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Sweetwater Reporter
BUT IT IN 0WEBTWATBB
"Want Tans’ Leading Newspaper”
DEDICATED TO 8ERYICE
*47 th Year
Sweetwater, Texas, Friday, March 31, 1944
No. 76
garden Can Your Garden garden
By LUTHER Al. WATHON President Texas Press Ass'll.
(From Texas Press Messenger)
Frequently, someone asks the i|ues(ion—what eontrihution
ran newspapers make to the war effort outside of giving gener-
ously of their spuee to salvage drives, war bond sales, war relief,
agency drives, and many other campaigns?
Newspapers, hath daily and weekly publications, in Texas are
accorded an excellent opportunity to uid in the drive to increase
the production of food.
There will be contests in many of the communities through-
out the nation ill the victory garden program. In most cases,
awards will he made to the individual having the best garden.
That, of course, will encourage ncreased food production—blit
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REDS SWIFTLY DRIVING FOR CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS
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Assault On Philippines Outpost Still May Be In Progress
TIDDIM HAS
to GIVEN
UP BY ALLIES
NEW DELHI, India — (UP)
In India’s Manipur State, .lap
jungle troops have slashed .'so
lilies across the frontier from
Kurina to cut the main highway
linking Imphal and Kuhima. Al-
lied communique rc|*>rt today
the Japs are closing In for a ma-
jor assault on the twin British
alcongholds.
The Jap Invaders have fought
their way to within triking dis-
tance of Kohima from three di-
rections. Two advance enemy I
units i ni the Implial-Kohlma i
l^thway south of Kohima. The I
main attacking force is driving
on the British iwse from the1
east.
Slmulluncou<Jy another (
Jap column lias driven
• «l!-« V.'ji Indl i from T-
This enemy force Is only 20
miles soul liras) of Impliul.
General Sir Claude Aucliin-
leck, Cominandcr-In-Chlef In In-
•da. reported to the New Delhi
Assembly that the Japs had
reached the main British de-
fenses. And he says stiff fight-
SURPRISE
CHICAGO — (UP) —“Big
Hill'' Thompson, Chlcago"s
prohibition-era mayor, al-
ways could lie counted upon
to do the dramatic in life.
And now, almost two
weeks after his death, a
startling postscript lias been
added.
Attorneys and authorities
have unearthed two safety
deposit lioxe.s containing
more than $I,500,0(k» in cash.
Thompson did not leave a
will, so the new-found for-
tune automatically will go
to Ids wife, Mrs. Manic
Thompson, from whom lie
was separated.
Wticn informed of the for-
tune, Mr.-. Thompson faint-
ed.
RAYBURN,
BARD HINT
AT NEW SETUP
m:v. YORK 'i l’i \ -m
am Navy Secretary Ualpli Bard
lias dropped a strong hint that
the ridled State- may lake |ier !
JAPS FLEE AS
FLEET NEARS
PALAU ISLES
BRITISH LEAVE 96
PLANES BEHIND
IN RECORD LOSS
Id MIL 11A ItiiOlt
poW'flu! American
<l pi
naval
lorci Is, attacked lap ba-c on
the Palau "tslands the outer
dcfoii *of the Philippine*.
Tin a—aull -lill may lie und
erwa; We have had ia> word
since Admiral Nltnilz announced
la.-t night tliut the attacks were
helm: arried out. Our navy for-
ces in their dce|ie-t penetra-
tion of Japanese water — must
maintain radio silence for their |
LONDON (UP) I he Brit-
ish Air Force lost '.Hi bombers
< la.-t night during attacks on
A | Nuremberg and other target in
ta-k j Western Germany. That a rec-
ord loss.
The liriti*h raiders took to the
air in bright moonlight, and ran
into tiic greatest concentration
of German night fighters ever
assembled shortly after they left
England.
Ml during the I loo mile round-
trip to and from Nuremberg, the
wild ky battle whirled And I The citv quota w
from below, concentrations of ppo. in the face
Red Cross RAPIDITY OF
City Fund ADVANCE
$20,532
PANICS AXIS
Sweetwater Red Cross war
fund ha.- reached an all time
peak in contributions. J. D. Hoi
brook city drive chairman, mad.
public today in announcing a
total of S20.a32.oti.
