Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1943 — Page 3
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TINE I AT HAND
Put in Potatoes as Soon as .Garden Is Spaded or
Plowed.
If you're planning to plant early potatoes, make preparations now. They should be planted as soon as .the ground is spaded or plowed. In most cases in Indianapolis, that jeans this week or next week. <The good, old “Irish potato” is ! really a South American neighbor, ‘native of Chile and Peru. Since the beginning of the 19th century, it has appeared on most American tables at least once a day. With the threatened potato shortage, that record may be broken unless gardeners with plenty of space include potatoes in their crops. To raise such a ‘crop, seed potatoes are planted. Buyers are cautioned to buy seed potatoes in bags
sealed an certified by the state]
where they were grown. “That's the only way the gardener can be sure he is getting true seed potatoes,” according to A. A. Irwin, assistant Marion county agricultural agent. : Late, Early Varieties “The package should certify that the potatoes are free from the major potato diseases and are true to the variety named on the label,” Mr. Irwin points out. Because potatoes prefer cool, moist growing weather, there is a finite division into early and late varieties. Irish cobbler is a popular early crop and may be planted in central Indiana about April 1 to April 10. Katahdin and Chippewa are recommended for the late crop and may be planted in late May or early June. : of To prepare the potato for plant“ing, cut a medium or large potato into three or four pieces with one or two strong eyes to each block. Delay planting for several days to allow time for the cut surfaces to callus over.
“Green Sprouting” Explained
“Green sprouting” may be done and is recommended by experts. The cut tubers are dusted with sulphur which prevents excessive evaporation and prolongs vitality. The pieces are then laid in a shallow box with the eyes up and kept in a dry, cool place until planting time. If long sprouts come, break them off before planting. The pieces will sprout again. However, if the sprouts are short and thick, they may be left on for the short, stubby sprouts will: grow. _ Potatoes should be planted to a depth of four inches and’ should lie about 10 inches apart in the row. Frequent cultivation is neces- ~ sary to control weeds and keep the earth from crusting so that the oung plants can break through easily. Early cultivating should be shallow and done with a rake.
Use of “Potato Dust”
To control pests and as a good preventative against possible potato diseases which may damage the 4 plants, a ready mixed combination Yealled “potato dust” may be pur‘chased. The first dust application should be made when the plants are eight inches high, continuing weekly until three weeks before the potatoes are ready to be dug. Those who wish to spray may use 8 4-4-50 Bordeaux mixture plus two pounds of lead arsenate. To make three gallons of this spray, use five level tablespoonsful of copper - surphate, 12 level tablespoonsful of lime and six level tablespoonsful of lead arsenate in water. Potatoes may be dug in the fall when the vines are dying, or they may be dug during the summer when “new” potatoes are wanted. The crop may be stored easily in any cool, dry place with good air circulation.
| Rationing Dates Sugar
upon 12 good for five pounds Shroushs May 481. -
Gasoline A book—coupon 5 good through May 21. Fuel Oil
Coupon 4 good for 11 gallons,
ough ‘April 12. Coupon 5 must until Sept 30 for heat and hot
water. Tires "Tires for holders of A gas books must be inspected today. Canned Goods. Blue stamps A, B and C ged through today. Blue stamps D, E and F good through April 30. : Shoes
Coupon’ 17 good “for one . fio
‘through June 15. rs Meat Red stamp A good; B becomes good April 4; C, April 11; D, April 18. These expire April 30. Red stamp E becomes good April 25. Coffee Stamp 26 good for 1 pound through April 25.
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solutions to the problem as there are families in the United States. It's important to understand that. There is no standard, over-all solution. For your 16 points a person a1 week, you can get enough meat protein and fats to maintain good health and a sense of being well fed. But just what foods you will select must be decided on the basis of personal taste, money in the pocket, your age and activity and supplies available in the market. Meat rationing is new to us. No one likes to learn all over again. But no one wants to go hungry, either, The brutal truth is that you can go hungry today if you don’t master ration arithmetic. Meat is a complete protein and protein is one of the essential and most important elements of food. We can’t live without it. The approximate 2 lbs. a week allowed under point rationing will not supply enough protein for nutritional needs. So what's the answer?
