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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05
Joyce Williams
Home Demonstratiin Agent


Home Demonstratiin Agent
Many housewives have discover
ed that use Of dry milk is an
economical way to provide the
milk they need in cooking. And
along with this discovery comes
the questions: How should I store
the milk POWDER How should
mix it? How may I use it to bes
advantaue7
To answer the first question;
Store the milk powder in a cool,
dry place, preferably not warm
er than rs degrees Fahrenheit. II
shopld keep this way on the shelf
several months. The nonfat dry
milk.keeps somewhat better than
the whole milk powder.
If you put milk powder in the
refrigerator, transfer it to an air
tight jar or can.
Whenever you store dry milk,
be sIfe the container is tightly
covered. Close il right after use.
Milk powder takes up moisture
and gets lumpy If exposed long
TO air.
Each package of the dry milk
contains directions for mixing
with water. II also tells how to
use the nilk in cooking. And for
those who are weight conscious,
il also tells how the nonfat dry
milk can be whipped into mon
fattening' topping Cor pies or for
that gringtime delight, Straw
berry Short Cake.
In mixing the powder with wat
er. be sure the container is clean.
Bacteria will act on this milk
like any other milk. II will spoil
like other. milk, if it is not re-
trigerated. Fluid milk made from
milk powder and water needs to
be kept cool, clean and covered
just like any other fluid milk.
For those who are watching
their weight, here is an idea that
may allow them an extra bit of
butter on a vegetable or hot bis
cult: Mix | quart of whole milk
and | quart of milk made from
nonfat dry milk and water. This
will cut the fat content Of the milk
you drink in half. You can drink
the mhk you need, and eat pant
OF your fat requirement in an
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05

other form.
One quart Of milk made from
dry milk costs about 1-3 as much
as a quart of whole milk.
Dried milk may be used in max
ing breads, cakes and in a bis
! cult mix that will save you time
in making biscuits, mullins, waf
files and pancakes.
Biscuit Mix
8 cups sifted enriched white
flour, ID cup baking powder,
tablespoon salt, cup dried milk
(whole or nonfaD 1 cup fat Thy
drogenated). ~
To make mix. sift dry ingre
dients together 3 times. Cut in
fat about the size of pea Lift
mix lightly into glass Jars or tir
cans without packing. Close tight.
ly and store on shelf. No refriger-
alton is needed. Use a hydrogen
ated fat. as pure lard become
rancid when stored.
To make 6 medium-size bis.
cults, measure | cup of the mis-
and add enough water or fluio
milk to make soft dough. It will
take about 1-3 cup of liquid, ac-
cordins to the kind of flour used
and room temperature. Turn on
to lightly Toured board and
knead a few times. Pat or roll
out to about l-2 inch thickness.
Cut with Toured cutter. Place on
creased baking sheet. Bake in
hot oven, $50 degrees Fahrenheit
for IL to Is minutes.
To make mullins, measure / 1-2
cups of mix, and IL cup of water
or fluid milk and beaten egg
Do not beat, only moisten the dry
ingredients. Fill creased muffin
tins 2-3's fell. Bake in hot oven
400 degrees Fahrenheit about 20
minutes. Makes 6 mullins.
To make waffles, measure cup
mix, add "a cup water of fluid
milk and ! beaten egg yolk. Fold
in l beaten egg white. Bake on
hot waffle iron. Makes 2 large
waffles.
To make pancakes, measure l
cup mix, add % to cup wates
or fluid milk and / beaten egg
Mix lightly, do not heat. Drop bat
ter by spooneuls on TO a hot greas-
ed griddle. Cook slowly until sur
face is covered with bubbles, turn
and brown on bottom. Makes z
medium size cakes.
Less Messy Painting
Try this idea next time you
open can OF paint in preparation
to paint some furniture wood
work, toys or anything you have
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05

