The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1943 Page: 3 of 6
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friday, january 22, 1943
the denisott press
page THREE
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January And
Rural Drive On
War Bond Sale
The month of Jyiuary is set
aside in this state as Rural War
Bond campaign, and the county
chairman, W. L. Ashburn, Jr.,
says that it is the aim to reach
every farm home to enlist them if
possible in investing at some time
during the year some of their
earnings in stamps or bonds.
Mr. Ashburn states that the
idea is to contact all farm
homes during the campaign and
seek to secure a promise -> to
make some effort at invest-
ment in bonds, by setting aside
certain sums weekly, monthly or
annually. Mr. Ashburn states
that the pledge to make such
a purchase is not binding legally,
but is a moral obligation, subject
to being affected by reverse,
illness or other causes beyond
prevention. The idea is to give
more persons the opportunity to
make such investment in war
bonds in 1943, he declared.,
The Press, in conformity to the
wishes to Secretary Morgenthau,
is being mailed farmers of this
section of Grayson county carry-
ing the,invitation to make in-
vestments in War Bonds. Local
merchants are making it possible
for the advertisement from the
U. S. Treasury to be published
and forwarded. These adver-
tisements are worthy of being
read and any farmer, whether
engaged in raising chickens, live-
stock, dairying or marketing pro-
duce, will find in the stories told
of how farmers are faring Tinder
the heel of the axis. That is ex-
actly what would happen here if
this war is not won. For that
reason, it is an easy matter to
see why farmers need to make as
much investment in ibonds as
possible, it is declared.
Every farmer family should
talk over the matter together and
come to some definite plan as to
how they will work out their
bond purchases, it is suggested,
so when they are contacted with
reference to making purchases,
they will be able to act.
Either bank in Denison, the
postoffice, or numerous stores
will supply either the stamps or
bonds.
A story comes from Myrtle
Murray, specialist in home in-
dustries for the A. & M. college
extension service, telling of how
Joe; Walenta of Fort Bend county
makes investment in bonds. The
Walentas sell four cases of eggs
a week, and a certain part of
the return^ from each case is
Farmers Attend
Repair Courses
Large Numbers
Austin, Texas.—More farmers
are attending Production, and
Farm Machinery Repair Courses
in Texas than in any other state,
according to a recent report by
the State Department of Educa-
tion. (Could this be Texas pa-
triotism showing up again?)
Anyway, 21,643 Texas farmers
are enrolled in the 1,400 War
Production Courses already ap-
proved for Texas, and new
courses are being started at the
rate of 14 per day.
The Farm Machinery Repair
Course is at present the most
popular among the farmers, with
six additional courses per day be-
ing requested. Egg Production
is being requested at the rate of
three per day, while additional
courses in Pork Production are
being approved at the rate of
two per day.
One of the first production
courses to operate in Texas was
in Mutton, Lamb and Wool Pro-
duction, taught in a sheep sec-
tion of Southwest Texas.
This course was set up for a
period of two weeks with two
main objectives: (1) to increase
the production of shearlings for
the army, and (2) through co-
operative effort to purchase nec-
essary insecticides for treatment
of sheep at much reduced cost.
The ranchers in this section
found that 18,000,000 pelts were
needed for making jackets for
the air corps. Thus they found
a market of $1.50 per pelt in
addition to the prices they had
been receiving for mutton. This
market for pelts will net the
members of this class approxi-
mately $3000.
They were able to buy Pheno
thiazine cooperatively at a cost
of $2.75 per gallon. Prior to
this course individual members of
the class were paying $4.50 per
gallon for Phenothiazine. Thus,
through cooperative buying of
drench for the prevention of in-
ternal parasites, class members
have saved themselves $1500.
earmarked for war stamps. In
seven months time, $125 worth
of war ^jonds have been pur-
chased with "egg money. The
Walentas and nine other families
in that same community have
bought nearly $2,000 worth of
bonds with the proceeds from
the sale of eggs, chickens, cream,
Ibutter, fresh fruits and vegeta-
bles.
Farm Safety
And Man Power
Conservation
College Station. — The U. S.
Department of Agriculture re-
cently asked the Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service to
conduct a farm safety campaign
in the interest of conserving
available manpower on Texa
farms.
Safety first now means better
farm prduction and fuller par-
ticipation in war activities, says
Louise Bryant, extension special
ist in home management. In ad-
dition to preventing farm acci-
dents, farm people should pre-
pare for emergency treatment in
case of an accident. Proper first
aid measures reduce suffering
and save human lives, as many
rural Texans have learned since
the Texas Home Demonstration
Association began promoting first
aid training more than two years
ago.
Miss Bryant suggests that a
first aid kit or cabinet might
well be placed in the kitchen. It
might include: A Red Cross first
aid text book, three-inch squares
of sterile guaze; sterile guaze
and assorted sterile bandage
compresses in individual packa-
ges, one and one-half-inch and
three-inch roller bandages, tri-
angular bandages, roll of adhe-
sive tape, picric acid for burns,
absorbent cotton, two per cent
iodine, tincture of merthiolate
for scratches and cuts, and as a
swab for the throat, castor oil
or mineral oil for use in the
eyes, calamine lotion for skin ir-
ritations, burn ointment such as
tannic acid, jelly, aromatic spir-
its of ammonia, oil of cloves,
boric acid crystals, rubbing al-
ohol, swab sticks, tongue blades,
three-Inch splinter tweezers, eye
dropper, and scissors.
The contents should be packed
so that any article can be locat-
ed quickly without unpacking
the entire kit. Miss Bryant says
material should be wrapped so
that unused bandages and the
like do not become soiled from
handling.