Many Foeds Protein Rich Think of meat as protein. About
70 grams a day of protein are re-|
quired for a moderately active average man, less for the average woman, more for the active child in the rapidly growing period of adolescence. If your meat points won't give you enough protein for these basic needs, what other foods will supply protein? The answer is the basic solution to your meat rationing problem. Meat is only one of the best sources of protein. So are all dairy products such as milk ‘and cheese, dried and evaporated milk and buttermilk. Also eggs, fish, shellfish, poultry, game, soybeans, peanuts. Other excellent and available sources of essential protein are dried beans and peas, wholegrain products such as oatmeal, cracked wheat and other wholegrain cereals, wholewheat bread and baked goods, nuts.
The number on each red stamp in war ration book two indicates its “point value.” The letter indicates the period during which
Look for the listings of all point values and fixed prices which are posted in every dealer's store. PLAN how many points you will use each time BEFORE you shop. Don’t
A March 29 April 30
April 30 April 30 April. 30
‘All cuts of fresh or
Expiration
later. price per pound,
may use them again. =
By MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX Times Special Writer Meat rationing is a fact, not just some unpleasant situation quickly to pass. It’s part of the war. No one in his right mind expects to enjoy it. But no one in his right mind expects to ignore it. How can you feed a family when you have only 16 points a week for meat, butter and other fats? In the first place, you can. Nutritionists have answered that question. In the second place, there are as many
If a man eats one egg, a quart of milk, half a cup of dried beans or soybeans, a cheese sandwich, a serving of fish or shellfish, a dish of wholegrain cereal and four slices of bread, two of them wholewheat, a day he will get enough protein, even without any meat.
Still Have Meat Choice
In other words, you won't starve to death if you can't get meat. There are many other sources of excellent protein, and most of them are abundant and relatively inexpensive. That fact should take the panic out of your rationing problem. Although you can be adequately fed from a nutrition standpoint without meat, you don’t have to live on a meatless diet. As soon as the meat situation is adjusted, you will be able to spend your 16 points a week for the meats you prefer or can best afford. You can have 16 lbs. a week of meat if you like pigs ears. They cost only a point a pound. Or you can have two pounds of sirloin steak for your 16 points, if that’s what your heart: (and stomach) most desires in this hungry world. Kidneys, brains, liver, etc., all cost less than steaks and chops and roasts. But unless you have learned how good they. are, or have someone to cook them for you as deliciously as French cooks do, then you may not yet be ready to use these rich sources of excellent protein in your American ‘diet. In selecting your meats, you must think not only of costs in points and cents and of their nutritional values, but also “Do I and the rest of the family like them?” No food is economy unless it is eaten- with the smack of enjoyment. You can lead your husband to a kidney stew but you cannot make him eat it, unless he likes kidneys. : He doesn’t have to like kidneys or brains or pigs ears or any other meat on the list. to be adequately
mutton and pork, and all variety of meals such- as liver, heart and kidney are rationed and will have both a point value and a money
After you have bought meat, cheese, butter and other rationed commodities, add up the point values, Your dealer can give you “change” in one-point red stamps—and you
cured beef, veal, lamb,
Some Prices Being Asked
All frozen meats, canned meats, sausage; canned fish, all butter, lard margarine, shortenings, cooking and salad oils and many cheeses are rationed and also have both a
point value and a money price per pound.
' BEWARE OF BLACK MARKET FOODS
food from our fighting men.
