The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 5

THE EMPORIA DAILY GAZETTE Emporta, April IS. 1941 PRECIOUS TIN CANS have enlisted In the war sen-Ice. Gl.us j.ws win carry rn in the home and the corner grocery. Upper left is a display of canned articles for the mjsed containers that can withstand rough usage. Below mre glass jars that will serve those on the home front Jail well.

for dried human blood and the apparatus lor restoring It to liquid form are shown, upper lirhi. Below Is an airplane rudder partly packed and ready to into Its carton for transportation to the assembling New Packages For Many Goods Glass Instead Of Tin Cans Major Change (By Belenca Serrlce) The packages that you buy In grocery, drug and other stores arc going Into wartime garb lor the duration. Tin. transparent plastic sheetings, metallic foils, and rubber have enlisted In the service of supply of our armed forces and little of these precious will be used for packaging the things that civilians can buy. Glass is taking the place of tin cans, which actually are cans of sheet steel coated lightly with tin.

Waxed paper Is replacing aluminum or tin alloy foils in candy and clgaret wrappings. Wood, china and clay coming into vogue again as containers for many things on grocery and drug store shelves. CeliopTiane, pliofilm, and other plastic wrappings that have found such wide use In packages in recent years are becoming unavailable except for a few products. When tin became critically scarce due to the capture of the Malayan sources by the Japs, there was the hope on the part of some that we might go on having our food and other In cans due to the successful development of plastic coatings for Iron cans. Beer In cans was made possible by such plastic coatings, because bter and tin do not get along well together.

But the plastics used in these coatings have been in large demand for war uses and the plastics production facilities and toe raw materials used have been strained to the utmost by the war demands. Even paper, most plentiful of packaging materials in this war, has not been available in as large quantity as desired and the packaging Industry has constantly searched for more economical methods of Its use. Ideas Meet Emergency. The packaging industry, one of the largest in America, hns met the new conditions with the Ingenuity and resourcefulness that it developed In creating the thousands of new containers that have been produced in more peaceful years. This year's packaging exposition being held this month In New York emphasizes the quest for material substitutes and more efficient methods.

The eleventh annual package competition sponsored by Modern Packaging magazine shows that even during the defense era there were many nove! packages created to reduce costs. Increase sales and deliver goods In better shape to the housewife or other consumer. Wartime America will not revert to selling things in bulk, as was done in the days of. the cracker barrel in the warm radiance of the country store's stove, but there will be a trend toward the sale of things to eat in large quantities, such as larger cans, larger bottles, and larger cartons. There ore money-saving reasons for this.

A half-gallon container of milk, for Instance, weighs only 32 ounces, which Is Just half the weight of the glass needed to the same milk In half-pint bottles. Small Cans Are Out. The smaller tin can sizes are "out" for the duration and apartment dwellers used to getting dinner out of cans built for two servings will have to plan differently. A considerable number of products, such as pork and beans, tobacco, beer, apple butter, mushrooms and dog food, are not being allowed to use tin cans at all. Glass jars, bottle, glasses and cups that must take over the civilian canning Job will be simplified and shorn of unnecessary material nnd decoration.

This is true also of many others sorts of containers, from paper boxes to bags. The openings in glass containers are to be made smaller so as to reduce so far as possible the amount of material needed for closures, which may be rubber, plastic or some other material that Is short. Corks, of course, due to the fact thut most of this tree bark Is produced around the Medlterranear area, are largely unavailable. Plastic closures or little wads or plastic paper under caps allow us to get along without cork. Many the wartime packages are being so planned that the pur chaser will bs willing to carry them home without wrapping, thus saving paper.

The free advertising that the unwrapped packages give the product will not displease the producers. Some Prize Packages. One of the top winners in this year's package contest consists of an outfit for dispsnslng human blood plasma such as Is used for transfusions In war or in everyday accident. Special bottles nnd apparatus for Intravenous injections are Included. A paper bag for shipping 50 pounds potatoes was another prize winner.

This replaces wooden crates and burlap bags previously used. Lower freight rates and less weight loss due to shrinkage are among the advantages. A corrugated box for shipping airplane" rudders, formerly packaged In crates or wooden boxes, won recognition as an aid to keeping essential light alfpianes in operation. An airtight transparent bag for transporting frozen fish fillets won a prize. Grocers are able to this fish package next to other foods without danger of contaminating them with fish odors.

A new bacon package allows the housewife to slit it open quickly and remove a few slices when needed, while the grocer does not need to wrap the package when It Is sold. A new cheese package makes it practical to sell high-grade cheese In a 10-cent retail size. The package consists of a pliofilm cup formed when hot cheese is flowed into the mold. Another prize-winning new Idea in food packages is a bread pack age that consists or two half-loaves separately wrapped. In one com bination half a loaf of white breac is twinned in the new package with half a loaf of wheat bread.

Clever Abound. A new macaroni package uses new method of closing the packagi when only part of the amount i used at one time. Lifting one ta opens the hexagonal carton, whlcL is simply closed by pressing the end back in place. Even ink is dispensed hi new dresses. The bottle Is shaped so tha the small hand of a school child can grasp it safely while pouring and the bottle never "gurgles" and spurts out its content.

