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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
2
Milnerville correspondent reports on farm activity, stock sales in Sioux City, and local events. Farms like Muecke and Spaulding send cattle to market, veterans and families visit, and upcoming fairs and reunions are announced. Local church, 4-H, and military service updates fill the week’s town notes.
Local column notes include Mrs. Bertha Sayles Mrs. Arnold Amundson and Dennis, Mrs. Burdette Amundson and children, Mrs. Pearl Swoyer and Mrs. Marcella Swoyer among attendees at a Lake View event. The fragment reflects a social round up with several families listed.
Union Creek column lists visits by Mrs Walford Forslund and family and Mrs Margaret Carr of Hawarden to Pukwana for days with the Hutmachers. Other guests include Brundeen and Sykes families, Adamson and Ronald at Eddie Anderson, and Seeley dinner hosts. Community harvest finished with threshing begun. Elsie Lucht ill. Sister Albertina Gassman honored with surprise dinner.
The Ladies' Aid plans a public library food sale on Tuesday evening. Chas. Stofferahn attended the funeral of his brother-in-law Wm. Mundt in Alvord Iowa, aged 82. Mrs. Bardwell Lilly hosted As You Like It bridge club, with Nella Lilly winning high Eva Lilly drawing prize and Vera Ross low. Plans for a picnic were discussed. Guests included Mrs. Charles Johnson Mrs. Gertrude Maynard Mrs. Winnie Beaubien and Mrs. Lavon Hough of Huron South Dakota. Mrs. Wayne Weigel and daughter left for Camp Roberts California then visit Percy Hartington in Long Beach. Mrs. Walter Hummel staying with her parents Mr and Mrs H W Homer while husband serves. Mrs. Rose Boden of Venice California.
Announcements note fifty year anniversary events for Mrs. Mary Clarey among Deagoness friends, while Westfield and Sioux City connections appear through Boden Larson and Mrs. Carl Holzworth. Navy induction for Charles Holzworth heads to Great Lakes. birth announced for Chester Hisele’s daughter. relatives travel between Eagle Grove Hawarden Huron Merrill and Burbank attending gatherings and visits.
Iowa State College Ames issues Bulletin P60 on The European Corn Borer and Its Control detailing its advance in Illinois and Iowa and control measures. Bulletin P61 covers Control and Eradication of European Bindweed, noting its spread in Iowa and seedborne transmission with eradication methods. Requests for copies to Bulletin Office Ag Annex Ames Ia.
A University of Illinois study of 2000 farmers shows that delivering cream twice weekly and cooling with water improves No. 1 grade cream. Among No. 1 producers, 48% delivered twice weekly and 24% cooled with water, while 76% of lower grade cream was cooled with air and 52% delivered once weekly. Temperature and cooling greatly affect midsummer cream quality.
A historical piece emphasizes sanitation as the most important factor in cream quality. It notes that two thirds of the cream comes from No.2 marketing and that winter grading yields No.1 cream from farm sources. The article stresses thorough cleaning of milk pails, separators, and storage containers to prevent bacteria and mold from spoiling milk and cream.
The county AAA office lists rationing changes effective July 1 and July 20 1944. Milk cans used for handling milk products are released from rationing. Schedule 1 items include combines corn binders Maine spreaders corn pickers mowers side delivery rakes pickup bailers hay loaders tractors. Schedule 2 items include potato planters grain drills power sprayers except traction sprayers potato diggers ensilage cutters garden tractors deep and shallow well systems palm milk coolers and power pumps. Publicity will note any updates.
The notice lists blue stamps A8 to V8 Book 4 for processed foods at ten points each, valid indefinitely for meats cheese butter margarine. Red stamps cover canned milk A8 through Vs Book 4 at ten points each. Sugar stamps 30 31 in Book 4 at five pounds. Sugar Stamp 40 five pounds for canning expires February 28 1945. Extra twenty pounds for canning with Spare Stamp 37 upon approval by local rationing board. Waste fats valued five meat points per pound. Calal ine valid until June 22.
Airplane shoe numbers 1 and 2 appear in a War Book Jit entry with approval for a single pair of shoes indefinitely. Expiration dates will be announced by the OPA.
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