You Won't Starve if You Don t Have Meat; Dairy Products and Fish Are Protein Rich
nourished. If he prefers eggs to the less expensive meats, give him lots of eggs. If he yells for butter, give it to him. But make him realize that if he wants a lot of butter in these days of war he must face the fact that his allowance of 16 points a week for meat, butter and fats, will not stretch to cover beefsteak, too. It’s a simple problem in ration arithmetic—you can have only so much—what will oe Plan for Health
Make your family menus by the week if possible. Think first of what the family likes to eat and how much money you have to spend. Write out your menus and market list. Now study them. Do they supply enough nutrition for buoyant health? Check. Have you provided for the reasonable taste preferences of individual members of the family? Have you selected foods you know how to cook well? Check. NOW—can you get the meat, butter and fats with your ration points? If you can, congratulations. If you can’t, then revise your menus, substituting other good proteins for the meat you cannot get. Make those substitutions agreeable to eat. Be patient with the individual tastes
of your family—patient within the]:
limit of practical wartime menu planning. Fats are essential in the diet, too. Each of us needs about two tablespoons a day. But fat doesn’t mean just butter. It can be margarine, vegetable oils, lard and other familiar rationed items. Or you can get your fat requirements from unrationed fat in the meat you eat, from drippings, from suet, olive oil and from other foods rich in fats, such as egg yolk, milk, cream, cheese, olives, nuts. Again, in deciding how to spend your points for fats, consider personal tastes and health xequirements. Give butter to the children in the family and to those whose stomachs are too delicate to digest the heavier fats. Use avocados, fatty fish,’lots of milk, nonrationed cheeses—there are a great many— to provide much of your daily fat requirements so that you won't have to spend your points on fats if your family prefers to use them for meat.
LAUDS CITY'S. WAR
Indianapolis was among the first cities in the nation to establish an
efficient war manpower stabilization program, Eugene J. Brock of Chicago, deputy regional director for the WMC, said yesterday, lauding the community for its efforts. Speaking before the Rotary club at the Claypool hotel, Mr. Brock urged even more co-operation with the city’s manpower stabilization m. “Communities must: solve their own production problems through rationing of manpower,” he said, “instead of robbing other communities which also are suffering from manpower shortages. We must solve the problem by ingenuity, and the sooner we can produce the machine tools of war, the sooner we can end the war.”
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Burean (Central War Time)
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation SInco Deficiency since Jan. 1
The following table shows the temperature in other cities: High Tow
Station Atlanta . “sense, ssesssvasensens 71
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~ CITY EMPLOYEES STRIKE FT. WAYNE, March 31 (U. P.).—
City street employees will meet with, { gr Re SRE Wt
MANPOWER EFFORT
HERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD
FATALITIES County Cit; Total 1942 ... 12 3 943
Accidents ........ 9 | Arr 6 | Dea MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Vinlations Tried tions Paid Speeding . 19 18 $112 Reckless driving Failure to stop at through street ..... Failure to stop at signal ......... cesses Drunken driving ...... All others ........ evens
1 85 13
$176
0 1 1 9 29
EVENTS TODAY
Indiana farm and home atety meeting, Hotel" ashing os t 11 a. m.; luncheon at 1
Boy Scouts Jesional Beatin meeting, Lincoln hotel, 1 m, Marion County — Gime assuciation, meeting, Hotel Antlers, 8 p. m. Co-Operative club, luncheon meeting, Columbia club, noon. Bible an ysiigation Slay, dinner meeting,
er - i Appraisers, dinner meeting, Columbia club, 6 p.
Junior Chamber of Commerce, choos, Hotel Washington, noon
American Society Jor Metals. Hotel Washington, 7:30
‘Kiwanis club, luncheon Ds, Columbia club, noon.
Contemporary club, meeting John Herron Art institute, 8: 30 p.
EVENTS, TOMORROW
meeting,
0 Let’s Sing Week begins. 70| “Khaki Kapers,” opening presentation of
Ft. Harrison musical revue, Eng theater, 8:30 p. m. Indianapolis Real Estate board, luncheon meeting, Hotel Washington, noon. Caravan club, luncheon meeting, Murat temple, noon. By ¥ ur retired railway employees, meet-
Hotel Severin, 2 p. MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times,
therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.
