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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
5
Creative tips show converting cones into beads and charms using nail polish and wax. Readers can fashion necklaces bracelets and pins from bottles lids lace props and magazine cutouts with simple steps and household supplies.
Learn simple home hair care tips: rinses with vinegar and lemon juice may affect color and shine. A lemon solution mixed with water could brighten highlights while lighter tones can be preserved or altered by gentle acid rinses. Bluing rinse is mentioned to counter yellow tones.
An evening scene shows a father grumbling about rationing during wartime as conversation dwells on scarce supplies and family routines. The fragment hints at domestic strain tied to shortages and government controls.
Report notes a large French underground, 250000 strong, ready to fight with arms aid from America. Highlights include sabotage of Creusot factories, railway plots, and a plan to govern liberated France via a French National Committee and provisional assembly ahead of plebiscite.
Baukhage reports 1,700,000 rural boys and girls aged 10 to 21 belong to 4H clubs across the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The War Department says Army Air Forces destroyed 40 percent of Germany's lighter plane production. WPB notes prewar all metal domestic refrigerators facing a long changeover, while civilians are to move frozen vegetables during the coming season with record production expected.
A nationwide drive begins March 13 to gather idle banjos saxophones and other musical instruments from homes. Excludes pianos and bull fiddles due to size and repair limits. Coca Cola Bottlers act as collection agents with trucks picking up items from stores for shipment to Army camps worldwide.
Popular radio tenor Frank Parker plays the romantic lead in Dave Wolper's new musical Follow the Girls opening a three weeks engagement at the Shubert Theatre in Boston on March 7.
Marlboro Coca Cola Bottling Company manager John L Marshall notes the American soldier loves music and many keep items in closets and attics. The campaign aims to brighten life in camp and at the fronts by providing music.
Acton Ruth Olivia Wood of 2c Concord Road completes basic training at Naval Training School The Bronx NY and receives orders to report for duty at the U S Naval Hospital San Diego California. She is Acton High School and Boston School of Dental Nursing graduate, formerly employed by Dr. Walter C Miner in Boston as a dental nurse.
An educational session gathered rationing board clerks and panel members from Marlboro Maynard Hudson and Stew at City Hall Monday. Arthur Harris of the OPA in Boston spoke on fuel and John Scannell of the Worcester district on stoves with a grim outlook for fuel and stove supply.
Mr and Mrs G Allen of Corey Read welcomed a daughter just after midnight at Marlboro hospital. The couple already have a son named Peter. Mr Allen owns the William A Allen Company stores in the city and in Framingham.
William F. OConnell of Lowell has been appointed head of the advertising department at the Harvare Brew Company. A lifelong resident, he studied at Immaculate Conception School Holy Angels College and the Catholic University in Washington. He brings twenty years of experience. previously with the Lews Courier Citizen and Butterfield Printing Co. He also worked with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company GE Plant at Byers and is Esquire of Lowell Lodge No. 87 B P C E.
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