1947-02-20; Saline Observer

              The Saline
VOLUME    64
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,     THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1947
NUMBER   20
Org;
[anize Jr.
Chamber of
Commerce
SCHOOLS TO  DRAFT
AVIATION  COURSES
LEE ROBISON HEADS
GROUP OF YOUNGER
SALINE  BUSINESSMEN
As the result of a meeting
Thursday evening in the recreation rooms at St. Paul's church,
a Junior Chamber of Commerce
has been organized in Saline,
With Lee Robison, president;
Erwin Schmid, vice - president;
Armaine Westphal, treasurer;
Myron Gallagher, jr., secretary,
acd Richard Michalke as a member of the board of directors.
Kenneth Heininger and Lawrence Ouiment, - president and
vice-president of the Ann Arbor
Junior Chamber of Commerce attended the organization meeting
and spoke en its aims and purposes. It was largely through
the efforts of Mr. Heininger that
interest was aroused here for a
local junior chamber of commerce. /
Regular meetings will be held,
monthly and at the next one,
which, will be held at the Saline
Hotel, Thursday evening, February 27, a draft of the constitution and by-laws will be presented for adoption and the Ann
Arbor Junior Chamber of Commerce will provide the program
and entertainment. Membership
committee is composed" of Lawrence Deede and Richard Michalke.
Representatives of Michigan's
teacher-training colleges have
axgreed to map a uniform course
for teaching aviation ' in the
public  schools.
Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, superintendent of public instruction, said
representatives of the aviation
industry, the Civil Aeronautics
Authority and the State Department of Aeronautics would meet
with college officials March 14
and 15.
Dr. Elliott said a non-technical
general aviation course might be
necessary, but most of the aspects that could he taught could
be added to present  subjects.
Rotary Has
Farmers' Day
FARM CROPS  SPECIALIST
FROM  MICHIGAN   STATE
GUEST   SPEAKER
Hold Meeting
Of Directors
ELDEAN  FINKBEINER
NAMED   PRESIDENT   OF
LIVESTOCK  CLUB
TO HOLD  BAZAAR   '
AND RUMMAGE  SALE
Mrs. Ronald Tower, president
of the Ladies Aid Society of the
Federated church, announces that
the organization will conduct a
bazaar, rummage sale, and baked
goods sale* Saturday, March 1st.-
All women of the church are cooperating* and articles may be
left with the committee in
charge or brought to the sale Oh
Satiurtiay morning. Tju^bal^is>A3?~*ST.
goods sale will ■ 8pen at noon-, '
while the rummage and bazaar
counters will remain open all
day. The sale will, be held at
Uphaus •Electrical Shop.   .
The board of directors cf the
Junior Livestock Feeding club
met at the high school Thursday
evening and elected Eldean Finkbeiner president, Bruce Arend,
vice-president, Donald Wiedman,
secretary and Max Ross, treasurer.
Many items of business were,
discussed and the student „ directors were instructed to prepare
a constitution and, byrlaws for
presentation at their next meeting. Two new feeding clubs
were authorized, a lamb feeding
and pig feeding club, detailed
plans of which will be made
available before the time of
entry.
Club meetings will be held
re.gularly on the second Monuay
of the month. Directors are
Clarence Haarer, Arthur iiein-
inger, Arthur Hagen, Dan Levleit and Carl Curtiss, with
Charles Osgood acting as club
leader.
REV. -LOEW .TO  SPE.AK
BANQUET
ANNUAL MEETING OF     r
COMMUNITY  FAIR
The annual meeting of the
Community, Fair Association will
he held at the Saline high school,
Thursday evening, March 6, at
which time officers will be elected
for the year and other necessary
business transacted. Every person interested in this community
project is urged to be present
and lend their aid to it. $*ann-
■ers in this area are especially
urged to take part in the conduct of the ^Pair and -its w'ah&gen
menlt.
Preparations for the annual
Father and Son Banquet of St.
Paul's Church to be held tomorrow night "have been virtually
completed and the usual good
attendance is expectedw Committees of the Brotherhood* Women's Guild and Ladies Aid
Society have combined their efforts to provide an entertaining
program, attractive atmosphere
and a tasty banquet meal.