outlet bitches and farm ponds.
Since The first Of the year farm
ers throughout Holmes County
have made four hundred requests
for assist ance on the construction
of 297 stock ponds, terracing on Is
arms, g dragline bitches, and l07
' and w type bitches. These are
all permanent type conservation
measures and technical assistance
necessary to establishing these
practices will be furnished by the
workers of the Holmes County
Soil Conservation District. These
workers will visit each farmer
who has filed a request for as.
sistance with the local P. M. A..
to inspect the proposed site and
assist the farmer in determining
the need, cost, ETC., and whether
Or not the practice will be prac-
teal. Where surveys are needed
as on ponds and bitches, survey
cam OF 5. c. S. and p. M A.
workers will be used.
If you have made request for
one or more Of the above men.
'ioned practices and have not vet
oeen contacted by a representa-
I'VE of the Soil Conservation Dis
trlct you can expect one to call
at your farm in the near future
By the farmer being available
when the worker gets to his place
ne will help speed up the work
and enable all the interested
farmers to get started on their
projects. If there is a delay in the
S. c. S worker visiting your farm
and you are In hurry to begin
work on some particular prictice
you might contact him at the Dis.
trict office in Lexington.
Already a number of farr>s
have been visited and on sever,l
Of them work on various sonssr-
walton practices has started. Pre-
liminary surveys for stock ponds
have been made on the farms Of
E. o. Peterson, w. A. Thomas, ".
R. Swfnney, anud Roosevelt And
erson while the farms Of H. L.
Nichols and w. j. Waits have
been visited relative to dnagline
bitches. Terrace lines have like
wise been run on farms of Eddie
Lee, James Malone and w. A.
Thomas.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05

necessary 10 operate a training
business represent an investment
of $4,000 to $4,000. Also one or
two men have to be employed
to help handle the dogs the year
round and patrolman employed
to ride the leased lands during
hunting season. ...
In 1851 Mr.. Gardner spent in
Holmes county with county bust
ness the tidy little sum of S4,-
490.78 and this did not include
gasoline, freight or express.
All of this represents outside
money coming into the county
because all Of the dogs trained by
the Ebenezer man come from
out of the county.
He usually handles around 100
dogs a year with five field trial
dogs in training the year round.
Some are shipped in by Railway
Express but many are brought
here by their owners-who also
stop and spend money here.
So altogether Mr.. Gardeners
dog-trainins business is one OF
the many snail businesses of
Holmes county shat helps to make
the wheels 60 round.
You can't train a dog on a dead
Bird" Mr.. Gardner said, land for
that reason it. easy to see why
l get more fun oat of a live quail
than a dead one"
An it's easy 70 see why it is
necessary for Gardner to protect
his leased lands against trespass-
ing hunters bent on killing off
the quail he has protected.
If they come in and kill the
quail he will be out of bust
ness because you can't train :
dog on a dead quail.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05
Holmes County Gains National Recognition
For 1opfI;ght Dogs Trained By John Gardner
Tyfome Takes Top Honors In West
Tennessee TrioIs; Crofty Wins Derby

| Though few of our citizens NAV
be aware of it Holmes county j:
becoming nationally known for it.
! topnight bird dogs. This is dut
to the fact that John Gardner ha.
developed here in the county a
Ebenezer a highly specialize
business-the training of show ol
field trial dogs-and dogs from
all over the United States ar.
brought here to Mr.. Gardner t.
be trained.
Only recently one of Mr.
Gardeners dogs, Tyfame, a Swear.
old lemon and white pointer, wa:
the top dog in the West Tennes.
see Trails, an annual event which
attracts the best dogs in the
country.
Tyfame, owned by Mr.. R. P
| Countzler of Greenville, Ken
lucky, won the All-Age Stake al
these trials held at Brownsville
Tennessee. He received all his
training from Mr.. Gardner who
took the dog when he was one
year old and has been training
and showing him ever since. Dur
ing the past three years Tyfame
has earned eight wins which in
clude five first places, two Sec
onds and one third.
Another outstanding dog train
ed by Mr.. Gardner is Crafty, a
pointer who was whelped June
3, 1851, at Burwood plantation
where Mr.. Gardner has trained
about $50 dogs in the past four
years.
Crafty was bred and trained
by Mr.. Gardner and sold by him
to DR.. H. A. Gray in Bowling
Green, Kentucky in December.
Crafty was shown by Mr.. Gard
ner at Grand Junction, Tennes-
see, this month where he won
the Hobart Ames Memorial Der
by Stake on January S. This was
the first time this stake had ever
been run.
Previously Crafty had taken the
Quail Futurity at Carbondake,
Illinois. over 70 top dogs. In two
starts Crafty has won two first
places and his breeder-trainer is
naturally pleased with his rec
ord-especially since he had also
trained Crafty's grand sire, Wei
ser, who had Is wins to his credit
and Crafty's sire, Touchdown,
who has eight wins in top COM
petition from Canada to the Gulf
Coast, and is still going strong.
My first personal contact with
John Gardner was in 1850 when |
went out to see Burwood. an ante
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05