“The drive has n
Sweetwater,” said II
i* still receiving <■
MINI It A LA NT—Obviously tin wmclcil lit tin- nrtlcal eonfi'init-
iitlt her, .Pamir Mill -1 > 11 \ .liiblli'g. i- plctiircil m»i bclnrc taking
lie witm-- -land ill the lauici-gali Icliil being In-Id in \<w
York. (NBA Tcleplioln.)
°7l,.' America,, warship, tart-j';Vnna" »irc«ift gun
'•d their assault on Palau—-mine i
one • thousand miles west of;
Truk — at dawn Wednesday, i
The Navy once more dared the I
1 lap navy to eutne out and fight. I
: Hut the Japs refused again. In j
tact, lap ships fieri the island
a- i "ii as then: scout plane.*
j I la.-1ied the warning that the Am-,
j ej'lian fleet wa- .-teaming t«>! < I -
j ty loward their xtron
ing ha. been under way" for Tito! P" - ,i,,n of so.ne of I
)Niot two days. Hut General |£c i lhe (Paclf
iuchinleck says the Allies have
no intention id letting Imphal
fall Into enemy hands.
General Auchinlcck reveals
that the Allies have abandoned
Tiddim. -lo miles south of the In-
^an frontier and about 15 miles
nehlnd the northbound Japs.
In the Mogautig valley of
Northern Burma, heavy fighting
continues. That's where Gen-
eral Slllwell's American and Chi-
nose troops arc pressing the
remnants of two Jap liattalioiis
into a four-mile -qunre |**k<t
Funeral Service
Tor Mrs. Mitchell
This Afternoon
^Funeral service- for Mr.-.
Btaek Mitchell, mcinlK-r of a
prominent ranching family in
Fisher and Nolan counties for
many years, was being held at
MO p. in., today at the i'lmreli
A t'hrisl with I'. I!. Shepherd,
'minister, officiating
Mrs. Mitchell died at 2 a. in.,
today at the Sweetwater hos-
pital following a l.'l month's ill-
ness. Bort) Pearl Lillie Wallace
iu Roby, she bad spent her en-
Gc life in this area. Her family
moved from Tennessee to Esko-
la In the early days and estab-
lished a ranch, later living In
Roby. She was married 12 years
yuo to Brack Mitchell, who sur-
ges.
The Mitchell- were engaged in
the wholesale oil distributing bu-
siness and ranching Interests
for a quarter of a century.
Surviving are five children:
Ijlb k Mitchell and Loy Mitchell
or Sweetwater: Mrs. It. M Pay-
ne of Wichita. Kan., who was
here at her mother's liedside;
Mrs. Hill Davis of Atlanta. Gu ,
and Mrs. E. A. Itlcks of Oakland.
Might grandchildren also
surviv e.
Wells Funeral Home is direct-
ing arrangements and burial In
the city cemetery. Pallbearer-
are Will Scott. Roy Mathews,
Bennett, H. A. Tansll,
L. Nunn, and Mar-hall
Ic.
Addressing a c|a— of Navy
men graduating at C'oluniht i
University. Hard declared that
the Island area- are of great
strategic .significance to the long
run defense of the United States.
Their Importance in naval strat-
egy. he say s, Is better appreciat-
ed now than a generation ago —
when the Jap- were allowed t<>
take them under mandate.
Allil hr ailileil: " Thi-
inran-. In blunl term-, iliai
the aitiiilnlxirallon of tin- or-
i cupii'il area- of llic Pacific
will lie |M*i-|lli;il'l> -nbji'cl In
critical observation by var-
Imi- powers and b> tlie Am-
erican government and peo-
ple."
SAN FRANCISCO (UP,
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
has come out against United
States' di armament iu the Pin
I fie.
He ay ii mu I Is- our Intel'
tlon in safeguard our national >'
curitv in tiie Pacific Ocean al-
ter till- war in any manner and
by any mean- that may be nec-
essary.
Rayburn ays "There i- one
language t ii - lapane e can un
del-stand . . our battleships,
our plane- of war. our tank*,
our fighting men -peak tha<
language.”
He adds: "With this kind of
language, we want to be ready
at any time to talk to the Japan
esc In case they don't get what
we mean." Fur that reason, he
say our great fleet Is going to
remain intael u that there will
never be another Pearl Harbor
or march of dealli on Bataan.
The Texas democrat spoke at
a Jackson day dinner in San
Francisco la-t night.