Arthur Heininger will act as
toastmaster for the occasion. The
Reverend Cornelius Loew, assistant pastor of Bethlehem
Evangelical and Reformed church
of Ann Arhor, will ba Uie, speaker. Ttaa -Rev. Xioew served as a
chaplain before assuming his
duties at ft© Ann Arbor "church.
Thursday was Farmers' Day at
the Saline Rotary Club when
members of the organization had
invited their farmer friends as
dinner guests and presented a
speaker from Michigan State
College, Dr. Downs, of the farm
crops  department.
Dr. Downs' talk covered his
work at the college, which has
to do with plant breeding, ana
was a revelation to many of the
painstaking efforts expended over
long periods of years in the propagation, of new and better
yielding crops of various kinds.
Revealing that the laws of
genetics applies to plant life
quite as much as to animal life,
ha explained the more intricate^
and difficult problem of dealing'
With the breeding of such plants
as oats and wheat and sugar
beets. Dr. Downs told of the
work now being done toward the
production of a variety of rust
resistant oats, by the segregating of several different varieties,
with certain tendencies, and the
attempt to concentrate those
resistant tendencies all in one individual variety and making that
variety  constant.
Because of the nature of the
work of plant breeding and the
years involved in, a single project, all of the efforts of a lifetime of experimentation may be,
lost with a change of personnel
in his department, declared Dr.
Downs. One man may have an
idea or theory or plan and may
spend a life-time in its development. Just a little past middle
age, Dr. Downs declared that it
was now too late in life for him
to start any new project in his
line. The years left to him were
necessary for the completion of
the projects he had started a
quarter century  ago.
.^bout eighty members and
xgutsts werS-present, and several
visiting Rotarians, who enjoyed
the dinner meeting in the newly
enlarged Saline Hotel dining
room. .F
That Tame
Primary
Sixty votes were cast here
Monday in the totally unnecessary primary election of two
candidates for the nomination of
Circuit Judge. Judge Breakey
received 49 and Judge Payne 11
votes out of- a possible 700.
Saline township did about as
well as the city, casting 37 ballots, 33 for Breakey and 4 for
Payne.
The Chicken of
Tomorrow
U. of M. SPEAKER
HERE FRIDAY
COUNTY POULTRYMEN
ELIGIBLE TO ENTER
NATIONAL CONTEST
Mrs. Warner
Entertains
Woman's Club
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VALENTINE PARTY
A "Valentine jiarty "w&s -held "at
•the home of Miss Linnea Simon-
ton last Thursday evening when
she ^invited nine girl friends to
spend the evening with ;her. ;Re-
freshments were served at tables
-attractively set with Valentine
favors and colors. A social time
was "enjoyed. Linnea is attelid-
■ihg the Ann Arbor Business
College.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gordon
•left Saturday, the 15th, for Chv
cinnatti, O.,, to visit the latter's
niece, Mrs. Nick Kinney and
family. They will be gone about
opia'weekjj
PRAISE *OR BOY
SCOUT TftOOP
The recent clothing 'drive
sponsored by the tecal churches
met witch an exceptional response
and thfe doirimitteeS in charge are
grateful to the Boy Scouts and
Joseph Bondie, £heir leader, who
made the 'collection, for that
Saturday was a bitter day indeed. Tha Michigan Council of
Churches spShsored the drive
throughout the 'state. Local committee 'chairmen were Mrs.
Berkley, of the Federated church,
Mrs. "Woodbridge of the Methodist church, Mrs. Layher of the
Trinity "Lutheran church and
Mrs. Fritz of St Paul's church.
7^ Woty *%*& Pctf*
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DECATUR, Mich. — Herschel
Campbell renewed his subscription to the Decatur Republican
recently. He also sent the Republican publisher the following
letter explaining how it was
possible:
"In reply to your request to
send a check, I wish to inform
you that the present condition of
my bank account makes it almost impossible.
My shattered financial condition
is due to Federal lawsr state
laws, county laws, corporation
laws, brother-in-laws, mother-in
laws, sister-in-laws and outlaws."
"Through these laws I am
compelled to pay a business tax,
amusement tax,, head tax, school
tax, gas tax, carpet tax, income
tax, food tax,; furniture tax and
excise tax* Even my brains are
taxed. I ami required to get a
"business license, car license,
hunting and fishing license, truck
license and a dog license."
"I am also required to contribute to every society and organization which the genius of man
is capable of bringing to life; to
women's relief, the unemployment relief, the gold-digger's relief.    Also to every hospital and
charitable institution in the city,
including the Red Cross, the
black cross, the purple cross and
the double cross.
