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Fry Chicken Until Golden and Crisp
(See Recipes Below)
Summer’s Best Fare
I.i there m better looking sight than
crisply frie-d, golden brown chicken
nestling close to
lacy, green cu
cumbers and
moist red slices
of tomato? Yes.
that’s the (04
question and the
answer's right in
the picture.
Chicken is fine food and it wears
its Sunday beat when fried to suc
culent brownnejs. It’s light enough
t* make a summer meal well bal
anced and good enough to be satis
fying to all branches of the fam
ily
There are many schools of thought
on the question of how chicken
should be fried Some prefer it bat
ter-fried. otliers tike lust the dusting
of bread crumbs or flour on it. Take
your choice from these tasty reci
pes
Maryland Fried Ctdckeo.
(Serves 4)
I t-psusd chicken.
H cap flour
Halt and pepper
1 beaten egg
t tablcapseon* water
1H eups Ane, dry bread crumbs
I H cup drippings
' Cleun chicken and cut into frying
pieces. Roll in flour seasoned with
salt and pepper. Dip into beaten
egg mixed with water, then into
crumbs. Brown on both sides in hot
fat; cover and cook slowly or bake
in moderately slow (300 to 330-de
gree) oven about 1 hour. Make
gravy from drippings. Pour over
chicken and serve from a bowl.
'Country Fried Chiekea.
< Serves 8 to 81
8 V|*«uml chickens
I cup flour
IS tablespoons salt
1 teaapoon pepper
14 tablespoons paprika
Fat
Clean chickens and cut into serv
ing pieces. Mix flour and season
ings Dip chicken lightly into flour
mixture Lightly browm on both sides
in fat. Add a little water; cover
closely and cook over low heat for
1 hour. Uncover to brown and crisp.
Lynn Says
Tricky Tips When glassware
has chipped slightly on the drink
ing edge. smooth it out with an
emery txjard or sandpaper to
make it smooth.
To make delicious flavored tea,
add a little grated orange rind to
it before serving. It imparts a
delicate fragrance and saves
sugar.
Lemons which have been heat
ed slightly will yield twice as
much juice as chilled ones. Cover
lemons with hot water for a few
minutes before extracting juice.
To flour chops or chicken pieces
before frying, place in a brown
paper bag with bread crumbs or
flour and shake. This will coat
the meat evenly and not leave
excess in pan after frying.
If the family objects to biting
into a bit of garlic in spaghetti
or other sauce, spear the clove
of garlic with a toothpick and re
move it before serving.
Add leftover sausage bacon or
meat balls to potatoes when fry
ing for extra delicious flavor.
Here are some suggestions for
tlie use of leftovers: Broccli may
be made into a delightful cream
soup, or if there is too much for
soup, arrange it on the bottom of
a shallow casserole, rover with
thin slices of leftover chicken or
meat or flaked fish, top with
cheese sauce and brown in the
oven, o
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Menu*
•Fried Chicken garnished with
Tomatoes and Cucumber
Corn Pudding
Tossed Green Salad
Buttermilk Biscuits with
Strawberry Jam
Sliced Cantaloupe with
Fresh Berry Sauce
Iced Coffee
Light and pretty enough for even
the hottest days of the season are
these two splendid egg main dishes:
Eggs A La King.
(Serves 6)
6 hard-cooked eggs, diced
2 tablespoons catsup
H cup cooked or canned peaa
2 tablespoons chopped pun lento
1 cup sliced, canned mushrooms
2 cups medium white sauce
6 slices tomato
6 slices buttered toast
Carefully com
bine all ingredi
ent* except toma
to slices and
toast. Heat thor
oughly in double
boiler. Broil to
mato slices 5
minutes. Place
on toast and pour
over creamed
mixture.
Ham and Egg Souffle.
(Serves 8)
*4 nip diced ham
3 slices egg
3 slightly beaten eggs
1 cup milk
4 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon dry mustard
V4 teaspoon paprika
Brush bread with bacon drip
pings; cut slices into small pieces
to fit deep casserole. Arrange in
layers, sprinkling each with ham.