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Piw,
KMRIMTKHTING PLANNED
AUSTIN — (UP)—A commit-
tee of the Texas State Bar is
dieting In Austin today to plan
reduction In the numlier of
courts by redistrleting. Gover-
nor Stevenson has been Invited
to address the meeting on the
Today Is Last
Day to Secure
License Plates
Nolan motorists have only a
few hours to secure a ID 11 tag
for their ear. truck or farm ve-
hicles, Raymond Bishop, tax as-
sessor-collector said this morn-
ing. Deadline i- at midnight.
The little tabs are being at-
l ached to the 1IM2 license plates
No tags will be issued without
a certificate of title being pre-
sented by applicants.
The office nail issued 2MKI pas-
senger tags at mid-morning.
They usually handle 3.ooo by
the deadline, Bishop said.
Sweetw tiler resident
the municipal auditorium lo
near capacity la.-t night to at-
tend the annual -ehool Victory
Concert where a total of S-lo.-
3HUH) in stamp and war Im>iul
-tales were reported by It. S. Co-
vey. suiR'i'intendent.
William Hoi nick, instructor
j of iii truincntal music iu the
ehool arranged tlie entertain-
| mg program! elected the mini
Im'i presented and sttpervl iil
' the i - hear al H< aid a fine
job," said Covey. The sate mp-
; ped la i year's figure about sin,-
ihhi and in fai'e of ith war loan
j drive only recently held county-
| wide.
i Tiie high school bund, cutup-
o.-ed of t> students played part
of tin* program and the junior (
high aggregation of 88 played
Hie remainder. Aside from the
two group Hohrlek lias a begin
tiers' band of 33 and an orclic-
WASPs, Military
Personnel Give
S89I To Red Cross
The military personnel, and
WASP trainee- of Avenger Field
contributed 100 per cunt to th •
1041 Red Crew War rand, Max
.1. Blue, American Bed Cro-s
Field director of the Big Spring
bombardier school announced
today.
Total amount of the M \SP
trainc* emit ribui Ions wa S(it;'2:
I officer and enlisted men gave
S'J2!i. a total of ss'd.
('apt. .1. ('. Ward, post adju-
tant. was chairman of the will-
i tars per.-omiel drive and Mi
(’Ilf Deaton chief establishment
officer, headed the trainee dl'K
A very satisfactory contribu-
tion wa - also reported from el\
i Ilian pei'-oiiiiel at Avenger Field
| by J. D. Holbrook, city drive
| chairman.
OBLIGING GltDUEK
ST. Ltd is (UP) — A St.
Louis grocer xvas very obligin'?
to a minister's wife, who Is cure
fill to buy nothing from a -to, ■
that sells liquor iu any form.
"Do you sell beer?" she asked
the merchant.
"No," the clerk answered.
Then, he added thoughtfully,
"but I'll run next door and get
you some.”
The tusk force i* belie, ril
to liietuile batlle-bips ami
aircraft carrier*. Hundred*
of curricr-hiiM'il plan.-* par-
lleipateil ill ■ raid t bat i*
exactly similar to the Mu-
tiny assault iust nonilli on
Truk.
Nav al uIh'iv'i regard the at
filled lira of .hi piece- making a total I tuck a- a prelude to an .....-■ - .
of 2.3k children being hi-iruclcdj L’Uti invasion thru** against the,
in band licsldcs Ills private ela*- slap.- lit the < aroline
Victory Concert Bond Sale
Totals $40,516 Last Night
Reagan junior high seln'id won j • "0nis little ikelihood tliat a
the coiite-t ........... el....... in landing on Palu Is being atlemp-
the -ale .if I Kinds with a total ted. Such a move would neccv
of SM.P73. High ehool sold SI 1. -Hate a lone. ex|s>-ed American
300. supply line.
Other school ale . I P. Cow Slmultatieoii-ly. raid on olh-
en. $220; Philip Nolan. rs.J2t: i cr Jap iue-e in a w ide arc
John It. Lewis. S7.3l!t: door -ale- j around Palau ere made to ncu
8373. Parent teacher unit- offer- 'trailin' these Lip ba*"
ed $2 prizes in each school to j American bomlx’r- -inu hed at, covered eitougl
the'student eiling Hie large t j Truk in an aerial idneer offeii-luiek of their o
number of ts.iiai Rita l:.a Air e. i ill" fir-i tag'-'i s ■ <. en. i.
led the city -ehool *aje with j Lits-rator fro
Solomon* — i
31 lap airerult
ground. Twel\
\ir I'oreo Lill
• eitlryl Pucifa
tiie Jap bastion They met a
tied for top place in Lew is school j anti-aircraft barrage but
.......-,L. I . ..._______ I \ merit ;m |m«.i are lielievefl
Isi.sihi Slie is a Junior high -tu-
dent.
