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The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 5

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FRIDAY, 15, 1939 THE ESCANABA (MiUH.) DAILY SOCIETY WILL MEET IN CITY Crippled Child Problems Will Be Discussed Sept. 29-30 Details of the preliminary program for the third annual Upper Peninsula sectional meeting of the Michigan Society for Crippled Children to be held in Escanaba Sept. 20 and 30 were announced yesterday. The convention wrill open Friday morning with a visit to the special classes in the Escanaba city schools. A luncheon will be held at Sherman hotel at noon.

The following talks will be given: Doctor and the Crippled Dr. Harold Q. Groos, Escanaba: Judge of Probate PAGE FIVE Pilots Awarded Licenses at Escanaba Airport Inspector Interprets Potato Grading Law and Crippled Children Michael J. Khoury, Marquette; Crippled Child and Our H. Earle Correvont, state department of public instruction.

The Escanaba and Gladstone Rotary clubs will cooperate in sponsoring the banquet in the evening at the Delta hotel. Speakers on the program will be: and Crippled William C. Crosland. district governor. Rotary International; Emmet Richards, Alpena, president of the Michigan Society for Crippled Children, Paul H.

King, Detroit. president of the International Society for Crippled Children; and Denis G. Clancy, Hillsdale, member of the Michigan Crippled Children Commission. At 10:00 Saturday morning, a meeting will be held at the William W. Oliver Memorial Auditorium and a motion picture will be shown on the Shriner Crippled Hospital.

Also on the program are addresses by Ellen Miron; Elna Nelson, Baraga County Commissioner of Schools; and Dr. E. R. Elzin'ga, Crippled Clinic, Marquette. At the final luncheon session at 12:15 at the Ludington Hotel, the final address of the meet will be given by Hon.

Paul H. King, President of the International Society for Crippled Children. All of tile sessions will be furnished with music through the cooperation of the Escanaba Senior High School Music Groups. Briefly Told Fall Check-Up Ousterhout, specialist in farm management of Michigan State college, and John C. Doneth will visit Delta county next Monday.

Tuesday and Wednesday for the fall check-up of the farm account books of 22 farmers co-operating with the county agricultural office, E. A. Wenner, county agricultural agent announced. Find Bottle Servant of 637 North 18th street, and Theodore Bingman, 1816 Eighth avenue south, paddling about in a boat, near the site of the old No. 4 dock Thursday, found a bottle containing a note written by Wilmer Casperson of Appleton, asking that whoever recovered the bottle, notify him of the location in which it was found.

Big -Adam Schwartz, 3 09 South Thirteenth street, is the proud grower of a red tomato, weighing two pounds and three ounces. Bake Sale R. C. Hat he way Chapter No. 49, O.

E. will sponsor a bake sale, to be held Saturday, September 16, at the Peterson Furniture Store, 1008 Ludington street. Baked goods of all kinds including bread, beans, cakes, cookies, pies, doughnuts, will be for sale, commencing at 10:00 a. in. Goods will be delivered upon request.

Chairman, Mrs. A. N. Wilson, phone 1167. the first said Smith.

Try a For Rent Ad today. i HOUGHTON WILL ENTERTAIN 100 Foresters of Wisconsin And U. P. to Meet Sept. 28-30 Nearly 100 members of the Society of American Foresters will convene in Houghton Sept.

2 9 for a two day meeting of the Wisconsin section, which includes the upper peninsula of Michigan. General chairman is Prof. U. J. Noblet, head of the forestry department of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, which is cooperating with section officials.

Some of the convention activities will be undertaken jointly with the approximately 60 men attending a meeting of the Michigan Forest and Shade Tree division of the American Shade Tree association. The group also will meet at Blaney Park on Sept.28. The conference will open with a 6 o'clock dinner Friday, Sept, 29, at the Keweenaw Golf Club lodge. This affair will he attended by both S. A.

F. and M. F. T. members.

The groups will also combine Saturday morning for a tour of the Keweenaw peninsula. Saturday S. A. F. program will begin with an inspection of the Michigan Tech campus, arboretum, and buildings, followed by tours, covering recreational activities, new selective logging operations, and the Alberta mill of the Ford Motor Burleigh Putnam, inspector for the Civil Aeronautics Authority in this district, gave examinations yesterday to nine airplane pilots at the Escanaba municipal airport yesterday.

The top picture shows Leonard Ward, son of Rev. and Mrs, James G. Ward, talking with Inspector Putnam. Ward received his solo license. The bottom view shows the planes of other pilots who were given tests by Inspector Putnam yesterday.

Other licenses awarded were: Dr. Edward McCormick, Iron Mountain, private; Dr. D. R. Smith, Iron Mountain, solo; Harvey Lynch, Iron Mountain, limited commercial; Claude Frickelton, Iron Mountain, private; Henry Gardiner, Iron Mountain, solo; Everett Anderson, Iron Mountain, solo; Lawrence Lemieux, Menominee, solo; and Bud Hammond, Owosso, pilot rating.

Press Aconcagua, an extinct volcano in the Andes mountains, is the highest volcanic peak in the western hemisphere. It has an altitude of 22,834 feet. company. The meeting will close with a banquet and business session Saturday night in Houghton. Two main talks and two short speeches will be scheduled.

This will be the second time in the Wisconsin section's six years of existence that the meeting has been held in tho upper peninsula. The dates were chosen because early autumn is a very beautiful season in the upper peninsula's forests. Groups whose members are invited, whether affiliated with the S. A. P.

or not. include all lumber companies, paper mills, and conservation organizations in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan. Also invited are Prof. S. T.

Dana, head of the forestry department at the University of Michigan, and Prof. P. A. Herbert, for-1 jostrv head at Michigan State col-i I lege. A sizeable group is expect ed from the U.

