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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
SOCIAL e PERSONAL
ST. PAUL

The SetCulture club met at the home of Mrs Elizabet
Hail. 39S ~ Dale St. Saturday, Dec H. The group made pan
for its annual Christmas party be held Dec 90 at the
of Mrs. Josie Williams, CTS Iglehart Ave
Sunday Dec. r. Mrs Ruth Grice 447 Kent 81 cavo d;
for Mrs Jean Shepherd and her two children of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
Trend In U. S. Agriculture
Is Toward Bigger Farms

Economists Of the department Of
agriculture say that the family sized
farm is larger. more mechanical,
and more commerclalized than ever
before. The average farm is now
20 acres larger than It was Ave years
ago and so acres bigger than II was
Is years ago. The big, spreading
ranches Of the west and the small
farms Of the east are, Of course, fig.
ured into this average.
The west has shown the greatest
jump in size Of farms. with nearly
10 per cent Of the farms in the
west now more than 1000 acres
These big farms account for four
hfths Of the farm land Of the west
Even In the midwest a fifth Of the
farm land is in units OF over 1000
acres. A strong demand for prac-
ticany all farm products during the
last half dozen years in combination
with speedy progress in machine
farming has caused farmers to ex-
pand their acreage. Very little new
farm land has become available
in the period, so large farms have
become larger by taking in other
farms or parts Of other farms. Even
with all this expansion in farm acre
age, the small farm is not immedl-
stely doomed: at least, not for a
while. Farms Of from 10 to 100 acres
still account for a large proportion
Of all farms in all regioV. Two
thirds Of the farms in the south:
one-hah in the east; two-ffths in
the west; and third in the midwest
are still small farms.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17

the home Of Mrs. Ann Mann, $50
Western Ave, Thursday, Dec. Il
Mrs. Nellie Stone, of Minneapolis
will be the guest reviewer.
Mr.. Fritz Nay of B. C., Canada
was the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. f
H. Robinson and Cora A. Carr 70
Thanksgiving and the week fol
lowing. Mr.. Nay arrived in tn
city Nov "a, and left Monday
Dec. 6. While here, Mr.. Nay wa
entertained by Mr.. and Mrs. vii
liam Kemp of Emerson Ave. No.
Minneapolis.
Katherine Gresham, 561 Carol
Ave, was married quietly Satur
day Dec. IL, to David Williams
Sol Iglehart, with the Rev. Floy,
Massey, Jr., reading the marriag.
vows. The couple, who were mar
ried at the church parsonage, will
be at home at sol Carroll Ave.
Mrs. Fred d. williams, us St
Anthony Ave, and son David ar
leaving Monday, Dec. 20, for Kan.
sas City, Kans., to visit her father
and join the family in a reunion
Pictures of four generations OF
the family will be taken, with the
father, 81 years old Wilson Nc
The Williams will return
to the city before the first of the
year.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
Laundering Tests

Laundering tests made at the
Montana experiment station show
that In general soap and detergents
do an equally good Job in washing
Atwood and all-silk fabrics, but that
soap Is superior for cotton. linen,
rayon, or mixtures Of cotton and
wool Fibers differ in chemical ma
ture, silk and wool being protein
from animal sources. and cotton,
linen and rayon cellulose from plant
sources. Soap, because Of its aka
line content. cleans plant hbers bet
ter. For washing Atwood blankets,
detergents proved better, but blank
cts Of IS per cent wool and Is per
cent cotton washed better with soap.
Detergents were not successful with
Woolen baby clothes because al
though they removed soil they did
not remove food stains. Silk stock
ings washed successfully with either
soap or detergents. Although colors
did not fade as quickly with de-
tergents, cotton and rayon dresses,
and table linens developed a soiled,
grimy appearance when washed
with non soap compounds in the
Montana experiments.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
Britain Changed Calendar In
1852 and Lost a Weekend

