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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1943)
PAG-TCI T& OnTGCII CTATZTMAIT. Sclera. Oxtqxm. Thursday IIcaxLag, l iar 13. 1S13 V-Gardeners to Hear Contest Judge Tell of Key Points In Amateur Competition Ardent amateur vegetable gardners already enrolled or in tending to compete in the Victory Garden contest are expected to turn out in large numbers for the meeting, tonight at 8 o'clock at the YMCA, of the Salem Men's Garden club which, jointly with The Statesman, is sponsoring the contest. For at tonight's meeting Charles Cole, chairman of the judg ing committee, will outline in some detail the points upon which judging will be based! and may be prevailed upon to -explain just what gardening practices are most likely to produce prize-winning crops. : Though warning was , given a week ago that the contest entry . list will have to be closed soon in order that judging of early crops may proceed, the enrollment dead line date has not been set definite ly. It wiU not be until after the Marion-Polk county flower and vegetable show, scheduled for May 22 and 23. Gardeners attending this show. In the Valley Motor company building, will have op portunity to enroll. . New. . enrollments . continue to come in but there are indications that some Victory gardeners still are waiting to see how their gar dens begin to show up after the expected period of good growing weather. . Some contestants who early en tered the race, in competition for one of the prizes which total in value more than $200,. include: . H. L. Gillette, ,10 Beech Ave.; Dr. iv. ti. waters ana not. n. Hutchins, East Nob Hill; Grace A. McLaughlin, 1698 South -High; Mrs. Robert M. Gatke, 280 Rich mond; William A. Merriott, 1S80 Kansas; Joseph Hart, 2252 Simp son; A. V. Snyder, 1935 Center; Mrs. Harry Hunt, 2545 Hazel; Homer S. Anderson, 824 North Front; Floyd Query,- 1615 Nebras ka; L. W. Elliott,-1240 Lee; Mar- Today's Garden By LILLIE L. MADSEN Mrs. J. C. asks how to get rid of the radish worm. Reports that worms are ruining her radishes. . Answer: Our best radishes are Our earliest ones. They are not bothered so much by the worm. tregon State college gives as a control: "Planting the radishes in rows.. When' second pair of leaves appear, place 10 or 12 inch boards on edge along the tow, join the ends of the short boards, and cover top with mos . ijuito bar or fly screen." Autumn planted radishes or every early grown ones seldom have worms. : Mrs. L. S. C. asks if it is too late to set out tomatoes for this year's early crop. Answer: It is just now time to be setting out the plants. From May-10 to 20 is suggested by our county agent. - The too early set-out plants simply stand still and are frequently injured so that they do not pick up throughout the season. This de pends somewhat upon your soil condition, too, you know. Mrs. A. A. A. asks if the lawn moss will do well in shade or if it needs full sun. Also how long-lived it is. Answer: If she means Sagina Subulata this really seems to do a little better with a bit of hade. I do not know how long it will live. I have been told that the older moss lawns tend to yellow and must be renewed from time to time. MDs Hear of Nerve Malady Guadalcanal HeW Caused By HOWARD W. B LAKES LEE Associated Press Science Editor DETROIT, The hitherto unrevealed medical story of the hell on Guadalcanal which broke strong men until they gibbered has been told to the American psychiatric association by Lt. Com mander E. Rogers Smith of Mare Island, nval surgeon. He said the strain on the ma- rines produced nervous symptoms that never have been seen before and may never be seen again. These men broke down mostly after the fight was over, not in the course of it . .Men who had been proud of ability to carry alcohol found they no longer tolerated it. A couple of short beers would make them cry like babies or they would want to fight everyone in sight. ' " "We believe," said Lt Com mander Smith, describing some of these marines treated at the naval hospital, "that never before in his tory have such a group of healthy, toughened, well-trained men been subjected to such " conditions as . the combat troops of the marine . corps faced during the days fol lowing August 7, 1942. "Rain, heat, insects, dysentery; malaria, ' all contributed but the end result was not blood stream . ENHoiLMnrr application . Victory Garden Program - and Contest " ; Please 'enroll my name as a participant in the Salem , Victory Garden arid Home Food Supply Program. I under-- ' . - 4 AL.i ALI. 11 - . 