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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Foster Mothers On
Gift Shop Program

A group of novel mothers, those
who conduct foster homes for ba-
bies and young children in Mont
gomery County, were featured on
the Homemakers Gift Shop pro-
'gram over WGAY Friday morn
ing, May 7th. Guests were Mrs.
Louis T. Biggs of Silver Spring,
who represented the foster moth
ers, and Miss Marguerite Stone of
Takoma Park, member of the
staff of the Social Service League
which places children in foster
homes.
Mrs. Biggs, a registered nurse
who was in charge of the chill
dren's ward at Garfield Hospital
before her marriage, has taken
care of IL babies in the last two
years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Rockville Man
Gets Promotion
In Marine Corps

Marine Lieut. Col. Francis C.
Clagett of Rockville, regarded as
one of the foremost authorities in
the Marine Corps on parachuting,
was recently promoted to his pres
emit rank.
Lieutenant-ColoneI Clagett was
instrumental in conceiving vari-
Gus new devices which added great
ly to the safety of parachute
jumps and to the simplifcation of
parachute rigging during World
War ii. He holds several letters of
commentator from high-ranking
civilian and military officials for
distinguished work in this field.
While stationed at Camp Giles
pie, San Diego, in 1943-1944, where
all Marine paratroopers were
trained, Lieutenant Colonel Cla-
gett, serving as staff officer, was
largely responsible for establish
ing safety record which, as far
as is known, has never been sur
passed. In well over $1,000 jumps
made during training periods at
Camp Gillespie, no fatalities were
recorded.
An ardent parachutist himself,
the Marine officer recalls his most
exciting jump as the one made
from a non-rigid airship only
1000 feet above ground, while he
was stationed at the Parachute
Training School, Lakehurst, N. J.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ches-
ter F. Clagett of Rockville, Lieu
tenant-Colonel Clagett is now COM
handing officer of Headquarters
and Service Company, 10th Ma
rines, Second Marine Division,
here. He resides at Camp Lejeune
with his wife and three daughters.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
What Club Work Has Accomplished
IN 20 Years In Montgomery County

PTS true of most of the 26 clubs of
the county. From this humble be-
ginning grew the Farm Woman's
Cooperative Market, under The FIX
tension Service of the University
of Maryland, which has been and
still is a wonderful help to the
farm women and their families,
especially during the years of de-
pressicn following the first World
War.
The Rural Woman's Short
Course held each June at the Uni
versity for the women of Mary
land, affords an opportunity for
rural women to obtain instruction,
recreation, entertainment and in
SEPARATION for happy, wholesome
living as well as weeks vacation
from home duties. 1t is a most en-
joyable, inspiring course and we
urge young mothers and hcmemak-
ers to attend if possible.
Another thing is the County
Council of Homemakers which
meets once a month at the Home
Demonstration office in Rockville
and is attended by the president of
each of the &c clubs. There the
years calendar of projects and
work is planned. Our spring and
fall meeting of the council brings
our county women together as one
large group, affording an oppor-
tunity to meet our fellow club
members, to exchange ideas and
broaden our viewpoints.
All in all, Home Demonstration
work is "Tops."
Rural women of the county -
avail yourselves of the opportunity
of joining the club in your neigh
borhood.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
MOrrel Made V. P.
G.. & p. TelenhOne Co.

William G. Morrel was elected
vice-president and general mana
ger of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company of Bal
timore City at a meeting of the
executive committee of the Board
Of Directors.
Mr.. Morrel succeeds August B..
Haneke, who has been elected
president of the Baltimore Transit
Company. He began his telephone
career in 1880 as a clerk in the
traffic department of the C. and p.
of Virginia. In 1916, he went with
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company in New York as
traffic employment engineer.
Mr.. Morrel graduated from the
Virginia Military Institute in 1928
with BIS. degree in electrical en-
cheering. For the two years prior
to his joining the C. and p, he
taught electrical engineering as a
member of the faculty at v. M. l..
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13

