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VOLUME XIV LEADING GOLFERS TO ENTER OPEN AT ST. PAUL ALL MINNESOTA TO SEND PARTICIPANTS TO ANNUAL FAN TOURNEY With all Minnesota getting into the fun of the new idea of a Saint Paul Open Fans’ Tournament, more interest than ever before is being roused in the Saint Paul Open Golf Tournament which will be played July 25, 26, 27 and 28 at Keller Golf Course. St. Paul. Prizes again will total $7,500 in hard cash, enough to lure practic ally every ‘‘big name” golfing star in the country and draw letters of real regret from those who can’t get into the battle. Prizes in the “Fans’ Tourna ment” are just a season ticket to any golf club entering, but the interest aroused in the first year that the idea was evolved has proved “terrific,” to quote Adolph Helf man, General Chairman of the Saint Paul Junior Association Committee arranging for the Open this year. More than 47 clubs entered, and all over Minnesnta this week tour naments are being staged to pick the lucky golfer who’ll win the season ticket from his or her club. Play is by an 18 hole tournament, or by posting low score; and is according to rules of each club. The play must be completed by this Saturday. Included in the list of golfing greats who have entered the tour nament during the past week are Pat Sawyer, now a professional in Michigan, who used to bum up the fairways as Minnesota’s own special prodigy; Wilford Wehrle, great amateur and Jim Ferrier, the Australian giant amateur who won the galleries with his great play at Minneapolis in the West ern Open last week. Golf clubs that entered the Fans’ Tournament this year included: Albert Lea Country Club; Recrea tion Golf Club, Albert Lea, Min nesota ; Alexandria Golf Club; Anoka Golf Club; Hillcrest Golf Club. Austin, Minnesota; Ramsey Golf Club, Austin, Minnesota; Municipal Golf Club, Bemidji, Minnesota; Benson Golf Club; Pine Beach Golf Club, Brainerd, Minnesota; Chisago Golf Club; Clear Lake Golf Club; Lakeside Golf Club, Cokato, Minnesota; Elk River Golf Club; Fort Ridgely Golf Club, Fairfax, Minnesota; Minnewaska Golf Club, Glenwood. Minnesota; Granite Falls Club; Hastings Country Club; Hibbing Golf Association ; Mesaba Country Club, Hibbing, Minnesota; Crow River Country Club, Hutchinson, Minnesota; Kenyon Golf Club; Lake City Country Club; LeSueur Golf Association; Milaca Golf Club; Montevideo Golf Club; New Prague Golf Club; New Ulm Country Club; Northfield Golf Club; Dub Duffer’s Golf Club, North St. Paul, Minnesota; Red wood Falls Golf Club; Soldiers Field, Rochester, Minnesota; Rushford Golf Club; Country Club B 514, Saint Cloud. Minne sota; Souk Centre Country Club; Terrace Golf Club, Staples, Minne sota ; Stillwater Golf Club; Wa dena Golf Association; Waseca Lakeside Club; Riverside Golf Club, Winnebago, Minnesota; Country Club, Winona, Minne sota ; Zumbrota Golf Club; Kel ler Golf Club, Highland Park Golf Club, - Somerset Country Club, Bunker Hills Club. Como Golf Club, Como Golf Club, and Phalen Women's Golf Club all of St. Paul, Minnesota; Gall’s oCuntry Club, North St. Paul, Minnesota; and Hilltop Golf Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 25 ACCEPTED HERE BY NAVAL RESERVE Twenty-five Minneapolis and St. Paul youths 4zere accepted for training intended to produce 5,000 naval reserve officers annually under the defense program, Lieut. Commander M. A. Hefferman of the Minneapolis Naval Reserve base announced today. Nine have already left for New York for a 30-d • cruise on the Wyoming, and o, "s will leave shortly. Registrations are being taken at the armory. LIGHTNING KILLS FIVE MILK COWS V/Axittuop—During an electrical storm recently, five milk cows were killed by a bolt of lightning at the Alfred Lu*. 'arm in Ber nadette township. Twin City Twin City Area Shows Census Gains TRAFFIC DEATHS IN STATE SHOW SHARP INCREASE TWENTY MORE PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN STATE THIS YEAR THAN LAST TO DATE Minnesota enters the second half of 1040 faced with the prob lem of bettering last year's excel lent, prize-winning traffic safe ty record if the state is to keep her place in the safety sun. Twen ty more traffic fatalities have been recorded in the first half of the year than in the same period of 1039. In explaining this condition, state highway department safety engineers produced osme significant figures. -A total of 216 Minnesota men, women and children were killed in the first six months of this year. During the same period of 1939 there were 196 fatalities—2o under this year’s death toll. Analysis of these figures shows that “the man of the street” —the pedestrian is responsible for much of the unwarranted increase in deaths, as 25 more pedestrians have been killed up to July 1 this year than yere killed in the first six months of 1939. A total of 85 fatalities in the pedestrian class— -39 per cent of the total deaths— have been charged against the state’s safety record so far. com pared with only 60 during the cor responding period of last year. The number of fatal non pedestrian motor vehicle acci dents has actually decreased this year, and 12 of the 131 deaths in this group were caused in