5ellum type home built near Lex
ington about 1910. l went to see
the. house because | was inter
eSted in old homes. | stayed to
see the dogs Mr. Gardner was
training in the vicinity Of Bur-
wood-taking them to Canada
during the summer months.
told Mr.. Gardner then I want
ed to do feature story on the
dog-training business some time
and now when his dogs have
received nationwide recognition l
thought this would be good time
to let the people of Holmes coun-
ty know stmething about this, to
me, unusual business.
3 ,san In 1892
Mr.. Gardner in 1852 completed
twenty years of training dogs-a
career which began in 1882 after
he left State College at Starkville.
This career began originally at
Red Banks, Marshall County, Mis-
sissippi where he was born and
reared. The family place there is
still owned by Mr.. Gardner, the
original 100 acres of the place
was bought by his grandfather the
first John Gardner, in 1843 from
the Chickasaw Land Grant sale
at Pontotoc.
The Holmes mans grandfather
had ridden a horse from their
home in Virginia to Pontotoc
where the land grant sale was
held-then promptly left, again
on his horse, for Illinois where
he went to claim his bride, the
former Sara MCGEE of Scotch
Irish descent.
Mr.. Gardeners father was born
and engaged in farming all his
life on the family place where he
died in 1916. Mr.. Gardner operat-
ed the family place for some time
and there started his dog-training
career. With the development of
large scale cattle operation in
Mississippi the training grounds
available grew smaller and small
ler-so Mr.. Gardner looked for
new location.
After looking over three states
he settled in Holmes County.
When asked about the requi-
sites of dog training Mr.. Gardner
said two things are necessary
suitable land and an abundance
of quail.
The first thing he did was lease
land in this county under work
ing agreement with the landown-
ers, white and colored, in and
around Ebenezer. Under this
agreement Mr.. Gardner was
bound to PROTECT the game by
keeping the d ID posted against
trespassers to d point of patrol
ling during hui ing season-keep-
ing off people no had no bust
ness on the ID. This did not
keep the landow her from hunting
on his own land nor did it keep
his friends from huntingthose to
who he gave written permission.
According to these agreements
the contract could be terminated
any time at the discretion Of the
AS a result of this and also due
to the fact that Mr.. Gardner
planted bi-color lespedeza for feed
and cover, the quail population in
these protected lands of Holmes
increased 500 percent in 3 years.
This increase showed up at the
Mississippi Field Trials held in
Ebenezer in December, 1851
when Is coveys of birds were
in tive hours running time.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05
Conservation Notes
by A. p. Carroll.
Soil Conservationist

Beginning in 1852 the Soil Con-
5ervation Service was given thu
esponsibility Of laying out am
all permanent conserva-
ton practices where assistance
vas made available by the Pro-
iuction and Marketing Admin
stration. These practices include
terracing, construction of drag
ne ditcha, V and W type bitches
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05

to paint. Glue a paper plate
to the bottom Of the paint can.
1t not only catches any overflow,
but also provides a convenient
place to lay the brush when
you are not using it.
Another variation of this same
paper plate idea and a paint can,
is to cut the center out of a paper
plate and put the remaining rim
around the top Of the paint can
to catch drips and overflows.
Keep the paint from running
down the sides of the can or buc-
ket,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-05
Keep Picture STRAIGHT

Put piece Of adhesive tape
around the center of the picture
wire. Then hang the picture. AT
ter you have adjusted the pic
ture to the proper position, the
thickness of the tape will hold
it in place.
Evening star., 1953-11-28
Home Loan Unit
May Face Curb
On Public Gifts
McAIlister Says
Board Also Studies
Bon on Rate Ads

The Home Loan Bank Board
is studying means to discourage
some recent practices of savings
and loan associations designed
to attract new savings accounts.
That was disclosed this week
by Walter w. McAlliSter, new
chairman of the board, in a
Chicago address before the 6lst
annual convention of the United
States Savings and Loan League.
The two practices he cited
were:
l. Presentation of merchan-
disc as gifts to those who open
new savings accounts.
2. Competitive advertising Of
interest rates.
Competition is excellent and
the handspring of the American
economy" Mr.. McAllister told
savings and loan bankers. Some
times, however. our exuberance
leads to practices that at first
seem acceptable-certainly pro-
duce acceptable results, which
finally turn out to be injurious.
"One such. in the opinion Of
many, is merchandise gift pro-
gram for savings. There would
seem to be little objection to the
presentation of an article of
nominal value where new ac-
counts are opened, but when the
value of the gift increases as
the amount of the account rises,
it is closely akin to an increased
dividend rate.
Generally, a program of this
kind is very successful when it
is first started. 1t will, however.
increase Withdrawals from other
local associations and in the
course of time some one of them
will institute a similar cam
paign.
"The second association must
outdo the first. Finally it be-
comes a race between all local
associations and the value Of
such campaign is then COM
pletely lost. Certainly it will pro-
duce group of people who will
transfer accounts from one in
Stitution to another for the pur-
pose of getting such prizes.
THE opposition to such pro-
gram is so widespread and in
some instances the abuses are so
serious that the board is CIV
ing consideration to a means Of
curbing the practice"
Referring to advertising that
Continued on Page B-6, Col. 81
Evening star., 1953-11-28

