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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
16
After the War What Plans Have You Made for A Home features guidance on saving, researching, and systematic planning for a future house. Readers are urged to track down prices, down payments, and location goals while studying design ideas from magazines and libraries. Tomorrow: Postwar Travel.
New York reports a potential winter fuel oil shortage as demand lags. Empire State Petroleum Association secretary Harry Hills says many dealers lack storage space due to government requisition and must move stocks to avert a bottleneck.
Northeast beaches along Massachusetts were strewn with millions of clams. Residents collected the shellfish by the bushel and used rationed supplies to make clam chowder, clam pie, baked clams and other dishes featuring the coastal shellfish.
Washington UP The 1 1/2 percent Republican national convention will have a delegate voting strength of 3 058, an increase of 58 over 1940, with 30 states and Hawaii gains and five states losses due to revised allocations designed to stimulate Republican voting. An unofficial tabulation at GOP national headquarters yesterday. official until the national committee meets in December or January. Texas gains seven delegates, California six, Oregon five. South Carolina leads losses with six fewer delegates.
The Troy Chamber of Commerce board unanimously adopted a resolution urging letters to House and Senate representatives advocating a wartime sales tax as an emergency measure. It cites raising over 10 billion in new taxes and notes five billion could come from consumer purchases, while praising the committee for economic development and its regional and local chairs.
The Federal Communications Commission approved RCA selling the Blue Network to Edward J. Nobie, president of American Broadcasting System, forming a new nationwide independent network.
Baron Georg von Trapp his wife and seven daughters plus sons converted 600 Vermont acres into an Alpine style homestead near Stoneham. Refugees from Nazi rule they built a 20 room house by hand with their own plumbing wells and a chapel. They plan a informal music center for locals while continuing farming duties and community canning is a local habit.
The piece discusses American officials and senators visiting overseas war theaters and reporting back to Congress and the press. It notes a bias toward local commanders and the term localists, highlighting secrecy and imperfect communication. It reflects on strained U.S Britain relations before December 1931 and the ongoing debate over strategy and potential bases or fronts.
The Troy County Rationing Board’s Price Panel urged residents to report butter and hamburger price infractions. Stores were accused of charging 15 cents for a quarter pound of butter, above the 13 cent ceiling, with penalties possible up to 50 dollars or triple the excess. Guidance covered ground vs pre ground hamburger and required visible price posters and receipts.
The article describes a U S effort to restore quinine production in the Americas by cultivating cinchona seeds in government greenhouses. Col Arthur F Fischer shipped 2 million seeds from Corregidor to the United States, with seedlings now growing to maturity under careful scientific cultivation to supply malaria treatment for tropical fronts.
The State War Transportation Committee foresees a tire shortage within a few months under the Mileage rationing plan. Demand would require 25,000,000 tires this year for essential driving but only 17,000,000 tires would be available. It urges curtailment of passenger car use to keep cars essential to the war effort running.
The Army reports saving about 20 million square feet of leather and seven million dollars through its shoe rebuilding program. About 6 million pairs of rebuilt shoes were issued this year, with Private Doe noting they are already broken in and comfortable.
A commentary urges open press discussion in London and Washington on Allied plans, arguing healthy debate keeps democracies united. It warns against outside manipulation by the Nazis and compares coalition disagreements to internal family debates.
Dr Thomas D Masters explains fatigue in young and middle aged adults often stems from maladjustment not illness. Many wake tired after long days and rely on coffee and naps, but regular moderate exercise and engaging work or social activities can restore energy. For most, physical findings are normal yet lifestyle factors drive the fatigue pattern.
Mrs Helen Dortch Longstreet, widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, plans to join the Bell bomber plant assembly line in Marietta. She is taking courses in riveting and fabrication, studying from 3 pm to 10 pm, and aims to help build bombers to defeat Hitler. She notes the war is the hardest, compares it to Sherman, and says she may be over 50. She lives in a trailer camp and will complete three courses in five weeks. Indians on the Navajo reservation report doing a grand job supporting the war, mining vanadium for war needs.
The widow of General Longstreet, a state librarian and postmistress in Gainsville Georgia, is noted for her Savannah Beach writings and for editing the Longstreet Memorial Association magazine. She authored the biography Lee and Longstreet at High Tide and asserts that Americans surrender only to Americans amid the war’s toll on civilians.
The Troy Chamber of Commerce board unanimously approved issuing a voluntary wartime electric power conservation appeal. It urges merchants and residents to turn off nonessential lighting and exterior signs at closing, while preserving critical reading tasks. The goal is to reduce coal use and free fuel for industries and families during wartime.
Grateful families along the mail route gave letter carrier Daniel H. Atwater a purse of 60 dollars upon his transfer to a new district. Neighbors say Dan was universally loved by the neighborhood children and kept order on his route for six years, even with the most unruly youngsters.
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