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.
N
Enclose 20 cents for pattern.
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Legislature in Six
States Authorize
Bonus for Veterans
Judge Faces Hair-raising Problem in Eviction
CHICAGO. - Hair-raising prob
lems find their way even into
renters’ court. Judge Samuel Hel
ler decided after hearing an evic
tion case.
The plaintiff, Mrs. May Looking-
land. landlady of a rooming house,
sought eviction of Mr. and Mrs’
E. N. 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. A n o th e r m illio n co
n ife ro u s trees are a v a ila b le fo r free
d is trib u tio n fo r p la n tin g on p u b lic
lands.
Are you going th ro u g h th e func
tio n al 'm iddle age’ period peculiar
to women (38 to 52 yrs.) 7 Does th is
m ake you suffer from h o t flashes,
feel so n e rto u j, hlgh stru n g , tired f
T hen do try Lydia E. P tnkham 'a
Vegetable Com pound to relieve such
sym ptom s. P ln k h am 's Com pound
also has w h a t Doctors call a sto
m achic tonic effect:
LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S compouno
ThdtR / V ' nS
Backache
M ai \\ nrn o f Disordered
K idney A ction
M odern life w ith Its h u rry and w orry.
Irreg u lar h a b its, im p ro p er eatin g a n a
d rin k in g — its risk of ex p o su re an d Infee-
t , n n _ ( ; , - Owg h eav y a tra in on th e w ork
of th e kinneya. T h e y a re a p t to becom e
o v er-tax ed an d fail to filter ev p « « acid
■ nd o th e r im p u rities from th e life-giving
blood.
You m ay tu ffe r nagging back ach e.
Headache, disxinesa. g e t t i n g up n ights,
leg p a n s , «welling— feel co n sta n tly
tirn d , nervous. all ». -n o u t. O th er «.gns
of k d n ey or b la d d er d iso rd er are some*
tim es b u rn in g , ocan ty or too freq u en t
u rin a tio n .
T ry D oan’s P ills. D oan’s help th e
k l d n - ys t o pass off harm fu l excess body
wa«t . T hey h av e h ad m o rs th a n half a
ce n tu ry of pu b lic a p p ro v a l. Are recom
m ended by g ratefu l users every w h ere.
Ask four neighbor/
D oans P ills
TRAIMfMA
TRAV EL
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T h e N A V Y has a Rea.
R u .in e » . P ro p o .itio n fo r
A o u ng M en W ho V a »
to “ G® P lace»."
Asie fo r infarmation.
la n Berniilinif Station