A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A our Eight THE CURTIS (NEBRASKA) ENTERPRISE Thursday, May 15, 1941, JOHN SHELLEY WINS HIGH JUMP FT. RILEY MEET Also Ran Anchor For Winning 5-Man 2 Relay Team John Shelley, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Shelley of South Curtis was a membr of the winning troup in the Ft. Riley track meet held March 23, according to information reaching his parents this week.
The winners, troop riflemen, scored a total of 34 points, as compared to their nearest rival's 14. Shelley, a volunteer, was second man to leave for selective training from Frontier County. The Camp paper in commenting on the meet, stated: "Outstanding event of the day was the superb jumping of Shelley, troop SS man, who defied all the laws of classical jumping and yet topped the bar at 5 feet, 2 inches. Shelley jumps in a totally unorthodox fashion, trotting up to the bar straight from the front. As he rises from the ground, his body twists to the right, his goes over the bar first, and his body and right leg follow.
The astounding part of his method is that he is able to raise his entire body off the ground enough to clear the bar. "Probably the most thrilling of the events was the final relay race in which each troop entered five runners. From the start troop had no competition for their triple-threat team of deer chasers, Kirkendall, Wilwerding and Shelley. After the second relay, Kirkendall sped down the field to place his troop one entire crossing ahead of competition, a and other troop runners maintained the lead." KEYSTONE DAM NEARS COMPLETION OGALLALA, Nebr. Construction of the George P.
Kingsley (Keystone) dam of the TriCounty project is 97.7 per cent complete with the fill in places within five feet of the final "top" a report of George Carter, residenet engineer in charge of construction, showed today. Carter said 54,000 cubic feet of material was placed in the core of the dam in April and 000 cubic feet on the dike or nonth section of the two and one half mile dam, second largest earth dam in the world. At no place does more than 10 feet of fill remain to be placed. Carter's report showed 42,000 acre feet of water were stored behind the dam in April bringing peak storage to 98,800 acre feet. The water was 38.2 feet deep at the control tower which regulates flow from the dam.
It was 10 feet above old Martin bridge on old highway 01 two miles above the dam. This highway now detours around the downstream base of the dam and later will be routed permanently across its top. Green reported delivery of water has been completed to 240 farm units and delivery is practically complete to an additional 120 farm units. Tri-County is delivering water to 120 farm units at a time, and Green saw rapid completion of spring delivery to farmers who have signed up for flow this season. Some of the landowners who applied water to land in the TriCounty area in previous years have found out they can place their fields in suitable condition for corn and alfalfa by the use of only 40 per cent as much water as the engineers find it necessary to deliver 'to land irrigated for the first time.
Green said this demonstrates the great water carrying capicity of soil in the Tri-County area. Many farmers in addition to irrigating fields are flooding beds, vegetable gardens, shelterbelts and farmstead, windbreaks. Four-H County Committee Elects Officers New officers elected to head 4-H activities in the county are: C. L. Knight, Farnam, President; Mrs.
Raymond Meyer, Quick, Vice president; Ruby Phillips, Freedom, secretary; Mrs. Alvah Curtis, news reporter. The election was held at the regular spring meeting of the 4-H county committee. New members appointed to serve are Mrs. T.
N. Russell, Maywood and Mrs. Joe Spence, Quick. Plans were made for carrying on special 4-H activities in 1941. Events already scheduled include Judging Day, June 12; Demonstration Day, July 22; and District Club Camp, July 28-30.
All of these events will be held at Curtis. Business has been SO slack that the lock-up at Middletown, has been turned over to the WPA. The two-celled jail has been unused for five years. H. D.
Bevan Buys First Defense Bond At Curtis P. O. H. D. Bevan was the first Curtis citizen to purchase the newly issued defense bond placed on sale May first, according to master E.
E. Gardner. In the order listed, purchasers were Marilyn Gardner, Allen Adams, and Michael Earl Crawford. Freeman's Honored At Surprise Party Mr. and Mrs.
John Freeman were pleasantly surprised recently when, several of their neighbors and friends gathered at their home with covered dishes for a get-together. A bounteous covered dish dinner was served at noon. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman received many nice gifts.
MARKETING QUOTA TO BE VOTED MAY 31 Vital Wheat Program Question To Be Decided By Farmers In Euorpe issues are being decided with bullets. In America the ballots long employed in the determination of national policies will be used by wheat farmers May 31 to decide an important economic policy. Frontier County farmers will join with producers throughout the wheat areas of the nation on that date in a march to polling places for a decision on whether or not to make quotas effective. Each community in the county will have its voting booths, with local wheat farmers in charge of the referendum. Balloting will be secret, and when the voting 1 is completed there will be a public tabulation of results.