1 - . . - - iumiu uwi uus cxmMMuvm maxes ray saraen eugiDie ZOT prize - awards offered in the Victory Garden contest sponsored by the Salem Men's Garden club and The Oregon Statesman. 1 Approximate area of my plot is.. My garden Is located at. . llj address is garet Gilbert, 901 South 13th; Mr. and Mrs. A. A Taylor, 300 Culver Lane; Clara A. Heltzel, 710 South Liberty; Garland E. HoUoweU, 1568 Chemeketa; Lester JL. Laws, route 4; Mrs. W. B. McCallum, 587 Statesman; A. W. Metzger, 1715 North 22nd; Mrs. Lloyd D. Reilly, 425 Oxford; Ida Frykberg, 376 Ev ergreen; Mrs. Douglas McKay,-395 Jerris; Lacy M. Peoples, Highland tract; Mrs. H. E. McWain, 90 Fair view; Arthur Kilday, 1180 Colon ial; E. D. BueU, 1955 North Fifth; Roy Eilert, 705 Thompson; Lee Acheson, 1641 D; Blanche Allen, 1530 North 21st; Jean Chamber lain, 715 North Commercial; I. C. Ramseyer, 2590 South Summer; Val Reznicsek, 1945 West Nob HilL ! Other features of tonight's Sa lem Men's Garden club meeting will include a talk by .Sidney Jary of Keizer, outlining the activities of the Keizer Victory Garden proj ect which is said to be "going great guns;' a discussion of borders, perennials and annuals, by Ernest Iufer; and tentatively, a display of wild plants, and the members have been invited through the dub bulletin to. bring .any outstanding specimens of plants, regardless of variety, now available in their gardens. Large Attendance At Meeting Seen That the spring "wreck" of Marion county voiture No. 153, of the 40 et 8 societe, scheduled for Saturday night at the Marion ho tel, will be one of the best-attended in recent years was indicated at an adjourned - voiture meeting Wednesday night at the Lions' Den. Eighteen new members will be initiated, six of them for the Port land i voiture and' several from other Willamette valley areas. A delegation of 75 from the Portland voiture was promised. Real Estate Exam Draws 8 Eight applicants wrote in the semi-annual examinations for real estate brokers and real estate salesmen here Wednesday, Claude H. Murphy, state real estate com missioner, reported. Approximately 100 applicants will participate in similar examin ations in Portland Thursday. The quarterly meeting of the real estate commission will be held in Portland Friday. Corey Enters Hospital SWEGLE E. L. Corey entered the Deaconess hospital last week for treatment in preparation for an operation. Enters Hospital TALBOT Betty Wintermantel was taken to the Salem General hospital Tuesday morning for treatment and diagnosis. infection nor gastrointestinal dis ease but - a - disturbance of the whole organism a disorder of thinking and living of even wanting to live. And this incred ible strain lasted not one or two days or nights but persisted for weeks and weeks. "Hope left most of these men hope of winning the battle hope of being aided or rescued. Fatigue wore them down. Painful aching fatigue that they felt could never be relieved or cured." ; But they were, originally, as a class, tougher and mentally su perior and their doctors hope that after six months on the continent all or nearly all will.be fit for civilian life and many will be qualified for limited military duty. But . it is now considered very doubtful that any of them can go back into the kind of action they faced last fall. , .square feet Soldiers Can Read , - ; But "Elsie Dinsmore!' Won't Satisfy . . . - By MAXINE BUREN : Picture a husky soldier or sailor breathlessly reading a copy of "Elsie Dinsmore', spending his spare hours with a copy of "Dave Darin and the German Submarines" (1918 edition) or getting as far as the solution in a murder mystery and finding that chapter gone from the book. Yet that's the sort of reading - that hundreds of well meaning lonely watches want, for that's the kind many of themgive. . The need for good books' for the Ninth Service command li brary is still urgent, according to Mrs. Ruth Stratton, librarian, who has directed the handling' of around 10,000 books at her office in the Oregon State li brary building since the first of the year. The books will be collected by block leaders in Salem, accord ing to a plan being worked out, and those in charge ask that a careful selection be made of books before they are turned in Worthless books must be dis carded for they only require more help at the library, or ship ping center. Strangely enough, serious books top - fiction " as "favorite reading for servicemen. 