When England changed New
Years Day from March IS 10 jam.
ary In 1852 and adopted the Gregg
rian calendar, thousands Of English
men suffered q prolonged lost week
end" According TO the EncycIo.
paedia Britannica, the change n The
calendar made Il necessary to wipe
out II days Of the year, which was
done by declaring that the day after
September 2 was September IA, not
September 3. This brought EnRiand
into step with the Catholic countries.
which had adopted the GFaRorian
calendar In l582
During the early Middle ages.
March Is vas considered the first
day Of the new year By most chris-
tan peoples, but in AnEIo.Saxon
England, the Britannica points out,
New Years Day fell on what Is now
Christmas--December Is. Al the
time Of the Norman Conquest Of
England, however, william me Con-
queror ordered that the year should
start on the irst Of January, pos
sibly, II Is believed, because his cor.
onation was scheduled for that date.
StiIl later. England reverted to the
custom observed by the rest Of
christendom and began her year on
the 18th Of March, and that date
remained the FIRST Of the legal and
ecclesiastical year until l7S2 when
the calendar was adjusted to the
Gregorian system which Il stin n
use today.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
CHATTER -PATTER
CHRISTMAS CARDS
BY HELEN SMITH

CHRISTMAS CARDS
Running five old Christmas cards
had dsquietng effect like turning the
lifting the the changes the sender lives
To-day the folks away gotten
married had babies divorced secured important jobs
asylum and five Of them dead few make
Of difference.
AS approach the holidays and the end of as can't help
wondering what's in store the world But opst
hopeful of the best.
WEDDING BELLS
They're ringing hCrn ance Sidney s.
Anderson
Ruth the daughter Of Rosa Pman, SSI2 9Th
has been active musical Minneapolis
Mr. Anderson formerly Falls n
mechanical research division Of Mills.
The couple will be married quietly by the
the stroke o midnight
Congratulations best wishes, to you bOthI
STOP NE
If you've heard this
At muddy deep a sign
Choose your nut carefully-youn be in it 20 mies"
You will make friends in getting yourself genu-
iney interested in other people than
get other people interested you.
And for the tired Xmas shopperThe giving
should nothing you giving
ter.-Alan Blair.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOP
PING WITH YOUR FRIENDS
THE ADVERTISERS IN THIS
NEWSPAPER.
New Drugs Check Pneumonia
Following Injury 10 Chest

Pneumonia, following injury to the
chest, can be prevented with large
doses Of penicillin or sulfadiazine. ac-
cording to DR.. Edward Phillips,
writing in the Journal Of the Ameri-
can Medical association. DR.. Phil
lips presents his observations on 70
patients treated for pneumonia fol-
lowing injury to the chest
The author cites two investiga-
tors who demonstrated by animal
experimentation how a blow TO the
chest with or without fracture Of
the ribs. can produce injury TO the
lungs. The blow stimulates the
vagus nerve, which extends from
the Uranium TO the lungs, TO con-
tact the bronchial tubes which re-
suits in a partial collapse Of the
lung. This collapse area becomes in
fected because It lacks aeratlon.
Injections OF atropine into the
veins, which paralyzes the terminal
fibers Of the vagus nerve. win pre-
vent or minimize the chances Of
collapse and infection following In
jury TO the chest, states the author.
Large doses Of penicillin and sulfa-
diazine will sterilize the lung area.
Additional facts regarding the 70
patients follow:
In 81 patients ca per cent? pneu-
monia developed only on the same
side as the injury.
The majority Of patients had q
mild type Of pneumonia.
Over 90 per cent Of pneumonia
cases occurred within six days Of
the injury.
Over so per cent Of the patients
recovered within one week.
Three patients died with a result
ant mortality rate Of 81 per cent.
PING WITH YOUR FRIENDS
THE ADVERTISERS IN THIS
NEWSPAPER.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR CAR ACCIDENT
VICTIM ALFRED BURKS

Rev. D. c. White officiated at
prayer services at Brooks funeral
home Wednesday at 2 o'clock for
Alfred Burks, who was accident
ally killed in a car accident
Thursday, Dec. 8.
Mrs. Cora Burks, wife of the
deceased, came here from Stock
ton, Calf, to make arrangements
for the funeral The body will be
shipped to Pine Bluff, Ark. for
funeral and burial.
Mr.. Burks is survived by his
wife, a sister, Mrs. w. B. Yancy,
of st. Paul, and other relatives in
st. Louis and Pine Bluff.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
Tom coFToIl
HonoFed As He
Leaves ciFy

