Ground Observer Corps
Scans Sky Day and Nigbt
More than 1,200,000 volunteer members of the ground ob
server corps of the aircraft warning service are on the alert
24 hours a day throughout the coastal areas of the United
States, just to make sure it doesn’t happen here! Approxi
mately 750,000 of these serve under the I Fighter Command
from Maine to Florida, scanning the skies night and day for
hostile aircraft—all under supervision of the army air forces.
Since December 7 the banker, the butcher, the baker and
the housewife take turns at watching the skies at their local
observation post, none ever more than six miles apart. Ob
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reports are
phoned into stra
tegic centers
where flights of
planes are post
ed and passed on
by officials. The
following photos
were taken at the
Kingston, N. Y.,
observation post.
Loft: Chief Observ
er Mann and a
group of his help
ers at the observa
tion post.
Judge John T. Loughran is shoun (left) phoning in n report. In
picture at the right Miss Jane Holcomb and Mrs. Lorraine Isaacson
are shown at the post doing an extra shift together.
/ Michael Mazzuca (left) in his
IP. barber shop. Michael serves from
4:00 to 6:00 a. m. Mondays.
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Harry Netburn. a grocery clerk,
is one of the observers. He is
shown above at his regular du
ties. Right: Housewives, too,
lend an eye. Here Mrs. Gladys
Bashall, one of the observers, is
shown in her kitchen.
Mrs. Margaret Logan, beauti
cian, who is an assistant chief ob
server at the post.
Ur. Murray //. Greene, chirop
odist, tcho serves at the post from
12 to 2 each Wednesday.
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_ Local citizens sit in on a meeting to discuss observation post matters.
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Serve Shrimp Casserole, Save Meat
(See Recipes Below)
Warm Welcome!
These are days when families are
divided and diminished, and there
comes the urge to
say to the neigh
bor, come take
s “pot-luck” supper
. with us. Thus,
p your neighbor will
bring over some
salad and muffins
and herself and
the youngster, you can make a main
dish and dessert, and have company
with it besides!
It’s heart-warming to visit, too,
and have someone to help with the
meal if your once-big family is
somewhat reduced. Most people wel
come a visit now and then with just
one of the ordinary meals—and pot
luck is the perfect answer.
Your first must-not with pot-luck
is do not fuss. Just get together on
who is to bring what—and have what
you ordinarily would have. Your
plans need not be made with cam
paign-like precision, simply do it on
the spur of the moment, since this
makes for spontaneity.
Let’s take it easy on meat with
some grand casserole dishes—includ
ing this on shrimp and crabmeat
with a crisp, corn-flake crust:
*Baked Shrimp Salad.
(Serves 6 to 8)
lA cup chopped green pepper
14 cup minced onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup cooked crabmeat, flaked
1 cup cooked shrimp, cleaned
1 cup mayonnaise
94 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 cups corn flakes
14 cup butter
Combine all ingredients and mix
well together. Place in individual
shell dishes or one large casserole.
Cover with crushed corn flakes, dot
with butter, and sprinkle paprika
over top. Bake in a moderate oven
(350 degrees) about 30 minutes.
Serve with lemon.
Spaghetti's a fine dish to serve at
pot luck. Should hamburger sup
plies be low, try some of Sunday’s
leftover chicken in the sauce.
Spaghetti With Chicken.
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 8-ounce package spaghetti
1 onion, cut fine
1 small clove garlic
2 tablespoons fat
2}4 cups cooked tomatoes
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon sugar
Dash of cayenne
1 cup diced, cooked chicken
94 cup grated cheese
1 cup mushrooms, sauteed
Cook spaghetti in boiling salted
water until tender. Drain and place
In a greased cas
serole. Saute on
ion and garlic in
hot fat until ten
der but do not
brown. Add toma
toes, salt, pepper, /
sugar and cay- l
enne. Heat to boiling, then add
Lynn Says:
No Waste, No Want: Rationing
and decreased supplies of food
have diminished our leftover
problem, but not entirely done
away with it. That’s why I’m
passing on these thoughts of
what-to-do:
Use cooked meat or fish sea
soned and moistened with cream
in between the omelet. Vegeta
bles, put through a sieve mois
tened with cream, butter or gra
vy are good, too.
