Linn County Marks Save-A-Life Week Start August Fourteenth
Linn County designate August 14 to 20 as Save-A-Life Week to collect cured milkweed pods for life belts. Committee includes Zoe Harwood Joe Kerr Russell Crist Ralph Rogers. goal 1500 bushels with pods collected in open-mesh onion bags for 20 cents per bag. Local stores supply sacks and district supervisors coordinate collection and curing guidance.
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Linn County
Zoe Harwood
Joe Kerr
FSA
Russell Crist
AAA
Ralph Rogers
Sam Hargadine
M. F. A. Central Cooperative
Browning
Purdin Farm — Club
Purdin
Shelby
Bauer’s
North Salem
Producer’s Exchange
New Boston
Magee’s Exchange
Marceline
Producer's Exchange
Bucklin
Farmer's Exchange
Brookfield
Evans & Glover
Laclede
Brady’s
Forker
F. L
Harwood
Driver's License Display Rule From Highway Patrol
The highway patrol reminds every motor vehicle operator to carry a valid driver's license at all times and show it upon the demand of any police officer.
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THE
Highway Patrol
Peaches Stay Brighter With Simple Salt Vinegar Dip
County agents advise dipping peeled and sliced peaches in a solution of one gallon water two tablespoons salt and two tablespoons vinegar to prevent darkening before canning or cooking. Grasshoppers are increasingly a problem in parts of Linn County. Extension Office offers Circular 366 on Grasshoppers and Their Control.
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Linn County
Juice to solid ratio for jar packing
Guide suggests a liquid to solid mix for storage jars. On average use 3/4 to 1 cup of juice or sirup per quart jar.
Linn County Balanced Farming meeting set for August 31
The August 31 meeting will be held at Dan Cole's farm four miles south of Laclede Junction. Organizers emphasize construction of good terraces and outlets to improve soil and drainage on farms in Linn County.
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Linn County
Dan Cole
Laclede Junction
Tomato juice canning tips and storage notes from a historical page
Proper canning directions reduce tomato juice separation while overripe fruit increases settling. Soft ripe tomatoes yield better juice. over heating or under cooking causes solids to settle. Straining simmered tomatoes reduces solids. hard water or salt can make liquids milky. Short feed guidance mentions Balbou rye andacre pasture until December for two animal units.
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Balbourye
Farm pond sizing from runoff of small farm lands
The article explains runoff from 3 acres can fill a pond 25 feet bottom diameter, 73 feet spillway diameter, and 8 feet deep. Four acres yield water for a pond 31 feet bottom diameter, 97 feet spillway diameter, and 10 feet deep.
Farmers share contour plowing note and loaned transit level
Merald Durst and Numan Turner in the South Eagle neighborhood plow their wheat ground on the contour. A farm transit level from the Farm Bureau Office is left with Mr Turner and is available for any farmer in the community.
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Merald Durst
Numan Turner
South Eagle
Farm Bureau
Mr. Turner
Civil Service seeks civilian instructors for Camp Crowder Signal Corps
The U S Civil Service Commission orders replacements of military instructors with civilians at Camp Crowder Missouri Central Signal Corps School seeks about 150 instructors in radio telegraph telephone repair installation teletypewriter maintenance and related tech fields Salaries up to 3800 yearly with transportation paid housing available in Neosho Joplin or Carthage Application Form 57 and required local post office routing to Camp Crowder Missouri Officers will interview and hire qualified applicants. families urged to apply to support servicemen
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C. H. Danielson
Seventh Service Command
Signal Corps
Camp Crowder
Missouri
Central Signal Corps
Neosho
Joplin
Carthage
U. 8
Civil Service
John Robinette
Town and Farm in War Time Inflation Signals
Inflation indicators persist into the current year with higher demand deposits and land values. The Bureau of Agriculture Economics notes a 28 percent rise in checking accounts and a 15 percent jump in average farm real estate value. Cash receipts from farm marketing are up six percent while prices paid by farmers rise five percent. prices received by farmers fall one percent, offsetting some gains.
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Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Price Office sets four advisory candy committees
The Office of Price Administration forms four advisory committees of candy manufacturers to supervise price controls for General Line Candy Candy Bars Package Goods and Wholesale Candy.
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Office of Price Administration
Potato Prices Raised 90 Cents by OPA for August
The OPA lifted the maximum price of potatoes at shipping points by 90 cents per hundred pounds to offset drought reduced yields. The higher cap applies in 16 states including Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Ohio West Virginia Delaware Maryland Virginia Tennessee and Kentucky plus a corresponding rise in retail cost about one cent per pound.
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Rhode Island
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New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
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Delaware
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Virginia
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Kentucky
Farm Vehicles May Use Used Tires to Stay In Service
The OPA announces that farm vehicles may be equipped with used truck tires or used passenger tires when new tires are unavailable, emphasizing keeping essential farming operations running.
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OPA
Beef Rationing Eased for Most Cuts Next Monday
The War Food Administration announces rationing ending for most beef starting Monday August 13, except for commercial good and choice steaks and roasts.
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WFA
Public Health Service Seeks 60000 More Cadets This Year
The Public Health Service reports a need for at least 60,000 additional cadets to meet requests for hospital personnel, outlining staffing shortages and urgency for expansion.
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Public Health Service
Consumers urged to study ceiling prices at home
Four to five million consumer price lists are needed for a campaign to sell retailers on their stake in price control. The Consumer Advisory Committee to OPA protests posting community ceiling price lists in retail stores, saying shoppers won’t question prices in store.
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Consumer Advisory Committee
OPA
Social Security to pay millionth benefit and extend coverage
Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt announced that on August 8 the Social Security Board would pay the one millionth benefit in force under the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program. The beneficiary is War Worker widow Mrs Mary Rex Thompson of Parma Ohio with two children. Premiums paid by Thompson and her husband’s employer totaled $145. Benefits are $58.49 per month and could reach $15,182.83. The board urged Congress to extend coverage to 12 million farm workers and eight million others currently excluded.
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Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security Administrator
Social Security Board
Mary Rex Thompson
Parma
Ohio
OPA Ends Special Gasoline Rations After August 16
The OPA bans travel gasoline rationing for Victory Gardens after August 16. Prices will rise slightly for cookies crackers toast and crumbs due to regulatory changes impacting retail store sales.
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OPA
Victory Gardens
Missouri youths enter fourth National Junior Vegetable Growers contest
Young growers from four Missouri communities enroll in the fourth annual National Junior Vegetable Growers contest. Prof. Grant B. Snyder of Massachusetts State College serves as advisory chairman for the organization.
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Missouri
Grant B. Snyder
Massachusetts State College
National vegetable contest offers $500 top prize
The state's contestants vie for a $500 national title, a $200 regional award, ten $100 sectional scholarships and two $25 war bonds from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Winners judged on studies in vegetable production marketing methods projects and community work. Participants include students from Buffalo Louisburg and Independence among 44 states.
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Prof. Snyder
Buffalo
Louisburg
Independence
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