Pies can now be made with a crisp, crunchy crust, thanks to new pie package that the pie even when stacked on the counter In such a way that 'pies packed In the ordinary Way woulc be crushed and ruined. A new medicine botUe, thanks to new design recognised in the competition, saves 44 per cent the space on the shelf occupied the standard, round bottle, although it Is only slightly taller. Merchants actually ask to have their windows "broken" when they see a soft drink display which looks as though a pretty girl had Just stepped through the window glass is accomplished by "cracks" as well as The illusion lithographing the girl on a transparent sheet anc putting the sheet over the real glass of the window. Employment Office Will Help Men with Draft Questionnaires Occupational questionnaires which are being received to Increasing number by both Lyon county draft baords, will be mailed out soon to men In the third registration. Draft Board No.

1 expects to begin mailing them out the first of next week, and Board No. 2 may start Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Because the questionnaires are long and somewhat complicated, registrants may find It advisable to get help in filling them out. Among the announced agencies which will assist the registrants, is the office of the Kansas Employ 1 ment Service, Commercial, which Is In charge of Frank Ridenour. The office will begin staying open nights until 8 o'clock for this purpose on April 20.

If the demand is sufficient, the office may remain open every night to accommodate those who cannot visit the office in the day time. uncle Sam needs money to build guns and ships, planes and tanks, and bombs. Help to nake America's air force invincible by buying as many united States Savings Bonds and Stamps as you possibly can. Buy them regularly and help smooth the road to victory I USE A GAZETTE CLASSIFIED a Word, Per a Word Per Week (Minimum 25c) K. RELAYS QUEEN CHOSEN Gloria Brlnkman of Emporia to Be an Attendant Lawrence, April IS Queen for the Kansas relays next Saturday will be Miss Virginia McGill, Kansas City, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

She was chosen by members of the University of Minnesota track squad. Attendants to the queen will be Miss Mary McCleary, Excelilo Springs, member of Delta Gamma sorority, and Miss Gloria Brtrikman, Emporia, Chi Omega. Now is the for all women to come to the aid of their countr Defense Bonds and Stamps. IN KANSAS CITY, MO. The tallest, largest hotel in town! 20 Stories of "Club Comfort" with 400 outside radio-equipped rooms.

Right in the center of manufacturing and retail business a short walk from all downtown events! Real comfort and pleasure at reasonable rates. ElUHTiURIIENT-CIIISINE' lounge with entertaining artiiti. XIOUT TOWN COfFEE $HW-Beautiful surroundings, music, popular TMMCS Kaniai imaneit. modern cocktail retreat HOTEL PHILLIPS 12th and Mtfawart, Kanau CHy, C. t.

tmuPS. MAMCIHC HANDY Scratch Pads sizes 6x9, 4x6, 3 2 3x4 and 1V2X3 For Memos, Invoicing, Notes, etc. Tied in pound AT A LOW PRICE THE GAZETTE BUSINESS OFFICE Emporia Civilian Defense Group IB Ready for Action A report oa the Ufe Conservation division of the Civilian batUlton bjr W. Putnam, and Harold eommtuidtr; to Judge Joe Rolston, eommander- In-chlef, shows that complete plans for feeding and housing EmporUns been made In anticipation of var The battalion, Division Fire in the Emporia setup, IB divided Into a headquarters staff, food staff, shelter staff, explosive staff and identification staff. The purpose of the headquarters staff, headed by A.

Kirk Ramy, is executive duty aiming to correlate the functions of the various divisions in the organization but the report that Ui function to not to interfere with specific duUat of the mious divfcfcns. Tile food captained by Weldon Banna, haa prepared a thorough plan.for feedinc parteas in the event of an, emergency that would cause them to leave their homes. Detailed menus, have been prepared and members of the organization assifned to get various items of food needed. Snrvey for Shelter. An elaborate survej has been made by the shelter section of the battalion under the leadership of Capt.

Marc Marcelina: The list designates locations, types of build- Ings such churches, schools or business places, types of construction, person in charge of each building, telephone number and type of heating and lighting. The explosive staff, led by Clayton Crosier, has prepared Instructions for members of that branch on bow to combat various of bomba and how to demolish aged structures that are The identification unit, headed of J. A. Each, is to identify and make known to 'authorities any person lost, wounded or killed. This company has prepared a map of the city, marked off into sections, with members of the company assigned! to duty In one of the five sectlonar Back to Work Marvin Sharp, who works near Osage City and who has been visiting at the of Mr.

and Mrs. John Bamcord on Route 3 for several days, to his work Tuesday. Be a member of the kitchen Defense Stamps with household budget savings. Use Gazette Went Ads! HI 1 HARDWARE Again it is onr privilege to join with hundreds of HARDWARE stores and offer the buying public the choice values of the rare opportunity to buy at these low prices is one that may not happen again for some don't Prices subject to stock on NOW! STEP LADDER H. $139 well Uddtr ttoch.

Equipped with handy pall ahtlt galvaoUed top GAY BOWL SET 3 Wcnrfy situ Fit eltctrle White moonstone bowK pint manuring bowl. DOOR MAT woven on rtttt raalttant win. Flexible and lacltaty. Far owtdoore. DOOR CHIME i for $139 Similar branda for Eair to install.

Standard door ball hookup or ITOT- $1.19 GLOVE 89c Young Genuine cowhide face and themkin back. Luther lined palm, IRONING TABIE $179 $149 value I braced wood lega. 15x50 in. tapered top. Stutdr.

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GARDEN RAKE i-fc. Heerf 89' 14-Ineh iteel head with 14 curved teeth. 5 ft genuine aah handle. in. deep head.

RUBBER MAT Hurt KnMmtl Waffled to protect your aink, atore, refrigerator. In. A food buy it a low price I HOUSE BROOM Con 69e 16-in. (weep. Enameled handle.

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