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■ m a 4? ;»sSjjy : A I t JNPl p p JgpN ESTABLISHMENT I t ' WITH A RECORD OF ‘ 95 YEARS SERVICE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN WAYNE COUNTY'S TRADING CENTER The Marfap, Enterprise VOL. II— No. 1 NEWARK, NEW YORK i THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1942 C o te r e d a s seco n d class m a il m a tte r a t N e w a rk. N. Y. P o s t Office TWO SECTIONS — 10 PAGES (PRIORITY BOARD SET j FOR NEWARK | Committee Set to Handle I Tire Permits; Plane I 1 % j Observers Listed | A Priorities - Cdnrunittee for I Newark, charged immediately j with issuing perm its for the | purchase of new tires, was to be appointed at a meeting of th e Arcadia Civilian Defense Coun- [ cil last night Mayor Charles H. P u rsuant to custom and good j Davis, council chairm an, said practice, all members of the the council has been requested Armed Forces are required to by Leon Henderson, head of the prom p tly forward changes of ! federal priorities commission, to address to the office of the New- I set up a three-m a n committee W ith the Arm ed Forces Office Newark. Courier-Gazette December 29, 1941 Special Order No. 1 ark Courier-Gazette, Newark, N. Y. (Sgd) HORACE G HOWARD Editor PACIFIC FRONT i Corporal Vernon Downey,, stationed at Hickam Field,, ; Hawaii, came through with an O.K. this week. 410th Signal Co. Aviation , 4th Bomber Command I Hamilton Field, Calif. I December 19, 1941 | \Dear Mr. Howard: ; \Please change my address to , the above. . \We have been here for eight days so far and it has rained Cunningham , chief warden. He eyery day except one I think I said the five sector wardens and would rather see the snow , all post wardens th e y have ap “We had a couple of blackouts pointed are to m eet at 7 o’clock s so far. One of them was for 1 to n ight at City Hall for further ^p ractice, o t% r is a g « a s . you 1 in a tnictions a n ^ 'fcSSw.WEfs a real scare. I A list of the vo to pass on local applications for tires and such o ther items as may be regulated in the future. The committee members will be sworn in as federal agents, said the mayor, and will be f u r nished a perm a n e n t office and secretaiy by the village. Persons making applications for special perm its will be required to swear to their emergency need for tires or other items and the comm it tee will th e n pass on the appli cation. W ardens Meet Tonight Newark’s Air -Raid Protection Service also was virtually com pletely organized th is week, it was announced by Elmer J. -*!I-w a s ddwn - ■ In Frisco the' Other n igh t and it was hard to ers who will m an th e local a ir craft observation post atop City belfeve t h a t th e Japs had put a | Hall during “alert” periods was §care into the people of that town. The place was lit up bet ter th a n Times Square in New York. Have to get to work. Merry Christm as and a' Happy New Year. \COBP. P. R. BRAMANTE” Private Ear! C. Herman, son of j-M rs. Clarence H erm an of RX> 2. “ Armored . Force School, Fort ; Knox, Ky., h a s been home on furlough.. Miss E d ith -Murray, daughter of Mr. arid Mrs. H arry Murray, of StKart-‘ Avenue, spent the C h ristm a s ’ holiday with her famfly.tMisS'Murray is employed a t T o rt K n o x . Ky In jthe parlance of the culin ary a r t s : Mix th e two above paragraphs-w e ll and stand be fore .aiM toister of the Gospel for A s h o r t tim e and you have a fnafcriage. Mr. and Mrs. Earl H erm an, as of Dec. 26, returned to ih e l r duties at Fort Knox, Sunday.. released this week by Chief Ob server Raymond Wilson, in charge of the post. Men observ ers will serve on night shifts, working in pairs for two hours each, while women observers will scan the skies daytimes in Heads Lodge 1941 NEWS 1 Pennies for U. S p l u i t o b y B l a i r E. J. Hochbrueekner, newly- elected High Priest of Newark Masonic Chapter. R.A.M. PICK NEW STAFF Elect E. J. Hochbrueekner as High Priest Newark C h apter No. 117, Royal Arch Masons, elected Edm u n d J. Hochbrueekner as new high priest a t the annual meeting held- Monday evening, Dec. 22. He succeeded Leslie Champion qs h la d of the chapter. O