Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1943)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1943 PAGE THBE2 TEE JOTTBNA1, PLATTf2aOJJ!fcKJ5&&. RATION POINTS FOR FATS INSPIRE KITCHEN THRIFT Patriotic Women Have Added Incentive To Turn In Fats No Longer Fit For Food Monday, December 13th, for the first time, CPA is allowing extra ra tion points for used household fats turned in to meat dealers. In deciding that two meat ration points are to be paid in addition to the standard four cents a pound for salvaged fats, OPA has given house wives added incentive to participate in supplying raw materials neces sary to the war effort. The government has estimated that Americans throw two billion pounds of tat down the drain and into the garbage every year. Since on the average, each pound of fat yields one tenth of a pound of gly cerine, Americans have been throw ing away 200 million pounds of po tential glycerine. Faced as we are today, with a shortage of fats and oils, both for food and for industrial use, saving used household fat is primarily a patriotic service, one on which the efficient conduct of the war and the maintainance of civilian stand ards of living depends. Because there is just so much fat and oil available in the country today, and the amount is far short of what we normally use, every ounce of fat that can be turned in for in dustrial production counts. Part of our total national supply of fats and oils has been set aside for industrial use, but in order that these shall be adequate for food, both at home and on the fighting fronts, the industrial use of fat is rigidly controlled by government agencies. When therefore, an Ameri can housewife, by economy and care, is able to save some used fat after she has put it to itst utmost use for food, her salvaged fat goes into the national stockpile and helps in the output of munitions, medicines nnd other materials for war and home use. because used household fats turned in from American kitchens actually add to our national re sources, OPA has decided that the extra ration point allowance is simply justice, a replacement of food values as a compensation and recognition of the thrift and initia tive of women who have saved and turned in kitchen fats. OPA hopes to retrieve from American kitchens the 230,000,000 pounds of used fat needed to meet industry's fats and oils quota, and a tablespoon a day, saved in every home, will do this. "Recent government studies show that while most American women. 96 percent of them, to be exact, know that, the Government : wants their used fats, only 52 , percent have actually turned in the fats at any time since the campaign start ed," explains Roy W. Peet, chairman of the American Fat Salvage Com mittee. "And it seems quite probable that our entire current volume is being obtained from as few as one third of the total number of housewives. Our task then, is to bring the re maining two thirds into active and continuing participation in the pro gram." ' 'K ' ' -i Investigations reveal that ' many women who should be and are not saving their used fats,- either hon estly believe they have no inedible fats, or are in doubt as to what to save and how to save it. Rationing has straightened out women's thinking in the matter of edible fats. It has taught them, the hard way, if they didn't know it before, to save their bacon fat and suet, and to use it over in their preparation of food. And because they are now getting greater use of their fats than ever before, they think they are using all their fats They have the mistaken idea that the fat they sell back to , the butcher should be the white fat they now shorten buscuits with, and it is hard for them to relize that this is just the fat that the Gov ernment wants used as food. As long as fat has food value, it should not be turned in for salvage. The fat wanted for salvage ia the Etale, even rancid fat, too strongly flavored for cooking, the brown is scrapings from the -broiler pan, or what is left after onions or. fish have been cooked. Such fat has lost its food value, but yields glycerine and other by-products just as the more appetizing fats do. Many women feel that since they ave only a little used fat to save every day,, it isn't worth saving and that what is left in the skillet or the broiler might just as well be thrown away. The fact is no amount too small to save,' and not a ingle drop should be wasted. Thirty one tablespoons add up to a pound of fat, and a pound a month from each family will 'meet the national quota. , . , The method of preparation stops some women, because mey imagine it is a difficult process. Quite the contrary js true, however. Fats should be melted down, either, In the oven or over a low flames or in a double boiler. Any can, such bb soup or vegetables come in, will do for a container, and the can should be kept in a cool place until it is full, then turned' in to a meat dealer. it ayt, 1 x t!l - Kits! y AlllPillil-f -"Jf-?