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The Founding of the Nation.
Lesson for April 22: Exodus 18:19-
34: 19:3-8.
Memory Verse: Exodus 19:8.
Four huntired years after the
iays of Joseph, there arose a new
king over Egypt that “knew not)
Joseph.” It was during those cen
turies, perhaps, that the Shepherd
Kings were expelled and a native
dynasty restored to the throne. ?
The new king, claiming the He-1
brews were a menace to the state, j
began the oppression that led to*
the Exodus.
Moses, trying alone to adminis-|
ter to the people, under the i
wise advice of his father-in-law,!
began the organisation of the na-{
tion, giving laws and regulations,'
appointing rulers, and establishing;
a judiciary. j*
On Sinai Moses communed with
God, entered into the covenant,;
pTiri received the Ten Command
ments, honored through all time
since. i
The tabernacle was set up in the*
wilderness, with its priesthood and
elaborate ritual — to become the
center of the people’s life. When the
ark set forward, the host took up,
'the march; -when the ark rested.
Its tabernacle was set up, and the
people pitched their tents, round,
about, according to the tribes.
In this period we see the hand of
God, under Moses, forming the He
brews into an organized nation
which, after 40 years, reached the
borders of Palestine, ready for the
conquest of a homeland. Let us
realize the need of God in the af
fairs of nations and in the lives of
individuals. *
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I F YOU happen to find shrimp at
the fish market some morning
when you’d planned an entirely dif
ferent sort of menu, just thank your
lucky stars for the shrimp and re-
jigger your menu. '
Live shrimp look like miniature
lobsters. Afjter being caught the
heads are removed and the bodies
, packed in ice* for shipping. When
purchased, they should be firm-
fleshed and covered with a thin
parchment-like 1 Shell that is easily
removed. -After cooking, they turn
to their lovely pink shrimp color.
Wash raw shrimp in cold water.
Then drop into boiling salted water
to cover and simmer, covered, for
15 or 20 minutes until the shells
turn pink and the flesh is tender.
Allow one tablespoonful of salt for
each two quarts of water.
When shrimp are pink and
i tender drain and rinse in cold
| water. Then remove the shells
) and legs. Remove the black
! vein running down the back of
i the shrimp, using the point of
{ a sharp knife. Now the shrimp
are ready to use any way you
want them.
Shrimp mixtures combine well
with hot boiled rice. Serve the
rice in a ring with the shrimp in
toe center or pack rice in a but-
fcred square pan and cut it in
squares to use as base for shrimp
mixture.
Shrimps With Rice.
One medium sized onion. Vs cup
diced celery. 2 tablespoons salad
oil. 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon
salt, 2 teaspoons chili powder. *6
cup water. 2 cups canned tomatoes,
1 cup canned peas, 1V4 cups cooked
.shrimp.
Peel and cut onion in thin slices.
Cook onion and celery in salad oil
over medium heat until tender. It
will take about 10 minutes. Stir in
flour, salt and chili powder. Be
sure the flour and chili powder are
perfectly blended with the fat. Add
water and tomatoes and simmer,
uncovered, 20 minutes. Add peas
snd shrimps. Boil. Serve with rice.
Shrimp Newburg can be served
in patty shells or on hot triangles
of toast. It can also be turned into
buttered shells, sprinkled with but
tered bread crumbs and browned
under the broiler.
Shrimp Newburg.
Two cups cooked shrimps, 3 ta
blespoons butter or margarine, %
teaspoon salt, J. teaspoon lemon
. juice, 1 teaspoon flour, % cup
cream, 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons
sherry (optional).
Cook shrimps three minutes in
, two tablespoons margarine. Add
lemon juice and cook 2 minutes
• longer. Remove shrimps, add re-
; xnaining butter. Add flour and salt,
! blending until smooth. Stir in
| cream and cook and stir until thick.
Add egg yolks slightly beaten,
•.shrimp and sherry. Heat but do
^not boil, and serve at once.
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Guess I've just naturally
been counting on a new car as
soon as victory rolls around.”
"But they say it may be 2 to
3 years postwar before I
can get one! Makes a man
stop and'think about saving
his old car!”
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"Luck.ly, I saw my Gulf man.
He said if I let him treat my
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car regularly with Gulfpride*
and Gulflex,** I could be
pretty certain that mine will
last!”
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"Well, sir. I'm riding along
with the finest lubrication
money can buy and I expect
to go on riding for a long
time yet. So I’m not worrying!”
’GULFPRIDE
FOR YOUR MOTOR
An oil that’s TOUGH in
capital letters ... protects
against carbon and sludge!
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GULFLEX
FOR YOUR CHASSIS
Knocks out friction at up
to 39 vital chassis points!
Protection plus!
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expire June 2,
E2, F2, G2, H2,-J2, now valid,
expire June 30,
K2, L2, M2, N2, P2, now valid,
expire July 31.
SUGAR: Sugar stamp No. 35,
good for five pounds, expires June
2.
SHOES: Airplane Stamps No. 1,
No. 2, No. 3 now good.
FUEL OIL: Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
valid for 10 gallons each.
