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Illin o is V a lle y News. T hursday, A p ril 1, 1948 IN THESE UNITED STATES Mary Had a Little Lamb on Her Apron Travel Innovations Seek To Break Long Monotony I-O I NDS BI hl»Y E X ( R A N G E ’ • • . W ith the purpose o f re u n itin g w a rtim e buddies lost in the la b y rin th o f c iv ilia n life , ex sergeant N o rto n R oth. 2», launched a Veterans’ Exchange in N’* » Y ork. Here he and his secretary scan a file in search (or somebody's buddy. KINDS O LD‘MATES’ Iteuniting Wartime Buddies Is Objective of Exchange NEW YORK.—In an attempt to eliminate travel monotony, enter tainment features for passengers have a major role in postwar plan ning for new transportation equipment. Among devices planned to break the monotony of long trips are radios in busses, movies in trains and lounge rooms in planes, according to plans being mapped by Henry Dreyfuss, noted industrial engineer. Dreyfuss, whose designs run the gamut from alarm clocks and in travel, Dreyfuss said. A wing-type coach chair In expensive kitchen utensils to streamlined continental trains and which the passenger has only to war strategy rooms in Washing lean his head back to hear his ton, has included entertainment favorite program and not disturb ideas in all plans for new trans any other passenger is the de signer’s answer. portation equipment. To Install Telephones Ships Take Lead Telephones will be installed in Contrasting entertainment fa cilities in various fields of trans trains and planes for passenger portation, Dreyfuss points out use. New reclining coach chairs al that ships long have offered swim ming pools, movies and play decks low more footroom. Fluorescent fixtures will give softer light and for diversion of passengers. “Train and bus passengers, on some coaches are being made with fluorescent lamps above lliC t I hand, H U I U , I have l d V t f Ild U I little l l l l O TO * SV 4 L 4 « * H U U IC O C C I the U other had to individual do but read or look out the win- eacfl seat grouping, do".’’ he adds. The designer has New ideas in dining cars are eliminated the glare problem in following a less formal trend. Not planes by use of adjustable polar- only snack bars, but lunch coun- . windows to control the amount ters complete with stools have of light admitted without ob been installed in some trains. structing the view. An observa Greater utility from diners Is tion room in the nose will enable one of the current problems, Drey camera enthusiasts to take pic fuss said. It might be worked into tures. the railroads’entertainment plans, Radio is the principal entertain- possibly as space for motion pic ment planned for land and air ture showings. Covered Bridges Comprise Hobby Cor Nebraskan EVERYWHERE that Mary goes, L<she goes adorably in her dress- herself frock! Gamboling lamb ia in outline with loops in lazy-daisy stitch. Legumes Open Soil To Air and Water System of Rotation Prevents Compaction T ig h t " s tu f f y " soils are ro b b in g m a n y fa rm e rs o f h ig h bushel-per- acre y ie ld s o f corn and s m a ll g ra in s each ye a r. Loam s, s ilt lo a m s and c la y loam s need la rg e am ounts o f o rg a n ic m a tte r in the p lo w la y e r and deeper to keep th e m open and loose fo r h ig h c ro p p ro d u ctio n . H e a vy soils th a t a re lo w in o r ganic m a tte r and w o rked w ith heavy tra c to rs and m a c h in e ry become TAPCOOTED LEGUMES PACKED SOIL ' I plo w PACKED LAVER STOPS BOOTS LOOSEN â la ve r I TAPOOOT6 SPEA K COM PACTION Tap roots of alfalfa and sweet NEW YORK. Reuniting wartime buddies who became separated clover, as shown in sketch, break after leaving the services is the avowed purpose of the Veterans’ through packed soil to assure wa Exchange, a novel enterprise launched here by ex-G.I. Norton Roth 24 ter and plant food for growing ■ A viation notes Every man wearing the ruptured duck discharge emblem often Although covered bridges have crops. wonders what became of the buddy who shared a foxhole with him or been relegated to the past by most CAREERS FOR WOMEN Although stewardesses remain packed, e sp e cia lly ju s t below the slept in the next hunk. Realizing that it was easy to lose touch with people, Fred C. Williams of Lin old buddies and difficult to locate them after discharge, Roth hit upon coln, Neb., collects pictures and the glamor girls of