The second in a series of arti-
cles on the results of the re-accred-
itation survey made of Richard
Montgomery High School during
the month of March is concerned
with the curriculum and courses
of study.
The following is quoted verba-
tum and in full from the final re-
port of the committee represent
ing the Middle States association
of Secondary Schools and Colleges.
The Committee commends: %
the adaptation OF the curriculum
to varied needs; (2) the we'll
organized supplementary activi-
ties program; (3) the well-found-
ed guidance and planning in the
determination of Individual (pro-
jected) schedules; (4) the close
connection of the bank and bust
ness education courses to outside
functioning units; (5) the institu-
ton and development of the GORE"
curriculum in the junior high
school; (6) the county courses of
study, and their application in this
school.
The Committee recommends:
(D that greater consideration be
given to the INTERPOLATION and CO.
ordination of courses, (e. g. math
and science; math, English and
business education; physical edu-
cation and science; ~ more COM
plete training for college aspirants
through additional offerings (such
as solid geometry and trigonome-
try) and more detailed treatment
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
GAINESVILLE Club Was
Started 20 Years Ago

Started 20 years ago as the
GAINESVILLE Club, with Miss Sally
Brown as president, the Barnes
ville-Poolesville Dickerson Home
makers Club has SO members.
Judging by the attendance it is
enjoyed by everyone, and why not?
Members have learned to do so
many things they would not know
if it had not been for the Home
Demonstration Club.
knowledge has been gained in
sewing, which includes plain sew
ing, making mems suits into suits
for women, coats, dresses and
aprons from feed bags, caneing of
chairs, doing over furniture, re-
finishing the woodwork and max
ing slipcovers, after tying the
springs and putting on the uphol-
stery. Lessons in cooking-the use
of the pressure cooker; repairing
electric cords-how to Judge can
ned goods-recipes for cake, candy,
breads; studies of cosmetics, clean
ing>materials, soaps, etc.
Funds from the club are given
to the Red Cross, schools and other
worthy causes. Aprons are being
made by some from feed sacks, and
are sold to individuals or through
the Thrift Shop - donations are
given by the members of the club,
etc.
The "get-together" too, means
great deal. Members learn to know
their neighbors, form new friends,
and minds are broadened in every
way.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
By MRS. A. D. OURsLER,
Burtonsville

Home Demonstration work be-
gan in Montgomery County under
the direction of the Extension
Service of the University of Mary
land 30 years ago.
In reminiscing, it is almost i'm
possible to believe how it has
grown and how much has been
accomplished.
At the time the work began it
indeed filled great need of the
rural farm women for a meeting
or. get-together with her farm
neighbors, exchanging ideas and
solving mutual problems, gave her
recreation as well as confidence in
rural homemaking.
In 1928 the average attendance
at our club meeting was IL per-
sons. Today it is about 80 and that
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Community Chest
And Council Name
Board of Trustees

In addition to electing new Off
GERS of the Community Chest and
Council at a membership meeting
held April goth in tne courthouse
in Rockville, members of the board
of trustees were also elected.
Elected for one year are: Roy
Tascoe Davis, Sharon Farr, Mrs.
Frank r. Garfield, Mrs. O'Neal
johnson, Mrs. Wesley McCune,
Parlett Moore, Edward Northrup,
Judge Alfred D. Noyes, Mrs. T.
Calvin Owens, Philip Schiff, Ed
ward L. Stock, Jr., Mrs. Charles
A. H. Thomson.
Those elected for two years are /:
Mrs. P. Landon Banfeld, Nelson
H. Cruikshank, Mrs. Mary Dod-
son, Miss Lavinia Engle, Howard
Gill, Mrs. ]. Rene Hemingway,
George Hawkins, Mrs. Reynold
Lee, Mrs. John w. Martin, DR..
William Welsh, Douglas West, and
Oliver Youngblood.
Those elected for service for
three years are: Mrs. Frances
Bartram, Mrs. w. r. Brogden,
Mrs. Dexter Billiard, Charles L.
Carr, DR.. V. L. Ellicott, Mrs. Jo-
seph Hutton, Jr., Rudolph Kauff-
mann II, Harold Morris, Mrs. Ben
jamin A. Powell, Judge Stedman
Prescott, Harry Rhodes, and Mrs.
A. Station.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
On The Move

Eleven million persons have
moved from their former homes to
new localities since VI day. Most
of the shifts were made in the
postwar search for new jobs but
about 100000 Americans chang
ed their home towns simply to find
adequate housing.-Kiplings Mag
azine.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13