one accident—a catastrophe such as is unlikely to happen again for many years to come. “It is often possible,” W. F. Ro senwald, department traffic and safety engineer, concludes, “to charge certain types of accidents to seasonal causes, such as icy surfaces, weather or other unus ual driving conditions. Pedestrian deaths, however, do not fall into any such definite category, for fa talities of this type doubled in January and April of this year over the same months of last year, while they were practically identical in number in the other four months of the year. Top Aquatennial Features Iff MP* 4r ‘ iiIMIIB MM 9 M Hr Visitors to the Minneapolis Aquaf-u lU ai J ' see action galore in the air and on the r w ranking aerial stunt fliers prov ng th ills r field, a series of shell races on iue Missis ti -ts by international!} famoi swim an<‘ Minneapolis 'owing club is pictured abo r jn their n-w shell and shov Grlenkovkh, San Fr»' co, national in meter board diving c jnpkm. 4oc JUL 20 1943 PUB G ROBBINSDALE, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940 Employment Gains Throughout Country Employment in nearly every region of the United States in creased between April and May with more than one-half of the 250,000 gain taking place in the Middle Atlantic and East North Central divisions, the Labor De partment reports in the first of a series of new monthly State es timates of employes in non-agri cultural establishments. Largest net increases in em ployment compared with May of last year also was shown in the Middle Atlantic and East North Central regions, the gain being placed at nearly 600,000 more per sons employed this year. Manufac turing establishments accounted for the hiring of half of these workers, while re-employment of bituminous coal miners idle in May. 1939, pending negotiation of new wage agreement, accounted for a gain of 70,000. The remain ing net increase of about 200,000 persons occurred chiefly in trade and the transportation of public utilities groups. Grave Digger Missing, So Vicar Takes Spade CHELMARSH, ENGLAND—There is at least one vicar in the country who appreciates that the grave dig ger has a tough job. He is the Rev. J Basil Gower- Jones who, with a funeral service to conduct in three hours and no grave or grave digger, took off his coat and did the job himself. He then went home, changed and re turned to conduct the ceremony. “I never worked so hard in my life,” said the vicar. “The last foot was a bed of clay as hard as a rock and I had to use my pick and then shovel it out. It was back-breaking work.” College Teaches ‘Hows’: To Meet, Mingle, Marry AKRON, OHIO.—How to meet, nungle and marry now comes un der the heading of academic study at Akron university. A course of lectures has been started by the university’s women’s league on the problems of getting along with the opposite sex. Two years ago the course was known as a “grooming” clinic. Last year it became a “personality” clin ic. But this year, says the league, it’s frankly a “mating” clinic. H Population Of Metropolitan District For 1940 Is 905,649, Nogara Reports METROPOLITAN REPORT Comparative figures for the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes the same territory as in 1930, are: HENNEPIN COUNTY 1940 1930 Minneapolis 489,971 464,356 Brooklyn Township 1,334 1,107 Brooklyn Center Village 1,869 1.344 Crystal village, — 2,216 1,865 Deephaven village 1,016 530 Edina village 5,830 3,138 Excelsior township 1,471 925 Excelsior village 1,411 1,072 Hopkins village 4,104 3,834 Golden valley village 2,052 1,326 Island Park village 525 206 Long Lake villege 259 207 Minnetonka township 6,452 4,601 Minnetonka Beach village. 219 112 Morningside village 1,284 903 Mound village 1,180 668 New Hope township 394 Orono township 2,757 1,795 Osseo village 736 561 Richfield village ___'. 736 561 Robbinsdale village 5,893 4,427 St. Anthony township 607 453 St. Louis Park village• 7,676 4,710 Tonka Bay village 358 193 Wayxata village 1,440 1,100 Total 545350 502,779 ANOKA COUNTY Anoka city 6,440 4,851 Anoka township t 1,016 670 Columbia Heights city 6,041 5,613 Fridley township 1,385 693 Total 14,882 11,827 RAMSEY COUNTY St. Paul 288,023 271,606 Mounds View township 1323 1,586 New Brighton village 651 500 New Canada township 5,418 2,721 North St. Paul village 3,119 2,915 Rose township 4,775 2,555 White Bear township 3.432 2,238 White Bear Lake city 2,855 2,600 Total 310,196 286,721 WASHINGTON COUNTY Bayport village 2,636 2,590 Baytown township 628 520 Birchwood village 88 99 Dellwood village 146 90 Grant township 596 631 Lincoln township 893 1,277 Newport village 854 541 St. Paul Park village 1,104 982 Stillwater city 7,016 7,173 Stillwater township 1,058 1,053 Total . 