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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-23
Among The Homen,akers

boxes packed ready for shipment
or partly packed, that club mem
hers might see how every corner
is filled. The proof of the generous
huge task of this attractive little
homemaker was there before one's
eyes. She makes lovely stocking
dolls in character style and these
were on display that club members
might have one and contribute
what they wish in return to the
Relief Fund. 1t was a privilege to
do so and one felt very humble to
take even the lovely doll in return
for the opportunity to help this
generous homemaker with her
work. Mrs. Hillyard's daughter, a
trained Home Economist, helped
her mother serve delicious
luncheon to the club before the
meeting.
The Rockville Club
Forty-one members of the Rock
vile Club met at the home of Mrs.
Walter Pack, President of the
Club. Four new members Joined
this group. The ladies were de-
lighted with the interior decora-
tons Mrs. Pack had just complet-
ed. Mr.. and Mrs. Pack also put in
a picture window in the living
room; walls were papered and
woodwork painted; new draperies
at the window brought out the col
ors in the wall paper. Several
chairs had been slip-covered and a
hooked rug completed. The whole
place is charming and shows what
folks working together can do to
add interest and beauty to their
home. Mrs. A. M. johnson gave a
report on the celebration of the
opening of the underpass at Silver
Spring. She had taken some small
boys from Rockville to Silver
Spring by train, their first train
ride, and she told of the delight
they experienced by the trip and
the sight of the fine floats.
The COlesville Club
The Colesville Club was enter
tanned by the Club President, Mrs.
w. A. Nichols. The Agent missed
the business meeting but found
that the club was interested in the
discussion on closets and storage
walls. After the meeting club mem
bers advised Mrs. Nichols on pos
sible places for her to add wrap
closet near her front door. Mrs.
c. H. Hanson gave good sugges-
ton for a cold storage closet for
fruits and winter vegetables.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01
Farm and Ranch Experiences
Our Yard Is My Hobby
Chickens, Frost, Drouth Are Complications but
BY MRS. GENE REYNOLDS Crook County, Wyoming

To cover the many bare spots
around the house and in the tulip
beds, I plant flower seed as early
as possible. I usually start each kind
of seed in flats in the house; also
the aster, as it requires a long grow
ing period. In this way if ome
thing happens to the seed outside
for instance, ~chickens), 1 a fill
in with started plants.
My tulip beds also have several
perennials so that there is almost
continuous bloom. AS it is late when
l can plant gladiolus bulbs, l plant
them shallow. They come up sooner
and are sure to bloom before frost.
/ have been most disappointed in
getting nursery evergreens with
out soiD to live. We tried a doorway
planting of the spreading and up
right juniper, also silver juniper
ear the n of the house. For
t%unately, we did get one corner
p1dlltlllS VI lldtlVG spruce 10 i've.
We have been advised to take up
our native evergreens with plenty
of firm soil (and then burlap tied
around i) when transplanting. Ma
tive cedar can be trimmed back to
the desired shape.
Each fall we place a nursery
order. Only a few dollars will mean
much enjoyment in the years to
come.
We are adding more apple trees,
crab apples and shade trees. Also
several hardy r~aspberries. We are
trying climbing red roses, climate
vines, forsythia bush, French Glacs,
bush cherry, mock orange, etc.
Already, I have begun a list for
next fall. 1t includes some of the
hybrid tea roses. In time we hope
to try many of the hardy shrubs,
trees, perennials and flowers in our
yard.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01
Song of the Lazy Farmer

she routed me from out my bed
and put a dust-cap on my head.
An apron went around my waist
and I was ordered to make haste
and dust the tables and the chairs,
then scrub and polish up the
stairs. The rugs 1 was supposed
to beat, and wash the windows
all up neat; I even had to tour
the place and dump pipe ashes
from each vase.
But I had barely started out
before I heard Mirandy shout, she
came at me armed with a broom
and I retreated from the room; |
couldn't reason with my spouse
until she'd run me fir the
house. I don't know why she's
mad at me and I amt goin' back
to see. I beat the rugs upon the
floors, why waste time takin'
them outdoors; and then, of
course, I used my head and swept
the dirt beneath the bed. I figured
it was smart and fair to cut a cor
ner here and there; of course, it
is all right with me if she don't
want efficiency.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01

