Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1943 Page: 4 of 8
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HOMEY GROVE SIGNAL-CITIZEN October 15. 1943
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end of 1943, over five million
women will be engaged in
wai\work. All will now agree
that women in'many obliga-
tions have proved their work
efficiency on an equal foot-
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Ration Reminder
Gasoline—In 17 east coast
state A-6 coupons are now
good. In states outside the
east coast area A-8 coupons
are now good.
„ Sugar—Stamp No. 14 good
for 5 pounds through Octo-
ber. Stamps Nos. 15 and 16
gocd for 5 pounds each for
home canning through Octo-
ber 31.
V Shoes—Stamp No. 18 good
for 1 pair. Validity has been
extended indefinitely.
Meats and Fats — Brown
stamps C, D and E good
through October 30. Brown
stamp F becomes good Octo-
ber 17 and remains good j
through October 30. j
Processed Foods — Blue ***** y
stamps U, V and W expire
October 20. Blue stamps X,
Y and Z are good through
November 20.
Register For Book 4
in October
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registering for war ration
book four, which will take
place during the latter part
of October, can be obtained
from local newspapers or ra-
dio stations. Persons regis-
tering must have a war ra-
tion book three for each per-
son for whom they are ob-
taining book four. Stamps
labeled “coffee"' in book four
were printed before coffee
rationing was discontinued.
Any rumors that it is to be
resumed are unfounded,
OPA says.
OPA Sets Apple
Ceiling Prices
Apples for home consump-
tion will sell at a season’s
national retail average of
between 10 and 11 cents a
pound. Maximum prices for
apples were set recently as
one of the first steps in
OPA’s program to extend
control over the prices of
fresh fruits and vegetables
to keep down the cost of liv-
ing. As in the case of eggs,
prices will vary by the month
to reflect storage and other
charges.
Army-Navy Test
For Students
The next qualifying test
for the army specialized
training program and the
navy college program will be
given in high schools and col-
Jp leges Tuesday, November 9,
according to the War De-
partment. The test is open
to male graduates and high
school seniors in their last
semester who will reach their
seventeenth birthday but not
their tweniy-aecond birth-
day by March 1, 1944. The
test will provide an oppor-
tunity for these men to qual-
Stfe for college trainng in
studies for which the army
and navy have vital needs.
Bjj Graduates of the program
wifi oerve as specialists, tech-
nicians, and officers in the
armed forces.
Restrict Feed Wheat Sales
•py.rWheat sold by the Com-
modity Credit Corporation to
feminine items," will be pro- salY in th? P^ess of travel
duced during 1944 as at pres- 011 this capricious river.
also the hog markets in trade
centers immediately adjacent
to those cities. On October 4.
OPA set ceiling prices on live
hogs in marKets throughout
the country, each price based
on geographical location and
type of selling place, but all
prices hinged upon a ceiling
of $14.75 a hundred in Chi-
cago. In the U. S., live hogs
produce the heaviest meat
tonnage and contribute more
to farm income than any oth-
er meat animal, OPA pointed
out.
Brooms to Cost More
Consumers will pay about
six cents more for house-
hold brooms made wholly or
of broom corn, be-
cause of a recent OPA order.
This increase was granted to
reflect recently established
ceiling prices for broom corn.
Gals to Get Bobbie Pins
Twice as many bobbie pins
and hairpins, “necessary
great d-aumce nvm me v.«p- fcrcncc between men anti
ital. Travelers and goods
coming up the river, stopped
at Girardot and from there
proceeded, now by train,
then by mule, to Bogota.
Whatever the diff cullies,
merchandise and men moved
on the river, to and from the
Atlantic, taking six to fif-
teen days to accomplish what
a plane does now in two and
a half hours. Steam naviga-
women is a factor which
must be considered.
Varicose Veins
Among other handicaps,
women have a natural sus-
ceptibility to varicose veins.
Varicose veins are enlarged
veins which are more com-
monly present on the legs,
but are also seen in other
parts of the body. While
varicose veins are exceed-
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piece, from the
States to Colombia and re-
assembled there for use on
the Magdalena. Endlessly
they plied their way up and
down the river, taking—be-
sides travelers — grand pi-
anos, books, Venetian mir-
rors, and the latest news up
to Bogota, while sacks of cof-
fee, bananas and rubber
went down to the Atlantic to
be shipped off. The goods
sometimes as much as dou-
bled in price, due to the in-
numerable loadings neces-
ent, under a recent WPB
action.
