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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13
by Joyce willidms'
Home demonstration Agent

Fruits are already important
in the diet, especially during win
| ter months. In buying fruits, aside
| from price, the average con.
sumer's choice is influenced by
the appearance and quality, ac.
cording to Miss Eva Legett, Elk
tention specialist in consumer
education.
That good appearance always
indicates fine quality is not al
ways true. Often fruit of attrac'
tive appearance has poor flavor
or is over-mature.
It is also true that fruit OF poor
| appearance because OF insect OF
mechanical injuries may have
] fine eating qualities.
Fruits found on most Mississip'
pi markets at this time OF veal
include apples, oranges, bananas
lemons, grapefruit, cranberries
avacados, or alligator pears anc
lines. Buying each is discussed
in the following paragraphs.
Apples keep longer than mos
fruits and may be bought II
quantity and kept for future
use. There are many varieties Of
apples, each better suited for Ger
tain purposes than others.
Cooking apples should be of the
tart or slightly acid varieties
Such varieties include Rome
Beauty, Greening, Stamen Wine
sap, Arkansas Black, Ben Davis,
and Pippin.
For salads or eating raw, va
rieties include Delicious, Wine
sap, Grimes Golden, and Jona-
than.
Before buying sample the apple
for the qualities desired, especial
ly if unfamiliar with apple varie-
ties.
Oranges of the best quality are
firm, heavy, have a fine textured
skin for the variety and are well
colored.
Surface blemishes on oranges
such as scars, scratches anc
slight discolorations have little te
do with interior quality. Those
with such blemishes are to Of
preferred to oranges with badly
creased skin, puffy, spongy, o
light in weight.
Oranges light in weight are
lacking in juice. Pick for heav,
fruit regardless of size.
Grapefruit, lemons, and lines
like oranges, should be selected
for weight and skin texture. With
lines, the greener the skin, the
better the flavor. For lemons, {
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13

Raiford e. McNeer has assumed
the office of mayor of Durant,
and to day made the following
statement:
ITO the Citizens of Durant:
at is my earnest desire to see
the city of Durant grow and pros
per during my term of office. Our
city needs many things and !
trust all of its citizens will feel
perfectly free to come to any and
all meetings of the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen and state any
need you see fit. I assure you we
will always be sonsiderate of your
expressed opinions.
"Of course we want to see the
most important things done first,
such as sewage system, better
drainage of city property, i'm
proved black top streets and bet
ter streets in all sections of town
including the colored section.
1--WE want to do something
about the traffic situation, too,
and secure the cooperation of all
citizens in the proper parking OF
vehicles and observance of all
our traffic laws.
"We want our people to feel
that like this is your city and your
city government, and we will wei
come at all times your sugges-
ton and constructive criticism.
Sincerely, yours,
r F. McNeer''
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13

can opener, measuring spoons,
custard cups and casserole.
NEAR SERVING CENTER:
Orange and fruit squeezer and
bread or slicing knife.
Utensils conveniently stored in
one of several places: Coffee
maker and teapot-near stove,
sink or serving center; saucepans,
large kettle and double boiler
near stove or sink; pint measuring
cup-near sink or mixing CEN
ter; spatula and mixing spoons
near mixing center or stove; can
and bottle openers-near mixing
or serving centers.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13
LOCATION

The old rule for convenient
storage of kitchen utensils -
keep it where you use it" =
has been improved by household
equipment specialists of the u.
S. Department of Agriculture
and various State experiment
stations. Kitchen work studies have
led to the newer and better rule
Keep it where you use 1t
FIRST" especially if it is a uten-
sill used often. Following this rule,
pans and kettles will not neces-
sarily all be kept on the stove,
as has long been the custom.
For example, saucepans, be-
cause they are first used with
water, will be kept near the
source of water - either near the
sink or nea the tea kettle on
the stove.
Some utensils obviously will be
most convenient near the stove,
others near the sink, mixing cen
ter or serving CENTER. Several
storage places may be equally
good for other utensils, which are
put to work at more than one
place. For some Jobs, such as max
ing coffee, the most convenient
storage depends on the type OF
equipment. A cold-water coffee
maker is first used at the sink,
a hot water coffeemaker at the
stove.
Here are convenient locations
for some of the most frequently
used utensils:
NEAR STOVE: Frying pans,
pancake turner, two-tine long
fork, potato or food masher,
ladle. and cooling rack.
NEAR SINK: Dishpan, dish
rack, vegetable brush, colander
and six to eight inch wire strain
er.
NEAR MIXING CENTER: Ro-
tary egg beaten, mixing bowls,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13
Negro Boy Awarded
For Farm Improvement

