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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1947
Page
9
A Western Newspaper Union recipe guide promotes fruit based desserts to boost calories when heat reduces appetites. Recipes include Apricot Sherbet Apple Sherbet Orange Ice Cream Marshmallow Delight Grapefruit Sponge and Fresh Peach Cream with steps and chilling notes.
The piece covers President Truman's second push for nationwide medical aid and expanded rural health services. It explains hospital funding under the national hospital act, congressional language on contract obligations, and the potential for no money despite supposed appropriations. It notes Sen. Claude Pepper’s debating, Sen. Alexander Wiley’s quip, and looming education aid uncertainty for rural schools.
A period cookbook page lists Lynne Chambers menus featuring broiled lamb patties scalloped potatoes tomatoes with cream gravy perfection salad biscuits with jam and a grapefruit sponge recipe.
Lynn shares kitchen and home care hints. Cooking cabbage or onions in half milk and half water removes odor and the excess liquid can make cream sauces or soups. For crisp potato skins rub before baking, green vegetables cook with minimal water, pewter cleans with whiting paste, and curtains and artificial flowers receive simple cleaning steps.
In Jamaica New York the Queens Red Cross nutrition service expands the School for G I War Brides into the Red Cross School for Cake Hungry Vets. The program, opened with fanfare, draws war brides grandmothers and sisters to learn home baking from Dorothy Wettemann and Grace Lohmann. Classes will run indefinitely in groups of 25 as a morale boost for returning G I s.
A Belle Fourche sponsored tour offers a first summer horseback caravan from Belle Fourche to Devils Tower in Wyoming. Nine eight day trips are planned for June July and August with 25 to 30 riders each. Cowboys saddle the ponies as a trail boss guides the caravan through Black Hills National Forest to the Devils Tower rock formation, the first National Park Service monument.
In Chillicothe Missouri a single parking meter at the police station offers a second chance for overtime parkers. If a driver pays a nickel within one hour of a ticket the offense is forgiven. Waiting 61 minutes requires a dollar.
Sixty eight youths competed in a Kansas City model aircraft contest under Model Aircraft Institute sanction by the Academy of Model Aeronautics. A Du Quoin Illinois civic drive seeks 10000 for a 93 acre site and an airport development with Lions club backing and temporary financing. Expansion of Civil Air Patrol activities is discussed at the Washington meeting. Glimpses of air aid include using planes to check summer fallow in western Kansas with 18000 farmers on 2500000 acres. An Arizona patrolman used a Cub plane to locate and capture three youths in a stolen car. Modern prospectors may soon use helicopters to locate hidden mineral deposits. Dr. Thompson envisions helicopter prospecting in the Northwest. Dr. Brewster, 73, travels between Holdridge and three Nebraskan cities by plane, piloting a Fairchild Ranger. The Army Air Forces reopen aviation cadet training at Randolph Field with 500 civilian cadets beginning July 1 for a 52 week course.
Patterns offer Gingham Fruit cross stitch designs for tea towels mats and luncheon cloths. Pattern No. 5486 includes 7 transfers and a color chart. 20 cents and mailing details requested. A separate Starched Ruffled Daily crochet doily pattern No. 5478 is advertised with complete instructions for 20 cents.
Typical trivia item set asking about ancient nails candy literacy age tree name and NB initials in manuscripts sea horse size and the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world for quiz use.
The fragment mentions fine Chinese art done by finger nail painting. It cites 18 pounds per year per the Commerce Department. It notes a ten year old element and the Lebbek tree known as the Woman's Tongue tree for its rattling seeds. It references Damascus Syria founded by Uz four thousand years ago.
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