- ' f cart)- i rf f - wi4tewww rifo i' Subscriptions taken for all magazines An Ideal Christmas Gift for large and small TOILET SETS I BOOK ENDS ) Bill Folds $2.00 to $12.50 $a-co to $5-50 , $1.00 to $3.50 VASES, o Glass, Manicure Sets Key Cases Pottery or China 75 $1-00, $1.15 25 to $1.50 5 to $3.50 " ' ' :: Perume Bottles Leather Fitted Salt and Pepper $1.00 and $1.50 cases or Men Shaker Sets - . $4.00 to $11.50 25c to $1.65 Console Sets 1 - W-SO to $4.50 Flower Bowls Brooches, Beads Ear Rings Water Sets $1.00, $1.50, $2.50 50c to $2.00 Pitcher, Glasses . $1.35 to $3.00 Coin Purses CRYSTAL ' 25 to $1.00 Sugar & Creamer SATIONERY !! $1.25 $1.35 $1.50 55, 75, $1.00 PIPES 25 50, $1.00, $1.50 Center Piece Military " Fruit Bowls Brush Sets Cigarette Cases $1.50 to $5.50 J 75 to $1.65 50 and $1.00 A complete line of Tags, Seals, Ribbons and gift wrapping paper. Christmas Cards, Box assortment, also Relative, Humerous and Religious Cards. BATES BOOK STORE Canada Relaxes Ban On Liquor House Committee Qi Hershey uizes On Father Draft Chairman May of Committee Claims Draft Officials Have Been "Lying to Congress" Manufacturing Gives Monthly Report Washington. Dec. 11. (UP) MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, "was callcrd before the House Military- Aairs. commit tee today to explain why draft ottl cials have , beep "lying to congregs' about the induction of pre-war fath ers. ' ! ' t -. 5. . i The charge was made by Chairman Andrew, J. sMay, D.,, Ky., who an nounced that Hershey will appear at a closed meeting to explain in detail future policy i under newly enacted father draft" law. May said the legislation, announc ed yesterday to have been signed by President Roosevelt, was intended to delay the Induction of pre-Peaf 1 Harbor fathers and "that draft ' of- 4 i ' f icials have ' advised that the policy is being carried out. 'But he ' said he understood father's already ar being called and that' Hershey has been predicting that 1,009,000 will be in uniform by next ( july 1. . , "We're going to find ou if selec tive service is going, to carry out the intent of congress," he snap ped. "They've been Jying to ub telling us one thing .and doing an other." . . ; , . ; I . ,., The law strips War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt of all author ity over selective service and trans fers final control to Hershey. Its enactment raised the prospect that McNutt might resign In. protest, bnt he declined , comment, on that poasi bilty. ;; : Immediately altef' " the ' White House announced Mr. Roosevelt had signed the bill: - 1. McNutt abolished'; the WMG's list of non-deferrable .activities which was Instituted as a means of channeling' labor into essential fields. The regulations, wiped out by ' the statute, provided that per sons failing to switch rto essential obs faced immediate induction -re gardless of dependency. - 2. Hershey instructed draft boards to abolish the 3-A classification for fathers and reclassify all registrants now in that category. They are to b placed in one of (the following classes: 1-A for immediate induc tion; 2-A as occupatlonally deferred; 3-D as dependency, hardship . cases; 1A-9 as conscientious objectors will ing to accept non-combat service; and 4-E as conscientious objectors willing to accept work of national importance. r;'.-"- : Senate Committee to Investigate Why U. S. Cannot Also Give Great er Scope to Distillers Washington, Dec. 11. (UP) Revelation that Canada has relaxed Its liquor-manufacturing ban and is permitting production of some alco holic beverages today spurred mem bers of a senate subcommittee inves tigating the liquor shortage to de mand why the United States can not declare a similar respite. , . At the conclusion of the subcom mittees first day of hearings, Chair man Frederick van Nuys, D., Ind., said war food administration and war production board representa tives would be called to tell wheth er grains are available for resump tion of alcoholic beverage manufac ture on a limited scale. However, It was expected WFA officials would reply with figures showing an extreme shortage of grain particularly feed grain need ed for livestock. ,WPB chiefs have indicated from time to time that they were ready to permit distillers to devote some of their facilities to liquor manufac ture- . ' Senator Homer : Ferguson. R., Mich., said he understood, Canada as able to return to the distillation of alcoholic beverages because it met its 12-months quota of indus trial alcohol manufacture in 10 and one-haif months. Van Nuys declared that unless the United States replenishes liquor sup ply, national rationing is inevitable. He recommended, revising the liquor tax law to compel release from bonded warehouses of 117,400, 000 gallons of four-year-old liquors which under the present levy system may remain in warehouses for eight years. . Report to Cass county commis sioners on Public Health nursing ac tivities, for November, 1943: Maternity Service Expectant mothers dismissed 2 Expectant mothers visited 2 New mothers admitted 2 New mothers dismissed 3 New mothers visited 5 Infant Service New infants admitted 2 New infants visited 7 Preschool Service Admissions 1 Visits 1 School Service Children inspected 2 4 Children admitted 9 Children visited 16 Classroom Health Talks It Attendance - 182 Conference with teachers and Board Members 40 Adult Hygiene Public Lectures and talks 1 Attendance 10 Morbidity Admissions 3 Visits 18 Sanitation