Speedway Flyer, Volume 12, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1944 — Page 4

CLASSIFIED ADS All ads for this column must be written out in full, on one side of the paper only. They should be mailed to us or brought in by ten o’clock, Wednesday mornings. Please do not telephone in your ads. Charges: The minimum rate for an ad here is 20c. For an ad with more than twenty-five words, the charge is 20c phis one cent a word beyond the minimum words. Payment must accompany each ad. Coin of stamps will be received. _ SPEEDWAY FELM SERVICE Roll developing, reprints, and enlarging. Bring or mail to 5440 Crawfordsville Road. « WANTED PAPER HANGING AND PAPERCLEANING. Work Guaranteed. MILLER 3545 W. Washington street. Belmont 3140-M. FOR SALE —Utility cabinet, metal, 6 shelf tall; set men’s golf clubs. 1839 Ellen Drive. Be. 3794. WANTED—A large size scooter. Call Be. 1310-W. FOR SALE —Boy’s green and gray tweed coat, cap to match, good condition, sanitoned cleaned, size 7, $5.00. Boy’s brown 2 piece Eton suit, 100 per cent wool flannel, just cleaned, in good condition. Size 7, $4.00. Call Be. 1030-W. LOST—Boy’s heavy blue wool sweater. Call Be. 1867, Mrs. Roberts. FOR SALE—MaIe Fox terrier puppies, $5.00 each. Call any evening after 6:00 p. m. 1628 Auburn street. ,

Personal Mrs. Winfield Wood 5032 W. 14th street Bel. 4995 Personal Mention Mr. and Mrs. Ora Gray and Mis ■ Saralie Perkins of Logansport spen : a few days with Mrs. Raymond Moore of 1665 Gerrard street. Mr. Moore is taking his boot training at Great Lakes. Mrs. Eva Larsh of Lebanon has been spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. George Anderson of 1628 Presto. Mrs. Anderson has been confined to her bed the past two weeks with the flu. Mrs. John G. Praed, 5209 West Sixteenth street, entertained with a surprise birthday party for her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who was eight years old on March 11th. The guests invited were eight schoolmates, Ann. Healy, Jo Etta West, Jody Pieper, Pamela Owings, Patsy Coughlin, Jackie Sue Laughlin, Sandra Jean Davis and Myla Jo Stage. Mrs. Praed was assisted by her daughters, Joan and Verna and Mrs. Edward Maisenbacher. Mrs. Esther Heuser who has been ill is very much improved. Robert Kent Smith of 5028 West Fourteenth street who has been indoors for a couple of weeks with measles, is able to be out now. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Russell of 1811 Fisher are the proud parents

mP <o W/e vi M ]

. THAT ANYBODY CAN BE 50 81/NDF ■ LETS SEE- ww will i blame \ h * INCREASED JUVENILE CRIME, ABSENTEEISM j ■HI AND MORAL BREAKDOWN ON— I I \. IN TODAYS ARTICLE? A I HOPE . TOESNT BLAME J BBk -prohibition v,,, ENDED TEN. AMmCMI

FDR ieufA: Payroll savings is Bfe;. •or greatest single I’/ factor in protecting I cnrselves against in- I flation.

of a baby boy born Monday morning at the Methodist hospital. Mr. Wayne Simmons of 1703 Norfolk was inducted into the armed forces last Saturday morning. Lt. (j. gJßichard W. Barnett, recently of Joleta, California, is visiting his aunts, Mrs. Clara Hockensmith and Mrs. Woodburn Masson at 4957 West Fifteenth street this week. Miss Margaret Byram, teacher of voice in Speedway has recently been elected to membership in Sigma Alpha lota, Women’s Professional music fraternity and has received an appointment as soprano soloist at the Irvington Presbyterian church. Mrs. Helen Thomas Martin is a newly elected member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers. Mrs. Allie Bowlin celebrated her 70th birthday Monday, March 13, f t 1925 North Lynhurst Drive, where she is making her home wth her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Deramore. She has two sons in service Pvt. Russell J. Bowlin in South Pacifc; Seaman first class, Donald O. Bowlin, stationed at Bunker Hill. Indiana. , She wishes to thank all her friends and neighbors and relatives for the beautiful greeting card shower and all the lovely gifts, and also for the covered dish dinner which thirty-five attended. , • The guests that attended included twin girls, Judith Ann Bowlin, tTnlia Elizabeth Bowlin, four months old, also Great Grand twins, Arthur Reed Jessup and Patty Jo Jessup. Mrs. Charles Bahne, Mrs. Leonard Mayhugh and son spent the week end in Princeton, Indiana. Mrs. Bahne vistited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Swarens and the Mayhughs, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Colvin.

