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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1946
Page
7
Richmond Hill Georgia Henry Ford at 84 remains active on his Georgia plantation where workers describe him as a lively farmer. The Gregor y managed site grows 14 acres of celery to market in June while the lettuce field expands on 200 acres. An oyster ranch recovered after flood damage adds to farm activities.
President Truman's famine emergency committee led by Herbert Hoover seeks to cut red tape and urge voluntary U.S. sacrifice of 40 percent of wheat products and 20 percent of fats to feed starving populations in Europe India and China. Agriculture Secretary Clin ton Anderson says conserving all foods could meet current commitments and allow 10 percent more home food with record farm production despite labor and machinery shortages and soil depletion. The plan assigns state and county leaders to organize local food conservation goals and mobilize citizens and trades on a voluntary basis.
Panagra will assign Comdr Eugene Richards to the traffic department in South America and Lt Vail Cliff to the same post. Chet Moulton becomes Idaho aviation director replacing A A Bennett who runs Boise Piper Swift agency. Justin Dart buys a helicopter to aid drug rescue work. Jane Wilson 16 Salmon Idaho delayed pilot license due to youth. Clyde Martineau Shullsburg airport manager touts complete facilities and Aeronca dealership with instruction rides and trips.
Indiana flying farmers plan an August 1 field day at Purdue University West Lafayette. Prairie Farmer Land meeting in Chicago elected Norman McCoy director. Air rescuers Dan McMullen and Douglas Wells reported observer duty Texas to rescue stranded whales. CAA named 100 plus aircraft maintenance inspectors with 160 recommendations pending. Donald R. Harvey named CAA personnel officer. Milwaukee opened a downtown Lake Michigan landing strip three thousand by one hundred feet led by A C Lang.
In Paris and by extension across France, families face severe shortages with fuel, calories, and basic goods scarce. The Jacques family and others live on restricted rations while prices soar, yet hope persists through support from relatives abroad and stubborn resilience amid postwar deprivation.
The writer recalls arriving at Orly after a 26 hour trip from Washington amid a government crisis. Paris shows scarce fuel and food, cold and sickness, where people walk in wooden soles after years of occupation and deprivation. The tone notes lingering hardship despite Nazi defeat.
Fragments describe UNBROIDERED pansy designs for luncheon cloths and linen towels. Includes five pansy baskets and eight sprays in the transfer pattern Pattern No. 5087 with color chart request details. Also mentions two popular crocheted doilies the 13 inch pansy doily and a 20 inch lace pineapple doily from Akron Ohio, both highlighted for readers.
Practical household hints cover shoe shine kit placement to tempt use, lemon in water for snow whiteness with cauliflower, oil cloth on ironing board to dampen clothes, borax in starch for gloss, and adding cold water after starch to prevent scum formation.
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