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Evening star., 1953-11-28

CONTINUED on Page BIG, Col. 81
Evening star., 1953-11-28
COOgdn Urges
Bigger Federal
Role in HOUSING
Sees Industry Groups
Victim of Their
Own Slogans
By Robert J. Lewis

What will happen if housing
production seriously declines
after sweeping reorganization of
Government housing activity?
Would housing once again
become prime political issue?
Would private enterprise be
discredited and the way paved
for advocates of public owner
ship to demand increased re-
Sponsibilities?
Would public reaction be so
great as to catapult the housing
agency up to Cabinet level, as
happened in England, where a
Ministry of Housing handles
Government functions in this
field?
Speculation already has begun
on these and other questions, as
the Presidents Advisory Com
mittee on Housing prepares to
issue a report recommending
sharply reduced Federal activity
in some fields and a Scrambling
of the responsibilities of existing
agencies.
One of the most respected
voices being heard outside the
Presidents advisory committee
at the moment is that of Thomas
p. Coogan, former president of
the National Association of Home
Builders and a former director
of the Armed Forces Housing
Agency.
Mr.. Coogan recently called for
elevation of the housing agency
to Cabinet rank now as the first
step Ito see that all Americans
are adequately housed and to
make home ownership available
on a broader scale"
''The pandemonium that has
arisen over our present attempts
to revise and change our housing
policies and procedure would be
laughable if it were not so Sc
rious," he said.
The critics of the present
Government housing policies are
many and their solutions are as
diverse as their source. Never has
an industry in this country been
as divided as the various COM
ponent parts of the housing in
Gustry, and there was never less
cause for disagreement"
Mr.. Coogan'S statement was
issued in a newsletter sent out
by Housing Securities, Inc, of
New York of which he is presi-
dent. Reached yesterday by tele-
phone at his Miami Office, Mr..
Coogan said he considered now
was the time to strengthen Fed
eral activity in housing and not
to weaken it.
He said he feared that COM
promise agreements now being
reached between different ele-
ments representing diverse view
points on the Presidents advis-
ory committee would result in
recommendation designed to
please every one that will please
no one" with the result that
way will be opened for charges
to be made later that private in
dustry has fallen down on its
job"
Discussion of cabinet status for
the'housing agency at the forth
coming convention of the Ma
tional Association of Home Build
ers at Chicago is mot precluded"
by the associations present pos
ition, an association spokesman
said today.
Nor is the home building in
dustry's current position favor
ing overall policy-making status
for the Nations top housing Off
cial to be taken as meaning it
would not favor Cabinet rank for
such an official, the spokesman
emphasized.
One source indicated the home
builders representation on the
(COntinued on PAGE Rs. Col. 4 y
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-02-15
By GILBERT GUSLER

THE GENERAL level of prices of
farm products may be more stable
in the next few months, but any rise
is likely to be small. The. squeeze
between prices and costs will con-
tinue. The index of prices received
by farmers on January Is, 1858, was
IL per cent lower than year ago
and back to the level of August,
1850, two months after the Korean
war started. 1t was per cent over
the pre-Korean level. Farm cost
rates were per cent lower than a
year ago but II per cent over pre-
Korea.
Removal of controls is not likely
to start new inflationary push.
Many industrial goods as well as
farm products are in plentiful sup
ply. Ending of ceilings may lead
to advances in a few industrial
products, but output is likely to in
crease in response to higher prices
and soon check any upward ten
dency.
World production of food in 1852
So set new high record, according
to the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture. 1t was per cent over the
prewar level. World population has
increased more than the food sup
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-02-15
Markets at a Glance