Ruin McMillan won t'oweii
! ehool sale- with a 825 bond; Pal
| -y Scott sol.I 81,275 at Philip No
I Ian; Carl and Anne Anderson
telling s.'f.'SK, eaeli: lean Fergn- tmeri' . n
aid In the city, sell-1 hulu if an>
.SOM \\*l> xCL’f
lllg 83,375. She
-ciloiil.
attend-
high
Reclassify ?9
Men Into 1-A
A tin tIcjiii N.n > < iil.ilina
flying tio,its laslieil at Wnleal
\ l. ■ 11 — smile I.VI miles west
of Truk. Army Liberators —
escorted <•> Llgtitulnu flgtit-
tees — lies, no ell at least
IIS eiiein) Iiliines in a I ensil-
ing lilow al ttollaiiilla mi ito-
mirltiern New f.ulnra e«a*(.
All t"hl our plane.- destroyed
upwards of 172 Jan aircraft.
Twenty niiH* men have 'teen
red,' -ified by the Nolan ( nun
ty Seln live Service Board for
mllllarv -er\ ice and placed in
I A.
Twenty five "I llic group arc
fathers. Inductions include Tho-
mas F. Paxton. George M Bank-
head and I .eo ( I ledg'
i i..... ii- i A i 11;*11• (i Ba-. UJYCI3CQ3 JGIVIUC
ter. Joe I’ei'i.'Z Milton M Rob ......... ..... .... ...... ,,,
rick Ataii.ielo 11' 'rrcgi ■ tteiiacli'l '\JTM lill. .H Yv\.,| I i !
(‘utlri'e Boiitan s Solano. M. (I \ IHION HN LUt (.AIM II.LI. |
Woodward. Itu h Wat-Mli. R. G. f x«mpl". ' "iiduet In . ,
(ilglo .......bat. I’fi KcaHI l Cox of"",m
Charles P. WiHsiruff. Sweetwater, lui- lx*en presented
Curti. W Miller. Curti B Bur I with the Army * newest award
nett. Suii'ilo B Miami (Jar-1for Infantrymen the Combat In-
fantryman Badge.
exemplary con-1
Pfc. Cox Wins
New Combat Badge
Overseas Service
bang-
'd away at the British heavies
ilhouetted again-t the iBoutuit
ky.
Iflll I hr British, despite
the fuel that I heir li, ,,«ies
were pliittoiieliiig nut <»f foe-
in.illmi al lhe rate nt one
ever) It miles, |,ushei| dog-
gedl.i thlougli to .N u re ill-
brrg.
gly-forti- j There the' droppexi upwards
| of 2.2UO tons on the city's Indus-
j trial targets, and llicii headed
In nte. to face the same kind of
' gruelling liattle on the way.
I tie !m; bomliers loss exceeds
by 17 the previous toll of 7f
' RAF planes that went down <Jur-
j ing the February Bith attack on
1 Leipzig. American filers *u*-
J taint'd their greatest loss on j
Aiiierl-; Alar*-li (ith in a raid on Berlin.
.st the] hi Italy. the battle for Cat-ino
There Sand the surrounding mountain
again lias reverted to the see-
saw bloody battle that preceded
the Iasi unsuccessful Allied of-
fenslve.
On the slopes of Mount ('a--;
si no. Allied troops have with- i
drawn from ail but one of th-* j
strategic heights. Inside th" j
town. Gentian tumps have r •
i to launch id-:
" ii Two small- j
HRSpithru-ts overran
isi.-es in the M.nie Allied positions. But New
iroyed at Zealand troops eounter-attacked '
i caught on the , n-gain the ground and then
"Hu lao't• ‘'n sUilleti before the original Ger-
,lor- from Hie n,all .
Below Bottle, on Hie In/In
beachhead, i<eriiuiii skirm-
isliee* allenipteil seyerat
llien-ls ugiiltisi Hie \Hit'll
tell flank, bin were thrown
Iwtek by artillery flee.
