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n ^«; v tf'Z. •' • V-"/ T", ' " !- • ^Thursday, March 25, 1943 . ; * ^ ,V.° "6- . 7!V '•»*» . . •'*: •?. •.»"« ' ' - *n. r - £v/'**V •», *•«•,*• "r;^\ *,*7v'£A * s • • . * . ---• W - t - vJ ' iv,' '>, v« - T -v THE McHENEY PLAINDKALEE ^ r 3 , -*« ' ?\ PT * 'V , ; •/•: v* </* -7$V, -r ^ l-\» A'• ' Page Three IJgj&ieJ "aJ."* *" T o l d YEARS AGO NEARBY NEWS E. F. Wichman, Sr., a Barrington I blacksmith for almost half a century, has sold his business to Frank Malone, he announced last -week. Mr. Wichman, one of Barrington's oldest business men from the point of years of service, came to the village in 1895. He had learned the blacksmith trade in Dundee, and established his' business in Barrington 48 years ago. Wednesday evening, March 17, about 5 o'clock, Rev. Kuehl, pastor of the St. John's Lutheran church, in The stone has been hauled for an, Union, noticed from the parish house •fldition to the Catholic church in this ! next door, that ^ a fire had started in village. | the church. He gave the alarm at C. B. Curtis will occupy the cheese j once, but a high wind made it difficult, Victory building, near the red bridge, j to put out the flames. Before the fire jfor a pickle factory the coming sea- could be extinguished the inside of the Mn. {church was destroyed. The exact Hunters are bringing in a few! amount of the damage is not known, Vktcks these days, but they are not j but it will be at least several thou- *®ry many yet. i sand dollars. ' " John H. Doran, who lately sold his' farm in the town of Nunda, has purchased a residence in Elgin, and Will BMV« fi? that city this spring. • \ ; '"FIFTY TEARS AGO HEW KATIOMOra ; . «RDEK BEGINS ONMAECH29 No' meat, no bones, so even Fido must suffer when the rationing of meat, in addition to several other items, goes into ©ffect next week. The few stores which were open last Sunday did a rushing business for a few hours following the announcement that retail sales of butter, margarine, shortening and cooking and salad oils would be halted for one week starting midnight. Sunday, March 21. Wholesalers are not affected by the new order. Retail sales will resume the morning of March 29 under rationing restrictions. Buyers will be required to surrender red stamps from ration book No. 2 when buying these products. Housewives will continue to use blue stamps from book No. 2 for carined goods. Rationing of meat and cheese also will go into effect March 29. Each holder of a ration book will be allotted 16 ration points a week Which may be used in the purchases of meat, cheese, butter, lard and edible fats and oils. Point Values Point values of the various cuts of meat, types of cheese, and for butter, margarine, lard, shortening and aalad and -cooking oils are being announced If the housewife does not Our Washington Letter REPRESENTATIVE NICK KELLER INTRODUCES ' MEASURES IN HOUSE Nick Keller, a member of the Illi- Prevent Vegetable Stains Vegetables that stain the hand* should be peeled in hot water. --By • -L-'s" National Editorial Association nois House of Representatives, has in- NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE _ troduced in the State Legislature Estate of L Charles J. Bender, Deiseveral bills Which friends of his in j ceased. i this community will be interested ih j Notice is hereby given "to all^perhearing about. j sons that May 3, 1943, is the claim He recently introduced a measure'date in the estate of Charles J. Washington, March 31-Two do- : which provides that $800.00 a year j Bender, Deceased, pending in the mestic issues--manpower and taxes-| ,may P*,d f£r any ^f^er, regard-; County Court of McHenry County absorb the attention of the nation's ' ess of h,s °/ hef ***• ^siring to re-; Illinois, and that claims may be filed lawmakers this week. Administration !re °" or after J&n™r* 19f' Wlth i ^f^the estete on or before sa.d Consumption ol Goat's Milk Consumption of goat's milk in Am U. S. is more than 16 million pounds daily during the summer. forces are on the defensive as Congress moves to change the Selective Service Act to compel deferments of married men and farmers. The Senate has approved the farm preferential status and the House is ready thirty-five years of creditable ser vice. This bill is known as House bill 152. He was also co-sponsor of House bills 251 and 252, exempting certain agricultural vehicles from license