THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1943

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PAGE THREE BLANKS FOR NEW RATION BOOKS ARE BEING MAILED

All Eligible To Get New No. 3 Books - NEWARK—With mailmen beginninjr today to deliver to each family in the state an application Card for War Ration Book Three, William H. McKenna, chief rationing officer in the Newark -District OPA office, outlined instructions to *niide applicants in filling out and mailing them. Emphasizing that War Ration Book Three is merely a replace- " ment book to be 'used when Ration Books One and Two are used up, McKenna said that OPA , would notify the public when the new book can be used. He urged ovryone to fill out the application card promptly and drop it into a mail box, retaining only the .identification stub at the top of the card. Mailmen will complete distribution of the cards by June ii. but distribution of the books is scheduled to begin on June 2, when 13,000 Newark high school students and K00 teachers supervised by OPA representatives • will begin mailing the ration J*ooks based on the application cards returned by- that date. The instructions for filling in and mailing the application cards

follow:

-—1. Detach tin; narrow identification stub at tlie top of the card • 2. A family unit should use a single card to apply for its

books.

(a) The name and address of, the head of the family should be

entered in the space Vrovided j

for "person to,jwhom books to be mailed". Print cleat'

card and need another, go to 3 local postoffice for one. 7. If you have mailed in your application card promptly you will receive your War Ration Book Three by June 20. 8. War Ration Book Three 5T not to be used until the government announces Hie date on which it can be used. It is intended to -replace War Ration Book One and Two when they are

used up.

Protection For Red Drum Is Requested NEWPORT NEWS, VA.—Tentative . suggestions for the^mis. tection .of channel basi-^r red drum Were agreed upon at a recent*’conference of members’ of the Atlantic States Marble Fisheries Commission from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina. The conference was held here under the chairmanship of Charles M. Lankford. Virginia commissioner of fisheries. "Our' channel bass panel," said Lankford, "consists of -the three" commissioners from each of the member states concerned with -the species. The anglers from these four ami other nearby states spend thousands of dollars annually in pursuit of this fish, and hotels and boarding houses, guides and party boat caps all profit from their pat ronThe red drum is useful too

as a food- fish but is not as popular yet on this coast as it is along the Gulf coast and consequently our commercial catches are rather small."

Cape Theatre To Open June 16 For Season The Cape Theatre will open its summer season on June -16 at the playhouse on Beach Drive at Madison avenue, it was announcea

this week.

For the opening play, Director T. C. Upham has chosen the recent smash hit ‘"Claudia”, which played two years in New York andjjyhich has for months been' ■placing to large audiences all er the United States. As' it is only being released stock companies on June 1, the play will, possibly have its first summer theatre presentation at the Cape Theatre. Mr. Upham also announced that the theatre- will be open every night in the week throughout the summer.. with the professional company playing one show four five/ nights and the non-pro--ional group appearing in a different play the remaining nights. y The box office at thf theatre will be open daily after June 1.

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be entered a second time m the space indicated at the top. of the' lower part of the card (cl The name of th. the family should - .!> again on the first of the numliered lines provided at the bottom of the card for names of members of the family eligible -to receive Ration Book Three. List 'all eligible members of the family here, with the dates of birth. If there is not enough for all the names, use the additional space provided on the Other side of the card. 3. Every man. woman, and child is eligible for Ration Book Three except persons in the armed forces (Army. Navy. Marines. Coast Guard, and Women's Auxiliaries 1 and inmates' of institutions of involuntary confinement.) 4. Persons living with a family unit, bulaP.nt related by blood, marriage or adoption, and persons living away from home for more than sixty days must fill out a separate application, card. 5. Place a stamp in the space, indicated on the face of the card; a two-rent stamp if you live in Newark, otherwise a three-cent stamp, and drop the entire card (except the identification rtyh. which you detach and keep) iJT a mail box.. The card, is already addressed properly to OPA MAILING CENTER. NEWARK. N J. C. If you do not neceivv an application card in the mail by June 6 or 7, or if you spoil your

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Without aij extra coach, with no replacement of locomo\ttves. the war-time demands upon P R S L are oeing me: extra work. P. R.§. L men and management, keenly e of the importance of the war area they serve, are g- up for lack of replacement* and lor need ot a.ddi.equtpment by'operating at full-torottle—wide open! " stop, no car must rest; everything must of every day. Every tpan. from top to bottom, is 40b belter, (aster and more aecoratety than ilaan/needs are met alter the war Job has been done '-ij:i/ trains must make way for war trains. Civilian secondary to soldier comforts We know that 4 v every good American wants it to be because Vh$s* Are The Trains of Victory And Victory Trains Come First!

