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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
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PICNICS DELIGHT YOUNGSTERS
By GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Staff Writer

On the lawn, the porch, or in a vacant lot, picnic thrills young sters. Pack basket for them with hard-cooked eggs, sausage to slice, rye bread, oranges, tomatoes, cook ies or cakes and Q generous gala supply of carbonated beverages. These make a glorious picnic for the young vacationers.
 Here are at hofne receipes for warm day good etating:
 Poached Egg (Easy Method)
 An easy way to poach an egg without losing some of 1t in the water is to put a tiny bit of butter or fortified margarine in the bot- tom of the pan. Break the egg in and leave only few seconds to start coagulation before adding boiling water. No loss-no sticking.
 Scalloped Melange
 Combine parboiled potatoes, thin- 1y sliced onions and carrot cubes with milk to cover, salt and pepper to taste. Bake slowly in moderate oven till done. Use light cream if you're that lucky.
 Avoid cooking odors by preparing fish the following way:
 Broiled Fish steaIks
 Sprinkle Ash steaks generously with lemon juice. Then -four one side of fish only. Place this fioured side down on preheated broiler pan containing enough fat to cover bottom Of pan. Turn immediately. Sprinkle with salt and paprika. Broil until Drowned without fur- ther turning (ahout i2 minutes) Serve with lemon quarters.
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POLl'S

Now playing at the Loew-Poli theater is the spectacular new tech- nicolor hit Mob Hill," starring George Raft. Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine and Peggy Ann Garner. The films exciting story is set in San Francisco's fabulous Barbary Coast at the turn of the century when girls kicked highest, fists crashed hardest and blood ran hottest. Il is the story of the love battle that made the Barbary Coast pause in it's song. turn from its women and reach for its hips.
 In the thrilling drama with music, George Raft is seen as tough
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ner. The picture marks her first time in makeup, first time in technicolor, the first she sings on the screen and the first time she uses an Irish accent. But best of all, in this movie, the sensational "Francie" wears curls and pretty clothes for the first time on the screen.
 Hollywood hit song writers Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson have scored again, this time with two hit tunes. The songs, both of which are sung in the film by luscious Vivian Blaine, are T Walked Ins and T Don't Care Who Knows It." both destined for the top-of- -the-hit parade standing.
 The second attraction on this program is the murder mystery Fog Island" with Lionel Atwill and George Zucco.
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IN HOLLYWOOD
Un-MeIoncholy Dane

trill. It suddenly occurred to him that it was like lunatic's dream young kid going "tiddle-de-de" at the piano with two fingers for an audience which had paid the monetary equivalent of several tons of anchovies to witness it.
 Borge began to giggle and looked at the audience. The audience be- gan to laugh. It was the funniest concert in history, he says, and it started him on his career as keyboard comedian.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

New York.-Man-styled suits, but styled to the dandif1ed taste of the French courier and the English Beau Brummel, are striking fashion innovations in new fall collections.
 The French dandy's satin togs influence this years cocktail suits dreamy combinations of light and
 bright jackets lit up by sparklers and posed against slightly f1ared dark skirts. Example is the Jo Copeland-designed suit, center, which combines 8 waist-hugging fiared jacket of cerise satin, high lighted by a jeweled collar and a black satin skirt, gored into the new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
CHESTER IS EASY

Chester, W. va.-(UP) - West Virginia municipalities range from those named for famous states men, soldiers and pioneers to those which bear Indian names. But J. E Mcdonald, who laid out this pot tery town, chose the name Chester because 1t is a short name, easy to remember"
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By GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Food and Markets EditoI