ther officers elected are Bald win L. J agger a s king, John H. Porter as scribe, Earl T Doty as treasurer, an d Charles H. Berger for his 18th consecutive term as secretary. The newly-elected officials, along w ith others to be appoint ed by Hochbrueekner, will be pa“nTfor four h 7 u ° r s 7 ih ! ‘T h u s ! “ stalled at regular meeting no observer will be required to Monday evening, Jan. 12, by Dr. J. A. Reed of Newark, past high priest of the G rand C h a p ter of New York State. ----------- o ------------ Local Townsends To Install Staff A t Meet Friday Llewelyn Jones, Townsend representative of Rochester, will i-Pvfcf. John Ross' outfit has n£oved> from F o rt Bragg, N C., tnfialiim o re. Md. ; fPnyate Dominick Mazzei is in .^p a f a d h u te outfit now and sta- .tionedjdt F o rt Benning. Ga. Talk Ja^cmfc jtoiigh breaks, Mazzei had to- fdaye Newark Christmas Eve ■ in o r d jer to be back for duty on ! tifne !* Arisene DeBlaere has been oil an eight-day furlough, back with his old outfit at atop. N. Y. Wallace H. Bums, son of id: Mrs. W alter Burns, R.D. as home on furlough from Knox. Ky. fBEfftyate H erbert R. Love, son “ k*lr and Mrs. Harry Love, is n irte on furlough from Fort && N J ( P v t Howard Sitterly. son of ■•.Sffs. Wilkes of Sodus Point, is Jiertne on furlough from Fort / fffcksbn s C ~Vvt Frahk DeMarco is home from Fort Knox, Ky. < — — tnard M artin, U S. Navy, ... iS been transferred to Pearl H&fbor Territory of Hawaii. .\Midshipman Howard Merriam. Kto o f Mi, afitd Mrs. Albert Mer- p i of Church St., is home for -Me ChristtoaS holidays from Be M idshipm an's School. Chi- C4g6 III I T — **- jPVt. Frederick B. Niles, son of M r and Mrs Frederick Niles of Mason S t is hotoe pn furlough i (Continued ou Pttge Six) work more than once each week The list of men an d nights a s signed follows: Schedule Listed Monday night— Earl Stro- bridge, ass’t. chief observer: Joseph Stewart, Coles Redfield.j Rev. C. T. Wlnkworth, Rev. B e n jam in DeYoung, Ralph VanLone, Leon Stell, Earl Robeson, A1 O ’Byme, Arthur Hammonds, Charles Baldwin, Fred Fortm il- ler, Charles Fikes, Clarence (Continued on Page Six) Girl Scouts Flan Annual 12th Night Rites for Jan. 6th Annual Twelfth Night bonfire ceremonies will be conducted by Newark G irl Scouts a t 7 p. m . on Tuesday, Jan. 6, a t the Perkins Park football field. Mrs. William D. O ’Connell and Mrs. William Noonan are in charge of a rrangem e n ts, and the program a t the park will be di- J rected by Miss Mildred Perrin ' and Miss Catherine Sontheim, schools vocal music teacher. An ancient English custom, Twelfth Night rites symbolize the end of the holiday season by the burning of Christm as greens. Girl Scouts will take all such m aterial to the park for the occasion. All other persons are also invited to take their dis carded trees, w reaths and other greens to the park prior to the ceremony. A song program will feature the exercises which the public is invited to attend. ----------- o ----------- More Blood Donors Wanted by Red Cross Several -hundred more Blood DOnors are sought in the New ark area by the local Blood Don ors Committee headed by Floyd K. W inegard. The local chairm a n declares th a t w h ile there h a s been a good response Of volunteers here, the need is so great now th a t the nation is a t w a r th a t every patriotic citizen who has n o t yet done so should register as a donor a t once by .calling th e Bed Cross Office a t 106, The B ed'C ross mobile u n it is in Newark again today (Tues day) receiving donations, and la t e r visits will be a rranged a fter the first of the year. Winegard, Titus, Livings-* ton, Muth Most Active During Year A’tive United States partiev 1 p a tion in the war, and th e pre--; lude to it, formed th e major, background for virtually all out standing activities in NewariE during 1941, a survey of th | | highlights for the past year, Us| recorded in the pages of thg- Courier-Gazette, shows. Starting,; as early as last February, J o c ^ j war preparations were heguilj with formation of a tow n 'c o u a|g cil for civilian defense, atyjcarp^ ried through with estafehshri m e n t of a Home Defense