fees. for a vote on a measure to postpone Bill 251 a»»m««e»n<d«s• tVhIMe; tWrUuCcBk- act . t»o I men with rWmW* i eliminate farm tractors transporting urge of the sample room in Casper glassware, but there are several of Wirfs building on the" West side, and j lead, wood, rubber, silver, ivory, stone he informs us he will immediately j and felt. Several of the shoes are commence to rearrange and change, | over 100 years old, while others were so that by May he will, in connection i collected on recent trips about the •With the present business, open up country or were gifts from friends It. first class restaurant and boarding iMrase. - The ice is all out of the river, and ff the present weather continues navigation will be opened between here and the lakes at an early day. The section was treated to a fine tflarm rain on Monday, and it now lioks as though spring would soon be Ifcre. who were on the lookout loc such curios while traveling. Twenty-two persons wire stfll in hospitals in Waukegan, Great Lakes and Kenosha, last week, following a train wreck on the North Shore line at Tobin road, a mile and one-half north of the state line late Monday, March 15, in which 63 persons were Mrs. G. W. Besley has moved her; injured sufficiently to be sent to hosillinery and dressmaking parlors to pitals. Ten of the injured were Lake - county residents. The others nearly all were residents of Wisconsin. No m Rationing of shoes isn't bothering Mrs. E. C, Chester of Harvard. Sht» has over 250 shoes and didn't need a No. 17 coupon io get any of them. No, she isn't hoarding, for in her collection only a tiny pair is made of! this week P. H. McGrath On Monday took full J leather. The majority are of antique j use all of the family's ration points the first week she may use them the next week, but all red stamps must be used by April 80. The OPA has indicated that if the stamps are used judiciously a housewife will be able to Obtain the following products with each 16 points during the first week. 1. Meat--About 2 pounds. 2. Butter--About U pound. 3. Cheeses--About 7 ounces. 4. Shortening--About 3 ounces. 5. Lard--About % pound. 6. Margarine--About 12 outacek. Restaurants are not affected by today's order and may continue to purchase butter and the other foods from their wholesalers. Hiey are forbidden to purchase the products from retail sources, however. - Meat Not FVnen Retail sales of meat and cheese were not frozen by the order, and the OPA said sales tiff these foods will continue as usual between V?ow and March 29. Sales of canned meat and canned fish, which was froaen Feb. 18, will remain suspended until the start of rationing. Mayonnaise and other salad dressings are not to be rationed at this time, and purchases of them may be made as usual for the time being, the OPA said. OPA officials said it was necessary to freeze retail sales of butter, lard, and the other fats and oils because "inventories of these foods are not large enough to support heavy public buying during the one week remaining before rationing." They said the freeze will 'Rive storekeepers opportunity to obtain ample supplies to meet their requirements when rationing starts. calling married men with dependents., , . , . . . The controversial Ruml tax plan is or draw!n? implements of husbandry due for debate in the House with no ! or political holds barred. With all this , turmoil, the actual war proceeds without too much Congressional inter- , . . . . ference. this act requiring or prescribing reg- The spefctre of hastened inflation istration of veh\cle L s ^a11 a.PP1? to on a large scale chills government w®«ons and tha* Ucensmg procontrol agencies. A definite prospect 17isi®ns, tl"ftotora shall apply only of a nation-wide strike of union ito' t*"®* Praetors. , miners to enforce an increase of 52.00 j Anot J hfr bll,< of wAlch 18 * ®?°«- per day in wages is expected to pro- i sor' !?s sect,on , an L*° vide a test of Administration policies cre^e firt protection districts. This in regulating wage advances in war- Prescnbes m detai1 the manner by date without issuance of summons. KARL E. SEYFARTH, Administrator. GILBERT T. GRAHAM, Attorney. (Pub. March 18-25, April 1) ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND ELECTION Notice is hereby given to the legal primarily in agricultural! v°ters, residents of the Town of Mc- Bill 152 amends section 9 i Henry, in the County of McHenry and time. Current predictions are that the controversy may reach a stage in which soldiers will take Over mines. Producers of vital war materials, whose plants require a large tonnage of coal, are gravely concerned that the reduced output from the mines rooms in the rear of Besley's drug Store, where she will be happy to receive calls from those who may. w,ish -^irf5liything in her line. .