Stewed tomatoes go together
with scrambled eggs. Especially
nice is a rating scrambled eggs
get with minced tongue, chicken
or ham. Use them if you only
have a half a cupful.
Sweeten fruit juices with sugar
and thicken with one tablespoon
of cornstarch. Yes, mighty good
on hot puddings—cottage, apple,
or brown betty puddings!
This Week’s Menu
Pot-Luck Supper
•Baked Shrimp Salad
Julienne Green Beans
Mustard Sauce
•Apple-Walnut Muffins
•Wilshire Salad
Cranberry Fingers
•Recipe Given
chicken, mushrooms, and pour over
spaghetti. Toss with fork and sprin
kle with grated cheese. Bake in a
moderate (350-degree) oven about
30 minutes.
For ease in serving, and ease on
your budget serve your salad course
with the hot bread and skip dessert!
It’s a smart and simple note in
budget suppers:
•Wilshire Salad.
(Serves 8)
1 head lettuce or romalne
4 slices pineapple
1 grapefruit, peeled and sectioned
1 red apple, sliced
V* pound grapes, cleaned
1 orange peeled and sectioned
Mayonnaise
Line salad bowl with lettuce or
romaine. Arrange fruit in an order
ly but pretty pattern, alternating
slices of pineapple with apple, and
orange sections with grapefruit.
Sprinkle halved grapes (seeded)
over whole of bowl, or place clus
ters of grapes among other fruit.
Serve with mayonnaise.
You can take the B-r-r-r- out of
winter by serving a delicious hot
bread that breaks open like a twink
and when spread with butter is the
answer to perfection!
Apple-Walnut Muffins.
(Makes 12 medium)
2 cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
lA teaspoon salt
A teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons mild salad oil
1 cup raw, grated apple
H cup broken walnut kernels
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Com
bine egg, milk and salad oil and add
a _ a..•_a_
to flour mixture,
stirring only until
mixed. Fold in
apple and nuts.
Drop by spoonfuls
into greased muf- .
fin tins, filling % L
full. Bake in a hot ^
(425-degree) oven \ a
for 20 to 30 min
utes, according to
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me size oi me mumns.
It’s a pleasure to bring freshly
baked bread to the table because
it’s a sign you have gone to the
trouble of trying to make the meal
as good as possible. You’ll like the
following nut bread both for table
or lunch-box use.
If you’re using this bread for the
lunchbox, slice it thinly, spread with
cream cheese, blended with apple
sauce, or cream cheese with crisply
fried, drained and crumbled bacon.
Brazil Nut Quick Bread.
(Makes 1 5-by-9-inch loaf)
3 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
'A cup sugar
1 cup chapped Brazil nuts
1 egg
l A cups milk
3 tablespoons melted shortening
Sift dry ingredients together, add
nuts. Beat egg, add milk and short
ening. Stir quickly Into dry ingredi
ents. Pour into a greased loaf pan
and bake in a moderate (350-degree)
oven 1 hour.
What problems or recipes are most
on your mind these winter days? Write
to Lynn Chambers for expert advice on
your parlicular problem, at Western
Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, III. Please be sure to
enclose a stamped, self-<iddressed en
velope for your reply.
Released by Weatern Newspaper Union.
PATTERNS
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Young Belle.
CHE’LL fancy herself quite a
^ young lady in this lovable dress
with V-neck and cute bodice treat
ment. The tiny puffed sleeves and
sash will make her look still more
feminine and irresistible.
• • •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1743-B Is de
signed for sizes 2. 3, 4, 5 and 6 years.
Size 3 requires ITe yards 35-inch material.
6 yards braid trimming.
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The Questions
1. What instrument is used to
measure illumination?
