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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1945
Page
6
The newspaper extols General George Marshall's retiring report as Chief of Staff. A thick bound copy with maps is praised as essential for every home. The editorial lauds Marshall as a candid writer and vital advisor, urging readers to study and reflect daily.
A nationwide drive announced by A West of UNRRA calls on thousands of communities to collect commercially canned foods. Schools churches and local groups will establish centers and ship contributions free to war devastated areas. All cans must be tin to ease overseas transport and distribution.
Remains of crops left on the land stable manure and plow under crops are the only practical means of holding a big enough supply of organic matter in crop land. The organic matter acts as a moisture sponge and as food for soil bacteria. Its steady rotting frees soil foods sought by crop roots.
In Yokohama a wartime taxi driver offers two fares to South Station or Back Bay, noting he earns a dollar to South Station and fifty cents to Back Bay. The piece contrasts the driver’s honesty with wartime hardships. A second note reports that one of two large Yokohama theaters survived bombing and is opening under the U S Eighth Army, after likely closing earlier when Japanese shows ceased.
The 1945 46 Indianapolis season lists performances at Murat and Civic venues from Oct through May. It includes Uncle Tom s Cabin Rigoletto Ballet Russe Student Prince Buron Holmes travelogues Rubenstein Rubinstein and many Indianapolis Symphony concerts with notable soloists and ensembles.
Excerpts praise steady self mastery and duty amid danger. Locke Lincoln Eddy Henry Tuckerman and Robert Louis Stevenson are cited for moral strength, faith, and upright heart as enduring courage across trials.
A compilation of remarks by Harry S. Truman George C. Marshall John Foster Dulles and Dwight MacDonald. The quotes touch on global welfare national leadership security and moral restraint amid war and public discourse.
Some 50 000 baby bass were released in Tippecanoe county streams last Friday under the county Fish Game and Bird Protective Association. Most were put in the Tippecanoe river and Wildcat Creek. Wabash fish avoided due to muddiness and gar infestation. An additional allotment is planned in about two weeks.
In six weeks after gasoline rationing ended 1,800 more Hoosiers visited Indiana state parks than in the 1941 peak. Total six week attendance reached 236,741 vs 234,941 in 1941. Coughill cited weather and refinery strikes for Sept slip, but predicted year total near 700,000 for a pre Pearl Harbor record.
Disney plans a major motion picture project to be shot partly at Brown County State Park with a 75 man crew next spring based on Sterling North’s Midnight and Jeremiah. Walt Disney met with Milton Matter and park officials, preliminary scenery shots are underway, and the Division of Public Relations in Indianapolis can supply speakers for civic groups.
Indiana forests suffered 396 fires that burned 22500 acres with damages of 93042. State forester Paul B. Davis noted fall is peak fire season and listed major causes including careless smokers and weeds debris burning. Counties with most fires included Crawford Brown Green Harrison Martin Orange Perry and Pike.
State police superintendent Colonel Austin R. Killian announced 365 day enforcement against drivers who drink. Troopers will pursue drunken driving amid rising traffic crashes. In the first half of 1944 police arrested 526 and 539 in the same period this year, with one of four fatal accidents last year involving a drunk driver or pedestrian.
A roundup of tales on quack cures and modern anxiety care with Mrs. Lee Steiner’s warnings to readers about dubious remedies. Also recounted are a wind powered “horseless carriage” attempt in 1849 and a profile of Konstantine Simonov, the Soviet writer and Stalin Prize winner.
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