JJnit,’ two town air observation postSj. drives for scrap aluminum*; blood donations, and war relied funds and supplies, and a .'lo c |l system of air raid, police, fire,: and medical emergency services:’. Most active among the ouif-’ standing local personalities oti the year was Floyd K. Winegard;: who headed the new Comm unity Center, the Chamber of Com merce executive committee, th e scrap aluminum drive, and the Red Cross blood donor cam paign. Among others whose activities brought them most in the news were the Rev. Nich olas Titus, who came to Newark B a p tist Church in March and was elected chairm a n of th e Community Center board of di rettprs and’ president, c f t Kt.-i Wlayne County Ministers Asso ciation; Marshall E. Livingston. | who was elected Wayne County district attorney and a member of the Newark Board of Educa tion; anp Raymond A Muth who directed both the Com m u n ity Chest and Red Cross Re lief campaigns here. A m o n th-by-m o n th summary of Newark news highlights d u r ing 1941 follows: JANUARY M arriage license report lor 1940, a Leap Year, showed an increase in Arcadia of 24 o'- er 1939 . . . County gross welfare costs for the past year were up $47,767, but the net county c st was down $6,675 from 1939 Newark begah th e new y i a r 1 w ith a record of no traffic la Directs Drive drie of hundreds of Newark children who are emptying i hotoe banks to invest in De fense Savings Stam ps is Sha- l Ton. Waldorf, 4 -year old d augh- ' ter of Mr. and’ Mrs. Lynn H. Waldorf, Peirson Ave'., shown J a t Newark Post Office receiv- ■ | ing a sheet of the wartime Stamps from Clerk Bert W. ^ SfitebeH. Penny bank con tained $4.26, and it all went into stam p s. COST DROPS FOR RELIEF $37,203 Town Total Is $7,- 199 Less Than in 1940 Expenditures for home relief in the Town of Arcadia totalled $37,203.55 for the fiscal year end ing Nov. 30, an am o unt of $7.- 199 56 less than the total for the year 1940, according to a report of G. Fred Monroe, town wel- GROUPS MAP WAR BONDS SALEPLANS Big Increase Sought in County; Nash Heads Arcadia Unit Organization of town commit tees to promote the sale of U.S. defense bonds and stam ps i- be ing completed this week under the new Defense Savings Cmn- m It tee for Wayne County si, up last week. Arthur E Nash, named chair man of the Arcadia group to take the place of Charles R Clark w h o Is relinquishing Im post because of illness m . nounces that his appnintm e ir - are nearly all m ade and th u ’ the local committee will hr toady to function by next week The W ayne County campaig.. is part of a national effort t< push the sales of defense bonds and stam p s up tow ards a billion dollars a month in support of the country’s all-out war n it e r prises. Bond Sales Jump _____ Co-chairmen 1 '-'c-on K S t u a r t , _ , . , , . and George L. Ricnm m i of t h e ' c o u r s e s U ttered in V a r io u s A rthur E. Nash who has been appointed to direct A t - J cadia campaign for the sale of defense bonds and savings stam ps. LEADERSHIP SCHOOL SET county committee are confident th a t W ayne County people will rally to the support of the gov ernm ent by buying bonds to the ’ limit of their ability , They point out th a t in the | week following’the Japanese at- I tack on Pearl H arbor t,. i sale of | defense bonds and stamps soar • ed from HK> to-200 per cent pi al, sections of the nation, proving I th a t millions of Americans real- | ized, w ithout being told, th a t the purchase of these securites was the first way m w’hich they i could contribute towards vic- J tory. | Records of the sale of defense ! bonds in Newark show that dur- | ing the period the nation has Church Activities I been a t war, from Dec 8 to Dec 27. a to tal of $98,775 worth bonds have been sold here compared with th e total of $217,200 sold between May 1. 