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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1942
Page
2
Ida F Limerick explains common cooking terms in a home management column. She defines simmering as cooking in water near 185 degrees F for tender meat, pandroiling as cooking without fat water or cover, sauteing as browning with a little fat, and frying as cooking in fat with examples like doughnuts.
A collection of cooking definitions and techniques such as braising scalloped dishes au gratin and batters versus doughs with notes on creaming cutting in stirring beating folding and related terms. The text also includes portions of a labor dispute report discussing preliminary findings to unions in steel towns with projected wage boosts and a panel hearing schedule.
An industry payroll base of about 650000 workers supports a proposed pay rise worth roughly 165 million dollars annually with overtime, while the current minimum wage stands at 72.5 cents per hour. Steel men argue the government will largely cover the rise through reduced returns from excess profits taxes unless prices can be raised. An executive from a major firm with about 35 million dollars in gross profit and 20 million dollars in taxes last year estimates 60 to 75 percent of any pay increase would come from the excess profits tax.
Central West Virginia stations present a dense late evening to midnight program grid featuring WMMN with Blues and Supper Melodies, WJZ, WEAF, WBCS and CBS segments, various talk shows, dramas, and musical acts. Notable entrants include The Lone Ranger, Burns and Allen, Dinah Shore, Kate Smith, and Sammy Kaye among many others across 7 PM to midnight slots.
In Washington and London reports the Soviet Supreme Soviet approves foreign policy and the Rus sian-British alliance while diplomats attend. Stalin, greeted by a three minute ovation, appears publicly for the first time in the war as talks on a second front continue and the aluminum drive yields 6.4 million pounds versus 15 million expected. Brewster and Truman press to delay a senate report on delays by the War Production board, while a House panel clears business leaders of wrongdoing.
In a tense exchange between House and Senate committees, Brewster and Chairman Donald M. Nelson argued over which panel would release its report first, noting a possible coincidence in timing. The War Production board faced pressure to delay issuance while Navy pilots reported a Coral Sea patrol victory with near misses and a direct hit on a Japanese cruiser and carrier units.
The article recounts long distance Naval air power with missiles replacing broadsides and notes a hypothetical survivor rate if Japan had pressed the attack. It credits Lieutenants Maurice Hargan and Willis B Campbell for hitting a transport at harbor during the Coral Sea conflict and mentions Captain John Roberts as the spotting commander.
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