Speedway Scores Again Ringing up the cash register and handling out stamps certainly must improve one’s muscle and skill. Mrs. Edith Zink displayed both strength and skill at the Speedway Bowl Thursday night, March 2nd, when she bowled a single game of 231. This was the high single game score at the Bowl for that night. Mrs. Zink also had a total score of 527. This was the highest total for the women scoring on that night. We on the paper’s staff wish to congratulate Edith for this. We must confess however, that our local postmistress certainly surprised us all. Carry on Mrs. Zink, and may you soon hit the Bowler’s Paradise —that perfect game! Portugal: N. African Climate Portugal, threshold of the Iberian peninsula, and next-door neighbor of Spain, is as much North African in climate as it is South European. Rolling and rugged country is characteristic, with a few wind-swept milehigh elevations. Gardens and vineyards distinguish the northern coastal regions. The midriff is the national fruit basket. To the south, the country is drier and less productive. Air Corps* Song Official song of Randolph Field, the West Point of the Air, is “Spirit of the Air Corps,” written and copyrighted in 1941 by Maj. James J. Clinch, A C.

The Sign Of POLK’S

Reserve Tanks Gasoline drop tanks which hold extra gasoline for fighters and bombers on long trips and which are dropped when empty are rendered leakproof by slushing 30 gallons of a special zinc chromate primer paint in the interior of each tank by means of a rotating machine as a first step in making them leakproof. The surplus paint then is drained out and the exterior of the tank thoroughly cleaned with a hot cleaning compound before being passed through a drying oven. Next, without leaving a conveyor, the tanks pass through paint spray booths where two primer coats and a camouflage coat of paint are applied to the exterior. A girl puts on decalcomania markings and a final special protective coating is then sprayed on as a finish coat before the tanks are sent to the shipping room for crating and shipping. Mark Hanna Marcus A Hanna, born in 1837 at New Lisbon, Ohio, became one of the most colorful political leaders of his time. As chairman of the Republican national committee in 1896, he conducted the presidential campaign for William McKinley, and later for Theodore Roosevelt. Hanna, as head of the M. A. Hanna company, operating a steamship and coal business out of Cleveland, Ohio, pioneered the use of steel-hulled steamships on the Great Lakes. In 1897 Hanna was appointed U. S. senator to succeed John Sherman. He was elected in 1898, and again in 1904, the year of his death. Hanna also was president of the Union National Bank of Cleveland and the Cleveland City Railway company. Soften Water If the water is hard, you’ll get more cleaning power from soap if you soften it with some chemical as washing soda or trisodium phosphate. The army’s mobile field laundries—the units that go right up to the front lines to wash the soldier’s clothing—use a special soap that will clean clothes in any kind of water. Of course these field laundries have to use any water they can get, so a special soap is necessary. But for home use it is more economical to soften the water. Be sure that the softener is completely dissolved and evenly distributed throughout the water before clothes are added for washing.

Bleaching Beeswax Bleaching beeswax to white wax is accomplished either by repeated melting in water or by exposure to sunlight or by the application of mild oxidizing agents. This material is pure white or slightly yellow in color, and odorless and tasteless. Its specific gravity is slightly higher than yellow wax and it is more brittle than the latter. Beeswax is not greasy when touched by the hand. In its molten state, however, if dropped on paper it causes a permanent transparent spot. Commercial grades of beeswax always contain small amounts of plant pollen. j Change Camouflage i Army and navy painters charged with the responsibility of maintaining the equipment of the armed forces as inconspicuous to the enemy as possible have a busy time ' keeping up with the changing phases of nature, both in regard to the seasons in fixed locations and in encountering the rapid changes in terrain which are found with amazing rapidity in the world-wide transport which is necessary in the present war. There is no color or condition of the earth’s surface on land or sea, which the modern camouflage painter may not have to do his best to match, and then perhaps change the color scheme the next day to match a different natural background. Butter Defects Although objectionable flavors are mostly noticeable in eating butter, defects in body and structure also are objectionable and hurt the appearance of the butter. These defects are weak, greasy, salvy, crumbly, and mealy bodied butter. Some of the causes of these faults are inadequate cooling of cream and excessive working of butter; working excessively while soft, too high churning temperature, or allowing the butter to get warm before working; overworking while the butter is firm, especially if worked without water; and churning sour cream which has been held at high temperature. U. S. Uses OU Resources Far in advance of other nations in adapting its civilization to the internal combustion engine, the United States has already cashed nearly three-fifths of the tremendous petroleum wealth so far charted in underground pools. About 27,000 million of 47,000 million barrels charted have been brought to the surface. Diametrically different is the position of Russia, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrein and Saudi Arabia, where production to date has been comparatively little and new discoveries are pyramiding the known reserves.

