The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 June 1945 — Page 4

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THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1945.

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GOOD YIELDS SEEN Hoosier farmers are expected to pi-xluce above average yields of winter wheat, rye, oats, and barley during the coming season, accord,ng to the monthly crop report, as of June 1. released today by the Purdue University Department of Agricultural Statistics in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agri-

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The biggest increase was forecast for w.nter wheat, with a | pr Meted production of 35,OSS,000 bushels which is 133 per cent of last year and 128 per cent of the ten year average i from 1034 to 1043. Authough I this year’s acreage is 125 per cent of last year, a substantial part of the production increase

is provided by the fact that the indicated yield is 21.5 bushels per acre, which is 4.4 bushels per acre higher than average. It was reported that prospects appear slightly better in the northern two-thirds of the state than

in the southern third.

Rye production was forecast at 1,820,000 bushels, with 130,CCO acres expected to yield 14 bushels per acre, which is about ten per cent higher than average intended for planting In March indicating a production of 48,840,CQ0 bushels, which is 124 per cent of average. It was pointed out that about half of the oats gain was du e to increased acreage and about half to the prospective yield and that subnormal temperatures in May

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AT REGULAR INTERVALS, Marine Pfc. Gilbert E. Bailey of Huntington, W. Va., shovels the Okinawa mud from the tracks of his "cat” in order to maintain a snail’s pace along the roads of that Ryukyu ^land. This Is an official U. S. Marine Corps photo. (International) ANNAPOLIS HONOR COUPLE "WEDS

were even more favorable fo•jats than other small grains. Barley production, was estimated I at 1,058,000 bushels, which is 1 about 103 per cent of average. | Hay condition, although 8 or 0 i points below last year, was st 11 8 or 9 points above the ten | year average. While moisture has been ample, hay growth was limited by subnormal temperatures. Peach' s, with an indicated production of 570,000 bushels promise n.-re than tw,ce ,u average crop, but apples in commercial counties w;re reported only 51 per cent of nor mal, and pears at only 43 pci cent of average. Although May egg production was 1,800 eggs per 1,00 hens a, compared with 1,851 last y ir total production dropped fro ,, 237 m.llion last year t*i 230 mil lion due to the reduced nunibn of layers. Egg production fi m January through 'May was reported at 1,027 million eggs tlv. yaar, as compared with 1,112 million eggs last year. Although Hoosier hatchery production ,ii chicks during May was 44 p, cent above last year, young chickens per farm were reported to have dropped to 98 per cent of last year.

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CPL. IRVING YABLONSKY of the Bronx shows the penknife, with which he performed a battlefield operation, to Cadet Nurse Thelma King, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ( at the Thomas M. England General hospital in Atlantic City. Yablonsky is recovering from severe machinegun wounds received in the “Battle of the Bulge.” The penknife surgery was performed In the Ardennes battle, when he used the knife to enlarge a bad chest wound suffered by a GI. In this manner, he found a severed blood vessel, through which the man’s life was oozing away, and clamped It with a pair of forceps. The corporal was a pharmacist in civilian life. (International) ‘AND SO THEY WERE WED-”

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“IT’S A PLEASURE!

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in. i "Us than ever in her first Technicolor in 1 in which Michael O’Shea plays her Mils through to happiness in spite of tld Magnificent ice ballets and a stui tit International's current production.

ENSIGN ELDON KNAPE, winning company commander at Annapolis for the class of 1946, is shown above leaving St. John’s Lutheran church at Napoleon, O., with his bride, the former Miss Lillian Cordes, who presided as "Color Girl” at the Naval academy's June Week festivities. (International)

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ANOTHER big Nazi fish in the Allied net Is Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher of the Nazi party, tested champion of Hitler’s doctrine and famed as the man who conducted the book purge of 1939. He was taken into custody by the British at Flensburg. His wife wore slacks and brass knuckles •vhen taken. (International)

AT THE VONCASTLE For her f rst straight dramatic role in M-G-M’s “Tha Clock," which op ns Saturday midnight at the Voncastle Theatre, Judy

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Garland goes bnin.tteJ t.h Tecimicalar "Wiiani I ill young star has bui; iv, I hair. 3ow she retL own natural color. In keeping with her of a young New Yori girl, Judy wears her; shorl bub. A Mtr ! M iver hair stylish ; curls to a three-tahj.' port I just off ceate ed m soft waves.

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SAMPLING THE WEDDING CAKE, following ceremonies at Racine, Wls., which united the two, are 101-year-old Augustus Cooper and his 62-year-old bride, the former Mrs. Julia Westpatet. This is the groom's third and the bride’s second marriage. (International)

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THE BUSY, typically American little city of Independence, Mo., will play a new role in American history—as the summer capital of the United States when I’resident Truman returns to this, his home ^ town, for a brief rest. He again will worship in the Trinity Episco-

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pal church where his friend, the Rev. H. B. Wlilteftead, is pastor. Other old friends of the president are Mayor Roger Sermon who is also a grocer and Barber J. J. Major who hopes to keep the piosidential locks well trimmed during Truman's stay. (IntHnational)

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DIANNA DURBIN, whose first marriage ^J^quietV pomp and ceremony of a royal union, s PP feWj Vegas, Nev., and married her 43-year-old j 1 cere® 1 **. The couple, shown above Immediately foU° w “* w iUM sf ^ Little Church of the West, Hotel Last Fron '‘ jack**'! moon, but refuse announcement of where or ' yjd tin' of Germany, but now a naturalized citizen, ^ u old movie star’s career from chubby ‘.pqajJS*"

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