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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
2
A. A. Smith, publisher, releases the Akron Town weekly edition published every Thursday. The paper is entered at the Akron post office as second class mail matter dated September 26, 1901.
Congratulations to Russell Hull and his bride who were married the first week in June. The couple will live near Akron where he farms. Milnerville notes show friendly visits, local property movements, and family ties across nearby towns with several residents mentioned in social and travel updates.
The WAAC program draws interest across Iowa as Lt. Mareix T. Marple announces an All Iowa WAAC Company to be sworn in before Governor Hickenlooper at the State Capitol. The enlistment emphasizes home-front service to shorten the war with important homeland assignments and abroad. Safeguard Social Security. Arthur Hasenbank hosts a youth dinner, urging readiness for war jobs and keeping cards handy.
A roundup of local happenings includes Lowell Morehead leaving Monday for army induction, Joan Hummel visiting Sioux City grandparents, and a St Catharine Guild potluck in the Doyle building. Popcorn sales for the town library fund the summer program, with volunteers sought. Several visitors and family gatherings fill the week, plus a Children’s Day program and news of Della Leone Warren’s Santa Monica high school graduation in 1943.
The local War Price and Ration Board will mail simplified fuel oil renewal forms to home owners after current applications are received. C J Eyres says mail returns are urged to avoid summer order bottlenecks. OPA aims to have 1943 44 coupons ready by July 1 with revised tables guiding allocations. A regional meeting for industry reps is set for June 17 at the Paxton Hotel in Omaha.
Pvt. Raymond E. Fredrickson, son of Mr and Mrs Max Fredrickson of this city, trains at Camp Butner North Carolina in the Signal Corps 78th Division and aims to become a radio operator after a pneumonia spell in hospital. Three Akron youths Arnold Nall Harold Scott Kenneth Zierath serve in North Africa and Britain sending word home. Nall asks for care packages and notes seeing Bizerta and swimming in the Mediterranean. An Iowa official report lists Plymouth county men wounded in North Africa: Sgt Vincent Wilberding Remsen Pfc Wyman Sharp Kingsley and Pfc Raymond McNamara Kingsley. McNamara describes hand and leg injuries and contemplates possible hospital transfer to Des Moines.
In a letter to the Register-Tribune Grace Renken Walter of Canoga Park California expresses pleasure at weather and crop reports. She notes spring warmth and rain for corn growth, mentions snow observed in the Midwest on May 12 and describes year round gardening in California and farm life with livestock. She and her husband operate a large orange grove tractor and keep chickens and rabbits.
The Farm Bureau outlines a county labor shortage during harvest and corn picking and proposes using local high school boys and neighbor cooperation. It invites planning with neighbors, offers to connect employers with willing workers, and mentions county volunteer employment representatives and planned demonstrations on July 17.
The Farm Bureau explains the labor squeeze in farming and railroads. They are conducting a county farm survey to gauge how many people will need extra help and when. Cooperation from counties to register part time or full time workers is requested to plan and mobilize reserves.
The Big Springs Baptist Church posts a Sunday plan for June 20 with a 10 15 a m preworship prayer, 10 30 a m worship and a sermon titled SA Chosen Vessel plus special singing. Sunday school at 11 30 a m and an 8 30 p m evening service. A Tuesday June 22 8 00 p m midweek service invites participation at the white church on the hill.
Hay rope allotment announced by Dirks Hardware. Those needing rope should come early to secure stock.
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