Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1946 — Page 18
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- {WILLIS WILL OPEN OFFICE HERE MAY 6 Senator Raymond Willis (R. Ind.) said today he would open campaign | offices here May 6. Mr, Willis said he would move ‘his headquarters from Angola at that time, Irvin King, former Steuben county chairman, will be in charge with = William Murray, serving as his assistant. Mr. Willis, a candidate for renomination, said - the “urgency of national affairs in Washington will prevent my being in Indiana as much as I would like.” .
Poi,’ Hawaiians’
‘By KEYES BEECH Times Special Writer "HONOLULU, Miy 3.~Pol, the disappearing from the market places. Since poi is to the Hawalian what rice ‘is to the Oriental, the effect on the ‘original inhabitants of these islands is approximately the same as would result if Irish potatoes were eliminated from the American family table. The reasons for the scarcity of poi are familiar, all of them add-
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TH HE . INDIANAPOLIS TiMES
Staff of Life, 1s Disappearing From Markets
native Hawaiians’ staff of life, is|°
(ing up to the point that there is no longer profit in pol. Growers of taro, a’ potato-like plant from. which poi is made, hive found it more profitable to go to work for the army or navy. Besides, they never made much money growing taro anyhow. - The factory owners say they could pay more for taro if the OPA would only let them charge more for pol. Meanwhile, the supply is getting scarcer and the lines
the poi markets are getting longer. To the average American palaté, pol tastes . something . like. library paste and has about the same consistency. Most people don’t like it, although it's a rare visitor to these islands who isn't bulldozed inte sampling some. Pol ‘is eaten with the fingers. Poi critics say the effect of eating it may be achieved by dipping one’s finger into the nearest paste pot and slurping it—the finger—clean.
produced in the Un 1896, when King their first cars, there were a total of 16 cars registered in this country, now there are nearly 30,000,000.
Poi-lovers dlaim that poi, aside from its nourishing qualities, ‘good for - hangovers. they had rather suffer. Copyright, 1946; by The Indianapolis Timestby Robert W. Lidington of: Roches-
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90,000,000 CARS MADE
’ WASHINGTON--In 50 years over 90,000,000 cars and es have been
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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1946 OHIO INVENTOR AIDS NEEDY STUDENTS |
COLUMBUS, O. (U. P).~The total income from a patent recently issued on a safety. device invented
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about all. That's' a day's food for an adult. .° és Isn't. very much, is it? But they can buy 62 grams (a vound is 500 grams) of butter a week, Babies {get milk, some sugar and oatmeal until their third birthday—none after that. Greatest Lack Is Fats Adults get 24 pounds of potatoes a month when there are any, cheese when it shows up, which is seldom, beans (two pourids a month) when they come on the market. But they've got to cut the bread ration to get them, Mother Johanna's greatest lack,
she thinks, is fats. without it she cannot make the
J Mr. Bell marks for clothing and Ne Neither is available, so the Klingensteins haven't a money problem. And some day, if and when the nation gets a gowernment, Johanna
will get/the insurance (she has © great faith in American military
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cooks beans, a potato and there's bread and coffee for the week-day meals. The meat (each person gets 800 grams, less than two pounds, per month) is saved for the Sunday
The problem is food. This 1250 calories a day means a piece of mea’ about the size of a small biscuit, two slices of bread, half a cup of beans, a cup or two
dinner. That means two. slices of bread,
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Inelore’s, meal. Furthermore she likes the work ‘and says, “The American army has {taught us that when they tell us to} be there at 8:30 they mean 9 o'clock.” But Rudolf fs most iappy.L : after two years in a- prison camp | - |riear Dallas where food was plenti- | ful. “I've been hungry “ever since 1| |came- home,” he says—and looks it.|
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