Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1944 — Page 8

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VICTORY GARDEN— Fine, Loose Soil Gives Best

~ Onion Yield, Expert Assérts |

Quality, texture of soil is important in cultivating onions, » - ”

By HENRY L. PREE ® ne NEA Staff Writer The onion is one of the hardiest of vegetables. In the south, it is as a winter crop. In the north, seeds are sown or “sets”

planted as early as possible in spring. Ground should be prepared soil must be fine and loose, as seeds

grown largely

well in advance of sowing. The are small and germination is slow. demands a rich soil.

LIBRARY GIVES GARDENING AID

Many Booklets Offered to. Help Vegetable Growers Here.

Indianapolis victory gardeners, having learned how to handle the hoe last year, can arm themselves with the public library's garden booklets and settle down.to some scientific farming this season. A pocket-size garden booklet, “Garden for Victory 1944,” has been prepared by the library staff to suggest books and pamphlets which will aid the production of superior fruits and vegetables. Some of the suggested reading for the amateur gardener is; “Vegetable Gardening in Color,” by Daniel J. Foley, which has eye appeal as well as information; “Home Vegetable Gardening,” by Charles H. Nissley, a pocket book of the best advice; “Twenty-Five Vegetables Anyone Can Grow,” by Ann Roe Robbins, worthwhile information; “The Vegetable Encyclopedia and Gardener's Guide,” by Victor A. Tiedjen, a reference book full of the latest garden data.

Technical Guide Offered

For the experienced gardener the booklet suggests “Vegetable Growing” by James Edward Knott and Ralph L. and &ilbert S. Watt's complete technical guide for the commercial grower or professional gardener. } Also available for victory gardeners are pamphlets from the department of agriculture, Purdue university, the University of Illinois and other reliable sources, all of which deal with the problems of vegetable gardening or fruit growing in this community. - The booklet and the suggested reading. materials are available at the central library or any of the 21 branches... The lists are also ~ being distributed to garden clubs, community centers and seed stores for the convenience of gardeners, -

CANDIDATES ASKED

Cultivation must be practiced to keep down weeds.

STATE RIVERS’ FLOW

4. the largest sets for green onions and plant them two inches deep.

The onion is a heavy feeder and

A mucky, but well drained soil is preferred, but onions will yield a splendid ‘harvest in a sandy soil, well supplied with organic matter and lime; onions like a sweet } soil. d Seed may be sown even before the danger of late frost has passed, in rows i, 12 to 15 inches apart. Sow onehalf inch deep and cover with fine soil. A side aressing with a fertilizer strong in nitrogen, or with nitrate of soda, plus an abundance of moisture, will insure onions of good size in approximately 120 days. Be sure to stamp the soil over the seeds immediately after sowing. Scant sowing will reduce much labor of thinning. Onions should stand two inches apart in the rows. The average yield per 50 feet of row is about three-fourths of a bushel. Most gardeners, because they cannot get seed into the ground in early spring, resort to onion sets. These are merely ordinary onions whose growth has been arrested and, when planted, will resume growth. Be sure to purchase small and firm sets, with the largest about one-half inch in diameter. If they are larger than this, they tend to run to seed rather than to develop into good bulbs. Plant larger sets, 12 inches apart and two to three inches below the surface and use for green onions or scallions. Plant the smaller sets just below the surface, three to four inches apart. Be sure to firm the soil well about each bulblet, water immediately, and add additional fine soil to insure complete coverage. Sets may be planted with the earliest crops and successive plantings are made as long as they are firm and plump. Green onions are ready in less than a month, and mature bulbs in about 100 days. - . March 13, 1944.

IS BELOW NORMAL

Despite almost normal rainfall in

TO ATTEND MEETING

Republican and Democrat candidates have been invited to attend the Washington Township Republicen club meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at the club home, 51st and College ave. Mayor Tyndall and Atty. Gen. James A. Emmert will speak. A social hour will follow. George W. Eggleston is president and Mrs. Mary L. Wyatt secretary of the club.

DRILL TEAM TO MEET

Victory Drill team of lodge 901, auxiliary to the Brotherhood of several counties were reported. Railroad Trainmen, will practice to-| Moderate rains in the latter part night at Castle hall. The lodge will of the month caused some rise but sponsor a card party Thursday aft-|the increased flow was not as great ernoon at the Citizens Gas & Coke as expected for part of the runoff

utility.