Farmers from two states report
frightening the feeding hours of
hogs by placing lights in hog houses
speeded up the daily rate of gain
of the hogs and also permitted more
hogs to be fed with the same floor
space and equipment.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01
Compact Spray Rig
Made for $35

Tor the small irrigated farm here
4 is a simple, cheap and practical
spray rig. The machine was designed
and built by Bill Jones, Yellowstone
county, at a cost of less than $35.
Air is forced into the barrel from
a spark plug pump. Pressure is
maintained at around so pounds. AS
the air is carried to the bottom of
the barrel by a pipe within the bar
rel, agitation of the spray material
is automatic.
Low pressure, low volume spray
nozz1es are used. The machine is de-
signed for spray booms up to Is feet.
In the picture only a 7-foot boom
was used, as spray nozzles were not
available. Height of the boom is reg
ulated by the hydraulic drawbar lift
to which the boom is attached.
Jones reported excellent results
with the machine, which is well
adapted for use on ditch banks, fence
rows and on small patches of peren-
NAL weeds, where the large 20 to 40
foot spray boom equipment might be
cumbersome.
Only a highly reinforced barrel
should be used. Ordinary oil and gas
drums are not designed to carry or
withstand internal air pressure.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01
R~eorganized Irrigation
Saves Time, Water
Montana Farmer-stockman Photo
By JOHN C.. SNYDER
Big Horn County. Wyoming


REORGANIZATION of our ir-
rigation system with the help of
the Greybull Valley Soils district
has resulted in saving of time and
water and in reduction of erosion
to a minimum.
Our chief problem was that our
runs were too long, some of them
up to $500 feet, which were unsatis-
factory for row crops. Some fields
were irrigated with the fall of the
land, which was often too great,
causing severe erosion. On the long
runs the water had to be left run
ming for as long as u hours, with
the result that the bottoms of the
fields were drowned because they
were flatter and the head ends
didn't get enough because of too
much fall.
600-Foot Runs
The first step was to cut the runs
to about 600 feet or less. Two later
ais were run OF a q percent grade.
This grade was adopted because we
had a silt problem and a q grade
in self cleaning. The laterals were
extended across the entire place, di-
viding it into three almost equal
fields of about 80 acres each.
In most fields the direction of ir-
rigation was changed to decrease
the fall and to do away with as many
point rows as possible.
All technical assistance was pro-
vided by the Greybull Valley Soils
district. We did the work ourselves,
so there was very little expense.
Our soil districts are new here, and
we don't have enough equipment
as yet, but our technicians and en-
gineers are very busy and are doing
a real job. All work is done accord
ing to a farm plan drawn up by the
farmers themselves with the help
of a planner and approved by the
supervisors.
Soil Is Farmers Future
A point to remember is that soil
is the farmers future and also the
future of America. The farmers
success depends to a great extent
upon the productivity of their soil,
so, as I see it, you can't spend
money and time on anything that
is of more Importance than soil con-
~servation.
Rearranging an irrigation system
to fit the type of soil, contours
grades and any other conditions that
exist on any given farm is the most
effective way to conserve soil anc
increase productivity. In most cases
as in ours, it will eliminate a lot O.
labor during irrigation and wher
perfected is an improvement tina
you will be proud to have made.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01
Farm and Ranch Experiences
By MRS. GENE RE-


