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Farm Hints From Delaware Co. Agent Remove straw and waste materials around the farm as well as manure . before the arrival of warm weather. Material of this kind provides an ideal place for for flies; the Purdue University extension dairymen advise. Using the all night light for chicks does not speed up growth, but a dim light, a seven and onehalf watt bulb, will help to prevent chicks pulling up, Purdue University extension poultrymen say. When brooder houses cannot be moved, a range shelter will be needed as soon as the chick can do without heat. A shelter will make it possible to take advantage of clean pasture, Purdue University poultrymen advise. During the spring clean-up of the farm and lawn, keep that match away from the pile of raked-up leaves. Spade them into the garden, or the flower borders, W. B. Ward, Purdue University

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extension horticulturist, recommends. The extra leaves may be added to the compost pile for later use. A small amount of fertilizer and a few shovels of dirt on the leaves will soon develop a compost pile into fertile soil. Wall paper should always be cleaned with a cleaner, not simply by brushing, for then dirt is rubbed into the paper and can never be removed. Painted walls may be brushed occasionally with special wall brushes made with long, soft bristles, Purdue University extension home economists advise. “Give your farm a good Spring cleaning,” is the advice of County Agent M. E. Cromer. “A clean farm is safer and more profitable,” he said and recommended several ways in which farmers in this area should participate in the annual Spring Clean-Up Week campaign April 20 to 26. “Clean out rags, paper, boxes and old furniture from your attics, basements, barns and other buildings,” Agent Cromer said. “Chimneys and flues should be inspected gnd cleaned and dead vines, brush and weeds along fence rows and near farm buildings should be cut down and burned.’ He also recommended inspecting lightning rods and cleaning cobwebs and dust from electric switch bpxes and lamps. “Fire extinguishers should be checked and approved extinguishers should be installed in buildings that are not already protected.” “Wooden shingle roofs are always a fire hazard and should be replaced with fire retardent roof coverings when possible,” Agent Cromer sgid. He also urged farmers to clean their furnaces and stoves and to remove all material which might catch fire from their vicinity. “Clean farms seldom burn,” Agent Cromer said. “Clean farms are also generally free from disease. A clean farm is not only safer, but it also has a healthier atmosphere and is a nicer place to live.”

Social Security Benefits Studied The benefits you and your family will get when you retire and the benefits your family will get if you die depend on your social security account. So it is of No. 1 importance that your account be absolutely right. The Social Security Administration does its end of the job with nearly 100 percent accuracy. You can rely on that. But there are more than 70,000,000 accounts, and sometimes errors do occur. They occur because every once in a while an employer does not have a social security number or a name just as it appears on the worker’s card. Therefdre it is advisable to check on your account. It is especially advisable to do so if you have worked for short periods for a number of differ-

BE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE A Ten-Point Program foor Your Consideration: * Building and maintainance of streets with gasoline tax money. fr: ■■■) * More Houses — Not on paper, but on good solid ground. * Clean-up — Morally as well as physically. * Improved bus system in schedules and routes and a central bus terminal. s: '' Expansion of recreational and park facil-

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* Parking methods brought up to date— No special privileges. * Railroad underpasses built to speed up the flow of traffic between North and South sections. * White River made white. Removing all pollution sources and building a series of low dams. * Law enforcement and fire protection improved - and modern-

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* A Dollar’s worth of service for every tax dollar. BE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE . ... .. ;■. ‘ For Dr. Rollin H. Bunch

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On tour from the near-by recreation center near Nikko, Japan, these Regular Army men enjoy sight-seeing trips. Life in the Regular Army offers travel, recreation, adventure and comradeship, as well as a career and security to eligible young men.

ent employers, or for a firm that was in business only a short time, or for any employer who did not copy down your social security account number, or did not deduct the 1 percent social security tax from your pay. If you think an error has been made, write to the Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland, and request a statement of your account. You can get an addressed post card form at the nearest Social Security Administration office. If an error has been made, that office will help you get it corrected. Once every four years you should check on your account anyway because after four years some errors cannot be corrected. The Social Security Administration office which serves Blackford, Delaware, Henry, Jay and Randolph counties is locaated at 300 1-2 East Main Street, Muncie, Indiana. The telephone number is 7182.

Army Week Show To Feature P-80

A jet propelled plane will be in Muncie next week, April 7 to 12, during the celebration of Army Week. The plane will be a P-80 Shooting Star and will fly over the county seat next week, the exact date for the demonstration of the AAF’s fastest fighter plane will be annouened later. Capt. C. W. Swank, Army recruiting officer, is trying to get a B-17 Flying Fortress at the Munice airport where it can be inspected by visitors. Other features of the week will

include the awarding of the I $489,400,000, or 15.7 per cent of Bronze Star to George O. Mixell. jthe total, of which 11.5 per cent

The presentation will be made by Charles Degrew, formerly of the Finance Department, and Charles

B. Bunder, formerly of Army Ordnance, at 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon. This feature will be

broadcast over WLBC.