1. Head room depends, of course,
upon the age of the chick. We rec
ommend IL inches of head room for
starting chicks and IA inches for
chicks from six to IL weeks of age.
Broilers should not be left in bat
teries after they reach IL weeks.
2. The major factors to consider in
selection of the herd boar are:
a. Individuality, or outward ap-
pearance.
b. Ancestry, or the inherited abil-
ity to produce strong, healthy
and desirable offspring.
C. Performance record, or the test
of production.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Canine Detective

] London-Cocking mis- head as
his 16-year-old master buried a
package in the back yard. Red, an
Irish setter, waited until the boy
left, dug up the package and took
it to his masters mother. The
mother turned the money over to
police, who discovered the boy had
taken the money from his boss.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Why should COWS be
dried off 90 doys
before c0lyinQ?'>



3. 1t is during this period that the
unborn calf gains 2/3 of its birth
weight. Proper conditioning of the
COW during this dry period will in
crease milk production. Tests at the
Research Farm of the Ralston Purina
Company show that 100 lbs. of extra
condition lover the weight Of the
calf during this 6O-day dry period
will mean approximately 1000 lbs. of
extra milk after freshening.
Sead your questions about livestock or pouf-
try problems to FARM FACTS, S35 South
Eighth Street, St. Louis 2, Missouri. Cues
tons will be answered without charge, either
by mail or in this column, as a service of
this newspaper.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Middle States Association Rates
RMHS On Curriculum Needs

of existing courses; (3) the de-
velopment of course Of study in
agriculture; (4) study of the
special problems of retarded pupils
and of the possible remedies; 90
the development of some form of
family and social relations educa-
ton.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
THE LOWLY FEED BAG

Editors Note These lines e1plaining the curious uses
Of feed bags IN its splendid ndow display helped
asOGrd for the OIneySshine Homemakers Club during
National Home Demonstration Week.
The owly feed bag bowed it's head
AS hope for its seemed dead;
When resourcefu homemaker with needle and thread
Made sheets and pllowcases for her beds,
Aprons dresses and curtains
And pajamas and ties and shorts for Merton
Feed bag raised its head in pride itself gorfed
Why said feed bag seeing articles by the score
"These garments fine those bought in store"
I'VE learn to what have" the homemaker replied,
For the University of Maryland guide
So why not join club you?
And homemaking viii! be joy all the year through.
BERTHA V. BROWN.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-13
Horrors OF Peace

A British nudist believes there
would be no further wars if all
mankind followed his suit. Suit?-
Richmond Times Dispatch.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Song Of the Lazy Farmer

amt started yet; most all the
crops are harvested now and
it's a bit too late to pillow, there
amt much heavy work to do 'cept
chores that take an hour or two.
That means a man in bed can lie
until the sun is warm and high,
then do a little work that's light
to furnish breakfast appetite and
still not wear him out so he will
lose his huntin' energy.
A-trampin' round with dog and
gun not only is a lot of fun, but
it works off those buckwheat
cakes so that at dinner-time it
takes no force to make me eat,
by jing, two helpings of most
everything. Then comes the time
of day that's best, I either stay at
home and rest while my wife goes
to SEWN bee, the peace and quiet
are heav'n to me, or else I head
for town to sit and argue politics
a bit. Then evening chores don't
take me long, and leave me feel
in pretty strong to handle a big
supper fare and head for my old
easy chair.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Deep Chiseling Boosts
Corn, Wheat Yields
By J.. M. ISENBERGER. Campbell County
Wyoming

By ]. M. ISENBERGER. Campbell County
Wyoming
MY first experience with deep
AVA chiseling of wheat ground was
the spring of 1914. I double-disced
about 70 acres of stubble early, then
later got chisel attachments for a
3-row lister and chiseled about IL
inches deep.
This tore up the subsoil and later
I listed the field to corn. I followed
in the same engine tracks and listed
corn in chisel burrows. About a
week later I looked at the corn and
was sure surprised at the size of
the roots and the way they were
going down in the chisel burrows.
We had a hot summer and our corn
always curls up badly on hot days,
but this year there was only n
day when it curled up.
I liked it so well that the next
year I chiseled my summerfallow.
Some OF my nelghborS did the same,
and the next year the three of US all
had some 50-bushel wheat, which
we never had before. In 1947 it was
awful dry, and the best I got was
Is bushels where 1 chiseled and
about Is where I didn't.
I think it pays off well, but it
sure takes a lot of power to chisel
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01

