Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1953 — Page 10

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Civilian Positions ! 1 Available In Navy Lqdy Recruiter Ift Decatur March 25 An opportunity to gpln employment with the navy department in its headquarters in ‘Washington, D.C. is being offered ioung women from the Decan tr area in a civilian capacity—no signing of contract or wearing a uniform is Mrs. Margaret S. Geibel, ?civilian natry representative, will be in Deeater to interview ’ and* teat interested young people, both 'high school seniors and those' young people whose current are arrested by indecision. Mrs. I Geibel will be located in the posi office building Wednesday, March 25 to tell about civil service jposltions in Washington, D.C., w|iich carry a monthly salary of $245 to 1254, automatic salary increases of SBO a year, 2% weeks paid’ vacation and 2% weeks of paid sick leave per year. The navy guarantees room reservations upon afrival in Washington and is making every effort to provide satisfactory 1 working conditions. ;

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A recreational program conducted by the navy sponsors dances, hikes, bowling, softball and basketball leagues and many other activities to help employe* in getting acquainted with both military and civilian personnel. . Young women, with or without w“prk experience, meeting the following qualifications are eligible to apply:! A typinlg speed 40 words a minute> alrflity to pass a general clerical teat and physical examination. Stenographers will be qulred toj take dictation at 80 words per mipute. Applicants musk have reached their 18th birthday on or before\ the date they would be available to enter on duty. High school seniors may request that their entrance on . duty be deferred until after their graduation. Mrs. Geibel said that interviewing hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 25 ttt the post office building in Decatur. .' New Hazard PROVIDENOE, R. 1. UP —When the traffic light green. Myron Wilesky started his, big truck roiling and immediately hit the rear of a foreign-made sports car. Wilesky told police it was ao lowslung he couldn’t see it over the high hood of his truck.

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Old Spring Fever * Tonics Still Used WASHINGTON. UP 4- Spring makes its official bow Friday. That’s remindful of the days when grandma sent the youuguns to the store for all sorts of tonics, “to thin the blood,” which somehow had thickened during the cpld months; The oid-time medical books viewed spring fever with alarm. Some of these books, still on file

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ip libraries, were known as “home' medical books.” They pin-pointed symptoms of spring fever as a "peculiar pallor of the skin, a fadhag bf the eyes and hair —a sort of out look.” Today, we know that the fever Woland is—a listlessness due .to a printer Os too much time at the table and too little time exertls-' ing. ■! ' ■ • . l Grandma had remedies of her owfo,; in addition to the “Sto?e boughten” tonics.* Out of the, bodrd came a crockery jug of sulphur and molasses. It wag spooned out to the family, starting wifji granddad and working down to live toddlers. This mixture was a hand-me-down from England’s brimstone: and treacle, the treacle part being the? juice of a tree or plant Sulphur and molasses had to

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■ ; compete with sassafras teats” and the bitter boneset tea. Rural New England at one time was a mighty sulppur and molasses stronghold. The tonic moved westward with the migration. Dietary magic and medical knowledge virtually have blotted out the old-fashioned spring tonics. But according to experts in the Freeport Sulphur Company,' they still have adherents:in some sections of the country. Many druggists, particularly in rural areas, still get calls for the ,old fashioned relievers. —' h iMeter Courts In Itn there were only <OO motor court* in the whole nation. Today there are 20,000 motor courts with an average eg U rooms to each ceurt i • \

Show's Idea To Make Every Man Handyman NEW )TORK, UP — The country’s first ‘‘do-it-yourself show” is in full tinker here. The iflea is to make every man a handyman. Home owners: Do you keep getting wrapped up in your own wallpaper? i Would you like to build a better bird house? Do you have, a yen to take a sewing machine along on your vacation? Has your bathroom been re-tiled recently?

The do-it-yourself show, a large exhibit of the latest commercial gadgetry and in the •rapidly growing fIMI pf tinkering is being thronged by city slickers whh have an itch to put on work clolhes and make like pioneers. One of the most popular; exhibits claims to make paper hanging eas|r for amateurs.' With this method, you don’t hang wallpaper. It comes in 14-inch Squares instead of the old-fashipned rolls. You just brush paste on the back of each square, slap it on the wall and smooth iit out with your hands. ■ The squarel' are automatically matched. You hang d plumb line with a tack at' the \top, . and a kitchen fork or toothpaste tube or something as a weight, and line up the first piece on. a true vertical. Then you’re off to the racds, square by square. , 1 A feature of I this exhibit is the demonstration of the product by a pne-armed paper hanger. He doesn’t act busy,. But, then, he doesn’t seem to have the hives, either, so it isn't really a fair test. In{ the field of poVer tools, demonstrators turn out Wxes, picture fraipes; book shttves, and cupboards. Bird houses ruA amuck. One firm features- a little 12-inch by pipe-inch outfit in which one motor, of one-half horsepower,

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runs a shaper, a router, or a planer. You can fasten it to the kitchen table and turn out a bird house at a whim. There are" several displays of lay-it-yourself plastic wall tiles ready for trying by spectators. If you want to tile your bathroom or kitchen or kids' ptayromn, they’ll sell you a bucket of mastic and a trowel. You can spread the masstraight, zig-zag, or wiggle-wag-glass, or plaster, and have eight hours to stick on the tiles before it hardens. , Housewives may try out a sewing machine featuring a doublepronged needle, with which you can do cording or stitch designs in two colors at once, either straight, zig-zag, or wriggle-wag* gib. 1 Then, there’s a portable sewing machine with cast aluminum body and nylon gears, which weighs only four and one-half pounds, runs forward or reverse, and darns -while in neutral. It’s only nipe inches long and six inches high, and It plugs in anywhere. It comes with a' traveling case, and the saleslady says it’s\ just; the thing for train trips, boat trips, and vacations. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results. \