Wore Agricultural
Fertilizer Available
Plans are being made to
increase the supply of ammo-
nium nitrate for use as an
agricultural fertilizer, ac-
cording to the War Produc-
tion Board. The material
“Tortuous channels, count-
less sandbars, hidden snags
of submerged trees and low-
water stages of the river”
were — and still are—but a
few of the difficulties en-
countered during its naviga-
tion. But let us bear what a
traveler has to say. “On the
fourth day we passed seven
has been so improved to pre- height boats stuck on diifer-
vent caking that orders reJent sandbars *e we™ on a
eeived for September and U*ht . mai1 boat and
October exceed the supply. travelln* at a very h,gh
Additional sodium nitrate
became available for agricul-
tural fertilizer last April
when government capacity to
produce it began to exceed
the amount needed for mili-
tary explosives.
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dairy cows and laying hens,
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Mpe Clarify Hoc Ceilings
IHngglfte word “municipality,”
inaofmg ae used by OPA in
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The Romance of the
Magdalena River
To the traveler of today,
being swiftly flown on a lux-
urious airliner from the At-
lantic Coast up to Bogota,
the Magdalena river looks
like nothing more than a
sinuous silver ribbon mean-
dering through the Colom-
bian landscape. But to Co-
lombia itself and particularly
to its capital—Bogota — the
mighty Magdalena has, for
centuries, been the one and
only way of communication
with the Atlantic; the na-
tural, obvious highway to
and from the outer world.
One of the chief obstacles
to the progress of civilization
in Colombia has undoubtedly
been its physical make-up.
Three ranges of the Andes
run northward through the
country “interposing tremen-
dous barriers to road and
nail" and handicapping all
contact with the exterior.
Between these ranges, fortu-
nately, two giant rivers flow
— the Magdalena and the
Cauca — the latter joining
the Magdalena at the point
where ihe mountains disap-
pear. From theie on, the
Magdalena rolls languidly on
to the aaa like a great lady,
royal, disdainful, capricious,
sure of holding — not only
Bogota — but all of central
Colombia in her power. How
Bogota was once the seat of
stage of the water. Wher-
ever the ship slid into a sand-
bar, the engineer immediately
reversed the engines and
slipped off backwards. In
one place where the water
was particularly shallow, we
spent two hours in making
the distance of a quarter of
a mile. In such difficult
places tw'o sailors were sta-
tioned at the prow of the
boat with poles about twelve
feet long; every few feet
they would stick the pole
down to the bottom and yell
to the captain the depth of
the water. If they yelled
‘Aye! Aye!’ the boat steamed
on, but if the yells changed
to ‘Ocho, siete, seis, and cin-
cc\ the boat slowed down
and proceeded like a cautious
tiger stalking its prey. In
this way the fast mail boats
usually slip over most of the
sandbars during the high
water stage.”
No \yonder Colombia was
the first country in South
America to have a commer-
cial airline service! No won
der people now fly high up
over the Magdalena inste.ad
of gliding on it! But the in-
habitants of Bogota sigh,
fearing that their city may
no longer keep that spiritual
refinement, that old-fa3hion
dignity that was a conse-
quence of its isolation, and
that is probably going now
forever together with the
dignity with the romance of
the Magdalena river.
Help Wanted
—Women
By Dr. Victor G. Heiser.
Women are closing up
manpower gaps all over the
country. As in every critical
period of our history, women
are again making a success
of mastering the various
vice-royalty, how it ever crafts of the machine age, be
In people who ai’e obliged
to do much standing, the
veins stretch continually un-
til they become curved or
dilated, which is what the
word varicose means. Often-
times varicose veins may ex-
ist for years wthout increas-
ing the size or causing any
trouble. Occasionally they
may cause a feeling of weight
and dull pains in the legs,
especially on long standing.
When the enlarged veins
are of long duration the legs
may become swollen and
haixl, accompanied by eczema
wdth itching. This often
leads to scratching and sores
which may enlarge and be-
come what are known as va-
ricose ulcers,
industries Aid
When one set of veins is
cut out, another takes up the
blood and the person may
have better circulation than
he had before. Of course the
proverbial adage ‘‘an ounce
of prevention is worth a
pound of cure” applies to a’l
these cases.
Many industries long ago
provided seating facilities for
their women workers. A
pioneer in devising adequate
seating facilities is the tele-
phone company. An in-
genious chair has been de-
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height which makes it pos-
sible for workers to sit down
while they wurk.