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PENNSYIVANIA-READING SEASHORE LINES

STAKING TOMATOES AND MULCHING

Tomatoes shoiJd be in every

are one of

our most nutritious crops. Many persons will experience for the first time this year -the added pleasure of eating right from the vines a freshly picked fruit of' the vitamin-rich tomato. In small gardens' especially, some method of training tomato plants is advisable to save space. The yield from trained plants will lie almost the same as from UHstaked plants, covering a similar area, which are allowed to .run on the ground. Staking is often used commercmlly because the ,fr'u.its arc well colored, free from soil stains and clean. In staking, .the plants are set 2 feet apart in the row with the rows 2 1 -.- to 3 feet apart. Natural stakes 1inches in diameter or sawed stakes 1'“ inch square are driven 'a foot or so into the soil, ddsv to the plant or the stakes may be driven first and the -plants set inter. The stakes should G feet above the

tying is to make a double wrap around the plant stem. The material around the stem should be wrapped loosely enough to support it but not to bind it to tightly to the stake. Only a single stem should be allowed to grow. As soon as a leafy shoot appears in the axil of a leaf (the angle where the leaf joins the stem), snap it off with your fingers. Be sure not to cut off the flower clusters. Continue tying the stem at one foot intervals, and removing the shoots, until four clusters of fruit have formed. Then allow some of the shoots to develop in order to form a sort of umbrella over (the plant. This will prevent scalding of the fruits by the sun. If there is a fence on one side of the garden, the tomato vines may be trained on this, or a simple trellis might be constructed with the cross wires or .bars

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Gardeners should start tying the stems as soon as the plant grows up to a foot or so. A soft material, such as narrow strips

about a foot apart. Three or four stems may be allowed to grow and these trained and fastened in fan shape. The tepee method of staking may also be used. This consists of 3 or 4 stakes or plaster lath fastened at the top to form a pyramid effect. A plant is set by each stake. Mulching Desirable Mulching a garden is a desirable practice, and especially so when tomatoes are grown on stakes, in 'which ^case there is much trampling on the soil. Mulching should be done after the soil has been cultivated. If properly applied, the mulch will retain moisture in the soil, keep down, weeds, maintain cool conditions in the soil about the roots which improves growth and yield. It will do away with .the need for cultivation. The material used as a mulch should be loose and 3 or 4 inches deep to have effect' against weeds.

The ideal mulching material is straw, such as wheat or rye straw, or salt hay. Other materials that may be used are dry oak leaves, waste hay or grass clippings that have been allowed to dry or cure. lii fact, any material that will not get soggy wet and compact so as to prevent proper soil aeration will prove satisfactory. Where a mulch is used, the soil should - h«> well supplied with fertilizer as-^Jecay of the mulching material wfll take place, and this requires feiv tilizer, often at the expense of the needs of the ’ plants. The whole garden may be covered with a mulch, thus saving mm* labor.

ONE TABLESPOON of used cooking grease will load five machine gun bullets. Save that much every day—to help make gunpowder^

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A roaring, raging hurricane seldom hits harder than 100 miles an hour. But at Wright Field, Ohio, Air Force engineers whip up an almost unbelievable 100-mile wind—to help improve American military planes. Two forty-foot fans, weighing nearly a million pounds, put the “hurry” -in this hurricane tunnel. They’re driven by a huge 125-ton electric motor with a terrific horsepower rating. They permit accurate tests of largescale plane models at speeds up to 400 miles an hour.

burly bombers arc . . , , . more deadly to the enemy, because America has the world's biggest wind tunnels—and the world's biggest supply of electric power. In fact, electric power is basic to nearly all war production. It turns the.machines that turn out tanks, planes and guns. It welds the steel seams of ships. It flashes the urgent words of war by air anti by wire. War has brought shortages of many materials, but there has

been plenty of electric power for war production. > The electric companies under business management, supplying about seven-eighths of all America’s electric power, had a BIG job to do—and did it!

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OFFICE MEMO

4/20/43 TO DEPARTMENT HEADS: RE. TELEPHONE ADV'T. Do we plan our necessary calls in advance to keep them brief and to the point? Are we ready to talk when our connections are set up? We should do ^everything possible to avoid tying up long distance lines needlessly.