aviation, there p lo w sole. These co m pactions slow are many other positions in this down the in ta k e o f w a te r. T he y cu t the idea which is bound to make many an ex-buddv happy. data about them as a hobby. Started only last summer, the r---------------------------- -------------- Photographs and stories about soaring postwar industry open to dow n the a m o u n t o f w a te r and a ir exchange already lists home ad- were men from the 2nd ar- bridges in 22 states are‘included girls—girls who want to work the so il w ill h o ld fo r crop use. T hey dresses of nearly 2,000 ex-service mored division who live in the in the collection. Its latest addi where they can see the sun glint keep the fibrous roots o f c t r n and men and women looking for a New York area. They vowed they’d tion is a picture of a snow covered on silver wings and hear the con s m a ll g ra in " u p s ta ir s " aw a y fro m friend from overseas days. Scores play poker together once a week span in Iowa, the only one from stant zoom of plane motors. w a te r and p la n t food held deeper in more already have found lost bud after, the war, but they forgot to that state. Many girls returning from the th e soil. dies through the exchange. Mail note down home addresses. Each The Massachusetts highway de services, like the men themselves, T e m p o ra ry re lie f can be had by to the exchange gets "heavier and registered at the exchange. partment sent 8 by 10 inch glossy are eager for jobs in the aviation using m achines th a t rea ch below the A Wac, whose husband was prints of every covered bridge in industry. heavier" each day, Roth reports. o rd in a ry p lo w la y e r and b re a k up the injured while both were in the the state, and those of Maine, Keeps Complete Data On one point there is gen p lo w sole com pactions. R eal re lie f, Roth carefully files all requests E.T.O., found that he had been Maryland and Missouri contribut eral agreement — at present how ever, com es o n ly th ro u g h re g u for information ana location of transferred to a United States ed smaller photographs. Williams there are no openings for the la r use o f deep-rooted legum es in the buddies, taking and indexing hospital. She had been moved so also saves newspaper clippings, woman who wants to make a ro ta tio n . names, outfits and other informa much, notification of his address postcards and other items on the living as a pilot. While the The d riv in g ta p roots o f sweet failed to reach her by the time bridges. tion which might help. woman xeteran can get gov c lo v e r and a lfa lfa fo rce th e ir w a y j “There just wasn't any way to she readied New York. A buddy Prize of the collection is data on ernment pilot training under th ro u g h the co m p a ctio n s and reach find a Joe from Texas or Illinois from Halloran hospital had listed a span near Biddeford, Me., to the G .l. hill, she stands slight deep in to the so il, thus opening it if you lived in Montana or Maine," him at the exchange. which the poet Longfellow is be chance of getting a job in to a ir and w a te r. The m in e ra liz e d “I never saw a girl so happy lieved to have referred in his poem Roth, veteran of 20 months over competition with more than o rg a n ic m a tte r th e y leave th e re im - i seas, said. “I've been home since as she was when she checked in “I Stood on the Bridge at Mid 200,600 former army, navy pro ve s s o il t ilt h and fu rn ish e s p la n t night.” and found we had him on file,’’ March, and I simply started a and marine pilots. food fo r o th e r crops. service lots of G.I.'s wanted to Roth said. Bridges in New England are the Most widely publicized position Channels o f the ta p roo ts are Leads to Marriage start but couldn't afford.” most interesting, Williams ex for women, of course, is that of routes fo r w a te r and a ir and fibrous “A Des Moines navy nurse plains, because so much legendry hostess The exchange, a nonprofit serv or stewardess. All leading ice, doesn’t cost Roth anything checked in to find the Brooklyn has grown up about them. How- ’ commercial airlines are increas roots to fo llo w deep in to the soil. and because the office is upstairs in address of a former patient in the ever, only about 200 are found in ing the number of stewardesses C o m pa ctio n -b ustin g a lfa lfa sweet c lo v e r need phosphate and p o t that region. the family restaurant, one of the Pacific theater. monthly as new planes take to ash i f th e y are to do a good job. "Darned if he hadn't checked oldest on Broadway. A hook- the skyways. keejier who used to spend all her his name to look for H?