prisingly, win a place? l entered the
w. c. Deming yard Identification
contest in Wyoming spring. We
were only beginning work on a yard.
That fall I received notice of win
ming a second place in the state and
a check for $50.
Not only was that most encourag-
ing, but the check came in time to
order nursery stock for next spring
planting. The suggestions for plant
ing and caring for a yard, pruning,
etc, that 1 received from the visits
of MI. Edmondson, our extension
forester and horticulturist, have
been most valuable to a beginner.
3 Growing Months
The climate and altitude in this
part of northeastern Wyoming give
us about three good growing months.
I believe that we are too easily dis
couraged because of this condition.
People that you talk with about
yards will say that they have
planted trees at one time or other
and usually some shrubs, but they
didn't live. The late frosts in May
or even June destroy good nursery
stock in our vicinity, and then late
in summer many of us lack a method
of watering our yard.
But maybe some of us don't at
tempt to improve our yard and sur
roundings because of excuses-no
time, as we have small children,
chores, a big garden, chickens, etc.
The task of caring for a yard usual
ly falls to the farm women because
all the field work needs to be done
at that time. But who couldn't find
a few extra hours in order TO have
a better yard? 1t takes years for
their glory as pictured in the nurs-
cry catalogs. We cannot put off
planting and often ~re-planting if we
are to be successful.
Complete With Pup
We started with practically moth
ing but a fence around a small yard,
What little grass we had was a job
to NOV, as it hadn't been touched
with a lawn mower. A garden had
been in front of the house at one
time. That fall my husband brought
in good soil for the front yard. We
worked it with ordinary garden tool
and seeded it. I often had to re-worl
portions where our small boys haS
found a good place to play or tn,
pup had been frantically digging
That winter I had visions of a beau
tiful green lawn. But a lot of tn
green next summer was huge weed.
We are still Resolving seed eac
spring and fall.
We found that spirea ". HI grow
fast here and makes a good founds
ton " 1 spaded tulip and dafft
dill beds near three corners of tn
yard. These bulbs require lit.
are and give you the first brigl
flowers. This past fall I adde
hyacinths.
During the first spring, our HON,
makers club met at our home. 1t w;
the annual seed and plant exchans
meeting. I received several pere.
malls, a yellow rose bush, pansie
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01

Out of over 5000, 900 payees in
the 1916 agricultural conservation
program, nearly $685. 0 received less
than $40 and more than 2,400 600,
or "a received less than 500.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01

ZACH fall, as well as in the
spring, Mirandy cleans up
ev'rything; she tears the whole
blame house apart, then scrubs
and sweeps with all her heart.
This year, as always, she told me
I'd have to help her out, by gee;
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-04-03
Sat. April 3 1948 Seward Alaska

Mrs. HrOld Horton was admit ted to the Hospital for medical treatment Thursday, April 1st.
 Vote but first you MUST Register. You have until tonight Remember 10 PM. tonight.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-04-03
SEWARD MEMORIAL CHURCH RECEIVES 25 NEW MEMBERS

Addressing a congregation of close to four hundred at the Seward Memorial Church Rev. Wyburn SkidmOre delivered an Easter message of hope offering the cross as the only salvation to a world threatened with a third world war.
 Easter music was furnished by the Junior Choir members singing "It is Morning in My Heart" and the Senior Choir rendering "Christ Has Risen.
 The following new members were received into the church: Mrs. Phyllis Walters, Cherie Lu- ben, George Brown, Don Paul Balmat, Marshall Rome, Rich ard Rome, Vera Bogard, Thom- as Divine, Roy Divine, Katherine Divine, Marie Divine, Carolyn Mahan, Ralph Hatch, Jesse Lee Hatch, Victor Mahan, Virginia Symbal. Marie Jiames, Marlene Baktuit, Esther Mayokok, Bert Mayokok, Leona Kohler, Loleta Havercamp Emma Merritt, Will liam Merritt and Dean Phillips.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-04-03
TRAVEL FUNDS PROTECTED AGAINST LOSS
 OR THEFT

Safeuarding money against loss when one travels Is as important as protecting it by deposit when at homeland Is just as easy. You merely convert your travel funds here, before you start, into American Express Travellers Cheques. They are readily spendable as cash. and if lost or stolen, the amount in- vOlved is refunded to you. The cost of the protection is but 75c on each $10O. Minimum 40c. There is no time limit on use. Thous- ands of people carry these protective Cheques when away from home, and find them invaluable. This Is one of the banks services to the travelling public.
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-04-03
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The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-04-03

