The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 22, 1943, Page 3

fy) them out/of business}? (2) Fi j ? { q j J of food retailers, ‘They complain: \ MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1243. (arma tenet este ee —"RATIONINGS SORE POINTS SS | t By JOHN GROVER | AP Features Service Writer / Rationing has dumped a load of new problems in Washington, ‘where blems already come in bunches, like bananas. Rep. Wright Patman’s small) business committee gets an _in- creased volume of protests ‘fro! (1) that rationing is driving that! larger retailers are ‘favored un- der rationing; (3) that rationing “paperwork” is dtiving them nuts and bankrupt, in that order, The committee estimates that rationed canned goods constitute one-quarter of the normal sales volume of a small grocer. High point values are whacking the Stuffing out of this revenue. Deliveries are a headache un- der rationing. Delivery service | “reefer” shipments, to tender pro-| Troop 51, sponsored by the Poin-' “tight” in refrigerator cars that: may be serious. { Already there’s the beginning of a squeeze in ears to transport: eitrus fruit from , Florida to re- | place high-point tomato juice. The | big squeeze is due for June. Mil-! lions of city housewives plan to! ean vegetables this year. That; means that abnormally large’ hipments of canning stocks must! move in refrigerator cars to ur-! ban centers before they spoil. (Or- | dinarily they're commercially; canned close to production centers | and move t ket through the year in ords:.ary boxcars). vegetables. There are only 143,000 “reefers” | e BOY SCOUT NEWS 1 LOCO IOE ORM, (as railroad men call refrigerator cars) on U. S. railroads, a decline | ise of 30,000 since 1926. WPB hasn't! Our Monroe County District authorized construction of any} Wishes to welcome a new add more. ODT plans to restrict! tion into our Scout Family— is the best competitive advantage | duce, and ship the stuff that stands | the independent store has over the cash-and-carry chains. A de- livery boy formerly could leave! up better in ventilated, ordinary | boxcars. Even so, it’s doubtful if; the available refrigerator cars! ,harged goods without a long! can keep up with urban home-can- | stop. Now he must collect ra- tion “chips” every trip. It runs up costs and makes new time demands on scarce help, Small Town Grocers Hit Wholesalers, with an eye on their tires and costs, tend to de- liver to the retailers closest to their warehouses. Small town rocers are howling that they can't get stocks. i Patman’s committee has the’ ration woes of the smaller mer-} chant under’ study. No basic re-, medial policy has been advanc-' ed. In all likelihood, there will! be further action to cut down! bookkeeping reports, and to ease restrictions on wholesalers to permit wider deliveries. hoped that increased sales of fresh vegetables will replace the lost canned goods revenues. New Transportation Problem This substitution of fresh for canned foods is building up an- other cross-fingersrand-hope-for- the-best situation. Office of De- fense Transportation expects a; By ADELAIDE KERR AP Feature Writer ; Beginning to feel your war job is pretty heavy to handle? ! Then listen to the story of Val- entina Orlikova, fourth mate on a) Soviet ship, that transports lend- lease supplies “to Stalin’s army. . In stormy weather or calm seas} she stands her watch on the, bridge, helping direct navigation | through mine-sown and submarine | _ infested waters. Sne has directed | the evacuation of a ship struck by | a mine and has lept from a flani-| ing vessel into the sea, to be res-! cued a submarine. And she| talks about it more calmly than! most people discuss rationed shoes. H Any preconceived pictures you; have of Soviet women as tall hus- | gy Amazons will have to be revis- ed for Orilkova. She is four feet) ten. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Slen-! der little figure in a dark blue} suit. She is the wife of a Soviet; seaman and the mother of a two-} year-old boy. f In the Soviet Consulate in New York, where she is making a brief | visit, Orlikova talked recently of! the disaster in August 1941, when | her ship struck a \mine in the; North . She speaks a little Eng- , lish, t she prefers to talk! throug an interpreter. ' crew — doctor, redio operator, waitresses. “Running through fog, we struck a mine. It ripped a hole in the shiv. Part of the crew water, But the ship be- gen to list. We couldn't tell | whether we could save her or nat. So I was ordered to direct evacuation of the wounded sol- diers in 12 life boats. When we | got them off, the shiv righted itself, The Sap serra fon atching her. iter idaes had spent about eight | hours in the beats. we were able | to bring them back on board and | go on.” Again Orilkova was a passenger } on a smal ship which caught fire | in the Baltic. She;gwooshed right | over the rail) and into the sea, | without a life belt. “Dob't be surbiited*” ahi said, RUSSIAN LADY GOES DOWN TO SEA ning needs. " Glass Jars Plentiful Other canning supplies look safe, There will be plenty of glass jars. Glass is one of the few plen- tifuL. industrial materials. Produc- tion of rubber jar’ rings will be authorized to Pressure cookers. are searee, but! a. C. Lewis, Paul S, Keirstead, ‘settles will do. ___,|J. W. Hodnett, C. F, Haywood Farmers who sell produce direct | and J. B. Burgin. to consumers must collect ration coupons. obey retail price laws,; The recent’ issue of hte Coun- and make retailers reports. This |i) bulletin had the following applies to fresh vegetables, dried | to say about the Monroe District produce or farm-canned edibles.’ activities: “Our Monroe County It applies to pork sold on the ‘pistrict is going ahead these farm and will be extended when gays and our chairman, Mr. ¢iana Community Club. national headquarters. Officers of the new organiza- tion are: . Scoutmaster, David 7 general meat rationing is institut-| Moehrke, has assured us of sev-| felng ‘ ..,. ,, 4 / eral new troops in the near fu- That's the way the “initiation” | tyre. reriod of food rationing stacks up. ' There’s no prospect of eased ra-| tioning restrictions. Rationing iS | cepted for membership in Troop here to stay throuhg the war, and! 52° “All have passed their ten- will be extended. A good home! derfoot requirements and have garden and plenty of home-can-} heen awarded badges. The new ning are “tausts” on the 1943 list hoy; are Claude Valdez, Jack for the prudent. ei eS old Edwins and Graham Conner. Two new Den Chiefs have been appointed for Cub Pack 15. |The new officers are Thomas was into the Institute of Engi-!Swicegood and Arthur Boza. neers of Water Transport, where; They will now wear the familiar she studied four years and emerg-} gold and blue shoulder straps. ed with two diplomas — one as} engineer, another as mate. As} soon as she could, she went to sea. | 52, under the authority of Li- Orlikoya is tne only woman/brarian Robert Archer, has a imate on her ship. But she dées’fot'}| "ew library system in effect. A intend to stop there. Her ambi-|new book case has been added | tion is to be a ship’s captain. She| to the library. thinks in three more years she} could make it. 5 | Approximately seven draftees jout of every 100 are réjected be- “It's good to have women on jcause of mental ill-health. ships.” she says, “They keep | ———_—————— everything clean and in good (Uidigididigididinidicididindininidinnick: condition. They are exact as doc- | And they are not afraid of any- | pr meee — thing.” | Have any of Orlikova’s ordera! ever been questioned because she} ‘was a woman? } “Never,” she says with a grin. | Lacking Humor “What do you think of our art; gallery?” i “Oh, the pictures are quite good, but there are no jokes un- der them.” (Sugar Book) Good For One Pound (March 22-Through April 25, . Five Weeks) satucnaoulaeiisiaceteetbaosad? H It has been estimated that 15| million tons of feed will be need- | ed this year to make U. S. chick-/ ens lay their quota of 5 billion} dozen eggs. 7 Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. 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