STATE COLLEGE-Nehemiah
Montgomery, 18~-year-old negro
All club member of Holmes
county, is one of four first-place
district winners in the Farm
Woodland Improvement contest
for young negroes.
Besides making Sl57 profit
from his one acre project, Nehe-
miah was awarded S25 and an
educational tour by the Gulf,
Mobile and Ohio railroad. With
- other winners from the four
timber-type districts, he began on
December IA, a four day, Exten-
sion conducted tour of leading
timber indutries of southern Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana.
Arthur Johnson, negro county
agent, Lexington, assisted Nehe-
miah with his timber improve
ments.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13
Petrol Does Splendid Job

A fact little known to Mississippians is that only 80
men on the Mississippi Highway Patrol are engaged in law
enforcement duties.
When you consider we have some 10000 miles of high
ways in the state to be patrolled and that we have daily traf-
fic of from 100000 to $4,000 vehicles on those roads then
the job the Highway patrol is doing is nothing short of re-
remarkable.
In addition to 80 men on reinforcement the Patrol
has Is officers engaged every day in issuing drivers licenses.
Last year this small group examined $4,000 applicants who
we're applying for a drivers license for the first time. When
it is known that 46 per cent of this number failed on their
first examination for a drivers license the Importance of the
job is established.
force it has and should be given due credit. 1t deserves also
The Highway Patrol is doing a splendid job with the
The cooperation of every thoughtful citizen for it is helping
save Lives on our highways daily.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13

Nehemiah conducted his pro-
ject on the farm belonging to
Sandy Montgomery, which has 80
acres in cultivated crops, Is in
pasture, and so in woods.
The land was in gullies, 1912
feet, and was useless for cropland
or pasture There were some good
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13

pines and ill-shaped ones. and
some with tops broken out.
Improvement was by cutting
poorly-shaped trees and less de-
sirable species, and by thinning
stands which were too thick.
Trees not out are now favored
with conditions for good growth.
Evening star., 1949-01-09
Three in Foreign Service
Get New ASSIGNMENTS

Three Foreign Service officers
with homes in the Washington area
are included in transfers just an
nounced by the State Department,
Frederick j. Mann, 1902 Corcoran
street NV, was transferred to duty
in the department here from Stutt-
gart, Germany.
Wesley C. Haraldson, 2l09 N.
Sixteenth street, Arlington, who has
been on duty in Berlin since he
joined the Foreign Service in 1915,
also was assigned to the department
here.
Halleck C. Rose, 2O22 Connecticut
avenue NV, who has been second
secretary of the American Embassy
at Managua, Nicaragua, was ordered
to Vienna as Consul with additional
duty as head of the displaced per-
sons program office at Salzburg.
Evening star., 1949-01-09
Girl, Il, Sets Record
By B,760-Foot Flight
In Light Craft al Miami
BY the Associofed Press

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 8.-Betty Skel-
ton, 22-year-old Tampa pilot, to-
day set an unofficial national alti-
tude record for light aircraft by
climbing to 25,760 feet in a Piper
PAIL.
The previous record of "a, 400 feet
was set before the war.
Miss Skeletons flight highlighted
the second day of the 17th annual
All American Air Maneuvers.
More than 10000 persons watched
as the pert 1947 aerobatics cham
pion spent nearly hours making
the altitude fight.
Ran Out of Oxygen.
Miss Shelton said she would have
gone higher but she ran out of
oxygen. 1t was IL degrees belo~
zero at the peak of her climb, she
said. I'm going to try to break
the international record of $4,000
feet. know I can do it," she added
Earlier. pair of Wisconsin pilots
Steve Whitman and Bill Brennand
moved into the finals of the
$4,000 Continental trophy race for
midget planes.
The Air Force, despite the loss of
one of its jet pilots yesterday, put
on big show today. 1st 1t. James
M. Hall of Pine Bluff. Ark. who
was stationed at Andrews Field,
near Washington, was killed when
his shooting star crashed yesterday.
Jets Circle Super Forts.
While Is B-29 Super Forts thun-
dered over the air field at tree-top
level, y je, fighters circled the
formation at more than $50 miles
per hour
Mr.. Brennand, 24-year-old de-
Tending champion, won the 10-lap
semifinal race with an average
speed Of 170.172 miles per hour. In
the initial heat, Mr. Whitman, an
Oshkosh school teacher who built
both winning aircraft, averaged
177.909 miles per hour.
Each picked up $3.50 first money
and a chance to win $1,000 top
money in the 24-mile final heat to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1949-01-09
School Administrators
Elect Bracken President