S. Forest Products laboratory at Madison, and likewise from Milwaukee, which is I'. S. Forest Service regional headquarters for nine states. For Burning Oils Furnace or Heater Clean burning and high value oils at money saving prices.

Hansen Jensen Oil Co. WILL VISIT PESHTIGO Admirers of young Fred Hutchinson, member of the pitching staff of the Detroit club of the American league, will have the pleasure of meeting him before long. Young Hutchinson plans to come to Peshtigo at the end of the season to visit his mother, Mrs. Joseph Hutchinson, who arrived from Seattle Monday evening to spend several weeks with her sister, Mrs. August Breitkreuz.

Hutchinson will also visit with his uncle Fred Burke, in Marinette, the first said Smith, Try a For Rent Ad today. Orville Nelson, Gedar Springs, inspector of the United States and Michigan departments of agriculture, lias arrived here to conduct inspections of potato crops in this district during the fall and winter months. He will maintain headquarters at the Delta hotel. The following questions and answers, interpreting the Michigan potato law and grades, have been submitted by Mr. Nelson: 1.

Does a grower need a license to grade potatoes? No. Unless he grades potatoes other than those produced by himself, 2. What are the requirements to become a. licensed grader? First, a knowledge of the grades. Second, secure application blank, fill out, and have same approved by a local inspector.

3. When do licenses expire? August 15 of each calendar year. 4. How much does a license cost? $1.00 per year. 5.

Is a grower required to have a dealers license? No. Unless lie buys and sells potatoes other than those produced by himself. 6. Who has to have a potato license? Every person or firm who sells or deals in potatoes other than those grown by themselves. The only exemption is if they are sold at retail only, 7.

When does the potato license expire? What does it cost? One year from the date of issue. The license costs $1.00 per year. 8. Gan tags be used? No. The containers must he branded or stenciled.

9. What must be branded or stenciled on the containers? The U.S. Grade, tlie net weight, and the name and address of the person or persons responsible for the grading or packing. 10. What size type does the branding or stenciling have to be? All that is required by the law is that it be legible and conspicuous.

11. What percentage of defects are permitted in the U.S. No. 1 Grade? Not to exceed of which not more than may be affected with soft rot or wet breakdown. In addition, not more than may he damaged by hollow heart, and not.

more than may he undersized. 12. What is meant by U.S. No. 1 Size Grade? Potatoes of U.S.

No. 1 Grade from 1 Vz inches to 2 inches in diameter. 13. On what grades can the size declaration he used? U.S. No.

1, U.S. Commercial, and U.S. No. 2. 14.

What is meant by size It means that in long varieties no potato shall be under 1 inches in diameter, and not less than of the potatoes shall bo 6 oz. or more in weight. For round varieties not to exceed of I lie potatoes shall he under 1 inches and not less than shall be inches or larger. 15. What is meant by U.S.

Commercial Grade? This is a combination of the P.S. No. 1 and U.S. No. 2 grades.

At least of the potatoes must be of U.S. No. 1 quality and not more than of U.S. No. of which not more than can he below the U.S.

No. 2 requirements and not more than 1-6 or can be affected by soft rot or wet breakdown. 16. What size is a U.S. No.

Any size from inches up. 17. What is a U.S. No. Any potato that does not have more than of the potato covered with a scab or that the injury or defect can he removed without, a loss of more than the total weight of the potato including the peeling covering the defective area.

18. Is the grower exempt from inspection if he ships or transports potatoes in interstate commerce? No. There are no exemptions excepting certified seed. 19. What has been done about potatoes from other states coming into Michigan as to grade and marking requirements? The commissioners of agriculture of the various states were notified of the Michigan requirements and potatoes that did not come up to the grade declared on the container, and did not have the proper marking requirements were prevented from being unloaded and sold until they complied.

20. What are the Inspection fees on potatoes? Three-quarter of a cent per bushel, or one and a quarter cents per hundred (with a minimum fee of $1.50 if a long form certificate is desired, 21. What are the principal grade defects found in potatoes? Fork injury, bruises, and freezing. 22. Gan these be controlled if more care is used in harvesting and handling? Yes.

23. Is the so-called No. 3 a legal grade? No. There is no such grade. 24.

Can dealer handle or transport these so-called No. in intrastate or interstate commerce? No. 2 5. Can they be transported by the grower? Yes. If the actual grower of these potatoes transports them himself, and then only within the state.

Six per cent, of which not more than one por cent can he soft, rot or wet breakdown. In addition, not more than five per cent may he seriously damaged by hollow heart and not more than five per cent may he undersized. Garden Meetings Called Next Week Garden meetings under auspices of the state agricultural service and the office of County Agricultural Agent E. A. Wenner, will be held next Wednesday at Rapid River and Perkins.

The Rapid River meeting will he at 10 and the Perkins meeting at 2 The home garden will he dis-, cussed, with attention to home garden income, storage and newly developed early vegetables. Miriam Eads, district home demonstrator agent, and J. Schultz, extension specialist in horticulture, will be in charge. S00 STUDENTS BACK AT WORK Principal Reports Full Enrollment In Wells School Soo Hill school in "Wells township yesterday had its full quota of students at their desks, Oren K. King, principal of Wells township schools reported.

Some, whose parents had held them from classes because the school bus that was furnished last year was not. supplied again this year, either walked or came with their parents, lie indicated. What, if any, adjustments had been made since a school board meeting the first of the week at which representatives of the parents protested, could not be learned. I the principal said, that all the students were George W. Brown, leader of the board, said that the transportation problem was in the hands of other board members and he did not.

know what, if anything, had been done. The protesting parents said they represented 15 families and 3 5 children. Mr. Brown said the figures were exaggerated. The parents could not be contacted.

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