[a report released today by the U. |® geological survey. |gauging stations revealed that the {average of the east fork of White {river at Shoals was 25 per cent of |normal, while that of St. Mary's [river near Ft. Wayne, was 49 per |cent .of normal. ’

{ing the first three weeks of the

February, the flow in state rivers;

and streams was only from 25 to 50 per cent of normal, according to

Stream flow records taken at key

Water levels in the southern part of the state were at low stages dur-

month and shortages of water in

INAPLES BLACK

MARKET GROWS

Citizens Blame Italians but ~ Expect Allies to Halt

Practice.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent NAPLES, March 13.—After five and one-half months of allied occupation, the Neapolitan black market not only shows no signs of losing its grip, but in many respects is worse than it ever has been before and is undoubtedly causing more hardship among the population than before. A survey, just: concluded, shéws that prices are uniformly higher than in the past, due to gradual depletion of accumulated stocks, and that virtually all foods excepting the daily bread ration, have to be obtained at prices dictated by the black market. Those prices bear no relation whatsoever to those officially established by the allied military government, an outstanding example being flour which is supposed to cest 1000 lire per metric ton and actually sells on the black market for 18,000 lire,

Olive Oil Expensive

The daily bread ration remains at 200 grams (seven ounces)—jinsufficient for anybody but an aged invalid—and® there has only been one issue of olive oil to part of the population. As olive oil is a staple of the Italian diet and no other fats are available officially, Neapolitans are forced to buy it on the black market at 380 lire per litre, a price few honest people can afford. This is 100 lire more than it cost at Christmas time and reflects the tendency of black market prices to increase. Inability of our authorities to break the black market becomes an increasingly serious matter as time goes on. A short period of high prices and acute shortage was inevitable and the people could tide themselves over by digging into their savings or selling possessions. After - 5% months, “however, the people have used up their cash reserves and those who are honest are forced to demand higher incomes in order to live.

Causes Inflation

This inevitably has caused inflation, and inflation, as every schoolboy knows, is a snowball. We can dissolve this snowball only by providing enough staples at ‘low fixed prices to keep the people's stomachs full, or at least prevent them from going empty. While the political consequences of the food shortage cannot in any way be described as serious, it is clear that the population is not pleased by the situation. They properly blame their own Italian black market operators for many of their woes but equally properly expect us to do something to stop the racket. In the estimation of most observers, including many high-rank-ing officers, it is time that drastic steps were taken. Charles Poletti, head of the allied military government in this region, is the man who | will have to initiate the action but an adequate and permanent solution of the problem can only be

in Washington and London really apply themselves to it.

GROTTO UNIT LUNCH SET

The ways and means committee of Sahara Grotto auxiliary will hold a pitch-in luncheon tomorrow at the Grotto home, 4107 E. Washington st. Mrs. Marie Manker is chairman.

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0. E. S. UNIT TO INITIATE Irvington chapter 364, O. E. S., will hold an initiation ceremony at 8 p. m. today at the Irvington Masonic temple. Mrs. Charlotte Hasbrook, worthy matron, and Edgar

| carried over into this month.

Rennoe, worthy patron, will preside.

achieved if the highest authorities |

= If Victory Gardeners

armed forces and allies in 1944.

THE IN DIAN ; APOLIS | IMES __ - : eekly Garden Almanac : By A. A. IRWIN: He ies produced 40 per cent of the vegetables last year, they have a greater responsibility this year as a much per cent of our commercially produced vegetables will be going

Weather permitting, the first seeding of spinach, onions, lettuce, radishes, kale, and the large planting of peas for canning should be made in the garden this week. These are cool weather crops and will do best when planted early in order that they will mature before the hot, dry weather arrives.

speeding up their growth with application of fertilizer

and fertilizer is enough protection, :

"If you are including a new planting of small fruit—strawberries, grapes, raspberries, currants and gooseberries—in your garden, the plants should be set out as soon now as the soil can be prepared.

Keep the roots of any nursery stock moist from the time you receive it until it is set in the ground. Small fruits do best on a soil high in organic matter and they are benefited by an application of fertilizer, v

Get in ahead of the aphids or so-called plant lice by treating cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and caulifiower at transplanting time. Killing the aphids on the young plants often eliminates the necessity of spraying for these insects in the garden. 7

Dip the plants in a solution of one cubic inch of soap, one gallon of water and 1% of 40 per cent nicotine sulphate. Each bunch of plants should be

- dipped just before they are set

in the garden.

