Milford chronicle. [volume], December 24, 1954, Page PAGE TWELVE, Image 12

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Meet The Do-Dads
ty GENE HANOSAKER
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The Do-Dads, disdaining delay and
deficiency of donated dollars, do it themselves for the 2,400 Girl
Scouts in this area.
T?« J t pproximately 125 Do ' Dads ar ® mostly Scouts' fathers. Others
are childless or retired citizens who get a kick out of slinging paint
setting brick or nailing shingles buildings,
in a worthwhile cause.
Take last spring. The Ü. S. Forest
Service warned that the 110 -volt
power line to one of the girls' three
camps couldn't remain strung on
trees. It was a mountain fire hazard.
"One of the boys scrounged some
used pipe from the gas company,"
recalls Art Kraft, a onetime test
pilot whose wife is president of the
Girl Scouts' Santa Monica Bay
Council.
Kraft welded the pieces of pipe
' into poles at the plant where he is
an aeronautical engineer. He and
other Do-Dads—an electrician, a
college math teacher, an aerody
namist and its chief expediter—got
: the poles up and new wire strung
in time for the camp's
opening.
While they were at it they bor
rowed a chain saw and cut down
'•s 15 tall pine trees that
Mrs. Mildred S. Keenan, execu
tive director of the scout council,
estimates that the donated
materials on this pro
t alone wonld have cost $8,000—
'"wav beyond our reach." The
Sconts' budget fast year for upkeep
of all three camps and Its head
quarters was $900.
Another of the camps needed
fence. Do-Dad Wesson C. Clow,
telephone installer, promoted from
his company, with its blessing,
some telephone pole cross-arms. A1
ready creosoted, they made fine
fence posts.
Not that the, Do-Dads finagle
everything for free. Cement work
on the next big project—a camp in
firmary headquarters building that
would cost an estimated $8,500
present rates—will be contracted.
Projects are "auctioned" at the
Do-Dads' annual meeting. The
father who volunteers is expected
to see his job through unless
becomes ill or otherwise unable,
in which case he is to notify
supervisory Do-Dad.
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summer
WGF 0 in
danger of falling. They recondi
tioned a donated refrigerator and
truckçd it 90 miles to the camp.
They built new benches and tent
platforms and made repairs
to
SMOKING SAFETY
BARGAIN REPAYMENT
VICTORIA — (JP) — A man who
likes to smoke In bed says he has
figured out a way to do it without
causing a fire hazard.
J. Henry Michaud says his in
J vention is an aluminum tube with
holes in the sides which screws
into a cigarette holder.,No ash
escape, he says. He got t
cently in a hospital, wh
were "always raising heck with me
for smoking in bed,
SAIPAN, Mariana Islands — (Æ*)
The U. S. Navy has paid off $2600
in old I. 0. U.'s to the Saipanese.
The Saipanese were given the notes
by American occupying forces for
their yen when the Japanese sur
rendered the island ten years ago.
Individual payments ranged from
$1.50 to $475.97 at the rate of
yen for a dollar—a price agreed on
ten years ago. Today, the yen
pegged at 360 yen to a dollar.
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this Holiday season fall with
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fet us keep Christmas. Let us hold close this day, remembering
family and friends. May yours be a very joyous Holiday,
surrounded by all whose love and friendship you cherish.
Buchanan Service of Milford, Inc.
Milford, Delaware
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Homemaking Briefs
A team of USD A research scien
tists report the pilot-plant devel
opment of a new kind of dehydrated
mashed potatoes with unusual
properties. The new product—"po
tato flakes"—can be rapidly con
verted to mashed potatoes by addi
tion of either hot water or milk.
After whfpping, it has the texture
and color of good freshly-mashed
potatoes and has excellent flavor.
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A process developed by U. S. De
partment of Agriculture scientists
has made possible a new, improved
applesauce. An essence made from
byproduct peels and cores and add
ed to the sauce produces a tangy,
fresh flavor that lasts through
months of storage.
Commercial production of this
improved applesauce is expected
after a satisfactory method'Is found
for adding the essence in process
ing. The product will be slightly
higher priced than ordinary apple
sauce.
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Every try currant jelly with
whipped cream on top, over your
favorite pumpkin pie? After it
comes piping hot out of the oven,
serve it to your holiday guests
with this unusual topping. It's de
licious.
