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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1943
Page
15
The Office of Defense Transportation announced a curtailment of commercial deliveries with weekly limits by commodity and a ban on most Sunday deliveries. Routes must be reorganized to avoid duplication. Exemptions remain for farms ships newspapers mine products medicines and U S mail, but mileage cuts stay at 40 percent.
A Commerce Department report shows independent grocers boosted dollar sales by over 30 percent in the first quarter compared with 1942, while chain stores fell slightly. Analysts cite higher price ceilings, rising incomes, and convenience from many small locally located stores as key factors in the shift.
The Labor Department says women can shift from housework to war production. Three example lines show the idea: if you follow cake recipes you can load shells, if you spotless a home you can inspect war equipment, if you sew you can trace ship patterns.
Betty MacDonald reports on a new apple syrup product derived from 25 million bushels of off grade apples. The syrup could substitute glycerine in tobacco, bakery, cosmetics, and drug manufacturing, with potential to reach 3,000,000 pounds. Also notes on fuel supplies, OPA clock prices, chicory as coffee extender, pecan canning, and mail from overseas dependents.
The OPA cracks down on long distance hoarding of shoes by having shoe dealers avoid layaway beyond current voucher validity unless advance ration stamps are provided. Indoor slippers and moccasins face rationing tests, indoorswear not to be rationed, ballet slippers excluded, allowing home dancing.
In Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court a six person jury plan may be used for trials. Judge E E Lindsay proposed the pint size jury due to difficulty in obtaining 12 jurors. Cases would be assigned weeks in advance for review by court and attorneys to decide if they can be tried by the smaller jury.
Health columnist Dr Thomas D Masters outlines infant nutrition goals and essentials for a healthy first year. Key points include weight gain of 4 to 6 ounces weekly, fluid needs, minerals and iron, vitamins A C D, cod liver oil in winter, protein from milk cereals meats, and a four hour feeding schedule with sterilized bottles.
Kansas City contractor J E Dunn says he does not want to profit from the war and that the government stands to gain about 400000 on a large Army contract. His bid of 1863655 last year for a Kansas City quartermaster depot was 250000 below the next-lowest, and he claimed the project was at cost. His profit later rose to 173000, and he renegotiated the contract to cut another 150000. He would pay federal taxes and donate the balance to Red Cross, USO and others to keep his organization intact for his sons to carry on after the war. His son J E Dunn Jr is a Marine aviator and another son attends Notre Dame Navy classes.
Schaghticoke resident Howard Thomson and family spent the weekend in town. The High School hosted its annual junior prom Saturday evening. Residents Owen Martin and Alice Steele visited relatives in Albany and Troy respectively. Nellis B Leyfield visited her sister in Troy. Melville Hamilton of New York stayed with relatives. A ladies sale will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Robert M Sample's market for the Methodist Church. Victorian Chapter C E 8 meets at the Masonic Temple tomorrow with Worthy Matron Mrs Howard M Kenyon presiding. Trinity Episcopal Church services are held Sundays at 5 p.m. Rector Rev David Hunt of Mechanicville is in charge.
The Record Newspapers Bureau, Washington. War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt said teachers in Troy and upstate New York may take higher paid teaching jobs and summer work in war plants or civilian service without losing their regular positions. Changes to Regulation No. 4 will permit autumn transfers to higher paid teaching posts and allow vacation agricultural or munitions work, with a return to regular positions.
Washington officials said small home owners will automatically receive higher fuel oil rations for the next season. Ration boards will use last year’s data to apply a new formula, increasing allowances without extra steps, with a line for requests to cut the grant if desired.
The Record reports vegetable prices remain high as summer production is down 11 percent from last year in the New York area due to abnormal war demands and early frosts. Florida replanting to mid April aims for May production. potato prices stay at ceiling levels amid strong demand and diversions from scarce goods.
Harvey A. Baum of the Atlantic Commission Co predicts crops recover and that abnormal weather slowed some states. He notes increased acreage elsewhere will boost early potato production, with government and company reports showing 5,000,000 more bushels available this year.
Allied North Africa medical chief Major General Ernest Cowell told reporters that blood donated by Americans to the Red Cross and other groups saved some thousands of lives in the Tunisian fighting. He said precise figures are secret but praised the life saving impact of blood plasma from the United States.
Washington D P officers report that Prentiss M Brown ordered a seven percent cut in retail potato prices for the 1943 crop and authorized a 30 cent per hundred pounds increase to farmers. The policy halves mids ups by wholesalers, aiming to flood markets where scarcity exists. The new legal retail price drops to five and a quarter cents per pound, effective immediately, with enforcement to curb black market activity.
In Pascagoula Mississippi Vera Anderson 19 from Ingalls Shipyard faces Billy Strmiska 35 of Henry J Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp in Friday match to crown America’s Champion Woman Welder. The contest follows elimination trials at Ingalls and Kaiser's yard selecting top torch girls for the national tournament.
Albany representatives of New York's lumber industry passed a unanimous resolution urging the War Production Board War Labor Board Office of Price Administration and War Manpower Commission to set procedures to aid war lumber production. The group warned that labor shortages and low price ceilings could trigger a four billion foot shortage this year.
The 16th District discussed placing a siren near 112th Street after talks with city authorities. The area spans from 6th to 115th Streets and Hudson River to railroad tracks. Members voted to replace the old weathered Flag on Memorial Day and Sgt Frank Cramer of the Marine Corps showed four reels on blackouts.
Troy rationing board officials say Monday is the final day for retailers to conduct special point sales for produce in danger of spoiling. The sale provision was to move rationed items at risk of waste, but retailers are now expected to adjust buying practices to avoid spoilage and reduce danger.
Mayor Frank J. Hogan blamed delay in a surprise Montags air raid drill on receivers of signals and not Troy Control Center operators. He cited five signals with times from 11 11 to 11 57 am and urged residents to learn the air raid signals. New circulars will be distributed and block leaders meet at four city locations with assigned speakers.
Washington reports the Office of Civil Defense urged school chiefs to boost air raid drills to protect the 30 million American school children. James M. Landis warned that evacuation time is brief and schools must assess their neighborhoods and buildings to decide which pupils stay or go home. The OCD emphasized drills as essential and warned neglect could invite tragedy and public accountability.
Senator Austin said the big inch pipeline break caused by Midwest floods cost 4,000,000 barrels of crude and refined products. He argued the loss could be a deal blow to Eastern States. He urged Vermont constituents that reducing motor gasoline consumption is the only method to reach the minimum essential fuel for next winter.
New York CP consumers of bituminous coal were urged to store coal when available to protect against supply interruptions. Howard A. Gray, deputy solid fuels administrator, told the National Association of Purchasing Agents convention that consumers must purchase coal whenever it is available regardless of season or immediate need, warning that winter supplies may be inadequate if they do not stock up now.
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