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Newspaper Ads Are Successful

New York. — American business spent an estimated record $3,116,600,000 for advertising in 1946, with newspapers getting the biggest chunk, $963,800,-

000, or 30.9 er cent “Printers’ Ink,'

Last year’s total topped 1945 jDy nearly $500,000,000. In the publication’s current issue, Dr. Hans Zeisel, manager of research development for Mc-Cann-Erickson, Inc., said that the 30.9 per cent of the total accounted for by newspapers included 21.5 per cent local advertising and 9.4 per cent national. The newspaper total was 24.9 per cent greater than in 1945. Dr. Zeisel explained that the 1946 estimate cannot be compared with the 1929 peak of $2,340,000 because it covers local as well as national advertising and the 1929 figure excluded such local advertising as department store and retail display in newspapers. Nor did the 1929 figure include local radio, since grown to four per cent of total radio advertising. A revised estimate for 1929 placed the volume at $2,600,000,-

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was national and 4.2 per cent local. Radio volume was 4.7 per higher than in 1945. Magazines accounted for $430,400.000, or 13.8 per cent of the total, and showed an increase of 25 per cent over 1945. Weekly magazines received 7.4 per cent, women’s , magazines, four per cent, and general magazines, 2.4 per cent. Direct mail, with $278,800,000, accounted for nine per cent of the total, an increase of 15.2 per cent over 1945. Business papers received $178,000,000 or 5.7 per cent of the total, a rise of 3.5 per cent for the year. Outdoor advertising, with $85,900.000, accounted for 2.7 per cent of the total, an increase of 19.8 per cent. National billing was $60,100,000, while local was $25,800.000, Farm papers received $35,800,000, or 1.2 per cent, an increase of 11.6 per cent over the previous year. National accounted for $22,400,000, while local was $13,400,000. Miscellaneous, (cost of advertising departments, sales help, car cards, and so forth) accounted for $654,500,000, or 21 per cent of total advertising expenditures in 1946, a rise of 17.2 per cent over 1945. Of the miscellaneous total, $430,700,000 was national and $223,800,000 local. o Roosters Learn To Roller Skate Pittsburgh.—Finding out about strange hobbies of other people is a hobby with Edwin A. Row-

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Take the man in Rehoboth Beach, Del., who teaches roosters to roller skate. “He makes the skates by hand,” Rowlands said, “and it took him three weeks to teach each rooster how to balance. At the end of seven weeks they could skate around a little track in his back

yard.”

Rowland said the man was considering charging 25 cents admission to see roosters skate in military formation, as soon as he can teach them how. In Du Bois, Pa., a high school girl has turned a baby’s cry into profit. An accomplished mimic, the girl learns a baby’s cry. For 50 cents a shut-up, she can make a baby stop crying in less than a minute by matching its cry. Her earnings of $94.50 last summer represented 189 pacified babies. In Minnesota, Rowlands discovered an 89-year-old doctor who retired from practice to devote his time to making violins. The octogenarian has made violins now being used in five major symphony orchestras in the United States. Thus far he has turned out 131 instruments. A nurse gave up her profession to devote full time to making decorated clothes sprinklers out of catsup bottles at 50 cents each. To date she has 726 orders. Rowland’s own hobby is collecting autographs of famous personages. In all he has 3,071, “all prominent and all genuine.” Among his prized autographs ij a hoofprint of Man o’ War and the ink-printed paws of Ginger, Admiral Byrd’s lead dog at the South Pole.

Poorly Built Homes Permanent Headache

Temporary solution of the housing proolems by relaxing building codes to allow construcf tion of flimsy, firetrap homes will be a permanent headache to the veterans who buy such homes and the community which lets them be built, warns Brick & Clay Record, building magazine. The unsafe homes will be in the community as fire hazzards after the housing shortage ends—ultimately may be destroyed by fire and the loss then will be not only property but lives. At fault will be the community which sacrifices fire ,safety regulations to speed in housing. Building codes and safety regulations were instituted to protect home owners from shoddy construction, both owners and communities from fire loss, and they must not be relaxed to favor quick and faulty construction. The need for homes, no matter how great, emphasizes rather than modifies the prime necessity for fire protection. Yet, all ever the counry, building officials meet requests on every hand for relaxation of even elementary rule of fire safety, so that veterans can be housed. Fire is a problem in all buildings, not only homes, and fire hazards are met in the design of a building as well as in the materials used to construct it. Some of the worst fire traps are found in taverns, stores, loft buildings, hotels and even our older schools. Building codes, adequate and strictly enforced, requiring the principles of fireproof design, would do much to reduce the present high rate of one fire to every 345 perosns. For instance, some fire will happen, in spite of precautions, and furniture, rug and drapery fires are going to be less damaging if they take place within a building designed to meet fire hazards. Fire loss statistics, month by month, tell the continued story of appalling loss of life and property in the United States—loss which will mount if building standards are relaxed. Losses in January amounted to more than $57 million, a figure only 1.6 lower than the record loss month only 1.6 lower than the record loss month of December, 1946, according to tabulation from the National Board of Fire Underwriters, based on reports of fire insurance companies, plus an estimated allowance for unreported and uninsured losses. The fires were extensve and expensive, too, with 471 of the fires causing more than $10,000 damage apiece.