--- FORTY YEARS AGO / Yesterday noon Will Krause, Ed Walsh, Ben Buss and "Peggy" Fettz hoarded a freight train, intending to jump off at the crossing near the pickle factory. The first three named fled. The Antioch fire department sueleft the train at that point, but "Peg-1 ceeded in extinguishing the fire after gy" determined to ride to the Borden jit had caused damage estimated at one was killed and the most seriously injured person had a leg amputated. Irked when they found nothing of value in a cottage at Cross Lake Saturday, Mar^h 18, three Chicago youths, according to their own confessions, spilled kerosene about the floor, set fire to the place and then factotry. He did! It may be well to mention, however, that he did more. The train gained such speed when it reached the factory that "Peggy" decided not to jump. For all we know to the contrary, he is still going north. Jas. Doherty moved Monday into tike house recently purchased of E. W- Howe. Arthur Whiting has sold his farm |l W. H. Mann, receiving for the same .fpO^KK). - THIRTY YEARS AGO S. Harbst, who has conducted a blacksmith shop at the old Nordquist A Weber stand in Centlerville during the past two years, has closed same and gone to Chicago, where he has secured employment. Seven shops in a village the size of McHenry are ,.|to many. ; / W. H. Gorman moved his family fere from Crystal Lake last week and SPRING GROVE $2,000. The cottage was owned by Roger Dorio, 1143 S. California avenue, Chicago. (By Mrs. Charles Freund) Mrs. Leander Lay and infant son returned home from St. Hierese hospital, Waukegan, on Wednesday. A daughter, weighing 6 lbs. 14 ozS(. wa* born to Mr. and Mrs. George Pershing at St. Therese hospital in Waukegan on Wednesday, Mprch 12, Mr. and Mrs. John Miller are the proud grandparents. Richard and Herbert Wagner have been confined to°their home the past week by illness. The St. Patrick day dance held at Memorial hall in Richmond on Wednesday night was well attended coal reserves are inadequate to with Itand prolonged labor disturbances. Federal labor experts are on the anxious bench as the crisis approaches. The current labor policy is endangered by the miners' wage demands. Another source of worry is the growth of bank deposits which were HEMP, IMPORTANT WAR CROP, SHOULD' BE SOWN AFTER OATS Farmers who plan to grow hemp this year to help fill an urgent war need should seed it just before corn is planted and after oats are seeded --but not before April 20, according to a circular, "Hemp: an Illinois of the Motor Vehicle Act. This pro- jState of Illinois, that the Annual • . ~' vides that none of the provisions of i Town Meeting and Election of Offiinter- . cers of said town willl take plaec on Tuesday, April Sixth, A. D., 1943, be ing the first Tuesday of said month. 1%e polls will be open at 6 o'clock a. m., and will close at 5 o'clock p. m. on said day in the place or places designated as follows: No. 1--Royal Blue Store, Ringwood, 111. No. 2--City Hall, McHenry. No. 3---Eva's Cafe, McHenry. No. 4 --- Bildner's Barber Shop, Johnsburg. The officers to be elected are: ONE SUPERVISOR ONE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER The town meeting for the transaction of miscellaneous business of said town will be held at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m. on said day at Eva's Cafe, and a moderator having been elected, will proceed to hear and consider reports of officers, to appropriate money to defray the necessary expenses of the town and decide on such measures as may, in pursuance of law, come before the meeting. Given under my hand at McHenry this 18th day of March, A. D„ 1943. ROBERT J. CONWAY, Town Clerk. (Pub. March 18 and 2<>) in detail the manner which territory included within the limits of any fire protection district may be disconnected from the district and added to another district to which it is contiguous. He also offered House Resolution 35, which was adopted to investigate will bring early shut-downs. Many catas'rophe in which