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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1943
Page
2
A homemaker, not always with a large house, shares limited space by storing a folding cot in a hallway using a denim skirted frame and a compact medicine closet on legs made from glued spools. The design includes a lit mirror door and touches of chintz. The feature promotes a booklet with 31 other occasional home projects for 15 cents.
The War Food Administration will award blue A banners to America’s leading farming counties for 1943 crop achievements. Final 112 winners, chosen from state nominations, will be announced during Thanksgiving week with distributions across 48 states.
War Food administration will issue Production awards to winning counties and a representative for the production award. Seasonal food processors may receive an Achievement A banner for outstanding initiative, though not eligible for the Army Navy E award due to non year round operation. Criteria emphasize quantity quality ingenuity cooperation and safety.
Roosevelt stresses victory hinges on food production as much as manufacturing arms. A simple ceremony will honor plants under FDA and WFA oversight. Citizens, farmers, and homemakers are urged to Produce Conserve Share and Play Square to support 1944 war effort with national campaign across four agencies.
The 1943 potato harvest is projected over 460 million bushels, with 360 million late potatoes now being gathered. The crop exceeds the 1942 late harvest by 73 million and tops the 1928 record by 33 million, highlighting strong farmer response but posing distribution challenges to prevent waste or diversion from human use.
War program urges every home to store excess harvest including Irish and sweet potatoes and keep onions apples and other fruits for winter. Citizens should share food, follow rationing rules, and avoid black markets by buying only fair prices while farmers aim to produce as much as possible for war needs.
Delmar G. Roos of Nillys-Overland Motors says postwar cars will be better but not fantastic. He foresees demand for efficient, lighter yet not smaller cars, gradual radical changes, and reluctance to back futuristic models. Plastic bodies and curved glass are deemed unsatisfactory, with safety and vision concerns. The next major advance will be simpler semi automatic transmissions, not replacing hand shifts for years.
A civic column urges readers to prioritize maintenance of existing household equipment and protect possessions as a wartime effort intensifies. The piece stresses prudent care of assets and practical fixes, presenting tips from a local homeowners friend.
Practical hints for daily tasks including warming hands with a hot water bottle, pineapple macaroons frosting, measuring tape on knitting bags, repurposing an old hoe, testing hot fat, keeping the fridge clean, a cloth wrapped brick for sewing, and repairing tools with pipe over a monkey wrench handle for leverage.
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