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| ~Casualty~ in: Boston ~Raid~

Stretcher bearers of the Massachusetts Women~s Defense School carry
~casualty~ to an ambulance during the mock air raid on Boston Common. Amateur women pilots:flew the raiding planes while gas-masked
debbies below doused fires and incendiary bombs. Army and state

officials watched

the proceedings.

Pepsi-Cola Sends
Winners To Mobile

ners of the Walter Mack Jot
Awafd*.Contest. ~ Miss. Jeanette. Maghd ~and Alien L.' MeéKelier,
aresto work here in interests of
the:*Pepsi-Cola company of Long
Island. City, New York.

Migs, Maund, a 1940 graduate of
~Hampton Institute and Mr. -McKellar, agradtiate of South Carolina State A. and M.. College,
won their positions as a
result of their participation in the
essay contest sponsored by the
company. They, along with stuGents of 500 colleges all over the
coufitry, wrote essays on the subject: ~How American Youth

Paces the Future.~ Of the 2%
essay winners, 25 of whom were
white, 13 were selected to be given
jobs with the company.

Miss Maund and Mr, McKellar
wete the two Negro witiners, The
purpose of this project as sponsored by Mr. Mack, president of
Pepsi-Cola, is to make available
job opportunities for youth upon
graduation from college irrespective of race, creed or color.

These two young. people~ will
speak before educational, church,
civic and social groups, and wili
contact Negro business owners
during their stay in the city.

~In Country Lanes~

~Tt~s back to the farm for us, and
-how happy we are to get back, no
one knows,~ said LeRoy Williams
of Pulaski County, Arkansas.

Taking advantage of the Depart~ment of Agriculture~s program of

helping the farmer help himself,

the Williams have returned to the

- fart, Working with the Farm~ Security Administration they hope
to become firmly established and
are looking forward to the day
when. they will become self-sus
* taining.::

~ ~Mr,,, Williams is-following a
versified crop program dnd Mrs.

Williams js already making exten.

sive-plan for landscaping her yard

and has a good garden.

Suvplemental income js a real
vfoblem to Many low income fam_
ilies. but it is not a problem at all
to Mrs. Robert Parks of Bossier
Parish, La.

'. Butter is Mrs. Parks practical
Solution. to this problem. She ~avereaes around $7 pre month from
_ butter sales: Last year a total.of
$92 was realized from this soUrce.

~The~ Parks family is an out.
standing one,~ according to Miss
Julia: Foster, -home management
supervisor for the Farm Security
Administration, and are making
rapid progress. Their two sons are
in~schoo]} at Southern University,
Scotlandville. One of Mrs. Parks~
newest possessions, bought with
proceeds from butter sales is a large
jee- cream ffeezer. She said she
Was. anxious to get a freezer before
the boys came home from school.

~The Parks family follow a di-,versified crop plan and_live at
home -prograrn and are rapidly be
- -eeming rehabilitated,
eye! ~PSA~
Mr. and Mrs.-. George. Sims,

FSA~ farm family of near Holly
are proud of their new home, uurchased wméder the provisions of the

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The house ig attractively furnished, and Mrs. Sims is due
credit. for her thriftiness and ingeniuitvy, The interior of the home
&s well as all furnishings reflect
her__adeptness.
| Fe two orange crates, she
made'a dressing table curtained
~with,.flowered print and trimmed
blue ruffles,
ith the same material, she
@-mateh ~ bedspread and

d-Jones Tenant. Purchase.

drapery set. Using a naif keg, a

clever stoll for the dressing table

Was made, and covered with the
Print material, with the edging.
The total cost was only $2.70.

Blue and white gingham were
deftly used for the living room
curtains, An old music cabinet was
made into a utility table. A combination table and book case made
from an orange crate, and given @
coat of red paint gives color to the
s00om.

Mr.~ Sims made a set of break- |

fast.chairs from nail kegs. Mrs.
Sims made attractive covers, featuring fiesta colors to match: her

kitchen curtains. The cost of these ~

kitchen furnishings totaled $2.50.

Pongee curtains. were used for
the master bedrcom, and all. floors
were. waxed and polished, The c
outlay for the interior improvements was $8.50,

~We haven~t bought a broom
since we~ve been married, and
that~s been seventeen years,~ said

Alf, Duncan, FSA farmer of Ethel, -

Arkansas.. -

Mr. Duncan grows the broom
corn and makes his own brooms.
Both round and flat brooms are
made, using only a six-inch iron
needle that has been ~used in his
family for many years. Hé- not
onlv makes all the brooms needed
in his own home but also supplements his income by selling the
surplus brooms to neighbors

~FSA~
~Td rather have my new pressure. cooker than.a__ Lincoln

Zephyr,~ Viola Davis, Mississippi

County FSA homemaker, proudly
said, e
Last year the Davis family did

not have a pressure cooker. This
year, however, they decided that
one was necéssary in order to conserve all the surplus farm products. Mrs. Davis has. already
started canning. and she says that
she~ intends.to fill the canning
budget set up for her family an~
can all other additicnal products
that are available, so that they
can have an ample supply of canned goods for the winter months

Haiti will have a cotton crop of
shpreximately 3,509,000 kilograms
this year, much larger then last

year~s crop.

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Henry Ford Goes
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ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~
Henry Ford will be inductea in
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~itd colored and unemployed Atantan who resides at 2601-2 Deatur Street..

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