Marion Sentinel (Newspaper) - April 5, 1945, Marion, Iowa NOT JUST WAR BONDS BUY MORE BONDS The Walker News Consolidated with The Sentinel May 65 IOWA APRIL 1945 NUMBER 36 RELAYS ENTRY LIST GROWING April Is the deadline for entrants to enroll for the sec ond annual Marion the outstanding high school track event in this part of to be held at Marion April With good weather to encourage the and spur on the athletes to do their best this should prove to be the biggest ath turnout of the barring the Drake Already five more schools have entered than were present laat and others are expected to And while the participating athletes will av younger in years than at any previous due to the calls of war on the older boys in the it is expected that a num ber of last years records will be Coach Everett director of the has left out no detail that will add promise to its suc He has secured the services for referee and for starter of no less eminent athletic authorities than George Breanahan and Eric of Iowa Pops who has just finished coaching the best basketball team in will be honorary ref Clem the new head grid coach at will be gueat of and there will be other prominent sporting authori ties to The schools will compete in three B and based on the Those with over 500 wil Ibe listed in Class A between 150 and 300 in Class and less than 150 in Class Schools that have entered in clude Waterloo East and Ce dar Iowa and the four Cedar Rapids schools in Class A Ana University High of Iowa Teachers High of Cedar and Vinton in Class and Mount Ver Central Norway and Yale in Class This is strictly a relay and no team trophies will be but there will be trophies for each individual This does not prevent each school from making an effort to take all the Preliminary events will be held in the morning in such events as the high the 100yd the discus and broad to trim down the lists and make the way clear for a busy aft War Garden Office Would Like Help The War gardens office at the city hall would like to secure names of persons who will plow or spade garden plots to aid in the great need for growing more food Many persons who want garden spots plowed have been un able to secure services of Warren heading the also would like to have those with garden spots not scheduled for use this call or see Many persons are wanting extra ground for Those wishing any information about growing a bigger better garden should contact the office between 11 and 2 any week A wide variety of gar don bulletins are and all possible garden stuff should be produced this John McQuown Word came this week of the death at Long on Saturday of John a former resident of this He was the father of Edward Card of this and had lived in California for about twenty It is that the will be brought to Muscatine for inter This Method Might Work Well On Some Of Tojos Too An almost forgotten method of exterminating rats is being used on the Bert Stewart farm north of with gratifying This recipe has several advantages over more modern It is gerous to pets and and be carried out with a mini mum of It is as humane as mass murder can be It inquires nothing except things found on the average and laat but not results can seen and As for for relieving the present meat Following are the directions Take a large contain preferably a 10 to 15 gallon stone fill nearly to top with oats or any preferred al low to stand for two or three days in corn crib or wherever rats con with jar close to wooden wall or When rats grow accustomed to their new feeding spot and remove till jar with water to within eight or ten inches of the Now make light fluffy topping of and let stand over Next morning lift out lumps with five tined Repeat process each night until no more lumps form in liquid In the above mentioned the first nights yield was 36 The second night 13 and eight each on two successive seven on fifth dwindling to a mere five on the sixth This to gether with four caught in steel made a total of 81 varmints during the six The rodents varied from to over OFFICIALS CITY OFFICE Monday night saw the April meeting of the Marion city coun cil start a new Mayor John Mullin was sworn in as mayor by city DeWitt The mayor then officiated at the swearingin of the members of the council which included two new Griffiths in the first ward and Lewis Alcorn coun as well as Klumph and holdover mem Smith was reappointed as city attorney and duly The First National bank was designat ed as legal depositor of the citys money up to The Howard Green Engineering of Cedar was appointed of city to complete the formalities of the organization The reappointment of Mildred city clerk Elmer street commissioner Goodyear and Lee as police and Edward as fire was also made of Exams Will Be Held April 12 Marion is again to be the seat of for youths wishing to take up the army specialized training reserve The examinations will be given at the Marion high school on Ap ril at 9 oclock and not one minute Applicants must be 17 years but not more than 17 years and 9 months on the last day of the month preceding that in which he is assigned to He must have evidence of high school or that he can complete his course and become eligible for He must have parental meet the qualifying and enlist in the High school boys eligible to born after September and before September may try their luck in this LIONS LEARN OF NAVIGATION Members of the Marion Lions club Tuesday evening were enter at their regular weekly din ner meeting with a discussion of some of the problems involved in sending our bombs to Speaker of the evening was Plight Officer John of son of Emery a member of the Lions Preceding Millers talk Harvey musician played a group of selections on an accordion almost bigger than and in the squeezing amazed his This son of and Jake Sollberger of is going places when he gets and though he was seated while playing and could therefore not be seen by his audience very The Prune Marines Theres a Tavern in the Town and Home Sweet proved his ability in a most grownup Flight Officer home on leave after a strenuous period of