Any sugar left? Then stretch it with light or dark corn syrup and put a few luxury" jars of pre- serves, marmalades and spiced vege- tables on your 1945 canning self.
 RED TOMATO PRESERVES
 Yield: g six-0unce glasses Dip 2 pounds small red tomatoes in boiling water minute, repeat the process using cold water; peel and quarter. Cover 6 thin lemon slices with water, and boil 5 min uteS. drain: discard liquid.
 Combine mixture of 2 cups light corn syrup and cups sugar, place them in a large saucepan and bring them quickly to a boiling point. Add tomatoes, lemon, 2 pieces of ginger root and Ia teaspoon salt. Boil mixture rapidly from IS to 20 minutes until tomatoes are clear and syrup is thick. stirring con- stantly to prevent scorching. Pour into hot sterilized glasses. Seal them immediately with Q thing layer of hot melted paraffin. sPICED BEETS - Yield: { pints
 3 pound young tender beets
 l cup dark corn syrup
 cup sugar
 2 cups vinegar
 teaspoon salt
 E teaspoon white pepper
 teaspoon cloves
 teaspoon allspice
 tablespoon cinnamon
 lemon, thinly sliced
 Cook beets until tender, about IS minutes: dip in cold water, peel and cut in large dice or thin slices. Put remaining ingredients In sauce- pan, bring to Q boil. Add beets and cook ib minutes. Completely iili hot steriiised jars and seal immediate ly.
 000sEBERRY JAM
 xleldi 70 slx.ounee glasses
 cups goosehefTies
 Q i-3 cups sugar
 2 2-3 cups light corn Gyrup
 Pick over aed wash sossebeFfieg; remove stem onds. Put in large saucepan. fAaoh well. copef and eeek slowly i'nlii 1|kins nre eoit, &fi1 1i4sf ead 1Yfup. cpok, s1iTf1n
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In 1940 he and his wife came to the United States. Unable to dent the tough elephant hide that is Yankee show business in New York, they moved on to Hollywood be cause it was cheaper to live there. " Then radio discovered him. But Hollywood, except for that false start at RKO last year, hasn't found the right niche for him yet. But Hollywood will, we are positive, be- cause he is a one-rnan show.
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By SUE BURNETT


 A favorite outfit for little girls-- a gay, brightly colored jumper and dainty drawstring blouse. It will be especially nice for fall and winter. Pattern No. 8690 is designed for sizes 3, 4, 5, 6, 2 and 8 years. Size 4, jumper, requires 115 yards of s or 39-inch fabric; blouse, 1 yard. For this pattern, send 20 cents, in COINS, your name, address, size desired, and the PATTERN NUM- BER to Sue Burnett. The Water bury Democrat) 1l5o Sixth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y.
 Send today for your copy or '.FASHION"-it's full of ideas for summer wardrobe planning. IS cents.
 vc-K, ,dcentS.
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FREE BUS RIDE

New Orleans-(UP)-It was s a. m.. and the passengers in the bus were very rleepy. but enough awake to realize that the driver had told them. Keep your money: this ride Is free" As the bus got underway, the operator explained that during the previous trip Q 'philanthropist" had boarded the bus. presented him with c dollar and given instruction that the next i4 persons were to ride free.
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feeling of fullneSS,

feeling of fullness.
 The long Eighteenth Century English coat-sometimes fitted and sometimes loose-hanging, like dip- lomat's-joins up with both skirts and dresses to make some of the snappiest suits of the season. The chocolate brown wool coat, left, is one such coat high-lighting Ben Reig's new collection. It tops one piece dress with a matching brown skirt and blouse-like top of gray satin, bow-tied at the neck in the Lord Byron fashion.
 Also new and jaunty are jackets that wrap around, tie, and close at the side. This new side slant is buttoned up under one arm in an
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ToM0RRoW's MENU

DREAKFAsT: orape fruit with raspberry garnish. shred. ded wheat with hot milk. poached egg, toast. butter or fortified margarine. coflee.
 LUNCHEON: Tomato hspic salad, crisp Wafers. celery, rads ishes, peach ahofteake, coeea.
 DINNER; Dfoifed iish ntonks WIIh lemon quarters. eceiIeped potatoes onion eeIIcio. string bean ezie1. ofen41 aheFe1t. p&tt. itta 4rAtS. N!'x
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important collection of black woolen suits, the jackets of which have jeweled court emblems as big and shining as headlights.
 Full sleeves or deep yokes are of- ten used as the excuse for intro ducing color contrasts or focal points of decoration into suits, as the Samuel Kass model, right, il- lustrtates. Here in gray and white striped suit of simple design gets into the spot light with yoke faked with rows of cross-stitched chenille, which opens into black vel vet-faced revers.
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} McKENNEY
 ON BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY Americas Card Authority

I was in Philadelphia recently and met Lt-Col. Ben M. Colder. It was the colonel's first day out of uniform. He loves to bid, and he does put you in some peculiar con- tracts, but it is always an evening of laughs when you play with Ben. While I admit we went a little high
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
WE. THE WOMEN
WE. THE WOAEEN- Home Offers Good Living For GI Joe
BY RUTH MILLETT

