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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER. Ashland. Oregon U. S.-British Methods V; In Computing Ship Tonnage To understand news of shipbuilding or of ship losses in the war. the difference between gross and deadweight tonnage must be clearly under stood, accorduig to the national council of American shipbuilders. If you say a yardstick is 36 inches long, and your neighbor says It is several inches shorter, you won't come out with the same answer when you both try to measure the number'*-'11 ----- of yards In a room with your respec water it displaces, fully loaded with tive yardsticks, the association ex i its crews and supplies, and subtract plains. from that figure the combined weight Those who calculate the tonnage of the ship's hull, machinery and all of a ship in the two most widely of its equipment. That gives the used measures—the gross tonnage weight of the cargo in the ship, pills used by the British and the dead crew and supplies—the deadweight weight tonnage used in this country tonnage, which is expressed in tons —don't get the same answer, either. of 2.240 pounds. /Vow Hou sen'ires F un F or Y our F amily -----------------------------------------------------------. -J------------ 1 More than 1,200,000 volunteer members of the ground ob-| server corps of the uircraft warning service are on the ulert 24 hours a day throughout the coustul ureas the Utytc0 States, just to make sure it doesn’t happen here! Approxi mately 750,000 of these serve under the 1 Fighter Command from Maine to Florida, scanning the skies night and-day Mr hostile aircraft—ull under supervision of the m'my'uh* force^. Since December 7 the banker, the butcher, the baker and the housewife take turns ut watching the skies at their local observation post, none ever more than six miles n|juit- Ob servers ''flash” reports.au re phoned into stra tegic centers where (light*, of planes nru post ed and pushed on by officials; Tht* following photrtj were taken at the Kingston, N. Y., observatioupoxk. Familiar metal pans and kettles are vanishing from stores along with metal kitchen tools and gadgets, in their places are various sorts of kitchen-ware made of nun-strategic materials. The bride of 1943 may fry eggs in a pottery skillet, bake pie in a fiber pan. boil vegetables in earthenware, and roast meat in glass, predicts Mrs. Bernice Claytor, specialist in home improvement for the A. and M. college extension service. She explains that metal must go to war, so cooks must learn to use materi als not needed at the front. Pottery, earthenware, and glass need more careful handling than metals, the specialist cautions. First you'll need to avoid sudden changes in temperature. If you put extreme ly cold food in these utensils, have the dish cold first. Or, if you put in hot food, heat the dish first with warm water. Here's another caution. Never put empty pottery, earthenware, or glass utensils over a flame. Be sure the dish contains liquid, fat. or some moist food before it is set over heat. Glass made for the purpose can cook over high heat, but not earthenware or pottery. The safe rule with these is "Simmer and serve.” Homemakers who are afraid their metal spoons may chip or crack these dishes, can use wooden spoons for stirring and beating foods in these containers. Be careful aliout temperatures in dishwashing, I, too. Mrs. Claytor suggests. Wash pot- tery, earthenware, and glass, like china, with warm soap suds and a hot water rinse. Dry them with a soft towel. Gross tons are really not tons at all. That is they are not measures of weight or mass, but of cubic con tent—like a bushel of com. Wearing an authentic Arabian cos It is easy to measure the cubic tume which has been in his family content of the hull and all enclosed half a century, Pvt. Peter Ohan deck structures of a ship. It is not (right) passes along advice on fight so easy, however, to express cubic ing conditions in the Middle East content in terms of the weight of sec-tor to Aviation Cadet J. J. O’Neil cargo a ship will carry. on the flying line at Randolph Field. A ship loaded full of hay weighs Texas. A native born Assyrian who substantially less than the same ship came to this country 22 years ago. filled with pig iron. Therefore, in Ohan served with the British Intel estimating gross tons it is necessary ligence during the last war and to have some constant factor rep wears the War and Victory ribbons resenting the weight and bulk of an for his part in the Allied triumph. average cargo tliat will be carried. More than nine decades ago. all maritime countries agreed that in translating the cubic content of a ship into tons of cargo capacity, they would figure that one ton of cargo would fill up 100 cubic feet in the ship. So by dividing the number of cubic feet by 100, they determine its ...............................hostile thoughts By MISS ABBIE CONDIT ’ Tansy Thistle .......................... austerity capacity in gross tons. Thyme.............................activity, bravery N'atlensl Reerestlsn Assselatlso. In reading news of shipbuilding red................... declaration of love Even though the wind may be Tulip, Violets, blue...... loyalty programs or of shipping losses in the Violets, white ............. innocence howling around the house and the war. the difference between gross snow piled up at the door, it’s possi Next distribute paper-lace doilies, afid deadweight tons must always be ble to have a flower party which scissors, paste, pencils, color con Remember that will carry us back to the warmth struction paper, or magazines and kept in mind. Lloyds of London Invariably uses the and beauty of summer. seed