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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
4
A fragile transcription discusses rubber and gasoline rationing during wartime. Merchants display goods and prices while the public contemplates buying limits. The drive funds Army and Navy relief and USO programs, with a nationwide rubber collection effort continuing through a set date. Public concern centers on preserving rubber for essential uses and supporting relief efforts.
Jensen social notes list Ted Bewell visiting from Denver and singing guitar tunes at a Sunday gathering for Ted Bewell and four dozen guests. It notes Miss Lepfy Ainge, Vernal visits, Mrs H M Moon's Hollywood trip, Joan Ainge visiting Rangley, Aleece Morey returning from Hayden, Mary Hurley’s surprise visit to Charlie Miles, Robert C. Thorne’s illness, George Glenn Wellman’s Army posting, Ray Nokes’ service near Australia, and the Fourth of July fundraiser by the Victory Service Organization at Jensen. Postmaster Zilpha Wellman attending a Salt Lake convention and Pred Slaugh’s recovery from typhoid and tularemia are mentioned.
A roundup of weekend activities includes a 4 H Victory Cooking Club picnic supervised by Mrs Francis Bartlett with horseback trips to Merkley Falls, scrap rubber gathering, sugar canning registrations, and a Beaut troop overnight hike. Attendees include Dr Joseph and Irene Marr, Frank Morrill, Mary Glines, Zona Harvey, and local families from Balt Lake and Roosevelt.
Mrs. Horace Behrman entertained a group Sunday afternoon in honor of her brother Sergeant Herman Wooley and Loris Wooley who are soon to leave for training camps. Stake officers at church Sunday were Alvin E Weeks Mrs Warrer Jones Carl Richens and Jesse A Haws of Vernal.
Milk industry gains lauded for production rise from 104 billion to about 120 billion pounds yearly. Extra 16 billion pounds daily would fill a train of tank cars eight hundred thousand gallons long. Officials note milk supports national strength and soldier diets, framing dairy as essential to efficiency and wartime production.
War period promotion cites health authorities in endorsing milk as a daily protective food. Mr and Mrs Wilford Witlock of Jenin attended the 86th birthday of Mrs Armanda Knobles at her home where she keeps house. The Witbacks and Theora Theora? visited Vernal and Roosevelt, former Vernal residents.
A condensed schedule lists upcoming community events and observances including County Commissioners meetings on June and July dates, the Fifth Registration, Independence Day celebrations, and activities by Jr. Chamber of Commerce Lions Club Pioneer Day and American Legion. Several organizations such as the Board of Education, Jensen comes for WHO and Pioneer Day appear in the listings. The calendar also notes Lions Club, American Legion and Pioneer Day events among other civic gatherings.
Classifieds include sale items and notices. A budget hearing for the 1942-43 school year is set for June 28 at 2:00 PM at the Board of Education office in Weber Utah, issued by Ernest M Johnson, Clerk. Also a stray notice for a 700 lb six-year-old mare branded A sina bar on the left hind leg over cross marks and other identifying scars.
First Ward residents in need of purchase certificates and sugar allotments for canning are urged to obtain them. The USC directs the Victory Book Campaign with the ALA and Red Cross to supply books to troops, while 150 clubhouses near bases offer showers meals movies and reading rooms. USC agencies include YMCA NCCS Salvation Army YWCA Jewish Welfare Board and National Travelers Aid.
The committee increases sugar rationing for canning to 18 pounds. After wards complete registrations, certificates for the extra amount will be issued and sent to the ward. Those who cannot reach their ward committee can obtain purchase certificates at Thome's Studio on select days after blanks are returned to the rationing board.
Miss Elna Miller, Utah extension nutritionist, lauds a new sugar release for home canning. The plan allows one pound sugar per four quarts of fruit and another pound for jams to support the Food for Freedom program. This welcome measure aims to help households preserve fresh summer fruit and ensure family supplies.
A fragment notes that canned fruit and vegetables stored over a year under ordinary home conditions lose color flavor and palatability and will not compare with freshly canned products except for syrup. the text references storage effects on winter supplies and mentions consumer needs.
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