Here's good news for G. I. Joe. Some of the concern over his fu- ttlIre welfare has understandably been trifle annoying to him. After all, he doesn't want to be regarded
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as a case prob- lem when he gets home. But he'll c e t a nly b e pleased to hear tn at his little woman is getting some sound ad- vice on how to make his home, e v e n If 1t Is ] u s t 8 t W O. r o o m apa r t. m e n t, confor- table enough to make him for- get the diseom- R~.1
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YES. THE BIG ONES COME TO THE POLL
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BIG BENEFIT GAME
HERE ON SATURDAY

CONTINUED from Page One)
tons not previously published,
include the following:
Warrensville school. $18.26;
Fleetwood school, $24.15; Rock
Creek school, $1,000; Frances
Tucker, $500; Mrs. ]. G. Neal,
$3.50; Cramer Edwards, $500;
Ashland School, $500; I. o. o. F.,
No. 80, $500; R. P. Baker, $500;
Oval School, $500; Beaver Creek
Baptist church, $1.OO; J. F. Bal
lou, $1,000; Graham School, $500.
Glendale Springs School, $500;
Mrs. Beatrice McNeill, $500;
Burnt Hill School. $40; Mrs. w.
L. Church, $500; Big Ridge
School, $11.OO; Ward Ray, $500;
Trout School, $500; West Jeffer-
son Methodist Sunday School,
1851; Rich Hill School, $500;
Riverview School, $127.O7; Mea-
dow View School, $4.05; Harriet
E. Powers, $500; Clifton colored
school, $14.O0; Glendale Springs
Presbyterian Sunday School, 81
90; Glendale Springs community,
$40.
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GILBERT BUSH is
SCOUT SPEAKER HERE

Continued tro~n Page Onn)
Mr.. Bush was introduced by j.
H. G. Thomas, Assistant Boy
Scout Executive, of Winston-Sa-
lem.
Officers elected at the meeting
were Levern Johnson, chairman;
J. H. Payne, vice-chairman, and
A. B. Hurt, commissioner.
In addition to electing officers,
the six main operating commit
tees which included: advance
ment, health and safety, leader
ship training, finance, camp and
activities, were discussed.
It was announced that the
Parkway District, which was last
year made up Of Ashe and Watau-
ga counties, was last year winner
of the Old Hickory Council Boy
Scouts of America silver trophy
award. which is awarded to the
council in the district having the
greatest net gain in membership
during the past year. The trophy
will be presented to the district
at the executive board meeting in
Mount Airy, next April, by Clyde
Green, chairman. The Parkway
District had a gain of Is percent
during the year.
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TEACHERS PAY, OTHER
PROBLEMS TO DECIDE

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passage was deferred until Feb
ruary 20. e.;
Rep. Caveness of Guilford, au-
thor of the bill, led the floor
scrap over postponing action but
the motion finally carried, 53-47.
Senators Price of Rockingham,
Carlyle of Forsyth and Matheny
of Rutherford sent up a bill pro-
viding that no license be issued
for the operation of any taxicab
until the governing body of the
city or town has issued certifi-
cate showing that the operator
has provided liability insurance,
and that the convenience and
necessity of the public requires
the operation of such taxicab. All
persons operating cabs on last
January l would be entitled to
a certificate of necessity. The
governing bodies also could es-
tablish taxicab rates.
Senator Matheny also intro
duced a bill to amend the general
election laws, increasing the pay
of election officials by ST day,
and allowing county elections
boards to divide precinct having
more than $500 registrants.
With the Republican minority
leader, T. E. Story, in command,
a group of Wilkes County dele
gates marshalled their forces for
a last-ditch fight against efforts
of ''insurgent" Wilkes Countians
to have a portion of southwest
Wilkes annexed to Caldwell
county.
A petition with 600 to 700 sign
ers opposing annexation was re-
ported ready for presentation to
the House Committee on Coun-
ties, Cities and Towns as it pre-
pared to hear the case today.
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FARMERS URGED TO
COLLECT POINTS