Prices-More stability is probable in faru
prices after February break"
CattIe-Prices, except for high choice and
prime grades, probably will be steady to higher
in next two or three months.
Hogs-Hog price ratio probably will
hold long-term average.
Lambs-Drop in receipts and moderate price
rise probable.
wooI-Prices in next few months probably
will stay near current levels.
Wheat-Prices probably will not go much
lower; may have moderate spring upturn.
Feed Grains-Holding for feeding and place
ment in support program will limit further
price drop.
FIaxseed-Stocks are per cent under year
ago, but usage is smaller.
Seeds-Last years drouth may increase
spring seeding requirements.
FREDERICKSBURG increase in formula feed
sales may strengthen prices slightly.
Hay-Price changes in next month or two
will depend greatly on weather.
Dairy ProGucts-Size of spring price decline
will depend partly on new support level
Eggs-Strong demand from breakers is sup
porting prices.
Chickens-Prices probably will hold UP well
in next month or two.
Turkeys-Cut in 1858 tonnage may be less
than government support purchases in 1852.
Potatoes-Stocks on hand and prospects for
early crops indicate supply moderately above
needs.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1953-02-15

ply and is up Is per cent. How
ever, troublesome world surpluses
of many staple crops were present
in the period before World War II.
An important part of the increase in
world agricultural production has
taken place in the United States
please turn to page 48)
Evening star., 1953-03-31
News Of Music.
By Alice Eversmon

The Harvard Glee Club and
the Radcliffe Choral Society
presented q serious program in
Lisner Auditorium last night as
a benefit for the Radcliffe
Scholarship Fund. The Rad
cliffe Club Of Washington spon-
sored the event. Combined and
individually. the groups showed
musical training of superior
order for which the conductor,
G. Wallace Woodworth, is re-
sponsible. The unhackneyed list
of numbers placed many de-
mands on the young singelt,
whose vocal accuracy and mu-
sical understanding were equal
to the test.
The program, for the most
part concentrated on works by
composers of the 18th and 18th
century, came no nearer the
present day than Debussy and
the contemporary French COM
poser, Leo Preger. Preger, a
pupil of Nadia Boulanger and
twice winner Of the Lili Bou-
langer Foundation Award in
Boston, has written several
numbers for the Harvard Glee
Club. Listed on last nights pro-
gram was his -Four Motets for
Voices and Continue" a severe
but powerful work, where un-
usual harmonies bring new
sounds in vocal contrasts. It
formed part of the first group
devoted to motets,. the most i'm
pressive of which were Allegri's
"Miserere" and Mozart's ave
verum Corpus, K. 618."
The singing, Of. both groups is
kept within a limited volume.
The men, by reasons Of their
naturally more robust tones
scored over the women in several
instances. The ''Miserere" was
the first example Of their fine.
well-blended quality that reached
a climax in the singing of "No
Man Is an Island" to music by
Henry Leland Clarke Of the
class Of 1928. The telling piano
accompaniment, beginning with
a bell theme illustrating the
well-known line For Whom the
Bells TOLL" of John Donne's
poem. initiated the atmosphere
Of the music.
The best singing Of, the Rad
cliffe Choral Society was done
in welcome as the Cheerful
Light" from Handel'S "Jephtha."
The voices were fresh and
true with more substance, than
in the performance of Pales-
trina's "Benedictus" and Area
Evening star., 1953-03-31
Harvard and Radcliffe Singers
Show Superior Training

delt's "Nous voyons que les
hommes." The latter was one oi
four 18th century chansons to
which. was added Debussy's
'Trois Chansons de Charles
D'Orleans." !" The composers skill
in writing In the quaint chanson
style offered charming effects
for the singers. one Of whom,
Dorothy Farmhouse. contralto,
sang the solo part of QUAINT
j'ai ouy le tabourin."
The secular choruSes included
also Dvorak's Gram" the
chorus from Berlioz' Romeo and
Juliette," and Schubert's "Valses
Mobiles, op. IT." These numbers
were sung to piano accompani-
nnent played by an excellent but
unnamed pianist. The a cappella
performances Of the early motets
and chansons were marked by
fluid nuances and cleanly defined
dynamics.
Gabrieli's "Symphoniae Sac
rea," written for the Church oi
st. Mark in Venice, concluded
the program and was sung with
exceptionally well-balanced tone
by the two clubs. Artistic as was
the arrangement Of the program
and the interest centering in the
numbers themselves as well as
in the polish Of the singers de-
livery, the concert lacked variety
Some lighter numbers would
have Offset the general serious
trend Of the performance. Il
was received, however. with sin
cere appreciation by the large
audience.