Combine eggs, milk and seasonings.
Pour over bread. Bake in a mod
erate (350-degree) oven until puffy
and mixture does not adhere to in
serted knife, about 45 minutes.
Summer desserts accent fruit and
make a tasty, mouth-watering com
bination. Here are two suggestions
which you will want to make use of
some time this summer:
Summer Apple Tarts.
(Serves 5)
3 cups sliced apples
'i cup honey or dark corn syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon
% teaspoon nutmeg
'i teaspoon grated orange rind
'4 tablespoon butter
5 baked tart shells
Mix together sugar, spices and or
ange grind. Add to apples and toss
together Fill pas
try shells with
apple mixture.
Dot with butter.
Bake in a hot
oven 15 to 18 min
utes. If desired,
these may be
topped with beaten egg white or bits i
of American cheese.
Parisian Peaches.
(Serves 6)
2'i cups cooked sliced or halved
peaches
2 cups milk
2 eggs
3 tablespoons sugar
'it teaspoon salt
teaspoon vanilla
Chill peaches well after cooking.
Beat egg yolks, add sugar and then
blend in scalded milk slowly. Cook
in double boiler, stirring constantly
until mixture coats the spoon. Add
salt. Chill thoroughly, then fold in
vanilla and beaten egg whites. Ar
range drained peaches in a serving
dish and pour custard sauce over
them. Sprinkle with toasted
almonds or slivered Brazil nuts, if
desired.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Ten Per Cent of Army Veterans Want to Be Farmers;
Seven Per Cent Hope to Start Small Businesses
._ A_
Half Will Work for
Wages Once More;
8% Going to School
By WALTER A. SIIEAD
WNU Washington Correspondent
Seventy-flve per cent of the of
ficer* and enlisted men in the Unit
ed States army have definite idea*
about what they intend to do "when
they get back home." Another 20
per cent have made tentative plans
for their postwar work. A survey
by the research branch of the in
formation and education division of
the army shows that:
Fifty-two per cent, roughly
4,000,000 men, plan to work for
salary and wages;
Seven per cent, or about a half
million men. Intend to go Into
small businesses, retail and
service trades mostly, for them
selves.
Ten per cent, or more than
750,000 men, plan to operate
farms;
Eight per cent, or about 600,
000, plan to go to school. The
remainder have made only ten
tative decisions or are unde
cided.
The army, however, points out
that at least three (actors must be
taken into consideration in Interpret
ing the results of the survey: (1)
the length of the war; (2) economic
opportunity after demobilization;
(3) an increasing percentage may
seriously consider attending full
time school, opening a business or
buying a farm under G.I. Bill of
Rights provisions.
One interesting feature of this sur
vey reveals that 80 per cent of the
white enlisted men plan to return to
the states in which they lived be
fore entering the service. This
leaves 20 per cent who may migrate
to another section of the country.
As a matter of fact, 10 per cent, or
about 750,000 men, definitely antici
pate moving to another state, the
other 10 per cent being still unde
cided. This ratio is heavier in the
Negro enlisted personnel where only
about two-thirds expect to go back
to the same state In which they re
aided in civilian life.
Young Men Going West.
The great majority plan to mi
grate to the Far West. Among the
Negroes, the greater shift Is from
the South to the northeastern states.
If the indicated shifts materialize
among these returning servicemen
they may happen as follows:
I.—A rapid expansion to the Pa
cific coast states.
t.—In-migration, but on a much
■mailer scale into the Industrialized
east north central states.
3. —No net movement, in-go bal
ancing out-go in the New England,
middle Atlantic and mountain
states, and,
4. —A heavy out-migration from
the highly agricultural areas run
ning from the west north central
states through the entire tier of
southern states.