Activities Dairy Inspections 8 Water Samples Taken 1 Water Plant Inspections 5 Septic Tank Inspections 1 School Inspections .4 Wed at Court House On Friday afternoon at the court house, Judge Paul E. Fauquet was called on to read the marriage lines for Edward Alfred Carston, Omaha, anil Virginia Loraine Wil liams of Kansas City, Missouri. The wedding was witnessed by Mrs. Robert Ray, and Miss Minnie Hild, the clerk in the office of the judge. This was the first wedding cere mony performed by Judge Fauquet since taking office on December 1st. Suffers from Flu Nation Needs Good Man Salt Lake, City, Utah, Decr 11. (UP) Clarence Buddington Kell and, author and republican leader, believes the nation needs "a good man rather than a great man as president. Kelland,' national GOP committee man from Arizona, made the state ment in addressing 150 republicans from 11 states attending a "Save American Republican Powwow." He condemned as "unforgiveable" the administration's "destruction of the self respect of the American people." Gov. John C. Vivian of Colorado said government bureaucracy was 'illegal, unlawful, uneconomic and un-American." "The republican party will see to it . that individual initiative and competitive' enterprise are restored to the American ; people, and that the asinine, uneconomic theories of the New Deal 'are jeplaced by the systems of supply and demand, prof it and loss and ! the right of the in dividual to live his own life as he chooses." ; - - . ' i The meeting was called to build republican strength In the west. Plan Reconversion New York, -Dec. 11. -(UP) Gen eral Motors Corporation is prepared to spend $500,000,000 to reconvert its automotive plant; ; from-, war 'pro duction to peace time output "to help preserve' the free competitive enterprise system," Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of the board, revealed last night. The industrialist outlined the company's post war '"master plan" at the closing session of the Nation al Association of Manufacturers Second War Congress of American Industry . - .'" To Await Call Cairo, Dec. 11. (UP) King George of Greece announced today he was prepared to postpone his re turn to his country, now in axis hands, until the desire of his sub Jects is clarified. t - He described nis gesture aa an effort to eliminate strife between the' political' factions in" Greece.""" Mrs. Fred II. Vincent has been confined to her home for the past few days as the result of the prevail ing flu epidemic. The illness has kept her from her work at the bomb er plant. Leave For Training Friday evening Robert Grassman, Herbert W. Johnson and John D. Daniels of this city, departed from Omaha in company with a number of other trainees for Farragut, Idaho, where they will enter the naval training station. After their 'boot" training they will be home for a furlough before being assign ed to service. Receives Promotion The promotion was announced Friday by the war . department of William A. Metzger, Cedar Creek. from second to first lieutenant, ord nance department. Lieutenant Metz ger was formerly state senator from the Cass-Sarpy district and the many friends here will be pleased to learn of his advancement- Visit Ailing Relative C. A... Johnson, former mayor, de parted this morning for Holton, Kan sas, where he will visit at the home of a brother-in-law. Ruben Larson. who has been quite ill. Returns from West Mrs. Harry Henton returned Wed nesday from the western part of the state where she has been visiting the past ten days, at the home of a sis ter, Mrs. Charles Countrymen, at Oshkosh, Nebraska. Married in Omaha Friday afternoon in Omaha Miss Alma Moore of this city was mar ried to Louis Nuzun, in a very quiet ceremony at the city hall. Mrs. Cla rence Moore, of this city, mother of the bride, witnessed the wedding, After a short visit n Council Bluffs with relatives of the groom, they are going to the farm of a brother of the groom in northern Iowa."'- - - ANNOUNCEMENT The BRINK HATCHERY o Plattsmoufh is now an authorized agent or: mannas ffinifflJntt'y EARLY '"ORDER DISCOUNTS and FREE FARM RECORD BOOKS have been mailed. If you . did not; receive your; " ; copy, ?plione , ?or-; write us : and we will - send it ' to i . you V; immediately: V;Qrder your 'Baby CliicksNOW for next season and Save -Money. r Also you will get the chicks you want at the time you want them: : " BRINK HATtHERY " ' Phone 107 Nebraska City, Nebr. Phone 128 1943 sins DECEMBER 1943 SAT Liii JEJl-Z. A.JLIQ. 11 12 13 141516 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 261271281291301311 PRINTING that pleases PRINTING that gets results THERE'S no use in lighting a firecracker merely to hear a s-s-z-z-z; you light it because you want to hear it go "B-A-N-G!" That's our business . . .'.to give you the type of printing that will do the most effective work. PRINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES! TAGS TICKETS POSTERS PAMPHLETS BOOKLETS PLACARDS RULED FORMS BLOTTERS CIRCULARS SALES BILLS SALES BOOKS ANNOUNCEMENTS INVITATIONS GREETING CARDS CHRISTMAS CARDS VISITING CARDS SOCIAL STATIONERY BUSINESS STATIONERY BUSINESS ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS PLATTSM0UTH JOURNAL n