ALL SIGNS point to a record high
market for turkeys this year. A
smaller turkey crop, larger con
sumner incomes, lighter supplies of
chickens and a smaller carryover of
turkeys in storage spell higher prices
than last season when prices to pro-
ducers in the main marketing
months averaged higher than ever
before. (See chart on page 20.)
This years crop is estimated at
31,700, 900 head, 10 percent less than
in 1947, % percent under the record
1945 crop and the smallest in 10
years.
According 10 the bureau of
agricultural economics. Montana
turkey production this year
will be only 100000 birds. down
Is percent from the 1sl 900
produced last year.
Unfavorab1e prices in the early
part of the 1947 selling season and
high feed costs last fall, with the
narrowest turkey-feed price ratio
since 1887, discouraged producers
a year ago. They carried about one
third fewer breeder hens into 1948
than they had in 1947.
Poultry Production Law
Other poultry completes with tur-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Farming on the Contour
Has Increased Yields, Stopped Erosion
By F. s. KALBERG, McCone County
Met Cone County

Had these strips not been contoured
all that fine top soil would have
been carried down into the creek
you see to the right and the field
eroded badly. While this soil is dis
located badly it is still in my field.
In conclusion let me say that
there has. grown in me, little by
little, a fuller realization of our OBJ
legation to conserve our top soil for
the benefit of coming generations.
How fortunate we pioneers were
to receive from the Creator this
virgin soil, so full of vitality and
fertility, stored up and enriched
through untold ages. How have we
husbanded it since we got it? You
all know the answer.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Turkey Market Outlook
By GILBERT GUSLER, Market Analyst

keys as holiday fare. The farm
chicken crop is about Is percent
short of last year. However, the de-
crease will be partly made up by in
creased commercial production of
broilers and fryers.
Last year, heavy storage stocks of
turkeys from the 1916 crop were
carried into the new marketing sea-
son. Sept. l, 1947, holdings were
A, 100000 pounds. This year they
were down to 1920, 900 pounds. The
difference is equal to about 2,000,-
900 head of turkeys.
Consumers have more money
available for spending than last
year. 'Disposable" income currently
is at a rate of about $3.50, 600, 000, 900
a year compared with a yearly rate
of $181, 900, 600, 900 last December.
This is the amount left after personal
taxes and non-tax reductions are
taken from pay envelopes. Other
elements in the cost of living are
taking larger bites out of consumer
incomes than last year, SO that abil-
ity to buy turkey has not increased
as much as total income.
While more families will want
turkey during the holiday season
than last year, due to increased in
comes and the normal annual
growth in number of households,
fewer turkeys will be available. The
result will be higher costs at the
retail counter which will price more
consumers out of the market.
Stocks stored last fall were sold
at an attractive advance over first
cost. However, higher prices and UNI
certainty about future economic
conditions will restrain storage buy
ing this year. Hence, the quantity
put into ~freezers is likely to be less
than a year ago.
Prices So TO So Cents
LII MARLBOROUGH, WSotSIh OIcSoCu
young toms are being sold in east
ern markets to retailers and other
large users at So to Sc cents a pound
and young hens at so to 81 cents
Prices have been coming down a:
marketing the new crop became
more widespread and holders pushed
the remaining old crop storag,
into consumption. While prices ma,
decline further, they are likely t.
hold above last years November
December level of 40 to 48 cents TO
young toms and As to 81 cents TO
young hens.
Growers are tending to grow am
market the crop earlier than i
please Turn to Page 20)
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Farm and Ranch Experiences