eighty-five war factories converted to coal be-, g"Ts™er on the Chicago, cause of the oil shortage and now the 'North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad. CACAO--Food for the Gods Ey the Pan American Union, Washington. D. C. { Chocolate, the beverage of kings snd the sustenance of those in distress, is a gift of tropical America to _ mankind. Hernan Cortes, the confncrea* 8ed" by nearly 30 per cent last quistador, was the first European to year In addition to the increase in become acquainted with chocolate deposits, the amount of currency in when he undertook the conquest of the hands of the public increased by Mexico. There it was the favorite an unprecedented amount in 1942. drink of the Emperor Montezuma. The funds are available for future So prized was it by the Aztecs spending or for investment. The Fed-j that they looked upon it as a gift from the gods. Quetzalcoatl, the mystic gardener of Paradise, was supposed to have brought the seeds of the cacao tree from heaven and sown them in his garden at Talzitepec. But the chocolate of ancient Mexico was not the chocolate that we McHenry, Illinois FRIDAY . SATURDAY Marjorie Main, Zasa Pitta (1) "TISHV Victor McLaglen, Eland Lowe (2) "CALL OUT THE MARINES" '•sti- --l# SUN.-MON„ MARCH 28-29 Rita Hayworth, Fred Aiitaire "YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER" -Maa---Walt Disney Short Sabjeet , Band Act--World News TUESDAY -- NOTICE! la order to save war sapphes aad ratter, this theatre win be closed on Tuesday of each week! WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY Geo. Brent, Brenda Marshall "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOREVER" . v i •• i-tw? William M. Carroll, Attomey-at-Law Woodstock, Illinois. NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE . Estate of Peter J. Williams, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons that Monday, May 3, 1943, is the claim date in the estate of Peter J. Williams, deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may be filed eral Reserve Board's latest summary points out, "Since the supply of goods and services available for purchase and that of new corporate securities available for investment is limited, employment of surplus funds for these purposes would result in inflationary pressure on prices. For this j tSiT"5ieT«ti^ ! »K»in«t the estate on or reason efforts are being made to Know ana enjoy toaay. me Aztecs ., , . . direct as much as possible of these!pound "P their cocao beans with funds into the voluntary purchase of, herbs, spices, chile and corn. By Government securities." It is hoped adding water the mixture was transthat the bond drive beginning next i formed into a thin paste. This liquid month will reduce the amount avail- was wh oped into a froth until it was able for spending. Noteworthy is the ready to serve in ceremonial cups fact that in nearly every district per- fashioned from gourds. However centage increases in deposits were | tasty this may have been to the Azgreater at country banks than at! tecs, ,t did not appeal to the European city banks. Country banks will be j Pajate. Until, ,t is reported by acasked to make heavy purchases of ^dent^r design someone added van-. j war loan securities in the sales cam- ll]a. . then sugar and finally a tat of cinnamon, which combined produced a drink that was most acceptable. So much so that cocoa and chocsaid date without issuance of sumi. GERTRUDE WILLIAMS and KATHERINE SCHMITT, Executors. (Pub. March 25--April 1-8) 2 ; ,h°Se '.r.0m here.7h° ! W.r Crop." by J. C. Hacklema„. pro. Park hotel. Preliminary work at the dam goeS Headily on and the contractor hopes to get down to real business soon. TWENTY YEARS AGO C. L. Stevens, Edith and Robert Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freund, . ' ~ -- _ .. , . Mr. and- Mi's. William Shotliff and After years of agitation and fight- Djumy Miller. ||g McHenry is finally to be given a j Members of her Pinochle club met "ifewerage system. Award ^^^age ^ home of Mrs. Harry Myers on Friday night. The awards for high scores went to Mrs. Math Nimsgern present were Mr. and Mrs. Frank fessor Qf crops extension, and W. E. May, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Miller, Mr. Domingo, associate in crop producand Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer, Mr. and Mrs. fton, of the department of agronomy, Ben May and daughter, Shirley, Mr. University of Illinois College of Agand Mrs. John Miller, Mr, and Mrs. riculture. contract to E. M. Scheflow, he having tlie low bid of $44,811.10 J. A. Conrad of Chicago took up Ids duties as cashier of the Fox River ' Valley State bank on Wednesday ^Horning of this week. A deal was consummated last week "Hherel y Mr. and Mrs. Ben Adams of this village became the owners of the Michael Justen eptate property on Elm street. 