Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1941 — Page 12

t Tuletide Wish That you will be blessed with all the joys possible fur a successful Christinas Season and that the coming of the New Year will find suecess crowning your every effort. LaFontaine Handle Co. r j GRE£TH)6S A Merry Christmas ond a Hoppy New Year with sincere appreciation for your continued patronage B. J. Smith Drug Co. I I «

a SEASON’S GREETINGS Our sincere wish at this 4 Holiday Season is a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year GENERAL ® ELECTRIC DECATUR WORKS

Haiti Bay Scout* in Chriitmai Creating ThC WHItC HOutC WASHINOfON to wr seem or America t Once M*' n I nnd sincerest Chris taut {resting* to tbe Boy Scouto of A*arlcaj taspsakIng also the appreciation of the Ration for tbe contribution ehich Scout* and Scouting sake to our national strength and acralo by helping to keep olive the aanly virtue* of truthfulness, loyalty, courage and helpfuln***. Moo, a* always, the Nation needs citliens oho are pledged te keep th*»*olve* physically fit* oentally alert and aorally straight. In Kit annual CAriUmai granting! to tKa Nation t IJMJM Boy Scout t, C.ubt and tmdrtßrandon! Bootmrll. Honorary Preudrn! o/ tho Boy Scout t of dmrriro. and oiliio in iA» Motrmtal 17 yaari, rtprrttod tho nalion't appreciation for their ronlribulion Io national ilrength and mania by harping alue the manly luluet o/ Irulh/ulnett, loyally, courage and hrlpfulnru.

• - | WITH THE ARMY I AM) NAVY A relaxation of physical stan-I dards for enlistments In the U. fl. I i navy and the naval reserve- wan j announced thia week by the Navy , ' department. In commenting on th lx action, the Navy department announcement stand that numer- ! oua men who in pant months have sought to enlist and have been relet ted on the basis of minor phys i . leal defents will, because of the I modification of physical standards, I be encouraged to re-apply for en-, listment In either the regular Navy or the naval erserve for the duration of the emergency. The Navy department has re-1 quested that any person knowing of young men who had been barr-| ed from enlistment In the Navy or 1 naval reserve because of minor I physleal reasons should bring this |

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medication In physical require-1 m> nts to the attention of these 1 young men. Applicants with varicose veins, will be acceptable under the < hanged standards, this varicocele , condition to be corrected. It the condition Im painful, at the naval training station to which the new i recruits are sent. Hydrocele, anotb er defect that formerly ruled out numerous applicants, will be cor reeled, if necessary, after enlistees , arrive at training stations. Applicants suffering from hernia will be i accepted provided their I. Q.’s are 175 or better. Recruits suffering from hernia will b<- treated at the training stations and will be en rolled for schooling during their I periods of convalescence. Other physical defects which formerly prevented men from be ing accepted as recruits, but which | now are waived, are seasonal hay I fever, correctible nasal deform I Itles of such a degree as not to

interfere with duty; undernourishrd and underdeveloped applicants, providing the condition la not due to organic disease and minor surgical elects which can be corrected within a month Applicants who possess 18 natural serviceable teeth with at least two molars In functional occlusion and not more than four Inclaors mlaalng. will be acceptable. Dental treatment will be given at the training atatlona. Any applicant who has been rejected because of any of the defects noted above la urged to reapply for enllatmmi In the Navy or naval reserve Immediately. All applicants accepted with defects requiring correction will b» hospitalised After correction of these defects recruits will be re-

" e exte,l d every Rood wish we can think of at this glorious Christ max time. May the New Year be Filled with Joy and all the gtxxl things you no richly deserve. Appelrnan’s Grocery I II — ■" I 1 1,1 1 "" A—4 M A . fl now J? fijiiusfiiiiw N| AND THE BEST OF EVERYTHING f jjk ‘N THE NEW YEAR PEOPLES RESTAURANT A. HEIMANN. Prop.

mimed to thdr training stations at the earliest practlcsble time Th*** rnodiflrtl pteytU'Sl ards will apply for *ll applicants for enlistment In either the regular Navy or the naval reserve with the eiception of applicants for enlistment In classes for pnmpe<iive commissioning „ -|i i».-g ■—» — Chicken Replaces Army •**"• ('amp Csl.— lers est more chicken than beans, a report from the Camp Roberts replacement center commissary Indlcales. The report showed that each month since the camp was established the 2«.«00 officers snd men stationed here hsve consumed 75.000 pounds of chicken and only 1.750 pounds of beans

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2J, ,1

*ll i I JL CORDIAL We have a host of friends in this area whom we would like to see personally in order to extend a personal Christmas Greeting I We may not get around to everybody so we ask that you consider thu Os being a genuine expression ot good wishes to each of you and * hearty thank you for post courtes es TO EVERYONE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS The Suttles-Edwards Co., Inc.