Henry Clay Allen, 40, « Ella Louise
Rurts, 21, Capitol, -3. | wrence Loomis Battin, 21, Pt. Harrison; Mary Ruth Carney, 18, Canandaigua, William ' Benson Bickers, 29, of 1039 Ww. Helen J. Pauley, 19, of 1039
1, t DuBois, 31, Pt. Harrison ¥ Frascheier, 10, Balt Laks
£4 Spencer, 1, en Ba, city a Kerr TLE
of 2115
city, tah
Temple; “Mary
15 (8S.
, of 540 N. Senate: Viola
IN INDIANAPOLIS
BIRTHS Girls Leroy, Martha Lingentelter. at St. Francis. ‘Clarence, Mattie Webb, at Cit; Chesney, Frances Yelton, at St. Vincent's. Edward, Frances Rathz, at St. Vincent's. Clarence,” Mildred Bailey, at St. Vincent's. Richard, Margaret Woodward, at Coleman. Leonard, Betty Marscheke, at Coleman. Ernest, Marjorie Wheaton, at Sojemman. Gordon, Joan Culloden Methodis Rennen, Alberta Earl, ho Methodist Clift Rita Fultz, at Methodist. How! Sore Eunice Howell, 5 Methodist. B. Frances Johnson, at ‘Methodist. Ernest, Josephine Stevens, at NM othotist, William, Ruth Schmidt, at Emhardt. Sayme, Luella Martin, at 4135 Cornelius. Rene, Gladys Nicholas, at 706 Blake, Boys
Merrill, Louise Wicker, at St. Alley; a agdalen Salisbury, = ae *vin-
cen Carl, Siadys Williams, at St. Vincent's, Willie; Tencie Campbell, at Coleman. Paul, Doris Reichard, at Coleman. Arman, Marguerite Cunningham, at Meth-
» | Marlin, Lovelle McBay, at Methodist.
Wallace, Ella Merz, at Methodist. Mark, Lucille Plowman, at Methodist. Virgil, Ethel Weber, a4 Method: Robert, Leona Stiegel me James, Ruth Siler, a at 1 Henry, Pauline Jacks, at $180 Schofield. James, Ena Keene, at 1412 Hoetgen, Harold, Thelma Walder, at 543 N
DEATHS : Mary J Punierelt, 46, at City, pulmonary
[3 . Marytee Jones, 53, at City, pneumonia. A 7 Lockburn,
Edom J. Sell ars, 71, at
carcinom 4 Haney, 10 months, at Riley,
lobar yun Honey, Rosa ones, 26, at Long, pituitary
a. Florence Swan, 68, at 3108 North-
chronic myocard his ) so. Fall oh 82, at 3 2051 Ruckle, a Ada May Surber 1 no. at 0524 Carrollton, acute cardia & ilatation. PATER a Quins, 65, at St. Vincent's, arteri Donald Brinker, 11, at Methodist, septiSazvel "Moss Bubailks: 71, at 12023 Vandearteriosc. John” Johnson, 61, 61, at 12135 Hiawatha, bronchial as Amanda Hoop, 84, Be 110 W. 15th, cardio nma. Sin lown; 56, = City, peritonitis. Austin LE. Poe, 69, Veterans, chronic
ephritis. iy Krebs, 72, at 1843 Dexter,
Jona J x Hayes, a at 1226 Bnglish, ronic m ary eb enbender, 43, at Bt. Vin: Seve, mitral stenosis Smith, 50, at City, bronchopneu-
onia. Zona. 4 A. Mahan, 30, at Long, duodenal Albert Tooley, 74, a W. New York,
cardio vascular Ida Reig By 61, at 1658 Madison, coro-
DRINKING BOUT KILLS FOUR ‘BUCKHANNON, W. Va, March 31 (U.P).—Six men from a Web-,
I iis Coon
'Remember—when you are not asked for ration stamps, you :are dealing in a black market. Food sold in a black market may
with a rental tax assessed against
#| busses, carryall suburbans, delivery
your family’s health and steals
URGE U. S. QUIT AUTO TAX FIELD
Study Committee Asks Levy On Home Renters for.