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Gross Income Tax Receipts Higher Indianapolis, Ind., April 2 — (Special) — Collections by the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division on receipts of taxpayers during the 1946 calendar year exceded all other comparative 12month periods and made the agency a million-dollar a week revenue producer, Walter L. Sturdevant, chief deputy of the tax unit, announced here today. The $52,317,538.89 total represented an increase of nearly seven millions of dollars over collections for the previous calendar year. Each quarter during the past 12 months established a new record for comparative periods since the introduction of the tax in 1933. High prices of merchandise and big payrolls played important parts in accounting for the record collection, Mr. Sturdevant said. The tax receipts are a positive indication that the dollar volume of business in the state during 1946 was the greatest in history. This increased revenue means that the state can meet the bigger teacher tuition appropriations established by the last session of the general assembly without dipping into its accumulated reserve. During the past 12 months the Gross Income Tax Division processed a total of 1,367,754 reports or 117,700 more than during the 1945 calendar year. Many of these additional reports came from former GFs who were back on industrial payrolls for the first time, Mr. Sturdevant said. The average payment for each 1946 report was $38,25 as compared to the $36.48 average for the previous year. Receipts reported today boost the total collections made under the provi-

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IT THERE'S A BOTTLE SHORTAGE # There’s a shortage of beer bottles! Not enough new ones (there’s such a huge demand for all kinds of glass products) ,,. and too many old ones "unemployed.” Look! Lurking in YOUR garage ,.. or basement... or back porch are cases and bottles' Rout out the loafers . . . put ’em back to work! Turn in your "empties” for CASH or EXCHANGE...TODAY!

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sions of the Indiana Gross Income tax law since its enactment in 1933 to $399,727,809.43. Comparative figures follow: Year ending No. Mar. 31 Collections Returns 1934 $ 7,860,307.93 534,770 1935 13,220,933.28 533,431 1936 16,012,773.69 575,708 1937 19,942,597.10 625,287 1938 22,958,724.08 723,381 1939 19,880,152.93 656,551 1940 23,179,713.66 766,080 1941 25,299,101.45 809,823 1942 34,043,863.20 1,038,484 1943 33,336,742.10 1,145,845 1944 40,488,792.06 1,266,478 1945 45,580,012.35 1,286,029 1946 45,606,556.71 1,250,054 1947 52,317,538.89 1,367,754 Mr. Sturdevant also reminded residents of the state that gross income tax obligations for the first quarter of 1947 became due March 31 and must be paid no later than April 30 by all individuals and business organizations whose tax exceeds $10 for the quarter.

250 GI Trainees Dropped From Rolls Burl W. Miller, Chief of the Rehabilitation & Education Division, Indiana Regional Office of the Veterans Administration said today that approximately 250 veterans in Indiana are being notified of their suspension from government subsistence rolls due to their failure to report their earnings by March the fifth. Veterans whose claim number ends in 5 and 6 were required to report to VA by March 5th, their earnings for the past four months. In the letters notifying the vet-’

erans of their suspension from the subsistence rolls, veterans were informed of the reasons why they have been dropped and instructions were given as to how they can get their susbistence payments reinstated, * Mr. Miller stated. Mr. Miller also said that letters are currently being sent to veterans in training or attending school whose claim number ends in 7 or 8, notifying them that a report of their earnings in due on April 5th. Instructions on how to comply with these regulations are contained in a letter to each veteran concerned.

Snakes Disturb Texas Garden

Sarita. Tex. — This sparsely populated area is becoming knpwn as the crimeless section of Texas. In the last four years there has not been a crime recorded and district court sessions consist merely of selection of jurors who are never used. “We didn’t have a divorce last year and I don’t think we’ll have one this year,” said District Clei’k Nettie P. Woods. “This county has never had a juvenile delinquency case. In fact nothing much has happened in the 33 years I’ve been here. “I guess snakes give us more trouble than anything.” Births, deaths and marriages are the only newsworthy events in the county, she said. There is no state old age assistance, no formal charity and during the depression of the 30’s the^e was no WPA.

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