Pickup
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Evening star., 1948-12-29
DooIittIe Flyer Back
In Tokyo 10 Preach
Nv the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO, Dec, 2s.-The Rev
Jacob Deshazer, who once bombed
Tokyo, will preach his first sermon
here Sunday.
In the meantime. he's getting his
second look at the japanese metrop-
olis-this time from ground level.
The last time it was from the
bomb bay of a BIS, on April l8,
1912. He was one of the Doolittle
flyers who gave the japanese their
first taste of an air raid.
Mr.. Deshazer was captured in
China after the historic mission:
A sympathetic japanese guard gave
him a Bible.
My folks had read parts of the
Bible to me-" said Mr.. Deshazer.
who arrived by ship yesterday with
his wife and 13-month-old son.
Il read it and the Lord showed
me the way to become Christian.
I did not know before. I decided
to love my fellow man and to re-
turn good for evil All hatred was
taken from me"
On Sunday the likeable young
missionary will preach in small
but new and neat church in Sugi-
nami ward of Tokyo. 1t was COM
pleted only last week by the Jap
anese flock of the Free Methodist
Missionary Board of Winona Lake,
Ind.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Russia Appoints New
Light Industry Chief
And Expands Powers
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 29.-Alexei N
Kosygin was made Minister of Light
Industry today and relieved of his
duties as Minister of Finance a jot
he has held 10 months.
Arseny G. Zverev returned as
Finance Minister.
The Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet Parliament) made the ap.
pointments. At the same time, the
Presidium expanded the powers ol
the Ministry of Light Indusary.
The Ministry of Textiles and al
plants, factories, Offices, construction
projects and organizations of the
textile snd light industry fields were
transferred to it.
the purpose was oflcially de-
scribed as improvement of the
management of the enterprises o.
the light and textile industries ane
further increasing production o1
consumer goods and also reducing
the cost of the apparatus of man.
agement."
16 Republics to Follow Suit.
The decree said reorganization
of the two ministries of the various
Soviet republics also was recog-
nized as necessary. This means the
Is republics of the U. S. S. r. also
will consolidate the two big con-
sumner industries along lines of the
national merger.
Kosygin, A, is one of the young
est of the highly placed men in
the Soviet government He became
Evening star., 1948-12-29

North Carolina Salary and Wage
Commission and has been a men,
Der of the Presidents Committee fol
Employmnt.
During World War II he was con.
sultant to the Secretary of Wal
concerning the Army Specialist
Corps and consultant to the Civil
Service Commission. He formerly
was a member of the Montgomery
County Welfare Board and is di-
rector of the Montgomery Mutual
Building g. Loan Association, Ken
sington.
Mr.. Merriam is a native of Mas
sachusetts and was graduated from
Harvard University. He received
law degrees from two schools but
never has practiced. He belongs to
the Cosmos Club, the Harvard Clubs
of Washington and New York, and
is registered as Democrat.
Evening star., 1948-12-29

an alternate member Of the Polit-
buro March 20, 1916.
He succeeded Zverev as finance
minister last February II and Zev-
erev became his first deputy.
The Moscow announcement CO.
incided with publication of Stock
holm report in the London Daily
Mail that Kosygin was believed to be
among the Russians President Tru-
man referred to Sunday when he
said certain Russian leaders "are
exceedingly anxious to have an un-
derstanding with U.s."
The Mail named three others it
said were believed anxious to
switch Russian future policy
through channels of diplomacy and
propaganda: Prime Minister Stain,
Foreign Trade Minister A. I. Mlko-
yam and G. M. Malenkov, secretary
Evening star., 1948-12-29
By John V. Horner

When he directed an exhaustive
study of the Montgomery County
government 10 years ago, it did not
occur to Lewis Merriam that he was
laying the groundwork for system
In which he was to take later role.
Today, however. the vice presi-
dent of the Brookings Institution
finds himself about to be elected to
the first County Council. which will
put into effect basic recommended
tions contained in his report on the
governmental structure.
Mr.. Merriam is charter organi-
zation nominee for one of the two
seats at large on the new council.
The other is Frederic P. Lee OF
Bethesda, an attorney. Opposing
them for one of the two places is
Mrs. Alma T. Opal of Takoma Park,
a housewife. running independently
with Republican designation.
Mr.. Merriam is an earnest, slightly
nervous man of IS who has spent
many years in research for Federal
and State governments. He re-
Gently completed report on Fed
eral functions in the field of welfare
for the Hoover Commission. Cur
rently he is engaged in reorgan-
ization study for the State OF Vir-
ginia.
For 80 years he has spent long
hours in the preparation OF similar
reports for Brookings-from which
he will retire July /. Once he was
with the New York Bureau OF Mu-
nicipal Research, and prior to that
was in Federal service as assistant
chief of the Children's Bureau.
To offset the strain OF such exact
ing duties, Mr. Merriam turned to
gardening and carpentry around his
home at % West Washington street,
Kensington. More recently he
adopted a new hobby: Cabinet max
ing with power tools.
He likes to get away each sum
mer for a vacation at his shack
on the Chesapeake Bay where his
wife, their daughter, son-in-laW ana
grandchildren also enjoy the ease
of beach life.
But Mr.. Merriam has allowed
neither work nor play to interfere
with other activities. He has taken
time to teach and lecture at various
institutions of higher learning. in
cluding the University OF Chicago,
During World War I he was pro-
duction manager of the Division OF
Planning and Statistics OF the
United States Shipping Board. He
has served as technical aide to the
Evening star., 1948-12-29
Halifax Morning Papers
Will Merge Saturday
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Dec. 90
Halifax's rival morning papers-the
Herald and the Chronicle-last
night announced that they will
merge January ! into an independ.
ent newspaper known as the Hall.
fax Chronicle Herald"
The paper will be published at the
Herald's plant.
Evening star., 1948-12-29
of the Communist Party,s central