It is time for the spring cleanup—remove ail rubbish and diseased vegetation from the garden, cut dead wood out of shrubbery, and clean off flower beds and lawn.

By Science Service NEW YORK, March 13. — “Till death do us part” is five years farther away for the average couple getting married today than it was for those marrying 20 years ago, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians here figure, A bridegroom 25 years old and a

bride of the same age, the statisticians find, may expect to live together 37 years on the average, according to mortality conditions in the whité& population of the United States in 1939-41. 3 Husbands and wives who are both 40 years old can look forward to 25

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plants are winter hibernatplaces for insects and diseases. Burn any old vegetation that you know was diseased last year.

Married Life Grows Longer; Five Years Are Gained in 20

more years of married life, on the average. TT jovi ’ “Even at age 65, when the husband is ready for retirement, he may expect to share the next eight and one-half years with his wife if she is of the same age,” the report states. i The length of married life is affected by any difference in age between husband and wife. The joint expectation of life is appreciably less than that for either of the individual lives, This is in accordance with the principle that the probability of either one of two individuals surviving from one given age to another is the greater than the probability of both so surviving.

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Calfiornia Boom Town; Members Elected.

: By NEA Service MARIN CITY, Cal, March 13.— Breaking light bulbs and losing 1ibrary books are, so far, the most serious juvenile crimes in this hous ing development for war workers, That no more serious breaches of conduct have occurred is due chiefly to the junior council : Teen-agers of the city that mushroomed in a valley of Marin county, on San Francisco bay, number about 300 of the 5000 population. Many of them work in the shipyards, others go to School. Their behavior is judged by a jury of their peers. The Marin City junior council is a brain-child of Mrs. Martha Roberts of New York. A former social worker, she became interested in problems of young people in the thriving new city when her husband came to California to work in the shipyards. Marin City’s senior council already was keeping an eye on the younger generation, realizing that here is a heterogeneous group with no roots in community life, a group which easily could get out of

hand. Hate to Lose Face

So young people were provided with recreation hall and gym, li brary and social rooms in the general community center. But they were careless with athletic equipment, showed too little respect for property rights. Concluding that the best way to control this tendency was to let the teeners do it themselves, Mrs. Roberts and Lloyd Messersmith, recreation director, outlined plans for the junior council. The youngsters loved it. They campaigned as vigorously as do their elders, and finally on election day selected 10 of the candidates for the council, which, in turn, named its officers. Mayor is pretty 19-year-old Joyce Palmer, who works with her dad as a painter in the Oakland shipbuilding yards of Sausalito, Carl Dugan, coppersmith’s helper at Marinship’'s pipe shop, was

Despite

For one reason, larger number of young chickens will keep up egg production.: Shrader says: “For instance, in January we had

cent more eggs from only 4 per cent more hens because instead of old hens sitting around trying a to make up their minds, we ‘had young chickens in “there them out.” ~ Far m ers’ indicate

plans that about 2 per cent more

Miss Stevick 1043 Commercial broiler production is being cut 16 per cent according to purchasing reports, which follows out the program. announced earlier,

Hotel Room Rationing You will have to have a cone firmed reservation in order to be

assured of a hotel in congested areas if a plan worked out by

That means you will have to signify that you are on essential

named chief of police, and blond Dorothy Williams, a scaler, is police matron. Several captains bf police

keep order. in the city, and are on{

duty at the Friday night dances. Offenders are prosecuted by

Beryl Axtell, district attorney and sheet metal worker, and defended by Donald Roser, student at Tamal-

pais high school. Defendants may |M

be their own attorneys if they wish. “I think our work should be preventive, chiefly,” says the serious young lady mayor. “No teener wants the stigma of having to appear before the council, or lose face in the eyes of his own friends.” The council meets one evening a week, has drawn up its own bylaws, and has a representative on the senior council.

Reduction in Flocks

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WASHINGTON HIGH ANNUAL STAFF NAMED

editor. Mrs. Dorothy Reese is faculty Walter Leckrone, editor of The

Times, will speak on “The of the News” at the 2 Meaning

luncheon Wednesday at the

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