If the plans for 7 per cent of our
soldiers to enter business for them
selves materialize, it means crea
tion of a little more than a half mil
lion new firms in the small busi
ness field, or just about the number
which went out of business in the
two-year period following Pearl
Harbor. A great majority of these,
about 52 per cent, will enter the
retail trade . . . radio stores, filling
stations, shoes, hardware and gen
eral merchandise outlets. About 16
per cent plan to go into the service
fields, 9 per cent into wholesale
and small manufacturing. 8 per cent
into transportation and public utili
ties, 6 per cent into construction,
the other 9 per cent being spread
over all other industries.
Of the three-quarters of a million
men who plan to take up farming
either as owners or farm workers,
the survey shows that 9 out of 10
have had at least a year or more of
full-time farming behind them. Only
about 2 per cent have had no farm
ing experience at all. Even the men
with relatively vague plans for
farming have had considerable pre
vious farming experience. One out
of four of those who seriously plan
to farm, already owns a farm. These
men are the least inclined to mi
grate, this survey shows, and the
great majority of the prospective
farmers plan to return to the same
region from which they entered the
army. By and large, they expect to
go back to the same type of farm
ing with which they are familiar.
These three-quarters of a million
men who plan farming as a career,
are, roughly equivalent to the total
who were farming just prior to in
duction, although induction records
show that more than a million and a
half men have been taxon from the
farms. These, however, included
farm youths who were in school and
were not classed actually as farm
ers.
Not Room for All on Land.
According to the army, the
chances are that the nation’s farms
will not be able to absorb all of the
men planning to return to them, in
spite of the current shortage of a
million farm workers. The army
says that rural areas normally pro
duce more young men and women
than can be efficiently utilized on
the farm. The problem may very
well become acute considering the
wartime increase in farm produc
tion achieved by more efficient use
of labor on fewer farms.
A little more perspective on the
this group definitely plans to seek
governmental jobs. The federal
government now is by far the larg
est employer in the country and the
monthly report of the Civil Service
commission as of May 1, the lat
est report, shows paid employment
in continental United States totaled
2,897,077, of which 2,001,186 were in
the war agencies. Of this number,
only 252,054 are in Washington.
While war cutbacks are expected
to decrease this number somewhat,
government work is expected to
maintain the upward trend which
has prevailed since the last war.
State and local governments nor
mally employ more than twice as
many persons as does the federal
EXPECTED POST-WAR MIGRATION PATTERN Of WHITE.CRUSTED MEN
(WIDTH Of GAR REPRESENTS PERCENTAGE Of ALL WHITE MIGRANTS)
problem may be had by a further
analysis of the intentions of these
men definitely* planning to farm. In
the first place, the survey makes
it clear that a much larger propor
tion of the men want to become
farm operators, by either buying or
renting, than were farm operators
before the war. A majority say
they can count on returning to a
tract of land which they or their
families own ... or they already
have in mind a specific piece of
land they expect to buy or rent
However, one out of every three in
dicate they will need to locate a
farm to rent or buy after leaving
the army.
So if the plans of all these pro
spective farmers materialise, there
will be thousands of veterans look
ing for farms in the postwar period
. . . and they very well may come
up against a shortage of good land,
which may, too, be selling at much
higher prices than before the war.
So there is fear on the part of the
army that many of these men may
be forced to settle on cheaper sub
marginal land.
The army points out that relief
would be possible on this score if
large sections of public domain or
reclaimed land becomes available.
About one out of six veterans said
they would be willing to move on
such tracts of land.
The same thing is true with re
spect to the farmer-serviceman as
with the prospective business man
. . . most of them are thinking of
investing sums ranging up to $4,000.
This may be compared with the de
partment of agriculture estimates of
$5,000 to $8,000 as the average cost
of the family sized farm, not count
ing necessary tools, equipment, live
stock, etc. ... So these prospective
farmers will also need financial
help. How many will actually end
up on the farm will depend on this
aid, and on the comparative oppor
tunities offered by industry and ag
riculture after the war.
In conjunction with the American
Historical association, the Armed
Forces institute has prepared a
booklet entitled “Shall I Take Up
Farming?” which is available at the
Government Printing Office, Wash
ington 25. D. C.
Most Will Work for Wages.