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meat their fair share of the civil
an meat supply"
"Sale or gift of rationed meat
resulting from farm slaughter
must be given serious attention
at local board level. Steps must
be taken to have farm slaughter
ers forward points to local boards
and report sales or gifts on R.
l6O9 Revised" he declared. Lo-
cal boards will use every source
of information for identifying
farm slaughterers and urge them
to comply with regulations, it
was pointed out.
Farm slaughterers as we'll as
commercial slaughterers are le-
gally required to turn over to
OPA the points collected each
month in which they make sales
or transfers of rationed meats.
Failure on the part of farm
slaughterers to do so does as
much injury to general welfare
as would the failure of packing
companies to abide by the ration
ing regulations" agent Grouse
concluded.
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and additions to some we already have.
The county courthouse is among these.
Tentative plans for this were announced
Just before wartime conditions made it
impossible to be carried out. We.hc
these can be revived.
West Jefferson will probably have a
fire truck in the very near future. A
building for housing this will be needed.
Let's erect building large enough for this
as well as other needs of the town. 1t is
not too early to start planning now if we
expect to build when materials and labor
are available.
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RED ARMY is STILL
MARCHING FORWARD
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\OOAAkAA1AOSAI IL oAAA 0EC O1AOI
The 18th airborne division in
taking Cavite seized ten enemy
sea-planes and a battery of three
inch guns intact.
Widening their breach in the
Siegfried line between the Mas
(Meuse) river and the Rhine,
British and Canadian troops yes
terday drove beyond Kleve,
emerging from the eastern edge
of the Reichwald and, south of
the forest, established a bridge
head over the Niers river.
Approximately 1000 British
planes slashed at Nazi forces con-
fronting Field Marshal Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery's troops on
this northern sector of the western
front.
More than 100 miles to the
south, the U. S. third army sent
elements of three divisions pour
ing through a new break in Hit
ler's westwall south of Pruem,
while other doughboys drove the
last Germans from the soil of
Luxembourg.
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to keep hogs in the town of West
Jefferson shall make application
to the town clerk for permit
which may be granted provided it
does not conflict with this Or
dinance. All violators of this Or
dinance shall be subject to a fine
of $500 for the first offense and
$1,000 for each offense thereaf-
ter.
Be, and is hereby ordered by
the board of aldermen of the town
of West Jefferson, that all hog
and pig pens and lots are to be
regularly and properly cleaned
and not allowed to become filthy
and unsanitary All persons who
refuse to clean pens or lots found
to be filthy and unsanitary and
upon being notified by the po-.
liceman or sanitary officer, to
abate such nuisance shall upon
conviction pay penalty of $500
and the cost for each day such
nuisance remains undated.
This ordinance automatically
takes the place of all previous
ones relating to the raising of
hogs in West Jefferson and is
now in effect.
This the 18th day of February,
1915.
T. E. Parker, Clerk.
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Memorial Building

The Rotary club is to be commended on
initial plans for memorial building. From
this starting point, we hope the plans will
be carried out Levern Johnson, as the
chairman of the committee, should be
able to lead the club as we'll as to inspire
the confidence of others in cooperating to
make this dream a reality.
The cause is very worthy and the build
ing would serve a crying need: Under
proper supervision, the recreational facili-
ties alone, to be offered in the proposed
building, will be of great value in the train
ing of youth. We must remember, too,
that training of the youth today is impor
tant for our citizenship of tomorrow.
Let's all honor the men, who are fight
ing for our way of life, by cooperating in
the movement to erect this living memorial
. one that will serve the coming gen.
erations as well as the present.
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Future Possibilities

Where do jobs come from?
There may be lot of different answers
to that question. Some people seem to be
getting the idea, more and more, that when
the war is over jobs will come from the
government. Others think it is up to big
business to provide jobs for all.
There is still plenty of room in our
country for new business, large and small.
A woman in this very town may have
a recipe for a delicious food item which,
under proper direction could be developed
into a new food business. A local mechanic
may have invented a gadget to defrost
windshields which could be sold to every
motorist in the country and create jobs for
hundreds of people.
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Grading Ourselves