>r.” Roth Many Jobs Open Rejected for Union time adding up figures on a mil- said. “Now they’re going to get Other jobs currently open to married.’’ Iion-dollar business helps out. Army, Centenarian young women include stenogra Tiie exchange refuses to give receive a maximum of $120. pher or clerk, reservation clerk, civilians the location of veterans Insists Knees ‘Fine’ Melinite Poker Fans First veterans to get together or to reveal the names of buddies W E\ER, IA. — Although he ticket office agent and many spe who have located each other. could not get in the Union army cialized positions, such as dieti-l But Roth thinks it is all right back in 1861 because hp had “buck tian or home economist for air to tell about Harry Koretsky of knees," Augustus Staub, local cen line food service, personnel direc Brooklyn. He asked to be put on tenarian, has started on his sec tor, public relations representa- 1 file because “I am anxious to see ond 100 years and the knees still tive, staff photographer, designer, librarian or airline executive. j my buddy and I also would like to are "feeling just fine.” repay a loan I got from him.” Woman's role in aviation He admitted that the first 100 has increased with marked years had been the hardest and he rapidity. As recently as 1938, didn't know for sure whether he'd CHICAGO.—Legislation intend major airlines offered free care to go through it again or not ed to provide veterans of World trips to wives who would ac The centenarian, who lives with War II with bonuses totaling near company (heir husbands on his son, P. A. Staub, on a farm ly 1 billion dollars has been ap Hights. Now women need no near here, retired from active proved in six states, a survey by inducement to fly—a recent farming 16 years ago, but he stdl the Federation of Tax Adminis survey revealing that 62 per trators reveals. keeps busy chopping firewood and cent of the women inter working in the garden. The bonuses which have won All records for Ayrshire auction viewed planned to use airline As to the Civil war, Staub said legislative approval in Illinois, sales in the U. S. were broken service as compared with 68 he wanted to get into it so he Rhode Island and New York will when an average of $2,267.39 was per cent of the men. rode all the way to Keokuk,” not become effective until upheld During the war the airlines, like paid for 23 Scottish bred Ayr- only to be turned down by the by the voters, however, the feder imported and sold by Union medicos. ation said. the railroads, hired women for shires Frank V. Lite of Bellefontaine, many jobs customarily held by Ohio. Massachusetts tiegan paying a The sale grossed $52,150. veterans' bonus last year. New men, in some airlines the women A new record price for Ayrshire Hampshire in 1913, and Vermont employes accounting for 40 per Used Car Racket calves was set at $4.600 by in 19 12. Legislatures in Maine and cent of the total. Women served hull Howard Baum and Sons of Paint Michigan ate holding special ses as pilots, meteorologists, flight Valley Profits Americans farm, Bainbridge, Ohio, in sions to consider bonus action. and ground instructors, aviation purchase of eight-months-old The Illinois bonus of $10 for On Mexican Jaunts mechanics, traffic control opera the each month of domestic and $15 tors, aircraft communicators and Killoeh Gay Spark (above). MEXICO CITY. — Sale of ramp workers. for each month of foreign service used ears has de,elo|>ed into would be awarded to all ex-mili Increased Yields Noted racket proportions for \nieri- tary personnel who served he- I can tourists in Mexico. tween Sept. 16, 1910, and Sept. 2, With Use of Fertilizer Here’s the wav the deal 1913, at a cost of 385 million W heat y ie ld s can be stepped up 7 works: dollars. to 14 bushels per acre and the hay In American drives a used New York's bonus plan to c ro p can be increased th ro u g h use ear for which lie paid $800 in 1,700,000 resident veterans who o f m ore fe rtiliz e r in hay and p asture the Stales into Mexico City. served between Dec. 7, 1941, and crops seeded in s m a ll g ra in s, de He sells it for anywhere from Sept. 2, 1945, would cost 400 mil c la re