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Jiicn ! howl the cNCKexs cnc ana we uiuming 01 me i-o eiccuon lore
mis and crisp weather and km'
thoughts.
All these with forecasts ol frost
bite and sun bum.
The almanac was' started by
Robert B. Thomas, publisher and
.-ol the cows moo, the coyotes philosopher. Terhaps he was 1
h. crickets crick and the thinking of tl
S-"9. in It's ,,mA handle squeaks and you'U casts when the wrote in 1802:
fcSGlf" .,imd the '.(-j 0iks still looking ai tne "Jia "rieaa newspapers, out consia-
r . , m j
the pig
Pormpr s Almanac
what's comin' next.
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and bin j
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find out er, before you believe; for com
mon report is often a great liar."
157th Edition ran mail unoining new, niner.
i . . I..-. m 'Manv vears affo. Mr. Thomas' fine
The laiesi eaiuvu ju - --. --- ----- -
Th 157th consecutive one. i , i p. .
wasn't arouna m warcn vie . ..;
.. roll over the first one in 1792. H., which read:
But word comes down the line "I have read the Old Farmer's
that the little yellow-bound book-1 Almanac these many years and 1
let f which now sells for two-bits) !wish the damned fool that chang
hasn't changed any more than the ed the reading of the moon's
moon and stars from which the column had died before he done
forecasts come. , a.
There are me usual leaiuics, in
cluding the weather, astronomy
planting, Dsn ana game, uaes, eic.
The blurb on the 1949 copy ad
vertises an enlarged recipe section,
many of the new scientific devel
opments on the farm, cartoons by
Francis w. uani ana siui-y iuvui
. Mil TU, U. 4-nftln
tracK siar vjh
Parson, "who runs for the Lord."
Green Rain
Paint Firms
Get Indictments
ST. LOUIS (u.B Three cor.
iporations and three individuals
Most interesting review of last j were indicted by a federal grand
1 . , . , In.,.. haiM tVita uiaolr nn ahsroaa ff
winter's weather was me account .""
of the ereen rain which fell on
Dayton, O., on Marcn aom. nu
this happened the day after three
conspiracy to fix prices of water-
mixed paints.
Corporations Indicted were the
moons were seen In Boston "the j Reardon Co. of St. Louis, the
real moon witn a 'dog moon on
either side."
So much for last winter.
This winter, the almanac says,
it won't be as drippy or as cold
'as last year. However, it'll last a
little longer into March when we
can expect rain, sleet and snow.
The "Old Farmer's Almanac" is
none of the city dweller's business.
It's nrinted to help the man in
LjMil the Clock
lAJltolP.M.
Wfwucing
Miss
keeves Rendafit
formerly ot
Fliiabeth Penthouse
tf Solon In Portland
tt wr appoint
it far bemitf
sir
Jbcauty STUDrb
kiln Upper Deck...
ITDDIO BUILDING
B4 ud Willamette
Fbone 881
Murallo Co. of Staten Island, N.Y.,
and Wesco Water Paints Co., Ber
keley, Calif.
Individuals indicted were L. A.
McLean, West Coast manager of
the Reardon Co.; Chester Braham,
general manager of Murrallo, and
J. G. Penniman, general manager
of Wesco.
Indictment
The indictment charged that the
overalls. defendants and five co-conspira-
Every Month tors, which were named but not
Starting with .January:, "You -charged in the true bill, have en
will have more time to think . gaged since 1939 in a conspiracy
things out this year than any j to fix at uniform and non-compe-other
month." Mark that down, ! titive levels the price at which
"February," the almanac ad
vises, "is the month for seed cata
logues; March is fix-the-busted-harness
- and - plough - points
month; In April the crows fly
north; In May it Is not too late
yet to set out the young orchards;
In June the crowing of the
rooster makes a man want to be
up and doing; July is the month
to put in dams to ward, off forest
fires; In August you ought to be
out mulching the orchard, or
spreading hay, straw or leaves
around the trees; September is the
month to go into the woods and
cut the rungs for' the ladder
you're bound to want to make;
Everybody rakes the leaves in.
October; and fall-seeds in No'
vember; December brings Christ
MRS. ESTHER ROWLEY .
Wishes to Announce
MRS. BEN BONIFACE
as an addition to
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Park Avenue (Behind Fragers)
PKRTNE PERMANENTS .... B.SO 4 UP
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Meet Our Staff
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water-thinned and water-mixed
paints are sold, both wholesale
and retail.
The corporations named as co
conspirators were the M. Ewing
Fox Co., New York; Iddings Paint
Co., Long Island, N.Y.; Monsanto
Chemical Co., western division,
Seattle. Wash,: National Chemical
and Manufacturing Co., Chicago
and Synkoloid Co., Los Angeles.
Survey Shows
Fewer Tenants
WASHINGTON W A small-
er number and percentage of the
nation's farms were operated by
tenants In 1945 than at any time
since 1890, the census and agri
cultural economics bureaus re
ported this week.
Tenant-operated farms num
bered 1.858.421 and made up 31.7
per cent of the 5,859,169 total of
farms in 1945. the two bureaus
said in a survey of changes In the
farm situation between 1890 and
1945.
The report included these ob-
xervations:
The average size of farms, m.B
acres, has increased by one third
Since 1900. The number of small
and laree farms has increased
since 1940. but the numDer ol
intermediate-sized farms has "de
creased appreciably." . .
Realtors Attack
Housing Plans
NEW YORK W) Government
affnctlnff hnusiriff ' came
under fire of speakers Friday at
the convention of tne national
Assn. of Real Estate Boards nere.
u-kn,-t r Urarlv. Wichita. Kas..
president, said; the association;
would continue to oppose hw
time rent control and extension of
federally owned and operated
housing. ' ": : 1
Earl Bunting, managing director
of the National Assn. of Manu-
wtiiMN al1 tha ffnvernment has
poured $20,000,000,000 of federal
funds since 1933 into .nousing
without solving tne snoriage.
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