7 Alterations are now being made ||i the Mathias Weber building on Riverside Drive in preparation for a garage to be opened therein in the <iery near future by C. M. Bickler. and Mrs. Myers, while consolation went to Mrs. Arthur Kattner. Following cards a dainty lunch was served by the hostess, with table dec- drills are available orations appropriate to St. Patrick's method is to use a A seedbed considered "just right" for alfalfa should be the goal of every grower. Clean plowing is important, and all plant refuse such as straw or stalks should be completely incorporated in the soil. Otherwise it will be picked up and bound with the retted hemp straw. Probably the best method of seeding is with a clover or grass-seed drill in 4-inch rows, but few such The next best 6, ? or 8-inch day* grain drill. Fanners who have no Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Freund and grain drill can get satisfactory redaughter moved on Saturday to an up- sujts by broadcasting the seed if stairs flat in the Orvis building. they are careful. After rolling the Mf. and Mrs. Nimsgern-entertained ian(j wjth a corrugated roller or culat their home on Sunday in honor of tipacker, just before seeding, half the christening of their grandchild. the seed is broadcast in one direction The baby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson, was christened Robert Roy at St. Peter's church Sunday morning. Sponsors were Edward Karls and uor, but the legislation was repealed in 1878. ' • , • AUCTION On Lake street, at the north city j|mits of Grayslake, SATURDAY, MARCH 27 at l:-00 o'clock jCATTLE--18 head of Hoistein cattle, «ionsisting of 11 choice milk cows, re- Ssntly fresh, 1 with calf at side; five ose springers, balance milking good; two first calf heifers, two open heif- •rs, 5 and 8 months old; 2 Holstein Bulls, 8 and 14 months old. HORSES AND HARNESS--Bay gelding, 3 x2 sets good breeching harness. I*EED AND SEED--Stack of timothy fcay, stack of choice clover hay, stack •f good soy bean hay, 2% bushels food seed corn. 1ACHINERY--2 wagons and racks, wagon and box, wagon, Mc-D. corn .der, Deering eorn binder, shoe drill, 2 MeC. mowers, 3 sec. drag, horse <|rawn disc, J. D. corn planter and jfheck wire, Gale corn planter and fheck wire, potato digger, Champion potato digger, Intl. hay loader, gas •ngine, -sulky cultivator, pump jack, fump rake, sulky plow, walking plow, ob-sled, light milk wagon, milk cart, S milk cans, 2 sterilizing tanks, 2 •hovel DIOWS. pails, strainer, etc. USUAL TERMS. MICHAEL RE WM. A. CHANDLER/Aoctio Public Aactioa Service Co., Mgra. and the other half at right angles to the first to insure more even distribution. Then it is covered lightly with a spike-tooth harrow with teeth set at about a 45-degree angle, or with a corrugated roller or cultipacker. On soils subject to crusting badly, the harrow may be best. Cutting which is done with a special machine that cuts the plants low and and Mrs. John Amborn, Sharon, Wis., spreads them in a swath with the Mr, Mrs. Nick Jung. Ringwood, butts even and pointing toward the Early Prohibition .o!^e f n(*eC* ' Miss Bernice Nimsgern. Dinner guests sUtutaon in 1853 tc, prohibHt thei man-, were the d ts> Mr. and Mrs. ufacture or sale of intox,eating liq- EmU Nel*n f£m Chi?ago m &nd Mrs. Ed Karls and Bernice Nimsgern, •*bo of Chicago. Visitors throughout the afternoon and evening were Mr. paign starting in mid-April. So desperate is the farm labor situation as the planting 8®ason . »P-: 0iate eventually became so popular proaches that Congress and adminis^ thafc exportg -n # normal year now trative agencies are adopting various | amount to more than a bmion and a devices in hopeslof finding a PartiaJ half pounds, of which more than a solution. The Senate has approved; a bill exempting certain forms of j farm labor from the draft while the j House has moved toward an inten-1 sive recruiting campaign. It is esti-1 mated that the armed forces and the i war industries