'They especially like biographies, tech nical reading and many select poetry as favorites. Late books on current topics are much in demand, soldiers like good mys teries but not trashy novels. Assisting Mrs. Stratton in the work of collecting, servicing and distributing books for hte entire state outside Portland are Mrs. Arden S. Reed, her secretary; Mrs. Lueva Lueck, librarian's assistant and Dan Zen, shipping clerk. The latter was recently discharged from active duty in the navy and is continuing his service as a member of the staff. Old-Age Assistance Grants Increased By Record Funds Okehed in Last Legislature By RALPH C. CURTIS The stepping-up of individual old-age assistance grants in Ore gon, contemplated when the leg islature approved an all-time rec ord appropriation of $30,404,328.27 for public welfare in the closing days of the 1943 session, already is taking place, the state public welfare commission's most recent report reveals. In comparison to the record for March, 1943, the number of old age assistance recipients had de clined in March of this year by 8.6 per cent but the obligations had increased 7.5 per cent In that month $530,589.50 was paid out to 19,987 beneficiaries, making the average grant $28.55, an increase from last December's $24.71, but still substantially below the figure toward which the legislative ways and means committee's public Using Trucks To Save Gas Said Illegal Driving trucks between places of residence and business, to cir cumvent gas restrictions on pass enger automobiles, is a violation of regulations, and gasoline for this purpose is being denied, it was stated today by Herman O. Sites, district manager of the of fice of defense transportation, mo tor transport division. "It should be clearly under stood," Sites said, "that refusal of war price and rationing boards to give additional gasoline for pass enger car use is not sufficient grounds for the ODT to give any more gas for truck use. "Any person who -has a passen ger car as well as a truck is re quired to drive the passenger car to and from work. "If a person sells a passenger car and buys a truck for use to and from work, if issued a cer tificate, he will obtain an amount of gas equal only to a basic A gasoline ration." . , - Sites said persons contemplat ing purchase of a used truck for personal transportation should first consult with ODT to see if the ODT will grant transport ra tions with which to run the truck. Children Buy Stamps SILVERTON Enrene Field grade school children bought $147.60 worth ef war stamps dnriar the week. The seventh grade was. responsible for sell ing the most Doctors in Portland LABISH CENTER Miss Peg gy Tontx was ill last week at the home' of her 'sister, Mrs. Clyde Boehm, in Salem. She spent sev eral days' doctoring in - Portland, staying at the home of her grand mother and aunts. ' . EEL El Emjoy intimate DAINTINESS You, tod, will find CERTANE s mar velous ,'d to personal daintiness. Mild . . . gentle. . .delightfully fragrant CERTANE douche powder affords ut most intimate cleanliness. Luxurious, deodorizing . . . soothing to dehcate tis toes. No lingering tell-tale odor. Use CERTANE for your daily hjvenic ritual. book doners think soldiers on . We could write a series about the Victory book campaign. How the books are sent in boxes of 38 to: 40 to . even the smallest outposts upon request How, ev en though, there are over 100 such traveling libraries in use, no books are duplicated, so the libraries can be . rotated. How selections are carefully made so each book will be of real inter est to the readers. Of how great sections of the - unused . book space in the state library, is used for storing books as yet unused, ready to send to camps as they are established over the state. .- -We could tell" of a good ex i ample of. how - the boys want to read, when we recall how .groups come from the fairgrounds or the -airport, anxious to get books and delighted when they are al lowed to roam around, making their own selections. .... It would make Salem house holders let go of their own pre cious books, if they realized how much more useful'are the vol umes in' some soldier's hand than filling up the bookshelves at home. ' :'. It's just another way we can help the men' who are giving up their homes and ' families ' and their own firesides to fight for us. It isn't glamorous to give your favorite' book, but it's gen erous and patriotic too. welfare subcommittee was- aim ing: It was pointed out at the time that the - goal could be reached only gradually. On the basis of the monthly outlay- for March, the biennhim cost would be only about $12, 742,000 in comparison to the $20, 000,000 authorized in the budget. In contrast to the statewide de crease of 8.6 per cent in number of recipients, in comparison to