1941, a n d the outbreak of the war. In other words, taking out Sundays and holidays, nearly half as many bonds were sold in Arrangements have be:u com pleted for a . Wayne County Leadership Training School for churi ti workers to be held in the Newark Presbyterian. .Church for six successive Tuesday eve nings beginning Jan, ed Wayne County Ministers\ sociatlon the school is in ter denominational in scope, and open to teachers, prospective teachers and officers of all churches m the Wayne County ar -a. Six courses will be offered, led by experienced teachers. ja*fid based on standards of the to t e r - national Council of Religious of Education which will aeknowl- as edge official credits to those passing courses successfully. The Rev A C Brnkaw of the B aptist Church of Palmyra, is 'h e dean of the school and- its faculty. Beginning at 7 30.p. m , two 50-minute class sessions are GOAL NEARS I IN ARCADIA 1 FUND DRIVE \ Whole County Rallies to Fill Red Cross War | Relief Chest \ With three Wayne County * Commui.iLe* a.ieady over th&:'-' too. the Red Cross War Relief* Campaign enters its second weeit.-:a with several hundred workers-t determined to reach the Caul)- % ty's quota of $30,000 by next Saturday /■:, I Arcadia is reported as well along tc wards its quota of 56,-J . 840 with contributions passing:: the $5,000 m ark Monday. clared Muth • «■■■ “The goal is in sight. W h e ther we reach it will depend on those; * who have not yet contribute Tin- spirit of those who have jtl ready given is 100 per cent eriean Everyone appeals Will' mg to do fns or her part, an d many are doing more th a n th.en.- share in patriotic fashion. . Closing Date Extended In some comm unities. C h rist-,, mas festivities delayed t h e , . ' I of the Campaign and Coufifgc; War Relief C h a irm a n A^u E Bolles announces th k t- the closing d a te h a s liedn. ex tended to Saturday Jarl ft a n d th a t it m ay b« found libfessarjrt; to g ran t a still f a r th e r e^tansiofc,:’ ba‘i,2fe%ipiaceSi- the 16 days following our entry planned, to be divided by a 20- into the war as were sold in the m inute worship service. The m o n ths prior opening session J.in 13 h as been - q u ota of $1 talities during 1940 Jam es I fare officer. ________ ________ D. Hurley of Newark was ap-! ° f the totai expenses during be guest speaker and will Install .pointed by Governor Lehman .v.; year, all but $989.52 was 40 new officers a t th e m e e ting of the Newark Townsend Club a t 8 pm . Friday, Jan. 2, at Oddfellows Hall. The new officers to be install ed a r e : President, Mrs. H a rry C. Farnsworth, elected for her fourth term; first vice-president, Harry C. Farnsw o rth; second vice-president, Mrs. Joseph Kelly; secretary, Mrs. Frank W hitmore, and treasurer, Mrs. Frank Sedgwick. Council m em bers are. Mrs. P e ter Lanse, Mrs. Charles Jagger, Mrs. Moses Lasher, Mrs. E d n a Peirson, Mrs. Harley Lounsbery, Mrs. Earl Robinson and Charles Jagger. Refreshm ents and dancing will follow the meeting which the public is invited to attend. ----------- o------------ Scrap Depots Set Up For Old Car Plates Anobher possible source of considerable revenue for the Red Cross W ar Relief has been re vealed in a telegram from State Motor Vehicle Commissioner Mealey to W ayne County Clerk Charles Noble. Mr. Mealey urges th a t all old automobile plates be collected in each community, sold to scrap dealers and the proceeds turned over to the Wayne Coun ty C h a p ter Red Cross. In Arcadia these old plates can be left a t the City Hall; in Palm y ra a t the Union T rust Co.; and in Lyons a t the County Clerk’s office. O ther central col lection points wiU be selected by the Jjoe'ai War Relief. Chairmen. , A rrangem ents for the pick up of plates at collection stations and their sale to scrap dealers will be made .by J h e County Di rector. — ---- —O-----------IT Alaskan Potentialities : I t h a s been estim a te d th a t about 65,000 square mfies of A laskan territory could be de veloped for farm tog,. W ayne County Judge and Sur - 1 Per cent reimbursable toy the rogate for one year to succeed; state making the total net cost Lewis A. Gilbert who became I home relief to the town ap proxim a tely $22,718.95. Records kept by Supervisor E. A. Sm ith show th a t home relief costs for 1941 were the lowest since 1937 when the total was $31,202.20. and compare with the annual home relief average for the past six years of $39,692 23 Average monthly case load during 1941 was 