John L. Bracken, superintendent
of schools at Clayton, Mo, has been
elected president of the American
Association of School Administra-
torA tns National Education Asso-
citation announced yesterday.
Mr. Bracken, elected by a mail
ballot, succeeds Pasadena (Calif.)
School Supt. Willard E. Goslin, who
now becomes vice president. The
new president Of the NEA-affiliated
group will take Office March IS.
The school administrators organ
ization named Will c. Crawford as
second vice president. He is city
schools superintendent at San
Diego. Herbert B. Bruner, super
intendent of schools in Minneapolis,
was elected to the associations ex-
ecutive committee for a four-year
term.
The administrators group in
cludes chiefly supervisors and ad-
ministrative officers of city, county
and State schools throughout the
country.
Evening star., 1949-01-09
Nelson Says He'll Be Hard
On INAUGURAL Car Thieves

Judge George D. Nelson of Munic-
ipal Court warned automobile tam
perers yesterday to get out of town
or mend their ways before the in
sugural period.
Judge Nelson served notice car
thieves appearing before him will
receive stern treatment. He made
his comments during the arraign-
ment of Albert E. Applewhite. "a,
colored, 1900 block of @ street NV.
who was accused Of tampering with
an automobile and breaking a ven-
tilator window on it.
After listening to police testimony
that Applewhite was arrested while
trying to force entrance to a car
parked in the 200 block of Morgan
street NV. Friday night, Judge
Nelson set the relatively high bond
of 81 500, pending a jury trial Febru-
airy 2. Applewhite had pleaded not
guilty.
The judge added:
"It's our civic duty to see that
visitors to the Nations Capital do
not get the wrong impression that
this Is q lawless CITY,"
Evening star., 1949-11-16

Bench-weary Bones Mckinney
will return to action with the
Washington Caps tonight in a
National Basket Ball Association
game against the Denver Nuggets
at Uline Arena. Starting time
is $50.
Bones, the clownish North Caro-
linian with the perfected jump
shot, hasn't been in league game
this season. He injured his knee
in an exhibition and has been
harnessed woefully to the bench
since.
But Bones worked out yesterday
at American University while his
mates travelled to New York to
absorb a 77-63 shellacking by the
Chicago Stays. Trainer George
Lentz announced Mckinney as
fit to play.
So far as the Caps are con-
cerned, Lentz is Santa Claus. To
be quite blunt about it. the Caps,
who started of last season by
winning their first IS games,
haven't been doing too we'll lately.
They've won 4 and lost 3.
Nuggets Set to Win.
Player Coach Bob Feerick has
been riding the bench with his
noted knee trouble and Fred
Scolari is out with a fractured
cheek bone. Scolari should be
ready to play Saturday night
when the Caps try for revenge
against the Stays at Uline Arena.
The Nuggets haven't won a game
all season-they've played eight
but for inspiration all they need
to do is look back to last Satur-
day night. Boston came in that
night and beat the Caps for its
first victory of the young season.
One of the fastest foormen in
the business and probably the top
dribbler of them all will be wear
ing Nugget uniform tonight. He
is Kenny Sailors. the same Sailors
who was so outstanding with an
otherwise weak Providence team
the last three seasons.
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Mckinney Back in Caps Lineup
Aqoinst Denver Here Tonight

Besides Sailors, who can dribble
down court and change hands be-
hind him without losing speed. the
Nuggets will have a group of sky
scrapers in Jack Cotton and Jack
Toomay, each Ct; Bob Brown,
6-6, and Ed Bartels, Al Guokas
and Earl Dodd, each 6-5.
A crowd of 1900 turned out to
see the Caps-Stags, New York
Syracuse double header last night
at Madison Square Garden. Syr-
cuse won the nightcap, 77-74.
Nichols Makes Big Try.
Jack Nichols, considered by
some the smoothest big man in
the business, tried to keep the
undermined Caps in the game
against the Stays. He contrib
uted 81 points. II in the first half.
With Nichols, Chuck Gilmer
and Chick Reiser doing all the
Washington scoring, the Caps
earned a first-half 1886 tie. But
Chicago scored II quick points in
the early minutes Of the third Pc
riod to pull ahead.
Max Zaslofsky tailed 18 points
to lead the Stays, while Odie
Spears and Andy Phillip each got
IA. Nichols and Gilmur were the
only Caps getting double figures,
Gilmur aunexinp II points.
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Upset
By0hio State
Could End Race
Western Conference
Title Also Hangs on
Saturdays Results
BY the Associated Press