"For my own safety I am required to carry life insurance,
property insurance, liability insurance, burglar insurance, accident "insurance, earthquake in
surance,, tornado insurance,, unemployment insurance, old-age
and fire insurance."
•My business is so governed it
is no easy matter for me to find
out who owns it. I am inspected,
expected, suspected, disrespected,
rejected, dejected* examined, re-
examineid, informed, required,
summond, fined*, commanded and
compelled until I provide ah inexhaustible supply o'f money for
every known need of the human'
race."
"Simply because I refuse to
donate "to somef Ing or other I
am boycotted, 'talked about, lied
about, held up, Tield down, and
robbed until I am almost ruined."
"I dan tell you "honestly, that
except for a ttiiracle that hapr
pened, I could not enclose this
check. The wolf that comes to
Many "doors nowadays just "had
pups "in my "kitchen. I sold'them
aiid" here 'is Jfhe ^mtmeyV
World Day of
Prayer
Community observance of the
World Day of Prayer will be
held in Saline on Friday afternoon, February 21, at two
o'clock, with a service of prayer
ta be held in the Federated
church auditorium. Women of
St. Paul's church and of the
Methodist church will cooperate
with the women of the Federated
church in arranging the service
and wives of the pastors of the
three churches will be among
those taking part in the program.
Special music is being arranged and the service will follow the general plan of the program planned for world-wide use
and sponsored by the National
Committee of Church Women
which represents the Foreign
Missions Conference, the National Council of Church Women and
the Council of Women for Home
Missions.
The mission projects sponsored inter-denominationally by
these groups include migrant
work, Christian literature, women's union . colleges in the
orient and religious work in the
United. States Government Indian
schools. These joint projects
supported by seventeen different
denominations will be presented
at the meeting on Friday and
the offering taken will go toward
their  support
All women in the community
are invited and urged to attend
this local service which will be
duplicated in thousands of places
around the world.
Mrs. Edward Warner was hostess to the Saline Woman's Club
Tuesday afternoon at her home.
The president, Mrs. J. N. Lewis,
conducted the usual session, after
which Mrs. C. H. Miller, program
chairman, introduced Mrs.
Rudolph Hertler, who gave a review of the bock, "Who. Walk
Alone". This book was written
by Perry Burgess for the benefit
of the Leonard Wood Memorial
Assoociation, which was founded
for the study of leprosy, honoring General Wood, fanied for his
military record in the Philippines.
It is of interest that two years
ago the national president of the
American Legion Auxiliary had
the raising of funds for the
"Foundation as her project for
which $150,000. was donated ana
to which the local Auxiliary
contributed. The object of the
book is to inform the public on
the disease, and is the story of
an actual case,, that of Ned
Langford, a boy- of the Ozarks,
who became a soldier in the
Spanish American war. Mrs.
Hertler prefaced her review witch
information on the subject as a
result of her research, which disclosed that there are only about
1000 cases recorded in the United
States, but three million in the
world. Leprosy is possibly the
oldest dise&se^-as it is mentioned
frequently, in. the, Bible.and also
in ,ancient -"histories."It is not
confined to one class, as rich and
poor alike are subject to its
ravishes. Less than three per
cent have bee cured, though the
disease may occasionally be arrested', and no progress had been
made until 1874 when the bacillus
was discovered, it is similar to
that of tuberciilosis,, «.nd it is
hoped that new discoveries in
medicine will be of value in its
cure. It is no.ticable that leprosy
is more prevalent in countries
with warm, climates and common
in the Near East, so that forces
of the last war were in danger
of contracting it, although it is
not considered a contagious disease and the means of contagion
are a mystery at present
The college career of Ned
Langford was interrupted by his
enlistment in 1898, and after a
short time he, was sent to Manilla, and although the war ended
shortly after, troops were kept
there for several years to corv-
bat gorilla warfare. The soldiers
lived much of the time in native
homes and Ned was billeted with
Philippine soldiers and later in
the home of a well to do Spanish
family. On his return to th©
United States, he did not return
Cont'd on Page 4
Washtenaw. County poultrymen
will compete witch poultry breeders in ten northcentral states in
the 1947. phase of the nationwide
Chicken-o {-Tomorrow program
with more than 2,50ft poultry
raisers from this county eligible
to enter the competition, according to D. D. Slade, chairman of
the national Chieken-of-Tomor-
row  contest  committee.