Producers eligible to take part in the referendum have a moral as well as financial obligation to cast votes May 31, Harry Heater, chairman of the County AAA committee, commented. "All of us, as we see the results of dictatorship in other lands, become increasingly proud of our freedom and our voice in the conduct of national affairs: Every time we use our ballot privilege we are helping in the perpetuation of democracy. "Financially, all farmers and business and professional people have a stake in the quotas. If quotas are approved, A A's price-supporting loans on wheat be continued. No quotas will can mean no loans, and that means the price we receive for the wheat we produce can sink as low as our tremendous surplus can push them," he declared.
The chairman pointed out that while the preparedness program calls for large reserves -such as those now being built up in the fields of pork, poultry and dairy products there is also an obvious need for handling the large supply of wheat (big enough to last two years) so that prices will not be depressed. "This," he said "is done under quotas by storing the surplus and dividing the available market equitably." Mr. Heater urged that all farmers contact their community committeemen, or county committeemen, for answers to questions concerning voting and quota eligibility and quota operations. U. S.
MARINE CORP EXPANDS In line with the policy and determination of the Nation's ers to place our National Defensesin instant readiness to safeguard the freedom and ideals of Democracy we now enjoy, the Senate by unanimous vote, granted the U. S. Marine Corps a substantial increase. The Non-commissioned officers in charge of the Marine Corps recruiting station at 226 Postoffice building, Omaha Nebraska has announced that applications are now being accepted for enlistments and immediate transfer to the Marine Corps Base at San Diego, California, at Government expense. Applicants must be of good character and habits, between the ages of 18 and 30 years, 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches in height, single, and be in good physical condition.
Enlistments during the month of May will be unlimited. Olis, a dog owned by Mrs. Josephine Carlo of Ashtabula, Mt. Carmel Catholic Church for the last three years. Instead of sending bicycle riders who violate traffic laws to jail, Police Judge Glenn Stanton of Rock Springs, confiscates the bicycles for 30 days.
"Six dollars isn't enough to monkey a holdup man told a sandwich shop proprietor at Dixon, after looking into the cash registeh. The bandit then walked away. Speak at National Boy Scout Meeting Addressing National more Council than 1.000 Boy Scouts delegates of at America 31st at annual Washington, meeting D. May 116 and 17 are (top) Norman H. Davis, Chairman, American 'Red Cross; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas; Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington Correspondent, The London Times; (oval) Paul Mcnu*tt, Administrator, Federal Security Agency; (bottom) Dr.
James E. West, Chief Scout Executive; Walter' Hogan, past-, President, American Bar Association and Head, Nat- CHAIN LETTERS, CARDS, VIOLATE POSTAL LAWS Patrons using Mails for Such Schemes Are Liable To Prosecution According to information received here this week by master, E. E. Gardner, chain letters and postal cards and schemes of this nature are in violation of postal fraud and lottery statutes. A letter from W.
E. Kelly, acting solicitor, states: "The mails in all parts of the country are being flooded at the present time with letters and postal cards relating to so-called endless chain "Hankies Club," "Flower "Towel Club" schemes. "Patrons of the various post offices depositing in the mails cards and letters relating to schemes of this nature should be warned that the sending of such matter through the mails is a violation of the postal fraud and lottery statutes. Notices are served upon persons participating in such schemes whose names come to the attention of the Postoffice Department requiring them to show why fraud orders should not be issued against them. Such orders forbid the delivery of any mail to the persons named therein." According to Gardner, a lot of chain letter traffic is going on BABY IIIM yans pue to be stopped.
Many Families Undernourished In United States Are we, the people of the United States, well-fed? That's a question that thinking men and women are asking these days. For no nation achieves total strength unless its citizens are well-fed. Strong people make strong nations. And strong and alert people are built by abundant and well-balanced diets. Are we well-fed? Here's the answer from Dr.
Hazel K- Stic. beling, food economist of the bureau of Home Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture Doctor Stiebeling finds answer in an analysis of a nation-wide study of diets of families in United States. "Looking at the facts from study," says Doctor Stiebelin "we see that about one-fourth the families in the United are apparently living that can be rated good.
That their diets furnish the kind quanity of food needed to tain the body, plus a mar safety that enables them to up under the stresses and strai of living. "More than a third of fan ilies are getting fair diets. The is, these familes are getting jus enough to keep them going. plus a slight margin of safety no or: margin at all. "The rest are getting diets that should definitely be rated poor.
In one or more ways their SOCIETY BOBBY REED CELEBRATED FIFTH BIRTHDAY THURSDAY Bobby Reed celebrated his fifth birthday Thursday, May 8th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Ross.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Ross, Eva Reed, Bobby's grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Good, Mrs. Dale Reed and Richy and Mrs. Gertrude Martin. LADIES AID TO MEET MAY TWENTY -FIRST The Congregational Ladies Aid will meet Wednesday, May 21st, with Mrs.
sR. O. Watkins as hostess. The meeting is to be in the Watkins' home. ROTARIANS HEAR KARL SAGAR SPEAK Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Crandall and Mr. and Mrs.