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Ever tried roasted eggs? It's a
different idea in egg cookery and
can provide you with a new taste
treat. Stick a needle into the large
end of eggs, then lay them on the
rack of an oven preheated to 325°
F. Roast for 20 or 30 minutes. Cool,
peel eggs, and serve. The flavor is
different from water-cooked
eggs.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS,
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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To All My Patients
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Dr. Anna K. Gregarious
Milford, Del.
Phone 4826
Reserve Of 5,000fi00
Active Men Is Promised
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$2,500 to look after a six-month
trainee including his monthly pay
of $30, his uniform, food and hous
ing.
The Pentagon plan also includes
an estimated average cost of $ 1,000
to maintain and train a single
member of the ready reserve for
one year;
Argument Advanced
The new reserve program is be
ing advanced with the argument,
among others, that it would permit
a smaller active duty strength.
President Eisenhower has used
that thesis.
The Pentagon has higher hopes
than usual that Congress might go
for its new plan. It would be limit
ed to four years' duration and be
subject to change as experience
and conditions dictated. Every
other form of universal military
training htrs foundered when
reached the capitol.
Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass),
current chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, said
the new plan "certainly iq a con
structive step towards building
up our reserve system,"
Senator Stennis (D-Miss),
member of the Armed Services
Committee, said he strongly fav
ored a greatly increased active re
serve and "it will probably pass
it has the strong support of the
President."
Called Essential
President Eisenhower has been
quoted by 'members of Congress
who discussed the plan with him
as feeling it is essential to an ade
quate defense program.
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The plan aims at providing
6 . 000 , 000 -man
a
reserve by 1959.
**»« would be made up of 3,000,
000 men ready for a call to serv
lc ®'^ nd 2 , 000,000 who would be
. in sec °ndary phases of mo
bilization. The reservists would be
composed largely of those who had
already served on active duty, as
draftees or volunteers.
under it the six-monthers would
perform their subsequent reserve
duty in the National Guard, Array
or Marine Corps units. The Navy
systems^ fo^°thli° ther
systems for their reservists.
flan Outlined
The plan envisages, behind the
active forces, two categories of re
serves.
1. A new ready reserve called
the "service callable reserve".
Burgess said "It is to be a readily
available force, subject to call in
time of war or in an emergency
declared by the Congress or pro
claimed by the President." The
National Guard would be a part
and would "continue in its present
structure, having both state and
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to ail our good friends .. . May
your Christmas be abundant with
health, happiness and contentment.
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and make you a child again just for a night
Santa bows in with
wealth of good wishes from all of us to all of you.
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2. A new standby reserve, called
the "selectively callable
This would be a non-organized,
non-paid Reserve pool which would
be dipped into "only in a general
mobilization,
Korea or any conflict would be
given first consideration for place
ment in this reserve. Its person
nel would be made up largely of
those who had fulfilled their obli
gallon in the "service callable re
serve."
Beyond th ® 3 ® tw o reserves would
be the pool of men eligible for the
draft and acceptable for military
service. The draft law is due to
P ir ® ne *t June 30, but the Defense
Department intends to ask Con
Kress f or an extension and also to
ask for higher pay for men in
the services. •
Burgess also said the proposed
training plan would continue the
reserve officers organizations about
as they are now, including the Re
serve Officers' Training Corps. He
said college deferments would be
continued under the plan.
reserve".
Combat veterans of
ex
LARGEST WEEKLY
DADS SENTENCED
LYNCHBURG, Va. — {JP) — Two
boys, aged 11 and 12 , were brought
before Juvenile Court Judge O. R.
Cundiff, charged with burglarizing
a grocery store. He ordered an in
vestigation.
Their fathers said they didn't
know the boys were out that night.
Judge Cundiff gave the dads 60 days
in jail for neglecting the boys.
LOCKED TIGHT
HILLSDALE. Mich. — (AP) —
Twelve prisoners got themselves
locked so fast in the Hillsdale
County Jail that even the sheriff
couldn't get them out A lever
mechanism on the door leading Into
the cell block became Jammed. A
locksmith had to be called from St
Louis, Mo., to fix It
THIS IS WAR?
HABVET G. MABTEL
KALISPELL, Mont. — (JP) — Get
your pants or skirts cleaned for 19
cents? That's what resulted in this
northwestern Montana community
when a price war Broke out among
dry cleaners. The regular price
was 75 cents.
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on your Christmas tree
reflect the happiness
that wé wish you throughout
the Holiday Season.
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