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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
4
Captain Irah Allen recalls an Easter ceremony in a North African airfield camp. Pilots and crews gathered in a flowered field for hymn singing and a short sermon about life, not death, urging service and wakefulness. The service closed with prayers in the mud and a benediction.
Cpl Eldon Donald of the U S Marines, son of Mrs Theodore Dorman, arrived for a 30 day leave at his mother's Glenwood home. He survived a Guadalcanal battle with a broken back, weighed 200 pounds before injury and lost 90 pounds. He was wounded when a bomb hit a truck he was tethering with a chain. He was treated at a base hospital and in Wellington New Zealand. He is now able to walk haltingly and still suffers malaria. His commander was Maj James Roosevelt, son of the President.
The National Dairy Council cites ice cream as a strong calcium source essential for health and teeth. An ordinary one sixth quart serving provides about daily calcium needs, tougher to match with fruits vegetables or eggs which would require many items such as oranges cabbage or potatoes.
A special column from The Leader based on Iowa State College advice. Major crops facing insect pressure include cucumbers squash melons pumpkins potatoes beans cabbage with other crops like carrots rhubarb strawberries peas cauliflower broccoli and Brussels sprouts also affected. Early start and weekly garden inspections, frequent cultivation, and hand picking of insects are recommended to minimize damage while avoiding harm to humans.
The squash vine borer attacks kill only one section of a vine due to poor insecticidal control. Boll should not be cilled up around potato plants on tight soils. yield drops as billing raises soil temperature and slows tuber formation. On heavy soils, hill soil gently toward the row center to shed surface water.
Tips from Troeandid gardeners on buying spades hoes and garden gear. Advice covers sanding tool paint for easy use and sharpening hoes to ease hoeing. Also suggests protecting newly planted vegetation with tiles or other objects then removing protectors after recovery. Iowa is a reading-practice state.
The U S Department of Agriculture tentatively assigns egg grades with labels such as Consumer Grade AA and Consumer Grade A. Other notes explain weight thresholds for Jumbo to Small egg sizes and mention government graded turkeys being labeled similarly in the future.
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