family
are yacationing this month at Fort Trumbu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Johnny DiCorpo assistant city clerk and a former
member of our reportorial staff is vacaoning this
week City Sheriff Glenn Brott is also enjoying his
annual leave of absence this week. Daniel j. Llyz
and Julia Aemeida both of this city, made application
for a marriage license Wednesday in New Britain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
Police Blotter

Andrew N. Sepe, 20, 1872 Mill St.
charged with taking car without
permission, parking without lights
On the highway, and violating rules
of the road, was granted continu-
ance to July 81 at a hearing in Wal
lingford borough court Wednesday.
A Darcy Transportation Co.,
pickup truck, stolen in Waterbury
more than three weeks ago, was
found hidden yesterday in the
dense foliage and underbrush near
DOwd camp at Bantam lake by a
Litchfield county Jail inmate,
working at the camp under the
direction of High Sheriff Harry
b. Morse, state police reported.
State and local police are inves-
tigationg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
SONG VACATION

After singing through three pic
lures, Betty Hutton went songless
In "The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek. 4"
then went back to numerous songs
in Lets Face It" and And The
Angels Sing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
| n Tall M Tower
1tSIii1lfi1Gd; nii,l THE MAN IN TU TOWER
Good Evening.
Su1 BY THE MAN IN THy TOWER

Edward A. Garthwait of Garthwait Road, Wolcott,
is hospitalized at e Mary's. Walter Garthwalt OF
the same town has been made private first class at
Camp Maxey, Texas. Mr. and Mrs John Putnam
of Fern Avenue Hitchcock Lake, entertaining PFC
Charles Putnam of Camp Hunter Field, Savannah
Georgia and PFC Philip Rogers of Camp Breckenridge
Kentucky
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Bill Costello veteran member of the New York Police
Department. enjoying three weeks OF his annual moth
ing TODD with pay with his better half at cottage IN
Wolcott Possessor of grand sense of humor Bill has
the knack of making acquaintance feel as if they
knew him years. entertaining chap haven't
met in years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Senators in Mexico have 9. rted
campaign against "continuism",
or reelection of governors to the
extent that they become almost per-
uetpal executives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Mr. and Mrs Anthony Guarino of Carmen Street
now have typical American family. Their second
child Robert Anthony arrived at ST. Marys Hospital
suly Is. Their daughter Janice Claire just recently
celebrated her second birthday Mrs GuarinO is the
'ormer Marie Carozza of Lounsbury Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23
STOVE PORCELAIN UNCHANGED

Affluent European householders
of the 18th century used porcelain
stoves 10 to II feet high, colorfully
decorated with painted designs and
luminous stones. During the past
four centuries, the shape of stoves
has changed radically, but por-
celain finish is the same as that OF
the old stove.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

In 1912 the Army's Air Trans
port Command flew over 100000
miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Pilfering on che railway in Eng
land now costs 81 900 day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-23

Three 10 year old boys received
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-27
Food PurIey
Continued From First Page J

agenda contains the full story Of
the conference department off,
cial said
The agenda begins with an effort
to ascertain the facts as to what
are the needs of the various peoples
of the world for food and other
essential agricultural products, with
due regard to differing conditions
and possibilities among countries"
a preamble to the agenda reads.
1T recognizes that in the past,
excessive accumulations of certain
agricultural products were. in fact,
not SURPRISES at all when measured
by the worlds minimum needs of
food and clothing; that these So
called SURPRISES were usually the
result of maldistribution and un.
derconsumption.
U. S. Has mo Program
1T then seeks to ascertain the
prospects for so organizing world
agricultural production as to enable
the satisfaction Of these needs and
to explore the measures, both do
nestle and international, by which
production can be. enhanced and
better directed in terms of consump-
ton.
Finally it examines the measures
and conditions which are necessary
to assure that what can be pro-
duced moves into consumption"
Department officials stressed that
the United States has mo program
we are trying to put over" during
the course of the convention The
parley Is expected to last at least
three weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-27
Statesmen Make Hitch-Hikino
Big Business and Save Rubber

81 and so cents a month in dues.
Ten cents month of the dues
goes to headquarters for ONCE ex-
penses and the remainder for hiring
crelical help and to pay postage
in the cities in which local chap
tiers are organized.
Every member gives the secretary
an itinerary of his next weeks or
next months work, capacity of his
car. his address and phone number.
The secretary makes q list of his
members routes and leaves it at
hotels and headquarters.
BY flashing his membership card
q member-and only q member
can see the list and arrange for q
lift.
Three or four riders usually 70
together and the passengers usually
pay the car owner a cent . mile.
Says q. w. Mellen, district mile
age rationms of1cer OF the OPA:
Its doing just the Job we're try
Ing to get DONE"
TT gets VI there