107, represent ing 375 individuals, with M arch the peak m o n th with 144 cases, and October low m o n th with 73 cases. Expenses ran $5,447.10 more th a n seven to its outbreak. Present Kate, Only Start ! Of th e $31,5,975 in bonds that . a s u PPer at 6 3(1 o clock, bought theri ; fa r as the canvasg-y ed, in one day (last w\eefc'Afp day) but according WcTUalp Paddock gifts continued. i-’fa ! come in. He estim ated tlh a t .the 1 to tal would pass $1,300. \ W alt cott’s quota was $1,080. j Marion with a quota of $1,290*'? I w rote a check for th e ( f a l l 11 amount when Friday’s reports * ' were tabulated and. accorde to Peter Naeye. more money Hj ! “dribbling in ”. >>■: Several Towns Near Top f> Charles Lawrence has divid : W alworth w ith a captain ih , each of the town’s three elec- tion districts, and has assigned * to each one third of W alworth'S designated as \G ’t-Acquainted N ight\ and will be featured by George B row n - (Continued on Page Six) ------------o------------ 4 Democrats Join Supervisors, End Solid GOP Reign Five new members will take th e ir seats on the Wayne Coun ty Board of Supervisors when the county’s governing body holds its first meeting of 1942 and organizes next Monday, Jan 5. Four of them will be Demo- ! during M arch and $1,896.61 for crats, upsetting the exclusive | October. Total expenses during the year were listed as follows. Rents— $8,808.23; food—$10,272.15; Milk —$2,081.10; fuel — $4,664.92; clothing—$1,347.41, household— $926.41; medical—$4,308.50; out- of-town cases—$3,745 80; miscel laneous—$989.52. ------------ o ----------- Williamson Girl Wins 4-H Speaking Contest Dorothy Bertou. Williamson, won the 1941 4-H Speaking con test held recently in Sodus. Dorothy spoke on the topic of \Preparing For Life Through 4-H”. M argaret Doyle of Sodus was a close contender and was judged Second in the cont:st. She spoke on the topic of “4-H Develops Citizens of Tomorrow”. Elizabeth Wlhite and Jeanne Young of Marion were also contestants. \This is the second year a 4-H ’speaking contest has been held. it will probably be estab lished as an annual event on the jemtnty program, according to tootle Cunningham , county hgriit. i j ,\Kj£rs. Elizabeth Pfautz of So- dlls, Morris Livingston and G rant N o rthrup of Williamson e J u d g e s of this year’s con- Republican representation of the Board. The shift in seats also means the end of a 10-year reign as board chairm a n by Harvsv S h a rp of Wolcott, who was d e feated in the last election by M erric Phillips, Democrat. Other new supervisors are DeWitt Kelly, Democrat, who succeeds Jam e s G. Case, Republican, of Sodtts; Edward Kelsey, Demo crat, who replaces Clarence Huckle, Republican, of Galen. R. Wilbur Palmer, Democrat, who succeeds Dr. F. C. Thom p son, Republican and new county treasurer, from O n tario, and H u g h Green, Republican, who takes the seat of Ralph Wilkin son, also Republican, of Huron. New county officials, all R -- publicans, who will also- assume their offices th a t day Are County Judge Charles B. Brasser, W il liamson, replacing Jam es D. Hurley, Newark; County T reas urer Thompson in placs of Sher idan E. Wood, Savannah; and D istrict Attorney M arshall E. Livingston, Newark, succeeding W. David Curtiss,-Sodus. s t a r t - , ing another term in their, offices will be County Clerk Charles A. Noble, Lyons; County Welfare Commissioner Elmer G. Butts, Sodus; and County Coroner. have been bought here sinre May 1, $209,300 w o rth were pur chased through th e Newark Of fice Of the Lincoln-Alliance Bank, a n d $106,675 worth at the Newark Post Office. According to K endrick Smith. Newark, chairm a n of county sales outlets and reporting for the W ayne Savings Committee, the sale of Defense Bonds and Stamps in all of Wayne County for the week ending Dec 20 totaled $102,968 92. These figures do not Include Stam p s sold by news boys. The county chairm en declare that tliis showing, encouraging as it is, is just a beginning of what m u s t be accomplished In the days ahead. C h a irm a n S tu a r t states The purchase of Defense Bond- and Stamps to the full ability of every American Citizen indi