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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1951
Page
2
Practical guide for repairing old floors in care of oak and soft wood types. Replace torn boards with matching material, wax monthly, and consider painting or staining. Linoleum offers durable surface options and carpets provide a quick fix with proper underlay and pads. For badly damaged floors, linoleum is recommended when repair costs rise.
A playful exchange with Ignatz questions and answers about baseball as a business and labor issues. Topics include anti trust, reserve clause, farm systems, free labor market, cartels, player trades, Leo Durocher, Laraine Day, and Casey Stengel.
A letter from Ethel Nevin of Wilkes Barre recounts a teen past of affairs and a marriage to Gerald, a man of integrity facing public office. The writer urges that past indiscretions haunt her, but she seeks courage to meet future duties while preserving her family.
Coronet writer Peter Nelson argues that petty swindles and non-criminality erode moral fiber. He cites expense account padding, parking ticket fixes, and theft of tools, silverware, and food as widespread examples of easy money and misused trust in American business and service sectors.
Lynn Chambers presents a complete picnic menu featuring skillet baked chicken with corn bread dressing, crisp vegetables, and lemonade. The plan covers preparation, frying, dressing, and baking steps plus sides and desserts for a memorable outdoor meal.
The column suggests flavoring soft custard with instant coffee for chocolate or cottage pudding. It recommends seasoning spinach with salt pepper and nutmeg then baking in a casserole with nests for raw eggs. It also notes sage in a meat pie topping and ginger snap cookies with crystalized ginger.
A late Department of Agriculture survey shows beef cattle and swine near record highs. Beef cattle may reach 65.4 million by January 1, 1952, up 5.8 million from a year earlier. The 1951 pig crop is about 106 million, up five percent from 1950, with pork production expected 5 to 10 percent higher through next March.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics argues that boosting farm size toward fully mechanized, up-to-date large family farms is key to meeting rising production demands. Small family farms lag in efficiency, while large farms already near capacity and face labor limits as growth continues.
A simple project to create tool hangers from a 1 by 4 board with slanted bore holes. Drive old clothes pins into the holes and saw off projecting ends at the back. Mount the board on a wall where tools are kept for convenient hanging.
Mrs. Phil Patterson of Colorado proposes using dyed garden mulch to harmonize with flower plots in The Farm Journal. A 10-cent package of vegetable dye mixed with water can color a large amount of mulch, enhancing garden beauty.
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