of the Communist Party's central
committee.
A dispatch from Moscow yester-
day, however, said no support was
discernible there for President Tru-
mans inference that there is dis
agreement in the Soviet leadership
over reaching agreements with the
United States.
"Igloo" boots will be new spring
footwear style for women in Dublin.
Evening star., 1948-12-29

. fThis is one of series OF
sketches OF candidates for the
Montgomery County Counctl)
Milford chronicle., 1948-09-10

wick Island.
On Wednesday, Sept. 1, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles E. Hudson entertain
ed to dinner at their cottage on
Delaware Beach on Fenwick ISL
and. Guests were the Rev. and Mrs.
Harold FOrdham and their grand
son, Richard; Mr.. and Mrs. William
A. Murray; Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
West; Miss YvOnne Lynch, Miss
Aimee McCabe and Joseph Calhoun.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Virden Hud-
son and son, Charles David, of Bis
hop, Md, entertained Mrs. Hudson's
parents to a jolly boat ride and din
ner on Labor Day.
Sussex County folk will be inter-
ested to know that Miss Dorothy
Virginia Bennett, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. M. Bennett of Wyoming.
Del, became the bride of Mr.. AL
fred Val Jean Prather of Washing
ton, D. c., at 3 p. m, on Sunday
Sept. 5, in the Methodist Church al
Wyoming. The ceremony was fol.
lowed by a reception at the Round
Table Club in Wyoming.
The bride spent her childhood
years in Frankford and MiIlsboro.
while her father was principal ol
the schools in those towns.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Trucks
ess, Jr., have returned to PhiIsdel-
Milford chronicle., 1948-09-10
FRANKFORT

Francis NJ. Gum, Srd, arrived
safely at his home here on Monday
after his aerial vacation trip to
places of interest in several South
ern states. Saturday he took off
again for a business trip to Texas,
but found it advisable to return
home from halfway to his destina-
zion because of reports of unfavor-
able flying weather along the Gulf.
Weather permitting, Mr.. Gum will
make the Texas flight later this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Middleton re-
Gently entertained to dinner Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Wilgus of Roxana, in
honor of Mrs. Yilgus' birthday an
niversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank HoltOn were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ned Carey
OF MillsbOrO, last Sunday evening.
Miss Jean Murray and Miss Bar
bara StaplefOrd have returned TO
Philadelphia after having spent the
Labor Day weekend with their ma
ternal grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph J. Lynch, out on the dupont
Boulevard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Ward and
son, Calvin, Jr., motOred to Gretna.
Pa, with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Boat
wright to spend the past. weekend
with Mrs. Boatwright's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Getland of Camden.
N. j., were recent guests of Mrs,
Getland's sister, Mrs. o. Helen Da-
Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fleetwood
and family from Wilmington were
weekend guests of Mrs. Fleet
woods parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
F. Parsons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus E. Davis and
son. Bobby, spent the Labor Dav
weekend at Delaware Beach, Fen
Milford chronicle., 1948-09-10

phia, after having spent the holiday
weekend at Long Acres with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Poole Long.
Our lucky cOttagers are returning
to their town homes this week after
breezy vacation weeks on the near
by beaches.
Miss Shirley Louise Hudson spent
part of last week at the home of Mr..
anc Mrs. ElwUUu Rogers with her
Ial, Miss Josephine Rogers.
Mrs. Winford Murray, Mrs. Leon
Campbell, Miss jeanne Johnson az d
Mics Shirley Hudson motored 10
Salisbury, Md, on Saturday.
Work of widening the main ar
terry through town is progressing
rapidly now Undec tle direction IF
he State Highway L apartment.
Ohm NJ ClaytCn School opened
v ednesday mCrn:ng with a ali
quot Of teachers a.ld a large STU
dent body.