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SOCIALS - FASHKMfS - RATIONING, SEWING AND COOKING HINTS
BY LUaiXE ROBERTS, At The Ubnuy
Elizabeth Johnson
To Wed Next Month
Mrs. Mitchell Glover Johnson
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Elizabeth (“Tootsie”) to
George William Nicholson, a pri
vate in the United States army air
corps. The marriage will be sol
emnized on Sunday, December 19
m the First Methodist Church of
Hendersonville.
The bride-elect, a charming bru
nette, is the daughter of Mrs.
Johnson and the late M. Glover
Johnson. She is employed in the
Main Office of Ecusta and is a
popular member of the younger
set of Hendersonville.
Mr. Nicholson, who is the son
of Mrs. William P. Bane and the
late Arlington Nicholson, held s
position with the TVA before go
ing into service. He is stationed
at the army air corps basic train
mg center in Greensboro.
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Your Guide To
Daily Living
From Washington Bureau
Evelyn And Anne
In Endless Dept.
Write Old Santa
Try This—We Believe You’ll Like It
Dear Santa:
We have tried very hard to be
good girls this year. We have in
vested in War Bonds, paid our in
come taxes without too many com
plaints, and sent husbands and
brothers to the Army. The little
dirty jokes we enjoy so well can’t
exactly be counted as a credit to
us, but believe us, Santa, we don’t
hear any clean ones any more. We
have stayed out of the locker room
as much as possible.
As for myself, Ann, I want my
husband back. You don’t realize
how much he means to me. But
when your draft board hands you
a 1-A card, I am sure that Mrs.
Santa will be as lonely as I.
Santa, my name is Evelyn, and
believe me, I’ll settle for a hus
band of any kind. You can bring
him wrapped in khaki or in Navy
blues. May we count on you this
year?
Evelyn and Ann
Ten Minutes Is All It Takes To
Make This Meal For Your
Family
The Fall Clean-Up
Next year’s garden will be all
the better if you clean up trash
and weeds from the garden patch,
and then plant a cover crop (win
ter rye, say) before the ground
ireezes up. Burn all garden trash
to get rid of diseases and insects
that might otherwise live over
winter and attack crops planted
next year.
A cover crop seeded in fall will
keep the topsoil from washing
away during the winter, and will
also supply humus when turned
under in spring. Humus helps the
soil hold water.
Here s the meal for the wartime
cook whose time is filled with oth
er important duties. Ten minutes
is all the cooking time it needs;
economy is its middle name and
good flavor is in every mouthful.
This whole dinner on one platter
will serve six lusty eaters and
serve them well, for frankfurters
are a mainstay the men-folks like.
Set out an array of mustards,
sauces and seasonings, dress up
the red kidney beans with scallion
rings, and pour a little melted
butter over the cabbage, if you can
spare it. Here’s a jiffy dinner that
gives your family the right kind
of nutrition, at the lowest cost of
time and money.
DINNER ON A PLATTER
12 frankfurters
1 medium head cabbage
2% cups cooked kidney beans
V4 cup sliced scallions
To cook frankfurters prick the
skins in several places with a
fork, place in a baking pan and
bake in a hot oven (400 degree F.)
about 10 minutes. Turn once dur
ing baking. Remove outer leaves
of cabbage, cut in sixths. Cook in
small amount of boiling salted
water, covered, or uncovered in
large amount of boiling salted
water, about 10 minutes or until
tender. Drain and serve with melt
ed butter or mustard sauce. Heat
kidney beans on low heat until
piping hot. Arrange frankfurters,
cabbage and kidney beans on large
platter; sprinkle scallions on kid
ney beans. Makes 6 servings.
Now Is The Time To
Be thrifty.
Eat apples.
Plant walnuts.
Consume corn
meal mush.
H a ve the
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taken.
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hiS^^t*^ scrap before snow
Lift chrysanthemums for indoor
blooming.
Pull English sparrow nests from
rain-spouts.
Buy Christmas Seals, help check
tuberculosis.
Start buying war bonds for
Christmas presents,
fr. f^ balanced meal
to help prevent colds.
Used in making perfumes, musk
comes from a male Asiatic deer.