"All that is required for
Washtenaw County poultrymen
to become a part of this important breeding program is a flock
of 50 baby chicks hatched April
23," Slade said Poultrymen entering the contest are urged to
contact J. M. Moore, extension
Poultryman, Michigan State College, East Lansing, chairman of
the contest committee in this
state."
Aimed at developing chickens
with improved meat-type characteristics, the contest carries a
$5,0.00 grand prize in 1948 provided by A & P Food, Stores and
$5,000 in regional prizes. The
top award will go to the poultry
breeder who develops the most
improved meat-type chicken.
Slade urged Michigan poultry-
men to continue their efforts to
develop superior meat-type chickens which, he said, are paying
increased dividends to the entire
state. He pointed to the Chick-
en-of-Tcmorrow contest as an
outstanding example of the
poultry industry's determination
to provide consumers with better
chicken dinners."
The importance of poultry
farming in Washtenaw County,
Slade said, is reflected in the
latest report from the Census
Bureau which shows that 83 per
cent of the county's farmers received income from poultry.
These producers, according to the
report, have more than, 532,000
chickens and sell nearly- 2,100,.-
000 dozen eggs. . ,".   ,
Professor Hempstead Bull, of
the Engineering Department,
, University of Michigan, is the
principal speaker at the annual
Father and Son banquet being
held in the Federated church dining room this evening, at 7:00
o'clock.
Other speakers will include
Ferman Clements, who will give
a toast to the sons, and his son,
Wayne, who will respond with a
toast to the fathers.
Special musical numbers, both
classic and comic, and motion
pictures will complete the evening's program. A committee
from, the Ladies Aid, Society of
the church is serving the dinner.
Girbach Takes
Three Firsts at
State Show
ANN ARBOR MAN ALSO
WINNER IN BARROW
SHOW AT MSC
Crosley Car Gets
Into Production
MODEL   DISPLAYED HERE
LAST FALL  DREW  MUCH
FAVORABLE  COMMENT
Independents
Blow Lead;
Lose 26-27
The Crosley automobile, .radically different in conception
design and manufacturing principle, is now in full production
and according to Herbert- Teach-
out, proprietor of the Ypsi Body
Shop and distributor for the
Crosley car, it is a little marvel
for "get out and get," and comfortable  riding,   too.
The Crosley was displayed at'
the Community Fair here last
fall and drew a lot pf attention.
It is surprisingly roomy, even
for out-sized individuals. There
are four deep seats covered in
smart pig-skin, leather-like fabric. It has a very low center of
gravity and super-easy to handle.
The Crosley engine was designed
and developed for the United
States Navy. It weights less
than 150 pounds, complete with
all accessories, including generator, flywheel and starter and de-
velopes 26.5 horse-power. It is
a water-cooled, valve-in-head,
four cylinder engine with Shearing balanced crank-shaft.   -
All Crosleys come in -Duv-Gray
color, are streamlined and are
rated for as much as fifty miles
on a single gallon of gasoline.
FATHER OF SALINE
LADY BURIED
Ernest Girbach, Saline farmer,
and Frank McCalla, Ann Arbor,
came away from the annual
State Farmers' Week Barrow
show at East Lansing, Wednesday and Thursday of last week,
with five blue ribbons, the Ann
Arbor man having taken first
place in the middle weight cla^s
barrow pen and first in the middleweight single barrow. He also
placed second in the middleweight  carcass  display.
Girbach took three firsts in
the lightweight class; pen, single
and carcass, and also reserve
grand   champion   carcass.
Marian Hagedorn cf Sturgis
had the grand champion heavyr
weight barrow and barrow pen.
JOHN M.  OTTMER
John M. Ottmer, 76, of Scio
townsMp, died Saturday night
after an illness of one week. He
was born Feb. 22, 187ft, in Saline
residing in Ann .Arbor the greater part of his life.
He was married to Wilhelmina
Bucholz of Ann Arbor,, who died
Jan. 21, 1924. Surviving are two
sons, Raymond J. and LaVerne
C; one .grandson, Russell J. Ottmer, all of Ann Arbor; a stepdaughter-, Mrs. .Annette . Broder-
son of Detroit; one sister, Mrs.