Sterilization
Tag Needful On
All Bedding
Austin, Texas.—In an effort
to prevent the spread of disease
through bedding, 6,863 second-
hand mattresses and other arti-
cles of bedding were sterilized
during the month of November,
1942, according to a report is-
sued this week by Dr. Geo. W.
Cox, State Health Officer.
"Since it is estimated that the
average individual spends one-
third of his life in a sleeping or
reclining position, each indi-
vidual is certainly entitled to
sanitation in any used article of
bedding that he may purchase,"
Dr. Cox asserted.
The Texas State Sanitary Bed-
ding Law prohibits the sale of
second-hand bedding that has not
been sterililized. There are 59
privately owned sterilizatiin
vaults in the state that have been
approved by the State Health De-
partment, and these sterilization
vaults operate under the inspec-
tion and supervision of the State
Health Department.
Before buying a second-hand
mattress, pillow, featherbed,
studio couch, or any other used
article of be'dding, Dr. COx de-
clared that the purchaser should
demand to see the sterilization
tag that is required by law to
be affixed to all such articles of-
fered for sale. This _ steriliza-
tion tag bears a statement that
the bedding has been germicid-
school milk
program expands
College Station.—Milk will be
distributed to at least 64,000
Texas children in 595 schools
through the school milk program
of the Agricultural Marketing
Administration. Other schools
will receive benefits from the
program as rapidly as applica-
tions can be approved. Since the
beginning of the school year,
239 areas in Texas have been
designated by AMA as areas
where the program can operate
County home ^demonstration
agents of the A. and M. College
Extension Service are helping
rural people to become acquaint
ed with the program. Milk used
is purchased locally, the AMA
paying the dairyman's price for
milk. Schools or sponsors pay
for processing, bottling, and de-
livery. The program provide#
that children may be charged up
to to one cent a half pint, but
children unable to pay receive
milk free-
Our Job Is to Save
Dollars
Buy
War Bonds
Every Pay Day
ally treated by a method ap-
proved by the State Health De-
partment, and is the public's
guarantee of health protection in
the purchase of used bedding.
"FUEL" FOOD
FOR WORKING
AMERICANS
For more "go" on the job
include body-warming foods
in your daily menu! Fuel
Foods j/iclude your favorite
desserts, cheese, eggs, meat,
fish and many more foods
we serve in our regular
meals.
Special Dinner* 75c
Cocktail to Dealer*
Lunches 35c-40c
Chicken and Steak Dinner*
98c, 70c, $1.00
Carl's Grill
WWM
U.S.WAR BONDS
if YOUR LIGHTS GO OUT. OR YOUR APPLIANCES WON'T OPIRATf, IT MAY IE DUI
TO A BLOWN OUT FUSE... HERE'S
HOW TO CHANGE
YOUR OWN
When the lights go out in your home, or your
appliances won't operate, find out if the same is
true in your whole neighborhood If not, the trouble
is probably in your home, and the first thing to do
is look for and replace any blown fuses, which may
have failed because of too many appliances plugged
in one circuit, overloaded appliances, defective
appliances or defective cords.
Fuses, which are found in a metal box, or porce-
lain block, set into or on the wall, usually near where
your service wires come into the house, may be
replaced as follows:
s
1
9
• Open tiic main switch, which is usually loeated in
the box with, ot immediately adjaccnt to, die fuse recep-
tacle. Disconnect appliances and portable lamps which
were in use just before the lights went out.
2
# Stand on a dry wooden floor, board, or chaii
(never on bare concrete, damp wood, or on the ground).
3
• Screw out the blown fuse, touching only the top
of tht fuse. Put in a new fuse of the same size. Then
close the main switch.
HOW TO TELL A "BLOWN" FUSE
UL
blown fuse
the "glass1'
break in the
illustration.
sually you can identify a
by the blackened condition of
at the top of the fuse, or by a
fuse itself as shown in the above
4
• Your lights should come on
again now, and you should be able
to reconnect your appliances. If
reconnecting anf one of the ap-
pliances causes another fuse to
blow, the appliance is defective.
11, when ytu «!••• tht main iwltch, tht new tuso b/owi out, and no oppll-
STATfs
*tamps
Sweating Walls
Unnecessary
Even with unvented heaters
Don't close rooms tight
WHAT YOU NEED is circulating air, to help keep mois-
ture off the walls in cold weather. It's easy; just don't close
everything, when you light the gas heaters. Some houses are
io well built, the inside air is practically standing still when
the doors and windows are closed. (Any fuel-combustion
gives off water vapor. When this is
added to the natural moisture in the air,
it may condense on cold walls, and doors,
like the moisture on a glass of iced tea.
But with ventilation, it evaporate*
instead of condensing.)
What To Do
[f you will open a window a little, to keep the air "alive,"
;he moisture will evaporate. And it doesn't take much to
io it, because air likes to travel; if it bogs down, it goes flat.
Aiter the War, Ge*
Vented Heaters
Vented heaters, you know, can take care of this problem;
they carry the products of combustion outdoors. But
proper ventilation can help to give this same dry-wall
service,'with radiant heaters and the unvented radiators
and circulators.
pr" In the meantime,
are you wasting gas?
duction men can see,
Lone Star System will
be able to meet the
waftime demands of
all residential, com-
mercial, and war cus-
tomers this winter.
But use gas wisely;
doill't waste it.
Don't do it; there's a war on.
When you waste gas, it's gone forever.
We can't pick it up in a scrap drive.
LONE STAll R*?fl GAS COMPANY
Supplying natural gat tram avar 75 different flaldt thraugh an Interconnected 4,100-mile pipeline
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Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1943, newspaper, January 22, 1943; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth328603/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.