training with and the jobs of those men who fly told the Lions about the jobs of the the bombardier and his I and something about He will soon go out as a specialized member of a and will likely soon be dir one of Americas huge its jobs over who has now virtually every job involved the praised the Norden bombsight and its and told at length about the job of the It is this field of en the speaker pointed which proves the success of any bombing His is the greatest responsibility on the He explained the various types of navigation to his and how and when they are In telling his Miller used the laymans language to good ad and most of his hearers knew more about navigation aft as a Perhaps the most complicated terminology used which still means but little to most of the his location for them of the city of Should you be this city is north and The club received from Lions In this week a plaque for work in a recent membership Join the Navy Two 17yearoid Marion boys joined 24 others from this section of eastern Iowa and enrolled at the Cedar Rapids recruiting sta tion for future training and serv ice in tlie navy on reaching the age of eighteen or at the end of the present school The Mar ion lads are Thomas and Velman Leroy Bob Coon Signed For Tryout With Cub Baseball Team Bob Marion high school will report to the Nash baseball club as soon as school is for tryout there in professional He has signed a conditional contract with the Chicago and Nashville is a Cub Bob has unquestionable ability as a baseball and has prov en it to the satisfaction of a Cub son of and is an allround and his early signature to a profession al contract bars him from partic in track this spring and will interfere materially in local for his fleetness and stamina was counted on to help win many points for the local thin clad when local Cub fans listen in on Cub it will be something extra when certain chap from the old home town steps up and knocks the ball out of the Allen M Died Wed ter Long Illness roy Allen a resident of Marion for twentyfive died Wednesday April at at the home of his Grace 320 Seventeenth in Cedar He had been in failing health for a long time with a com of Mack was born September at the son and Lucy Thompson and September was id in marriage to Cora Ann at Central who sur vives together with their Howard their and three Dorothy of William of the navy and Margaret of Cedar Macks parents moved from Illinois to a farm near Central City when he was but a and he lived there until coming to Marion twentyfive years For the past seventeen years he has been proprietor of Macks Smoke ahop on Eleventh and his home was at 960 V2 Four Funeral services will be held at the Yocom Chapel in Fri day at 2 the service in charge of the Vernon Cart pastor of the Christian The bearers will be Irvin El mo Brougher and John Burial will be made in Jordans Grove Senior Class Play C as t Was The parts have been assigned for the senior class play to be given May It Is a You Cant Take It With a broad way and Is being looked for ward to considerable RES UL TS No matter what your needs may a classi fied advertisement in this newspaper will ac the desired If youve lost your a purse found a hat or dog want to rent a house or room a hog or spring in the classified One cent a with a minimum charge 25c for the is the small cost a classified advertisement in SENTINEL Phone 800 MARION Friday the Marion high school will have serious holes shot in its attendance and regular school for its the day of the district music contest at Monti and as Marion will be there with candidates in most of the In to De mere and fire the opening gun at seven Marion tenor soloists must need to get up before The lo cal school will have entrants in this and three entrants in the soprano solo event at and from then on it will be one event after another until the bands start the evening concert at at night competing with An Maquoketa and The vocai events wil Ibe held in the community and the instrumental contests will be at the high school Besides the starting Mar ion will have three mezzo soprano soloists three in contralto two in and two in In the small Marion will have entrants in mixed boys quartet and girls sextet In the larger groups Marion will compete with Class B schools in boys glee girls glee club and mixed chorus After the noon Marion will lead off at 1 with two candidates for tuba hon two in and one in alto sax and and On the night Marion will present one contestant for pi ano expects to meet rather stiffer competition than usual this but will no doubt win some firsts which will entitle them to appear in the finals at the state meet which will be held here April 27 and Marion will at that time have its capacities as a host town It will be asked to take care of judges and It will be one of four schools into which the state meet will be divided in order to conserve on transportation require The contestants will in clude only soloists and small Bands and choruses will be through for this year when they finish at Springville will be a strong fac tor in the instrumental part of the Monticello competing with C and D schools in most of the events with entrants in the id trumpet 1 woodwind brass brass sex brass tuba and clarinet Springville is sure to be heard from in more ways than Springville will also have a com petitor in student band and her excellent concert band will compete with the Olin band for Class C Red C Reac s Tot f Marion can now be considered oven the top in the Red Cross drive for war According to local a total of has been collected within the and in Mar ion township While this total of is not up to the goal of set for this the addition of subscriptions from Marion people who made their payments at Cedar Rapids places of employment which is to be included in the Mar ion brings the local fund well beyond the quota In the local drive many persons were missed by but it is pointed out that the fact does not relieve these individuals responsibility in the Ac cording to every per son can still aid the cause by add ing his It is not too if