We have recently observed the equip
ment of various eating places in town and
in these places it can readily be seen that
Sanitarian Wade E. Eller has been on the
job. We congratulate the owners as well
as Mr.. Eller on the work they are doing
The fact that the State Board of Health has
certain requirements for such places, and
the places are given grades based on these
requirements, is stimulation for improved
conditions.
School children respond readily to
grades, and so do more mature Individuals
where there is any significance to the rat
ing. Experts grade business houses from
an efficiency standpoint, as we'll as from
financial standing. We can scarcely pick
up magazine without finding some intel
igence quiz. From these we can presum-
ably tell whether we are average, below
average or better than the average.
If you operate business it is not always
practical or possible to secure the help of
an efficiency expert but by setting up
some standards you may grade yourself to
some advantage. The points you rate low
est on may sometimes be raised with little
expense or effort. Try it.
Did you ever stop to grade yourself from
the standpoint Of being a good. citizen? Ask
yourself, Gam I liberal in thought and
means, cooperative, tolerant, public spirit
ed, good neighbor, pleasant, cheerful, a
supporter of churches, schools and other
worthwhile institutions?" Of course, we
cannot all be all things to all people, but
tons for good citizen.
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BIG THREE AGREE
ON WORLD PLANS

Continued from Page One)
time Summer palace of Car Mich
olas II on the Black Sea at Yalta
in the Crimea, a conference that
may shape tomorrow's world.
The decisions were announced
in joint communique from the
participants, President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill, and
Premier Stain.
Here at home first reaction in
Congress and elsewhere was over
whelmingly favorable for the re-
ports of the leaders of the three
great powers. That report COW
cred prime resolves:
Final determination of Nazism
and militarism; elimination or
control of all German industry
disable for war; no softening of
unconditional surrender; and no
break in the Allied front.
Collaboration in peace plans to
be formally drafted at a United
Nations Conference at San Fran
cisco April Is; and a settlement
(its nature not yet disclosed) of
the question of veto power for
the great nations on peace coun-
Gil actions.
Joint action to effectuate the
Atlantic Charter principle of self
government for liberated peoples,
with U. S. participation on a far
larger scale than heretofore.
The United Nations conference
to establish a world security Or
ganization will be held in San
Francisco, beginning April Is, with
the Big Three already agreed on
the most controversial issue
question of voting machinery.
This was revealed Tuesday in
supplemental report on the
Crimea meeting between Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Premier
Josef Stain in which they mapp-
ed future cooperation in winning
the war and the peace.
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Postwar Building Plans

During the period, when building has
been restricted, the needs of this town and
county have greatly increased Not only
is there growing need for homes and
business buildings but public buildings.
Tentative plans are being made for
needed school buildings. We hope the
various communities of the county will
cooperate with Superintendent A. B.
Hurt and the county board of education
and work out some definite plans as soon
as possible in order to take advantage of
any public works program, that will be-
come available in the postwar period.
There are other public buildings need
ed. There is also need for improvements
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NOTICE

The following ordinance per-
tanning to the raising of hogs in
the town of West Jefferson has
been passed by the board of al
dermen and the attention of the
citizens is hereby called to its OBJ
servance:
No person shall be allowed to
keep hogs or pigs in pens or lots
within two hundred and fifty
feet of any residence or place of
business within the corporate
limits of the town of West Jeffer-
son, N. c. All persons desiring
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Conservation
Farming News
Weekly Items OF Interest To
AShe Farmers
By j. +. McLAURIN
By J. T. McLAURIN

Due to the fact that large part
OF Ashe county crops are grown
on steep hill side soil, erosion is
greater than in some other sec
tons of our country. If these
sloping fields are to be cultivated
we know of no better way to re-
duce erosion to a minimum and
by doing SO increase production
than by the use of contour shrip
cropping. From time to time,
this column has quoted what diff
ferent farmers in the county have
said about this one soil conserva-
ton practice. If you are consid-
ering cultivating some of your
steep fields this year and are not
quite sure whether to strip crop
or not, I would like for you 10
talk with some of the farmers
who have tried this practice. I
feel sure that you shall never re-
greet the time you have spent in
finding out from your neighbour
ing farmers the value of this one
soil-saving practice. I refer you
to a small number of men and
women who are practicing con-
tour strip cropping: J. C. Little,
Carl l.. Belvins, G.. H. Pugh, J.
w. Gambill, V. c. Lillard, Bill
Mcmillan, John Littlewood, E. J.
Brown, Tom GRAPHICAL, Bob
Phipps, Miss Gertrude and Alta
Perkins. In addition to all the
other advantages of contour strip
cropping, the AAA will pay each
farmer $500 per acre for estab-
fishing this practice in 1945.