The humble side Of Mr.. Thomas
Carroll came TO light when mem.
bers of St. Thomas Episcopal
Church gathered in the Under
croft Of the church for a going
away dinner given in his honor on
Wednesday last.
Tom" Carroll, senior warden
of the church from 1915 to the
present, Is going TO make his fu-
ture home in Tupelo, Miss.
Tears came into the eyes of Mr..
Carroll as he reviewed to those
present his ups and downs as
senior warden. I'VE all have been
working for one Objective bet
ter world in which to Hve," he
said. He handed special praise to
Father Louis w. Johnson, Vicar.
He was the chairman of the
committee which Iquidated the
recent mortgage on the church
and had the honor Of setting the
torch to the mortgage paper.
The ladies prepared the dinner
and the men presented Tom"
with a beautifully designed prayer
book with the names Of the men
inscribed therein.
Mr.. Thomas Carroll Possesses
those qualities which make a good
churchman and an excellent SEN
Tor warden. We are sorry to lose
him; but his good deeds shall
always remain with us.
Boyd Crawford, Junior warden,
made the prayer book presentR-
ton. Talmadge Carey, master Of
ceremonies. III. T. M.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17

IOn, ~ y. OIner guests were Mrs.
Shepherds father, Mr.. Henry Pet
ticord, Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Schuck,
ST., F. P. Schuck, Jr.
Thursday night, Dec. 16, the
Just-Us club held its Club party
at the home of Mrs. Hugh Schuck,
500 Rondo Ave. Members of the
club exchanged gifts.
The Alpha Kappa sorority held
a rummage sale Saturday, Dec. II
at 124 State st. The sale was held
to raise funds for different prof.
ects the sorority has planned for
the coming year.
The Twin City Bridge club met
Saturday, Dec. II, at the home of
Mrs. Henry Johnson, 795 Edmund
Ave. The group made plans for
their New Years Eve party. Mrs
Cora Strothers won the first
prize for playing bridge and Mrs.
H. Johnson won second.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Moore,
1000 Iglehart Ave, will observe
their anniversary Sunday Dec. 26.
TIE DYWYK club met Thurs
day, Dec. 9, at the home of Mrs.
Mamie Green, It's st. Anthony
Ave. They made further plans for
their Christmas party to be held
Sunday, Dec. 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry johnson,
1876 Edmund Ave, received many
congratulations when they OBJ
served their 34th anniversary
Wednesday, Dec. 8.
Mrs. Mabel Harris, 445 Kent
ST., Grand Travelling Deputy of
the Daughter Elks, covering the |
Winnipeg, Can, Minnesota and |
vicinity, left Wednesday, Dec. 10,
for Winnipeg, Canada. She will
attend the election and installa-
ton of the Queen Victoria Tenn
pie No. 456. Mrs. Harris will re-
turn to the city Saturday Dec. IS.
Mrs. Esther Brown, 4O5 st. An
thony Ave-, left Sunday, Dec. IL,
for New York to visit her grand
son, who is i'll. Her grandson is
the sun of Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
Roseby, formerly of st. Paul.
Book Club No. ii will meet at
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-12-17
Many Attend
Barbara Fields
Coming Out

Many age groups attended the
coming-out party Of Barbara
Adele Fields, II year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lafayette
Fields, sO3 st. Anthony Ave. The
party was a combination debut
dancing party and birthday cele-
bration.
The party was held Monday,
Dec. Is, at Junior Pioneer Hall.
Ushers for the affair were Ralph
Graham, John McNeal, Edgar
Pillows and Ernest Johnson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Doughfon Ready
To Buck Truman
7 ak Progro m

Washington NPA)-Altho Pre-
sident Truman told reporters last
week that he won't talk about the
administrations tax reform pro-
gram until he's ready to submit it
to Congress, Chairman Robert l..
lDoughton Cd. n. c. of the House
Ways & Means Committee, was
willing to let it be known that he
stands ready to buck the President.
Long a buddy of Rep. Harold
Knutson Or. Minn.), author of last
years "aid the rich" tax bill, the
southern Democrat said: Congress
doesn't have to do what the Presi-
dent says about taxes or appropri-
ations."
Last year Doughton straddled
the tax issue-taking a position
closer to that Of the Republicans
than to the New Dealish tax pro-
gram sponsored by Truman and
Rep. John Dingell Cd. Mich.). He
is known to be cool to the idea of
an excess profits tax which Presi-
dent Truman, during his campaign,
said he favors.
Doughton complained last week
of high excise taxes on luxury and
some non-luxury goods. He refus-
ed to say whether or not he actu-
ally plans to urge their repeal
however.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Tobin Urges States Repeal
Anti-Union Legislation