Local Needs.
"WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.).—The intergovernmental fiscal relations committee, in a six-vol-ume report after a two-year study, today recommended that the federal government abandon the motor vehicle tax field to the states. The committee also urged supplementing general property taxes
occupiers of rental properties and the creation of a federal-state fiscal authority to advise the three levels of government on tax simplification and elimination of overlapping taxes. These recommendations were among 58 specific proposals made to the federal, state and local authorities. The committee’s report was made to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., who appointed the body in June, 1941. Copies were sent to the president, state governors and members of the senate finance and house ways and means committees.
Trade Barriers Rapped : The rental tax, the committee said, would help boost local governments’ revenue. It suggested that such g tax might be “adjusted”
in the renting family. The committee proposed that as soon as its financial condition permits, the central government should reserve to itself levies on aviation fuel and surrender taxation on automobile gasoline to the states. It proposed that state reciprocity respecting taxes on trucks operating in interstate commerce be effected as a means of overcoming what “in some cases, amounts to a trade barrier” and that the federal government earmark receipts from aviation fuel for construction and maintenance of free. public airports. Deplore City Conditions =
Local governments were urged to give “major attention” to reorganization of local revenue sources, particularly city revenue. The committee reported there was little doubt that city governments were “in a bad way” fiscally. The committee said much of the blame for cities’ plights lay with state legislatures which have denied cities adequate representation. It recommended that municipal gove ernments “demand” better representation in state councils. - In recommending establishment of a federal collection-state sharing tobacco tax program, the committee proposed that the federal tax on cigarets be increased by 2 cents a pack. This increase would be distributed to the states on a per capita basis.
30 IN FAMILY FAILS TO REPORT FOR DRAFT
DECATUR, Ind. March 31 (U. P.)—Adams county draft board officials today gave Edgar Steele, 36, of Decatur, five days in which to report for physical examination for the army. Steele, the third member of his family to refuse to report, is a member of the Jehovah Witness religious sect. He had been ordered to leave with a contingent yesterday for examination at Toledo, O His brothers, Clyde, 32, and Ralph, 23, also members of the sect, are scheduled for trial in federal
court at Ft. Wayne next week onj. charges of violating the selective}
service act. Both were freed on a $1000 bond after pleading guilty to the charge before U. S. Commissioner William D. Remmel.
SAHARA GROTTO GROUP WILL MEET
Sahara Grotto auxiliary’s enter-|
tainment committee will meet at
12:30 p. m. tomorrow at the resi-| dence of Mrs. Chester B. Ellis, 1303 ;
N. Keystone ave.
"The auxiliary’s, ways ‘and means
committee will give a card party at 4107 E. Washington st., at 8 p. m, tomorrow. The membership ¢om-
mittee will meet at the home of | Mrs, Lulu Berry, 4626 E. Washing-| ton st, at 12:30 p. m. Friday. ke
92 DIE IN NAPLES BLAST
* | mobiles, taxicabs, station wagons,
of the vehicles when new.
200% Above Normal
Value, OPA Charges.
WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.). —The OPA today placed maximum ceiling prices on all used commercial motor vehicles, sharply reducing abnormal prices being charged by some sellers. .
An OPA survey revealed that ac-|
tivities of speculators had resulted
in some prices that were 200 per|
cent or more over the normal value
of a used truck and in somé in-|
stances prices that are higher than the price of a new truck. Covered in the order are complete trucks, tractors, full-trailers, semitrailers, ambulances, hearses, omni-
sedans, utility sedans, coupes fitted with pickup boxes, cab pickups, as well as chassis and bodies for the vehicles named, Not covered are passenger auto-
vehicles operated on rails, selftracklaying vehicles, or farm and garden tractors designed and used for agricultural purposes.