s D r. D. R. Dodd o f the Ohio $1.500 up. lion dollars. Payments would e x p e rim e n t station. I he buyer reimburses the range from $50 to $250, depending T h is p ra c tic e is p a rtic u la r ly p ro fit seller for the amount of the on length and type of service. able on la n d a lre a d y h ig h ly p ro d u c bond which he has been re Tiie Rhode Island plan calls for MOTHERHOODTRI1 Mi’ll ANT tiv e , D odd p o in ts out. As an e x a m quired to sign and post at the a $200 gift to veterans and mer . . . When the 16-,ear-eld son of ple, he cites tests m ade by research border guaranteeing that he chant seamen who served between Maria Spinella of Palermo. Sicily, m en on plots a t the O hio sta tio n . The ' will not sell his ear in Mexico Sept. 16, 1910. and Sept. 2, 1945, was kidnapped, Maria didn't sit la n d 's p ro d u c in g c a p a c ity a lre a d y The Mexico City buyer turns at a cost of 20 million dollars. down and cry about it. After call- had been b u ilt up by good so il m a n around and sells the automo Massachusetts is paying bonuses Ing the cops, she donned male at agem ent so th a t it was p ro d u c bile for $3,000 or mare, for ranging from $100 to $300. The tire and joined in the hunt for the in g an average o f 85 bushels o f co rn , i export to Spain. total cost is estimated at 170 mil kidnapped boy. The hunt ended in MOVIE I’lEOT . . . One of the 23 bushels o f w heat and 3 tons o f i As for the American, he lion dollars to 180 million dollars. a gunfight, from which Maria and most enthusiastic pilots in the b a y p e r acre. has to pay a couple of hun The New Hampshire bonus pays (>iusep|N> emerged without Injury. movie colony is Dick Powell. An In the tests, a 2-12-8 fe rtiliz e r dred dollars to fly hack home a maximum of $100 to each veter- The kidnapper was Giuseppe's ardent sportsman, Powell also was ap p lie d at in c re a s in g ra te s to ' hut at that he's still ahead of an. and in Vermont, ex-servicemen uncle. participates in yachting, polo, w heat. • he deal. automobile and motorcycle racing. M ake her a sur.frock and panties. P a t tern 7461; em broidery tran sfer, p attern In sizes 1, 2. 3, 4. 5, 6. O ur im proved p a tte rn —visual with easy- to s e e ch a rts and photos, and OBinplefe directions —m akes needlework easy. Due to an unusually large dem and and cu rre n t conditions, slightly m ore tim e Is required in filling o rd ers for a few of the m ost popular pattern s. Send your o rd er to: Sewing Circle N eedleeraft Dept. 564 W. Randolph St. Chicago RO, 111. 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Peterson, tenants, the notice alleging that Mrs Peterson had failed to keep lier husband profier- ly dressed and that she permitted him to let his hair grow long and hang down from his head. It also charged that Mrs. Peterson was negligent in her attire. Appearing in court, Mrs. Peter son. a neatly dressed, quiet wo man, protested her landlady's statements. She maintained that iter husband wears sport shirts and slacks, not "something like a sack around his shoulders," as Mrs Looking land claimed. HelIer sought a “modern Delilah" to aid him. Postcard Mailed 37 Years Ago Delivered LANDING VIDS STATION In connection with authoriza- ' tlon from the Civil Aeronautics LONG BEACH. CALIF. -Serv board to inaugurate flights be icemen are not the onlv ones re tween San Francisco and Hono ceiving beiated mail. Mrs. Lucille lulu, United Airlines has assumed Heilm has received a picture post- operation of the navy's all-weather '.ard a 3? years a8° in Fine aircraft landing aids station at Island, Minn., by her mother. I Arcata, Calif. The station, picked Pine Island- Dec- L I by the navy during the war be v ’Y ', “ greetings. cause It had the most consistently Mailed originally to Mrs Bellm at foul weather on the West Coast, Is Kix’hester, Minn., It was forward- equipped to develop and to test all »1 from there July 11. i kinds of aids to landing plane*. Minnesota Starts Big Tree Planting Project As the firs t step in a fa r-re a c h in g tre e p la n tin g p ro g ra m au tho rize d b y the state le g is la tu re la s t y e a r. , M in ne so ta is p la n tin g about two m illio n tree s th is year. A m illio n deciduous and c o n ife r ous trees are being sold at cost plus h a n d lin g expense fo r p la n tin g on p riv a te lands. 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