Washington, d. C. (ILNS).-
Opening campaign for sound la
Dor standards all over the nation
Secretary of Labor Maurice j.
Tobin denounced some state labor
laws as "worse than Taft-Hartley''
and urged their repeal.
Tobin told the 18th National
Conference on Labor Legislation
that while the national administra-
ton was committed to repeal of
the Taft Hartley Act, he also wish
ed support from the states "to help
us look at the black spots in our
federal picture and resolve to erase
them forever"
In line with his broad program
of labor and social welfare reforms,
the Secretary said he wanted "a
department in which all federal
labor laws are administered"
81 want a department that will
be what Sam Gompers wanted it
to be-'labor's voice in the Presi-
dents counciP," he declared.
President Truman sent mess
age to the conference expressing
his wish that the delegates aid in
the enactment Of sound labor
laws in all our states" He felt that
the meeting would doubtless as
sess the achievements of the last
Is years" and "set sights for flu
ture progress in promoting the
we'll being of workers."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Unfair Employer
Allowed By NLRB
TO Fire Pickets

Washington UPA)-In a case
which saw four-way split among
its five members, the NLRB last
week approved the temporary lay
off of pickets who violated a no
strike pledge, despite the fact that
their walkout was caused by the
employers unfair labor practice.
On the other hand, the board or
dered the Natl Electric Products
Corp. to remedy the injustice which
led to the brief strike.
Towards the end Of a contract
between Natl Electric and the
Int1 Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-AFL, the local IBEW pre-
sident, Frank Martha, switched his
allegiance to the United Electrical
Workers-CIO. Then he was dis
charged under the terms Of the
IBEW's union shop contract.
Marfia's discharge brought five
of his supporters to the plant gates
with picket signs, and about 300
of the plants 1900 employees staged
a one-day strike. Natl Electric
then temporarily laid off the pic
kets.
The NLRB, by a four-to-one
vote, board member j. Copeland
Gray dissenting, called Marfia's
an unfair labor practice,
and ordered him reinstated, since
the IBEW contract was about to
terminate, and Martha had mott
fed the company that UE organ
izing drive was underway.
Then by a three-to-one-to-one
decision the NLRB okayed the COM
pany's "disciplining" of the five
pickets. Chairman Paul Herzog
said that he agreed with the de-
cisiOn, but could not go along with
wording Of his colleagues ruling
which insists upon the sanctity Of
nO-strike contracts despite employ
er unfair labor practices.
Member John NJ. Houston dis
5ented, declaring that the work
srs had "basic right" to strike,
despite the contract provision, in
light Of the boss unfair discharge
# Martha.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Car Dealers Reap
Profits From
New Car Shortage

Washington LPA)-The owner
of two Chevrolet agencies in the
nations capital last week told the
Congressional committee investi-
eating car sales practices that he
gave preferential treatment to new
car buyers who brought in old cars
as trade-ins.
Committee S ia f questioning
brought out that, in June, he made
an average profit Of 1000 on every
car trade-in, generally selling them
to secondhand car dealers who in
turn resold them to the public after
taking another chunk of profit.
New car buyers without trade
ms stayed on the Ourisman Chew
rolet Co. waiting lists an average
of IA months, while those with
trade-ins waited only about so to
54 days.
Most spectacular sample of the
way new-car buyers are being
mulcted was when a shop workers
in the Mandell Chevrolet Co. Testi-
fled he traded in his 1947 Chevro-
let for $1352, and paid $1651 for a
1913 Chevrolet. Company records,
checked by the Congressional in
vestigators, revealed that the same
1947 car was sold to a dealer for
$2100.
In another case, a new-car buyer
received a $5 trade-in on his old
car which was then resold to a
dealer for $3.50
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Charges Milk Pr0fiteering

New York LPA)-Instead of
the 2c-a-quart cut in milk prices
which New York City's big distri-
butors here have offered to put in
to effect, they could easily cut
prices 4c a quart and still make a
h an d o m e profit, Investigation
Commissioner John Murtagh in
sisted last week. Farmers, Muir
tagh pointed out, have offered to
cut milk prices &c quart by April
l. He calls on the milk companies
to meet that with an equal cut of &c.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
More Love, Love, Love