Early Explorer Leif Ericson was born in Iceland in the Tenth century. A son of Erik the Red, who was a son of one of the original settlers of Iceland and the discoverer of Ericson spent the summer of 999 in Norway studying at the court of King Olaf Tryggvason where he was converted to Christianity. On commission of the king, he returned home to Greenland and the following summer to preach the Christian faith. En route he was blown off his course and sighted land in a new region. Because of the grapevines he saw he called the new country Finland. From descriptions of the journey and observations recorded, historians believe this country to have been New England or Nova Scotia, and as a result Leif Ericson is considered by many to have been the real discoverer of America. A few years later expeditions left Greenland to explore the new land and make settlements, but they were forced to leave after three years because of attacks from what are believed now to have been Indians. .

VICTORY GARDENS Always young, fresh and tendqr♦nat’s the record of the lettuce bed in victory gardens where small, frequent plantings are made from early spring to last fall. The first planting of leaf or head lettuce may be made much earlier than most gardeners ordinarily make it. And by planting only small beds or short rows of leaf lettuce at one time, the lettuce may be used while it has the highest quality. A small lettuce bed placed along one side of the garden or near the home will not interfere with other garden operations. A bed three feet wide by six feet long may be spaded now and permitted to stand for a few days. If the soil is wet at the time of spading, it should be allowed to freeze. Then when the top dries level, the seed may be broadcast or planted in close rows. A small portion of the bed may be seeded to head lettuce for transplanting later. Grand Rapids and Black Seeded Simpson are varieties of leaf lettuce that will be ready for use in 4 to 45 days’ time. Head lettuce that requires more attention and time to mature and contains fewer vitamins than leaf lettuce. Bibb, Mignonette, and New York Improved are the better varieties of head lettuce for Hendricks County, for early spring or late fall planting. It takes head lettuce about 70 days to mature after seeding.

MAKE YOUR PREPARATIONS FOR CANNING NOW Next summer—when canning season arrives, there ought to be a suitable storage place waiting for each jar of canned fruit, vegetables, pickles, preserves, jams and jellies. Now—during the weeks when out-door work is less and outdoor activities are limited—is the time to prepare new or reorganize old storage space, believes Mrs. Pauline Helton, Emergency War Food Assistant. (Or according to information released by the Hendricks County agricultural extension office.) Canned foods should be stored m a cool, clean, dry, dark, frostproof place. Shelves need to be substantial and well-braced to hold up their valuable load. The amount of space needed depends upon the number of jars of food to be stored and whether some fresh foods may be stored in the same location. Two things are important in planning the shelf space for jars of canned food. Wall space should not be wasted by placing shelves too far apart, and shelves should not be too deep. In estimating distance between shelves, add 2 inches to the height of such small containers as pint or quart jars. Heavier containers can be lifted more easily if 8 inches is added to tfife height of the container. Wben width of shelves is planned, it is well to remember that jars on the back rows of wide shelves are difficult to reach. The most convenient shelves are those that hold only two or three rows of jars. Countless steps may be saved for the homemaker all year around if rhe also plans a temporary canned food storage space near the kitchen. It need not be large—just space to hold a few extra quarts of fruits and vegetables that will be used soon. This same space may also hole! clean, empty jars until they are returned to their regular storage space. More information on planning and building storage space for canned foods is contained in the leaflet, “Home Storage of Canned Fruits and Vegetables,” available from county agricultural extension, offices or from department of agricultural extension, Purdue University- , . Start early to remove moles from land to be planted to victory gardens, advises Harold J. Yarling, Hendricks County agricultural agent. Fumigants and repellent substances prove most effective for this purpose. Moles are active during winter months in small systems of runways fairly deep in the ground. Their nests are made under the roots of trees, large stones, sidewalks or roadways. The produce litters of two to four young during the early spring. At the first sign of warm spring

