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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1944
Page
3
The paper touts comprehensive coverage across a wide area and lists subscription rates 2.00 per year in Kensuth and Titonka territory 2.50 outside. Canada and foreign deliveries are 3.00 with 2.00 for armed service members. Local subscriptions are treated as continuing yearly unless canceled by the subscriber or publisher discretion.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters warns the war not yet over and urges cities to fund modern fire fighting and salvage equipment. It warns old gear is obsolete, hotels and tenements need protection, and a Cocoanut Grove scale fire could aid enemies.
Updated ration guidance covers tire inspec tions for certificates, six month or 5000 mile tire checks, and APO tire inspector requirements. Gasoline coupons valid dates listed, sugar canning limits, spare stamp use, and processed foods blue stamps plus meats fats and cheeses red stamps validity detailed. Shoes coupon and airplane stamps noted as valid indefinitely.
An instructional guide advocates waterless cooking to preserve vitamins in produce. It recommends a shallow water layer, tight lids, and lists vegetables with suggested times and portions. The piece notes fuel savings and wartime fuel shortages as rationale for adopting waterless methods.
A homemaker guide explains why thorough prep matters before peak season. It covers proper techniques for canning acid foods with boiling water, recommends steam pressure for nonacid foods, and notes boiling destroys botulinus bacteria. Sharing a pressure canner or using a community center should be arranged if possible.
Discouraged by hazards and waste, open canning is unsafe as bacteria may survive and jars spoil. Water bath canners free of rationing come this year and can be built at home. A deep vessel with a tight lid, rack, and loose lid steam vent can substitute, and steam canner use is noted with caution.
Town poultry producers need not be greatly disturbed by the War Food Administration corn freezing ruling or prospects for a smaller grain crop. Iowa State College extension poultry specialist W. R. Whitfield reports that wheat can replace half of the corn and half of the oats in grain, and ground wheat may replace all oats or all corn in mash, though not both in game mash. Too much wheat has a laxative effect and reduces growth. compensate with alfalfa or green feeds when corn is reduced. Wheat can be self fed in hoppers for all stock.
Whitfield warns against mixing corn or oats randomly in poultry rations and urges a stable corn-wheat-fowl mix for a period. He notes mites are hatching in hen houses and prescribes cresolic acid or creosote oil mixed with used oil to coat hiding spots so mites contact the oil.
Ralph LeMaster Sr. of Madrid found his wife Mia LeMaster’s wedding ring lost 25 years ago while spading the spring garden. The ring, recovered amid fertilizer from the feed lots, was nearly as bright as when first worn.
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