Of course by far the greatest seg
ment of the armed forces plan to
work for wages on their return. Two
aspects of the plans of these four
million men are noteworthy. First,
only one-third of the white enlisted
men who were employees before
induction and plan to be employees
after the war, definitely expect to
go back to their former employers.
Another one-third say they may re
turn, but are not sure. This leaves
another million men who will either
migrate and move to other jobs or
who have learned new trades and
expect to do different work.
As a matter of fact the tendency
among a large percentage of these
servicemen is to aspire for work
calling for a higher level of skill and
in general, the proportion who plan
to pursue their prewar occupations
declines as one proceeds along the
occupational scale. Five per cent of
government, and the five years im
mediately following the war are ex
pected to see more than a million
and a quarter jobs opening in this
field.
Favorable employment opportuni
ties and special considerations for
veterans are expected to draw prob
ably 10 per cent of the 52 per cent
who plan to work for wages and
salaries, into this federal, state and
local government field.
Many Returning to School.
Veterans counting on going back
to full-time school after the war is
nearing the 600,000 mark.
That most of these will enter col
lege is indicated from the fact that
more than 9 in 10 are high school
graduates. The army points out
that this war has brought about the
first large decrease in college en
rollment since the turn of the cen
tury and that non-military enroll
ments in colleges and universities
dropped 44 per cent after the first
two years of war. Civilian college
and university students in 1943 num
bered smaller than 20 years ago.
The deficit of college trained men,
particularly acute in the liberal arts
and teaching fields, will continue to
accumulate as the war goes on. In
view of these facts, it is interesting
to note that the two most popular
courses picked out by servicemen
are engineering and architecture,
and the liberal arts and sciences.
Engineering Most Popular.
Other courses mentioned include
business administration, pre-medic,
medicine and dentistry, agriculture,
law, education, journalism and the
ology. In general about one man
In five is considering courses of
study which can be classified as lib
eral arts and sciences,' and the re
mainder are thinking in terms of
professional and technical speciali
zation, with engineering leading the
field.
Another point of particular sig
nificance is that this full-time school
course will take these men out of
the labor market, about half a mil
lion of them. But the same thing
cannot be true of another large
group, about 18 per cent additional,
or about 1,300,000, who plan to at
tend part-time school, that is work
and go to school at the same time.
Three-fourths of these students de
sire trade and business school
courses. These also are in an older
group and about one-third are mar
ried.
There is one more section of vet
erans which the survey classified.
These were a group of about 3 per
cent, about 225,000 who said they
definitely plan to stay in the army.
Up to more than 10 per cent who
would consider re-enlistment under
certain specific conditions. Two ma
jor considerations which will govern
the actions of this segment are (1)
the terms under which re-enlist
ments will be offered, including re
tention of rank, choice of service,
duration of enlistment and opportu
nity for commissions, and (2) the
kind and opportunities for civilian
jobs which will be available after
the war.
regional distribution of men planning to farm full-time
(Percent of men with definite clans)
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Released by Western Newspaper Union.
BY VIRGINIA VALE
Frances langford,
who’s doing such a swell
job on that radio program
that she heads, got just what
she wanted in a scene for
RKO’s "Radio Stars on Pa
rade.” Starred with Wally
Brown and Alan Carney in
the musical, which has “Truth or
Consequences” Ralph Edwards.
Skinilay Ennis and his band, Fran
ces found the studio set the scene of
a revival of Hollywood slapstick
technique. This included the use of
custard pies as missiles. "Ever
FRANCES LANGFORD
since I started making pictures I’ve
wanted to throw a pie at someone,”
said she. "It seemed such fun. I
found it was.” Alan Carney was on
the receiving end of the pastry, and
found Frances’ aim as good as her
voice.
-*
When George Burns and Gracie
Allen left the air for the summer,
they agreed not to speak of their
radio work again till it came time
to prepare for the fall series. Viola*
tion of the pact to cost the violator
a dollar. George owes Gracie $28,
she owes him $18.