OI DldllICo SIONC ID 1IOb 4OlbC u
a correct contour. We planted most
Of our trees in 1884 when we had
no scientific knowledge of contour
ing. Just horse sense told me that
if we planted the trees east and west
across the slope of the hillside we
would be able to check some of the
flow of water coming from the
higher land to the south and also
hinder floods caused by rain and
snow from carrying too much top
soil down into the creek below.
This would have worked out well
had it not been for the fact that /
have to cultivate the trees to keep
them alive and growing. Some of
them are now 20 to 80 feet tall and
many of them more than a foot in
diameter. The loosened soil would
wash in spite of my efforts to check
it by diking.
I then tried piling manure below
every other row. This not only
checked and terraced the soil, but it
slowed the flow of water S 10 that a
considerable portion soaked into the
ground before it soaked through the
manure But, owing to the gradual
decay of the 1 have found
it necessary to repeat this perform
ance every third year. 1 piled it be-
low a different row each time.
Windbreak. Bird Haven
This grove is not only a fine wind
break, but in the spring and early
summer provides homes for many
varieties of song birds. These again
provide US with beautiful music
from early dawn until dusk. If yer
I plant a grove of trees again it will
be on a surveyed contour So
much for trees.
AS to our fields, I can now state
that, through the assistance of Mr.
William Porter, our soil conserva-
zionist, almost every acre of our
cropland is now contoured. A sam
pie may be seen just west of our
grove, in the photo. With the ex-
ception of the past year, when our
fields were first frozen black in May
and then hailed twice just before
harvest, we have seen definite in
crease in crop yields.
The first crop, after comforting
one field, l harvested six bushels pei
acre more on that field than on {
similar field farmed up and dowI
hills and slopes as I had previousl.
done on all my fields. 1 have founc
now, in four years of comforting
that when I summerfallowed AM
treat those fields the same as I'm
contoured fields, 1 invariably receiv
a higher yield. Beside this, the gov
eminent paid me for contouring.
xosion Control Proved
There is a still more serious an
important point involved, that
stopping the loss of our precious to
soil. l had a very convincing demon
stration of this last fall. Black clouc
and a very high wind came up ve1
suddenly. 1t turned into the heavie
downpour l have ever seen. Near
five inches of water poured out
the sky in 20 minutes. The clou
burst covered a width of about he
a mile, but it hit the very fie
you see in the picture.
One strip was fallowed around t
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01

COME folks like spring or sum-
mertime and some prefer cold
winter cline, but I claim the best
time of all is right now-the tail
end of fall. There's no hot sun to
make you sweat and usu'lly snow
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-27
Friday. August 27. l9ts

Communists stormed the Berlin city hall again today and broke up a meeting of the elected, anti communist ely council while Russian dominated police looked on.
 The mob yelled they will come back again and again" This meant the communists, beaten in elections, hoped to stop the city gov ernment from functioning, force it to abandon the city hall and perhaps set up a rump gov ernment in inc divided and block aded city.
 The Berlin city hall is in the Russian zone. The communist tac- tics, for the second straight day, were reminiscent of the coup in Cze choslovak.a last February, when the minority communists took over that republic. The men who invaded the council chamber demanded that the elected council
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-27
At A Glance --
 InternatiOn'l News
Continued from Page Onel

Continued from Page One) bidding Japanese governm employees to bargain collective ly and to strike.
 JERUSALEM -J Jews accused Arabs of a new truce violation in Jerusalem. Syria appealed 10 the International Red Cross to help he 100000 Palestine Arabs cvict- ed from home by the war.
 lPA2Is)-The Frec0h national assembly postponed local cleo lions set for October. They seem cd 10 fear a further triumph of Gen. Charles de Gaulle's righist rally of the French people.
 MEXICO CITY - Prcsid t 1I;ruel Aleman is 10 go before the Mexican congress next week and ask the rumor-besct nation for teamwork to get Mexico back on her economic feet, now that the peso has been cheapened.
 lATHENS)- Greece continued attacks upon the communist reb-
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-27
TERRITORIAL SCHOOL
OPEN SEPTEMBER 2

Word was received today from a member Of .he Nome school staff tha. scaoo. doors will open ag3.D Co boys and girls here on Tuesday moru.ng September 7th. A full staff of teachers will be present on tha, day lt is reported.
 All oi the scloo, supplies have arrived and by he looks of things it should be very successful year.
 Names Of the teachers and their respective grades will be an noun.cd a. a later date.
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-27

els, many of whom fled into com munist Albania so as 10 fight an other day.