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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1943
Page
14
Wartime guidance urges American women to safely preserve victory garden yields. It explains botulism risk from improper canning, outlines symptoms and mortality, and stresses prevention through proper sterilization, acid versus non acid foods, pressure canning, and boiling non acidic foods before serving.
The War Food Administration and the Dairy Industry Committee present an eight point plan to boost milk production in upstate New York through field service support and home grown seeds. Key steps include abundant pastures hay and silage plus rest for cows, balanced rations with targeted protein levels, grain mixes, calf rearing, and measures to prevent summer slump.
Miss Dorothy C. Bradley, assistant county home demonstration agent for Rensselaer County, will leave today to become acting county agent in Lewis County. She came from Syracuse two years ago and has led demonstrations and schools countywide. Her home is Binghamton and she is a Syracuse University graduate. Marion Dixon of Russell Sage College will assist Mabel A. Milhan in food conservation work and related Home Bureau activities for the present.
Pvt Michael Bodner was scrubbing the wash room in the 37th General Hospital quarters when First Sgt Harold Krepaks interrupted in disbelief. The sergeant reminded him his furlough started that day and Bodner admitted he forgot.
Mise Lucille Brewer of the Orange League Federation Ithaca will lead a nationwide soy bean demonstration at School 18 Syeanay at 2 p m on Wednesday May 36 under the Renaselasr County Home Bureau. The event shows soybean use in bread muffins breads and desserts and aims to expand home canning and food conservation efforts.
Senate and House conferees seek a middle ground on tax bills. House abates 1942 income taxes for most filers, with 13 percent surtax eliminated and 350 per dependent, while upper incomes taxed later. Senate would simplify to current basis for most, with 20 percent withholding and changes to exemptions. Military pay exclusions differ between houses. Normal income year concept and excess tax provisions vary, with potential three year payment on excess.
The Troy Rationing Board warns B and C gasoline book holders to verify last tire inspections to avoid renewal suspensions. A books require inspection every 90 days, B every 60, and C every 45. Delays beyond dates may trigger penalties and nonrenewal of rations.
Washington UF Air sickness the plague of the unhappy victim and source of amusement to the unaffected is curable. Dr G R Wendt who has made a 1d year study of the ailment asserts Flying Conditioning is the key to both prevention and cure of air sickness Dr Wendt says in setting forth a few rules for conquering nausea which has proved a serious problem in the vast pilot training program of the armed forces. Air sickness is attributed to the delicate mechanism of the inner ear the psychological factors play an important part too. Wendt states Most potent of these factors are association with others suffering from nausea memory of previous attacks and expectation of illness. Students should be conditioned gradually to movements of flight and taught not to anticipate illness. Avoid extreme fatigue over eating alcoholic hangover or other physical upsets Wendt advises And remember Dr Wendt says every trip made without sickness increases tolerance for motion while every trip on which sickness is experienced makes the person more susceptible.
Washington UP President Roosevelt was asked about press restrictions at the United Nations food conference in Hot Springs Virginia. He said he had no reaction beyond one suggestion from a newspaperman about benches for press seating and joked about adding tiers in his office to accommodate observers.
Washington officials disclosed plans to reduce the size of War Bonds to save paper and space while keeping value. Proposals include shrinking bonds to the old dollar bill size of 3 4 by 7 inches, with current bonds measuring 7 1 2 by 8 1 4 inches, and a decision pending input from multiple government agencies.
The Office of Price Administration announced no change in processed food point values for May. It said the program has settled to an even keel and urged consumers to shop early in the month, week, and day to ease store congestion.
A Justice Department official testified before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that private rate bureaus and conferences in rail, motor carrier, water carrier, and air express fields have fixed rates above costs. He said the practice, now widespread, yields monopolistic control over communities and industries, inflating rates across transportation without regard to actual service value.
Sgt Jennie York, cousin of WWI hero Alan York, tops the 36th WAAC company at Ft Warren Wyoming arriving from Daytona Beach. She commands 150 WAACs, the first women soldiers on the historic pioneer post, as she aims for overseas service.
The Office of Price Administration announced it sent notices to 150 garment manufacturers warning that licenses may be suspended if proper cost records are not kept. A scan of 50 garment establishments, mainly in New York, found 60 percent failed to maintain required records.
The National Association of Manufacturers reports a 56 percent rise in wartime absenteeism across 26 war plants to 5.42 percent, with sickness accidents housing and transport problems and irreasonability cited as main causes. The NAM notes high loss on Saturdays and Mondays and identifies hangover and born trouble makers as disproportionately absent. It urges health safety morale incentives personal aid and community cooperation.
Governor’s office says Mrs Thomas E Dewey works three hours daily as a volunteer at Albany City Hospital for ten days. She is assigned to the operating room where she helps clean instruments roll bandages and prepare sutures along with other volunteers and the first lady.
General Motors Corp has become the nation's largest ordnance producer within five years, manufacturing 15 weapons and gun parts in 29 divisions across the United States and Canada. The GM Folks magazine reports that in a recent month the firm produced 118,000 guns from carbines to cannons, after engineers began with gun blueprints five years ago and secured an initial 500 machine gun order from the War Department in May 1940.
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