New York (LPA)-Stage man
ayers Of the annual Congress Of
American Industry run by the
NAM clearly expected Dewey
victory. Opening the manufactur-
ers' sessions was a chorus which
sang ditty strangely reminiscent
of the Dewey campaign, called
"Sound Of Unity" In the same
vein, keynote speaker Earl Bunting
called for teamwork" and said
that capital and labor would be
lost without each other" Closing
the sessions, Commerce Secretary
Charles Sawyer said business has
nothing to fear" from President
Truman's program if they realize
that government is able to take a
broader and more detached view Of
each business as a part Of whole
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

Nor would the chairman of the
Congressional committee which in
itiates revenue bills stick his neck
out on income tax revision. 1t all
depends on the budget and the tax
returns for the current year, he
said.
Budget Director James Webb,
however, stated last week that
taxes would have to be increased.
The problem facing both Truman
and his opponents is which group
in our population will have to bear
the extra tax burden that Webb
thinks defense expenditures make
necessary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

gressional observers insist that
never has the Natl Physicians
Committee appeared to further one
piece of constructive legislation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Organized Doctors
Planning To Block
Health Insurance

st. Louis (LPA)-The American
Medical Assn, which represents
the organized medical profession
of the US, last week voted to as
sess each member $25 in 1949, tc
make up a $3,500,000 fund with
which to fight proposals for ma.
tional health insurance program
This fund, added to the 81 100000
which the Natl Physicians Com
mittee has already announced il
plans to raise from doctors and
drug firms, makes the anti-health
insurance lobby the most heavily
financed pressure group in the ma
ton.
In an action behind closed doors,
the ANA House of Delegates voted
to raise the money, which is to fin
ance a fully-staffed Washington of
fee, and is also expected to include
hiring of a public relations" firm
to sugar-coat the opposition to
health insurance.
ANA SHOULD USE LOBBYING
ON IT'S BACKWARD MD'S
Washington (LPA) = Com
menting on the A IN r C an
Medical Assn attack on Presi-
dent Truman's proposals for
national health insurance
program, Federal Security Ad-
ministrator Oscar Ewing made
it clear that opposition of the
organized doctors would not
slow down plans to present
such a measure to congress.
Asked about the AMA's 49,
100000 fund to educate" the
public and Congress against
national health surance,
Ewing said: at would be much
better if the ANA spent this
educational fund enlightening e
some of it's own backward >
members"
Playing the old record once
more, the House of Delegates pass
ed a resolution saying that volun-
tary health care plans "can and
will solve the economic problems of
the distribution of medical care
within the existing framework of
private enterprise"
Earlier, the ANA had refused
70 cooperate in a proposal to
existing voluntary
health insurance programs by pro-
yiding for a package" to be offer
I'd to medical consumers. This
would provide Blue Cross and Blue
Shield insurance, thru an insur-
lnce company organized on ma
ion-wide, non-profit basis. The
5roposal was made by DR.. Paul
1awley, who later told reporters
hat "We're thankful we didn't get
kick in the teeth" He indicated
hat Blue Cross will proceed any
way with the plan.
Directors named to spend the
100000 fund include all of the
lard- shelled reactionaries, whose
My appearances before Congress
AVE been for the purpose of at
acking proposals to improve the
lation's health. Experienced Con-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT

Whereas, Almighty God in His infinite wisdom has
fit to take from midst friend and fellow worker
Sister Beuah Watkins respected and admired for her fell
owshp and character, and
Whereas, the member of Local Union 144 recognize
the loss of this Sister, shall cherish and respect the
Of pleasant and evidence of sympathy and
esteem, it is hereby further,
Resolved That extend profound sympathy to
her family, copy of this resolution be published in
official journal The Potters Herald copy spread the
minutes of the Local and copy sent to the beeaved family
Also that charter be daped mourning for period OF
thirty days.
FRANK C. CLARK
Recording Sec. Local ia
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
Evening star., 1948-08-13

the Tooth anniversary Of laying Of the
cornerstone Of the Washington Monu
ment, through August; exhibit commem'
Grating the 160th anniversary Of the es-
tablishment Of the Navy Department, IN.
cluding naval documents from the Revo
luton through World War II surrender
papers, through August
Fish and WiIdlife Service, under mali
lobby in Commerce Department Building
Fourteenth and E street NV, open 6
am. to 4 pm. daily: display Of animals
and fresh-water fsh, for an indefinite
1o8 sERvICEMEN.
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club
1918 L street NV, lounge, library, writ
ing desk, billiard tables, radio.
servicemen's Victory Center. 111a