2. How are postage rates fixed?
3. What was Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur’s father’s rating in the
U. S. army at the age of twenty?
4. Which of the coast lines of the
United States (Pacific, Atlantic or
Gulf of Mexico) is the longest?
5. How many beats does the hu
man heart make in 24 hours?
6. In which ocean is the inter
national date line?
7. Rocky mountain sheep are
popularly called what?
8. A student of conchology is
concerned with what?
9. Who was Evangeline’s lover
in the poem by Longfellow?
10. Women’s worn-out silk stock
ings given as scrap are used for
what purpose in the war?
The Answers
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1. A photometer.
2. By congress.
3. Colonel.
4. Atlantic.
5. More than 100,000.
6. Pacific ocean.
7. Bighorn.
8. Shells and mollusks.
9. Gabriel.
10. Re woven into powder bags
for big guns.
Unseen King
The king of Oyo, head of the
Yeruba tribe, in Nigeria, never
shows his face in public. A veil
of beads is worn to hide his fea
tures. He has 400 wives and some
600 children.
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Wearable Two Ways.
DICTURE this dress in gingham
* with ric-rac around the neck,
buttons to match and the belt of
contrast. Thus you’ll wear it for
home duties. Picture it, too, in
soft, solid color rayon crepe with
a fresh white collar—this is the
version you’ll want to make to
wear for business or for social
events.
• • •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1722-B Is de
signed for sizes 34. 36, 38 , 40. 42, 44.
46 and 48. Size 36 requires, with short
sleeves, 3s,« yards 39-inch material, %
yard for contrasting collar.
Send your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
S30 South Wells St. Chicago.
Enclose 20 cents In coins for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No. Size.
Name ....
Address ...
Stationary Clouds
Clouds sometimes remain sta
tionary for such long periods that
they are given individual names.
One example is a large, low for
mation that appears over the Rock
of Gibraltar and does not move
for as long as 12 days.
Because it is created by moist
winds from the eastern Mediter
ranean, it is known as “The
Levant.”
Rather Late Hour to Be
Changing Instruments
The street musician was tire<
and the motorist agreed to giv
him a lift to the next town.
As they were racing at terrific
speed down a hill, the motorist
suddenly shouted above the noise
of the car: ‘‘What instrument do
you play?”
The musician shouted back:
‘‘The violin!”
The driver crouched over the
steering wheel, peering ahead. He
yelled: ‘‘That’s a pity!”
"Why is it a pity?” demanded
the musician.
‘‘It’s a pity you don’t play the
harp!” yelled the motorist. ‘‘The
brakes won’t work!”
Texas Flower
The bluebonnet, official flower of
Texas, was earlier called buffalo
clover, wolfflower, and the “rab
bit”—“el conejo”—the last because
of the white tip’s resemblance to
a rabbit’s tail. It was given its
present name because it suggests
a woman’s sunbonnet.
Immortal Youth
There is a feeling of Eternity in
youth which makes amends for
everything. To be young is to be
as one of the Immortals.—Hazlitt.
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Relieve fiery itching end
allay further irritation with
active, specially medicated
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No Pushing Nature
We must go slowly and gently
to work with Nature if we would
get anything out of her.—Goethe.
Gas on Stomach
Roliovod in 5 minutes or double money bach
When excess stomach add causes painful, suffemot
Ing gas. sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually
prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known tor
symptomatic relief— medicines like those in Bell-ana
Tobfeta. No laxative Bell-ans brings comfort In o
jiffy or doable /oar money back on return of bottle
to us. 2&c at all druggists.
HOUSEWIVES: ★ ★ ★
Your Waste Kitchen Fats
Are Needed for Explosives
TURN ’EM IN! ★ ★ ★
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pleasant relief. Smith Brothers' contain a spe
cial blend of medicinal ingredients, blended
with prescription care. Still cost only 5f:— yes,
a nickel checks that tickle!
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THE SERVfCE
The favorite ciga
rette with men in the
Army, Navy, Ma
rines, and Coast
Guard is Camel.
(Based on actual sales
records in Post Ex
changes and Can
teens.)
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