-*
After 10 years of starring male
names exclusively, ‘‘Your Hit Pa
rade” shatters a precedent by star
ring Joan Edwards, who’s been on
the program four years. She also
gets a big salary boost and a long- j
term contract. Joan’s lucky star ;
(and a lot of good hard work, plus
plenty of talent) have put her right
on top. She returned home from Hol
lywood with offers from 20th Cen
tury-Fox and Warner Bros.
-*
Glenn Vernon, Robert Clarke and
Jim Jordan Jr., have been cast to
play inmates of the notorious 18th
century London lunatic asylum Bed
lam, in ‘‘Chamber of Horrors,” at
their own request. The canny young
men realized that those roles are
sure scene-stealers.
-&
Andy Russell not only has a gilt
edged voice, he also has the golden
touch, apparently. Recently Andy,
who makes his screen debut in
“Stork Club,” bought a metal plat
ing plant on the Los Angeles East
Side, where he was born. And
promptly got a large government
order, as well as some for the civil
ian market. His brother, Freddy Ra
bago, runs the plant for him.
Betty Hutton presented “gradu
ating” members of B. G. DeSylva's
“Stork Club” company with war i
bonds wrapped to resemble diplo- j
mas when shooting on the picture
was finished. They were distributed
from a basket decorated with a J
stork in cap and gown.
Eddie Bracken’s fans came
through with more than 150 sug
gestions for naming the new baby.
after.it was announced that they’d
expected a boy, to be named Mi
chael. Most of the fans suggested
"Michelle.” But the Brackens set
tled on Caroline Jean.
Clark Gable and Joan Blondell
warble "The Trolley Song” for a
short sequence In Metro’s "The
Strange Adventure,” in which he
stars with Greer Garson. When she
found that they were also to sing
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm,”
Miss Blondell turned to Director
Victor Fleming and demanded “WTio
are we—\elson Gable and Jeanette
Blondell?” Who knows—maybe this
Is the beginning of a new singing
team.
—*—
Connee Boswell, who first became
known as a member of the Boswell
Sisters, has been signed for an im
portant role in “Swing Parade,” the
Monogram musical starring Gale
Storm and Phil Regan. Among other
numbers, Connee will sing “Stormy
Weather."
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ODDS AND ENDS—Vacationing at
Newport beach, Humphrey Bogart tact
lessly laughed when the new Mrs.
Bogart s*l down on the rail, slipped,
and landed in the water. . . . Anna
Lee’s first picture since becoming an
American citizen is the Boris Karloff
“Chamber of Horrors." . . . (Chen he's
not acting in Pine-Thomas thrillers
Boh Lowery hies him to Laguna beach
and dives for abalone. . . . Edward
Gargan has played reel cops so fre
quently that he swears real policemen
mistake him for some fellow whose
face is familiar, hut whose name they
can't recall. . . , Gene Krupa to lecture
on native African drumming.
Salt Box and a Pan
Holder Rack to Make
TJ ERE is a pair of gifts that will
A -l bring joy to any homemak
er. The salt box has the graceful
proportions of those used in Colo
nial kitchens, and the rack with
[CUTPROM
6-BOARD
HOOKS FOR COOKING ^
SPOONS OR PAN HOLDERS
FOR CUTTIN6
BOARD AND
STENCILING WITH
CRAYON OR PAINT
cup hooks screwed in place for hot
pan holders is designed to har
monize with the box.
Both box and rack are easy to cut out
of plywood or thin lumber scraps—either
by hand with a coping saw or with a jig
saw. The quaint stencil design may be
applied right on the wood with wax crayon
and then shellacked to fix the color. This j
washable finish brings out the brilliance '
of the crayon colors and at the same
time gives a soft antique finish. The sten
cil also may be used with oil paint if pre
ferred.
• • •
NOTE—Mrs. Spears has prepared an
actual-size pattern for all the pieces of this
salt box and the kitchen rack with step
by-step directions for making. A pattern
and color guide with complete directions
for the stencil design is also included.
The pattern may be used over and over
for decorating canisters, place mats and
other attractive gifts. Ask for pattern
251 and enclose 15 cents which covers cest
and mailing. Address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 251.
Name____
Address___
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