have taken within the;^_^ ^ wuiiu last 2 years, 3 million people j ^merjcaj however, is an important the rural areas, meaning 0^ns a i pr<xjucer cf tj,e higher grades of caactual farms. Yet it is sta e 'cao, the production of which continintensive recruiting campaigns will ^ •_ be staged in towns and villages with the expectation thaT farm labor can j be obtained from this source. It was ' revealed in hearings made public this j week on the farm labor program that the War Manpower Commission is j taking steps to keep farmers, who have been classified as 4-F in the draft, on the farm. Some fear is felt that these men with the deferred ' classification might be disposed to I leave farming jobs for more lucrative employment in other localities. tropics is eneroU8. The cacao tree Considerable sentiment has deve ope .n man parts of tropical for a reclassification for farmers o America, and where it is cultivated military age no%v in 4-«F so that the . M .8 abundant The bean is I exemption will aprly as long as they found -n pods which re8emble elong- ; remain on the farm but will be sub- ated cantaloupes and are attached dij jected to reclassification should they , ^ the trunk o£ the tre€> each ; leave for industrial jobs. j pod containing from twenty to fifty One significant angle of Congress- beans. I ional action in regard to the farm; Harvesting tlie pods is no simple ; problem has been generally overlook/ task, for skill and intelligence are ed. The house, in voting for an a^-, required to determine when the interpropriation of 26 million dollars to~jor beans have itehieved a sufficient third come to the United States. Although native to tropical America, the cacao tree has achieved it's greatest development in other parts of the world, principally in West Africa, whence comes nearly sixty per cent of the world's output. Latin is an ues to be a principal industry in Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuele, the Dominican Republic and some of the countries of Central America. Few products have as great food value as chocolate. Which explains why it is found in every kit where the sPace f°r f°°d is limited. The process of transforming the cacao bean , into a bar of chocolate or a cup of cocoa is a long and intricate procedure. The growing of the bean itself is quite simple, for nature in the and Mr. and Mrs. William Burg, Miss Dorothy Burg and Mrs. Martha Cole of Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. George Kattner and center of the field, should be done when male plants are shedding pollen. In most of the producing areas in Illinois, this will occur during the last children and Mr. and Mrs. Vince week of August or the first week of propriation supply farm labor, makes available 6 million dollars to the Extension Service for work within the states. They also appropriated $7,500,000 for subsistence, transportation, etc., for farm workers including the building of necessary shelters and other housing. The House took the authority for the administration away from the Secretary of Agriculture and from th* Farm Security Administration. The degree of ripeness. Once cut, by means of long-handled steel knives, the pods are carried through the jungles to a central clearing and emtied on a great pile. Here they are opened, and the cacao beans separated from their pulpy covering yd placed <mi plaintain or banana leaves or on a tray for fermentation, a process that requires from two to nine days, depending upon atmos- Kattner of Chicago spent the weekend in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Kattner. Sunday visitors in the Arthur Kattner home were "Mr. and Mrs. Wililam May, son, Richard, and daughter, Catherine Ann, of Johnsburg. Mike Wagner of Chicago spent Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wagner. The christening of Mr. and Mrs. Leander Lay's son was held at St. September. It is left in the swath until stalks are partly rotted, which permits fibre to be easily separated from the inner part of the stem. This rotting is known as "retting." After all stems have retted, they are bound in bundles and hauled to the processing mill to be weighed, graded and stacked by representatives of the Commodity Credit Corporation. Copies of the Hemp Circular, No. 547, may be obtained from county Peter's church on Sunday with Rev. farm advisers or the extension ser John Daleiden officiating. He was yjee of the University of IUiitois Col* 0 christened William Joseph. Funeral service^ for Edmond D. Walsh were held at 'Waukesha, Wis., on Monday. Among those who atterfdfcd were Mr. and Mrs. Ben May, Peter M. May. Mrs. John Weber, Fox Lake, Mrs. Eldred Johnson, McHenry, and Mrs. Arthur Kattner. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Klaus of Chicago were Sunday visitors in the John Lay home lege of Agriculture. Burro Named for His Bray . "The Rocky Mountain canary" la aot a bird, but a burro, so dubbed by prospectors because of the animals's raucous bray. *' Away Bee flttafi If a bee stinger Is quickly scrijxsdf Mrs. George W. May and children' or brushed off, it will seldom causa legislators deliberately^ deprived the j pheric conditions. After fermentation, the wet cacao beans are dried in the sun for several days, following which they are picked over and placed in bags for shipment. This is merely the first stage in the process of manufacturing. The conversion of the cacao bean into commercial cocoa or chocolate is a far complicated process. Sieving. and roasting; cracking the nibs; removing the cocoa butter to produce cocoa; adding sugar and other flavoring matter--These are merely a few of the many steps in converting the cacao of the forest to the cocoa and chocolate of every day consumption." ; F: S. A. of control on the theory that . they were more concerned with so- I cial phases of the program than with the actual needs of agriculture. The 'recruiting for this huge land army will take man; forms, such as bringing high school classes into farm country over weekends to orient training through schools. The government will also pay {or transportation costs for year-round workers, which includes their families and household goods and jprovide accommodations for them. The plan, authorized by the House, calls for increased personnel in the local farm placement offices in small towns to take care of local mobilization of farm labor and to make use of its help on nearby farms. Nestiag Birds Use Wire have woven together pieces of copper wire to naki a nest in lfonkland, Australia. visited her sister, Mrs. Charles Freund^and family Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Paul Weber spent Monday with friends in Chicago. iobeeribe for The Plaindealert J. more than a few minutes discomfort. If pinched off, the attached sack to the stinger will be squeezed and will squirt all of the poiaon into the Wood stream. Fresh mud c will help to neutralize the pofaw. A brilliant red are light that mak-- use ot the rare atmotpherio SM neon, and that can shine through tnlek fog, haa baan invented. Lew Cost Blackout Materials Plywood or heavy pasteboard, {Minted black in either case, is easy to cut ~«£d handle for Marking out. windows. MagnsOe Strainers The little things count Installation at magnetic drain plugs in war machines succeeded in attracting metal filings, that sre a result oI hud battle use, to definitely eliminate muffr of, the motors. The Beautiful |< I I OVAI! •Hi CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. McHewry Co's* Leading Theatre FRL A SAT., MARCH 26-27 Glerie Jean, Donald O'Connor "FT COMES UP LOVE" Janes Craig, Bonita Granville ••7 MILES FROM ALCATRAZ" SUN. A MON., MARCH 28-29 Sunday coatinuoas from 2:45 p. m. Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy in "STAND BY FOR ACTION" --With -- Chas. Laughton, Walter Brennan Our Navy in Action--in the Pacific 18c TUESDAY SPECIAL 10c Tax 2c Tax lc James Ellison, Virginia Gilmore, in THAT OTHER WOMANWED. A THURS., Mar. Sl-April 1 Ray MiUand, Betty Field, in •ARE HUSBANDS NECESSARY?' with Pat Morisoo, Phil Torry ThidA-ISaci all MILLER Wed., Thurs., Fri & Sat March 31--April 1-2-3 JAMES CAGNEY YANKEE DOODLE J O i N i t b IMLTER HUSTON • MCMMO VM0NF DMrf * MCHAK CIMTIX That WED.-THURS. Event PLEASE... year lli'siiieij first, tor ^NroRMAtioN" operatoraj* the Illinois Bell area receive aad answer about 205,000 calls •very day, most of them asking isr local telephone numbers. Of luck call*, many oak for «tia6«rs listed tn th» UUphom directory. These are nnneres sary calls. They tie up telephone equip- 4 meat needed now to handle tihsy wartime traffic and need* lessly consume the time 0$ trained operators. We know we can count on jour co-operation in not mak* ing needless calls on "Infor* 3 « mation" now when telephony service is being stretched the utmost. tnnm