ates to our G o v e rnm ent and tr> its enemies th a t tfie nation i* uni fied in purpose, an d that those in plain clothes, as well as vhose in uniform , accept their re sponsibility. Up to the present it has been a g r e a t privilege to buy Defense Bonds and stam p s —now it’s a great obligation.” ----------- o ----------- Courses that will be offered j a n d the teachers are as follows I “Teaching Primary Children\. Miss Elsie Lindstrom* Newark; “Teaching Juniors'*, Miss C a th erine E. Frey. Newark; “T e a c h ing Youth”. Rev. Nicholas Titus, F ir s t Baptist Church, Newark; “How to Administer th e Church School\. Rev David fig. Moody, Presbyterian Church o f W illiam son, “The Church Through the C e n turies', Rev Chaifies H. D a y ton, Presbyterian Church of Phelps. “The Gospel of M ark\. Rev. Norman Ross fif Lyons m charge at the Lincoln section, reported Saturday night thq Lincoln was over the top Don ald H a m s is going strong in West Walworth and Lawrence. expects to have the town s full ) quota raised by New Year s Day. :' Palm yra passed the $1,600 mark Friday night on the _ to its quota of $2,460; in Tf£a- i’ij liamson the Community started things going by/giving $700 nut of its contingent fund ' and now a large crew/of work- ’ ers are after the /rem a ining tar reach its ’ win i ”. 300 Volunteers Asked ltion<! dnrme ^ ”> da? Christ I m a s permd. ran fully 7.000 more As Auxutary Firemen An urgent request fo; 700 vol unteers for auxiliary firemen in connection w ith the civilian defense program is ussrJ b y Fire Chief George Fox. C h ief Fox states th.r only 25 volunteers have regiM red thus ftjr a h d that several hundred more are needed a t oi e. T r a in ing courses will be a; tnged as soon a s a sufficient number of men h a v e registered Anyone wishing to volunteer may register a t th e C : f's home at 316 E. Miller St.. . ’ the City Hall F ire House, or the Cou- rier-G azette office amount needed quota of $2:130 In Sodus, Anaafs Harris wltlih 15 captains anfi^ nearly a h u n - . irod workers ar% determined to ’; li by Wednesday night. So-'\ ins h a , the secorrfi largest quota\';’]] m the County '$2,910). In L y -; nns the actual canvass began Friday and Chairman S. B. G a - ^ vitt reported that first re t u r n s ’ ’ w mild be received T u e sday,» Truver Garlic in North Rose haS. pa >scd $400 on the way to a $720 1;| quota In Macedon Christmas, ‘ \doings” have delayed the drive but it will start in earnest cm j Tuesday according to the Rev. Freda Ehrlich All sorts of people are rallying to the support of the Red Crc A laboring man living about miles nut of Newark walked|fin,|o' the village Christmas D a a ^ ||0 |: .finding the Red Cross ^offiaeJ th a n the sam e period last year | ciosfCj called at the home 6f a ? Four- exti-a clerks, five extra woman whom he knew w as a c - J foot carriert; and two extra vr Uve U1 Red Cro^ WOrk. H a n d -1 h id e s to ’dg |fjer parcel post were iu>1 $]0 hc sajd ..j hay(, th e increased Christmas Mai! Sets New High i At Post Office Mail volume hit a record peak j a t the Newark Post Office dur- | ing this year s C h ristm as season, according to Ray Taylor, super intendent of mails. Last week Monday was the biggest day in the history of the post office with cancellations of letters and Christm as cards totaling 47,000, as compared w ith 41.000, a day’s record up to that time. According to Taylor, cancella- added t« p * r u u e th e increased ■ | ;.g . d j holiday badness. | but * am a VeJe ia n ail BENEFITS 11 kll‘w Wllat !h°SC b°yS a t W UnetnlCiwgienfe i n s u r a n r r 1 m \ u arr „ ,tJI„ benefits distributed to -m m :-' Mur a'I'1 a ', '' ployed persons if) the Newark 1 ,aln '•fhrd at a District totaled $-1,049 d u rin g 1 holl>r aIUl vas liand£d a dolla November according to a report ' hv ,hP housewife who said, i^suedfey'ftidustS’iaiComniiV’ioii- received a dollar eh: i-im.is gift and she w a n ts in v • *o the Red Cross-^fi^ife Weieher said: “©vdryh Arcadia seems^ a n x jofe ...... gr Eriedd S Miiler. The am unit Was itl lOp separate check- with tlto average benefit payn - nt - ' $8.82; for a single week em p loym ent & V -