weather, moles move upward to burrow within a few inches of the ground surface. Once established in surface runways in gardens, it is difficult to remove them. Calcium cyanide powder is fairly effective in destroying moles when the powder is forced into the.r runways with garden duster during the period that moles use their deep, winter systems. Their burrows may be located by the mounds of dirt they push up during the fall, winter, and early spring months. Repellent materials will keep moles out of the garden fairly well when applied as soil barriers at the edge of garden plots before the land • is plowed and planted. The repel- i ?ents may be applied in a shallow trench made with a hoe, or directly on the ground. To be effective treatments must be made at fre ouent intervals. The best substances to apply are those with a lingering odor, such as naphthalene and creosote. Buying seed from reliable dealers and knowing the different varieties will help to insure success in the victory garden, says HaroldJ. Yarling, Hendricks County agricultural agent. The large number of varieties of vegetable seeds offered by seedsmen and shown in the catalogs may at times confuse ♦he amateur gardener. Some of these are adapted to Indiana conditions, and some are not. Suggestions from neighbors and commercial vegetable growers, rlong with a study of the seed catalog, will help in selecting the best varieties to plant. Many gardeners grow from 10 to 12 different vegetables. Those with larger gardens often have as many as 25 to 30, with two or three varieties of some vegetables. Some seedsmen may list an old variety under a new name and play it up in order to sell seed. W. B. Ward, garden specialist at Purdue University, advises the home gardener to limit his selection to one, or in some cases two, varieties of each vegetable, A suggested list of varieties includes: green or snap beans, tendergreen, stringless green pod; bush limabeans; Baby potato, Fordhook; beets—Detroit dark red; Cabbage— Garden acre (resistant strain); carrots—Chantenay, Imperator; cornGolden Cross Bantam; leaf lettuceGradn Rapids; peas—Laxtonian Alaska, radishes—Scarlet Globe, Icicle; spinach—Bloomsdale, Nobel; Swiss chard —Lucullus; and tomatoes—Pritchard, Bonny Best, early varieties that should be staked. Indiana Baltimore is a good later ma-

Leadership MILK

Speedway Theatre SPEEDWAY CITY Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 16-17*18 ' ‘SOULS AT SEA’ with GARY COOPER and GEORGE RAFT and ‘Gildersleeve on Broadway’ with HAROLD PERRY and BILLIE BURKE Sunday and Monday, March 19-20 ‘TRUE TO UFE’ with MARY MARTIN and FRANCHOT TONE 7 ■ and ‘TORNADO’ with CHESTER MORRIS and NANCY KELLY Tuesday and Wednesday, March 21-22 ‘CROSS OF LORRAINE’ with PIERRE ANMONT and GENE KELLY z and ‘GIRLS ON PROBATION’ with JANE BRYAN and RONALD REAGAN

FACTORY RADIO SERVICE On all makes of radios. Our seventeen yearsof experience qualifies us to give prompt and efficient service* RADIO BILL 3050 West 16th Street Behnont24B4

Diamonds Watches ♦ Robert L. Stout Jeweler EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING WE ARE AGENTS FOR RAMOS-PORTER PHOTOGRAPHERS, PHONE US FOR APPOINTMENTS 4907 West 14th Street Belmont 0446

INDIANA MAKES GOOD SHOWING IN FATS COLLECTION Responding in a fine way to the urgent plea for used household fats, Indiana women saved and turned in 404,468 pounds during the month of January. This was a gain of 165,484 pounds over the month of December. The quota for Indiana is 414,000 pounds per month. The January collection was 97.7 per cent of that quota. War Production Board officials and salvage workers are exceptionally well pleased at this fine response. Clarence A. Jackson, State Salvage Chairman, and Frank G. Thompson, WPB Executive Secretary, join in urging every household in the state to do even a better job in months to come. Indiana should exceed its quota, and can do it if every citizen will do his or her part. There should not be one ounce of used household fats wasted since it is badly needed to help win the war and save the lives of our fighting men.

RALSTON’S GROCERY Groceries—Meats 5230 W. 16th St ICE CREAM Res* Phone Bel. 4815

>lo* oFmeoMS IS OUR QUOTA M WAI BONDS