GASOLINE: A-15 coupons
valid through June 21. Ra
tioning rules now require that
each car owner write his
license number and state
on each coupon in his possession
as soon as it is issued him by his
local rationing board. Your mile
age rationing record must be pre
sented to the board when apply
ing for supplemental B and C gas
oline rations.
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Unwrapped Bakery Products.
George W. Tomlin, OPA District
Price Executive in Columbia, to
day called attention to the re
vision of regulations covering cer
tain bakery products, which pro
vides that all retailers of bkkery
products must post their selling
prices for all unwrapped or pack
aged items offered for sale, by
May 1. This is in addition to the.
previous requirement that all
packaged goods be labeled with
ceiling price, Tomlin said.
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AUTO TRAfFIC T0I1 EXCEEDS HAD CASUALTIES
Last Call—MPR-580-Reports.
OPA has again reminded all
merchants selling wearing apparel
and home furnishings that pric
ing charts under MPR-580 must
be filed with the OPA District Of
fice by April 20th, and that after
May 4th, any such merchant who
has not received letter or post
card acknowledgment of the re
ceipt of the chart in proper form
may not sell or offer for sale or
deliver goods covered by the reg
ulation. War Price and Ration
ing Boards will advise merchants
who need assistance in filing their
reports.
Letters To IOA Should Show Re
turn Address.
(Follow MPR Caution)
All merchants cr others writing
to OPA National, Regional or Dis
trict Offices —iG, l oo careful to
have their address plainly written
on the letter. Failure to do this
may result in some hardship on
the writer when OPA, for lack of
an address is unable to reply or
to refer the communication to the
appropriate office for action.
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Community Ceiling Price Posters.
Revised community ceiling price
posters for processed goods which
have just been distributed to re
tail food dealer are printed in
brown ink so that they may be
readily distinguished from pre
viously issued posters. One of the
new posters must be displayed for
every fifteen hundred square feet
of floor space in a store, and they
must be placed where they may
be read at a distance of not more
..han uwo feet.
The new posters contain some
500 odd items, and the prices in
dicate that food prices in general
have decreased 4.5 per cent since
Lhe first community ceiling prices
were published in May, 1943.
Brake Check Program ^
Aimed to Cut Big Loss
The casualty list from automobile accidents reached
the appalling total figure of 873,000 last year, a far greater
number than was included in casualty lists of army, navy
and marine corps during the same period of the present war.
More than half of the automobile accident fatalities and
injuries in the United States occurred in rural areas. More
than 56,000 farm workers were injured and kept from their
essential jobs, 4,500 were killed.
There is another serious loss be-^
cause of automobile accidents. The
cars themselves. While it is true
that no number of automobiles can
equal the value of a human life,
the wrecked automobile today is an
irreplaceable item. Too many of the
cars that are being scrapped are
the property of farmers.
About 1,500,000 passenger cars
passed out of existence last year.
Some were worn out, some im
mobilized for the want of irreplace
able parts, some of them — too
many — were wrecked in traffic
accidents.
Start Brake Check Program.
To rectify this situation, to con
serve cars and to save lives, the
International Association of Chiefs
of Police will con'duct a continent
wide automobile brake check pro
gram from April 15 to June 1.
While the program is in operation,
police officers ip the United States
and Canada will check the brakes of
all passenger cars involved in traf
fic accidents, and of cars that are
being operated in a manner to indi
cate faulty brakes.
The check is a simple one that
can be quickly executed. The police
officer merely slips a block of wood
one inch thick under the brake
pedal and then depresses the pedal,
thus determining whether there is
at least one inch of clearance be
tween pedal and floorboard when
the brakes begin to grip.
Since officers will not function as
official brake testers, the check is in
no way to be considered as a “test.”
•It is a device to focus public atten
tion on safe driving and on the ne
cessity for putting cars in top me
chanical condition, and keeping
them that way.
War Production board has made
available sufficient brake parts and
brake fluids to meet anticipated
needs during the program. Conse
quently, except for the inevitable
delays due to manpower shortages,
brakes can be repaired in most
shops.
Farmers, along with the general
public, are urged by the police to
give their full cooperation to the
brake-check program, and to have
the brakes of their cars checked,
and repaired if necessary.
Cooperation will mean safer cars,
and the conservation of auto
mobiles that cannot be replaced un
til after the war is won.
Passing toe Test.
Cars with more than an inch of
clearance will be considered to have
passed the check, while those on
which the pedal has less than an
inch of clearance will be deemed
to have inadequate brakes.
The check is not in any sense of
the word an official “test,” nor is it
designed to supplant any existing
traffic requirements. It is a de
vice to focus public attention on the
necessity for maintaining the high
est possible level of operating effi
ciency in all passenger cars.
Cars that go to the scrap heap to
day cannot be replaced. No new
passenger automobiles will be
manufactured in 1945, according to
statements issued by the War
Production board. Therefore, it is
probable that there will be no new
car replacements available until
manufacturers have effected their
conversions to peacetime produc
tion after the war is won. Replace
ments of used cars are exceedingly
difficult to obtain because the large
majority of owners are loath to
part with their cars.