In Jugoslavia. Marshal Tito's
Partisans have repelled new Ger-
man attacks iu Eastern Bosnia.
Another accident similar to
the one in which 23 Allied trans-
port planes were shot down by
Allied gunners over Sicily has
occurred. Tills time, however.
! only one plane w ent down. Bril-
j ish carrier fighter plane- pro-
I telling an allied convoy In the
; Atlantic opened fire by mlstak ■
|on an American transimrt. Tlv
j plane went down, and with it a
crew of six men was lost.
needs during wart
have quickly recognized
"art in tills drive.
to thank all p
in am wav ii
A closed in
Ibrook. who
attributions.
-el at 812 ■
f tile great
no, citizens
their
I AIN DON — (UP) — The
|{i-il Army lias advanced lo
within 3K miles oi Odessa
mi tin- east. Premier Stalin
announced today that (lie
Gi-i'inun defense base of
Oclinkov, just :ix miles east
of tin- big Black Sea city,
lias fallen Into Russian
bands.
••We wi
yitio bellied in any vnv in mak-
ing tiie drive a suecc--." said tie
ihutrnian. “We hat > met -tilen-
did jv.-poii-o every w I ".'tv,"
Melvin V Manroe chairman of
collections at Hie Texa- and Rilz
theatres, report* a total of 8731.48
to Is? received in collection filate
pa -ed between -bow- frtim
Marelt 23 to March 2? He wa*
assisted by civic clubs.
Donors may continue subscrib-
ing to the drive, leaving money
at the Texas Hank with J. S,
Schooler or with Holbrook at the
Lone Star Ga- company.
Soldier Vote Bill
To Become Law
Without Signature
Most OW
KUd^l,:,,a dt 1
a sw iff drive
ian Mountain
German can
Soviet ;»d\,
dy lia\c pud
t'arpati ■ ms ,
the approach
passes.
Tills puts
of llic old C
—territory
when Hitler
soon after th
Marshal Zh
t he.-c new u
— (i hi _ The
r* ported making
for tiie Carpaili-
ptisses before the
(dug them.
nice patrols alrva-
- d Idgli ujj in the
nd have entered
.- to the strutegi*.'
them within sight
’.echosiovak lxirder
ized tiv Hungary
i -iiuffled the area
start of the yiar.
ukov's men made
lins when they
-wept -outhwestwhrd from
newly-captureu t
Held dis|>atcht
and impact of th
vance ha- panli
mans. And tiiat I
iii tl
-lulls
in Poland,
.-ay the speed
i Red army ad-
ketl the Ger-
here is no sign
jr will be able
shattered div-
nated Zhukov s
tiie boundary
\\ ASHINGTDN
Presldi'iit Itmi-i-v i-lt
the -I’ldler vote Mil
law without Id- -tgn
'I'lu* pt'i'-iilent ii"1
res- thi- noun tliat !
11ier ■ ign n-m -I" 11
aitlioiigh la- "on-idv
■I P
tint ready to work with
tlirm against ihr Nazis an
< /eeh tindi'i'groiind units,
which, together with escap-
ed KiissI.iii war prisoners,
bale made contact with llic
nneusliing Bed army.
Tl
o is consli
illtne for
the nortti
ral provtr
ip
men a
to vot
Aga
>1
Zhuki
, l
taki* 1
nort*
adequate aetiut
fiuku'i iii i«4 ~
— have pushed
t th
e p«»li!iral right
< if
miles bey on
d the citv.
MTVk'
T* |H*I
r«onnei. He yl-o .
linked
To th* not
ahea d. Marshal K
the si
ate?*
to make tin hi!
ev‘h furees
teamed up w
fully *
the u pf&HibJe \
itider
Zhukov - tu
«*ii t*» whittle do
uh.it
he
termed if* "del*
•ctivc
;i (German i
pmvi*
toll*-
Dniester to
400 square miles
The
pie
sidellt t'Liiirgeif
that
mere 10 m
He- eMn|K? gap
of
13
congress in passing the bill
placed a certain responsibility
on each -tale lor action. He add
oil that tli".-" m -ervice who
want to vote but cannot woul I
understand iha
shares the resin
the ooniplexitli
The liill prov
\ iateii federal
mav Is' u*ed i
Si" SOLI ill Ii.
ir
congress itseli e.\
llilci
their hi
|s>d Nazis
hi tin- su
- leaving
he battlrfi
Konev's tr
ild on the
nii-ibilTty through 'bank <
thi
l* Prut river iK-r
of the bill. Rurmn
111*! t
o 77 miles. The
Ides for an abbre-1 lured
one '
town only eight
war ballot which from
y in Rumania
mlv as a la.-t re-j took
her town two
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a-t
of
And
miles
Conservation Of Food By Drying Is Fine
Method; Fruit, Vegetables Must Be Firm
Davis. James
V'smat’l.
nice ('. Collier. Arthur I. Gra-
ham, Weldon E Lee. Lonnie .1.