15,019 14.956 DAKOTA COUNTY Invergrove village 502 382 Mendota township, 1,367 948 Mendota village 229 173 South St. Paul city 11,853 10,009 West St Paul city __ 5,651 4,463 Total 19,602 15375 Grand total , 905,649 832,258 Vocational Training Now Available To WPA Workers WPA workers who have no in dustrial skill for the important and well-paid defense jobs today have the opportunity of going to school to learn them and get WPA while doing so. A program announced by Sid ney Hillman, labor member of the defense advisory commission, of fers vocational training for 150,- 000 persons, of which 50,000 will be recruited from the ranks of WPA workers. The program will be financed by a $7,781,340 WPA grant and $7,- 500,000 in funds of the Office Education of the Federal Secux.... Atw'v ’side from the 50,000 to •e ’re ’ from WPA, the re l be obtained from yment agencies, in co ration with the U. S. Employ t Sc e. 'jJier workers employed in in jy now but lacking in the skills required for more highly I paid jobs will also hav m oppor tunity to ’•'tn the n which n>n thi * and ’■‘er RALD OUTLINES DEFENSE AGAINST FOOD INSECTS Every spmmer hp.ugtjWiVes .*f<*cej a minor “B’liizkfrqg” df insets .in-: to their food? Kitchen' and .food, security. • then; tupori-. ifre imhiediate. lauhchipg .of ‘.a .eoteMr Attack •‘agaihst the invading food insects, declares Harold H. Shep ard, author of the new Extension Bulletin 210, “Insects Infesting Home Foods.’’ Usually a good dose of soap and water and a few squirts of ma chine oil into corners and cracks of the pantry and cupboards is enough to stop the invaders. A good paint job which fills these cracks ir m even better defensive measure. If flour and similar food be comes infested, th- cts can be killed by placing; t . ar in pans and then healing in -.’zen held at 170 degrees f< - 20 min utes. (This raises .■> xood tem perature to about 1 •’egre .' For more complete letaiL un controlling such insects as the flour and grain beetle or the flour and meal moth see your county agent or write to the Bulletin Room, University Farm, St Paul, for a free copy of Extension Bul letin 210, “Insects Infesting Home 1 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY NUMBER TEN FIGURES REPRESENT GROWTH OF 8.8 PER CENT DURING LAST TEN YEAR PERIOD The population of the Twin City metropolitan area for 1940 fell just 94,351 short of one mil lion, it was announced this week by A. J. Nogara. area census man ager as he released the unofficial figures from the Minneapolis of fice. The area population was tentatively set at 905,640, an increase of 73,391 over figures 1 for a similar territory in 1930. This was an 8.8 per cent in crease over the 1930 figure of 832,258. The figures released by Nogara are only prelim inary, however, and are sub ject to minor changes in Washington. Included in the area are the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, all of Ramsey county, and parts of rural Hennepin, Anoka, Wash ington and Dakota counties. The average population per square mile was set at 1,724 persons in the area totaling 525.27 square miles. Density of population in the two large cities, St. Paul and Min neapolis was 7,234 per square mile of a land area of 197.55 square miles. In the rural sections of the area, a population density of 305 in an area of 417.82 square miles was disclosed. Nogara explained that the met ropolitan district includes only areas in which population main tains continuous density of not less than 150 and which are con tiguous to the central cities in that residents frequently visit the cities for employment, shopping, or en tertainment. Minneapolis’ population of 489371 and St. Paul’s of 288,- 023 gives the Twin Cities a combined population figure of 777.994. Outside the cities, the total pop ulation of the district was 127,655 compared with 96,296 in 1930, or a gain of 32.5 per cent. This is a phenomenal rise in population for one area in ten years. Nogara pointed out that the Minneapolis-St. Paul increase over 1930 figures of 464,356 for Minneapolis and 271,606 for St. Paul, or a total of 735,962 in 1930, was 5.7 per cent. No distinct figure was given for the Minneapolis metropolitan area, but by taking the totals from areas known to be in the Minne apolis district, a figure of 560,832 is reached. This would leave 344,- 817 people for the St. Paul met ropolitan area. Of course, a few communities should be considered in both areas to arrive at separate metropolitan area totals. “Minneapolis will show up well in census figures with the rest of the country,” Nogara said. “It’s gain stands up with the percentage of gain in other cities.” The figures were released by Nogara on his own initiative with out instructions from Washington in view of the many requests for such information. ST.* PAVU TO FIGHT JPHONE RATE TO FINISH ’“A fight to the finish,” was the decision of the St. Paul city coun cil and the Ramsey county board of commissioners in joint session last week over St. Paul’s telephone rate case. It was decided that of ficials should take any legal steps necessary to obtain a favorable rate reduction, with an appeal to the United States supreme court if necessary. GAME WARDENS GET DOG RINGLEADER Chisholm—Ringleader and one other of a pack of vicious wild dogs were killed recently by Ben E. Lee, Chisho tame warden and Fred Venn. Hibbing war- den, near the divide north of Chis holm. It was believed there are still five or six dogs remaining which have been making consist ent -’’acks on deer in the game re. zge north of here, causing com plaints to the wardens by local conservationists for the last sev eral months.