Adopt Percentage Table
OPA said that more than 70 per cent of all reported sales of 1941 models of used commercial vehicles during August and September of 1942, exceeded the delivered prices
The new regulation will establish a ceiling at a percentage of the value of the truck when new. Two pricing methods are. provided for resales, one for the vehicle “as is,” the other if reconditioned and guaranteed for at least 1000 miles or 30 days. The following table shows the percentage of the price: of a truck when new to .be used to compute the ceiling price of a used truck if sold “as is” or reconditioned: Recon: “As Is" ditioned Age Per Cent Per Cent Six months or les: 90 97
More than 6 to 12 months. More than 12 to 18 months. More than 18 24 months. 30 months.
More than 5 More than 60 mo Ala. More than 60 ig 66 ORin3.
be adopted by OPA. Experts in WPB’s soap and glycerine T° department cagily predict that America may pull through the war without soap rationing, if the fat supply holds out. European countries have a ceiling price ($1.43 is tops), grade, long since been on the soap rationing system. i
Meanwhile, men in the U. S. armed services are now using an economical “soapless | soap,” guaranteed to clean ! clothes in any type of water, | from the shores of Buna to the streams of Iceland. It produces no suds, but does
Rayon Here to Stay
Odds and Ends:
today for processed foods .
each week of his furlough . . .
the job, which is all the army, navy and marine hove care about.
Stocking standbys for the duration will be rayons, and the manufacturers are doing their best to take the wrinkles and bulges out of this fibre they'd ignored before the war. Soon there’ll be a ceiling on rayon hosiery, and a standardizing quality, Grade A rayons will have a high twist, An OPA label will be tabbed to the hosiery after April 15, noting the gauge or needle, the manufac turers’ brand name and OPA’s number.
Remember your blue stamps A, B and C will not be valid after . save your identity stub for this winter's heating ration as youll need it when next winter’s rations are issued . . . the war department will allow the soldier on furlough a half pound of sugar, and 16 points for processed food for
tires with material made almost entirely of reclaimed rubber, and replacements won't be issued for re-cappable tires . is being made available to churches for religious rites.
dha fiero will bo aaditionl Sugar $01 hove canning hue iy : Last year's system, handled by local ration boards, Tesulted in some unfortunate decisions. The sugar situation is much tighter } this year, and i¢’s more than likely that a strict overall policy: will: :
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farmers may recap their tractor
« « grape juice
OPA SETS SPEGIFIC CEILINGS ON VEAL
WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.)—The office of price administration: today continued its efforts to
wipe out black markets by setting specific dollars-and-cents ceiling
- | prices for veal products sold by
packers and wholesalers. The new ceiling prices become effective April 3 and will replace individual packer and wholesaler ceilings imposed under the general maximum price regulation. Similar dollars-and-cents ceiling prices will be set soon for retail sales of veal.
More than 66 to 72 months. 29 More than 72 munths
Faccording to the number of persons i
- OF ‘COURSE: .° —If you can’ come in— come in! But—if you wish to shop by phone or mail—that’s of course all right too— Collar sizes 14 to 18 Sleeve lengths 32 to 35
The
Permanent retail ceilings already
he “BRUXTON” WHITE SHIRTS at
ARE A VERY GOOD BUY..... (A VERY G00D BUY)
have been set for pork and OPA is expected soon to do the same for beef, mutton and lamb. J The new veal prices ame only slightly higher than the average of present maximum prices, OPA said, and will not affect current re« tail margins to any material extent. Ultimately, it added, the new ceils ings ‘may benefit low Income families.
CRASH INJURIES FATAL DECATUR, March 31 (U. P.).~ Robert Hunt, 30, of Wapakoneta, O., died yesterday in the Adams county hospital of injuries suffered in a
headon collision with his truck and an automobile. Frederick Schinnerer, 39, Willshire, driver of the car, was in serious condition.
The fabric is substantial, enduring!
‘The workmanship is first class! The shirt is cut semi-form fitting aise ‘(men like it that way). : The collar is FUSED. . . it stays neat and unight
«+. (and comfortable) without the use of starch!
LONDON, March 31 (U.P reported
We shall repeat... what we said at the outset . A VERY good buy Pr ts