catalogues. Using his invita Former Private« On the invitations paste flowers tion flower as its center, each per gross ton measuring stick, while Americans prefer deadweight tons as Many officers of the marine corps cut from magazines or seed cata son makes a message. a more exact yardstick of cargo embarked upon their military ca logues, or cut the invitations in flow Pencil and paper games such as capacity. reers as privates. er shapes from colored paper or scrambled flowers are fun. List wallpaper. Each person may be slips of paper (or «pell out) given the same flower, such as a scrambled form the names of six violet, on his invitation and his place eight flowers; i.e., 1-o-m-g-i-r-d-a card, matching them to find his (marigold). Allow three minutes place for refreshments. The flower unscramble them, the first on his invitation will be the guest's finish being the winner. “password.” Pin-the-stem-on-the-tnlip. UNDING THE MAN lion center, he has taken his general Give each guest on arrival a copy flower party, the always popular classification test and his education, of a list of flowers with their mean pin-the-ta il-on-tae-donkey becomes Every time a bomber or fighter civilian employment and hobbles all ing. Besides giving his flower pass pin-the-stem-on-the-tulip. plane rolls off the assembly line, have been entered on his soldier's word, ask each one to act out the Flower Fortunes. Write on each the army air forces technical train qualification card that becomes part meaning of his word. of about 20 slips the name of a dif- ing command turns out from 10 to 20 of his permanent record. This ini , ferent flower. Each guest draws Flower Dictionary men whose job it is to keep that tial classification takes place before onp slip. The meaning of the flower Aster. China......... ...I will think of It plane flying. With 185.000 planes the recruit is sent to the training Balm........................ ... sympathy drawn will be the outstanding char Balsam.................... __ impatience scheduled for construction in 1943, command and is only the beginning. Chicory.................... ... frugality acteristic of his or her sweetheart. the technical training command's Cornflower, blue. ... loquacity When assigned to the army air If daisies are in blossom, each guest Crocus...................... ... mirth program assumes proportions be forces, the recruit goes from his re Dandelion................ ...oracle may enjoy discovering his “ true Dogwood.................. .. .indifference yond the wildest drcams of the most cruit reception center to a basic Eglantine................ ...pleasure mixed with love" by plucking the petals one at mechanically minded people in the training center of the technical train pain a time as he says, "She (or he) Elder........................ ... compassion world. ing command. The sifting and sort Forget-me-not.... ... true love loves me; she loves me not." These Grass........................ .. .'usefulness The task of the technical training ing process begins in real earnest at games might well be played follow Heliotrope............... ... constancy in love command is first to find and then the basic training center. Hollyhock................ ... ambition ing refreshments. Hyacinth, yellow. .. . flattery train the mechanics, radio opera At the time the soldier is assigned Released by Western Newspaper Union. .. sacrifice Hyssop............................................... tors. armorers, weather forecasters to a school or permanent station, his Iceplant or vanpink rejection of proposal Jasmin.................... ,. .cheer and a host of other highly skilled qualification card, which by thts Jonauil.................... ,. return of affection Ladv slipper......... ,. capricious beauty soldier-craftsmen. It’s a tremendous time contains a full biography of the ,. fickleness Larkspur................ assignment, one of the biggest and man. is sent as a part of his perma Laurel...................... .. glory Lavender................ .. silence, mistrust most important of the war. nent records to his new station. . . sincerity Lily.......................... Lily-of-the-valley . .return of happiness And wherever he goes throughout Classification is the secret of the . grief, cruelty in love Marigold................ technical training command's abili his army career, at home or over . .happiness Marjoram............. Mint.......................... .. wisdom ty to fit the round peg in the round seas, the soldier's qualification card Myrtle...................... .. love Nasturtium........... ,. patriotism hole and not a square peg in a round accompanies him. Filed away with . .slander Nettle...................... thousands of others, each individual hole. . sad thoughts Pansy...................... Penny royal......... , . flee away Usually within 24 hours after the card, with all the coded information, Pink, wild............. .. silliness inductee reaches the recruit recep- can be found almost immediately. Poppy, opium.... .. ablivion Rose, led............... .. love Although classification may seem Rose, yellow......... ..decrease of love better acquaintance like an unromantic subject to the Rosemary............... . .remembrance Puppet Star Salesman average man and has never been Rue............................ .. repentence Spiderwort............. .. esteem, not love glorified in the Sunday supplement Sunflower....................... .. false .. riches For U. S. Stamp«, Bond« sections, it is the bedrock on which Sunflower, dwarf.... adorer Sweet brier pleasure mixed with the army air forces technical train One of Chicago's citizens—Kukla ing command is founded. For the by name—is proving that patriotism technical training command, the isn't measured by size or age. classification system spells the dif For Kukla—six-year-old nobby- ference between hit-or-miss meth- nosed puppet, who measures a bare ods and a scientific personnel selec- foot in height—has chalked up thou tian. sands of sales in his own personally conducted war savings campaign as This babusbkaed Miss is Adah Po lak, one of the girls taking the farm he staged his fifth performance se course at the Farmingdale Stale In- ries in Marshall Field & Company's stitute of Applied Agriculture, Victory Center. By GABRIELLE An entire series of skits—all Farmingdale, L. I., to enable them to take farm Jobs. The girls learn geared to the war theme—is includ how to care for farm livestock, how ed in the repertory presented by to milk cows, run incubators and do young Kukla and his creator. Burr a lot more on the agricultural pro Tillstrom. Typical of the shows in duction line. Miss Polak is sorting which falsetto-voiced Kukla plays the leading role is “The Death of and grading eggs here. Hitler," with Russian-named Kukla as the exterminator of the German Illinois Woman Saves Beast. I $1,200 on Fuel Bill Hand-clapping at the close of a performance is spurned by Kukla. Using Farm’s Timber As he says, he prefers “the clinking How can I provide decorations and of dimes and quarters at the stamp Mrs. Adolph Pfantz of Tazewell booth.” food for a children's party without county. Ill., who has kept records spending too much money? Largest sales credited to Kukla's Answer—Use red, white and blue of fuel costs for the past 30 years, persuasive powers included the pur as your color scheme. Use a white reports she has saved approximately chases of eight $5,000 bonds in one table cloth and red paper napkins. $1,200 during that period. day in Victory Center. In a recent letter to “Neighbor Bake a round spice layer cake (with Included among the well-known out eggs) and use syrup for making Jim’’ Davis, extension forester of names who have played opposite the icing. Color the icing blue and the University of Illinois college of Kukla in his skits are Fran Allison, Prepare for spring by doing a real decorate the cake to look like a agriculture, she stated that timber better known as radio's “Sister Em clean-up of your beauty aids. Group drum. Use little flags around the growing on the farm was cut into mie," Eddie Dunn and Mary Ann preparations together. Clean up the cake for a centerpiece. stove lengths and used both in the Mercer. necks of bottles. Clean out your At each place have a patriotic kitchen and two heating stoves dur In addition to his work as A-l Freshen up your favor of some sort depending on ing the winter months. Wood is still salesman for stamps and bonds for powder boxes. the age of the children. Serve ice used in a furnace which has been Uncle Sam, young Kukla has played dressing table. When all your make cream and a soft drink and cake. installed. Estimating her yearly sav a prominent role in the entertain up is properly co-ordinated, you can Your young guests will be enchant ing at $40. Mrs. Pfantz finds that ment of men in the armed forces at do a really swift make-up job! Have ed and your purse will hardly show wood is cleaner, makes fewer ashes various service men’s centers In things conveniently at hand when you start to work. the strain. and eliminates soot. the Chicago area. Ledger Syndicate -WNU Features. Using the British yardstick, a Lib erty ship is rated at 7.100 gross tons. American measurement will rate at about 10.800 deadweight tons. All of which makes for confusion, to say the least. To understand what ship tonnages mean, you must first learn that nei ther gross nor deadweight tons re fers to the actual weight of a ship. They are attempts to measure its capacity to carry cargo. A ship's weight is far less important to her owner than the amount of revenue producing cargo she will carry. In arriving at the deadweight of a ship you measure the volume of Ground Observer Corps Seans Sky Day and IMjghl To Fry Eggs In Pottery Skillets Left er Manto and ’h poup tfrs tp turn pv»i. i' I Judge John T. I oughran n shou ri / loft ) plientng im a s< pnrt tn pitture al thè righi Wiss Jane llolcomb ani! Viri. Lorritine hnnrtm are shown al thè post doing an estro shift together. 1 ’ Eggspert Fariner Mrs. Margaret l.ogan, beauti Dr. Murray IL Greene, chirop cian, who is an assistant chief ob odist, who serves al the post from server at the post. 12 to 2 each IIednesday Flying Fortresses Ride Out Storm of Fire\ Riddled with enemy anti-aircraft 1942, during which unusually heavy and interceptor airplane fire, which fire from anti-aircraft and fighters knocked out several crew members was encountered. and partially wrecked the airplanes, Capt. James J. Griffith Jr., air two B-17 Flying Fortress bombers corps, 112 College avenue, Prince- were able to return safely to bases ton, W. Va., commanding one of in England, according to combat the bombers, reported that the first reports from the Eighth air force, two -bursts of flak encountered the war department announced to struck the right wing flap behind the inboard engine of his plane, tearing day. The Fortresses were part of a for away two square yards of fabric. mation participating in the raid A third burst smashed a 12-inch against Lille, France, on October 9, hole in the fuselage. Serving with the coastal command of the Royal British air force, this American-built Flying Fortress hovers protectingly over a United Nations convoy for Africa with the sinews of war. This Is one of the first photographs of a Flying Fortress serving in this capacity. Local citizen» sit in on a meeting to discuss observation post matters. I