Da\ is. .1 (' Harncit. William U.
Mayberry. Jo-c Aguilar.
Lee It Skilcs, Kulus Ramirez,
William B Gtlle pie. b - ic L.
I lav I . 1.. A Biisli. Eulaiio M
Melendez and Charles K Mc-
Donald.
PETITION DENIED
SPRINGFIELD, III — (I P) —
Police Judge William Conway
has denied the request of a man
who wanted his wife arrested for
disorderly conduct, because she
refused to wash Ills I lack Judge
Comvay said, "there's a limit to
foolishness,” and refused to is-
sue a warrant.
Producing a Victory garden i-
one thing and conserving food
for future use in something else
—and most Important.
The greater number of meth-
ods used lo preserve food, the
Awarded for
duet in cuiiiM or for combat
action In a major "pcratlon, the
new medal I- a silver rifle on a
blue field with a silver lxirder,
Imposed on an eliptlcal silver
wreath.
P/c. Cox Is Hie -on of Mr. and
Mrs Sam Cox of Route A. Sweet-
water, and before entering tile
Army v us employed by the Pace
Packing company
Since starting bis tour of mi"'-
seas service on May 2'<. 1P42, he
has been stationed on New Ze.i
land, Fiji, Guadalcanal, Vella
Lavella, and Empress August!
Bay, and Is a veteran of the
New Georgia campaign.
FIGHT WAS ON
( Hit AGO — (UP) —The exi-
policies of war have brought j
many stories i>f worried j
customers and harried clerks but
this time they brought a $26,otk)
damage suit w Hit tliat *11111 aw-1
•riled to 38-year-old Harold Alin-1 more intere.-tlng our dally meats
I®'-. j can fx1 made. There is general-
AA inter told the judge tlii- sto- jy ((|,e uiethixl of preserving for
ry of In encounter witii James j paclt food that has been found
Is'.ik". ., v 'ii' 1 to keep bed the 01 Iginal qualit;
“When Luake refused to give ,,f ,h( product, for exam-
ine a second cup of coffee. Mrs. |p|c, carrots and root, vegetables
Winter ordered her first cup and stored fresh; tomato' s
poured It into mine Leake grab- ,.ai1nC(|. ^trawlierrles frozen, and
Ix'd the t uj) and poured the eof- !n,atu, i. pea- and potatix*s dried.
ixrtt
ctly dean,
r vegetable
One
decayed fruit or vegetable may
give the entire lot an undesir-
able flavor. Care should be ob-
served In handling fruits and
!vegetable* to prevent bruising.
Fruits are easier to dry than
i most vegetables. The higher su-
gar content makes them easier
: to preserve and they give up
j water more easily than vege-
I tables. Fruits suitable for dry*
- ing are apples, pears, peaches,
! apricot . cherries, plums, figs,
__________ _______ dales and berries.
fee Iviek Into the urn and the how much more appetizing I Vegetables be t for drying at
fight was on." i to have some frozen, sonic dried I *weet corn, mature bean* und
broken ;aiul golm, canned. Drying Is ee.> i« .o. and -weet potutoes. Others
! nomleal. takes less equipment' which are more difficult to dry
land materials, may !h> stored in | ;im rapidly growing young vege-
I fewer containers and can
-$25,(HM1
I wound up with
leg "
One broken leg
_ ---v—-— container! and can beltabl" uch ( greei
WtOthir Forecast transported easily.
WEST TEXAS—Fair this aft-1 Good quality fruit and vege greet nap beam and okra,
ernoon. tonight and Saturday, table* should is'used in drying Sim 1 fui drying^depends on
little change in temperature. The food should be fresh, ripe,.See CONSERVATION, Page 5
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 76, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1944, newspaper, March 31, 1944; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth710186/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.