It's Michigan by 61a points and
Minnesota by 1872 in the big
games Saturday that will settle
a couple of important football
issues.
The odds-makers thus have pre-
scribed an economy sized head
ache for the men who must pick
the Western Conference represent
ative in the Rose Bowl. The games
Saturday also will decide the Big
Ten title winner.
Michigan is host to Ohio State
at Ann Arbor. Minnesota will play
Wisconsin at Minneapolis.
Should the Wolverines and
Gophers prevail as predicted, the
Big Ten championship would be
decided in Michigan's favor for
the third straight year, but the
bowl picture would be complete
confusion.
Ohio State, which now shares
the legaue lead with Michigan,
would be tied with Minnesota with
AZ mark and Illinois could even
horn in with a claim by trimming
Northwestern.
The Buckeyes could simplify
matters by upsetting Michigan
and taking the whole works-the
Big Ten title and the bowl. too.
Michigan is ineligible to return to
Pasadena for the bowl game be-
cause it was there two years ago.
I Another contingency-a Wis
consin victory and an Ohio State
defeat-wuold put the Badgers in
there. All is chaos.
The slide-rule specialists who
dope these things out in advance
forecast no such complications at
the other end of the Rose Bowl
axis-the Pacific Coast.
Out there the unbeaten, united
California Bears rule 6l2-point
favorite over Stanford, although
the fray is at the Indians stomp
ing grounds in Palo Alto.
Top-rated Notre Dame is IA
vored for another romp-a 33-
point pick over Iowa. Second
ranked Oklahoma is 20 over San
| Ia Clara.
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Bowl Selection
Is Due Monday
By the Associotsd Press

CHICAGO, Nov. 16. The
Western Conference team that
will play in the Rose Bowl game
on New Years Day will be an
nounced Monday by the Big
Ten Office.
Commissioner K. L. Wilson
said faculty committeeman will
begin voting on their first.
second and third selections
after Saturdays games. The
poll will be tabulated Sunday.
Wilson said that preparations
for the game in Pasadena,
Calf, included the scouting of
U. c. L. A., Stanford and Cali
fornia last Saturday. The teams
also will be secuted this week.
Stanford meets California and
U. c. L. A. faces Southern Cali
fornia.
Northwestern Coach Bob
Voigts. whose team has played
Michigan, Ohio State, Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota, believes the
Gophers, on the day North
western played them, were the
toughest of the four.
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Proposed Changes
lin Baseball Rules
Up for Action
BY the A.soeiotsd Press

CINCINNATI, Nov. 16.-Major
league baseball begins another Of
its chilly weather filings here to-
day.
The rules committee Of baseball
met during the day as the brass
of the majors began arriving for
the annual player draft tomorrow.
The American Association also
had a meeting scheduled for to-
day.
Recommendations for several
changes will be acted upon by the
rules committee, including one to
revoke the provision forbidding
the starting of an inning in a
night game after 1850 am.
Another would change the rule
which provides that base runner
is out if hit by a batted ball while
standing on base. That change
would not apply if the base runner
were on the move.
The recommendations have been
submitted by a subcommittee
which made a study of the rules
over a period of several months.
The Rules Committee includes:
George Trautman, Columbus,
Ohio, president of the National
Association (minor leagues: Joe
Cronin, Boston Red Sox; President
Branch Hickey Of the Brooklyn
Dodgers; James Gallagher, general
manager of the Chicago Cubs, and
Umpires Tom Connolly and Bill
Summers, American League. and
Bill Stewart of the National
League.
Some 5000 players, including
1873 of the bonus variety, will go
on the block at the draft meeting.
Bonus players are those who were
paid more than specified amount
to sign a contract.
Not too many players are ex-
pected to be picked up in the draft.
In 1948 only 10 were claimed for
total of $182,500.
The last are first so far as max
ing selections in the draft. The
teams which finished last in the
National and American Leagues
this year get first crack at the
talent.
Washington, which finished
eighth in the American League,
gets first pick and then the cellar
dwelling Chicago Cubs of the Ma
tional League make their choice.
Se1ectors will work upward until
the New York Yankees are
reached. The YankS get last bid.
Evening star., 1949-11-16
By GEORGE Huber

End Bill Szanyi, hero of George
Washington's 1877 victory over
Georgetown last year. barring a
remarkable recovery from injury.
won't be able to play Saturday
when the D. c. rivals square OF
for the 18th time.
Szanyi brought the Colonials
their first victory over the Hoyas
since the series started in 1890
when in the final period last year
he blocked a punt and ran 40
yards with the winning touch
down. In fact Bill seems at his
best against the local opposition
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Biq Redskin Toi|ors Home to Fit Him
By Lewis F. Atchison