During the brake-check program
the police are confident that,
through directing public atten
tion to proper car care, they can
assist materially in the conserva
tion of irreplaceable automobiles.
The program is patterned after ’’!
one that was conducted last year in i
the=' state of Michigan. At the begin
ning of the Michigan program j
1 out of every 7 cars failed to meet ‘
the brake-check, but at the close ’
ohly 1 Car^irx 23 was found to have j
inadequate brakes. >
During the first month of the
Michigan program traffic fatalities !
were 33 per cent lower than in the
corresponding period of the previ- i
ous year. In the second month there :
were 31 per cent fewer deaths, and *
in the third month when the pro- •
gram was no longer in force, there !
was a carry-over reduction of 16 !
per cent. '.
It is significant that of the 23,800 ;
traffic accident deaths and 850.000
injuries during 1944. more than half r
occurred in rural areas. j
These figures are of obvious inter
est to the farmer, who. except in s *
unusual instances, must be entirely ‘
dependent upon his passenger car .
for transportation.
Farm production is of inc , -easing i
importance, and it appears certain ■
that unprecedented quantities of •
farm products will be needed not •
only for the duration of the war,
but for the years immediately fol-
lowing its close.
The passenger automobile is vital
to the efficient operation of the '?
farmer’s trade. Therefore, it must £
be conserved, and it is essential >
that it be maintained as a safe »
means of conveyance. ;
The police throughput the nation
urge farmers to give'their full co-
operation to the current brake- j *
check program, to the end that ev- ’'
ery farmer-owned automobile in the
United States may be a dependa- ;!
ble, efficient and safe vehicle. [i
Unfortunately, accident records j
are not kept in 4etail sufficient to ;!
determine at all accurately how ?
much of a factor poor brakes are >
in causing accidents. Figures fromj!
12 states indicate that bad brakes^
account for up to 11 per cent ofH
fatal accidents. A good clue is pre- >
sented by compulsory car inspec- j
tions. In New Jersey last year,*}
about 15 per cent of all cars in-j^
spected were rejected because ofi’j
bad brakes. In New Hampshire *
brake rejections totalled 19.5 per ri
cent. Those figures are regarded, >
as indicative of the situation* £
throughout the country.
While the program centei
around brakes, the police will
motorists To give their cars the
most care with stress placed rv
only on brakes, but on stee
gear, tires, windshield wipers, ai
other parts having to do. with dri:
ing safety.
Fuel Cil Strip Coupons To. Be Is
sued.
Strip coupons, similar to those
1 in use in the gasoline rationing
: program, in an identification fold
er and bearing serial numbers, will
j be issued for certain classes of
; fuel oil rations the latter part of
this month, J. E. Parker, OPA Dis-
, trict Rationing Executive at Co
lumbia, said today.
Consumers who will use the new
strip coupons are those whose ra
tions are for domestic cooking and
lighting purposess, for heat or hot
water where the amount of the
annual ration is 309 gallon s or less,
and for miscellaneous fam and
industrial uses where the amount
—Buy War Savings Stamps— [is less than 20,909 gallons annual
ly and the consumer does not have
a ration bank account, Parker
pointed out. He explained that
the change to the new type of
coupon does not affect the valid
ity of class 3 coupon sheets, or
have effect on the amount of the
consumer’s ration. Householders
whose total annual ration for heat
and hot water is more than 300
gallons, will not be affected, he
said.
“The use of strip coupons will
result in considerable saving in
paper and clerical work,” Parker
said, “because it / eliminates the
waste that occurs when class 3
coupon sheets are ‘tailored’, which
necessitates throwing away some
coupons and consumer time of the
workers who ‘tailored’ them.”
problem of supplying meat to the
armed forces, providing a fair dis
tribution to non-meat areas and
preventing diversion through black
market operations is under dis
cussion, E. H. Talbert, OPA Dis
trict Director, disclosed today.
Representatives of the meat and
livestock industry, farm organiza
tions, OPA and other government
agencies met in Washington last
week to discuss practical details of
a plan to provide for more uni
form distribution o£ the civilian
meat supply.
The government agencies met
with producers, feeders, federally-
inspected slaughterers and pro
cessors, wholesalers and retailers
and approached the problem of
meat distribution from all its
angles, he said.
Meat Distribution Planning Meet
ing.
A national program to meet the
Markup On Sales Of White Pota
toes And Onions Delivered
Eating Places.
Country shippers of white pota
toes and onions may obtain mark
ups on sales of these commodities
delivered by them to the premises
of restaurants where meals are
served, George W. Tomlin, OPA
District Price Executive, said to
day. The markups in these cases
are the same that country ship
pers receive for delivery at retail
stores. For potatoes it is 60 cents
a hundred pounds and for onions
40 cents for 50 pounds delivered
to eating establishments. “This
provision was made,” Tomlin said
today, “to correct the original reg
ulation which did not provide
mark-ups on country shippers
sales of these items, delivered to
eating places.”
How to double your profits on
feed crops? Sell them to live-
To stock.