Fred Weisenger of  Saline.
Funeral services were held
at 3:30 Tuesday, afternoon at the
MueWig funeral chapel, Ann
Arbor, with Rev. Clarence Hahn
of Akironi, O., officiating. Burial
was made in Fairvifew cemetery.
MRS. FRANK KRESS
MUSIC CLUB HOLDS
FEBRUARY MEETING
GOTTLIEB HERTLER
Gottlieb Hertler, 75, a Saline
farmer died last Thursday morning.
A native of Wurtemberg, Germany, where he was born June
18, 1872, he came to this country
with Ms parents, John, George
and Margaret Iusz Hertler, as a
young man.
Mr. Hertler settled here in 1884
and had been farming here since
that time. He was a member of
the Trinity Lutheran church.
Mr. Hertler's wife, the former
Barbara  Steiner, died in 1939,.
Survivors include two sisters,
^Mrs. Fred Kleinschimdt, York
township, and Mrs. Fred Schleh,
Ann Arbor  township.
Funeral services were held at
the Lockwood funeral home at
1:30 p.m. Saturday with Rev. H.
X. Engel officiating-. Burial was
in Oakwood cemetery.
The members of the Etude
Music Club met at the home of
Mrs. Wilma Hinderer, Saturday.
Roll call was conducted by Carlene Hinderer and the secretary
and treasurer gave reports. The
club decided to have a Schubert
play for a recital. A musical
program followed with Marie
Socks and Donna Wahl playing
a duet, "The Cricket;" and Donna
also played "The Mocking Bird;"
Donald jeppeson, "The Bee;" Dar-
lene Klumpp, "Distant Bells;"
Billy Anderson, ."Baseball Days;"
Alton Moehn, "Streamliner;"
Dai.jie Wilson, air from "Surprised Symphony;" Dawn Wilson,
"From a Wigwam;" and Victoria
Bredernitz, "Aunt Melinda's Mu-^
sic Box." Billy Anderson was
voted the best player and was
awarded a small marble statue
of Bach/ Valentines were drawn
from a red and white decorated
box, games were played and refreshments were served.
The Saline Independents-State;
Hospital basketball game Tuesday night marked the second
meeting of these two .teams
within the space of a weejc, the
first being played here Thursday
With the Hospitalers whining by
a wide margin, 51 to 24J Tuesday's game was something ' different, in that the locals were
pretty hot throughout. Led by
George Everett with 10 points,
they established a 10. to 4 lead
at the first quarter, and a 14 to
4 lead at the half. At the end of
the third period they still maintained a lead of 22 to 10, then
things began to pop. The
opposition really went to town
and cashed in on the winning
bucket just 40 seconds before the
whistle.
It was a very good game all
the way except for a little roughness in spots. High point man
for both teams was Everett, with
10. Lander and Bishop led the
Hospital with 8 each.
LINEUPS:
Ypsilanti Hospital
B    F     T
Bishop,  c 4     0     8
Armstrong,  f     , 1;.   0    '2-
Spence, g 2,04
Lander,  g 4     0     8
Williams,  f 13     5
Chrisner,   f 0      0      0
Doinbush, f 01     0     0
Total 27
Saline Independents
B     F    T
Koebbe, f 3     0     6
Brassow,  f 0     0     0
Hirth, f 0     0      0
Filkins,  f 10      2
Everett, c 5     0   10
Rogers,   g 3     0     6
Winkle, g Q     a     0
Dechert,  g '10     2
Uphaus, g 0     0     0
Wiedman, g 0     0.0
Total 26
Funeral services were held last
Thursday afternoon for Eugene
D. Youngs, 77, a retired farmer
who died at his home in Ypsilanti
after, a long illness.
Among the survivors are Mrs*
Ethel Stoddard of Saline; and
Mrs. Electa Armstrong of Stony
Creek. -
CONCERT HERE BY
MILAN CHOIR, SUNDAY
A concert will be given here
at _ the Methodist church, Sunday evening by the choir of 'the
Milan Methodist church, members
of which will- also assist in installing officers of the W.S.C.S.
Funeral • services were held
Friday for Mrs. Frank Kress,
1345.0 Pleasant Lake road, whose
death occurred Feh. 10, 'at St.
Joseph's Mercy hospital, Ann
Arbor. Surviving are her- husband; one soni, James, at home;
a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Brooks,
Manchester) six sisters, Mrs.