The house that Jack built
was nothing compared to the
one John, John Adams, is con-
structing for his family at Four
Corners, Md. It will be a hand
some, two-story edifice with all
modern trimmings.
1t will be vastly different
from the average family dwell
ing because of the Redskin
tackles 6-foot-8-inch frame.
After years of living in cramped,
standardized apartments, util-
izing two upper berths on Pull
man trains, bending down to
his knees to look in the mirror
while shaving and humping his
head every time he goes through
door, long John has planned a
home to fit his size.
THE doors will be 712 feet
high instead of the standard 6
feet 8 inches" he told us. THE
basement ceiling will be foot
and a half higher than the Z
to 71a foot ceiling you find in
most homes. We raised the
windows a foot so I won't have
to be bending down all the time
to look out. and all the mirrors
will be longer and hung higher
so I can see into them"
Adams is doing the contract
ing himself, being a contractor.
He can lay brick, do expert car
pentry work and tackle any old
odd job you can think of. And,
speaking of tackle. look for him
in the middle of the line Sunday
when the Redskins meet the
Chicago Bears at Griffith Sta
dium, because he figures to be
busy with a little patchwork
out there.
Johns dad was a road grad
ing contractor in Charleston,
Ark, when John first got the
idea of going into the contract
ing business. It was strictly a
case of mistaken identity when
the school superintendent but
ton -holed him on the street
one day and said to get busy
on the new high school stadium.
It seems that John was mis-
taken for an older brother. but
Adams, unwilling to let the
chance slip away, got busy and
built the stadium. It seats
about $4,000 fans, he says. He
was IA years old at the time.
With that flying start he was
OH on q business career. build
ing almost anything and prac-
Evening star., 1949-11-16

Both teams in Saturdays Grit
nth Stadium clash are going all
out in their preparations for the
seasons finale here. George
Washington is holding secret
practice and Georgetown would
like to. The Colonials have de-
serted their usual Frog Island
practice field at the Virginia end
Of Highway Bridge and trans
ferred activities elsewhere. George
town still is practicing at the Hill
top but Coach Bob Margarita is
looking around for a canvas
screen to put UP around his field
Just in case some interested per-
Evening star., 1949-11-16

because in the Maryland game
two weeks back he scored both
G. w. touchdowns. one in par
ticular being a beauty when he
made a great pass catch on the
goal line. He had to rassle the
ball from two Terrapins.
He's been one Of the lucky boys
at G. w. nearly all season in that
he's escaped injury, but it all
caught up with him last week
against Duke. He got banged on
the knee and Sunday suffered a
hemorrhage. Now the knee is
swollen to the size Of q football
and he's on crutcheS. a
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Rice to Build Stadium
with 50, 1000 Capacity
BY the Associated Press

HOUSTON, Tex. Nov. 16.-
Rice Institute will build a $4,000
seat stadium and President VIII
liam v. Houston says that's an
answer to reports that the school
planned to de-emphasize sports.
Contracts for the $2.500,000
stadium are to be awarded after
the first of the year and the struc-
ture will be ready for the opening
game of the 1850 football season.
Evening star., 1949-11-16

son might see what he's cooking
up for the Colonials.
Both coaches deny that they
are planning anything new for
Saturdays Windup. "Shucks, !"
said G. WIS Bo Rowland. I'm
having enough trouble getting my
boys to remember the few simple
plays we've had all season. II
I gave them anything new now
it would only confuse them.
"I do hope though that Mar
garita has some new plays for
Saturday. The stun he has now
(see @. W.-HOYAS, Page Csc
Evening star., 1949-11-16

tically everything. Boats. fur
niture. f1replaces and Offices
have been fashioned by his busy
tools. Nothing is too difficult
for him to tackle. and that
goes double on the football
field.
Adams will open a contract
ing business here after the cur
rent football season and ex-
poets to be well established in
the field when he hangs up his
Evening star., 1949-11-16
Permone Quits Hospital;
Doctors Soy He Con Ride
By the Assoeioted Prsss

by ms hSSoetoIeo FresS
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Jockey
Bobby Permane has been released
from the hospital after more than
eight months treatment for in
juries suffered in a spill at Gulf
stream Park in Florida.
Doctors said he would be able
to ride again. Permane suffered
a broken leg and collarbone when
his horse fell in a race last March
"a. He was removed to a hos
pital here in April.