NOTICE TO ALL
DEPT. REPORTERS
Deadline For
Dec. Issue is
Fri., Dec. IQth
Please get^ copy in
early, if possible.
‘‘Stork Corner’’
Born on Nov. 2, to Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Jones, a son, Vernon
Clyde. Mr. Jones is employed in
the Pulp Mill.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Doyle
Wells on November 3, a daughter
Pamela Louise, Mr. Wells is em
ployed in the Physical Laboratory.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Hugh
Bradburn, October 29, a son, Char
les Clyde. Mr. Bradbum works in
the Inspection Department “D”
Shift.
* jood Housekeeping*
Safety Essential
How many times have you seen
not belong there? How many times
have you passed such things up
because they were left there bv
someone else or because they were
not in your department? Do* you
leave stumbling or tripping haz
ards on the floor at home or in
the plant just because it’s some
one else’s duty to pick them up?
surely helping “OLD
MAN ACCIDENT’” even though
o intentionally,
wght here at Ecusta during the
past few weeks, several injuries
have resulted from poor house
keeping and there is one safe prac-
j should remember;
If it doesn’t belong on the floor,
pick It up.” This applies to hand
tools, steeil rods, bobbin cores,
pulp, pieces of wood, wire, paper,
bottles or anything that might
cause someone to stumble, slip or
Won’t you do your part in help
ing keep floors clear of all such
hazards and thereby help elimi
nate so many unnecessary iniur-
ies?
H. E. NEWBURY,
Safety Director.
HOUSEDRESSES, CHEAP —If
you’ve had any trouble buying
housedresses lately, you’ll be glad
to know that plans are afoot to
increase, their production. It is
possible that the new ones will
cost a little more than you’ve been
accustomed to paying, but it won’t
mean a net increase in your liv
ing costs. You’ll buy more house
dresses and fewer more expensive
dresses of other types.
ELECTRIC IRONS—When elec-
tric irons go back into limited
production, as they will before
long, they probably won’t be dis
tributed through a formal ration
ing program. It’s more likely that
you 11 be asked to turn in your
worn out iron to get a new one
n have none
at all. The old irons would be re
built and sold.
NO MEN, NO FROSTING—-The
reason why the Canadian govern
ment has ordered bakers to stop
icmg their cakes is not to save
sugar, as you might imagine, but
to save manpower.
KEEP IT UP!—We are turning
in only half as much fat as the
government expects and needs
There is no limit to the need for
scrap metal either. Now is the
time to redouble your household
salvage operations.
CORN AND SHOES-From the
corn protein—which is what’s left
after the oil, starch and fibre have
been removed—some shoe solds
nave been produed experimentally
which look like rubber and wear
nearly as well as leather.
PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM~Most
dealers in photographic film are
rationing it informally by limiting
sales to one roll.
STOP THAT LEAK—The new
serially numbered gasoline ration
tickets won’t be ready as soon as
had been expected probably not
before the first of the year. If they
plug the leaks to the black mar
ket as well as the government ex
pects, Easterners can hope for
more liberal rations.
THE BLOCKERS
Our Department welcomes the
girls from Inspection Department.
Come on, girls, you are just one
of our gang. With all the other
new faces, gossip is scarce—-unless
the writer does a little bit of “nos-
over the grapevine
tiiat Alma H. has returned home
and IS feeling fine after her op
eration. Here’s hoping you won’t
oe out much longer. Pearl J is
about exhpsted trying to keep up
with Jessie L. in blocking these
days.—Jennie G., bidding both boy
friends good-bye. the same week?
Ruth B. is spending a vacation
this week. Have a good time for
us too, Ruth. Sylvia S. spent the
week-end at Fort Jackson with
her husband. Frances P. has join
ed her husband in Norfolk for a
few weeks. Hurry back, Frances.
Edith W.’s boy-friend has just
visited her. Louise S. will learn
w duck the next time she goes to
Camp Croft or she will have a
pot of coffee splashed in her lap
Let me know it, girfs, if you
know any gossip. May we aU en
joy a “Thankful Thanksgiving”.
KEEP ON - • “ * • •
• WITH WAR BONDS •