March, 1942, the number in Mar-, ion county decreased by less than 1 per cent, to 1658 'persons, and the total obligations increased by 14.7 per cent to $42,976 which provided an average grant per in dividual recipient of $25,92, slightly below the state average. Marion county is however high on the list, beneficiaries receiving more on the average than those in all : counties excepting Multno mah, Clackamas, Sherman and Lincoln. Multnomah's average of $30.28 per person greatly increases the state average. The substantial statewide de crease in number of recipients probably is due in large part to former recipients rejoining the ranks of the regularly employed, as is indicated by the fact that the more noticeable reductions oc curred in such war-affected coun ties as Multnomah, Clackamas, Benton, Clatsop, Curry, Deschutes, Tillamook and Washington; though less accountably, the greatest re duction of all, 23.5 per cent, oc curred in Sherman county. Improved economic conditions are dramatically reflected . in a 46.6 per cent drop hi the number of general assistance recipients throughout the state, from March, 1942, to the same month in 1943. The number of recipients ' in the former period was 14,316; in March, 1943, it had declined to 7647. However, presumably due to larger grants in recognition' of f is ing living costs, total obligations declined only 13.2 per cent, from $145,277 to $126,056. In .Marion county the number of general assistance recipients declined from 1280 to 688, the per centage being close to' the state average. Total obligations dropped 2.9 per cent, from $11,250 to $10, 919. The number of recipients in Polk -county was all but halved, from; 268 to 138, and the total obligations declined 18.4 per cent from $3651 to $2980. Every lee " McJr Bted wiU mum W teat Jar itT. Quality. AT YOtni GIIOCETS Snell Names Victory Day For May 19 Designation of Wednesday, May 19, as "African Victory dayT was proclaimed yesterday by Gov. Ear Snell, who; stated the purpose to go lozvpriced at War do 4 1 y N4. , MAN TAILOHZ9 CLACKS AT 498 Koyofi slrulMr dothl Rayon aobar dhetl Assorted twflbl In brown, novy end colors. 2432. Fine rayon shirt.. . .2.93 wabhoWom. 12-20 i. W rife I v I- m -.- vf CCCL RAYCIJ CIACI3 at ivrn Taese Inoliide leyoa pobof dines end rayon twSb In good iort snent of colors, Sixes 24 to 32. Ryon shbtwolsf..... JtS3 " Soft rayon blouse . . bo celebration of "the redemption of the continent of Africa the first continent reclaimed from our enemies." The proclamation read fav part: " ' "- , ' , -r' ! " ' 'The occupation of northwest Africa was an American program. The command of the African cam paign was vested in our General Eisenhower. America's - ground, aerial and naval forces played! a spectacular and vital, part' in. the !& if 4 V : ft tyJ V'h hi-. ijiSii-i mis iisw " ci placj o fat:cy STYLC3 AT 6.98 ks Mtnl rayon clofh, o f ovorite Iicksufabf5dAppCove.i.stitdv. tnr, . i In isri reltsn 1 ill mk. nd aaieslngly lew-priced t . Words! , Irowa or novy Is 24-32. 3.98 "TC::3t 2.98 final . battles of Tunisia. Britain has rung its church bells and re joiced : throughout the land over the : liberation; Russia and China have' rejoiced. It is -improper for America to leave to Us comrades-in-arms v the" observance of this first decisive and absolute victory of the Second World war. V ; "It is my hope that on the 19 th day of May every -community in ' ''?:-:J ..faff M . it fi. I s 7 J K J iV y- V't-S da- ouc2 picmn: qualitv GLACCI GUI7G OC1LV Here b style end tailoring you con be proud of any where. Here are fabrics thot wiU wash and wear in definitely. Here Is Summer-long comfort, work-and-play efficiency, flattering good looks, too. And ft oB costs so Brrieat Wards! A wide variety of colors and styles In smooth rayon orolac gabardine. 12 to 20. A purchase of $10or ever wi3 open a Monthly fay went Account at Wards. Why not get the "best" newf T :.C'. v-v'- : '- y ' -' CLACriCUITG FOD IZZZl ' y Interesting stylet In long-wearing MWnl rayon cfeth. Ticking .; i .titching . s s dkfcey coSors . ..in navy, lusgaje end copen. Saes 12-20. 13 Oregon win Join in this br. ance. In every way that it can b managed without interference, , wtth the war. effort And Oregoi ' invites the states f the union t Joinwith her in celebration el the victory of our ' armed f orces and the accomplishments of oq home front i "On from Africa to the redemp tion of Europe and Asia. - . 'MORTOOMIIY WAID 4.98 i Signed- ' ' 1 - imvIwib:;. " Print or type name here- , t irmggUti It It O Oil 155 N. Liberty SL 0sA f MpUcjitloa fclaak at SUtesm&a fnce er YMCA.)