Arthur Gillett and Mrs. Charles
Heimerdinger, Manchester; Mrs.
William Walker, Wolf Lake; Mrs.
Ivan Alford,, Detroit;"/Mrs. Walt-
ter Bloom, Freedom Twp., and
.Mrs. Louis Kuebler, Saline, and
one brother,, Frederick Uphaus of
Manchester.
- Mr. and Mrs. Max Collins and
daughter -were weekend guests at
the home of ;Mrs. Collins parent's,
the T. M. Clays. Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Hartman were dinner
guests  there, Sunday.
Sa*t Smita. *?ex€tt,
CHILD STUDY CLUB.
Saline fire department truck
No. 1 made a runi to Piatt Village, Wednesday morning at 9
o'clock to extinguish a small
blaze in the basement of the
Bruce Hall home. Little damage
was done.
Saturday the de]partment answered a call om the Johnson road
when defective wiring charred
the wallpaper in the home to
which they were called.
The Saline Child Study Club
meeting Tuesday, evening at the
home of Mrs. Qlarence Johnson
was well attended. Members and
guests thoroughly enjoyed Dr.
Joseph Hartsook's talk on "Dental Care of Children*" which was
illustrated with pictures; He explained most dental defects may
be detected and corrected if
taken in time; and stressed -the
importance of x-ray for /finding
hidden cavities. and improper
acclusion of teeth.
Hostesses were Mrs. Ray. Niles
and Mrs. Clare Collins.
While wintry blasts rattle your
xdoors and cover your window
panes deep with frost the sun
is shining with summer-like
warmth and brightness here in
the Valley of the lower Rio
Grande.
As you shovel snow from your
walks and driveways and haul
sand on your hillsides, the folks
in this sunny southland drive
down highways bordered with
palm trees, while grapefruit and
oranges beckon to them from the
orchards along the way. It is
difficult to believe that such a
contrast exists between the two
places. However,'all is not sunshine and glory even here." When
it gets extremely cold in the
northern states they oft times
have what Valley residents, call
a "Northern", when the mercury
will fall quickly but seldom if
ever frosts. .    •
San Benito is a nice little town
of 9,000 people. It is 18 miles
north of Brownsville* located on
what used to be the. famous
Chisholm Trail, which is linked
so closely with the development
of Texas and about which so
many exciting tales have been
told and stories written.
Brownsville is Built on the
banks of the Rio Grande at the
extreme southernmost point of
Texas. At the south end ofi the
main street of the town, right at
the river bank, is a. plaque marking the southern end of the
Chisholm ..Trail.
The "Valley" as it Is known,
is a beautiful stretch of land,
perhaps from 50 to 75 miles
wide, extending along the Rio
Grande.. The rain fall is very
light, so the truck garSefiing, and
orchards, in fact all agricultural
projects, are dependent on irriga
tion for their success.
Many of'the roads are border-"
ed witch palm trees from 501 to 60
feet in height. It is a beailtiicul
sight to look down these gre&t
avenues formed by the towering'"
palms. • They give.the countryside a weird beauty indescribable.
Then too there are thousands of
the smaller palms, from 15 to 25
feet in height.
Much of the Valley is given
over to the grapefruit and orange
orchards but thousands of acres
are growing vegetables and cotton. It is a wonderful soil and
only needs the water to produce
the vegetables and fruits that are
fast becoming world famous.
It seems a shame that thousands of bushels of grapefruit
and oranges should be going to
waste here while there are millions of people 'who seldom" if
ever have them on their tables.
Some orchards have been picked
but there are hundreds of them
burdened with fruit and not ar
picker to be seen. When out riding and you wish an orange or
grapefruit for breakfast slip out
of your car and for very little
cash you may <Ene on the finest
fruit the sun shines on. And if
you are not too fastidious you
may gather a bushel or so from
the roadside as you drive along.
It is fruit that has fallen from
the trucks on their way to the
juice factories. Oft times the
owners of the orchards tell the
travelers, "go help yourselves."
The churches of the city are this
week picking a car load of citrus
fruits to ship as a^ gift ta an
orphanage.. One man is furnishing the fruit free of any charge.
The Gulf of Mexico, the rivers'
and canals make the Valley alsp
a fisherman's paradise.'
L. -A.  Catey.
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