Arvel Beery were guests at the Holdrege intercity Rotary Club Friday evening. Karl Sagar of Winnipeg, Canada was the speaker of the evening. Mr. Sagar is the director of Rotary International. -CRONQUIST NUPTIALS APRIL 27 Miss Hester Freeman, teacher in the NSA last term, and Lieut.
Ralph Cronquist of Proving Ground, were married at Lincoln April 27th. After a short stay in Illinois, the couple will move to Fort Lewis, Wash. PEO'S TO ENTERTAIN THEIR B. I. The members of the P.
E. O. will entertain their husbands, the B. I. Wednesday evening with a dinner in the dormitory.
CONTRACT CLUB MET. TUESDAY AFTERNOON The Contract Bridge Club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. H. K. Douthit as hostess.
POLLYANNA CLUB MET THURSDAY The Pollyanna Club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. A. F. Herman as hostess. The afternoon was spent in sewing.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kreuger Announce Daughter's Engagement and Mrs.
C. W. Kreuger: announce the engagement of their daughter, Wilda, to George Howard of North Platte. Miss Kreuger, a graduate of the Nebraska School of Agriculture here, has attended the University of Nebraska and taught the Melton School for three years. Mr.
Howard has served four years in the United States Navy and is now on the police force of North Platte. RELIEF CORP KENSINGTON MET FRIDAY AFTERNOON The Relief Corp Kensington met last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Don Hesseltine with Mrs. Hesseltine and Mrs. Lloyd Miller as hostesses.
The afternoon was spent in finishing Red Cross sewing. MOTHERS HONORED AT WOMAN'S CLUB All mothers of Curtis are invited to attend the mothers meeting on, Friday in the dromitory parlor at 2:30. Cars will come for those who have no way to get there. Mrs. Ellsworth has planned a musical program.
Mrs. Guy Baker and Mrs. Lynn McCowin are hostesses. diets are not furnishing even the minimum of all the food the body needs for good health." What does this mean--this having millions of people living on diets below the. safety line for good nutrition? "It means," says Doctor Stiebeling, "That some of these people are hungry.
This means some of them have well-defined deficiency diseases such as beriberi, scurvy, anemia, and pellagra. "But more than that it means that others having none of these clear-cut symptoms are getting inadequate diets, suffering from them, and may not even know what's wrong. Inadequate diets may not put us to bed, but they can destroy our sense of wellbeing- joy in being alive and well and able to do. our work. They prevent a child's normal growth and development.
And they lower. natural resistance to infection." Where are they-all these people who are not well-fed? "They are in every state in the Union and in every community in every state." says Doctor Stiebeling. As a rule, more of the ill fed may be found in the lower income classes than in the higher--more in the larger families than. in the smaller--and more in cities than on farms. What are the reasons so many lot us are ill-fed? Sometimes it's not.
having enough to eat. Sometimes it's not having the right kinds of foods. Good management of limited food budget and home-grown "protective" foods can often make the difference between fair or poor diets and diets that tre good. What are these important protective foods that every diet must have? First foods to be called protective were milk, and cream and the vegetables. Recent additions are the foods rich in the vitamins of the group, especially the less highly refined flours and cereals.
Still others are fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C-oranges, grapefruit, tomatoes, raw cabbage, and others. Recent studies show that the Nation needs to consume at least 10 to 20 per cent more milk. 10 to 25 per cent more butter-and 25 to 70 per cent more tomatoes and citrus fruits, and about twice as much of the leafy, green, and yellow vegetables. REGISTRATION SAID SLATED FOR JULY 1ST WASHINGTON- Army and selective service officals were reported to have decided on July 1. as the date for registration of approximately.
1,000,000 men who have become 21 years old since the first selective service enrollment last October. The registration will take place at the headquarters of the 6,500 local draft boards now functioning, and authorities said it would be a "fairly simple job" compared with. last fall when 16 and half million men, 21 to 35, were registered for possible military training. Card of Thanks We wish to thank the many friends and neighbors for their sympathy, assistance and beautiful floral offerings during the last illness of our beloved husband and brother. Mrs.
Edna Ridgway, R. P. Ridgway, and families. Memorial Day Wreaths Decoration Day, May 30 Lest we forget the bitter years of our own wars, let us lay upon the graves of our warrior dead wreaths to commemorate their heroism and to remind us of the peace we now enjoy and for which they paid so dear a price. LARGE ASS'T AT WERATHS 25c to PRICED Purchase -We'll Lay-A-Way! Adams Drug Co.
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