The same thing has been
repeated by numerous other
plants in the country, all
with a view to safeguarding
the health of their women
employes. Salespeople are
obliged to be on their feet
much of the time. To help
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so that they may sit when
there are no customers.
These seemingly simple
means have been most effec-
tive in keeping many “stan-
dees” on the job. In one
plant, production has shown
an upward trend when “sit-
stand” seats were provided
for women employes.
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A new innovation for un-|feet in base diameter and 16
der ground munitions stor-
age is the concrete “beehive”
feet in height. It replaces
the old-style, semi-cylinurical
adopted recently by the Navy barrel-type concrete igloos
and the Army. Developed
by a New York company, the
patented design has been
turned over to the federal
government for use without
restrictions as a contribution
to the national war effort.
The new “beehive” which
resembles a half grapefruit
resting on the cut side, is 52
which were 80 feet long, 26.5
feet wide and 12 feet high.
Because it approaches a
sphere in shape, the “bee-
hive” is the most economical
form for a container in that
it provides the greatest vol-
ume of storage per unit of
surface. Although the floor
area of the “beehive” is just
try, they should be able to
get them at prices they can
afford.
In the old days Paris was
the fashion center of the
world and women every-
where longed for Paris
clothes. American clothes
were all right for Americans
who couldn't go abroad or
afford Paris imports. But i
they didn't count much hl; the «ar, when women every-
other countries and
fashion industry believes
that superior clothes, as well
as superior automobiles, can
be made in quantity and that
good taste and smartness can
be appreciated by the rank
and file of women, as well as
by the leaders of fashion.
Something of tho spirit of
a people creeps into the
clothes they create. So, after
were
definitely second best here.
Now all that is over.
The showings of the great
fashion houses in New York
this fall were a decided suc-
cess. In spite of “L-85" re-
strictions the clothes dis-
played were beautiful and in
perfect taste. Whats‘ more,
they are being produced in
quantity at prices that would
have shocked the French
dressmaker. How could a
couturier sell his or her
clothes for such ridiculous
sums? They didn’t believe in
mass production because they
didn’t understand what mir-
acles it could create.
But the new American
where begin to wear Ameri
can dresses and suits and
coats they’ll understand a
little more about how we feel
and how we think. They’ll
better understand democracy
and those inalienable rights
of “life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness” because
of the smartness of their
new frocks created by Amer-
ican designers and turned
out by the American dress-
making industry that under-
stands the technique of mass
production.
If tomorrow belongs to the
“common man,” as they say
it will, then the “common
woman” is to have a better
chance to have more of the
about the same as that of
the old-type concrete igloo,
the volume of the “beehive”
is about 10 per cent greater.
Furthermore, the “bee-
hives,” of which some two
thousand have been built or
are under construction, re-
quire only 1300 pounds of
steel and 180 cubic yards of
ronrrpfp as compared with
the 1200 pounds of steel and
2l7 yards of concrete re-
quired for the previous de-
sign.
beautiful, gracious things
that lie close to all feminine
hearts than ever before, and
the American way of mak-
ing and distributing the sim-
ple luxuries of life will be
understood and copied every-
where.
Their Eyes Were Opened
A little boy had a basket
of puppies. A man passed
and said: “Little boy, what
are your dogs?”
“Democrats,” said the boy.
A few wreeks later the man
saw the boy again, with his
basket of pups. “Well,” said
the man, “what are your
pups today?”
“They are Republicans,”
said the boy.
“Now,, see here,” said the
man, “two weeks ago you
told me they were Demo-
crats.”
“Yeah,” said the boy, “but
they have their eyes open
now.”
It is difficult for other
people to see a man who is
wrapped up in himself.
The Importance
of Clothes
By Susan Thayer.
America is going to be
important than ever when
the war is over, authorities
insist. Her influence will be
felt from the North Pole to
the South Pole and her in-
dustrial methods will help to
rebuild the‘shattered world.
But perhaps this influence
will be even more far-reach-
ing than the great men
realize. For it’s destined to
reach the women of the
world in a very intimate,
convincing way. They are
going to want American
clothes and* thanks to a rap-
idly growing fashion indus-
She’ll *e" YOU. ...
when long
lines are
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The Long Distance operator knows, firsthand, when
the rush is heavifcst and what lines are busy.
Then, if your call isn’t vital, it will help if you cancel
it altogether.
When you must make a Long Distance call over
war-< rowded circuits, the operator will say — "Please
limit your call to 5 minutes. Others are waiting.*
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Thompson, Harry. Honey Grove Signal-Citizen (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1943, newspaper, October 15, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth800422/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.